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Game Preview: BOS @ BAL, 7:05pm, Thursday, September 2, 2010 @Oriole Park at Camden Yards

RedSox, 75-58, 75-58 3rd, 8 GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (29, RHP, 8-4, 4.19)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (8-4) 118.0 102 57 55 54 103 10 4.19
2009 (4-6) 59.1 81 38 38 30 54 10 5.76
2008 (18-3) 167.2 128 58 54 94 154 12 2.90
Last 7 GS 2-1 47.0 38 19 19 19 44 6 3.64 57
2010-08-21 TOR ND 8.0 6 4 4 3 8 1 109 59
2010-08-15 @TEX L 6.2 7 4 4 2 8 0 115 50
2010-08-10 @TOR ND 5.2 6 4 4 3 7 2 110 45
2010-08-05 CLE W 8.0 5 1 1 2 6 1 109 72
2010-07-31 DET ND 6.0 8 4 4 2 5 1 108 43
2010-07-25 @SEA ND 6.0 4 1 1 5 4 0 110 59
2010-07-19 @OAK W 6.2 2 1 1 2 6 1 89 70
Last 5 v.BAL 3-1 27.0 29 16 14 18 29 3 4.67 47
2010-05-01 @BAL L 4.2 7 7 6 3 4 2 95 25
2009-09-20 @BAL W 5.1 8 3 3 1 5 1 110 44
2008-09-03 BAL ND 6.0 4 4 3 4 7 0 112 53
2008-08-19 @BAL W 5.0 6 2 2 5 6 0 105 48
2008-07-13 BAL W 6.0 4 0 0 5 7 0 115 66
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   40-26   Road:   35-32   ExtrInn: 5-10
 vsRHP:  51-38   vsLHP:  24-20   1-Run:  21-21
 vsEast: 28-28   vsCntrl:14-12   vsWest: 20-13 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
133 Wed, Sep  1  @BAL  W   9-6       75-58  3rd  8.0 gb
132 Tue, Aug 31  @BAL  L   2-5       74-58  3rd  8.0 gb
131 Sun, Aug 29  @TBR  L   3-5       74-57  3rd  6.5 gb
130 Sat, Aug 28  @TBR  L   2-3 (10)  74-56  3rd  5.5 gb
129 Fri, Aug 27  @TBR  W   3-1       74-55  3rd  4.5 gb
128 Wed, Aug 25   SEA  L   2-4       73-55  3rd  5.5 gb
127 Wed, Aug 25   SEA  W   5-3       73-54  3rd  5.5 gb
126 Mon, Aug 23   SEA  W   6-3       72-54  3rd  5.5 gb
125 Sun, Aug 22   TOR  W   5-0       71-54  3rd  6.5 gb
124 Sat, Aug 21   TOR  W   5-4 (11)  70-54  3rd  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Orioles, 49-84, 49-84 5th, 34 GB, 33 GB in WC

