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Game Preview: MIN @ CLE, 7:05pm, Friday, April 24, 2009 @Jacobs Field

Twins, 7-9, 4th, 1½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Nick Blackburn (27, RHP, 0-1, 5.71)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (0-1) 17.1 22 12 11 6 5 1 5.71
2008 (11-11) 193.1 224 102 87 39 96 23 4.05
2007 (0-2) 11.2 19 12 10 2 8 2 7.71
Last 7 GS 1-4 34.0 49 27 26 14 12 7 6.88 37
2009-04-17 LAA ND 6.1 8 4 4 2 3 0 106 42
2009-04-12 @CHW L 6.0 6 4 3 1 1 1 95 46
2009-04-07 SEA ND 5.0 8 4 4 3 1 0 85 33
2008-09-30 @CHW L 6.1 4 1 1 3 3 1 89 61
2008-09-24 CHW W 5.0 8 2 2 2 2 1 84 43
2008-09-19 @TBR L 1.1 6 6 6 3 0 0 42 15
2008-09-14 @BAL L 4.0 9 6 6 0 2 4 75 22
Last 5 v.CLE 3-0 27.2 25 4 4 3 11 1 1.30 62
2008-08-01 CLE W 7.0 6 1 1 1 2 0 93 62
2008-07-27 @CLE ND 7.0 4 1 1 1 3 0 99 67
2008-06-11 @CLE W 6.0 7 2 2 1 5 1 94 54
2008-04-19 CLE W 7.2 8 0 0 0 1 0 102 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-5    Road:    1-4    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   4-7    vsLHP:   3-2    1-Run:   3-0 
 vsEast:  1-5    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  5-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 16 Wed, Apr 22  @BOS  L   3-7        7-9   4th  2.0 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 22  @BOS  L   1-10 (7)   7-8   4th  2.0 gb
 14 Sun, Apr 19   LAA  W   3-1        7-7   4th  1.0 gb
 13 Sat, Apr 18   LAA  W   9-2        6-7   4th  2.0 gb
 12 Fri, Apr 17   LAA  W  11-9        5-7   4th  2.0 gb
 11 Thu, Apr 16   TOR  L   2-9        4-7   4th  2.0 gb
 10 Wed, Apr 15   TOR  L   2-12       4-6   4th  1.5 gb
  9 Tue, Apr 14   TOR  W   3-2 (11)   4-5   4th  1.5 gb
  8 Mon, Apr 13   TOR  L   6-8        3-5   4th  1.5 gb
  7 Sun, Apr 12  @CHW  L   1-6        3-4   4th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-9    Last 30: 7-9
Indians, 6-10, 5th, 2½ GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Fausto Carmona (25, RHP, 1-2, 7.88)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-2) 16.0 18 14 14 10 8 4 7.88
2008 (8-7) 120.2 126 80 73 70 58 7 5.44
2007 (19-8) 215.0 199 78 73 61 137 16 3.06
Last 7 GS 1-4 35.0 45 36 36 18 21 7 9.26 35
2009-04-18 @NYY W 6.0 6 4 4 4 1 2 103 41
2009-04-13 @KCR L 5.0 5 4 4 4 3 1 106 40
2009-04-08 @TEX L 5.0 7 6 6 2 4 1 95 31
2008-09-24 @BOS ND 1.0 5 4 4 1 1 0 51 27
2008-09-19 DET ND 6.1 5 4 4 0 5 2 82 52
2008-09-13 KCR L 6.1 11 7 7 3 2 0 96 22
2008-09-08 @BAL L 5.1 6 7 7 4 5 1 100 29
Last 5 v.MIN 3-2 33.1 30 14 14 14 16 1 3.78 53
2008-07-26 MIN L 2.1 7 9 9 3 1 1 69 5
2007-09-05 @MIN W 7.1 8 2 2 2 4 0 105 56
2007-08-05 @MIN L 7.0 5 1 1 5 5 0 114 63
2007-05-17 MIN W 9.0 4 0 0 2 4 0 121 81
2007-04-24 @MIN W 7.2 6 2 2 2 2 0 96 59
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-3    Road:    3-7    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   4-10   vsLHP:   2-0    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast:  3-4    vsCntrl: 3-3    vsWest:  0-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 16 Thu, Apr 23   KCR  W   5-2        6-10  5th  2.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 22   KCR  L   0-2        5-10  5th  3.5 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 21   KCR  W   8-7        5-9   5th  2.5 gb
 13 Sun, Apr 19  @NYY  L   3-7        4-9   5th  3.5 gb
 12 Sat, Apr 18  @NYY  W  22-4        4-8   5th  3.5 gb
 11 Fri, Apr 17  @NYY  L   5-6        3-8   5th  3.5 gb
 10 Thu, Apr 16  @NYY  W  10-2        3-7   5th  2.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr 15  @KCR  W   5-4        2-7   5th  3.0 gb
  8 Tue, Apr 14  @KCR  L   3-9        1-7   5th  4.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 13  @KCR  L   2-4        1-6   5th  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 6-10   Last 30: 6-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Sep 17, 2008 CLE  6  MIN  4        W:Edward Mujica (3-2), L: Jose Mijares (0-1), S: Jensen Lewis (10)
Tue, Sep 16, 2008 CLE 12  MIN  9 (11)   W:Tom Mastny (2-2), L: Joe Nathan (0-2), S: none
Mon, Sep 15, 2008 CLE  3  MIN  1        W:Scott Lewis (2-0), L: Kevin Slowey (12-10), S: Jensen Lewis (9)
Sun, Aug 03, 2008 MIN  6  CLE  2        W:Francisco Liriano (1-3), L: Matt Ginter (1-3), S: none
Sat, Aug 02, 2008 CLE  5 @MIN  1        W:Paul Byrd (6-10), L: Kevin Slowey (7-8), S: none
Fri, Aug 01, 2008 MIN  4  CLE  1        W:Nick Blackburn (8-6), L: Jeremy Sowers (1-6), S: Joe Nathan (30)
Sun, Jul 27, 2008 MIN  4 @CLE  2        W:Matt Guerrier (6-4), L: Rafael Perez (1-2), S: Joe Nathan (28)
Sat, Jul 26, 2008 MIN 11 @CLE  4        W:Scott Baker (7-3), L: Fausto Carmona (4-3), S: none
Fri, Jul 25, 2008 CLE  5  MIN  4        W:Cliff Lee (14-2), L: Livan Hernandez (10-7), S: Rafael Perez (1)
Sun, Jul 06, 2008 MIN  4  CLE  3        W:Glen Perkins (5-2), L: Cliff Lee (11-2), S: Joe Nathan (25)
Season Series: 2009 -  0-0; 2008 - MIN won 10-8; 2007 - CLE won 14-4; All-Time - CLE leads 1055-914

