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Game Preview: TBR @ BAL, 12:35pm, Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Rays, 56-37, 56-37 2nd, 2½ GB, 6½ up in WC

SP: James Shields (28, RHP, 7-9, 4.86)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (7-9) 122.1 137 73 66 29 114 21 4.86
2009 (11-12) 219.2 239 113 101 52 167 29 4.14
2008 (14-8) 215.0 208 94 85 40 160 24 3.56
Last 7 GS 1-5 39.2 45 33 33 12 36 9 7.49 42
2010-07-16 @NYY ND 6.0 4 3 3 3 5 2 96 54
2010-07-09 CLE L 6.1 6 4 4 1 9 2 106 53
2010-07-04 @MIN W 6.0 8 4 4 1 2 0 92 41
2010-06-29 @BOS L 5.0 7 5 5 2 6 1 109 37
2010-06-23 SDP L 7.0 6 4 4 1 7 2 96 55
2010-06-17 @ATL L 6.0 5 3 3 1 3 1 82 52
2010-06-11 FLA L 3.1 9 10 10 3 4 1 77 3
Last 5 v.BAL 3-1 33.2 33 12 9 6 30 5 2.41 59
2010-04-06 BAL ND 6.0 9 3 3 2 6 3 107 46
2009-09-30 BAL W 8.0 6 3 3 0 8 1 106 66
2009-08-20 BAL L 5.2 7 4 1 2 5 0 106 48
2009-04-12 @BAL W 7.0 3 0 0 1 3 0 88 73
2008-09-23 @BAL W 7.0 8 2 2 1 8 1 102 60
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-20   Road:   30-17   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  34-26   vsLHP:  22-11   1-Run:  15-15
 vsEast: 24-13   vsCntrl:14-7    vsWest: 11-6  IL: 7-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 93 Tue, Jul 20  @BAL  L  10-11(13)  56-37  2nd  2.5 gb
 92 Mon, Jul 19  @BAL  W   8-1       56-36  2nd  2.5 gb
 91 Sun, Jul 18  @NYY  L   5-9       55-36  2nd  3.0 gb
 90 Sat, Jul 17  @NYY  W  10-5       55-35  2nd  2.0 gb
 89 Fri, Jul 16  @NYY  L   4-5       54-35  2nd  3.0 gb
 88 Sun, Jul 11   CLE  W   6-5 (10)  54-34  2nd  2.0 gb
 87 Sat, Jul 10   CLE  W   4-0       53-34  2nd  2.0 gb
 86 Fri, Jul  9   CLE  L   3-9       52-34  2nd  3.0 gb
 85 Thu, Jul  8   CLE  W   5-2       52-33  2nd  2.0 gb
 84 Wed, Jul  7   BOS  W   6-4       51-33  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:16-14
Orioles, 30-63, 30-63 5th, 28½ GB, 26 GB in WC

SP: Brad Bergesen (24, RHP, 3-7, 6.37)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (3-7) 77.2 106 62 55 25 27 12 6.37
2009 (7-5) 123.1 126 52 47 32 65 11 3.43
Last 7 GS 0-4 38.0 53 32 32 13 15 6 7.58 36
2010-07-16 TOR L 6.0 9 4 4 2 3 1 92 39
2010-07-07 @DET L 6.0 11 4 4 3 3 1 101 34
2010-07-02 @BOS L 7.2 5 3 3 0 7 2 100 64
2010-06-26 WSN ND 4.0 6 5 5 2 0 0 72 28
2010-06-02 @NYY L 2.1 7 6 6 2 1 0 69 18
2010-05-27 OAK ND 7.0 4 4 4 3 0 1 93 50
2010-05-22 @WSN ND 5.0 11 6 6 1 1 1 106 21
Last 5 v.TBR 0-2 8.2 16 12 9 3 6 3 9.35 29
2010-04-14 TBR L 3.0 7 8 5 2 3 2 73 20
2009-05-13 TBR L 5.2 9 4 4 1 3 1 96 37
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-29   Road:   13-34   ExtrInn: 7-3 
 vsRHP:  21-41   vsLHP:   9-22   1-Run:  15-13
 vsEast: 10-31   vsCntrl: 4-8    vsWest:  9-13 IL: 7-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 93 Tue, Jul 20   TBR  W  11-10(13)  30-63  5th 28.5 gb
 92 Mon, Jul 19   TBR  L   1-8       29-63  5th 29.5 gb
 91 Sun, Jul 18   TOR  L   1-10      29-62  5th 29.0 gb
 90 Sat, Jul 17   TOR  L   2-3       29-61  5th 28.0 gb
 89 Fri, Jul 16   TOR  L   2-4       29-60  5th 28.0 gb
 88 Sun, Jul 11  @TEX  W   4-1       29-59  5th 27.0 gb
 87 Sat, Jul 10  @TEX  W   6-1       28-59  5th 27.0 gb
 86 Fri, Jul  9  @TEX  W   7-6 (10)  27-59  5th 28.0 gb
 85 Thu, Jul  8  @TEX  W   6-4       26-59  5th 28.0 gb
 84 Wed, Jul  7  @DET  L   2-4       25-59  5th 28.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 20, 2010 BAL 11  TBR 10 (13)   W:Koji Uehara (1-0), L: Lance Cormier (3-2), S: none
Mon, Jul 19, 2010 TBR  8 @BAL  1        W:Wade Davis (7-9), L: Chris Tillman (1-4), S: none
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 TBR  9 @BAL  1        W:David Price (2-0), L: Brad Bergesen (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 13, 2010 TBR  8 @BAL  6 (10)   W:Lance Cormier (1-0), L: Matt Albers (0-1), S: Rafael Soriano (2)
Mon, Apr 12, 2010 TBR  5 @BAL  1        W:Matt Garza (2-0), L: Jeremy Guthrie (0-2), S: none
Thu, Apr 08, 2010 BAL  5 @TBR  4        W:Brian Matusz (1-0), L: Mike Ekstrom (0-1), S: Mike Gonzalez (1)
Wed, Apr 07, 2010 TBR  4  BAL  3        W:Matt Garza (1-0), L: Jeremy Guthrie (0-1), S: Rafael Soriano (1)
Tue, Apr 06, 2010 TBR  4  BAL  3        W:Rafael Soriano (1-0), L: Mike Gonzalez (0-1), S: none

