CLE @ BAL, Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Game Preview

Cleveland Indians, 70-73, 3rd, 9½ GB, 14½ GB in WC	SP: (, RHP, 0-0, undef) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS inf +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.BAL Has never faced BAL.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 38-33 Road: 32-40 ExtrInn: 4-9 vsRHP: 53-52 vsLHP: 17-21 1-Run: 12-15 vsEast: 18-11 vsCntrl:27-32 vsWest: 19-18 IL: 6-12 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 143 Tue, Sep 9 @BAL W 6-1 70-73 3rd 9.5 gb 142 Mon, Sep 8 @BAL L 3-14 69-73 3rd 11.0 gb 141 Sun, Sep 7 @KCR W 3-1 69-72 3rd 10.5 gb 140 Sat, Sep 6 @KCR L 1-3 68-72 3rd 11.5 gb 139 Fri, Sep 5 @KCR W 9-3 68-71 3rd 10.5 gb 138 Wed, Sep 3 CHW L 2-4 67-71 3rd 10.5 gb 137 Tue, Sep 2 CHW W 9-3 67-70 3rd 9.5 gb 136 Mon, Sep 1 CHW W 5-0 66-70 3rd 10.5 gb 135 Sun, Aug 31 SEA L 4-6 65-70 4th 11.5 gb 134 Sat, Aug 30 SEA L 3-4 (10) 65-69 3rd 10.5 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:14-6 Last 30:21-9
Baltimore Orioles, 64-79, 5th, 22 GB, 20½ GB in WC	SP: Chris Waters (27, LHP, 2-2, 5.40) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (2-2) 38.1 42 25 23 19 16 5 5.40 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-2 38.1 42 25 23 19 16 5 5.40 43 2008-09-05 OAK L 5.1 5 3 3 3 2 0 88 45 2008-08-30 @TBR ND 4.1 8 5 5 4 2 0 81 25 2008-08-25 CHW L 7 5 4 3 2 2 1 90 53 2008-08-20 BOS W 5 8 5 4 3 1 1 108 31 2008-08-15 @DET ND 4.2 8 2 2 1 1 1 95 40 2008-08-10 TEX ND 4 7 6 6 3 5 2 90 26 2008-08-05 @LAA W 8 1 0 0 3 3 0 104 80 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CLE Has never faced CLE.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 34-34 Road: 30-45 ExtrInn: 5-6 vsRHP: 50-52 vsLHP: 14-27 1-Run: 20-25 vsEast: 20-39 vsCntrl:18-15 vsWest: 15-18 IL:11-7 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 143 Tue, Sep 9 CLE L 1-6 64-79 5th 22.0 gb 142 Mon, Sep 8 CLE W 14-3 64-78 5th 21.0 gb 141 Sat, Sep 6 OAK L 1-5 63-78 5th 22.5 gb 140 Fri, Sep 5 OAK L 2-11 63-77 5th 22.5 gb 139 Wed, Sep 3 @BOS L 4-5 63-76 5th 22.0 gb 138 Tue, Sep 2 @BOS L 2-14 63-75 5th 22.0 gb 137 Mon, Sep 1 @BOS L 4-7 63-74 5th 22.0 gb 136 Sun, Aug 31 @TBR L 4-10 63-73 5th 21.5 gb 135 Sat, Aug 30 @TBR L 9-10 63-72 5th 20.5 gb 134 Fri, Aug 29 @TBR L 3-14 63-71 5th 19.5 gb Last 10: 1-9 Last 20: 4-16 Last 30: 9-21
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Tue, Sep 09, 2008 CLE 6 @BAL 1 W:Jeremy Sowers (3-8), L: Radhames Liz (5-5), S: none Mon, Sep 08, 2008 BAL 14 CLE 3 W:Garrett Olson (9-7), L: Fausto Carmona (8-6), S: none Thu, Aug 14, 2008 BAL 11 @CLE 6 W:Fernando Cabrera (1-1), L: Rafael Perez (2-3), S: none Wed, Aug 13, 2008 BAL 6 @CLE 1 W:Jeremy Guthrie (10-8), L: Anthony Reyes (3-2), S: none Tue, Aug 12, 2008 CLE 7 BAL 5 W:Rafael Perez (2-2), L: Jim Johnson (2-4), S: Jensen Lewis (2) Mon, Aug 11, 2008 CLE 13 BAL 8 W:Edward Mujica (1-1), L: Rocky Cherry (0-1), S: none Mon, May 07, 2007 CLE 10 @BAL 1 W:Fausto Carmona (3-1), L: Chad Bradford (0-1), S: none Sun, May 06, 2007 CLE 9 @BAL 6 W:C.C. Sabathia (5-0), L: Brian Burres (0-1), S: Joe Borowski (11) Sat, May 05, 2007 BAL 8 CLE 2 W:Daniel Cabrera (2-3), L: Jeremy Sowers (0-2), S: none Fri, May 04, 2007 BAL 3 CLE 2 (10) W:Chris Ray (3-2), L: Tom Mastny (2-1), S: none Season Series: 2008 - Tied 3-3; 2007 - CLE won 4-3; 2006 - BAL won 4-2; All-Time - CLE leads 1097-832

