CHW @ SFG, Saturday, May 17, 2008 Game Preview

Chicago White Sox, 21-20, 2nd, ½ GB, 2 GB in WC	SP: Mark Buehrle (29, LHP, 1-5, 5.81) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (1-5) 48 62 36 31 12 33 5 5.81 2007 (10-9) 201 208 86 81 45 115 22 3.63 2006 (12-13) 204 247 124 113 48 98 36 4.99 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-5 46.1 55 29 24 11 32 3 4.66 47 2008-05-12 @LAA L 5.2 10 8 6 1 6 1 102 26 2008-05-07 MIN L 5.2 9 7 7 3 4 1 93 24 2008-05-02 @TOR L 8 5 2 0 0 7 0 100 75 2008-04-26 BAL ND 6 3 3 3 2 5 1 111 57 2008-04-19 @TBR L 7 12 5 5 2 5 0 109 36 2008-04-14 OAK L 7 9 2 2 1 4 0 102 54 2008-04-06 @DET W 7 7 2 1 2 1 0 89 56 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.SFG 0-1 4.1 6 8 8 3 4 2 16.62 20 2003-06-11 SFG L 4.1 6 8 8 3 4 2 81 20
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 9-7 Road: 12-13 ExtrInn: 0-1 vsRHP: 14-16 vsLHP: 7-4 1-Run: 4-5 vsEast: 6-9 vsCntrl: 9-7 vsWest: 5-4 IL: 1-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 42 Fri, May 16 @SFG W 2-0 21-20 2nd 0.5 gb 41 Thu, May 15 @LAA W 4-3 20-20 2nd 1.5 gb 40 Wed, May 14 @LAA W 6-1 19-20 3rd 1.5 gb 39 Tue, May 13 @LAA L 0-2 18-20 3rd 2.0 gb 38 Mon, May 12 @LAA L 7-10 18-19 3rd 2.0 gb 37 Sun, May 11 @SEA L 3-6 18-18 2nd 1.0 gb 36 Sat, May 10 @SEA W 8-4 18-17 1st Tied 35 Fri, May 9 @SEA W 4-2 17-17 2nd 1.0 gb 34 Thu, May 8 MIN W 6-2 16-17 2nd 1.0 gb 33 Wed, May 7 MIN L 1-13 15-17 3rd 2.0 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20: 9-10 Last 30:14-15
San Francisco Giants, 17-26, 3rd, 10½ GB, 7 GB in WC	SP: Barry Zito (30, LHP, 0-7, 6.58) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-7) 39.2 53 35 29 18 18 6 6.58 2007 (11-13) 196.2 182 105 99 83 131 24 4.53 2006 (16-10) 221 211 99 94 99 151 27 3.83 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 0-6 34.2 45 31 25 17 17 5 6.49 38 2008-05-12 HOU ND 6 7 3 3 1 2 1 103 47 2008-05-07 @PIT L 5 5 2 2 2 5 1 99 52 2008-04-27 CIN L 3 7 8 8 3 1 0 66 11 2008-04-22 @ARI L 3.2 6 5 5 3 2 0 78 28 2008-04-16 ARI L 6 5 4 3 5 2 0 105 45 2008-04-11 STL L 6 7 4 1 1 2 1 98 49 2008-04-06 @MIL L 5 8 5 3 2 3 2 106 36 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CHW 3-1 34.2 26 12 12 18 25 4 3.12 58 2006-09-16 CHW W 7 7 4 4 7 3 1 121 43 2006-05-22 @CHW ND 6 4 1 1 6 7 0 112 61 2005-07-09 @CHW W 7 2 1 1 3 6 0 114 72 2005-07-03 CHW W 8 6 2 2 1 5 2 120 66 2005-04-25 CHW L 6.2 7 4 4 1 4 1 116 47
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 11-13 Road: 6-13 ExtrInn: 3-2 vsRHP: 12-20 vsLHP: 5-6 1-Run: 9-10 vsEast: 3-3 vsCntrl: 6-14 vsWest: 8-8 IL: 0-1 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 43 Fri, May 16 CHW L 0-2 17-26 3rd 10.5 gb 42 Thu, May 15 HOU L 7-8 17-25 3rd 9.5 gb 41 Wed, May 14 HOU L 3-6 17-24 3rd 8.5 gb 40 Tue, May 13 HOU W 4-2 17-23 3rd 7.5 gb 39 Mon, May 12 HOU L 3-7 16-23 3rd 7.5 gb 38 Sun, May 11 PHI W 4-3 16-22 3rd 7.0 gb 37 Sat, May 10 PHI W 8-2 15-22 3rd 8.0 gb 36 Fri, May 9 PHI L 4-7 14-22 4th 9.0 gb 35 Thu, May 8 @PIT L 4-5 14-21 3rd 9.0 gb 34 Wed, May 7 @PIT L 1-3 14-20 3rd 8.0 gb Last 10: 3-7 Last 20: 7-13 Last 30:12-18
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Fri, May 16, 2008 CHW 2 @SFG 0 W:Gavin Floyd (4-2), L: Jonathan Sanchez (2-3), S: Bobby Jenks (9) Thu, Jun 12, 2003 SFG 8 @CHW 4 W:Joe Nathan (7-3), L: Bartolo Colon (6-6), S: none Wed, Jun 11, 2003 SFG 11 @CHW 4 W:Jesse Foppert (4-5), L: Mark Buehrle (2-10), S: none Tue, Jun 10, 2003 CHW 5 SFG 3 W:Jon Garland (4-5), L: Joe Nathan (6-3), S: none Season Series: 2008 - CHW leads 1-0; 2007 - 0-0; 2006 - 0-0; All-Time - Tied 2-2

