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Game Preview: BOS @ TBR, 7:10pm, Saturday, September 10, 2011 @Tropicana Field

RedSox, 85-59, 85-59 2nd, 2½ GB, 6 up in WC

SP: Kyle Weiland (24, RHP, 0-1, 6.75)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (0-1) 12.0 15 9 9 5 4 1 6.75
Last 7 GS 0-1 10.0 14 9 9 5 4 1 8.10 35
2011-07-19 @BAL L 6.0 6 3 3 3 2 0 100 47
2011-07-10 BAL ND 4.0 8 6 6 2 2 1 78 22
Has never faced TBR as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   42-29   Road:   43-30   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  54-39   vsLHP:  31-20   1-Run:  17-14
 vsEast: 33-21   vsCntrl:21-16   vsWest: 21-14 IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
144 Fri, Sep  9  @TBR  L   2-7       85-59  2nd  2.5 gb
143 Thu, Sep  8  @TOR  L   4-7       85-58  2nd  2.5 gb
142 Wed, Sep  7  @TOR  L  10-11      85-57  2nd  2.5 gb
141 Tue, Sep  6  @TOR  W  14-0       85-56  2nd  2.5 gb
140 Mon, Sep  5  @TOR  L   0-1 (11)  84-56  2nd  2.5 gb
139 Sun, Sep  4   TEX  L   4-11      84-55  2nd  1.5 gb
138 Sat, Sep  3   TEX  W  12-7       84-54  2nd  0.5 gb
137 Fri, Sep  2   TEX  L   0-10      83-54  2nd  0.5 gb
136 Thu, Sep  1   NYY  L   2-4       83-53  1st  0.5 up
135 Wed, Aug 31   NYY  W   9-5       83-52  1st  1.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16
Rays, 79-64, 79-64 3rd, 8 GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Jeremy Hellickson (24, RHP, 12-10, 2.90)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (12-10) 164.1 130 55 53 56 107 18 2.90
2010 (4-0) 36.1 32 14 14 8 33 5 3.47
Last 7 GS 3-3 48.2 41 11 11 12 30 4 2.03 61
2011-09-04 BAL W 9.0 4 1 1 0 1 1 97 76
2011-08-30 @TEX L 6.0 6 2 2 4 4 1 112 52
2011-08-25 DET L 7.0 6 2 2 1 7 1 102 63
2011-08-20 SEA W 8.0 6 0 0 1 5 0 102 74
2011-08-13 @NYY L 4.1 8 4 4 2 4 1 99 33
2011-08-08 KCR ND 7.1 6 1 1 3 7 0 107 66
2011-07-31 @SEA W 7.0 5 1 1 1 2 0 109 64
Last 5 v.BOS 1-1 12.1 9 5 5 7 3 1 3.65 52
2011-06-15 BOS L 7.0 4 3 3 2 2 1 94 57
2011-04-11 @BOS W 5.1 5 2 2 5 1 0 98 46
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-33   Road:   39-31   ExtrInn: 7-5 
 vsRHP:  53-46   vsLHP:  26-18   1-Run:  23-17
 vsEast: 30-23   vsCntrl:21-17   vsWest: 16-18 IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
143 Fri, Sep  9   BOS  W   7-2       79-64  3rd  8.0 gb
142 Wed, Sep  7   TEX  W   5-4 (10)  78-64  3rd  9.5 gb
141 Tue, Sep  6   TEX  L   0-8       77-64  3rd 10.5 gb
140 Mon, Sep  5   TEX  W   5-1       77-63  3rd  9.5 gb
139 Sun, Sep  4   BAL  W   8-1       76-63  3rd  9.5 gb
138 Sat, Sep  3   BAL  W   6-3       75-63  3rd  9.5 gb
137 Fri, Sep  2   BAL  L   2-3       74-63  3rd  9.5 gb
136 Thu, Sep  1  @TEX  L   2-7       74-62  3rd  9.0 gb
135 Wed, Aug 31  @TEX  W   4-1       74-61  3rd  9.0 gb
134 Tue, Aug 30  @TEX  L   0-2       73-61  3rd  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Sep 09, 2011 TBR  7  BOS  2        W:Wade Davis (10-8), L: John Lackey (12-12), S: none
Wed, Aug 17, 2011 TBR  4 @BOS  0        W:David Price (11-10), L: John Lackey (11-9), S: none
Tue, Aug 16, 2011 TBR  6 @BOS  2        W:Jeff Niemann (8-4), L: Erik Bedard (4-8), S: none
Tue, Aug 16, 2011 BOS  3  TBR  1        W:Jon Lester (12-6), L: James Shields (11-10), S: Jonathan Papelbon (28)
Sun, Jul 17, 2011 BOS  1 @TBR  0 (16)   W:Alfredo Aceves (5-1), L: Adam Russell (1-2), S: Jonathan Papelbon (21)
Sat, Jul 16, 2011 BOS  9 @TBR  5        W:John Lackey (7-8), L: James Shields (8-8), S: none
Fri, Jul 15, 2011 TBR  9  BOS  6        W:David Price (9-7), L: Andrew Miller (3-1), S: Kyle Farnsworth (18)
Thu, Jun 16, 2011 BOS  4 @TBR  2        W:Clay Buchholz (6-3), L: David Price (7-6), S: Jonathan Papelbon (13)
Wed, Jun 15, 2011 BOS  3 @TBR  0        W:Josh Beckett (6-2), L: Jeremy Hellickson (7-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 14, 2011 TBR  4  BOS  0        W:James Shields (6-4), L: Tim Wakefield (3-2), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - TBR over 7-5; 2010 - TBR won 11-7; 2009 - Tied 9-9; All-Time - BOS leads 140-95

