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Game Preview: TOR @ TBR, 7:10pm, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @Tropicana Field

Blue Jays, 69-63, 69-63 4th, 13 GB, 12 GB in WC

SP: Shaun Marcum (28, RHP, 11-7, 3.61)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2010 (11-7)			157.0	146	67	63	35	130	20	3.61
2008 (9-7)			151.1	126	60	57	50	123	21	3.39
2007 (12-6)			159.0	149	76	73	49	122	27	4.13

Last 7 GS		3-3	44.2	39	21	21	8	38	8	4.23	55
2010-08-27	DET	ND	6.0	8	1	1	2	4	1	100	54
2010-08-22	@BOS	L	7.0	4	3	3	0	6	1	91	63
2010-08-16	@OAK	W	9.0	1	1	1	1	5	1	103	85
2010-08-11	BOS	L	4.0	7	8	8	3	3	4	92	16
2010-08-04	@NYY	L	6.0	8	5	5	1	5	1	97	40
2010-07-30	CLE	W	7.0	3	1	1	0	10	0	106	77
2010-07-24	@DET	W	5.2	8	2	2	1	5	0	97	49

Last 5 v.TBR		1-2	34.0	28	14	13	8	28	1	3.44	58
2010-06-09	@TBR	L	4.0	10	7	7	1	3	1	68	16
2010-06-02	TBR	L	8.1	10	5	4	0	2	0	112	47
2008-09-06	TBR	ND	7.0	4	0	0	3	7	0	103	73
2008-05-07	TBR	W	8.2	4	2	2	1	9	0	110	76
2007-05-13	TBD	ND	6.0	0	0	0	3	7	0	78	76

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

 Home:   35-27   Road:   34-36   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  58-46   vsLHP:  11-17   1-Run:  19-24
 vsEast: 30-23   vsCntrl:19-18   vsWest: 13-11 IL: 7-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Tue, Aug 31  @TBR  W  13-5       69-63  4th 13.0 gb
131 Mon, Aug 30  @TBR  L   2-6       68-63  4th 13.0 gb
130 Sun, Aug 29   DET  L   4-10      68-62  4th 12.0 gb
129 Sat, Aug 28   DET  W   5-4       68-61  4th 11.0 gb
128 Fri, Aug 27   DET  W   3-2 (11)  67-61  4th 11.0 gb
127 Thu, Aug 26   DET  L   1-7       66-61  4th 12.0 gb
126 Wed, Aug 25   NYY  W   6-3       66-60  4th 11.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 24   NYY  L   5-11      65-60  4th 12.5 gb
124 Mon, Aug 23   NYY  W   3-2       65-59  4th 11.5 gb
123 Sun, Aug 22  @BOS  L   0-5       64-59  4th 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14

Rays, 81-51, 81-51 2nd, 1 GB, 9 up in WC

SP: David Price (24, LHP, 15-6, 3.01)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2010 (15-6)			164.2	143	62	55	65	154	12	3.01
2009 (10-7)			128.1	119	72	63	54	102	17	4.42
2008 (0-0)			14.0	9	4	3	4	12	1	1.93

Last 7 GS		3-1	44.1	41	17	17	18	51	3	3.45	57
2010-08-27	BOS	L	7.0	10	3	3	0	8	2	106	53
2010-08-21	@OAK	ND	6.0	6	4	4	1	5	0	98	48
2010-08-16	TEX	ND	6.0	5	2	2	5	8	0	109	57
2010-08-09	@DET	W	5.0	5	2	2	4	9	0	115	54
2010-08-04	MIN	ND	7.0	5	1	1	2	7	0	119	68
2010-07-29	DET	W	6.1	7	2	2	2	9	0	115	58
2010-07-24	@CLE	W	7.0	3	3	3	4	5	1	105	60

Last 5 v.TOR		4-0	32.2	29	10	8	8	19	4	2.20	58
2010-06-09	TOR	W	6.0	4	1	1	5	4	0	104	59
2010-06-02	@TOR	W	8.0	9	2	0	0	3	0	111	63
2010-04-25	TOR	W	9.0	4	0	0	1	9	0	108	87
2009-09-20	TOR	W	6.2	3	1	1	2	2	1	107	64
2009-07-25	@TOR	ND	3.0	9	6	6	0	1	3	56	18

