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Game Preview: TOR @ ATL, 7:10pm, Monday, June 20, 2011 @Turner Field

Blue Jays, 36-36, 36-36 4th, 7½ GB, 6 GB in WC

SP: Ricky Romero (26, LHP, 6-6, 3.01)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (6-6) 95.2 81 35 32 34 87 10 3.01
2010 (14-9) 210.0 189 98 87 82 174 15 3.73
2009 (13-9) 178.0 192 88 85 79 141 18 4.30
Last 7 GS 4-2 53.1 42 13 13 19 44 4 2.19 64
2011-06-15 BAL W 8.0 3 1 1 4 12 0 114 80
2011-06-09 @KCR L 8.0 8 3 3 2 4 0 112 56
2011-06-04 @BAL L 7.2 11 5 5 3 5 1 107 39
2011-05-29 CHW W 7.0 6 2 2 2 5 1 107 60
2011-05-24 @NYY ND 7.0 7 1 1 3 4 1 100 60
2011-05-19 TBR W 7.0 3 1 1 2 6 1 104 71
2011-05-13 @MIN W 8.2 4 0 0 3 8 0 101 81
Has never faced ATL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-18   Road:   19-18   ExtrInn: 7-2 
 vsRHP:  25-29   vsLHP:  11-7    1-Run:  11-15
 vsEast: 13-18   vsCntrl:13-9    vsWest:  7-6  IL: 3-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 72 Sun, Jun 19  @CIN  L   1-2       36-36  4th  7.5 gb
 71 Sat, Jun 18  @CIN  W   4-0       36-35  4th  6.5 gb
 70 Fri, Jun 17  @CIN  W   3-2       35-35  4th  7.5 gb
 69 Thu, Jun 16   BAL  L   3-4       34-35  4th  7.5 gb
 68 Wed, Jun 15   BAL  W   4-1       34-34  4th  6.5 gb
 67 Tue, Jun 14   BAL  W   6-5 (11)  33-34  4th  6.5 gb
 66 Sun, Jun 12   BOS  L   1-14      32-34  4th  7.5 gb
 65 Sat, Jun 11   BOS  L   4-16      32-33  4th  6.5 gb
 64 Fri, Jun 10   BOS  L   1-5       32-32  4th  5.5 gb
 63 Thu, Jun  9  @KCR  L   2-3       32-31  4th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Braves, 40-33, 40-33 2nd, 5 GB

SP: Tim Hudson (35, RHP, 5-6, 4.08)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (5-6) 86.0 79 46 39 20 54 6 4.08
2010 (17-9) 228.2 189 74 72 74 139 20 2.83
2009 (2-1) 42.1 49 17 17 13 30 4 3.61
Last 7 GS 1-4 35.2 39 29 23 12 28 5 5.80 44
2011-06-15 NYM L 4.0 4 3 2 1 4 1 67 47
2011-06-10 @HOU W 6.0 7 2 2 0 4 0 88 54
2011-06-05 @NYM L 4.0 7 5 5 1 5 0 67 32
2011-05-30 SDP ND 6.0 5 2 1 0 7 0 93 63
2011-05-20 @LAA L 3.2 7 8 8 3 2 1 77 14
2011-05-15 PHI ND 7.0 4 2 2 5 3 1 107 59
2011-05-10 WSN L 5.0 5 7 3 2 3 2 75 38
Last 5 v.TOR 3-2 34.0 36 17 15 12 16 4 3.97 50
2008-06-28 @TOR L 5.0 7 6 6 3 3 2 90 29
2006-06-21 TOR L 7.0 7 5 5 5 4 1 114 42
2004-09-03 @TOR W 7.0 8 4 4 2 4 1 102 47
2004-06-05 TOR W 9.0 8 0 0 1 5 0 120 75
2003-08-24 @TOR W 6.0 6 2 0 1 0 0 87 55
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-17   Road:   21-16   ExtrInn: 9-7 
 vsRHP:  29-23   vsLHP:  11-10   1-Run:  14-13
 vsEast: 16-14   vsCntrl:15-7    vsWest:  7-8  IL: 2-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 73 Sun, Jun 19   TEX  W   4-2       40-33  2nd  5.0 gb
 72 Sat, Jun 18   TEX  L   4-5 (10)  39-33  2nd  6.0 gb
 71 Fri, Jun 17   TEX  L   2-6       39-32  2nd  5.0 gb
 70 Thu, Jun 16   NYM  W   9-8 (10)  39-31  2nd  5.0 gb
 69 Wed, Jun 15   NYM  L   0-4       38-31  2nd  5.0 gb
 68 Tue, Jun 14   NYM  L   3-4       38-30  2nd  3.5 gb
 67 Mon, Jun 13  @HOU  L   3-8       38-29  2nd  2.5 gb
 66 Sun, Jun 12  @HOU  W   4-1       38-28  2nd  2.0 gb
 65 Sat, Jun 11  @HOU  W   6-3 (10)  37-28  2nd  2.0 gb
 64 Fri, Jun 10  @HOU  W  11-4       36-28  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 24, 2009 ATL 10  TOR  2        W:Jeff Bennett (2-1), L: Shawn Camp (0-2), S: none
Sat, May 23, 2009 ATL  4  TOR  3        W:Derek Lowe (6-2), L: Casey Janssen (0-1), S: Rafael Soriano (4)
Fri, May 22, 2009 ATL  1  TOR  0        W:Kenshin Kawakami (3-5), L: Jesse Carlson (1-3), S: Mike Gonzalez (7)
Sun, Jun 29, 2008 TOR  1  ATL  0        W:A.J. Burnett (8-7), L: Jo-Jo Reyes (3-6), S: B.J. Ryan (16)
Sat, Jun 28, 2008 TOR  9  ATL  5        W:John Parrish (1-0), L: Tim Hudson (8-6), S: none
Fri, Jun 27, 2008 ATL  4 @TOR  0        W:Jair Jurrjens (8-3), L: Dustin McGowan (6-6), S: none
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 TOR  3 @ATL  2        W:Ty Taubenheim (1-4), L: Mike Remlinger (2-4), S: B.J. Ryan (20)
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 TOR  6 @ATL  3        W:Ted Lilly (7-7), L: Tim Hudson (6-6), S: B.J. Ryan (19)
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 TOR  6 @ATL  5        W:Scott Schoeneweis (2-0), L: Tyler Yates (0-1), S: B.J. Ryan (18)
Wed, Jun 13, 2001 TOR 12  ATL  5        W:Joey Hamilton (3-3), L: Tom Glavine (6-5), S: none
Season Series: 2011 -  0-0; 2010 -  0-0; 2009 - ATL won 3-0; All-Time - TOR leads 14-10

