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Game Preview: DET @ MIN, 8:10pm, Friday, July 22, 2011 @Target Field

Tigers, 52-46, 52-46 1st, ½ up

SP: Max Scherzer (26, RHP, 10-5, 4.53)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (10-5) 119.1 130 64 60 38 102 17 4.53
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 10 30 5 4.25 51
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
2011-06-11 SEA W 7.0 4 1 1 2 4 0 101 67
Last 5 v.MIN 0-1 23.2 31 24 24 6 20 5 9.13 35
2011-05-31 MIN ND 6.2 9 7 7 1 7 2 107 34
2010-09-01 @MIN ND 9.0 4 1 1 1 9 0 106 83
2010-05-03 @MIN L 4.1 8 10 10 4 1 1 87 4
2010-04-28 MIN ND 3.2 10 6 6 0 3 2 84 20
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   29-22   Road:   23-24   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  34-35   vsLHP:  18-11   1-Run:  10-10
 vsEast: 13-12   vsCntrl:20-10   vsWest: 12-13 IL: 7-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 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
 93 Fri, Jul 15   CHW  L   2-8       49-44  2nd  1.0 gb
 92 Sun, Jul 10  @KCR  W   2-1       49-43  1st  0.5 up
 91 Sat, Jul  9  @KCR  L   6-13      48-43  2nd  0.5 gb
 90 Fri, Jul  8  @KCR  W   6-4       48-42  2nd  0.5 gb
 89 Thu, Jul  7  @KCR  W   3-1       47-42  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Twins, 46-52, 46-52 4th, 6 GB, 12 GB in WC

SP: Brian Duensing (28, LHP, 7-7, 4.14)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (7-7) 108.2 116 56 50 36 72 9 4.14
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 4-2 42.0 42 19 15 13 26 3 3.21 52
2011-07-17 KCR W 6.1 7 3 3 0 2 1 99 49
2011-07-09 @CHW ND 7.0 5 2 2 1 2 1 102 60
2011-07-04 TBR W 9.0 6 0 0 4 7 0 119 78
2011-06-28 LAD W 5.0 4 4 4 4 3 1 96 42
2011-06-23 @SFG L 6.2 6 1 1 2 5 0 108 61
2011-06-17 SDP W 6.0 7 2 2 1 5 0 106 54
2011-06-10 TEX L 2.0 7 7 3 1 2 0 56 23
Last 5 v.DET 1-2 29.0 36 19 16 11 14 3 4.97 42
2011-05-31 @DET ND 4.2 9 6 6 2 5 0 91 25
2010-09-26 @DET L 6.2 7 5 5 4 3 2 109 39
2010-08-31 DET ND 6.2 9 3 0 1 2 0 103 51
2009-09-29 @DET L 4.2 7 5 5 3 3 1 82 30
2009-09-18 DET W 6.1 4 0 0 1 1 0 103 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   25-23   Road:   21-29   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  30-37   vsLHP:  16-15   1-Run:  21-21
 vsEast:  8-19   vsCntrl:21-15   vsWest:  9-8  IL: 8-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 98 Thu, Jul 21   DET  L   2-6       46-52  4th  6.0 gb
 97 Wed, Jul 20   CLE  W   7-5       46-51  4th  5.0 gb
 96 Tue, Jul 19   CLE  W   2-1       45-51  4th  6.0 gb
 95 Mon, Jul 18   CLE  L   3-6       44-51  4th  7.0 gb
 94 Mon, Jul 18   CLE  L   2-5       44-50  4th  7.0 gb
 93 Sun, Jul 17   KCR  W   4-3       44-49  4th  5.0 gb
 92 Sat, Jul 16   KCR  W   4-3       43-49  4th  6.0 gb
 91 Fri, Jul 15   KCR  L   1-2       42-49  4th  7.0 gb
 90 Thu, Jul 14   KCR  W   8-4       42-48  4th  6.0 gb
 89 Sun, Jul 10  @CHW  W   6-3       41-48  4th  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jul 21, 2011 DET  6 @MIN  2        W:Justin Verlander (13-5), L: Carl Pavano (6-7), S: none
Wed, Jun 01, 2011 DET  4  MIN  2        W:Rick Porcello (5-3), L: Scott Baker (2-4), S: Jose Valverde (14)
Tue, May 31, 2011 DET  8  MIN  7        W:Al Alburquerque (3-1), L: Phil Dumatrait (0-1), S: Joaquin Benoit (2)
Mon, May 30, 2011 DET  6  MIN  5        W:Al Alburquerque (2-1), L: Alex Burnett (1-4), S: Jose Valverde (13)
Wed, May 11, 2011 DET  9 @MIN  7        W:Joaquin Benoit (1-2), L: Matt Capps (1-2), S: Jose Valverde (8)
Tue, May 10, 2011 DET 10 @MIN  2        W:Rick Porcello (3-2), L: Francisco Liriano (2-5), S: none

