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Game Preview: DET @ BOS, 8:00pm, Sunday, October 13, 2013 @Fenway Park

Tigers, 93-69, 4-2 in postseason

SP: Max Scherzer (28, RHP, 21-3, 2.90)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 RegS (21-3) 214.1 152 73 69 56 240 18 2.90
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
Last 7 GS 3-2 43.0 35 19 17 16 55 5 3.56 58
2013-10-04 @OAK W 7.0 3 2 2 2 11 1 118 72
2013-09-25 @MIN W 7.0 2 0 0 6 10 0 123 77
2013-09-20 CHW W 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 1 90 50
2013-09-15 KCR ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 12 1 116 74
2013-09-09 @CHW L 4.0 6 5 4 2 6 0 90 36
2013-09-03 @BOS L 7.0 5 2 2 3 8 0 111 64
2013-08-29 OAK ND 5.0 8 6 5 1 5 2 101 33
Last 5 v.BOS 2-2 29.0 33 19 19 9 32 3 5.90 48
2013-09-03 @BOS L 7.0 5 2 2 3 8 0 111 64
2013-06-22 BOS W 7.0 6 2 2 0 6 1 105 63
2012-07-30 @BOS L 6.1 7 5 5 2 9 1 101 46
2012-05-31 @BOS W 6.0 7 3 3 2 6 1 117 50
2012-04-08 BOS ND 2.2 8 7 7 2 3 0 80 15
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   52-31   Road:   45-40   ExtrInn: 6-13
 vsRHP:  69-48   vsLHP:  28-23   1-Run:  22-27
 vsEast: 18-15   vsCntrl:47-29   vsWest: 20-19 IL:12-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  6 Sat, Oct 12  @BOS  W   1-0         -               
  5 Thu, Oct 10  @OAK  W   3-0         -               
  4 Tue, Oct  8   OAK  W   8-6         -               
  3 Mon, Oct  7   OAK  L   3-6         -               
  2 Sat, Oct  5  @OAK  L   0-1         -               
  1 Fri, Oct  4  @OAK  W   3-2         -               
162 Sun, Sep 29  @MIA  L   0-1       93-69  1st  1.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28  @MIA  L   1-2 (10)  93-68  1st  2.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27  @MIA  L   2-3       93-67  1st  3.0 up
159 Wed, Sep 25  @MIN  W   1-0       93-66  1st  4.5 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
RedSox, 97-65, 3-2 in postseason

