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Game Preview: WSN @ ATL, 7:10pm, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 @Turner Field

Nationals, 63-70, 63-70 4th, 23 GB, 15½ GB in WC

SP: John Lannan (26, LHP, 8-10, 3.59)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (8-10) 153.0 155 72 61 65 87 13 3.59
2010 (8-8) 143.1 175 82 74 49 71 14 4.65
2009 (9-13) 206.1 210 100 89 68 89 22 3.88
Last 7 GS 2-4 38.2 41 24 15 24 25 4 3.49 47
2011-08-25 ARI L 6.0 7 2 2 2 2 1 77 50
2011-08-20 PHI L 5.0 7 5 3 4 1 1 82 34
2011-08-13 @PHI L 3.0 4 7 1 5 1 1 77 31
2011-08-07 @COL ND 6.0 6 1 1 4 3 0 98 55
2011-08-02 ATL W 6.2 9 3 3 1 8 0 110 51
2011-07-28 FLA L 5.2 5 4 4 4 4 1 115 43
2011-07-22 @LAD W 6.1 3 2 1 4 6 0 101 63
Last 5 v.ATL 4-0 29.1 32 10 10 12 24 1 3.07 52
2011-08-02 ATL W 6.2 9 3 3 1 8 0 110 51
2011-07-16 @ATL W 5.2 5 2 2 4 4 1 89 51
2011-05-11 @ATL ND 6.0 5 2 2 3 3 0 81 54
2011-04-02 ATL W 5.0 5 1 1 1 3 0 68 55
2010-09-15 @ATL W 6.0 8 2 2 3 6 0 99 51
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   37-28   Road:   26-42   ExtrInn:10-7 
 vsRHP:  47-55   vsLHP:  16-15   1-Run:  21-26
 vsEast: 22-28   vsCntrl:18-18   vsWest: 15-17 IL: 8-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
133 Tue, Aug 30  @ATL  W   9-2       63-70  4th 23.0 gb
132 Sun, Aug 28  @CIN  L   4-5 (14)  62-70  4th 22.5 gb
131 Sat, Aug 27  @CIN  L   3-6       62-69  4th 22.0 gb
130 Fri, Aug 26  @CIN  L   3-4       62-68  3rd 21.5 gb
129 Thu, Aug 25   ARI  L   1-8       62-67  3rd 21.5 gb
128 Wed, Aug 24   ARI  L   2-4       62-66  3rd 21.0 gb
127 Tue, Aug 23   ARI  L   0-2       62-65  3rd 21.0 gb
126 Mon, Aug 22   ARI  W   4-1       62-64  3rd 20.0 gb
125 Sun, Aug 21   PHI  W   5-4 (10)  61-64  3rd 20.0 gb
124 Sat, Aug 20   PHI  L   0-5       60-64  3rd 21.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16
Braves, 79-55, 79-55 2nd, 7½ GB, 8½ up in WC

