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Game Preview: MIN @ STL, 2:15pm, Sunday, June 28, 2009 @Busch Stadium III

Twins, 38-38, 2nd, 4 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Francisco Liriano (25, LHP, 3-8, 5.88)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (3-8) 82.2 90 55 54 40 74 12 5.88
2008 (6-4) 76.0 74 40 33 32 67 7 3.91
2006 (12-3) 121.0 89 31 29 32 144 9 2.16
Last 7 GS 1-4 36.0 48 27 27 18 35 6 6.75 41
2009-06-23 @MIL W 5.0 7 3 3 5 6 0 117 42
2009-06-17 PIT L 7.0 8 4 4 1 6 2 106 50
2009-06-10 @OAK ND 6.0 5 3 3 2 7 0 98 55
2009-06-05 @SEA ND 6.0 3 1 1 4 5 1 101 63
2009-05-30 @TBR L 4.0 7 4 4 3 3 1 93 32
2009-05-25 BOS L 4.0 11 5 5 0 7 0 84 27
2009-05-20 @CHW L 4.0 7 7 7 3 1 2 90 18
Has never faced STL.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-15   Road:   14-23   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  26-23   vsLHP:  12-15   1-Run:   8-11
 vsEast:  6-16   vsCntrl:11-9    vsWest: 10-7  IL:11-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 76 Sat, Jun 27  @STL  L   3-5       38-38  2nd  4.0 gb
 75 Fri, Jun 26  @STL  W   3-1       38-37  2nd  4.0 gb
 74 Thu, Jun 25  @MIL  W   6-4       37-37  2nd  5.0 gb
 73 Wed, Jun 24  @MIL  L   3-4       36-37  2nd  5.0 gb
 72 Tue, Jun 23  @MIL  W   7-3       36-36  2nd  4.0 gb
 71 Sun, Jun 21   HOU  L   1-4       35-36  2nd  4.0 gb
 70 Sat, Jun 20   HOU  L   5-6       35-35  2nd  3.0 gb
 69 Fri, Jun 19   HOU  W   5-2       35-34  2nd  2.0 gb
 68 Thu, Jun 18   PIT  W   5-1       34-34  2nd  2.0 gb
 67 Wed, Jun 17   PIT  L   2-8       33-34  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14
Cardinals, 41-35, 1st, Tied

SP: Joel Pineiro (30, RHP, 6-8, 3.40)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (6-8) 92.2 97 42 35 12 40 2 3.40
2008 (7-7) 148.2 180 89 85 35 81 22 5.15
2007 (7-5) 97.2 110 49 47 26 60 14 4.33
Last 7 GS 2-5 47.1 41 17 14 5 26 0 2.66 58
2009-06-23 @NYM W 9.0 2 0 0 1 1 0 100 83
2009-06-18 DET L 7.0 5 4 1 0 4 0 83 61
2009-06-12 @CLE L 6.1 7 3 3 2 6 0 106 51
2009-06-07 COL L 5.0 10 3 3 1 4 0 94 38
2009-05-29 @SFG L 4.0 6 4 4 1 3 0 71 36
2009-05-24 KCR L 7.0 8 3 3 0 3 0 92 52
2009-05-19 CHC W 9.0 3 0 0 0 5 0 92 86
Last 5 v.MIN 1-2 34.1 47 22 21 9 10 3 5.50 40
2006-06-08 MIN L 5.1 9 7 6 6 2 0 106 20
2006-05-28 @MIN ND 6.2 9 3 3 2 2 1 96 44
2006-05-01 @MIN W 9.0 9 2 2 0 0 1 106 61
2005-08-21 @MIN L 5.2 13 8 8 1 2 1 83 12
2005-08-10 MIN ND 7.2 7 2 2 0 4 0 98 61
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-17   Road:   19-18   ExtrInn: 1-3 
 vsRHP:  29-24   vsLHP:  12-11   1-Run:   9-8 
 vsEast: 10-8    vsCntrl:19-15   vsWest:  3-7  IL: 9-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 76 Sat, Jun 27   MIN  W   5-3       41-35  1st    Tied
 75 Fri, Jun 26   MIN  L   1-3       40-35  1st    Tied
 74 Thu, Jun 25  @NYM  L   2-3       40-34  1st  1.0 up
 73 Wed, Jun 24  @NYM  L   0-11      40-33  1st  1.0 up
 72 Tue, Jun 23  @NYM  W   3-0       40-32  1st  2.0 up
 71 Mon, Jun 22  @NYM  L   4-6       39-32  1st  1.0 up
 70 Sun, Jun 21  @KCR  W  12-5       39-31  1st  1.5 up
 69 Sat, Jun 20  @KCR  W   7-1       38-31  1st  0.5 up
 68 Fri, Jun 19  @KCR  W  10-5       37-31  2nd  0.5 gb
 67 Thu, Jun 18   DET  L   3-6       36-31  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jun 26, 2009 MIN  3 @STL  1        W:Glen Perkins (3-4), L: Adam Wainwright (8-5), S: Joe Nathan (18)

