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Game Preview: DET @ PIT, 7:05pm, Saturday, May 21, 2011 @PNC Park

Tigers, 22-22, 22-22 2nd, 6 GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Max Scherzer (26, RHP, 6-0, 2.81)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (6-0) 57.2 56 19 18 24 53 8 2.81
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 4-0 46.2 40 12 11 20 44 4 2.12 61
2011-05-16 TOR ND 7.0 8 1 0 1 2 0 108 60
2011-05-09 @TOR W 5.0 5 2 2 3 5 1 97 51
2011-05-04 NYY W 8.0 4 0 0 2 9 0 109 81
2011-04-29 @CLE ND 6.2 6 5 5 5 7 2 105 44
2011-04-24 CHW W 8.0 4 0 0 3 7 0 104 78
2011-04-18 @SEA W 6.0 6 2 2 4 7 1 112 55
2011-04-13 TEX ND 6.0 7 2 2 2 7 0 113 55
Last 5 v.PIT 1-0 12.1 12 5 5 4 13 0 3.65 55
2009-08-06 @PIT ND 5.1 7 5 5 4 5 0 100 35
2009-07-26 PIT W 7.0 5 0 0 0 8 0 109 75
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-8    Road:   11-14   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  11-18   vsLHP:  11-4    1-Run:   3-4 
 vsEast:  8-9    vsCntrl: 8-5    vsWest:  6-7  IL: 0-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 44 Fri, May 20  @PIT  L   1-10      22-22  2nd  6.0 gb
 43 Thu, May 19  @BOS  L   3-4       22-21  2nd  5.0 gb
 42 Wed, May 18  @BOS  L   0-1       22-20  2nd  5.0 gb
 41 Mon, May 16   TOR  L   2-4       22-19  2nd  4.5 gb
 40 Sat, May 14   KCR  W   3-0       22-18  2nd  3.5 gb
 39 Fri, May 13   KCR  W   3-1       21-18  2nd  4.0 gb
 38 Wed, May 11  @MIN  W   9-7       20-18  2nd  4.5 gb
 37 Tue, May 10  @MIN  W  10-2       19-18  2nd  5.5 gb
 36 Mon, May  9  @TOR  W  10-5       18-18  3rd  5.5 gb
 35 Sun, May  8  @TOR  W   5-2       17-18  3rd  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Pirates, 21-23, 21-23 4th, 4 GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Kevin Correia (30, RHP, 5-4, 3.97)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (5-4) 56.2 58 30 25 13 24 7 3.97
2010 (10-10) 145.0 152 89 87 64 115 20 5.40
2009 (12-11) 198.0 194 92 86 64 142 17 3.91
Last 7 GS 3-4 42.2 46 27 23 10 18 7 4.85 46
2011-05-15 @MIL L 4.0 8 6 6 2 1 2 78 21
2011-05-10 LAD L 6.1 10 5 4 0 2 1 87 37
2011-05-04 @SDP W 6.0 5 2 2 2 3 0 100 55
2011-04-29 @COL W 6.2 3 0 0 1 4 0 106 71
2011-04-24 WSN L 4.2 11 5 5 1 2 2 84 23
2011-04-18 @CIN W 9.0 4 3 2 2 5 1 109 72
2011-04-13 MIL L 6.0 5 6 4 2 1 1 78 41
Has never faced DET as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-11   Road:   13-12   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  15-18   vsLHP:   6-5    1-Run:   6-5 
 vsEast:  2-5    vsCntrl:11-9    vsWest:  7-9  IL: 1-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 44 Fri, May 20   DET  W  10-1       21-23  4th  4.0 gb
 43 Thu, May 19  @CIN  W   5-3       20-23  4th  5.0 gb
 42 Wed, May 18  @CIN  W   5-0       19-23  4th  5.5 gb
 41 Mon, May 16  @WSN  L   2-4       18-23  4th  6.0 gb
 40 Sun, May 15  @MIL  L   6-9       18-22  4th  5.0 gb
 39 Sat, May 14  @MIL  L   2-8       18-21  3rd  4.0 gb
 38 Fri, May 13  @MIL  L   2-5       18-20  3rd  3.5 gb
 37 Wed, May 11   LAD  L   0-2       18-19  3rd  3.0 gb
 36 Tue, May 10   LAD  L   3-10      18-18  3rd  3.0 gb
 35 Mon, May  9   LAD  W   4-1       18-17  3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 20, 2011 PIT 10  DET  1        W:Jeff Karstens (3-2), L: Brad Penny (4-4), S: none

