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Game Preview: LAD @ ATL, 7:35pm, Friday, September 2, 2011 @Turner Field

Dodgers, 66-70, 66-70 3rd, 11½ GB, 15 GB in WC

SP: Chad Billingsley (26, RHP, 10-10, 4.08)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (10-10) 165.1 163 82 75 70 137 12 4.08
2010 (12-11) 191.2 176 82 76 69 171 8 3.57
2009 (12-11) 196.1 173 94 88 86 179 17 4.03
Last 7 GS 2-2 43.2 40 25 20 21 33 4 4.12 50
2011-08-27 COL ND 6.0 10 4 3 2 5 1 123 41
2011-08-21 @COL L 7.2 3 5 4 5 7 2 118 57
2011-08-16 @MIL ND 7.0 4 1 1 2 5 0 93 68
2011-08-10 PHI ND 4.1 7 5 2 3 0 1 99 32
2011-08-05 @ARI W 6.0 7 3 3 2 2 0 95 46
2011-07-30 ARI L 5.2 7 6 6 5 4 0 103 30
2011-07-24 WSN W 7.0 2 1 1 2 10 0 115 77
Last 5 v.ATL 1-2 29.1 24 12 10 11 33 1 3.07 57
2010-08-16 @ATL ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 8 0 108 70
2010-06-05 ATL L 6.0 7 3 3 2 5 0 110 49
2009-08-07 ATL ND 6.0 4 2 1 3 3 0 78 58
2009-08-02 @ATL W 5.0 2 0 0 1 9 0 83 71
2008-07-08 ATL L 5.1 6 6 5 4 8 1 103 38
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   36-35   Road:   30-35   ExtrInn: 7-1 
 vsRHP:  48-53   vsLHP:  18-17   1-Run:  19-18
 vsEast: 11-15   vsCntrl:19-19   vsWest: 30-27 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
136 Thu, Sep  1  @PIT  W   6-4       66-70  3rd 11.5 gb
135 Wed, Aug 31   SDP  W   4-2       65-70  3rd 12.0 gb
134 Tue, Aug 30   SDP  W   8-5       64-70  3rd 12.0 gb
133 Mon, Aug 29   SDP  W   4-1       63-70  3rd 12.0 gb
132 Sun, Aug 28   COL  L   6-7       62-70  4th 12.0 gb
131 Sat, Aug 27   COL  W   7-6 (11)  62-69  3rd 11.0 gb
130 Fri, Aug 26   COL  W   6-1       61-69  4th 11.0 gb
129 Wed, Aug 24  @STL  W   9-4       60-69  4th 10.5 gb
128 Tue, Aug 23  @STL  W  13-2       59-69  4th 10.5 gb
127 Mon, Aug 22  @STL  W   2-1       58-69  4th 10.5 gb
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:18-12
Braves, 81-55, 81-55 2nd, 7½ GB, 8½ up in WC

SP: Brandon Beachy (24, RHP, 7-2, 3.31)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. LAD Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (7-2) 114.1 100 46 42 32 128 15 3.31
2010 (0-2) 15.0 16 9 5 7 15 0 3.00
Last 7 GS 4-0 42.1 33 15 12 12 47 4 2.55 60
2011-08-25 @CHC W 6.0 6 3 2 0 8 1 97 58
2011-08-20 ARI W 6.0 4 1 1 1 7 0 97 66
2011-08-14 CHC ND 5.1 6 2 2 0 8 0 102 56
2011-08-09 @FLA ND 6.2 3 2 2 3 10 0 106 67
2011-08-03 @WSN W 5.0 7 4 4 1 4 1 85 40
2011-07-29 FLA W 7.1 2 0 0 3 6 0 112 77
2011-07-24 @CIN ND 6.0 5 3 1 4 4 2 112 54
Last 5 v.LAD 1-0 6.0 2 0 0 2 7 0 0.00 73
2011-04-19 @LAD W 6.0 2 0 0 2 7 0 111 73
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   43-26   Road:   38-29   ExtrInn:14-8 
 vsRHP:  59-37   vsLHP:  22-18   1-Run:  26-19
 vsEast: 29-23   vsCntrl:22-14   vsWest: 20-13 IL:10-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
136 Thu, Sep  1   WSN  W   5-2       81-55  2nd  7.5 gb
135 Wed, Aug 31   WSN  W   3-1       80-55  2nd  7.5 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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:20-10
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Apr 21, 2011 LAD  5  ATL  3 (12)   W:Matt Guerrier (1-0), L: Cristhian Martinez (0-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 20, 2011 LAD  6  ATL  1        W:Jon Garland (1-1), L: Derek Lowe (2-3), S: none
Tue, Apr 19, 2011 ATL 10 @LAD  1        W:Brandon Beachy (1-1), L: Hiroki Kuroda (2-2), S: none
Mon, Apr 18, 2011 LAD  4  ATL  2        W:Ted Lilly (1-2), L: Tim Hudson (2-2), S: none

