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Game Preview: ATL @ NYM, 7:10pm, Friday, April 25, 2008 @Shea Stadium

Atlanta Braves, 11-11, 4th, 2 GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Jair Jurrjens (22, RHP, 2-2, 3.20)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (2-2)             25.1  23   9   9   9  21  1    3.20      
 2007 (3-1)             30.2  24  16  16  11  13  4    4.70      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-2  36    36  18  18  13  27  2    4.50   50 
 2008-04-20    LAD   W   7     3   1   1   3   8  1     114   72 
 2008-04-15   @FLA   L   6     4   2   2   3   5  0     101   58 
 2008-04-08   @COL   L   7     9   4   4   2   3  0      94   44 
 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 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.NYM    Has never faced NYM.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    8-4    Road:    3-7    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:   6-4    vsLHP:   5-7    1-Run:   0-7 
 vsEast:  7-6    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  3-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 22 Thu, Apr 24   FLA  W   7-4       11-11  4th  2.0 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 23   FLA  L   2-7       10-11  4th  3.0 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 22   WSN  L   0-6       10-10  4th  2.0 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 21   WSN  W   7-3       10-9   3rd  2.0 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 20   LAD  W   6-1        9-9   3rd  2.0 gb
 17 Sat, Apr 19   LAD  W   4-1        8-9   3rd  2.5 gb
 16 Fri, Apr 18   LAD  W   6-1        7-9   4th  2.5 gb
 15 Thu, Apr 17  @FLA  W   8-0        6-9   4th  3.0 gb
 14 Wed, Apr 16  @FLA  L   5-6        5-9   4th  4.0 gb
 13 Tue, Apr 15  @FLA  L   0-4        5-8   4th  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:11-11
New York Mets, 11-10, 2nd, 1½ GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Mike Pelfrey (24, RHP, 2-0, 3.18)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (2-0)             17    20   6   6   6   9  2    3.18      
 2007 (3-8)             72.2  85  47  45  39  45  6    5.57      
 2006 (2-1)             21.1  25  14  13  12  13  1    5.48      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         5-1  39    45  19  18  19  26  4    4.15   47 
 2008-04-20   @PHI  ND   5    10   4   4   2   2  2      98   31 
 2008-04-15    WSN   W   7     5   0   0   2   4  0      99   69 
 2008-04-09    PHI   W   5     5   2   2   2   3  0     100   50 
 2007-09-24    WSN   L   5.2   5   7   6   5   3  1      97   31 
 2007-09-19   @WSN   W   5     9   3   3   3   4  0      92   38 
 2007-09-07    HOU   W   5.1  10   2   2   2   3  1      99   41 
 2007-09-01   @ATL   W   6     1   1   1   3   7  0      99   70 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.ATL      1-1  11     7   5   5   5  10  1    4.09   55 
 2007-09-01   @ATL   W   6     1   1   1   3   7  0      99   70 
 2007-04-20    ATL   L   5     6   4   4   2   3  1      92   40 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    6-3    Road:    5-7    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   3-8    vsLHP:   8-2    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast: 10-6    vsCntrl: 1-4    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 21 Thu, Apr 24  @WSN  L   5-10      11-10  2nd  1.5 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 23  @WSN  W   7-2       11-9   2nd  1.5 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 22  @CHC  L   1-8       10-9   2nd  1.5 gb
 18 Mon, Apr 21  @CHC  L   1-7       10-8   2nd  1.5 gb
 17 Sun, Apr 20  @PHI  L   4-5       10-7   2nd  0.5 gb
 16 Sat, Apr 19  @PHI  W   4-2       10-6   1st  0.5 up
 15 Fri, Apr 18  @PHI  W   6-4        9-6   1st  0.5 up
 14 Thu, Apr 17   WSN  W   3-2 (14)   8-6   2nd  0.5 gb
 13 Wed, Apr 16   WSN  W   5-2        7-6   2nd  1.5 gb
 12 Tue, Apr 15   WSN  W   6-0        6-6   2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:11-10
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 06, 2008 ATL  3  NYM  1        W:John Smoltz (1-0), L: Johan Santana (1-1), S: Rafael Soriano (1)
Sat, Apr 05, 2008 ATL 11  NYM  5        W:Tim Hudson (1-0), L: John Maine (0-1), S: none