SP: Brad Bergesen (24, RHP, 6-9, 5.55)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (6-9) 131.1 159 88 81 37 61 21 5.55
2009 (7-5) 123.1 126 52 47 32 65 11 3.43
Last 7 GS 3-1 48.1 44 21 21 9 27 8 3.91 54
2010-08-27 @LAA W 8.0 4 1 1 0 4 0 102 74
2010-08-21 TEX W 7.0 9 5 5 2 3 1 96 40
2010-08-16 SEA ND 5.1 9 3 3 2 5 2 103 41
2010-08-11 @CLE W 9.0 2 1 1 2 4 0 102 81
2010-08-06 CHW ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 5 1 90 67
2010-07-31 @KCR ND 7.0 5 2 2 1 5 1 98 63
2010-07-26 @TOR L 5.0 10 8 8 1 1 3 78 15
Last 5 v.BOS 1-2 26.2 25 11 11 3 20 4 3.71 56
2010-07-02 @BOS L 7.2 5 3 3 0 7 2 100 64
2010-05-01 BOS W 5.0 7 4 4 0 2 2 86 39
2009-07-24 @BOS L 6.0 9 3 3 3 5 0 107 44
2009-07-01 BOS ND 8.0 4 1 1 0 6 0 103 76
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   28-39   Road:   21-45   ExtrInn:11-3 
 vsRHP:  34-56   vsLHP:  15-28   1-Run:  23-18
 vsEast: 12-38   vsCntrl:12-18   vsWest: 18-17 IL: 7-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
133 Wed, Sep  1   BOS  L   6-9       49-84  5th 34.0 gb
132 Tue, Aug 31   BOS  W   5-2       49-83  5th 33.0 gb
131 Sun, Aug 29  @LAA  W   1-0       48-83  5th 32.5 gb
130 Sat, Aug 28  @LAA  W   5-0       47-83  5th 32.5 gb
129 Fri, Aug 27  @LAA  W   3-1       46-83  5th 32.5 gb
128 Thu, Aug 26  @CHW  L   0-8       45-83  5th 33.5 gb
127 Wed, Aug 25  @CHW  W   4-2       45-82  5th 33.0 gb
126 Tue, Aug 24  @CHW  L   5-7       44-82  5th 34.0 gb
125 Sun, Aug 22   TEX  L   4-6       44-81  5th 33.5 gb
124 Sat, Aug 21   TEX  W   8-6       44-80  5th 32.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:17-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Sep 01, 2010 BOS  9 @BAL  6        W:Jon Lester (15-8), L: Mark Hendrickson (1-5), S: Jonathan Papelbon (34)
Tue, Aug 31, 2010 BAL  5  BOS  2        W:Brian Matusz (7-12), L: Josh Beckett (4-4), S: Koji Uehara (5)
Sun, Jul 04, 2010 BAL  6 @BOS  1        W:Brian Matusz (3-9), L: John Lackey (9-4), S: none
Sat, Jul 03, 2010 BOS  9  BAL  3        W:Jon Lester (10-3), L: Jeremy Guthrie (3-10), S: none
Fri, Jul 02, 2010 BOS  3  BAL  2        W:Tim Wakefield (3-6), L: Brad Bergesen (3-5), S: Jonathan Papelbon (19)
Sun, Jun 06, 2010 BAL  4  BOS  3 (11)   W:David Hernandez (2-5), L: Hideki Okajima (2-2), S: none
Sat, Jun 05, 2010 BOS  8 @BAL  2        W:Jon Lester (7-2), L: Jeremy Guthrie (3-6), S: none
Fri, Jun 04, 2010 BOS 11 @BAL  0        W:Clay Buchholz (8-3), L: Chris Tillman (0-1), S: none
Sun, May 02, 2010 BAL  3  BOS  2 (10)   W:Matt Albers (2-3), L: Jonathan Papelbon (1-2), S: none
Sat, May 01, 2010 BAL 12  BOS  9        W:Brad Bergesen (1-2), L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (0-1), S: Alfredo Simon (2)
Season Series: 2010 - tied 7-7; 2009 - BOS won 16-2; 2008 - BOS won 12-6; All-Time - BOS leads 1139-926