SP: Clay Buchholz (28, RHP, 12-1, 1.74)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 RegS (12-1) 108.1 75 23 21 36 96 4 1.74
2012 RegS (11-8) 189.1 187 104 96 64 129 25 4.56
2011 RegS (6-3) 82.2 76 34 32 31 60 10 3.48
Last 7 GS 5-1 41.2 33 12 10 12 28 3 2.16 58
2013-10-07 @TBR ND 6.0 7 3 3 3 5 1 104 48
2013-09-27 @BAL W 7.0 7 3 3 0 4 2 113 55
2013-09-21 TOR L 6.0 6 3 2 2 2 0 106 50
2013-09-15 NYY W 6.0 2 1 0 4 3 0 91 65
2013-09-10 @TBR W 5.0 3 0 0 1 6 0 74 66
2013-06-08 LAA W 6.2 6 2 2 1 4 0 104 57
2013-06-02 @NYY W 5.0 2 0 0 1 4 0 71 66
Last 5 v.DET 1-0 33.0 25 15 13 10 21 3 3.55 56
2012-07-30 DET W 8.0 5 3 2 2 4 1 108 64
2012-04-08 @DET ND 4.0 8 7 7 2 2 0 78 18
2011-05-29 @DET ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 2 98 50
2011-05-18 DET ND 7.0 4 0 0 1 7 0 127 75
2010-08-01 DET ND 8.0 2 2 1 4 5 0 109 73
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   55-29   Road:   45-38   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  66-45   vsLHP:  34-22   1-Run:  21-23
 vsEast: 47-33   vsCntrl:19-16   vsWest: 20-12 IL:14-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  5 Sat, Oct 12   DET  L   0-1         -               
  4 Tue, Oct  8  @TBR  W   3-1         -               
  3 Mon, Oct  7  @TBR  L   4-5         -               
  2 Sat, Oct  5   TBR  W   7-4         -               
  1 Fri, Oct  4   TBR  W  12-2         -               
162 Sun, Sep 29  @BAL  L   6-7       97-65  1st  6.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28  @BAL  L   5-6       97-64  1st  7.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27  @BAL  W  12-3       97-63  1st  7.0 up
159 Wed, Sep 25  @COL  W  15-5       96-63  1st  6.5 up
158 Tue, Sep 24  @COL  L   3-8       95-63  1st  6.5 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Oct 12, 2013 DET  1 @BOS  0        W:Anibal Sanchez , L: Jon Lester , S: Joaquin Benoit 
Wed, Sep 04, 2013 BOS 20  DET  4        W:Ryan Dempster (8-9), L: Rick Porcello (11-8), S: none
Tue, Sep 03, 2013 BOS  2  DET  1        W:Jon Lester (13-8), L: Max Scherzer (19-2), S: Koji Uehara (17)
Mon, Sep 02, 2013 DET  3 @BOS  0        W:Doug Fister (12-7), L: John Lackey (8-12), S: Jose Veras (21)
Sun, Jun 23, 2013 DET  7  BOS  5        W:Joaquin Benoit (2-0), L: Andrew Miller (0-2), S: none
Sat, Jun 22, 2013 DET 10  BOS  3        W:Max Scherzer (11-0), L: Allen Webster (0-2), S: none
Fri, Jun 21, 2013 BOS 10 @DET  6        W:Jon Lester (7-4), L: Doug Fister (6-5), S: none
Thu, Jun 20, 2013 DET  4  BOS  3        W:Drew Smyly (3-0), L: Andrew Bailey (3-1), S: none

Wed, Aug 01, 2012 DET  7 @BOS  5        W:Rick Porcello (8-6), L: Aaron Cook (2-5), S: Jose Valverde (21)
Tue, Jul 31, 2012 BOS  4  DET  1  (6)   W:Clayton Mortensen (1-0), L: Justin Verlander (11-7), S: Franklin Morales (1)

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2013 - DET over 5-3; 2012 - Tied 5-5; 2011 - BOS won 5-1; All-Time - BOS leads 1026-958

