TBR @ SEA, Saturday, August 9, 2008 Game Preview

Tampa Bay Rays, 69-46, 1st, 3½ up	SP: Matt Garza (24, RHP, 9-7, 3.70) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (9-7) 129 119 58 53 40 84 13 3.70 2007 (5-7) 83 96 44 34 32 67 8 3.69 2006 (3-6) 50 62 33 32 23 38 6 5.76 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-3 45.1 47 19 18 11 29 4 3.57 53 2008-08-04 CLE L 5 7 4 4 2 4 2 102 39 2008-07-29 @TOR W 9 5 0 0 1 5 0 106 81 2008-07-24 @KCR L 5 8 4 4 4 0 0 82 31 2008-07-19 TOR W 7.2 2 0 0 0 6 0 107 81 2008-07-12 @CLE L 5 11 7 7 2 6 2 108 21 2008-07-07 KCR ND 6.2 9 3 3 2 5 0 109 47 2008-07-01 BOS W 7 5 1 0 0 3 0 102 68 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.SEA 1-1 12 24 13 13 5 6 4 9.75 31 2008-04-08 SEA ND 2.2 6 3 3 3 2 0 70 33 2007-08-20 SEA L 2.1 9 7 7 0 2 4 47 13 2007-08-14 @SEA W 7 9 3 3 2 2 0 100 47
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 45-17 Road: 24-29 ExtrInn: 6-4 vsRHP: 50-30 vsLHP: 19-16 1-Run: 20-12 vsEast: 28-19 vsCntrl:15-12 vsWest: 14-9 IL:12-6 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 115 Fri, Aug 8 @SEA W 5-3 69-46 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 114 Thu, Aug 7 @SEA L 1-2 68-46 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 113 Wed, Aug 6 CLE W 10-7 68-45 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 112 Tue, Aug 5 CLE W 8-4 67-45 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 111 Mon, Aug 4 CLE L 2-5 66-45 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 110 Sun, Aug 3 DET W 6-5 (10) 66-44 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 109 Sat, Aug 2 DET W 9-3 65-44 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 108 Fri, Aug 1 DET W 5-2 64-44 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 107 Wed, Jul 30 @TOR W 3-2 63-44 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb 106 Tue, Jul 29 @TOR W 3-0 62-44 1st 9223372036854775808.0 gb Last 10: 8-2 Last 20:13-7 Last 30:16-14
Seattle Mariners, 45-71, 4th, 27½ GB, 21 GB in WC	SP: Ryan Rowland-Smith (25, LHP, 2-1, 3.44) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (2-1) 55 50 23 21 25 42 4 3.44 2007 (1-0) 38.2 39 19 17 15 42 4 3.96 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 0-0 8.2 9 4 4 4 3 1 4.15 47 2008-07-06 DET ND 5 5 1 1 3 2 1 83 52 2008-07-01 TOR ND 3.2 4 3 3 1 1 0 62 41 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TBR Has never faced TBR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 24-36 Road: 21-35 ExtrInn: 2-6 vsRHP: 33-49 vsLHP: 12-22 1-Run: 13-22 vsEast: 13-26 vsCntrl:10-17 vsWest: 13-19 IL: 9-9 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 116 Fri, Aug 8 TBR L 3-5 45-71 4th 27.5 gb 115 Thu, Aug 7 TBR W 2-1 45-70 4th 26.5 gb 114 Wed, Aug 6 MIN L 3-7 44-70 4th 27.0 gb 113 Tue, Aug 5 MIN W 8-7 44-69 4th 26.0 gb 112 Mon, Aug 4 MIN W 11-6 43-69 4th 27.0 gb 111 Sun, Aug 3 BAL W 8-4 42-69 4th 27.0 gb 110 Sat, Aug 2 BAL L 1-3 41-69 4th 28.0 gb 109 Fri, Aug 1 BAL L 5-10 41-68 4th 28.0 gb 108 Thu, Jul 31 @TEX W 8-5 41-67 4th 27.0 gb 107 Wed, Jul 30 @TEX L 3-4 40-67 4th 27.0 gb Last 10: 5-5 Last 20: 7-13 Last 30:11-19
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Fri, Aug 08, 2008 TBR 5 @SEA 3 W:James Shields (10-7), L: Carlos Silva (4-13), S: Troy Percival (25) Thu, Aug 07, 2008 SEA 2 TBR 1 W:J.J. Putz (5-4), L: Dan Wheeler (2-5), S: none Thu, Apr 10, 2008 TBR 7 SEA 0 W:Edwin Jackson (2-0), L: Miguel Batista (0-2), S: none Wed, Apr 09, 2008 SEA 7 @TBR 1 W:Jarrod Washburn (1-1), L: Andy Sonnanstine (1-1), S: none Tue, Apr 08, 2008 SEA 6 @TBR 5 W:Erik Bedard (1-0), L: Gary Glover (0-1), S: Ryan Rowland-Smith (1) Sun, Sep 16, 2007 TBD 9 @SEA 2 W:Andy Sonnanstine (6-9), L: Jarrod Washburn (9-15), S: none Sat, Sep 15, 2007 TBD 6 @SEA 2 W:Scott Kazmir (13-8), L: Horacio Ramirez (8-7), S: none Fri, Sep 14, 2007 SEA 2 TBD 1 W:J.J. Putz (4-1), L: Gary Glover (5-5), S: none Thu, Sep 13, 2007 SEA 8 TBD 7 W:Ryan Rowland-Smith (1-0), L: Dan Wheeler (1-8), S: J.J. Putz (38) Thu, May 24, 2007 TBD 13 SEA 12 W:Jae Weong Seo (3-4), L: Sean White (1-1), S: Al Reyes (13) Season Series: 2008 - SEA leads 3-2; 2007 - SEA won 4-3; 2006 - SEA won 6-3; All-Time - SEA leads 58-38