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  5.42

DET  4.46

SEA  3.24

RA/G

SDP  3.54

COL  4.33

PIT  5.44

BA

J. Hamilton  .361

Y. Torrealba  .287

B. Wood  .162

OBP

J. Morneau  .437

Y. Torrealba  .360

B. Wood  .188

SLG

M. Cabrera  .638

R. Branyan  .473

R. Tejada  .211

OPS

M. Cabrera  1.072

C. Crawford  .819

B. Wood  .404

ERA

C. Buchholz  2.21

M. Pelfrey  3.72

K. Correia  5.52

K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.93

C. Richard  7.05

M. Buehrle  4.00

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

RedSox Batters (5.03 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (5.09 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
51.Gonzalez*
G/S/vB
43.Johnson
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
29.Beltre G/S/vP 12/1.083 6/1.500 2/.000 1/.000 5/1.550 534/377 .321/.360/.552/.911 .935/.901 .947 99/.770 2/1 24/16
36.Cash G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 123/92 .173/.248/.245/.493 .586/.462 .561 4/.000 0/0 2/1
7.Drew* G/S/vP 12/1.417 5/.650 3/1.666 2/.000 5/2.800 465/318 .253/.344/.452/.796 .585/.893 .790 92/.778 3/1 18/0
22.Hall G/S/vP 3/.000 9/.889 ··· 6/.200 3/1.000 308/181 .237/.304/.464/.768 .732/.794 .785 63/.758 5/1 17/10
55.Kalish* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 87/72 .235/.267/.358/.625 .267/.705 .581 67/.509 1/0 2/1
25.Lowell G/S/vP 3/1.667 5/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 7/1.071 186/114 .235/.306/.367/.674 .638/.696 .588 87/.669 0/0 4/1
12.Lowrie# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 4/1.000 97/58 .286/.381/.512/.893 1.068/.779 .985 55/.986 1/0 4/5
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 3/.000 6/1.167 3/.000 ··· 3/.666 419/301 .293/.339/.466/.805 1.211/.646 .737 106/.791 1/0 13/4
54.McDonald G/S/vP 5/.400 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 303/175 .273/.340/.438/.778 .829/.741 .801 42/1.139 8/0 8/1
60.Nava# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 135/105 .261/.348/.387/.735 .542/.784 .602 28/.368 0/1 1/0
56.Navarro G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/6 .182/.182/.182/.364 .400/.333 .667 11/.364 0/0 0/0
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 11/.818 8/.250 2/1.500 4/.000 7/.715 499/344 .262/.365/.528/.893 .586/1.043 .860 102/.854 0/1 27/0
3.Patterson* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 185/151 .224/.279/.435/.714 .552/.750 .844 9/.889 7/1 6/2
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 2/2.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 13/6 .273/.385/.455/.839 1.095/.533 1.167 8/1.167 0/0 0/0
16.Scutaro G/S/vP 14/.895 11/1.344 3/.666 3/.000 7/.167 601/441 .274/.333/.377/.710 .737/.700 .684 104/.642 3/4 8/17
IP 131.1 61.2 88.0 15.2 11.2 TOTAL .268/.339/.454/.793 .808/.787 .784 .740 47/14 176/98
ERA-K/9 5.55/4.2 4.38/6.0 5.11/4.5 4.02/9.2 5.40/7.7 4.82/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cash (32-7-7)
 Martinez (73-21-3)
 Saltalamacchia (4-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 586/.298 268/.258 399/.272 70/.228 57/.360 .280  McDonald
 Patterson
 Kalish
 Hall
 Nava
 Drew
26/59/25/8
36/18/0/4
12/14/2/2
42/7/6/1
38/0/0/1
0/0/115/0
OPS .861 .716 .784 .644 .907 .791
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 284/.956 101/.863 224/.924 26/.922 24/1.101 .851
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 302/.774 167/.626 175/.607 44/.462 33/.766 .747
Home 327/.905 135/.742 204/.816 34/.782 22/.955
Last 28d days 140/.646 37/.540 125/.802 24/.511 8/.857
HR/SB/CS 21/7/2 6/8/1 9/9/1 0/0/0 1/0/0 152/72/22
