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Game Preview: CLE @ PIT, 7:05pm, Thursday, June 25, 2009 @PNC Park

Indians, 30-43, 5th, 11 GB, 9½ GB in WC

SP: Cliff Lee (30, LHP, 4-6, 2.94)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (4-6) 104.0 115 34 34 23 74 7 2.94
2008 (22-3) 223.1 214 68 63 34 170 12 2.54
2007 (5-8) 97.1 112 73 68 36 66 17 6.29
Last 7 GS 2-1 50.0 52 16 16 10 32 4 2.88 57
2009-06-19 @CHC ND 7.0 6 3 3 3 5 2 109 55
2009-06-14 STL W 9.0 3 0 0 2 6 0 93 85
2009-06-09 KCR ND 6.0 11 4 4 1 4 1 105 37
2009-06-03 @MIN W 8.0 7 1 1 1 5 0 106 68
2009-05-29 NYY L 6.0 9 3 3 2 5 0 112 45
2009-05-24 @CIN ND 6.0 8 3 3 1 4 1 98 47
2009-05-19 @KCR ND 8.0 8 2 2 0 3 0 101 61
Has never faced PIT.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   16-19   Road:   14-24   ExtrInn: 2-5 
 vsRHP:  23-35   vsLHP:   7-8    1-Run:  11-11
 vsEast: 12-14   vsCntrl:14-16   vsWest:  0-3  IL: 4-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 73 Wed, Jun 24  @PIT  L   6-10      30-43  5th 11.0 gb
 72 Tue, Jun 23  @PIT  W   5-4       30-42  5th 10.0 gb
 71 Sun, Jun 21  @CHC  L   2-6       29-42  5th 10.0 gb
 70 Sat, Jun 20  @CHC  L   5-6 (13)  29-41  5th  9.0 gb
 69 Fri, Jun 19  @CHC  L   7-8 (10)  29-40  5th  8.0 gb
 68 Wed, Jun 17   MIL  L   8-9 (11)  29-39  5th  6.5 gb
 67 Tue, Jun 16   MIL  L   5-7       29-38  5th  6.5 gb
 66 Mon, Jun 15   MIL  L  12-14      29-37  5th  6.5 gb
 65 Sun, Jun 14   STL  W   3-0       29-36  5th  6.0 gb
 64 Sat, Jun 13   STL  L   1-3       28-36  5th  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:14-16
Pirates, 32-39, 6th, 7 GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Ross Ohlendorf (26, RHP, 6-6, 4.94)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (6-6) 82.0 85 46 45 22 42 13 4.94
2008 (1-4) 62.2 86 49 45 31 49 10 6.46
2007 (0-0) 6.1 5 2 2 2 9 1 2.84
Last 7 GS 2-3 39.0 48 28 27 13 20 8 6.23 41
2009-06-19 @COL L 5.0 9 6 6 0 3 2 93 28
2009-06-14 DET W 6.0 2 1 1 2 2 0 91 64
2009-06-09 @ATL ND 6.0 8 3 3 0 4 0 84 48
2009-06-04 NYM ND 4.1 9 5 5 3 1 1 84 23
2009-05-29 HOU L 5.0 8 4 4 3 5 1 97 37
2009-05-23 @CHW L 7.2 6 4 3 2 4 2 114 55
2009-05-18 @WSN W 5.0 6 5 5 3 1 2 91 33
Has never faced CLE.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-13   Road:   14-26   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  23-29   vsLHP:   9-10   1-Run:   4-10
 vsEast: 13-7    vsCntrl:10-21   vsWest:  4-5  IL: 5-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 71 Wed, Jun 24   CLE  W  10-6       32-39  6th  7.0 gb
 70 Tue, Jun 23   CLE  L   4-5       31-39  6th  8.0 gb
 69 Sun, Jun 21  @COL  L   4-5       31-38  6th  7.5 gb
 68 Sat, Jun 20  @COL  L   7-9       31-37  6th  6.5 gb
 67 Fri, Jun 19  @COL  L   3-7       31-36  5th  6.0 gb
 66 Thu, Jun 18  @MIN  L   1-5       31-35  5th  6.0 gb
 65 Wed, Jun 17  @MIN  W   8-2       31-34  5th  5.5 gb
 64 Tue, Jun 16  @MIN  L   2-8       30-34  5th  5.5 gb
 63 Sun, Jun 14   DET  W   6-3       30-33  5th  4.0 gb
 62 Sat, Jun 13   DET  W   9-3       29-33  5th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 24, 2009 PIT 10  CLE  6        W:Zach Duke (8-5), L: Carl Pavano (6-6), S: none
Tue, Jun 23, 2009 CLE  5 @PIT  4        W:David Huff (3-2), L: Ian Snell (2-8), S: Kerry Wood (9)