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 5.57

MIL 4.66

SDP 3.75

RA/G

OAK 3.91

CLE 4.66

TEX 5.90

C. Jones .371

M. Young .287

J. Towles .143

OBP

C. Jones .468

A. Huff .361

T. Pena .169

SLG

R. Ludwick .615

E. Encarnacion .476

T. Pena .196

OPS

C. Jones 1.072

R. Howard .825

T. Pena .365

ERA

J. Duchscherer 2.51

J. Beckett 4.08

N. Robertson 6.11

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 9.99

A. Galarraga 6.17

L. Hernandez 3.48

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Tampa Bay Rays Batters (4.52 RS/G) vs. Seattle Mariners Pitchers (4.74 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS G/S/vB 48.Corcoran
G/S/vB 54.Green
G/S/vB 36.Jimenez*
G/S/vB 57.Lowe
G/S/vB 20.Putz
G/S/vB 40.Wells
G/S/vB 49.Woods*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

16.Aybar# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 191/103 .222/.300/.345/.645 .758/.541 .648 48/.453 2/1 4/

8.Bartlett G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 338/245 .263/.302/.317/.620 .827/.541 .577 40/.812 18/4 0/

13.Crawford* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 476/329 .271/.314/.396/.711 .614/.755 .611 82/.716 25/7 8/

15.Floyd* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 175/168 .248/.331/.438/.769 .619/.776 .517 40/.692 1/0 8/

26.Gross* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 249/206 .224/.325/.402/.727 .574/.761 .585 40/.636 2/2 8/

32.Hinske* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 4/.000 322/270 .243/.339/.482/.821 .472/.887 .913 58/.596 8/2 16/

1.Iwamura* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 509/357 .279/.349/.380/.729 .682/.749 .696 102/.744 5/4 5/

3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 435/314 .278/.352/.533/.885 .868/.891 .921 92/.909 7/0 22/

30.Navarro# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 335/246 .302/.357/.423/.780 .649/.836 .750 71/.802 0/4 6/

23.Pena* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 405/264 .243/.353/.476/.829 .633/.934 .806 98/.965 0/1 21/

9.Riggans G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 106/55 .242/.317/.418/.735 .829/.650 .870 21/.488 0/0 4/

2.Upton G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/3.000 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 483/341 .267/.383/.393/.775 .816/.759 .756 91/.700 35/14 7/

18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· 96/61 .241/.313/.460/.772 .769/.774 .731 46/.670 2/0 5/

IP 55.0 43.0 59.1 18.1 50.0 28.2 5.0 6.0 TOTAL .258/.335/.414/.749 .712/.765 .715 .740 116/42 123/60

ERA-K/9

3.44/6.9

4.19/6.1

2.88/7.7

1.96/7.4

4.86/8.1

4.40/10.7

3.60/7.2

0.00/6.0

4.40/6.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Navarro (31-17-5)
Riggans (15-0-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 236/.244 190/.257 256/.230 71/.188 237/.286 137/.293 23/.263 25/.250 .270 Upton
Gross
Hinske
Crawford
Zobrist
Riggans 0/108/0/9
2/17/78/7
9/0/48/2
106/1/0/2
0/2/1/0
1/0/0/0

OPS .686 .657 .622 .570 .773 .791 .649 .700 .757

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 91/.757 80/.628 109/.761 35/.743 115/.892 70/.875 7/.929 14/.742 .796

