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Game Preview: TEX @ BOS, 7:10pm, Monday, August 6, 2012 @Fenway Park

Rangers, 63-44, 63-44 1st, 5½ up

SP: Yu Darvish (25, RHP, 11-7, 4.38)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2012 (11-7)			127.1	110	67	62	70	145	12	4.38

Last 7 GS		3-3	46.2	37	31	30	24	57	5	5.79	52
2012-08-01	LAA	ND	5.0	4	7	7	6	7	1	108	32
2012-07-27	CHW	L	6.1	8	6	5	3	6	1	118	38
2012-07-21	@LAA	W	7.0	3	2	2	4	11	0	117	70
2012-07-14	@SEA	L	6.1	8	7	7	4	4	1	106	29
2012-07-01	OAK	L	7.0	5	3	3	3	11	1	105	63
2012-06-26	DET	W	7.0	4	4	4	1	10	1	113	62
2012-06-20	@SDP	W	8.0	5	2	2	3	8	0	122	69

Has never faced BOS as starter.

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   34-21   Road:   29-23   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  44-29   vsLHP:  19-15   1-Run:  13-13
 vsEast: 14-7    vsCntrl:16-14   vsWest: 19-19 IL:14-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
107 Sun, Aug  5  @KCR  L   6-7 (10)  63-44  1st  5.5 up
106 Sat, Aug  4  @KCR  W   4-2       63-43  1st  5.5 up
105 Fri, Aug  3  @KCR  W   5-3       62-43  1st  4.5 up
104 Thu, Aug  2   LAA  W  15-9       61-43  1st  4.5 up
103 Wed, Aug  1   LAA  W  11-10(10)  60-43  1st  4.0 up
102 Tue, Jul 31   LAA  L   2-6       59-43  1st  3.0 up
101 Mon, Jul 30   LAA  L   8-15      59-42  1st  3.5 up
100 Sun, Jul 29   CHW  W   2-0       59-41  1st  4.5 up
 99 Sat, Jul 28   CHW  L   2-5       58-41  1st  3.5 up
 98 Fri, Jul 27   CHW  L   5-9       58-40  1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15

RedSox, 54-55, 54-55 4th, 10 GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Aaron Cook (33, RHP, 2-5, 5.24)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2012 (2-5)			44.2	50	31	26	4	4	8	5.24
2011 (3-10)			97.0	127	67	65	37	48	9	6.03
2010 (6-8)			127.2	147	77	72	52	62	11	5.08

Last 7 GS		2-4	42.0	42	24	20	3	4	7	4.29	47
2012-08-01	DET	L	4.2	9	6	6	0	0	2	86	22
2012-07-27	@NYY	L	4.0	7	6	6	1	1	2	65	24
2012-07-21	TOR	L	6.1	4	5	3	1	1	2	86	49
2012-07-16	CHW	ND	7.0	5	1	0	0	0	0	97	65
2012-07-04	@OAK	L	6.0	9	3	3	1	0	1	80	41
2012-06-29	@SEA	W	9.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	81	85
2012-06-24	ATL	W	5.0	6	3	2	0	0	0	79	45

Has never faced TEX as starter.

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   28-32   Road:   26-23   ExtrInn: 2-6 
 vsRHP:  32-42   vsLHP:  22-13   1-Run:  11-13
 vsEast: 18-24   vsCntrl:19-13   vsWest:  6-11 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
109 Sun, Aug  5   MIN  W   6-4       54-55  4th 10.0 gb
108 Sat, Aug  4   MIN  L   4-6       53-55  4th 10.0 gb
107 Fri, Aug  3   MIN  L   5-6 (10)  53-54  4th 10.0 gb
106 Thu, Aug  2   MIN  L   0-5       53-53  4th  9.0 gb
105 Wed, Aug  1   DET  L   5-7       53-52  4th  8.5 gb
104 Tue, Jul 31   DET  W   4-1  (6)  53-51  4th  7.5 gb
103 Mon, Jul 30   DET  W   7-3       52-51  4th  8.5 gb
102 Sun, Jul 29  @NYY  W   3-2 (10)  51-51  5th  9.5 gb
101 Sat, Jul 28  @NYY  W   8-6       50-51  5th 10.5 gb
100 Fri, Jul 27  @NYY  L   3-10      49-51  5th 11.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 25, 2012 TEX  5  BOS  3        W:Derek Holland (7-5), L: Josh Beckett (5-9), S: Joe Nathan (20)
Tue, Jul 24, 2012 BOS  2 @TEX  1        W:Vicente Padilla (4-0), L: Joe Nathan (1-3), S: Alfredo Aceves (21)
Mon, Jul 23, 2012 TEX  9  BOS  1        W:Scott Feldman (4-6), L: Felix Doubront (10-5), S: none
Wed, Apr 18, 2012 TEX  6 @BOS  3        W:Derek Holland (2-0), L: Josh Beckett (1-2), S: none
Tue, Apr 17, 2012 TEX 18 @BOS  3        W:Colby Lewis (2-0), L: Jon Lester (0-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 04, 2011 TEX 11 @BOS  4        W:Matt Harrison (11-9), L: John Lackey (12-11), S: none
Sat, Sep 03, 2011 BOS 12  TEX  7        W:Erik Bedard (5-9), L: Colby Lewis (11-10), S: none
Fri, Sep 02, 2011 TEX 10 @BOS  0        W:Derek Holland (13-5), L: Andrew Miller (6-2), S: none
Thu, Aug 25, 2011 BOS  6 @TEX  0        W:Andrew Miller (6-1), L: Alexi Ogando (12-6), S: none
Wed, Aug 24, 2011 BOS 13 @TEX  2        W:Josh Beckett (11-5), L: Matt Harrison (10-9), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - TEX over 4-1; 2011 - TEX won 6-4; 2010 - TEX won 6-4; All-Time - BOS leads 328-296

