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Game Preview: CHC @ COL, 8:35pm, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @Coors Field

Chicago Cubs, 14-6, 1st, 1½ up

SP: Rich Hill (28, LHP, 1-0, 3.86)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. COL Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-0)             14    10   6   6  10  11  1    3.86      
 2007 (11-8)           195   170  89  85  63 183 27    3.92      
 2006 (6-7)             99.1  83  51  46  39  90 16    4.17      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         4-0  36.2  26  14  14  17  33  2    3.44   55 
 2008-04-18    PIT   W   5     3   1   1   3   4  0      82   58 
 2008-04-10   @PIT  ND   3     3   3   3   4   3  0      72   40 
 2008-04-04    HOU  ND   6     4   2   2   3   4  1      88   57 
 2007-09-29   @CIN   W   6     1   0   0   1   4  0      79   73 
 2007-09-22    PIT   W   5     5   3   3   2   4  0      74   47 
 2007-09-17    CIN  ND   4.2   7   4   4   1   7  0      81   40 
 2007-09-12   @HOU   W   7     3   1   1   3   7  1     116   71 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.COL      0-2  10.1  15  13  13   7   6  2   11.32   25 
 2007-08-11   @COL   L   5.2   9   7   7   2   4  1      89   25 
 2006-08-11   @COL   L   4.2   6   6   6   5   2  1      94   25 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   10-4    Road:    4-2    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:   9-5    vsLHP:   5-1    1-Run:   3-2 
 vsEast:  3-2    vsCntrl:11-4    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 20 Tue, Apr 22   NYM  W   8-1       14-6   1st  1.5 up
 19 Mon, Apr 21   NYM  W   7-1       13-6   1st  0.5 up
 18 Sun, Apr 20   PIT  W  13-6       12-6   1st  0.5 up
 17 Sat, Apr 19   PIT  W  13-1       11-6   2nd  0.5 gb
 16 Fri, Apr 18   PIT  W   3-2       10-6   2nd  1.5 gb
 15 Thu, Apr 17   CIN  L   2-9        9-6   2nd  1.5 gb
 14 Wed, Apr 16   CIN  W  12-3        9-5   2nd  1.5 gb
 13 Tue, Apr 15   CIN  W   9-5        8-5   2nd  1.5 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 13  @PHI  W   6-5 (10)   7-5   3rd  1.5 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 12  @PHI  L   1-7        6-5   3rd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:14-6 
Colorado Rockies, 9-11, 2nd, 6 GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Franklin Morales (22, LHP, 1-1, 6.60)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-1)             15    14  11  11  11   5  1    6.60      
 2007 (3-2)             39.1  34  15  15  14  26  2    3.43      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         4-1  37    25  14  14  17  24  1    3.41   54 
 2008-04-18   @HOU   W   5     5   4   4   4   2  0     113   39 
 2008-04-12   @ARI   L   4     7   7   7   4   1  1      84   17 
 2008-04-06    ARI  ND   6     2   0   0   3   2  0      96   67 
 2007-09-27   @LAD   W   5     4   3   3   1   4  0      64   50 
 2007-09-21   @SDP  ND   6     1   0   0   4   6  0      81   72 
 2007-09-16    FLA   W   6     3   0   0   0   5  0      74   71 
 2007-09-11   @PHI   W   5     3   0   0   1   4  0      83   64 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CHC    Has never faced CHC.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-5    Road:    6-6    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   6-10   vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   5-0 
 vsEast:  3-2    vsCntrl: 3-3    vsWest:  3-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 20 Tue, Apr 22   PHI  L   6-8        9-11  2nd  6.0 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 21   PHI  L   5-9        9-10  2nd  5.0 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 20  @HOU  L   4-6        9-9   2nd  4.0 gb
 17 Sat, Apr 19  @HOU  W   3-2        9-8   2nd  4.0 gb
 16 Fri, Apr 18  @HOU  W  11-5        8-8   2nd  4.0 gb
 15 Thu, Apr 17  @SDP  W   2-1 (22)   7-8   3rd  4.0 gb
 14 Wed, Apr 16  @SDP  W  10-2        6-8   4th  4.5 gb
 13 Tue, Apr 15  @SDP  L   0-6        5-8   4th  4.5 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 13  @ARI  W  13-5        5-7   3rd  4.0 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 12  @ARI  L   3-10       4-7   4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30: 9-11
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 12, 2007 COL  6  CHC  3        W:Matt Herges (1-0), L: Kerry Wood (0-1), S: Manuel Corpas (9)
Sat, Aug 11, 2007 COL 15  CHC  2        W:Josh Fogg (7-7), L: Rich Hill (6-7), S: none
Fri, Aug 10, 2007 CHC  6 @COL  2        W:Jason Marquis (9-7), L: Aaron Cook (8-7), S: none
Thu, Aug 09, 2007 CHC 10 @COL  2        W:Ted Lilly (13-5), L: Ubaldo Jimenez (1-2), S: none
Wed, Jun 27, 2007 CHC  6  COL  4        W:Carlos Zambrano (9-6), L: Jason Hirsh (3-7), S: Carlos Marmol (1)
Tue, Jun 26, 2007 CHC  8  COL  5        W:Ted Lilly (6-4), L: Rodrigo Lopez (4-1), S: Will Ohman (1)
Mon, Jun 25, 2007 CHC 10  COL  9        W:Bobby Howry (4-4), L: Brian Fuentes (0-2), S: none
Sun, Oct 01, 2006 CHC  8  COL  5        W:David Aardsma (3-0), L: Jeremy Affeldt (8-8), S: none
Sat, Sep 30, 2006 COL 11 @CHC  9 (14)   W:Ramon Ramirez (4-3), L: Jae Kuk Ryu (0-1), S: none
Fri, Sep 29, 2006 COL  5 @CHC  2        W:Josh Fogg (11-9), L: Carlos Zambrano (16-7), S: Brian Fuentes (30)
Season Series: 2008 -  0-0; 2007 - CHC won 5-2; 2006 - COL won 4-2; All-Time - CHC leads 68-63

