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Game Preview: SFG @ STL, 2:15pm, Sunday, April 20, 2008 @Busch Stadium III

San Francisco Giants, 7-11, 5th, 6½ GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Jonathan Sanchez (25, LHP, 0-1, 6.00)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-1)             15    16  11  10   6  21  2    6.00      
 2007 (1-5)             52    57  34  34  28  62  8    5.88      
 2006 (3-1)             40    39  26  22  23  33  2    4.95      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         0-4  31.1  40  24  23  11  40  6    6.61   45 
 2008-04-14    ARI  ND   5     6   4   3   2   3  1      99   42 
 2008-04-09    SDP  ND   6     3   0   0   2  10  0     102   74 
 2008-04-04    MIL   L   4     7   7   7   2   8  1      90   26 
 2007-09-18    ARI   L   1     5   4   4   2   0  0      36   25 
 2007-09-12    ARI   L   3     5   3   3   2   7  2      80   42 
 2007-09-07    LAD  ND   7     8   3   3   0   5  1     112   54 
 2007-09-01    WSN   L   5.1   6   3   3   1   7  1      98   50 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.STL    Has never faced STL.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    5-5    Road:    2-6    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   4-10   vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 3-6    vsWest:  4-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 18 Sat, Apr 19  @STL  W   3-0        7-11  5th  6.5 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 18  @STL  L   1-11       6-11  5th  6.5 gb
 16 Wed, Apr 16   ARI  L   1-4        6-10  5th  5.5 gb
 15 Tue, Apr 15   ARI  L   2-8        6-9   4th  4.5 gb
 14 Mon, Apr 14   ARI  W   5-4        6-8   3rd  3.5 gb
 13 Sun, Apr 13   STL  W   7-4        5-8   5th  4.5 gb
 12 Sat, Apr 12   STL  L   7-8 (10)   4-8   5th  5.5 gb
 11 Fri, Apr 11   STL  L   2-8        4-7   5th  4.5 gb
 10 Thu, Apr 10   STL  W   5-1        4-6   5th  3.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr  9   SDP  W   1-0        3-6   5th  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-11   Last 30: 7-11
St. Louis Cardinals, 12-6, 1st, ½ up

SP: Braden Looper (33, RHP, 3-0, 2.70)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (3-0)             16.2  13   5   5   7  11  0    2.70      
 2007 (12-12)          175   183 100  96  51  87 22    4.94      
 2006 (9-3)             73.1  76  30  29  20  41  3    3.56      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-2  37.2  40  25  24  16  20  5    5.73   44 
 2008-04-15    MIL   W   5     3   1   1   5   4  0      91   56 
 2008-04-09    HOU   W   5.2   5   3   3   0   4  0      86   51 
 2008-04-04    WSN   W   6     5   1   1   2   3  0      95   59 
 2007-09-25    MIL   L   5     7   7   7   3   1  3     102   23 
 2007-09-20    HOU   L   5.2   9   5   5   3   1  0      98   29 
 2007-09-15    CHC  ND   7     3   1   1   2   5  0     114   70 
 2007-09-08    ARI  ND   3.1   8   7   6   1   2  2      71   19 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.SFG      0-1   6.1   8   5   4   2   2  0    5.68   39 
 2007-07-07    SFG   L   6.1   8   5   4   2   2  0      91   39 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    8-3    Road:    4-3    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   8-4    vsLHP:   4-2    1-Run:   4-1 
 vsEast:  3-0    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  5-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 18 Sat, Apr 19   SFG  L   0-3       12-6   1st  0.5 up
 17 Fri, Apr 18   SFG  W  11-1       12-5   1st  1.5 up
 16 Thu, Apr 17   MIL  L   3-5 (10)  11-5   1st  1.5 up
 15 Wed, Apr 16   MIL  W   5-4       11-4   1st  1.5 up
 14 Tue, Apr 15   MIL  W   6-1       10-4   1st  1.5 up
 13 Sun, Apr 13  @SFG  L   4-7        9-4   1st  0.5 up
 12 Sat, Apr 12  @SFG  W   8-7 (10)   9-3   1st  1.5 up
 11 Fri, Apr 11  @SFG  W   8-2        8-3   1st  1.5 up
 10 Thu, Apr 10  @SFG  L   1-5        7-3   1st  0.5 up
  9 Wed, Apr  9  @HOU  W   6-4        7-2   1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-6    Last 30:12-6 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Apr 19, 2008 SFG  3 @STL  0        W:Tim Lincecum (3-0), L: Joel Pineiro (0-2), S: Brian Wilson (5)
Fri, Apr 18, 2008 STL 11  SFG  1        W:Todd Wellemeyer (2-0), L: Matt Cain (0-2), S: none
Sun, Apr 13, 2008 SFG  7  STL  4        W:Tim Lincecum (2-0), L: Joel Pineiro (0-1), S: Brian Wilson (3)
Sat, Apr 12, 2008 STL  8 @SFG  7 (10)   W:Jason Isringhausen (1-0), L: Erick Threets (0-1), S: Anthony Reyes (1)
Fri, Apr 11, 2008 STL  8 @SFG  2        W:Kyle Lohse (2-0), L: Barry Zito (0-3), S: none
Thu, Apr 10, 2008 SFG  5  STL  1        W:Kevin Correia (1-1), L: Adam Wainwright (1-1), S: Brian Wilson (2)

