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Game Preview: BAL @ BOS, 7:10pm, Wednesday, August 28, 2013 @Fenway Park

Orioles, 70-60, 70-60 3rd, 6½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Bud Norris (28, RHP, 9-10, 4.22)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (9-10) 153.2 169 79 72 57 118 15 4.22
2012 (7-13) 168.1 165 90 87 66 165 23 4.65
2011 (6-11) 186.0 177 93 78 70 176 24 3.77
Last 7 GS 3-1 39.1 43 25 25 19 36 7 5.72 45
2013-08-23 OAK ND 4.2 9 7 7 3 7 2 109 22
2013-08-17 COL W 5.2 9 4 4 3 5 0 95 37
2013-08-11 @SFG ND 5.0 6 2 2 2 2 0 98 47
2013-08-06 @SDP W 6.0 5 1 1 2 5 0 95 61
2013-08-01 HOU W 6.0 4 2 2 2 8 2 104 62
2013-07-24 OAK ND 6.1 4 3 3 3 7 1 119 57
2013-07-19 SEA L 5.2 6 6 6 4 2 2 120 31
Last 5 v.BOS 0-1 12.0 13 9 7 6 16 1 5.25 48
2013-04-28 @BOS L 6.0 9 5 3 2 6 0 108 42
2011-07-01 BOS ND 6.0 4 4 4 4 10 1 106 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   38-29   Road:   32-31   ExtrInn: 6-5 
 vsRHP:  52-38   vsLHP:  18-22   1-Run:  14-23
 vsEast: 25-26   vsCntrl:13-13   vsWest: 21-12 IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
130 Tue, Aug 27  @BOS  L   2-13      70-60  3rd  6.5 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
RedSox, 78-55, 78-55 1st, 2½ up

SP: John Lackey (34, RHP, 8-11, 3.17)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (8-11) 147.2 142 58 52 32 130 19 3.17
2011 (12-12) 160.0 203 119 114 56 108 20 6.41
2010 (14-11) 215.0 233 114 105 72 156 18 4.40
Last 7 GS 1-5 47.1 51 21 21 9 37 5 3.99 53
2013-08-23 @LAD L 8.0 3 2 2 0 6 1 97 74
2013-08-17 NYY W 6.2 6 1 1 3 1 0 103 56
2013-08-11 @KCR L 7.0 7 4 4 2 5 1 111 50
2013-08-05 @HOU L 6.0 8 2 2 2 10 0 113 56
2013-07-31 SEA ND 7.0 8 3 3 1 6 0 95 54
2013-07-26 @BAL L 6.1 9 5 5 1 2 3 105 36
2013-07-20 NYY L 6.1 10 4 4 0 7 0 97 44
Last 5 v.BAL 3-1 31.1 35 16 16 5 20 3 4.60 49
2013-07-26 @BAL L 6.1 9 5 5 1 2 3 105 36
2013-06-15 @BAL W 7.0 7 2 2 1 4 0 101 58
2011-09-19 BAL ND 4.1 11 8 8 2 3 0 105 10
2011-07-09 BAL W 6.2 3 0 0 1 7 0 106 74
2010-09-22 BAL W 7.0 5 1 1 0 4 0 111 67
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   41-23   Road:   37-32   ExtrInn: 8-5 
 vsRHP:  52-36   vsLHP:  26-19   1-Run:  16-15
 vsEast: 31-24   vsCntrl:14-14   vsWest: 20-12 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
133 Tue, Aug 27   BAL  W  13-2       78-55  1st  2.5 up
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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Aug 27, 2013 BOS 13  BAL  2        W:Felix Doubront (10-6), L: Wei-Yin Chen (7-7), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2013 - BAL over 6-5; 2012 - BAL won 13-5; 2011 - BOS won 10-8; All-Time - BOS leads 1161-955

