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Game Preview: MIN @ KCR, 8:10pm, Friday, April 11, 2008 @Kauffman Stadium

Minnesota Twins, 4-5, 3rd, 2 GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Livan Hernandez (33, RHP, 2-0, 3.86)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (2-0)             14    14   6   6   0   3  0    3.86      
 2007 (11-11)          204.1 247 116 112  79  90 34    4.93      
 2006 (13-13)          216   246 125 116  78 128 29    4.83      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         4-2  41    55  26  26  12  15  6    5.71   41 
 2008-04-05    KCR   W   7     7   4   4   0   2  0      74   49 
 2008-03-31    LAA   W   7     7   2   2   0   1  0      84   56 
 2007-09-26    PIT   L   4    10   4   4   3   3  1      93   26 
 2007-09-21    LAD   W   6    10   3   3   1   1  0     104   40 
 2007-09-15    LAD   L   6     6   5   5   3   3  2     103   40 
 2007-09-10    SFG  ND   6     8   3   3   3   4  2      92   45 
 2007-09-05    SDP   W   5     7   5   5   2   1  1      84   32 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR      1-0   7     7   4   4   0   2  0    5.14   49 
 2008-04-05    KCR   W   7     7   4   4   0   2  0      74   49 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-4    Road:    1-1    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   2-4    vsLHP:   2-1    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 3-2    vsWest:  1-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Wed, Apr  9  @CHW  W  12-5        4-5   3rd  2.5 gb
  8 Mon, Apr  7  @CHW  L   4-7        3-5   4th  2.5 gb
  7 Sun, Apr  6   KCR  L   1-3        3-4   4th  1.5 gb
  6 Sat, Apr  5   KCR  W   6-4        3-3   3rd  0.5 gb
  5 Fri, Apr  4   KCR  W   4-3        2-3   4th  1.5 gb
  4 Thu, Apr  3   LAA  L   4-5        1-3   4th  2.5 gb
  3 Wed, Apr  2   LAA  L   0-1        1-2   3rd  1.5 gb
  2 Tue, Apr  1   LAA  L   1-9        1-1   3rd  0.5 gb
  1 Mon, Mar 31   LAA  W   3-2        1-0   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 4-5    Last 20: 4-5    Last 30: 4-5 
Kansas City Royals, 6-3, 1st, ½ up

SP: Gil Meche (29, RHP, 0-1, 6.94)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-1)             11.2  14   9   9   6  10  2    6.94      
 2007 (9-13)           216   218  98  88  62 156 22    3.67      
 2006 (11-8)           186.2 183 106  93  84 156 24    4.48      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-2  45.1  42  20  19  14  37  5    3.77   54 
 2008-04-05    MIN   L   5.2   6   6   6   2   5  1      87   36 
 2008-03-31    DET  ND   6     8   3   3   4   5  1      99   45 
 2007-09-29    CLE  ND   6     7   2   2   2   7  0     103   55 
 2007-09-24    BAL   L   8     7   3   3   1   5  1     124   60 
 2007-09-18    CHW   W   7     4   2   1   2   5  0     108   66 
 2007-09-12    MIN   W   6.2   5   2   2   1   7  0     102   62 
 2007-09-07    NYY  ND   6     5   2   2   2   3  2     105   55 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.MIN      1-3  31.1  30  16  16  13  24  2    4.60   50 
 2008-04-05    MIN   L   5.2   6   6   6   2   5  1      87   36 
 2007-09-12    MIN   W   6.2   5   2   2   1   7  0     102   62 
 2007-08-31    MIN   L   7     7   3   3   3   3  0     115   51 
 2007-07-30    MIN   L   7     7   2   2   1   6  0      98   60 
 2005-08-19    MIN  ND   5     5   3   3   6   3  1     102   42 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    2-1    Road:    4-2    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   5-2    vsLHP:   1-1    1-Run:   1-1 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Thu, Apr 10   NYY  L   1-6        6-3   1st  0.5 up
  8 Wed, Apr  9   NYY  W   4-0        6-2   1st  1.0 up
  7 Tue, Apr  8   NYY  W   5-2        5-2   1st    Tied
  6 Sun, Apr  6  @MIN  W   3-1        4-2   1st    Tied
  5 Sat, Apr  5  @MIN  L   4-6        3-2   1st    Tied
  4 Fri, Apr  4  @MIN  L   3-4        3-1   1st  1.0 up
  3 Thu, Apr  3  @DET  W   4-1        3-0   1st  1.0 up
  2 Wed, Apr  2  @DET  W   4-0        2-0   1st    Tied
  1 Mon, Mar 31  @DET  W   5-4 (11)   1-0   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 6-3    Last 20: 6-3    Last 30: 6-3 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 06, 2008 KCR  3 @MIN  1        W:Brett Tomko (1-0), L: Boof Bonser (0-2), S: Joakim Soria (3)
Sat, Apr 05, 2008 MIN  6  KCR  4        W:Livan Hernandez (2-0), L: Gil Meche (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (3)
Fri, Apr 04, 2008 MIN  4  KCR  3        W:Scott Baker (1-0), L: John Bale (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (2)

