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Game Preview: SEA @ MIN, 2:10pm, Sunday, May 10, 2009 @Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome

Mariners, 15-16, 3rd, 1½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Erik Bedard (30, LHP, 2-1, 2.37)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-1) 38.0 34 12 10 6 39 3 2.37
2008 (6-4) 81.0 70 38 33 37 72 9 3.67
2007 (13-5) 182.0 141 66 64 57 221 19 3.16
Last 7 GS 3-1 43.0 39 13 11 9 45 4 2.30 60
2009-05-05 TEX ND 7.0 7 1 1 0 7 1 102 66
2009-04-29 @CHW ND 5.0 6 3 3 3 3 1 92 43
2009-04-24 @LAA W 6.2 5 3 2 0 6 1 109 60
2009-04-18 DET L 6.0 7 2 1 2 8 0 101 58
2009-04-12 @OAK W 8.1 3 0 0 1 7 0 102 83
2009-04-07 @MIN ND 5.0 6 3 3 0 8 0 85 51
2008-07-04 DET W 5.0 5 1 1 3 6 1 99 56
Last 5 v.MIN 0-4 25.1 39 23 20 12 27 4 7.11 37
2009-04-07 @MIN ND 5.0 6 3 3 0 8 0 85 51
2007-08-26 MIN L 6.0 6 6 6 5 3 0 116 34
2007-04-02 @MIN L 4.2 10 6 6 2 3 2 80 21
2006-09-23 MIN L 4.2 12 6 3 2 4 1 89 24
2006-06-11 @MIN L 5.0 5 2 2 3 9 1 115 55
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-7    Road:    8-9    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   8-14   vsLHP:   7-2    1-Run:   7-5 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl: 4-10   vsWest:  9-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 31 Sat, May  9  @MIN  L   6-9       15-16  3rd  1.5 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
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:14-16
Twins, 15-16, 3rd, 3 GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Nick Blackburn (27, RHP, 2-2, 5.19)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-2) 34.2 44 24 20 10 13 3 5.19
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 2-3 41.0 48 25 21 13 16 4 4.61 45
2009-05-05 @DET L 3.1 8 9 6 3 1 2 77 12
2009-04-29 TBR W 7.0 8 2 2 1 3 0 104 55
2009-04-24 @CLE W 7.0 6 1 1 0 4 0 99 65
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
Last 5 v.SEA 1-0 11.0 17 7 7 4 2 0 5.73 38
2009-04-07 SEA ND 5.0 8 4 4 3 1 0 85 33
2008-08-06 @SEA W 6.0 9 3 3 1 1 0 101 42
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-8    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  11-12   vsLHP:   4-4    1-Run:   4-1 
 vsEast:  3-8    vsCntrl: 5-6    vsWest:  7-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 31 Sat, May  9   SEA  W   9-6       15-16  3rd  3.0 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, May 09, 2009 MIN  9  SEA  6        W:Francisco Liriano (2-4), L: Felix Hernandez (4-2), S: Joe Nathan (5)
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)
Season Series: 2009 - MIN leads 4-2; 2008 - MIN won 5-4; 2007 - MIN won 6-3; All-Time - SEA leads 191-184

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

WSN  4.90

SFG  3.52

 RA/G

KCR  3.71

TBR  4.69

NYY  6.33

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 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .51

