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Game Preview: TEX @ DET, 7:05pm, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @Comerica Park

Texas Rangers, 7-13, 4th, 5 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Vicente Padilla (30, RHP, 2-1, 3.12)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (2-1)             26    31  11   9   9  15  2    3.12      
 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  37    38  16  13  17  23  3    3.16   51 
 2008-04-17   @TOR   W   7     7   1   1   3   2  0     112   58 
 2008-04-11    TOR   L   6     7   5   4   3   5  0      97   42 
 2008-04-06   @LAA   W   7     9   4   3   0   4  2     108   49 
 2008-04-01   @SEA  ND   6     8   1   1   3   4  0     110   53 
 2007-09-19   @MIN   L   5     3   3   3   5   2  1      97   46 
 2007-09-16   @OAK  ND   0     1   2   1   0   0  0      10   42 
 2007-09-11   @DET   W   6     3   0   0   3   6  0      99   69 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.DET      3-0  26    21   6   6   8  15  2    2.08   60 
 2007-09-11   @DET   W   6     3   0   0   3   6  0      99   69 
 2006-09-12   @DET  ND   7     5   2   2   1   3  2     105   61 
 2006-04-09    DET   W   6     7   3   3   3   3  0     100   46 
 2002-06-07   @DET   W   7     6   1   1   1   3  0      96   63 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    2-6    Road:    5-7    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   6-10   vsLHP:   1-3    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  4-8    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  3-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 20 Mon, Apr 21  @BOS  L   3-8        7-13  4th  5.0 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 20  @BOS  L   5-6        7-12  4th  4.5 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 19  @BOS  L   3-5        7-11  4th  4.5 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 18  @BOS  L   3-11       7-10  4th  3.5 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 17  @TOR  W   4-1        7-9   4th  2.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 16  @TOR  W   7-5 (14)   6-9   4th  2.5 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 15   LAA  L   4-7        5-9   4th  3.5 gb
 13 Mon, Apr 14   LAA  L   4-7        5-8   4th  3.5 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 13   TOR  L   4-5 (10)   5-7   4th  2.5 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 12   TOR  L   1-4        5-6   4th  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30: 7-13
Detroit Tigers, 7-13, 5th, 5 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Justin Verlander (25, RHP, 0-3, 7.03)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-3)             24.1  22  24  19  12  14  4    7.03      
 2007 (18-6)           201.2 181  88  82  67 183 20    3.66      
 2006 (17-9)           186   187  78  75  60 124 21    3.63      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-4  42    37  35  30  19  31 10    6.43   44 
 2008-04-17   @CLE   L   5     7   5   5   4   1  1     104   30 
 2008-04-12   @CHW   L   7.2   4   6   6   4   3  1     115   46 
 2008-04-06    CHW   L   5.2   7   9   4   3   4  1     109   30 
 2008-03-31    KCR  ND   6     4   4   4   1   6  1      97   53 
 2007-09-29   @CHW  ND   6     4   2   2   2   7  1     117   61 
 2007-09-23    KCR   W   6     5   2   2   2   6  1     104   58 
 2007-09-18   @CLE   L   5.2   6   7   7   3   4  4      95   30 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.TEX      3-1  25.1  24   7   7   6  22  1    2.49   59 
 2007-09-12    TEX   W   7     7   1   1   1   7  0     106   65 
 2007-06-06   @TEX   W   7     5   0   0   2   6  0     104   71 
 2006-09-13    TEX   L   4.1  10   6   6   1   2  1      80   20 
 2006-04-08   @TEX   W   7     2   0   0   2   7  0      89   78 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    2-6    Road:    5-7    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   4-12   vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   1-2 
 vsEast:  3-4    vsCntrl: 4-9    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 20 Mon, Apr 21  @TOR  W   5-1        7-13  5th  5.0 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 20  @TOR  L   3-5        6-13  5th  5.5 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 19  @TOR  L   2-3        6-12  5th  4.5 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 18  @TOR  W   8-4        6-11  5th  4.5 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 17  @CLE  L   1-11       5-11  5th  4.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 16  @CLE  W  13-2        5-10  4th  4.5 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 15   MIN  W   6-5        4-10  5th  4.5 gb
 13 Mon, Apr 14   MIN  W  11-9        3-10  5th  5.0 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 13  @CHW  L   0-11       2-10  5th  5.5 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 12  @CHW  L   0-7        2-9   5th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30: 7-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Sep 12, 2007 DET  5  TEX  1        W:Justin Verlander (17-5), L: Edinson Volquez (2-1), S: none
Tue, Sep 11, 2007 DET  4  TEX  1        W:Jair Jurrjens (2-1), L: Brandon McCarthy (5-9), S: Todd Jones (34)
Tue, Sep 11, 2007 TEX 13 @DET  6        W:Vicente Padilla (6-9), L: Chad Durbin (8-7), S: none
Thu, Jun 28, 2007 DET  5  TEX  2        W:Kenny Rogers (2-0), L: Kevin Millwood (4-7), S: Todd Jones (19)
Tue, Jun 26, 2007 TEX  9 @DET  6        W:Akinori Otsuka (2-1), L: Todd Jones (1-4), S: Eric Gagne (8)
Mon, Jun 25, 2007 TEX  8 @DET  3        W:Kameron Loe (4-6), L: Jeremy Bonderman (8-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 07, 2007 DET 11 @TEX  4        W:Mike Maroth (4-2), L: Kameron Loe (1-6), S: none
Wed, Jun 06, 2007 DET 10 @TEX  0        W:Justin Verlander (6-2), L: Kevin Millwood (2-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 05, 2007 TEX  7  DET  4        W:Willie Eyre (2-2), L: Nate Robertson (4-6), S: Eric Gagne (5)
Wed, Sep 13, 2006 TEX 11 @DET  3        W:Kevin Millwood (15-10), L: Justin Verlander (16-8), S: none
Season Series: 2008 -  0-0; 2007 - DET won 5-4; 2006 - Tied 5-5; All-Time - DET leads 322-274

