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Game Preview: DET @ BOS, 7:05pm, Thursday, April 10, 2008 @Fenway Park II

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Detroit Tigers, 1-7, 5th, 3 GB, 3 GB in WC

SP: Nate Robertson (30, LHP, 0-0, 9.00)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-0)              5     7   5   5   2   5  1    9.00      
 2007 (9-13)           177.2 199  98  94  63 119 22    4.76      
 2006 (13-13)          208.2 206  98  89  67 137 29    3.84      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-2  43.1  40  22  21  16  31  6    4.36   51 
 2008-04-04    CHW  ND   5     7   5   5   2   5  1      91   36 
 2007-09-30    CHW   W   6.2   8   3   3   0   2  1     104   48 
 2007-09-24    MIN   L   7     3   1   1   4   6  0     111   69 
 2007-09-19    CLE   L   7     6   4   4   3   5  1     105   51 
 2007-09-14    MIN   W   7     5   2   2   3   5  1     106   61 
 2007-09-08    SEA  ND   4.2   7   5   4   3   3  2      83   32 
 2007-09-02    OAK  ND   6     4   2   2   1   5  0      90   60 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.BOS      2-2  31    31  20  20  12  20  5    5.81   46 
 2007-07-08    BOS   W   6.1   4   4   4   4   2  2     107   47 
 2007-05-14    BOS   L   5    11   3   3   0   3  0     115   36 
 2006-08-14    BOS   W   6     5   3   3   2   5  1     102   53 
 2005-08-28    BOS   L   5.2   9   8   8   3   5  1      97   21 
 2005-08-16    BOS  ND   8     2   2   2   3   5  1      90   72 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    0-6    Road:    1-1    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   0-6    vsLHP:   1-1    1-Run:   0-1 
 vsEast:  1-1    vsCntrl: 0-6    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  8 Wed, Apr  9  @BOS  W   7-2        1-7   5th  3.0 gb
  7 Tue, Apr  8  @BOS  L   0-5        0-7   5th  3.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr  6   CHW  L   2-13       0-6   1st    Tied
  5 Sat, Apr  5   CHW  L   3-5        0-5   1st    Tied
  4 Fri, Apr  4   CHW  L   5-8        0-4   1st    Tied
  3 Thu, Apr  3   KCR  L   1-4        0-3   1st    Tied
  2 Wed, Apr  2   KCR  L   0-4        0-2   1st    Tied
  1 Mon, Mar 31   KCR  L   4-5 (11)   0-1   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 1-7    Last 20: 1-7    Last 30: 1-7 
Boston Red Sox, 4-5, 1st, Tied

SP: Tim Wakefield (41, RHP, 0-0, 4.50)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-0)              6     6   3   3   3   4  1    4.50      
 2007 (17-12)          189   191 104 100  64 110 22    4.76      
 2006 (7-11)           140   135  80  72  51  90 19    4.63      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-2  37.2  48  28  27  13  22  8    6.45   41 
 2008-04-04    TOR  ND   6     6   3   3   3   4  1      88   49 
 2007-09-29    MIN   W   7     6   4   3   0   1  2      92   52 
 2007-09-23    TBD   L   5     7   4   4   3   5  1      92   39 
 2007-09-17    TOR   L   6     7   4   4   2   2  2      73   42 
 2007-09-11    TBD  ND   3    10   7   7   0   4  1      65   15 
 2007-09-06    BAL  ND   3.2   9   6   6   2   0  1      74   17 
 2007-08-25    CHW   W   7     3   0   0   3   6  0     112   74 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.DET      3-2  35    35  17  16   7  23  7    4.11   53 
 2007-05-15    DET   L   7     9   5   5   1   4  2     105   42 
 2006-06-03    DET   L   7     6   3   3   2   6  2      99   57 
 2005-08-26    DET   W   6     7   5   4   2   1  2     101   39 
 2005-05-04    DET   W   7    10   3   3   1   5  0     110   49 
 2004-08-29    DET   W   8     3   1   1   1   7  1      99   78 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    1-1    Road:    3-4    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   3-5    vsLHP:   1-0    1-Run:   2-0 
 vsEast:  0-3    vsCntrl: 1-1    vsWest:  3-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Wed, Apr  9   DET  L   2-7        4-5   1st    Tied
  8 Tue, Apr  8   DET  W   5-0        4-4   1st    Tied
  7 Sun, Apr  6  @TOR  L   4-7        3-4   1st    Tied
  6 Sat, Apr  5  @TOR  L   2-10       3-3   1st    Tied
  5 Fri, Apr  4  @TOR  L   3-6        3-2   1st    Tied
  4 Wed, Apr  2  @OAK  W   5-0        3-1   1st    Tied
  3 Tue, Apr  1  @OAK  W   2-1        2-1   1st    Tied
  2 Wed, Mar 26  @OAK  L   1-5        1-1   1st    Tied
  1 Tue, Mar 25  @OAK  W   6-5 (10)   1-0   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 4-5    Last 20: 4-5    Last 30: 4-5 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Apr 09, 2008 DET  7 @BOS  2        W:Jeremy Bonderman (1-1), L: Jon Lester (1-2), S: none
Tue, Apr 08, 2008 BOS  5  DET  0        W:Daisuke Matsuzaka (2-0), L: Kenny Rogers (0-2), S: none

