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Texas Rangers, 46-59, 4th, 15½ GB, 14 GB in WC

SP: Brandon McCarthy (23, RHP, 4-7, 5.52)

   2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (4-7)             76.2  84  51  47  36  46  7    5.52      
 2006 (4-7)             84.2  77  44  44  33  69 17    4.68      
 2005 (3-2)             67    62  30  30  17  48 13    4.03      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         0-3  33.1  35  21  19  15  21  2    5.13   46 
 2007-07-25    SEA  ND   5     8   3   3   1   3  0     100   41 
 2007-07-20    CLE   L   5.2   6   3   3   3   4  1     100   46 
 2007-07-15    LAA  ND   6     6   4   3   2   4  0      95   48 
 2007-07-07    BAL   L   6     4   2   1   2   3  1      97   59 
 2007-07-02    BOS   L   3.2   6   4   4   3   1  0      81   31 
 2007-06-09    MIL  ND   5     4   1   1   0   5  0      78   60 
 2007-05-25    BOS  ND   2     1   4   4   4   1  0      66   35 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CLE      2-1  16    14   5   5   6  17  2    2.81   56 
 2007-07-20    CLE   L   5.2   6   3   3   3   4  1     100   46 
 2006-09-27    CLE   W   5.1   2   1   1   1   8  1      82   67 
 2005-10-02    CLE   W   5     6   1   1   2   5  0     102   54 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   27-25   Road:   19-34   ExtrInn: 3-5 
 vsRHP:  31-40   vsLHP:  15-19   1-Run:  17-13
 vsEast: 14-18   vsCntrl: 6-15   vsWest: 15-19 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
105 Sun, Jul 29  @KCR  L   0-10      46-59  4th 16.0 gb
104 Sat, Jul 28  @KCR  L   5-6       46-58  4th 15.0 gb
103 Fri, Jul 27  @KCR  L   1-6       46-57  4th 14.0 gb
102 Wed, Jul 25   SEA  W   7-6       46-56  4th 13.0 gb
101 Tue, Jul 24   SEA  W   4-3       45-56  4th 13.0 gb
100 Tue, Jul 24   SEA  W   2-1       44-56  4th 13.0 gb
 99 Mon, Jul 23   SEA  W   8-7       43-56  4th 14.5 gb
 98 Sun, Jul 22   CLE  L   3-8       42-56  4th 15.5 gb
 97 Sat, Jul 21   CLE  W   8-5       42-55  4th 14.5 gb
 96 Fri, Jul 20   CLE  L   2-3       41-55  4th 15.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14
Cleveland Indians, 60-45, 2nd, 1 GB, 1½ up in WC

SP: Fausto Carmona (23, RHP, 13-4, 3.31)

   2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (13-4)           130.2 131  50  48  36  78 10    3.31      
 2006 (1-10)            74.2  88  46  45  31  58  9    5.42      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         5-2  41.1  44  18  17  16  34  2    3.70   52 
 2007-07-25    BOS   W   8     4   0   0   2   6  0     113   78 
 2007-07-20    TEX   W   8     3   0   0   3   7  0     103   80 
 2007-07-15    KCR   W   7     8   2   2   2   4  0     102   55 
 2007-07-07    TOR   W   5.1   8   3   3   3   5  0     103   42 
 2007-07-02    TBD   W   6     4   2   1   2   8  0      97   64 
 2007-06-27    OAK   L   1     7   8   8   2   1  2      44    6 
 2007-06-22    WSN   L   6    10   3   3   2   3  0      92   41 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.TEX      1-1  13.2  11   6   6   4  12  1    3.95   57 
 2007-07-20    TEX   W   8     3   0   0   3   7  0     103   80 
 2006-04-29    TEX   L   5.2   8   6   6   1   5  1     101   33 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   36-20   Road:   24-25   ExtrInn: 6-2 
 vsRHP:  42-29   vsLHP:  18-16   1-Run:  20-15
 vsEast: 16-14   vsCntrl:22-14   vsWest: 13-8  IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
105 Sun, Jul 29   MIN  L   1-4       60-45  2nd  0.5 gb
104 Sat, Jul 28   MIN  L   2-3       60-44  2nd  0.5 gb
103 Fri, Jul 27   MIN  W  10-4       60-43  2nd  0.5 gb
102 Thu, Jul 26   BOS  L   9-14      59-43  2nd  1.5 gb
101 Wed, Jul 25   BOS  W   1-0       59-42  2nd  1.5 gb
100 Tue, Jul 24   BOS  L   0-1       58-42  2nd  1.5 gb
 99 Mon, Jul 23   BOS  L   2-6       58-41  2nd  2.0 gb
 98 Sun, Jul 22  @TEX  W   8-3       58-40  2nd  1.0 gb
 97 Sat, Jul 21  @TEX  L   5-8       57-40  2nd  2.0 gb
 96 Fri, Jul 20  @TEX  W   3-2       57-39  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:16-14
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 22, 2007 CLE  8 @TEX  3    W:Paul Byrd (8-4), L: Robinson Tejeda (5-9), S: none
Sat, Jul 21, 2007 TEX  8  CLE  5    W:Ron Mahay (2-0), L: Cliff Lee (5-7), S: none
Fri, Jul 20, 2007 CLE  3 @TEX  2    W:Fausto Carmona (12-4), L: Brandon McCarthy (4-7), S: Joe Borowski (28)
Thu, Jul 19, 2007 CLE  7 @TEX  5    W:C.C. Sabathia (13-4), L: Kameron Loe (5-8), S: Joe Borowski (27)
Thu, Apr 26, 2007 CLE  9  TEX  4    W:Paul Byrd (2-1), L: Kameron Loe (1-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 25, 2007 CLE  8  TEX  7 (11)   W:Fernando Cabrera (1-0), L: Willie Eyre (1-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 24, 2006 CLE 11 @TEX  6    W:Jake Westbrook (14-10), L: Kevin Millwood (16-11), S: none
Sat, Sep 23, 2006 CLE  6 @TEX  3    W:Matt Miller (1-0), L: Vicente Padilla (14-10), S: Rafael Betancourt (2)
Fri, Sep 22, 2006 TEX 12  CLE  4    W:Adam Eaton (7-4), L: Paul Byrd (9-9), S: none
Sun, Sep 03, 2006 TEX  5  CLE  2    W:Kevin Millwood (14-9), L: Paul Byrd (9-7), S: Akinori Otsuka (30)
Season Series: 2007 - CLE leads 5-1; 2006 - CLE won 5-4; 2005 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - TEX leads 298-284

