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Game Preview: MIN @ TEX, 8:05pm, Saturday, July 18, 2009 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Twins, 46-44, 3rd, 3 GB, 6½ GB in WC

SP: Scott Baker (27, RHP, 7-7, 5.42)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (7-7) 101.1 102 62 61 21 82 18 5.42
2008 (11-4) 172.1 161 66 66 42 141 20 3.45
2007 (9-9) 143.2 162 70 68 29 102 15 4.26
Last 7 GS 4-1 41.2 39 22 22 10 33 3 4.75 51
2009-07-12 CHW W 6.1 6 5 5 1 4 1 97 44
2009-07-07 NYY L 3.0 9 5 5 2 4 0 86 23
2009-06-30 @KCR W 5.0 5 1 1 2 1 0 111 52
2009-06-25 @MIL W 6.0 4 3 3 3 5 2 91 54
2009-06-20 HOU ND 6.1 6 3 3 1 6 0 101 54
2009-06-14 @CHC ND 7.0 5 2 2 0 5 0 98 64
2009-06-09 @OAK W 8.0 4 3 3 1 8 0 116 69
Last 5 v.TEX 0-2 15.2 17 14 13 3 16 3 7.47 43
2008-07-20 TEX L 8.0 2 1 1 1 8 1 106 81
2008-04-26 @TEX ND 4.1 8 5 5 1 7 0 79 33
2006-08-01 TEX L 3.1 7 8 7 1 1 2 72 16
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   28-20   Road:   18-24   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  32-27   vsLHP:  14-17   1-Run:  10-13
 vsEast:  6-19   vsCntrl:17-12   vsWest: 11-7  IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 90 Fri, Jul 17  @TEX  W   5-3       46-44  3rd  3.0 gb
 89 Sun, Jul 12   CHW  W  13-7       45-44  3rd  4.0 gb
 88 Sat, Jul 11   CHW  L   7-8       44-44  3rd  4.0 gb
 87 Fri, Jul 10   CHW  W   6-4       44-43  3rd  4.0 gb
 86 Thu, Jul  9   NYY  L   4-6       43-43  3rd  4.0 gb
 85 Wed, Jul  8   NYY  L   3-4       43-42  3rd  3.5 gb
 84 Tue, Jul  7   NYY  L   2-10      43-41  3rd  2.5 gb
 83 Sun, Jul  5   DET  W   6-2       43-40  2nd  2.0 gb
 82 Sat, Jul  4   DET  W   4-3       42-40  3rd  3.0 gb
 81 Fri, Jul  3   DET  L   9-11(16)  41-40  3rd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Rangers, 48-40, 2nd, 2 GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Scott Feldman (26, RHP, 8-2, 3.83)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (8-2) 96.1 83 42 41 31 46 11 3.83
2008 (6-8) 151.1 161 103 89 56 74 22 5.29
2007 (1-2) 39.0 44 26 25 32 19 3 5.77
Last 7 GS 3-2 41.2 38 19 18 11 15 5 3.89 51
2009-07-10 @SEA W 6.2 7 2 2 1 1 0 102 52
2009-07-05 TBR W 6.0 3 2 1 4 2 0 105 58
2009-06-30 LAA W 6.0 6 3 3 2 3 0 116 49
2009-06-25 @ARI ND 6.0 4 3 3 1 1 1 94 52
