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Game Preview: MIN @ SEA, 4:10pm, Sunday, June 7, 2009 @Safeco Field

Twins, 28-29, 2nd, 2½ GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Kevin Slowey (25, RHP, 8-1, 3.97)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2009 (8-1)			68.0	85	31	30	7	49	9	3.97
2008 (12-11)			160.1	161	74	71	24	123	22	3.99
2007 (4-1)			66.2	82	39	35	11	47	16	4.73

Last 7 GS		5-1	41.2	49	18	17	5	30	4	3.67	51
2009-06-02	CLE	W	6.2	6	2	2	2	5	0	102	57
2009-05-27	BOS	W	6.0	6	2	2	1	5	1	99	56
2009-05-22	MIL	W	7.1	8	3	2	0	4	0	91	56
2009-05-17	@NYY	ND	7.2	7	2	2	0	8	1	97	65
2009-05-12	DET	W	6.0	8	1	1	2	2	1	98	52
2009-05-06	@BAL	L	3.0	6	3	3	0	2	1	54	37
2009-05-01	KCR	W	5.0	8	5	5	0	4	0	76	35

Last 5 v.SEA		1-0	6.0	9	5	5	0	5	2	7.50	39
2009-04-08	SEA	W	6.0	9	5	5	0	5	2	100	39

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

 Home:   21-12   Road:    7-17   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  20-18   vsLHP:   8-11   1-Run:   8-6 
 vsEast:  6-16   vsCntrl:11-9    vsWest:  8-4  IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 57 Sat, Jun  6  @SEA  L   1-2       28-29  2nd  2.5 gb
 56 Fri, Jun  5  @SEA  W   2-1 (10)  28-28  2nd  1.5 gb
 55 Thu, Jun  4   CLE  W  11-3       27-28  2nd  2.5 gb
 54 Wed, Jun  3   CLE  L   1-10      26-28  2nd  3.5 gb
 53 Tue, Jun  2   CLE  W   4-3       26-27  2nd  3.5 gb
 52 Sun, May 31  @TBR  W   3-2       25-27  3rd  4.5 gb
 51 Sat, May 30  @TBR  L   2-5       24-27  3rd  4.5 gb
 50 Fri, May 29  @TBR  L   3-5       24-26  2nd  3.5 gb
 49 Thu, May 28   BOS  L   1-3       24-25  2nd  3.5 gb
 48 Wed, May 27   BOS  W   4-2       24-24  2nd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15

Mariners, 27-29, 3rd, 5½ GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Erik Bedard (30, LHP, 4-2, 2.37)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2009 (4-2)			60.2	50	18	16	18	61	6	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	41.1	34	13	12	15	38	6	2.61	57
2009-06-02	BAL	W	6.1	4	1	1	3	7	0	112	65
2009-05-27	@OAK	W	6.2	5	1	1	2	5	1	108	63
2009-05-21	LAA	L	5.0	2	2	2	2	6	2	95	59
2009-05-10	@MIN	ND	4.2	5	2	2	5	4	0	110	45
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

Last 5 v.MIN		0-3	25.0	39	23	20	14	22	3	7.20	35
2009-05-10	@MIN	ND	4.2	5	2	2	5	4	0	110	45
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

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

 Home:   15-14   Road:   12-15   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  17-21   vsLHP:  10-8    1-Run:  15-12
 vsEast:  6-3    vsCntrl: 6-11   vsWest: 13-14 IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 56 Sat, Jun  6   MIN  W   2-1       27-29  3rd  5.5 gb
 55 Fri, Jun  5   MIN  L   1-2 (10)  26-29  3rd  6.5 gb
 54 Wed, Jun  3   BAL  W   3-2       26-28  3rd  6.0 gb
 53 Tue, Jun  2   BAL  W   8-2       25-28  3rd  6.0 gb
 52 Mon, Jun  1   BAL  L   0-1       24-28  3rd  7.0 gb
 51 Sun, May 31  @LAA  L   8-9       24-27  3rd  6.5 gb
 50 Sat, May 30  @LAA  W   4-3 (10)  24-26  3rd  6.5 gb
 49 Fri, May 29  @LAA  W   5-2       23-26  3rd  6.5 gb
 48 Wed, May 27  @OAK  W   6-1       22-26  3rd  6.0 gb
 47 Tue, May 26  @OAK  L   3-4       21-26  3rd  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jun 06, 2009 SEA  2  MIN  1        W:Chris Jakubauskas (4-5), L: Sean Henn (0-1), S: David Aardsma (9)
Fri, Jun 05, 2009 MIN  2 @SEA  1 (10)   W:Matt Guerrier (2-0), L: Mark Lowe (0-3), S: Joe Nathan (11)
Sun, May 10, 2009 SEA  5 @MIN  3        W:Miguel Batista (2-0), L: Jesse Crain (1-1), S: Brandon Morrow (6)
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)
Season Series: 2009 - MIN leads 5-4; 2008 - MIN won 5-4; 2007 - MIN won 6-3; All-Time - SEA leads 193-185

