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Game Preview: MIN @ OAK, 10:05pm, Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

Twins, 13-27, 13-27 5th, 13½ GB, 8 GB in WC

SP: Carl Pavano (35, RHP, 2-4, 5.89)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (2-4) 47.1 57 34 31 14 18 5 5.89
2010 (17-11) 221.0 227 95 92 37 117 24 3.75
2009 (14-12) 199.1 235 119 113 39 147 26 5.10
Last 7 GS 2-3 43.1 51 26 24 12 15 2 4.98 44
2011-05-13 TOR ND 5.1 7 0 0 3 1 0 115 52
2011-05-08 @BOS L 5.0 10 7 7 1 0 1 91 18
2011-05-01 @KCR L 5.1 12 7 6 0 0 1 88 18
2011-04-24 CLE W 7.0 6 3 3 2 3 0 101 54
2011-04-19 @BAL L 4.2 8 8 7 3 3 0 99 18
2011-04-14 @TBR ND 8.0 4 0 0 2 7 0 104 79
2011-04-08 OAK W 8.0 4 1 1 1 1 0 106 70
Last 5 v.OAK 3-0 28.0 29 8 8 7 11 2 2.57 55
2011-04-08 OAK W 8.0 4 1 1 1 1 0 106 70
2010-08-13 OAK W 6.1 10 2 2 1 4 0 99 48
2009-07-04 OAK W 6.2 8 2 2 2 3 0 103 51
2005-05-06 OAK ND 7.0 7 3 3 3 3 2 101 51
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-11   Road:    9-16   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:   8-20   vsLHP:   5-7    1-Run:   8-8 
 vsEast:  6-18   vsCntrl: 5-6    vsWest:  2-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Tue, May 17  @SEA  W   2-1       13-27  5th 13.5 gb
 39 Mon, May 16  @SEA  L   2-5       12-27  5th 13.5 gb
 38 Sun, May 15   TOR  L   3-11      12-26  5th 12.5 gb
 37 Sat, May 14   TOR  L   3-9 (11)  12-25  5th 12.0 gb
 36 Fri, May 13   TOR  L   0-2       12-24  5th 11.5 gb
 35 Wed, May 11   DET  L   7-9       12-23  5th 11.0 gb
 34 Tue, May 10   DET  L   2-10      12-22  5th 11.0 gb
 33 Mon, May  9  @BOS  L   1-2 (11)  12-21  5th 10.0 gb
 32 Sun, May  8  @BOS  L   5-9       12-20  4th  9.5 gb
 31 Sat, May  7  @BOS  L   0-4       12-19  4th  9.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 5-15   Last 30: 9-21
Athletics, 22-20, 22-20 1st, Tied

SP: Brandon McCarthy (27, RHP, 1-4, 3.34)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (1-4) 56.2 59 27 21 10 36 1 3.34
2009 (7-4) 97.1 96 55 50 36 65 13 4.62
2008 (1-1) 22.0 20 11 10 8 10 3 4.09
Last 7 GS 1-4 48.2 51 22 17 9 34 1 3.14 54
2011-05-13 CHW L 7.0 5 4 3 2 6 0 98 57
2011-05-07 @KCR L 8.1 7 4 4 2 3 0 107 54
2011-05-02 TEX ND 6.0 6 4 0 2 4 0 101 54
2011-04-26 @LAA L 5.1 14 7 7 1 3 0 104 14
2011-04-21 @SEA L 8.0 4 1 1 1 6 1 99 75
2011-04-15 DET ND 6.2 6 0 0 1 7 0 114 68
2011-04-10 @MIN W 7.1 9 2 2 0 5 0 107 57
Last 5 v.MIN 1-0 15.1 13 3 3 1 9 1 1.76 65
2011-04-10 @MIN W 7.1 9 2 2 0 5 0 107 57
2005-09-22 MIN ND 8.0 4 1 1 1 4 1 99 73
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-10   Road:   11-10   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  13-16   vsLHP:   9-4    1-Run:   7-8 
 vsEast:  2-3    vsCntrl:10-9    vsWest: 10-8  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Tue, May 17   LAA  W  14-0       22-20  1st    Tied
 41 Mon, May 16   LAA  W   5-4 (10)  21-20  3rd  1.0 gb
 40 Sun, May 15   CHW  L   3-4       20-20  3rd  1.5 gb
 39 Sat, May 14   CHW  W   6-2       20-19  2nd  1.5 gb
 38 Fri, May 13   CHW  L   3-4       19-19  3rd  1.5 gb
 37 Tue, May 10  @TEX  L   2-7       19-18  2nd  2.0 gb
 36 Mon, May  9  @TEX  W   7-2       19-17  2nd  1.0 gb
 35 Sun, May  8  @KCR  W   5-2       18-17  2nd  2.0 gb
 34 Sat, May  7  @KCR  L   3-4       17-17  3rd  2.0 gb
 33 Fri, May  6  @KCR  W   3-2       17-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 10, 2011 OAK  5 @MIN  3        W:Brandon McCarthy (1-0), L: Scott Baker (0-2), S: Brian Fuentes (3)
Sat, Apr 09, 2011 OAK  1 @MIN  0        W:Gio Gonzalez (2-0), L: Nick Blackburn (1-1), S: Brian Fuentes (2)
Fri, Apr 08, 2011 MIN  2  OAK  1        W:Carl Pavano (1-1), L: Brett Anderson (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (3)