2009-06-19 @SFG L 6.0 8 5 5 1 5 2 100 40
2009-06-13 LAD ND 5.0 3 0 0 0 1 0 57 62
2009-06-08 TOR L 6.0 7 4 4 2 2 2 94 42
Last 5 v.MIN 0-0 6.0 7 5 5 2 2 1 7.50 38
2008-05-19 @MIN ND 6.0 7 5 5 2 2 1 101 38
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   28-18   Road:   20-22   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  30-26   vsLHP:  18-14   1-Run:  14-9 
 vsEast: 13-12   vsCntrl: 8-11   vsWest: 18-8  IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 88 Fri, Jul 17   MIN  L   3-5       48-40  2nd  2.0 gb
 87 Sun, Jul 12  @SEA  L   3-5       48-39  2nd  1.5 gb
 86 Sat, Jul 11  @SEA  L   1-4       48-38  2nd  0.5 gb
 85 Fri, Jul 10  @SEA  W   6-4       48-37  1st  0.5 up
 84 Thu, Jul  9  @SEA  L   1-3       47-37  1st  0.5 up
 83 Wed, Jul  8  @LAA  W   8-1       47-36  1st  1.0 up
 82 Tue, Jul  7  @LAA  W   8-5       46-36  1st    Tied
 81 Mon, Jul  6  @LAA  L   4-9       45-36  2nd  1.0 gb
 80 Sun, Jul  5   TBR  W   5-2       45-35  1st    Tied
 79 Sat, Jul  4   TBR  W  12-4       44-35  1st    Tied
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 20, 2008 TEX  1 @MIN  0        W:Vicente Padilla (11-5), L: Scott Baker (6-3), S: C.J. Wilson (23)
Sat, Jul 19, 2008 MIN 14  TEX  2        W:Livan Hernandez (10-6), L: Matt Harrison (1-1), S: none
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 MIN  6  TEX  0        W:Glen Perkins (7-2), L: Kevin Millwood (6-6), S: none
Thu, May 22, 2008 TEX  8 @MIN  7 (10)   W:Joaquin Benoit (3-1), L: Brian Bass (1-1), S: C.J. Wilson (9)
Wed, May 21, 2008 TEX 10 @MIN  1        W:Sidney Ponson (3-0), L: Nick Blackburn (4-3), S: none
Tue, May 20, 2008 MIN 11  TEX  4        W:Glen Perkins (1-1), L: Doug Mathis (1-1), S: none
Mon, May 19, 2008 MIN  7  TEX  6 (12)   W:Bobby Korecky (1-0), L: Franklyn German (1-3), S: none
Sun, Apr 27, 2008 TEX 10  MIN  0        W:Vicente Padilla (3-2), L: Livan Hernandez (3-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 26, 2008 MIN 12 @TEX  6        W:Dennys Reyes (1-0), L: Jamey Wright (1-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 25, 2008 TEX  6  MIN  5 (10)   W:Joaquin Benoit (2-1), L: Juan Rincon (2-1), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - MIN leads 1-0; 2008 - Tied 5-5; 2007 - MIN won 7-2; All-Time - MIN leads 341-303

