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Game Preview: MIN @ MIL, 7:10pm, Saturday, June 25, 2011 @Miller Park

NOTE: Some stats are only updated through Thursday, June 23, 2011. Site will be updated with yesterday's stats by 11:30am ET.

Twins, 32-42, 32-42 4th, 8 GB, 11 GB in WC

SP: Francisco Liriano (27, LHP, 4-6, 4.59)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (4-6) 68.2 52 36 35 37 58 6 4.59
2010 (14-10) 191.2 184 77 77 58 201 9 3.62
2009 (5-13) 136.2 147 93 88 65 122 21 5.80
Last 7 GS 3-2 45.0 25 12 11 19 40 2 2.20 64
2011-06-19 SDP ND 7.0 8 3 3 2 8 0 100 55
2011-06-12 TEX W 8.0 2 1 1 0 9 0 97 83
2011-06-07 @CLE L 5.0 3 1 0 3 7 0 81 63
2011-05-22 @ARI ND 6.0 6 2 2 4 4 1 102 52
2011-05-17 @SEA W 7.0 3 1 1 1 9 0 110 75
2011-05-10 DET L 3.0 3 4 4 3 1 1 59 35
2011-05-03 @CHW W 9.0 0 0 0 6 2 0 123 83
Last 5 v.MIL 3-1 23.0 19 7 7 10 30 0 2.74 59
2010-06-23 @MIL L 5.0 7 3 3 1 7 0 77 47
2009-06-23 @MIL W 5.0 7 3 3 5 6 0 117 42
2006-07-02 MIL W 8.0 3 0 0 1 12 0 103 87
2006-05-19 @MIL W 5.0 2 1 1 3 5 0 68 61
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-16   Road:   18-26   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  20-31   vsLHP:  12-11   1-Run:  16-18
 vsEast:  6-18   vsCntrl:13-10   vsWest:  9-8  IL: 4-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 74 Fri, Jun 24  @MIL  L   3-4       32-42  4th  8.0 gb
 73 Thu, Jun 23  @SFG  L   1-2       32-41  4th  8.0 gb
 72 Wed, Jun 22  @SFG  L   1-5       32-40  4th  7.5 gb
 71 Tue, Jun 21  @SFG  W   9-2       32-39  4th  6.5 gb
 70 Sun, Jun 19   SDP  W   5-4       31-39  4th  8.0 gb
 69 Sat, Jun 18   SDP  W   1-0       30-39  4th  8.0 gb
 68 Fri, Jun 17   SDP  W   6-5       29-39  5th  8.0 gb
 67 Thu, Jun 16   CHW  W   1-0       28-39  5th  9.0 gb
 66 Wed, Jun 15   CHW  W   4-1       27-39  5th  9.0 gb
 65 Sun, Jun 12   TEX  W   6-1       26-39  5th  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:17-13
Brewers, 42-35, 42-35 1st, 1 up

SP: Yovani Gallardo (25, RHP, 8-4, 4.11)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (8-4) 96.1 101 48 44 36 88 11 4.11
2010 (14-7) 185.0 178 89 79 75 200 12 3.84
2009 (13-12) 185.2 150 78 77 94 204 21 3.73
Last 7 GS 4-2 41.0 42 18 14 12 47 5 3.07 55
2011-06-19 @BOS L 3.0 9 8 5 2 4 2 94 17
2011-06-14 @CHC ND 7.0 3 1 1 2 10 1 109 75
2011-06-09 NYM L 4.0 10 4 4 1 5 0 96 30
2011-06-04 @FLA W 6.0 6 2 1 2 5 0 100 57
2011-05-29 SFG W 8.0 4 0 0 1 5 0 109 78
2011-05-23 WSN W 7.0 5 1 1 1 9 1 102 71
2011-05-18 @SDP W 6.0 5 2 2 3 9 1 114 60
Last 5 v.MIN 1-0 15.0 11 4 4 3 17 0 2.40 68
2010-06-24 MIN W 9.0 5 0 0 0 12 0 122 89
2010-05-22 @MIN ND 6.0 6 4 4 3 5 0 106 46
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-11   Road:   15-24   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  35-26   vsLHP:   7-9    1-Run:  16-13
 vsEast: 13-11   vsCntrl:17-16   vsWest:  9-4  IL: 3-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 77 Fri, Jun 24   MIN  W   4-3       42-35  1st  1.0 up
 76 Wed, Jun 22   TBR  L   3-6       41-35  1st  0.5 up
 75 Tue, Jun 21   TBR  W   5-1       41-34  1st  0.5 up
 74 Mon, Jun 20   TBR  L   4-8       40-34  2nd  0.5 gb
 73 Sun, Jun 19  @BOS  L   3-12      40-33  1st    Tied
 72 Sat, Jun 18  @BOS  W   4-2       40-32  1st  1.0 up
 71 Fri, Jun 17  @BOS  L   4-10      39-32  1st  1.0 up
 70 Thu, Jun 16  @CHC  L   7-12      39-31  1st  1.0 up
 69 Wed, Jun 15  @CHC  W   9-5       39-30  1st  1.0 up
 68 Tue, Jun 14  @CHC  L   4-5 (10)  38-30  1st    Tied
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jun 24, 2011 MIL  4  MIN  3        W:Randy Wolf (6-3), L: Scott Baker (5-5), S: John Axford (20)

