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Game Preview: TEX @ BAL, 7:05pm, Monday, April 27, 2009 @Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Rangers, 8-10, 2nd, 3½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Matt Harrison (23, LHP, 0-2, 9.20)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (0-2) 14.2 26 15 15 11 6 4 9.20
2008 (9-3) 83.2 100 57 51 31 42 12 5.49
Last 7 GS 3-2 38.2 53 28 28 19 23 9 6.52 39
2009-04-22 @TOR ND 4.0 9 5 5 2 1 2 85 23
2009-04-17 KCR L 5.0 8 6 6 4 3 2 98 26
2009-04-11 @DET L 5.2 9 4 4 5 2 0 99 32
2008-09-24 OAK W 6.0 6 2 2 1 7 1 98 58
2008-09-19 LAA ND 3.0 9 7 7 2 1 3 65 12
2008-09-12 @OAK W 9.0 5 0 0 4 5 0 118 78
2008-09-06 BOS W 6.0 7 4 4 1 4 1 103 45
Last 5 v.BAL 1-0 5.0 10 6 6 2 0 2 10.80 21
2008-08-10 @BAL W 5.0 10 6 6 2 0 2 89 21
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-4    Road:    3-6    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:   5-9    vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  4-5    vsCntrl: 4-5    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 18 Sun, Apr 26  @BAL  L   5-8        8-10  2nd  3.5 gb
 17 Sat, Apr 25  @BAL  W   6-5        8-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 16 Fri, Apr 24  @BAL  W   5-4        7-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 15 Thu, Apr 23  @TOR  L   2-5        6-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 14 Wed, Apr 22  @TOR  L   7-8 (11)   6-8   2nd  2.5 gb
 13 Tue, Apr 21  @TOR  W   5-4        6-7   2nd  2.5 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 19   KCR  W   6-5        5-7   2nd  2.5 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 18   KCR  L   0-2        4-7   3rd  3.5 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 17   KCR  L   3-12       4-6   3rd  3.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr 15   BAL  W  19-6        4-5   2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-10   Last 30: 8-10
Orioles, 9-10, 4th, 4½ GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Jeremy Guthrie (30, RHP, 2-1, 5.16)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-1) 22.2 28 16 13 10 12 4 5.16
2008 (10-12) 190.2 176 82 77 58 120 24 3.63
2007 (7-5) 175.1 165 78 72 47 123 23 3.70
Last 7 GS 2-4 36.1 48 31 28 18 22 8 6.94 38
2009-04-22 CHW L 6.0 8 5 5 3 2 1 104 35
2009-04-17 @BOS ND 4.2 8 8 5 4 5 2 103 23
2009-04-11 TBR W 6.0 5 0 0 0 2 0 98 64
2009-04-06 NYY W 6.0 7 3 3 3 3 1 93 46
2008-09-28 TOR L 4.0 6 3 3 1 1 2 65 38
2008-08-29 @TBR L 3.0 7 7 7 6 2 0 85 13
2008-08-23 NYY L 6.2 7 5 5 1 7 2 115 46
Last 5 v.TEX 2-0 19.1 18 8 8 6 13 2 3.72 54
2008-08-08 TEX W 7.0 5 1 1 1 4 1 114 66
2008-07-04 TEX W 6.1 8 4 4 2 6 0 116 45
2007-07-06 @TEX ND 6.0 5 3 3 3 3 1 98 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-5    Road:    2-5    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   8-8    vsLHP:   1-2    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  4-6    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  3-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 19 Sun, Apr 26   TEX  W   8-5        9-10  4th  4.5 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 25   TEX  L   5-6        8-10  4th  4.5 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 24   TEX  L   4-5        8-9   4th  4.5 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 23   CHW  W   6-2        8-8   4th  3.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 22   CHW  L   2-8        7-8   4th  3.5 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 21   CHW  W  10-3        7-7   4th  2.5 gb
 13 Mon, Apr 20  @BOS  L   1-12       6-7   4th  3.5 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 19  @BOS  L   1-2        6-6   3rd  3.0 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 18  @BOS  L   4-6        6-5   2nd  2.0 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 17  @BOS  L   8-10       6-4   2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-10   Last 30: 9-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 26, 2009 BAL  8  TEX  5        W:Danys Baez (1-1), L: Jason Jennings (0-1), S: George Sherrill (4)
Sat, Apr 25, 2009 TEX  6 @BAL  5        W:Scott Feldman (1-0), L: Mark Hendrickson (1-3), S: Frank Francisco (4)
Fri, Apr 24, 2009 TEX  5 @BAL  4        W:C.J. Wilson (1-2), L: George Sherrill (0-1), S: Frank Francisco (3)
Wed, Apr 15, 2009 TEX 19  BAL  6        W:Kris Benson (1-1), L: Mark Hendrickson (1-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 14, 2009 BAL  7 @TEX  5 (10)   W:Jim Johnson (1-0), L: Eddie Guardado (0-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 13, 2009 BAL 10 @TEX  9        W:Koji Uehara (2-0), L: Vicente Padilla (1-1), S: George Sherrill (3)

