Thursday, June 4, 2009 Game Previews - Baseball-Reference.com

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Game Previews > LAA @ TOR, Thursday, June 4, 2009

Game Preview: LAA @ TOR, 12:37pm, Thursday, June 4, 2009 @Rogers Centre

Angels, 26-25, 2nd, 4½ GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: John Lackey (30, RHP, 1-1, 6.05)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2009 (1-1)			19.1	24	14	13	3	10	2	6.05
2008 (12-5)			163.1	161	71	68	40	130	26	3.75
2007 (19-9)			224.0	219	87	75	52	179	18	3.01

Last 7 GS		2-3	33.1	47	28	27	9	27	5	7.29	41
2009-05-29	SEA	L	7.1	10	5	5	2	2	1	106	38
2009-05-23	@LAD	ND	7.0	7	3	3	1	5	0	106	55
2009-05-18	@SEA	W	5.0	7	5	4	0	3	1	82	38
2009-05-16	@TEX	ND	0.0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	46
2008-09-26	TEX	L	2.2	12	10	10	2	1	2	73	-7
2008-09-21	@TEX	W	6.0	2	0	0	3	12	0	110	77
2008-09-16	@OAK	L	5.1	9	4	4	1	4	1	102	37

Last 5 v.TOR		1-2	35.0	31	15	12	10	26	4	3.09	57
2008-07-05	TOR	L	6.0	8	6	5	1	7	1	104	40
2008-05-31	TOR	ND	8.0	6	2	1	1	7	1	106	70
2008-05-20	@TOR	W	7.0	7	1	1	3	6	1	106	62
2006-05-18	TOR	ND	6.0	4	3	3	5	3	0	104	50
2006-05-07	@TOR	L	8.0	6	3	2	0	3	1	105	63

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

 Home:   14-12   Road:   12-13   ExtrInn: 1-3 
 vsRHP:  17-17   vsLHP:   9-8    1-Run:   8-8 
 vsEast:  9-6    vsCntrl: 6-6    vsWest:  9-12 IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 51 Wed, Jun  3  @TOR  W   8-1       26-25  2nd  4.5 gb
 50 Tue, Jun  2  @TOR  L   4-6       25-25  2nd  4.5 gb
 49 Sun, May 31   SEA  W   9-8       25-24  2nd  4.5 gb
 48 Sat, May 30   SEA  L   3-4 (10)  24-24  2nd  5.5 gb
 47 Fri, May 29   SEA  L   2-5       24-23  2nd  4.5 gb
 46 Wed, May 27   CHW  W   3-1       24-22  2nd  3.0 gb
 45 Tue, May 26   CHW  L   2-4       23-22  2nd  4.0 gb
 44 Mon, May 25   CHW  L   3-17      23-21  2nd  3.0 gb
 43 Sun, May 24  @LAD  W  10-7       23-20  2nd  3.0 gb
 42 Sat, May 23  @LAD  L   4-5 (10)  22-20  2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:17-13

Blue Jays, 30-25, 3rd, 2 GB, 2 up in WC

SP: Brian Tallet (31, LHP, 3-3, 4.26)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2009 (3-3)			61.1	47	30	29	29	47	8	4.26
2008 (1-2)			56.1	52	19	18	22	47	4	2.88
2007 (2-4)			62.1	49	26	24	28	54	1	3.47

Last 7 GS		2-3	43.0	35	23	23	21	32	6	4.81	51
2009-05-30	BOS	W	7.0	3	3	3	4	6	1	118	61
2009-05-25	@BAL	L	6.0	7	2	2	2	5	0	101	53
2009-05-19	@BOS	L	6.0	4	2	2	2	5	0	102	59
2009-05-14	NYY	ND	6.0	4	2	2	5	2	0	91	53
2009-05-09	@OAK	W	7.0	2	1	1	2	7	1	97	74
2009-05-04	CLE	ND	7.0	4	3	3	3	5	1	94	59
2009-04-29	@KCR	L	4.0	11	10	10	3	2	3	93	-1

Has never faced ANA.

