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Game Preview: NYY @ DET, 1:05pm, Thursday, August 9, 2012 @Comerica Park

Yankees, 64-46, 64-46 1st, 4½ up

SP: Hiroki Kuroda (37, RHP, 10-8, 3.19)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (10-8) 143.2 133 55 51 36 111 15 3.19
2011 (13-16) 202.0 196 77 69 49 161 24 3.07
2010 (11-13) 196.1 180 87 74 48 159 15 3.39
Last 7 GS 3-1 48.1 42 16 15 6 42 3 2.79 60
2012-08-04 SEA L 6.1 7 1 1 1 4 0 103 58
2012-07-29 BOS ND 8.0 7 2 2 1 4 0 102 63
2012-07-23 @SEA W 7.0 3 1 1 1 9 0 107 75
2012-07-18 TOR W 7.0 4 0 0 0 5 0 108 74
2012-07-13 LAA ND 7.1 8 5 5 1 6 2 101 47
2012-07-06 @BOS ND 5.2 10 7 6 1 3 1 112 25
2012-06-30 CHW W 7.0 3 0 0 1 11 0 107 81
Last 5 v.DET 0-1 13.0 13 5 5 2 9 2 3.46 55
2012-06-02 @DET ND 7.0 7 2 2 1 4 1 86 58
2010-05-23 DET L 6.0 6 3 3 1 5 1 88 52
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   34-22   Road:   30-24   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  42-32   vsLHP:  22-14   1-Run:  13-17
 vsEast: 20-17   vsCntrl:16-11   vsWest: 15-13 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Wed, Aug  8  @DET  W  12-8       64-46  1st  4.5 up
109 Tue, Aug  7  @DET  L   5-6       63-46  1st  4.5 up
108 Mon, Aug  6  @DET  L   2-7       63-45  1st  5.5 up
107 Sun, Aug  5   SEA  W   6-2       63-44  1st  6.5 up
106 Sat, Aug  4   SEA  L   0-1       62-44  1st  6.5 up
105 Fri, Aug  3   SEA  W   6-3       62-43  1st  6.5 up
104 Wed, Aug  1   BAL  W  12-3       61-43  1st  6.5 up
103 Tue, Jul 31   BAL  L   5-11      60-43  1st  5.5 up
102 Mon, Jul 30   BAL  L   4-5       60-42  1st  6.5 up
101 Sun, Jul 29   BOS  L   2-3 (10)  60-41  1st  7.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:16-14
Tigers, 60-51, 60-51 2nd, ½ GB, tied for WC

SP: Doug Fister (28, RHP, 6-7, 3.52)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (6-7) 99.2 98 43 39 20 85 9 3.52
2011 (11-13) 216.1 193 76 68 37 146 11 2.83
2010 (6-14) 171.0 187 85 78 32 93 13 4.11
Last 7 GS 5-2 49.0 41 17 17 9 43 2 3.12 60
2012-08-04 CLE W 9.0 4 1 1 0 6 0 107 81
2012-07-29 @TOR W 8.0 7 1 1 2 9 0 109 71
2012-07-24 @CLE L 7.0 9 3 3 1 4 0 102 50
2012-07-18 LAA W 8.0 2 1 1 2 10 1 108 82
2012-07-13 @BAL W 7.0 3 1 1 0 8 0 94 75
2012-07-07 KCR W 6.0 8 4 4 3 2 1 95 39
2012-07-02 MIN L 4.0 8 6 6 1 4 0 85 25
Last 5 v.NYY 1-2 18.0 24 12 12 3 10 4 6.00 42
2011-07-26 @NYY L 7.0 7 3 3 1 5 1 108 55
2009-09-19 NYY L 4.0 9 6 6 2 1 2 79 19
2009-08-16 NYY W 7.0 8 3 3 0 4 1 101 53
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   33-22   Road:   27-29   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  43-36   vsLHP:  17-15   1-Run:  15-13
 vsEast: 17-15   vsCntrl:24-16   vsWest:  8-13 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
111 Wed, Aug  8   NYY  L   8-12      60-51  2nd  0.5 gb
110 Tue, Aug  7   NYY  W   6-5       60-50  2nd  0.5 gb
109 Mon, Aug  6   NYY  W   7-2       59-50  2nd  1.5 gb
108 Sun, Aug  5   CLE  W  10-8 (10)  58-50  2nd  1.5 gb
107 Sat, Aug  4   CLE  W   6-1       57-50  2nd  1.5 gb
106 Fri, Aug  3   CLE  W  10-2       56-50  2nd  2.5 gb
105 Wed, Aug  1  @BOS  W   7-5       55-50  2nd  2.5 gb
104 Tue, Jul 31  @BOS  L   1-4  (6)  54-50  2nd  2.5 gb
103 Mon, Jul 30  @BOS  L   3-7       54-49  2nd  1.5 gb
102 Sun, Jul 29  @TOR  W   4-1       54-48  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:21-9 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Aug 08, 2012 NYY 12 @DET  8        W:CC Sabathia (12-3), L: Anibal Sanchez (6-9), S: none
Tue, Aug 07, 2012 DET  6  NYY  5        W:Rick Porcello (9-6), L: Phil Hughes (11-9), S: Jose Valverde (22)
Mon, Aug 06, 2012 DET  7  NYY  2        W:Justin Verlander (12-7), L: Ivan Nova (10-6), S: none
Sun, Jun 03, 2012 NYY  5 @DET  1        W:Phil Hughes (5-5), L: Justin Verlander (5-4), S: none
Sat, Jun 02, 2012 DET  4  NYY  3        W:Jose Valverde (3-1), L: David Phelps (1-2), S: none
Fri, Jun 01, 2012 NYY  9 @DET  4        W:CC Sabathia (7-2), L: Casey Crosby (0-1), S: Rafael Soriano (7)
Sun, Apr 29, 2012 NYY  6  DET  2        W:CC Sabathia (3-0), L: Max Scherzer (1-3), S: none
Sat, Apr 28, 2012 DET  7 @NYY  5        W:Drew Smyly (1-0), L: Freddy Garcia (0-2), S: none
Fri, Apr 27, 2012 NYY  7  DET  6        W:Mariano Rivera (1-1), L: Brayan Villarreal (0-1), S: none