Sun, Aug 10, 2008 TEX 15 @BAL  7        W:Matt Harrison (4-2), L: Randor Bierd (0-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 09, 2008 BAL  9  TEX  0        W:Daniel Cabrera (8-7), L: Vicente Padilla (12-6), S: none
Fri, Aug 08, 2008 BAL  9  TEX  1        W:Jeremy Guthrie (9-8), L: Luis Mendoza (3-5), S: none
Sun, Jul 06, 2008 TEX 11 @BAL 10        W:Kevin Millwood (6-4), L: Radhames Liz (3-1), S: C.J. Wilson (21)
Season Series: 2009 - Tied 3-3; 2008 - TEX won 5-4; 2007 - TEX won 6-4; All-Time - BAL leads 360-236

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 2009 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 2008 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  5.56

ATL  4.65

SDP  3.93

 RA/G

TOR  3.77

HOU  4.61

TEX  5.97

 BA

C. Jones  .364

R. Ibanez  .293

J. Towles  .137

 OBP

C. Jones  .470

C. Lee  .368

T. Pena  .189

 SLG

A. Pujols  .653

G. Dobbs  .491

T. Pena  .209

 OPS

A. Pujols  1.114

J. Cust  .851

T. Pena  .398

 ERA

J. Santana  2.53

A. Cook  3.96

N. Robertson  6.35

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  10.51

V. Padilla  6.68

L. Hernandez  3.35

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2009 season. Player Stats for the 2008 season. We will switch to 2009 stats on May 1st.

Rangers Batters (6.11 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (6.74 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Guthrie
G/S/vB		 34.Albers
G/S/vB		 28.Baez
G/S/vB		 64.Bergesen
G/S/vB		 24.Eaton
G/S/vB		 27.Hendrickson*
G/S/vB		 43.Johnson
G/S/vB		 37.Ray
G/S/vB		 45.Sarfate
G/S/vB		 52.Sherrill*
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 32.Walker*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 4/.250 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· / /// / 55/.694 / /
9.Blalock* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 11/.637 3/1.666 ··· 10/.311 2/1.000 7/1.914 1/.000 10/.200 3/1.666 9/.222 281/189 .287/.338/.508/.846 .903/.819 .720 66/.806 1/0 12/5
22.Byrd G/S/vP 6/.900 1/2.000 4/.000 3/1.667 7/.286 6/.933 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.750 6/.500 2/.000 462/306 .298/.380/.462/.842 .841/.843 .772 55/.911 7/2 10/6
17.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 3/2.667 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 4/.250 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/.167 3/.000 133/96 .330/.421/.609/1.030 1.288/.933 .998 78/.911 3/1 7/2
19.Davis* G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/2.500 ··· 2/2.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 4/1.750 3/.666 317/224 .285/.331/.549/.880 .916/.866 .887 66/.748 1/2 17/4
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 6/.167 7/.486 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.000 9/.666 4/.250 1/2.000 4/.750 5/.400 6/.000 1/no AB 704/476 .304/.371/.530/.901 .801/.950 .779 71/.660 9/1 32/6
25.Jones G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB 3/2.667 ··· 22/.964 15/.697 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/3.000 3/1.667 ··· 238/152 .158/.256/.249/.505 .631/.436 .496 30/1.480 0/1 3/1
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 5/.800 5/1.400 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 6/3.333 3/.666 1/.000 2/.500 4/1.750 6/1.100 3/.000 583/431 .319/.375/.517/.892 .828/.915 .886 85/1.155 26/2 18/18
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 3/2.667 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 454/323 .275/.321/.465/.786 .669/.835 .752 32/.410 7/2 15/2
21.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 3/1.334 2/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 6/.666 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 3/.666 2/2.500 2/.000 230/148 .253/.352/.364/.716 .443/.876 .681 56/.767 0/2 3/9
2.Teagarden G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 53/36 .319/.396/.809/1.205 .775/1.333 1.059 17/.243 0/0 6/3
13.Vizquel# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 23/.669 17/1.329 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.334 ··· 12/1.333 300/233 .222/.283/.267/.550 .365/.602 .460 15/.895 5/4 0/2
10.Young G/S/vP 10/.633 5/.400 17/.118 3/1.000 ··· 14/.857 2/2.000 7/.000 2/.500 7/1.000 6/1.166 5/1.000 708/516 .284/.339/.402/.741 .842/.703 .680 82/.901 10/0 12/11
IP 190.2 49.0 107.0 133.2 68.2 79.2 53.1 38.0 TOTAL .274/.329/.517/.846 .920/.818 .702 .846 18/2 38/13
ERA-K/9 3.63/5.7 3.49/4.8 /0.0 /0.0 5.80/4.8 5.45/5.5 2.23/5.0 /0.0 4.74/9.7 4.73/9.8 /0.0 6.87/5.7 5.98/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Saltalamacchia (40-9-6)
 Teagarden (7-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 796/.242 208/.240 / / 478/.310 590/.283 281/.219 / 359/.218 239/.234 / 178/.325 .305  Hamilton
 Byrd
 Murphy
 Jones
 Cruz
0/111/34/7
31/57/39/7
54/13/56/4
0/66/0/1
0/0/31/1
OPS .694 .655 .868 .786 .539 .707 .708 .981 .912
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 412/.706 101/.468 / / 256/.887 163/.718 129/.574 / 169/.686 72/.534 / 98/.913 .855
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 384/.682 107/.829 / / 222/.846 427/.811 152/.511 / 190/.725 167/.787 / 80/1.066 .959
Home 404/.750 114/.526 / / 226/.874 292/.857 131/.472 / 140/.645 127/.675 / 69/.674
Last 28d days 106/.906 42/.943 39/.402 47/.988 72/.846 93/1.046 41/.767 31/.955 39/.973 38/.898 97/.696 14/.819
HR/SB/CS 24/13/4 4/3/1 // // 15/4/5 17/16/3 0/3/2 // 8/6/2 6/3/0 // 12/2/1 36/22/4
Usage ····X··· ·X····X· X····o·· X····X·· ···X···· ·X····X· o·oo·X·· ··o··o·· ····X·X· o·Xo···o ··X····X ··o·o···

