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Game Preview: LAA @ DET, 7:05pm, Saturday, August 25, 2012 @Comerica Park

Angels, 66-60, 66-60 3rd, 8½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Dan Haren (31, RHP, 8-10, 4.90)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (8-10) 128.2 146 75 70 33 101 22 4.90
2011 (16-10) 238.1 211 91 84 33 192 20 3.17
2010 (12-12) 235.0 245 110 102 54 216 31 3.91
Last 7 GS 3-3 35.1 40 29 26 11 19 9 6.62 41
2012-08-16 TBR L 3.2 7 5 5 0 2 2 61 29
2012-08-11 SEA L 3.1 5 7 5 3 0 1 63 23
2012-08-05 @CHW ND 6.0 4 1 1 2 4 1 112 62
2012-07-27 TBR W 6.0 5 1 1 1 6 1 97 63
2012-07-22 TEX W 6.0 3 2 2 3 3 1 95 58
2012-07-03 @CLE L 4.1 9 7 6 1 1 1 69 19
2012-06-28 @TOR W 6.0 7 6 6 1 3 2 91 36
Last 5 v.DET 3-2 37.1 34 12 12 3 22 4 2.89 60
2011-07-30 @DET W 9.0 6 1 1 1 1 0 113 71
2011-07-05 DET W 9.0 2 0 0 0 9 0 122 92
2008-05-16 DET W 7.0 6 3 3 0 4 1 104 57
2007-09-01 DET L 6.0 11 5 5 1 4 1 106 33
2007-08-11 @DET L 6.1 9 3 3 1 4 2 109 46
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-29   Road:   33-31   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  45-41   vsLHP:  21-19   1-Run:  11-14
 vsEast: 19-20   vsCntrl:17-17   vsWest: 18-17 IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Fri, Aug 24  @DET  W   2-1       66-60  3rd  8.5 gb
125 Thu, Aug 23  @BOS  W  14-13(10)  65-60  3rd  8.5 gb
124 Wed, Aug 22  @BOS  W   7-3       64-60  3rd  8.5 gb
123 Tue, Aug 21  @BOS  W   5-3       63-60  3rd  8.5 gb
122 Sun, Aug 19   TBR  L   3-8       62-60  3rd  9.0 gb
121 Sat, Aug 18   TBR  L   8-10      62-59  3rd  8.0 gb
120 Fri, Aug 17   TBR  L   3-12      62-58  3rd  7.0 gb
119 Thu, Aug 16   TBR  L   0-7       62-57  3rd  7.0 gb
118 Wed, Aug 15   CLE  W   8-4       62-56  2nd  6.0 gb
117 Tue, Aug 14   CLE  W   9-6       61-56  3rd  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16
Tigers, 67-58, 67-58 2nd, 2½ GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Drew Smyly (23, LHP, 4-3, 4.42)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (4-3) 79.1 80 41 39 21 75 11 4.42
Last 7 GS 3-2 35.2 41 26 25 8 31 4 6.31 45
2012-07-06 KCR W 6.0 6 2 2 0 10 0 106 62
2012-07-01 @TBR W 5.0 3 3 3 1 4 0 92 52
2012-06-26 @TEX L 4.2 8 6 6 2 3 1 97 25
2012-06-10 @CIN ND 3.0 4 3 3 1 3 1 55 41
2012-06-05 CLE L 6.0 6 4 4 2 5 0 94 47
2012-05-30 @BOS ND 6.0 8 4 4 0 4 2 86 44
2012-05-25 @MIN W 5.0 6 4 3 2 2 0 93 41
Has never faced LAA as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   37-26   Road:   30-32   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  46-40   vsLHP:  21-18   1-Run:  17-17
 vsEast: 21-18   vsCntrl:26-17   vsWest:  9-16 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
125 Fri, Aug 24   LAA  L   1-2       67-58  2nd  2.5 gb
124 Thu, Aug 23   TOR  W   3-2 (11)  67-57  2nd  1.5 gb
123 Wed, Aug 22   TOR  W   3-2       66-57  2nd  2.0 gb
122 Tue, Aug 21   TOR  W   5-3       65-57  2nd  2.0 gb
121 Sun, Aug 19   BAL  L   5-7       64-57  2nd  1.5 gb
120 Sat, Aug 18   BAL  L   2-3       64-56  2nd  1.5 gb
119 Fri, Aug 17   BAL  W   5-3       64-55  2nd  1.5 gb
118 Wed, Aug 15  @MIN  W   5-1       63-55  2nd  2.0 gb
117 Tue, Aug 14  @MIN  W   8-4       62-55  2nd  2.0 gb
116 Mon, Aug 13  @MIN  L   3-9       61-55  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 24, 2012 LAA  2 @DET  1        W:Zack Greinke (11-5), L: Rick Porcello (9-9), S: Garrett Richards (1)
Thu, Jul 19, 2012 DET  5  LAA  1        W:Max Scherzer (9-5), L: Jerome Williams (6-7), S: none
Wed, Jul 18, 2012 DET  7  LAA  2        W:Doug Fister (4-6), L: C.J. Wilson (9-6), S: none
Tue, Jul 17, 2012 LAA 13 @DET  0        W:Garrett Richards (3-1), L: Jacob Turner (0-1), S: none
Mon, Jul 16, 2012 DET  8  LAA  6        W:Octavio Dotel (3-2), L: LaTroy Hawkins (2-2), S: Jose Valverde (17)