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

 Home:   42-26   Road:   39-25   ExtrInn: 7-4 
 vsRHP:  50-36   vsLHP:  31-15   1-Run:  23-22
 vsEast: 32-20   vsCntrl:24-11   vsWest: 18-9  IL: 7-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Tue, Aug 31   TOR  L   5-13      81-51  2nd  1.0 gb
131 Mon, Aug 30   TOR  W   6-2       81-50  1st    Tied
130 Sun, Aug 29   BOS  W   5-3       80-50  1st    Tied
129 Sat, Aug 28   BOS  W   3-2 (10)  79-50  1st    Tied
128 Fri, Aug 27   BOS  L   1-3       78-50  1st    Tied
127 Wed, Aug 25  @LAA  L   3-12      78-49  1st    Tied
126 Tue, Aug 24  @LAA  W  10-3       78-48  1st    Tied
125 Mon, Aug 23  @LAA  W   4-3       77-48  1st    Tied
124 Sun, Aug 22  @OAK  W   3-2       76-48  2nd  1.0 gb
123 Sat, Aug 21  @OAK  W   5-4       75-48  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Aug 31, 2010 TOR 13 @TBR  5        W:Ricky Romero (11-8), L: Jeff Niemann (10-5), S: none
Mon, Aug 30, 2010 TBR  6  TOR  2        W:Wade Davis (11-9), L: Brett Cecil (11-7), S: none
Sun, Aug 08, 2010 TOR  1  TBR  0        W:Brandon Morrow (9-6), L: Andy Sonnanstine (2-1), S: none
Sat, Aug 07, 2010 TOR 17  TBR 11        W:Brian Tallet (2-4), L: James Shields (10-10), S: none
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 TOR  2  TBR  1        W:Brett Cecil (9-5), L: Matt Garza (11-6), S: Kevin Gregg (25)
Thu, Jun 10, 2010 TOR  3 @TBR  2        W:Brett Cecil (7-2), L: Wade Davis (5-6), S: Kevin Gregg (15)
Wed, Jun 09, 2010 TBR 10  TOR  1        W:David Price (9-2), L: Shaun Marcum (5-3), S: none
Tue, Jun 08, 2010 TBR  9  TOR  0        W:Jeff Niemann (6-0), L: Brian Tallet (1-2), S: none
Wed, Jun 02, 2010 TBR  7 @TOR  3        W:David Price (8-2), L: Shaun Marcum (5-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 01, 2010 TBR  7 @TOR  6        W:Grant Balfour (1-1), L: Kevin Gregg (0-2), S: Rafael Soriano (15)
Season Series: 2010 - tied 7-7; 2009 - TBR won 14-4; 2008 - TBR won 11-7; All-Time - TOR leads 110-107

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 5.43

DET 4.48

SEA 3.25

RA/G

SDP 3.53

FLA 4.34

PIT 5.44

J. Hamilton .361

D. Uggla .286

B. Wood .165

OBP

J. Morneau .437

Y. Torrealba .360

B. Wood .190

SLG

M. Cabrera .643

A. Jones .472

R. Tejada .215

OPS

M. Cabrera 1.077

V. Wells .819

B. Wood .410

ERA

C. Buchholz 2.21

D. Fister 3.73

K. Correia 5.52

K/9IP

B. Morrow 10.93

C. Richard 7.05

M. Buehrle 4.00

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Blue Jays Batters (4.69 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.91 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 14.Price*
G/S/vB 53.Benoit
G/S/vB 36.Choate*
G/S/vB 31.Cormier
G/S/vB 55.Qualls
G/S/vB 21.Sonnanstine
G/S/vB 29.Soriano
G/S/vB 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

19.Bautista G/S/vP 16/.875 1/4.000 1/.000 6/.834 11/.829 7/.453 3/.000 13/.481 556/456 .268/.385/.623/1.008 .864/1.039 .846 104/1.155 6/2 43/6