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 145/.641 110/.678 147/.519 36/.407 122/.658 67/.704 16/.516 11/.597 .724

Home 126/.745 99/.797 151/.547 50/.477 138/.672 88/.732 23/.649 25/.700 .742

Last 28d days 22/.929 72/.747 42/.549 40/.767 44/.874 43/.822 9/.393 25/.700

HR/SB/CS 4/1/1 0/1/0 3/0/1 2/0/0 3/4/0 1/0/2 0/2/0 0/0/0 101/57/22

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

Seattle Mariners Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Tampa Bay Rays Pitchers (4.03 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 22.Garza
G/S/vB 50.Balfour
G/S/vB 49.Hammel
G/S/vB 39.Howell*
G/S/vB 57.Miller*
G/S/vB 40.Percival
G/S/vB 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

50.Balentien G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 132/105 .215/.273/.380/.653 .681/.645 .742 15/.976 0/0 5/

29.Beltre G/S/vP 7/.572 1/.000 3/.000 7/.858 1/2.000 8/.500 2/1.000 484/363 .252/.320/.428/.748 .975/.675 .656 100/.656 8/1 19/

5.Betancourt G/S/vP 5/1.800 1/3.000 2/.000 4/.750 ··· ··· 2/1.500 400/298 .255/.270/.354/.624 .591/.635 .733 70/.448 2/2 3/

16.Bloomquist G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 189/103 .278/.378/.284/.662 .791/.555 .639 63/.706 14/3 0/

15.Burke G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 79/47 .278/.333/.361/.694 .935/.517 .648 18/1.092 0/1 1/

13.Cairo G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 5/.400 6/.600 149/103 .244/.326/.299/.626 .737/.576 .676 46/.785 4/2 0/

9.Clement* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 161/136 .200/.273/.345/.618 .640/.613 .620 41/.717 0/0 5/

28.Ibanez* G/S/vP 7/2.071 3/.666 3/.666 7/1.262 4/1.250 14/.864 2/2.500 503/358 .287/.350/.481/.831 .902/.803 .897 100/1.060 1/3 18/

2.Johjima G/S/vP 6/1.166 1/.000 2/1.500 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 298/220 .211/.253/.294/.546 .540/.549 .558 44/.484 2/0 3/

39.LaHair* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 61/48 .286/.344/.393/.737 .408/.811 .473 61/.737 0/1 2/

4.Lopez G/S/vP 6/1.333 1/.000 ··· 7/1.071 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 498/366 .308/.329/.435/.765 .874/.725 .806 97/.887 4/1 9/

8.Reed* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/2.000 188/171 .275/.323/.374/.697 .353/.733 .742 69/.741 0/1 2/

51.Suzuki* G/S/vP 8/.625 3/3.000 3/1.334 8/.929 2/1.000 9/.889 2/.500 534/391 .305/.363/.382/.745 .659/.775 .770 108/.790 35/3 4/

IP 129.0 33.2 61.1 65.0 29.0 36.2 49.0 TOTAL .262/.317/.382/.700 .767/.677 .707 .767 74/21 90/75

ERA-K/9

3.70/5.9

1.34/13.1

4.11/5.0

2.49/8.9

4.97/7.4

3.68/8.6

2.39/5.7

3.75/6.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Burke (7-7-2)
Clement (13-2-1)
Johjima (37-13-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 535/.245 126/.109 268/.263 273/.197 126/.248 149/.168 194/.176 .244 Ibanez
Suzuki
Balentien
Bloomquist
Cairo
Reed 114/0/0/8
0/69/46/7
0/2/32/4
8/22/13/1
1/0/0/0
4/31/13/0

OPS .676 .379 .761 .595 .703 .652 .577 .702

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 256/.710 44/.410 123/.887 92/.598 73/.617 74/.639 70/.531 .717

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 279/.645 82/.362 145/.656 181/.593 53/.818 75/.665 124/.602 .691

Road 255/.782 62/.399 162/.853 124/.681 52/.824 55/.770 98/.623 .772

Last 28d days 129/.754 51/.374 37/.528 43/.671 28/.914 37/.846 33/.630

HR/SB/CS 13/2/1 1/1/0 7/10/1 4/9/1 1/0/2 7/4/0 7/0/1 107/50/19

Usage ····X··· o··X·X·X ····X·X· ··Xo·o·X ·oo··o·· o·o··X·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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Game Preview: TBR @ SEA, 10:10pm, Saturday, August 9, 2008 @Safeco Field

SP: Matt Garza (24, RHP, 9-7, 3.70)

SP: Ryan Rowland-Smith (25, LHP, 2-1, 3.44)

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