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Game Preview: TOR @ TBR, 12:10pm, Thursday, August 4, 2011 @Tropicana Field

Blue Jays, 56-54, 56-54 4th, 12½ GB, 11½ GB in WC

SP: Brett Cecil (24, LHP, 4-4, 4.34)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (4-4) 64.1 65 32 31 23 48 9 4.34
2010 (15-7) 172.2 175 87 81 54 117 18 4.22
2009 (7-4) 93.1 116 59 55 38 69 17 5.30
Last 7 GS 3-3 48.1 47 21 20 16 37 5 3.72 54
2011-07-29 TEX W 7.0 7 1 1 1 6 1 94 64
2011-07-24 @TEX W 9.0 4 0 0 2 7 0 121 84
2011-07-19 SEA ND 7.0 9 5 5 1 2 2 109 40
2011-07-10 @CLE W 6.0 7 1 1 3 6 0 104 57
2011-07-05 @BOS L 8.0 6 3 2 2 6 1 114 64
2011-06-30 PIT L 6.1 8 6 6 3 6 1 100 36
2011-04-20 NYY L 5.0 6 5 5 4 4 0 82 35
Last 5 v.TBR 3-1 29.1 26 18 15 9 27 5 4.60 52
2010-09-10 TBR ND 2.0 8 7 7 2 3 1 54 13
2010-08-30 @TBR L 7.0 5 5 2 1 5 1 108 57
2010-08-06 TBR W 7.0 4 1 1 2 9 0 112 72
2010-06-10 @TBR W 6.2 3 1 1 3 2 1 109 63
2010-04-23 @TBR W 6.2 6 4 4 1 8 2 94 53
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-26   Road:   28-28   ExtrInn: 9-2 
 vsRHP:  39-42   vsLHP:  17-12   1-Run:  16-20
 vsEast: 19-24   vsCntrl:16-11   vsWest: 13-9  IL: 8-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Wed, Aug  3  @TBR  L   1-9       56-54  4th 12.5 gb
109 Tue, Aug  2  @TBR  W   3-1       56-53  4th 11.5 gb
108 Sun, Jul 31   TEX  W   7-3       55-53  4th 12.0 gb
107 Sat, Jul 30   TEX  L   0-3       54-53  4th 12.0 gb
106 Fri, Jul 29   TEX  W   3-2       54-52  4th 11.0 gb
105 Thu, Jul 28   BAL  W   8-5       53-52  4th 12.0 gb
104 Wed, Jul 27   BAL  W   3-0       52-52  4th 13.0 gb
103 Tue, Jul 26   BAL  L   4-12      51-52  4th 13.0 gb
102 Sun, Jul 24  @TEX  W   3-0       51-51  4th 12.5 gb
101 Sat, Jul 23  @TEX  L   4-5       50-51  4th 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13
Rays, 57-52, 57-52 3rd, 11 GB, 10 GB in WC

SP: Wade Davis (25, RHP, 8-7, 4.62)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (8-7) 115.0 130 63 59 38 56 15 4.62
2010 (12-10) 168.0 165 77 76 62 113 24 4.07
2009 (2-2) 36.1 33 19 15 13 36 2 3.72
Last 7 GS 4-2 42.1 51 24 21 8 21 5 4.46 47
2011-07-28 @OAK W 6.0 6 5 5 0 6 1 100 46
2011-07-22 @KCR L 5.1 11 6 5 0 3 1 91 27
2011-07-06 @MIN ND 5.0 9 4 3 3 1 0 91 33
2011-07-01 STL L 7.0 6 2 2 1 3 0 91 59
2011-06-25 @HOU W 7.0 5 1 1 1 3 0 88 65
2011-06-17 FLA W 6.0 6 1 1 2 2 1 98 56
2011-06-12 @BAL W 6.0 8 5 4 1 3 2 97 40
Last 5 v.TOR 2-2 35.1 33 11 11 11 21 5 2.80 57
2011-05-19 @TOR L 7.2 7 3 3 4 3 2 99 52
2011-05-03 TOR ND 6.0 6 2 2 3 2 0 112 51
2010-09-11 @TOR W 7.0 7 1 1 3 6 1 108 62
2010-08-30 TOR W 7.2 6 2 2 0 3 1 91 62
2010-06-10 TOR L 7.0 7 3 3 1 7 1 105 57
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   25-26   Road:   32-26   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  39-39   vsLHP:  18-13   1-Run:  15-14
 vsEast: 20-19   vsCntrl:16-14   vsWest:  9-13 IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
109 Wed, Aug  3   TOR  W   9-1       57-52  3rd 11.0 gb
108 Tue, Aug  2   TOR  L   1-3       56-52  3rd 11.0 gb
107 Sun, Jul 31  @SEA  W   8-1       56-51  3rd 10.5 gb
106 Sat, Jul 30  @SEA  L   2-3       55-51  3rd 10.5 gb
105 Fri, Jul 29  @SEA  W   8-0       55-50  3rd  9.5 gb
104 Thu, Jul 28  @OAK  W  10-8       54-50  3rd 10.5 gb
103 Wed, Jul 27  @OAK  L   4-13      53-50  3rd 11.5 gb
102 Tue, Jul 26  @OAK  L   1-6       53-49  3rd 10.5 gb
101 Mon, Jul 25  @OAK  L   5-7       53-48  3rd  9.5 gb
100 Sun, Jul 24  @KCR  W   5-0       53-47  3rd  9.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Aug 03, 2011 TBR  9  TOR  1        W:James Shields (10-9), L: Carlos Villanueva (6-3), S: none
Tue, Aug 02, 2011 TOR  3 @TBR  1        W:Ricky Romero (9-9), L: David Price (9-10), S: Jon Rauch (10)
Thu, May 19, 2011 TOR  3  TBR  2        W:Ricky Romero (4-4), L: Wade Davis (4-4), S: Frank Francisco (5)
Wed, May 18, 2011 TBR  6 @TOR  5        W:Jeremy Hellickson (5-2), L: Jesse Litsch (4-3), S: Kyle Farnsworth (9)
Thu, May 05, 2011 TBR  3  TOR  1        W:David Price (4-3), L: Kyle Drabek (2-2), S: Kyle Farnsworth (6)
Wed, May 04, 2011 TOR  3 @TBR  2        W:Brandon Morrow (1-1), L: Jeff Niemann (1-4), S: Frank Francisco (1)
Tue, May 03, 2011 TBR  3  TOR  2        W:Kyle Farnsworth (2-0), L: Jon Rauch (1-2), S: none
Sun, Apr 24, 2011 TBR  2 @TOR  0        W:James Shields (2-1), L: Ricky Romero (1-3), S: none
Sat, Apr 23, 2011 TBR  6 @TOR  4        W:David Price (3-2), L: Brandon Morrow (0-1), S: Kyle Farnsworth (5)
Fri, Apr 22, 2011 TOR  6  TBR  4 (11)   W:Marc Rzepczynski (2-0), L: Adam Russell (1-1), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - TBR over 6-4; 2010 - TBR won 10-8; 2009 - TBR won 14-4; All-Time - TBR leads 116-115

