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Game Preview: BAL @ BOS, 7:10pm, Tuesday, August 27, 2013 @Fenway Park

Orioles, 70-59, 70-59 3rd, 5½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Wei-Yin Chen (27, LHP, 7-6, 3.19)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (7-6) 101.2 91 36 36 26 63 10 3.19
2012 (12-11) 192.2 186 97 86 57 154 29 4.02
Last 7 GS 3-3 47.1 43 19 19 11 32 7 3.61 55
2013-08-21 TBR W 7.0 6 2 2 3 3 2 98 57
2013-08-16 COL L 6.1 5 4 4 1 7 2 105 53
2013-08-10 @SFG L 6.0 5 3 3 1 2 0 72 51
2013-08-04 SEA L 7.0 5 3 3 3 5 1 110 57
2013-07-30 HOU W 7.1 7 3 3 1 9 0 119 60
2013-07-24 @KCR ND 7.1 7 3 3 0 3 2 107 55
2013-07-19 @TEX W 6.1 8 1 1 2 3 0 102 54
Last 5 v.BOS 2-1 24.1 26 9 8 6 15 1 2.96 53
2013-04-08 @BOS L 6.1 5 3 3 2 3 1 107 52
2012-08-14 BOS W 6.0 9 1 1 1 4 0 98 53
2012-06-06 @BOS W 7.0 7 1 1 0 4 0 100 63
2012-05-04 @BOS ND 5.0 5 4 3 3 4 0 100 44
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   38-29   Road:   32-30   ExtrInn: 6-5 
 vsRHP:  52-38   vsLHP:  18-21   1-Run:  14-23
 vsEast: 25-25   vsCntrl:13-13   vsWest: 21-12 IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
129 Sun, Aug 25   OAK  W  10-3       70-59  3rd  5.5 gb
128 Sat, Aug 24   OAK  L   1-2       69-59  3rd  5.5 gb
127 Fri, Aug 23   OAK  W   9-7       69-58  3rd  4.5 gb
126 Wed, Aug 21   TBR  W   4-2       68-58  3rd  5.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 20   TBR  L   4-7       67-58  3rd  5.5 gb
124 Mon, Aug 19   TBR  L   3-4       67-57  3rd  5.5 gb
123 Sun, Aug 18   COL  W   7-2       67-56  3rd  4.5 gb
122 Sat, Aug 17   COL  W   8-4       66-56  3rd  5.5 gb
121 Fri, Aug 16   COL  L   3-6       65-56  3rd  5.5 gb
120 Wed, Aug 14  @ARI  L   4-5 (14)  65-55  3rd  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16
RedSox, 77-55, 77-55 1st, 1½ up