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.

Texas Rangers Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (5.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Verlander
G/S/vB
52.Bautista
G/S/vB
49.Grilli
G/S/vB
59.Jones
G/S/vB
45.Lopez
G/S/vB
31.Miner
G/S/vB
50.Rapada*
G/S/vB
44.Seay*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Blalock* G/S/vP 9/.666 1/2.000 4/.250 7/.762 1/.000 3/.666 1/no AB 3/.000 232/178 .293/.358/.543/.901 .796/.932 .790 / 4/1 10/6
29.Botts# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 190/143 .240/.326/.335/.662 .833/.605 .660 / 1/0 2/0
21.Bradley# G/S/vP 6/1.167 ··· 5/.000 4/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 244/166 .306/.402/.545/.947 .966/.937 .964 / 5/2 13/2
23.Broussard* G/S/vP 18/.572 10/1.600 4/.250 7/.286 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 264/245 .275/.330/.404/.734 .618/.742 .734 / 2/0 7/2
27.Catalanotto* G/S/vP 7/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 7/.453 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 377/358 .260/.337/.444/.781 .606/.788 .622 / 2/1 11/0
6.Duran G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 337/256 .292/.368/.554/.922 .588/1.028 .861 / 3/3 19/4
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 10/.929 2/2.500 5/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 566/431 .263/.355/.441/.796 .999/.732 .675 / 23/2 20/17
15.Laird G/S/vP 8/.250 2/1.500 3/1.000 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 448/329 .224/.278/.349/.627 .691/.603 .588 / 6/2 9/12
2.Melhuse# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 103/76 .213/.275/.287/.562 .630/.532 .608 / 0/0 1/0
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 3/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 112/89 .343/.384/.552/.936 1.071/.901 1.056 / 0/0 2/1
12.Vazquez* G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· 2/.000 5/.800 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 345/257 .230/.300/.373/.674 .483/.739 .735 / 1/0 8/7
10.Young G/S/vP 12/.697 1/.000 11/1.858 6/1.500 4/.500 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 692/524 .315/.366/.418/.783 .797/.779 .759 / 13/3 9/19
IP 201.2 8.2 79.2 61.1 17.1 53.2 2.2 46.1 TOTAL .261/.335/.419/.754 .774/.748 .788 .754 12/2 19/22
ERA-K/9 3.66/8.2 12.46/8.3 4.74/7.0 4.26/4.8 5.19/3.6 3.02/5.7 10.13/13.3 2.33/7.4 5.45/5.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Laird (59-39-9)
 Melhuse (16-4-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 866/.233 48/.429 352/.263 265/.267 76/.273 232/.273 13/.273 189/.228 .261  Hamilton
 Murphy
 Bradley
 Botts
 Catalanotto
 Laird
 Broussard
9/71/10/7
32/10/15/4
40/15/4/3
28/0/0/2
64/0/0/2
1/0/0/0
10/0/12/0
OPS .668 .989 .714 .702 .751 .727 1.294 .619 .782
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 464/.689 28/1.096 120/.702 151/.705 37/.803 92/.567 9/.905 101/.545 .883
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 402/.643 20/.833 232/.718 114/.696 39/.705 140/.834 4/2.000 88/.707 .731
Home 454/.664 21/1.303 184/.910 125/.626 35/.757 106/.712 12/1.417 99/.487 .788
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 20/4/1 0/1/0 5/1/2 3/1/0 2/0/0 3/4/6 2/0/0 1/1/1 18/10/3
Usage ····X··· X··Xo··· ··X··X·· X··X··Xo X·oo··o· ·X··X··· o·o···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.