Sun, Jul 08, 2007 DET  6  BOS  5        W:Nate Robertson , L: Daisuke Matsuzaka , S: Todd Jones 
Sat, Jul 07, 2007 DET  3  BOS  2 (13)   W:Jason Grilli , L: Jonathan Papelbon , S: none
Fri, Jul 06, 2007 DET  9  BOS  2        W:Andrew Miller , L: Julian Tavarez , S: none
Thu, May 17, 2007 BOS  4  DET  2        W:Brendan Donnelly , L: Wilfredo Ledezma , S: Hideki Okajima 
Thu, May 17, 2007 BOS  2  DET  1        W:Julian Tavarez , L: Zach Miner , S: Jonathan Papelbon 
Tue, May 15, 2007 DET  7 @BOS  2        W:Justin Verlander , L: Tim Wakefield , S: none
Mon, May 14, 2007 BOS  7  DET  1        W:Daisuke Matsuzaka , L: Nate Robertson , S: none
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 BOS  6  DET  4        W:David Wells (2-2), L: Justin Verlander (14-6), S: Jonathan Papelbon (32)
Season Series: 2008 - Tied 1-1; 2007 - DET won 4-3; 2006 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - BOS leads 1000-942

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

For the 2007 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY  5.98

BAL  4.67

WSN  4.15

RA/G

BOS  4.06

KCR  4.80

TBD  5.83

BA

M. Ordonez  .363

J. Francoeur  .293

J. LaRue  .148

OBP

B. Bonds  .480

J. Varitek  .367

J. LaRue  .240

SLG

C. Ross  .653

T. Tulowitzki  .479

A. Gonzalez  .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez  1.067

G. Sheffield  .839

J. LaRue  .512

ERA

J. Peavy  2.54

A. Pettitte  4.05

S. Olsen  5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard  10.93

G. Meche  6.50

A. Cook  3.31

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Detroit Tigers Batters (2.75 RS/G) vs. Boston Red Sox Pitchers (4.56 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Wakefield
G/S/vB
53.Aardsma
G/S/vB
30.Corey
G/S/vB
17.Delcarmen
G/S/vB
48.Lopez*
G/S/vB
37.Okajima*
G/S/vB
58.Papelbon
G/S/vB
51.Tavarez
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 6/.533 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 6/1.166 680/530 .320/.401/.565/.965 1.173/.910 .905 / 2/1 34/23
9.Guillen# G/S/vP 20/.618 3/1.667 1/no AB 1/.000 2/5.000 2/.000 2/.000 7/.572 630/500 .296/.357/.502/.859 .921/.843 .855 / 13/8 21/25
15.Inge G/S/vP 23/.895 2/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 2/.000 1/no AB 4/.750 5/1.350 577/447 .236/.312/.376/.688 .923/.621 .631 / 9/2 14/18
19.Jones* G/S/vP 16/.258 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 3/2.667 7/1.000 495/408 .285/.335/.400/.735 .763/.729 .763 / 6/3 5/4
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 36/1.288 4/1.167 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 3/.333 5/.900 13/.539 679/531 .363/.434/.595/1.029 1.213/.980 .937 / 4/1 28/1
14.Polanco G/S/vP 11/.091 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 3/1.666 2/.000 4/1.000 19/.886 641/489 .341/.388/.458/.846 .813/.857 .820 / 7/3 9/0
8.Renteria G/S/vP 11/.637 1/.000 1/2.000 4/.000 4/.750 ··· 1/2.000 20/1.289 543/347 .332/.390/.470/.860 .918/.827 .864 / 11/2 12/11
7.Rodriguez G/S/vP 47/.819 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 5/.400 19/.947 515/389 .281/.294/.420/.714 .746/.703 .687 / 2/2 11/6
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 10/1.375 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 74/62 .284/.324/.388/.712 1.117/.638 .921 / 3/0 0/2
3.Sheffield G/S/vP 43/.890 2/.500 1/no AB 1/.000 2/2.000 3/.000 2/.500 35/.937 593/460 .265/.378/.462/.839 .832/.841 .783 / 22/5 25/0
33.Thames G/S/vP 17/.673 3/1.666 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 3/2.333 284/193 .242/.278/.498/.776 .927/.705 .709 / 2/1 18/4
36.Thomas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
IP 189.0 32.1 9.1 44.0 40.2 69.0 58.1 134.2 TOTAL .241/.326/.356/.681 .728/.668 .703 .681 2/0 6/7
ERA-K/9 4.76/5.2 6.40/10.0 1.93/5.8 2.05/8.4 3.10/5.7 2.22/8.2 1.85/13.0 5.15/5.1 4.50/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Rodriguez (47-21-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 800/.264 151/.300 32/.231 176/.183 174/.240 272/.202 224/.146 604/.281 .221  Jones
 Ordonez
 Thames
 Sheffield
2/84/67/8
0/0/143/4
37/0/9/1
7/0/7/1
OPS .753 .867 .630 .564 .695 .561 .463 .779 .689
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 384/.716 59/.789 15/.583 73/.578 93/.805 98/.648 126/.400 303/.723 .515
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 416/.786 92/.904 17/.670 103/.555 81/.565 174/.512 98/.543 301/.834 .766
Home 394/.775 71/.618 21/.703 88/.675 92/.723 138/.632 119/.555 280/.758 .703
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 22/41/8 4/0/0 0/1/0 4/2/2 2/0/1 6/5/0 5/4/0 14/0/0 10/5/2
Usage ·····X·· X··X·o·· o···Xo·X ·X·o·X·o X····o·· ·X·o···· ···o···· o···X···