Wed, Sep 12, 2007 NYM  4  ATL  3        W:Guillermo Mota (2-1), L: Manny Acosta (0-1), S: Billy Wagner (34)
Tue, Sep 11, 2007 ATL 13 @NYM  5        W:Peter Moylan (5-3), L: Orlando Hernandez (9-5), S: none
Mon, Sep 10, 2007 NYM  3  ATL  2        W:Oliver Perez (14-9), L: Tim Hudson (15-8), S: Billy Wagner (33)
Sun, Sep 02, 2007 NYM  3 @ATL  2        W:Tom Glavine (12-6), L: John Smoltz (12-7), S: Billy Wagner (30)
Sat, Sep 01, 2007 NYM  5 @ATL  1        W:Mike Pelfrey (1-7), L: Chuck James (9-10), S: Pedro Feliciano (2)
Fri, Aug 31, 2007 NYM  7 @ATL  1        W:John Maine (14-8), L: Tim Hudson (15-7), S: none
Thu, Aug 09, 2007 ATL  7 @NYM  6        W:Tim Hudson (13-5), L: John Maine (12-7), S: Oscar Villarreal (1)
Wed, Aug 08, 2007 NYM  4  ATL  3        W:Aaron Heilman (7-3), L: Rafael Soriano (2-3), S: Billy Wagner (26)
Season Series: 2008 - ATL leads 2-0; 2007 - Tied 9-9; 2006 - NYM won 11-7; All-Time - ATL leads 346-291

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.

Atlanta Braves Batters (5.09 RS/G) vs. New York Mets Pitchers (4.24 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Pelfrey
G/S/vB
25.Feliciano*
G/S/vB
48.Heilman
G/S/vB
50.Sanchez
G/S/vB
60.Schoeneweis*
G/S/vB
35.Smith
G/S/vB
29.Sosa
G/S/vB
13.Wagner*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
18.Blanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
23.Diaz G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 5/.400 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 8/.393 384/180 .338/.368/.497/.865 .964/.756 .856 / 4/0 12/2
19.Escobar G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 1/.000 355/201 .326/.385/.451/.837 .870/.811 .831 / 5/3 5/11
7.Francoeur G/S/vP 7/.286 4/.500 9/.333 ··· 2/.500 4/.750 4/1.750 10/.200 696/467 .293/.338/.444/.782 .852/.747 .847 / 5/2 19/5
8.Gotay# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 4/.500 ··· 211/169 .295/.351/.421/.772 .508/.835 .765 / 3/3 4/3
2.Johnson* G/S/vP 7/.629 5/.650 7/1.000 1/.000 5/.933 ··· 4/2.000 4/.833 608/424 .276/.375/.457/.831 .771/.858 .880 / 9/5 16/14
10.Jones# G/S/vP 6/1.500 9/.666 14/1.738 2/2.000 9/.472 3/.666 5/.000 20/.300 600/377 .337/.425/.604/1.029 .803/1.171 1.075 / 5/1 29/9
11.Kotsay* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 5/1.100 ··· 4/.250 9/.819 227/177 .214/.279/.296/.575 .332/.644 .671 / 1/1 1/2
16.McCann* G/S/vP 7/1.143 10/.708 5/1.600 2/.000 6/.334 2/.000 4/2.500 3/1.000 552/364 .270/.320/.452/.772 .755/.781 .748 / 0/1 18/13
27.Miller G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.667 29/21 .259/.310/.444/.755 .500/.860 .767 / 0/0 1/0
5.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 33/15 .212/.212/.303/.515 .611/.400 .471 / 0/1 1/0
14.Prado G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 62/23 .288/.323/.339/.662 .494/.954 .677 / 0/0 0/3
24.Teixeira# G/S/vP 4/.500 4/1.250 3/2.334 ··· 17/.529 ··· 11/1.545 5/1.400 575/398 .306/.400/.563/.963 1.000/.946 .971 / 0/0 30/5
IP 72.2 64.0 86.0 59.0 44.1 112.2 68.1 TOTAL .283/.345/.457/.803 .756/.836 .750 .803 6/1 28/15
ERA-K/9 5.57/5.6 3.09/8.6 3.03/6.6 /0.0 5.03/6.3 3.45/9.1 4.47/5.5 2.63/10.5 3.71/7.2