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  5.45

CLE  4.21

SFG  3.36

 RA/G

PHI  3.26

TEX  4.30

BAL  5.27

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .340

D. Fowler  .271

K. Johnson  .213

 OBP

J. Bautista  .444

N. Walker  .338

V. Wells  .252

 SLG

J. Bautista  .623

R. Roberts  .440

O. Cabrera  .303

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.067

C. Santana  .776

O. Cabrera  .569

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.36

E. Jackson  3.75

J. Lackey  6.30

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.41

J. Zimmermann  6.92

B. Penny  3.68

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

RedSox Batters (5.40 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.78 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Hellickson
G/S/vB		 37.Cruz
G/S/vB		 43.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 47.Gomes
G/S/vB		 74.Howell*
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 62.Peralta
G/S/vB		 27.Ramos*
G/S/vB		 21.Sonnanstine
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 9/1.111 265/181 .245/.279/.388/.666 .864/.577 .731 40/.633 14/3 5/10
13.Crawford* G/S/vP 6/.833 3/1.167 11/1.011 ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/2.750 ··· ··· 474/314 .251/.287/.400/.686 .567/.746 .689 94/.701 17/5 11/2
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 6/.533 4/.000 5/.000 2/.000 12/.833 1/.000 3/2.334 2/.000 19/.579 644/447 .317/.376/.531/.907 .848/.932 .872 107/1.036 36/13 25/0
28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 6/1.250 11/.573 3/2.334 1/no AB 4/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 640/422 .340/.405/.553/.957 .760/1.059 1.001 108/.924 1/0 24/3
36.Jackson G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.333 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 3/.000 372/231 .246/.312/.338/.650 .670/.638 .589 26/.115 3/1 4/2
60.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/17 .304/.407/.391/.799 .733/.840 .799 27/.799 0/0 0/0
12.Lowrie# G/S/vP 4/.750 ··· 3/1.334 ··· 4/.833 ··· 3/.000 ··· 8/1.071 311/199 .260/.310/.370/.680 .870/.570 .573 81/.578 0/1 4/15
54.McDonald G/S/vP 1/5.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 152/47 .206/.276/.360/.637 .766/.354 .791 53/.637 2/3 5/2
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 6/.667 7/.571 15/.267 ··· 17/.521 ··· 7/.857 2/1.000 31/.623 534/356 .314/.401/.585/.986 1.036/.960 .913 74/1.211 1/1 29/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 6/1.300 6/2.000 8/.875 2/1.000 15/.582 ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 26/.804 650/454 .298/.383/.456/.839 1.016/.765 .784 110/.631 25/7 18/5
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 243/202 .299/.346/.498/.843 .825/.847 .859 72/.732 1/2 7/4
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 4/1.167 2/2.000 2/.000 ··· 3/1.667 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 7/1.404 342/229 .248/.304/.473/.777 .657/.837 .793 68/.720 1/0 15/5
10.Scutaro G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.000 7/.143 2/1.000 13/.487 ··· 7/1.738 ··· 8/.393 370/264 .288/.348/.394/.742 .753/.738 .739 84/.815 4/2 5/11