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

NYY 5.76

FLA 4.63

SEA 3.77

RA/G

LAD 3.72

TBR 4.75

WSN 5.95

J. Bartlett .373

M. Cuddyer .275

C. Young .178

OBP

K. Youkilis .470

A. Callaspo .347

C. Young .228

SLG

A. Pujols .689

M. DeRosa .442

J. Kendall .266

OPS

A. Pujols 1.148

M. Byrd .791

D. Navarro .526

ERA

Z. Greinke 1.55

J. Peavy 4.10

F. Carmona 7.42

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 11.42

G. Meche 6.59

J. Pineiro 3.45

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Twins Batters (4.91 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (4.25 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/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

32.Buscher* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 6/1.583 2/.500 2/.000 2/1.000 87/77 .208/.333/.306/.639 .744/.623 .707 44/.561 0/0 1/0

25.Casilla# G/S/vP 7/.143 2/.000 6/1.333 1/.000 ··· ··· 114/75 .190/.248/.238/.486 .358/.555 .605 22/.699 2/0 0/4

24.Crede G/S/vP 16/.404 ··· 14/.643 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 165/117 .235/.297/.463/.760 .729/.773 .726 74/.806 0/0 9/1

5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 24/.791 6/.167 7/.714 5/1.000 ··· 3/2.334 216/160 .275/.361/.508/.869 .939/.844 .740 89/.986 4/1 9/3

22.Gomez G/S/vP 4/1.500 3/.000 6/.334 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 125/82 .219/.274/.298/.572 .463/.630 .576 67/.559 4/3 0/0

23.Harris G/S/vP 14/.297 4/.000 6/.666 2/2.500 5/1.267 5/.650 156/97 .283/.327/.400/.727 .696/.747 .489 87/.712 0/0 3/1

16.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 7/.829 3/1.667 5/1.400 3/.000 193/148 .311/.363/.514/.877 .464/1.002 .744 82/.883 0/0 7/0

7.Mauer* G/S/vP 15/.708 2/2.000 8/.500 3/1.666 3/1.000 3/3.000 144/91 .419/.507/.812/1.319 1.010/1.494 1.098 106/1.288 0/1 12/0

33.Morneau* G/S/vP 23/1.245 4/.500 12/1.012 4/2.500 5/1.400 3/1.167 251/163 .338/.418/.638/1.057 1.146/1.000 .942 112/1.151 0/0 15/1

55.Redmond G/S/vP 8/.804 5/.900 8/.250 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 73/50 .254/.315/.313/.629 .791/.557 .667 30/.679 0/0 0/0

2.Span* G/S/vP 6/.900 2/.500 9/.708 4/.500 3/.666 ··· 253/174 .296/.385/.394/.779 .934/.709 .676 112/.830 12/4 4/1

20.Tolbert# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 2/.500 3/1.000 2/.500 ··· 94/69 .177/.258/.241/.499 .631/.451 .550 72/.496 3/0 1/1

21.Young G/S/vP 17/.294 2/1.000 11/.775 2/2.000 2/.000 4/.000 128/86 .233/.273/.267/.540 .440/.589 .743 41/.271 2/2 1/2

IP 60.2 28.1 26.1 49.0 27.0 28.1 TOTAL .273/.347/.429/.776 .763/.781 .730 .814 32/12 62/21

ERA-K/9

2.37/9.0

1.91/9.9

3.76/7.9

5.88/3.9

4.33/6.7

1.59/3.8

3.77/6.8

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 248/.221 119/.173 126/.288 212/.262 120/.278 115/.182 .253

OPS .633 .558 .756 .761 .749 .552 .712

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 61/.538 58/.617 63/.805 106/.983 59/.908 48/.477 .793