Wed, Sep 12, 2007 KCR  6  MIN  3        W:Gil Meche , L: Carlos Silva , S: none
Tue, Sep 11, 2007 MIN  6 @KCR  3        W:Scott Baker , L: Kyle Davies , S: Joe Nathan 
Mon, Sep 10, 2007 MIN  4 @KCR  2        W:Boof Bonser , L: Billy Buckner , S: Joe Nathan 
Sun, Sep 02, 2007 KCR  8 @MIN  1        W:Brian Bannister , L: Boof Bonser , S: none
Sat, Sep 01, 2007 MIN  6  KCR  4        W:Carlos Silva , L: Brandon Duckworth , S: Joe Nathan 
Fri, Aug 31, 2007 MIN  5  KCR  0        W:Scott Baker , L: Gil Meche , S: none
Fri, Aug 31, 2007 KCR  9 @MIN  4        W:Kyle Davies , L: Matt Garza , S: none
Season Series: 2008 - MIN leads 2-1; 2007 - Tied 9-9; 2006 - MIN won 12-7; All-Time - MIN leads 305-284

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

BA

M. Ordonez  .363

J. Francoeur  .293

J. LaRue  .148

OBP

B. Bonds  .480

J. Varitek  .367

J. LaRue  .240

SLG

C. Ross  .653

T. Tulowitzki  .479

A. Gonzalez  .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez  1.067

G. Sheffield  .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.

Minnesota Twins Batters (3.89 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (2.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Meche
G/S/vB
41.Gobble*
G/S/vB
32.Mahay*
G/S/vB
91.Nomo
G/S/vB
46.Nunez
G/S/vB
56.Ramirez
G/S/vB
48.Soria
G/S/vB
25.Tomko
G/S/vB
27.Yabuta
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Everett G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 2/.500 5/.650 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 14/.824 ··· 236/173 .232/.281/.318/.599 .558/.613 .619 / 4/2 2/8
22.Gomez G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 139/77 .232/.288/.304/.592 .614/.569 .533 / 12/3 2/3
23.Harris G/S/vP 5/.400 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 576/414 .286/.343/.434/.777 .897/.731 .799 / 4/1 12/13
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 12/.583 6/1.100 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 1/.000 466/382 .273/.335/.450/.785 .667/.810 .801 / 5/0 13/2
24.Lamb* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 11/1.055 8/.536 ··· 2/.000 ··· 18/.745 ··· 353/296 .289/.366/.453/.820 1.056/.777 .764 / 0/0 11/11
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 14/1.052 22/.739 8/.250 ··· 3/2.000 ··· ··· 5/1.400 ··· 471/312 .293/.382/.426/.808 .673/.877 .956 / 7/1 7/1
27.Monroe G/S/vP 33/.868 19/.269 3/.333 8/.125 2/.500 1/.000 3/1.334 ··· ··· 427/287 .219/.268/.370/.638 .805/.555 .682 / 0/4 12/3
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 22/.723 23/.880 7/1.429 ··· 4/.750 ··· 5/.000 4/1.000 1/.000 668/445 .271/.343/.492/.834 .693/.907 .851 / 1/1 31/5
8.Punto# G/S/vP 15/.624 12/.606 4/1.500 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 536/364 .210/.291/.271/.562 .483/.599 .581 / 16/6 1/13
55.Redmond G/S/vP 3/.666 5/.400 1/.000 14/1.455 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 298/198 .294/.346/.353/.699 .853/.623 .678 / 0/0 1/0
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· / /// / / / /
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· / /// / / / /
21.Young G/S/vP 12/.166 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 4/1.000 1/2.000 681/509 .288/.316/.408/.723 .752/.714 .733 / 10/3 13/7
IP 216.0 53.2 67.0 43.2 17.1 69.0 131.1 TOTAL .269/.320/.376/.695 .650/.716 .849 .695 9/2 4/6
ERA-K/9 3.67/6.5 3.02/8.4 2.55/7.4 /0.0 3.92/7.6 8.31/7.8 2.48/9.8 5.55/7.2 /0.0 2.67/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Mauer (21-24-4)
 Redmond (23-16-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 906/.263 233/.277 281/.218 / 182/.259 78/.313 270/.187 588/.284 / .244  Young
 Monroe
 Gomez
 Kubel
 Lamb
0/29/133/16
102/7/9/6
27/4/22/3
84/0/0/2
0/0/1/0
OPS .711 .810 .664 .756 .891 .510 .809 .684
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 460/.683 127/.724 117/.542 / 77/.919 32/.624 106/.446 276/.817 / .716
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 446/.739 106/.909 164/.755 / 105/.643 46/1.053 164/.550 312/.801 / .657
Home 484/.698 114/.725 148/.653 / 94/.659 45/1.224 130/.481 258/.807 / .726
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 22/4/5 6/2/1 4/1/3 // 8/5/0 2/3/0 3/0/0 18/8/5 // 8/2/0
Usage ·····X·· ·o··o·X· ··X·Xo·· X······· ··o·o··· ··o···oo ··o·o··o ····X··· ·X···o··

