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Game Preview: NYY @ BOS, 7:10 pm, Friday, August 5, 2011 @Fenway Park

Yankees, 68-42, 68-42 1st, Tied

SP: Bartolo Colon (38, RHP, 8-6, 3.30)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (8-6) 109.0 105 49 40 29 98 11 3.30
2009 (3-6) 62.1 69 42 29 21 38 13 4.19
2008 (4-2) 39.0 44 23 17 10 27 5 3.92
Last 7 GS 4-3 37.1 41 20 13 12 32 2 3.13 51
2011-07-30 BAL W 5.0 5 2 2 2 6 0 105 53
2011-07-24 OAK W 7.0 8 2 2 1 4 0 99 56
2011-07-19 @TBR L 6.1 5 3 1 2 9 0 105 62
2011-07-14 @TOR L 0.2 6 8 3 2 0 0 42 16
2011-07-07 TBR L 5.2 10 5 5 4 1 2 92 26
2011-07-02 @NYM W 6.0 5 0 0 0 6 0 80 68
2011-06-11 CLE W 6.2 2 0 0 1 6 0 83 75
Last 5 v.BOS 3-2 29.2 36 16 15 13 26 4 4.55 47
2011-05-13 BOS L 6.0 5 3 2 3 4 1 103 53
2005-08-18 BOS W 7.0 8 3 3 0 5 0 104 54
2005-06-04 @BOS W 6.0 10 5 5 1 11 1 119 42
2004-09-02 @BOS L 4.2 10 4 4 4 5 1 112 29
2004-07-17 BOS W 6.0 3 1 1 5 1 1 92 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   37-22   Road:   31-20   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  44-33   vsLHP:  24-9    1-Run:  13-15
 vsEast: 22-18   vsCntrl:16-12   vsWest: 17-7  IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Thu, Aug  4  @CHW  W   7-2       68-42  1st    Tied
109 Wed, Aug  3  @CHW  W  18-7       67-42  2nd  1.0 gb
108 Tue, Aug  2  @CHW  W   6-0  (7)  66-42  2nd  1.0 gb
107 Mon, Aug  1  @CHW  W   3-2       65-42  2nd  1.0 gb
106 Sun, Jul 31   BAL  W   4-2       64-42  2nd  2.0 gb
105 Sat, Jul 30   BAL  W  17-3       63-42  2nd  2.0 gb
104 Sat, Jul 30   BAL  W   8-3       62-42  2nd  2.0 gb
103 Fri, Jul 29   BAL  L   2-4       61-42  2nd  2.5 gb
102 Wed, Jul 27   SEA  L   2-9       61-41  2nd  3.0 gb
101 Tue, Jul 26   SEA  W   4-1       61-40  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:19-11
RedSox, 68-42, 68-42 1st, Tied

