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Game Preview: BAL @ TEX, 8:30pm, Friday, October 5, 2012 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Orioles, 93-69,

SP: Joe Saunders (31, LHP, 9-13, 4.07)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 RegS (9-13) 174.2 195 88 79 39 112 21 4.07
2011 RegS (12-13) 212.0 210 94 87 67 108 29 3.69
2010 RegS (9-17) 203.1 232 120 101 64 114 25 4.47
Last 7 GS 3-3 44.2 49 20 18 8 23 4 3.63 51
2012-09-30 BOS W 7.1 8 3 3 0 5 2 90 55
2012-09-25 TOR L 6.1 11 4 3 0 2 0 94 39
2012-09-19 @SEA ND 8.0 5 1 1 0 2 1 98 70
2012-09-14 @OAK L 6.0 7 3 3 2 6 1 101 50
2012-09-08 NYY W 5.1 5 2 2 2 2 0 101 50
2012-09-03 @TOR W 6.1 3 0 0 2 2 0 94 67
2012-08-29 CHW L 5.1 10 7 6 2 4 0 99 24
Last 5 v.TEX 1-4 23.2 28 21 21 9 21 10 7.99 41
2010-07-23 @TEX L 7.0 7 1 1 1 6 1 126 64
2009-08-07 TEX L 1.2 5 5 5 1 0 2 48 24
2009-06-30 @TEX L 3.2 6 8 8 5 2 4 100 14
2009-05-15 @TEX L 5.1 8 7 7 2 4 3 84 26
2008-09-28 TEX W 6.0 2 0 0 0 9 0 93 77
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   47-34   Road:   46-35   ExtrInn:16-2 
 vsRHP:  67-51   vsLHP:  26-18   1-Run:  29-9 
 vsEast: 43-29   vsCntrl:23-15   vsWest: 16-18 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Wed, Oct  3  @TBR  L   1-4       93-69  2nd  2.0 gb
161 Tue, Oct  2  @TBR  W   1-0       93-68  2nd  1.0 gb
160 Mon, Oct  1  @TBR  L   3-5       92-68  2nd  1.0 gb
159 Sun, Sep 30   BOS  W   6-3       92-67  1st    Tied
158 Sat, Sep 29   BOS  W   4-3       91-67  1st    Tied
157 Fri, Sep 28   BOS  W   9-1       90-67  2nd  1.0 gb
156 Wed, Sep 26   TOR  W  12-2       89-67  2nd  1.5 gb
155 Tue, Sep 25   TOR  L   0-4       88-67  2nd  1.5 gb
154 Mon, Sep 24   TOR  L   5-9       88-66  2nd  1.5 gb
153 Mon, Sep 24   TOR  W   4-1       88-65  2nd  1.5 gb

