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Game Preview: MIN @ NYM, 1:10pm, Saturday, June 26, 2010 @Citi Field

Twins, 40-33, 40-33 1st, ½ up

SP: Carl Pavano (34, RHP, 8-6, 3.64)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (8-6) 96.1 90 40 39 14 55 11 3.64
2009 (14-12) 199.1 235 119 113 39 147 26 5.10
2008 (4-2) 34.1 41 23 22 10 15 5 5.77
Last 7 GS 4-3 50.0 46 22 22 7 21 8 3.96 54
2010-06-20 @PHI W 9.0 4 1 1 0 2 1 105 77
2010-06-15 COL W 7.0 5 3 3 1 5 2 92 59
2010-06-09 KCR W 8.0 6 2 2 2 1 0 98 61
2010-06-03 @SEA L 7.0 8 4 4 2 5 1 109 48
2010-05-29 TEX W 7.0 7 2 2 1 1 0 95 55
2010-05-23 MIL L 8.0 6 4 4 1 5 2 103 58
2010-05-18 @TOR L 4.0 10 6 6 0 2 2 70 20
Last 5 v.NYM 4-0 35.0 34 13 11 7 23 4 2.83 57
2005-05-22 @NYM W 7.0 8 3 1 1 3 1 98 55
2004-09-02 @NYM W 6.0 8 4 4 1 6 1 89 45
2004-06-04 @NYM W 7.2 6 1 1 0 3 1 89 66
2004-05-29 NYM ND 7.0 6 2 2 3 5 1 103 59
2003-09-26 NYM W 7.1 6 3 3 2 6 0 113 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   23-13   Road:   17-20   ExtrInn: 5-2 
 vsRHP:  27-22   vsLHP:  13-11   1-Run:  13-11
 vsEast:  7-10   vsCntrl:17-9    vsWest:  9-5  IL: 7-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 73 Fri, Jun 25  @NYM  L   2-5       40-33  1st  0.5 up
 72 Thu, Jun 24  @MIL  L   0-5       40-32  1st  0.5 up
 71 Wed, Jun 23  @MIL  L   3-5       40-31  1st  1.5 up
 70 Tue, Jun 22  @MIL  L   5-7       40-30  1st  1.5 up
 69 Sun, Jun 20  @PHI  W   4-1       40-29  1st  1.5 up
 68 Sat, Jun 19  @PHI  W  13-10(11)  39-29  1st  1.5 up
 67 Fri, Jun 18  @PHI  L   5-9       38-29  1st  0.5 up
 66 Thu, Jun 17   COL  L   1-5       38-28  1st  1.5 up
 65 Wed, Jun 16   COL  W   2-1       38-27  1st  2.5 up
 64 Tue, Jun 15   COL  W   9-3       37-27  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16
Mets, 42-31, 42-31 2nd, ½ GB, 1½ up in WC

SP: Johan Santana (31, LHP, 5-4, 3.31)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (5-4) 98.0 89 37 36 31 62 8 3.31
2009 (13-9) 166.2 156 67 58 46 146 20 3.13
2008 (16-7) 234.1 206 74 66 63 206 23 2.53
Last 7 GS 2-2 49.1 42 15 15 19 22 3 2.74 57
2010-06-20 @NYY L 6.0 8 4 4 1 3 1 114 42
2010-06-15 @CLE W 7.0 7 4 4 2 1 1 103 46
2010-06-10 SDP L 6.2 8 4 4 4 1 0 108 39
2010-06-02 @SDP ND 7.0 5 0 0 5 3 0 123 65
2010-05-28 @MIL ND 8.0 3 0 0 2 5 0 105 79
2010-05-23 NYY W 7.2 6 1 1 3 5 0 105 65
2010-05-18 @ATL ND 7.0 5 2 2 2 4 1 104 61
Has never faced MIN as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   27-11   Road:   15-20   ExtrInn: 3-5 
 vsRHP:  29-23   vsLHP:  13-8    1-Run:   9-12
 vsEast: 15-14   vsCntrl: 6-7    vsWest:  9-6  IL:12-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 73 Fri, Jun 25   MIN  W   5-2       42-31  2nd  0.5 gb
 72 Thu, Jun 24   DET  L   5-6       41-31  2nd  0.5 gb
 71 Wed, Jun 23   DET  W   5-0       41-30  2nd  0.5 gb
 70 Tue, Jun 22   DET  W  14-6       40-30  2nd  1.5 gb
 69 Sun, Jun 20  @NYY  L   0-4       39-30  2nd  2.5 gb
 68 Sat, Jun 19  @NYY  L   3-5       39-29  2nd  1.5 gb
 67 Fri, Jun 18  @NYY  W   4-0       39-28  2nd  0.5 gb
 66 Thu, Jun 17  @CLE  W   6-4       38-28  2nd  0.5 gb
 65 Wed, Jun 16  @CLE  W   8-4       37-28  2nd  0.5 gb
 64 Tue, Jun 15  @CLE  W   7-6       36-28  2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:22-8 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jun 25, 2010 NYM  5  MIN  2        W:Mike Pelfrey (10-2), L: Kevin Slowey (7-5), S: Francisco Rodriguez (17)