SP: Jon Lester (27, LHP, 11-4, 3.17)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (11-4) 127.2 109 47 45 43 124 16 3.17
2010 (19-9) 208.0 167 81 75 83 225 14 3.25
2009 (15-8) 203.1 186 80 77 64 225 20 3.41
Last 7 GS 3-2 46.1 30 11 9 11 45 6 1.75 66
2011-07-30 @CHW W 8.0 4 2 2 1 8 2 98 73
2011-07-25 KCR ND 5.1 7 1 1 2 6 0 89 54
2011-07-05 TOR ND 4.0 0 0 0 1 5 0 50 66
2011-06-30 @PHI W 7.0 2 0 0 2 5 0 120 76
2011-06-24 @PIT L 6.0 8 3 2 1 5 0 107 50
2011-06-18 MIL L 8.0 7 4 3 3 8 3 115 59
2011-06-12 @TOR W 8.0 2 1 1 1 8 1 102 81
Last 5 v.NYY 5-0 32.1 23 9 9 13 33 4 2.51 62
2011-06-07 @NYY W 6.0 8 3 3 1 5 0 112 48
2011-05-15 @NYY W 6.0 5 4 4 4 7 2 109 49
2010-09-25 @NYY W 7.0 2 0 0 3 8 0 102 78
2010-08-09 @NYY W 6.1 4 0 0 3 6 0 99 68
2010-05-09 NYY W 7.0 4 2 2 2 7 2 102 66
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-21   Road:   33-21   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  43-30   vsLHP:  25-12   1-Run:  14-10
 vsEast: 28-12   vsCntrl:16-14   vsWest: 14-8  IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Thu, Aug  4   CLE  L   3-7       68-42  1st    Tied
109 Wed, Aug  3   CLE  W   4-3       68-41  1st  1.0 up
108 Tue, Aug  2   CLE  W   3-2       67-41  1st  1.0 up
107 Mon, Aug  1   CLE  L   6-9       66-41  1st  1.0 up
106 Sun, Jul 31  @CHW  W   5-3       66-40  1st  2.0 up
105 Sat, Jul 30  @CHW  W  10-2       65-40  1st  2.0 up
104 Fri, Jul 29  @CHW  L   1-3       64-40  1st  2.5 up
103 Thu, Jul 28   KCR  L   3-4       64-39  1st  2.5 up
102 Wed, Jul 27   KCR  W  12-5       64-38  1st  3.0 up
101 Tue, Jul 26   KCR  W  13-9       63-38  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:22-8 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 09, 2011 BOS  8 @NYY  3        W:Josh Beckett (5-2), L: CC Sabathia (7-4), S: none
Wed, Jun 08, 2011 BOS 11 @NYY  6        W:Tim Wakefield (3-1), L: A.J. Burnett (6-4), S: Alfredo Aceves (1)
Tue, Jun 07, 2011 BOS  6 @NYY  4        W:Jon Lester (8-2), L: Freddy Garcia (4-5), S: Jonathan Papelbon (12)
Sun, May 15, 2011 BOS  7 @NYY  5        W:Jon Lester (5-1), L: Freddy Garcia (2-3), S: Jonathan Papelbon (7)
Sat, May 14, 2011 BOS  6 @NYY  0        W:Josh Beckett (3-1), L: CC Sabathia (3-3), S: none
Fri, May 13, 2011 BOS  5 @NYY  4        W:Clay Buchholz (4-3), L: Bartolo Colon (2-2), S: Jonathan Papelbon (6)
Sun, Apr 10, 2011 BOS  4  NYY  0        W:Josh Beckett (1-1), L: CC Sabathia (0-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 09, 2011 NYY  9 @BOS  4        W:David Robertson (1-0), L: Clay Buchholz (0-2), S: none
Fri, Apr 08, 2011 BOS  9  NYY  6        W:John Lackey (1-1), L: Bartolo Colon (0-1), S: Jonathan Papelbon (1)

Sun, Oct 03, 2010 BOS  8  NYY  4        W:John Lackey (14-11), L: Dustin Moseley (4-4), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - BOS over 8-1; 2010 - Tied 9-9; 2009 - Tied 9-9; All-Time - NYY leads 1127-950

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 2011 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