71.Spears* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/3 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 3/.000 0/0 0/0
33.Varitek# G/S/vP 3/.000 6/.167 5/.900 1/.000 6/.333 ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 19/.950 231/154 .233/.307/.451/.758 .771/.752 .742 34/1.074 0/0 11/0
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 6/1.500 8/.875 17/1.012 2/.500 13/1.567 ··· 7/.619 ··· 26/.709 506/347 .261/.375/.467/.842 .983/.779 .667 43/.659 3/0 17/8
IP 164.1 44.1 54.0 30.0 27.2 21.2 60.2 38.0 34.2 TOTAL .280/.349/.459/.809 .805/.810 .781 .795 95/36 179/72
ERA-K/9 2.90/5.9 3.86/8.7 2.00/7.5 3.60/6.9 6.18/7.8 4.98/9.1 3.26/7.7 4.03/6.4 5.71/2.6 3.58/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (0-0-0)
 Saltalamacchia (70-31-19)
 Varitek (60-12-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 672/.213 184/.218 214/.211 135/.272 123/.228 101/.295 231/.195 169/.227 147/.288 .235  Ellsbury
 Reddick
 Jackson
 McDonald
 Crawford
 Spears
 Gonzalez
 Aviles
0/136/0/6
21/3/46/5
21/0/29/4
21/11/27/1
111/0/0/1
1/0/0/0
0/0/2/0
1/0/4/0
OPS .661 .684 .575 .731 .699 .903 .615 .666 .910 .686
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 345/.722 75/.555 97/.602 54/.915 60/.486 53/.592 105/.441 87/.638 74/1.046 .665
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 327/.598 109/.775 117/.555 81/.613 63/.930 48/1.276 126/.763 82/.694 73/.777 .704
Home 340/.600 98/.637 113/.532 78/.576 53/.644 57/1.051 106/.383 77/.613 53/.840
Last 28d days 117/.596 25/1.154 35/.721 15/.795 20/.478 23/.824 23/.304 16/.517 /
HR/SB/CS 18/9/1 4/8/3 3/1/1 3/3/1 4/5/1 5/4/0 7/4/2 3/4/0 10/1/2 139/91/31
Usage ·····X·· ··oo···· ··X···Xo ···o···· ··o···o· ··oX···· ··o···Xo ···X···· ········
Rays Batters (4.27 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 70.Weiland
G/S/vB		 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 32.Albers
G/S/vB		 48.Atchison
G/S/vB		 51.Bard
G/S/vB		 64.Bowden
G/S/vB		 61.Doubront*
G/S/vB		 46.Morales*
G/S/vB		 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB		 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Brignac* G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 4/1.750 4/.750 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 230/195 .198/.233/.230/.464 .423/.471 .534 29/.552 3/1 1/7
22.Damon* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 9/.730 1/no AB 7/1.286 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 16/.125 11/1.182 566/411 .261/.317/.415/.732 .753/.725 .645 85/.862 14/4 14/0
5.Fuld* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 342/257 .243/.314/.364/.678 .554/.716 .731 27/.670 20/8 3/3
30.Guyer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 22/7 .190/.190/.476/.667 .857/.286 .692 16/.600 0/0 2/0
28.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 2/.000 5/1.600 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 247/213 .226/.305/.367/.671 .609/.680 .651 47/.814 1/2 5/4
8.Jennings G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 202/134 .293/.382/.529/.911 .914/.909 .830 108/.793 15/6 9/1
