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Game Preview: CLE @ CHW, 8:11pm, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 @U.S. Cellular Field

Indians, 33-51, 5th, 12½ GB, 12½ GB in WC

SP: Aaron Laffey (24, LHP, 3-1, 3.93)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (3-1) 34.1 32 15 15 19 19 1 3.93
2008 (5-7) 93.2 103 52 44 31 43 10 4.23
2007 (4-2) 49.1 54 26 25 12 25 2 4.56
Last 7 GS 3-2 35.2 46 28 23 22 17 4 5.80 39
2009-05-02 @DET ND 3.1 6 5 5 5 1 1 76 24
2009-04-26 MIN W 6.1 5 2 2 4 1 0 91 52
2009-04-21 KCR W 7.0 7 1 1 3 3 0 104 59
2009-04-15 @KCR ND 5.1 3 2 2 3 5 0 87 56
2008-07-23 @LAA L 4.0 12 8 8 2 2 0 77 6
2008-07-18 @SEA L 3.2 9 8 3 2 1 2 84 20
2008-07-10 TBR W 6.0 4 2 2 3 4 1 93 57
Last 5 v.CHW 2-1 18.2 18 8 7 6 10 1 3.38 52
2008-05-27 CHW W 6.0 7 2 1 2 0 0 99 50
2008-05-22 @CHW L 7.0 6 2 2 1 6 0 95 62
2007-08-09 @CHW W 5.2 5 4 4 3 4 1 95 44
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   19-25   Road:   14-26   ExtrInn: 2-5 
 vsRHP:  26-40   vsLHP:   7-11   1-Run:  11-12
 vsEast: 12-14   vsCntrl:14-20   vsWest:  2-4  IL: 5-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 84 Tue, Jul  7  @CHW  L   6-10      33-51  5th 12.5 gb
 83 Sun, Jul  5   OAK  L   2-5       33-50  5th 12.0 gb
 82 Sat, Jul  4   OAK  W   5-2       33-49  5th 12.0 gb
 81 Fri, Jul  3   OAK  W  15-3       32-49  5th 13.0 gb
 80 Wed, Jul  1   CHW  L   2-6       31-49  5th 13.0 gb
 79 Tue, Jun 30   CHW  L   4-11 (7)  31-48  5th 13.0 gb
 78 Mon, Jun 29   CHW  L   3-6       31-47  5th 12.0 gb
 77 Sun, Jun 28   CIN  L   1-8       31-46  5th 12.0 gb
 76 Sat, Jun 27   CIN  L   3-7       31-45  5th 11.0 gb
 75 Fri, Jun 26   CIN  W   9-2       31-44  5th 11.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 5-15   Last 30:11-19
WhiteSox, 43-40, 2nd, 2 GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Jose Contreras (37, RHP, 3-7, 4.84)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (3-7) 67.0 64 40 36 21 46 7 4.84
2008 (7-6) 121.0 130 64 61 35 70 12 4.54
2007 (10-17) 189.0 232 134 117 62 113 21 5.57
Last 7 GS 3-4 44.1 37 22 19 9 35 4 3.86 55
2009-07-01 @CLE W 8.0 5 2 2 1 8 0 110 71
2009-06-26 CHC L 7.1 7 5 4 1 8 2 103 53
2009-06-19 @CIN L 6.0 9 3 3 0 2 1 100 44
