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Game Preview: DET @ SEA, 4:10pm, Sunday, April 19, 2009 @Safeco Field

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Tigers, 6-5, 2nd, 1 GB, tied for WC

SP: Rick Porcello (20, RHP, 0-1, 7.20)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2009 (0-1)			5.0	9	4	4	1	4	2	7.20

Last 7 GS		0-1	5.0	9	4	4	1	4	2	7.20	36
2009-04-09	@TOR	L	5.0	9	4	4	1	4	2	89	36

Has never faced SEA.

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:    4-1    Road:    2-4    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   4-3    vsLHP:   2-2    1-Run:   1-1 
 vsEast:  1-3    vsCntrl: 1-1    vsWest:  4-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 11 Sat, Apr 18  @SEA  W   2-0        6-5   2nd  1.0 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 17  @SEA  L   3-6        5-5   2nd  1.0 gb
  9 Wed, Apr 15   CHW  W   9-0        5-4   1st    Tied
  8 Mon, Apr 13   CHW  L   6-10       4-4   3rd  0.5 gb
  7 Sun, Apr 12   TEX  W   6-4        4-3   1st  0.5 up
  6 Sat, Apr 11   TEX  W   4-3        3-3   1st    Tied
  5 Fri, Apr 10   TEX  W  15-2        2-3   3rd  1.0 gb
  4 Thu, Apr  9  @TOR  L   2-6        1-3   4th  1.5 gb
  3 Wed, Apr  8  @TOR  W   5-1        1-2   4th  1.0 gb
  2 Tue, Apr  7  @TOR  L   4-5        0-2   5th  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 6-5    Last 30: 6-5

Mariners, 8-4, 1st, 2½ up

SP: Carlos Silva (30, RHP, 0-1, 6.00)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2009 (0-1)			12.0	12	8	8	2	6	3	6.00
2008 (4-15)			153.1	213	114	110	32	69	20	6.46
2007 (13-14)			202.0	229	99	94	36	89	20	4.19

Last 7 GS		0-4	34.2	51	34	32	12	19	7	8.31	34
2009-04-14	LAA	ND	7.0	4	2	2	1	4	1	101	64
2009-04-08	@MIN	L	5.0	8	6	6	1	2	2	98	28
2008-09-20	@OAK	ND	3.1	4	4	3	2	4	0	59	40
2008-09-15	@KCR	L	5.1	8	2	2	0	4	0	95	48
2008-09-01	@TEX	ND	4.2	10	6	6	4	2	2	98	18
2008-08-15	@MIN	L	3.1	9	9	9	1	0	1	76	5
2008-08-08	TBR	L	6.0	8	5	4	3	3	1	99	38

Last 5 v.DET		2-3	23.1	41	22	22	4	8	0	8.49	33
2008-07-03	DET	L	5.0	9	5	5	2	3	0	100	30
2008-05-30	DET	L	0.2	7	7	7	0	0	0	34	10
2008-05-20	@DET	L	4.0	9	7	7	1	0	0	72	15
2007-09-24	@DET	W	7.2	6	0	0	0	1	0	112	68
2007-04-28	@DET	W	6.0	10	3	3	1	4	0	95	43

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:    3-2    Road:    5-2    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   4-3    vsLHP:   4-1    1-Run:   3-2 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 3-3    vsWest:  5-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Sat, Apr 18   DET  L   0-2        8-4   1st  2.5 up
 11 Fri, Apr 17   DET  W   6-3        8-3   1st  2.5 up
 10 Thu, Apr 16   LAA  L   1-5        7-3   1st  2.5 up
  9 Wed, Apr 15   LAA  W  11-3        7-2   1st  3.0 up
  8 Tue, Apr 14   LAA  W   3-2 (10)   6-2   1st  2.0 up
  7 Sun, Apr 12  @OAK  W   1-0        5-2   1st  1.5 up
  6 Sat, Apr 11  @OAK  W   8-5        4-2   1st  0.5 up
  5 Fri, Apr 10  @OAK  W   5-4        3-2   2nd  0.5 gb
  4 Thu, Apr  9  @MIN  W   2-0        2-2   3rd  1.5 gb
  3 Wed, Apr  8  @MIN  L   5-6        1-2   3rd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20: 8-4    Last 30: 8-4

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Apr 17, 2009 SEA  6  DET  3        W:Felix Hernandez (2-0), L: Justin Verlander (0-2), S: Brandon Morrow (3)

