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Game Preview: WSN @ BOS, 7:10pm, Friday, June 8, 2012 @Fenway Park

Nationals, 32-23, 32-23 1st, 1 up

SP: Stephen Strasburg (23, RHP, 6-1, 2.35)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (6-1) 65.0 51 20 17 17 79 4 2.35
2011 (1-1) 24.0 15 5 4 2 24 0 1.50
2010 (5-3) 68.0 56 25 22 17 92 5 2.91
Last 7 GS 4-1 40.0 34 17 14 11 54 4 3.15 58
2012-06-02 ATL W 7.0 4 0 0 0 9 0 90 78
2012-05-26 @ATL W 5.0 6 4 4 4 6 1 95 41
2012-05-20 BAL W 5.0 4 3 1 1 8 0 90 58
2012-05-15 SDP L 4.0 7 4 4 2 5 1 81 35
2012-05-10 @PIT W 6.0 5 2 1 3 13 0 103 66
2012-05-04 PHI ND 6.0 3 3 3 1 4 2 76 57
2012-04-28 @LAD ND 7.0 5 1 1 0 9 0 101 72
Has never faced BOS as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-10   Road:   14-13   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  25-18   vsLHP:   7-5    1-Run:  12-9 
 vsEast: 14-8    vsCntrl:12-7    vsWest:  5-6  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 55 Thu, Jun  7   NYM  L   1-3       32-23  1st  1.0 up
 54 Wed, Jun  6   NYM  W   5-3       32-22  1st  2.0 up
 53 Tue, Jun  5   NYM  W   7-6 (12)  31-22  1st  1.0 up
 52 Sun, Jun  3   ATL  L   2-3       30-22  1st    Tied
 51 Sat, Jun  2   ATL  W   2-0       30-21  1st  1.0 up
 50 Wed, May 30  @MIA  L   3-5       29-21  1st  0.5 up
 49 Tue, May 29  @MIA  L   1-3       29-20  1st  1.5 up
 48 Mon, May 28  @MIA  L   3-5       29-19  1st  2.5 up
 47 Sun, May 27  @ATL  W   7-2       29-18  1st  2.5 up
 46 Sat, May 26  @ATL  W   8-4       28-18  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14
RedSox, 29-28, 29-28 5th, 3 GB, 3 GB in WC

SP: Felix Doubront (24, LHP, 6-2, 3.75)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (6-2) 62.1 59 30 26 25 66 8 3.75
2011 (0-0) 10.1 12 7 7 8 6 1 6.10
2010 (2-2) 25.0 27 16 12 10 23 3 4.32
Last 7 GS 5-2 40.1 37 20 16 15 44 5 3.57 54
2012-06-02 @TOR W 6.1 7 3 2 1 7 2 101 55
2012-05-28 DET W 6.0 4 2 2 1 6 2 95 61
2012-05-22 @BAL L 6.0 4 2 2 2 9 1 108 63
2012-05-17 @TBR W 5.2 6 2 1 4 7 0 97 54
2012-05-12 CLE W 6.0 3 1 1 2 5 0 109 65
2012-05-07 @KCR W 6.1 7 5 3 3 2 0 111 42
2012-05-01 OAK L 4.0 6 5 5 2 8 0 94 36
Has never faced WSN as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-16   Road:   15-12   ExtrInn: 0-4 
 vsRHP:  18-20   vsLHP:  11-8    1-Run:   5-7 
 vsEast: 11-15   vsCntrl:13-8    vsWest:  3-4  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 57 Thu, Jun  7   BAL  W   7-0       29-28  5th  3.0 gb
 56 Wed, Jun  6   BAL  L   1-2       28-28  5th  4.0 gb
 55 Tue, Jun  5   BAL  L   6-8 (10)  28-27  5th  3.0 gb
 54 Sun, Jun  3  @TOR  L   1-5       28-26  4th  3.0 gb
 53 Sat, Jun  2  @TOR  W   7-4       28-25  4th  2.0 gb
 52 Fri, Jun  1  @TOR  W   7-2       27-25  4th  3.0 gb
 51 Thu, May 31   DET  L   3-7       26-25  5th  3.0 gb
 50 Wed, May 30   DET  W   6-4       26-24  5th  2.5 gb
 49 Tue, May 29   DET  W   6-3       25-24  5th  3.5 gb
 48 Mon, May 28   DET  W   7-4       24-24  5th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 25, 2009 WSN  9  BOS  3        W:Jordan Zimmermann (3-3), L: John Smoltz (0-1), S: none
Wed, Jun 24, 2009 BOS  6 @WSN  4        W:Jon Lester (6-6), L: Craig Stammen (1-3), S: Jonathan Papelbon (17)
Tue, Jun 23, 2009 BOS 11 @WSN  3        W:Manny Delcarmen (2-1), L: Julian Tavarez (3-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 BOS  9  WSN  3        W:Jon Lester (2-0), L: Shawn Hill (1-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 BOS 11  WSN  3        W:Tim Wakefield (5-8), L: Livan Hernandez (5-8), S: none
Mon, Jun 19, 2006 BOS  6  WSN  3        W:Kyle Snyder (1-0), L: Tony Armas (6-4), S: Mike Timlin (1)
Tue, Jul 17, 2001 MON 11  BOS  7        W:Troy Mattes (3-1), L: Tim Wakefield (6-4), S: none
Mon, Jul 16, 2001 BOS  6 @MON  5        W:Hipolito Pichardo (2-0), L: Graeme Lloyd (7-2), S: Derek Lowe (18)
Sun, Jul 15, 2001 BOS  8 @MON  5        W:Hideo Nomo (9-4), L: Mike Thurman (4-6), S: Derek Lowe (17)
Tue, Jul 18, 2000 BOS  3  MON  1        W:Pedro Martinez (10-3), L: Javier Vazquez (7-5), S: Derek Lowe (21)
Season Series: 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; 2010 -  0-0; All-Time - BOS leads 13-8

