TEX @ BAL, Saturday, August 9, 2008 Game Preview

Texas Rangers, 60-57, 2nd, 13 GB, 6½ GB in WC	SP: Vicente Padilla (30, RHP, 12-5, 4.59) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (12-5) 133.1 142 77 68 50 89 21 4.59 2007 (6-10) 120.1 146 88 77 50 71 16 5.76 2006 (15-10) 200 206 108 100 70 156 21 4.50 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-2 41.2 49 30 30 15 26 6 6.48 43 2008-08-04 NYY ND 6 8 4 4 1 5 2 111 44 2008-07-30 SEA ND 7 10 3 3 1 4 0 107 48 2008-07-25 @OAK W 6 7 5 5 4 9 0 108 43 2008-07-20 @MIN W 7 3 0 0 2 0 0 80 69 2008-07-04 @BAL L 2.2 9 8 8 2 0 0 74 6 2008-06-28 PHI L 6 7 7 7 3 3 2 101 30 2008-06-22 @WSN W 7 5 3 3 2 5 2 102 58 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.BAL 1-4 24.1 40 24 23 10 9 4 8.51 32 2008-07-04 @BAL L 2.2 9 8 8 2 0 0 74 6 2007-08-21 @BAL L 5 7 6 6 4 0 2 93 25 2006-07-13 @BAL W 7 4 1 1 3 3 0 106 65 2005-05-21 @BAL L 5.2 10 4 3 1 4 1 93 38 2002-06-29 @BAL L 4 10 5 5 0 2 1 68 24
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 31-26 Road: 29-31 ExtrInn: 5-5 vsRHP: 47-35 vsLHP: 13-22 1-Run: 23-12 vsEast: 14-18 vsCntrl:16-16 vsWest: 20-15 IL:10-8 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 117 Fri, Aug 8 @BAL L 1-9 60-57 2nd 13.0 gb 116 Thu, Aug 7 NYY L 0-3 60-56 2nd 12.0 gb 115 Wed, Aug 6 NYY L 3-5 60-55 2nd 11.5 gb 114 Tue, Aug 5 NYY W 8-6 60-54 2nd 10.5 gb 113 Mon, Aug 4 NYY W 9-5 59-54 2nd 11.5 gb 112 Sun, Aug 3 TOR W 8-4 58-54 2nd 11.5 gb 111 Sat, Aug 2 TOR L 4-6 57-54 2nd 12.5 gb 110 Fri, Aug 1 TOR W 9-8 57-53 2nd 12.5 gb 109 Thu, Jul 31 SEA L 5-8 56-53 2nd 12.5 gb 108 Wed, Jul 30 SEA W 4-3 56-52 2nd 11.5 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:16-14
Baltimore Orioles, 55-59, 5th, 13½ GB, 10 GB in WC	SP: Daniel Cabrera (27, RHP, 7-7, 4.97) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (7-7) 152 157 87 84 68 86 19 4.97 2007 (9-18) 204.1 207 133 126 108 166 25 5.55 2006 (9-10) 148 130 82 78 104 157 11 4.74 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-3 42.2 50 32 29 21 22 5 6.12 41 2008-08-03 @SEA L 6 7 7 6 2 6 1 104 36 2008-07-29 @NYY W 7 8 3 3 2 2 1 103 49 2008-07-24 TOR L 5 11 7 7 2 3 0 93 18 2008-07-19 DET ND 5 5 7 6 5 4 2 104 30 2008-07-13 @BOS L 4.1 6 2 1 6 2 0 