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Game Preview: ATL @ CHC, 2:20pm, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 @Wrigley Field

Braves, 40-43, 3rd, 4 GB, 6 GB in WC

SP: Kenshin Kawakami (34, RHP, 4-6, 4.46)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (4-6) 82.2 80 47 41 34 66 9 4.46
Last 7 GS 1-1 37.0 35 20 17 15 24 4 4.14 49
2009-07-03 @WSN ND 4.1 6 5 4 3 6 1 92 36
2009-06-24 NYY ND 3.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 37 60
2009-06-19 @BOS W 6.0 2 2 2 3 5 1 83 62
2009-06-13 @BAL ND 5.0 7 2 2 3 3 1 104 45
2009-06-08 PIT ND 6.0 4 3 3 1 5 0 95 56
2009-06-02 CHC ND 7.0 7 4 3 1 2 1 96 50
2009-05-27 @SFG L 5.2 9 4 3 4 2 0 98 35
Last 5 v.CHC 0-0 7.0 7 4 3 1 2 1 3.86 50
2009-06-02 CHC ND 7.0 7 4 3 1 2 1 96 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-21   Road:   19-22   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  23-30   vsLHP:  17-13   1-Run:  16-12
 vsEast: 16-12   vsCntrl:12-15   vsWest:  5-8  IL: 7-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 83 Tue, Jul  7  @CHC  W   2-1       40-43  3rd  4.0 gb
 82 Mon, Jul  6  @CHC  L   2-4       39-43  4th  5.0 gb
 81 Sun, Jul  5  @WSN  L   3-5       39-42  3rd  4.0 gb
 80 Sat, Jul  4  @WSN  L   3-5       39-41  3rd  3.0 gb
 79 Fri, Jul  3  @WSN  W   9-8       39-40  3rd  2.0 gb
 78 Thu, Jul  2   PHI  W   5-2       38-40  4th  2.0 gb
 77 Wed, Jul  1   PHI  W  11-1       37-40  4th  3.0 gb
 76 Tue, Jun 30   PHI  W   5-4 (10)  36-40  4th  4.0 gb
 75 Sun, Jun 28   BOS  W   2-1       35-40  4th  5.0 gb
 74 Sat, Jun 27   BOS  L   0-1       34-40  4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16
Cubs, 41-40, 3rd, 3 GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Kevin Hart (26, RHP, 0-0, 1.59)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (0-0) 5.2 3 1 1 5 1 1 1.59
2008 (2-2) 27.2 39 24 20 18 23 2 6.51
2007 (0-0) 11.0 7 1 1 4 13 0 0.82
Last 7 GS
Has never faced ATL.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   25-15   Road:   16-25   ExtrInn: 6-5 
 vsRHP:  33-30   vsLHP:   8-10   1-Run:  12-15
 vsEast:  5-4    vsCntrl:22-19   vsWest:  8-9  IL: 6-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 81 Tue, Jul  7   ATL  L   1-2       41-40  3rd  3.0 gb
 80 Mon, Jul  6   ATL  W   4-2       41-39  3rd  2.0 gb
 79 Sun, Jul  5   MIL  W   8-2       40-39  3rd  2.5 gb
 78 Sat, Jul  4   MIL  L   2-11      39-39  4th  2.5 gb
 77 Fri, Jul  3   MIL  W   2-1 (10)  39-38  3rd  2.5 gb
 76 Thu, Jul  2   MIL  W   9-5       38-38  4th  2.5 gb
 75 Wed, Jul  1  @PIT  W   4-1       37-38  4th  3.5 gb
 74 Tue, Jun 30  @PIT  L   0-3       36-38  4th  4.5 gb
 73 Mon, Jun 29  @PIT  W   3-1       36-37  4th  3.5 gb
 72 Sun, Jun 28  @CHW  L   0-6       35-37  4th  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Jul 06, 2009 CHC  4  ATL  2        W:Randy Wells (4-3), L: Jair Jurrjens (6-7), S: Kevin Gregg (15)
Mon, Jun 22, 2009 ATL  2  CHC  0        W:Javier Vazquez (5-6), L: Ryan Dempster (4-5), S: Rafael Soriano (6)
Wed, Jun 03, 2009 CHC  3 @ATL  2 (11)   W:Angel Guzman (2-0), L: Jeff Bennett (2-3), S: Kevin Gregg (9)
Tue, Jun 02, 2009 ATL  6  CHC  5 (12)   W:Rafael Soriano (1-0), L: Aaron Heilman (2-3), S: none

Thu, Aug 14, 2008 CHC 11 @ATL  7        W:Ted Lilly (12-6), L: Tom Glavine (2-4), S: none
Wed, Aug 13, 2008 CHC  8 @ATL  0        W:Rich Harden (7-2), L: Jorge Campillo (7-5), S: none
Wed, Aug 13, 2008 CHC 10 @ATL  2        W:Jason Marquis (8-7), L: Charlie Morton (3-6), S: none