Sun, Sep 26, 2010 DET  5  MIN  1        W:Rick Porcello (10-11), L: Brian Duensing (10-3), S: none
Sat, Sep 25, 2010 DET 11  MIN 10 (13)   W:Daniel Schlereth (1-0), L: Pat Neshek (0-1), S: none
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 DET 10  MIN  1        W:Justin Verlander (18-8), L: Francisco Liriano (14-9), S: none
Thu, Sep 02, 2010 DET 10 @MIN  9 (13)   W:Jose Valverde (2-3), L: Nick Blackburn (8-9), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - DET over 6-0; 2010 - Tied 9-9; 2009 - MIN won 12-7; All-Time - DET leads 1047-967

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
Tigers Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.58 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB
31.Burnett
G/S/vB
55.Capps
G/S/vB
54.Dumatrait*
G/S/vB
44.James*
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 7/1.000 4/.750 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 2/2.000 1/5.000 314/246 .279/.365/.487/.852 .673/.902 .796 72/.723 3/0 10/4
20.Betemit# G/S/vP 19/.842 3/1.000 5/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.333 2/.000 3/.666 230/167 .280/.339/.406/.745 .544/.822 .820 21/.654 3/1 3/6
26.Boesch* G/S/vP 8/.625 3/2.333 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 5/.733 ··· 1/.000 ··· 375/280 .297/.352/.491/.843 .848/.841 .864 84/.852 4/3 14/2
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 23/.898 4/.833 6/.733 2/no AB 16/.646 5/.200 9/.111 15/1.015 1/5.000 414/309 .315/.432/.561/.993 .981/.997 1.060 89/.902 1/1 20/8
9.Guillen# G/S/vP 4/.000 1/2.000 1/3.000 ··· 4/1.750 1/.000 17/.797 12/1.583 1/4.000 19/17 .412/.421/.588/1.009 2.000/.886 .583 19/1.009 0/0 1/1
14.Jackson G/S/vP 14/.630 6/1.333 2/.000 1/no AB 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 394/280 .244/.316/.355/.671 .683/.667 .672 61/.658 16/3 4/3
32.Kelly* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 175/162 .239/.287/.352/.639 .333/.663 .798 41/.517 2/0 3/4
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 4/2.250 4/1.750 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 4/1.250 11/.909 7/.762 3/.666 334/247 .318/.365/.456/.821 .700/.863 .851 86/.655 1/0 6/1
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 11/.455 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 13/.685 13/.885 1/.000 207/138 .234/.300/.314/.613 .674/.582 .519 74/.792 0/1 3/0
27.Peralta G/S/vP 17/1.042 4/3.333 3/2.667 ··· 2/2.500 6/.367 16/.599 6/1.166 4/2.500 343/245 .317/.364/.533/.898 .860/.913 .844 77/1.019 0/2 15/5
25.Raburn G/S/vP 19/.378 5/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 10/.000 ··· 281/184 .214/.248/.359/.607 .667/.575 .628 51/.759 1/0 8/10
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 6/1.133 3/.500 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 7/.334 5/.500 ··· 150/119 .227/.280/.295/.575 .464/.604 .586 30/.591 0/0 1/2
IP 108.2 29.1 42.0 20.2 8.0 23.2 25.2 36.2 46.0 TOTAL .265/.332/.416/.747 .743/.749 .743 .744 35/13 96/68
ERA-K/9 4.14/6.0 6.14/6.1 4.71/4.5 5.23/4.8 3.38/5.6 4.56/6.1 5.26/7.7 1.72/10.1 3.52/4.5 4.18/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (51-28-3)
 Kelly (0-0-1)
 Martinez (25-7-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 466/.275 132/.291 173/.255 90/.227 33/.233 115/.253 110/.224 143/.224 197/.254 .264  Boesch
