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Game Preview: SEA @ MIN, 7:10pm, Saturday, May 9, 2009 @Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome

Mariners, 15-15, 2nd, 1½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Felix Hernandez (23, RHP, 4-1, 3.38)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (4-1) 40.0 37 15 15 10 45 3 3.38
2008 (9-11) 200.2 198 85 77 80 175 17 3.45
2007 (14-7) 190.1 209 88 83 53 165 20 3.92
Last 7 GS 4-1 46.0 50 20 19 13 49 3 3.72 55
2009-05-04 TEX L 6.0 10 6 6 0 9 2 97 37
2009-04-28 @CHW W 8.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 100 82
2009-04-23 TBR W 7.0 4 0 0 3 7 0 104 73
2009-04-17 DET W 6.0 7 3 3 1 6 0 104 51
2009-04-11 @OAK ND 5.0 7 5 5 2 8 1 94 39
2009-04-06 @MIN W 8.0 5 1 1 3 6 0 97 71
2008-09-24 LAA ND 6.0 13 5 4 3 4 0 109 29
Last 5 v.MIN 2-2 28.1 22 9 9 10 25 1 2.86 59
2009-04-06 @MIN W 8.0 5 1 1 3 6 0 97 71
2007-08-13 MIN ND 6.0 4 1 1 2 6 0 110 64
2007-04-18 MIN L 0.1 2 3 3 2 0 0 25 33
2006-06-06 MIN W 7.0 6 1 1 2 5 0 100 64
2006-05-26 @MIN L 7.0 5 3 3 1 8 1 104 62
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-7    Road:    8-8    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   8-14   vsLHP:   7-1    1-Run:   7-5 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl: 4-9    vsWest:  9-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 30 Fri, May  8  @MIN  L   0-11      15-15  2nd  1.5 gb
 29 Thu, May  7  @KCR  L   1-3       15-14  2nd  0.5 gb
 28 Wed, May  6  @KCR  L   1-9       15-13  2nd  0.5 gb
 27 Tue, May  5   TEX  L   2-7 (10)  15-12  1st  0.5 up
 26 Mon, May  4   TEX  L   5-6       15-11  1st  1.5 up
 25 Sun, May  3   OAK  W   8-7 (15)  15-10  1st  2.5 up
 24 Sat, May  2   OAK  L   2-3       14-10  1st  2.5 up
 23 Fri, May  1   OAK  W   8-7       14-9   1st  3.5 up
 22 Wed, Apr 29  @CHW  L   3-6       13-9   1st  2.0 up
 21 Tue, Apr 28  @CHW  W   9-1       13-8   1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15
Twins, 14-16, 3rd, 4 GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Francisco Liriano (25, LHP, 1-4, 5.30)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-4) 35.2 32 22 21 14 29 4 5.30
2008 (6-4) 76.0 74 40 33 32 67 7 3.91
2006 (12-3) 121.0 89 31 29 32 144 9 2.16
Last 7 GS 1-5 40.0 43 28 27 15 34 5 6.08 45
2009-05-04 @DET W 7.1 4 2 2 3 9 1 103 68
2009-04-28 TBR ND 6.2 7 2 2 2 3 0 96 53
2009-04-22 @BOS L 4.0 4 7 7 4 6 1 74 28
2009-04-16 TOR L 6.0 7 2 1 1 5 0 104 56
2009-04-11 @CHW L 4.2 6 5 5 4 3 0 85 31
2009-04-06 SEA L 7.0 4 4 4 0 3 2 93 56
2008-09-26 KCR L 4.1 11 6 6 1 5 1 85 21
Last 5 v.SEA 2-2 31.0 22 10 8 6 20 2 2.32 60
2009-04-06 SEA L 7.0 4 4 4 0 3 2 93 56
2008-08-25 @SEA ND 6.0 5 1 1 1 3 0 95 60
2008-08-15 SEA W 7.0 2 2 0 2 5 0 98 72
2006-06-06 @SEA L 6.0 7 3 3 2 3 0 91 47
2006-05-26 SEA W 5.0 4 0 0 1 6 0 83 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-8    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  10-12   vsLHP:   4-4    1-Run:   4-1 
 vsEast:  3-8    vsCntrl: 5-6    vsWest:  6-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 30 Fri, May  8   SEA  W  11-0       14-16  3rd  4.0 gb
 29 Thu, May  7  @BAL  L   4-5       13-16  4th  5.0 gb
 28 Wed, May  6  @BAL  L   1-4  (6)  13-15  3rd  4.0 gb
 27 Tue, May  5  @DET  L   0-9       13-14  3rd  3.0 gb
 26 Mon, May  4  @DET  W   7-2       13-13  3rd  2.0 gb
 25 Sun, May  3   KCR  L   5-7       12-13  4th  2.0 gb
 24 Sat, May  2   KCR  L   7-10(11)  12-12  4th  1.0 gb
 23 Fri, May  1   KCR  W   7-5       12-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 29   TBR  W   8-3       11-11  4th  0.5 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 28   TBR  W   4-3       10-11  4th  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 08, 2009 MIN 11  SEA  0        W:Scott Baker (1-4), L: Chris Jakubauskas (1-4), S: none
Thu, Apr 09, 2009 SEA  2 @MIN  0        W:Jarrod Washburn (1-0), L: Glen Perkins (0-1), S: Brandon Morrow (1)
Wed, Apr 08, 2009 MIN  6  SEA  5        W:Kevin Slowey (1-0), L: Carlos Silva (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (1)
Tue, Apr 07, 2009 MIN  6  SEA  5        W:Luis Ayala (1-0), L: Brandon Morrow (0-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 06, 2009 SEA  6 @MIN  1        W:Felix Hernandez (1-0), L: Francisco Liriano (0-1), S: none