BOS  5.47

BAL  4.11

SEA  3.35

 RA/G

PHI  3.30

MIL  4.26

BAL  5.34

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .356

R. Weeks  .272

A. Dunn  .167

 OBP

J. Bautista  .459

E. Hosmer  .333

V. Wells  .249

 SLG

J. Bautista  .662

I. Kinsler  .427

C. Getz  .285

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.121

S. Castro  .763

A. Rios  .546

 ERA

J. Weaver  1.88

R. Dickey  3.77

J. Happ  6.01

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.69

A. Ogando  6.85

B. Penny  3.57

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

Yankees Batters (5.40 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.22 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS Lester*
G/S/vB		 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 32.Albers
G/S/vB		 51.Bard
G/S/vB		 46.Morales*
G/S/vB		 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB		 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB		 43.Williams*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cano* G/S/vP 40/.572 2/2.500 11/1.064 6/.333 ··· 18/.686 3/1.334 6/1.133 464/319 .301/.349/.518/.867 .876/.862 .912 103/.858 8/1 18/8
17.Cervelli G/S/vP 5/.650 2/2.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 ··· 99/76 .227/.296/.295/.591 .558/.599 .348 22/.742 4/0 1/5
12.Chavez* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/no AB 1/.000 68/59 .311/.382/.426/.809 1.111/.760 1.133 29/.773 0/0 1/0
11.Gardner* G/S/vP 6/.334 3/1.167 6/.500 5/.000 ··· 13/1.171 2/1.500 ··· 399/320 .279/.357/.397/.754 .720/.762 .771 100/.777 33/10 4/2
14.Granderson* G/S/vP 14/.599 5/.200 4/.500 6/2.500 ··· 17/.875 4/.000 ··· 478/332 .275/.364/.570/.934 .954/.925 .956 103/.896 20/9 28/3
2.Jeter G/S/vP 45/.711 5/.000 14/.142 7/.143 ··· 28/.747 19/.760 1/no AB 406/297 .277/.338/.368/.706 .981/.608 .745 94/.898 12/3 4/7
18.Jones G/S/vP 19/.835 1/.000 3/.667 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 11/.664 ··· 130/34 .235/.323/.443/.767 .850/.531 .559 40/.988 0/0 7/1
55.Martin G/S/vP 6/1.333 2/3.500 6/.334 3/.000 6/.900 2/.000 2/2.500 ··· 341/243 .227/.326/.386/.712 .775/.687 .697 79/.724 8/1 12/8
26.Nunez G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 207/132 .270/.317/.392/.708 .784/.665 .726 81/.637 16/4 3/14
20.Posada# G/S/vP 25/.581 ··· 6/.500 8/.250 ··· 13/.539 7/1.738 3/.666 310/248 .236/.316/.382/.698 .319/.794 .558 59/.539 0/2 9/0
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 37/.824 4/.250 10/.600 10/.900 ··· 8/.393 3/2.667 3/no AB 440/310 .267/.377/.438/.815 .883/.787 .772 94/.927 2/2 14/0
25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 30/.633 7/1.000 16/1.089 13/1.308 ··· 18/.535 4/2.000 3/1.667 482/332 .253/.346/.523/.869 .947/.844 .793 106/.871 3/1 31/2
IP 127.2 74.0 44.0 51.1 30.1 45.2 36.0 7.2 TOTAL .266/.345/.446/.790 .827/.776 .768 .807 112/34 146/69
ERA-K/9 3.17/8.7 3.16/5.5 2.25/9.0 2.28/8.6 4.45/7.7 3.35/12.2 4.50/7.0 7.04/7.0 3.93/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cervelli (22-2-3)
 Martin (64-24-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 524/.231 313/.212 181/.214 197/.174 127/.232 186/.224 148/.250 37/.323 .243  Gardner
 Granderson
 Swisher
 Jones
 Nunez
103/11/0/6
0/107/0/6
0/0/101/6
26/0/10/1
1/0/1/0
OPS .689 .642 .574 .530 .765 .602 .700 .841 .699
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 127/.541 137/.608 77/.684 109/.638 60/.812 89/.516 58/.889 17/.840 .691
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 397/.738 176/.668 104/.496 88/.391 67/.725 97/.683 90/.581 20/.839 .706