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 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.

Twins Batters (4.13 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (6.13 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Carmona
G/S/vB		 63.Betancourt
G/S/vB		 39.Chulk
G/S/vB		 30.Kobayashi
G/S/vB		 50.Lewis
G/S/vB		 53.Perez*
G/S/vB		 49.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 34.Wood
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Buscher* G/S/vP 8/1.625 1/no AB ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 245/197 .294/.340/.390/.730 .455/.799 .776 18/.667 0/2 4/10
25.Casilla# G/S/vP 8/.375 3/.000 ··· ··· 6/.334 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 437/298 .281/.333/.374/.707 .638/.741 .659 53/.455 7/2 7/12
24.Crede G/S/vP 8/.929 18/.765 3/.333 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 373/281 .248/.314/.460/.773 .353/.910 .675 49/.595 0/3 17/20
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 20/.476 15/1.400 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 279/198 .249/.330/.369/.699 .694/.700 .613 63/.564 5/1 3/2
22.Gomez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 614/445 .258/.296/.360/.657 .712/.636 .622 40/.566 33/11 7/8
23.Harris G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 8/.500 ··· ··· ··· 490/326 .265/.327/.394/.721 .714/.725 .724 32/.860 1/1 7/13
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 16/1.033 10/.686 1/.000 ··· 7/.000 6/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 517/402 .272/.335/.471/.805 .704/.833 .741 54/.910 0/1 20/3
58.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 26/.641 / /
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 20/.703 16/.599 2/2.500 1/5.000 8/.625 14/.559 ··· 1/.000 ··· 712/459 .300/.374/.499/.873 .778/.928 .897 68/.923 0/1 23/4
8.Punto# G/S/vP 15/.564 6/.733 ··· 1/2.000 5/1.100 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· 377/245 .284/.344/.382/.726 .701/.739 .685 50/.609 15/6 2/10
55.Redmond G/S/vP 3/.333 9/.777 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 1/2.000 9/.476 137/68 .287/.321/.333/.655 .627/.682 .584 31/.540 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP 2/.500 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 411/281 .294/.387/.432/.819 .873/.795 .797 67/.830 18/7 6/4
21.Young G/S/vP 5/1.200 8/.417 ··· 1/3.000 4/1.000 6/.167 ··· ··· ··· 623/437 .290/.336/.405/.741 .791/.720 .716 38/.632 14/5 10/8
IP 120.2 71.0 31.2 55.2 66.0 76.1 63.1 66.1 TOTAL .255/.316/.376/.692 .608/.728 .666 .692 7/3 10/8
ERA-K/9 5.44/4.3 5.07/8.1 4.83/4.5 4.53/5.7 3.82/7.1 3.54/10.1 /0.0 3.55/7.4 3.26/11.4 6.31/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Redmond (18-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 549/.271 309/.276 139/.260 244/.286 292/.266 313/.234 / 271/.220 276/.219 .286  Young
 Gomez
 Cuddyer
 Span
 Kubel
 Punto
151/0/0/11
0/151/0/9
0/1/58/7
0/19/85/6
18/0/32/2
0/3/0/0
OPS .759 .789 .800 .757 .771 .649 .658 .632 .885
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 302/.832 139/.763 47/.740 115/.820 152/.782 130/.599 / 61/.903 131/.604 .918
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 247/.667 170/.809 92/.831 129/.700 140/.757 183/.683 / 210/.589 145/.657 .857
Home 334/.745 176/.751 69/.675 148/.668 154/.732 146/.619 / 138/.611 141/.559
Last 28d days 76/.951 31/.816 25/.967 29/.595 43/1.202 39/1.170 3/.000 20/.917 21/.688
HR/SB/CS 7/6/1 11/10/1 6/1/0 8/2/0 8/1/1 8/2/3 // 4/6/2 3/1/0 24/8/2
Usage ·····X·· ····X··X ·····XX· ··o··X·· X·o·o·X· ····o··X ·o······ ··o···o· o·X·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.