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 5.83

OAK 4.44

SDP 3.40

RA/G

CLE 3.50

LAA 4.48

TEX 5.51

A. Pujols .347

R. Zimmerman .244

OBP

A. Pujols .492

R. Zimmerman .277

SLG

C. Utley .655

I. Suzuki .367

OPS

A. Pujols 1.070

C. Crawford .680

ERA

C. Lee .67

M. Mussina 3.99

K. Rogers 6.65

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.62

J. Weaver 6.20

J. Garland 2.01

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Chicago White Sox Batters (4.45 RS/G) vs. San Francisco Giants Pitchers (4.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 75.Zito*
G/S/vB 31.Chulk
G/S/vB 52.Hinshaw*
G/S/vB 34.Sadler
G/S/vB 37.Taschner*
G/S/vB 45.Walker
G/S/vB 38.Wilson
G/S/vB 22.Yabu
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

32.Anderson G/S/vP 6/1.300 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/45 .244/.306/.356/.662 1.833/.575 .558 39/.705 0/1 1/

18.Cabrera G/S/vP 31/.241 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 182/144 .218/.278/.261/.538 .632/.514 .504 112/.442 5/1 1/

24.Crede G/S/vP 24/.733 3/.333 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 154/124 .272/.351/.493/.843 .419/.948 .815 92/.748 0/1 7/

23.Dye G/S/vP 19/.993 6/.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 151/118 .285/.338/.489/.827 .895/.805 .818 84/.734 0/1 6/

44.Hall G/S/vP 17/.620 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 29/21 .241/.241/.310/.552 .250/.667 .625 19/.737 0/0 0/

14.Konerko G/S/vP 37/.497 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 167/130 .210/.335/.362/.698 .785/.673 .577 98/.686 1/0 5/

38.Ozuna G/S/vP 19/.686 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 33/27 .194/.194/.194/.387 .333/.400 .333 20/.316 0/0 0/

12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 14/.143 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 146/117 .313/.370/.500/.870 .810/.885 .896 89/.823 0/0 3/

20.Quentin G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/no AB 3/1.167 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 166/136 .297/.416/.580/.995 .950/1.005 .983 107/1.035 4/2 10/

10.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/36 .156/.191/.267/.458 .731/.358 .689 31/.458 1/1 1/

30.Swisher# G/S/vP 6/.666 3/3.333 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 175/135 .212/.337/.336/.673 .783/.640 .697 108/.560 1/2 4/

25.Thome* G/S/vP 20/.600 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 167/126 .203/.341/.399/.740 .925/.675 .814 103/.730 1/0 7/

5.Uribe G/S/vP 18/.301 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 128/107 .198/.262/.328/.589 .554/.597 .579 70/.655 0/0 3/

IP 39.2 16.0 0.2 5.1 15.1 17.0 17.0 24.2 TOTAL .241/.327/.399/.726 .747/.721 .721 .691 13/9 48/24

ERA-K/9

6.58/4.1

2.81/3.4

0.00/25.7

3.38/8.5

4.11/8.2

5.82/7.9

3.18/9.5

2.19/5.8

4.30/7.5

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hall (10-3-0)
Pierzynski (27-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 186/.327 67/.246 3/.333 24/.222 67/.259 70/.215 74/.242 103/.180 .261 Swisher
Quentin
Ramirez
Dye
Anderson 3/27/7/2
40/0/0/2
0/9/0/1
0/0/36/1
0/16/2/0