Thu, Jun 24, 2010 MIL  5  MIN  0        W:Yovani Gallardo (7-3), L: Nick Blackburn (6-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 23, 2010 MIL  5  MIN  3        W:Manny Parra (2-5), L: Francisco Liriano (6-5), S: John Axford (6)
Tue, Jun 22, 2010 MIL  7  MIN  5        W:Chris Narveson (6-4), L: Scott Baker (6-6), S: John Axford (5)
Sun, May 23, 2010 MIL  4 @MIN  3        W:Manny Parra (1-3), L: Carl Pavano (4-5), S: John Axford (1)
Sat, May 22, 2010 MIN  8  MIL  7 (12)   W:Jesse Crain (1-0), L: Manny Parra (0-3), S: none
Fri, May 21, 2010 MIN 15  MIL  3        W:Nick Blackburn (5-1), L: David Bush (1-5), S: none
Thu, Jun 25, 2009 MIN  6 @MIL  4        W:Scott Baker (5-6), L: Mike Burns (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (17)
Wed, Jun 24, 2009 MIL  4  MIN  3        W:Todd Coffey (3-1), L: Nick Blackburn (6-3), S: Trevor Hoffman (17)
Tue, Jun 23, 2009 MIN  7 @MIL  3        W:Francisco Liriano (3-8), L: Jeff Suppan (5-5), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - MIL over 1-0; 2010 - MIL won 4-2; 2009 - MIN won 5-1; All-Time - MIN leads 221-209