9.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 177/88 .191/.251/.331/.583 .655/.518 .570 16/.619 5/7 4/1
20.Joyce* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 6/.167 2/.000 5/.400 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 4/.500 1/.000 461/376 .283/.354/.498/.851 .697/.887 .930 73/.889 12/1 18/3
11.Kotchman* G/S/vP ··· 5/1.400 3/.333 3/.333 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.666 10/1.000 3/2.334 487/359 .312/.380/.429/.809 .703/.848 .862 92/.533 1/2 8/2
31.Lobaton# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/9 .071/.133/.143/.276 .500/.111 .276 11/.382 0/0 0/1
3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· 5/.200 13/.785 5/1.600 8/.821 ··· 3/1.667 1/.000 7/.286 3/.000 488/360 .239/.340/.481/.821 .962/.773 .762 105/.956 2/1 25/13
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 6/.000 6/.900 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 379/233 .215/.311/.355/.666 .853/.553 .613 69/.731 11/7 7/10
16.Ruggiano G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 109/61 .243/.269/.398/.667 .576/.739 .656 9/.222 1/1 4/0
10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 2/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 3/.000 226/109 .173/.268/.310/.578 .713/.433 .465 28/.532 0/0 8/3
2.Upton G/S/vP ··· 11/.382 16/.563 8/.250 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 13/.237 2/2.000 550/395 .224/.308/.392/.700 .639/.722 .592 85/.710 27/9 19/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 5/.200 6/1.167 5/.000 7/.286 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 8/.000 1/2.000 599/416 .272/.357/.466/.822 .869/.806 .717 92/.623 16/6 15/5
IP 12.0 94.0 58.1 21.0 65.1 15.1 6.1 40.0 55.2 49.1 TOTAL .243/.318/.401/.718 .737/.711 .690 .729 129/56 146/66
ERA-K/9 6.75/3.0 2.87/6.2 4.47/9.3 4.71/5.6 2.76/9.4 3.52/7.1 8.53/5.7 3.60/8.6 2.75/12.1 4.38/7.1 4.03/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (47-10-4)
 Lobaton (1-1-0)
 Shoppach (22-18-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 55/.313 392/.203 259/.258 92/.310 251/.167 69/.274 30/.348 167/.236 221/.203 201/.246 .245  Joyce
 Fuld
 Upton
 Jennings
 Zobrist
 Ruggiano
 Rodriguez
 Johnson
 Guyer
 Damon
14/0/110/8
74/7/6/5
0/132/0/5
35/8/1/2
0/0/36/1
26/2/5/1
2/0/0/0
1/1/0/0
2/0/4/0
16/0/0/0
OPS .858 .620 .720 .800 .512 .783 1.119 .748 .544 .694 .705
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 19/.551 174/.569 109/.862 40/.861 143/.594 24/.768 18/1.286 85/.777 110/.464 78/.764 .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 36/1.025 218/.661 150/.620 52/.752 108/.398 45/.791 12/.861 82/.719 111/.624 123/.649 .713
Road 33/.570 155/.624 107/.635 20/.956 132/.522 14/.548 8/.946 70/.481 108/.537 82/.744
Last 28d days 7/.286 64/.400 56/1.199 25/.778 37/.425 38/.901 17/1.137 29/.704 21/.195 45/.699
HR/SB/CS 1/0/1 6/7/0 5/5/3 0/1/0 5/7/1 3/2/1 1/2/3 5/5/0 3/4/0 7/1/2 134/130/43
Usage ···X···· ····X··· ·oo··X·X X······· ··X·o··· ·X···X·X Xo···X·· o·o···X· ····X··· ··X·o·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.