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

 Home:   19-8    Road:   11-17   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  20-16   vsLHP:  10-9    1-Run:   9-6 
 vsEast:  6-9    vsCntrl:16-8    vsWest:  8-5  IL: 0-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 55 Wed, Jun  3   LAA  L   1-8       30-25  3rd  2.0 gb
 54 Tue, Jun  2   LAA  W   6-4       30-24  3rd  2.0 gb
 53 Sun, May 31   BOS  L   2-8       29-24  3rd  1.5 gb
 52 Sat, May 30   BOS  W   5-3       29-23  2nd  1.5 gb
 51 Fri, May 29   BOS  W   6-3       28-23  3rd  1.5 gb
 50 Wed, May 27  @BAL  L  10-12(11)  27-23  3rd  1.5 gb
 49 Tue, May 26  @BAL  L   2-7       27-22  3rd  1.5 gb
 48 Mon, May 25  @BAL  L   1-4       27-21  3rd  1.5 gb
 47 Sun, May 24  @ATL  L   2-10      27-20  2nd  0.5 gb
 46 Sat, May 23  @ATL  L   3-4       27-19  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 03, 2009 LAA  8 @TOR  1        W:Jered Weaver (5-2), L: Casey Janssen (1-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 02, 2009 TOR  6  LAA  4        W:Roy Halladay (9-1), L: Joe Saunders (6-4), S: none
Thu, May 07, 2009 LAA  6  TOR  1        W:Jered Weaver (3-1), L: Robert Ray (0-1), S: none
Wed, May 06, 2009 TOR 13 @LAA  1        W:Roy Halladay (6-1), L: Anthony Ortega (0-2), S: none

Sun, Jul 06, 2008 LAA  7  TOR  1        W:Jon Garland (8-5), L: Jesse Litsch (8-5), S: none
Sat, Jul 05, 2008 TOR  7 @LAA  5        W:Roy Halladay (10-6), L: John Lackey (6-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 04, 2008 LAA  8  TOR  2        W:Jered Weaver (8-8), L: A.J. Burnett (8-8), S: none
Sun, Jun 01, 2008 LAA  4  TOR  3        W:Jose Arredondo (2-0), L: B.J. Ryan (1-1), S: none
Sat, May 31, 2008 LAA  3  TOR  2 (10)   W:Scot Shields (3-1), L: Brian Tallet (0-1), S: none
Fri, May 30, 2008 TOR 10 @LAA  4        W:Dustin McGowan (4-4), L: Jered Weaver (4-6), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - Tied 2-2; 2008 - LAA won 6-3; 2007 - TOR won 4-3; All-Time - TOR leads 178-169

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 5.70

NYM 4.71

SEA 3.85

RA/G

LAD 3.78

KCR 4.73

WSN 6.16

J. Bartlett .373

N. Morgan .275

C. Young .172

OBP

A. Pujols .469

N. McLouth .349

C. Young .216

SLG

R. Ibanez .703

B. Francisco .443

J. Kendall .260

OPS

A. Pujols 1.149

M. Byrd .792

C. Young .515

ERA

Z. Greinke 1.10

J. Peavy 4.10

A. Sonnanstine 7.07

K/9IP

J. Verlander 11.69

C. Sabathia 6.46

J. Pineiro 3.45

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

Angels Batters (4.80 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.60 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 56.Tallet*
G/S/vB 57.Camp
G/S/vB 39.Carlson*
G/S/vB 37.Downs*
G/S/vB 54.Frasor
G/S/vB 58.Hayhurst
G/S/vB 44.Janssen
G/S/vB 22.League
G/S/vB 24.Romero*
G/S/vB 52.Ryan*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