 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 342/.298 275/.200 352/.224 / 265/.271 205/.274 481/.255 282/.216 .239  Francoeur
 Kotsay
 Diaz
0/0/162/19
0/56/0/5
95/0/5/4
OPS .820 .610 .634 .797 .757 .719 .611 .701
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 165/.906 112/.483 141/.738 / 108/.556 58/.858 214/.938 61/.698 .833
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 177/.746 163/.697 211/.568 / 157/.963 147/.720 267/.549 221/.587 .637
Home 219/.875 140/.595 175/.543 / 134/.892 106/.729 210/.754 151/.527 .620
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 6/8/0 3/3/0 8/8/2 // 8/6/1 3/5/1 10/4/2 6/6/0 25/4/5
Usage ····X··· X·o·Xooo X··X·Xoo ·o·X·o·X ··o··X·· ··X·Xo·X X·Xoo··X ·X···ooo

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

New York Mets Batters (4.76 RS/G) vs. Atlanta Braves Pitchers (3.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Jurrjens
G/S/vB
46.Acosta
G/S/vB
56.Boyer
G/S/vB
57.Campillo
G/S/vB
38.Carlyle
G/S/vB
13.Ohman*
G/S/vB
48.Resop
G/S/vB
34.Ring*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Anderson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/2.167 1/4.000 ··· 106/98 .295/.343/.463/.806 .268/.849 .778 / 4/1 3/1
15.Beltran# G/S/vP ··· 3/2.334 ··· ··· 2/1.500 3/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 636/456 .276/.353/.525/.878 .940/.853 .822 / 23/2 33/5
30.Casanova# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 89/66 .253/.315/.519/.834 .811/.842 .400 / 0/0 6/3
1.Castillo# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 4/.833 ··· 9/.700 2/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 615/459 .301/.362/.359/.721 .778/.701 .749 / 19/6 1/5
10.Chavez* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 5/1.600 ··· 165/134 .287/.325/.380/.705 .724/.700 .784 / 5/2 1/0
19.Church* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 5/.200 ··· 2/.000 530/394 .272/.349/.464/.813 .655/.866 .775 / 3/2 15/3
21.Delgado* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 6/.833 1/.000 5/3.133 607/412 .258/.333/.448/.781 .704/.818 .680 / 4/0 24/8
3.Easley G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 218/117 .280/.358/.466/.824 1.041/.638 .779 / 0/1 10/5
6.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 30/18 .111/.138/.148/.286 .091/.402 .348 / 0/0 0/0
16.Pagan# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 161/83 .264/.306/.439/.745 .755/.736 .893 / 4/1 4/0
7.Reyes# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 3/.333 ··· 6/1.333 2/1.000 2/2.500 1/.000 765/554 .280/.354/.421/.775 .795/.768 .787 / 78/21 12/12
23.Schneider* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 6/.000 1/.000 7/.143 477/337 .235/.326/.336/.661 .636/.671 .642 / 0/0 6/6
5.Wright G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 4/.250 ··· 6/.333 2/1.000 2/2.500 1/no AB 711/513 .325/.416/.546/.963 1.106/.908 1.021 / 34/5 30/21
IP 30.2 23.2 5.1 13.1 107.0 36.1 4.1 20.0 TOTAL .259/.343/.374/.717 .822/.655 .715 .717 20/7 12/12
ERA-K/9 4.70/3.8 2.28/8.4 3.38/5.1 6.75/6.1 5.21/6.2 4.95/8.2 4.15/4.2 2.70/9.4 3.50/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Casanova (9-5-4)
 Molina (3-0-1)
 Schneider (53-24-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 122/.220 93/.165 26/.417 63/.333 462/.284 168/.282 17/.308 88/.186 .234  Beltran
 Church
 Anderson
 Chavez
 Pagan
 Easley
0/141/0/6
91/41/0/4
12/3/1/2
37/10/24/1
2/34/29/0
3/0/6/0
OPS .717 .543 .898 1.014 .857 .792 .872 .584 .674
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 71/.874 40/.769 11/1.000 25/.693 222/1.017 82/.718 9/.661 45/.701 .629
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 51/.509 53/.357 15/.829 38/1.220 240/.709 86/.861 8/1.119 43/.469 .707
Road 46/.620 47/.445 8/1.196 17/1.504 231/.800 69/.415 17/.872 18/.802 .671
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 4/2/0 2/4/0 0/1/0 2/2/1 19/4/2 3/4/0 1/0/0 1/1/1 14/18/3
Usage ····X··· X··X·oXX ·oo·Xoo· X·X··X·· ·X·X··Xo ·o··X·Xo ·Xo····X ··oo····

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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