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Game Preview: TBR @ MIN, 2:10pm, Monday, July 4, 2011 @Target Field

Rays, 47-37, 47-37 3rd, 4 GB

SP: David Price (25, LHP, 8-6, 3.43)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (8-6) 118.0 102 46 45 22 116 9 3.43
2010 (19-6) 208.2 170 71 63 79 188 15 2.72
2009 (10-7) 128.1 119 72 63 54 102 17 4.42
Last 7 GS 3-2 48.2 38 15 15 11 60 2 2.77 64
2011-06-28 CIN ND 7.2 6 2 2 1 12 0 119 70
2011-06-22 @MIL W 8.0 5 2 2 1 10 0 120 73
2011-06-16 BOS L 5.0 5 3 3 5 5 0 106 45
2011-06-11 @BAL ND 6.0 8 4 4 1 6 2 117 45
2011-06-06 @LAA W 7.0 5 1 1 0 7 0 114 70
2011-06-01 TEX L 8.0 5 3 3 1 8 0 113 67
2011-05-27 CLE W 7.0 4 0 0 2 12 0 110 79
Last 5 v.MIN 1-1 20.2 14 4 4 8 24 0 1.74 67
2010-08-04 MIN ND 7.0 5 1 1 2 7 0 119 68
2010-07-02 @MIN L 8.0 4 2 2 4 6 0 122 68
2009-05-30 MIN W 5.2 5 1 1 2 11 0 108 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-21   Road:   26-16   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  34-28   vsLHP:  13-9    1-Run:  13-7 
 vsEast: 15-12   vsCntrl:14-10   vsWest:  6-9  IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 84 Sun, Jul  3   STL  W   8-3       47-37  3rd  4.0 gb
 83 Sat, Jul  2   STL  W   5-1       46-37  3rd  5.0 gb
 82 Fri, Jul  1   STL  L   3-5       45-37  3rd  5.0 gb
 81 Wed, Jun 29   CIN  L   3-4       45-36  3rd  3.5 gb
 80 Tue, Jun 28   CIN  W   4-3       45-35  3rd  2.5 gb
 79 Mon, Jun 27   CIN  L   0-5       44-35  3rd  2.5 gb
 78 Sun, Jun 26  @HOU  W  14-10      44-34  3rd  2.0 gb
 77 Sat, Jun 25  @HOU  W   7-2       43-34  3rd  2.0 gb
 76 Fri, Jun 24  @HOU  W   5-1       42-34  3rd  2.5 gb
 75 Wed, Jun 22  @MIL  W   6-3       41-34  3rd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12
Twins, 36-46, 36-46 4th, 8 GB, 6½ GB in WC

SP: Brian Duensing (28, LHP, 5-7, 4.69)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (5-7) 86.1 98 51 45 31 61 7 4.69
2010 (10-3) 130.2 122 42 38 35 78 11 2.62
2009 (5-2) 84.0 84 37 34 31 53 7 3.64
Last 7 GS 3-3 39.1 43 23 19 14 30 2 4.35 48
2011-06-28 LAD W 5.0 4 4 4 4 3 1 96 42
2011-06-23 @SFG L 6.2 6 1 1 2 5 0 108 61
2011-06-17 SDP W 6.0 7 2 2 1 5 0 106 54
2011-06-10 TEX L 2.0 7 7 3 1 2 0 56 23
2011-06-05 @KCR W 8.0 6 0 0 1 4 0 113 73
2011-05-31 @DET ND 4.2 9 6 6 2 5 0 91 25
2011-05-25 SEA L 7.0 4 3 3 3 6 1 111 60
Last 5 v.TBR 1-0 13.0 11 5 5 6 8 1 3.46 55
2011-04-17 @TBR W 7.0 7 2 2 2 5 0 111 58
2010-08-03 @TBR ND 6.0 4 3 3 4 3 1 92 51
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-18   Road:   18-28   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  23-33   vsLHP:  13-13   1-Run:  17-19
 vsEast:  6-18   vsCntrl:13-10   vsWest:  9-8  IL: 8-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 82 Sun, Jul  3   MIL  W   9-7       36-46  4th  8.0 gb
 81 Sat, Jul  2   MIL  L   7-8       35-46  4th  9.0 gb
 80 Fri, Jul  1   MIL  W   6-2       35-45  4th  8.0 gb
 79 Wed, Jun 29   LAD  W   1-0       34-45  4th  8.0 gb
 78 Tue, Jun 28   LAD  W   6-4       33-45  4th  9.0 gb
 77 Mon, Jun 27   LAD  L   0-15      32-45  4th 10.0 gb
 76 Sun, Jun 26  @MIL  L   2-6       32-44  4th  9.0 gb
 75 Sat, Jun 25  @MIL  L   1-11      32-43  4th  8.0 gb
 74 Fri, Jun 24  @MIL  L   3-4       32-42  4th  8.0 gb
 73 Thu, Jun 23  @SFG  L   1-2       32-41  4th  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Apr 28, 2011 TBR  6 @MIN  1        W:Jeff Niemann (1-3), L: Anthony Swarzak (0-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 28, 2011 TBR 15 @MIN  3        W:Jeremy Hellickson (2-2), L: Nick Blackburn (1-4), S: none
Wed, Apr 27, 2011 TBR  8 @MIN  2        W:Wade Davis (3-2), L: Francisco Liriano (1-4), S: none
Sun, Apr 17, 2011 MIN  4 @TBR  2        W:Brian Duensing (1-0), L: Jeremy Hellickson (1-2), S: Matt Capps (1)
Sat, Apr 16, 2011 TBR  4  MIN  3        W:Juan Cruz (1-0), L: Joe Nathan (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 15, 2011 TBR  5  MIN  2        W:Wade Davis (1-2), L: Nick Blackburn (1-2), S: Kyle Farnsworth (3)
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 TBR  4  MIN  3 (10)   W:Kyle Farnsworth (1-0), L: Matt Capps (1-1), S: none

