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Game Preview: DET @ NYY, 7:05pm, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 @Yankee Stadium II

Detroit Tigers, 11-15, 5th, 4 GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Kenny Rogers (43, LHP, 1-3, 7.66)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-3)             24.2  32  22  21  15   9  2    7.66      
 2007 (3-4)             63    65  36  31  25  36  8    4.43      
 2006 (17-8)           204   195  97  87  62  99 23    3.84      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-5  36.2  47  31  28  23  16  3    6.87   37 
 2008-04-23    TEX  ND   3.1   9   6   6   3   0  0      73   15 
 2008-04-18   @TOR   W   6.2   3   4   4   4   1  1      98   49 
 2008-04-13   @CHW   L   4     7   7   7   4   1  1      91   17 
 2008-04-08   @BOS   L   4.2   8   3   2   3   3  0     107   38 
 2008-04-02    KCR   L   6     5   2   2   1   4  0      87   57 
 2007-09-28   @CHW   L   6     7   4   4   6   1  1     107   37 
 2007-09-22    KCR   L   6     8   5   3   2   6  0      90   44 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.NYY      0-3  25    50  33  32  18  10 10   11.52   19 
 2004-06-04   @NYY  ND   4     8   6   6   4   3  5      98   21 
 2002-08-26   @NYY   L   5    13   7   7   4   0  1     107    9 
 2002-07-29    NYY   L   4.1   9   8   7   3   2  2      84   14 
 2000-08-23   @NYY  ND   5    11   6   6   4   4  0     112   21 
 2000-04-18    NYY   L   6.2   9   6   6   3   1  2     102   30 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    6-8    Road:    5-7    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   8-14   vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   1-3 
 vsEast:  3-4    vsCntrl: 4-9    vsWest:  4-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 26 Sun, Apr 27   LAA  L   2-6       11-15  5th  4.0 gb
 25 Sat, Apr 26   LAA  W   6-4       11-14  5th  3.0 gb
 24 Fri, Apr 25   LAA  L   3-4       10-14  5th  3.5 gb
 23 Thu, Apr 24   TEX  W   8-2       10-13  4th  3.0 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 23   TEX  W  19-6        9-13  4th  3.0 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 22   TEX  W  10-2        8-13  5th  4.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:11-15
New York Yankees, 14-13, 4th, 1 GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Philip Hughes (22, RHP, 0-3, 7.85)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-3)             18.1  26  17  16  10  11  0    7.85      
 2007 (5-3)             72.2  64  39  36  29  58  8    4.46      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-3  30.1  37  21  20  13  19  1    5.93   44 
 2008-04-24   @CHW  ND   2     1   0   0   0   1  0      23   55 
 2008-04-18   @BAL   L   5.1   9   5   5   2   1  0      97   29 
 2008-04-13   @BOS   L   2     6   7   6   3   3  0      65   18 
 2008-04-08   @KCR   L   3     6   3   3   4   2  0      87   33 
 2008-04-03    TOR  ND   6     4   2   2   1   4  0      87   59 
 2007-09-27   @TBD   W   7     4   1   1   2   5  1     102   68 
 2007-09-22    TOR  ND   5     7   3   3   1   3  0      99   43 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.DET      0-1   6     4   5   5   1   6  3    7.50   49 
 2007-08-26   @DET   L   6     4   5   5   1   6  3      97   49 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    5-4    Road:    9-9    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:  11-11   vsLHP:   3-2    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  9-8    vsCntrl: 5-5    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Mon, Apr 28  @CLE  W   5-2       14-13  4th  1.0 gb
 26 Sun, Apr 27  @CLE  W   1-0       13-13  4th  1.5 gb
 25 Sat, Apr 26  @CLE  L   3-4       12-13  4th  2.5 gb
 24 Fri, Apr 25  @CLE  L   4-6       12-12  4th  2.5 gb
 23 Thu, Apr 24  @CHW  L   6-7       12-11  3rd  2.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 23  @CHW  W   6-4       12-10  3rd  2.5 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 22  @CHW  W   9-5       11-10  3rd  3.5 gb
 20 Sun, Apr 20  @BAL  W   7-1       10-10  4th  3.0 gb
 19 Sat, Apr 19  @BAL  L   0-6        9-10  4th  3.0 gb
 18 Fri, Apr 18  @BAL  L   2-8        9-9   3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Aug 27, 2007 DET 16  NYY  0        W:Justin Verlander (14-5), L: Mike Mussina (8-10), S: none