105 41 2008-07-08 @TOR ND 6.1 6 4 4 4 3 0 101 44 2008-07-02 KCR W 9 7 2 2 0 2 1 105 67 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TEX 0-4 28.1 35 18 17 17 27 6 5.40 44 2007-08-22 TEX L 5 9 6 6 1 4 2 96 28 2007-07-08 @TEX L 6 6 2 2 5 8 1 104 55 2006-08-31 @TEX L 5 8 5 4 4 7 2 112 36 2006-07-13 TEX L 5.1 6 4 4 5 2 1 96 37 2006-05-03 @TEX ND 7 6 1 1 2 6 0 110 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 30-23 Road: 25-36 ExtrInn: 4-6 vsRHP: 44-41 vsLHP: 11-18 1-Run: 19-21 vsEast: 19-28 vsCntrl:11-9 vsWest: 14-15 IL:11-7 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 115 Fri, Aug 8 TEX W 9-1 55-59 5th 13.5 gb 114 Wed, Aug 6 @LAA L 4-9 54-59 5th 14.0 gb 113 Tue, Aug 5 @LAA W 3-0 54-58 5th 13.0 gb 112 Mon, Aug 4 @LAA L 5-6 53-58 5th 13.0 gb 111 Sun, Aug 3 @SEA L 4-8 53-57 5th 13.0 gb 110 Sat, Aug 2 @SEA W 3-1 53-56 5th 12.0 gb 109 Fri, Aug 1 @SEA W 10-5 52-56 5th 12.0 gb 108 Wed, Jul 30 @NYY L 3-13 51-56 5th 12.0 gb 107 Tue, Jul 29 @NYY W 7-6 51-55 5th 11.0 gb 106 Mon, Jul 28 @NYY W 13-4 50-55 5th 11.0 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:10-10 Last 30:12-18
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Fri, Aug 08, 2008 BAL 9 TEX 1 W:Jeremy Guthrie (9-8), L: Luis Mendoza (3-5), S: none Sun, Jul 06, 2008 TEX 11 @BAL 10 W:Kevin Millwood (6-4), L: Radhames Liz (3-1), S: C.J. Wilson (21) Sat, Jul 05, 2008 TEX 5 @BAL 3 W:Scott Feldman (3-3), L: Lance Cormier (1-3), S: C.J. Wilson (20) Fri, Jul 04, 2008 BAL 10 TEX 4 W:Jeremy Guthrie (5-7), L: Vicente Padilla (10-5), S: none Thu, Apr 10, 2008 TEX 5 BAL 4 W:Jamey Wright (1-0), L: Chad Bradford (0-1), S: C.J. Wilson (3) Thu, Apr 10, 2008 TEX 3 BAL 1 W:Kevin Millwood (1-2), L: Steve Trachsel (1-1), S: C.J. Wilson (2) Tue, Apr 08, 2008 BAL 8 @TEX 1 W:Brian Burres (1-0), L: Jason Jennings (0-2), S: none Sun, Sep 23, 2007 TEX 3 BAL 0 W:Kevin Millwood (10-13), L: Jon Leicester (2-3), S: C.J. Wilson (12) Sat, Sep 22, 2007 BAL 11 @TEX 9 W:James Hoey (2-4), L: Wes Littleton (3-2), S: Jamie Walker (6) Fri, Sep 21, 2007 TEX 3 BAL 2 W:Luis Mendoza (1-0), L: Victor Santos (1-6), S: Joaquin Benoit (6) Season Series: 2008 - TEX leads 4-3; 2007 - TEX won 6-4; 2006 - TEX won 6-3; All-Time - BAL leads 356-232

