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Game Preview: NYY @ DET, 4:00pm, Thursday, October 18, 2012 @Comerica Park

Yankees, 95-67, 3-5 in postseason

SP: CC Sabathia (31, LHP, 15-6, 3.38)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 RegS (15-6) 200.0 184 89 75 44 197 22 3.38
2011 RegS (19-8) 237.1 230 87 79 61 230 17 3.00
2010 RegS (21-7) 237.2 209 92 84 74 197 20 3.18
Last 7 GS 4-2 54.2 39 16 16 9 52 4 2.63 66
2012-10-12 BAL W 9.0 4 1 1 2 9 0 121 82
2012-10-07 @BAL W 8.2 8 2 2 1 7 0 120 66
2012-10-01 BOS W 8.0 4 2 2 1 7 1 103 72
2012-09-26 @MIN W 8.0 6 2 2 1 10 0 118 71
2012-09-21 OAK ND 8.0 3 0 0 2 11 0 113 85
2012-09-14 TBR L 6.2 6 4 4 2 3 0 110 47
2012-09-08 @BAL L 6.1 8 5 5 0 5 3 109 42
Last 5 v.DET 3-0 29.0 28 15 13 11 27 3 4.03 52
2012-08-08 @DET W 6.2 8 5 3 1 7 0 94 48
2012-06-01 @DET W 7.0 8 3 3 2 5 1 113 52
2012-04-29 DET W 8.0 4 2 2 2 8 1 106 72
2011-10-03 @DET ND 5.1 7 4 4 6 3 0 106 35
2011-09-30 DET ND 2.0 1 1 1 0 4 1 27 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   53-33   Road:   45-39   ExtrInn: 7-5 
 vsRHP:  61-46   vsLHP:  37-26   1-Run:  23-28
 vsEast: 44-33   vsCntrl:21-19   vsWest: 20-15 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  8 Tue, Oct 16  @DET  L   1-2         -               
  7 Sun, Oct 14   DET  L   0-3         -               
  6 Sat, Oct 13   DET  L   4-6 (12)    -               
  5 Fri, Oct 12   BAL  W   3-1         -               
  4 Thu, Oct 11   BAL  L   1-2 (13)    -               
  3 Wed, Oct 10   BAL  W   3-2 (12)    -               
  2 Mon, Oct  8  @BAL  L   2-3         -               
  1 Sun, Oct  7  @BAL  W   7-2         -               
162 Wed, Oct  3   BOS  W  14-2       95-67  1st  2.0 up
161 Tue, Oct  2   BOS  W   4-3 (12)  94-67  1st  1.0 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:19-11
Tigers, 88-74, 6-2 in postseason

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

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. NYY 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 38.1 27 8 7 7 44 1 1.64 63
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
2012-09-01 CHW W 8.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 113 82
Last 5 v.NYY 4-1 29.2 24 9 9 17 30 5 2.73 57
2012-04-29 @NYY L 4.2 7 3 3 7 4 1 119 35
2011-10-02 @NYY W 6.0 2 0 0 4 5 0 104 69
2011-05-04 NYY W 8.0 4 0 0 2 9 0 109 81
2011-04-03 @NYY W 5.0 9 6 6 2 6 4 96 29
2010-08-16 @NYY W 6.0 2 0 0 2 6 0 115 72
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   53-31   Road:   41-45   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  66-50   vsLHP:  28-26   1-Run:  23-28
 vsEast: 24-18   vsCntrl:43-29   vsWest: 16-22 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  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         -               
  2 Sun, Oct  7   OAK  W   5-4         -               
  1 Sat, Oct  6   OAK  W   3-1         -               
162 Wed, Oct  3  @KCR  W   1-0       88-74  1st  3.0 up
161 Tue, Oct  2  @KCR  L   2-4       87-74  1st  3.0 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Oct 16, 2012 DET  2  NYY  1        W:Justin Verlander , L: Phil Hughes , S: Phil Coke 
Sun, Oct 14, 2012 DET  3 @NYY  0        W:Anibal Sanchez , L: Hiroki Kuroda , S: Phil Coke 
Sat, Oct 13, 2012 DET  6 @NYY  4 (12)   W:Drew Smyly , L: David Phelps , S: none
Thu, Aug 09, 2012 NYY  4 @DET  3        W:Clay Rapada (3-0), L: Joaquin Benoit (1-3), S: Rafael Soriano (27)
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)

