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Game Preview: ATL @ MIN, 2:10pm, Sunday, June 13, 2010 @Target Field

Braves, 36-27, 36-271st, 1½ up

SP: Kris Medlen (24, RHP, 3-1, 3.21)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2010 (3-1)			53.1	56	21	19	9	39	7	3.21
2009 (3-5)			67.2	65	34	32	30	72	5	4.26

Last 7 GS		2-0	38.2	46	18	17	9	26	8	3.96	48
2010-06-08	@ARI	ND	5.0	5	4	4	0	3	3	66	44
2010-06-03	@LAD	W	7.1	6	3	2	0	4	0	96	60
2010-05-29	PIT	W	6.0	9	3	3	2	4	1	89	44
2010-05-23	@PIT	ND	5.2	7	2	2	2	2	0	97	47
2010-05-18	NYM	ND	6.1	4	2	2	2	6	2	90	61
2010-05-08	@PHI	ND	4.1	9	1	1	0	3	0	88	44
2009-07-12	@COL	ND	4.0	6	3	3	3	4	2	76	39

Has never faced MIN as starter.

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

 Home:   19-6    Road:   17-21   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  25-17   vsLHP:  11-10   1-Run:  11-11
 vsEast:  9-11   vsCntrl:15-6    vsWest: 11-9  IL: 1-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 63 Sat, Jun 12  @MIN  W   3-2       36-27  1st  1.5 up
 62 Fri, Jun 11  @MIN  L   1-2       35-27  1st  1.5 up
 61 Thu, Jun 10  @ARI  W  11-7       35-26  1st  2.5 up
 60 Wed, Jun  9  @ARI  L   1-2       34-26  1st  1.5 up
 59 Tue, Jun  8  @ARI  W   7-5       34-25  1st  2.0 up
 58 Mon, Jun  7  @ARI  L   4-7       33-25  1st  2.0 up
 57 Sun, Jun  6  @LAD  L   4-5 (11)  33-24  1st  2.0 up
 56 Sat, Jun  5  @LAD  W   9-3       33-23  1st  2.0 up
 55 Fri, Jun  4  @LAD  L   4-5       32-23  1st  2.0 up
 54 Thu, Jun  3  @LAD  W   4-3       32-22  1st  3.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:21-9

Twins, 36-26, 36-261st, 3½ up

SP: Kevin Slowey (26, RHP, 7-3, 3.45)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2010 (7-3)			70.1	77	27	27	15	49	8	3.45
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		4-1	41.2	43	15	15	6	24	5	3.24	53
2010-06-08	KCR	W	7.0	3	0	0	0	3	0	102	74
2010-06-02	@SEA	ND	7.0	5	1	1	1	3	0	98	65
2010-05-28	TEX	W	6.2	6	1	1	1	5	0	102	62
2010-05-22	MIL	ND	5.2	6	2	2	1	5	1	102	53
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

Last 5 v.ATL		1-0	6.0	7	3	2	0	1	2	3.00	49
2007-06-12	ATL	W	6.0	7	3	2	0	1	2	79	49

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

 Home:   21-11   Road:   15-15   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  24-17   vsLHP:  12-9    1-Run:  12-11
 vsEast:  7-10   vsCntrl:17-9    vsWest:  9-5  IL: 3-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 62 Sat, Jun 12   ATL  L   2-3       36-26  1st  3.5 up
 61 Fri, Jun 11   ATL  W   2-1       36-25  1st  4.5 up
 60 Thu, Jun 10   KCR  L   8-9       35-25  1st  4.5 up
 59 Wed, Jun  9   KCR  W   6-2       35-24  1st  4.5 up
 58 Tue, Jun  8   KCR  W   7-3       34-24  1st  3.5 up
 57 Sun, Jun  6  @OAK  L   4-5       33-24  1st  3.5 up
 56 Sat, Jun  5  @OAK  W   4-3       33-23  1st  3.5 up
 55 Fri, Jun  4  @OAK  W   5-4 (11)  32-23  1st  3.5 up
 54 Thu, Jun  3  @SEA  L   1-4       31-23  1st  2.5 up
 53 Wed, Jun  2  @SEA  L   1-2 (10)  31-22  1st  3.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jun 12, 2010 ATL  3 @MIN  2        W:Jonny Venters (2-0), L: Matt Guerrier (1-2), S: Billy Wagner (11)
Fri, Jun 11, 2010 MIN  2  ATL  1        W:Francisco Liriano (6-3), L: Tim Hudson (6-2), S: Jon Rauch (16)

