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Game Preview: MIL @ MIN, 4:10pm, Saturday, May 22, 2010 @Target Field

Brewers, 16-26, 16-265th, 8½ GB, 8 GB in WC

SP: Yovani Gallardo (24, RHP, 4-2, 2.89)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (4-2) 53.0 44 20 17 29 61 4 2.89
2009 (13-12) 185.2 150 78 77 94 204 21 3.73
2008 (0-0) 24.0 22 5 5 8 20 3 1.88
Last 7 GS 4-0 41.0 32 10 8 25 51 2 1.76 61
2010-05-17 @CIN ND 6.0 4 1 1 6 5 0 120 59
2010-05-12 ATL ND 6.0 5 2 2 3 6 0 108 57
2010-05-07 @ARI W 5.0 3 2 2 4 10 1 103 59
2010-05-01 @SDP W 7.0 6 1 1 2 11 0 121 70
2010-04-26 PIT W 6.0 5 2 0 3 4 0 106 59
2010-04-21 @PIT W 5.0 3 0 0 3 10 0 103 68
2010-04-16 @WSN ND 6.0 6 2 2 4 5 1 107 53
Has never faced MIN as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    4-14   Road:   12-12   ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  11-17   vsLHP:   5-9    1-Run:   5-4 
 vsEast:  1-8    vsCntrl: 7-12   vsWest:  8-5  IL: 0-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Fri, May 21  @MIN  L   3-15      16-26  5th  8.5 gb
 41 Thu, May 20  @PIT  W   4-3       16-25  5th  7.5 gb
 40 Wed, May 19  @PIT  L   4-6       15-25  5th  8.0 gb
 39 Tue, May 18  @CIN  L   4-5       15-24  5th  8.0 gb
 38 Mon, May 17  @CIN  L   3-6       15-23  5th  7.0 gb
 37 Sun, May 16   PHI  L   2-4       15-22  5th  6.0 gb
 36 Sat, May 15   PHI  L   6-10      15-21  4th  5.5 gb
 35 Fri, May 14   PHI  L   5-9       15-20  3rd  5.5 gb
 34 Wed, May 12   ATL  L   2-9       15-19  3rd  5.0 gb
 33 Tue, May 11   ATL  L   3-11      15-18  3rd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19
Twins, 25-17, 25-171st, 1 up

SP: Kevin Slowey (26, RHP, 5-3, 4.70)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. MIL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (5-3) 44.0 57 23 23 12 33 7 4.70
2009 (10-3) 90.2 113 50 49 15 75 15 4.86
2008 (12-11) 160.1 161 74 71 24 123 22 3.99
Last 7 GS 4-3 38.2 50 22 22 10 30 7 5.12 45
2010-05-17 @TOR W 5.0 8 3 3 0 2 1 99 41
2010-05-11 CHW L 4.2 8 5 5 1 3 0 75 30
2010-05-05 DET W 5.2 7 3 3 2 3 3 97 44
2010-04-30 @CLE W 5.0 9 3 3 0 6 0 102 43
2010-04-25 @KCR L 5.1 8 4 4 3 2 1 104 35
2010-04-20 CLE W 8.0 5 1 1 0 9 1 98 77
2010-04-14 BOS L 5.0 5 3 3 4 5 1 98 46
Last 5 v.MIL 3-0 29.2 24 9 8 4 21 3 2.43 63
2009-05-22 MIL W 7.1 8 3 2 0 4 0 91 56
2008-06-29 MIL W 9.0 3 0 0 0 8 0 109 89
2008-06-13 @MIL W 8.0 5 2 2 0 5 0 99 69
2007-06-17 MIL ND 5.1 8 4 4 4 4 3 97 36
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   13-6    Road:   12-11   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  16-13   vsLHP:   9-4    1-Run:   6-4 
 vsEast:  6-8    vsCntrl:15-8    vsWest:  3-1  IL: 1-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Fri, May 21   MIL  W  15-3       25-17  1st  1.0 up
 41 Thu, May 20  @BOS  L   2-6       24-17  1st    Tied
 40 Wed, May 19  @BOS  L   2-3       24-16  1st  1.0 up
 39 Tue, May 18  @TOR  L   2-11      24-15  1st  2.0 up
 38 Mon, May 17  @TOR  W   8-3       24-14  1st  2.0 up
 37 Sun, May 16  @NYY  W   6-3       23-14  1st  1.5 up
 36 Sat, May 15  @NYY  L   1-7       22-14  1st  1.5 up
 35 Fri, May 14  @NYY  L   4-8       22-13  1st  2.5 up
 34 Wed, May 12   CHW  W   3-2       22-12  1st  3.0 up
 33 Tue, May 11   CHW  L   2-5       21-12  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 21, 2010 MIN 15  MIL  3        W:Nick Blackburn (5-1), L: David Bush (1-5), S: none

