MIL @ LAD, Saturday, August 16, 2008 Game Preview

Milwaukee Brewers, 70-53, 2nd, 5½ GB	SP: David Bush (28, RHP, 7-9, 4.35) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. LAD Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (7-9) 132.1 119 70 64 31 87 20 4.35 2007 (12-10) 186.1 217 110 106 44 134 27 5.12 2006 (12-11) 210 201 111 103 38 166 26 4.41 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-2 46.2 38 20 17 7 42 5 3.28 59 2008-08-11 WSN W 6.1 5 1 1 2 6 0 98 63 2008-08-05 @CIN W 7 3 1 1 2 7 0 92 72 2008-07-31 CHC L 7.1 5 7 6 1 3 3 106 44 2008-07-26 HOU ND 5 9 4 4 0 5 2 93 38 2008-07-10 COL W 8 3 1 0 0 13 0 124 87 2008-07-05 PIT ND 8 4 1 1 0 7 0 100 77 2008-06-30 @ARI L 5 9 5 4 2 1 0 75 30 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.LAD 1-1 13.1 16 9 7 2 12 2 4.73 48 2006-09-04 LAD W 7.1 8 3 3 1 5 0 103 54 2006-05-07 @LAD L 6 8 6 4 1 7 2 91 42
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 36-23 Road: 34-30 ExtrInn: 8-5 vsRHP: 46-41 vsLHP: 24-12 1-Run: 23-11 vsEast: 16-12 vsCntrl:30-23 vsWest: 17-10 IL: 7-8 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 123 Fri, Aug 15 @LAD L 3-5 70-53 2nd 5.5 gb 122 Thu, Aug 14 @SDP L 2-3 70-52 2nd 4.5 gb 121 Wed, Aug 13 @SDP W 7-1 70-51 2nd 3.5 gb 120 Tue, Aug 12 @SDP W 5-2 69-51 2nd 3.0 gb 119 Mon, Aug 11 WSN W 7-1 68-51 2nd 3.5 gb 118 Sun, Aug 10 WSN W 5-4 (13) 67-51 2nd 4.0 gb 117 Sat, Aug 9 WSN W 6-0 66-51 2nd 4.0 gb 116 Fri, Aug 8 WSN W 5-0 65-51 2nd 5.0 gb 115 Wed, Aug 6 @CIN W 6-3 64-51 2nd 5.0 gb 114 Tue, Aug 5 @CIN W 8-1 63-51 2nd 5.0 gb Last 10: 8-2 Last 20:11-9 Last 30:19-11
Los Angeles Dodgers, 63-59, 1st, Tied	SP: Derek Lowe (35, RHP, 9-10, 4.11) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. MIL Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (9-10) 153.1 155 78 70 35 110 13 4.11 2007 (12-14) 199.1 194 100 86 59 147 20 3.88 2006 (16-8) 218 221 97 88 55 123 14 3.63 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 4-2 42 43 23 22 6 28 3 4.71 50 2008-08-11 PHI W 6.1 5 3 3 1 3 0 96 53 2008-08-06 @STL L 3.1 13 8 8 0 2 2 65 4 2008-07-31 ARI L 6.1 7 2 2 0 7 0 87 58 2008-07-26 WSN W 8 1 0 0 1 4 0 107 83 2008-07-20 @ARI ND 5.1 7 4 4 3 6 0 