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Game Preview: DET @ NYY, 8:37pm, Friday, September 30, 2011 @Yankee Stadium III

Tigers, 95-67,

SP: Justin Verlander (28, RHP, 24-5, 2.40)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 RegS (24-5) 251.0 174 73 67 57 250 24 2.40
2010 RegS (18-9) 224.1 190 89 84 71 219 14 3.37
2009 RegS (19-9) 240.0 219 99 92 63 269 20 3.45
Last 7 GS 6-0 48.1 38 15 15 15 46 8 2.79 61
2011-09-24 BAL ND 7.0 8 5 5 1 6 2 120 46
2011-09-18 @OAK W 8.0 3 0 0 3 6 0 116 79
2011-09-13 @CHW W 7.0 6 0 0 2 6 0 106 69
2011-09-07 @CLE W 6.0 3 4 4 2 8 2 113 56
2011-09-02 CHW W 7.1 7 1 1 1 6 1 106 65
2011-08-27 @MIN W 6.0 8 4 4 3 6 2 120 43
2011-08-22 @TBR W 7.0 3 1 1 3 8 1 116 72
Last 5 v.NYY 1-2 30.2 27 11 11 18 31 3 3.23 55
2011-05-02 NYY ND 6.0 8 3 3 4 8 0 127 48
2011-03-31 @NYY ND 6.0 3 3 3 4 8 1 114 58
2010-08-17 @NYY L 5.0 5 3 3 5 5 1 114 45
2010-05-13 NYY W 6.2 4 0 0 4 4 0 119 66
2009-07-18 @NYY L 7.0 7 2 2 1 6 1 109 60
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   50-31   Road:   45-36   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  64-47   vsLHP:  31-20   1-Run:  29-17
 vsEast: 20-16   vsCntrl:50-22   vsWest: 18-18 IL: 7-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Wed, Sep 28   CLE  W   5-4       95-67  1st 15.0 up
161 Tue, Sep 27   CLE  W   9-6       94-67  1st 14.0 up
160 Mon, Sep 26   CLE  W  14-0       93-67  1st 13.0 up
159 Sun, Sep 25   BAL  W  10-6       92-67  1st 12.0 up
158 Sat, Sep 24   BAL  L   5-6       91-67  1st 11.0 up
157 Fri, Sep 23   BAL  W   4-3 (11)  91-66  1st 12.5 up
156 Thu, Sep 22   BAL  L   5-6       90-66  1st 12.5 up
155 Wed, Sep 21  @KCR  W   6-3       90-65  1st 13.5 up
154 Tue, Sep 20  @KCR  L   2-10      89-65  1st 12.5 up
153 Sun, Sep 18  @OAK  W   3-0       89-64  1st 12.5 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:22-8
Yankees, 97-65,