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2012 - DET over 7-6; 2011 - DET won 7-5; 2010 - Tied 4-4; All-Time - NYY leads 1051-940

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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  4.99

MIN  4.33

HOU  3.60

 RA/G

TBR  3.56

LAA  4.31

COL  5.49

 BA

B. Posey  .336

A. Rodriguez  .272

C. Pena  .197

 OBP

J. Mauer  .416

A. Jones  .334

D. Stubbs  .277

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .606

H. Ramirez  .437

J. Weeks  .304

 OPS

M. Cabrera  .999

A. Pagan  .778

J. Weeks  .609

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.53

T. Cahill  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

U. Jimenez  7.28

H. Alvarez  3.80

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

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

Yankees Batters (4.96 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
24.Cano* G/S/vP 14/.748 2/2.500 18/.500 8/.661 4/.000 20/.789 4/.000 10/.100 697/428 .313/.379/.550/.929 .646/1.108 .917 116/1.024 3/2 33/6
12.Chavez* G/S/vP 3/2.000 ··· 20/.744 1/.000 2/1.000 7/2.000 1/.000 3/.666 313/274 .281/.348/.496/.845 .382/.908 .884 40/1.006 0/0 16/6
11.Gardner* G/S/vP 11/.182 1/no AB 5/.650 5/.000 2/.500 12/.432 1/.000 3/2.000 37/28 .323/.417/.387/.804 2.032/.426 .742 3/.667 2/2 0/0
14.Granderson* G/S/vP 18/.820 ··· 8/1.333 11/1.182 5/.933 14/.643 2/.000 8/.833 684/437 .232/.319/.492/.811 .762/.839 .755 103/.869 10/3 43/0
27.Ibanez* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 24/1.142 5/1.000 12/1.472 6/.000 1/.000 7/2.114 425/360 .240/.308/.453/.761 .492/.812 .634 53/1.035 3/0 19/0
55.Martin G/S/vP 19/.498 2/no AB 4/.500 3/.666 8/.250 13/.658 2/.000 18/.528 485/336 .211/.311/.403/.713 .880/.643 .728 83/.864 6/1 21/6
17.Nix G/S/vP 9/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 4/.000 ··· 2/1.000 202/91 .243/.306/.384/.690 .726/.645 .496 34/.508 6/3 4/4
26.Nunez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/1.334 2/.000 2/.000 100/45 .292/.330/.393/.723 .860/.552 .885 38/.718 11/2 1/7
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 14/.297 2/.000 22/.589 4/1.500 10/1.400 10/.422 3/.666 8/.833 529/356 .272/.353/.430/.783 .924/.717 .763 112/.717 13/1 18/8
19.Stewart G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/1.500 157/94 .241/.292/.319/.611 .579/.633 .503 22/.659 2/0 1/4
31.Suzuki* G/S/vP 15/.667 ··· 42/.525 16/.795 12/.350 22/.727 4/1.000 7/1.571 663/426 .283/.307/.390/.696 .649/.724 .687 96/.909 29/7 9/1
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 14/.629 1/.000 14/1.286 4/1.750 3/.666 21/.960 4/1.250 11/1.455 624/402 .272/.364/.473/.837 .769/.873 .841 112/.943 2/3 24/6
25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 17/.588 1/no AB 11/.773 8/.750 8/1.167 20/.522 3/.000 10/.400 524/326 .251/.332/.475/.807 .865/.770 .858 20/.625 2/1 24/1
IP 187.2 13.1 71.0 54.0 58.0 176.1 99.1 69.0 TOTAL .265/.337/.453/.790 .777/.797 .774 .837 93/27 245/74
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)
 Martin (63-20-9)
 Stewart (27-8-8)