98 41 2008-07-09 ATL W 7.2 2 1 1 1 4 1 85 74 2008-07-04 @SFG W 5 8 5 4 0 2 0 81 35 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.MIL 2-1 31.1 29 14 13 11 22 1 3.73 53 2008-05-14 @MIL ND 6 6 4 4 3 6 0 95 47 2007-04-02 @MIL L 4 8 6 6 5 4 0 84 21 2006-09-06 @MIL W 8 3 1 0 1 1 0 79 74 2006-05-05 MIL ND 7.1 7 2 2 1 6 1 103 61 2003-06-08 @MIL W 6 5 1 1 1 5 0 74 62
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 37-27 Road: 26-32 ExtrInn: 5-7 vsRHP: 41-44 vsLHP: 22-15 1-Run: 17-17 vsEast: 16-11 vsCntrl:19-16 vsWest: 23-22 IL: 5-10 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 122 Fri, Aug 15 MIL W 5-3 63-59 1st Tied 121 Thu, Aug 14 PHI W 3-1 62-59 1st Tied 120 Wed, Aug 13 PHI W 7-6 61-59 1st Tied 119 Tue, Aug 12 PHI W 4-3 60-59 2nd 1.0 gb 118 Mon, Aug 11 PHI W 8-6 59-59 2nd 1.0 gb 117 Sun, Aug 10 @SFG L 4-5 58-59 2nd 1.5 gb 116 Sat, Aug 9 @SFG L 2-3 (10) 58-58 2nd 0.5 gb 115 Fri, Aug 8 @SFG W 6-2 58-57 2nd 0.5 gb 114 Thu, Aug 7 @STL W 4-1 57-57 2nd 1.5 gb 113 Wed, Aug 6 @STL L 6-9 56-57 2nd 2.5 gb Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:13-7 Last 30:18-12
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Fri, Aug 15, 2008 LAD 5 MIL 3 W:Chad Billingsley (12-9), L: Manny Parra (9-6), S: Jonathan Broxton (9) Thu, May 15, 2008 LAD 7 @MIL 2 W:Chad Billingsley (3-5), L: Ben Sheets (4-1), S: none Wed, May 14, 2008 LAD 6 @MIL 4 W:Jonathan Broxton (2-1), L: Guillermo Mota (1-2), S: Takashi Saito (6) Tue, May 13, 2008 MIL 5 LAD 3 W:Carlos Villanueva (2-4), L: Brad Penny (5-4), S: Eric Gagne (10) Wed, May 23, 2007 LAD 5 MIL 1 W:Brad Penny (6-1), L: Chris Capuano (5-3), S: none Tue, May 22, 2007 LAD 3 MIL 2 W:Randy Wolf (6-3), L: Ben Sheets (4-3), S: Takashi Saito (14) Mon, May 21, 2007 MIL 9 @LAD 5 W:Jeff Suppan (6-4), L: Brett Tomko (1-5), S: none Wed, Apr 04, 2007 LAD 5 @MIL 4 W:Jason Schmidt (1-0), L: Jeff Suppan (0-1), S: Takashi Saito (1) Tue, Apr 03, 2007 MIL 4 LAD 3 W:Brian Shouse (1-0), L: Randy Wolf (0-1), S: Francisco Cordero (1) Mon, Apr 02, 2007 MIL 7 LAD 1 W:Ben Sheets (1-0), L: Derek Lowe (0-1), S: none Season Series: 2008 - LAD leads 3-1; 2007 - Tied 3-3; 2006 - LAD won 4-2; All-Time - LAD leads 47-24

