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Game Preview: DET @ CHW, 2:10pm, Wednesday, July 27, 2011 @U.S. Cellular Field

Tigers, 55-48, 55-48 1st, 2 up

SP: Max Scherzer (26, RHP, 11-5, 4.35)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (11-5) 126.1 134 65 61 39 106 17 4.35
2010 (12-11) 195.2 174 84 76 70 184 20 3.50
2009 (9-11) 170.1 166 94 78 63 174 20 4.12
Last 7 GS 3-3 42.1 43 23 20 9 30 5 4.25 51
2011-07-22 @MIN W 7.0 4 1 1 1 4 0 120 68
2011-07-16 CHW L 8.0 8 2 2 0 6 1 116 64
2011-07-07 @KCR W 6.2 6 1 1 0 2 0 88 60
2011-07-02 SFG L 2.0 6 9 6 3 2 2 72 13
2011-06-27 TOR ND 7.0 6 2 2 1 9 1 95 65
2011-06-21 @LAD L 6.0 9 6 6 2 3 1 102 31
2011-06-16 CLE W 5.2 4 2 2 2 4 0 111 55
Last 5 v.CHW 2-1 38.1 31 10 10 9 37 3 2.35 65
2011-07-16 CHW L 8.0 8 2 2 0 6 1 116 64
2011-04-24 CHW W 8.0 4 0 0 3 7 0 104 78
2010-09-17 @CHW W 8.0 2 2 2 2 11 2 121 79
2010-09-06 CHW ND 7.1 9 4 4 2 6 0 116 48
2010-08-05 CHW ND 7.0 8 2 2 2 7 0 103 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   29-22   Road:   26-26   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  35-36   vsLHP:  20-12   1-Run:  11-10
 vsEast: 13-12   vsCntrl:23-12   vsWest: 12-13 IL: 7-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
103 Tue, Jul 26  @CHW  W   5-4       55-48  1st  2.0 up
102 Mon, Jul 25  @CHW  L   3-6       54-48  1st  1.0 up
101 Sun, Jul 24  @MIN  W   5-2       54-47  1st  2.0 up
100 Sat, Jul 23  @MIN  L   1-4       53-47  1st  1.0 up
 99 Fri, Jul 22  @MIN  W   8-2       53-46  1st  1.5 up
 98 Thu, Jul 21  @MIN  W   6-2       52-46  1st  0.5 up
 97 Wed, Jul 20   OAK  L   5-7       51-46  1st    Tied
 96 Tue, Jul 19   OAK  W   8-3       51-45  1st    Tied
 95 Sun, Jul 17   CHW  W   4-3       50-45  1st    Tied
 94 Sat, Jul 16   CHW  L   0-5       49-45  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
WhiteSox, 50-52, 50-52 3rd, 4½ GB, 11½ GB in WC

SP: John Danks (26, LHP, 3-8, 3.92)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (3-8) 101.0 104 47 44 29 71 11 3.92
2010 (15-11) 213.0 189 93 88 70 162 18 3.72
2009 (13-11) 200.1 184 89 84 73 149 28 3.77
Last 7 GS 3-2 42.2 41 18 16 7 29 5 3.38 55
2011-07-20 @KCR ND 7.0 5 0 0 1 6 0 110 72
2011-06-25 WSN ND 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 0 26 57
2011-06-18 @ARI W 7.0 7 2 1 0 7 0 110 64
2011-06-11 OAK W 7.2 4 2 2 2 4 0 113 65
2011-06-06 SEA W 7.1 7 1 0 1 6 0 98 67
2011-05-29 @TOR L 4.0 9 9 9 1 1 3 96 8
2011-05-23 @TEX L 8.0 9 4 4 2 3 2 105 49
Last 5 v.DET 1-3 30.1 31 19 16 16 21 4 4.75 47
2011-04-24 @DET L 6.0 9 3 3 2 8 0 113 48
2010-09-19 DET ND 6.1 6 7 7 3 4 2 102 34
2010-09-08 @DET L 6.0 8 5 2 3 4 0 94 43
2010-06-10 DET W 7.0 1 0 0 4 4 0 111 75
2009-10-04 @DET L 5.0 7 4 4 4 1 2 89 34
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-26   Road:   28-26   ExtrInn: 5-9 
 vsRHP:  36-39   vsLHP:  14-13   1-Run:  14-15
 vsEast: 11-12   vsCntrl:14-20   vsWest: 14-13 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
102 Tue, Jul 26   DET  L   4-5       50-52  3rd  4.5 gb
101 Mon, Jul 25   DET  W   6-3       50-51  3rd  3.5 gb
100 Sun, Jul 24  @CLE  W   4-2       49-51  3rd  4.5 gb
 99 Fri, Jul 22  @CLE  W   3-0       48-51  3rd  5.0 gb
 98 Wed, Jul 20  @KCR  L   1-2 (11)  47-51  3rd  4.5 gb
 97 Tue, Jul 19  @KCR  L   2-4       47-50  3rd  4.5 gb
 96 Mon, Jul 18  @KCR  W   5-2       47-49  3rd  4.5 gb
 95 Sun, Jul 17  @DET  L   3-4       46-49  3rd  4.0 gb
 94 Sat, Jul 16  @DET  W   5-0       46-48  3rd  4.0 gb
 93 Fri, Jul 15  @DET  W   8-2       45-48  3rd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 26, 2011 DET  5 @CHW  4        W:Justin Verlander (14-5), L: Will Ohman (0-2), S: Jose Valverde (27)
Mon, Jul 25, 2011 CHW  6  DET  3        W:Mark Buehrle (8-5), L: Duane Below (0-1), S: none
Sun, Jul 17, 2011 DET  4  CHW  3        W:Brad Penny (7-6), L: Philip Humber (8-6), S: Jose Valverde (25)
Sat, Jul 16, 2011 CHW  5 @DET  0        W:Edwin Jackson (6-7), L: Max Scherzer (10-5), S: none
Fri, Jul 15, 2011 CHW  8 @DET  2        W:Gavin Floyd (7-9), L: Justin Verlander (12-5), S: none
Sun, Jun 05, 2011 DET  7 @CHW  3        W:Brad Penny (5-4), L: Jake Peavy (2-1), S: none
Sat, Jun 04, 2011 DET  4 @CHW  2        W:Justin Verlander (6-3), L: Jesse Crain (2-2), S: Jose Valverde (15)
Fri, Jun 03, 2011 CHW  6  DET  4        W:Mark Buehrle (5-4), L: Andrew Oliver (0-1), S: Sergio Santos (10)
Sun, Apr 24, 2011 DET  3  CHW  0        W:Max Scherzer (4-0), L: John Danks (0-3), S: Jose Valverde (5)
Sat, Apr 23, 2011 DET  9  CHW  0        W:Brad Penny (1-2), L: Edwin Jackson (2-2), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - DET over 7-4; 2010 - DET won 10-8; 2009 - Tied 9-9; All-Time - DET leads 1016-1000