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2009 season. Player Stats for the 2008 season. We will switch to 2009 stats on May 1st.

Orioles Batters (5.53 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (6.39 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Harrison*
G/S/vB		 50.Francisco
G/S/vB		 18.Guardado*
G/S/vB		 45.Holland*
G/S/vB		 46.Mendoza
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 36.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Andino G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 68/47 .206/.254/.333/.587 .586/.588 .608 13/.718 0/0 2/2
17.Huff* G/S/vP 3/1.666 6/.000 14/.297 2/.000 2/2.000 ··· 4/1.250 661/450 .304/.360/.552/.912 .752/.989 .937 86/.834 4/0 32/3
3.Izturis# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.250 454/280 .263/.319/.309/.628 .723/.569 .648 66/.588 24/6 1/11
10.Jones G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.500 514/380 .270/.311/.400/.711 .660/.728 .714 77/1.050 10/3 9/3
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.400 5/1.400 2/.500 4/.000 ··· 5/1.000 697/474 .306/.406/.491/.897 .843/.923 .833 87/1.068 10/7 20/3
16.Moeller G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 103/71 .231/.311/.330/.640 .498/.700 .442 22/.768 0/0 1/3
14.Montanez G/S/vP 3/1.334 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 117/63 .295/.316/.446/.763 .655/.859 .824 12/.417 0/0 3/2
18.Pie* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 93/79 .241/.312/.325/.637 .377/.678 .649 55/.488 3/0 1/0
1.Roberts# G/S/vP 3/3.000 2/1.500 4/1.750 1/.000 5/.600 ··· 13/.968 704/495 .296/.378/.450/.828 .851/.818 .842 88/.994 40/10 9/8
30.Scott* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 6/1.500 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 536/416 .257/.336/.472/.807 .702/.838 .861 76/.902 2/2 23/2
23.Wigginton G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/1.667 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.667 429/311 .285/.350/.526/.876 1.055/.809 1.080 70/.559 4/6 23/6
9.Zaun# G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 10/.000 1/no AB 6/.334 ··· 7/1.314 288/228 .237/.340/.359/.700 .562/.734 .852 55/.450 2/1 6/7
IP 83.2 63.1 56.1 63.1 43.1 46.1 TOTAL .276/.360/.429/.789 .751/.800 .823 .789 9/7 18/14
ERA-K/9 5.49/4.5 3.13/11.8 4.15/5.3 /0.0 8.67/5.0 4.57/6.0 6.02/8.0 6.10/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Moeller (15-9-0)
 Zaun (40-14-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 372/.300 264/.200 227/.245 / 316/.343 194/.283 214/.268 .289  Markakis
 Jones
 Scott
 Wigginton
 Montanez
 Pie
 Andino
0/0/156/17
0/129/0/4
106/0/0/3
31/0/0/2
26/5/5/1
1/39/0/1
0/1/0/0
OPS .878 .634 .699 .928 .719 .842 .870
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 101/.971 130/.617 90/.628 / 161/.884 91/.764 60/.869 .850
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 271/.844 134/.650 137/.746 / 155/.974 103/.680 154/.831 .887
Road 139/.863 130/.579 106/.765 / 162/.903 115/.758 85/.670
Last 28d days 77/1.142 31/.328 26/1.201 23/.594 / 19/.796 47/.922
HR/SB/CS 12/3/3 7/7/1 4/3/0 // 7/7/2 2/2/1 8/1/1 31/3/4
Usage ····X··· ·oo··X·o o·o··o·· ·X··X··· ··o·o··· ·oX·Xo·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.