Tue, Jul 17, 2001 STL  4  MIN  2        W:Darryl Kile (10-7), L: Kyle Lohse (3-1), S: Jason Christiansen (3)
Mon, Jul 16, 2001 STL  4  MIN  3        W:Steve Kline (2-3), L: Travis Miller (1-3), S: Jason Christiansen (2)
Sun, Jul 15, 2001 STL  5  MIN  1        W:Dustin Hermanson (7-7), L: Joe Mays (11-6), S: none
Tue, Jul 18, 2000 MIN  3  STL  2        W:Brad Radke (7-10), L: Andy Benes (10-4), S: LaTroy Hawkins (6)
Mon, Jul 17, 2000 STL  8 @MIN  3        W:Pat Hentgen (9-6), L: Mike Lincoln (0-3), S: none
Sun, Jul 16, 2000 MIN  5  STL  2        W:Mark Redman (7-4), L: Rick Ankiel (6-5), S: Eddie Guardado (5)
Tue, Jul 20, 1999 MIN  4 @STL  2        W:Brad Radke (7-8), L: Larry Luebbers (0-1), S: Mike Trombley (14)
Mon, Jul 19, 1999 STL  8  MIN  4        W:Kent Mercker (3-4), L: Mike Lincoln (3-10), S: Ricky Bottalico (14)
Sun, Jul 18, 1999 MIN  5 @STL  2        W:LaTroy Hawkins (6-8), L: Darren Oliver (4-7), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - Tied 1-1; 2008 -  0-0; 2007 -  0-0; All-Time - STL leads 10-7

