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Game Preview: CLE @ BOS, 7:10pm, Monday, August 1, 2011 @Fenway Park

Indians, 53-52, 53-52 2nd, 2½ GB, 10½ GB in WC

SP: Josh Tomlin (26, RHP, 11-5, 4.01)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (11-5) 134.2 122 62 60 16 73 18 4.01
2010 (6-4) 73.0 72 38 37 19 43 10 4.56
Last 7 GS 3-1 45.1 38 22 21 4 22 7 4.17 54
2011-07-26 LAA L 8.0 4 2 2 1 3 0 97 68
2011-07-20 @MIN ND 6.0 8 4 4 0 2 0 91 42
2011-07-15 @BAL W 5.0 6 5 5 1 3 3 97 37
2011-07-09 TOR ND 6.0 7 4 3 1 2 1 92 45
2011-07-04 NYY W 7.0 3 2 2 1 5 0 90 67
2011-06-28 @ARI ND 7.0 5 2 2 0 4 1 88 63
2011-06-22 COL W 6.1 5 3 3 0 3 2 86 54
Last 5 v.BOS 1-1 14.0 7 5 5 5 8 1 3.21 62
2011-04-05 BOS W 7.0 3 1 1 3 3 0 91 67
2010-08-05 @BOS L 7.0 4 4 4 2 5 1 93 56
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   29-24   Road:   24-28   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  40-35   vsLHP:  13-17   1-Run:  18-16
 vsEast: 17-16   vsCntrl:16-18   vsWest:  9-11 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
105 Sun, Jul 31   KCR  L   3-5       53-52  2nd  2.5 gb
104 Sat, Jul 30   KCR  W   5-2       53-51  2nd  1.5 gb
103 Fri, Jul 29   KCR  L   0-12      52-51  2nd  2.5 gb
102 Wed, Jul 27   LAA  L   1-3       52-50  2nd  2.0 gb
101 Tue, Jul 26   LAA  L   1-2       52-49  2nd  2.0 gb
100 Mon, Jul 25   LAA  W   3-2       52-48  2nd  1.0 gb
 99 Sun, Jul 24   CHW  L   2-4       51-48  2nd  2.0 gb
 98 Fri, Jul 22   CHW  L   0-3       51-47  2nd  1.5 gb
 97 Wed, Jul 20  @MIN  L   5-7       51-46  1st    Tied
 96 Tue, Jul 19  @MIN  L   1-2       51-45  1st    Tied
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:13-17
RedSox, 66-40, 66-40 1st, 2 up

SP: John Lackey (32, RHP, 9-8, 6.20)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (9-8) 97.1 123 69 67 30 66 13 6.20
2010 (14-11) 215.0 233 114 105 72 156 18 4.40
2009 (11-8) 176.1 177 84 75 47 139 17 3.83
Last 7 GS 4-3 38.1 53 23 21 8 32 6 4.93 45
2011-07-27 KCR W 5.2 11 4 3 1 3 2 113 35
2011-07-22 SEA W 7.0 8 1 1 0 4 0 101 61
2011-07-16 @TBR W 5.2 10 4 3 1 7 1 107 41
2011-07-09 BAL W 6.2 3 0 0 1 7 0 106 74
2011-07-04 TOR L 2.1 9 7 7 0 2 1 65 13
2011-06-29 @PHI L 7.2 8 2 2 1 5 1 90 59
2011-06-22 SDP L 3.1 4 5 5 4 4 1 83 32
Last 5 v.CLE 3-2 28.2 32 22 22 18 26 3 6.91 42
2010-08-02 CLE L 5.1 9 6 6 5 7 0 107 28
2009-08-20 @CLE L 5.1 6 6 6 4 3 0 108 31
2009-07-29 CLE W 7.0 3 1 1 4 8 0 113 71
2008-08-16 @CLE W 6.0 6 3 3 3 3 2 106 48
2008-07-23 CLE W 5.0 8 6 6 2 5 1 99 30
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-19   Road:   33-21   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  42-28   vsLHP:  24-12   1-Run:  12-10
 vsEast: 28-12   vsCntrl:14-12   vsWest: 14-8  IL:10-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
106 Sun, Jul 31  @CHW  W   5-3       66-40  1st  2.0 up
105 Sat, Jul 30  @CHW  W  10-2       65-40  1st  2.0 up
104 Fri, Jul 29  @CHW  L   1-3       64-40  1st  2.5 up
103 Thu, Jul 28   KCR  L   3-4       64-39  1st  2.5 up
102 Wed, Jul 27   KCR  W  12-5       64-38  1st  3.0 up
101 Tue, Jul 26   KCR  W  13-9       63-38  1st  2.0 up
100 Mon, Jul 25   KCR  L   1-3 (14)  62-38  1st  2.0 up
 99 Sun, Jul 24   SEA  W  12-8       62-37  1st  3.0 up
 98 Sat, Jul 23   SEA  W   3-1       61-37  1st  3.0 up
 97 Fri, Jul 22   SEA  W   7-4       60-37  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:22-8 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, May 25, 2011 BOS 14 @CLE  2        W:Jon Lester (7-1), L: Mitch Talbot (1-1), S: none
Tue, May 24, 2011 BOS  4 @CLE  2        W:Josh Beckett (4-1), L: Fausto Carmona (3-5), S: Jonathan Papelbon (9)
Mon, May 23, 2011 CLE  3  BOS  2        W:Joe Smith (2-1), L: Daniel Bard (1-4), S: Chris Perez (13)
Thu, Apr 07, 2011 CLE  1  BOS  0        W:Rafael Perez (2-0), L: Daniel Bard (0-2), S: Chris Perez (2)
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 CLE  8  BOS  4        W:Rafael Perez (1-0), L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 CLE  3  BOS  1        W:Josh Tomlin (1-0), L: Josh Beckett (0-1), S: Chris Perez (1)

