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Game Preview: CLE @ MIN, 8:10pm, Friday, April 22, 2011 @Target Field

Indians, 13-6, 13-6 1st, 1 up

SP: Fausto Carmona (27, RHP, 1-2, 4.74)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (1-2) 24.2 22 14 13 7 20 4 4.74
2010 (13-14) 210.1 203 98 88 72 124 17 3.77
2009 (5-12) 125.1 151 97 88 70 79 16 6.32
Last 7 GS 2-2 41.1 39 20 19 12 30 7 4.14 52
2011-04-17 BAL W 7.0 5 2 1 1 5 0 101 65
2011-04-12 @LAA L 7.2 4 2 2 3 6 2 118 66
2011-04-07 BOS ND 7.0 2 0 0 2 4 0 109 75
2011-04-01 CHW L 3.0 11 10 10 1 5 2 88 1
2010-10-01 @CHW W 6.0 5 2 2 1 7 1 93 60
2010-09-26 KCR ND 5.0 6 2 2 2 0 1 102 45
2010-09-21 @MIN ND 5.2 6 2 2 2 3 1 98 50
Last 5 v.MIN 1-3 33.1 36 18 18 8 18 5 4.86 48
2010-09-21 @MIN ND 5.2 6 2 2 2 3 1 98 50
2010-09-10 MIN W 9.0 3 0 0 1 7 0 108 87
2010-08-07 MIN L 7.1 10 5 5 0 3 2 103 41
2010-04-30 MIN L 6.0 8 6 6 2 2 1 101 32
2009-09-15 @MIN L 5.1 9 5 5 3 3 1 99 30
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    7-2    Road:    6-4    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   8-4    vsLHP:   5-2    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  6-0    vsCntrl: 3-4    vsWest:  4-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 19 Thu, Apr 21  @KCR  L   2-3       13-6   1st  1.0 up
 18 Wed, Apr 20  @KCR  W   7-5       13-5   1st  2.0 up
 17 Tue, Apr 19  @KCR  L   4-5       12-5   1st  1.0 up
 16 Mon, Apr 18  @KCR  W   7-3 (10)  12-4   1st  2.0 up
 15 Sun, Apr 17   BAL  W   4-2       11-4   1st  1.0 up
 14 Sat, Apr 16   BAL  W   8-3       10-4   1st    Tied
 13 Fri, Apr 15   BAL  W   8-2        9-4   1st    Tied
 12 Wed, Apr 13  @LAA  L   3-4 (12)   8-4   1st  0.5 up
 11 Tue, Apr 12  @LAA  L   0-2        8-3   1st  1.0 up
 10 Mon, Apr 11  @LAA  W   4-0        8-2   1st  1.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-6    Last 30:13-6 
Twins, 7-12, 7-12 5th, 6 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Brian Duensing (28, LHP, 1-0, 3.60)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (1-0) 20.0 21 9 8 6 14 2 3.60
2010 (10-3) 130.2 122 42 38 35 78 11 2.62
2009 (5-2) 84.0 84 37 34 31 53 7 3.64
Last 7 GS 3-1 43.2 50 23 22 19 30 6 4.53 47
2011-04-17 @TBR W 7.0 7 2 2 2 5 0 111 58
2011-04-12 KCR ND 6.0 8 3 2 2 2 0 102 46
2011-04-05 @NYY ND 7.0 6 4 4 2 7 2 103 54
2010-10-02 TOR ND 5.0 7 4 4 4 3 1 89 36
2010-09-26 @DET L 6.2 7 5 5 4 3 2 109 39
2010-09-20 CLE W 6.0 6 3 3 4 6 0 92 50
2010-09-15 @CHW W 6.0 9 2 2 1 4 1 95 49
Last 5 v.CLE 2-0 13.1 15 7 6 4 9 1 4.05 50
2010-09-20 CLE W 6.0 6 3 3 4 6 0 92 50
2010-08-08 @CLE W 7.1 9 4 3 0 3 1 104 49
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    2-3    Road:    5-9    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   3-9    vsLHP:   4-3    1-Run:   4-6 
 vsEast:  5-9    vsCntrl: 1-1    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 19 Thu, Apr 21  @BAL  W   3-1        7-12  5th  6.0 gb
 18 Wed, Apr 20  @BAL  L   4-5        6-12  5th  7.0 gb
 17 Tue, Apr 19  @BAL  L   0-11       6-11  5th  6.0 gb
 16 Mon, Apr 18  @BAL  W   5-3        6-10  5th  6.0 gb
 15 Sun, Apr 17  @TBR  W   4-2        5-10  5th  6.0 gb
 14 Sat, Apr 16  @TBR  L   3-4        4-10  5th  6.0 gb
 13 Fri, Apr 15  @TBR  L   2-5        4-9   5th  5.0 gb
 12 Thu, Apr 14  @TBR  L   3-4 (10)   4-8   5th  4.0 gb
 11 Wed, Apr 13   KCR  L   5-10       4-7   5th  3.5 gb
 10 Tue, Apr 12   KCR  W   4-3 (10)   4-6   4th  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-12   Last 30: 7-12
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Sep 22, 2010 MIN  5  CLE  1        W:Nick Blackburn (10-10), L: Carlos Carrasco (1-1), S: none
Tue, Sep 21, 2010 MIN  6  CLE  4        W:Glen Perkins (1-1), L: Justin Masterson (6-13), S: Matt Capps (41)
Mon, Sep 20, 2010 MIN  9  CLE  3        W:Brian Duensing (10-2), L: Jeanmar Gomez (3-5), S: none
Sun, Sep 12, 2010 MIN  6 @CLE  2        W:Kevin Slowey (12-6), L: Mitch Talbot (9-12), S: none
Sat, Sep 11, 2010 MIN  1 @CLE  0 (12)   W:Matt Guerrier (4-7), L: Justin Germano (0-2), S: Matt Capps (38)
Fri, Sep 10, 2010 CLE  2  MIN  0        W:Fausto Carmona (12-14), L: Carl Pavano (16-11), S: none
Sun, Aug 08, 2010 MIN  5 @CLE  4        W:Brian Duensing (5-1), L: David Huff (2-11), S: Matt Capps (28)
Sat, Aug 07, 2010 MIN  7 @CLE  2        W:Carl Pavano (14-7), L: Fausto Carmona (11-9), S: none
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 CLE  7  MIN  6        W:Chris Perez (1-2), L: Matt Guerrier (2-7), S: none
Wed, Jul 21, 2010 MIN  6  CLE  0        W:Francisco Liriano (8-7), L: Jake Westbrook (6-6), S: none
Season Series: 2011 -  0-0; 2010 - MIN won 12-6; 2009 - MIN won 10-8; All-Time - CLE leads 1069-936