2009-06-13 @MIL W 8.0 2 0 0 2 8 0 107 84
2009-06-08 DET W 8.0 1 0 0 1 3 0 115 82
2009-05-08 TEX L 3.2 6 5 3 2 3 0 81 34
2009-05-02 @TEX L 3.1 7 7 7 2 3 1 63 19
Last 5 v.CLE 3-1 31.2 20 9 6 16 26 1 1.71 61
2009-07-01 @CLE W 8.0 5 2 2 1 8 0 110 71
2008-07-02 CLE ND 6.0 6 4 3 4 6 1 115 48
2008-05-20 CLE W 6.0 4 1 1 0 4 0 99 64
2007-09-02 @CLE W 6.2 4 0 0 6 5 0 110 65
2007-04-15 @CLE L 5.0 1 2 0 5 3 0 101 59
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   21-20   Road:   22-20   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  28-31   vsLHP:  15-9    1-Run:   8-13
 vsEast:  5-9    vsCntrl:20-16   vsWest:  7-9  IL:11-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 83 Tue, Jul  7   CLE  W  10-6       43-40  2nd  2.0 gb
 82 Sun, Jul  5  @KCR  L   3-6       42-40  3rd  2.5 gb
 81 Sat, Jul  4  @KCR  L   4-6       42-39  2nd  2.5 gb
 80 Fri, Jul  3  @KCR  W   5-0       42-38  2nd  2.5 gb
 79 Thu, Jul  2  @KCR  W   4-1       41-38  2nd  2.5 gb
 78 Wed, Jul  1  @CLE  W   6-2       40-38  2nd  3.0 gb
 77 Tue, Jun 30  @CLE  W  11-4  (7)  39-38  2nd  4.0 gb
 76 Mon, Jun 29  @CLE  W   6-3       38-38  2nd  4.0 gb
 75 Sun, Jun 28   CHC  W   6-0       37-38  3rd  5.0 gb
 74 Sat, Jun 27   CHC  W   8-7       36-38  3rd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:18-12
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 01, 2009 CHW  6 @CLE  2        W:Jose Contreras (3-7), L: Jeremy Sowers (2-6), S: none
Tue, Jun 30, 2009 CHW 11 @CLE  4  (7)   W:Clayton Richard (3-1), L: Cliff Lee (4-7), S: none
Mon, Jun 29, 2009 CHW  6 @CLE  3        W:Gavin Floyd (6-5), L: Carl Pavano (6-7), S: none
Sun, Jun 07, 2009 CLE  8 @CHW  4        W:David Huff (1-2), L: Bartolo Colon (3-6), S: none
Sat, Jun 06, 2009 CHW  4  CLE  2        W:Gavin Floyd (4-5), L: Jeremy Sowers (1-3), S: Bobby Jenks (13)
Fri, Jun 05, 2009 CLE  6 @CHW  0        W:Carl Pavano (6-4), L: John Danks (4-4), S: none
Wed, May 13, 2009 CLE  4  CHW  0        W:Cliff Lee (2-5), L: Mark Buehrle (5-1), S: none
Tue, May 12, 2009 CHW  7 @CLE  4        W:D.J. Carrasco (1-0), L: Jeremy Sowers (0-2), S: Bobby Jenks (8)
Mon, May 11, 2009 CLE  9  CHW  4        W:Carl Pavano (3-3), L: Gavin Floyd (2-3), S: none