Sun, Jul 06, 2008 DET  2 @SEA  1 (15)   W:Aquilino Lopez (3-1), L: Jamie Burke (0-1), S: Todd Jones (16)
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 SEA  3  DET  2        W:Miguel Batista (4-10), L: Fernando Rodney (0-2), S: Brandon Morrow (7)
Fri, Jul 04, 2008 SEA  4  DET  1        W:Erik Bedard (6-4), L: Kenny Rogers (6-6), S: Brandon Morrow (6)
Thu, Jul 03, 2008 DET  8 @SEA  4        W:Justin Verlander (5-9), L: Carlos Silva (4-10), S: Fernando Rodney (1)
Sun, Jun 01, 2008 DET  7 @SEA  5        W:Zach Miner (2-3), L: J.J. Putz (2-3), S: none
Sat, May 31, 2008 SEA  5  DET  0        W:Felix Hernandez (3-5), L: Justin Verlander (2-8), S: none
Fri, May 30, 2008 DET  7 @SEA  4        W:Nate Robertson (3-5), L: Carlos Silva (3-5), S: Todd Jones (8)
Thu, May 22, 2008 DET  9  SEA  2        W:Jeremy Bonderman (3-4), L: Miguel Batista (3-6), S: Freddy Dolsi (1)
Wed, May 21, 2008 DET  9  SEA  4        W:Kenny Rogers (4-4), L: Jarrod Washburn (2-6), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - Tied 1-1; 2008 - DET won 7-3; 2007 - DET won 6-4; All-Time - DET leads 186-153

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

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.

Tigers Batters (5.55 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (3.08 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 52.Silva
G/S/vB 53.Aardsma
G/S/vB 43.Batista
G/S/vB 48.Corcoran
G/S/vB 41.Jakubauskas
G/S/vB 23.Kelley
G/S/vB 57.Lowe
G/S/vB 46.White
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

13.Anderson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/99 .294/.338/.426/.764 .456/.915 .853 16/.899 10/1 3/2

24.Cabrera G/S/vP 14/.786 3/.333 9/1.667 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 684/514 .292/.349/.537/.887 .939/.869 .884 43/1.430 1/0 37/14

4.Everett G/S/vP 5/.800 3/1.667 12/1.042 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 150/113 .213/.278/.323/.601 .773/.549 .627 25/.619 0/0 2/7

28.Granderson* G/S/vP 18/1.385 ··· 15/1.246 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 5/.650 ··· 629/470 .280/.365/.494/.858 .739/.900 .863 48/.598 12/4 22/4

9.Guillen# G/S/vP 37/1.428 4/1.250 19/.974 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/2.334 ··· 489/388 .286/.376/.436/.811 .818/.810 .748 43/.561 9/3 10/16

15.Inge G/S/vP 24/.750 3/.000 10/1.278 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 407/315 .205/.303/.369/.672 .720/.657 .564 42/1.052 4/3 11/1

8.Laird G/S/vP 11/.637 3/1.667 13/.321 3/3.000 ··· ··· 5/.200 1/no AB 381/276 .276/.329/.398/.727 .719/.731 .759 33/.853 2/4 6/8

19.Larish* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 111/107 .260/.306/.375/.681 .500/.688 .739 10/.700 2/2 2/2

30.Ordonez G/S/vP 21/1.029 5/.900 28/.984 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 623/468 .317/.376/.494/.869 .866/.870 .771 45/.670 1/5 21/5

14.Polanco G/S/vP 19/.918 2/1.000 31/.737 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 1/3.000 629/451 .307/.350/.417/.768 .836/.741 .816 43/.785 7/1 8/8

39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 156/126 .282/.411/.460/.870 1.014/.834 .742 21/.900 1/0 4/5

33.Thames G/S/vP 9/.833 3/1.666 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 342/207 .241/.292/.516/.808 .877/.764 .819 16/.813 0/3 25/5

20.Treanor G/S/vP 2/1.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 234/166 .238/.306/.301/.607 .525/.641 .624 8/.125 1/0 2/8

