ATL @ LAA, Saturday, June 14, 2008 Game Preview

Atlanta Braves, 33-35, 3rd, 7½ GB, 6½ GB in WC	SP: (, RHP, 0-0, undef) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS inf +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ANA Has never faced ANA.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 25-11 Road: 8-24 ExtrInn: 1-7 vsRHP: 22-21 vsLHP: 11-14 1-Run: 3-18 vsEast: 16-16 vsCntrl: 6-13 vsWest: 8-5 IL: 3-1 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 68 Fri, Jun 13 @LAA W 5-2 33-35 3rd 7.5 gb 67 Thu, Jun 12 @CHC L 2-3 (11) 32-35 3rd 7.5 gb 66 Wed, Jun 11 @CHC L 2-7 32-34 3rd 6.5 gb 65 Tue, Jun 10 @CHC L 5-10 32-33 3rd 6.5 gb 64 Sun, Jun 8 PHI L 3-6 32-32 3rd 6.5 gb 63 Sat, Jun 7 PHI L 2-6 32-31 3rd 5.5 gb 62 Fri, Jun 6 PHI L 3-4 (10) 32-30 3rd 4.5 gb 61 Thu, Jun 5 FLA W 7-5 32-29 3rd 3.5 gb 60 Wed, Jun 4 FLA L 4-6 31-29 3rd 3.5 gb 59 Tue, Jun 3 FLA W 5-4 31-28 3rd 3.5 gb Last 10: 3-7 Last 20: 7-13 Last 30:14-16
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 41-27, 1st, 4½ up	SP: Ervin Santana (25, RHP, 8-2, 3.01) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (8-2) 89.2 73 31 30 19 76 7 3.01 2007 (7-14) 150 174 103 96 58 126 26 5.76 2006 (16-8) 204 181 106 97 70 141 21 4.28 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-2 49.2 43 19 19 10 47 4 3.44 59 2008-06-08 @OAK ND 6.1 7 2 2 3 9 0 111 57 2008-06-02 @SEA W 7.2 6 2 2 1 3 1 109 61 2008-05-27 DET W 9 3 2 2 0 7 1 113 80 2008-05-22 @TOR L 6 9 4 4 2 7 1 110 43 2008-05-17 LAD L 6 5 4 4 3 5 1 109 48 2008-05-11 @TBR ND 5.2 9 5 5 1 7 0 113 37 2008-05-05 @KCR W 9 4 0 0 0 9 0 97 88 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.ATL Has never faced ATL.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 20-15 Road: 21-12 ExtrInn: 2-1 vsRHP: 28-24 vsLHP: 13-3 1-Run: 13-8 vsEast: 10-8 vsCntrl:16-9 vsWest: 13-8 IL: 2-2 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 68 Fri, Jun 13 ATL L 2-5 41-27 1st 4.5 up 67 Wed, Jun 11 TBR W 4-2 41-26 1st 5.0 up 66 Tue, Jun 10 TBR W 6-1 40-26 1st 5.0 up 65 Mon, Jun 9 TBR L 4-13 39-26 1st 4.0 up 64 Sun, Jun 8 @OAK L 3-7 (12) 39-25 1st 4.5 up 63 Sat, Jun 7 @OAK W 5-3 39-24 1st 5.5 up 62 Fri, Jun 6 @OAK W 3-1 38-24 1st 4.5 up 61 Wed, Jun 4 @SEA W 5-4 37-24 1st 3.5 up 60 Tue, Jun 3 @SEA W 5-4 36-24 1st 3.5 up 59 Mon, Jun 2 @SEA W 4-2 35-24 1st 3.5 up Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:13-7 Last 30:19-11
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Fri, Jun 13, 2008 ATL 5 @LAA 2 W:Jo-Jo Reyes (3-4), L: Jon Garland (6-4), S: Jeff Bennett (2) Wed, Jun 08, 2005 LAA 8 @ATL 4 W:Brendan Donnelly (4-1), L: John Foster (1-1), S: none Tue, Jun 07, 2005 ATL 3 LAA 2 W:Horacio Ramirez (4-4), L: Paul Byrd (5-5), S: Chris Reitsma (4) Mon, Jun 06, 2005 LAA 4 @ATL 2 W:Brendan Donnelly (3-1), L: John Smoltz (4-5), S: Francisco Rodriguez (11) Season Series: 2008 - ATL leads 1-0; 2007 - 0-0; 2006 - 0-0; All-Time - Tied 2-2