SP: CC Sabathia (30, LHP, 19-8, 3.00)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 RegS (19-8) 237.1 230 87 79 61 230 17 3.00
2010 RegS (21-7) 237.2 209 92 84 74 197 20 3.18
2009 RegS (19-8) 230.0 197 96 86 67 197 18 3.37
Last 7 GS 3-1 46.2 58 18 17 15 55 4 3.28 54
2011-09-21 TBR ND 7.1 7 2 2 2 6 2 127 60
2011-09-16 @TOR ND 5.2 10 4 4 4 8 0 120 37
2011-09-10 @LAA L 6.0 8 1 1 4 5 0 119 53
2011-09-04 TOR W 7.1 6 2 2 1 10 0 111 67
2011-08-30 @BOS W 6.0 10 2 2 2 10 1 128 52
2011-08-24 OAK ND 7.1 7 3 3 1 7 1 100 58
2011-08-18 @MIN W 7.0 10 4 3 1 9 0 106 51
Last 5 v.DET 2-2 33.0 35 15 14 11 30 4 3.82 53
2011-05-03 @DET L 7.0 10 4 4 3 6 0 119 44
2011-03-31 DET ND 6.0 6 3 2 2 7 0 106 55
2010-08-17 DET W 7.0 5 2 2 3 9 2 115 65
2010-05-13 @DET L 6.0 9 6 6 0 4 2 79 34
2009-07-18 DET W 7.0 5 0 0 3 4 0 114 68
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   52-29   Road:   45-36   ExtrInn: 4-12
 vsRHP:  62-48   vsLHP:  35-17   1-Run:  21-24
 vsEast: 39-33   vsCntrl:22-14   vsWest: 23-13 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Wed, Sep 28  @TBR  L   7-8 (12)  97-65  1st  6.0 up
161 Tue, Sep 27  @TBR  L   3-5       97-64  1st  7.0 up
160 Mon, Sep 26  @TBR  L   2-5       97-63  1st  8.0 up
159 Sun, Sep 25   BOS  L   4-7 (14)  97-62  1st  8.0 up
158 Sun, Sep 25   BOS  W   6-2       97-61  1st  8.0 up
157 Sat, Sep 24   BOS  W   9-1       96-61  1st  8.0 up
156 Thu, Sep 22   TBR  L   8-15      95-61  1st  7.0 up
155 Wed, Sep 21   TBR  W   4-2       95-60  1st  7.5 up
154 Wed, Sep 21   TBR  W   4-2       94-60  1st  7.5 up
153 Tue, Sep 20   TBR  W   5-0       93-60  1st  6.0 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, May 05, 2011 DET  6  NYY  3        W:Rick Porcello (2-2), L: A.J. Burnett (4-2), S: none
Wed, May 04, 2011 DET  4  NYY  0        W:Max Scherzer (5-0), L: Freddy Garcia (1-2), S: none
Tue, May 03, 2011 DET  4  NYY  2        W:Brad Penny (2-3), L: CC Sabathia (2-2), S: Jose Valverde (6)
Mon, May 02, 2011 NYY  5 @DET  3        W:Joba Chamberlain (2-0), L: Jose Valverde (2-1), S: Mariano Rivera (11)
Sun, Apr 03, 2011 DET 10 @NYY  7        W:Max Scherzer (1-0), L: Phil Hughes (0-1), S: Jose Valverde (1)
Sat, Apr 02, 2011 NYY 10  DET  6        W:A.J. Burnett (1-0), L: Brad Penny (0-1), S: Mariano Rivera (2)
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 NYY  6  DET  3        W:Joba Chamberlain (1-0), L: Phil Coke (0-1), S: Mariano Rivera (1)

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 NYY 11  DET  5        W:Phil Hughes (15-5), L: Rick Porcello (5-11), S: Sergio Mitre (1)
Wed, Aug 18, 2010 NYY  9  DET  5        W:Dustin Moseley (3-2), L: Jeremy Bonderman (6-9), S: none
Tue, Aug 17, 2010 NYY  6  DET  2        W:CC Sabathia (16-5), L: Justin Verlander (13-8), S: none

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2011 - DET over 4-3; 2010 - Tied 4-4; 2009 - NYY won 5-1; All-Time - NYY leads 1043-930

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  5.40

CLE  4.35

SEA  3.43

 RA/G

PHI  3.27

FLA  4.33

BAL  5.31

 BA

M. Cabrera  .344

A. Ramirez  .269

V. Wells  .218

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .448

J. Bruce  .341

V. Wells  .248

 SLG

J. Bautista  .608

C. Lee  .446

J. Bartlett  .307

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.056

Y. Escobar  .782

A. Rios  .613

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.28

R. Wolf  3.69

B. Penny  5.30

 K/9IP

Z. Greinke  10.54

G. Floyd  7.02

B. Penny  3.67

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Batter vs. Pitcher Include Regular and Postseason Totals, All Others Just Regular Season

