MIN @ DET, Friday, May 23, 2008 Game Preview

Minnesota Twins, 23-24, 2nd, 3½ GB, 4 GB in WC	SP: Kevin Slowey (24, RHP, 0-4, 5.49) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-4) 19.2 20 12 12 3 16 6 5.49 2007 (4-1) 66.2 82 39 35 11 47 16 4.73 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-5 38.1 35 18 18 3 35 6 4.23 53 2008-05-18 @COL L 5.2 7 3 3 1 5 2 109 47 2008-05-13 TOR L 5.2 5 3 3 2 5 1 107 50 2008-05-08 @CHW L 5 4 3 3 0 4 2 83 51 2008-04-03 LAA L 3.1 4 3 3 0 2 1 55 42 2007-09-28 @BOS L 5.2 7 4 4 0 3 0 104 42 2007-09-23 CHW W 7 4 1 1 0 9 0 99 74 2007-09-17 TEX ND 6 4 1 1 0 7 0 105 67 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.DET 1-0 6 9 4 4 1 2 2 6.00 39 2007-06-30 @DET W 6 9 4 4 1 2 2 91 39
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 16-12 Road: 7-12 ExtrInn: 2-3 vsRHP: 18-18 vsLHP: 5-6 1-Run: 10-8 vsEast: 4-5 vsCntrl:13-8 vsWest: 5-9 IL: 1-2 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 47 Thu, May 22 TEX L 7-8 (10) 23-24 2nd 3.5 gb 46 Wed, May 21 TEX L 1-10 23-23 2nd 2.5 gb 45 Tue, May 20 TEX W 11-4 23-22 2nd 1.5 gb 44 Mon, May 19 TEX W 7-6 (12) 22-22 2nd 1.5 gb 43 Sun, May 18 @COL L 2-6 21-22 3rd 2.0 gb 42 Sat, May 17 @COL L 2-3 21-21 3rd 1.0 gb 41 Fri, May 16 @COL W 4-2 21-20 2nd 0.5 gb 40 Thu, May 15 TOR L 2-3 (11) 20-20 2nd 1.5 gb 39 Wed, May 14 TOR L 5-6 20-19 2nd 0.5 gb 38 Tue, May 13 TOR L 3-5 20-18 1st 0.5 up Last 10: 3-7 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:16-14
Detroit Tigers, 20-27, 5th, 6½ GB, 7 GB in WC	SP: Armando Galarraga (26, RHP, 3-1, 3.06) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (3-1) 35.1 21 16 12 14 24 3 3.06 2007 (0-0) 8.2 8 6 6 7 6 2 6.23 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-1 40 25 21 17 18 28 4 3.83 53 2008-05-17 @ARI W 6 1 2 2 5 3 0 111 60 2008-05-07 BOS ND 5.1 7 5 5 1 6 2 88 39 2008-05-02 @MIN L 6 6 4 2 2 2 0 87 48 2008-04-26 LAA ND 6 3 3 1 2 3 0 82 59 2008-04-21 @TOR W 5.1 3 0 0 4 4 0 85 62 2008-04-16 @CLE W 6.2 1 2 2 0 6 1 81 70 2007-09-24 LAA ND 4.2 4 5 5 4 4 1 87 36 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.MIN 0-1 6 6 4 2 2 2 0 3.00 48 2008-05-02 @MIN L 6 6 4 2 2 2 0 87 48
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 11-12 Road: 9-15 ExtrInn: 0-1 vsRHP: 14-25 vsLHP: 6-2 1-Run: 4-6 vsEast: 8-8 vsCntrl: 4-15 vsWest: 7-2 IL: 1-2 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 47 Thu, May 22 SEA W 9-2 20-27 5th 6.5 gb 46 Wed, May 21 SEA W 9-4 19-27 5th 6.5 gb 45 Tue, May 20 SEA W 12-8 18-27 5th 6.5 gb 44 Sun, May 18 @ARI L 0-4 17-27 5th 6.5 gb 43 Sat, May 17 @ARI W 3-2 17-26 5th 5.5 gb 42 Fri, May 16 @ARI L 3-4 16-26 5th 6.0 gb 41 Thu, May 15 @KCR L 4-8 16-25 5th 6.0 gb 40 Wed, May 14 @KCR L 0-2 16-24 5th 5.0 gb 39 Tue, May 13 @KCR L 2-3 16-23 5th 4.5 gb 38 Sat, May 10 NYY L 2-5 16-22 4th 3.5 gb Last 10: 4-6 Last 20: 8-12 Last 30:14-16
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Sun, May 04, 2008 MIN 7 DET 6 W:Matt Guerrier (2-1), L: Zach Miner (1-2), S: Joe Nathan (11) Sat, May 03, 2008 MIN 4 DET 1 W:Brian Bass (1-0), L: Justin Verlander (1-5), S: Joe Nathan (10) Fri, May 02, 2008 MIN 11 DET 1 W:Livan Hernandez (4-1), L: Armando Galarraga (2-1), S: none Tue, Apr 15, 2008 DET 6 MIN 5 W:Clay Rapada (1-0), L: Jesse Crain (0-1), S: Todd Jones (3) Mon, Apr 14, 2008 DET 11 MIN 9 W:Francis Beltran (1-0), L: Pat Neshek (0-1), S: Todd Jones (2) Wed, Sep 26, 2007 DET 9 MIN 4 (6) W:Tim Byrdak (3-0), L: Nick Blackburn (0-1), S: none Tue, Sep 25, 2007 DET 8 MIN 0 W:Yorman Bazardo (2-1), L: Matt Garza (4-7), S: none Mon, Sep 24, 2007 MIN 2 @DET 0 W:Carlos Silva (13-14), L: Nate Robertson (8-13), S: Joe Nathan (35) Sun, Sep 16, 2007 DET 6 @MIN 4 W:Jair Jurrjens (3-1), L: Scott Baker (9-8), S: Todd Jones (37) Sat, Sep 15, 2007 DET 4 @MIN 3 W:Joel Zumaya (2-3), L: Johan Santana (15-12), S: Todd Jones (36) Season Series: 2008 - MIN leads 3-2; 2007 - DET won 12-6; 2006 - DET won 11-8; All-Time - DET leads 1020-938