SP: Felix Doubront (25, LHP, 9-6, 3.79)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (9-6) 140.0 138 65 59 58 122 11 3.79
2012 (11-10) 161.0 162 95 87 71 167 24 4.86
2011 (0-0) 10.1 12 7 7 8 6 1 6.10
Last 7 GS 3-3 41.0 41 18 16 15 29 3 3.51 52
2013-08-21 @SFG W 8.0 5 1 1 1 3 1 114 70
2013-08-16 NYY L 4.0 8 7 6 2 4 2 76 22
2013-08-10 @KCR ND 4.0 6 3 3 4 3 0 98 37
2013-08-04 ARI W 7.0 5 0 0 0 5 0 95 72
2013-07-29 TBR L 5.0 8 2 2 3 4 0 104 44
2013-07-24 TBR L 6.2 6 3 3 2 5 0 104 53
2013-07-19 NYY W 6.1 3 2 1 3 5 0 93 63
Last 5 v.BAL 0-2 24.2 22 11 9 6 35 4 3.28 59
2013-06-13 @BAL ND 4.2 7 4 3 1 5 1 103 40
2012-09-29 @BAL L 7.0 7 4 3 1 10 2 107 58
2012-09-23 BAL ND 7.0 4 1 1 2 11 0 112 74
2012-05-22 @BAL L 6.0 4 2 2 2 9 1 108 63
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-23   Road:   37-32   ExtrInn: 8-5 
 vsRHP:  52-36   vsLHP:  25-19   1-Run:  16-15
 vsEast: 30-24   vsCntrl:14-14   vsWest: 20-12 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Sun, Aug 25  @LAD  W   8-1       77-55  1st  1.0 up
131 Sat, Aug 24  @LAD  W   4-2       76-55  1st    Tied
130 Fri, Aug 23  @LAD  L   0-2       75-55  1st    Tied
129 Wed, Aug 21  @SFG  W  12-1       75-54  1st  1.0 up
128 Tue, Aug 20  @SFG  L   2-3       74-54  1st    Tied
127 Mon, Aug 19  @SFG  W   7-0       74-53  1st  1.0 up
126 Sun, Aug 18   NYY  L   6-9       73-53  1st  1.0 up
125 Sat, Aug 17   NYY  W   6-1       73-52  1st  2.0 up
124 Fri, Aug 16   NYY  L   3-10      72-52  1st  1.0 up
123 Thu, Aug 15  @TOR  L   1-2       72-51  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 28, 2013 BOS  5 @BAL  0        W:Jon Lester (10-6), L: Jason Hammel (7-8), S: none
Sat, Jul 27, 2013 BOS  7 @BAL  3        W:Ryan Dempster (6-8), L: Scott Feldman (9-8), S: none
Fri, Jul 26, 2013 BAL  6  BOS  0        W:Chris Tillman (13-3), L: John Lackey (7-8), S: none
Sun, Jun 16, 2013 BAL  6  BOS  3        W:Miguel Gonzalez (5-2), L: Jon Lester (6-4), S: Jim Johnson (25)
Sat, Jun 15, 2013 BOS  5 @BAL  4        W:John Lackey (4-5), L: Freddy Garcia (3-4), S: Andrew Bailey (8)
Fri, Jun 14, 2013 BAL  2  BOS  0        W:Chris Tillman (7-2), L: Ryan Dempster (4-7), S: Jim Johnson (24)
Thu, Jun 13, 2013 BAL  5  BOS  4 (13)   W:T.J. McFarland (1-0), L: Alex Wilson (1-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 11, 2013 BAL  3 @BOS  2        W:Brian Matusz (1-0), L: Clayton Mortensen (0-1), S: Jim Johnson (4)
Wed, Apr 10, 2013 BAL  8 @BOS  5        W:Darren O'Day (1-0), L: Joel Hanrahan (0-1), S: Jim Johnson (3)
Mon, Apr 08, 2013 BOS  3  BAL  1        W:Clay Buchholz (2-0), L: Wei-Yin Chen (0-1), S: Joel Hanrahan (3)
Season Series: 2013 - BAL over 6-4; 2012 - BAL won 13-5; 2011 - BOS won 10-8; All-Time - BOS leads 1160-955

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 2013 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

