LAA @ TBR, Saturday, May 10, 2008 Game Preview

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 22-15, 1st, Tied	SP: Joe Saunders (27, LHP, 6-0, 2.61) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (6-0) 48.1 43 14 14 10 21 4 2.61 2007 (8-5) 107.1 129 56 53 34 69 11 4.44 2006 (7-3) 70.2 71 42 37 29 51 6 4.71 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 6-0 48.1 43 14 14 10 21 4 2.61 58 2008-05-04 BAL W 5 12 4 4 0 1 1 85 28 2008-04-29 OAK W 8 4 0 0 1 5 0 102 78 2008-04-24 @BOS W 6 7 3 3 3 3 0 101 46 2008-04-18 SEA W 8 6 4 4 0 2 2 100 56 2008-04-13 @SEA W 5.1 6 2 2 3 1 0 91 46 2008-04-07 CLE ND 8 4 1 1 2 5 1 112 73 2008-04-02 @MIN W 8 4 0 0 1 4 0 78 77 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TBR Has never faced TBR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 10-8 Road: 12-7 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 17-14 vsLHP: 5-1 1-Run: 6-5 vsEast: 4-3 vsCntrl:10-5 vsWest: 8-7 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 37 Fri, May 9 @TBR L 0-2 22-15 1st Tied 36 Wed, May 7 @KCR L 4-9 22-14 1st Tied 35 Tue, May 6 @KCR W 5-3 22-13 1st 1.0 up 34 Mon, May 5 @KCR W 4-0 21-13 1st 1.0 up 33 Sun, May 4 BAL W 6-5 20-13 1st 1.0 up 32 Sat, May 3 BAL W 3-1 19-13 1st 1.0 up 31 Fri, May 2 BAL L 3-4 18-13 1st Tied 30 Thu, May 1 OAK L 8-15 18-12 1st Tied 29 Wed, Apr 30 OAK W 6-1 18-11 1st 1.0 up 28 Tue, Apr 29 OAK W 2-0 17-11 1st Tied Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:12-8 Last 30:18-12
Tampa Bay Rays, 19-16, 2nd, 2½ GB	SP: Scott Kazmir (24, LHP, 0-1, 6.75) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-1) 4 6 4 3 3 5 0 6.75 2007 (13-9) 206.2 196 91 80 89 239 18 3.48 2006 (10-8) 144.2 132 59 52 52 163 15 3.24 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-2 40 37 18 14 15 55 4 3.15 57 2008-05-04 @BOS L 4 6 4 3 3 5 0 90 38 2007-09-27 NYY ND 6 3 1 1 0 10 0 100 72 2007-09-21 BOS L 5 4 3 2 4 9 0 91 54 2007-09-15 @SEA W 6 3 1 0 2 11 0 99 73 2007-09-10 @BOS W 7 5 0 0 2 10 0 118 75 2007-09-04 BAL ND 7 9 4 4 1 5 2 103 47 2007-08-30 @BAL W 5 7 5 4 3 5 2 98 37 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ANA 1-1 13.1 12 8 7 3 11 0 4.73 52 2007-07-18 LAA W 7 3 1 1 1 6 0 94 72 2006-06-06 LAA L 6.1 9 7 6 2 5 0 108 32
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 11-7 Road: 8-9 ExtrInn: 2-0 vsRHP: 15-10 vsLHP: 4-6 1-Run: 3-4 vsEast: 15-11 vsCntrl: 2-3 vsWest: 2-2 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 35 Fri, May 9 LAA W 2-0 19-16 2nd 2.5 gb 34 Thu, May 8 @TOR W 8-3 (13) 18-16 2nd 3.5 gb 33 Wed, May 7 @TOR L 2-6 17-16 2nd 3.5 gb 32 Tue, May 6 @TOR W 5-4 17-15 2nd 3.5 gb 31 Sun, May 4 @BOS L 3-7 16-15 2nd 3.0 gb 30 Sat, May 3 @BOS L 4-12 16-14 2nd 2.0 gb 29 Fri, May 2 @BOS L 3-7 16-13 2nd 1.0 gb 28 Thu, May 1 @BAL W 4-2 16-12 1st Tied 27 Wed, Apr 30 @BAL W 8-1 15-12 2nd 1.0 gb 26 Tue, Apr 29 @BAL L 4-7 14-12 3rd 1.0 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:13-7 Last 30:16-14
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Fri, May 09, 2008 TBR 2 LAA 0 W:James Shields (4-2), L: Justin Speier (0-2), S: none Wed, Sep 19, 2007 LAA 2 TBD 1 W:Ervin Santana (7-13), L: J.P. Howell (1-5), S: Francisco Rodriguez (37) Tue, Sep 18, 2007 LAA 2 TBD 1 W:John Lackey (17-9), L: Jason Hammel (2-5), S: Francisco Rodriguez (36) Mon, Sep 17, 2007 LAA 10 TBD 7 W:Darren Oliver (3-0), L: Edwin Jackson (4-15), S: none Thu, Jul 19, 2007 LAA 3 @TBD 0 W:Kelvim Escobar (11-3), L: Andy Sonnanstine (1-5), S: Francisco Rodriguez (25) Wed, Jul 18, 2007 TBD 7 LAA 2 W:Scott Kazmir (7-6), L: Bartolo Colon (6-5), S: none Tue, Jul 17, 2007 TBD 8 LAA 3 W:James Shields (8-5), L: Ervin Santana (5-11), S: none Thu, Apr 26, 2007 LAA 11 TBD 3 W:Bartolo Colon (2-0), L: Jae Weong Seo (1-2), S: none Wed, Apr 25, 2007 LAA 9 TBD 1 W:John Lackey (3-2), L: Edwin Jackson (0-3), S: none Wed, Jul 26, 2006 LAA 15 @TBD 6 W:Kevin Gregg (3-3), L: Casey Fossum (4-4), S: none Season Series: 2008 - TBR leads 1-0; 2007 - LAA won 6-2; 2006 - LAA won 7-2; All-Time - LAA leads 63-33