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:20-10
Rangers, 93-69,

SP: Yu Darvish (25, RHP, 16-9, 3.90)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 RegS (16-9) 191.1 156 89 83 89 221 14 3.90
Last 7 GS 4-1 50.2 29 13 12 10 59 2 2.13 70
2012-09-30 LAA ND 6.2 9 3 3 1 7 1 117 50
2012-09-20 @LAA W 8.0 4 1 1 1 9 0 108 78
2012-09-14 SEA W 7.0 2 1 1 2 9 0 110 76
2012-09-08 @TBR ND 8.0 2 2 1 2 8 0 96 78
2012-09-03 @KCR W 7.0 3 3 3 1 6 0 87 64
2012-08-28 TBR W 7.0 6 0 0 2 10 0 110 73
2012-08-17 @TOR L 7.0 3 3 3 1 10 1 114 68
Has never faced BAL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   50-31   Road:   43-38   ExtrInn: 8-5 
 vsRHP:  65-50   vsLHP:  28-19   1-Run:  24-22
 vsEast: 24-16   vsCntrl:28-19   vsWest: 27-30 IL:14-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Wed, Oct  3  @OAK  L   5-12      93-69  2nd  1.0 gb
161 Tue, Oct  2  @OAK  L   1-3       93-68  1st    Tied
160 Mon, Oct  1  @OAK  L   3-4       93-67  1st  1.0 up
159 Sun, Sep 30   LAA  W   8-7       93-66  1st  2.0 up
158 Sun, Sep 30   LAA  L   4-5       92-66  1st  2.0 up
157 Fri, Sep 28   LAA  L   4-7       92-65  1st  3.0 up
156 Thu, Sep 27   OAK  W   9-7       92-64  1st  4.0 up
155 Wed, Sep 26   OAK  L   3-9       91-64  1st  3.0 up
154 Tue, Sep 25   OAK  L   2-3 (10)  91-63  1st  4.0 up
153 Mon, Sep 24   OAK  W   5-4       91-62  1st  5.0 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Aug 22, 2012 TEX 12  BAL  3        W:Derek Holland (8-6), L: Tommy Hunter (4-8), S: none
Tue, Aug 21, 2012 BAL  5 @TEX  3        W:Chris Tillman (6-2), L: Scott Feldman (6-9), S: Jim Johnson (38)
Mon, Aug 20, 2012 TEX  5  BAL  1        W:Ryan Dempster (7-6), L: Miguel Gonzalez (5-3), S: none
Thu, May 10, 2012 TEX  7 @BAL  3        W:Derek Holland (3-2), L: Tommy Hunter (2-2), S: none
Thu, May 10, 2012 BAL  6  TEX  5        W:Wei-Yin Chen (3-0), L: Colby Lewis (3-2), S: Jim Johnson (9)
Tue, May 08, 2012 TEX 10 @BAL  3        W:Neftali Feliz (2-1), L: Jake Arrieta (2-3), S: none
Mon, May 07, 2012 TEX 14 @BAL  3        W:Matt Harrison (4-2), L: Brian Matusz (1-4), S: none

Wed, Jul 06, 2011 TEX 13  BAL  5        W:Alexi Ogando (9-3), L: Jeremy Guthrie (3-11), S: none
Tue, Jul 05, 2011 TEX  4  BAL  2        W:Tommy Hunter (1-0), L: Jim Johnson (5-2), S: Neftali Feliz (17)
Mon, Jul 04, 2011 TEX 13  BAL  4        W:Colby Lewis (8-7), L: Chris Jakubauskas (2-2), S: none

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2012 - TEX over 5-2; 2011 - TEX won 5-1; 2010 - BAL won 6-4; All-Time - BAL leads 371-252