Thu, Aug 05, 2010 MIN  8 @TBR  6        W:Matt Capps (4-3), L: Joaquin Benoit (0-1), S: none
Wed, Aug 04, 2010 MIN  2 @TBR  1 (13)   W:Matt Guerrier (2-6), L: Lance Cormier (3-3), S: none
Tue, Aug 03, 2010 TBR  6  MIN  4        W:Jeff Niemann (10-3), L: Matt Guerrier (1-6), S: Rafael Soriano (31)
Season Series: 2011 - TBR over 6-1; 2010 - TBR won 5-3; 2009 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - MIN leads 57-50

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

NYY  5.28

PHI  4.06

SDP  3.38

 RA/G

PHI  3.28

MIL  4.33

HOU  5.06

 BA

J. Reyes  .354

L. Morrison  .268

A. Dunn  .165

 OBP

J. Bautista  .471

J. Bruce  .334

C. Figgins  .230

 SLG

J. Bautista  .688

N. Swisher  .417

C. Figgins  .246

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.158

K. Fukudome  .761

C. Figgins  .476

 ERA

J. Jurrjens  1.89

M. Bumgarner  3.65

F. Carmona  5.78

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  10.12

D. Holland  6.70

C. Pavano  3.80

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

Rays Batters (4.25 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 31.Burnett
G/S/vB		 55.Capps
G/S/vB		 54.Dumatrait*
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Brignac* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 178/148 .187/.233/.217/.450 .427/.454 .374 54/.535 2/0 1/6
22.Damon* G/S/vP 7/.334 1/2.000 4/1.833 ··· 4/1.000 3/.000 6/.666 6/.334 340/246 .284/.328/.435/.764 .710/.784 .847 100/.834 7/4 9/0
5.Fuld* G/S/vP 4/1.000 ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 251/192 .236/.293/.354/.647 .489/.693 .693 30/.862 16/8 3/3
28.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.500 2/2.500 190/168 .231/.300/.353/.653 .599/.657 .667 59/.685 1/1 3/2
9.Johnson# G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 112/63 .214/.278/.367/.645 .707/.604 .551 37/.503 4/5 3/0
20.Joyce* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 4/.750 4/1.500 3/.666 284/237 .300/.359/.526/.885 .718/.918 .877 74/.518 4/0 11/0
11.Kotchman* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/.833 2/.000 3/1.334 244/195 .335/.393/.457/.850 .633/.909 .825 100/.863 1/2 3/0
3.Longoria G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 3/2.333 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 226/178 .245/.336/.474/.811 .692/.842 .971 91/.844 1/1 10/6
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP 8/1.667 2/1.000 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/3.167 4/.500 181/111 .220/.307/.403/.710 1.014/.521 .645 42/.722 5/2 3/6
16.Ruggiano G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 72/47 .299/.324/.522/.846 .798/.872 .858 53/.837 1/1 4/0
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.200 3/.000 5/1.000 2/.000 132/63 .172/.265/.293/.558 .683/.423 .555 36/.725 0/0 4/2
2.Upton G/S/vP 6/.666 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/2.000 3/.667 5/.900 3/1.167 327/247 .229/.315/.399/.714 .859/.671 .807 101/.726 20/5 12/2
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.667 5/3.050 3/2.000 3/2.334 358/259 .256/.342/.455/.797 .843/.786 .863 107/.776 7/1 9/5
IP 86.1 23.2 35.0 13.2 18.2 19.1 30.0 32.0 TOTAL .245/.312/.398/.710 .724/.705 .741 .734 70/31 79/40
ERA-K/9 4.69/6.4 5.32/6.8 4.63/5.4 5.27/3.3 5.30/5.3 6.52/8.9 1.80/9.6 3.94/3.1 4.32/6.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (37-7-4)
 Shoppach (10-11-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 380/.287 104/.264 145/.259 59/.174 94/.284 87/.240 120/.257 141/.273 .267  Joyce
 Fuld
 Upton
 Ruggiano
 Rodriguez
 Johnson
 Damon
 Zobrist
10/0/68/5
57/4/3/3
0/80/0/3
17/2/2/1
2/0/0/0
1/1/0/0
14/0/0/0
0/0/23/0