Tigers Batters (4.86 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS Sabathia*
G/S/vB		 38.Ayala
G/S/vB		 48.Logan*
G/S/vB		 42.Rivera
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 53.Wade
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· 3/.333 4/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· 551/403 .295/.389/.506/.895 .779/.939 .844 89/.805 3/1 19/6
20.Betemit# G/S/vP 6/1.467 2/.000 2/.000 2/.500 2/2.000 ··· ··· 359/263 .285/.343/.452/.795 .607/.865 .813 37/1.145 4/1 8/11
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 22/1.591 11/1.345 2/.500 5/.000 3/1.667 7/.286 1/.000 688/507 .344/.448/.586/1.033 .990/1.047 1.055 102/1.356 2/1 30/13
12.Dirks* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 235/204 .251/.296/.406/.703 .871/.675 .615 47/.663 5/2 7/2
15.Inge G/S/vP 67/.558 1/2.000 6/1.000 12/.334 3/.000 2/.500 ··· 303/189 .197/.265/.283/.548 .717/.449 .512 37/.899 1/1 3/9
14.Jackson G/S/vP 14/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 ··· 668/463 .249/.317/.374/.690 .732/.672 .635 108/.628 22/5 10/3
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 281/259 .245/.291/.381/.672 .381/.698 .785 56/.940 2/1 7/5
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 27/.816 3/2.667 12/1.117 17/.544 5/.800 3/.000 ··· 595/424 .330/.380/.470/.850 .823/.862 .860 102/1.061 1/0 12/2
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 79/.822 ··· 6/.167 15/1.176 1/.000 3/.666 1/5.000 357/218 .255/.303/.331/.634 .716/.581 .509 38/.838 2/1 5/0
27.Peralta G/S/vP 21/.308 4/1.500 4/.000 13/.308 5/1.000 4/.833 1/.000 576/403 .299/.345/.478/.824 .765/.848 .752 83/.712 0/2 21/7
25.Raburn G/S/vP 25/.501 ··· 2/1.500 5/.200 ··· 2/.000 ··· 418/261 .256/.297/.432/.729 .807/.681 .755 51/1.168 1/1 14/17
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 26/.625 ··· 1/.000 6/.000 1/2.000 4/.000 ··· 294/237 .260/.311/.384/.695 .832/.662 .618 66/.778 0/0 5/3
18.Santos G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 22/11 .227/.227/.227/.455 .727/.182 .400 14/.571 0/0 0/0
21.Young G/S/vP 24/.292 1/.000 3/2.334 13/.539 8/.708 3/1.000 ··· 503/361 .268/.302/.393/.695 .759/.670 .656 98/.811 1/0 12/7
IP 237.1 56.0 41.2 61.1 66.2 39.1 39.2 TOTAL .277/.340/.434/.773 .783/.769 .738 .891 49/20 169/103
ERA-K/9 3.00/8.7 2.09/6.3 3.46/9.9 1.91/8.8 1.08/13.5 4.12/8.2 2.04/6.8 3.73/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (85-40-7)
 Kelly (0-0-1)
 Martinez (29-8-0)
 Santos (5-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 985/.255 233/.256 185/.261 233/.215 272/.170 164/.229 157/.221 .256  Jackson
 Young
 Ordonez
 Dirks
 Raburn
 Kelly
0/152/0/8
115/0/0/7
0/0/69/7
38/16/22/4
52/2/20/4
17/4/39/1
OPS .666 .708 .746 .534 .506 .645 .624 .721
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 266/.554 121/.694 118/.789 109/.595 142/.466 76/.850 67/.730 .740
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 719/.709 112/.723 67/.673 124/.480 130/.549 88/.477 90/.541 .704
Home 467/.618 114/.681 94/.639 120/.435 129/.570 94/.745 79/.621
Last 28d days 119/.761 40/.508 30/1.123 31/.412 45/.385 47/.684 43/.741
HR/SB/CS 17/11/6 5/4/0 4/3/2 3/5/1 1/16/2 4/6/2 5/2/2 152/128/49
Usage ········ ·X·X·o·· ·o··oo·· ··o·X··· ··o·X··· ··X·o··· ·oo·Xo··