Sun, Jul 08, 2007 STL  7  SFG  0        W:Todd Wellemeyer (3-2), L: Barry Zito (6-9), S: none
Sat, Jul 07, 2007 SFG  7 @STL  6        W:Tim Lincecum (4-2), L: Braden Looper (6-7), S: Brad Hennessey (5)
Fri, Jul 06, 2007 SFG  4 @STL  3        W:Noah Lowry (9-6), L: Mike Maroth (5-3), S: Randy Messenger (1)
Thu, Apr 19, 2007 SFG  6  STL  2        W:Noah Lowry (1-2), L: Kip Wells (1-3), S: Brad Hennessey (1)
Season Series: 2008 - Tied 3-3; 2007 - SFG won 4-1; 2006 - STL won 4-1; All-Time - SFG leads 1042-936

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.

San Francisco Giants Batters (2.94 RS/G) vs. St. Louis Cardinals Pitchers (3.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Looper
G/S/vB
34.Flores*
G/S/vB
31.Franklin
G/S/vB
44.Isringhausen
G/S/vB
46.McClellan
G/S/vB
23.Reyes
G/S/vB
48.Thompson
G/S/vB
27.Villone*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
35.Aurilia G/S/vP 18/.745 4/.500 2/.000 10/.476 ··· 2/2.500 7/.629 13/.581 358/222 .252/.304/.368/.672 .676/.669 .671 / 0/0 5/9
29.Bocock G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· / /// / / / /
21.Bowker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/no AB / /// / / / /
12.Castillo G/S/vP 6/.666 3/2.334 5/1.000 6/.334 ··· 4/.750 7/1.262 2/.000 230/161 .244/.270/.335/.604 .598/.607 .568 / 0/0 0/9
5.Durham# G/S/vP 10/.200 2/.500 9/.555 7/1.171 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 12/.250 528/385 .218/.295/.343/.638 .686/.621 .630 / 10/2 11/12
20.Holm G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 / /// / / / /
14.Lewis* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/no AB 180/149 .287/.374/.408/.782 .667/.807 .788 / 5/1 3/1
1.Molina G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 36/.684 8/.417 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 10/1.100 517/378 .276/.298/.433/.731 .731/.731 .725 / 0/0 19/8
40.Ortmeier# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 167/93 .287/.317/.497/.814 .826/.805 .849 / 2/1 6/0
33.Rowand G/S/vP 1/3.000 4/1.833 11/.200 5/2.100 ··· 4/.833 6/2.333 3/.333 684/481 .309/.374/.515/.889 .918/.876 .843 / 6/3 27/2
8.Velez# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 13/12 .273/.385/.636/1.021 .000/1.117 1.700 / 4/0 0/1
2.Winn# G/S/vP 8/.708 2/.000 5/.400 5/1.350 1/.000 1/.000 5/.650 2/2.000 653/449 .300/.353/.445/.798 .934/.736 .818 / 15/3 14/2
IP 175.0 55.0 80.0 65.1 107.1 129.1 42.1 TOTAL .234/.292/.345/.636 .609/.642 .589 .636 18/8 8/10
ERA-K/9 4.94/4.5 4.25/7.7 3.04/5.0 2.48/7.4 /0.0 6.04/6.2 4.73/3.7 4.25/5.3 3.07/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Molina (53-23-16)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 746/.269 253/.310 317/.234 267/.179 / 474/.261 580/.301 176/.234 .244  Rowand
 Winn
 Castillo
 Lewis
 Velez
 Ortmeier
0/161/0/11
24/36/104/5
0/0/1/0
24/5/27/0
2/0/0/0
22/1/13/0
OPS .752 .772 .635 .543 .802 .869 .668 .692
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 327/.783 106/.816 135/.646 111/.555 / 211/.775 259/.970 74/.654 .754
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 419/.729 147/.741 182/.626 156/.534 / 263/.824 321/.788 102/.678 .654
Home 381/.664 138/.762 149/.550 145/.552 / 243/.832 259/.837 90/.463 .634
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 22/5/1 2/2/0 8/2/2 4/1/0 // 16/4/2 23/4/4 5/0/0 13/8/3
Usage ····X··· ··oo··o· ··o·X··o ···X···X ··X·X·o· ····X··o X·X···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.