Sun, Sep 19, 2010 OAK  6 @MIN  2        W:Bobby Cramer (2-0), L: Francisco Liriano (14-8), S: none
Sat, Sep 18, 2010 MIN  4  OAK  2        W:Kevin Slowey (13-6), L: Dallas Braden (9-13), S: Matt Capps (40)
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 OAK  3 @MIN  1        W:Brett Anderson (6-6), L: Nick Blackburn (9-10), S: Andrew Bailey (25)
Sun, Aug 15, 2010 MIN  4  OAK  2        W:Kevin Slowey (11-5), L: Vin Mazzaro (6-5), S: Matt Capps (30)
Sat, Aug 14, 2010 MIN  2  OAK  0        W:Brian Duensing (6-1), L: Trevor Cahill (12-5), S: none
Fri, Aug 13, 2010 MIN  4  OAK  3        W:Carl Pavano (15-7), L: Gio Gonzalez (10-8), S: Matt Capps (29)
Sun, Jun 06, 2010 OAK  5  MIN  4        W:Gio Gonzalez (6-3), L: Nick Blackburn (6-3), S: Michael Wuertz (1)
Season Series: 2011 - OAK over 2-1; 2010 - MIN won 6-3; 2009 - OAK won 6-4; All-Time - MIN leads 987-975

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

CIN  5.36

HOU  4.10

MIN  3.08

 RA/G

ATL  3.16

MIL  4.26

MIN  5.38

 BA

J. Reyes  .313

  

M. Prado  .296

 OBP

J. Reyes  .364

  

M. Prado  .338

 SLG

J. Reyes  .469

  

M. Prado  .450

 OPS

J. Reyes  .833

  