Thu, Jun 25, 2009 MIN  6 @MIL  4        W:Scott Baker (5-6), L: Mike Burns (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (17)
Wed, Jun 24, 2009 MIL  4  MIN  3        W:Todd Coffey (3-1), L: Nick Blackburn (6-3), S: Trevor Hoffman (17)
Tue, Jun 23, 2009 MIN  7 @MIL  3        W:Francisco Liriano (3-8), L: Jeff Suppan (5-5), S: none
Sun, May 24, 2009 MIN  6  MIL  3        W:Scott Baker (2-5), L: David Bush (3-1), S: none
Sat, May 23, 2009 MIN  6  MIL  2        W:Anthony Swarzak (1-0), L: Braden Looper (4-3), S: none
Fri, May 22, 2009 MIN 11  MIL  3        W:Kevin Slowey (6-1), L: Manny Parra (3-5), S: none
Sun, Jun 29, 2008 MIN  5  MIL  0        W:Kevin Slowey (5-6), L: Ben Sheets (9-2), S: none
Sat, Jun 28, 2008 MIL  5 @MIN  1        W:Manny Parra (8-2), L: Livan Hernandez (8-5), S: none
Fri, Jun 27, 2008 MIN  7  MIL  6        W:Matt Guerrier (4-2), L: Guillermo Mota (2-5), S: Joe Nathan (22)
Season Series: 2010 - MIN leads 1-0; 2009 - MIN won 5-1; 2008 - MIN won 4-2; All-Time - MIN leads 220-204

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 2010 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  5.69

CHC  4.49

HOU  2.95

RA/G

TBR  3.10

TEX  4.47

ARI  6.00

BA

J. Morneau  .370

  

C. Figgins  .192

OBP

J. Morneau  .480

  

J. Lopez  .240

SLG

J. Morneau  .685

  

C. Figgins  .252

OPS

J. Morneau  1.165

  