Sun, May 21, 2006 CLE  3  PIT  2 (10)   W:Bob Wickman (1-0), L: Mike Gonzalez (1-3), S: none
Sat, May 20, 2006 PIT  9 @CLE  6        W:Ian Snell (3-3), L: Jason Johnson (2-4), S: Mike Gonzalez (6)
Fri, May 19, 2006 CLE  4  PIT  1        W:C.C. Sabathia (3-1), L: Zach Duke (2-5), S: none
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 CLE  8 @PIT  5        W:C.C. Sabathia (7-3), L: Ryan Vogelsong (0-1), S: Danys Baez (16)
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 PIT  7  CLE  6 (15)   W:Scott Sauerbeck (2-4), L: Dan Miceli (1-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 PIT  5  CLE  4 (15)   W:Salomon Torres (5-2), L: Danys Baez (0-5), S: none
Sun, Jun 17, 2001 PIT  1  CLE  0        W:Todd Ritchie (2-8), L: Steve Karsay (0-1), S: none
Sat, Jun 16, 2001 PIT  6  CLE  4        W:Jason Schmidt (3-2), L: Jaret Wright (2-2), S: Mike Williams (13)
Season Series: 2009 - Tied 1-1; 2008 -  0-0; 2007 -  0-0; All-Time - PIT leads 12-11