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

MIL 4.66

SDP 3.75

RA/G

OAK 3.91

CLE 4.66

TEX 5.90

C. Jones .371

M. Young .287

J. Towles .143

OBP

C. Jones .468

A. Huff .361

T. Pena .169

SLG

R. Ludwick .615

E. Encarnacion .476

T. Pena .196

OPS

C. Jones 1.072

R. Howard .825

T. Pena .365

ERA

J. Duchscherer 2.51

J. Beckett 4.08

N. Robertson 6.11

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 9.99

A. Galarraga 6.17

L. Hernandez 3.48

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Texas Rangers Batters (5.57 RS/G) vs. Baltimore Orioles Pitchers (4.97 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 40.Cabrera
G/S/vB 51.Bierd
G/S/vB 26.Cabrera
G/S/vB 23.Castillo*
G/S/vB 23.Cherry
G/S/vB 54.Cormier
G/S/vB 43.Johnson
G/S/vB 52.Sherrill*
G/S/vB 32.Walker*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

41.Boggs# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 245/172 .241/.332/.401/.733 .858/.677 .626 47/.664 3/2 5/

21.Bradley# G/S/vP 4/.833 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.400 380/247 .320/.446/.592/1.037 1.153/.970 .852 56/1.060 4/3 19/

22.Byrd G/S/vP 8/.804 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/2.000 2/.000 281/177 .272/.362/.440/.802 .865/.765 .586 88/.992 4/1 7/

27.Catalanotto* G/S/vP 26/.619 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 5/.000 4/.000 244/230 .287/.357/.403/.760 .580/.769 .836 37/.802 1/1 2/

19.Davis* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 147/100 .283/.320/.609/.928 1.108/.847 .871 92/.923 0/1 11/

16.Ellison G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/

32.Hamilton* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 4/1.250 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB 513/352 .300/.365/.547/.912 .795/.965 .759 98/.841 7/0 27/

5.Kinsler G/S/vP 9/1.127 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/no AB 1/5.000 1/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 545/406 .313/.374/.498/.872 .777/.903 .846 104/.610 25/1 14/

15.Laird G/S/vP 5/.650 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 253/188 .296/.348/.435/.783 .764/.790 .872 50/.726 1/3 6/

30.Metcalf G/S/vP 3/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 20/8 .105/.150/.263/.413 .083/.875 2.333 11/.773 0/0 1/

25.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 3/2.334 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 197/126 .237/.340/.343/.683 .468/.813 .641 33/.955 0/2 3/

12.Vazquez* G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 2/.000 289/245 .320/.387/.484/.871 .478/.940 .826 44/.895 0/1 6/

10.Young G/S/vP 24/.509 1/.000 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 5/1.000 515/383 .287/.336/.416/.752 .831/.724 .702 100/.601 7/0 10/

IP 152.0 21.0 15.2 11.2 41.2 60.1 47.1 25.1 TOTAL .280/.351/.458/.809 .769/.826 .749 .799 62/18 143/102

ERA-K/9

4.97/5.1

1.29/5.6

4.60/10.3

1.54/6.9

/0.0

4.97/6.9

1.94/4.8

4.18/9.5

4.26/6.8

4.71/5.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Laird (37-16-2)
Saltalamacchia (37-7-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 674/.272 95/.259 70/.246 45/.150 / 189/.281 235/.192 210/.237 111/.297 .268 Byrd
Hamilton
Boggs
Bradley
Catalanotto
Ellison 4/47/29/7
0/73/32/6
57/0/2/5
1/0/19/4
21/0/0/0
0/1/0/0

OPS .789 .697 .848 .494 .772 .485 .713 .861 .766

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 371/.839 43/.852 31/.910 13/.692 / 85/.719 111/.538 63/.582 65/1.107 .769

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 303/.728 52/.564 39/.797 32/.398 / 104/.813 124/.438 147/.770 46/.489 .764

Home 252/.884 45/.708 42/.775 19/.393 / 53/.746 112/.403 109/.647 51/.469 .776

Last 28d days 137/.967 38/.716 50/.935 43/.440 / 51/1.143 32/.588 36/.795 14/.286

HR/SB/CS 19/23/4 1/0/0 4/3/1 1/2/0 // 3/4/1 0/3/2 5/3/0 6/1/1 128/94/28

Usage ·····X·· ····X··· ····o··· ··X·o··· ··X····X o····X·· ···oX··· o·o··o··

Baltimore Orioles Batters (4.85 RS/G) vs. Texas Rangers Pitchers (5.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 44.Padilla
G/S/vB 53.Benoit
G/S/vB 50.Francisco
G/S/vB 18.Guardado*
G/S/vB 60.Madrigal
G/S/vB 57.Nippert
G/S/vB 59.Rupe
G/S/vB 45.Wright
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

2.Castro G/S/vP 6/.500 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 20/.579 64/45 .136/.161/.186/.348 .217/.401 .354 53/.401 0/0 1/