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

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

CHC 5.68

LAA 4.51

SDP 3.39

RA/G

CLE 3.64

KCR 4.49

TEX 5.51

C. Jones .412

C. Delgado .218

C. Pena .206

OBP

C. Jones .482

C. Delgado .301

K. Greene .269

SLG

L. Berkman .770

G. Matthews .347

O. Cabrera .289

OPS

L. Berkman 1.236

C. Delgado .665

O. Cabrera .563

ERA

E. Volquez 1.33

D. McGowan 4.21

J. Washburn 6.99

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.28

B. Tomko 6.30

J. Garland 1.96

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Minnesota Twins Batters (4.45 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (5.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 58.Galarraga
G/S/vB 41.Cruceta
G/S/vB 34.Dolsi
G/S/vB 59.Jones
G/S/vB 45.Lopez
G/S/vB 31.Miner
G/S/vB 44.Seay*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

25.Casilla# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/20 .278/.333/.500/.833 .000/.879 21/.833 0/0 1/

19.Clark* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/4 .286/.286/.571/.857 1.000/.750 .750 7/.857 0/0 0/

5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 5/.400 3/.000 ··· 8/.750 6/.833 6/.500 4/1.750 129/98 .227/.287/.319/.606 .748/.562 .601 111/.615 4/1 1/

22.Gomez G/S/vP 3/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 176/134 .286/.318/.440/.759 1.015/.676 .689 83/.931 16/3 4/

23.Harris G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/2.500 4/.750 1/.000 168/125 .255/.331/.345/.676 .519/.731 .713 91/.649 1/1 2/

16.Kubel* G/S/vP 4/2.250 3/.333 ··· 5/.200 3/.666 6/.833 3/1.334 147/113 .248/.286/.409/.694 .465/.759 .579 68/.683 0/1 5/

24.Lamb* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 ··· 3/1.334 ··· 146/127 .224/.253/.269/.522 .158/.579 .719 81/.558 0/0 0/

7.Mauer* G/S/vP 4/.833 ··· ··· 6/.900 3/2.000 7/1.000 8/.833 172/123 .333/.404/.413/.817 .772/.836 .697 95/.926 0/1 0/

27.Monroe G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 96/62 .236/.292/.449/.741 .335/.959 .639 56/.710 0/0 4/

33.Morneau* G/S/vP 5/.650 2/1.000 ··· 7/.143 3/1.667 5/1.600 8/1.000 197/141 .303/.376/.486/.861 .777/.895 .768 109/.897 0/0 8/

55.Redmond G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 7/1.547 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 33/17 .200/.242/.267/.509 .536/.485 .569 19/.557 0/0 0/

21.Young G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/2.000 1/2.000 2/1.500 3/.666 192/150 .278/.323/.356/.678 .611/.698 .820 105/.738 8/2 0/

IP 35.1 9.2 7.1 16.2 27.1 25.2 14.1 TOTAL .265/.317/.379/.697 .644/.714 .680 .733 39/11 26/38

ERA-K/9

3.06/6.1

1.86/7.4

1.23/6.2

4.32/3.2

2.30/6.3

6.66/6.0

1.88/6.9

4.94/5.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Mauer (19-10-0)
Redmond (8-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 145/.167 41/.229 31/.185 73/.234 110/.269 115/.263 60/.259 .267 Young
Cuddyer
Gomez
Monroe
Kubel 47/0/0/5
0/1/28/2
0/41/0/2
0/7/1/1
1/0/13/1

OPS .571 .684 .624 .735 .666 .739 .631 .767

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 69/.629 19/.734 9/.944 35/.952 41/.780 49/.616 35/.658 .778

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 76/.516 22/.641 22/.490 38/.549 69/.594 66/.831 25/.593 .759

