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Game Preview: DET @ MIN, 8:10pm, Friday, July 3, 2009 @Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome

Tigers, 43-35, 1st, 2½ up

SP: Lucas French (23, LHP, 0-0, 0.00)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (0-0) 3.0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0.00
Last 7 GS
Has never faced MIN.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-11   Road:   20-24   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  27-26   vsLHP:  16-9    1-Run:  13-9 
 vsEast:  4-10   vsCntrl:14-11   vsWest: 15-6  IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 78 Wed, Jul  1  @OAK  L   1-5       43-35  1st  3.0 up
 77 Tue, Jun 30  @OAK  W   5-3       43-34  1st  4.0 up
 76 Mon, Jun 29  @OAK  L   1-7       42-34  1st  4.0 up
 75 Sun, Jun 28  @HOU  W   4-3       42-33  1st  4.0 up
 74 Sat, Jun 27  @HOU  L   1-8       41-33  1st  4.0 up
 73 Fri, Jun 26  @HOU  L   4-5       41-32  1st  4.0 up
 72 Thu, Jun 25   CHC  W   6-5       41-31  1st  5.0 up
 71 Wed, Jun 24   CHC  W   5-3       40-31  1st  5.0 up
 70 Tue, Jun 23   CHC  W   5-4       39-31  1st  4.0 up
 69 Sun, Jun 21   MIL  W   3-2       38-31  1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Twins, 41-39, 3rd, 3 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Kevin Slowey (25, RHP, 10-3, 4.41)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (10-3) 87.2 108 44 43 15 71 14 4.41
2008 (12-11) 160.1 161 74 71 24 123 22 3.99
2007 (4-1) 66.2 82 39 35 11 47 16 4.73
Last 7 GS 5-2 39.2 43 20 19 11 36 6 4.31 50
2009-06-27 @STL L 3.0 6 5 5 1 4 2 58 30
2009-06-19 HOU W 6.0 3 1 1 4 6 0 90 64
2009-06-12 @CHC W 6.0 4 3 3 1 10 0 98 61
2009-06-07 @SEA L 4.2 10 4 4 2 2 3 95 28
2009-06-02 CLE W 6.2 6 2 2 2 5 0 102 57
2009-05-27 BOS W 6.0 6 2 2 1 5 1 99 56
2009-05-22 MIL W 7.1 8 3 2 0 4 0 91 56
Last 5 v.DET 3-0 21.2 30 11 11 8 7 4 4.57 43
2009-05-12 DET W 6.0 8 1 1 2 2 1 98 52
2008-07-10 @DET ND 3.2 9 6 6 2 1 1 77 18
2008-05-23 @DET W 6.0 4 0 0 3 2 0 104 63
2007-06-30 @DET W 6.0 9 4 4 1 2 2 91 39
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-15   Road:   17-24   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  29-24   vsLHP:  12-15   1-Run:   9-11
 vsEast:  6-16   vsCntrl:13-10   vsWest: 10-7  IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 80 Wed, Jul  1  @KCR  W   5-1       41-39  2nd  3.0 gb
 79 Tue, Jun 30  @KCR  W   2-1       40-39  2nd  4.0 gb
 78 Mon, Jun 29  @KCR  L   2-4       39-39  2nd  4.0 gb
 77 Sun, Jun 28  @STL  W   6-2       39-38  2nd  4.0 gb
 76 Sat, Jun 27  @STL  L   3-5       38-38  2nd  4.0 gb
 75 Fri, Jun 26  @STL  W   3-1       38-37  2nd  4.0 gb
 74 Thu, Jun 25  @MIL  W   6-4       37-37  2nd  5.0 gb
 73 Wed, Jun 24  @MIL  L   3-4       36-37  2nd  5.0 gb
 72 Tue, Jun 23  @MIL  W   7-3       36-36  2nd  4.0 gb
 71 Sun, Jun 21   HOU  L   1-4       35-36  2nd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, May 14, 2009 MIN  6  DET  5        W:Craig Breslow (1-1), L: Bobby Seay (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (6)
Wed, May 13, 2009 MIN 14  DET 10 (13)   W:Jesse Crain (2-1), L: Brandon Lyon (1-3), S: none
Tue, May 12, 2009 MIN  6  DET  2        W:Kevin Slowey (5-1), L: Armando Galarraga (3-3), S: none
Tue, May 05, 2009 DET  9  MIN  0        W:Rick Porcello (2-3), L: Nick Blackburn (2-2), S: none
Mon, May 04, 2009 MIN  7 @DET  2        W:Francisco Liriano (1-4), L: Edwin Jackson (1-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 07, 2008 DET  7 @MIN  5        W:Chris Lambert (1-1), L: Glen Perkins (12-4), S: Fernando Rodney (10)
Sat, Sep 06, 2008 DET  6 @MIN  4        W:Clay Rapada (3-0), L: Matt Guerrier (6-7), S: Fernando Rodney (9)
Fri, Sep 05, 2008 MIN 10  DET  2        W:Francisco Liriano (5-3), L: Armando Galarraga (12-5), S: none
Sun, Jul 13, 2008 DET  4  MIN  2        W:Justin Verlander (7-9), L: Nick Blackburn (7-5), S: Todd Jones (17)
Sat, Jul 12, 2008 MIN  6 @DET  5        W:Scott Baker (6-2), L: Nate Robertson (6-8), S: Joe Nathan (27)
Season Series: 2009 - MIN leads 4-1; 2008 - MIN won 11-7; 2007 - DET won 12-6; All-Time - DET leads 1026-950