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  5.50

TBR  4.14

SEA  3.26

 RA/G

PHI  3.32

CLE  4.26

BAL  5.23

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .348

E. Andrus  .278

A. Dunn  .161

 OBP

J. Bautista  .466

C. Jones  .341

M. Olivo  .254

 SLG

J. Bautista  .680

K. Johnson  .446

C. Getz  .281

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.146

N. Swisher  .796

A. Rios  .555

 ERA

J. Weaver  1.79

D. Hudson  3.72

J. Happ  6.12

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.46

R. Nolasco  6.80

C. Pavano  3.77

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

Tigers Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. WhiteSox Pitchers (3.99 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 50.Danks*
G/S/vB		 40.Bruney
G/S/vB		 26.Crain
G/S/vB		 77.Ohman*
G/S/vB		 49.Sale*
G/S/vB		 46.Santos
G/S/vB		 37.Thornton*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 6/.833 1/3.000 5/.400 3/1.167 4/.500 3/1.334 3/.000 330/253 .277/.366/.475/.841 .691/.887 .779 76/.575 3/0 10/4
20.Betemit# G/S/vP 3/2.334 ··· 3/.666 5/.400 2/.500 3/.333 1/2.000 243/172 .283/.342/.406/.748 .569/.825 .817 29/.768 3/1 3/6
26.Boesch* G/S/vP 12/.606 2/1.000 4/.750 3/.000 3/.333 3/.333 6/.834 394/290 .292/.345/.476/.822 .811/.825 .819 82/.761 4/3 14/3
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 26/.623 6/.333 12/1.500 2/2.500 2/.000 7/.714 10/.425 437/321 .317/.432/.560/.993 .922/1.017 1.052 92/.798 1/1 21/8
9.Guillen# G/S/vP 15/1.071 3/.666 22/.768 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 16/.621 35/26 .313/.343/.406/.749 .667/.781 .472 35/.749 0/1 1/1
14.Jackson G/S/vP 15/.690 3/.000 8/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 8/1.875 2/.000 414/288 .245/.315/.353/.669 .658/.673 .666 62/.622 16/4 4/3
32.Kelly* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 178/164 .235/.282/.346/.627 .308/.654 .768 36/.497 2/0 3/4
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 24/.944 3/.333 16/.599 5/.400 3/.333 ··· 23/.841 356/258 .320/.368/.449/.817 .733/.849 .841 88/.682 1/0 6/1
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 27/1.555 4/.500 19/.477 2/.500 ··· 2/.500 5/.200 230/151 .239/.304/.311/.615 .681/.579 .543 77/.753 1/1 3/0
27.Peralta G/S/vP 41/.635 3/.000 21/.474 2/.000 2/.500 6/.500 22/.527 365/257 .322/.367/.540/.907 .914/.905 .869 79/.940 0/2 16/6
25.Raburn G/S/vP 25/.715 1/.000 10/1.200 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 11/.819 296/188 .222/.259/.375/.634 .745/.570 .672 52/.833 1/0 9/10
39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 9/.625 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 7/.572 155/121 .228/.284/.294/.578 .523/.593 .590 31/.687 0/0 1/2
IP 101.0 16.2 46.0 31.1 44.1 44.0 34.2 TOTAL .266/.332/.413/.746 .748/.745 .741 .709 37/15 99/70
ERA-K/9 3.92/6.3 2.16/8.6 2.35/8.8 4.02/9.8 3.25/9.1 3.07/12.1 3.38/8.8 3.69/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (53-29-3)
 Kelly (0-0-1)
 Martinez (26-7-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 426/.272 71/.250 178/.178 131/.233 189/.238 179/.169 163/.294 .254  Ordonez
 Boesch
 Jackson
 Raburn
