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Game Preview: MIN @ SEA, 10:10pm, Monday, May 16, 2011 @Safeco Field

Twins, 12-26, 12-26 5th, 12½ GB, 9 GB in WC

SP: Scott Baker (29, RHP, 2-2, 3.71)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (2-2) 43.2 41 18 18 15 40 7 3.71
2010 (12-9) 170.1 186 87 85 43 148 23 4.49
2009 (15-9) 200.0 190 99 97 48 162 28 4.37
Last 7 GS 2-2 43.2 41 18 18 15 40 7 3.71 55
2011-05-11 DET ND 4.1 6 5 5 5 6 1 99 32
2011-05-06 @BOS W 8.0 7 2 2 1 8 2 106 67
2011-04-29 @KCR ND 6.1 8 2 2 1 2 0 107 50
2011-04-21 @BAL W 7.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 106 77
2011-04-16 @TBR ND 7.0 4 1 1 1 6 0 96 70
2011-04-10 OAK L 5.0 7 4 4 2 5 2 99 40
2011-04-04 @NYY L 6.0 5 4 4 4 4 2 96 46
Last 5 v.SEA 3-1 31.0 35 12 12 12 15 0 3.48 49
2010-08-27 @SEA W 6.2 5 2 2 3 4 0 101 57
2010-07-30 SEA W 5.1 7 3 3 4 2 0 86 40
2009-05-08 SEA W 7.0 5 0 0 0 5 0 102 72
2008-08-26 @SEA L 6.2 10 3 3 3 3 0 105 42
2008-08-16 SEA ND 5.1 8 4 4 2 1 0 84 35
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-11   Road:    8-15   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:   7-19   vsLHP:   5-7    1-Run:   7-8 
 vsEast:  6-18   vsCntrl: 5-6    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
 30 Fri, May  6  @BOS  W   9-2       12-18  4th  8.5 gb
 29 Wed, May  4  @CHW  W   3-2       11-18  4th  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30: 9-21
Mariners, 16-23, 16-23 4th, 5 GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Michael Pineda (22, RHP, 4-2, 2.84)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (4-2) 44.1 36 15 14 13 45 3 2.84
Last 7 GS 4-2 44.1 36 15 14 13 45 3 2.84 60
2011-05-10 @BAL ND 6.0 7 3 3 1 6 1 100 51
2011-05-04 TEX L 7.0 7 4 4 0 9 2 97 56
2011-04-28 @DET W 6.0 4 2 2 3 9 0 101 62
2011-04-22 OAK W 6.0 5 0 0 2 5 0 97 65
2011-04-17 @KCR W 6.0 3 1 1 4 5 0 94 63
2011-04-12 TOR W 7.1 5 2 1 2 7 0 103 67
2011-04-05 @TEX L 6.0 5 3 3 1 4 0 85 53
Has never faced MIN as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-11   Road:    8-12   ExtrInn: 0-3 
 vsRHP:  11-15   vsLHP:   5-8    1-Run:   7-8 
 vsEast:  4-5    vsCntrl: 6-11   vsWest:  6-7  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 39 Fri, May 13  @CLE  L   4-5       16-23  4th  5.0 gb
 38 Thu, May 12  @BAL  L   1-2 (12)  16-22  4th  5.0 gb
 37 Wed, May 11  @BAL  L   2-4       16-21  4th  4.5 gb
 36 Tue, May 10  @BAL  L   6-7 (13)  16-20  4th  4.5 gb
 35 Sun, May  8   CHW  L   2-5 (10)  16-19  4th  4.0 gb
 34 Sat, May  7   CHW  L   0-6       16-18  4th  3.0 gb
 33 Fri, May  6   CHW  W   3-2       16-17  4th  3.0 gb
 32 Thu, May  5   TEX  W   3-1       15-17  4th  3.0 gb
 31 Wed, May  4   TEX  L   2-5       14-17  4th  3.0 gb
 30 Tue, May  3   TEX  W   4-3       14-16  4th  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 29, 2010 SEA  2  MIN  1        W:Luke French (3-4), L: Carl Pavano (15-10), S: David Aardsma (25)
Sat, Aug 28, 2010 MIN  1 @SEA  0        W:Nick Blackburn (8-8), L: Doug Fister (4-10), S: Brian Fuentes (24)
Fri, Aug 27, 2010 MIN  6 @SEA  3        W:Scott Baker (12-9), L: Jason Vargas (9-7), S: none
Sun, Aug 01, 2010 MIN  4  SEA  0        W:Francisco Liriano (10-7), L: Luke French (0-2), S: none
Sat, Jul 31, 2010 MIN  4  SEA  0        W:Kevin Slowey (10-5), L: Felix Hernandez (7-8), S: none
Fri, Jul 30, 2010 MIN  5  SEA  3        W:Scott Baker (9-9), L: Doug Fister (3-7), S: Matt Capps (27)
Thu, Jun 03, 2010 SEA  4  MIN  1        W:Felix Hernandez (3-4), L: Carl Pavano (5-6), S: David Aardsma (12)
Wed, Jun 02, 2010 SEA  2  MIN  1 (10)   W:Brandon League (5-5), L: Matt Guerrier (0-1), S: none
Tue, Jun 01, 2010 SEA  7  MIN  1        W:Jason Vargas (4-2), L: Nick Blackburn (6-2), S: none
Mon, May 31, 2010 MIN  5 @SEA  4        W:Francisco Liriano (5-3), L: Doug Fister (3-3), S: Jon Rauch (13)
Season Series: 2011 -  0-0; 2010 - MIN won 6-4; 2009 - Tied 5-5; All-Time - SEA leads 198-191