Detroit Tigers Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Texas Rangers Pitchers (5.25 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Padilla
G/S/vB
53.Benoit
G/S/vB
54.German
G/S/vB
58.Littleton
G/S/vB
57.Nippert
G/S/vB
59.Rupe
G/S/vB
36.Wilson*
G/S/vB
45.Wright
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 18/1.021 2/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.600 680/530 .320/.401/.565/.965 1.173/.910 1.026 / 2/1 34/23
9.Guillen# G/S/vP 12/.833 20/.800 1/2.000 3/2.667 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 630/500 .296/.357/.502/.859 .921/.843 .863 / 13/8 21/25
15.Inge G/S/vP 7/.929 10/1.178 ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· 12/.533 577/447 .236/.312/.376/.688 .923/.621 .748 / 9/2 14/18
19.Jones* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 4/.500 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 13/.481 495/408 .285/.335/.400/.735 .763/.729 .710 / 6/3 5/4
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 9/1.500 16/.938 3/1.167 4/.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 11/.182 679/531 .363/.434/.595/1.029 1.213/.980 1.129 / 4/1 28/1
14.Polanco G/S/vP 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 34/.878 641/489 .341/.388/.458/.846 .813/.857 .871 / 7/3 9/0
25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 148/84 .304/.340/.507/.847 .759/.912 .821 / 3/0 4/1
8.Renteria G/S/vP 12/1.227 4/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/.548 543/347 .332/.390/.470/.860 .918/.827 .854 / 11/2 12/11
7.Rodriguez G/S/vP 19/.816 10/.900 ··· 4/1.750 ··· 1/.000 ··· 8/.929 515/389 .281/.294/.420/.714 .746/.703 .744 / 2/2 11/6
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 7/.858 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 2/.500 7/.000 74/62 .284/.324/.388/.712 1.117/.638 .449 / 3/0 0/2
3.Sheffield G/S/vP 42/1.070 13/.322 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 31/1.905 593/460 .265/.378/.462/.839 .832/.841 .901 / 22/5 25/0
33.Thames G/S/vP 9/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 284/193 .242/.278/.498/.776 .927/.705 .844 / 2/1 18/4
36.Thomas* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
IP 120.1 82.0 48.0 45.1 68.1 77.0 TOTAL .258/.341/.393/.734 .791/.720 .768 .734 10/0 16/12
ERA-K/9 5.76/5.3 2.85/9.5 /0.0 4.31/4.5 5.56/7.5 /0.0 3.03/8.3 3.62/4.6 4.58/4.8

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 553/.299 337/.225 / 205/.262 196/.267 / 285/.208 330/.259 .293  Jones
 Ordonez
 Sheffield
 Thames
 Raburn
2/84/67/8
0/0/143/4
7/0/7/1
37/0/9/1
10/13/16/1
OPS .810 .641 .737 .743 .602 .743 .791
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 266/.877 146/.489 / 79/.695 92/.662 / 115/.381 144/.848 .806
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 287/.749 191/.760 / 126/.763 104/.807 / 170/.754 186/.666 .779
Road 308/.932 152/.712 / 98/.574 80/.815 / 122/.559 179/.830 .800
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 16/3/3 6/2/2 // 6/3/1 5/1/0 // 4/2/0 6/4/4 12/17/8
Usage ····X··· o·X··Xo· X····X·o ·X···X·X X··X·o·· ···X··X· ·X··Xoo· ·oo·XX·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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