13.Cintron# G/S/vP 14/.594 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/1.196 84/55 .291/.309/.392/.701 .605/.748 1.125 10/.800 0/1 1/

55.Hernandez G/S/vP 13/.769 5/.000 1/.000 14/.481 2/1.000 3/.666 2/.000 12/.750 356/269 .253/.307/.420/.727 .764/.715 .813 68/1.041 0/0 12/

17.Huff* G/S/vP 5/1.850 20/1.382 4/.000 9/.333 2/1.500 5/1.000 1/2.000 4/1.167 477/341 .304/.361/.543/.904 .746/.969 .947 99/.986 2/0 22/

21.Markakis* G/S/vP 8/1.482 4/.250 2/1.000 2/1.500 1/.000 4/.833 4/2.417 5/.800 508/362 .298/.398/.482/.879 .980/.838 .820 103/.820 10/6 16/

15.Millar G/S/vP 17/.791 11/1.045 3/.333 3/.333 2/.000 2/2.500 3/2.500 10/1.000 462/343 .248/.342/.428/.769 .827/.750 .871 91/.913 0/1 18/

3.Montanez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/5 .400/.400/1.000/1.400 /1.400 .000 5/1.400 0/0 1/

6.Mora G/S/vP 15/.983 19/1.009 4/.833 5/.500 1/.000 4/.500 2/.500 2/1.500 445/327 .259/.321/.430/.751 .917/.691 .849 90/.920 2/7 15/

16.Payton G/S/vP 19/.380 8/.250 2/.000 7/.143 1/2.000 2/.500 1/2.000 9/.833 238/162 .246/.284/.379/.663 .919/.540 .591 49/.690 4/1 6/

24.Quiroz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 111/91 .212/.284/.303/.587 .961/.504 .700 25/.541 0/0 2/

1.Roberts# G/S/vP 13/1.433 15/.457 1/3.000 2/1.500 ··· 4/.250 4/.250 3/.000 507/367 .286/.367/.468/.835 .882/.818 .833 101/.712 28/10 8/

30.Scott* G/S/vP 5/.600 3/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 5/3.250 1/.000 5/.400 387/309 .263/.346/.499/.845 .708/.880 .988 86/.920 2/1 19/

IP 133.1 36.1 46.2 44.2 16.0 35.2 64.0 63.2 TOTAL .265/.332/.433/.765 .790/.757 .811 .812 60/33 131/65

ERA-K/9

4.59/6.0

5.45/7.4

3.28/10.6

3.02/5.2

6.19/5.6

7.82/6.1

3.80/4.9

4.81/6.1

5.27/5.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hernandez (72-20-7)
Quiroz (22-8-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 581/.273 172/.248 198/.217 170/.195 70/.295 181/.342 268/.264 279/.270 .287 Markakis
Payton
Scott
Montanez 0/0/113/12
65/12/2/3
79/0/0/2
3/0/0/0

OPS .797 .802 .682 .586 .838 .963 .745 .721 .819

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 300/.879 83/.651 99/.663 67/.559 33/1.021 86/.877 129/.857 136/.790 .851

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 281/.712 89/.951 99/.701 103/.603 37/.674 95/1.037 139/.639 143/.657 .791

Road 333/.831 86/.786 101/.568 70/.595 36/.979 102/1.124 142/.789 137/.687 .818

Last 28d days 109/.709 6/.900 35/.583 44/.762 37/.806 103/.978 44/.615 57/1.019

HR/SB/CS 21/9/4 5/1/0 6/6/1 3/3/0 2/1/0 5/4/1 4/0/1 4/8/1 131/89/29

Usage ····X··· ··X····· ····oX·X ···XXo·o X·X····· X······· ···X··Xo ·X·oo·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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Game Preview: TEX @ BAL, 7:05pm, Saturday, August 9, 2008 @Oriole Park at Camden Yards

SP: Vicente Padilla (30, RHP, 12-5, 4.59)

SP: Daniel Cabrera (27, RHP, 7-7, 4.97)

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