DET @ SFG, Monday, June 16, 2008 Game Preview

Detroit Tigers, 32-37, 4th, 6 GB, 8 GB in WC	SP: Justin Verlander (25, RHP, 3-9, 4.65) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (3-9) 91 83 52 47 35 55 8 4.65 2007 (18-6) 201.2 181 88 82 67 183 20 3.66 2006 (17-9) 186 187 78 75 60 124 21 3.63 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-4 48 41 17 17 15 30 2 3.19 57 2008-06-11 CHW W 9 4 1 1 0 3 0 101 78 2008-06-06 CLE L 7 5 3 3 4 8 0 115 59 2008-05-31 @SEA L 7 8 4 4 2 1 0 112 44 2008-05-25 MIN ND 7 5 1 1 4 3 0 120 62 2008-05-20 SEA W 6 4 1 1 1 7 1 104 66 2008-05-14 @KCR L 6 6 2 2 3 3 0 101 52 2008-05-08 BOS L 6 9 5 5 1 5 1 107 38 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.SFG Has never faced SFG.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 20-16 Road: 12-21 ExtrInn: 0-3 vsRHP: 21-32 vsLHP: 11-5 1-Run: 6-10 vsEast: 8-8 vsCntrl:10-19 vsWest: 10-8 IL: 4-2 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 69 Sun, Jun 15 LAD W 5-4 32-37 4th 6.0 gb 68 Sat, Jun 14 LAD W 12-7 31-37 4th 7.0 gb 67 Fri, Jun 13 LAD W 5-0 30-37 4th 8.0 gb 66 Thu, Jun 12 CHW W 2-1 29-37 4th 8.0 gb 65 Wed, Jun 11 CHW W 5-1 28-37 4th 9.0 gb 64 Tue, Jun 10 CHW W 6-4 27-37 4th 10.0 gb 63 Mon, Jun 9 CLE L 2-8 26-37 4th 11.0 gb 62 Sun, Jun 8 CLE W 5-2 26-36 4th 10.0 gb 61 Sat, Jun 7 CLE W 8-4 25-36 4th 10.0 gb 60 Fri, Jun 6 CLE L 2-4 24-36 4th 10.0 gb Last 10: 8-2 Last 20:11-9 Last 30:16-14
San Francisco Giants, 30-40, 4th, 7 GB, 11½ GB in WC	SP: Tim Lincecum (24, RHP, 8-1, 1.99) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (8-1) 90.2 76 24 20 35 92 3 1.99 2007 (7-5) 146.1 122 70 65 65 150 12 4.00 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 4-0 48.1 35 13 13 18 47 2 2.42 63 2008-06-11 @COL ND 7 6 0 0 3 9 0 103 71 2008-06-06 @WSN W 7 5 1 1 0 5 0 83 68 2008-06-01 SDP ND 7 4 1 1 4 2 0 100 63 2008-05-27 @ARI W 7.1 6 3 3 3 7 0 119 58 2008-05-20 @COL W 6 5 3 3 4 6 0 113 52 2008-05-15 HOU ND 6 5 3 3 3 10 0 105 57 2008-05-10 PHI W 8 4 2 2 1 8 2 105 73 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.DET Has never faced DET.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 13-22 Road: 17-18 ExtrInn: 5-3 vsRHP: 20-28 vsLHP: 10-12 1-Run: 14-13 vsEast: 9-7 vsCntrl: 6-14 vsWest: 15-13 IL: 0-6 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 70 Sun, Jun 15 OAK L 3-5 30-40 4th 7.0 gb 69 Sat, Jun 14 OAK L 0-4 30-39 4th 7.0 gb 68 Fri, Jun 13 OAK L 1-5 30-38 3rd 7.0 gb 67 Thu, Jun 12 @COL W 10-7 30-37 3rd 6.0 gb 66 Wed, Jun 11 @COL L 0-1 29-37 3rd 6.0 gb 65 Tue, Jun 10 @COL L 5-10 29-36 3rd 6.0 gb 64 Mon, Jun 9 @WSN W 3-2 29-35 3rd 5.0 gb 63 Sun, Jun 8 @WSN W 6-3 28-35 3rd 6.0 gb 62 Sat, Jun 7 @WSN W 6-0 27-35 3rd 7.0 gb 61 Fri, Jun 6 @WSN W 10-1 26-35 3rd 7.0 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:13-17
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Sun, Jun 19, 2005 DET 10 SFG 8 (10) W:Jamie Walker (3-3), L: Scott Eyre (1-1), S: none Sat, Jun 18, 2005 DET 8 SFG 2 W:Jason Johnson (5-5), L: Kirk Rueter (2-6), S: none Fri, Jun 17, 2005 SFG 4 @DET 0 W:Jason Schmidt (4-3), L: Nate Robertson (2-5), S: Tyler Walker (10) Sun, Jun 08, 2003 SFG 7 DET 6 W:Joe Nathan (6-2), L: Franklyn German (2-3), S: Tim Worrell (16) Sat, Jun 07, 2003 SFG 7 DET 5 W:Jason Schmidt (5-2), L: Mike Maroth (1-11), S: none Fri, Jun 06, 2003 SFG 5 DET 3 W:Kirk Rueter (7-1), L: Jeremy Bonderman (2-8), S: Tim Worrell (15) Season Series: 2008 - 0-0; 2007 - 0-0; 2006 - 0-0; All-Time - SFG leads 4-2

