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Game Preview: SFG @ DET, 8:00pm, Sunday, October 28, 2012 @Comerica Park

Giants, 94-68, 10-5 in postseason

SP: Matt Cain (27, RHP, 16-5, 2.79)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 RegS (16-5) 219.1 177 73 68 51 193 21 2.79
2011 RegS (12-11) 221.2 177 82 71 63 179 9 2.88
2010 RegS (13-11) 223.1 181 84 78 61 177 22 3.14
Last 7 GS 4-2 43.0 34 12 12 11 31 5 2.51 58
2012-10-22 STL W 5.2 5 0 0 1 4 0 102 62
2012-10-17 @STL L 6.2 6 3 3 1 2 1 100 51
2012-10-11 @CIN W 5.2 6 3 3 2 5 1 96 48
2012-10-06 CIN L 5.0 5 3 3 1 4 2 75 48
2012-10-01 @LAD ND 5.0 4 2 2 1 2 1 68 52
2012-09-26 ARI W 7.0 4 0 0 1 6 0 91 74
2012-09-19 COL W 8.0 4 1 1 4 8 0 116 74
Has never faced DET as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   53-36   Road:   51-37   ExtrInn: 9-5 
 vsRHP:  64-54   vsLHP:  40-19   1-Run:  31-20
 vsEast: 15-19   vsCntrl:34-19   vsWest: 45-27 IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 15 Sat, Oct 27  @DET  W   2-0         -               
 14 Thu, Oct 25   DET  W   2-0         -               
 13 Wed, Oct 24   DET  W   8-3         -               
 12 Mon, Oct 22   STL  W   9-0         -               
 11 Sun, Oct 21   STL  W   6-1         -               
 10 Fri, Oct 19  @STL  W   5-0         -               
  9 Thu, Oct 18  @STL  L   3-8         -               
  8 Wed, Oct 17  @STL  L   1-3         -               
  7 Mon, Oct 15   STL  W   7-1         -               
  6 Sun, Oct 14   STL  L   4-6         -               

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:20-10
Tigers, 88-74, 7-5 in postseason

SP: Max Scherzer (27, RHP, 16-7, 3.74)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 RegS (16-7) 187.2 179 82 78 60 231 23 3.74
2011 RegS (15-9) 195.0 207 101 96 56 174 29 4.43
2010 RegS (12-11) 195.2 174 84 76 70 184 20 3.50
Last 7 GS 2-1 36.0 25 9 8 8 45 1 2.00 61
2012-10-18 NYY W 5.2 2 1 1 2 10 0 98 69
2012-10-10 @OAK ND 5.1 3 1 0 1 8 0 91 67
2012-10-03 @KCR ND 4.0 3 0 0 2 3 0 75 57
2012-09-23 MIN L 5.0 6 3 3 1 4 0 86 46
2012-09-18 OAK ND 2.0 2 1 1 2 4 0 44 50
2012-09-12 @CHW W 6.0 4 1 1 0 7 1 115 67
2012-09-07 @LAA ND 8.0 5 2 2 0 9 0 110 73
Last 5 v.SFG 1-3 19.1 17 14 11 10 20 3 5.12 48
2011-07-02 SFG L 2.0 6 9 6 3 2 2 72 13
2009-06-11 SFG W 7.2 3 0 0 1 6 0 116 78
2009-04-25 SFG L 4.2 5 4 4 2 6 1 98 42
2009-04-19 @SFG L 5.0 3 1 1 4 6 0 104 59
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   54-32   Road:   41-47   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  66-51   vsLHP:  29-28   1-Run:  23-28
 vsEast: 25-18   vsCntrl:43-29   vsWest: 16-22 IL:11-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Sat, Oct 27   SFG  L   0-2         -               
 11 Thu, Oct 25  @SFG  L   0-2         -               
 10 Wed, Oct 24  @SFG  L   3-8         -               
  9 Thu, Oct 18   NYY  W   8-1         -               
  8 Tue, Oct 16   NYY  W   2-1         -               
  7 Sun, Oct 14  @NYY  W   3-0         -               
  6 Sat, Oct 13  @NYY  W   6-4 (12)    -               
  5 Thu, Oct 11  @OAK  W   6-0         -               
  4 Wed, Oct 10  @OAK  L   3-4         -               
  3 Tue, Oct  9  @OAK  L   0-2         -               

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Oct 27, 2012 SFG  2 @DET  0        W:Ryan Vogelsong , L: Anibal Sanchez , S: Sergio Romo 
Thu, Oct 25, 2012 SFG  2  DET  0        W:Madison Bumgarner , L: Doug Fister , S: Sergio Romo 
Wed, Oct 24, 2012 SFG  8  DET  3        W:Barry Zito , L: Justin Verlander , S: none