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

TEX 5.59

MIL 4.67

WSN 3.69

RA/G

TOR 3.95

MIN 4.62

TEX 6.10

C. Jones .366

D. Erstad .291

J. Towles .143

OBP

C. Jones .462

S. Schumaker .362

T. Pena .180

SLG

L. Berkman .607

J. Werth .482

T. Pena .206

OPS

A. Pujols 1.060

T. Hunter .834

T. Pena .386

ERA

C. Lee 2.43

J. Maine 3.97

C. Silva 6.36

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 10.11

P. Maholm 6.32

L. Hernandez 3.48

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Milwaukee Brewers Batters (4.67 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 23.Lowe
G/S/vB 97.Beimel*
G/S/vB 51.Broxton
G/S/vB 54.Johnson
G/S/vB 56.Kuo*
G/S/vB 61.Park
G/S/vB 37.Sturtze
G/S/vB 38.Troncoso
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

8.Braun G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 498/371 .300/.339/.586/.926 .951/.917 .803 92/1.129 10/3 30/

25.Cameron G/S/vP 33/.479 1/2.000 14/.599 18/.487 5/.600 25/.940 22/.136 ··· 356/272 .239/.331/.500/.831 .962/.792 .960 104/.831 12/5 20/

30.Counsell* G/S/vP 29/.877 7/.286 5/.400 10/.844 3/1.000 29/.526 ··· ··· 214/191 .225/.332/.308/.639 .511/.655 .650 59/.513 3/1 1/

5.Durham# G/S/vP 50/.878 12/1.278 9/1.413 23/.707 5/.600 23/1.041 10/.786 1/.000 345/262 .280/.371/.410/.781 .668/.815 .737 41/.647 6/3 4/

28.Fielder* G/S/vP 12/.958 5/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· ··· 527/366 .278/.378/.524/.901 .766/.963 .804 121/1.059 2/0 28/

2.Hall G/S/vP 9/.000 5/.800 2/.000 ··· ··· 6/.834 1/.000 ··· 361/236 .228/.300/.417/.717 1.027/.558 .567 67/.674 4/6 14/

7.Hardy G/S/vP 10/.733 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 458/340 .272/.334/.453/.787 .859/.763 .832 109/.673 2/1 17/

1.Hart G/S/vP 10/.900 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 496/367 .284/.320/.495/.815 .771/.830 .876 109/.767 22/5 18/

33.Kapler G/S/vP 8/.250 ··· ··· 9/1.069 ··· ··· 12/.944 1/2.000 211/134 .307/.338/.503/.841 .945/.779 .830 51/.754 3/0 7/

18.Kendall G/S/vP 12/.872 2/.000 2/.000 3/1.334 1/.000 39/.916 4/1.417 ··· 439/330 .244/.328/.319/.647 .657/.644 .693 101/.578 6/3 1/

20.Nix* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 8/1.357 ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· 5/5 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 5/.000 0/0 0/

11.Rivera G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 60/45 .333/.400/.481/.881 .733/.924 .833 10/1.314 2/0 1/

23.Weeks G/S/vP 7/.762 1/.000 3/1.333 ··· ··· 7/1.071 ··· 1/.000 451/329 .229/.331/.379/.710 .797/.679 .799 95/.801 15/4 10/

IP 153.1 34.0 51.2 20.1 70.2 79.0 25.1 TOTAL .253/.325/.439/.763 .808/.748 .747 .767 87/30 162/78

ERA-K/9

4.11/6.5

1.85/5.6

3.48/11.1

3.10/5.3

1.66/10.4

2.62/7.2

/0.0

4.26/9.6

3.66/7.5

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Kendall (42-30-4)
Rivera (16-4-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 633/.264 153/.280 212/.217 82/.240 280/.192 332/.253 / 109/.272 .250 Braun
Hart
Cameron
Kapler
Nix 112/0/0/7
0/0/118/4
0/84/0/2
12/31/13/0
1/0/0/0

OPS .693 .679 .595 .732 .517 .726 .677 .688

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 295/.692 77/.657 88/.832 38/.856 85/.568 146/.831 / 40/.392 .728

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 338/.694 76/.700 124/.440 44/.623 195/.492 186/.647 / 69/.856 .660

Home 345/.563 80/.660 111/.414 52/.648 114/.371 156/.622 / 57/.674 .599

Last 28d days 122/.754 28/.845 47/.491 70/.727 59/.424 54/.644 / 47/.621

HR/SB/CS 13/12/2 0/5/2 2/5/2 3/1/0 2/2/0 10/4/0 // 0/4/0 91/63/15

Usage ····X··· o·ooX··· X·o·X·Xo ··X····· ·X·X·Xo· ··X·o··X o····X··

Los Angeles Dodgers Batters (4.24 RS/G) vs. Milwaukee Brewers Pitchers (4.29 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 31.Bush
G/S/vB 38.Gagne
G/S/vB 73.McClung
G/S/vB 58.Mota
G/S/vB 54.Riske
G/S/vB 51.Shouse*
G/S/vB 16.Torres
G/S/vB 12.Villanueva
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

36.Ardoin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 33/18 .233/.303/.367/.670 1.043/.347 .481 13/.930 0/0 1/