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

Orioles Batters (4.40 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.36 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Darvish
G/S/vB		 39.Feldman
G/S/vB		 54.Harrison*
G/S/vB		 45.Holland*
G/S/vB		 50.Kirkman*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 44.Oswalt
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 22.Tateyama
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
11.Andino G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 11/.818 10/.200 ··· 2/1.000 4/.500 2/1.000 1/.000 1/3.000 1/2.000 431/290 .211/.283/.305/.588 .607/.578 .555 65/.510 5/5 7/13
27.Chavez* G/S/vP ··· 6/.833 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 12/.364 ··· ··· 3/.666 169/140 .203/.236/.278/.515 .370/.544 .521 40/.552 3/2 2/2
19.Davis* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 4/1.750 562/444 .270/.326/.501/.827 .792/.836 .729 95/1.076 2/3 33/6
3.Flaherty* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 167/154 .216/.258/.359/.617 .667/.613 .652 32/.848 1/0 6/3
51.Ford G/S/vP ··· 3/1.334 ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 79/24 .183/.256/.352/.609 .758/.267 .441 27/.630 1/0 3/0
2.Hardy G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 9/1.333 9/.222 1/.000 3/.000 7/.453 24/.668 1/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 713/533 .238/.282/.389/.671 .767/.639 .571 116/.716 0/0 22/6
10.Jones G/S/vP ··· 16/.192 12/.916 10/.200 1/.000 2/.000 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 697/526 .287/.334/.505/.839 .800/.852 .814 113/.799 16/7 32/8
13.Machado G/S/vP ··· 2/3.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 202/149 .262/.294/.445/.739 .801/.716 .707 104/.687 2/0 7/5
9.McLouth* G/S/vP ··· 3/2.667 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 34/.869 ··· ··· 1/.000 298/221 .241/.314/.380/.694 .581/.731 .559 117/.852 12/1 7/1
35.Quintanilla* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 190/141 .243/.312/.361/.673 .589/.705 .531 5/.200 0/1 4/6
12.Reynolds G/S/vP ··· 6/1.834 10/.425 9/.476 1/.000 3/.333 4/.000 15/.354 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 538/396 .221/.335/.429/.763 .722/.778 .765 108/.551 1/3 23/11
31.Teagarden G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 64/38 .158/.226/.316/.542 .462/.600 .267 21/.611 0/0 2/0
25.Thome* G/S/vP ··· 6/.750 10/1.100 8/.625 1/.000 8/.875 2/2.500 10/.644 ··· ··· 1/no AB 186/156 .252/.344/.442/.786 .733/.795 .815 36/.740 0/0 8/1
32.Wieters# G/S/vP ··· 10/.600 6/1.500 9/.111 1/.000 3/.333 3/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 593/442 .249/.329/.435/.764 .908/.715 .738 87/.912 3/0 23/10
IP 191.1 123.2 213.1 175.1 35.1 64.1 66.0 59.0 65.0 17.0 36.0 TOTAL .247/.311/.417/.728 .729/.728 .681 .740 58/29 214/106
ERA-K/9 3.90/10.4 5.09/7.0 3.29/5.6 4.67/7.4 3.82/9.7 2.80/10.9 3.27/9.0 5.80/9.0 2.22/6.5 9.00/9.5 1.75/10.8 4.02/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Teagarden (6-2-1)
 Wieters (51-32-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 816/.220 536/.279 876/.258 730/.243 151/.182 257/.231 263/.203 264/.320 265/.232 76/.257 130/.160 .250  Jones
 Davis
 Chavez
 Ford
 McLouth
 Andino
 Flaherty
0/162/0/7
11/0/30/3
35/3/21/2
13/0/6/2
64/10/3/1
1/1/0/0
7/0/17/0
OPS .659 .745 .714 .745 .611 .631 .615 .903 .624 .816 .466 .716
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 464/.674 294/.752 221/.571 164/.656 60/.709 151/.617 114/.637 121/.908 115/.613 35/1.200 71/.545 .705
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 352/.640 242/.736 655/.764 566/.770 91/.549 106/.650 149/.598 143/.899 150/.632 41/.519 59/.369 .726
Home 393/.690 282/.820 375/.737 398/.786 106/.548 149/.702 132/.618 155/.873 142/.618 47/.777 73/.294
Last 28d days 109/.439 52/.885 134/.709 147/.766 22/.794 42/.769 41/.586 31/.955 20/.771 14/.220 35/.149
HR/SB/CS 14/23/4 14/20/3 22/1/3 32/9/3 5/1/0 7/3/1 9/5/0 11/2/2 3/1/1 4/1/0 4/1/0 175/106/27
Usage ····X··· ···X···· ··X····X ·X··X··· ··oo···· ····X··o ·XX·o··X ··oo···· ·o··o·X· ········ ·o·oX·oo
Rangers Batters (4.99 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (4.35 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Saunders*