Home 49/.763 21/.825 25/.644 41/.791 65/.621 58/.463 32/.701 .783

Last 28d days 100/.646 41/.684 31/.624 39/.800 45/.868 48/.472 27/.642

HR/SB/CS 3/3/0 1/1/0 1/0/0 2/1/0 1/1/0 2/3/0 0/0/1 41/19/11

Usage ·····X·· ·Xo··oo· X···o··· ··o··o·X ··X··o·X ·X··X·o· ····o·oX

Detroit Tigers Batters (4.72 RS/G) vs. Minnesota Twins Pitchers (4.66 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 59.Slowey
G/S/vB 60.Bass
G/S/vB 28.Crain
G/S/vB 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB 41.Korecky
G/S/vB 36.Nathan
G/S/vB 37.Reyes*
G/S/vB 39.Rincon
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/5.000 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 197/168 .282/.365/.476/.842 .972/.818 .805 100/.843 1/0 7/

28.Granderson* G/S/vP 3/2.334 1/2.000 13/.885 14/1.238 ··· 9/.777 5/.000 6/1.000 109/104 .247/.321/.495/.816 .400/.838 .784 98/.768 2/1 6/

9.Guillen# G/S/vP 3/1.334 2/.000 14/.702 11/.989 ··· 13/.840 9/.583 12/1.000 176/143 .292/.366/.448/.814 .646/.857 .966 88/.636 3/0 4/

15.Inge G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 16/1.053 16/.331 ··· 12/.450 5/.000 19/.285 123/101 .233/.331/.427/.758 .554/.802 1.017 42/.539 1/1 4/

20.Joyce* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/41 .278/.357/.722/1.079 .000/1.109 .994 42/1.079 0/0 5/

30.Ordonez G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 13/.760 11/.273 ··· 11/.697 3/.333 18/1.007 197/168 .315/.376/.506/.881 .899/.877 1.051 99/.858 0/1 7/

14.Polanco G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 9/1.127 11/.555 ··· 9/.476 9/.888 6/.666 170/140 .281/.349/.386/.735 .953/.690 .612 101/.911 2/0 2/

25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/28 .250/.351/.438/.789 .778/.792 1.067 13/.641 0/0 1/

8.Renteria G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/.000 4/1.000 ··· 4/.000 9/.555 2/1.500 178/150 .281/.311/.395/.706 1.184/.620 .656 81/.518 1/0 4/

7.Rodriguez G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 4/.666 15/.934 ··· 9/1.069 4/1.250 19/.485 161/128 .268/.308/.383/.691 .678/.694 .762 74/.640 3/0 1/

39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 5/1.467 39/35 .344/.447/.625/1.072 1.250/1.048 1.046 14/1.051 0/0 1/

3.Sheffield G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 9/1.056 6/.567 ··· 18/1.056 3/2.334 6/.900 146/120 .202/.349/.311/.660 .439/.712 .742 80/.651 3/0 2/

33.Thames G/S/vP 3/1.666 1/2.000 4/.500 7/.143 ··· 5/.400 1/.000 4/.500 65/42 .246/.292/.410/.702 1.110/.487 .819 28/.893 0/0 3/

IP 19.2 30.0 16.2 27.1 8.0 19.0 12.2 19.1 TOTAL .267/.339/.426/.765 .822/.754 .828 .735 18/4 48/34

ERA-K/9

5.49/7.3

3.90/4.2

3.78/5.9

3.62/5.9

4.50/6.8

1.42/9.9

1.42/5.0

3.72/7.0

4.16/5.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Inge (3-0-2)
Rodriguez (16-11-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 81/.260 139/.276 76/.288 121/.271 32/.241 76/.239 49/.261 87/.239 .279 Inge
Ordonez
Granderson
Sheffield
Thames
Raburn
Joyce 2/11/0/2
0/0/44/1
0/25/0/0
6/0/0/0
12/0/6/0
11/2/3/0
10/0/2/0

OPS .881 .857 .821 .733 .761 .599 .610 .731 .767

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 30/.930 47/.896 30/.573 44/.781 17/.710 41/.617 33/.492 38/.921 .763

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 51/.854 92/.837 46/.974 77/.706 15/.800 35/.580 16/.866 49/.576 .770

Road 44/.915 63/.798 29/1.073 45/.938 21/.667 20/.850 14/.452 32/.817 .810

Last 28d days 67/.870 73/.805 44/.810 66/.675 32/.761 46/.668 29/.750 51/.771

HR/SB/CS 6/0/1 6/1/2 2/2/1 3/4/1 1/2/0 1/4/0 0/1/1 2/4/1 52/27/11

Usage ····X··· X·X··o·· o··XX··X X··Xo··X ·X·XX··· X··o··oX ···oo·oo ·X·Xo·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: MIN @ DET, 7:05pm, Friday, May 23, 2008 @Comerica Park

SP: Kevin Slowey (24, RHP, 0-4, 5.49)

SP: Armando Galarraga (26, RHP, 3-1, 3.06)

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