Wed, Aug 27, 2008 MIN  6 @SEA  5        W:Glen Perkins (12-3), L: Sean Green (3-4), S: Joe Nathan (36)
Tue, Aug 26, 2008 SEA  3  MIN  2        W:Ryan Rowland-Smith (3-2), L: Scott Baker (7-4), S: Roy Corcoran (1)
Mon, Aug 25, 2008 SEA  4  MIN  2 (11)   W:R.A. Dickey (4-8), L: Jesse Crain (5-4), S: none
Sun, Aug 17, 2008 MIN 11  SEA  8        W:Glen Perkins (10-3), L: Ryan Feierabend (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (33)
Sat, Aug 16, 2008 MIN  7  SEA  6        W:Dennys Reyes (3-0), L: Cesar Jimenez (0-2), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - MIN leads 3-2; 2008 - MIN won 5-4; 2007 - MIN won 6-3; All-Time - SEA leads 191-183

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

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TOR  6.03

CHC  4.79

ARI  3.63

 RA/G

KCR  3.80

TOR  4.69

NYY  6.14

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 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .40

R. Oswalt  4.26

J. Contreras  8.19

 K/9IP

J. Santana  12.24

M. Cain  6.63

J. Pineiro  2.98

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Mariners Batters (4.00 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.27 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 18.Ayala
G/S/vB		 49.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 28.Crain
G/S/vB		 39.Dickey
G/S/vB		 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Balentien G/S/vP 6/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 46/30 .341/.391/.488/.879 1.083/.782 .918 35/.855 1/0 1/0
29.Beltre G/S/vP 14/.594 7/.858 1/.000 11/.773 4/.500 8/.661 ··· 26/.323 128/95 .208/.242/.275/.517 .544/.507 .648 103/.478 4/1 0/5
7.Betancourt G/S/vP 12/.166 2/.000 2/2.000 8/1.250 3/.666 9/1.056 ··· 9/.889 109/86 .286/.296/.371/.668 .870/.612 .798 87/.628 2/0 1/4
30.Branyan* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 4/.250 ··· 3/1.666 101/71 .289/.356/.600/.956 .907/.977 .944 81/.929 1/0 7/0
3.Cedeno G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 32/25 .138/.219/.276/.495 .452/.504 .284 20/.533 0/1 1/1
10.Chavez* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 4/.250 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 115/86 .280/.348/.320/.668 .641/.677 .598 87/.643 6/1 1/1
24.Griffey* G/S/vP 3/1.666 3/.000 5/.200 ··· 2/3.500 2/2.500 1/.000 6/1.000 88/71 .205/.341/.329/.670 .686/.666 .745 71/.616 0/0 2/0
21.Gutierrez G/S/vP 9/.778 1/2.000 2/.500 5/.650 1/.000 8/.250 ··· 2/1.000 105/82 .278/.356/.411/.768 1.065/.688 .586 79/.793 0/2 3/0
2.Johjima G/S/vP 12/.583 1/2.000 1/.000 3/1.000 ··· 7/.829 ··· 5/.200 46/32 .227/.244/.318/.563 .516/.581 .320 27/.719 0/0 1/1
32.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/50 .204/.228/.296/.524 .000/.613 .472 54/.526 0/1 0/1
4.Lopez G/S/vP 14/.226 2/.000 1/.000 5/.800 5/1.600 8/.661 ··· 8/.625 122/95 .259/.298/.348/.646 .576/.666 .753 101/.623 0/1 2/4
51.Suzuki* G/S/vP 13/.770 2/1.000 2/2.000 7/.572 9/.444 6/1.167 ··· 9/.444 104/85 .313/.346/.414/.760 .485/.821 .767 104/.760 5/2 2/1
5.Sweeney G/S/vP 5/.200 ··· 3/.333 7/.286 6/1.000 7/1.881 ··· 9/.958 61/33 .281/.328/.404/.731 .706/.753 .643 44/.839 0/0 1/1
IP 35.2 13.1 9.2 8.0 16.1 15.2 5.2 10.0 TOTAL .258/.310/.371/.681 .698/.676 .687 .674 19/9 22/22
ERA-K/9 5.30/7.3 5.40/6.1 6.52/6.5 5.63/7.9 4.96/7.2 3.45/5.2 1.59/12.6 1.80/9.0 5.20/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 152/.242 58/.370 45/.219 32/.115 81/.324 60/.182 23/.227 39/.189 .277
OPS .742 .969 .762 .365 .966 .488 .488 .609 .775