G/S/vB		 34.Arrieta
G/S/vB		 38.Ayala
G/S/vB		 53.Britton*
G/S/vB		 29.Hunter
G/S/vB		 43.Johnson
G/S/vB		 52.Johnson
G/S/vB		 17.Matusz*
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 40.Patton*
G/S/vB		 47.Strop
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 9/.971 11/1.045 2/1.000 3/.333 5/.650 3/.333 ··· 14/1.012 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 711/522 .286/.349/.378/.727 .687/.742 .719 113/.598 21/10 3/16
29.Beltre G/S/vP 25/.680 7/1.429 10/.600 3/.000 13/1.846 7/1.547 ··· 14/.900 8/.375 ··· 3/.666 654/485 .321/.359/.561/.921 .737/.985 .988 92/.957 1/0 36/8
17.Cruz G/S/vP 20/.950 8/.929 1/2.000 3/1.167 5/1.000 3/.666 1/.000 10/1.800 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 642/483 .260/.319/.460/.779 .944/.727 .873 95/.712 8/4 24/4
23.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 269/154 .304/.367/.392/.759 .859/.686 .737 27/.795 13/7 1/0
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 12/1.317 8/2.250 2/1.000 3/.666 5/1.400 5/.650 ··· 10/.100 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 636/444 .285/.354/.577/.930 .853/.965 .937 80/.832 7/4 43/7
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 28/1.464 9/.555 4/1.167 3/.000 6/.334 7/1.000 ··· 10/1.200 3/1.167 ··· ··· 731/550 .256/.326/.423/.749 .988/.671 .886 112/.609 21/9 19/18
27.Martin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 52/44 .174/.235/.370/.605 .500/.624 .794 9/.361 3/0 0/0
15.Martinez G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/17 .111/.158/.111/.269 .000/.301 .452 3/.000 0/0 0/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP ··· 8/1.333 ··· ··· 4/1.250 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 357/306 .275/.321/.468/.789 .737/.798 .895 64/.533 1/1 15/3
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 6/.333 11/.664 ··· ··· 5/.900 4/1.750 1/2.000 10/1.489 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 521/437 .304/.380/.479/.859 .845/.862 .917 92/.696 10/5 15/1
25.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 5/1.400 ··· 3/.333 7/1.286 2/.000 ··· 5/.400 4/.500 1/.000 2/.000 417/285 .227/.343/.469/.812 .706/.861 .785 58/1.051 1/0 24/7
2.Profar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/13 .176/.176/.471/.647 .000/.846 .000 13/.231 0/0 1/0
8.Soto G/S/vP 8/2.083 ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 2/.500 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 361/264 .198/.270/.343/.613 .677/.589 .576 58/.492 1/0 11/8
10.Young G/S/vP 32/1.045 12/.167 6/.334 3/.000 5/.400 4/1.000 1/.000 10/.775 2/1.500 ··· 2/.000 651/484 .277/.312/.370/.682 .794/.643 .637 99/.839 2/2 8/6
IP 174.2 114.2 75.0 60.1 133.2 68.2 38.1 98.0 67.0 55.2 66.1 TOTAL .273/.334/.446/.780 .793/.775 .820 .716 91/44 200/85
ERA-K/9 4.07/5.8 6.20/8.6 2.64/6.1 5.07/7.9 5.45/5.2 2.49/5.4 2.11/10.8 4.87/7.4 2.28/9.3 2.43/7.9 2.44/7.9 3.90/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martinez (6-0-0)
 Napoli (42-11-8)
 Soto (65-21-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 745/.281 496/.272 320/.272 270/.260 573/.302 269/.220 151/.174 441/.284 263/.202 224/.215 283/.217 .252  Cruz
 Gentry
 Hamilton
 Murphy
 Martin
 Moreland
6/0/151/9
0/114/3/7
84/95/2/5
120/2/17/4
4/14/0/1
0/0/3/0
OPS .755 .763 .717 .756 .864 .556 .561 .817 .613 .598 .613 .718
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 172/.451 267/.846 144/.759 91/.714 304/.840 148/.581 75/.563 123/.528 93/.664 122/.554 139/.674 .701
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 573/.849 229/.664 176/.683 179/.778 269/.891 121/.526 76/.560 318/.932 170/.584 102/.650 144/.556 .731
Road 372/.642 223/.626 153/.739 143/.736 294/.901 148/.487 29/.516 228/.784 130/.589 99/.730 136/.589
Last 28d days 134/.730 53/.700 41/.718 43/.836 48/.616 43/.626 81/.475 30/.274 44/.514 13/.397 39/1.012
HR/SB/CS 21/4/6 16/9/3 7/5/0 6/1/2 32/1/4 3/3/2 4/0/4 15/2/3 6/4/2 5/1/0 2/1/1 184/63/36
Usage ····X··· ·X······ ·o·o···· ·o······ ·····o·· ··X·oX·· ·····X·· ··o··o·· ··o·oo·· ···o··o· ·o·o····

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.