DET  5.10

KCR  4.03

MIA  3.22

 RA/G

ATL  3.44

CLE  4.26

HOU  5.31

 BA

M. Cabrera  .359

J. Jay  .271

D. Uggla  .186

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .450

C. Gomez  .335

J. Arencibia  .248

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .688

S. Victorino  .424

A. Escobar  .300

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.137

C. Carter  .764

A. Escobar  .561

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.72

C. Tillman  3.66

E. Volquez  6.01

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  12.05

J. Shields  7.18

B. Colon  4.84

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Orioles Batters (4.81 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.08 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Doubront*
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 66.Britton*
G/S/vB		 41.Lackey
G/S/vB		 56.Morales*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 38.Thornton*
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 67.Workman
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Casilla# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 11/.182 2/.500 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 111/46 .228/.266/.317/.583 .566/.608 .612 14/.286 7/2 1/0
19.Davis* G/S/vP 14/1.404 6/.167 1/.000 25/1.049 3/1.334 3/.333 5/1.000 6/1.500 ··· 538/358 .304/.387/.679/1.065 .825/1.192 1.050 98/1.083 1/1 46/4
3.Flaherty* G/S/vP 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 240/219 .218/.280/.364/.644 .411/.666 .654 41/.777 2/0 8/2
2.Hardy G/S/vP 13/.154 7/.143 ··· 15/.500 1/2.000 6/.334 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 511/364 .258/.301/.445/.747 .751/.745 .791 79/.894 1/1 23/9
10.Jones G/S/vP 15/.343 6/.666 1/.000 37/.756 3/.000 5/1.000 2/1.000 2/1.500 ··· 556/394 .299/.326/.511/.837 .725/.881 .828 95/.897 12/2 27/2
13.Machado G/S/vP 9/1.431 2/.000 ··· 7/1.714 1/2.000 2/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 586/406 .296/.325/.446/.772 .762/.776 .766 102/.742 6/5 11/10
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 7/1.142 12/.583 1/.000 54/.884 4/.250 2/1.500 14/1.250 2/.000 ··· 567/371 .277/.333/.368/.702 .610/.752 .681 101/.588 0/2 9/0
9.McLouth* G/S/vP 10/.333 5/.400 ··· 7/.857 6/.500 2/.000 3/.000 3/1.000 ··· 489/384 .272/.342/.412/.754 .653/.781 .792 89/.675 29/6 9/0
28.Pearce G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/45 .245/.328/.368/.696 .712/.667 .657 29/.699 1/0 3/0
1.Roberts# G/S/vP ··· 8/.542 ··· 39/.598 ··· ··· 13/.231 1/.000 ··· 173/108 .257/.320/.375/.695 .605/.752 .759 73/.733 2/0 3/1
31.Teagarden G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 9/.444 ··· 3/2.334 ··· 2/.500 ··· 58/37 .175/.190/.316/.505 .714/.385 .647 16/.750 0/1 2/1
35.Valencia G/S/vP 5/1.900 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 1/.000 4/.250 2/1.000 ··· 83/28 .244/.289/.526/.815 .866/.714 .661 9/1.917 0/1 5/
32.Wieters# G/S/vP 14/.220 5/.200 ··· 24/.416 2/2.000 4/.500 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 467/330 .233/.290/.423/.713 .860/.650 .743 79/.658 2/0 19/3
IP 140.0 45.2 14.1 147.2 15.1 59.0 36.1 58.0 31.0 TOTAL .265/.317/.441/.758 .707/.781 .762 .762 67/23 175/39
ERA-K/9 3.79/7.8 2.17/4.7 3.77/8.8 3.17/7.9 6.46/7.6 2.75/9.6 3.47/6.7 1.24/12.3 4.65/9.9 3.79/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Teagarden (11-5-1)
 Wieters (35-22-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 604/.259 187/.253 59/.321 608/.250 74/.283 242/.262 154/.270 212/.144 130/.277 .252  Markakis
 Jones
 McLouth
 Pearce
0/0/123/7
0/125/0/6
109/1/0/3
13/0/2/0
OPS .718 .687 .790 .699 .852 .728 .725 .449 .757 .721
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 163/.655 79/.834 33/.792 348/.628 25/.598 114/.726 74/.646 113/.346 78/.720 .688
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 441/.742 108/.577 26/.786 260/.793 49/.987 128/.729 80/.796 99/.565 52/.812 .749