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  Suzuki
 Swisher
 Granderson
 Ibanez
 Gardner
 Nix
 Nunez
35/7/132/5
0/0/109/4
0/157/0/3
80/0/13/2
15/0/0/1
11/0/0/0
3/0/1/0
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 ·······X ····o··X ·X·XX··o ····X··o ········ ····X··· ····X··o
Tigers Batters (4.48 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.12 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Sabathia*
G/S/vB		 62.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 38.Eppley
G/S/vB		 48.Logan*
G/S/vB		 34.Lowe
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 12/.182 1/no AB 4/.500 6/.533 3/1.667 4/.500 2/.500 6/.900 2/1.500 434/331 .243/.352/.384/.736 .539/.796 .772 58/.821 2/0 9/6
52.Berry* G/S/vP 4/1.750 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/1.381 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 330/269 .258/.330/.354/.684 .594/.704 .689 51/.558 21/0 2/2
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 38/1.117 12/1.250 4/2.000 3/.333 33/.706 4/1.167 ··· 6/.733 9/.222 697/502 .330/.393/.606/.999 .913/1.027 1.094 108/1.043 4/1 44/13
12.Dirks* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 3/1.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 344/261 .322/.370/.487/.857 .751/.889 .906 89/.827 1/1 8/3
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 13/1.098 1/2.000 1/no AB 6/.334 34/.575 3/.666 5/.200 3/1.167 5/2.600 690/442 .313/.412/.528/.940 .808/1.017 1.015 106/.982 1/0 30/11
34.Garcia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 51/17 .319/.373/.319/.692 .745/.588 .962 42/.615 0/2 0/0
4.Infante G/S/vP 31/.637 2/.000 4/1.000 1/2.000 21/.588 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 2/1.000 588/418 .274/.300/.419/.719 .872/.656 .696 91/.680 17/3 12/18
14.Jackson G/S/vP 27/.850 4/.500 4/1.167 2/.000 4/.833 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 5/.600 617/432 .300/.377/.479/.856 .856/.856 .851 106/.748 12/9 16/1
32.Kelly* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 127/113 .186/.276/.248/.523 .298/.551 .545 8/.661 2/0 1/3
9.Laird G/S/vP 28/1.125 10/.311 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 191/82 .282/.337/.374/.710 .622/.828 .695 39/.702 0/0 2/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP 25/.440 10/.543 5/.800 8/.000 10/.900 5/.800 4/.250 6/1.100 7/.453 585/410 .239/.305/.384/.689 .692/.688 .729 97/.489 1/2 13/7
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 38/.695 7/.000 2/.000 3/.333 6/.167 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 7/.000 259/194 .206/.283/.272/.555 .482/.580 .606 11/.200 1/0 2/6
29.Worth G/S/vP 7/.453 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 90/44 .216/.330/.257/.586 .697/.472 .526 7/.762 0/0 0/1
21.Young G/S/vP 35/.669 6/.833 2/.000 5/1.800 13/1.538 3/1.667 2/.500 9/.873 7/1.143 608/419 .267/.296/.411/.707 .833/.649 .757 102/.514 0/2 18/2
IP 200.0 20.2 46.0 55.1 142.2 99.2 38.1 60.2 67.2 TOTAL .268/.335/.422/.757 .724/.771 .793 .722 59/23 163/99
ERA-K/9 3.38/8.9 4.35/9.6 3.33/6.3 3.74/11.1 5.11/3.5 3.34/8.7 2.82/8.9 2.67/12.0 2.26/9.2 3.86/8.2

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 833/.238 95/.302 194/.266 239/.234 640/.311 414/.223 155/.215 248/.229 279/.217 .253  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 .666 .835 .690 .718 .796 .682 .601 .638 .639 .730
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 204/.667 37/.609 64/.889 133/.665 290/.937 191/.786 115/.518 131/.575 155/.713 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 629/.665 58/.962 130/.595 106/.788 350/.683 223/.597 40/.849 117/.710 124/.549 .747
Road 445/.754 47/.686 115/.700 120/.742 319/.852 168/.779 66/.635 130/.765 137/.563
Last 28d days 147/.566 40/.507 27/.798 39/.734 48/.388 86/.572 15/.690 47/.589 52/.774
HR/SB/CS 22/10/2 3/4/0 3/3/0 6/3/1 10/7/2 14/3/1 2/1/0 5/8/1 6/3/1 190/90/28
Usage ·····X·· ·o·o··o· ·o·XX··· ·X·oo·oo ····o·o· ·X··X·X· ·o·oo·o· ····X·oX ····o·Xo

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.