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 5.48

TBR 4.64

SDP 3.86

RA/G

TOR 3.79

NYY 4.59

TEX 5.94

R. Furcal .366

C. Jackson .294

J. Towles .141

OBP

A. Pujols .467

C. Lee .368

T. Pena .184

SLG

A. Pujols .655

N. Markakis .482

T. Pena .209

OPS

A. Pujols 1.121

R. Howard .842

T. Pena .393

ERA

C. Lee 2.28

G. Smith 4.05

C. Silva 6.53

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 10.19

J. Lester 6.56

L. Hernandez 3.35

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Cleveland Indians Batters (4.85 RS/G) vs. Baltimore Orioles Pitchers (5.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 29.Waters*
G/S/vB 59.Bass
G/S/vB 51.Bierd
G/S/vB 23.Castillo*
G/S/vB 57.Cherry
G/S/vB 54.Cormier
G/S/vB 41.McCrory
G/S/vB 31.Mickolio
G/S/vB 25.Miller
G/S/vB 45.Sarfate
G/S/vB 58.Simon
G/S/vB 32.Walker*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

23.Aubrey* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 36/34 .242/.306/.424/.730 .000/.775 .980 6/1.000 0/0 2/

29.Barfield G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 7/4 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/4.667 ··· 2/1.500 358/273 .240/.335/.337/.672 .890/.615 .610 87/.762 4/3 4/

7.Carroll G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB 5/1.100 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 342/234 .266/.350/.338/.688 .597/.730 .556 54/.783 7/3 1/

17.Choo* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/3.000 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 303/238 .297/.389/.525/.915 .802/.946 .829 90/1.194 4/3 9/

20.Dellucci* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.333 ··· 7/.286 358/341 .244/.313/.419/.732 .059/.766 .823 58/.650 3/2 11/

44.Fasano G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 50/33 .286/.367/.381/.748 .732/.752 .639 12/.523 0/0 0/

12.Francisco G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/1.167 ··· 1/5.000 440/328 .277/.337/.451/.788 .798/.785 .719 81/.725 4/3 14/

25.Garko G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/2.500 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 506/380 .253/.330/.361/.691 .781/.662 .670 100/.766 0/0 10/

38.Gutierrez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 391/263 .235/.289/.381/.670 .744/.634 .621 86/.859 6/3 8/

48.Hafner* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 19/1.401 193/145 .224/.333/.354/.687 .725/.675 .673 5/1.100 1/1 4/

15.Marte G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 233/171 .207/.252/.310/.562 .805/.476 .593 62/.698 1/2 3/

41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 16/.626 246/187 .278/.337/.350/.687 .891/.616 .592 29/.859 0/0 1/

2.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.833 ··· 7/1.738 585/447 .276/.326/.475/.801 .757/.814 .870 113/.715 3/1 21/

10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· 3/1.334 1/2.000 1/2.000 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 349/261 .265/.338/.510/.848 .906/.828 .831 85/.864 0/0 17/

24.Sizemore* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.667 ··· 10/1.125 654/470 .266/.378/.510/.888 .800/.921 .741 117/.828 37/4 31/

IP 38.1 70.0 31.2 22.2 11.0 64.0 3.1 1.1 3.1 79.2 1.2 35.1 TOTAL .259/.335/.421/.756 .768/.752 .731 .807 73/27 149/80

ERA-K/9

5.40/3.8

5.01/4.1

3.69/5.7

3.57/7.1

5.73/9.8

4.08/5.9

10.80/5.5

27.00/20.8

0.00/13.6

4.74/9.7

16.20/0.0

6.37/5.9

5.12/5.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Fasano (6-4-2)
Martinez (20-13-2)
Shoppach (33-7-8)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 175/.275 311/.298 150/.300 105/.247 56/.267 282/.269 20/.333 11/.500 19/.313 359/.218 8/.429 162/.315 .278 Francisco
Gutierrez
Choo
Sizemore
Dellucci
Carroll 71/2/31/11
10/11/86/3
20/0/43/3
0/133/0/2
52/0/0/1
1/0/0/0

OPS .824 .853 .799 .733 .882 .716 .860 1.261 .701 .707 2.071 .985 .799

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 43/1.187 118/.782 67/.775 39/.741 26/.906 125/.605 13/.824 5/1.350 10/.984 169/.686 4/2.500 88/.933 .796

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 132/.710 193/.896 83/.818 66/.727 30/.852 157/.798 7/.900 6/1.167 9/.444 190/.725 4/1.500 74/1.049 .801

Home 99/.885 167/.761 79/.892 40/.412 25/.775 107/.668 11/.933 11/1.261 8/.500 140/.645 8/2.071 62/.594 .804

Last 28d days 125/.893 21/.675 46/.848 47/1.090 43/.910 75/.583 12/.556 11/1.261 19/.701 83/.646 8/2.071 44/1.071