M. Prado  .788

 ERA

J. Johnson  1.64

J. Hammel  3.71

R. Dempster  6.71

 K/9IP

M. Garza  10.99

C. Carpenter  6.71

C. Pavano  3.42

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

Twins Batters (3.08 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.McCarthy
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 56.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 57.Fuentes*
G/S/vB		 29.Purcey*
G/S/vB		 48.Wuertz
G/S/vB		 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 77/67 .108/.143/.135/.278 .400/.259 .319 54/.228 0/0 0/2
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 2/1.000 1/no AB 98/74 .191/.247/.258/.506 .227/.609 .486 55/.611 3/1 0/5
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 12/.705 2/1.500 3/.000 3/.333 1/.000 3/1.000 2/.000 156/111 .261/.327/.373/.700 .975/.591 .694 87/.726 2/0 4/3
38.Hughes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 73/48 .217/.260/.304/.565 .697/.494 .548 48/.633 1/0 1/1
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 3/.333 3/.000 2/.000 4/1.833 2/.500 163/108 .322/.380/.473/.853 .715/.923 .894 94/.850 1/0 4/0
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 13/.847 1/.000 3/.000 3/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 3/1.167 143/92 .223/.294/.323/.617 .400/.743 .510 87/.660 0/0 1/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/23 .269/.406/.462/.868 .984/.822 .853 32/.868 1/0 1/0
11.Revere* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 24/22 .167/.167/.167/.333 .000/.364 .211 24/.333 2/0 0/1
32.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/10 .067/.176/.067/.243 .286/.200 .091 17/.243 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP 4/.500 4/.000 2/1.500 2/.000 3/.666 4/.000 3/.000 177/124 .277/.350/.333/.684 .685/.682 .697 101/.632 3/1 1/0
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 71/56 .164/.188/.239/.427 .607/.382 .330 38/.389 0/0 0/2
19.Valencia G/S/vP 3/1.334 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 158/118 .218/.297/.324/.621 .953/.509 .663 87/.618 2/2 3/3
21.Young G/S/vP 13/.785 5/.400 2/.000 2/1.000 3/.666 2/1.000 3/.000 80/52 .192/.238/.233/.470 .332/.546 .448 17/.121 1/0 0/1
IP 56.2 18.2 13.2 19.1 9.1 9.2 12.2 TOTAL .225/.291/.312/.603 .622/.595 .578 .606 18/4 18/25
ERA-K/9 3.34/5.7 1.45/10.6 3.95/4.6 4.19/7.0 4.82/6.8 0.93/12.1 0.00/7.1 2.68/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (10-7-2)
 Rivera (4-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 230/.280 77/.182 62/.352 82/.214 41/.222 36/.097 53/.224 .240  Kubel
 Young
 Cuddyer
 Revere
 Span
3/0/19/3
19/0/0/1
0/0/22/1
4/0/1/0
0/38/0/0
OPS .669 .541 .873 .577 .595 .297 .514 .634
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 118/.695 33/.517 26/.940 22/.702 16/.929 17/.437 12/.955 .663
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 112/.641 44/.559 36/.823 60/.531 25/.382 19/.170 41/.384 .615
Home 78/.576 48/.513 32/1.208 46/.842 21/.429 29/.322 25/.653
Last 28d days 142/.692 49/.456 37/.714 41/.570 21/.636 33/.326 28/.509
HR/SB/CS 1/3/2 1/0/0 1/0/4 1/2/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 0/1/0 22/19/19
Usage ····X··· ·X·Xo··· o······o ·o······ ·······o ·XX·o··· ·Xo·····
Athletics Batters (3.81 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Pavano
G/S/vB		 31.Burnett
G/S/vB		 55.Capps
G/S/vB		 54.Dumatrait*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 59.Slowey
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP 7/1.371 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 3/.333 12/.000 173/118 .215/.335/.285/.620 .891/.498 .606 96/.522 0/1 0/5
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 11/.909 ··· ··· ··· 11/.382 8/1.000 9/.583 147/103 .279/.308/.429/.737 .550/.813 .847 79/.825 13/4 2/1
12.DeJesus* G/S/vP 33/1.085 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 18/.398 11/.728 21/1.033 153/115 .241/.329/.361/.690 .246/.845 .870 84/.776 0/1 2/0
14.Ellis G/S/vP 9/.944 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 7/.143 1/.000 9/.347 152/111 .210/.235/.287/.522 .561/.506 .620 86/.388 4/1 0/1
28.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.833 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 99/54 .279/.364/.384/.747 .897/.619 .886 68/.743 2/0 1/1
5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP 6/.000 1/no AB 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 5/.200 109/84 .212/.248/.364/.611 .588/.618 .539 55/.699 2/0 3/6
21.LaRoche G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 75/47 .235/.307/.309/.615 .986/.413 .493 42/.549 0/0 0/4
55.Matsui* G/S/vP 11/.819 ··· 2/.000 ··· 7/.929 4/.500 10/.633 143/105 .233/.287/.376/.663 .626/.676 .592 75/.632 0/0 3/
2.Pennington# G/S/vP 6/.833 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/1.500 4/.000 141/105 .232/.295/.336/.631 .721/.600 .490 86/.745 4/5 3/3
11.Powell# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/2.667 38/26 .212/.316/.273/.589 .432/.664 .714 24/.258 0/0 0/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 10/.400 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 9/1.000 147/105 .260/.340/.389/.729 .778/.710 .814 88/.779 1/1 4/0
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 3/1.000 62/58 .315/.403/.407/.811 .000/.871 .952 45/.750 0/0 0/0
16.Willingham G/S/vP 3/.666 1/no AB 3/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 153/103 .237/.314/.407/.721 .709/.727 .700 84/.760 2/1 6/1
IP 47.1 9.2 19.1 1.1 13.1 20.2 14.0 TOTAL .241/.310/.357/.667 .676/.664 .694 .668 28/14 24/32
ERA-K/9 5.89/3.4 6.52/5.6 3.72/5.6 6.75/0.0 7.43/8.1 0.87/8.7 3.86/4.5 4.96/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Powell (2-1-0)
 Suzuki (17-18-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 213/.295 50/.351 75/.206 5/.000 62/.255 79/.221 57/.286 .272  Jackson
 Sweeney
 DeJesus
 Willingham
 Crisp
7/0/15/2
10/4/3/2
0/8/29/1
31/0/0/1
0/33/0/0
OPS .804 .892 .615 .400 .870 .578 .745 .793
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 117/.676 25/1.152 37/.660 3/.333 34/.682 34/.465 16/.713 .784
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 96/.966 25/.622 38/.566 2/.500 28/1.110 45/.668 41/.756 .801
Road 130/.957 24/.958 46/.689 5/.400 39/1.117 34/.429 34/.747
Last 28d days 108/.914 39/.944 36/.604 5/.400 29/.646 49/.657 42/.749
HR/SB/CS 5/7/0 0/4/0 3/0/0 0/0/1 3/3/0 0/1/1 2/0/0 46/27/11
Usage ····X··· ·o·oX··X o··o··Xo ·X······ ····X·o· o··XX·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.