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  5.35

TBR  4.12

SFG  3.43

 RA/G

PHI  3.27

CHW  4.27

CHC  5.01

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .345

C. Johnson  .239

D. Uggla  .179

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .452

D. DeJesus  .308

D. Uggla  .242

 SLG

P. Fielder  .649

J. Loney  .360

D. Barton  .267

 OPS

P. Fielder  1.095

C. Johnson  .679

C. Figgins  .525

 ERA

J. Beckett  1.86

M. Buehrle  3.73

J. Vazquez  6.37

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  9.78

T. Cahill  6.66

C. Pavano  3.52

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

Twins Batters (3.74 RS/G) vs. Brewers Pitchers (4.17 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Gallardo
G/S/vB		 59.Axford
G/S/vB		 45.DiFelice
G/S/vB		 48.Dillard
G/S/vB		 41.Estrada
G/S/vB		 32.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 50.Loe
G/S/vB		 52.Mitre
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Butera G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 115/91 .176/.211/.269/.479 .725/.413 .494 29/1.009 0/0 1/3
12.Casilla# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/2.000 2/.500 205/141 .267/.333/.361/.694 .517/.785 .549 95/.760 11/3 2/7
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 7/.619 1/.000 2/3.000 ··· 3/.000 4/.833 9/.476 2/.000 247/173 .291/.364/.473/.837 1.280/.663 .772 90/.979 7/1 10/4
38.Hughes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 122/72 .265/.314/.345/.659 .633/.677 .748 53/.740 1/1 1/2
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 3/1.334 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 3/1.333 11/.182 2/.000 46/23 .190/.239/.214/.453 .461/.445 .494 16/.192 0/0 0/0
18.Repko G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/33 .160/.208/.180/.388 .586/.256 .237 29/.379 2/0 0/1
11.Revere* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 109/72 .272/.306/.301/.607 .520/.648 .667 75/.653 6/3 0/2
32.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 67/47 .180/.254/.279/.532 .639/.488 .626 34/.485 0/0 1/0
25.Thome* G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 23/1.840 8/2.125 6/1.500 77/55 .250/.403/.517/.919 1.375/.750 .843 10/1.071 0/0 4/
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 118/90 .196/.252/.290/.542 .382/.591 .578 52/.731 1/0 0/3
19.Valencia G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 246/179 .218/.272/.358/.630 .748/.587 .668 73/.624 2/4 8/7
21.Young G/S/vP 6/.167 1/2.000 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 6/1.166 3/.000 173/115 .269/.289/.341/.630 .572/.658 .626 83/.720 1/0 2/4
IP 96.1 34.1 2.0 15.0 47.2 19.1 36.2 33.0 TOTAL .246/.305/.355/.660 .674/.654 .644 .711 31/13 39/51
ERA-K/9 4.11/8.2 2.62/11.8 18.00/9.0 4.80/10.2 4.72/7.5 0.47/4.7 4.91/7.4 3.27/3.8 3.91/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (15-9-2)
 Mauer (6-2-0)
 Rivera (11-8-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 366/.279 146/.227 11/.333 63/.228 173/.250 75/.246 150/.213 128/.259 .250  Young
 Cuddyer
 Revere
 Repko
38/0/0/3
0/0/33/2
6/14/4/1
9/2/8/0
OPS .766 .584 1.232 .647 .731 .559 .627 .729 .699
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 170/.688 63/.377 6/.750 30/.755 87/.789 26/.323 72/.671 54/.777 .680
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 196/.832 83/.749 5/1.600 33/.550 86/.674 49/.681 78/.589 74/.693 .711
Home 213/.704 82/.439 6/1.500 28/.841 105/.571 46/.552 83/.590 58/.639
Last 28d days 125/.740 44/.358 11/1.232 57/.562 53/.933 26/.500 50/.706 59/.811
HR/SB/CS 9/3/3 1/1/1 1/1/0 1/1/0 5/2/0 0/1/0 4/2/0 3/6/0 65/43/11
Usage ·····X·· o··o··o· ····Xo·· ··X·o··X ··X····X ····oo·· o··o··o· ··X··X··
Brewers Batters (4.34 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 31.Burnett
G/S/vB		 55.Capps
G/S/vB		 54.Dumatrait*
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Betancourt G/S/vP 20/.550 5/.400 4/.500 ··· 2/1.000 11/1.000 14/.693 ··· 250/201 .235/.256/.349/.605 .480/.635 .701 82/.585 0/2 4/9
8.Braun G/S/vP 6/.333 3/1.000 5/.400 2/4.500 1/.000 1/2.000 3/1.666 3/1.334 298/233 .317/.403/.571/.974 .854/1.004 1.077 99/.843 16/4 15/0
30.Counsell* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.666 1/4.000 2/1.000 7/.310 3/.666 3/.000 87/83 .181/.298/.236/.534 1.500/.507 .634 34/.697 2/0 0/1
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 11/.182 1/.000 9/.222 2/1.000 2/1.500 7/1.000 3/.666 3/1.167 303/223 .322/.446/.649/1.095 .905/1.170 1.168 104/1.338 0/0 20/5
27.Gomez G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 182/131 .205/.243/.325/.568 .774/.481 .648 20/.400 15/1 4/0
1.Hart G/S/vP 9/.708 2/1.500 10/.844 1/2.000 1/.000 5/.000 3/.000 ··· 189/150 .274/.351/.476/.827 1.287/.717 .904 94/.845 2/4 7/0
25.Kotsay* G/S/vP 4/1.250 1/2.000 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 16/.607 2/.000 ··· 130/124 .233/.315/.284/.600 1.167/.575 .705 34/.441 3/0 0/1
16.Kottaras* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 33/25 .267/.303/.500/.803 1.089/.715 .498 9/1.111 0/0 2/0
20.Lucroy G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 191/155 .280/.326/.440/.766 .863/.743 .957 81/.479 0/0 7/3
14.McGehee G/S/vP 6/.833 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 285/226 .215/.267/.307/.573 .402/.619 .637 95/.437 0/1 4/13
2.Morgan* G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/2.667 ··· 124/105 .336/.364/.509/.873 .690/.907 .805 83/.826 3/2 2/2
23.Weeks G/S/vP 9/.777 2/5.000 10/.856 1/5.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 320/255 .294/.370/.507/.877 .767/.905 .918 114/.893 7/2 14/8
9.Wilson G/S/vP 6/.666 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/18 .233/.281/.533/.815 1.190/.556 .580 22/.968 1/0 2/0
IP 68.2 21.2 31.0 9.1 17.1 15.1 25.2 27.0 TOTAL .257/.324/.426/.751 .743/.752 .819 .743 50/15 85/45
ERA-K/9 4.59/7.6 5.82/6.6 4.06/5.8 2.89/2.9 4.15/5.2 7.63/8.8 2.10/9.1 3.33/2.3 4.33/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kottaras (5-2-1)
 Lucroy (31-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 267/.208 95/.278 100/.189 37/.107 68/.286 57/.235 89/.263 114/.240 .260  Gomez
 Braun
 Hart
 Morgan
 Counsell
 Kotsay
0/54/0/3
68/0/0/2
0/0/44/2
3/24/14/0
1/0/0/0
5/7/20/0
OPS .610 .763 .570 .400 .772 .696 .666 .638 .722
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 65/.576 37/.932 52/.701 18/.294 33/.593 29/.334 38/.525 62/.619 .718
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 202/.621 58/.657 48/.420 19/.508 35/.966 28/1.047 51/.780 52/.660 .725
Road 153/.560 46/.762 51/.721 33/.457 43/.631 30/.807 33/.557 31/.736
Last 28d days 75/.457 29/.670 26/.551 20/.492 20/.812 / 11/.855 53/.647
HR/SB/CS 4/7/4 1/4/0 4/1/0 0/0/1 0/0/3 2/2/0 0/1/1 2/0/0 54/36/19
Usage ·····X·· o····o·X ······oo ········ 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.