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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 5.66

TEX 4.51

SDP 3.31

RA/G

OAK 3.59

SEA 4.46

PIT 5.54

OBP

SLG

OPS

ERA

C. Lee .81

T. Redding 3.83

N. Robertson 6.64

K/9IP

E. Volquez 11.06

T. Redding 6.04

J. Garland 2.07

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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Batters (4.68 RS/G) vs. Tampa Bay Rays Pitchers (4.29 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 19.Kazmir*
G/S/vB 24.Birkins*
G/S/vB 27.Dohmann
G/S/vB 49.Hammel
G/S/vB 39.Howell*
G/S/vB 57.Miller*
G/S/vB 40.Percival
G/S/vB 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

16.Anderson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/2.333 3/.000 4/.750 1/.000 5/.400 144/117 .241/.278/.416/.694 .339/.777 .737 96/.630 1/0 5/

2.Aybar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 122/99 .297/.311/.390/.701 .935/.647 .840 100/.753 5/2 1/

9.Figgins# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 5/1.200 1/.000 1/2.000 145/121 .306/.421/.355/.776 .845/.761 .728 96/.678 11/4 0/

27.Guerrero G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 3/.666 4/.750 1/2.000 4/2.417 146/121 .260/.336/.412/.748 .711/.756 .816 99/.705 1/1 3/

48.Hunter G/S/vP 9/1.111 ··· 4/1.000 3/.000 3/.666 3/.666 8/.393 6/1.000 142/113 .298/.352/.504/.856 .844/.860 .637 95/.796 3/1 5/

35.Kotchman* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· 134/109 .325/.381/.528/.909 1.386/.799 1.122 94/.957 1/0 6/

5.Mathis G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 67/48 .246/.266/.443/.708 .793/.676 .962 52/.712 1/0 3/

24.Matthews# G/S/vP 12/.795 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/2.500 2/.500 1/2.000 158/134 .210/.297/.348/.645 .792/.617 .660 110/.569 1/1 5/

44.Napoli G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 74/69 .261/.311/.623/.934 .400/.975 1.119 46/.954 1/0 8/

39.Quinlan G/S/vP 6/.167 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 31/20 .207/.258/.310/.568 .473/.618 .222 27/.579 0/0 1/

21.Rivera G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· 3/.000 32/15 .161/.188/.194/.381 .412/.343 .182 29/.421 0/0 0/

18.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/19 .190/.261/.190/.451 .500/.440 .267 23/.451 0/0 0/

77.Willits# G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 13/12 .455/.500/.545/1.045 .000/1.145 .667 12/.855 0/0 0/

3.Wood G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 25/18 .182/.250/.318/.568 .533/.575 .692 25/.568 0/0 1/

IP 4.0 10.0 14.2 30.1 22.0 9.1 12.0 19.0 TOTAL .269/.329/.419/.748 .764/.744 .787 .723 32/11 38/15

ERA-K/9

6.75/11.2

0.90/6.3

6.14/7.3

5.04/4.8

3.27/7.8

5.79/9.7

2.25/9.0

1.42/5.7

3.98/6.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Mathis (9-7-1)
Napoli (12-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 21/.353 37/.161 66/.310 137/.287 93/.225 44/.270 43/.143 71/.152 .248 Guerrero
Matthews
Anderson
Hunter
Rivera
Willits
Quinlan 0/0/29/3
15/5/8/2
20/0/0/1
0/32/0/1
2/1/3/0
1/2/2/0
0/0/1/0

