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Game Preview: DET @ MIN, 8:10pm, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome

Tigers, 17-14, 1st, Tied

SP: Dontrelle Willis (27, LHP, 0-0, undef)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2008 (0-2) 24.0 18 25 25 35 18 4 9.38
2007 (10-15) 205.1 241 131 118 87 146 29 5.17
2006 (12-12) 223.1 234 106 96 83 160 21 3.87
Last 7 GS 0-2 23.0 17 24 24 33 18 4 9.39 40
2008-09-27 TBR ND 5.1 4 3 3 3 5 1 95 50
2008-09-21 @CLE L 2.1 5 6 6 6 4 0 74 21
2008-09-15 @TEX ND 5.0 2 3 3 5 4 1 89 50
2008-06-09 CLE L 1.1 3 8 8 5 2 2 64 13
2008-06-03 @OAK ND 4.0 2 0 0 5 3 0 70 56
2008-04-11 @CHW ND 0.0 0 1 1 2 0 0 11 44
2008-04-05 CHW ND 5.0 1 3 3 7 0 0 89 46
Has never faced MIN.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-5    Road:    9-9    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:  10-10   vsLHP:   7-4    1-Run:   3-3 
 vsEast:  2-5    vsCntrl: 9-6    vsWest:  6-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 31 Tue, May 12  @MIN  L   2-6       17-14  1st    Tied
 30 Sun, May 10  @CLE  W   5-3       17-13  1st    Tied
 29 Sat, May  9  @CLE  W   4-0       16-13  2nd  1.0 gb
 28 Fri, May  8  @CLE  W   1-0       15-13  2nd  2.0 gb
 27 Thu, May  7  @CHW  L   0-6       14-13  2nd  3.0 gb
 26 Tue, May  5   MIN  W   9-0       14-12  2nd  1.5 gb
 25 Mon, May  4   MIN  L   2-7       13-12  2nd  1.5 gb
 24 Sun, May  3   CLE  W   3-1       13-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 23 Sat, May  2   CLE  W   9-7       12-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 22 Fri, May  1   CLE  L   5-6       11-11  4th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Twins, 16-17, 3rd, 2 GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Glen Perkins (26, LHP, 1-2, 3.73)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-2) 41.0 38 17 17 8 22 3 3.73
2008 (12-4) 151.0 183 81 74 39 74 25 4.41
2007 (0-0) 28.2 23 10 10 12 20 2 3.14
Last 7 GS 1-2 46.0 42 18 18 8 26 3 3.52 55
2009-05-07 @BAL ND 6.0 5 4 4 2 2 2 101 46
2009-05-02 KCR ND 6.0 10 5 5 0 4 1 84 36
2009-04-26 @CLE L 5.0 7 4 4 2 4 0 92 39
2009-04-19 LAA W 8.0 4 1 1 1 4 0 84 73
2009-04-14 TOR ND 8.0 7 2 2 1 4 0 107 63
2009-04-09 SEA L 8.0 5 1 1 2 4 0 106 70
2008-09-27 KCR ND 5.0 4 1 1 0 4 0 85 59
Last 5 v.DET 2-1 26.1 29 10 8 7 17 4 2.73 53
2008-09-07 DET L 5.2 9 5 3 2 4 2 97 37
2008-07-11 @DET W 6.2 6 2 2 2 2 0 85 54
2008-06-30 DET ND 6.1 7 2 2 1 7 1 91 57
2008-05-25 @DET W 7.2 7 1 1 2 4 1 104 63
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-9    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  12-12   vsLHP:   4-5    1-Run:   4-1 
 vsEast:  3-8    vsCntrl: 6-6    vsWest:  7-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 33 Tue, May 12   DET  W   6-2       16-17  3rd  2.0 gb
 32 Sun, May 10   SEA  L   3-5       15-17  3rd  3.0 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 12, 2009 MIN  6  DET  2        W:Kevin Slowey (5-1), L: Armando Galarraga (3-3), S: none
Tue, May 05, 2009 DET  9  MIN  0        W:Rick Porcello (2-3), L: Nick Blackburn (2-2), S: none
Mon, May 04, 2009 MIN  7 @DET  2        W:Francisco Liriano (1-4), L: Edwin Jackson (1-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 07, 2008 DET  7 @MIN  5        W:Chris Lambert (1-1), L: Glen Perkins (12-4), S: Fernando Rodney (10)
Sat, Sep 06, 2008 DET  6 @MIN  4        W:Clay Rapada (3-0), L: Matt Guerrier (6-7), S: Fernando Rodney (9)
Fri, Sep 05, 2008 MIN 10  DET  2        W:Francisco Liriano (5-3), L: Armando Galarraga (12-5), S: none
Sun, Jul 13, 2008 DET  4  MIN  2        W:Justin Verlander (7-9), L: Nick Blackburn (7-5), S: Todd Jones (17)
Sat, Jul 12, 2008 MIN  6 @DET  5        W:Scott Baker (6-2), L: Nate Robertson (6-8), S: Joe Nathan (27)
Fri, Jul 11, 2008 MIN  3 @DET  2        W:Glen Perkins (6-2), L: Armando Galarraga (7-3), S: Joe Nathan (26)
Thu, Jul 10, 2008 MIN  7 @DET  6 (11)   W:Matt Guerrier (5-4), L: Freddy Dolsi (1-3), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - MIN leads 2-1; 2008 - MIN won 11-7; 2007 - DET won 12-6; All-Time - DET leads 1026-948

