ATL @ COL, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Game Preview

Atlanta Braves, 3-4, 3rd, ½ GB, ½ GB in WC	SP: Jair Jurrjens (22, RHP, 1-0, 3.38) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. COL Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (1-0) 5.1 7 2 2 1 5 0 3.38 2007 (3-1) 30.2 24 16 16 11 13 4 4.70 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 4-0 29 26 14 14 10 15 3 4.34 49 2008-04-02 PIT W 5.1 7 2 2 1 5 0 88 50 2007-09-26 MIN ND 3 5 4 4 3 0 0 64 30 2007-09-21 KCR ND 2.1 6 4 4 0 0 1 43 29 2007-09-16 MIN W 5.1 2 1 1 1 6 0 90 65 2007-09-11 TEX W 5 3 1 1 1 1 0 72 57 2007-08-26 NYY ND 1.1 2 1 1 0 2 1 23 48 2007-08-21 CLE W 6.2 1 1 1 4 1 1 78 65 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.COL Has never faced COL.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 3-2 Road: 0-2 ExtrInn: 0-2 vsRHP: 1-2 vsLHP: 2-2 1-Run: 0-4 vsEast: 2-1 vsCntrl: 1-2 vsWest: 0-1 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 7 Mon, Apr 7 @COL L 1-2 3-4 3rd 0.5 gb 6 Sun, Apr 6 NYM W 3-1 3-3 1st Tied 5 Sat, Apr 5 NYM W 11-5 2-3 1st Tied 4 Thu, Apr 3 PIT L 3-4 (10) 1-3 1st Tied 3 Wed, Apr 2 PIT W 10-2 1-2 1st Tied 2 Mon, Mar 31 PIT L 11-12(12) 0-2 1st Tied 1 Sun, Mar 30 @WSN L 2-3 0-1 1st Tied Last 10: 3-4 Last 20: 3-4 Last 30: 3-4
Colorado Rockies, 2-5, 3rd, 1 GB, tied for WC	SP: Ubaldo Jimenez (24, RHP, 0-1, 5.40) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-1) 5 7 3 3 5 4 0 5.40 2007 (4-4) 82 70 46 39 37 68 10 4.28 2006 (0-0) 7.2 5 4 3 3 3 1 3.52 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-3 35.2 38 22 19 23 27 6 4.79 46 2008-04-03 STL L 5 7 3 3 5 4 0 100 40 2007-09-30 ARI ND 6.1 1 1 1 4 10 0 108 73 2007-09-25 LAD ND 4 9 5 5 2 2 2 61 24 2007-09-20 LAD W 6.1 5 3 3 3 1 1 101 49 2007-09-15 FLA L 3 5 5 2 4 5 0 69 36 2007-09-10 PHI ND 6 4 2 2 3 3 1 92 56 2007-09-05 SFG L 5 7 3 3 2 2 2 70 41 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ATL 0-1 4.2 6 6 6 5 7 1 11.57 30 2007-08-04 ATL L 4.2 6 6 6 5 7 1 110 30
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 1-3 Road: 1-2 ExtrInn: 0-1 vsRHP: 1-5 vsLHP: 1-0 1-Run: 2-0 vsEast: 1-0 vsCntrl: 1-2 vsWest: 0-3 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 7 Mon, Apr 7 ATL W 2-1 2-5 3rd 1.0 gb 6 Sun, Apr 6 ARI L 2-5 (10) 1-5 2nd 1.0 gb 5 Sat, Apr 5 ARI L 2-7 1-4 2nd 0.5 gb 4 Fri, Apr 4 ARI L 1-8 1-3 1st Tied 3 Thu, Apr 3 @STL L 0-3 1-2 1st Tied 2 Wed, Apr 2 @STL L 3-8 1-1 1st Tied 1 Tue, Apr 1 @STL W 2-1 1-0 2nd 0.5 gb Last 10: 2-5 Last 20: 2-5 Last 30: 2-5
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Mon, Apr 07, 2008 COL 2 ATL 1 W:Matt Herges (1-0), L: Blaine Boyer (0-2), S: Manuel Corpas (2) Sun, Aug 05, 2007 ATL 6 COL 5 (10) W:Oscar Villarreal , L: Taylor Buchholz , S: none Sat, Aug 04, 2007 ATL 6 COL 4 W:Tim Hudson , L: Ubaldo Jimenez , S: Bob Wickman Fri, Aug 03, 2007 COL 9 @ATL 2 W:Jeff Francis , L: John Smoltz , S: none Sun, Apr 29, 2007 COL 9 ATL 7 (11) W:Denny Bautista , L: Steve Colyer , S: none Sat, Apr 28, 2007 ATL 6 @COL 2 W:John Smoltz , L: Jason Hirsh , S: none Fri, Apr 27, 2007 ATL 9 @COL 7 W:Chuck James , L: Jeff Francis , S: Peter Moylan Sun, Sep 24, 2006 COL 9 ATL 8 W:Jeremy Affeldt (8-7), L: Tyler Yates (2-5), S: Brian Fuentes (29) Sat, Sep 23, 2006 COL 10 ATL 9 W:Jeff Francis (13-11), L: Kyle Davies (3-6), S: Brian Fuentes (28) Fri, Sep 22, 2006 COL 6 ATL 4 W:Josh Fogg (10-9), L: Tim Hudson (12-12), S: Brian Fuentes (27) Season Series: 2008 - COL leads 1-0; 2007 - ATL won 4-2; 2006 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - ATL leads 82-47