Thu, Jun 14, 2007 MIN  3  ATL  2        W:Dennys Reyes (1-1), L: Bob Wickman (1-2), S: none
Wed, Jun 13, 2007 MIN  6  ATL  0        W:Carlos Silva (4-7), L: Chuck James (5-6), S: none
Tue, Jun 12, 2007 MIN  7  ATL  3        W:Kevin Slowey (2-0), L: Kyle Davies (3-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 12, 2002 ATL  3 @MIN  2        W:Damian Moss (3-2), L: Johan Santana (1-1), S: John Smoltz (19)
Tue, Jun 11, 2002 ATL 11 @MIN  0        W:Tom Glavine (11-2), L: Kyle Lohse (6-4), S: none
Mon, Jun 10, 2002 MIN  6  ATL  5 (15)   W:Tony Fiore (4-1), L: Kerry Ligtenberg (0-3), S: none
Season Series: 2010 - Tied 1-1; 2009 -  0-0; 2008 -  0-0; All-Time - MIN leads 5-3

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 5.58

STL 4.44

BAL 3.24

RA/G

SDP 3.21

TEX 4.52

ARI 5.79

R. Cano .371

C. McGehee .278

A. Ramirez .168

OBP

J. Morneau .467

D. Jeter .347

A. Ramirez .232

SLG

J. Morneau .648

C. Blake .442

C. Izturis .244

OPS

J. Morneau 1.115

M. Cuddyer .794

A. Ramirez .517

ERA

U. Jimenez 1.16

A. Burnett 3.86

G. Floyd 6.18

K/9IP

C. Kershaw 10.42

B. Cecil 6.58

N. Blackburn 2.66

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Braves Batters (4.84 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (3.84 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/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Blanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 8/7 .333/.500/.500/1.000 .000/1.171 .629 8/1.000 1/0 0/0

53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 10/.756 ··· 3/.833 5/.200 9/.777 6/.750 3/1.000 ··· 202/134 .256/.320/.339/.659 .601/.689 .698 76/.885 3/1 2/2

26.Conrad# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 50/43 .289/.347/.600/.947 .452/1.024 .985 20/1.000 3/0 3/0

19.Escobar G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 208/153 .237/.345/.282/.627 .688/.606 .710 110/.682 5/0 0/6

25.Glaus G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 4/1.750 5/.650 ··· 7/.762 257/178 .279/.374/.470/.844 .970/.791 .770 110/.905 0/0 11/5

22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 255/176 .262/.388/.486/.874 .768/.923 .866 125/.778 4/3 10/4

18.Hicks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ .000 / 0/0 0/0

20.Hinske* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 3/.000 4/.250 ··· 3/1.334 127/119 .313/.386/.545/.930 .393/.966 .890 71/.866 0/0 4/1

4.Infante G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.500 7/1.572 7/.286 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 148/103 .314/.351/.387/.738 .542/.821 .681 59/.708 3/1 1/7

10.Jones# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 10/.856 208/141 .228/.375/.341/.716 .758/.696 .605 83/.654 3/0 3/5

16.McCann* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 12/.166 211/155 .266/.389/.422/.811 .655/.868 .847 83/.821 2/1 6/5

14.Prado G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 294/208 .326/.368/.449/.817 .767/.838 .730 124/.794 1/3 5/2

8.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 71/29 .298/.420/.386/.806 .817/.788 .691 36/1.071 0/1 0/1

IP 70.1 29.1 25.1 28.2 80.2 16.0 12.1 25.0 TOTAL .259/.351/.390/.741 .670/.771 .701 .768 31/12 48/51

ERA-K/9

3.45/6.3

2.45/7.4

5.33/7.1

1.88/5.3

2.90/9.7

5.06/9.0

2.19/6.6

2.52/7.2

3.68/6.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
McCann (28-11-2)
Ross (7-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 298/.275 117/.223 113/.274 109/.173 330/.248 68/.226 53/.292 101/.278 .266 Cabrera
Hinske
Infante
Heyward
Blanco 36/16/8/4
20/0/0/0
3/0/0/0
0/0/57/0
7/3/0/0