Yankees Batters (5.35 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.39 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS Verlander
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 45.Perry
G/S/vB		 55.Schlereth*
G/S/vB		 46.Valverde
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cano* G/S/vP 25/.457 1/.000 14/.357 3/.333 1/.000 4/1.250 5/.200 681/458 .302/.349/.533/.882 .879/.884 .885 103/.872 8/2 28/10
12.Chavez* G/S/vP 15/.600 ··· 16/.599 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 175/152 .263/.320/.356/.676 .609/.687 .559 47/.574 0/0 2/0
27.Dickerson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/42 .260/.296/.360/.656 .718/.637 .550 23/.551 4/0 1/2
11.Gardner* G/S/vP 13/.920 1/no AB 4/.250 4/.000 2/.000 2/2.500 2/2.000 588/464 .259/.345/.369/.713 .616/.738 .731 82/.629 49/13 7/5
14.Granderson* G/S/vP 7/.953 ··· 3/.333 6/1.333 ··· 4/.500 2/2.000 691/472 .262/.364/.552/.916 .944/.902 .921 91/.668 25/10 41/3
2.Jeter G/S/vP 33/.848 1/.000 28/.399 2/.000 6/.167 2/1.000 1/.000 607/439 .297/.355/.388/.743 .946/.666 .783 88/.772 16/6 6/12
18.Jones G/S/vP 6/1.133 ··· 4/.833 2/.500 1/5.000 1/.000 7/1.286 222/76 .247/.356/.495/.851 .923/.709 .916 50/.805 0/0 13/1
55.Martin G/S/vP 5/.800 1/no AB 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 12/.166 476/343 .237/.324/.408/.732 .684/.750 .780 55/.648 8/2 18/11
63.Montero G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 69/42 .328/.406/.590/.996 1.181/.877 1.483 64/1.053 0/0 4/0
26.Nunez G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 338/217 .265/.313/.385/.698 .742/.673 .679 56/.765 22/6 5/20
20.Posada# G/S/vP 26/.938 ··· 16/1.486 2/1.000 2/.000 3/.000 5/.200 387/316 .235/.315/.398/.714 .277/.814 .878 34/.694 0/2 14/1
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 25/.701 1/.000 18/.611 2/1.000 2/.500 1/.000 5/.800 428/319 .276/.362/.461/.823 .750/.848 .862 65/.722 4/1 16/6
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 54/.655 1/.000 11/1.364 2/1.500 2/2.500 2/2.000 6/.750 635/437 .260/.374/.449/.822 .957/.763 .853 80/.698 2/2 23/1
25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 26/.542 1/no AB 7/.143 2/.000 4/.500 3/1.666 6/.333 684/464 .248/.341/.494/.835 .967/.779 .862 89/.752 4/1 39/4
IP 251.0 43.1 61.0 108.2 37.0 49.0 72.1 TOTAL .263/.343/.444/.788 .827/.771 .825 .725 147/46 222/102
ERA-K/9 2.40/9.0 1.87/13.9 2.95/9.3 4.47/5.7 5.35/5.8 3.49/8.1 2.24/8.6 4.04/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (95-40-4)
 Montero (4-1-0)
 Posada (0-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 969/.192 182/.142 241/.218 474/.279 168/.277 212/.209 301/.198 .257  Granderson
 Swisher
 Gardner
 Jones
 Dickerson
 Nunez
0/155/0/11
0/0/141/9
149/18/0/7
39/0/19/1
14/0/42/0
1/0/3/0
OPS .555 .438 .581 .728 .768 .699 .580 .717
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 538/.504 81/.468 125/.639 167/.584 75/.835 100/.529 179/.687 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 431/.617 101/.412 116/.517 307/.806 93/.712 112/.863 122/.432 .725
Road 507/.563 95/.443 109/.504 278/.665 66/.796 105/.656 132/.513
Last 28d days 110/.588 24/.400 27/.229 30/.806 29/.727 25/.625 47/.348
HR/SB/CS 24/10/5 0/5/1 5/3/2 5/10/6 1/2/1 6/5/3 5/9/3 149/119/49
Usage ·····X·· ·o··oo·o ··o·o·oo ··X·o·Xo ·Xo···oo ··X··o·· ·Xo·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.