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  5.55

CHW  4.47

SDP  3.79

 RA/G

SFG  3.73

MIL  4.60

WSN  5.66

 BA

J. Mauer  .392

M. Teahen  .285

B. Giles  .191

 OBP

J. Mauer  .467

M. Cuddyer  .359

D. Navarro  .241

 SLG

A. Pujols  .745

M. Lowell  .470

N. Punto  .237

 OPS

A. Pujols  1.205

R. Cano  .813

N. Punto  .543

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.95

J. Niemann  3.95

A. Sonnanstine  6.61

 K/9IP

J. Verlander  10.70

C. Pavano  6.63

J. Garland  3.31

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Tigers Batters (4.73 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.35 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 59.Slowey
G/S/vB		 39.Dickey
G/S/vB		 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB		 60.Henn*
G/S/vB		 44.Keppel
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Anderson* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 144/129 .255/.287/.321/.608 .481/.622 .553 37/.541 12/2 0/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 8/.375 9/1.556 9/.904 ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.200 314/226 .331/.395/.556/.951 .934/.955 .789 102/.886 1/2 16/4
4.Everett G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 3/.000 203/133 .275/.325/.371/.696 .883/.591 .682 72/.751 3/1 2/7
28.Granderson* G/S/vP 12/1.083 9/.708 17/1.112 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 13/.693 348/240 .257/.339/.474/.813 .610/.901 .909 110/.736 13/4 18/0
15.Inge G/S/vP 3/.000 12/.750 19/.276 3/3.000 1/.000 ··· 16/.404 306/227 .275/.367/.521/.888 1.214/.782 .912 98/.885 2/4 18/8
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/37 .289/.357/.421/.778 .500/.826 .733 43/.778 0/0 0/0
8.Laird G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.400 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.500 232/175 .236/.325/.357/.681 .733/.665 .587 73/.745 1/0 3/1
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 9/.666 15/.795 15/.533 3/2.000 ··· ··· 11/.697 273/195 .260/.330/.333/.663 .782/.615 .581 73/.554 3/0 3/2
14.Polanco G/S/vP 12/.872 11/.522 15/.539 3/.667 1/.000 2/.000 9/.476 311/216 .255/.308/.387/.695 .779/.655 .622 98/.802 3/1 5/1
25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 111/49 .265/.351/.480/.831 .953/.710 .636 57/.838 2/1 5/2
55.Ryan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/8 .167/.286/.250/.536 .533/.536 .143 14/.536 0/1 0/0
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 4/1.750 6/.666 3/.000 2/no AB ··· ··· 4/.000 130/108 .291/.328/.496/.824 .619/.867 .642 36/.825 0/2 6/4
33.Thames G/S/vP 5/1.800 8/1.042 9/.111 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 106/60 .247/.321/.473/.794 1.036/.617 .795 86/.831 0/1 5/0
IP 87.2 45.2 35.1 11.1 6.1 23.0 31.1 TOTAL .260/.330/.421/.751 .798/.733 .708 .752 42/20 90/44
ERA-K/9 4.41/7.3 2.36/6.5 2.80/6.1 7.15/7.2 0.00/8.6 2.35/7.0 1.44/11.2 4.24/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 379/.306 196/.246 137/.208 50/.225 26/.143 101/.241 116/.165 .264
OPS .828 .726 .617 .835 .593 .719 .475 .751
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 187/.933 82/.583 47/.518 25/1.280 15/.900 42/.381 56/.645 .787
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 192/.728 114/.825 90/.668 25/.390 11/.182 59/.960 60/.322 .727
Home 236/.795 91/.804 68/.763 26/1.035 / 46/.759 60/.342