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  5.97

LAA  4.87

ARI  3.71

 RA/G

LAD  3.88

SEA  4.73

WSN  6.22

 BA

  

  

  

 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .51

M. Owings  4.33

G. Floyd  7.32

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  11.78

K. Davies  6.57

M. Pelfrey  2.31

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

Tigers Batters (4.90 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.18 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 15.Perkins*
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
13.Anderson* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 61/58 .321/.367/.411/.777 .667/.784 .720 45/.736 6/1 0/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 10/1.200 10/1.489 2/.000 3/1.666 8/1.500 8/.250 1/.000 5/.200 129/90 .365/.434/.574/1.008 .899/1.049 .807 90/.826 1/2 7/3
4.Everett G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 72/39 .281/.319/.406/.725 .828/.631 .680 47/.776 1/1 1/4
28.Granderson* G/S/vP 12/.944 ··· 4/.500 15/.862 8/.536 17/1.112 ··· 13/.693 144/94 .254/.331/.492/.823 .793/.837 .915 101/.910 4/1 9/0
15.Inge G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· 2/.500 17/.983 11/.637 19/.276 ··· 14/.468 124/87 .269/.382/.538/.921 1.005/.886 .990 86/.838 1/2 8/4
8.Laird G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 3/.000 ··· 4/.500 96/70 .207/.313/.293/.605 .651/.588 .625 67/.516 1/0 1/0
19.Larish* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/3.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 31/28 .259/.355/.667/1.022 .333/1.077 1.193 22/1.131 0/0 3/0
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 9/.708 ··· 2/2.000 14/.690 14/.857 14/.572 ··· 11/.697 127/89 .241/.331/.304/.634 .770/.578 .647 86/.607 0/0 2/1
14.Polanco G/S/vP 15/.354 9/.444 2/1.000 14/1.154 10/.522 15/.539 1/.000 9/.476 136/94 .272/.319/.392/.711 1.048/.543 .562 98/.655 0/1 0/1
25.Raburn G/S/vP 8/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 24/4 .050/.208/.050/.258 .150/.833 .000 24/.258 0/0 0/1
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 3/1.666 6/.666 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 52/42 .283/.327/.457/.783 .400/.887 .586 35/.637 0/1 2/2
57.Sardinha G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 10/4 .111/.100/.222/.322 .500/.000 .000 10/.322 0/0 0/0
34.Thomas* G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 25/15 .364/.440/.500/.940 .650/1.110 .628 25/.940 1/0 0/0
IP 41.0 15.1 10.2 8.0 16.1 18.0 7.1 12.0 TOTAL .260/.334/.410/.744 .746/.743 .712 .702 16/9 33/17
ERA-K/9 3.73/4.8 4.70/5.9 6.75/6.7 9.00/7.9 4.96/7.2 3.50/6.0 3.68/11.1 1.50/8.2 5.12/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 165/.245 65/.350 49/.222 37/.233 81/.324 69/.188 30/.214 45/.186 .277
OPS .648 .917 .821 .718 .966 .529 .588 .571 .781
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 26/1.007 21/1.266 24/.967 12/1.167 33/.636 22/.325 12/.530 20/.774 .838
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 139/.584 44/.754 25/.701 25/.518 48/1.186 47/.627 18/.627 25/.410 .748
Home 117/.580 53/1.026 25/.896 30/.817 44/1.144 46/.664 18/.535 36/.430