Sun, Jun 13, 2010 DET  4  PIT  3        W:Brad Thomas (4-0), L: Javier Lopez (1-1), S: Jose Valverde (13)
Sat, Jun 12, 2010 DET  4  PIT  3 (10)   W:Phil Coke (4-0), L: Brendan Donnelly (2-1), S: none
Fri, Jun 11, 2010 DET  6  PIT  2        W:Justin Verlander (7-4), L: Ross Ohlendorf (0-4), S: none
Sun, Jun 14, 2009 PIT  6  DET  3        W:Ross Ohlendorf (6-5), L: Dontrelle Willis (1-4), S: Matt Capps (16)
Sat, Jun 13, 2009 PIT  9  DET  3        W:Zach Duke (7-4), L: Armando Galarraga (3-7), S: none
Fri, Jun 12, 2009 DET  3 @PIT  1        W:Rick Porcello (7-4), L: Ian Snell (1-7), S: Fernando Rodney (12)
Sun, Jul 02, 2006 DET  9 @PIT  8        W:Zach Miner (5-1), L: Ian Snell (7-6), S: Todd Jones (22)
Sat, Jul 01, 2006 PIT  9  DET  2        W:Matt Capps (3-1), L: Jason Grilli (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 DET  7 @PIT  6        W:Roman Colon (1-0), L: Kip Wells (0-3), S: Todd Jones (21)
Season Series: 2011 - PIT over 1-0; 2010 - DET won 3-0; 2009 - PIT won 2-1; All-Time - DET leads 14-11

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  5.16

MIL  4.07

MIN  3.37

 RA/G

PHI  3.27

PIT  4.16

MIN  5.28

 BA

J. Votto  .338

  

D. Uggla  .190

 OBP

J. Votto  .462

  

D. Uggla  .264

 SLG

R. Braun  .568

  

J. Pierre  .286

 OPS

J. Votto  .997

  