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  5.08

LAD  4.03

MIA  3.20

 RA/G

ATL  3.41

CLE  4.24

HOU  5.30

 BA

M. Cabrera  .357

R. Zimmerman  .271

D. Uggla  .186

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .449

C. Gomez  .336

J. Arencibia  .246

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .685

J. Loney  .427

A. Escobar  .300

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.134

A. Ethier  .765

A. Escobar  .563

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.72

W. Miley  3.60

E. Volquez  6.01

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  12.05

E. Volquez  7.34

B. Colon  4.84

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

Orioles Batters (4.78 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Lackey
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 66.Britton*
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
24.Betemit# G/S/vP 8/.375 2/1.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 3/.666 ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ .000 1/.000 0/0 0/0
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 11/.182 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 112/46 .225/.264/.314/.577 .557/.608 .600 13/.308 7/2 1/0
19.Davis* G/S/vP 25/1.049 6/.167 1/.000 3/1.334 3/.333 5/1.000 6/1.500 ··· 541/358 .302/.384/.675/1.059 .810/1.192 1.037 97/1.073 1/1 46/4
2.Hardy G/S/vP 15/.500 7/.143 ··· 1/2.000 6/.334 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 514/364 .261/.303/.447/.750 .763/.745 .798 80/.935 1/1 23/9
10.Jones G/S/vP 37/.756 6/.666 1/.000 3/.000 5/1.000 2/1.000 2/1.500 ··· 559/394 .297/.324/.508/.832 .711/.881 .819 95/.897 12/2 27/2
13.Machado G/S/vP 7/1.714 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 2/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 590/406 .294/.323/.444/.767 .747/.776 .757 103/.738 6/5 11/10
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 54/.884 12/.583 2/.000 4/.250 2/1.500 14/1.250 2/.000 ··· 571/371 .275/.331/.366/.697 .598/.752 .671 101/.546 0/2 9/0
9.McLouth* G/S/vP 7/.857 5/.400 ··· 6/.500 2/.000 3/.000 3/1.000 ··· 489/384 .272/.342/.412/.754 .653/.781 .792 85/.684 29/6 9/0
28.Pearce G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 122/45 .241/.328/.361/.689 .701/.667 .645 29/.595 1/0 3/0
1.Roberts# G/S/vP 39/.598 8/.542 1/.000 ··· ··· 13/.231 1/.000 ··· 177/108 .252/.318/.368/.686 .588/.752 .739 74/.742 2/0 3/1
31.Teagarden G/S/vP 9/.444 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/2.334 ··· 2/.500 ··· 59/37 .172/.186/.310/.497 .682/.385 .626 16/.563 0/1 2/1
35.Valencia G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 4/.250 2/1.000 ··· 86/28 .259/.302/.531/.833 .890/.714 .705 12/1.758 0/1 5/0
32.Wieters# G/S/vP 24/.416 5/.200 ··· 2/2.000 4/.500 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 470/330 .231/.288/.420/.708 .841/.650 .733 79/.658 2/0 19/3
IP 147.2 45.2 16.1 15.1 59.0 36.2 58.0 31.0 TOTAL .264/.316/.439/.755 .699/.781 .756 .758 67/23 175/39
ERA-K/9 3.17/7.9 2.17/4.7 3.31/8.3 6.46/7.6 2.75/9.6 3.44/6.6 1.24/12.3 4.65/9.9 3.77/8.2