Sun, Sep 28, 2008 CHW  5  CLE  1        W:Mark Buehrle (15-12), L: Bryan Bullington (0-2), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - CHW leads 6-4; 2008 - CHW won 11-7; 2007 - CLE won 11-7; All-Time - CHW leads 1011-973

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 2009 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

NYY  5.57

CHW  4.45

SDP  3.84

RA/G

SFG  3.70

TEX  4.62

WSN  5.58

BA

J. Mauer  .389

K. Morales  .285

B. Giles  .191

OBP

J. Mauer  .465

A. Cabrera  .361

D. Navarro  .244

SLG

A. Pujols  .739

M. Kemp  .474

N. Punto  .244

OPS

A. Pujols  1.200

R. Cano  .825

B. Giles  .548

ERA

Z. Greinke  2.00

B. Bannister  3.87

B. Arroyo  5.85

K/9IP

J. Verlander  10.70

C. Sabathia  6.75

J. Garland  3.46

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Indians Batters (5.15 RS/G) vs. WhiteSox Pitchers (4.43 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Contreras
G/S/vB
53.Carrasco
G/S/vB
26.Dotel
G/S/vB
39.Gobble*
G/S/vB
45.Jenks
G/S/vB
71.Linebrink
G/S/vB
49.Poreda*
G/S/vB
54.Richard*
G/S/vB
37.Thornton*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 10/.393 2/1.500 4/.500 6/.334 3/.000 3/.666 ··· 8/1.000 6/1.000 257/182 .304/.361/.417/.779 .567/.876 .904 26/.573 7/1 2/4
11.Carroll G/S/vP 9/.889 1/2.000 4/2.667 5/1.000 3/2.000 9/.625 ··· 6/.533 1/.000 153/125 .277/.377/.346/.724 .863/.693 .906 84/.603 0/2 0/1
17.Choo* G/S/vP 6/.500 2/.500 1/.000 5/.650 ··· 3/.667 ··· 9/.583 8/1.125 355/249 .301/.406/.483/.889 .784/.933 .872 100/.918 13/0 13/4
12.Francisco G/S/vP 9/.555 4/.833 3/.000 1/.000 6/.000 4/.000 ··· 7/1.000 1/2.000 285/233 .246/.320/.397/.717 .681/.725 .660 72/.665 12/2 6/1
25.Garko G/S/vP 16/.580 3/2.334 7/.714 3/.333 8/1.125 2/.000 ··· 5/.400 9/1.056 215/165 .265/.352/.432/.785 .968/.727 .655 62/.800 0/0 8/3
8.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/30 .242/.342/.455/.797 .393/.905 1.177 29/.550 0/0 2/0
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 35/.425 7/.486 5/2.000 29/.837 5/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/5.000 16/.760 138/110 .274/.384/.573/.957 1.143/.909 .950 53/1.062 0/0 9/
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 33/.421 12/1.367 8/.125 32/.583 6/.833 6/.334 ··· 7/.929 18/.856 356/258 .303/.382/.506/.888 .882/.893 .935 95/.670 0/0 14/3
2.Peralta G/S/vP 27/.576 11/1.101 6/.666 12/.969 9/.222 5/.800 ··· 9/.583 12/.250 313/234 .254/.331/.366/.697 .666/.707 .749 92/.756 0/0 5/8
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 5/.200 4/.833 6/.533 2/1.500 4/.250 1/.000 ··· 4/.750 1/2.000 179/144 .196/.322/.365/.687 .901/.638 .826 45/.647 0/0 6/3
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 38/.974 8/.536 6/1.334 23/.761 7/.929 7/1.286 ··· 10/.400 18/1.165 283/195 .231/.320/.437/.758 .752/.760 .847 48/.912 8/7 13/0
1.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 154/143 .213/.273/.376/.649 .582/.654 .747 79/.684 1/1 4/5
IP 67.0 51.1 32.1 12.0 28.2 30.2 7.2 72.0 32.2 TOTAL .261/.344/.421/.765 .786/.759 .798 .735 45/14 93/53
ERA-K/9 4.84/6.2 3.51/6.0 3.34/11.7 7.50/7.5 3.14/8.8 2.05/8.8 1.17/9.4 4.75/6.9 2.76/10.7 3.99/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 289/.243 219/.271 144/.229 59/.280 117/.216 133/.254 24/.227 320/.288 135/.221 .255
OPS .720 .691 .749 .910 .653 .729 .519 .804 .652 .724
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 140/.733 85/.768 39/.893 26/.755 55/.866 49/.684 8/.750 93/.644 55/.398 .741
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 149/.707 134/.645 105/.699 33/1.031 62/.465 84/.751 16/.393 227/.871 80/.832 .714
Home 132/.684 121/.663 71/.637 36/1.231 69/.709 66/.576 10/.600 130/.886 57/.419