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  5.68

NYM  4.60

SDP  3.85

 RA/G

LAD  3.82

MIL  4.60

WSN  5.71

 BA

J. Mauer  .396

M. Byrd  .283

B. Crosby  .189

 OBP

J. Mauer  .471

B. Roberts  .358

D. Navarro  .243

 SLG

A. Pujols  .697

N. Markakis  .467

N. Punto  .252

 OPS

J. Mauer  1.166

B. Phillips  .819

B. Giles  .548

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.90

A. Cook  4.00

A. Sonnanstine  6.61

 K/9IP

J. Verlander  10.80

C. Pavano  6.54

J. Garland  3.33

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Twins Batters (4.78 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.17 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Pineiro
G/S/vB		 31.Franklin
G/S/vB		 53.Hawksworth
G/S/vB		 52.Kinney
G/S/vB		 46.McClellan
G/S/vB		 43.Miller*
G/S/vB		 60.Motte
G/S/vB		 34.Perez
G/S/vB		 36.Reyes*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Buscher* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 106/90 .205/.330/.318/.648 .670/.644 .600 32/.701 0/0 2/0
24.Crede G/S/vP 12/1.200 16/.313 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 6/1.100 229/160 .233/.310/.460/.770 .649/.823 .761 81/.718 0/0 11/2
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 12/.817 11/.382 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 6/2.333 283/204 .281/.364/.514/.878 .947/.850 .696 72/.869 4/1 11/3
22.Gomez G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 178/113 .228/.284/.333/.617 .637/.606 .710 71/.649 7/4 1/0
23.Harris G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 237/148 .286/.333/.392/.725 .693/.744 .548 107/.748 0/0 4/4
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 256/188 .313/.371/.558/.929 .507/1.082 .879 85/1.043 0/0 13/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 17/1.898 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 221/136 .396/.471/.695/1.166 .997/1.273 .989 99/.968 1/1 14/1
58.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 63/50 .368/.429/.439/.867 1.084/.813 1.266 4/1.250 0/0 0/2
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 14/1.571 7/1.715 ··· ··· ··· 6/1.666 ··· ··· 3/1.000 327/208 .313/.391/.562/.954 1.009/.915 .840 102/.694 0/0 16/1
8.Punto# G/S/vP 11/.182 6/.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 180/132 .224/.318/.252/.570 .556/.562 .596 30/.923 6/1 0/5
55.Redmond G/S/vP 10/.844 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.667 84/53 .247/.310/.299/.608 .757/.524 .742 23/.590 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 274/186 .287/.381/.387/.768 .889/.710 .669 49/.690 12/4 4/1
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 133/93 .179/.273/.232/.506 .599/.463 .570 45/.473 4/0 1/1
21.Young G/S/vP 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 180/118 .251/.278/.316/.594 .542/.621 .716 66/.657 2/2 2/2
IP 92.2 29.0 6.2 6.1 35.1 20.0 28.1 23.2 20.2 TOTAL .272/.345/.427/.772 .750/.782 .728 .752 38/13 79/30
ERA-K/9 3.40/3.9 0.93/6.2 5.40/1.3 8.53/1.4 3.06/6.9 2.70/9.9 5.08/7.6 4.18/11.4 4.35/8.3 3.88/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 375/.276 109/.184 28/.240 28/.318 146/.215 83/.216 117/.260 106/.195 90/.237 .253
OPS .681 .491 .726 1.101 .638 .659 .766 .664 .685 .708
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 176/.631 48/.429 20/.544 14/.900 65/.587 52/.389 51/.837 32/.760 54/.528 .731
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 199/.726 61/.540 8/1.125 14/1.262 81/.679 31/1.118 66/.712 74/.622 36/.922 .687
Home 166/.575 44/.209 14/.824 14/.929 66/.534 50/.715 66/.913 48/.755 42/.499
Last 28d days 109/.541 31/.484 28/.726 13/.962 44/.854 32/.603 33/1.282 39/.778 31/.733
HR/SB/CS 2/0/1 2/0/0 1/0/0 2/1/0 3/0/0 3/0/0 4/0/1 3/1/2 2/1/1 65/15/12
Usage ····X··· oo·····X ···X··o· o··X·o·· X·o··Xo· o·oo·o·o o·o··oo· o·X··oo·
Cardinals Batters (4.49 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.47 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 39.Dickey
G/S/vB		 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB		 60.Henn*
G/S/vB		 44.Keppel
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Ankiel* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 199/143 .240/.296/.410/.706 .570/.762 .757 97/.719 0/1 5/2
16.Duncan* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 259/192 .249/.336/.400/.736 .669/.760 .618 79/.594 0/1 5/4
3.Greene G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 148/95 .205/.288/.362/.650 .523/.718 .609 25/.973 2/1 5/7
27.Greene G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 93/68 .264/.304/.391/.695 .769/.668 .761 52/.614 3/0 2/2
21.LaRue G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 48/35 .261/.292/.370/.661 .692/.649 .696 17/.529 0/0 1/0
47.Ludwick G/S/vP ··· 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 216/152 .226/.300/.421/.722 .619/.762 .668 87/.545 3/0 11/1
4.Molina G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 264/195 .278/.344/.380/.724 .749/.715 .821 91/.726 4/1 5/1
5.Pujols G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 318/225 .323/.443/.697/1.140 1.184/1.122 1.178 107/1.156 9/3 28/6
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 239/185 .269/.315/.452/.767 .418/.864 .838 77/.908 1/0 7/3
13.Ryan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 159/93 .308/.346/.411/.757 .699/.794 .767 78/.824 6/3 1/3
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 275/220 .295/.353/.394/.747 .546/.798 .728 100/.657 2/2 3/4
22.Thurston* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 204/160 .227/.327/.358/.685 .838/.646 .803 66/.527 3/2 1/9
IP 82.2 42.1 34.0 11.1 4.0 21.2 29.2 TOTAL .257/.325/.414/.739 .667/.768 .751 .717 36/14 78/58
ERA-K/9 5.88/8.1 2.34/6.6 2.91/6.4 7.15/7.2 0.00/6.8 2.49/7.1 1.52/10.9 4.35/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 371/.280 177/.232 132/.207 47/.231 / 93/.235 111/.173 .263
OPS .835 .693 .607 .828 .709 .497 .749
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 88/.644 69/.549 46/.530 23/1.235 / 38/.336 52/.698 .784
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 283/.894 108/.783 86/.647 24/.408 / 55/.968 59/.328 .726
Road 220/.835 86/.579 64/.433 21/.602 / 47/.652 51/.684
Last 28d days 107/.737 42/.295 40/.705 29/.905 / 27/.936 39/.294
HR/SB/CS 12/10/5 5/1/1 5/2/1 2/1/1 // 3/1/0 2/2/0 88/47/19
Usage ····X··· o·o·X·Xo ·oo·X·o· o······o X······· ·o······ ·oo·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.