Mon, Aug 16, 2010 ATL  4  LAD  3        W:Peter Moylan (4-2), L: Hong-Chih Kuo (3-2), S: none
Sun, Aug 15, 2010 ATL 13  LAD  1        W:Jair Jurrjens (5-4), L: Vicente Padilla (6-4), S: none
Sat, Aug 14, 2010 LAD  2 @ATL  1        W:Ted Lilly (6-8), L: Derek Lowe (11-10), S: Hong-Chih Kuo (4)
Fri, Aug 13, 2010 ATL  1  LAD  0        W:Tim Hudson (14-5), L: Hiroki Kuroda (8-11), S: Billy Wagner (29)
Sun, Jun 06, 2010 LAD  5  ATL  4 (11)   W:Ronald Belisario (1-0), L: Jesse Chavez (0-1), S: none
Sat, Jun 05, 2010 ATL  9 @LAD  3        W:Tommy Hanson (6-3), L: Chad Billingsley (6-3), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - LAD over 3-1; 2010 - ATL won 5-3; 2009 - ATL won 4-3; All-Time - LAD leads 1160-1012

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
Dodgers Batters (3.90 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Beachy
G/S/vB
46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB
19.Linebrink
G/S/vB
50.Martinez
G/S/vB
34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB
38.Varvaro
G/S/vB
39.Venters*
G/S/vB
59.Vizcaino
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
28.Barajas G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 282/199 .241/.293/.455/.748 .876/.694 .912 54/1.097 0/0 15/2
23.Blake G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 3/1.666 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 239/175 .252/.342/.371/.713 .780/.689 .729 55/.687 1/2 4/7
14.Carroll G/S/vP 3/.000 1/no AB 10/1.111 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 451/333 .288/.358/.346/.704 .745/.689 .781 88/.592 10/0 0/9
17.Ellis G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 71/52 .263/.400/.316/.716 .950/.617 .870 15/1.200 0/1 1/0
16.Ethier* G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/.000 8/1.089 2/4.000 3/.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 537/387 .293/.371/.424/.795 .567/.886 .747 91/.659 0/1 11/0
9.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/86 .241/.254/.284/.539 .616/.509 .585 12/.750 12/3 0/6
10.Gwynn* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 314/251 .260/.311/.358/.669 .547/.699 .675 72/.691 19/5 2/1
27.Kemp G/S/vP 3/.333 2/.000 3/1.666 3/1.666 1/no AB ··· 3/.000 ··· 577/440 .321/.395/.568/.963 1.054/.936 1.007 113/.908 36/7 31/4
7.Loney* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/.000 ··· 485/374 .277/.326/.383/.709 .505/.769 .732 84/1.179 3/0 9/5
6.Miles# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 11/.855 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 412/329 .285/.315/.368/.683 .733/.669 .754 97/.713 4/2 3/5
46.Mitchell G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/17 .115/.258/.269/.527 .377/.635 .606 / 0/0 1/1
49.Oeltjen* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 74/64 .232/.366/.393/.759 1.289/.659 1.076 22/.821 4/0 2/1
33.Rivera G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/1.667 ··· 5/.400 ··· 1/no AB ··· 424/321 .257/.316/.386/.702 .873/.648 .733 85/.733 3/2 9/3
12.Sellers G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 72/55 .254/.333/.381/.714 .697/.717 .742 72/.714 1/0 1/1
3.Velez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/19 .000/.063/.000/.063 .077/.053 .000 15/.067 1/0 0/1
IP 114.1 66.2 46.0 60.0 60.2 9.0 76.2 10.2 TOTAL .255/.319/.372/.691 .687/.692 .720 .748 102/27 99/72
ERA-K/9 3.31/10.1 1.62/14.8 3.52/6.8 3.60/6.9 1.19/8.7 3.00/16.0 1.41/10.0 1.69/10.9 3.34/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Barajas (50-15-2)
 Ellis (8-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 473/.234 261/.172 201/.278 243/.202 249/.219 40/.206 303/.158 41/.086 .236  Kemp
 Gwynn
 Ethier
 Rivera
 Blake
 Velez
 Oeltjen
 Mitchell
0/134/0/10
98/12/2/8
0/0/123/8
42/0/9/3
2/0/0/0
3/0/0/0
8/0/9/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .682 .464 .782 .607 .589 .737 .457 .305 .660
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 191/.725 126/.395 72/.758 104/.626 81/.524 19/.707 81/.398 10/.200 .694
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 282/.653 135/.527 129/.795 139/.592 168/.623 21/.738 222/.479 31/.337 .636
Home 231/.654 154/.498 123/.752 135/.436 117/.527 16/.697 144/.447 27/.347