OPS .775 .725 .694 .711 .807 .792 .639 .728 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 97/.531 38/.905 79/.796 25/.526 46/.774 46/.567 47/.532 75/.585 .732
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 283/.860 66/.624 66/.567 34/.864 48/.833 41/1.047 73/.712 66/.886 .759
Home 177/.813 53/.741 73/.607 14/.830 33/1.185 36/.429 67/.666 103/.683
Last 28d days 91/.770 27/.502 39/.844 30/1.013 22/1.066 13/.385 31/.700 53/.836
HR/SB/CS 7/5/1 1/4/0 5/1/0 3/1/1 0/1/3 4/3/0 0/2/1 4/0/0 78/50/21
Usage ·····X·· ·····X·o oX··oXo· oo····X· ······Xo o·o··X·· ooo·oo·X X·····X·
Twins Batters (3.77 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.82 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 14.Price*
G/S/vB		 37.Cruz
G/S/vB		 43.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 74.Howell*
G/S/vB		 62.Peralta
G/S/vB		 27.Ramos*
G/S/vB		 36.Russell
G/S/vB		 21.Sonnanstine
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Butera G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 132/101 .177/.214/.266/.480 .769/.391 .482 18/.918 0/0 1/3
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 5/.400 1/.000 3/1.000 2/.500 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 265/183 .244/.312/.346/.658 .614/.684 .811 94/.636 12/3 2/9
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 9/.000 5/1.800 12/.969 6/1.000 8/.250 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 319/227 .289/.357/.460/.817 1.206/.670 .885 92/1.055 7/1 11/5
38.Hughes G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 170/109 .242/.296/.318/.614 .728/.552 .585 83/.598 1/2 2/3
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 11/.830 3/.333 10/.929 4/.000 6/.500 ··· ··· 4/2.417 94/53 .244/.298/.291/.589 .567/.603 .654 56/.611 0/0 0/0
18.Repko G/S/vP 3/1.500 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 81/50 .230/.278/.243/.522 .724/.398 .712 37/.639 6/1 0/1
11.Revere* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/103 .272/.314/.313/.627 .588/.647 .600 101/.643 10/3 0/3
32.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 75/52 .174/.240/.261/.501 .642/.439 .404 26/.235 0/0 1/0
25.Thome* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 5/2.100 7/.929 10/1.944 1/.000 ··· 12/.916 113/86 .239/.372/.478/.850 1.243/.732 .993 19/.993 0/0 6/
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 141/110 .186/.239/.279/.518 .412/.548 .496 39/.318 1/0 0/3
19.Valencia G/S/vP 6/2.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 318/235 .229/.280/.377/.657 .970/.547 .654 84/.762 2/4 9/9
IP 118.0 30.2 34.2 11.2 37.2 25.1 29.1 34.2 TOTAL .244/.303/.353/.656 .709/.633 .686 .666 47/18 50/59
ERA-K/9 3.43/8.8 2.93/8.5 2.08/6.0 10.03/6.9 3.82/7.4 3.91/6.0 2.45/3.4 5.71/2.6 3.59/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (18-11-2)
 Mauer (16-2-0)
 Rivera (11-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 475/.230 121/.150 133/.216 56/.313 149/.209 112/.245 127/.248 147/.288 .236  Cuddyer
 Revere
 Repko
0/0/46/3
6/25/4/2
16/3/10/2
OPS .636 .478 .570 .900 .658 .704 .698 .910 .688
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 102/.470 50/.490 56/.728 24/.683 67/.585 58/.721 39/.542 74/1.046 .671
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 373/.681 71/.468 77/.468 32/1.084 82/.719 54/.685 88/.757 73/.777 .700
Road 230/.685 64/.583 77/.601 31/.867 91/.938 57/.744 50/.709 94/.952
Last 28d days 112/.686 31/.268 55/.722 34/.857 39/.740 35/.947 31/.573 12/1.000
HR/SB/CS 9/8/3 0/5/2 2/1/1 3/0/0 4/3/0 3/3/0 1/5/1 10/1/2 79/47/18
Usage ·····X·· ·X··X··X Xo···X·o ·oX·o··o ·Xo··o·o ·oo···oo ··o···Xo ······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.