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

BOS  5.27

NYY  4.01

MIA  3.17

 RA/G

ATL  3.38

NYM  4.22

HOU  5.23

 BA

M. Cabrera  .348

A. Pierzynski  .272

D. Uggla  .179

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .442

C. Crisp  .335

A. Escobar  .259

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .636

J. Loney  .430

A. Hechavarria  .298

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.078

P. Sandoval  .758

A. Escobar  .559

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.83

J. De La Rosa  3.49

E. Volquez  5.71

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.89

Z. Greinke  7.50

J. Guthrie  4.72

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

Tigers Batters (4.91 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.05 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Buchholz
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 46.Dempster
G/S/vB		 22.Doubront*
G/S/vB		 56.Morales*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 67.Workman
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 11/1.170 4/.000 3/.333 ··· 2/1.000 2/.500 3/.000 ··· 379/291 .227/.317/.376/.693 .455/.767 .601 71/.956 0/0 11/6
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 25/.653 7/.453 5/.650 6/.500 3/.666 4/.833 5/2.600 1/.000 652/488 .348/.442/.636/1.078 1.210/1.035 1.074 82/.768 3/0 44/12
12.Dirks* G/S/vP 5/1.400 1/no AB 3/.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· 484/398 .256/.323/.363/.686 .631/.698 .637 64/.635 7/1 9/2
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 7/.453 5/.650 58/1.041 6/.000 8/.575 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 712/451 .279/.362/.457/.819 .819/.819 .797 94/.957 1/1 25/6
48.Hunter G/S/vP 28/.536 10/1.611 14/1.288 4/.833 4/1.000 4/.500 14/.929 1/.000 652/464 .304/.334/.465/.800 .829/.788 .738 83/.756 3/2 17/3
1.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 382/247 .303/.349/.386/.735 .769/.716 .732 43/.502 5/2 3/6
4.Infante G/S/vP 9/.833 2/.500 16/.875 8/.929 2/2.500 3/.000 ··· ··· 476/322 .318/.345/.450/.795 .831/.778 .735 83/.775 5/2 10/10
14.Jackson G/S/vP 21/.859 3/2.333 3/.666 3/3.000 2/.000 2/.000 7/.857 1/.000 614/429 .272/.337/.417/.754 .681/.784 .777 106/.682 8/4 12/2
32.Kelly* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/.666 ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/2.500 ··· 251/194 .222/.309/.343/.652 .574/.674 .588 35/.442 2/0 6/2
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 6/.000 10/.500 7/.715 3/.000 3/1.667 ··· 3/.000 ··· 668/424 .301/.355/.430/.785 .735/.813 .750 86/.903 0/2 14/0
55.Pena# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/.583 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 243/133 .297/.315/.397/.713 .608/.801 .760 17/.294 0/2 4/3
27.Peralta G/S/vP 19/.728 9/.333 1/no AB 4/.250 5/.933 2/.500 5/.600 ··· 448/312 .303/.358/.457/.815 .964/.750 .705 12/.583 3/3 11/4
26.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 71/35 .197/.217/.227/.445 .501/.388 .461 10/.200 1/0 0/2
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 5/.200 9/.347 5/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 4/.500 1/2.000 234/174 .224/.298/.288/.586 .591/.584 .560 54/.536 0/1 1/2
IP 108.1 59.2 171.1 162.1 25.1 68.1 74.1 41.2 TOTAL .283/.346/.434/.780 .764/.788 .742 .718 35/20 176/76
ERA-K/9 1.74/8.0 1.81/5.0 4.57/8.2 4.32/7.7 4.62/7.5 3.16/9.5 1.09/12.2 4.97/10.1 3.79/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (73-15-9)
 Martinez (1-0-0)
 Pena (42-13-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 416/.199 237/.228 754/.256 705/.261 112/.255 284/.265 265/.130 180/.272 .248  Hunter
 Dirks
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Peralta
0/0/143/9
116/4/15/7
0/129/0/5
38/25/22/0
3/0/0/0
OPS .546 .635 .774 .729 .737 .741 .400 .751 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 232/.536 102/.704 412/.704 192/.648 42/.446 129/.790 136/.340 101/.720 .678