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 CHC  3  ATL  2 (11)   W:Kerry Wood (3-1), L: Manny Acosta (3-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 CHC  7  ATL  2        W:Ryan Dempster (8-2), L: Jeff Bennett (0-4), S: none
Tue, Jun 10, 2008 CHC 10  ATL  5        W:Ted Lilly (6-5), L: Tom Glavine (2-3), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - ATL leads 3-2; 2008 - CHC won 6-0; 2007 - ATL won 5-4; All-Time - CHC leads 1212-1012

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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Braves Batters (4.19 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (4.10 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 63.Gregg
G/S/vB		 37.Guzman
G/S/vB		 47.Heilman
G/S/vB		 49.Marmol
G/S/vB		 45.Marshall*
G/S/vB		 29.Samardzija
G/S/vB		 36.Wells
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
18.Anderson* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.834 223/166 .279/.305/.409/.714 .751/.701 .696 81/.833 1/0 5/2
1.Blanco* G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 46/33 .195/.267/.244/.511 .258/.603 .533 34/.646 2/0 0/1
26.Conrad# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/3 .286/.286/.714/1.000 .500/1.667 1.000 7/1.000 0/0 1/0
23.Diaz G/S/vP ··· 7/.286 2/1.000 6/.334 3/.000 9/.222 ··· 3/.000 171/88 .311/.382/.477/.859 .935/.786 .838 53/1.038 4/0 4/1
19.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 6/1.633 2/.000 4/.500 7/.486 6/.666 1/.000 6/.900 307/204 .297/.360/.436/.796 .634/.874 .853 85/.788 3/1 7/11
7.Francoeur G/S/vP 1/.000 10/1.214 4/1.000 13/.500 3/1.167 11/.728 ··· 2/.000 312/216 .247/.280/.342/.622 .727/.576 .516 82/.639 5/1 5/0
27.Hernandez G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/42 .135/.196/.231/.427 .200/.514 .263 29/.514 0/0 1/1
10.Jones# G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 2/.500 16/1.779 2/.000 4/.833 1/2.000 6/.666 304/205 .292/.408/.472/.880 1.006/.817 .888 107/.630 1/1 9/13
22.Kotchman* G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 267/185 .272/.337/.385/.722 .643/.757 .713 76/.662 0/0 3/0
16.McCann* G/S/vP ··· 9/.222 3/4.000 7/1.904 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 6/.334 250/163 .303/.386/.491/.876 .654/.987 .919 93/.795 3/1 8/5
13.McLouth* G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 7/.786 8/2.607 12/.705 1/.000 3/2.334 311/201 .270/.347/.482/.829 .851/.817 .813 92/.843 10/1 14/0
14.Prado G/S/vP ··· 4/.750 ··· 5/1.400 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 6/.000 184/97 .319/.380/.509/.889 1.121/.690 .928 74/1.091 0/1 4/4
8.Ross G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 4/4.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· 101/67 .279/.380/.547/.927 .624/1.088 1.156 21/1.070 0/0 6/0
IP 5.2 38.1 33.0 39.1 40.1 57.2 7.1 69.0 TOTAL .261/.331/.396/.727 .755/.713 .742 .736 29/10 66/59
ERA-K/9 1.59/1.6 3.52/8.9 2.45/7.6 3.66/7.6 3.57/10.0 4.21/5.9 6.14/8.6 2.48/6.4 3.87/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 23/.167 169/.223 125/.191 174/.264 185/.157 244/.256 37/.344 274/.239 .247
OPS .681 .686 .542 .776 .620 .744 .979 .618 .728
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 7/.821 78/.591 52/.499 68/.756 83/.559 70/.579 11/1.192 121/.692 .759
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 16/.607 91/.767 73/.572 106/.787 102/.670 174/.808 26/.885 153/.558 .708
Home 6/.167 83/.627 63/.563 86/.802 86/.630 151/.729 26/1.114 122/.683
Last 28d days 23/.681 52/.505 19/.635 55/.755 61/.567 33/.422 17/.794 123/.701
HR/SB/CS 1/1/0 6/0/0 2/1/2 3/3/1 1/2/0 8/2/1 1/0/0 5/3/2 87/44/20