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 2012 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

TEX  5.34

HOU  4.23

PIT  3.20

 RA/G

WSN  3.31

TEX  4.24

COL  5.46

 BA

P. Konerko  .371

D. Uggla  .267

R. Weeks  .160

 OBP

J. Votto  .477

J. Reddick  .333

A. Ramirez  .232

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .697

J. Arencibia  .428

B. Ryan  .252

 OPS

J. Votto  1.097

M. Wieters  .764

A. Ramirez  .504

 ERA

B. Beachy  1.87

K. Millwood  3.90

M. Minor  6.57

 K/9IP

G. Gonzalez  11.40

J. Weaver  7.43

H. Alvarez  2.62

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

Nationals Batters (3.80 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.75 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 61.Doubront*
G/S/vB		 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 32.Albers
G/S/vB		 48.Atchison
G/S/vB		 53.Hill*
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 46.Morales*
G/S/vB		 44.Padilla
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Ankiel* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.900 ··· 1/no AB 5/.800 ··· 3/1.167 141/125 .223/.284/.385/.668 .313/.716 .660 66/.589 1/3 3/1
2.Bernadina* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 103/100 .239/.333/.386/.720 .000/.743 .648 37/.756 4/1 2/0
20.Desmond G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 3/.000 247/203 .257/.283/.430/.714 .591/.741 .653 101/.726 6/2 8/8
8.Espinosa# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 218/176 .220/.306/.356/.662 1.040/.573 .780 87/.825 7/3 5/4
26.Flores G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 6/1.334 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 104/80 .269/.320/.376/.697 .720/.690 .617 66/.811 1/2 2/0
34.Harper* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 153/112 .276/.359/.500/.859 .998/.809 .772 102/.933 3/2 5/3
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/1.171 ··· 10/.775 6/.833 4/.000 11/1.636 219/167 .269/.361/.500/.861 .835/.869 1.075 100/.673 1/1 9/3
1.Lombardozzi# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 137/113 .289/.358/.372/.730 .385/.796 .592 65/.738 0/1 1/2
57.Moore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/6 .158/.158/.158/.316 .154/.667 .222 10/.200 0/0 0/0
38.Morse G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2.000 22/22 .250/.318/.350/.668 /.668 22/.668 0/0 0/0
21.Nady G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 9/.619 ··· ··· 6/.334 92/52 .151/.207/.291/.497 .646/.380 .409 27/.838 1/0 3/1
23.Solano G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/7 .286/.286/.429/.714 /.714 .750 7/.714 0/0 0/0
11.Zimmerman G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.333 3/1.000 9/2.042 11/1.355 2/2.000 4/1.750 183/153 .245/.322/.356/.678 .522/.709 .622 97/.647 2/1 3/2
IP 62.1 28.2 24.0 31.2 12.2 11.2 20.2 23.0 TOTAL .241/.312/.390/.702 .685/.706 .692 .735 29/16 52/31
ERA-K/9 3.75/9.5 5.02/9.7 1.88/5.6 1.42/7.4 2.84/7.1 2.31/11.5 3.48/7.4 4.70/8.2 4.42/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Flores (11-4-2)
 Solano (3-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 271/.244 125/.234 94/.221 124/.217 53/.217 43/.154 93/.263 98/.278 .262  Ankiel
 Bernadina
 Harper
 Morse
 Lombardozzi
 Nady
 Moore
0/42/0/2
22/8/2/2
7/14/24/1
2/0/5/0
15/0/0/0
22/0/11/0
6/0/0/0
OPS .715 .680 .636 .528 .603 .466 .717 .760 .746
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 97/.654 70/.631 40/.774 59/.530 32/.541 27/.465 42/.590 47/.575 .732
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 174/.750 55/.739 54/.543 65/.525 21/.697 16/.464 51/.817 51/.934 .759