 Ordonez
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Raburn
41/0/45/4
0/0/34/4
0/94/0/3
13/4/16/1
41/0/2/1
OPS .748 .806 .721 .720 .703 .754 .722 .567 .666 .737
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 123/.509 51/.900 93/.767 39/.488 11/.545 60/.708 56/.633 59/.441 111/.609 .712
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 343/.835 81/.745 80/.666 51/.917 22/.792 55/.805 54/.815 84/.661 86/.737 .758
Home 236/.767 73/.828 92/.722 41/.793 19/.980 50/.902 54/.453 77/.573 136/.651
Last 28d days 109/.665 34/.958 52/.926 50/.898 16/1.171 32/.815 36/.444 39/.298 83/.703
HR/SB/CS 9/5/3 2/4/1 8/2/0 4/1/1 1/0/0 0/2/3 5/5/0 0/2/1 5/0/0 94/58/27
Usage ····X··· ·o·Xo··· ·ooo··X· X·Xo···X X··X···· ·o·X···X ·X··ooo· ··o·oo·· ···X····
Twins Batters (3.88 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.58 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
41.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 155/114 .177/.208/.272/.480 .703/.399 .479 29/.528 0/0 2/3
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 7/.000 5/.650 4/1.250 4/.500 334/224 .259/.318/.367/.685 .592/.737 .787 99/.673 13/3 2/10
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 12/1.117 12/1.117 4/.500 8/.000 387/274 .299/.372/.477/.849 1.127/.742 .936 99/.948 7/1 14/6
38.Hughes G/S/vP 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 193/122 .237/.293/.322/.615 .725/.551 .537 52/.588 1/2 3/3
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 5/1.100 7/1.171 4/.500 3/.333 217/145 .310/.355/.465/.820 .654/.902 .695 / 1/0 5/1
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 6/.666 6/.167 4/1.000 7/.000 159/89 .303/.371/.345/.716 .526/.864 .783 95/.897 0/0 0/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 90/67 .211/.322/.434/.756 .798/.742 .772 19/.993 1/1 5/3
18.Repko G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.500 2/.000 6/.000 105/65 .240/.284/.260/.545 .675/.467 .631 46/.689 6/1 0/1
11.Revere* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 227/144 .256/.289/.293/.582 .455/.653 .521 105/.562 13/5 0/4
25.Thome* G/S/vP 9/1.319 5/1.400 1/no AB 4/1.250 153/114 .206/.340/.413/.753 .944/.691 .838 59/.648 0/0 7/
19.Valencia G/S/vP 6/.833 4/.500 2/.000 2/.000 383/281 .232/.282/.381/.663 .936/.565 .684 97/.766 2/4 11/12
21.Young G/S/vP 8/.875 9/.347 5/.400 4/.000 251/175 .261/.283/.340/.623 .651/.611 .663 36/.694 1/0 2/4
IP 119.1 36.0 32.0 41.2 TOTAL .249/.307/.357/.664 .683/.655 .690 .700 52/22 60/68
ERA-K/9 4.53/7.7 4.25/8.2 5.06/5.9 3.24/8.8 4.25/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (21-14-3)
 Mauer (21-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 518/.278 154/.292 147/.254 183/.224 .261  Cuddyer
 Kubel
 Young
 Repko
 Revere
 Plouffe
0/0/55/4
3/0/28/4
57/0/0/3
22/3/16/2
6/41/4/2
0/0/5/1
OPS .799 .713 .749 .653 .728
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 281/.956 78/.863 53/.730 107/.795 .739
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 237/.619 76/.548 94/.763 76/.466 .717
Road 206/.873 71/.602 50/.590 70/.636
Last 28d days 98/.802 32/.771 38/1.186 52/.790
HR/SB/CS 17/9/6 3/1/2 2/3/0 3/5/3 84/76/35
Usage ·····X·· ·X··o··· ·X····X· ····XX··

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.