53.Abreu* G/S/vP 9/.944 8/1.500 3/2.667 22/.529 9/.944 ··· 9/1.194 8/1.000 ··· 11/1.036 204/151 .297/.392/.406/.798 .817/.790 .876 89/.838 15/0 2/2

2.Aybar# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 148/94 .286/.315/.406/.721 .740/.712 .788 77/.763 1/1 1/3

9.Figgins# G/S/vP 1/.000 8/.250 2/.500 7/1.547 4/.500 ··· 10/1.167 ··· ··· 6/.733 229/161 .303/.381/.369/.749 .658/.788 .907 110/.778 20/4 0/5

27.Guerrero G/S/vP 2/.000 10/1.200 1/.000 7/.715 8/.250 ··· 11/.873 4/.000 ··· 5/1.100 70/49 .262/.300/.354/.654 .688/.638 .646 35/.649 0/0 1/

48.Hunter G/S/vP 7/.429 6/.733 ··· 7/.572 8/1.518 ··· 2/1.000 4/.833 ··· 13/.539 211/158 .308/.393/.582/.976 1.064/.946 .951 99/.944 10/3 12/0

13.Izturis# G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.000 2/1.000 5/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/2.000 119/101 .269/.305/.296/.601 .813/.591 .526 49/.562 5/1 0/2

47.Kendrick G/S/vP ··· 4/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 174/124 .227/.267/.350/.617 .680/.588 .545 66/.536 6/1 4/2

5.Mathis G/S/vP 1/no AB 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 88/60 .227/.306/.240/.546 .380/.622 .258 44/.519 0/1 0/2

24.Matthews# G/S/vP 4/.500 5/.600 2/.000 8/1.250 3/.666 ··· 8/.500 3/.000 ··· 8/.393 123/92 .259/.309/.348/.657 .603/.675 .679 53/.649 0/0 1/2

19.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 202/162 .283/.332/.495/.826 .450/.927 .821 98/.800 0/2 8/3

44.Napoli G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.333 1/no AB 1/2.000 3/.333 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 5/.400 158/125 .270/.361/.482/.843 1.293/.729 .792 77/.601 2/3 7/3

39.Quinlan G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 4/1.250 39/11 .231/.231/.308/.538 .286/1.182 .480 22/.636 1/0 0/0

20.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 6/.900 ··· 3/.333 4/.500 ··· 5/.000 2/.500 ··· 3/.000 172/125 .302/.343/.440/.783 1.343/.585 .780 85/.884 0/0 5/0

IP 61.1 20.0 27.0 23.0 18.2 17.0 22.2 30.1 12.1 TOTAL .277/.338/.409/.747 .769/.738 .746 .731 61/16 41/28

ERA-K/9

4.26/6.9

4.50/6.8

5.00/5.0

2.35/9.0

2.41/7.2

/0.0

5.82/2.1

3.97/7.1

4.15/6.2

8.03/8.0

4.31/7.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 262/.206 90/.275 116/.245 92/.216 69/.203 / 78/.361 90/.238 130/.305 59/.333 .258

OPS .694 .831 .669 .535 .517 .967 .652 .907 1.066 .756

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 87/.847 39/.643 49/.786 24/.750 31/.547 / 43/.930 38/.771 36/.886 27/.892 .745

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 175/.621 51/.980 67/.587 68/.455 38/.493 / 35/1.003 52/.561 94/.913 32/1.220 .764

Home 113/.541 44/.677 60/.675 59/.258 36/.451 / 52/1.083 56/.647 73/.891 29/.803

Last 28d days 129/.556 27/.750 51/.801 35/.871 30/.699 / 78/.967 25/.422 49/1.336 31/.964

HR/SB/CS 8/2/1 2/0/0 2/1/0 1/0/1 1/1/0 // 2/0/1 1/4/1 6/1/1 3/1/2 63/32/16

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

Blue Jays Batters (5.04 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (4.92 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 41.Lackey
G/S/vB 66.Arredondo
G/S/vB 52.Bulger
G/S/vB 40.Fuentes*
G/S/vB 38.Oliver*
G/S/vB 59.Rodriguez
G/S/vB 33.Speier
G/S/vB 63.Thompson
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