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

For the 2010 season

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2011 season. Player Stats for the 2010 season. We will switch to 2011 stats on May 1st.

Indians Batters (5.21 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.68 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB
55.Capps
G/S/vB
61.Hacker
G/S/vB
37.Hoey
G/S/vB
56.Hughes*
G/S/vB
50.Mijares*
G/S/vB
36.Nathan
G/S/vB
15.Perkins*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 8/.500 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.167 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 325/255 .246/.296/.327/.623 .467/.665 .564 80/.778 10/2 3/2
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 10/.522 ··· ··· ··· 4/.750 5/2.050 3/1.000 4/2.333 425/293 .276/.326/.346/.673 .647/.685 .661 89/.808 6/4 3/12
20.Cabrera G/S/vP 1/2.000 6/.167 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 15/.134 8/1.196 537/388 .263/.303/.354/.657 .804/.601 .571 75/.641 11/4 4/11
17.Choo* G/S/vP 11/.546 ··· ··· ··· 5/.650 7/.715 9/.555 5/1.267 646/430 .300/.401/.484/.885 .670/.998 .816 83/.576 22/7 22/4
47.Duncan G/S/vP 6/.733 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 2/.500 259/162 .231/.317/.419/.736 .857/.662 .588 15/.971 1/0 11/0
8.Everett G/S/vP 6/.334 5/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 2/.500 3/.000 2/1.000 89/57 .185/.221/.247/.468 .630/.382 .557 20/.849 2/1 0/1
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.500 7/1.571 13/.648 3/1.167 462/351 .278/.374/.449/.824 .706/.863 .692 68/1.004 2/1 13/
9.Hannahan* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· / /// / 58/.725 / /
26.Kearns G/S/vP 1/no AB 10/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 461/293 .263/.351/.395/.746 .740/.749 .762 31/.521 4/1 10/4
7.LaPorta G/S/vP 6/1.867 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/2.334 1/.000 425/304 .221/.306/.362/.668 .635/.679 .671 69/.811 0/0 12/3
6.Marson G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 294/215 .195/.274/.286/.560 .759/.488 .575 16/1.009 8/1 3/4
41.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 192/131 .260/.401/.467/.868 .582/1.002 .987 77/.663 3/0 6/3
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 4/.500 17/.063 9/.666 140/86 .211/.271/.289/.560 .326/.706 .507 21/1.213 4/2 0/1
IP 130.2 73.0 56.1 32.2 21.2 TOTAL .269/.341/.418/.759 .885/.698 .701 .759 10/4 19/10
ERA-K/9 2.62/5.4 2.47/7.3 /0.0 /0.0 3.83/5.4 3.31/7.7 /0.0 5.82/5.8 4.55/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Marson (51-31-5)
 Santana (22-12-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 535/.247 305/.265 / / 252/.273 139/.268 / 98/.337 .260  Choo
 Duncan
 Kearns
 Brantley
 Sizemore
 LaPorta
0/0/142/14
41/0/8/7
91/5/32/2
7/65/0/0
0/32/0/0
7/0/0/0
OPS .666 .688 .730 .768 .938 .749
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 153/.457 146/.654 / / 115/.674 62/.776 / 32/.657 .721
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 382/.751 159/.719 / / 137/.775 77/.761 / 66/1.080 .772
Home 272/.638 183/.720 / / 127/.698 74/.886 / 50/.901
Last 28d days 86/.724 43/.613 7/.571 6/.833 28/.989 25/.471 33/1.078 31/.440
HR/SB/CS 11/3/1 6/3/2 // // 3/3/1 4/1/1 // 3/2/1 22/11/5
Usage ····X··· o··XoX·o ··X····· o··X···· ··o···o· o··o·X·· ··X··X·X oo··o·o·