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

TEX 5.55

TBR 4.54

WSN 3.75

RA/G

OAK 3.65

BAL 4.59

TEX 5.83

C. Jones .402

S. Victorino .278

A. Cabrera .184

OBP

C. Jones .491

J. Votto .347

M. Lamb .264

SLG

L. Berkman .704

H. Pence .447

A. Cabrera .247

OPS

L. Berkman 1.149

J. Loney .791

A. Cabrera .529

ERA

E. Volquez 1.64

J. Moyer 4.12

B. Bonser 6.45

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.74

R. Nolasco 6.13

L. Hernandez 2.82

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Detroit Tigers Batters (4.75 RS/G) vs. San Francisco Giants Pitchers (4.60 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 55.Lincecum
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

24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.200 2/.000 ··· 290/237 .285/.359/.474/.833 .690/.866 .824 106/.848 1/0 10/

27.Clevlen G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/14 .217/.308/.217/.525 .408/.615 27/.525 0/0 0/

28.Granderson* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 192/172 .250/.307/.449/.756 .618/.773 .739 94/.731 3/2 8/

9.Guillen# G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 265/211 .304/.384/.470/.854 1.042/.813 .702 102/.955 6/2 6/

46.Hollimon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/5 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 5/.000 0/0 0/

15.Inge G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 166/131 .221/.319/.429/.748 .408/.840 .547 51/.856 1/1 6/

19.Larish* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/40 .162/.225/.270/.495 /.495 .255 40/.495 0/0 1/

30.Ordonez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 290/234 .310/.383/.492/.875 .790/.893 .705 105/.911 0/1 10/

14.Polanco G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.833 ··· ··· 263/203 .304/.360/.400/.760 .987/.694 .781 107/.827 2/0 2/

25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 71/46 .219/.296/.359/.655 .600/.685 .578 36/.487 1/0 1/

8.Renteria G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 ··· ··· 2/.000 4/1.417 ··· 3/.666 257/203 .274/.320/.367/.687 .937/.624 .669 91/.758 1/1 5/

7.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 220/175 .262/.304/.366/.670 .784/.641 .523 68/.621 5/0 1/

33.Thames G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 121/71 .248/.322/.560/.882 .901/.869 .770 59/1.196 0/0 10/

IP 90.2 29.0 11.2 16.1 23.2 29.0 27.2 37.1 TOTAL .266/.338/.421/.759 .788/.752 .671 .796 25/8 70/47

ERA-K/9

1.99/9.1

4.66/4.3

3.09/14.6

4.41/8.8

2.66/8.4

4.97/7.8

3.90/10.1

1.93/6.0

4.27/7.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Inge (6-1-2)
Rodriguez (23-14-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 373/.230 126/.252 45/.179 73/.190 101/.233 122/.234 118/.230 152/.201 .258 Ordonez
Inge
Granderson
Clevlen
Raburn
Thames
Guillen 0/0/62/3
2/11/0/2
0/47/0/2
8/3/1/1
15/4/7/0
24/0/6/0
2/0/0/0

OPS .611 .774 .583 .653 .671 .703 .624 .590 .742

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 197/.612 43/.729 28/.644 26/.584 53/.518 41/1.144 58/.536 56/.776 .710

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 176/.610 83/.797 17/.489 47/.692 48/.830 81/.481 60/.704 96/.484 .762