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 184/.560 135/.581 342/.856 513/.760 70/.925 155/.700 129/.462 79/.791 .736
Home 248/.564 119/.764 496/.756 381/.652 49/.705 129/.742 137/.454 81/.617
Last 28d days 91/.587 38/.388 85/.730 57/.937 32/.563 34/.853 40/.279 34/.805
HR/SB/CS 4/6/6 3/1/3 26/16/1 13/15/5 2/1/1 9/3/2 5/1/1 5/10/2 156/133/43
Usage ·····X·· X···Xo·X ········ ········ ·····o·· o···oo·o X···Xo·o ·····o··
RedSox Batters (5.27 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (3.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 52.Alvarez*
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 21.Porcello
G/S/vB		 33.Smyly*
G/S/vB		 31.Veras
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Berry* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/7 .625/.667/1.000/1.667 2.000/1.571 2.000 9/1.667 3/0 1/0
72.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/32 .250/.320/.364/.684 1.089/.463 .606 30/.700 1/0 1/0
37.Carp* G/S/vP 9/.583 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 243/215 .296/.362/.523/.885 .745/.904 .854 40/.816 1/0 9/2
7.Drew* G/S/vP 12/.614 3/.333 ··· 5/.400 7/1.371 6/1.500 1/.000 3/.666 501/334 .253/.333/.443/.777 .585/.876 .859 79/.868 6/0 13/8
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 12/1.667 4/.250 3/1.167 3/.000 11/.182 11/2.127 3/.666 3/1.000 636/399 .298/.355/.426/.781 .641/.863 .790 23/.984 52/4 9/3
5.Gomes G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· 2/.000 8/.536 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 7/.286 366/176 .247/.344/.426/.771 .795/.745 .725 50/.889 1/0 13/1
16.Middlebrooks G/S/vP 6/.334 1/5.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/5.000 5/.400 4/1.250 ··· 374/255 .227/.271/.425/.696 .782/.656 .634 83/.753 3/1 17/10
12.Napoli G/S/vP 14/.220 1/.000 2/1.000 8/1.042 8/.542 17/.916 7/.000 5/1.400 578/400 .259/.360/.482/.842 .899/.816 .817 74/1.241 1/1 23/6
29.Nava# G/S/vP 10/.311 1/5.000 ··· 4/.500 2/.000 3/1.167 3/1.000 1/3.000 536/397 .303/.385/.445/.831 .647/.894 .853 86/.852 0/2 12/4
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 18/1.689 3/2.500 3/1.666 26/.658 20/.317 7/1.000 5/1.800 3/.333 600/384 .309/.395/.564/.959 .733/1.092 .931 97/1.036 4/0 30/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 17/.823 4/.000 3/.000 11/1.101 9/1.127 12/.550 2/1.000 6/.333 724/504 .301/.372/.415/.787 .937/.722 .867 96/.755 17/5 9/5
3.Ross G/S/vP 5/.900 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 116/55 .216/.298/.382/.681 .804/.544 .683 25/.708 1/0 4/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 12/1.084 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 4/.833 4/.000 ··· 5/.600 470/334 .273/.338/.466/.804 .628/.873 .836 48/1.042 4/1 14/6
18.Victorino# G/S/vP 10/.500 3/.333 3/.333 1/2.000 1/no AB 3/1.167 2/1.500 6/1.300 532/229 .294/.351/.451/.801 .861/.706 .850 70/.873 21/3 15/3
IP 214.1 49.0 38.2 67.0 38.1 177.0 76.0 62.2 TOTAL .277/.349/.446/.795 .751/.818 .819 .882 123/19 178/80
ERA-K/9 2.90/10.1 4.59/12.9 5.82/7.2 2.01/9.8 5.40/7.0 4.32/7.2 2.37/9.6 3.02/8.6 3.61/8.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ross (19-13-2)
 Saltalamacchia (89-24-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 836/.198 220/.213 172/.280 265/.197 177/.291 736/.270 303/.219 254/.199 .247  Victorino
 Gomes
 Nava
 Ellsbury
 Berry
 Carp
0/15/110/10
98/0/4/5
63/1/69/5
0/134/0/3
4/3/4/0
41/0/2/0
OPS .583 .674 .866 .575 .809 .709 .601 .605 .681
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 497/.645 93/.662 53/.851 151/.514 88/.760 381/.814 129/.471 131/.689 .691
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 339/.494 127/.683 119/.872 114/.658 89/.860 355/.599 174/.699 123/.516 .670
Road 424/.517 92/.769 49/.778 132/.512 87/.798 362/.705 162/.600 107/.623
Last 28d days 98/.636 36/.597 39/.751 44/.473 16/1.261 119/.685 30/.707 23/.698
HR/SB/CS 18/14/8 5/3/0 7/3/0 5/10/0 3/0/1 18/12/5 4/8/2 6/7/0 128/128/29
Usage ····X··· o······X ·····X·· X·X·X··· ········ ·······o o······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.