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  5.63

FLA  4.56

SDP  3.76

RA/G

SFG  3.68

CHW  4.60

WSN  5.63

BA

J. Mauer  .373

R. Zimmerman  .288

J. Giambi  .191

OBP

A. Pujols  .456

D. Fowler  .362

D. Navarro  .254

SLG

A. Pujols  .723

A. Ethier  .473

N. Punto  .223

OPS

A. Pujols  1.179

J. Varitek  .826

N. Punto  .543

ERA

D. Haren  2.01

R. Oswalt  3.85

J. Geer  5.79

K/9IP

J. Verlander  10.96

B. Zito  6.79

J. Garland  3.62

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

Twins Batters (4.86 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.56 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Feldman
G/S/vB
50.Francisco
G/S/vB
49.Grilli
G/S/vB
18.Guardado*
G/S/vB
45.Holland*
G/S/vB
35.Hunter
G/S/vB
28.Jennings
G/S/vB
52.Mathis
G/S/vB
33.Millwood
G/S/vB
57.Nippert
G/S/vB
56.O'Day
G/S/vB
44.Padilla
G/S/vB
36.Wilson*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Buscher* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 5/.933 ··· 123/106 .210/.350/.310/.660 .710/.651 .598 24/.680 0/0 2/0
25.Casilla# G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 8/.500 1/.000 ··· 5/.600 1/.000 121/78 .180/.242/.225/.467 .320/.550 .551 / 2/0 0/5
24.Crede G/S/vP 5/1.200 4/.000 6/.833 10/.650 ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/.400 ··· ··· 11/.546 ··· 279/199 .234/.297/.452/.750 .581/.818 .721 71/.738 0/0 14/2
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 7/.953 6/.200 7/1.238 5/.650 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 19/1.252 ··· 1/2.000 15/.971 5/.200 345/254 .273/.354/.507/.860 .974/.818 .707 87/.807 4/1 14/4
22.Gomez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2.167 7/.572 1/3.000 ··· 6/1.500 2/.000 205/133 .235/.291/.358/.649 .692/.626 .710 44/.806 7/4 2/0
23.Harris G/S/vP 7/1.000 2/1.000 3/1.334 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 8/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 11/.855 3/.333 296/190 .275/.318/.392/.710 .740/.692 .555 87/.672 0/1 5/6
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 5/1.400 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· 2/no AB 10/1.100 ··· 2/1.500 12/.167 3/.333 299/222 .311/.368/.546/.914 .513/1.054 .848 60/.877 0/1 15/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 5/1.200 2/.500 2/.000 5/1.200 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 29/.928 1/3.000 ··· 13/.398 9/.347 282/177 .373/.447/.622/1.069 .963/1.132 .958 88/.729 1/1 15/3
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 8/.833 7/.453 6/1.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 2/1.000 22/1.608 1/5.000 2/.000 18/.675 10/.856 387/246 .311/.390/.575/.965 .958/.967 .870 83/.903 0/0 21/1
8.Punto# G/S/vP 2/.500 1/no AB 6/1.300 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/1.029 ··· ··· 8/.661 3/.667 223/165 .201/.319/.223/.543 .558/.528 .541 48/.444 8/1 0/5
55.Redmond G/S/vP 1/.000 2/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 18/.583 ··· ··· 17/.368 2/.000 98/65 .236/.306/.281/.587 .773/.495 .649 17/.369 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 343/239 .292/.381/.388/.769 .976/.682 .645 79/.782 16/5 5/3
21.Young G/S/vP 8/.750 4/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 6/1.000 ··· 2/2.000 12/.666 1/.000 202/132 .266/.292/.344/.636 .630/.639 .721 34/.869 2/2 3/2
IP 96.1 27.2 31.2 26.2 60.1 23.0 47.0 16.2 130.0 7.1 32.0 96.1 38.2 TOTAL .269/.342/.424/.766 .766/.765 .715 .729 45/16 96/41
ERA-K/9 3.83/4.3 2.28/10.4 4.26/7.9 4.05/5.1 5.97/6.9 2.35/5.1 3.26/6.3 2.16/2.2 3.46/5.5 7.36/7.4 1.69/8.7 4.67/4.9 3.03/7.4 4.34/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 392/.233 109/.180 145/.280 111/.276 269/.306 96/.244 199/.250 68/.197 551/.249 36/.364 125/.227 395/.278 169/.247 .264
OPS .672 .588 .780 .812 .888 .688 .702 .591 .729 .932 .623 .745 .714 .763
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 207/.669 53/.492 65/.764 38/1.147 81/.831 51/.834 88/.703 26/.824 263/.725 20/.971 38/.930 225/.881 56/.541 .775