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 608/.250 187/.253 65/.288 74/.283 242/.262 155/.268 212/.144 130/.277 .251  Jones
 Markakis
 McLouth
 Pearce
0/126/0/7
0/0/124/7
109/2/0/3
14/0/2/0
OPS .699 .687 .713 .852 .728 .720 .449 .757 .719
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 348/.628 79/.834 34/.767 25/.598 114/.726 74/.646 113/.346 78/.720 .686
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 260/.793 108/.577 31/.657 49/.987 128/.729 81/.786 99/.565 52/.812 .746
Home 246/.647 95/.818 44/.675 23/.890 110/.729 93/.733 104/.521 55/.615
Last 28d days 110/.630 25/.606 39/.899 16/.688 49/.598 9/.667 29/.281 48/.918
HR/SB/CS 19/33/6 2/0/2 1/3/1 2/0/1 8/2/2 4/4/1 5/1/1 4/6/2 136/110/32
Usage ····X··· ···o···o o······· ·······X ···o···X o······· ···o··o· ········
RedSox Batters (5.07 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (4.48 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 25.Norris
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 3/2.500 7/.762 3/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 4/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 195/171 .303/.359/.549/.908 .726/.934 .969 29/.501 1/0 8/2
7.Drew* G/S/vP 15/1.433 1/.000 2/1.000 6/.000 5/.000 2/2.500 2/5.000 2/.000 399/262 .246/.328/.426/.754 .621/.825 .807 97/.863 4/0 10/6
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 4/.000 15/.733 16/.421 6/.833 3/.000 8/1.000 7/.572 5/.000 586/364 .296/.353/.420/.773 .657/.842 .786 116/.733 47/4 7/3
5.Gomes G/S/vP 6/.533 1/.000 3/.333 2/2.500 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 6/.000 297/138 .233/.340/.426/.766 .735/.801 .741 64/.846 1/0 11/1
16.Middlebrooks G/S/vP 3/.666 6/1.500 2/.000 6/.900 ··· 5/.000 3/.000 ··· 274/183 .226/.275/.421/.695 .806/.640 .677 58/.999 0/1 11/8
12.Napoli G/S/vP 3/.666 8/1.125 3/.000 5/.400 1/3.000 6/.334 2/.000 1/.000 486/337 .251/.340/.452/.791 .799/.788 .791 72/.743 1/1 17/6
29.Nava# G/S/vP 3/1.000 8/1.792 8/.393 11/.598 ··· 3/1.000 3/.666 ··· 430/319 .292/.380/.432/.812 .660/.865 .841 48/.993 0/2 10/3
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 3/.666 23/1.043 13/.847 17/.177 2/1.000 5/.000 10/.500 7/1.071 474/302 .316/.397/.568/.965 .716/1.114 .921 91/.820 4/0 24/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 6/1.334 22/.623 16/.905 13/.398 2/.000 18/.708 6/1.000 4/.833 598/409 .302/.376/.420/.796 .941/.731 .895 112/.820 16/5 8/4
3.Ross G/S/vP 3/2.334 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 84/38 .176/.256/.378/.634 .675/.587 .630 9/.333 1/0 4/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 6/.666 10/.856 11/.455 8/.393 3/.666 1/3.000 7/.000 1/2.000 402/280 .271/.341/.456/.797 .646/.860 .856 74/.894 0/1 11/6
18.Victorino# G/S/vP 8/1.225 8/.250 3/1.000 1/3.000 3/.666 2/.000 3/1.666 8/.500 432/227 .292/.346/.446/.792 .878/.713 .859 113/.960 17/3 11/3
IP 153.2 69.1 56.1 44.2 62.0 56.0 53.2 37.1 TOTAL .274/.346/.439/.785 .740/.809 .821 .801 99/19 138/72
ERA-K/9 4.22/6.9 2.60/6.2 3.51/6.9 3.63/7.9 4.79/7.3 2.41/8.8 3.69/6.4 1.93/11.1 4.32/6.9

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 668/.283 266/.209 239/.276 184/.236 275/.278 225/.221 224/.267 148/.211 .262  Victorino
 Gomes
 Nava
 Ellsbury
 Carp
0/4/96/9
77/0/4/5
53/1/51/4
0/123/0/3
33/0/2/0
OPS .779 .564 .737 .634 .757 .650 .739 .674 .756
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 379/.891 133/.808 130/.755 102/.510 108/.794 87/.961 98/.758 84/.465 .780
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 289/.637 133/.316 109/.715 82/.788 167/.731 138/.461 126/.724 64/.959 .733
Road 243/.835 125/.692 104/.794 84/.716 105/.670 118/.557 115/.835 75/.689
Last 28d days 127/.892 50/.449 40/1.008 25/.940 33/1.071 40/.775 42/.733 39/.845
HR/SB/CS 15/13/5 7/2/4 5/0/1 3/1/1 7/5/1 7/5/3 7/0/0 7/1/1 167/49/29
Usage ····X··· ····X·o· ····o··X X·····o· ··X····X ··oX··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.