HR/SB/CS 5/2/0 11/1/2 2/0/0 2/2/0 1/0/0 4/5/2 0/0/0 0/0/0 0/1/0 8/6/2 2/1/0 12/1/1 168/116/32

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

Baltimore Orioles Batters (5.08 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.58 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 63.Betancourt
G/S/vB 26.Bullington
G/S/vB 58.Donnelly
G/S/vB 30.Kobayashi
G/S/vB 50.Lewis
G/S/vB 40.Mastny
G/S/vB 59.Meloan
G/S/vB 49.Mujica
G/S/vB 53.Perez*
G/S/vB 34.Rincon
G/S/vB 56.Rundles*
G/S/vB 54.Slocum
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

2.Castro G/S/vP 5/1.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 145/97 .182/.231/.258/.488 .464/.499 .467 74/.545 0/0 2/

13.Cintron# G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 6/.000 ··· 1/2.000 122/84 .268/.305/.357/.662 .598/.688 .763 26/.641 0/1 1/

12.Fahey* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 95/75 .233/.258/.333/.591 .358/.654 .669 3/.000 0/0 0/

55.Hernandez G/S/vP 4/1.417 ··· 12/1.383 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 3/.666 7/.429 ··· ··· 455/329 .260/.311/.422/.732 .741/.729 .778 85/.773 0/0 15/

17.Huff* G/S/vP 10/.756 ··· 6/1.467 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 3/.000 6/2.233 ··· ··· 595/416 .315/.371/.580/.952 .784/1.026 .992 99/1.197 4/0 31/

10.Jones G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/2.000 ··· ··· 457/348 .274/.316/.409/.725 .627/.755 .742 27/.739 8/3 9/

21.Markakis* G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/3.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/2.167 3/1.000 5/.400 ··· ··· 633/439 .299/.398/.482/.880 .856/.890 .776 105/.774 10/6 18/

15.Millar G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 9/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 3/1.334 8/.929 1/.000 ··· 578/416 .240/.329/.407/.735 .751/.729 .800 96/.671 0/1 20/

3.Montanez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/1.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 72/39 .319/.347/.449/.796 .740/.845 .849 56/.718 0/0 1/

6.Mora G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 5/1.100 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/2.500 3/.333 6/.666 ··· ··· 530/380 .284/.343/.494/.837 1.014/.766 .903 65/1.334 3/7 23/

16.Payton G/S/vP 10/.000 ··· 7/1.571 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 5/.800 ··· ··· 335/233 .250/.297/.362/.659 .819/.587 .633 80/.614 7/1 7/

24.Quiroz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 137/112 .185/.252/.266/.518 .758/.463 .563 22/.279 0/0 2/

1.Roberts# G/S/vP 4/1.750 ··· 6/.533 1/2.000 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 3/.000 7/.619 ··· ··· 639/451 .293/.375/.455/.830 .880/.810 .851 111/.702 37/10 9/

19.Salazar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/21 .235/.357/.441/.798 .569/1.028 .806 23/.685 0/0 2/

63.Santos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/

30.Scott* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 485/379 .271/.355/.501/.856 .716/.895 .953 87/.917 2/2 22/

IP 63.0 8.0 53.2 55.2 16.0 31.2 71.0 49.0 1.0 2.0 TOTAL .269/.336/.438/.774 .771/.775 .802 .794 75/34 163/87

ERA-K/9

4.86/8.3

/0.0

11.25/3.4

4.19/5.9

4.20/6.9

10.69/8.4

/0.0

6.54/6.0

3.30/9.9

5.88/6.4

0.00/0.0

27.00/4.5

4.34/6.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hernandez (90-24-9)
Quiroz (26-8-4)
Santos (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 270/.264 / 43/.378 231/.271 250/.275 82/.314 / 138/.296 286/.219 223/.286 4/.000 15/.615 .269 Markakis
Payton
Jones
Scott
Montanez 0/0/141/15
68/34/2/8
0/113/0/4
97/0/0/3
17/4/4/0

OPS .770 1.033 .733 .785 .974 .861 .612 .821 .250 1.754 .742

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 122/.722 / 19/.796 109/.819 132/.772 44/1.169 / 61/.896 116/.527 99/.964 2/.500 8/1.214 .775

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 148/.808 / 24/1.214 122/.657 118/.800 38/.771 / 77/.832 170/.668 124/.708 2/.000 7/2.381 .721

Road 115/.827 / 9/1.841 90/.875 121/.803 54/1.224 / 69/.827 156/.627 97/1.013 3/.000 15/1.754 .784

Last 28d days 59/.396 / 38/1.080 18/.722 35/.853 12/.879 / 37/.860 42/.578 43/.556 4/.250 /

HR/SB/CS 11/8/1 // 2/1/0 8/2/0 6/1/1 4/1/0 // 5/0/0 7/2/3 8/4/1 0/0/0 2/0/0 147/59/24

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

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Game Preview: CLE @ BAL, 7:05pm, Wednesday, September 10, 2008 @Oriole Park at Camden Yards

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

SP: Chris Waters (27, LHP, 2-2, 5.40)

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