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Boston Red Sox Batters (3.33 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (5.75 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 29.Robertson*
G/S/vB
52.Bautista
G/S/vB
40.Bazardo
G/S/vB
62.Beltran
G/S/vB
49.Grilli
G/S/vB
59.Jones
G/S/vB
45.Lopez
G/S/vB
31.Miner
G/S/vB
44.Seay*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Casey* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 3/1.167 3/1.000 496/425 .296/.353/.393/.746 .929/.716 .794 / 2/2 4/2
36.Cash G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/18 .111/.242/.148/.391 .354/.421 .138 / 0/0 0/1
13.Cora* G/S/vP ··· 6/.334 ··· 2/3.500 1/.000 8/.500 ··· 5/.800 2/2.000 232/203 .246/.298/.386/.684 .385/.730 .588 / 1/1 3/5
10.Crisp# G/S/vP 36/.853 9/.347 ··· ··· 4/1.417 5/.900 1/2.000 8/.286 4/.500 591/426 .268/.330/.382/.712 .751/.697 .765 / 28/6 6/1
7.Drew* G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/4.000 5/1.350 ··· ··· 1/.000 552/422 .270/.373/.423/.796 .638/.846 .833 / 4/2 11/6
46.Ellsbury* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 127/98 .353/.394/.509/.902 .802/.931 .971 / 9/0 3/0
25.Lowell G/S/vP 12/.633 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 11/1.182 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 653/473 .324/.378/.501/.879 .849/.890 .993 / 3/2 21/15
23.Lugo G/S/vP 9/1.431 5/1.600 ··· 1/3.000 1/2.000 6/.334 5/.400 7/.000 1/4.000 630/455 .237/.294/.349/.643 .651/.640 .745 / 33/6 8/19
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 21/.449 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/no AB 6/.533 6/1.166 6/.667 2/.500 667/457 .332/.445/.621/1.066 .852/1.171 1.128 / 3/1 35/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 581/395 .317/.380/.442/.823 .870/.800 .912 / 7/1 8/6
24.Ramirez G/S/vP 16/.625 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 12/.878 10/1.475 6/.900 4/.000 569/408 .296/.388/.493/.881 1.095/.801 .891 / 0/0 20/2
33.Varitek# G/S/vP 12/1.235 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 11/1.000 9/.472 2/2.000 5/.900 518/371 .255/.367/.421/.787 .801/.782 .794 / 1/2 17/6
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 15/1.390 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/2.500 4/1.250 2/2.000 6/1.834 5/1.350 625/451 .288/.390/.453/.843 .815/.854 .797 / 4/2 16/3
IP 177.2 8.2 23.2 79.2 61.1 17.1 53.2 46.1 TOTAL .264/.331/.410/.742 .840/.723 .826 .742 1/3 8/6
ERA-K/9 4.76/6.0 12.46/8.3 2.28/5.7 /0.0 4.74/7.0 4.26/4.8 5.19/3.6 3.02/5.7 2.33/7.4 4.68/5.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cash (9-2-0)
 Varitek (63-20-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 781/.283 48/.429 96/.218 / 352/.263 265/.267 76/.273 232/.273 189/.228 .278  Ramirez
 Crisp
 Drew
 Ellsbury
120/0/0/8
0/144/0/7
0/4/133/3
22/16/1/0
OPS .787 .989 .638 .714 .702 .751 .727 .619 .807
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 204/.732 28/1.096 48/.844 / 120/.702 151/.705 37/.803 92/.567 101/.545 .914
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 577/.807 20/.833 48/.420 / 232/.718 114/.696 39/.705 140/.834 88/.707 .748
Road 352/.814 27/.732 34/.820 / 168/.499 140/.771 41/.747 126/.740 90/.766 .826
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 22/7/4 0/1/0 2/1/0 // 5/1/2 3/1/0 2/0/0 3/4/6 1/1/1 7/3/3
Usage ·····X·· X···oo·· ···X···o o···X··· ·X···X·· X····o·· ·X·X··X· ····oX·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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