13.Berroa G/S/vP 7/.929 2/.000 3/1.334 2/4.000 12/.533 2/1.500 1/.000 2/.000 142/102 .202/.264/.264/.528 .572/.510 .394 60/.588 0/0 0/

30.Blake G/S/vP 6/.533 1/.000 7/.929 1/.000 7/1.429 2/.500 3/2.000 1/.000 450/350 .292/.359/.481/.840 .911/.820 .752 105/.924 2/0 15/

16.Ethier* G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· 1/2.000 4/.500 ··· 2/.000 4/1.833 4/.500 432/333 .276/.341/.451/.792 .649/.834 .721 77/.693 3/2 12/

5.Garciaparra G/S/vP 7/.000 1/.000 3/2.334 4/.833 3/1.000 3/1.667 11/.920 1/.000 111/76 .257/.315/.485/.800 1.147/.653 .723 39/.701 1/1 6/

27.Kemp G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 3/1.667 492/351 .298/.348/.472/.821 1.048/.731 .819 117/.926 28/8 14/

12.Kent G/S/vP 6/1.333 25/.410 ··· 12/.350 ··· 1/.000 23/.957 6/1.467 414/299 .277/.329/.427/.755 .820/.730 .697 100/.900 0/1 11/

7.Loney* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 4/1.000 495/347 .295/.352/.447/.800 .687/.847 .785 102/.787 6/3 9/

55.Martin G/S/vP 6/1.834 1/2.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 5/.800 5/2.300 493/360 .288/.387/.414/.801 .737/.824 .774 102/.681 12/5 11/

14.Ozuna G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 84/58 .266/.293/.329/.622 .865/.509 .881 15/.533 1/2 0/

9.Pierre* G/S/vP 17/.941 21/.476 4/.833 11/1.250 ··· 10/.522 11/.900 7/.572 350/247 .279/.327/.319/.645 .788/.586 .621 53/.653 37/8 0/

99.Ramirez G/S/vP 9/2.178 2/.000 8/1.917 2/5.000 5/1.400 3/.667 8/1.232 3/.000 488/388 .314/.414/.559/.973 .778/1.025 .983 104/1.165 1/0 25/

21.Sweeney* G/S/vP 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 7/.453 2/.000 1/2.000 7/1.607 1/.000 82/70 .125/.220/.167/.386 .250/.410 .452 10/1.000 0/0 0/

IP 132.1 30.0 86.0 42.2 36.2 41.0 61.1 89.0 TOTAL .259/.325/.387/.712 .767/.690 .701 .767 100/31 91/74

ERA-K/9

4.35/5.9

6.90/7.8

4.50/7.3

4.85/7.6

4.17/5.9

2.41/6.1

2.64/6.2

4.35/7.2

3.93/6.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Ardoin (4-1-1)
Martin (57-14-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 549/.236 140/.286 377/.252 187/.273 159/.250 166/.227 254/.232 382/.265 .255 Kemp
Ethier
Ramirez
Pierre
Sweeney 0/64/59/11
41/0/73/7
80/0/0/6
73/10/0/1
1/0/0/0

OPS .719 .943 .745 .793 .758 .634 .625 .769 .726

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 253/.736 73/.732 178/.825 81/.957 68/.896 82/.488 115/.635 178/.593 .722

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 296/.705 67/1.177 199/.673 106/.668 91/.657 84/.786 139/.616 204/.922 .729

Road 231/.794 65/.922 184/.696 90/.638 77/.545 82/.786 140/.693 161/.953 .744

Last 28d days 106/.705 27/.838 52/.871 33/.595 34/.782 36/.785 47/.529 48/.384

HR/SB/CS 20/13/5 9/0/0 10/5/2 6/4/0 5/1/2 4/1/1 3/1/2 16/5/2 127/58/34

Usage ····X··· ·o···X·· ····o··· ··X··o·· o·X·X··· ·o··o··· ···o·X·· X····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: MIL @ LAD, 10:10pm, Saturday, August 16, 2008 @Dodger Stadium

SP: David Bush (28, RHP, 7-9, 4.35)

SP: Derek Lowe (35, RHP, 9-10, 4.11)

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