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.

Chicago Cubs Batters (6.30 RS/G) vs. Colorado Rockies Pitchers (5.20 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Morales*
G/S/vB
35.Buchholz
G/S/vB
60.Corpas
G/S/vB
40.Fuentes*
G/S/vB
34.Herges
G/S/vB
45.Newman*
G/S/vB
23.Speier
G/S/vB
16.Wells
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Blanco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.500 ··· ··· 3/.000 58/36 .167/.193/.222/.415 .145/.574 .408 / 0/0 0/0
5.Cedeno G/S/vP ··· 3/2.000 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 2/1.000 80/46 .203/.231/.392/.623 .382/.823 .622 / 2/1 4/2
7.DeRosa G/S/vP ··· 8/.500 1/.000 3/.666 5/.600 ··· 1/.000 4/.833 574/410 .293/.371/.420/.792 .745/.810 .766 / 1/2 10/11
17.Fontenot* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 260/201 .278/.336/.402/.738 .586/.781 .633 / 5/4 3/8
1.Fukudome* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
9.Johnson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 307/222 .236/.305/.320/.625 .913/.513 .630 / 4/2 2/0
25.Lee G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 3/2.334 11/.788 ··· 1/.000 28/.748 650/509 .317/.400/.513/.913 1.015/.885 .749 / 6/5 22/7
19.Murton G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/3.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 261/160 .281/.352/.438/.791 .892/.727 .918 / 1/0 8/4
20.Pie* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 194/156 .215/.271/.333/.604 .269/.689 .640 / 8/1 2/0
16.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 4/.750 1/.000 6/1.917 10/.500 ··· ··· 18/1.091 558/431 .310/.366/.549/.915 1.220/.826 .780 / 0/0 26/10
18.Soto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/30 .389/.433/.667/1.100 1.096/1.104 1.242 / 0/0 3/0
2.Theriot G/S/vP ··· 3/.833 2/1.500 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 4/.500 597/456 .266/.326/.346/.672 .797/.634 .609 / 28/4 3/11
33.Ward* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.800 ··· ··· 13/1.154 133/123 .327/.436/.527/.963 .775/.978 .893 / 0/0 3/1
IP 39.1 93.2 78.0 61.1 48.2 2.0 18.0 162.2 TOTAL .286/.371/.458/.829 .823/.831 .709 .829 16/7 25/13
ERA-K/9 3.43/6.0 4.23/5.9 2.08/6.7 3.08/8.2 2.96/5.5 4.50/13.5 4.00/6.5 5.70/6.7 4.45/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Blanco (8-3-2)
 Soto (10-4-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 163/.241 396/.288 306/.224 255/.206 191/.198 8/.250 77/.299 750/.287 .250  Johnson
 Murton
 DeRosa
 Ward
 Pie
 Theriot
70/1/8/3
28/1/41/3
1/0/22/1
1/0/10/1
2/80/0/1
4/0/2/0
OPS .655 .748 .596 .622 .598 .625 .814 .828 .735
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 35/.432 182/.726 152/.630 64/.598 82/.654 5/.000 29/.929 325/.865 .688
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 128/.717 214/.767 154/.562 191/.630 109/.555 3/1.667 48/.750 425/.799 .763
Home 57/.797 184/.784 163/.589 117/.534 118/.717 5/1.000 55/.996 358/.796 .816
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 2/4/1 8/7/0 6/0/3 6/1/1 4/0/1 0/0/0 1/1/1 19/17/5 20/10/1
Usage ····X··· ·X··oXo· X··o·Xo· ·oXX·Xo· Xo··XoX· ··o··X·o ··X··X·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.