SP: Derek Lowe (38, RHP, 8-12, 4.63)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (8-12) 157.1 171 84 81 59 114 10 4.63
2010 (16-12) 193.2 204 88 86 61 136 18 4.00
2009 (15-10) 194.2 232 109 101 63 111 16 4.67
Last 7 GS 2-5 38.0 48 25 23 16 31 3 5.45 44
2011-08-24 @CHC L 7.0 4 3 2 4 6 1 119 61
2011-08-19 ARI W 5.0 4 0 0 2 7 0 99 64
2011-08-13 CHC L 6.0 10 5 5 0 6 0 97 38
2011-08-08 @FLA W 6.0 6 2 2 3 3 0 95 52
2011-08-02 @WSN L 4.0 10 8 7 2 3 2 81 13
2011-07-28 PIT L 5.0 8 3 3 3 5 0 105 41
2011-07-23 @CIN L 5.0 6 4 4 2 1 0 68 38
Last 5 v.WSN 3-1 28.2 29 13 12 8 31 4 3.77 53
2011-08-02 @WSN L 4.0 10 8 7 2 3 2 81 13
2011-05-12 WSN ND 6.0 5 5 5 3 6 2 112 45
2011-03-31 @WSN W 5.2 3 0 0 2 6 0 105 67
2010-09-25 @WSN W 5.0 5 0 0 1 4 0 103 60
2010-09-13 WSN W 8.0 6 0 0 0 12 0 105 82
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   41-26   Road:   38-29   ExtrInn:14-8 
 vsRHP:  58-37   vsLHP:  21-18   1-Run:  26-19
 vsEast: 27-23   vsCntrl:22-14   vsWest: 20-13 IL:10-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
134 Tue, Aug 30   WSN  L   2-9       79-55  2nd  7.5 gb
133 Fri, Aug 26  @NYM  L   0-6       79-54  2nd  6.0 gb
132 Thu, Aug 25  @CHC  W   8-3       79-53  2nd  6.0 gb
131 Wed, Aug 24  @CHC  L   2-3       78-53  2nd  6.5 gb
130 Tue, Aug 23  @CHC  W   5-4       78-52  2nd  6.5 gb
129 Mon, Aug 22  @CHC  W   3-0       77-52  2nd  6.5 gb
128 Sun, Aug 21   ARI  W   1-0       76-52  2nd  6.5 gb
127 Sat, Aug 20   ARI  W   8-1       75-52  2nd  7.5 gb
126 Fri, Aug 19   ARI  W   4-2       74-52  2nd  7.5 gb
125 Thu, Aug 18   SFG  W   1-0       73-52  2nd  8.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Aug 30, 2011 WSN  9 @ATL  2        W:Livan Hernandez (8-12), L: Jair Jurrjens (13-6), S: none
Wed, Aug 03, 2011 ATL  6 @WSN  4        W:Brandon Beachy (5-2), L: Chien-Ming Wang (0-2), S: Craig Kimbrel (32)
Tue, Aug 02, 2011 WSN  9  ATL  3        W:John Lannan (8-7), L: Derek Lowe (6-10), S: none
Mon, Aug 01, 2011 WSN  5  ATL  3        W:Livan Hernandez (6-10), L: Jair Jurrjens (12-4), S: Drew Storen (27)
Sun, Jul 17, 2011 ATL  9  WSN  8        W:Craig Kimbrel (3-2), L: Ryan Mattheus (2-1), S: none
Sat, Jul 16, 2011 WSN  5 @ATL  2        W:John Lannan (6-6), L: Tommy Hanson (10-5), S: Drew Storen (24)
Fri, Jul 15, 2011 ATL 11  WSN  1        W:Tim Hudson (9-6), L: Livan Hernandez (5-9), S: none
Thu, May 12, 2011 ATL  6  WSN  5 (10)   W:Craig Kimbrel (1-1), L: Doug Slaten (0-1), S: none
Wed, May 11, 2011 WSN  7 @ATL  3 (11)   W:Drew Storen (3-1), L: Scott Linebrink (0-1), S: none
Tue, May 10, 2011 WSN  7 @ATL  6        W:Jason Marquis (4-1), L: Tim Hudson (4-3), S: Drew Storen (8)
Season Series: 2011 - WSN over 7-6; 2010 - WSN won 10-8; 2009 - ATL won 10-8; All-Time - ATL leads 303-275