Thu, Oct 01, 2009 BAL  3 @TBR  2        W:Chris Waters (1-0), L: Matt Garza (8-12), S: Jim Johnson (9)
Wed, Sep 30, 2009 TBR  5  BAL  3        W:James Shields (11-12), L: David Hernandez (4-10), S: Russ Springer (1)
Season Series: 2010 - TBR over 6-2; 2009 - TBR won 10-8; 2008 - TBR won 15-3; All-Time - Tied 106-106

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 2010 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  5.33

CHW  4.55

SEA  3.32

 RA/G

SDP  3.46

FLA  4.37

ARI  5.68

 BA

J. Hamilton  .357

J. Edmonds  .280

L. Valbuena  .166

 OBP

J. Morneau  .437

B. Abreu  .354

B. Wood  .185

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .646

F. Lewis  .458

B. Wood  .225

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.064

J. Edmonds  .812

B. Wood  .411

 ERA

J. Johnson  1.62

J. Pineiro  3.95

N. Blackburn  6.53

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.01

M. Garza  6.84

N. Blackburn  3.09

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

Rays Batters (5.17 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (5.39 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Bergesen
G/S/vB		 37.Albers
G/S/vB		 57.Arrieta
G/S/vB		 50.Mata
G/S/vB		 13.Ohman*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Aybar# G/S/vP 3/1.167 2/2.500 2/.000 ··· 4/.500 167/73 .252/.301/.391/.692 .698/.723 .654 50/.772 0/0 5/0
8.Bartlett G/S/vP 3/2.334 10/.650 2/1.500 ··· ··· 305/202 .243/.323/.342/.665 .668/.664 .667 72/.701 5/2 2/7
15.Brignac* G/S/vP 2/1.000 3/2.333 2/.000 ··· ··· 219/191 .274/.333/.413/.746 .863/.729 .772 40/.826 2/1 5/8
13.Crawford* G/S/vP 6/1.000 8/.286 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 392/257 .317/.373/.511/.884 .717/.971 .865 85/.961 33/8 11/2
28.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 228/193 .267/.390/.364/.754 .552/.791 .949 60/.574 3/0 3/3
20.Joyce* G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 3/2.667 ··· ··· 66/65 .220/.409/.440/.849 .000/.864 1.135 66/.849 1/1 2/0
19.Kapler G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 121/27 .217/.300/.302/.602 .612/.561 .633 25/.671 1/1 2/0
3.Longoria G/S/vP 5/.200 10/.686 3/.000 ··· ··· 414/282 .302/.386/.508/.895 .981/.855 .798 104/.877 14/2 13/11
23.Pena* G/S/vP 5/2.800 10/.856 3/.666 ··· 2/2.000 383/264 .213/.334/.438/.772 .675/.816 .729 92/.911 4/1 20/4
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP 3/.333 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 242/181 .259/.298/.415/.713 .817/.678 .735 80/.669 7/2 6/2
10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 78/40 .194/.338/.290/.628 .956/.326 .575 42/.607 0/0 1/0
2.Upton G/S/vP 5/2.000 12/.583 2/2.500 ··· 1/3.000 357/246 .230/.319/.396/.715 .936/.620 .745 78/.714 25/6 8/4
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 2/.000 4/.833 3/.667 ··· 2/.000 400/276 .277/.379/.386/.764 .676/.797 .808 95/.664 19/2 5/1
IP 77.2 48.0 44.1 17.1 28.0 TOTAL .257/.343/.408/.750 .732/.759 .757 .772 115/28 87/57
ERA-K/9 6.37/3.1 4.31/5.4 4.87/4.3 7.79/4.7 2.57/9.0 5.07/6.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (26-10-4)
 Shoppach (11-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 365/.324 206/.247 198/.260 85/.324 124/.262 .283  Crawford
 Zobrist
 Upton
 Rodriguez
 Joyce
 Brignac
 Kapler
84/0/0/7
1/8/79/4
0/88/0/2
3/7/6/0
6/0/6/0
0/0/2/0
10/0/34/0
OPS .916 .711 .772 .900 .727 .803
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 179/1.011 78/.877 108/.918 31/.913 67/.531 .881
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 186/.827 128/.608 90/.600 54/.891 57/.960 .746