 Kelly
0/0/38/5
45/0/45/5
0/98/0/3
44/1/3/1
13/4/19/1
OPS .747 .725 .553 .707 .685 .560 .732 .689
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 127/.774 27/.787 66/.383 62/.588 87/.609 88/.737 62/.698 .686
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 299/.736 44/.678 112/.647 69/.815 102/.750 91/.395 101/.752 .691
Home 208/.637 49/.676 107/.589 66/.565 88/.811 94/.783 86/.780
Last 28d days 27/.415 28/.561 38/.577 39/.571 46/.535 24/.659 19/.421
HR/SB/CS 11/7/6 1/3/1 4/8/1 5/1/1 4/2/2 3/3/0 2/6/2 78/81/24
Usage ······X· o······X oXo···o· X······· ·oo···Xo ·oo·o·o· o···o·o·
WhiteSox Batters (3.99 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.53 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 38.Purcey*
G/S/vB		 46.Valverde
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Beckham G/S/vP 12/.637 2/.000 2/1.000 6/.334 346/260 .248/.304/.350/.654 .451/.720 .631 76/.773 3/2 7/4
32.Dunn* G/S/vP 13/1.203 2/.000 ··· 9/.347 356/273 .161/.289/.304/.594 .234/.700 .520 77/.485 0/1 10/1
17.Flowers G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ 3/.000 0/0 0/0
14.Konerko G/S/vP 10/.600 22/.703 ··· 3/.666 421/327 .310/.387/.554/.941 .843/.971 1.005 85/.814 1/1 24/4
18.Lillibridge G/S/vP 6/.167 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 144/81 .250/.338/.460/.798 .821/.779 .886 13/.308 10/4 7/0
22.Morel G/S/vP 6/.834 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 235/155 .251/.269/.300/.569 .529/.589 .560 39/.578 2/4 1/7
1.Pierre* G/S/vP 25/.913 3/1.334 1/.000 9/.476 446/343 .277/.334/.327/.662 .795/.621 .688 94/.821 16/12 1/5
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 12/.916 9/1.445 1/no AB 7/.821 348/294 .281/.327/.375/.702 .638/.713 .786 75/.656 0/0 4/2
20.Quentin G/S/vP 16/.650 1/.000 ··· 5/.650 396/299 .265/.356/.516/.872 .923/.856 .768 76/.807 1/1 20/1
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 16/.277 ··· ··· 5/1.100 428/326 .271/.333/.401/.734 .753/.728 .791 87/.673 4/3 9/11
51.Rios G/S/vP 9/.000 4/.000 ··· 6/.533 384/286 .208/.255/.300/.555 .657/.520 .713 79/.413 8/5 6/2
23.Teahen* G/S/vP 16/.331 5/1.200 4/.000 4/.000 130/115 .203/.277/.305/.582 .277/.620 .768 47/.495 0/1 3/1
11.Vizquel# G/S/vP 14/.930 4/.250 3/1.334 10/.777 136/116 .270/.299/.325/.624 .471/.637 .617 20/.563 1/2 0/1
IP 126.1 37.0 33.2 44.1 TOTAL .251/.317/.382/.699 .671/.708 .733 .653 46/36 96/47
ERA-K/9 4.35/7.6 4.14/8.0 4.81/5.9 3.05/8.5 4.23/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Flowers (1-2-0)
 Pierzynski (64-18-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 543/.273 157/.286 154/.252 191/.220 .260  Rios
 Quentin
 Pierre
 Teahen
 Lillibridge
 Dunn
0/97/0/4
0/0/83/2
96/0/0/2
3/0/6/0
7/10/39/0
0/0/2/0
OPS .780 .698 .745 .635 .727
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 298/.928 80/.841 56/.713 110/.771 .730
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 245/.606 77/.540 98/.766 81/.462 .723
Road 231/.821 74/.576 57/.595 78/.593
Last 28d days 96/.723 31/.729 31/.942 51/.764
HR/SB/CS 17/9/6 3/1/2 2/3/1 3/5/3 89/79/36
Usage ····X··· ··o···X· ·o·X··X· o·X·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.