Home 207/.777 206/.637 108/.634 97/.467 83/.897 100/.603 89/.669 27/.885
Last 28d days 50/.684 74/.539 32/.544 41/.626 44/.855 37/.247 31/.670 37/.841
HR/SB/CS 16/8/9 6/5/0 2/5/2 4/7/1 4/2/0 3/3/0 5/1/2 0/1/0 103/98/33
Usage ·····X·· o···X·o· ···X···X ···Xo··· o·Xo···o ·oo·X··· o····X·· ·X·o····
RedSox Batters (5.47 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (3.83 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Colon
G/S/vB		 38.Ayala
G/S/vB		 48.Logan*
G/S/vB		 42.Rivera
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 53.Wade
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 4/.500 5/.000 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 209/145 .224/.262/.391/.653 .946/.527 .618 25/.696 11/2 5/10
13.Crawford* G/S/vP 35/.435 4/.500 11/.364 21/.900 5/.400 4/.500 ··· 346/235 .242/.276/.376/.652 .431/.755 .637 68/.623 12/5 7/2
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 5/.400 2/1.000 5/1.200 11/.282 9/.583 1/.000 ··· 499/356 .319/.376/.514/.890 .724/.955 .914 107/1.039 31/10 18/0
28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 13/1.077 3/.333 3/1.167 2/.000 2/.500 7/.143 4/.000 495/332 .356/.416/.568/.984 .747/1.099 1.030 101/.886 1/0 18/3
54.McDonald G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 96/33 .165/.260/.318/.578 .720/.315 .518 21/1.076 2/2 3/1
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 45/.300 4/.000 10/.800 27/.850 6/.833 5/2.467 ··· 425/288 .289/.379/.532/.911 .992/.873 .993 86/.675 1/1 20/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 5/.200 3/2.500 4/1.250 12/.167 12/1.300 5/.750 ··· 506/364 .311/.404/.483/.887 1.180/.776 .920 106/1.113 22/4 15/4
16.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/122 .338/.384/.569/.953 1.049/.934 .886 84/.832 1/2 5/3
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 7/.715 3/2.000 6/.833 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 253/177 .261/.324/.474/.798 .662/.857 .823 54/.883 0/0 10/1
10.Scutaro G/S/vP 25/.628 2/.000 1/.000 17/.761 8/1.125 8/.375 ··· 263/192 .263/.332/.360/.692 .682/.696 .746 83/.690 4/1 5/8
33.Varitek# G/S/vP 27/.853 1/.000 2/2.000 38/.742 3/.000 5/.600 ··· 185/125 .232/.308/.415/.722 .776/.696 .691 39/.616 0/0 7/0
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 7/.143 5/.200 1/.000 15/.800 11/.955 6/.167 ··· 441/310 .272/.385/.493/.879 1.052/.808 1.095 92/.859 3/0 16/7
IP 109.0 34.2 28.1 41.1 42.2 17.0 19.0 TOTAL .280/.353/.457/.809 .805/.811 .859 .830 78/27 135/54
ERA-K/9 3.30/8.1 1.56/5.7 3.18/9.2 1.74/8.1 1.48/14.3 4.76/6.9 1.89/6.2 3.45/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Saltalamacchia (57-22-14)
 Varitek (41-11-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 453/.251 141/.274 127/.239 157/.232 183/.185 75/.242 73/.203 .249  Ellsbury
 Reddick
 Crawford
 McDonald
 Gonzalez
0/105/0/5
19/3/18/2
81/0/0/1
19/5/16/1
0/0/2/0
OPS .700 .671 .681 .540 .536 .671 .594 .690
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 231/.790 73/.610 78/.761 68/.548 96/.497 31/.983 35/.582 .720
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 222/.607 68/.739 49/.556 89/.533 87/.580 44/.463 38/.606 .665
Road 231/.667 66/.684 55/.743 72/.750 85/.396 16/.393 42/.628
Last 28d days 88/.776 29/.759 33/.787 30/.400 35/.641 6/.000 40/.574
HR/SB/CS 11/5/3 1/3/0 3/2/0 1/0/0 0/11/1 1/3/0 2/1/1 83/87/27
Usage ·····X·· ·o···XX· ·····X·· ···oo··· o···X··· ·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.