Sun, Aug 26, 2007 DET  5  NYY  4        W:Bobby Seay (1-0), L: Philip Hughes (2-2), S: Todd Jones (33)
Sat, Aug 25, 2007 NYY  7 @DET  2        W:Chien-Ming Wang (15-6), L: Jeremy Bonderman (10-7), S: none
Fri, Aug 24, 2007 DET  9  NYY  6 (11)   W:Chad Durbin (8-6), L: Sean Henn (2-2), S: none
Sun, Aug 19, 2007 NYY  9  DET  3        W:Chien-Ming Wang (14-6), L: Jeremy Bonderman (10-6), S: Edwar Ramirez (1)
Sat, Aug 18, 2007 NYY  5  DET  2        W:Roger Clemens (5-5), L: Chad Durbin (7-6), S: Mariano Rivera (20)
Fri, Aug 17, 2007 NYY  6  DET  1        W:Andy Pettitte (10-7), L: Nate Robertson (7-10), S: none
Thu, Aug 16, 2007 DET  8 @NYY  5        W:Justin Verlander (13-4), L: Mike Mussina (8-8), S: none
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 NYY  6  DET  4        W:Randy Johnson (15-10), L: Jeremy Bonderman (11-7), S: Mariano Rivera (33)
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 DET  5 @NYY  3        W:Jason Grilli (2-2), L: Scott Proctor (5-4), S: Todd Jones (35)
Season Series: 2008 -  0-0; 2007 - Tied 4-4; 2006 - NYY won 5-2; All-Time - NYY leads 1028-914

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 (5.00 RS/G) vs. New York Yankees Pitchers (4.48 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Hughes
G/S/vB
63.Albaladejo
G/S/vB
47.Britton
G/S/vB
62.Chamberlain
G/S/vB
48.Farnsworth
G/S/vB
22.Hawkins
G/S/vB
39.Ohlendorf
G/S/vB
42.Rivera
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 2/2.000 ··· ··· 680/530 .320/.401/.565/.965 1.173/.910 .905 / 2/1 34/23
28.Granderson* G/S/vP 3/2.667 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 676/543 .302/.361/.552/.913 .494/1.014 .961 / 26/1 23/5
9.Guillen# G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.666 4/.833 ··· 8/.250 630/500 .296/.357/.502/.859 .921/.843 .855 / 13/8 21/25
15.Inge G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 3/.666 ··· 7/.286 577/447 .236/.312/.376/.688 .923/.621 .631 / 9/2 14/18
19.Jones* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 1/.000 ··· 8/.929 495/408 .285/.335/.400/.735 .763/.729 .763 / 6/3 5/4
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 9/.444 27/.865 ··· 13/1.205 679/531 .363/.434/.595/1.029 1.213/.980 .937 / 4/1 28/1
14.Polanco G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 7/.971 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 641/489 .341/.388/.458/.846 .813/.857 .820 / 7/3 9/0
25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 148/84 .304/.340/.507/.847 .759/.912 .868 / 3/0 4/1
8.Renteria G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 22/.465 8/.661 ··· 9/.666 543/347 .332/.390/.470/.860 .918/.827 .864 / 11/2 12/11
7.Rodriguez G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 6/1.166 12/.750 ··· 22/.914 515/389 .281/.294/.420/.714 .746/.703 .687 / 2/2 11/6
39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 4/.000 74/62 .284/.324/.388/.712 1.117/.638 .921 / 3/0 0/2
3.Sheffield G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 18/.603 3/3.000 ··· 2/.500 593/460 .265/.378/.462/.839 .832/.841 .783 / 22/5 25/0
33.Thames G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.667 ··· ··· 2/.000 284/193 .242/.278/.498/.776 .927/.705 .709 / 2/1 18/4
IP 72.2 14.1 12.2 24.0 60.0 55.1 6.1 71.1 TOTAL .264/.355/.426/.780 .769/.782 .711 .777 12/3 27/16
ERA-K/9 4.46/7.2 1.88/7.6 3.55/3.5 0.38/12.8 4.80/7.2 3.42/4.7 2.84/12.9 3.15/9.3 4.45/6.5

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 306/.235 51/.149 51/.196 91/.145 266/.256 225/.252 26/.208 295/.248 .266  Granderson
 Jones
 Ordonez
 Thames
 Raburn
 Sheffield
2/157/0/10
2/84/67/8
0/0/143/4
37/0/9/1
10/13/16/1
7/0/7/1
OPS .699 .451 .630 .440 .750 .698 .603 .644 .720
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 148/.846 23/.626 19/.461 42/.406 132/.824 110/.735 15/.733 146/.618 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 158/.563 28/.299 32/.726 49/.469 134/.680 115/.665 11/.384 149/.670 .728
Home 161/.826 25/.382 27/.617 36/.288 128/.726 110/.584 4/.000 137/.628 .712
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 8/9/3 1/1/0 2/1/0 1/1/0 9/9/2 6/2/1 1/0/0 4/2/1 21/30/13
Usage ····X··· X··X···· oo··X·X· o·X·o·X· ··X·Xo·· ··o·X··· oo···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.