Thu, May 05, 2011 DET  6  NYY  3        W:Rick Porcello (2-2), L: A.J. Burnett (4-2), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - NYY over 5-4; 2011 - DET won 4-3; 2010 - Tied 4-4; All-Time - NYY leads 1047-931

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
Yankees Batters (4.91 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Fister
G/S/vB
64.Below*
G/S/vB
53.Benoit
G/S/vB
40.Coke*
G/S/vB
20.Dotel
G/S/vB
38.Downs*
G/S/vB
46.Valverde
G/S/vB
60.Villarreal
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cano* G/S/vP 6/.833 3/.666 15/.466 4/.833 4/.000 ··· 7/.143 3/.666 474/302 .316/.373/.559/.932 .648/1.100 .863 108/.865 3/2 24/5
12.Chavez* G/S/vP 8/.500 3/.666 17/.561 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 212/190 .284/.344/.511/.855 .242/.924 .859 66/.889 0/0 11/4
14.Granderson* G/S/vP 3/1.666 2/1.500 4/.250 9/1.444 4/.833 ··· 6/.900 3/.333 489/331 .244/.338/.498/.836 .796/.855 .812 107/.775 8/3 30/0
27.Ibanez* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 23/1.200 1/.000 11/1.636 ··· 6/1.417 ··· 312/271 .240/.304/.456/.760 .526/.797 .626 70/.780 3/0 15/0
2.Jeter G/S/vP 10/.900 1/.000 29/.399 3/.000 13/.237 ··· 3/.333 3/1.167 497/357 .315/.357/.412/.769 .908/.714 .828 107/.784 7/2 8/8
22.Jones G/S/vP 6/.733 ··· 4/.833 4/.833 14/.846 ··· 7/1.286 1/3.000 186/64 .224/.301/.479/.780 .756/.825 .721 42/.504 0/0 12/0
55.Martin G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 7/.286 1/.000 15/.414 4/.750 318/236 .194/.308/.374/.682 .963/.589 .617 75/.788 3/0 12/5
45.McGehee G/S/vP 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 12/.583 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 302/205 .229/.298/.376/.674 .802/.617 .735 70/.477 1/1 8/3
17.Nix G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/2.000 110/50 .260/.308/.460/.768 .860/.649 .623 34/.926 3/3 4/2
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 113/65 .260/.288/.337/.625 .610/.636 .446 25/.833 1/0 1/4
31.Suzuki* G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 42/.525 14/.917 12/.350 1/2.000 5/.933 3/.666 484/307 .260/.287/.354/.641 .537/.702 .703 109/.646 18/4 5/1
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 8/1.089 2/.500 12/1.250 3/1.667 1/2.000 ··· 8/1.333 3/.667 392/267 .265/.349/.465/.814 .739/.848 .907 74/.815 1/3 14/2
25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 9/1.222 3/.833 8/.125 4/.500 8/1.167 ··· 9/.333 1/.000 442/282 .258/.339/.482/.821 .921/.761 .870 95/.870 2/1 20/1
IP 99.2 45.1 49.1 45.1 37.0 11.1 45.2 36.0 TOTAL .266/.337/.459/.796 .793/.797 .774 .797 60/18 170/52
ERA-K/9 3.52/7.7 3.38/5.6 3.10/10.4 3.97/7.9 3.16/12.2 2.38/10.4 3.94/6.7 1.75/12.0 4.06/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (46-16-4)
 Stewart (19-5-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 408/.255 182/.272 199/.213 206/.326 145/.200 45/.220 196/.220 148/.202 .262  Swisher
 Suzuki
 Jones
 Granderson
 Ibanez
 Nix
0/0/83/4
6/0/101/3
29/0/14/3
0/108/0/2
57/0/8/2
11/0/0/0
OPS .682 .691 .691 .846 .576 .655 .655 .567 .737
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 239/.751 80/.719 97/.664 105/.669 51/.647 17/.235 107/.789 52/.728 .749
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 169/.578 102/.667 102/.718 101/1.034 94/.537 28/.935 89/.501 96/.488 .725
Home 172/.654 123/.621 113/.656 100/.767 70/.494 38/.588 94/.694 95/.536
Last 28d days 141/.503 43/.959 35/.934 44/1.149 32/.488 30/.885 41/.577 30/.619
HR/SB/CS 9/2/3 5/5/2 9/1/0 4/5/2 2/7/3 1/1/1 3/11/0 2/3/1 116/90/29