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 2008 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 5.57

HOU 4.51

WSN 3.70

RA/G

TOR 3.68

NYY 4.57

TEX 5.84

C. Jones .414

J. Rollins .278

A. Cabrera .184

OBP

C. Jones .500

L. Gonzalez .348

R. Cano .260

SLG

L. Berkman .711

F. Thomas .444

A. Cabrera .247

OPS

C. Jones 1.165

S. Drew .800

A. Cabrera .529

ERA

E. Volquez 1.56

J. Moyer 4.12

B. Bonser 6.35

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.67

E. Jackson 6.14

L. Hernandez 2.82

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Atlanta Braves Batters (4.59 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitchers (4.15 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 54.Santana
G/S/vB 66.Arredondo
G/S/vB 53.O'Day
G/S/vB 38.Oliver*
G/S/vB 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB 62.Shields
G/S/vB 33.Speier
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

18.Blanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 186/144 .258/.371/.323/.694 .545/.736 .684 99/.626 5/0 1/

19.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 295/201 .295/.366/.402/.769 .676/.813 .676 121/.720 2/4 6/

7.Francoeur G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 6/2.467 ··· ··· 1/.000 291/193 .261/.313/.433/.746 .721/.758 .771 110/.769 0/1 8/

8.Gotay# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 49/36 .200/.333/.225/.558 .408/.610 .535 16/.450 1/0 0/

4.Infante G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 4/1.000 2/.000 83/36 .264/.354/.403/.756 .818/.657 .783 62/.808 0/0 0/

2.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 259/180 .283/.350/.460/.811 .764/.832 .754 115/.807 6/2 6/

28.Jones* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 6/5 .400/.500/.400/.900 .000/1.100 .900 6/.900 0/0 0/

10.Jones# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 19/.740 ··· ··· 5/1.000 270/172 .414/.500/.665/1.165 1.022/1.246 1.046 99/1.115 2/0 15/

16.McCann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/2.083 ··· ··· 1/.000 255/166 .307/.384/.569/.953 .989/.934 .834 94/.914 0/0 12/

27.Miller G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/22 .091/.189/.182/.371 .277/.432 .864 20/.478 0/0 1/

20.Norton# G/S/vP 9/.555 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 6/.666 6/.167 95/68 .232/.337/.354/.691 .805/.646 .671 58/.562 0/0 2/

24.Teixeira# G/S/vP 24/.777 ··· ··· 2/2.000 20/.422 25/.850 7/2.571 291/185 .277/.368/.455/.822 .669/.910 .818 120/.951 0/0 10/

IP 89.2 13.0 23.0 30.2 30.0 25.0 26.0 TOTAL .275/.351/.425/.776 .722/.804 .720 .764 25/10 67/40

ERA-K/9

3.01/7.6

0.69/6.2

4.30/5.5

2.93/4.7

2.10/8.1

2.88/8.3

4.15/5.9

3.97/5.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
McCann (42-14-1)
Miller (3-2-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 356/.221 43/.186 109/.326 130/.299 122/.173 94/.247 112/.227 .263 Francoeur
Blanco
Jones
Norton
Infante 0/0/67/5
23/31/1/2
2/0/0/0
14/0/1/0
7/3/0/0

OPS .600 .442 .835 .797 .555 .661 .787 .730

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 168/.731 15/.600 47/.812 56/.953 57/.713 41/.546 47/1.211 .772

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 188/.485 28/.357 62/.853 74/.683 65/.422 53/.748 65/.467 .699