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

STL  5.29

MIL  4.23

MIN  3.13

 RA/G

ATL  3.24

TEX  4.33

MIN  5.50

 BA

J. Reyes  .310

  

M. Prado  .296

 OBP

J. Reyes  .360

  

M. Prado  .340

 SLG

J. Reyes  .471

  

M. Prado  .458

 OPS

J. Reyes  .831

  

M. Prado  .798

 ERA

J. Johnson  1.63

N. Blackburn  3.70

K. Davies  7.08

 K/9IP

M. Garza  11.77

H. Kuroda  6.92

C. Pavano  3.42

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

Twins Batters (3.13 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (4.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 60.Gray
G/S/vB		 32.Laffey*
G/S/vB		 43.League
G/S/vB		 39.Pauley
G/S/vB		 46.Ray
G/S/vB		 50.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 74/64 .113/.149/.141/.289 .400/.272 .341 55/.223 0/0 0/2
12.Casilla# G/S/vP ··· ··· 13/.334 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 92/69 .190/.242/.262/.504 .238/.606 .481 53/.596 3/1 0/5
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP ··· ··· 25/1.154 4/.000 ··· 2/2.000 10/.500 148/103 .252/.318/.370/.688 .975/.566 .673 87/.781 2/0 4/3
38.Hughes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 73/48 .217/.260/.304/.565 .697/.494 .548 56/.632 1/0 1/1
16.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· ··· 23/.803 5/.800 ··· 1/.000 7/.453 155/101 .331/.387/.489/.876 .729/.954 .937 94/.892 1/0 4/0
33.Morneau* G/S/vP ··· ··· 23/.741 1/.000 ··· 6/.367 4/.500 135/85 .228/.296/.333/.630 .408/.766 .523 79/.686 0/0 1/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/20 .318/.464/.545/1.010 1.125/.963 1.162 28/1.010 1/0 1/0
11.Revere* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/17 .158/.158/.158/.316 .000/.353 .143 19/.316 1/0 0/1
32.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 14/7 .083/.214/.083/.298 .286/.286 .125 14/.298 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· 18/.742 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 5/1.467 169/117 .289/.361/.349/.710 .699/.712 .742 102/.668 3/1 1/0
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.667 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 67/52 .175/.200/.254/.454 .607/.412 .362 42/.411 0/0 0/1
19.Valencia G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.333 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 150/110 .230/.307/.341/.647 .953/.536 .709 87/.650 2/2 3/3
21.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· 17/.765 3/.000 ··· 5/1.200 13/.718 76/48 .203/.250/.246/.496 .332/.594 .493 13/.160 1/0 0/1
IP 44.1 13.1 20.0 16.0 23.1 8.1 18.1 TOTAL .231/.296/.322/.618 .630/.612 .600 .630 17/4 18/24
ERA-K/9 2.84/9.1 2.70/4.7 1.35/5.0 7.31/7.3 1.16/5.0 11.88/5.4 1.96/6.4 3.85/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (10-6-2)
 Rivera (4-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 179/.221 57/.255 85/.257 73/.309 84/.171 41/.389 71/.219 .258  Kubel
 Cuddyer
 Young
 Span
 Revere
3/0/18/3
0/0/21/1
18/0/0/1
0/36/0/0
3/0/1/0
OPS .614 .708 .648 .788 .413 1.033 .561 .695