Wed, Jun 20, 2007 MIN  6 @NYM  2        W:Scott Baker (2-2), L: Oliver Perez (7-6), S: none
Tue, Jun 19, 2007 MIN  9 @NYM  0        W:Johan Santana (7-6), L: Jorge Sosa (6-3), S: none
Mon, Jun 18, 2007 NYM  8  MIN  1        W:John Maine (7-4), L: Carlos Silva (4-8), S: none
Thu, Jun 10, 2004 MIN  3  NYM  2 (15)   W:Grant Balfour (1-0), L: Ricky Bottalico (2-1), S: none
Wed, Jun 09, 2004 MIN  5  NYM  3        W:Johan Santana (3-4), L: Steve Trachsel (5-5), S: Joe Nathan (16)
Tue, Jun 08, 2004 MIN  2  NYM  1        W:Juan Rincon (7-3), L: Mike Stanton (0-3), S: none
Thu, Jun 20, 2002 NYM  3  MIN  2        W:Steve Trachsel (5-6), L: Tony Fiore (5-2), S: Armando Benitez (17)
Wed, Jun 19, 2002 NYM  4  MIN  2        W:Al Leiter (7-6), L: Matt Kinney (2-6), S: Armando Benitez (16)
Tue, Jun 18, 2002 MIN  6 @NYM  1        W:Johan Santana (2-1), L: Jeff D'Amico (4-6), S: none
Season Series: 2010 - NYM leads 1-0; 2009 -  0-0; 2008 -  0-0; All-Time - MIN leads 6-4