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 2012 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 TEX 5.12 WSN 4.33 MIA 3.67	RA/G WSN 3.57 TEX 4.35 COL 5.86	BA A. McCutchen .368 M. Young .271 J. Smoak .189	OBP J. Votto .465 M. Teixeira .339 J. Smoak .253	SLG A. McCutchen .627 A. Gordon .434 J. Carroll .295	OPS J. Votto 1.069 D. Murphy .773 J. Smoak .573	ERA J. Weaver 2.29 J. Johnson 3.85 E. Santana 5.83	K/9IP S. Strasburg 11.31 R. Dempster 7.37 D. Lowe 3.10

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

TEX 5.12

WSN 4.33

MIA 3.67

RA/G

WSN 3.57

TEX 4.35

COL 5.86

A. McCutchen .368

M. Young .271

J. Smoak .189

OBP

J. Votto .465

M. Teixeira .339

J. Smoak .253

SLG

A. McCutchen .627

A. Gordon .434

J. Carroll .295

OPS

J. Votto 1.069

D. Murphy .773

J. Smoak .573

ERA

J. Weaver 2.29

J. Johnson 3.85

E. Santana 5.83

K/9IP

S. Strasburg 11.31

R. Dempster 7.37

D. Lowe 3.10

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Rangers Batters (5.12 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.60 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 35.Cook
G/S/vB 91.Aceves
G/S/vB 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB 37.Melancon
G/S/vB 30.Miller*
G/S/vB 46.Morales*
G/S/vB 44.Padilla
G/S/vB 63.Tazawa
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 7/1.000 3/.333 5/.400 3/.000 1/2.000 3/1.667 479/336 .296/.368/.401/.770 .708/.797 .794 96/.804 18/7 2/10

29.Beltre G/S/vP 17/.991 2/.000 7/.286 3/1.666 8/.417 3/2.667 46/.724 ··· 435/306 .311/.349/.500/.849 .672/.924 .835 91/.728 1/0 18/6

17.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 6/1.666 6/.666 2/2.500 3/.666 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 432/309 .256/.319/.454/.774 .935/.711 .648 88/.820 7/4 17/1

23.Gentry G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.500 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 208/110 .328/.400/.421/.821 .918/.736 .886 47/.813 10/5 1/0

14.Gonzalez G/S/vP 9/.833 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· 55/33 .241/.241/.315/.556 .500/.594 .469 3/.000 0/0 0/2

32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 3/3.000 2/.000 8/.417 2/5.000 5/.400 4/1.167 4/1.000 3/1.000 430/282 .282/.347/.566/.912 .847/.948 .943 88/.525 6/3 29/5

5.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· 3/2.334 6/1.100 4/.750 6/1.917 2/1.000 ··· 3/3.500 490/355 .281/.347/.450/.797 1.024/.711 .671 91/.861 19/7 13/13

18.Moreland* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/1.200 2/5.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 196/167 .281/.333/.517/.850 .757/.867 .706 23/.941 1/0 11/1

7.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 13/.693 1/no AB 1/2.000 2/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 311/267 .301/.388/.477/.866 .857/.868 .686 68/.871 8/2 9/1

25.Napoli G/S/vP 9/.444 4/.250 6/.900 1/.000 3/.000 3/1.000 22/.636 ··· 351/235 .229/.350/.440/.791 .550/.913 .824 66/.932 1/0 17/6

9.Olt G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/5 .286/.364/.286/.649 .733/.400 .625 11/.649 1/1 0/2

8.Soto G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 3/3.333 5/.000 ··· 206/145 .201/.286/.348/.634 .673/.618 .643 50/.752 0/0 6/7

10.Young G/S/vP ··· 5/1.800 7/.619 1/3.000 5/1.100 1/.000 4/.833 3/1.167 444/311 .271/.297/.347/.644 .753/.598 .697 87/.597 2/2 3/4