OPS .899 .432 .862 .819 .615 .738 .425 .485 .695

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 5/.400 14/.298 26/.724 71/1.012 32/.476 22/.596 24/.299 27/.273 .736

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 16/1.083 23/.515 40/.954 66/.613 61/.686 22/.876 19/.579 44/.608 .661

Home / 11/.614 35/.619 53/.702 38/.753 22/.384 27/.226 27/.454 .626

Last 28d days 21/.899 37/.432 49/.899 110/.794 74/.624 27/.704 34/.539 54/.647

HR/SB/CS 0/3/0 0/0/0 2/4/0 3/5/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 1/2/0 2/0/0 26/26/6

Usage ·····X·· ·····X·X ··o··oX· ··X····X ·X····X· ··X··oX· ·X·o···· ·X·X·X··

Tampa Bay Rays Batters (4.60 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitchers (4.54 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 51.Saunders*
G/S/vB 49.Bootcheck
G/S/vB 53.O'Day
G/S/vB 38.Oliver*
G/S/vB 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB 62.Shields
G/S/vB 33.Speier
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

8.Bartlett G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 4/1.000 125/91 .237/.268/.263/.531 .758/.444 .403 87/.568 4/2 0/

41.Cannizaro G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 1/.000 0/0 0/

13.Crawford* G/S/vP ··· 6/1.834 ··· ··· 4/.000 9/.000 6/.666 161/110 .276/.298/.375/.673 .661/.679 .784 114/.755 9/1 2/

15.Floyd* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 15/.967 1/.000 3/.666 2/.500 17/17 .333/.412/.800/1.212 /1.212 / 0/0 2/

31.Gomes G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 2/.500 4/.000 4/.000 10/.100 76/41 .219/.329/.438/.766 .752/.778 .734 50/.621 2/1 3/

26.Gross* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 97/92 .205/.340/.333/.674 .000/.715 .734 77/.760 2/0 2/

32.Hinske* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 8/1.125 6/.533 9/.222 1/.000 115/87 .263/.365/.566/.931 .500/1.069 .765 88/.879 3/1 7/

1.Iwamura* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 159/111 .227/.297/.305/.602 .509/.642 .617 112/.596 2/1 2/

3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 98/69 .229/.337/.434/.770 .372/.927 1.082 98/.770 2/0 4/

30.Navarro# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 2/.000 2/1.000 63/47 .350/.381/.450/.831 .962/.850 .772 54/.840 0/2 1/

23.Pena* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 4/1.250 7/.000 12/.969 2/.000 142/90 .210/.310/.411/.721 .877/.636 .809 96/.603 0/0 8/

9.Riggans G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/29 .222/.280/.378/.658 .571/.718 .448 27/.644 0/0 2/

2.Upton G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 141/99 .294/.390/.429/.819 .763/.841 .855 97/.855 6/4 3/

IP 48.1 7.2 18.2 16.0 14.2 14.2 14.2 TOTAL .250/.322/.390/.713 .673/.730 .724 .696 32/15 37/18

ERA-K/9

2.61/3.9

10.57/7.0

3.86/5.3

2.81/3.9

3.07/6.1

1.84/7.3

4.30/5.5

4.39/5.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Navarro (12-4-0)
Riggans (10-0-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 188/.244 45/.410 89/.307 65/.271 59/.200 55/.235 70/.254 .275 Upton
Gross
Crawford
Hinske
Gomes 0/33/0/4
2/14/12/2
35/0/0/1
0/0/11/1
1/0/3/0

OPS .626 1.002 .831 .736 .582 .626 .866 .763

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 36/.342 19/1.167 36/.844 29/.881 30/.733 26/.591 30/1.300 .828

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 152/.694 26/.878 53/.825 36/.629 29/.434 29/.656 40/.544 .713

Road 78/.597 12/.606 50/.953 38/.837 30/.313 32/.583 42/.843 .757

Last 28d days 133/.716 45/1.002 61/.815 39/.599 43/.435 41/.502 52/.843

HR/SB/CS 4/4/4 1/1/0 1/1/1 1/1/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 4/0/1 35/21/10

Usage ·····X·· ··X····· ··X··o·· ···o·o·o ···o·Xo· ···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: LAA @ TBR, 7:10pm, Saturday, May 10, 2008 @Tropicana Field

SP: Joe Saunders (27, LHP, 6-0, 2.61)

SP: Scott Kazmir (24, LHP, 0-1, 6.75)

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