Colorado Rockies Batters (4.35 RS/G) vs. Chicago Cubs Pitchers (4.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.Hill*
G/S/vB
22.Hart
G/S/vB
62.Howry
G/S/vB
32.Lieber
G/S/vB
49.Marmol
G/S/vB
45.Marshall*
G/S/vB
34.Wood
G/S/vB
43.Wuertz
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Atkins G/S/vP 6/1.133 ··· 4/2.250 9/.333 4/2.750 3/1.167 3/.333 3/.333 684/486 .301/.367/.486/.853 .782/.882 .936 / 3/1 25/14
10.Baker G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 159/90 .222/.296/.347/.643 .760/.556 .762 / 0/0 4/3
12.Barmes G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 4/.000 12/.728 3/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 3/.000 39/29 .216/.237/.297/.534 1.111/.351 .804 / 0/0 0/2
11.Hawpe* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 6/.833 9/1.667 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 606/467 .291/.387/.539/.926 .679/1.002 1.017 / 0/2 29/6
17.Helton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 25/.789 3/.333 3/.000 22/.364 3/.333 682/485 .320/.434/.494/.928 .743/1.005 .997 / 0/1 17/2
5.Holliday G/S/vP 6/1.417 ··· 2/1.000 12/.969 5/.650 3/2.500 2/.000 4/.000 713/549 .340/.405/.607/1.012 .958/1.028 1.157 / 11/4 36/3
20.Iannetta G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 234/174 .218/.330/.350/.681 .779/.648 .538 / 0/0 4/1
4.Nix G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
22.Podsednik* G/S/vP 6/.900 ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/no AB 6/.900 16/.976 2/1.000 235/163 .243/.299/.369/.668 .774/.622 .659 / 12/5 2/4
19.Spilborghs G/S/vP 5/1.400 ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.933 3/.333 1/.000 4/.750 300/199 .299/.363/.485/.848 1.012/.767 .888 / 4/1 11/1
3.Taveras G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.666 5/.400 2/.000 3/.333 7/.429 408/309 .320/.367/.382/.748 .877/.708 .776 / 33/9 2/4
8.Torrealba G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 3/.000 3/.666 4/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 443/344 .255/.323/.376/.699 .710/.695 .777 / 2/1 8/7
2.Tulowitzki G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 3/1.666 1/3.000 4/.500 682/527 .291/.359/.479/.838 .932/.811 .960 / 7/6 24/11
IP 195.0 11.0 81.1 78.0 69.1 103.1 24.1 72.1 TOTAL .252/.327/.394/.720 .652/.736 .778 .720 17/7 16/11
ERA-K/9 3.92/8.4 0.82/10.6 3.32/8.0 4.73/6.2 1.43/12.5 3.92/5.8 3.33/8.9 3.48/9.8 3.81/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Iannetta (33-10-4)
 Torrealba (61-15-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 812/.235 42/.189 336/.245 342/.293 285/.169 446/.267 101/.207 312/.234 .240  Holliday
 Taveras
 Hawpe
 Podsednik
 Spilborghs
 Baker
 Barmes
157/0/0/7
0/86/0/7
0/0/142/6
55/3/0/4
15/46/20/2
6/0/13/1
0/5/0/0
OPS .699 .566 .670 .785 .508 .750 .609 .712 .708
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 170/.573 14/.071 144/.566 161/.836 106/.616 75/.600 32/.443 93/.707 .790
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 642/.732 28/.829 192/.746 181/.741 179/.445 371/.781 69/.683 219/.714 .657
Road 442/.659 21/.668 156/.626 165/.693 142/.513 237/.708 54/.783 125/.669 .771
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 27/23/5 0/1/0 8/2/0 7/2/0 3/9/0 13/5/2 0/0/1 8/7/1 19/14/6
Usage ····X··· X··X··X· o·X··o·· ····oX·· Xo··X··X ··X·oo·· ·o··o··o ··XX·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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