20.Barajas G/S/vP 20/.725 1/.000 3/.333 3/.000 7/.143 2/.000 9/.958 ··· 173/122 .285/.316/.418/.734 .998/.619 .617 76/.587 0/0 3/4

23.Bautista G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB 120/65 .274/.410/.389/.800 .889/.705 .812 60/.693 3/0 1/0

13.Chavez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 37/24 .250/.250/.250/.500 .667/.417 .600 17/.471 0/0 0/1

2.Hill G/S/vP 9/.347 1/2.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 6/.334 1/.000 3/.333 1/.000 255/189 .322/.357/.502/.859 .855/.860 .836 105/.682 2/1 12/5

1.Inglett* G/S/vP 11/1.045 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/10 .100/.182/.100/.282 .000/.311 .500 11/.282 0/0 0/0

26.Lind* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 2/.500 1/.000 230/166 .296/.370/.500/.870 .794/.900 1.009 95/.696 1/1 8/1

6.McDonald G/S/vP 20/.500 ··· ··· 1/2.000 5/.400 ··· 1/no AB ··· 19/11 .211/.211/.211/.421 .500/.364 .667 9/.444 0/0 0/0

30.Millar G/S/vP 20/.879 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/.333 ··· 14/.453 ··· 105/46 .268/.324/.423/.746 .761/.726 .737 58/.615 0/0 3/1

35.Overbay* G/S/vP 12/.614 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 14/.571 2/1.000 6/2.667 ··· 150/129 .278/.380/.516/.896 .538/.960 .922 54/.982 0/0 5/0

15.Rios G/S/vP 19/.722 3/.666 1/.000 2/1.500 6/.167 1/.000 5/1.100 1/.000 248/185 .272/.331/.446/.777 .724/.795 .948 102/.912 5/1 7/1

33.Rolen G/S/vP 9/.000 3/.000 2/.000 5/.200 9/.730 2/1.000 11/.964 ··· 195/134 .301/.374/.445/.819 1.128/.687 .855 79/.829 2/0 3/5

19.Scutaro G/S/vP 46/.729 1/2.000 2/2.000 ··· 4/.250 2/.000 8/.900 3/.000 260/188 .298/.399/.445/.844 1.016/.781 .804 109/.853 5/3 5/1

10.Wells G/S/vP 22/.654 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 7/.453 2/2.500 4/.000 1/.000 248/186 .257/.310/.394/.704 .581/.744 .542 105/.557 9/0 5/0

IP 19.1 23.0 22.1 18.2 22.2 14.2 20.1 5.0 TOTAL .281/.347/.438/.786 .826/.769 .785 .718 28/6 56/23

ERA-K/9

6.05/4.7

5.09/10.2

4.43/8.1

5.30/9.1

1.99/5.9

7.36/3.7

5.31/7.5

1.80/7.2

4.68/6.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 88/.329 104/.308 92/.241 84/.289 92/.259 75/.391 91/.253 21/.235 .276

OPS .853 .735 .720 .752 .646 .993 .724 .712 .758

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 45/.864 48/.801 36/.909 26/.478 33/.618 36/1.111 38/1.081 5/.400 .810

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 43/.839 56/.680 56/.596 58/.877 59/.662 39/.885 53/.481 16/.833 .717

Road 55/.800 51/.626 35/.684 35/.639 56/.615 26/1.052 38/.564 14/.452

Last 28d days 88/.853 51/.805 45/.571 37/.697 57/.671 21/1.213 40/.593 6/.167

HR/SB/CS 2/1/0 0/1/1 3/0/0 2/0/1 0/0/1 2/1/0 2/2/0 1/0/0 48/42/13

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