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2011 season. Player Stats for the 2010 season. We will switch to 2011 stats on May 1st.

Twins Batters (3.00 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (3.47 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Carmona
G/S/vB
37.Durbin
G/S/vB
39.Germano
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
41.Butera G/S/vP 7/.286 1/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 155/89 .197/.237/.296/.533 .453/.591 .540 27/.377 0/0 2/5
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 16/.625 ··· ··· 2/1.000 5/1.600 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 170/132 .276/.331/.395/.726 .813/.702 .699 47/.382 6/1 1/5
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 41/.665 6/.167 3/.000 4/1.250 6/.000 ··· 3/1.167 8/.250 675/460 .271/.336/.417/.753 .875/.700 .786 73/.723 7/3 14/6
27.Holm G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 11/.455 / /
38.Hughes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/3 .286/.286/.714/1.000 .500/1.667 29/.448 0/1 1/0
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 39/1.077 4/1.750 1/.000 3/1.666 12/1.100 ··· 9/.347 1/5.000 582/399 .249/.323/.427/.750 .655/.792 .746 73/.834 0/1 21/5
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 31/.964 8/1.500 ··· ··· 20/.594 ··· 6/.000 1/.000 348/215 .345/.437/.618/1.055 .966/1.113 .914 56/.552 0/0 18/1
18.Repko G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/89 .228/.324/.346/.671 .523/.767 .459 15/.343 3/2 3/0
2.Span* G/S/vP 27/.551 2/1.000 ··· 5/.650 12/.361 ··· 10/.347 2/.000 705/462 .264/.331/.348/.679 .696/.670 .761 81/.761 26/4 3/4
25.Thome* G/S/vP 25/.850 20/1.000 2/5.000 3/1.667 19/.161 ··· 5/.400 3/.000 340/246 .283/.412/.627/1.039 .769/1.154 1.112 54/.658 0/0 25/
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 100/79 .230/.293/.379/.672 .198/.797 .904 33/.469 1/1 1/2
19.Valencia G/S/vP 9/.222 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.750 2/.000 322/211 .311/.351/.448/.799 .967/.713 .979 75/.619 2/0 7/6
21.Young G/S/vP 24/.675 7/.343 4/.000 3/.666 8/.125 ··· 5/.900 7/.000 613/419 .298/.333/.493/.826 .927/.781 .809 63/.566 5/4 21/4
IP 210.1 68.2 35.1 63.0 61.0 5.0 63.0 40.0 TOTAL .233/.285/.322/.607 .564/.628 .636 .607 8/0 8/10
ERA-K/9 3.77/5.3 3.80/8.3 3.31/7.4 1.71/8.7 3.25/5.3 3.60/14.4 4.14/9.9 3.83/7.2 3.35/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (21-16-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 880/.258 291/.246 146/.206 260/.182 272/.300 23/.222 266/.218 170/.208 .222  Young
 Kubel
 Repko
 Cuddyer
 Span
 Tolbert
 Casilla
149/0/0/12
16/0/83/7
6/6/39/5
0/2/66/5
0/153/0/5
0/0/1/0
0/1/0/0
OPS .703 .738 .664 .583 .748 .614 .770 .659 .625
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 483/.722 119/.936 69/.606 119/.752 121/.746 10/.875 119/.805 48/.979 .638
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 397/.681 172/.604 77/.716 141/.445 151/.750 13/.408 147/.742 122/.538 .610
Road 366/.683 141/.796 70/.713 115/.669 147/.767 12/.833 129/.751 100/.729
Last 28d days 101/.685 29/.761 30/.602 31/.472 23/.366 26/.530 38/.560 15/.564
HR/SB/CS 17/33/6 7/3/1 6/2/2 4/9/0 3/5/1 0/1/0 12/8/6 4/6/1 11/10/0
Usage ····X··· ··X··o·· ··Xo···· Xo··o··· ·o·o··o· oo·o·X·· oX··oX·· ·X·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.