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

BOS  5.52

COL  4.60

PIT  3.33

RA/G

SDP  3.27

FLA  4.44

ARI  5.73

BA

R. Cano  .361

H. Kendrick  .278

A. Ramirez  .165

OBP

J. Morneau  .451

R. Martin  .351

A. Ramirez  .233

SLG

B. Boesch  .624

G. Soto  .454

L. Valbuena  .245

OPS

J. Morneau  1.072

C. Young  .802

A. Ramirez  .513

ERA

U. Jimenez  1.60

J. Cueto  3.97

K. Davies  6.15

K/9IP

J. Weaver  10.44

A. Harang  6.70

J. Lannan  2.88

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

Twins Batters (4.64 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.89 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 57.Santana*
G/S/vB
64.Dessens
G/S/vB
43.Dickey
G/S/vB
25.Feliciano*
G/S/vB
18.Igarashi
G/S/vB
39.Parnell
G/S/vB
75.Rodriguez
G/S/vB
47.Takahashi*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 46/24 .186/.222/.279/.501 .372/.625 .394 17/.694 0/0 1/1
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 ··· 298/206 .265/.329/.418/.747 .956/.658 .688 81/.677 2/0 7/2
1.Hudson# G/S/vP 18/.833 4/1.667 3/.666 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 6/.750 ··· 255/166 .281/.352/.382/.733 .704/.748 .626 38/.323 5/1 3/2
16.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/1.800 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 260/185 .258/.350/.431/.781 .691/.815 .707 92/.877 0/0 9/2
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 5/.650 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 ··· 273/169 .304/.381/.438/.818 .728/.875 .840 100/.733 1/2 3/3
33.Morneau* G/S/vP ··· 6/.500 5/.200 1/.000 ··· ··· 9/.444 ··· 306/193 .352/.451/.621/1.072 1.035/1.095 1.240 97/.889 0/0 15/1
8.Punto# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 7/.715 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 7/.572 ··· 187/127 .255/.335/.335/.671 .655/.651 .608 85/.808 5/0 1/4
18.Repko G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.167 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 338/226 .276/.346/.369/.715 .730/.707 .542 106/.632 15/1 3/3
25.Thome* G/S/vP 37/.937 11/1.064 4/.250 6/.334 ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· 132/97 .243/.379/.495/.874 .621/.977 .982 26/.930 0/0 6/0
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/no AB ··· 52/38 .222/.294/.333/.627 .148/.816 .401 48/.639 0/1 1/1
19.Valencia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 46/29 .302/.348/.326/.673 .544/.750 .377 46/.673 1/0 0/0
21.Young G/S/vP 6/1.167 ··· 6/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 245/168 .299/.335/.487/.821 .808/.827 .808 92/.933 3/2 8/3
IP 98.0 11.2 46.1 30.0 14.2 3.0 38.0 64.1 TOTAL .271/.345/.413/.758 .735/.770 .734 .713 32/9 62/37
ERA-K/9 3.31/5.7 0.77/3.8 2.33/6.8 1.80/8.1 7.98/4.3 0.00/18.0 2.13/11.4 3.78/8.3 3.71/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (5-5-1)
 Mauer (26-10-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 405/.243 44/.189 193/.261 131/.272 69/.263 11/.100 157/.220 276/.266 .258  Cuddyer
 Young
 Kubel
 Span
0/2/60/4
63/0/0/4
16/0/18/3
0/72/0/3
OPS .660 .559 .638 .712 .780 .282 .626 .737 .727
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 109/.779 6/.667 84/.617 58/.603 28/.526 4/.500 69/.701 64/.567 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 296/.617 38/.540 109/.652 73/.803 41/.970 7/.143 88/.566 212/.790 .734
Home 188/.645 22/.644 83/.585 66/.619 35/.493 11/.282 93/.604 155/.700
Last 28d days 115/.760 32/.450 142/.631 39/.797 28/.810 11/.282 59/.704 118/.869
HR/SB/CS 8/4/0 0/0/0 2/5/1 1/0/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 3/3/1 6/3/1 61/27/10
Usage ·····X·· ·X·····o ··X····· oo·····X ·X·o··X· XX·X···· X·X····X ·X·····X
Mets Batters (4.66 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.05 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Pavano
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
60.Rauch
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
21.Barajas G/S/vP 7/.715 ··· 7/.500 6/.334 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 205/155 .246/.283/.471/.754 .602/.804 .713 55/.535 0/0 11/3
44.Bay G/S/vP 10/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 8/.536 2/1.000 7/.000 302/228 .278/.371/.425/.796 .855/.777 .916 90/.691 10/0 4/0
4.Blanco G/S/vP 9/.873 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 79/62 .275/.342/.420/.762 .569/.815 .891 30/.848 1/0 2/0
23.Carter* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/58 .232/.259/.411/.669 /.669 .800 40/.635 0/0 2/0
13.Cora* G/S/vP 9/.929 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 4/1.250 2/.500 117/98 .235/.304/.284/.589 .451/.615 .637 31/.540 1/1 0/2
29.Davis* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 248/183 .267/.343/.439/.782 .877/.746 .884 99/.689 1/0 8/4
27.Feliciano* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 26/24 .261/.292/.304/.596 2.000/.465 .538 26/.596 0/0 0/0
12.Francoeur G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 19/.485 274/206 .257/.310/.400/.710 .887/.652 .657 83/.829 7/2 7/3
16.Pagan# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 283/201 .302/.363/.443/.806 .677/.856 .807 92/.880 14/5 4/2
7.Reyes# G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 12/.788 316/226 .288/.333/.435/.768 .802/.757 .935 106/1.031 19/2 6/4
17.Tatis# G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.666 65/23 .172/.250/.328/.578 .704/.336 .985 17/.118 0/0 2/0
11.Tejada G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/43 .264/.328/.340/.667 .878/.582 .639 52/.682 0/0 0/2
30.Thole* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/3 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 3/.000 0/0 0/0
5.Wright G/S/vP 6/1.834 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 2/.000 15/1.038 313/239 .298/.387/.536/.922 1.323/.802 .932 102/1.146 12/6 13/8
IP 96.1 34.0 30.2 33.0 92.2 20.2 29.0 TOTAL .260/.328/.403/.730 .774/.715 .770 .777 73/17 60/41
ERA-K/9 3.64/5.1 3.18/6.9 4.40/7.0 1.64/6.0 3.11/9.7 4.35/7.4 2.48/6.5 3.91/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Barajas (19-3-3)
 Blanco (7-7-2)
 Thole (1-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 384/.249 142/.248 135/.254 128/.184 382/.250 86/.263 115/.261 .266  Pagan
 Francoeur
 Bay
 Carter
 Feliciano
1/65/0/6
0/0/71/5
70/0/0/4
2/0/3/0
3/4/1/0
OPS .682 .726 .755 .505 .638 .677 .686 .734
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 176/.728 56/.677 52/.917 51/.603 79/.382 42/.489 59/.761 .717
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 208/.643 86/.747 83/.651 77/.441 303/.707 44/.861 56/.606 .747
Road 168/.668 61/.754 86/.719 79/.540 208/.680 48/.833 64/.662
Last 28d days 120/.601 46/.735 44/.596 45/.523 133/.570 38/.714 38/.632
HR/SB/CS 11/16/2 2/2/0 3/1/0 1/1/1 2/4/1 3/3/1 3/0/1 72/35/15
Usage ·····X·· ··oo···X o·oo···X ···o··XX ··X····· o·oo···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.