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid. OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2008 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed

MLB Best, Middle, Worst

For the 2007 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY 5.98

BAL 4.67

WSN 4.15

RA/G

BOS 4.06

KCR 4.80

TBD 5.83

M. Ordonez .363

J. Pierre .293

J. LaRue .148

OBP

B. Bonds .480

G. Atkins .367

J. LaRue .240

SLG

C. Ross .653

R. Ludwick .479

A. Gonzalez .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.067

T. Glaus .839

J. LaRue .512

ERA

J. Peavy 2.54

A. Pettitte 4.05

S. Olsen 5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

G. Meche 6.50

A. Cook 3.31

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Atlanta Braves Batters (5.86 RS/G) vs. Colorado Rockies Pitchers (4.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 38.Jimenez
G/S/vB 44.Bowie*
G/S/vB 35.Buchholz
G/S/vB 60.Corpas
G/S/vB 40.Fuentes*
G/S/vB 34.Herges
G/S/vB 23.Speier
G/S/vB 16.Wells
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

18.Blanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

23.Diaz G/S/vP 3/5.000 2/1.000 2/.500 1/.000 2/.000 6/1.000 ··· ··· 384/180 .338/.368/.497/.865 .964/.756 .856 / 4/0 12/2

19.Escobar G/S/vP 3/1.167 4/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/2.000 355/201 .326/.385/.451/.837 .870/.811 .831 / 5/3 5/11

7.Francoeur G/S/vP 3/.333 5/.733 5/.600 3/1.000 2/.000 5/.400 2/1.000 3/.000 696/467 .293/.338/.444/.782 .852/.747 .847 / 5/2 19/5

8.Gotay# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 211/169 .295/.351/.421/.772 .508/.835 .765 / 3/3 4/3

2.Johnson* G/S/vP 3/2.000 3/1.334 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 7/.715 608/424 .276/.375/.457/.831 .771/.858 .880 / 9/5 16/14

10.Jones# G/S/vP 3/.000 3/2.000 5/.600 1/.000 3/1.666 20/.488 1/3.000 23/.434 600/377 .337/.425/.604/1.029 .803/1.171 1.075 / 5/1 29/9

11.Kotsay* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/.733 11/.091 ··· 12/1.267 227/177 .214/.279/.296/.575 .332/.644 .671 / 1/1 1/2

16.McCann* G/S/vP 3/.666 5/.450 4/1.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 3/1.667 552/364 .270/.320/.452/.772 .755/.781 .748 / 0/1 18/13

27.Miller G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 29/21 .259/.310/.444/.755 .500/.860 .767 / 0/0 1/0

5.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 33/15 .212/.212/.303/.515 .611/.400 .471 / 0/1 1/0

14.Prado G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 62/23 .288/.323/.339/.662 .494/.954 .677 / 0/0 0/3

24.Teixeira# G/S/vP 3/.333 1/2.000 9/.222 ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 6/1.500 575/398 .306/.400/.563/.963 1.000/.946 .971 / 0/0 30/5

IP 82.0 57.1 93.2 78.0 61.1 48.2 18.0 162.2 TOTAL /// / / /5

ERA-K/9

4.28/7.5

4.55/6.6

4.23/5.9

2.08/6.7

3.08/8.2

2.96/5.5

4.00/6.5

5.70/6.7

0.00/0.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
McCann (70-19-6)
Miller (2-1-1)
Pena (4-4-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 354/.228 248/.261 396/.288 306/.224 255/.206 191/.198 77/.299 750/.287 Francoeur
Kotsay
Diaz 0/0/162/19
0/56/0/5
95/0/5/4