New York Yankees Batters (4.41 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (5.46 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Rogers*
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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Abreu* G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 2/1.000 5/.800 4/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 699/532 .283/.369/.445/.814 .678/.857 .905 / 25/8 16/4
28.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 612/445 .273/.327/.391/.718 .641/.747 .689 / 13/5 8/4
24.Cano* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 2/1.000 2/.500 ··· 5/.400 669/458 .306/.353/.488/.841 .864/.831 .866 / 4/5 19/13
18.Damon* G/S/vP 55/.831 3/.000 1/.000 9/.985 6/.900 2/1.000 ··· 10/.829 605/448 .270/.351/.396/.747 .705/.762 .742 / 27/3 12/3
17.Duncan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 83/45 .257/.329/.554/.883 .984/.801 1.055 / 0/0 7/0
11.Ensberg G/S/vP 7/.486 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· 324/205 .230/.320/.404/.724 .830/.661 .589 / 0/1 12/13
25.Giambi* G/S/vP 30/1.567 2/2.000 1/.000 12/1.317 4/1.833 ··· ··· 7/.143 303/227 .236/.356/.433/.790 .782/.789 .771 / 1/0 14/1
12.Gonzalez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/12 .071/.133/.071/.205 .667/.083 .000 / 0/1 0/1
2.Jeter G/S/vP 25/1.120 5/.900 4/.250 15/1.082 2/1.000 2/no AB ··· 2/5.000 714/550 .322/.388/.452/.840 .876/.830 .845 / 15/8 12/18
55.Matsui* G/S/vP 3/2.334 4/1.417 3/.666 4/.750 5/1.400 2/.000 ··· 9/.472 634/443 .285/.367/.488/.855 .814/.872 .885 / 4/2 25/3
26.Molina G/S/vP 12/1.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 202/151 .257/.274/.340/.614 .853/.530 .677 / 2/1 1/4
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 24/2.046 4/.250 5/.200 15/.833 6/.334 2/.500 ··· 3/.333 708/532 .314/.422/.645/1.067 .961/1.099 1.034 / 24/4 54/13
38.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 43/36 .243/.300/.297/.597 1.300/.483 .579 / 0/0 0/2
IP 63.0 8.2 79.2 61.1 17.1 53.2 2.2 46.1 TOTAL .259/.327/.420/.748 .636/.781 .752 .748 10/6 28/15
ERA-K/9 4.43/5.1 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 5.03/5.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Molina (31-13-4)
 Stewart (8-4-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 275/.264 48/.429 352/.263 265/.267 76/.273 232/.273 13/.273 189/.228 .253  Cabrera
 Abreu
 Matsui
 Damon
 Duncan
18/131/5/16
0/0/157/6
112/0/0/6
32/48/1/3
4/0/8/2
OPS .770 .989 .714 .702 .751 .727 1.294 .619 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 76/.606 28/1.096 120/.702 151/.705 37/.803 92/.567 9/.905 101/.545 .764
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 199/.831 20/.833 232/.718 114/.696 39/.705 140/.834 4/2.000 88/.707 .735
Road 122/.852 27/.732 168/.499 140/.771 41/.747 126/.740 1/.000 90/.766 .777
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 8/0/0 0/1/0 5/1/2 3/1/0 2/0/0 3/4/6 2/0/0 1/1/1 21/10/4
Usage ·····X·· ··oX··oX ·X···oX· ··oo···X ··o··X·X ·X··X·o· ·····X·o ····X·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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