Usage ····X··· X······· ···X···o X··X···X ·o·X···o o··X·X·· ·XX····X Xo·o·X··
Tigers Batters (4.66 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.09 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Kuroda
G/S/vB
62.Chamberlain
G/S/vB
38.Eppley
G/S/vB
48.Logan*
G/S/vB
41.Phelps
G/S/vB
39.Rapada*
G/S/vB
30.Robertson
G/S/vB
29.Soriano
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 3/.333 2/.000 2/.500 4/.833 ··· 304/232 .258/.356/.392/.749 .643/.780 .813 83/.824 2/0 6/3
18.Baker G/S/vP 4/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 147/47 .277/.313/.460/.773 .799/.716 .723 35/.814 4/1 4/2
52.Berry* G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 251/199 .282/.363/.386/.749 .595/.790 .777 83/.642 15/0 2/2
26.Boesch* G/S/vP 6/.167 3/.666 1/.000 3/3.000 2/2.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/.000 412/293 .254/.289/.395/.684 .592/.720 .652 94/.824 4/3 11/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 6/2.167 11/1.182 3/2.667 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 5/.900 8/.250 489/354 .323/.384/.586/.971 .890/.997 1.093 109/1.085 4/1 29/10
12.Dirks* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 162/132 .347/.398/.524/.921 .700/.966 1.000 16/1.178 1/0 4/1
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 13/.802 1/2.000 1/no AB 5/.400 1/.000 2/.000 3/1.167 5/2.600 478/313 .312/.400/.514/.913 .802/.975 .973 107/1.014 1/0 19/7
4.Infante G/S/vP 9/.572 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 401/292 .286/.308/.450/.758 .856/.721 .719 95/.722 11/1 10/11
14.Jackson G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/1.500 405/288 .318/.402/.506/.908 .909/.907 .898 116/.792 10/5 11/0
9.Laird G/S/vP 6/.834 10/.311 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 127/57 .289/.349/.395/.744 .596/.926 .764 18/.465 0/0 2/2
27.Peralta G/S/vP 3/.000 8/.542 3/.666 4/.000 3/.666 4/.250 5/1.000 4/.833 388/277 .264/.331/.418/.749 .780/.737 .818 87/.821 1/1 8/5
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 3/1.000 7/.000 2/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 4/.000 237/180 .212/.295/.284/.579 .546/.589 .624 42/.368 1/0 2/5
21.Young G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.500 1/.000 4/2.250 2/.500 1/.000 6/1.100 4/.750 412/287 .266/.299/.401/.699 .812/.647 .677 97/.640 0/2 12/2
IP 143.2 4.0 31.0 38.1 51.1 30.0 36.2 44.0 TOTAL .272/.338/.426/.764 .720/.783 .793 .805 42/13 111/67
ERA-K/9 3.19/7.0 6.75/4.5 3.19/5.2 3.52/11.3 2.45/9.8 2.70/8.4 2.70/13.2 1.84/9.4 3.81/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (51-21-6)
 Laird (30-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 587/.247 21/.421 131/.284 162/.221 211/.212 119/.186 155/.217 182/.226 .257  Boesch
 Berry
 Jackson
 Young
 Baker
 Dirks
0/0/97/4
42/18/5/2
0/89/0/2
27/0/0/1
2/0/14/0
28/1/4/0
OPS .697 1.108 .696 .675 .641 .563 .623 .632 .737
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 345/.767 11/.955 50/.833 94/.652 99/.738 88/.537 87/.575 108/.612 .717
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 242/.599 10/1.278 81/.615 68/.707 112/.557 31/.635 68/.681 74/.660 .756
Road 239/.787 12/.780 82/.756 81/.668 117/.739 54/.600 76/.715 93/.492
Last 28d days 137/.609 21/1.108 36/.866 28/.433 33/.186 21/.686 50/.648 38/.580
HR/SB/CS 15/15/6 1/0/0 1/2/0 4/3/1 6/1/0 2/0/0 3/4/0 1/2/1 122/65/21
Usage ····X··· ·XX····X ·X······ oo·Xo··· ··o····· ·o··o··o X··XX··o o··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.