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 187/.662 61/.502 63/.706 106/.553 61/.591 67/.600 .657

Home 98/.638 62/.508 69/.664 125/.721 71/.732 70/.453

Last 28d days 71/.597 60/.615 47/.796 82/.658 55/.835 58/.394

HR/SB/CS 6/3/3 1/2/2 1/5/0 5/2/1 2/2/2 2/3/2 51/33/21

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

Mariners Batters (3.77 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.79 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 59.Slowey
G/S/vB 18.Ayala
G/S/vB 28.Crain
G/S/vB 39.Dickey
G/S/vB 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB 60.Henn*
G/S/vB 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB 36.Nathan
G/S/vB 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

25.Balentien G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 3/1.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 111/61 .235/.279/.363/.642 .636/.647 .542 57/.471 1/0 1/1

29.Beltre G/S/vP 3/1.000 7/.858 12/.878 4/.500 10/1.278 1/.000 ··· 26/.323 ··· 237/164 .241/.274/.348/.622 .654/.608 .495 101/.662 6/2 4/8

7.Betancourt G/S/vP 2/2.500 3/.000 8/1.250 3/.666 10/.944 1/no AB ··· 10/.800 ··· 192/139 .249/.277/.329/.607 .695/.573 .599 75/.579 3/0 2/9

30.Branyan* G/S/vP 9/1.222 3/1.167 2/2.000 ··· 5/.200 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.666 ··· 206/134 .318/.420/.607/1.026 .944/1.070 1.105 97/1.134 2/0 12/5

3.Cedeno G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· 69/53 .148/.212/.295/.507 .393/.540 .725 37/.518 1/1 2/1

10.Chavez* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.000 1/.000 4/.250 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 159/126 .277/.325/.348/.672 .557/.703 .650 40/.669 8/1 2/1

24.Griffey* G/S/vP 5/.650 3/.000 ··· 2/3.500 2/2.500 3/1.000 2/2.500 7/.829 ··· 170/133 .224/.335/.406/.741 1.018/.667 .868 77/.755 0/0 6/0

21.Gutierrez G/S/vP 5/.000 2/2.000 6/.533 1/.000 9/.222 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 197/145 .268/.344/.363/.707 .748/.694 .865 88/.637 3/3 3/1

32.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 106/80 .188/.240/.281/.522 .157/.647 .546 44/.519 0/1 0/1

4.Lopez G/S/vP 3/2.334 4/.000 5/.800 5/1.600 9/.583 ··· 1/no AB 9/.555 ··· 224/154 .227/.267/.353/.620 .726/.572 .477 92/.548 0/2 5/9

55.Quiroz G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/8 .286/.286/.286/.571 /.571 .667 8/.571 0/0 0/0

51.Suzuki* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 7/.572 9/.444 6/1.167 1/2.000 2/.000 11/.546 ··· 225/159 .354/.388/.481/.870 .777/.908 .832 111/.985 9/4 5/1

5.Sweeney G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 7/.286 6/1.000 8/1.625 ··· ··· 9/.958 ··· 96/41 .231/.271/.396/.666 .678/.652 .607 31/.461 0/0 3/2

IP 68.0 24.2 16.2 32.1 27.0 7.2 18.0 21.2 17.0 TOTAL .256/.311/.389/.700 .705/.698 .687 .709 35/14 48/45

ERA-K/9

3.97/6.5

4.01/5.5

7.56/6.5

3.06/6.1

3.33/6.7

3.52/5.8

2.50/7.0

2.08/10.0

4.76/4.8

4.64/6.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 291/.307 108/.333 74/.270 143/.262 102/.181 31/.231 76/.235 83/.192 74/.279 .270

OPS .802 .882 .848 .795 .554 .669 .674 .549 .779 .771

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 146/.894 36/1.260 23/1.574 57/.593 34/.456 14/1.044 30/.352 40/.705 31/.739 .798

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 145/.711 72/.685 51/.530 86/.927 68/.605 17/.312 46/.888 43/.406 43/.808 .754

Road 77/.759 31/.608 28/.838 67/.671 42/.272 12/.962 38/.675 27/.930 /

Last 28d days 141/.690 43/.825 39/1.101 62/.575 35/.572 31/.669 50/.670 41/.481 74/.779

HR/SB/CS 9/9/0 2/3/1 3/1/1 5/1/1 4/2/1 0/1/1 2/1/0 2/2/0 3/0/0 73/40/15

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