Home 135/.488 28/.464 50/.758 74/.742 57/.711 49/.713 51/.756 .738

Last 28d days 140/.670 38/.368 11/1.000 51/.832 48/.476 26/.443 34/.397

HR/SB/CS 7/5/3 1/0/1 1/2/1 2/4/1 1/2/0 2/1/1 6/1/1 63/40/20

Usage ·····X·· ····o·oo ····X··· X···Xo·· ··o···Xo ··oo·X·· o····X··

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Batters (4.21 RS/G) vs. Atlanta Braves Pitchers (4.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 46.Acosta
G/S/vB 30.Bennett
G/S/vB 56.Boyer
G/S/vB 38.Carlyle
G/S/vB 13.Ohman*
G/S/vB 40.Ridgway*
G/S/vB 34.Ring*
G/S/vB 39.Soriano
G/S/vB 54.Stockman
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

16.Anderson* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.650 ··· 259/203 .260/.293/.390/.684 .618/.702 .745 90/.564 4/1 6/

9.Figgins# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 153/125 .310/.431/.357/.789 .899/.764 .845 8/1.025 11/5 0/

27.Guerrero G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 ··· 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· 9/1.112 ··· 258/199 .268/.333/.468/.801 .787/.805 .746 82/.911 1/1 10/

48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 270/206 .267/.330/.453/.783 .754/.792 .943 99/.740 9/3 9/

6.Izturis# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 200/155 .265/.327/.348/.675 .720/.660 .694 105/.789 8/2 3/

47.Kendrick G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 92/66 .326/.359/.453/.812 .763/.831 .760 54/.521 2/3 0/

35.Kotchman* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 252/193 .306/.353/.443/.796 1.050/.719 .693 93/.708 1/0 6/

5.Mathis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 117/80 .202/.292/.354/.646 .798/.583 .341 45/.576 1/0 4/

24.Matthews# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.833 ··· 274/212 .246/.321/.377/.698 .779/.674 .643 94/.750 5/2 7/

44.Napoli G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/118 .205/.299/.459/.758 .419/.825 .701 49/.596 4/1 10/

39.Quinlan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2.000 ··· 91/55 .289/.341/.337/.678 .725/.647 .756 42/.749 1/1 1/

21.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/2.250 ··· 57/27 .170/.228/.226/.454 .441/.468 .642 21/.563 0/0 0/

18.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 73/53 .185/.274/.246/.520 .476/.535 .768 39/.488 1/0 1/

77.Willits# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 62/50 .180/.317/.240/.557 .384/.595 .689 37/.416 1/0 0/

IP 33.2 52.1 38.0 13.1 28.0 2.0 13.0 9.0 7.1 TOTAL .256/.319/.386/.706 .734/.696 .700 .664 54/21 59/30

ERA-K/9

4.54/5.9

4.47/7.1

4.03/8.1

2.70/8.1

2.25/8.4

0.00/9.0

4.15/7.6

2.00/11.0

0.00/11.1

3.75/7.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Mathis (16-13-1)
Napoli (24-7-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 148/.268 231/.247 161/.232 58/.208 115/.208 8/.143 55/.265 38/.129 28/.087 .246 Guerrero
Anderson
Matthews
Hunter
Rivera
Willits
Quinlan 0/0/45/4
38/0/0/3
22/9/20/3
0/58/0/3
6/1/4/1
6/4/6/0
0/0/1/0

OPS .852 .740 .677 .595 .595 .393 .792 .483 .424 .717

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 64/.969 80/.799 71/.755 26/.748 56/.453 2/.000 38/.776 21/.695 9/.222 .715

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 84/.755 151/.703 90/.614 32/.466 59/.733 6/.533 17/.827 17/.243 19/.513 .719

Road 63/.861 97/.917 67/.837 34/.501 42/.681 8/.393 26/.860 9/.476 9/.476 .730

Last 28d days 63/1.005 85/.795 68/.825 23/.415 39/.377 8/.393 28/.808 21/.462 28/.424

HR/SB/CS 7/4/0 5/5/2 3/5/1 0/1/1 1/0/1 0/0/0 2/0/0 0/0/0 0/1/0 61/45/16

Usage ·X·X·o·o o·X···X· ·Xo··X·X ···X·o·o ·o···X·o ·oX····· ··o···oo ········ ··Xo··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.

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Game Preview: ATL @ LAA, 9:05pm, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @Angel Stadium

SP: (, RHP, 0-0, undef)

SP: Ervin Santana (25, RHP, 8-2, 3.01)

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