St. Louis Cardinals Batters (4.72 RS/G) vs. San Francisco Giants Pitchers (5.11 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.Sanchez*
G/S/vB
31.Chulk
G/S/vB
41.Hennessey
G/S/vB
37.Taschner*
G/S/vB
47.Valdez
G/S/vB
45.Walker
G/S/vB
38.Wilson
G/S/vB
22.Yabu
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Ankiel* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 2/1.000 1/.000 190/139 .285/.328/.535/.863 1.183/.747 1.056 / 1/0 11/2
54.Barton G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/2.500 / /// / / / /
16.Duncan* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 5/4.333 6/.666 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 432/342 .259/.354/.480/.834 .601/.897 .789 / 2/1 21/2
8.Glaus G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 6/.833 1/.000 1/no AB 6/.500 1/.000 1/.000 456/353 .262/.366/.473/.839 1.235/.728 .883 / 0/1 20/9
3.Izturis# G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/2.000 11/.573 2/.500 ··· 3/1.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 337/245 .258/.302/.315/.618 .428/.689 .485 / 3/3 0/8
7.Kennedy* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· 306/261 .219/.282/.290/.572 .395/.603 .535 / 6/2 3/7
21.LaRue G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.833 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 195/138 .148/.240/.272/.512 .610/.471 .663 / 1/0 4/5
47.Ludwick G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/3.500 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 339/200 .267/.339/.479/.818 .684/.909 .915 / 4/4 14/1
12.Miles# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 8/1.464 2/.000 ··· 12/.364 2/1.000 1/.000 449/312 .290/.328/.348/.676 .704/.663 .767 / 2/1 2/14
4.Molina G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· 8/.661 ··· 1/3.000 1/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 396/274 .275/.340/.368/.708 .812/.664 .730 / 1/1 6/6
5.Pujols G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/2.000 13/.684 1/.000 2/3.000 3/.666 1/.000 2/.000 679/485 .327/.429/.568/.997 1.140/.942 .886 / 2/6 32/8
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 188/159 .333/.358/.458/.816 .839/.810 .892 / 1/1 2/2
59.Washington* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· / /// / / / /
IP 52.0 53.0 68.1 50.0 14.1 23.2 TOTAL .280/.368/.439/.807 .785/.817 .825 .807 10/3 17/11
ERA-K/9 5.88/10.7 3.57/7.0 3.42/5.3 5.40/9.2 /0.0 1.26/5.7 2.28/6.8 /0.0 4.62/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 LaRue (26-14-2)
 Molina (23-27-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 238/.284 222/.264 287/.257 222/.235 / 53/.250 93/.188 / .286  Duncan
 Ankiel
 Schumaker
 Ludwick
 Miles
 Kennedy
99/0/0/5
2/22/27/3
23/15/26/1
49/6/41/1
1/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .824 .710 .734 .711 .635 .529 .807
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 72/.621 77/.813 120/.814 93/.885 / 26/.497 30/.988 / .811
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 166/.912 145/.656 167/.679 129/.584 / 27/.756 63/.336 / .805
Road 85/.909 107/.709 105/.698 115/.833 / 31/.508 40/.451 / .875
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 8/1/4 3/2/1 7/4/1 4/3/0 // 0/0/1 1/0/2 // 19/14/2
Usage ·····X·· ···X···· ·X··X··X o·····Xo ···o··oo o····ooX X····XXo ·····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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