BOS @ TOR, Sunday, April 6, 2008 Game Preview

Boston Red Sox, ,	SP: Josh Beckett (28, RHP, 0-0, undef) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (20-7) 200.2 189 76 73 40 194 17 3.27 2006 (16-11) 204.2 191 120 114 74 158 36 5.01 2005 (15-8) 178.2 153 75 67 58 166 14 3.38 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 5-2 46.1 49 19 19 10 46 8 3.69 55 2007-09-27 MIN L 6 10 5 5 0 6 2 99 38 2007-09-21 TBD W 6 4 1 1 2 8 0 113 66 2007-09-15 NYY W 7 3 1 1 2 7 1 108 72 2007-09-09 BAL W 7 7 2 2 0 8 2 116 63 2007-09-04 TOR W 8 5 3 3 2 7 1 117 65 2007-08-29 NYY L 6.2 13 4 4 1 6 1 110 37 2007-08-24 CHW W 5.2 7 3 3 3 4 1 111 44 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.TOR 2-3 32.2 32 16 16 8 30 7 4.41 53 2007-09-04 TOR W 8 5 3 3 2 7 1 117 65 2007-07-15 TOR L 8 7 2 2 2 8 0 118 66 2007-05-08 TOR W 7 5 1 1 1 5 1 89 67 2006-09-03 TOR L 5 5 3 3 2 3 1 77 46 2006-05-30 TOR L 4.2 10 7 7 1 7 4 93 22
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 0-0 Road: 0-0 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 0-0 vsLHP: 0-0 1-Run: 0-0 vsEast: 0-0 vsCntrl: 0-0 vsWest: 0-0 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB Last 10: 0-0 Last 20: 0-0 Last 30: 0-0
Toronto Blue Jays, ,	SP: Roy Halladay (31, RHP, 0-1, 3.86) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-1) 7 7 3 3 2 3 1 3.86 2007 (16-7) 225.1 232 101 93 48 139 15 3.71 2006 (16-5) 220 208 82 78 34 132 19 3.19 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-2 55.1 58 25 20 14 27 3 3.25 54 2008-04-01 NYY L 7 7 3 3 2 3 1 93 52 2007-09-26 BAL W 7 11 5 3 1 4 0 115 42 2007-09-21 NYY ND 8.2 8 4 1 0 4 0 110 62 2007-09-15 BAL W 7 5 1 1 2 2 0 100 63 2007-09-10 DET ND 8.2 11 3 3 1 3 0 123 52 2007-09-04 BOS L 8 9 5 5 2 7 2 126 49 2007-08-29 OAK ND 9 7 4 4 6 4 0 124 55 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.BOS 1-3 33.1 39 23 22 9 23 4 5.94 44 2007-09-04 BOS L 8 9 5 5 2 7 2 126 49 2007-07-12 BOS L 5 8 5 5 4 2 0 112 29 2007-05-10 BOS L 5 11 8 7 0 2 1 86 17 2007-04-24 BOS W 8 5 3 3 0 10 1 113 70 2007-04-19 BOS ND 7.1 6 2 2 3 2 0 95 57
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 0-0 Road: 0-0 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 0-0 vsLHP: 0-0 1-Run: 0-0 vsEast: 0-0 vsCntrl: 0-0 vsWest: 0-0 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB Last 10: 0-0 Last 20: 0-0 Last 30: 0-0
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Wed, Sep 19, 2007 TOR 6 BOS 1 W:Jesse Litsch , L: Clay Buchholz , S: Jeremy Accardo Tue, Sep 18, 2007 TOR 4 BOS 3 W:A.J. Burnett , L: Eric Gagne , S: Scott Downs Mon, Sep 17, 2007 TOR 6 BOS 1 W:Dustin McGowan , L: Tim Wakefield , S: none Wed, Sep 05, 2007 TOR 6 @BOS 4 W:Jeremy Accardo , L: Hideki Okajima , S: none Tue, Sep 04, 2007 BOS 5 TOR 3 W:Josh Beckett , L: Roy Halladay , S: Jonathan Papelbon Mon, Sep 03, 2007 BOS 13 TOR 10 W:Daisuke Matsuzaka , L: Jesse Litsch , S: Jonathan Papelbon Sun, Jul 15, 2007 TOR 2 @BOS 1 W:Jesse Litsch , L: Josh Beckett , S: Jeremy Accardo Sat, Jul 14, 2007 BOS 9 TOR 4 W:Daisuke Matsuzaka , L: Dustin McGowan , S: none Fri, Jul 13, 2007 TOR 6 @BOS 5 W:Shaun Marcum , L: Kyle Snyder , S: Jeremy Accardo Thu, Jul 12, 2007 BOS 7 TOR 4 W:Tim Wakefield , L: Roy Halladay , S: Jonathan Papelbon Season Series: 2008 - 0-0; 2007 - Tied 9-9; 2006 - TOR won 12-7; All-Time - BOS leads 239-192