OPS .904 .708 .667 .764 .762 .707 .615 .588 .763

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 29/.715 27/.758 2/.000 7/.629 35/.431 24/1.193 39/.609 36/.768 .720

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 157/.941 40/.671 1/2.000 17/.814 32/1.116 46/.456 35/.619 67/.494 .789

Home 96/.810 33/.682 3/.667 22/.847 39/.854 41/.896 47/.569 58/.696 .745

Last 28d days 84/.951 61/.758 3/.667 24/.764 41/.644 43/.672 44/.585 62/.442

HR/SB/CS 6/4/1 2/1/0 0/0/0 1/1/1 2/3/0 4/1/0 1/0/1 2/0/0 48/32/6

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

San Francisco Giants Batters (3.49 RS/G) vs. Chicago White Sox Pitchers (3.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 56.Buehrle*
G/S/vB 26.Dotel
G/S/vB 45.Jenks
G/S/vB 71.Linebrink
G/S/vB 57.Logan*
G/S/vB 46.Masset
G/S/vB 37.Thornton*
G/S/vB 43.Wassermann
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

35.Aurilia G/S/vP ··· 8/.393 1/.000 7/.286 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 115/83 .240/.313/.356/.669 .958/.569 .550 65/.860 1/1 3/

21.Bowker* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 99/89 .269/.293/.452/.745 .550/.763 .798 80/.601 0/0 4/

7.Burriss# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 59/34 .250/.286/.308/.593 .959/.362 .530 59/.593 4/0 0/

12.Castillo G/S/vP 7/.429 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 150/113 .254/.313/.435/.748 .623/.789 .810 85/.835 1/0 2/

5.Durham# G/S/vP 6/1.000 6/2.467 1/3.000 11/.910 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 103/81 .293/.369/.413/.782 .788/.778 .844 60/.915 5/0 1/

20.Holm G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 44/36 .275/.341/.450/.791 1.375/.646 1.097 35/.812 0/1 1/

14.Lewis* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 159/134 .287/.358/.462/.820 .376/.901 .948 107/.780 6/2 3/

1.Molina G/S/vP 28/.561 3/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 143/112 .267/.294/.415/.709 .435/.784 .693 81/.709 0/0 4/

40.Ortmeier# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 56/17 .292/.393/.417/.810 .923/.804 .945 30/.953 2/2 0/

33.Rowand G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 7/.000 ··· 1/.000 6/1.500 ··· 151/116 .328/.397/.530/.927 1.135/.865 .798 108/1.020 0/1 5/

8.Velez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 125/96 .210/.248/.328/.576 .545/.584 .587 72/.530 8/4 0/

13.Vizquel# G/S/vP 44/.513 3/.666 ··· 9/.583 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 26/20 .364/.440/.455/.895 .333/1.089 .895 26/.895 1/0 0/

2.Winn# G/S/vP 28/.407 6/1.333 ··· 15/.204 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 159/116 .295/.333/.397/.731 .931/.657 .754 98/.799 6/1 1/

IP 48.0 17.1 17.1 17.1 15.0 19.0 15.0 3.0 TOTAL .257/.315/.389/.704 .731/.696 .729 .750 42/15 26/25

ERA-K/9

5.81/6.2

3.12/13.5

2.08/5.7

1.56/4.7

3.00/7.8

4.26/9.5

3.60/11.4

27.00/3.0

3.62/6.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Holm (16-0-0)
Molina (16-6-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 211/.321 78/.239 68/.242 69/.219 64/.300 84/.254 59/.135 22/.579 .252 Winn
Lewis
Rowand
Velez
Ortmeier
Bowker 0/5/36/2
35/4/1/2
0/38/0/1
2/0/5/1
8/0/2/1
0/0/7/0

OPS .849 .651 .649 .619 .717 .784 .413 1.251 .681

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 47/.790 21/.881 34/.649 35/.451 34/.647 37/.862 27/.601 3/1.333 .744

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 164/.865 57/.566 34/.649 34/.779 30/.795 47/.723 32/.260 19/1.236 .639

Road 129/.871 43/.650 37/.623 39/.443 41/.622 47/.557 31/.336 15/1.071 .674

Last 28d days 142/.824 52/.583 37/.726 41/.663 44/.760 41/.769 36/.472 22/1.251

HR/SB/CS 5/1/2 1/5/0 1/3/0 1/1/0 0/0/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 0/1/0 22/37/8

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

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: CHW @ SFG, 9:05pm, Saturday, May 17, 2008 @AT&T Park

SP: Mark Buehrle (29, LHP, 1-5, 5.81)

SP: Barry Zito (30, LHP, 0-7, 6.58)

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