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 84/.709 27/.582 27/.514 36/.887 29/.212 18/.627 36/.458 .677
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 95/.531 30/.823 58/.710 37/.696 55/.523 23/1.388 35/.671 .709
Home 81/.571 20/.644 41/.657 30/.527 37/.253 28/1.097 27/.704
Last 28d days 103/.653 44/.680 59/.791 49/.907 53/.408 13/.533 48/.680
HR/SB/CS 3/0/2 1/0/0 0/0/0 1/1/0 0/3/1 1/4/0 0/2/0 24/24/6
Usage ·····X·· ·····X·X ··oo·o·X ····Xo·X ·····o·· ···X·X·X
Mariners Batters (3.54 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Baker
G/S/vB		 31.Burnett
G/S/vB		 55.Capps
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
29.Cust* G/S/vP 12/.450 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 12/.531 146/93 .222/.377/.291/.667 .714/.640 .501 81/.785 0/0 0/
9.Figgins# G/S/vP 27/.782 ··· 2/1.000 6/.167 11/.384 18/.398 152/97 .221/.267/.307/.574 .692/.528 .622 88/.676 7/4 1/4
5.Gimenez G/S/vP 9/.555 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 29/25 .200/.310/.200/.510 1.000/.423 .687 18/.533 0/0 0/0
4.Kennedy* G/S/vP 9/.365 ··· 4/.500 5/1.200 2/1.000 ··· 91/74 .244/.275/.395/.670 .310/.748 .754 57/.646 1/0 3/0
30.Olivo G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/.000 3/.666 8/.000 3/2.000 7/.572 129/83 .207/.250/.276/.526 .673/.445 .336 78/.616 0/2 2/3
1.Rodriguez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 59/39 .180/.276/.320/.596 .417/.660 .310 30/.496 1/2 1/0
26.Ryan G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 125/81 .204/.275/.250/.525 .603/.483 .616 70/.418 1/1 0/3
55.Saunders* G/S/vP 3/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 122/78 .171/.225/.270/.495 .409/.544 .577 85/.483 2/1 2/0
17.Smoak# G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 135/85 .286/.400/.527/.927 .933/.922 1.027 68/.958 0/0 6/1
51.Suzuki* G/S/vP 31/.734 ··· 1/.000 11/.546 11/.855 9/.347 179/115 .303/.352/.345/.697 .787/.648 .687 101/.762 11/2 0/2
2.Wilson G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 3/.000 91/48 .250/.281/.286/.567 .519/.608 .497 57/.660 4/1 0/2
IP 43.2 9.0 18.1 13.1 19.2 14.0 TOTAL .228/.302/.326/.628 .660/.610 .629 .634 31/15 21/22
ERA-K/9 3.71/8.2 7.00/6.0 3.93/5.4 7.43/8.1 0.92/8.2 3.86/4.5 5.05/5.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gimenez (6-3-0)
 Olivo (16-3-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 182/.250 47/.343 71/.215 62/.255 76/.231 57/.286 .276  Suzuki
 Saunders
0/0/38/2
4/28/0/1
OPS .758 .897 .632 .870 .603 .745 .802
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 120/.868 23/1.232 34/.719 34/.682 32/.496 16/.713 .788
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 62/.546 24/.551 37/.544 28/1.110 44/.685 41/.756 .815
Road 135/.669 21/.976 42/.725 39/1.117 31/.472 34/.747
Last 28d days 107/.746 36/.954 32/.640 35/.790 50/.687 42/.749
HR/SB/CS 7/1/1 0/4/0 3/0/0 3/3/0 0/1/1 2/0/0 44/27/10
Usage ····X··· ·oX··X·X ·o··Xo·· ··X·o··X ·XX·X·o· 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.