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

M. Ordonez .363

J. Pierre .293

J. LaRue .148

OBP

B. Bonds .480

G. Atkins .367

J. LaRue .240

SLG

C. Ross .653

R. Ludwick .479

A. Gonzalez .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.067

T. Glaus .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.

Boston Red Sox Batters (3.17 RS/G) vs. Toronto Blue Jays Pitchers (2.60 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 32.Halladay
G/S/vB 49.Accardo
G/S/vB 37.Downs*
G/S/vB 54.Frasor
G/S/vB 22.League
G/S/vB 51.Litsch
G/S/vB 56.Tallet*
G/S/vB 40.Wolfe
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

22.Casey* G/S/vP 15/.534 5/.400 1/no AB 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 496/425 .296/.353/.393/.746 .929/.716 .697 / 2/2 4/2

36.Cash G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/18 .111/.242/.148/.391 .354/.421 .620 / 0/0 0/1

13.Cora* G/S/vP 16/.650 1/.000 ··· 3/1.333 ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 232/203 .246/.298/.386/.684 .385/.730 .777 / 1/1 3/5

10.Crisp# G/S/vP 28/.715 3/.000 6/.334 7/1.000 ··· 5/.400 5/.650 1/3.000 591/426 .268/.330/.382/.712 .751/.697 .668 / 28/6 6/1

7.Drew* G/S/vP 16/.885 3/.000 12/.666 ··· ··· 5/1.200 3/.333 1/.000 552/422 .270/.373/.423/.796 .638/.846 .763 / 4/2 11/6

46.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 3/3.667 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/1.100 1/.000 ··· 127/98 .353/.394/.509/.902 .802/.931 .772 / 9/0 3/0

25.Lowell G/S/vP 22/1.032 7/.429 6/1.167 7/1.238 1/2.000 8/1.089 3/.000 2/.000 653/473 .324/.378/.501/.879 .849/.890 .767 / 3/2 21/15

23.Lugo G/S/vP 45/.683 3/.666 6/2.633 8/1.500 2/.500 7/.572 4/1.417 1/.000 630/455 .237/.294/.349/.643 .651/.640 .547 / 33/6 8/19

34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 77/.921 3/.000 19/.974 14/.445 4/1.250 8/.875 7/2.214 1/.000 667/457 .332/.445/.621/1.066 .852/1.171 1.005 / 3/1 35/0

15.Pedroia G/S/vP 16/.388 3/1.167 5/.400 4/.000 1/.000 5/.800 3/1.334 ··· 581/395 .317/.380/.442/.823 .870/.800 .729 / 7/1 8/6

24.Ramirez G/S/vP 78/.772 2/1.000 13/.808 13/1.058 3/2.000 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 569/408 .296/.388/.493/.881 1.095/.801 .871 / 0/0 20/2

33.Varitek# G/S/vP 63/.653 2/1.000 9/.555 10/.200 4/.500 5/.200 6/.750 2/2.500 518/371 .255/.367/.421/.787 .801/.782 .781 / 1/2 17/6

20.Youkilis G/S/vP 34/.958 2/.000 4/.750 8/.375 1/.000 3/.333 3/.333 2/2.000 625/451 .288/.390/.453/.843 .815/.854 .889 / 4/2 16/3

IP 225.1 67.1 58.0 57.0 11.2 111.0 62.1 45.1 TOTAL /// / / /0

ERA-K/9

3.71/5.6

2.14/7.6

2.17/8.8

4.58/9.3

6.17/5.4

3.81/4.1

3.47/7.8

2.98/4.4

0.00/0.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Cash (9-2-0)
Varitek (63-20-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 927/.268 275/.206 239/.223 242/.220 58/.380 478/.270 267/.215 174/.224 Ramirez
Crisp
Drew
Ellsbury 120/0/0/8
0/144/0/7
0/4/133/3
22/16/1/0

OPS .678 .558 .592 .631 .968 .761 .611 .643

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 498/.675 137/.419 126/.548 113/.721 27/1.190 259/.863 106/.697 75/1.023

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 429/.682 138/.697 113/.639 129/.556 31/.766 219/.646 161/.555 99/.356

Home 427/.660 127/.495 131/.525 123/.623 28/1.055 202/.744 129/.481 93/.639

Last 28d days / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 15/20/7 4/10/1 3/0/1 3/5/2 1/0/1 14/6/3 1/9/1 5/0/0 //