14.Buck G/S/vP 6/1.100 4/.500 ··· 2/1.000 3/.666 5/.600 2/.000 5/1.000 343/279 .280/.309/.481/.790 1.179/.699 .844 39/.659 0/0 14/1

5.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 3/.333 4/1.417 ··· 2/.000 465/365 .255/.338/.321/.659 .807/.620 .698 89/.705 5/2 3/14

2.Hill G/S/vP 19/.787 4/1.250 4/.500 5/2.400 2/.000 17/.647 2/.000 9/.597 481/370 .213/.281/.403/.684 .472/.744 .619 92/.714 1/2 21/8

15.Lewis* G/S/vP 7/.762 1/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 5/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 458/362 .264/.333/.423/.756 .678/.777 .775 82/.601 16/5 8/3

26.Lind* G/S/vP 19/.610 3/.666 15/.134 8/1.357 1/.000 11/.818 1/.000 8/.875 519/394 .232/.287/.412/.699 .329/.819 .609 91/.887 0/0 19/0

18.McCoy G/S/vP 7/.143 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 61/43 .193/.246/.246/.492 .600/.447 .373 7/.286 4/1 0/1

6.McDonald G/S/vP 5/1.200 4/.500 ··· 3/.500 1/.000 13/.500 1/.000 4/.000 118/90 .268/.293/.509/.802 .852/.786 .734 32/1.271 1/0 5/4

8.Molina G/S/vP 5/.400 8/.804 ··· 5/1.600 ··· 11/.864 3/.000 4/.000 156/116 .254/.316/.366/.682 .387/.786 .688 38/.377 1/0 4/1

35.Overbay* G/S/vP 9/1.111 6/.167 9/.583 10/2.075 7/2.381 13/1.205 4/1.500 10/.900 498/386 .247/.334/.428/.762 .733/.770 .712 72/.847 1/0 16/5

45.Snider* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.500 2/1.000 ··· 4/.750 ··· 3/.333 220/181 .239/.305/.438/.742 .739/.743 .770 72/.606 4/2 8/2

10.Wells G/S/vP 18/.631 12/.250 9/1.111 8/.375 1/no AB 19/.763 7/.929 18/.343 527/423 .267/.319/.500/.819 .639/.861 .708 90/.650 5/3 23/0

1.Wise* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 4/1.000 72/64 .271/.282/.486/.767 .250/.834 .911 16/.500 4/0 3/0

IP 164.2 48.1 36.2 52.0 48.2 71.1 52.1 41.1 TOTAL .250/.314/.455/.769 .665/.796 .729 .763 47/16 201/78

ERA-K/9

3.01/8.4

1.49/11.9

4.42/8.3

4.67/3.5

7.58/7.6

4.29/5.8

1.72/7.7

3.05/9.4

3.70/7.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Buck (36-13-1)
Molina (17-14-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 690/.233 175/.146 155/.250 242/.308 232/.343 308/.248 199/.167 164/.204 .242 Bautista
Wells
Wise
Snider
Lewis
McDonald
Lind
McCoy 0/1/95/11
0/123/0/5
8/13/9/2
28/0/28/2
81/7/7/1
2/0/0/0
15/0/0/0
5/2/2/0

OPS .668 .457 .665 .880 .919 .739 .506 .665 .707

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 166/.601 82/.588 113/.514 133/.801 107/1.019 134/.708 95/.599 34/.669 .706

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 524/.689 93/.343 42/1.100 109/.975 125/.834 174/.761 104/.423 130/.664 .708

Home 344/.633 95/.432 97/.614 130/.979 130/.936 144/.777 106/.537 88/.567

Last 28d days 105/.772 42/.759 41/.587 53/1.004 36/.828 104/.682 29/.211 24/.792

HR/SB/CS 12/11/5 5/1/0 2/1/1 7/3/1 6/5/1 10/6/0 3/3/0 5/1/1 141/68/23

Usage ····X··· ··oX···· ·oooo··· X·····XX ·o·o···o X·····XX ··oo···· ····o··o

Rays Batters (4.98 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 28.Marcum
G/S/vB 57.Camp
G/S/vB 39.Carlson*
G/S/vB 37.Downs*
G/S/vB 54.Frasor
G/S/vB 63.Gregg
G/S/vB 44.Janssen
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