Last 28d days 94/.543 44/.425 20/1.193 51/.663 44/.761 20/1.034 48/.466 41/.305
HR/SB/CS 15/6/3 1/0/3 5/6/2 7/0/0 2/5/2 2/1/0 1/2/2 0/0/0 102/109/35
Usage ·······X Xoo····· ······o· ··X····o oo·····o ········ Xo····X· ··X····o
Braves Batters (4.11 RS/G) vs. Dodgers Pitchers (3.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Billingsley
G/S/vB
57.Elbert*
G/S/vB
50.Eovaldi
G/S/vB
37.Eveland*
G/S/vB
54.Guerra
G/S/vB
36.Hawksworth
G/S/vB
74.Jansen
G/S/vB
56.Kuo*
G/S/vB
52.Lindblom
G/S/vB
66.MacDougal
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Boscan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/8 .375/.375/.375/.750 /.750 .500 4/1.000 0/0 0/0
24.Bourn* G/S/vP 15/.564 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 2/1.500 2/no AB ··· 3/.000 598/426 .299/.357/.390/.747 .638/.792 .774 107/.693 47/12 2/3
7.Conrad# G/S/vP 4/1.750 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 2/.000 109/84 .239/.336/.424/.760 .924/.711 .799 14/.593 2/0 4/1
17.Constanza* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 99/66 .322/.365/.422/.787 .838/.761 .654 72/.729 7/3 2/1
23.Diaz G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 4/.750 ··· 1/no AB 235/117 .264/.306/.327/.634 .714/.553 .640 36/.578 4/2 0/2
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 531/359 .292/.354/.463/.818 .749/.850 .870 85/.661 4/4 18/6
2.Gonzalez G/S/vP 7/.572 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 530/394 .227/.256/.341/.597 .704/.559 .590 89/.601 2/0 12/11
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 6/.367 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 380/273 .225/.310/.401/.711 .584/.762 .709 49/.740 6/2 13/6
20.Hinske* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/5.000 ··· ··· 6/.833 241/205 .247/.324/.433/.756 .461/.810 .725 21/.762 0/1 10/0
10.Jones# G/S/vP 9/.476 1/.000 ··· 4/1.417 ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.750 410/273 .276/.346/.475/.822 .739/.863 .931 73/1.045 2/2 15/6
28.Lugo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/1.417 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 6/.334 48/19 .136/.208/.136/.345 .322/.377 .442 8/.125 0/0 0/0
16.McCann* G/S/vP 18/.818 2/.000 ··· 3/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 4/.500 ··· 4/.250 431/295 .286/.360/.508/.867 .816/.891 .943 58/.729 3/1 23/5
14.Prado G/S/vP 8/.875 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.200 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 4/2.500 478/346 .265/.312/.398/.711 .741/.699 .759 99/.651 4/8 11/8
8.Ross G/S/vP 6/1.267 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 155/103 .263/.336/.423/.759 .606/.831 .857 34/.773 0/1 5/2
26.Uggla G/S/vP 15/.204 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 3/1.666 ··· 3/.333 ··· 5/5.000 558/400 .234/.306/.455/.762 .639/.809 .770 99/1.029 1/3 30/14
IP 165.1 27.1 26.0 8.0 34.2 47.1 41.0 18.2 20.1 49.2 TOTAL .245/.310/.394/.705 .647/.729 .739 .731 58/40 153/78
ERA-K/9 4.08/7.5 2.63/8.9 3.46/6.2 1.13/3.4 2.08/7.3 4.37/7.2 3.51/14.5 10.61/12.5 2.21/6.2 1.99/6.0 3.66/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Boscan (2-1-0)
 McCann (87-23-4)
 Ross (20-11-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 722/.260 110/.200 108/.237 27/.222 144/.233 194/.225 171/.166 94/.274 77/.206 214/.258 .243  Prado
 Bourn
 Diaz
 Hinske
 Heyward
 Constanza
78/0/0/5
0/130/0/4
15/0/46/3
31/0/16/2
0/0/100/1
13/3/14/0
OPS .714 .574 .642 .481 .603 .663 .535 .890 .579 .691 .687
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 336/.784 61/.496 41/.887 4/.500 65/.536 85/.589 76/.568 40/.921 27/1.000 81/.707 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 386/.653 49/.672 67/.487 23/.478 79/.654 109/.723 95/.508 54/.865 50/.370 133/.682 .670
Road 368/.749 55/.532 65/.661 27/.481 68/.790 100/.629 75/.501 35/.824 36/.499 110/.784
Last 28d days 110/.762 36/.650 108/.642 27/.481 33/.618 44/.807 15/.358 21/.654 24/.408 40/.778
HR/SB/CS 12/6/4 1/1/1 1/2/1 0/0/1 0/0/1 6/5/0 3/7/0 3/2/0 0/1/5 3/5/2 114/100/32
Usage ·····X·· ·o···oX· ····X··· X······· ·XX··X·· o···X··· X·X·o·o· ····oo·· ·X······ ·X··oo··

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.