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

NYY  5.47

CLE  4.25

SFG  3.35

 RA/G

PHI  3.27

PIT  4.26

BAL  5.21

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .342

A. McCutchen  .274

A. Dunn  .163

 OBP

J. Bautista  .453

R. Howard  .339

V. Wells  .250

 SLG

J. Bautista  .642

I. Kinsler  .437

A. Dunn  .289

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.094

P. Bourjos  .776

A. Rios  .572

 ERA

J. Cueto  2.05

J. Garcia  3.73

J. Lackey  5.94

 K/9IP

Z. Greinke  10.74

D. Hudson  6.93

B. Penny  3.74

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

Nationals Batters (3.86 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.65 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Lowe
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 19.Linebrink
G/S/vB		 50.Martinez
G/S/vB		 34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 52.Sherrill*
G/S/vB		 39.Venters*
G/S/vB		 59.Vizcaino
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Ankiel* G/S/vP 11/1.455 3/.000 ··· 4/.750 4/.250 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 335/254 .236/.295/.351/.646 .614/.656 .604 90/.563 10/3 7/1
43.Bixler G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 84/30 .216/.284/.284/.568 .484/.738 .600 25/.697 4/2 0/1
13.Cora* G/S/vP 14/.385 1/2.000 9/.347 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 157/146 .218/.282/.254/.536 .764/.518 .539 14/.516 2/0 0/3
6.Desmond G/S/vP 26/1.224 2/.000 2/1.500 2/.000 2/1.500 3/.666 13/.490 1/.000 513/392 .239/.288/.334/.622 .649/.614 .605 101/.706 21/9 5/22
18.Espinosa# G/S/vP 12/1.318 2/.000 2/.000 4/.000 3/1.000 3/1.666 3/1.000 ··· 558/427 .230/.316/.414/.730 .895/.687 .694 100/.713 13/4 19/12
26.Flores G/S/vP 11/.697 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 64/50 .217/.266/.333/.599 .593/.600 .573 32/.761 0/0 1/1
30.Gomes G/S/vP 13/1.538 2/.000 1/no AB 3/1.000 3/.667 3/.000 3/.666 1/.000 340/254 .211/.326/.400/.726 .891/.671 .771 59/.679 6/3 14/2
14.Marrero G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 12/10 .364/.417/.364/.780 1.000/.733 .780 12/.780 0/0 0/2
38.Morse G/S/vP 19/.711 5/.650 2/.500 3/2.334 5/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 470/356 .318/.374/.555/.930 .884/.944 .978 94/1.000 2/3 23/6
19.Nix* G/S/vP 7/.619 3/.666 3/1.000 3/1.666 3/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 326/295 .258/.304/.474/.777 .411/.814 .773 52/.705 2/2 16/2
3.Ramos G/S/vP 10/.522 2/.000 4/.500 2/.000 1/no AB 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 359/270 .248/.313/.416/.729 .720/.731 .589 62/.672 0/2 12/4
28.Werth G/S/vP 35/.701 5/.900 10/.967 4/1.417 5/.200 2/.500 7/.286 ··· 546/426 .231/.330/.389/.718 .662/.734 .682 90/.725 14/3 16/6
11.Zimmerman G/S/vP 54/.839 2/.500 6/1.667 5/1.350 5/.000 3/.000 6/.000 ··· 326/270 .303/.365/.476/.841 .890/.831 .809 97/1.005 3/0 10/9
IP 157.1 64.2 46.0 60.0 58.2 36.0 74.2 10.2 TOTAL .242/.310/.383/.693 .667/.700 .667 .736 91/32 127/89
ERA-K/9 4.63/6.5 1.67/14.6 3.52/6.8 3.60/6.9 1.23/8.7 3.00/9.5 1.33/10.0 1.69/10.9 3.37/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Flores (14-4-1)
 Ramos (37-20-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 691/.275 254/.173 201/.278 243/.202 243/.225 149/.248 293/.159 41/.086 .237  Werth
 Nix
 Ankiel
 Morse
 Bixler
 Gomes
0/1/124/9
72/4/9/7
0/90/0/7
30/0/0/4
22/4/5/1
72/0/1/1
OPS .723 .469 .782 .607 .605 .659 .458 .305 .662
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 329/.731 126/.395 72/.758 104/.626 81/.524 81/.608 81/.398 10/.200 .697
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 362/.717 128/.541 129/.795 139/.592 162/.648 68/.722 212/.481 31/.337 .637