R. Ohlendorf  4.14

J. Moyer  7.26

 K/9IP

J. Santana  12.24

S. Richmond  6.81

J. Pineiro  2.98

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

Mariners Batters (4.06 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.29 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		 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 5/.800 2/2.500 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 50/31 .311/.360/.444/.804 .888/.756 .800 39/.762 1/0 1/0
29.Beltre G/S/vP 6/1.100 7/.858 1/.000 11/.773 4/.500 9/1.194 ··· 26/.323 132/96 .226/.258/.323/.580 .646/.555 .758 103/.559 5/2 1/7
7.Betancourt G/S/vP 5/.650 3/.000 2/2.000 8/1.250 3/.666 9/1.056 ··· 10/.800 113/88 .275/.286/.358/.644 .800/.597 .743 91/.600 2/0 1/4
30.Branyan* G/S/vP 5/1.400 3/1.167 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 5/.200 ··· 3/1.666 105/73 .290/.362/.591/.953 .899/.977 .940 81/.955 1/0 7/0
3.Cedeno G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 32/25 .138/.219/.276/.495 .452/.504 .284 17/.635 0/1 1/1
10.Chavez* G/S/vP 3/2.000 3/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 4/.250 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 115/86 .280/.348/.320/.668 .641/.677 .598 83/.617 6/1 1/1
24.Griffey* G/S/vP 8/1.500 3/.000 5/.200 ··· 2/3.500 2/2.500 1/.000 6/1.000 88/71 .205/.341/.329/.670 .686/.666 .745 67/.656 0/0 2/0
21.Gutierrez G/S/vP 15/.667 2/2.000 2/.500 5/.650 1/.000 9/.222 ··· 2/1.000 109/84 .272/.362/.402/.764 1.041/.687 .591 79/.831 0/2 3/0
2.Johjima G/S/vP 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 3/1.000 ··· 8/1.000 ··· 5/.200 50/34 .250/.265/.333/.599 .579/.606 .414 31/.756 0/0 1/1
32.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/50 .204/.228/.296/.524 .000/.613 .472 51/.559 0/1 0/1
4.Lopez G/S/vP 6/.167 3/.000 1/.000 5/.800 5/1.600 8/.661 ··· 9/.555 127/97 .256/.294/.350/.644 .621/.651 .741 103/.627 0/1 2/4
51.Suzuki* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.666 2/2.000 7/.572 9/.444 6/1.167 ··· 10/.600 109/87 .320/.358/.417/.775 .568/.826 .799 109/.775 5/2 2/1
5.Sweeney G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 3/.333 7/.286 6/1.000 7/1.881 ··· 9/.958 65/34 .279/.323/.443/.766 .805/.730 .719 45/.868 0/0 2/1
IP 34.2 15.1 9.2 8.0 16.1 16.2 5.2 11.0 TOTAL .259/.312/.376/.688 .716/.679 .699 .694 20/10 24/24
ERA-K/9 5.19/3.4 4.70/5.9 6.52/6.5 5.63/7.9 4.96/7.2 3.78/5.4 1.59/12.6 1.64/8.2 5.23/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 158/.301 65/.350 45/.219 32/.115 81/.324 65/.200 23/.227 42/.200 .277
OPS .769 .917 .762 .365 .966 .563 .488 .613 .779
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 78/.872 21/1.266 21/1.162 9/.476 33/.636 22/.325 8/.125 17/.915 .815
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 80/.664 44/.754 24/.492 23/.323 48/1.186 43/.689 15/.667 25/.410 .759
Home 83/.726 53/1.026 21/.750 25/.380 44/1.144 42/.731 11/.282 33/.470
Last 28d days 108/.772 49/.954 38/.740 21/.349 57/1.064 53/.658 23/.488 34/.548
HR/SB/CS 3/3/0 1/2/1 1/1/2 0/1/0 3/1/0 2/2/1 0/1/0 2/2/0 37/28/8
Usage ····X··· X·····XX ···XX··X ·o··o··· ····X·XX X·o··o·X ··X····o oX·····X
Twins Batters (4.65 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (4.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Bedard*
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 ··· 1/no AB 6/1.583 2/.500 2/.000 1/.000 43/37 .200/.349/.371/.720 .733/.718 .820 41/.724 0/0 1/0
24.Crede G/S/vP 16/.404 ··· 14/.643 ··· 1/.000 ··· 91/69 .232/.308/.415/.722 .887/.667 .650 63/.789 0/0 3/1
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 21/.809 6/.167 6/.834 4/1.250 ··· 3/2.334 122/95 .271/.352/.439/.792 .614/.839 .947 93/.859 3/1 3/2
22.Gomez G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/.000 6/.334 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 54/37 .216/.259/.333/.593 .426/.669 .574 31/.702 2/3 0/0
23.Harris G/S/vP 12/.258 2/.000 6/.666 2/2.500 3/1.667 4/.833 64/41 .300/.328/.433/.761 .623/.841 .959 56/.764 0/0 2/0
16.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 7/.829 3/1.667 4/1.750 2/.000 110/88 .311/.345/.534/.879 .465/.985 .824 90/.921 0/0 4/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 12/.606 2/2.000 8/.500 3/1.666 1/.000 3/3.000 33/28 .483/.545/.897/1.442 .200/1.647 1.944 33/1.442 0/0 3/0
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 20/1.189 4/.500 12/1.012 4/2.500 3/1.666 3/1.167 134/95 .322/.381/.593/.974 .925/.996 1.072 105/1.025 0/0 8/0
8.Punto# G/S/vP 18/1.009 3/.667 7/1.904 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 94/70 .190/.293/.203/.496 .105/.580 .461 73/.401 2/0 0/2
55.Redmond G/S/vP 6/1.100 3/1.000 8/.250 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 39/26 .265/.359/.294/.653 .762/.599 .817 26/.741 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 9/.708 4/.500 2/1.000 ··· 136/104 .305/.378/.381/.759 .889/.717 .776 104/.742 7/1 1/1
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/.500 3/1.000 ··· ··· 18/15 .200/.294/.267/.561 .000/.690 .550 18/.561 0/0 0/0
21.Young G/S/vP 17/.294 2/1.000 11/.775 2/2.000 2/.000 4/.000 87/60 .288/.333/.338/.671 .542/.729 .549 72/.713 2/2 1/2
IP 38.0 13.1 16.1 29.1 12.2 13.1 TOTAL .273/.339/.409/.748 .624/.790 .775 .776 18/7 26/13
ERA-K/9 2.37/9.2 2.03/9.5 3.31/7.2 7.67/3.4 3.55/7.8 3.38/2.0 4.30/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 154/.236 56/.152 78/.273 130/.291 57/.302 57/.217 .261
OPS .621 .530 .742 .826 .728 .727 .726
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 34/.517 27/.514 41/.778 63/.963 24/.980 27/.590 .806
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 120/.651 29/.547 37/.705 67/.705 33/.539 30/.800 .669
Road 100/.599 25/.558 34/.786 68/.727 22/.732 19/1.171
Last 28d days 103/.696 44/.663 65/.771 113/.851 50/.764 57/.727
HR/SB/CS 3/1/3 1/1/0 1/3/0 4/0/1 0/2/0 2/1/2 27/15/9
Usage ····X··· X···X·oX oX····X· ·X····X· ·o··o·oX X·o··XX·

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.