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 2011 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  5.37

PHI  4.10

SDP  3.32

 RA/G

PHI  3.26

DET  4.32

CHC  5.10

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .348

D. Pedroia  .269

D. Uggla  .177

 OBP

J. Bautista  .483

F. Freeman  .336

C. Figgins  .241

 SLG

J. Bautista  .668

C. Pena  .408

C. Figgins  .258

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.151

D. Stubbs  .749

C. Figgins  .500

 ERA

J. Beckett  1.86

J. Niese  3.70

F. Carmona  5.79

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  9.67

T. Cahill  6.66

C. Pavano  3.63

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

Blue Jays Batters (4.69 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 15.Hudson
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 19.Linebrink
G/S/vB		 50.Martinez
G/S/vB		 34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 43.Proctor
G/S/vB		 52.Sherrill*
G/S/vB		 56.Asencio
G/S/vB		 39.Venters*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 217/166 .229/.281/.453/.734 1.129/.615 .713 77/.545 0/0 10/2
19.Bautista G/S/vP 9/1.069 ··· 6/.533 ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.200 ··· ··· 290/230 .336/.483/.668/1.151 1.245/1.126 1.055 109/.863 5/3 21/3
11.Davis G/S/vP 4/.833 ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 212/167 .244/.275/.358/.633 .806/.588 .550 93/.654 18/8 1/2
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 12/.606 ··· 5/.800 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 191/143 .256/.293/.372/.665 .561/.700 .640 51/.873 1/0 2/11
5.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 298/233 .280/.357/.428/.785 1.034/.716 .658 99/.813 2/1 8/6
2.Hill G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 13/.237 2/5.000 ··· ··· 229/188 .245/.288/.349/.637 .502/.667 .665 98/.655 9/0 3/3
26.Lind* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 5/.900 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· ··· 202/152 .331/.376/.619/.995 .840/1.047 .994 62/1.320 1/1 15/2
18.McCoy G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 77/48 .224/.325/.313/.638 .510/.714 .723 32/.655 2/1 1/0
6.McDonald G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 122/93 .193/.252/.303/.555 .588/.545 .535 11/.300 1/2 2/1
8.Molina G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 91/71 .304/.389/.456/.845 1.167/.751 .824 34/.840 2/0 2/1
28.Nix G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/117 .178/.257/.326/.583 .998/.493 .650 76/.552 4/1 4/3
16.Patterson* G/S/vP 9/.222 ··· 6/1.917 ··· 3/.666 8/.833 6/1.500 ··· ··· 275/205 .271/.301/.408/.709 .748/.696 .712 116/.675 11/6 5/0
20.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.667 ··· 4/.500 2/.000 8/.661 ··· ··· 245/192 .250/.314/.364/.678 .945/.607 .676 79/.730 2/2 5/1
IP 86.0 36.0 29.1 34.1 32.2 13.2 19.1 9.2 45.1 TOTAL .257/.325/.418/.743 .839/.716 .714 .742 63/26 81/44
ERA-K/9 4.08/5.7 3.00/13.8 3.68/6.5 3.67/6.8 1.38/8.3 3.29/4.6 2.33/10.3 4.66/6.5 0.60/9.7 3.13/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (36-12-7)
 Molina (16-5-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 358/.242 152/.206 125/.250 139/.200 133/.235 59/.208 77/.246 43/.300 170/.153 .233  Bautista
 Patterson
 Rivera
 Davis
 McCoy
 Nix
0/0/63/7
37/26/0/2
16/0/4/2
0/46/6/1
0/3/2/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .631 .579 .716 .619 .612 .670 .627 .699 .415 .636
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 160/.676 78/.486 43/.559 69/.638 43/.525 16/.651 41/.736 15/.400 45/.364 .675
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 198/.595 74/.669 82/.800 70/.601 90/.655 43/.676 36/.486 28/.869 125/.432 .608