Home 268/.739 147/.509 123/.752 135/.436 111/.557 80/.631 134/.448 27/.347
Last 28d days 106/.671 40/.417 20/1.193 51/.663 38/.894 21/.556 43/.495 41/.305
HR/SB/CS 10/20/3 1/0/3 5/6/2 7/0/0 2/5/2 3/0/2 1/1/2 0/0/0 100/108/34
Usage ······X· o······X ····o·o· X····o·X ·····o·· ····o··o ····X··· X····o·X
Braves Batters (4.11 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (4.10 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Lannan*
G/S/vB		 23.Balester
G/S/vB		 17.Burnett*
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 60.Coffey
G/S/vB		 63.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 22.Storen
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Bourn* G/S/vP 17/.669 ··· 9/.944 1/.000 6/1.000 2/1.000 2/3.000 590/423 .301/.358/.393/.752 .658/.789 .785 104/.691 47/12 2/3
7.Conrad# G/S/vP 7/.572 ··· 3/.333 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 109/84 .239/.336/.424/.760 .924/.711 .799 14/.593 2/0 4/1
17.Constanza* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 94/63 .341/.385/.447/.832 .895/.800 .729 71/.834 7/2 2/1
5.Freeman* G/S/vP 12/.523 1/.000 3/.333 5/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 3/.000 527/358 .291/.353/.463/.816 .738/.853 .868 85/.687 4/4 18/6
2.Gonzalez G/S/vP 18/1.111 3/.000 5/.000 4/.000 8/.661 3/.000 6/.834 523/390 .228/.257/.343/.601 .720/.559 .598 86/.618 2/0 12/11
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 11/.384 1/.000 3/.333 4/2.000 3/.333 1/no AB 4/.500 376/269 .221/.307/.394/.701 .584/.749 .691 49/.637 6/2 13/6
20.Hinske* G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 5/.600 4/.000 4/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 238/202 .244/.319/.432/.751 .461/.805 .715 19/.654 0/1 10/0
10.Jones# G/S/vP 32/.763 3/1.667 13/.993 7/1.738 7/1.404 ··· 2/.000 402/268 .277/.348/.464/.812 .715/.860 .915 65/1.017 2/2 13/5
28.Lugo G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· 2/.500 3/1.667 4/1.500 ··· 2/.000 48/19 .136/.208/.136/.345 .322/.377 .442 8/.125 0/0 0/0
16.McCann* G/S/vP 34/.686 ··· 15/.767 8/.250 5/2.250 1/.000 1/.000 423/291 .289/.362/.507/.868 .831/.885 .947 50/.715 3/1 22/5
14.Prado G/S/vP 35/.726 8/1.071 10/1.189 10/.000 9/.555 3/.000 5/.000 473/345 .267/.314/.402/.715 .754/.701 .769 98/.687 4/8 11/8
8.Ross G/S/vP 13/.237 6/1.000 4/.000 2/.500 3/1.666 2/.000 1/.000 155/103 .263/.336/.423/.759 .606/.831 .857 38/.722 0/1 5/2
26.Uggla G/S/vP 27/1.043 4/2.000 4/.500 13/.763 9/.708 2/.000 5/2.200 550/395 .232/.304/.455/.758 .639/.804 .763 95/1.005 1/3 30/14
IP 153.0 25.1 48.0 71.2 52.0 52.1 62.2 TOTAL .245/.310/.393/.703 .646/.727 .737 .721 58/39 149/77
ERA-K/9 3.59/5.1 3.91/8.5 4.31/5.6 1.88/10.9 3.81/7.1 3.96/9.5 2.87/8.2 3.65/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (86-22-4)
 Ross (20-11-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 665/.265 115/.284 209/.262 268/.165 220/.240 244/.231 252/.213 .259  Prado
 Bourn
 Hinske
 Heyward
 Constanza
77/0/0/5
0/128/0/4
31/0/16/2
0/0/98/1
12/3/14/0
OPS .727 .831 .732 .552 .657 .633 .624 .715
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 170/.608 47/.712 93/.637 125/.560 79/.876 105/.629 103/.597 .704
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 495/.769 68/.908 116/.810 143/.544 141/.533 139/.635 149/.641 .722
Road 319/.791 70/.935 101/.711 134/.555 127/.673 140/.660 118/.571
Last 28d days 97/.829 51/.820 33/.740 44/.701 31/.328 64/.681 38/.689
HR/SB/CS 13/4/4 5/4/1 6/2/0 10/3/4 4/2/1 1/10/0 8/1/0 111/63/35
Usage ·····X·· ··Xooo·· ··X·X··X ··X··X·o ··X·oo·o ··Xo·XX· ··o·····

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.