Last 28d days 88/.919 53/.550 40/.750 23/1.157 26/.593 27/.788 36/.261
HR/SB/CS 14/10/3 5/2/1 5/2/1 2/1/1 0/0/0 3/1/0 2/2/0 92/49/19
Usage ·····X·· ·X·Xoo·o ··o·X·oo ··X··X·· ··ooo·o· ·oo·o·oo
Twins Batters (4.73 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.49 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.French*
G/S/vB		 40.Dolsi
G/S/vB		 37.Lyon
G/S/vB		 59.Ni*
G/S/vB		 48.Porcello
G/S/vB		 56.Rodney
G/S/vB		 44.Seay*
G/S/vB		 54.Zumaya
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Buscher* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 112/95 .198/.339/.308/.647 .710/.636 .675 30/.825 0/0 2/0
24.Crede G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.600 ··· 3/.333 10/1.067 3/1.666 7/.453 246/177 .233/.305/.443/.748 .649/.786 .780 89/.715 0/0 11/2
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 3/.000 12/.349 5/1.800 11/.455 304/224 .277/.359/.513/.872 .956/.841 1.058 92/.860 4/1 12/4
22.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 4/.500 3/.666 187/121 .229/.286/.335/.622 .627/.619 .530 66/.708 7/4 1/0
23.Harris G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 4/.000 2/.000 256/165 .285/.328/.387/.715 .700/.724 .896 109/.694 0/0 4/5
16.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/2.000 5/.400 7/1.238 5/1.400 272/201 .308/.368/.543/.910 .484/1.062 .978 85/.919 0/0 13/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 10/.856 14/.762 10/.311 240/154 .392/.467/.667/1.133 .984/1.218 1.383 105/.857 1/1 14/1
58.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 65/51 .356/.415/.424/.839 1.000/.796 .592 6/.833 0/0 0/2
33.Morneau* G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 15/1.850 14/1.227 11/1.469 347/225 .309/.389/.574/.963 1.026/.921 1.062 105/.689 0/0 19/1
8.Punto# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 7/.750 5/.400 5/.400 190/142 .212/.306/.237/.543 .556/.527 .546 40/.702 6/1 0/5
55.Redmond G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 5/1.200 91/60 .229/.297/.277/.574 .757/.482 .505 22/.483 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.666 5/2.000 2/1.000 298/209 .282/.373/.373/.746 .903/.680 .862 55/.491 13/5 4/1
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 146/106 .187/.279/.236/.514 .599/.480 .435 53/.530 4/0 1/1
21.Young G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 ··· 2/.500 2/.000 6/.367 2/1.000 185/123 .256/.281/.318/.599 .542/.628 .498 60/.724 2/2 2/2
IP 3.0 4.2 38.0 2.1 83.0 33.0 24.1 26.1 TOTAL .269/.342/.420/.762 .751/.767 .813 .719 39/14 83/34
ERA-K/9 0.00/9.0 0.00/0.0 4.03/5.0 3.86/15.7 3.90/4.8 4.36/7.4 3.33/5.6 4.10/8.6 4.30/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 12/.000 18/.250 157/.211 9/.222 351/.278 139/.246 95/.195 121/.255 .258
OPS .250 .590 .716 .889 .771 .702 .509 .750 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 8/.125 8/.804 66/.588 5/1.600 189/.838 81/.699 58/.555 60/.964 .778
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 4/.500 10/.422 91/.795 4/.000 162/.693 58/.708 37/.434 61/.545 .717
Road / 18/.590 96/.734 9/.889 191/.746 69/.844 60/.523 62/.793
Last 28d days / 18/.590 51/.416 9/.889 120/.900 52/.955 31/.265 51/.919
HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 0/1/0 5/2/2 1/0/0 12/4/1 3/0/0 0/0/0 4/2/0 81/42/19
Usage ········ ···X·Xo· ·X·····o ·o·X···· ···X···· ··X·o··X ··o·o··o ··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.