Last 28d days 115/.600 47/.907 49/.855 12/1.200 33/.526 38/.761 24/.519 101/.821 41/.757
HR/SB/CS 7/6/0 2/1/2 4/13/0 3/0/0 5/6/0 4/6/0 0/0/0 9/6/3 3/0/2 81/62/10
Usage ······X· o·X····· ···X···· ·····o·· ····X··· X·o····· ··X····X ···X··X·
WhiteSox Batters (4.52 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (5.55 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB
59.Abreu
G/S/vB
20.Gosling*
G/S/vB
58.Huff*
G/S/vB
54.Perez
G/S/vB
53.Perez*
G/S/vB
49.Sipp*
G/S/vB
38.Smith
G/S/vB
47.Veras
G/S/vB
34.Wood
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Anderson G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/3.000 2/1.500 193/139 .237/.325/.320/.644 .533/.685 .590 67/.644 2/6 2/2
15.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 106/81 .263/.333/.411/.744 .882/.700 .351 87/.859 1/3 3/5
27.Castro G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 114/82 .225/.307/.422/.729 .710/.736 .704 17/.894 0/0 5/2
23.Dye G/S/vP 10/.311 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 1/no AB 5/.200 ··· ··· 2/.500 4/1.417 302/230 .291/.364/.571/.935 .831/.966 .962 84/1.021 0/2 20/2
7.Fields G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/5.000 2/.500 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 236/170 .230/.312/.359/.671 .806/.621 .659 31/.932 2/3 6/8
17.Getz* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 252/211 .245/.303/.336/.639 .610/.645 .572 81/.718 11/1 1/6
14.Konerko G/S/vP 10/.400 ··· 2/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 10/.422 1/no AB 1/3.000 ··· 15/1.283 321/237 .295/.349/.493/.842 1.044/.773 .827 84/.871 0/0 16/1
5.Nix G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 102/46 .228/.294/.489/.783 .928/.605 .652 31/.978 4/0 6/1
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 4/1.833 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 7/.971 261/198 .302/.333/.460/.793 .625/.848 .655 79/.868 1/0 9/4
22.Podsednik* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· 3/.666 2/.500 1/no AB 1/.000 19/.921 258/190 .311/.366/.404/.770 .793/.762 .682 105/.792 13/7 3/2
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 6/.833 ··· 1/.000 3/2.334 1/no AB 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 318/243 .273/.326/.405/.731 1.034/.640 .755 94/.884 12/3 11/10
25.Thome* G/S/vP 7/.143 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 16/.192 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.250 254/190 .251/.398/.488/.885 .866/.892 .842 58/.914 0/0 13/
31.Wise* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 4/1.250 88/78 .203/.259/.291/.550 1.071/.498 .581 45/.761 2/3 0/0
IP 34.1 4.0 7.2 52.0 26.0 25.1 12.1 18.0 29.2 28.1 TOTAL .260/.331/.419/.750 .810/.730 .701 .841 53/29 97/67
ERA-K/9 3.93/5.0 11.25/9.0 5.87/4.7 6.06/5.2 5.88/11.1 8.88/7.5 2.92/10.2 4.00/9.0 5.76/6.4 5.08/9.9 5.30/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 145/.256 15/.231 35/.333 234/.292 117/.211 126/.359 52/.128 81/.246 133/.232 122/.240 .280
OPS .687 .641 .977 .853 .698 .989 .692 .708 .772 .791 .801
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 42/.467 7/.829 12/.962 85/1.022 37/.839 56/1.100 28/.705 22/.732 59/.873 65/.744 .821
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 103/.782 8/.500 23/.984 149/.759 80/.633 70/.903 24/.669 59/.699 74/.681 57/.847 .787
Road 83/.699 6/1.100 7/.619 113/.907 58/.588 62/.955 23/1.086 23/.515 42/1.052 56/1.083
Last 28d days / 15/.641 35/.977 134/.733 28/.815 47/.997 14/.548 50/.684 24/.553 33/.606
HR/SB/CS 1/1/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 8/3/0 3/2/2 3/4/1 3/2/0 1/0/0 5/2/0 5/5/0 94/69/14
Usage X······· ····o··X ····X··· o···o··· ··o·o·o· ···o···· ···o··o· ··X···X· ···o··o·

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.