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

TBR  5.60

FLA  4.56

SEA  3.82

 RA/G

SFG  3.80

TBR  4.60

WSN  5.67

 BA

J. Mauer  .394

B. Butler  .283

B. Crosby  .190

 OBP

J. Mauer  .467

F. Sanchez  .357

D. Navarro  .240

 SLG

A. Pujols  .707

C. Guzman  .463

N. Punto  .252

 OPS

J. Mauer  1.167

C. Guzman  .819

W. Taveras  .543

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.90

J. Peavy  3.97

A. Sonnanstine  6.60

 K/9IP

J. Verlander  10.84

C. Pavano  6.54

S. Martis  3.35

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

Indians Batters (5.22 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.46 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Ohlendorf
G/S/vB		 17.Burnett*
G/S/vB		 55.Capps
G/S/vB		 43.Chavez
G/S/vB		 34.Grabow*
G/S/vB		 58.Jackson
G/S/vB		 47.Meek
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
29.Barfield G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 20/15 .400/.400/.450/.850 .800/.867 1.091 17/.647 0/1 0/0
11.Carroll G/S/vP ··· 7/.000 5/.750 1/.000 5/.933 1/2.000 1/.000 125/103 .286/.390/.371/.762 .955/.721 .948 93/.720 0/2 0/1
17.Choo* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 315/222 .293/.406/.448/.854 .741/.900 .861 104/.834 11/0 9/4
7.DeRosa G/S/vP ··· 4/1.500 6/.000 2/.500 4/.833 1/.000 1/no AB 306/241 .273/.344/.461/.806 1.061/.735 .743 101/.861 0/1 13/9
12.Francisco G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 256/210 .232/.302/.368/.670 .700/.664 .660 94/.491 10/1 5/1
25.Garko G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 183/139 .252/.348/.413/.761 1.014/.679 .665 53/.697 0/0 6/2
8.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 30/24 .240/.367/.520/.887 .533/.975 1.177 30/.887 0/0 2/0
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 110/88 .298/.400/.596/.996 1.064/.977 .971 37/1.169 0/0 7/
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 319/230 .324/.404/.525/.930 .987/.912 .905 98/.790 0/0 12/3
2.Peralta G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 273/205 .255/.332/.362/.694 .602/.725 .761 91/.710 0/0 4/6
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 166/135 .199/.329/.382/.712 1.042/.642 .852 68/.602 0/0 6/3
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 245/169 .227/.309/.435/.744 .818/.711 .847 19/.947 7/6 10/0
1.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 127/117 .219/.291/.412/.704 .644/.709 .777 79/.788 1/1 4/3
IP 82.0 31.0 23.2 31.2 33.0 10.1 25.2 TOTAL .263/.348/.420/.768 .804/.757 .803 .732 39/13 81/46
ERA-K/9 4.94/4.6 3.19/6.4 4.94/6.5 3.41/6.8 4.09/7.4 6.10/1.7 3.16/5.6 4.37/5.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 344/.276 129/.198 103/.303 130/.254 147/.258 50/.262 110/.202 .267
OPS .797 .661 .807 .730 .736 .785 .691 .767
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 168/.909 59/.662 48/.798 52/.603 43/.657 18/.817 43/.667 .778
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 176/.689 70/.655 55/.813 78/.816 104/.773 32/.768 67/.707 .761
Home 163/.719 49/.548 64/.895 56/.488 58/.695 26/1.014 49/.617
Last 28d days 119/.908 37/.576 32/.571 49/.880 48/.588 50/.785 39/.714
HR/SB/CS 13/2/5 3/3/0 3/3/0 4/1/0 3/1/1 2/2/0 2/3/0 64/45/16
Usage ·····X·· oX··Xo·· ·o···o·· oo··o·X· o···X··X X··oo··X ·X···o··
Pirates Batters (4.46 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (5.52 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Lee*
G/S/vB		 20.Gosling*
G/S/vB		 40.Herges
G/S/vB		 58.Huff*
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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Diaz G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 96/58 .289/.305/.378/.683 .569/.759 .608 37/.502 0/1 1/2
16.Hinske* G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· 1/5.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 118/90 .263/.381/.384/.765 .747/.769 .870 42/.827 0/0 1/0
35.Jaramillo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 139/118 .282/.360/.419/.779 .638/.804 .891 58/.808 1/0 2/2
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 6/1.333 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 13/.693 284/206 .267/.363/.498/.861 .762/.900 1.140 94/1.052 2/1 11/1
15.LaRoche G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/1.666 3/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 268/205 .274/.343/.380/.723 .763/.710 .702 101/.626 2/0 3/8
22.McCutchen G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 92/68 .322/.359/.506/.864 1.036/.808 .782 92/.864 3/0 1/0
3.Morgan* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.833 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 5/.650 301/227 .267/.348/.341/.689 .450/.768 .689 99/.621 18/7 1/1
44.Moss* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 195/165 .269/.318/.390/.708 .621/.724 .864 53/.768 0/0 1/0
51.Pearce G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 7/1 .000/.143/.000/.143 .167/.000 .000 7/.143 0/0 0/0
12.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 4/.500 4/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.500 11/.744 299/216 .317/.357/.486/.843 .802/.858 .883 102/.793 4/1 6/1
5.Vazquez* G/S/vP 6/.334 1/.000 5/.000 1/.000 4/.583 4/.250 ··· ··· 8/.536 101/86 .247/.356/.259/.615 1.055/.544 .635 20/.733 1/0 0/2
2.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· 14/.786 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 30/.971 196/147 .273/.297/.401/.699 .790/.668 .692 86/.754 1/1 2/6
48.Young# G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 109/67 .333/.413/.406/.819 .723/.881 .918 51/.918 2/0 1/3
IP 104.0 1.2 22.2 41.0 38.1 20.2 9.2 14.2 25.1 TOTAL .268/.334/.400/.734 .708/.743 .795 .743 41/11 45/35
ERA-K/9 2.94/6.4 0.00/10.6 3.57/6.3 5.71/5.0 5.17/8.0 10.02/8.3 3.72/10.2 4.91/8.6 5.68/10.3 5.28/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 440/.281 7/.167 92/.209 181/.277 164/.274 107/.372 42/.161 67/.246 113/.263 .276
OPS .699 .619 .636 .825 .872 1.006 .817 .712 .861 .798
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 126/.561 1/.000 42/.705 65/1.035 78/1.227 49/1.162 21/.913 18/.826 61/.796 .837
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 314/.755 6/.733 50/.579 116/.712 86/.570 58/.875 21/.714 49/.668 52/.940 .770
Road 206/.787 7/.619 45/.642 113/.907 77/1.081 60/.964 23/1.086 20/.472 56/1.083
Last 28d days 151/.671 7/.619 42/.904 125/.701 51/.765 49/.856 12/.717 36/.681 37/.728
HR/SB/CS 7/6/1 0/0/0 3/1/0 7/3/0 9/1/0 2/3/1 3/1/0 1/0/0 5/5/0 87/60/11
Usage ·····X·· ···X···· ·X··Xo·X ·X·····X X··Xo··· X···oo·· o······· o···XX·X ·X··XX·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.