J. Pierre  .602

 ERA

J. Garcia  1.64

J. Lester  3.68

R. Dempster  6.91

 K/9IP

M. Garza  10.99

B. Myers  7.03

C. Pavano  3.31

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

Tigers Batters (4.39 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.16 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 29.Correia
G/S/vB		 45.Ascanio
G/S/vB		 97.Beimel*
G/S/vB		 52.Hanrahan
G/S/vB		 34.McCutchen
G/S/vB		 30.Resop
G/S/vB		 43.Veras
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 138/106 .283/.346/.525/.871 .804/.890 .839 79/.764 2/0 6/1
26.Boesch* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 166/123 .265/.331/.388/.719 .891/.661 .720 88/.555 3/2 3/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 13/1.362 1/2.000 2/1.000 3/1.334 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 192/137 .309/.438/.546/.984 .955/.994 1.074 100/.894 0/0 8/3
15.Inge G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.900 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.833 150/98 .209/.270/.299/.569 .660/.520 .614 76/.561 0/0 1/5
14.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 191/131 .237/.294/.364/.658 .769/.605 .694 101/.777 6/2 3/1
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 50/48 .239/.286/.326/.612 1.000/.595 .745 28/.576 2/0 0/1
41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 124/92 .313/.371/.509/.880 .714/.933 1.039 59/1.073 0/0 4/0
27.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 3/1.667 154/103 .290/.351/.493/.843 .732/.895 .801 76/.934 0/1 6/2
25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 148/94 .204/.245/.350/.595 .684/.544 .557 71/.407 1/0 4/4
39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 65/47 .291/.333/.400/.733 .561/.799 .758 34/.989 0/0 1/1
20.Sizemore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 59/39 .204/.328/.224/.552 .825/.415 .419 59/.552 1/0 0/1
57.Wells G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/18 .239/.300/.370/.670 .523/.922 .729 21/.488 0/0 1/1
IP 56.2 3.2 11.2 20.2 18.1 22.1 18.1 TOTAL .252/.322/.393/.715 .724/.712 .730 .702 16/6 38/29
ERA-K/9 3.97/3.8 4.91/9.7 4.63/7.7 1.74/6.5 0.49/3.0 4.43/11.3 2.95/13.3 3.76/6.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (23-14-2)
 Martinez (6-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 236/.262 14/.214 50/.227 83/.269 68/.222 100/.236 76/.200 .254  Jackson
 Boesch
 Kelly
 Raburn
 Wells
0/44/0/3
14/0/22/2
3/4/8/1
34/0/1/1
0/1/23/1
OPS .718 .857 .761 .685 .550 .668 .672 .713
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 88/.591 6/.833 22/.476 37/.766 28/.641 36/.744 25/.972 .786
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 148/.794 8/.875 28/1.002 46/.623 40/.488 64/.626 51/.508 .674
Home 79/.914 4/.500 15/.205 37/.677 33/.563 52/.737 34/.472
Last 28d days 121/.893 14/.857 34/.713 44/.637 50/.626 56/.797 44/.641
HR/SB/CS 7/4/3 2/0/0 2/1/0 1/1/0 0/1/0 2/2/0 3/2/1 42/33/9
Usage ·····X·· o···o·oo ·o··X·o· ·o···o·· oo···oX· X····X·X ·o····X·
Pirates Batters (3.80 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.36 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 45.Perry
G/S/vB		 55.Schlereth*
G/S/vB		 36.Thomas*
G/S/vB		 46.Valverde
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 138/111 .208/.283/.304/.587 .638/.574 .422 62/.634 1/0 2/7
5.Cedeno G/S/vP 3/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 143/109 .246/.310/.333/.643 .791/.597 .463 79/.792 1/3 1/3
23.Diaz G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 78/42 .227/.256/.293/.550 .342/.724 .507 44/.513 2/0 0/0
41.Doumit# G/S/vP 6/.334 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/1.096 91/68 .284/.356/.481/.837 1.288/.704 .836 47/.954 0/1 4/2
46.Jones* G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 131/120 .252/.366/.450/.817 .182/.882 .685 70/.807 2/0 6/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 6/.733 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 191/152 .247/.342/.470/.812 .686/.844 .587 109/.854 6/4 8/2
37.Overbay* G/S/vP 3/.000 8/.125 ··· ··· 1/2.000 4/1.250 164/125 .235/.301/.369/.670 .555/.707 .672 79/.644 1/1 4/4
38.Paul* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 47/41 .244/.277/.289/.565 .000/.650 .368 36/.572 3/0 0/0
51.Pearce G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 47/20 .286/.340/.333/.674 .638/.718 .845 27/.762 0/0 0/2
19.Snyder G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 77/58 .258/.342/.348/.691 .632/.713 .561 53/.606 0/1 1/0
31.Tabata G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 164/128 .235/.350/.360/.710 1.016/.628 .735 73/.518 11/2 3/1
18.Walker# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 183/140 .288/.361/.466/.827 .744/.852 .856 97/.881 2/0 6/3
2.Wood G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 64/38 .196/.274/.268/.542 .561/.528 .539 49/.598 0/0 0/0
IP 57.2 15.2 8.2 14.0 11.0 19.0 TOTAL .237/.315/.364/.679 .633/.693 .606 .689 30/13 35/31
ERA-K/9 2.81/8.3 7.47/7.5 7.27/8.3 3.21/3.9 9.00/5.7 2.84/9.5 4.15/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (17-5-1)
 Snyder (15-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 245/.257 73/.328 44/.294 62/.235 56/.386 78/.214 .251  McCutchen
 Diaz
 Tabata
 Paul
 Jones
 Pearce
0/42/0/5
5/0/17/2
37/2/0/2
13/0/10/2
0/0/35/2
0/0/1/0
OPS .740 .776 .889 .825 .974 .609 .713
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 128/.858 34/.851 18/1.214 28/.583 25/1.030 47/.755 .740
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 117/.614 39/.703 26/.660 34/1.034 31/.929 31/.398 .687
Road 105/.963 49/.690 24/.847 37/1.032 40/1.088 33/.622
Last 28d days 139/.606 37/1.241 32/1.067 36/.844 22/.883 44/.657
HR/SB/CS 8/5/5 1/1/1 1/1/0 3/0/1 1/0/0 2/1/1 39/29/15
Usage ····X··· o···X··· ··o·o··· ··o····· ········ X·····Xo

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.