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Toronto Blue Jays Batters (5.00 RS/G) vs. Boston Red Sox Pitchers (4.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS G/S/vB 53.Aardsma
G/S/vB 61.Buchholz
G/S/vB 30.Corey
G/S/vB 17.Delcarmen
G/S/vB 48.Lopez*
G/S/vB 37.Okajima*
G/S/vB 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB 39.Snyder
G/S/vB 51.Tavarez
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

20.Barajas G/S/vP 8/1.911 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/2.000 ··· 147/106 .230/.352/.393/.745 .916/.685 .644 / 0/1 4/0

21.Coats* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/27 .206/.263/.324/.587 1.345/.273 .375 / 0/0 0/1

11.Eckstein G/S/vP 3/1.666 3/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 484/339 .309/.356/.382/.739 .709/.752 .816 / 10/1 3/20

2.Hill G/S/vP 22/.888 1/2.000 2/.000 3/.666 8/.750 ··· 1/.000 8/.250 10/.311 14/.643 657/503 .291/.333/.459/.792 .916/.753 .836 / 4/3 17/14

6.McDonald G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.833 12/.083 353/260 .251/.279/.333/.612 .818/.539 .624 / 7/2 1/9

17.Overbay* G/S/vP 29/.796 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 7/.715 5/.650 2/.000 6/.334 7/1.229 20/.956 476/361 .240/.315/.391/.706 .794/.676 .658 / 2/0 10/5

15.Rios G/S/vP 17/.827 1/5.000 2/.000 2/.000 6/.667 ··· 3/1.000 5/1.400 9/1.111 16/1.964 711/545 .297/.354/.498/.852 1.022/.802 .842 / 17/4 24/7

19.Scutaro G/S/vP 3/1.333 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/1.100 2/2.000 379/282 .260/.332/.361/.693 .861/.637 .653 / 2/1 7/14

24.Stairs* G/S/vP 15/.557 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 2/1.000 3/.333 ··· 5/.400 405/352 .289/.368/.549/.917 .818/.931 .918 / 2/1 21/6

23.Stewart G/S/vP 4/.833 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 1/2.000 1/.000 4/.250 5/.400 3/.666 630/444 .290/.345/.394/.739 .699/.756 .629 / 11/3 12/4

35.Thomas G/S/vP 17/.352 1/no AB 2/2.000 1/no AB 8/.625 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 11/2.181 17/1.298 624/480 .277/.377/.480/.857 1.062/.796 .944 / 0/0 26/

10.Wells G/S/vP 27/1.210 1/3.000 3/.333 5/.650 8/.500 1/no AB 3/2.334 9/.000 14/1.096 18/1.250 642/492 .245/.304/.402/.706 .835/.668 .700 / 10/4 16/3

9.Zaun# G/S/vP 9/.333 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 5/.000 ··· 4/1.167 10/.929 4/.250 11/.300 391/304 .242/.341/.411/.752 .797/.739 .856 / 0/0 10/8

IP 200.2 32.1 22.2 9.1 44.0 40.2 69.0 58.1 54.1 134.2 TOTAL /// / / /2

ERA-K/9

3.27/8.7

6.40/10.0

1.59/8.7

1.93/5.8

2.05/8.4

3.10/5.7

2.22/8.2

1.85/13.0

3.81/6.8

5.15/5.1

0.00/0.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Barajas (12-7-1)
Zaun (73-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 822/.245 151/.300 88/.184 32/.231 176/.183 174/.240 272/.202 224/.146 242/.223 604/.281 Rios
Wells
Stewart
Stairs
Coats
Scutaro 0/22/147/11
0/148/0/5
139/6/0/4
43/0/17/3
5/2/5/2
6/0/4/0

OPS .663 .867 .508 .630 .564 .695 .561 .463 .716 .779

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 410/.684 59/.789 53/.603 15/.583 73/.578 93/.805 98/.648 126/.400 96/.654 303/.723

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 412/.641 92/.904 35/.362 17/.670 103/.555 81/.565 174/.512 98/.543 146/.757 301/.834

Road 364/.637 80/1.094 31/.582 11/.495 88/.461 82/.664 134/.483 105/.358 101/.719 324/.797

Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / /

HR/SB/CS 17/14/6 4/0/0 0/0/0 0/1/0 4/2/2 2/0/1 6/5/0 5/4/0 7/5/2 14/0/0 //

Usage ·o······ ·o·X···· ·X·o···· ·o······ ····o··· ····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: BOS @ TOR, 1:07pm, Sunday, April 6, 2008 @Rogers Centre

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SP: Josh Beckett (28, RHP, 0-0, undef)

SP: Roy Halladay (31, RHP, 0-1, 3.86)

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