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 185/.674 56/.680 80/.791 73/.632 188/.913 45/.530 111/.701 42/.449 288/.732 16/.875 87/.486 170/.573 113/.794 .753
Home 212/.647 51/.509 86/.852 76/.995 141/1.091 72/.744 109/.635 51/.697 288/.690 / 62/.480 210/.852 83/.554
Last 28d days 101/.597 33/.903 25/.296 24/.451 104/.847 70/.607 50/.595 33/.401 142/.836 36/.932 29/.729 79/.851 48/.670
HR/SB/CS 11/12/3 4/0/0 3/3/1 4/2/2 11/6/0 2/4/0 3/3/3 1/0/0 17/13/3 1/3/0 3/5/1 7/2/4 3/2/1 99/58/21
Usage ·······X ·······X ······o· X·····X· ·····X·o ········ ·····o·o ········ ······X· ·····X·· o····o·· X······· ·····X··
Rangers Batters (4.92 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.51 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Baker
G/S/vB
53.Blackburn
G/S/vB
39.Dickey
G/S/vB
52.Duensing*
G/S/vB
54.Guerrier
G/S/vB
44.Keppel
G/S/vB
47.Liriano*
G/S/vB
50.Mijares*
G/S/vB
36.Nathan
G/S/vB
15.Perkins*
G/S/vB
51.Swarzak
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 265/184 .253/.315/.350/.666 .793/.612 .758 62/.524 16/1 3/12
9.Blalock* G/S/vP 5/.400 3/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 4/.833 4/.500 ··· 8/.833 3/.333 ··· 280/211 .260/.307/.547/.854 .644/.926 .812 66/.982 2/0 19/3
22.Byrd G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 6/.833 ··· 312/215 .286/.327/.474/.801 .744/.826 .933 86/.913 3/1 8/1
17.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.500 1/.000 ··· 328/238 .263/.326/.539/.865 .696/.928 .903 63/.695 13/2 22/3
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 3/2.500 6/1.000 4/1.750 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/3.500 6/.334 ··· 168/122 .243/.298/.428/.725 .781/.704 .656 30/.630 5/0 7/0
25.Jones G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 7/.286 ··· ··· 202/110 .231/.332/.538/.869 .811/.909 .928 60/.885 3/0 14/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 8/.661 7/1.286 4/.000 ··· 7/.572 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 6/.167 6/.000 ··· 395/281 .250/.327/.489/.816 1.110/.694 .955 92/.641 19/2 20/6
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 5/.400 6/.833 3/.000 ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 6/.533 3/.000 ··· 230/191 .276/.360/.444/.804 .529/.859 .850 64/.972 5/4 7/1
21.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 3/.666 ··· 253/172 .244/.296/.368/.664 .674/.659 .753 61/.599 0/2 6/6
2.Teagarden G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 84/68 .224/.277/.342/.619 .646/.613 .618 20/.674 0/0 1/3
13.Vizquel# G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.858 ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· ··· 91/76 .288/.352/.375/.727 1.000/.667 .755 24/.570 4/0 0/0
10.Young G/S/vP 9/.778 7/1.000 4/.000 ··· 9/1.167 4/.500 4/.500 ··· 10/.700 7/.453 ··· 377/274 .308/.363/.488/.852 .910/.830 .888 96/.755 6/2 11/6
IP 101.1 123.1 55.1 11.2 41.1 14.1 102.0 29.1 35.1 83.1 32.0 TOTAL .255/.317/.454/.772 .761/.776 .829 .727 73/14 132/59
ERA-K/9 5.42/7.3 3.06/3.9 3.25/6.2 5.40/3.1 2.40/5.9 0.63/5.7 5.47/8.2 1.84/8.0 1.27/11.0 4.75/4.3 4.50/5.1 4.34/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 420/.258 518/.267 242/.269 49/.238 159/.199 51/.186 450/.270 123/.217 126/.153 330/.283 141/.276 .265
OPS .757 .701 .756 .755 .575 .593 .807 .651 .446 .734 .737 .749
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 206/.692 275/.795 103/.612 19/.498 56/.431 30/.653 103/.641 51/.313 61/.612 76/.851 69/.680 .766
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 214/.818 243/.594 139/.860 30/.927 103/.654 21/.508 347/.856 72/.892 65/.297 254/.700 72/.790 .737
Road 172/.799 280/.760 105/.660 11/.773 69/.465 26/.593 247/.795 55/.678 56/.620 109/.839 45/.552
Last 28d days 116/.796 132/.728 81/.760 38/.748 42/.645 51/.593 107/.703 31/.450 25/.163 106/.693 22/.955
HR/SB/CS 18/4/1 10/6/2 5/3/1 2/0/1 5/2/1 0/0/1 14/12/7 3/3/0 2/3/0 7/4/0 3/1/0 98/56/22
Usage ·····X·· ·······X ······X· ······X· o····X·o X····o·· ········ o····oX· o······X X·····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.