Home 311/.667 95/.818 38/.785 246/.647 23/.890 110/.729 92/.742 104/.521 55/.615
Last 28d days 97/.739 34/.609 41/1.007 138/.638 16/.688 54/.676 13/.769 35/.232 48/.918
HR/SB/CS 11/14/3 2/0/2 1/3/1 19/33/6 2/0/1 8/2/2 4/4/1 5/1/1 4/6/2 136/110/32
Usage ·····X·· ··o···o· ········ ···X···· ······X· ··o···X· ········ ··o··o·· ·······o
RedSox Batters (5.01 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (4.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 16.Chen*
G/S/vB		 29.Hunter
G/S/vB		 43.Johnson
G/S/vB		 17.Matusz*
G/S/vB		 66.McFarland*
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 40.Patton*
G/S/vB		 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
72.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/6 .333/.333/.444/.778 1.000/.667 9/.778 0/0 0/0
37.Carp* G/S/vP ··· 7/.762 3/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 4/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 195/171 .303/.359/.549/.908 .726/.934 .969 32/.452 1/0 8/2
7.Drew* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 5/.000 5/.000 2/2.500 1/5.000 2/.000 395/262 .247/.327/.428/.755 .620/.825 .810 100/.863 4/0 10/6
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 7/.572 15/.733 16/.421 5/.400 3/.000 8/1.000 6/.334 5/.000 581/364 .293/.351/.416/.767 .638/.842 .774 118/.681 47/4 7/3
5.Gomes G/S/vP 8/1.042 1/.000 3/.333 2/2.500 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 5/.000 292/136 .234/.342/.426/.769 .751/.789 .747 61/.888 1/0 11/1
16.Middlebrooks G/S/vP 9/.777 6/1.500 2/.000 5/.650 ··· 5/.000 2/.000 ··· 270/183 .222/.271/.419/.691 .797/.640 .664 54/1.000 0/1 11/8
12.Napoli G/S/vP 3/1.000 8/1.125 3/.000 5/.400 1/3.000 6/.334 1/.000 ··· 481/335 .251/.341/.448/.789 .779/.793 .785 74/.682 1/1 16/6
29.Nava# G/S/vP 3/3.500 8/1.792 8/.393 11/.598 ··· 3/1.000 3/.666 ··· 430/319 .292/.380/.432/.812 .660/.865 .841 50/.949 0/2 10/3
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 6/.000 23/1.043 13/.847 17/.177 2/1.000 5/.000 9/.555 6/1.334 469/301 .318/.399/.572/.971 .722/1.118 .933 93/.802 4/0 24/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 12/1.200 22/.623 16/.905 12/.432 2/.000 18/.708 5/1.300 4/.833 593/409 .299/.374/.415/.789 .921/.731 .881 114/.809 16/5 8/4
3.Ross G/S/vP 5/.400 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 83/38 .178/.259/.384/.643 .692/.587 .646 8/.375 1/0 4/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 3/.666 10/.856 11/.455 8/.393 3/.666 1/3.000 6/.000 1/2.000 399/280 .270/.341/.457/.798 .645/.860 .859 78/.872 0/1 11/6
18.Victorino# G/S/vP 3/.666 8/.250 3/1.000 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 8/.500 427/227 .287/.338/.424/.762 .797/.713 .794 115/.859 17/3 9/3
IP 101.2 69.1 56.1 43.2 62.0 56.0 51.2 36.1 TOTAL .273/.345/.437/.782 .728/.810 .814 .775 99/19 135/72
ERA-K/9 3.19/5.6 2.60/6.2 3.51/6.9 3.30/7.8 4.79/7.3 2.41/8.8 3.31/6.1 1.98/10.9 4.25/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ross (15-8-1)
 Saltalamacchia (76-18-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 405/.244 266/.209 239/.276 178/.226 275/.278 225/.221 215/.268 145/.215 .261  Victorino
 Gomes
 Nava
 Ellsbury
 Carp
0/4/95/9
76/0/4/5
53/1/51/4
0/122/0/3
33/0/2/0
OPS .679 .564 .737 .608 .757 .650 .730 .689 .752
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 103/.575 133/.808 130/.755 100/.489 108/.794 87/.961 95/.745 83/.471 .779
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 302/.714 133/.316 109/.715 78/.761 167/.731 138/.461 120/.717 62/.993 .726
Road 219/.698 125/.692 104/.794 78/.663 105/.670 118/.557 106/.824 72/.721
Last 28d days 103/.752 50/.449 40/1.008 23/.741 44/.972 40/.775 37/.653 40/.956
HR/SB/CS 10/4/3 7/2/4 5/0/1 3/1/1 7/5/1 7/5/3 6/0/0 7/1/1 164/49/29
Usage ·····X·· ···X·o·o ···o··X· ·····o·o ·X····X· ·oX··X·· ···X···o ···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.