Home 205/.576 88/.612 74/.661 75/.428 63/.571 34/.713 39/.669 10/.733 85/.471
Last 28d days 85/.684 60/.608 57/.472 50/.740 34/.830 45/.769 30/.680 10/.733 69/.544
HR/SB/CS 6/10/1 1/0/2 3/4/1 4/0/0 1/2/2 1/2/0 1/0/1 0/0/0 0/1/1 42/57/18
Usage ····X··· oX·o·X·· oX·oX·X· ··X·X··· ····o··X oXoo·oo· o··o·XX· ··X····· XX·X···X
Braves Batters (3.88 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.58 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 24.Romero*
G/S/vB		 57.Camp
G/S/vB		 29.Dotel
G/S/vB		 50.Francisco
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
G/S/vB		 60.Rauch
G/S/vB		 34.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
7.Conrad# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/5.000 56/48 .227/.364/.432/.795 .250/.883 .646 28/1.110 0/0 2/1
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 274/194 .271/.336/.425/.761 .788/.750 .792 94/.852 2/1 7/4
2.Gonzalez G/S/vP 6/.666 8/.804 10/1.100 5/1.600 5/.650 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 286/220 .250/.284/.379/.663 .856/.605 .624 96/.644 1/0 7/6
24.Hernandez G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/24 .233/.233/.367/.600 .250/.727 .529 19/.778 0/0 1/2
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 183/136 .215/.319/.392/.711 .669/.725 .691 21/.611 3/1 7/4
20.Hinske* G/S/vP 6/1.166 4/.833 4/1.833 1/.000 4/.500 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 160/138 .253/.294/.440/.734 .409/.788 .677 79/.527 0/1 8/0
10.Jones# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 11/1.011 ··· 1/2.000 10/.856 ··· 6/1.133 269/178 .266/.361/.446/.807 .892/.764 .883 82/.854 1/1 7/4
16.McCann* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/5.000 12/.166 ··· 9/1.270 268/185 .297/.373/.496/.869 .727/.934 .999 89/1.136 2/1 11/4
13.McLouth* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 6/1.417 ··· 15/.767 198/138 .240/.335/.341/.676 .497/.750 .799 4/.833 1/2 3/1
30.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/2 .143/.250/.286/.536 .733/.000 .619 8/.536 0/0 0/0
8.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 1/5.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 53/36 .319/.396/.553/.949 .561/1.132 1.006 14/.955 0/0 3/0
1.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 107/83 .226/.308/.301/.609 .303/.702 .568 107/.609 8/3 1/1
26.Uggla G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 11/.982 ··· 10/.829 296/215 .177/.243/.325/.568 .347/.651 .569 89/.494 1/2 9/5
IP 95.2 32.1 19.1 20.0 28.2 30.0 28.1 59.2 TOTAL .238/.306/.383/.689 .636/.708 .716 .684 21/19 75/45
ERA-K/9 3.01/8.2 4.18/4.7 4.66/11.2 4.95/10.3 2.83/7.5 4.20/6.0 3.49/8.3 3.17/6.2 4.17/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (50-14-3)
 Ross (7-4-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 392/.229 138/.297 88/.205 93/.284 123/.211 125/.233 120/.238 236/.215 .256  Hinske
 Schafer
 Heyward
 Ramirez
 McLouth
19/0/14/2
0/23/0/1
0/0/49/1
1/0/0/0
1/47/0/0
OPS .662 .827 .744 .851 .672 .702 .676 .598 .733
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 119/.775 72/.904 36/1.166 61/.943 57/.588 64/.667 62/.531 112/.595 .783
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 273/.614 66/.741 52/.502 32/.674 66/.744 61/.729 58/.830 124/.602 .693
Road 212/.719 53/.710 57/.752 42/.755 50/.484 56/.702 58/.610 137/.515
Last 28d days 155/.686 48/1.076 27/.582 39/.962 41/.800 46/.736 41/.979 130/.729
HR/SB/CS 10/3/3 3/2/1 4/0/0 4/6/0 4/5/0 5/1/0 2/1/1 5/4/0 69/52/17
Usage ····X··· ···o·o·X o·X····· ··X·o··X ·o·o·X·· ·X·o·X·X o·o··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.