16.Aybar# G/S/vP 7/.143 3/.000 3/2.334 4/2.250 7/1.071 5/1.850 3/1.167 275/139 .235/.310/.350/.660 .705/.635 .689 71/.529 0/0 5/0

8.Bartlett G/S/vP 12/.258 15/1.269 5/.400 7/.762 7/1.238 3/.000 5/.800 441/288 .248/.323/.337/.660 .683/.648 .654 87/.734 10/5 3/10

15.Brignac* G/S/vP 6/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.750 280/238 .258/.307/.381/.688 .667/.691 .596 26/.314 3/3 6/9

13.Crawford* G/S/vP 15/.400 9/1.015 5/.000 19/.977 15/.400 13/1.021 11/.700 540/357 .294/.346/.473/.819 .668/.896 .866 93/.678 41/9 15/2

28.Jaso* G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/no AB 321/270 .280/.388/.396/.783 .582/.820 .642 60/.847 4/0 4/4

24.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 ··· 4/1.500 6/.666 2/.000 2/2.000 71/55 .170/.366/.321/.687 1.200/.560 .644 63/.706 0/0 2/0

20.Joyce* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.500 180/160 .222/.361/.458/.819 .156/.910 .715 70/.732 2/2 7/1

3.Longoria G/S/vP 10/.844 7/.286 5/.900 7/.929 7/.572 5/1.600 2/1.000 575/395 .296/.372/.513/.885 .999/.834 .961 101/.930 15/5 19/12

23.Pena* G/S/vP 11/.384 10/1.700 8/.625 18/.774 12/.969 6/1.500 5/.200 485/328 .211/.338/.443/.781 .718/.811 .834 63/.839 5/1 26/5

1.Rodriguez G/S/vP 9/1.431 5/.400 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 2/4.000 1/.000 325/222 .257/.309/.405/.715 .888/.635 .676 52/.765 10/3 8/5

10.Shoppach G/S/vP 6/.367 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 3/1.667 1/.000 2/.000 146/73 .189/.306/.320/.625 .759/.487 .629 44/.675 0/0 3/1

2.Upton G/S/vP 17/.879 10/.400 6/.000 10/1.194 16/.467 3/1.000 6/1.667 495/335 .234/.321/.413/.734 .936/.642 .763 100/.800 37/7 13/5

18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 8/.750 8/1.500 2/.000 5/1.100 11/.830 5/.200 2/.500 532/362 .251/.357/.352/.709 .668/.722 .700 99/.496 23/3 7/2

IP 157.0 60.2 6.2 51.2 51.1 48.1 61.0 TOTAL .250/.336/.402/.737 .732/.740 .737 .719 152/41 124/76

ERA-K/9

3.61/7.5

2.67/5.8

5.40/4.0

2.79/7.0

4.03/9.5

3.35/9.7

3.69/8.1

4.14/7.5

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Jaso (32-10-6)
Shoppach (23-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 645/.243 240/.239 31/.308 205/.217 229/.254 205/.226 262/.277 .251 Crawford
Zobrist
Upton
Joyce
Rodriguez
Johnson
Brignac 119/0/0/7
1/13/94/5
0/125/0/2
10/0/33/2
4/9/8/0
2/0/0/0
0/0/2/0

OPS .691 .697 1.015 .606 .700 .692 .741 .723

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 330/.516 89/.848 12/.350 76/.549 94/.774 98/.643 118/.787 .677

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 315/.878 151/.609 19/1.438 129/.637 135/.652 107/.733 144/.704 .751

Road 350/.691 120/.824 14/.685 119/.490 134/.796 101/.759 126/.644

Last 28d days 105/.731 38/.551 31/1.015 29/.960 40/.472 29/.656 54/.859

HR/SB/CS 20/5/6 7/6/1 2/1/0 3/3/0 2/5/1 4/2/0 6/3/1 124/55/29

Usage ····X··· ·o··Xo·· ··X·oo·o ···Xo··· o··oo·X· ···oX·X· X·o··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.