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 2007 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  5.81

LAD  4.67

WSN  3.79

RA/G

SDP  3.81

CLE  4.74

TBD  6.30

BA

M. Ordonez  .351

S. Casey  .289

R. Langerhans  .157

OBP

B. Bonds  .493

M. Tejada  .360

M. Olivo  .250

SLG

R. Braun  .662

R. Cano  .456

N. Punto  .275

OPS

R. Braun  1.057

A. Ethier  .820

D. Navarro  .536

ERA

C. Young  1.82

A. Pettitte  4.11

E. Santana  6.22

K/9IP

E. Bedard  11.12

J. Guthrie  6.35

A. Cook  3.12

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Texas Rangers Batters (4.87 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.74 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Carmona
G/S/vB
63.Betancourt
G/S/vB
47.Borowski
G/S/vB
56.Cabrera
G/S/vB
50.Lewis
G/S/vB
40.Mastny
G/S/vB
49.Mujica
G/S/vB
53.Perez*
G/S/vB
61.Stanford*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Byrd G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/4.000 ··· ··· ··· 230/163 .332/.383/.483/.866 .818/.886 .728 93/.745 2/3 3/1
27.Catalanotto* G/S/vP 3/.000 5/1.400 4/1.250 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 224/215 .232/.308/.399/.707 .762/.705 .487 58/.743 2/0 6/0
17.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 163/105 .199/.258/.351/.609 .542/.645 .526 8/1.786 0/2 5/2
25.Hairston G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 169/89 .192/.247/.301/.548 .567/.530 .600 61/.273 3/1 3/2
15.Laird G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 4/.833 ··· ··· ··· 319/233 .241/.299/.359/.658 .727/.631 .710 64/.744 4/2 6/8
2.Melhuse# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 86/67 .234/.306/.325/.631 .789/.577 .624 28/.333 0/0 1/0
30.Metcalf G/S/vP 2/no AB ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 112/62 .230/.278/.380/.658 .787/.550 .550 65/.693 0/0 1/4
1.Relaford# G/S/vP 2/.000 5/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/17 .115/.179/.115/.294 .282/.301 .111 24/.297 0/1 0/0
21.Sosa G/S/vP ··· 3/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· 361/264 .242/.302/.456/.758 1.016/.669 .856 65/.685 0/0 16/0
23.Teixeira# G/S/vP 6/.666 6/.000 4/1.417 3/2.334 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 335/236 .297/.397/.524/.921 1.039/.885 .906 73/.792 0/0 13/1
12.Vazquez* G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 194/145 .247/.312/.412/.724 .462/.812 .785 72/.729 1/0 5/5
6.Wilkerson* G/S/vP 6/1.500 2/1.000 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 262/189 .222/.303/.470/.773 .965/.698 .720 75/.778 2/1 15/4
10.Young G/S/vP 3/.666 5/.400 3/2.667 3/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 457/335 .297/.346/.396/.742 .810/.717 .691 91/.751 9/2 4/11
IP 130.2 48.1 40.2 33.2 7.1 41.1 7.2 32.0 26.1 TOTAL .256/.322/.421/.743 .779/.730 .712 59/17 115/77
ERA-K/9 3.31/5.4 1.30/7.8 5.09/8.2 5.61/10.4 2.45/13.6 4.79/8.9 10.57/7.0 1.97/10.1 4.78/5.5 4.46/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Laird (43-29-9)
 Melhuse (15-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 539/.265 173/.173 179/.293 157/.286 31/.222 190/.270 36/.333 128/.182 118/.296 .273  Byrd
 Hairston
 Wilkerson
 Catalanotto
 Cruz
 Sosa
 Relaford
 Laird
16/15/36/7
18/21/6/3
33/1/15/2
42/0/0/2
16/0/31/2
0/0/16/1
2/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .697 .459 .727 .916 .730 .783 .937 .533 .717 .751
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 296/.743 68/.524 88/.682 67/1.184 13/.585 69/.709 15/.795 50/.292 32/1.062 .757
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 243/.638 105/.416 91/.773 90/.733 18/.807 121/.822 21/1.031 78/.682 86/.598 .747
Home 265/.694 81/.494 87/.630 99/.826 28/.815 93/.849 16/.521 84/.496 83/.783 .735
Last 28d days 112/.584 46/.485 39/.466 24/1.500 31/.730 47/.778 10/1.725 31/.494 37/.760