Thu, Aug 05, 2010 BOS  6  CLE  2        W:Daisuke Matsuzaka (8-3), L: Josh Tomlin (1-1), S: Jonathan Papelbon (26)
Wed, Aug 04, 2010 CLE  9 @BOS  1        W:Justin Masterson (4-10), L: Jon Lester (11-7), S: none
Tue, Aug 03, 2010 BOS  3  CLE  1        W:Josh Beckett (3-1), L: David Huff (2-10), S: Jonathan Papelbon (25)
Mon, Aug 02, 2010 CLE  6 @BOS  5        W:Fausto Carmona (11-8), L: John Lackey (10-6), S: Chris Perez (13)
Season Series: 2011 - CLE over 4-2; 2010 - Tied 4-4; 2009 - BOS won 7-2; All-Time - CLE leads 1019-956

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  5.53

BAL  4.10

SEA  3.26

 RA/G

PHI  3.34

MIL  4.24

BAL  5.33

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .357

N. Markakis  .285

A. Dunn  .165

 OBP

J. Bautista  .459

C. Quentin  .350

V. Wells  .246

 SLG

J. Bautista  .656

G. Sanchez  .472

C. Getz  .288

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.115

Y. Escobar  .823

A. Rios  .549

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.72

A. Harang  3.76

J. Happ  6.01

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.69

T. Stauffer  6.72

C. Pavano  3.72

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

Indians Batters (4.19 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.18 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Lackey
G/S/vB		 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 32.Albers
G/S/vB		 51.Bard
G/S/vB		 46.Morales*
G/S/vB		 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB		 35.Wheeler
G/S/vB		 43.Williams*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Brantley* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 3/.000 436/302 .274/.329/.383/.713 .600/.760 .698 92/.713 13/5 6/2
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 19/.329 1/.000 1/.000 2/3.000 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 3/1.167 460/318 .289/.344/.486/.830 .798/.845 .776 88/.781 13/3 17/11
16.Donald G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/3.000 ··· 3/1 .000/.333/.000/.333 .500/.000 3/.333 0/0 0/0
1.Fukudome* G/S/vP ··· 3/.667 ··· 1/.000 6/1.300 ··· ··· ··· 357/312 .267/.366/.363/.730 .761/.724 .593 66/.646 2/2 3/3
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 34/.553 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 5/.000 247/180 .294/.385/.472/.857 .597/.960 .848 88/.634 0/0 9/
9.Hannahan* G/S/vP 10/.700 1/.000 3/1.334 ··· ··· 3/.666 4/1.750 ··· 277/195 .214/.303/.333/.636 .836/.552 .560 30/.633 2/1 5/5
26.Kearns G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.200 4/2.417 ··· 1/.000 5/1.000 1/2.000 162/90 .214/.313/.307/.620 .563/.670 .692 44/.724 0/4 2/1
7.LaPorta G/S/vP 6/1.333 ··· 3/1.167 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 4/.250 2/.500 285/223 .236/.295/.415/.709 .597/.741 .708 65/.629 1/0 10/7
6.Marson G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 148/87 .233/.288/.331/.618 .909/.428 .732 33/.788 1/1 1/2
41.Santana# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 420/290 .231/.352/.427/.779 .811/.764 .701 87/.789 3/2 15/8
IP 97.1 73.1 43.0 51.0 27.2 43.2 35.2 5.2 TOTAL .246/.316/.387/.703 .683/.712 .676 .664 56/27 93/71
ERA-K/9 6.20/6.1 3.19/5.3 2.09/9.0 1.76/8.6 4.23/7.1 3.50/12.4 4.54/7.1 9.53/6.3 3.89/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Marson (20-19-3)
 Santana (45-13-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 451/.303 310/.210 177/.213 193/.166 116/.228 180/.232 147/.252 28/.348 .242  Fukudome
 Brantley
 Kearns
0/1/85/5
53/51/0/3
32/0/19/1
OPS .849 .638 .556 .496 .739 .623 .705 .886 .694
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 224/.907 137/.608 73/.645 105/.579 52/.822 85/.541 58/.889 11/1.010 .678
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 227/.792 173/.661 104/.496 88/.391 64/.676 95/.698 89/.588 17/.804 .707