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 33/.648 19/1.297 21/1.162 9/.476 33/.636 21/.340 8/.125 16/.846 .811
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 119/.769 39/.817 24/.492 23/.323 48/1.186 39/.571 15/.667 23/.447 .754
Home 77/.689 46/1.108 21/.750 25/.380 44/1.144 37/.631 11/.282 30/.450
Last 28d days 102/.739 42/1.034 40/.755 24/.400 57/1.064 48/.573 23/.488 36/.662
HR/SB/CS 4/3/2 1/2/1 1/1/2 0/1/0 3/1/0 1/2/1 0/1/0 2/2/0 35/27/7
Usage ····X··· ·····XX· ··XX··X· o··o···· ···X·XX· ·o··o·Xo ·X····oX X·····XX
Twins Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (4.57 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 53.Aardsma
G/S/vB		 43.Batista
G/S/vB		 41.Jakubauskas
G/S/vB		 57.Lowe
G/S/vB		 46.White
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Buscher* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/1.583 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 39/33 .188/.333/.375/.708 .733/.704 .816 37/.711 0/0 1/0
24.Crede G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· 14/.643 ··· 1/.000 ··· 91/69 .232/.308/.415/.722 .887/.667 .650 67/.762 0/0 3/1
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 17/.181 5/.200 6/.834 4/1.250 ··· 2/1.000 118/91 .262/.347/.408/.755 .614/.795 .894 93/.792 3/1 2/2
22.Gomez G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 6/.334 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 54/37 .216/.259/.333/.593 .426/.669 .574 34/.638 2/3 0/0
23.Harris G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 6/.666 2/2.500 3/1.667 4/.833 60/37 .321/.350/.464/.814 .623/.937 1.054 56/.801 0/0 2/0
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 9/.666 3/.000 7/.829 3/1.667 4/1.750 1/.000 106/84 .323/.358/.556/.914 .465/1.034 .877 86/.965 0/0 4/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 17/1.576 2/2.000 7/.572 3/1.666 1/.000 2/3.000 28/23 .462/.500/.769/1.269 .200/1.474 1.758 28/1.269 0/0 2/0
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 20/.311 4/.500 12/1.012 4/2.500 3/1.666 2/.500 130/91 .310/.362/.560/.922 .925/.921 .992 105/.960 0/0 7/0
8.Punto# G/S/vP 9/.611 3/.667 7/1.904 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 94/70 .190/.293/.203/.496 .105/.580 .461 76/.412 2/0 0/2
55.Redmond G/S/vP 3/1.000 3/1.000 8/.250 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 39/26 .265/.359/.294/.653 .762/.599 .817 29/.659 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP 4/.667 ··· 8/.804 4/.500 2/1.000 ··· 131/99 .304/.377/.374/.751 .889/.705 .763 103/.701 7/0 1/1
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 3/1.000 ··· ··· 13/10 .273/.333/.364/.697 .000/.944 .900 13/.697 0/0 0/0
21.Young G/S/vP 7/.286 1/2.000 11/.775 2/2.000 2/.000 3/.000 83/56 .303/.349/.355/.705 .542/.783 .598 72/.789 2/2 1/2
IP 40.0 12.1 15.1 29.1 12.2 12.1 TOTAL .273/.337/.403/.740 .624/.781 .764 .755 18/6 23/13
ERA-K/9 3.38/10.1 2.19/8.0 3.52/6.5 7.67/3.4 3.55/7.8 1.46/1.5 4.16/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 166/.245 52/.163 75/.286 130/.291 57/.302 51/.195 .261
OPS .630 .550 .775 .826 .728 .633 .717
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/.650 26/.487 38/.846 63/.963 24/.980 23/.542 .786
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 92/.614 26/.620 37/.705 67/.705 33/.539 28/.670 .670
Road 84/.570 21/.607 31/.869 68/.727 22/.732 13/.958
Last 28d days 110/.595 43/.681 62/.813 113/.851 50/.764 51/.633
HR/SB/CS 3/2/0 1/1/0 1/3/0 4/0/1 0/2/0 1/1/2 24/15/8
Usage ····X··· ···X·oX· X····X·X X····X·· o··o·oX· ·o··XX·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.