Usage ·····X·· X······· X·····X· ·o·o···X ·X··o···
Orioles Batters (3.71 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.54 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Matsuzaka
G/S/vB
48.Atchison
G/S/vB
51.Bard
G/S/vB
61.Doubront*
G/S/vB
59.Manuel
G/S/vB
37.Okajima*
G/S/vB
58.Papelbon
G/S/vB
62.Richardson*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Andino G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
25.Bell# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 110/76 .213/.227/.324/.551 .824/.427 .585 76/.602 0/1 3/4
9.Fox G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 177/77 .217/.260/.373/.633 .569/.718 .498 17/.489 0/0 6/2
3.Izturis# G/S/vP 4/.500 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 423/289 .234/.275/.269/.544 .540/.542 .501 77/.405 9/5 1/8
10.Jones G/S/vP 6/1.167 ··· 3/2.334 1/.000 1/.000 5/1.350 8/.661 ··· 524/389 .276/.317/.441/.758 .674/.788 .788 76/.788 4/7 17/7
2.Lugo G/S/vP ··· 3/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 6/.334 ··· 249/146 .256/.305/.291/.595 .733/.501 .530 31/.586 5/7 0/1
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 20/.483 1/2.000 6/.334 ··· ··· 23/.733 15/.690 ··· 581/409 .286/.365/.419/.784 .891/.737 .764 109/.654 6/2 8/2
6.Patterson* G/S/vP 3/.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.167 4/.250 ··· 297/213 .266/.317/.404/.722 .517/.805 .780 37/.562 19/3 7/4
18.Pie* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.750 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 213/165 .290/.314/.445/.759 .811/.745 .830 97/.754 4/2 5/1
14.Reimold G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 4/.250 ··· 100/63 .209/.300/.337/.637 .816/.532 .399 4/.583 0/0 2/1
1.Roberts# G/S/vP 18/1.223 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 10/1.000 12/.639 ··· 158/115 .259/.342/.396/.737 .682/.757 .647 98/.820 7/2 3/3
30.Scott* G/S/vP 14/1.200 1/3.000 4/.000 1/5.000 ··· 8/.375 8/.536 ··· 419/324 .289/.353/.570/.923 .807/.957 1.120 93/.913 1/0 26/3
15.Tatum G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 105/68 .263/.333/.295/.628 .393/.758 .673 10/.400 1/0 0/3
32.Wieters# G/S/vP 6/1.834 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 6/.833 6/1.167 ··· 413/301 .246/.317/.376/.693 .569/.742 .642 78/.635 0/1 10/3
23.Wigginton G/S/vP 8/1.089 2/.500 7/.666 1/.000 1/.000 5/.650 7/1.171 ··· 527/385 .253/.321/.435/.757 .699/.777 .801 106/.627 0/1 20/16
IP 118.0 45.2 63.1 25.0 7.0 33.0 56.2 10.1 TOTAL .257/.313/.388/.701 .661/.717 .720 .676 60/31 117/105
ERA-K/9 4.19/7.9 4.14/6.3 1.85/9.0 4.32/8.3 3.86/3.9 5.73/6.8 2.86/8.9 2.61/7.9 4.16/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Fox (3-3-0)
 Tatum (22-2-1)
 Wieters (48-19-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 503/.233 192/.244 245/.163 113/.270 28/.200 163/.350 230/.191 50/.333 .251  Jones
 Markakis
 Pie
 Patterson
 Reimold
 Fox
 Lugo
 Scott
0/125/0/8
0/0/131/7
48/7/1/6
53/6/1/4
15/0/1/1
13/0/0/1
1/0/0/0
14/0/0/0
OPS .684 .739 .508 .789 .806 .937 .616 .932 .723
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 260/.715 92/.965 129/.443 40/.576 8/.708 76/.848 121/.676 25/1.053 .754
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 243/.652 100/.537 116/.572 73/.911 20/.829 87/1.016 109/.548 25/.800 .695
Road 284/.693 70/.867 144/.607 46/.911 13/.731 84/1.023 124/.727 22/.890
Last 28d days 87/.775 30/.956 54/.630 41/.806 / 4/.833 44/.510 8/1.071
HR/SB/CS 10/18/4 7/5/2 5/4/0 3/1/1 2/0/0 5/1/1 6/6/0 2/1/0 127/127/34
Usage ········ ···Xo··X X···oo·X ·X··o··X ········ ···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.