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

Kansas City Royals Batters (3.67 RS/G) vs. Minnesota Twins Pitchers (4.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 61.Hernandez
G/S/vB
60.Bass
G/S/vB
28.Crain
G/S/vB
54.Guerrier
G/S/vB
36.Nathan
G/S/vB
17.Neshek
G/S/vB
37.Reyes*
G/S/vB
39.Rincon
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
14.Buck G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.533 13/.808 5/.200 5/1.400 ··· 11/.300 399/311 .222/.308/.429/.738 .739/.737 .606 / 0/1 18/8
16.Butler G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 1/2.000 2/2.500 ··· 1/no AB 360/251 .292/.347/.447/.794 .981/.715 .768 / 0/0 8/3
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP 3/1.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 156/120 .215/.265/.271/.535 .629/.508 .525 / 1/1 0/3
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/.944 13/1.000 13/.398 4/.000 4/.000 9/.000 703/502 .260/.351/.372/.722 .657/.749 .762 / 10/4 7/4
2.Gathright* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/2.000 4/.833 4/.000 4/.250 1/.000 4/.000 261/217 .307/.371/.342/.713 .625/.730 .579 / 9/8 0/4
3.German G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 4/1.000 3/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 4/1.250 405/234 .264/.351/.376/.727 .793/.678 .851 / 11/7 4/9
7.Gload* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 5/.800 5/1.000 4/.833 4/.500 7/1.071 6/.334 346/294 .288/.318/.441/.759 .854/.742 .760 / 2/2 7/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 4/1.250 3/.000 4/.000 4/2.417 601/446 .247/.314/.411/.725 .686/.738 .787 / 14/4 15/15
15.Grudzielanek G/S/vP 55/.600 ··· 4/.000 7/.762 16/.474 4/.250 10/.500 6/.167 486/333 .302/.346/.426/.772 .844/.739 .757 / 1/2 6/6
11.Guillen G/S/vP 9/.444 ··· 4/.500 3/.000 3/.000 4/1.500 10/1.171 4/.250 659/501 .290/.353/.460/.813 1.049/.741 .787 / 5/1 23/8
21.Olivo G/S/vP 14/.715 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 7/.429 469/367 .237/.262/.405/.667 .806/.629 .770 / 3/2 16/12
1.Pena G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 536/396 .267/.284/.356/.640 .638/.640 .777 / 5/6 2/23
24.Teahen* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 8/.625 8/.125 3/1.000 8/.708 8/.536 608/432 .285/.353/.410/.763 .672/.799 .833 / 13/5 7/6
IP 204.1 16.1 88.0 71.2 70.1 29.1 59.2 TOTAL .267/.315/.370/.685 .543/.717 .764 .685 10/5 4/1
ERA-K/9 4.93/4.0 /0.0 5.51/5.5 2.35/7.0 1.88/9.7 2.94/9.5 3.99/6.5 5.13/7.4 4.05/5.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (44-12-3)
 Olivo (51-25-16)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 913/.308 / 71/.292 351/.220 282/.209 278/.183 139/.309 272/.273 .267  Teahen
 Guillen
 DeJesus
 Gathright
 German
 Gload
 Callaspo
 Butler
0/5/137/17
0/0/150/9
0/156/0/5
64/10/0/3
8/0/0/2
8/0/0/1
3/0/7/1
6/0/0/0
OPS .870 .876 .618 .574 .591 .810 .793 .713
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 465/.854 / 30/.872 153/.742 138/.620 113/.618 82/.673 132/.915 .665
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 448/.885 / 41/.880 198/.523 144/.532 165/.573 57/1.009 140/.677 .763
Road 468/.881 / 33/1.140 157/.598 120/.607 123/.629 63/.862 134/.821 .798
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 34/20/5 // 4/0/1 9/6/2 4/7/0 7/1/2 1/1/3 9/3/1 9/4/2
Usage ·····X·· ·X·····X ····X··· ···X·X·X ·····oX· ···X··o· ····o··o ···o···o

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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