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  5.50

BAL  4.11

SEA  3.35

 RA/G

PHI  3.33

MIL  4.26

BAL  5.31

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .357

A. Lind  .273

A. Dunn  .166

 OBP

J. Bautista  .459

M. Izturis  .334

V. Wells  .249

 SLG

J. Bautista  .658

I. Kinsler  .429

C. Getz  .283

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.117

C. Santana  .763

A. Rios  .546

 ERA

J. Weaver  1.88

M. Garza  3.78

J. Happ  6.01

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.69

R. Vogelsong  6.73

C. Pavano  3.72

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

Blue Jays Batters (4.67 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.93 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Davis
G/S/vB		 37.Cruz
G/S/vB		 43.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 74.Howell*
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 62.Peralta
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Arencibia G/S/vP 6/1.500 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 327/252 .220/.281/.460/.741 .992/.667 .778 64/.865 0/0 18/4
19.Bautista G/S/vP 14/.220 3/.667 3/.666 5/1.300 ··· 2/.500 436/336 .322/.459/.658/1.117 1.247/1.078 1.062 74/.910 5/3 32/5
11.Davis G/S/vP 6/.533 1/.000 4/1.750 ··· ··· ··· 323/239 .242/.276/.356/.633 .849/.560 .528 61/.708 33/11 1/2
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 6/.500 3/.000 3/1.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/1.500 333/245 .271/.318/.445/.763 .807/.747 .643 84/1.038 4/0 9/11
5.Escobar G/S/vP 13/1.007 7/.286 3/1.167 ··· ··· 2/no AB 443/345 .305/.383/.445/.828 .987/.784 .704 90/.882 3/2 10/9
2.Hill G/S/vP 14/1.121 3/1.333 5/1.000 10/.929 ··· 10/.777 377/297 .231/.281/.320/.601 .478/.635 .595 80/.491 13/2 5/6
26.Lind* G/S/vP 12/.606 1/2.000 10/.500 5/.000 ··· 2/.000 364/265 .273/.324/.476/.800 .733/.826 .778 90/.551 1/1 19/4
6.McDonald G/S/vP 5/1.150 2/.000 9/.000 7/.762 1/.000 4/1.250 163/114 .221/.263/.309/.571 .528/.589 .547 20/.566 2/3 2/2
8.Molina G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 132/100 .302/.372/.431/.803 .989/.741 .837 21/.831 2/0 2/1
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/3.000 5/.000 3/1.666 1/2.000 1/.000 411/297 .238/.322/.403/.725 .781/.705 .749 62/.528 5/2 11/3
45.Snider* G/S/vP 6/.666 2/.000 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB 197/153 .231/.276/.357/.633 .300/.732 .589 81/.670 9/3 3/3
20.Teahen* G/S/vP 11/.764 ··· 7/.971 6/.000 3/.333 1/.000 132/116 .200/.273/.300/.573 .259/.615 .436 35/.348 0/1 3/1
IP 115.0 34.2 41.2 19.1 14.0 48.0 TOTAL .255/.320/.417/.737 .803/.716 .701 .737 96/37 124/64
ERA-K/9 4.62/4.4 3.38/8.8 2.16/7.1 8.38/7.5 3.21/7.7 3.75/7.7 3.69/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (58-18-9)
 Molina (21-9-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 507/.284 139/.178 166/.221 92/.267 64/.286 189/.211 .237  Bautista
 Snider
 Rasmus
 Davis
 Teahen
0/0/70/8
43/6/3/4
0/98/0/4
2/77/7/2
3/0/6/0
OPS .806 .565 .592 .782 .758 .665 .691
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 233/.755 57/.464 76/.693 44/.536 33/.379 85/.511 .656
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 274/.849 82/.636 90/.514 48/1.047 31/1.187 104/.793 .720
Home 209/.790 67/.469 74/.558 34/.849 32/.870 70/.341
Last 28d days 51/.922 10/1.000 28/.757 30/.705 30/.569 32/.741
HR/SB/CS 15/1/3 2/6/2 2/1/1 3/3/0 1/2/0 6/3/1 103/67/22