IP 44.2 56.2 46.2 25.1 27.2 63.0 39.0 17.0 TOTAL .278/.341/.445/.786 .783/.787 .749 .759 77/32 126/59

ERA-K/9

5.24/0.8

4.29/7.9

2.51/8.5

7.46/6.8

3.25/10.7

3.14/9.1

4.62/9.9

1.06/7.9

4.31/7.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Napoli (36-8-8)
Soto (40-15-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 187/.279 237/.233 192/.229 113/.287 111/.202 263/.216 171/.295 67/.254 .257 Cruz
Hamilton
Gentry
Murphy
Moreland 6/0/99/7
67/54/1/4
0/83/2/3
70/2/10/3
0/0/3/0

OPS .787 .666 .656 .860 .613 .633 .834 .589 .736

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 110/.868 132/.677 82/.632 52/1.021 72/.393 98/.453 82/.795 25/.612 .721

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 77/.674 105/.650 110/.673 61/.721 39/1.028 165/.739 89/.870 42/.576 .749

Home 111/.846 137/.735 112/.734 71/.929 63/.551 133/.784 79/.902 50/.563

Last 28d days 94/.847 54/.706 37/.458 45/.817 35/.798 68/.494 33/1.191 40/.676

HR/SB/CS 8/0/1 6/3/0 5/0/2 6/0/1 3/0/0 6/5/2 5/1/1 0/2/1 116/77/24

Usage ····X··· oX·X···X ooX·X·o· X·o·o··· ·oX·X··X X····o·· o·X···X· ··o·X···

RedSox Batters (4.86 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.35 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 11.Darvish
G/S/vB 37.Adams
G/S/vB 50.Kirkman*
G/S/vB 36.Nathan
G/S/vB 41.Ogando
G/S/vB 28.Ross*
G/S/vB 52.Scheppers
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

3.Aviles G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/1.200 2/.000 ··· ··· 412/288 .258/.284/.405/.688 .803/.640 .690 66/.665 10/4 11/10

77.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 79/51 .338/.346/.468/.814 .750/.849 .888 65/.719 6/0 1/1

13.Crawford* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 5/1.000 3/.833 1/.000 ··· 72/43 .279/.319/.471/.790 .829/.765 .900 72/.790 3/0 3/1

2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.400 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 123/75 .259/.317/.357/.674 .618/.712 .759 93/.706 3/0 1/0

28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.000 3/3.334 1/.000 ··· 456/290 .304/.349/.452/.801 .834/.780 .876 85/1.043 0/0 11/4

55.Kalish* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 77/65 .208/.247/.250/.497 .697/.460 .515 14/.536 2/1 0/2

60.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/6 .111/.200/.222/.422 .000/.733 .422 10/.422 0/0 0/0

64.Middlebrooks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 268/174 .292/.321/.502/.823 .932/.766 .799 83/.716 4/1 13/9

15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/1.334 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 407/274 .262/.318/.397/.715 .731/.707 .696 69/.660 7/4 9/2

5.Punto# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 129/109 .204/.307/.278/.585 .426/.614 .478 9/.222 4/0 1/2

7.Ross G/S/vP ··· 4/.833 ··· 3/.333 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 315/217 .268/.338/.514/.852 1.075/.752 .947 85/.773 1/1 16/0

39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 7/.929 2/2.500 ··· 1/.000 307/263 .230/.287/.493/.780 .591/.811 .754 58/.660 0/1 20/6

10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 146/66 .258/.340/.492/.832 .816/.851 .937 38/.689 1/0 5/4

IP 127.1 35.1 18.2 43.1 45.1 53.2 18.2 TOTAL .267/.325/.435/.760 .781/.750 .797 .719 51/17 126/63

ERA-K/9

4.38/10.3

3.06/7.4

4.34/8.7

2.91/10.6

2.78/9.1

1.68/6.0

5.30/8.2

3.98/7.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Lavarnway (0-0-0)
Saltalamacchia (59-14-5)
Shoppach (18-10-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 564/.229 153/.257 80/.145 177/.239 177/.198 210/.213 83/.351 .248 Ross
Gonzalez
Ciriaco
Crawford
Kalish
Ellsbury 21/7/53/5
0/0/18/1
0/0/1/0
18/0/0/0
0/19/3/0
0/29/0/0

OPS .698 .663 .569 .640 .581 .580 .941 .711

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 332/.725 80/.671 24/.408 108/.637 72/.588 90/.540 30/1.114 .697

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 232/.659 73/.654 56/.630 69/.646 105/.576 120/.610 53/.842 .722

Road 283/.682 68/.677 10/.644 65/.535 92/.486 103/.629 25/.667

Last 28d days 117/.740 27/.667 27/.520 35/1.000 47/.817 33/.847 25/.653

HR/SB/CS 12/15/1 1/8/1 3/0/0 5/3/0 4/3/0 3/1/1 4/3/0 115/69/18

Usage ····X··· ·oXo···· o·····X· ···XX··o ·oX·Xo·· X··oX·X· ··o·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.