Sun, Jul 03, 2011 DET  6  SFG  3        W:Rick Porcello (7-6), L: Jeremy Affeldt (1-2), S: Jose Valverde (20)
Sat, Jul 02, 2011 SFG 15 @DET  3        W:Barry Zito (2-1), L: Max Scherzer (9-4), S: Guillermo Mota (1)
Fri, Jul 01, 2011 SFG  4 @DET  3        W:Brian Wilson (6-1), L: Jose Valverde (2-3), S: Jeremy Affeldt (3)
Wed, Jun 18, 2008 DET  7 @SFG  2        W:Armando Galarraga (7-2), L: Barry Zito (2-11), S: none
Tue, Jun 17, 2008 DET  5 @SFG  1        W:Kenny Rogers (5-4), L: Jonathan Sanchez (6-4), S: none
Mon, Jun 16, 2008 SFG  8  DET  6        W:Keiichi Yabu (3-3), L: Freddy Dolsi (0-2), S: none
Sun, Jun 19, 2005 DET 10  SFG  8 (10)   W:Jamie Walker (3-3), L: Scott Eyre (1-1), S: none

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2012 - SFG over 3-0; 2011 - SFG won 2-1; 2010 -  0-0; All-Time - SFG leads 10-5

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

Batter vs. Pitcher Include Regular and Postseason Totals, All Others Just Regular Season