Home 112/.749 79/.722 52/.521 90/.598 37/.462 26/.392 50/.885 43/.862
Last 28d days 125/.645 58/.566 39/.705 39/.585 30/.690 30/.541 36/.725 37/.631
HR/SB/CS 8/6/0 3/3/0 3/1/1 1/2/0 0/4/1 1/0/0 2/0/0 2/1/1 64/39/10
Usage ·····X·· ··X··o·· ··X··o·o ··o·o·X· ····X··X ·····o·· ····X··X ·o···o··
RedSox Batters (5.21 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (3.31 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Strasburg
G/S/vB		 17.Burnett*
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 51.Gonzalez*
G/S/vB		 32.Gorzelanny*
G/S/vB		 54.Lidge
G/S/vB		 35.Stammen
G/S/vB		 40.Wang
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 246/172 .262/.280/.425/.705 .916/.617 .657 105/.646 6/3 8/5
23.Byrd G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.000 4/.750 1/.000 6/.666 6/.000 1/.000 7/.733 152/102 .211/.245/.246/.492 .777/.348 .374 37/.642 0/3 1/3
28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP ··· 6/.333 3/.333 6/.533 17/1.138 11/.697 ··· ··· 251/155 .272/.323/.417/.739 .740/.739 .757 103/.666 0/0 4/1
54.McDonald G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/.200 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 72/38 .197/.296/.393/.689 .717/.664 .732 7/1.300 1/1 2/0
64.Middlebrooks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 114/72 .312/.342/.541/.883 .933/.854 .872 77/.797 2/1 6/4
66.Nava# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 110/78 .306/.445/.506/.951 .698/1.037 1.043 101/.913 2/0 2/1
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 8/.661 ··· 1/no AB 3/2.334 44/1.226 244/156 .304/.385/.570/.955 .936/.964 1.095 104/.841 0/1 13/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.667 19/.760 234/162 .280/.338/.427/.764 .686/.796 .746 82/.509 3/2 5/1
26.Podsednik* G/S/vP 4/.000 7/.762 2/2.000 5/.650 ··· 11/.764 ··· 3/1.000 37/34 .387/.394/.548/.942 1.500/.920 1.006 37/.942 3/1 1/0
5.Punto# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/no AB 2/.500 ··· 5/.450 74/61 .180/.292/.262/.554 .413/.585 .310 32/.624 2/0 1/2
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 155/129 .278/.323/.583/.906 .661/.953 .967 73/1.129 0/0 11/6
10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 7/.000 82/45 .275/.375/.522/.897 .833/.950 1.028 29/1.113 1/0 3/1
12.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 160/141 .302/.340/.423/.762 .343/.816 .688 51/.495 0/0 0/2
20.Youkilis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 38/.867 129/97 .246/.326/.395/.720 1.069/.615 .774 57/.828 0/0 4/2
IP 65.0 18.0 24.2 2.1 29.1 7.0 30.0 12.1 TOTAL .272/.332/.452/.785 .804/.776 .801 .779 20/12 69/30
ERA-K/9 2.35/10.9 1.00/10.5 2.55/10.6 0.00/0.0 3.38/7.7 5.14/9.0 1.80/9.6 5.11/3.7 2.99/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Saltalamacchia (27-5-2)
 Shoppach (12-5-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 257/.218 72/.200 101/.161 8/.250 122/.223 35/.250 123/.209 60/.367 .222  Nava
 Sweeney
 McDonald
 Byrd
 Gonzalez
 Podsednik
26/0/0/3
0/10/37/2
16/3/6/2
0/45/2/1
0/0/11/0
1/10/0/0
OPS .579 .525 .457 .750 .635 .936 .584 1.020 .636
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 133/.613 33/.515 53/.413 5/.000 51/.561 12/2.179 39/.527 34/1.152 .642
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 124/.542 39/.526 48/.500 3/2.000 71/.691 23/.455 84/.613 26/.855 .632
Road 124/.549 37/.579 49/.395 / 56/.680 8/.750 61/.704 33/1.030
Last 28d days 87/.709 38/.593 38/.253 8/.750 61/.393 / 48/.695 60/1.020
HR/SB/CS 4/7/1 0/1/0 0/4/0 0/0/0 2/1/1 1/1/0 2/1/0 2/2/1 38/35/10
Usage ·····X·· ·oo·XX·· ·oo··o·· o·o·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.