IP 153.1 48.2 115.0 72.2 63.2 TOTAL .281/.369/.450/.819 .899/.785 .743 .819 5/2 12/7

ERA-K/9

6.46/4.1

5.55/9.1

6.26/5.7

3.22/4.8

/0.0

5.37/7.8

/0.0

3.01/7.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Inge (26-11-11)
Laird (53-21-6)
Treanor (44-15-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 689/.331 228/.268 556/.295 316/.239 / / 303/.301 / .222 Ordonez
Granderson
Thames
Inge
Anderson
Guillen 0/0/135/8
0/140/0/5
73/0/7/3
2/13/0/2
6/30/1/1
2/0/0/0

OPS .868 .822 .908 .649 .838 .603

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 375/.935 102/.786 303/.952 151/.699 / / 145/1.009 / .652

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 314/.789 126/.852 253/.856 165/.601 / / 158/.676 / .561

Home 274/.819 131/1.011 264/.906 169/.713 / / 175/.738 /

Last 28d days 51/.836 22/.297 16/.813 21/.876 38/.575 16/.667 16/.450 7/.000

HR/SB/CS 20/8/2 4/2/0 19/19/2 1/1/0 // // 6/5/0 // 5/4/0

Usage ····X··· ·X··X·X· ···o···X X·o·o··· ··X····· ·o·X···· ··Xo···X X·X·····

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2009 season. Player Stats for the 2008 season. We will switch to 2009 stats on May 1st.

Mariners Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.45 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 48.Porcello
G/S/vB 37.Lyon
G/S/vB 45.Perry
G/S/vB 59.Rincon
G/S/vB 56.Rodney
G/S/vB 44.Seay*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

25.Balentien G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 260/176 .202/.250/.342/.592 .620/.578 .607 14/.742 0/1 7/2

29.Beltre G/S/vP ··· 2/3.000 ··· 8/.500 5/.800 1/.000 612/441 .266/.327/.457/.784 .994/.704 .703 46/.570 8/2 25/14

7.Betancourt G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 5/.400 ··· 590/418 .279/.300/.392/.691 .684/.694 .793 37/.750 4/4 7/21

30.Branyan* G/S/vP ··· 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· 152/138 .250/.342/.583/.925 .000/1.029 1.159 38/.853 1/0 12/4

15.Burke G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 100/58 .261/.303/.326/.629 .805/.492 .600 / 0/1 1/1

3.Cedeno G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 236/115 .269/.328/.352/.680 .633/.730 .834 21/.449 4/1 2/5

10.Chavez* G/S/vP ··· 5/1.167 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 298/258 .267/.308/.330/.638 .506/.658 .706 49/.892 6/1 1/1

24.Griffey* G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.667 575/388 .249/.353/.424/.778 .649/.841 .792 34/.873 0/1 18/5

21.Gutierrez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 2/.000 2/.000 440/295 .248/.307/.383/.691 .755/.659 .729 41/.691 9/3 8/3

32.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/21 .129/.129/.226/.355 .455/.300 .474 17/.438 0/0 1/0

4.Lopez G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· 5/.000 7/.715 ··· 687/496 .297/.322/.443/.764 .763/.765 .840 41/.599 6/3 17/13

51.Suzuki* G/S/vP ··· 8/.500 ··· 13/.558 5/.400 5/1.500 749/522 .310/.361/.386/.747 .678/.777 .762 13/.846 43/4 6/5

5.Sweeney G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 16/.905 6/.000 1/3.000 136/77 .286/.331/.397/.728 .731/.723 .658 24/.542 0/0 2/0

IP 59.1 55.1 40.1 56.1 TOTAL .261/.317/.373/.690 .569/.760 .727 .690 8/3 8/4

ERA-K/9

/0.0

4.70/6.7

/0.0

5.86/6.3

4.91/10.9

4.47/9.3

4.67/7.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Burke (12-8-2)
Johnson (10-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 265/.301 / 254/.298 188/.224 246/.278 .241 Suzuki
Griffey
Chavez
Balentien
Gutierrez
Cedeno 0/69/91/11
0/32/91/8
54/10/60/7
5/29/35/6
11/12/97/5
1/1/0/0

OPS .792 .831 .733 .741 .748

vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 122/.688 / 111/.925 97/.720 125/.770 .627

vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 143/.882 / 143/.759 91/.748 121/.711 .821

Road / 121/.652 / 105/1.007 100/.895 113/.673

Last 28d days 24/1.069 17/.814 12/.250 31/.778 12/.000 8/.000

HR/SB/CS // 7/1/1 // 8/6/1 3/4/0 4/2/1 15/4/2

Usage ········ ·o····X· ···X···o ·····X·· X··o··oo o··o···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.