Giants Batters (4.43 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.14 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB
62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB
53.Benoit
G/S/vB
40.Coke*
G/S/vB
20.Dotel
G/S/vB
48.Porcello
G/S/vB
33.Smyly*
G/S/vB
46.Valverde
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Arias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 344/181 .270/.304/.389/.693 .768/.625 .841 51/.567 5/1 5/9
9.Belt* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 472/329 .275/.360/.421/.781 .768/.786 .662 80/.776 12/2 7/8
7.Blanco* G/S/vP 6/1.467 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 11/.473 1/2.000 3/.333 453/300 .244/.333/.344/.676 .694/.667 .657 56/.775 26/6 5/2
35.Crawford* G/S/vP 2/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 476/351 .248/.304/.349/.653 .631/.661 .677 58/.656 1/4 4/18
17.Huff* G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· 21/1.406 6/.000 5/2.467 8/.250 ··· 6/1.583 95/85 .192/.326/.282/.608 .422/.631 .572 17/.899 0/0 1/1
12.Nady G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 3/1.334 1/.000 ··· ··· 9/.347 166/83 .184/.253/.316/.569 .676/.464 .556 41/.637 1/0 4/1
16.Pagan# G/S/vP 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 2/2.500 1/no AB 2/1.500 659/435 .288/.338/.440/.778 .736/.799 .803 97/.845 29/7 8/5
8.Pence G/S/vP 6/.500 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 7/.310 ··· ··· ··· 688/507 .253/.319/.425/.743 .727/.749 .800 100/.682 5/2 24/7
28.Posey G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/2.000 610/429 .336/.408/.549/.957 1.262/.822 .986 95/1.131 1/1 24/10
29.Sanchez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 227/146 .280/.295/.390/.685 .727/.661 .677 43/.860 0/0 3/7
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 9/.958 1/5.000 1/3.000 ··· 4/.500 4/.750 1/no AB 4/2.000 442/305 .283/.342/.447/.789 .745/.809 .718 93/.818 1/1 12/13
19.Scutaro G/S/vP 10/.888 1/.000 17/.669 2/.000 4/2.000 6/.900 1/.000 6/1.167 683/472 .306/.348/.405/.753 .718/.768 .678 98/.971 9/4 7/13
5.Theriot G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 3/1.334 1/.000 5/.933 384/249 .270/.316/.321/.637 .663/.623 .673 20/.800 13/5 0/9
IP 187.2 13.1 71.0 54.0 58.0 176.1 99.1 69.0 TOTAL .269/.327/.397/.724 .737/.717 .742 .787 118/39 103/115
ERA-K/9 3.74/11.1 0.68/12.2 3.68/10.6 4.00/8.5 3.57/9.6 4.59/5.5 3.99/8.5 3.78/6.3 3.77/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Posey (87-38-2)
 Sanchez (40-12-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 787/.250 53/.133 288/.228 245/.324 234/.230 783/.310 416/.247 294/.229 .256  Pence
 Pagan
 Blanco
 Nady
 Belt
 Theriot
 Huff
0/0/159/11
0/151/0/7
53/30/54/3
40/0/15/2
4/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
5/0/0/0
OPS .721 .420 .720 .854 .617 .808 .732 .649 .716
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 436/.831 24/.345 153/.721 130/.685 89/.772 415/.883 127/.671 167/.754 .738
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 351/.588 29/.484 135/.720 115/1.050 145/.523 368/.725 289/.759 127/.515 .694
Home 343/.686 29/.276 167/.639 118/.804 115/.524 401/.803 193/.765 152/.668
Last 28d days 99/.582 49/.456 50/.913 24/.879 37/.874 90/.863 52/.516 49/.645
HR/SB/CS 23/15/9 0/1/1 14/1/1 5/5/2 3/10/3 16/18/5 12/8/6 3/12/1 151/131/45
Usage ········ ···X···· o··o···· o·o····· ··o····· ···o···· ··X····· ···X····
Tigers Batters (4.48 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (4.01 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Cain
G/S/vB
41.Affeldt*
G/S/vB
46.Casilla
G/S/vB
70.Kontos
G/S/vB
49.Lopez*
G/S/vB
50.Mijares*
G/S/vB
59.Mota
G/S/vB
54.Romo
G/S/vB
75.Zito*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 434/331 .243/.352/.384/.736 .539/.796 .772 58/.821 2/0 9/6
52.Berry* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 330/269 .258/.330/.354/.684 .594/.704 .689 51/.558 21/0 2/2
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 6/.834 ··· 4/.250 ··· 2/.000 9/.583 8/.250 ··· 13/.762 697/502 .330/.393/.606/.999 .913/1.027 1.094 108/1.043 4/1 44/13
12.Dirks* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 344/261 .322/.370/.487/.857 .751/.889 .906 89/.827 1/1 8/3
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 22/.753 12/1.250 2/.500 ··· 13/1.018 7/1.000 4/1.250 1/.000 22/.608 690/442 .313/.412/.528/.940 .808/1.017 1.015 106/.982 1/0 30/11
34.Garcia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 51/17 .319/.373/.319/.692 .745/.588 .962 42/.615 0/2 0/0
4.Infante G/S/vP 22/.697 11/1.091 7/.310 ··· 6/1.000 ··· 5/1.100 8/.375 23/.348 588/418 .274/.300/.419/.719 .872/.656 .696 91/.680 17/3 12/18
14.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.250 1/.000 1/.000 6/1.100 617/432 .300/.377/.479/.856 .856/.856 .851 106/.748 12/9 16/1
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 127/113 .186/.276/.248/.523 .298/.551 .545 8/.661 2/0 1/3
9.Laird G/S/vP ··· 7/.334 5/.650 ··· 4/.250 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 16/.583 191/82 .282/.337/.374/.710 .622/.828 .695 39/.702 0/0 2/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP 3/1.000 16/.625 9/.958 1/5.000 3/1.000 8/.708 3/1.666 1/.000 19/.638 585/410 .239/.305/.384/.689 .692/.688 .729 97/.489 1/2 13/7
39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· 10/.000 3/3.500 ··· ··· 5/1.400 4/.000 ··· 4/.000 259/194 .206/.283/.272/.555 .482/.580 .606 11/.200 1/0 2/6
29.Worth G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 90/44 .216/.330/.257/.586 .697/.472 .526 7/.762 0/0 0/1
21.Young G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/.600 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 6/1.167 608/419 .267/.296/.411/.707 .833/.649 .757 102/.514 0/2 18/2
IP 219.1 63.1 63.1 43.2 36.0 56.1 20.2 55.1 184.1 TOTAL .268/.335/.422/.757 .724/.771 .793 .722 59/23 163/99
ERA-K/9 2.79/7.9 2.70/8.1 2.84/7.8 2.47/9.1 2.50/7.0 2.56/9.1 5.23/10.4 1.79/10.3 4.15/5.6 3.68/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (79-34-10)
 Laird (42-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 876/.222 267/.241 272/.224 177/.209 153/.270 242/.238 91/.300 215/.185 799/.263 .248  Jackson
 Kelly
 Berry
 Young
 Dirks
 Garcia
0/137/0/5
18/8/35/3
64/22/5/2
31/0/0/1
59/1/24/1
2/2/18/1
OPS .635 .640 .656 .591 .700 .672 .911 .525 .758 .706
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 424/.711 119/.621 111/.727 61/.468 97/.543 137/.586 27/.986 62/.491 196/.559 .685
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 452/.563 148/.656 161/.608 116/.653 56/.979 105/.789 64/.879 153/.537 603/.823 .719
Road 454/.718 164/.689 131/.666 97/.511 101/.820 121/.687 54/1.079 114/.531 362/.796
Last 28d days 128/.554 42/.593 51/.626 23/.317 10/.400 24/.477 30/.922 41/.561 132/.723
HR/SB/CS 21/18/9 1/3/2 8/5/1 3/3/2 1/1/0 3/6/1 3/2/2 5/8/1 20/9/7 142/129/53
Usage ·····X·· ···o·Xo· ··o··Xo· ···X···· ·····X·· ···o···· ········ X·o··oo· ···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.