Home 253/.865 203/.631 104/.608 93/.394 72/.878 94/.644 88/.677 18/.983
Last 28d days 113/.776 77/.475 42/.383 43/.439 36/.730 43/.581 34/.606 28/.886
HR/SB/CS 13/23/2 6/5/0 1/5/2 3/7/1 3/2/0 3/3/0 5/1/2 0/0/0 95/93/32
Usage ····X··· X·o··X·X ···X·XX· o·····o· ···o·Xo· X·····o· ·X··X·X· ····X·X·
RedSox Batters (5.53 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Tomlin
G/S/vB		 37.Durbin
G/S/vB		 56.Herrmann
G/S/vB		 54.Perez
G/S/vB		 53.Perez*
G/S/vB		 52.Pestano
G/S/vB		 46.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP 12/.667 2/.000 2/2.000 6/.167 5/.400 4/.000 2/1.000 4/.500 202/140 .222/.261/.395/.656 .944/.532 .621 18/.750 10/2 5/10
13.Crawford* G/S/vP 3/.000 7/1.096 6/2.167 4/.250 9/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 330/225 .244/.280/.370/.650 .457/.739 .630 52/.599 12/5 6/2
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 6/.000 4/1.750 3/.000 1/.000 3/2.000 1/.000 3/.000 2/.500 480/341 .321/.378/.515/.893 .746/.951 .922 107/1.096 31/10 17/0
28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.200 2/2.500 3/.333 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 479/321 .357/.418/.571/.989 .743/1.109 1.044 98/.981 1/0 18/3
54.McDonald G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 93/32 .171/.269/.329/.598 .745/.325 .554 28/1.055 2/2 3/1
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 6/.167 7/.429 3/2.667 5/.200 9/.222 1/.000 4/.250 ··· 409/278 .293/.379/.545/.924 1.017/.881 1.022 88/.837 1/1 20/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 3/.666 9/.222 2/.000 4/1.000 5/.400 ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 489/351 .309/.406/.488/.894 1.187/.783 .938 107/1.211 21/3 15/4
16.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 133/109 .331/.376/.559/.935 1.049/.910 .836 78/.828 1/2 4/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 2/2.000 4/.500 2/2.500 ··· 5/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 245/170 .261/.327/.464/.790 .671/.844 .811 54/.902 0/0 9/1
10.Scutaro G/S/vP 5/.400 9/.476 1/.000 3/1.000 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 254/183 .269/.340/.370/.710 .682/.721 .792 90/.727 3/1 5/7
44.Sutton# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 60/45 .315/.362/.444/.807 .552/.895 .802 12/.664 0/0 0/3
33.Varitek# G/S/vP ··· 11/.473 ··· ··· 5/.600 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 177/119 .237/.316/.429/.746 .804/.716 .732 39/.681 0/0 7/0
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 3/.333 8/.393 3/.000 3/.333 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 425/298 .273/.388/.486/.874 1.043/.805 1.104 89/.896 3/0 15/7
IP 134.2 41.1 34.2 36.2 42.1 39.0 43.1 41.0 TOTAL .281/.355/.458/.812 .814/.812 .868 .881 75/26 130/51
ERA-K/9 4.01/4.9 6.53/7.4 4.93/6.0 2.95/5.6 2.13/5.7 3.00/12.9 3.12/8.1 1.10/6.6 3.99/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Saltalamacchia (56-21-12)
 Varitek (37-11-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 535/.238 191/.310 158/.306 153/.214 171/.237 154/.186 171/.188 165/.205 .257  Ellsbury
 Reddick
 McDonald
 Gonzalez
 Crawford
 Sutton
0/101/0/5
19/3/14/2
19/5/15/1
0/0/2/0
77/0/0/0
3/0/0/0
OPS .686 .841 .854 .638 .585 .581 .635 .515 .717
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 284/.749 88/.798 78/1.184 83/.625 84/.488 58/.838 64/.535 48/.330 .774
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 251/.616 103/.874 80/.534 70/.649 87/.683 96/.417 107/.694 117/.589 .660
Road 254/.784 97/.951 68/.682 64/.603 71/.644 83/.475 74/.706 84/.596
Last 28d days 102/.733 35/.794 51/.996 26/1.019 36/.706 33/.741 38/.724 47/.293
HR/SB/CS 18/0/0 5/4/2 6/6/0 3/5/0 0/2/4 4/1/0 7/10/2 0/1/2 99/65/32
Usage ·····X·· ··X····· ··X····· ····X··· ··o··o·· ····o·o· Xo····oX o···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.