Last 28d days 103/.733 36/.736 41/.828 20/1.125 40/1.256 53/.592 30/.588 34/.548
HR/SB/CS 3/2/0 1/2/1 2/1/2 1/1/0 3/1/0 2/2/1 1/1/0 2/2/0 41/28/8
Usage ·····X·· ···X···· ··X···XX o·o·o··o ·······X o·oX·o·· o·o··X·· o··oX···
Twins Batters (4.64 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.55 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 37.Lyon
G/S/vB		 45.Perry
G/S/vB		 48.Porcello
G/S/vB		 59.Rincon
G/S/vB		 56.Rodney
G/S/vB		 44.Seay*
G/S/vB		 54.Zumaya
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Buscher* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 43/37 .200/.349/.371/.720 .733/.718 .820 37/.647 0/0 1/0
24.Crede G/S/vP 2/.500 3/1.000 2/.000 3/.333 19/1.085 10/1.067 3/1.666 5/.650 95/73 .233/.305/.442/.747 .887/.703 .696 58/.818 0/0 4/1
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 12/.349 5/1.800 9/.333 131/101 .272/.359/.430/.789 .620/.837 .926 89/.918 3/1 3/2
22.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/3.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 4/.500 3/.666 59/40 .218/.271/.327/.598 .488/.651 .584 29/.875 3/3 0/0
23.Harris G/S/vP 9/.333 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 4/.000 1/.000 69/44 .286/.333/.413/.746 .624/.816 .924 59/.718 0/0 2/0
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/2.000 1/.000 4/.500 6/.900 4/.250 115/93 .308/.348/.523/.871 .465/.969 .814 86/.923 0/0 4/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· 10/.856 12/.900 9/.347 42/34 .500/.571/.917/1.488 .542/1.684 1.867 42/1.488 0/0 4/0
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 15/1.850 12/1.278 10/1.700 143/101 .315/.385/.581/.965 .969/.964 1.051 101/.989 0/0 8/0
8.Punto# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 7/.750 5/.400 5/.400 102/76 .200/.310/.224/.534 .302/.576 .530 70/.479 3/0 0/2
55.Redmond G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.000 43/28 .237/.326/.263/.589 .650/.555 .678 23/.598 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.334 3/.000 2/5.000 3/.666 3/1.000 1/2.000 146/111 .299/.372/.370/.742 .852/.707 .748 100/.698 8/2 1/1
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 27/21 .190/.320/.238/.558 .000/.754 .548 27/.558 0/0 0/0
21.Young G/S/vP 8/.875 2/2.000 ··· 2/.500 4/1.417 2/.000 6/.367 2/1.000 90/63 .277/.322/.325/.648 .542/.693 .518 67/.706 2/2 1/2
IP 13.0 14.1 33.2 10.1 12.0 10.0 6.0 TOTAL .271/.342/.406/.749 .638/.786 .774 .789 21/8 28/13
ERA-K/9 /0.0 4.85/2.8 3.14/8.8 4.28/5.3 5.23/8.7 5.25/6.8 1.80/6.3 0.00/3.0 4.19/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 58/.250 66/.176 140/.256 49/.293 51/.277 37/.176 22/.238 .251
OPS .779 .554 .717 .863 .738 .458 .513 .723
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 24/.638 30/.800 80/.835 18/1.221 33/.667 23/.408 14/.643 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 34/.870 36/.362 60/.566 31/.643 18/.863 14/.538 8/.268 .732
Road / 38/.788 35/.452 95/.717 25/1.090 29/.934 23/.261 8/.875
Last 28d days / 44/.742 54/.620 116/.642 18/1.012 39/.979 29/.593 22/.513
HR/SB/CS // 2/2/1 0/1/0 6/2/0 2/2/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 31/15/7
Usage o·o····· X····X·· ··X····X ·······X ··XX···· ··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.