Home 162/.629 60/.624 25/.701 44/.720 51/.812 55/.885 58/.628 89/.633 .733

Last 28d days 139/.540 52/.908 42/.577 49/.602 32/.444 45/.593 38/.479 40/.578

HR/SB/CS 3/10/1 5/1/0 2/0/1 2/3/1 2/5/1 4/1/0 2/0/1 2/1/0 67/43/11

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

San Francisco Giants Batters (4.01 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (4.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 35.Verlander
G/S/vB 52.Bautista
G/S/vB 34.Dolsi
G/S/vB 49.Fossum*
G/S/vB 59.Jones
G/S/vB 31.Miner
G/S/vB 44.Seay*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

35.Aurilia G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 6/.933 ··· 1/.000 189/126 .276/.349/.412/.761 .878/.707 .625 65/.922 1/1 5/

21.Bowker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 171/156 .261/.310/.427/.737 .354/.772 .707 71/.715 1/0 6/

7.Burriss# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 93/55 .296/.356/.370/.726 1.038/.531 .712 31/.984 6/2 0/

12.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 6/1.300 6/.666 2/1.000 ··· 264/186 .261/.314/.429/.743 .702/.760 .770 105/.689 1/1 5/

28.Denker G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 25/17 .292/.320/.625/.945 1.375/.732 1.333 25/.945 0/0 1/

5.Durham# G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB ··· 3/.666 16/1.255 ··· 2/.000 209/156 .293/.378/.408/.786 .889/.752 .771 97/.786 5/1 2/

20.Holm G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 72/55 .206/.306/.349/.655 1.020/.541 .847 26/.413 0/1 1/

49.Horwitz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/15 .333/.348/.619/.967 1.125/.872 .748 23/.967 0/0 2/

14.Lewis* G/S/vP ··· 3/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 260/221 .281/.362/.459/.820 .526/.869 .924 100/.830 12/3 5/

1.Molina G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 20/.750 6/.334 3/1.167 ··· 242/178 .311/.339/.467/.806 .834/.795 .652 91/.938 0/0 6/

33.Rowand G/S/vP 3/1.667 10/.425 ··· 8/.393 1/5.000 ··· 3/.333 265/192 .311/.374/.487/.861 1.216/.729 .727 105/.770 1/3 8/

13.Vizquel# G/S/vP ··· 8/1.125 ··· 13/.862 12/1.250 ··· 2/.000 110/79 .191/.271/.223/.494 .472/.504 .613 79/.340 2/0 0/

2.Winn# G/S/vP ··· 7/1.404 ··· 16/.750 7/.000 ··· ··· 280/199 .301/.361/.454/.815 .918/.772 .804 112/.939 10/1 5/

IP 91.0 19.0 16.1 2.2 25.1 35.1 20.2 TOTAL .262/.325/.398/.723 .789/.699 .711 .749 57/23 48/37

ERA-K/9

4.65/5.4

3.32/4.7

2.20/5.5

20.25/6.7

4.26/3.2

5.09/5.1

3.92/6.1

4.63/5.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Holm (18-1-0)
Molina (25-10-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 389/.241 83/.231 71/.238 15/.467 109/.247 160/.252 93/.293 .261 Lewis
Winn
Rowand
Bowker
Horwitz 58/7/1/5
0/5/63/2
0/64/0/1
1/0/10/0
5/0/1/0

OPS .676 .701 .657 1.067 .722 .713 .749 .744

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 180/.726 30/.488 21/.902 9/1.000 51/.895 72/.621 53/.839 .785

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 209/.633 53/.805 50/.553 6/1.167 58/.576 88/.793 40/.633 .716

Road 146/.722 34/.721 31/.766 6/1.833 43/.687 82/.885 37/.556 .747

Last 28d days 140/.528 22/.596 49/.552 15/1.067 37/.677 54/.548 33/.973

HR/SB/CS 8/5/4 1/1/0 1/2/0 0/0/0 3/2/0 2/3/0 1/0/1 59/29/15

Usage ····X··· X·····X· ··X··X·o ·o·····X X··o·X·o ·X·····X oo····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: DET @ SFG, 10:15pm, Monday, June 16, 2008 @AT&T Park

SP: Justin Verlander (25, RHP, 3-9, 4.65)

SP: Tim Lincecum (24, RHP, 8-1, 1.99)

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