Home 216/.887 100/.747 102/.856 51/.807 64/.729
Last 28d days 109/.910 62/.422 129/.783 36/.932 26/.694
HR/SB/CS 12/4/1 6/3/0 5/6/0 2/3/0 2/2/1 108/51/17
Usage ····X··· ·X··o··· X······· ··X····· X··oo···
Orioles Batters (3.67 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.98 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Shields
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 31.Cormier
G/S/vB		 21.Sonnanstine
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Bell# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/17 .263/.263/.263/.526 1.000/.471 .750 19/.526 0/0 0/1
47.Fox G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 139/58 .215/.259/.369/.628 .597/.674 .493 31/.742 0/0 5/2
3.Izturis# G/S/vP 6/.334 4/.000 ··· 6/.666 11/.586 10/.522 6/1.267 3/.000 293/194 .257/.304/.297/.602 .617/.592 .566 79/.836 7/5 1/3
10.Jones G/S/vP 19/1.369 5/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 9/2.292 3/.000 9/.111 391/290 .275/.305/.450/.755 .704/.773 .808 96/.894 3/5 15/5
2.Lugo G/S/vP 19/.596 12/1.167 15/1.078 2/.500 9/1.181 13/.583 7/.143 4/.000 197/119 .264/.318/.303/.621 .780/.523 .524 66/.786 5/6 0/1
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 53/.831 5/.400 5/.400 5/.200 6/.900 21/.602 2/.500 6/1.917 410/284 .300/.383/.443/.826 .923/.779 .809 102/.861 3/1 6/0
40.Moore* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 93/86 .217/.283/.349/.632 .286/.654 .637 45/.674 3/0 3/3
6.Patterson* G/S/vP 21/.295 2/1.500 1/2.000 3/.666 2/.000 8/1.250 5/1.350 6/.400 231/165 .282/.333/.416/.750 .516/.848 .828 84/.891 16/3 5/3
18.Pie* G/S/vP 9/.708 5/.900 1/.000 3/.000 9/.804 4/.250 1/3.000 ··· 63/53 .310/.355/.517/.872 .844/.877 .948 41/.747 0/1 2/0
30.Scott* G/S/vP 25/.820 3/.666 3/.000 9/1.445 6/.533 15/.795 3/.000 ··· 261/199 .281/.352/.545/.898 .866/.908 1.054 33/1.246 1/0 14/2
15.Tatum G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 87/58 .273/.356/.312/.668 .434/.786 .721 44/.786 1/0 0/3
9.Tejada G/S/vP 26/.650 7/.453 19/.635 6/.500 1/2.000 5/1.400 15/1.379 10/.756 394/285 .274/.312/.374/.686 .644/.702 .765 102/.738 0/0 7/15
32.Wieters# G/S/vP 6/1.166 2/1.000 ··· 3/3.000 4/.000 6/.583 3/1.167 ··· 298/213 .245/.315/.357/.672 .607/.701 .655 46/.896 0/1 6/3
23.Wigginton G/S/vP 4/2.417 5/.400 8/.393 ··· 8/1.071 2/.000 6/1.166 11/.282 367/261 .247/.325/.432/.757 .684/.787 .777 91/.513 0/1 15/14
IP 122.1 41.0 30.2 23.2 36.0 49.0 34.2 30.2 TOTAL .259/.318/.386/.704 .669/.718 .728 .792 42/23 80/75
ERA-K/9 4.86/8.4 2.20/9.0 0.88/12.6 6.46/9.1 4.50/3.5 4.22/6.4 2.08/7.8 2.93/10.0 3.72/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Fox (1-3-0)
 Tatum (18-2-1)
 Wieters (33-14-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 530/.277 161/.212 106/.111 100/.247 173/.324 204/.249 135/.184 125/.200 .243  Patterson
 Jones
 Markakis
 Pie
 Fox
 Scott
46/3/0/4
0/92/0/3
0/0/92/2
15/0/0/1
11/0/0/1
14/0/0/0
OPS .788 .591 .372 .677 .876 .765 .557 .621 .711
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 284/.783 61/.704 47/.449 79/.521 95/.842 85/.711 54/.630 22/.596 .718
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 246/.793 100/.520 59/.313 21/1.315 78/.916 119/.799 81/.509 103/.626 .706
Road 286/.766 89/.516 51/.432 39/.812 85/.787 96/.703 69/.521 58/.724
Last 28d days 102/.796 40/.675 37/.341 25/.802 37/.955 39/1.073 38/.747 29/.494
HR/SB/CS 21/5/3 1/1/2 3/1/0 2/1/1 2/3/1 9/2/0 2/3/0 3/1/1 104/50/21
Usage ····X··· X··oo··· o··XX··· o·o·X··· o··Xo··· ··XX···· X······· oo··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.