Usage ······X· ·o······ ······X· ·o··oo·· X··o··X· ····o·o·
Rays Batters (4.26 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.57 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 27.Cecil*
G/S/vB		 57.Camp
G/S/vB		 50.Francisco
G/S/vB		 44.Janssen
G/S/vB		 58.Ledezma*
G/S/vB		 43.Miller*
G/S/vB		 60.Rauch
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Damon* G/S/vP 3/.000 9/.944 6/1.500 7/.286 10/.425 18/1.233 2/1.000 3/.000 435/315 .268/.319/.403/.721 .669/.741 .619 84/.583 9/4 9/0
5.Fuld* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 303/230 .236/.293/.355/.648 .563/.674 .650 40/.635 19/8 3/3
8.Jennings G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/2.000 52/36 .333/.440/.643/1.083 1.067/1.091 1.222 52/1.083 5/2 2/1
9.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 148/78 .191/.257/.336/.593 .730/.482 .704 25/.504 4/5 3/1
20.Joyce* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 3/.333 4/.833 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 4/1.750 361/294 .282/.341/.505/.845 .667/.886 .890 63/.819 9/1 15/3
11.Kotchman* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 8/.542 8/.375 3/2.000 1/.000 5/1.000 3/1.666 352/270 .328/.386/.453/.839 .692/.887 .908 90/.759 1/2 5/1
3.Longoria G/S/vP 19/1.226 8/.250 4/.250 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/1.500 3/.000 339/256 .226/.336/.434/.770 .830/.751 .635 94/.666 1/1 14/8
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP 11/.697 7/.762 5/.400 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/no AB 275/174 .220/.309/.373/.682 .981/.515 .665 79/.570 8/4 5/7
16.Ruggiano G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 96/57 .253/.274/.429/.702 .608/.767 .708 17/.294 1/1 4/0
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 11/.182 2/.500 3/.333 3/.000 3/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 182/89 .188/.276/.313/.589 .730/.443 .543 42/.576 0/0 6/2
2.Upton G/S/vP 20/.476 13/.308 8/.250 8/1.500 5/.000 ··· 2/3.500 4/1.000 427/315 .225/.308/.392/.699 .720/.691 .566 82/.549 23/7 16/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 18/.833 11/1.420 7/.572 5/.400 1/2.000 ··· 5/.650 4/2.500 465/331 .283/.375/.505/.880 .912/.873 .747 92/1.051 12/4 15/5
IP 64.1 46.0 32.2 31.2 3.0 16.2 45.1 97.2 TOTAL .243/.315/.397/.712 .736/.702 .671 .694 97/42 106/52
ERA-K/9 4.34/6.7 5.09/3.9 4.68/10.2 2.84/7.9 9.00/15.0 4.32/5.4 3.97/6.2 4.24/5.8 4.22/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Shoppach (14-14-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 278/.263 200/.311 148/.271 135/.258 16/.308 82/.328 194/.257 412/.253 .260  Joyce
 Upton
 Fuld
 Ruggiano
 Damon
 Rodriguez
 Johnson
 Zobrist
 Jennings
12/0/86/6
0/103/0/5
69/5/4/5
25/2/3/1
15/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
1/1/0/0
0/0/30/0
9/3/0/0
OPS .771 .834 .791 .665 .976 .927 .743 .699 .739
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 99/.570 98/.893 96/.866 72/.533 3/1.333 57/.761 104/.695 217/.691 .766
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 179/.882 102/.776 52/.652 63/.820 13/.885 25/1.342 90/.790 195/.707 .717
Road 143/.647 86/.780 61/.739 41/.426 7/1.071 44/.932 89/.815 233/.678
Last 28d days 120/.649 43/.952 30/.467 20/1.032 16/.976 11/1.436 44/.821 97/1.030
HR/SB/CS 9/1/1 3/6/2 5/7/0 1/1/2 1/0/0 1/1/1 8/1/0 10/10/0 108/79/27
Usage ·····X·· o···o··· ···X·oo· ···o··o· X······· ···oX··· ·X···Xoo 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.