OPS .741 .622 .800 .472 .632 .602 .804 .702 .718

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 144/.692 47/.697 44/.975 42/.502 63/.397 33/.406 22/.778 51/.722 .708

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 154/.785 70/.571 69/.689 67/.453 267/.690 35/.794 31/.822 50/.682 .725

Home 173/.698 67/.649 45/.783 46/.367 145/.577 28/.339 28/.629 48/.765

Last 28d days 123/.580 42/.394 49/.690 42/.296 134/.659 31/.795 32/.483 41/.841

HR/SB/CS 8/5/2 0/2/0 3/1/0 1/1/1 2/3/1 2/2/0 2/0/1 2/0/1 52/32/13

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

Twins Batters (4.71 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 54.Medlen
G/S/vB 43.Chavez
G/S/vB 11.Kawakami
G/S/vB 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB 50.Martinez
G/S/vB 58.Moylan
G/S/vB 34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB 39.Venters*
G/S/vB 13.Wagner*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

41.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 36/14 .147/.171/.176/.348 .372/.308 .692 14/.445 0/0 0/1

5.Cuddyer G/S/vP ··· 1/4.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 253/174 .278/.340/.454/.794 1.006/.703 .823 90/.908 2/0 7/1

23.Harris G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 115/69 .165/.243/.223/.467 .422/.498 .422 42/.243 0/0 1/0

16.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 220/153 .246/.350/.417/.767 .621/.827 .858 100/.866 0/0 8/2

7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 230/142 .318/.396/.453/.848 .775/.894 .832 107/.754 1/2 2/3

33.Morneau* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 257/160 .357/.467/.648/1.115 1.052/1.154 .991 101/1.072 0/0 13/1

24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 22/20 .158/.150/.211/.361 .000/.402 .361 22/.361 0/0 0/1

8.Punto# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 147/97 .227/.297/.297/.593 .626/.541 .720 73/.546 5/0 0/2

2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 292/194 .275/.349/.360/.710 .769/.680 .922 115/.686 13/1 1/1

25.Thome* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 4/.250 126/92 .235/.373/.461/.834 .640/.913 .671 35/.639 0/0 5/0

20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 36/24 .152/.194/.152/.346 .174/.432 .452 33/.315 0/1 0/1

19.Valencia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 29/19 .286/.310/.286/.596 .600/.594 .714 29/.596 1/0 0/0

21.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 203/136 .284/.325/.475/.801 .777/.812 .788 91/.825 3/1 7/2

IP 53.1 23.1 68.1 5.1 4.2 25.2 25.2 26.2 25.1 TOTAL .270/.347/.413/.760 .748/.767 .788 .730 29/7 51/26

ERA-K/9

3.21/6.6

7.33/8.5

4.48/5.8

1.69/17.0

3.86/9.6

3.51/8.4

2.10/7.7

1.01/10.1

1.42/13.5

3.74/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Butera (4-4-1)
Mauer (24-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 213/.284 103/.269 296/.274 29/.190 17/.176 117/.278 102/.220 111/.185 102/.170 .247 Cuddyer
Young
Kubel
Span 0/1/54/4
52/0/0/3
16/0/10/3
0/62/0/3

OPS .752 .843 .806 .700 .529 .752 .605 .536 .554 .706

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 100/.733 37/.997 131/.865 12/.697 5/.400 36/1.063 49/.512 40/.481 23/.224 .719

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 113/.770 66/.758 165/.759 17/.671 12/.583 81/.631 53/.692 71/.567 79/.652 .696

Road 127/.747 60/.963 202/.856 18/.746 17/.529 86/.753 58/.625 54/.537 59/.568

Last 28d days 120/.840 36/.714 129/.716 15/.583 17/.529 54/.818 46/.800 55/.545 50/.557

HR/SB/CS 7/2/0 5/0/0 8/3/2 0/3/0 1/0/0 1/7/1 1/0/0 0/1/0 2/0/0 49/35/16

Usage ····X··· ······o· ···X···· ·····X·X ··Xo·X·· o·oXX·oX o··Xo·o· o·X·X·XX X·X·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.