HR/SB/CS 10/10/3 3/1/2 3/5/2 7/4/3 1/0/1 4/3/2 1/1/0 4/1/1 1/1/0 104/63/26
Usage ·····X·· ·X····X· ··X··X·· ····o··· ···XX··X ····X··X ········ ··oo···· ····X··X
Cleveland Indians Batters (5.25 RS/G) vs. Texas Rangers Pitchers (5.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 20.McCarthy
G/S/vB
53.Benoit
G/S/vB
51.Eyre
G/S/vB
39.Feldman
G/S/vB
50.Francisco
G/S/vB
38.Gagne
G/S/vB
32.Mahay*
G/S/vB
36.Wilson*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
29.Barfield G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 2/2.000 2/1.000 2/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 387/282 .251/.278/.328/.606 .529/.634 .588 79/.550 12/3 2/13
1.Blake G/S/vP 11/.473 10/.644 2/1.000 3/.333 6/1.350 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 451/314 .267/.347/.456/.803 .838/.788 .685 102/.821 2/4 14/10
25.Garko G/S/vP 8/1.196 4/.833 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 329/223 .312/.380/.514/.894 .928/.878 .914 72/1.147 0/1 13/5
38.Gutierrez G/S/vP 5/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 118/62 .296/.336/.528/.864 .968/.766 1.043 55/.891 5/0 7/1
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 8/2.196 7/1.286 3/2.667 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 10/.300 6/1.417 448/279 .258/.386/.442/.828 .871/.802 .801 101/.772 1/1 17/0
7.Lofton* G/S/vP ··· 9/1.389 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 6/.450 ··· 373/292 .306/.380/.437/.817 .561/.886 .861 75/.843 21/4 7/3
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 10/1.700 8/.542 4/.750 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/.000 9/.873 8/.679 420/261 .309/.379/.525/.904 .910/.899 .875 97/.814 0/0 17/3
8.Michaels G/S/vP 5/.400 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 214/101 .272/.324/.415/.739 .818/.655 .759 43/.458 1/3 6/0
33.Nixon* G/S/vP 7/.429 12/.643 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 5/.200 2/.000 304/251 .253/.349/.349/.698 .566/.726 .697 55/.820 0/0 3/3
2.Peralta G/S/vP 10/.100 8/.625 4/1.000 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· 3/1.666 4/.750 431/314 .281/.353/.459/.812 .848/.800 .983 96/.732 3/2 16/15
15.Rouse* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 76/65 .119/.200/.134/.334 .000/.395 .327 15/.204 1/1 0/3
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 1/no AB 1/.000 2/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 115/87 .294/.360/.500/.860 1.237/.751 .923 31/.304 0/0 4/1
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 16/.795 4/1.000 3/1.667 3/1.167 2/.500 1/.000 4/2.000 6/1.867 490/326 .275/.386/.469/.855 .754/.907 .913 107/.798 27/6 18/2
IP 76.2 55.0 58.2 33.0 41.0 33.1 39.0 46.0 TOTAL .270/.347/.436/.783 .795/.777 .807 54/25 125/68
ERA-K/9 5.52/5.4 3.11/9.2 3.99/5.2 6.00/4.6 4.17/5.9 2.16/7.8 2.77/7.4 2.54/8.6 5.00/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martinez (46-19-3)
 Shoppach (17-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 347/.278 227/.243 255/.274 162/.301 181/.256 132/.192 164/.236 189/.189 .279  Lofton
 Michaels
 Nixon
 Blake
 Sizemore
 Gutierrez
2/80/0/5
54/1/19/3
0/0/74/3
0/0/7/2
0/104/0/1
7/5/39/0
OPS .797 .676 .761 .871 .734 .540 .723 .567 .791
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 163/.809 95/.585 115/.760 60/.924 81/.773 62/.382 72/.716 83/.330 .816
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 184/.786 132/.743 140/.762 102/.840 100/.702 70/.685 92/.727 106/.760 .772
Road 188/.848 103/.708 131/.793 100/1.085 85/.729 52/.361 67/.728 85/.483 .824
Last 28d days 98/.762 44/.467 67/.855 24/.756 46/.836 38/.748 52/.885 34/.414
HR/SB/CS 7/12/5 4/1/1 6/2/2 3/3/2 2/4/2 2/0/0 3/0/3 3/0/0 100/60/34
Usage ·····X·· ·····XX· ··X··X·· ·X·X···· ··o··o·X ······XX ·X·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.

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