Usage ···X···· ·X··X·o· X······· o·X·XX·· ·XX··XX· oX···o·· ···X···X ·X····X·
Cubs Batters (4.16 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (4.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Kawakami
G/S/vB		 46.Acosta
G/S/vB		 51.Gonzalez*
G/S/vB		 48.Hanson
G/S/vB		 36.Logan*
G/S/vB		 54.Medlen
G/S/vB		 58.Moylan
G/S/vB		 34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 39.Soriano
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
28.Baker G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 26/16 .120/.154/.200/.354 .400/.321 .750 2/.000 1/0 0/1
13.Blanco# G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 91/64 .225/.279/.275/.554 .616/.529 .448 58/.485 0/2 0/1
21.Bradley# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 4/.000 239/173 .242/.372/.384/.756 .933/.684 .928 92/.857 0/0 6/1
17.Fontenot* G/S/vP 3/.833 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 264/220 .236/.314/.369/.683 .527/.715 .653 71/.516 2/1 6/5
5.Fox G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 81/55 .310/.358/.563/.921 .617/1.067 .910 67/.903 0/0 4/1
1.Fukudome* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.167 1/3.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/no AB 291/263 .268/.384/.439/.823 .660/.840 .811 91/.651 6/6 6/0
55.Hill# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 81/70 .229/.325/.357/.682 .636/.689 .720 17/.313 0/0 2/1
6.Hoffpauir* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 154/134 .243/.286/.438/.723 .463/.763 .898 41/.595 0/0 7/1
9.Johnson G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 125/74 .268/.336/.446/.782 .903/.700 .976 16/.697 1/0 4/1
25.Lee G/S/vP 3/1.000 3/2.333 4/2.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 5/.700 1/.000 1/.000 300/240 .288/.363/.519/.882 .800/.898 1.017 107/1.034 0/0 16/2
16.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 3/.667 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 ··· ··· 76/60 .343/.395/.557/.952 1.348/.850 .843 4/.000 0/0 4/1
12.Soriano G/S/vP 4/1.250 2/1.000 5/1.300 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.200 1/.000 7/.143 352/279 .227/.290/.413/.703 .566/.737 .634 100/.487 7/2 14/7
18.Soto G/S/vP 3/.333 4/2.500 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 256/196 .230/.336/.396/.732 .775/.719 .782 88/.941 1/0 8/3
2.Theriot G/S/vP 4/.000 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.533 1/.000 3/.000 343/274 .289/.344/.412/.757 .888/.724 .868 106/.681 10/5 7/7
IP 82.2 17.0 40.1 36.0 3.2 28.0 33.2 30.0 39.2 TOTAL .248/.324/.402/.726 .718/.728 .766 .692 32/19 89/60
ERA-K/9 4.46/7.2 2.12/6.9 3.12/12.1 2.25/5.8 4.91/0.0 5.79/9.3 4.28/7.2 3.60/5.4 1.59/11.6 3.90/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 362/.256 71/.219 169/.224 154/.205 16/.214 124/.252 147/.248 126/.243 153/.159 .252
OPS .784 .624 .699 .635 .527 .734 .670 .596 .466 .712
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 174/.698 33/.579 61/.688 80/.673 10/.522 64/.638 61/.767 60/.587 73/.528 .711
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 188/.865 38/.661 108/.701 74/.594 6/.533 60/.833 86/.605 66/.605 80/.412 .712
Road 175/.920 31/.499 87/.635 79/.617 7/.286 76/.727 61/.681 53/.538 65/.606
Last 28d days 81/.689 37/.658 52/.742 128/.570 16/.527 51/.968 47/.552 43/.669 46/.446
HR/SB/CS 9/5/4 1/1/0 4/4/2 4/8/2 0/2/0 2/1/1 0/6/3 1/0/3 1/2/0 55/52/29
Usage ····X··· ·oo···o· o··XXX·X ···X···· ··o·X··o ··X···o· ·X·oXX·o ···o·o·o X···Xo·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.