OPS .726 .738 .748 .596 .622 .598 .814 .828

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 183/.791 74/.601 182/.726 152/.630 64/.598 82/.654 29/.929 325/.865

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 171/.657 174/.799 214/.767 154/.562 191/.630 109/.555 48/.750 425/.799

Home 211/.727 115/.623 184/.784 163/.589 117/.534 118/.717 55/.996 358/.796

Last 28d days / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 10/16/0 7/3/2 8/7/0 6/0/3 6/1/1 4/0/1 1/1/1 19/17/5 //

Usage ····X··· ·Xo··oo· ·o·X·oo· oo·o··o· ·XX·X·o· o··XoX·· ·o······ ··X···X·

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Colorado Rockies Batters (1.71 RS/G) vs. Atlanta Braves Pitchers (4.14 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 49.Jurrjens
G/S/vB 46.Acosta
G/S/vB 30.Bennett
G/S/vB 56.Boyer
G/S/vB 58.Moylan
G/S/vB 13.Ohman*
G/S/vB 48.Resop
G/S/vB 34.Ring*
G/S/vB 39.Soriano
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

27.Atkins G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 684/486 .301/.367/.486/.853 .782/.882 .936 / 3/1 25/14

10.Baker G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 159/90 .222/.296/.347/.643 .760/.556 .762 / 0/0 4/3

12.Barmes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 39/29 .216/.237/.297/.534 1.111/.351 .804 / 0/0 0/2

11.Hawpe* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.167 ··· ··· 2/.500 606/467 .291/.387/.539/.926 .679/1.002 1.017 / 0/2 29/6

17.Helton* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 1/no AB 7/.286 ··· ··· 2/.500 682/485 .320/.434/.494/.928 .743/1.005 .997 / 0/1 17/2

5.Holliday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/3.500 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 713/549 .340/.405/.607/1.012 .958/1.028 1.157 / 11/4 36/3

20.Iannetta G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 234/174 .218/.330/.350/.681 .779/.648 .538 / 0/0 4/1

4.Nix G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

22.Podsednik* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 235/163 .243/.299/.369/.668 .774/.622 .659 / 12/5 2/4

19.Spilborghs G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 300/199 .299/.363/.485/.848 1.012/.767 .888 / 4/1 11/1

3.Taveras G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 408/309 .320/.367/.382/.748 .877/.708 .776 / 33/9 2/4

8.Torrealba G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 443/344 .255/.323/.376/.699 .710/.695 .777 / 2/1 8/7

2.Tulowitzki G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 682/527 .291/.359/.479/.838 .932/.811 .960 / 7/6 24/11

IP 30.2 23.2 13.0 5.1 90.0 36.1 4.1 20.0 72.0 TOTAL /// / / /4

ERA-K/9

4.70/3.8

2.28/8.4

3.46/9.7

3.38/5.1

1.80/6.3

4.95/8.2

4.15/4.2

2.70/9.4

3.00/8.8

0.00/0.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Iannetta (33-10-4)
Torrealba (61-15-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 122/.220 93/.165 57/.269 26/.417 359/.208 168/.282 17/.308 88/.186 276/.181 Holliday
Taveras
Hawpe
Podsednik
Spilborghs
Baker
Barmes 157/0/0/7
0/86/0/7
0/0/142/6
55/3/0/4
15/46/20/2
6/0/13/1
0/5/0/0

OPS .717 .543 .784 .898 .597 .792 .872 .584 .587

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 71/.874 40/.769 17/1.113 11/1.000 151/.679 82/.718 9/.661 45/.701 133/.586

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 51/.509 53/.357 40/.652 15/.829 208/.537 86/.861 8/1.119 43/.469 143/.588

Road 46/.620 47/.445 33/.803 8/1.196 196/.492 69/.415 17/.872 18/.802 138/.536

Last 28d days / / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 4/2/0 2/4/0 3/0/0 0/1/0 6/9/2 3/4/0 1/0/0 1/1/1 12/7/2 //

Usage ·····X·· ····Xo·X ····Xo·X Xo··X··X ooo··o·o oX··Xo·o ····Xo·o ··X·oo·o ·XX·o··X

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.

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Game Preview: ATL @ COL, 8:35pm, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 @Coors Field

SP: Jair Jurrjens (22, RHP, 1-0, 3.38)

SP: Ubaldo Jimenez (24, RHP, 0-1, 5.40)

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