J. Lopez  .503

ERA

U. Jimenez  .99

S. Olsen  3.77

J. Beckett  7.29

K/9IP

B. Morrow  11.80

M. Cain  6.67

N. Blackburn  2.50

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

Brewers Batters (5.17 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (3.98 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 59.Slowey
G/S/vB
31.Burnett
G/S/vB
28.Crain
G/S/vB
54.Guerrier
G/S/vB
47.Liriano*
G/S/vB
32.Mahay*
G/S/vB
50.Mijares*
G/S/vB
60.Rauch
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
8.Braun G/S/vP 14/.297 ··· 1/.000 7/.714 3/.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· 183/128 .338/.415/.556/.972 .847/1.024 1.202 106/.874 9/0 7/1
30.Counsell* G/S/vP 10/.744 ··· ··· 8/.125 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 4/.833 72/60 .294/.333/.426/.760 .871/.738 .777 48/.725 0/0 1/3
21.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 152/107 .236/.287/.386/.672 .726/.650 .729 90/.615 1/1 2/7
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 12/.523 ··· 2/2.500 6/1.300 8/.250 2/.500 1/.000 3/.333 188/122 .265/.367/.420/.787 .693/.839 .699 111/.811 1/0 6/1
22.Gerut* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/no AB 9/1.889 70/51 .194/.229/.373/.602 .980/.462 .541 56/.524 0/1 2/0
27.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 7/.572 ··· ··· 88/57 .288/.329/.488/.817 .852/.799 .885 32/.924 6/0 3/1
1.Hart G/S/vP 14/.643 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 6/.167 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 131/81 .261/.344/.522/.865 1.164/.685 .759 86/.884 3/2 7/1
2.Inglett* G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 4/1.250 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 41/39 .342/.390/.526/.917 .000/.966 .988 32/.808 1/0 0/0
16.Kottaras* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 62/47 .233/.435/.558/.994 1.500/.838 1.086 41/1.095 1/0 3/0
14.McGehee G/S/vP 3/1.333 ··· ··· 3/.666 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· 176/126 .316/.386/.555/.941 1.070/.893 .936 102/.882 1/0 9/6
23.Weeks G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 3/1.333 2/.000 6/.167 ··· ··· 2/.000 200/146 .243/.345/.382/.727 .926/.659 .813 116/.534 3/2 5/5
IP 44.0 20.0 17.0 18.0 52.2 11.2 8.0 16.0 TOTAL .268/.346/.446/.791 .820/.780 .823 .762 27/6 51/35
ERA-K/9 4.70/6.8 3.15/8.6 6.88/6.4 2.00/5.5 3.25/8.9 3.09/10.0 3.38/5.6 1.69/6.8 3.92/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kottaras (8-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 198/.310 87/.267 76/.310 70/.206 218/.251 45/.209 33/.300 63/.233 .271  Gerut
 Braun
 Hart
 Inglett
 Gomez
5/10/4/3
40/0/0/3
0/0/33/2
2/0/5/1
1/19/0/1
OPS .854 .760 .933 .557 .660 .571 .877 .575 .743
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 103/.770 36/.870 28/1.352 31/.540 41/.317 22/.279 11/1.178 31/.723 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 95/.940 51/.683 48/.690 39/.571 177/.745 23/.850 22/.747 32/.427 .763
Home 99/.812 48/.752 23/1.135 24/.399 86/.575 19/.164 11/.664 22/.490
Last 28d days 121/.968 64/.788 44/1.045 28/.783 136/.746 27/.667 17/.412 26/.500
HR/SB/CS 7/2/1 0/2/0 3/1/0 1/1/1 2/3/1 2/1/0 2/0/1 1/0/1 39/19/10
Usage ····X··· ··X·X··X ·X·oX·X· ····oo·o ·X····X· ···X··o· X··X··oo ·o···X··
Twins Batters (4.98 RS/G) vs. Brewers Pitchers (5.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Gallardo
G/S/vB
59.Axford
G/S/vB
60.Coffey
G/S/vB
45.Estrada
G/S/vB
51.Hoffman
G/S/vB
57.Stetter*
G/S/vB
46.Vargas
G/S/vB
12.Villanueva
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/13 .136/.136/.136/.273 .200/.333 .571 16/.250 0/0 0/1
12.Casilla# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 38/30 .273/.351/.364/.715 1.375/.516 .534 32/.795 0/1 0/0
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/no AB 9/1.158 7/.453 185/127 .268/.335/.427/.762 .935/.687 .860 104/.645 2/0 5/0
23.Harris G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 86/58 .200/.291/.280/.571 .555/.579 .561 45/.529 0/0 1/0
1.Hudson# G/S/vP 8/.572 ··· 4/.500 ··· 6/.800 3/2.334 11/.586 4/.833 187/124 .293/.373/.378/.751 .719/.766 .793 104/.755 3/0 2/2
16.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.833 3/1.666 3/1.667 140/103 .220/.336/.322/.658 .557/.687 .579 69/.718 0/0 3/1
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 4/1.750 8/.250 5/.400 144/91 .336/.410/.488/.898 .918/.886 .796 69/.766 1/0 2/1
33.Morneau* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 5/1.400 9/1.301 5/1.000 177/109 .370/.480/.685/1.165 1.073/1.228 1.081 94/1.214 0/0 11/0
8.Punto# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 9/.666 6/.733 92/63 .232/.275/.305/.580 .382/.602 .762 64/.520 3/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 200/139 .279/.369/.378/.747 .866/.694 .977 113/.790 9/1 1/1
25.Thome* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 1/.000 16/1.165 ··· 95/68 .241/.368/.494/.862 .619/.967 .697 60/.812 0/0 5/0
21.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 130/89 .267/.315/.448/.764 .803/.747 .760 76/.833 2/1 4/1
IP 53.0 4.0 20.1 4.0 13.0 3.2 17.2 21.2 TOTAL .275/.355/.423/.778 .795/.770 .788 .770 20/4 38/12
ERA-K/9 2.89/10.4 2.25/11.2 4.43/4.9 2.25/9.0 13.15/5.5 14.73/7.3 7.64/7.6 2.91/11.2 5.50/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (3-3-1)
 Mauer (12-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 228/.226 14/.083 90/.297 14/.143 66/.356 21/.389 86/.355 90/.177 .292  Span
 Kubel
 Cuddyer
 Young
0/42/0/3
13/0/4/2
0/1/39/2
33/0/0/2
OPS .663 .298 .837 .500 1.306 1.032 .950 .531 .839
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 117/.725 5/.200 30/.967 5/1.400 32/1.321 15/.971 38/.669 45/.635 .846
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 111/.599 9/.347 60/.778 9/.000 34/1.289 6/1.167 48/1.177 45/.435 .835
Road 122/.678 10/.100 55/.995 14/.500 19/1.127 6/1.167 46/.745 53/.376
Last 28d days 131/.602 14/.298 53/.873 14/.500 38/1.349 19/1.151 59/.911 57/.680
HR/SB/CS 4/5/3 0/0/0 2/2/0 1/0/0 7/0/0 1/0/0 3/1/0 2/4/0 51/27/8
Usage ····X··· ·Xo···X· o·o·XX·o ···X···· ···o·o·· X····ooX X·····Xo ·o···oX·

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.