Indians Batters (6.00 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (6.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.Blackburn
G/S/vB		 18.Ayala
G/S/vB		 49.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 39.Dickey
G/S/vB		 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 31.Morillo
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 11/.728 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 418/318 .259/.346/.366/.713 .957/.638 .772 59/.857 4/4 6/8
17.Choo* G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 2/.000 4/1.750 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 370/286 .309/.397/.549/.946 .800/.992 1.083 67/.894 4/3 14/2
26.Crowe# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 31/.472 / /
7.DeRosa G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· 2/.000 593/422 .285/.376/.481/.857 .894/.842 .918 73/.666 6/0 21/11
12.Francisco G/S/vP 9/.222 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/1.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 499/364 .266/.332/.438/.770 .794/.762 .830 50/.736 4/3 15/4
25.Garko G/S/vP 13/.616 ··· 1/.000 ··· 8/.661 ··· ··· 4/.750 563/419 .273/.346/.404/.750 .857/.714 .795 45/.867 0/0 14/4
4.Graffanino G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 8/.125 ··· ··· 5/.400 / /// / 17/.485 / /
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 6/.533 1/.000 ··· 6/.500 9/1.867 ··· ··· 11/.773 234/175 .197/.305/.323/.628 .602/.637 .644 59/1.027 1/1 5/
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· ··· 3/1.167 12/.523 ··· ··· 11/.909 294/223 .278/.337/.365/.701 .923/.633 .804 75/1.120 0/0 2/4
2.Peralta G/S/vP 8/.393 1/2.000 1/.000 4/.000 20/.488 ··· ··· 12/.633 664/502 .276/.331/.473/.804 .761/.817 .729 63/.695 3/1 23/14
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 5/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/.286 ··· ··· 2/.000 403/299 .261/.348/.517/.865 .949/.835 .880 31/.799 0/0 21/7
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 15/.718 ··· 3/.333 1/no AB 11/1.255 2/1.000 ··· 17/.063 745/526 .268/.374/.502/.876 .735/.934 1.055 78/.978 38/5 33/2
IP 193.1 75.2 47.0 112.1 76.1 10.1 1.0 67.2 TOTAL .271/.372/.471/.843 .967/.810 .783 .843 9/2 25/10
ERA-K/9 4.05/4.5 5.71/5.9 1.91/7.5 5.21/4.6 5.19/7.0 0.87/4.4 0.00/0.0 1.33/9.8 6.03/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martinez (22-13-2)
 Shoppach (37-10-8)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 823/.292 335/.287 189/.202 500/.284 344/.275 34/.088 4/.250 261/.179 .286  Francisco
 Choo
 Sizemore
 DeRosa
83/2/32/12
26/0/51/4
0/151/0/2
27/0/38/0
OPS .771 .788 .516 .805 .802 .206 .750 .521 .813
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 372/.779 156/.778 88/.462 265/.799 126/.801 14/.286 2/1.500 133/.548 .828
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 451/.765 179/.795 101/.563 235/.812 218/.802 20/.150 2/.000 128/.495 .806
Road 458/.796 135/.860 99/.537 235/.809 175/.841 24/.167 / 111/.668
Last 28d days 79/.739 38/1.021 18/.619 47/.954 36/.660 3/.000 8/1.225 18/.461
HR/SB/CS 23/2/2 9/2/1 1/2/5 15/6/7 12/8/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 5/5/0 23/17/4
Usage ······X· ·o·····X ·o···X·o ·o·····o ·X····XX ·o······ ·X···o·· ····X·o·

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.