Sun, Jul 31, 2011 DET  3  LAA  2        W:Justin Verlander (15-5), L: Jered Weaver (14-5), S: Jose Valverde (28)
Sat, Jul 30, 2011 LAA  5 @DET  1        W:Dan Haren (11-6), L: Jacob Turner (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jul 29, 2011 DET 12  LAA  2        W:Rick Porcello (11-6), L: Tyler Chatwood (6-7), S: none
Thu, Jul 28, 2011 LAA 12 @DET  7        W:Bobby Cassevah (1-0), L: Brad Penny (7-8), S: none
Wed, Jul 06, 2011 DET  5 @LAA  4        W:Brad Penny (6-6), L: Hisanori Takahashi (2-2), S: Jose Valverde (21)
Season Series: 2012 - DET over 3-2; 2011 - LAA won 4-3; 2010 - DET won 6-4; All-Time - DET leads 314-289

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  5.16

SFG  4.32

HOU  3.70

 RA/G

WSN  3.54

DET  4.34

COL  5.57

 BA

A. McCutchen  .349

N. Swisher  .273

J. Smoak  .188

 OBP

A. McCutchen  .415

A. Callaspo  .335

J. Smoak  .254

 SLG

R. Braun  .600

D. Pedroia  .434

J. Carroll  .286

 OPS

M. Trout  1.000

M. Bourn  .772

J. Smoak  .576

 ERA

D. Price  2.28

T. Milone  3.87

R. Wolf  5.69

 K/9IP

S. Strasburg  11.34

V. Worley  7.20

D. Lowe  3.42

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

Angels Batters (4.73 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.34 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 20.Dotel
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 36.Putkonen
G/S/vB		 46.Valverde
G/S/vB		 60.Villarreal
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Aybar# G/S/vP ··· 6/.000 5/1.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 422/307 .279/.316/.406/.722 .833/.681 .710 70/.996 11/2 7/11
6.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.800 3/.667 1/.000 ··· 7/.714 ··· 396/283 .244/.335/.352/.687 .810/.637 .689 95/.667 3/3 8/10
48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· 14/1.214 3/1.000 8/.661 ··· ··· 6/.666 2/.000 433/304 .296/.347/.431/.778 .733/.797 .801 107/.774 7/1 12/3
17.Iannetta G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.667 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 153/113 .244/.346/.427/.774 .400/.897 .931 76/.843 0/1 6/0
13.Izturis# G/S/vP ··· 11/.364 4/1.167 6/.334 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 267/191 .263/.325/.333/.658 .551/.701 .743 54/.852 15/2 2/8
47.Kendrick G/S/vP ··· 6/.500 6/.334 6/.167 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/2.500 464/319 .289/.330/.404/.734 .784/.711 .737 96/.909 10/6 7/10
8.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 4/1.750 3/.666 1/5.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 401/340 .275/.319/.447/.766 .693/.779 .749 92/.912 0/0 16/0
5.Pujols G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 18/1.018 ··· ··· 14/.214 1/.000 526/386 .283/.344/.533/.877 .922/.860 .949 97/1.044 8/1 28/7
27.Trout G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 476/343 .341/.405/.594/1.000 .933/1.026 .989 117/.998 41/4 24/4
44.Trumbo G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 4/2.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 474/337 .285/.335/.540/.875 .818/.899 .869 99/.554 4/4 30/5
10.Wells G/S/vP ··· 16/.327 5/1.400 9/.819 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 190/133 .223/.263/.402/.665 .511/.731 .646 44/.602 2/1 8/0
46.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 182/128 .227/.294/.299/.593 .717/.543 .504 22/.585 0/0 2/4
IP 79.1 56.0 48.0 45.1 14.1 9.2 51.2 41.2 TOTAL .274/.332/.438/.770 .754/.776 .780 .829 104/26 156/74
ERA-K/9 4.42/8.5 3.21/10.1 3.75/8.1 3.18/11.1 1.88/10.1 6.52/6.5 3.48/6.6 2.16/11.9 3.96/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Iannetta (29-11-7)
 Wilson (45-17-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 331/.263 225/.214 216/.330 177/.205 55/.180 50/.357 219/.221 171/.203 .262  Hunter
 Trumbo
 Trout
 Kendrick
 Wells
0/0/99/8
49/0/33/4
58/75/4/2
2/0/0/0
47/6/2/0
OPS .776 .698 .843 .571 .555 .878 .646 .573 .733
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 97/.724 113/.709 109/.662 63/.670 21/.190 26/1.025 118/.763 58/.732 .756
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 234/.798 112/.685 107/1.032 114/.517 34/.801 24/.717 101/.514 113/.499 .711
Home 139/.817 132/.676 105/.769 90/.489 41/.545 19/.796 110/.678 109/.512
Last 28d days / 35/.851 33/1.130 43/.405 24/.426 9/.476 39/.554 37/.633
HR/SB/CS 11/5/4 11/1/0 4/5/2 2/8/3 1/1/1 0/1/0 3/11/1 2/6/2 128/101/38
Usage ·oXo·o·o ·o·o··X· oo·X··oo ·····o·· ·····X·· ··oX···X X·o··oo·
Tigers Batters (4.56 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (4.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 24.Haren
G/S/vB		 37.Downs*
G/S/vB		 49.Frieri
G/S/vB		 32.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 55.Isringhausen
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 51.Walden
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 6/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 345/259 .252/.355/.395/.749 .575/.804 .807 74/.850 2/0 7/4
18.Baker G/S/vP 7/.762 1/.000 2/.000 5/.400 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 170/50 .253/.294/.418/.712 .716/.700 .686 39/.528 4/1 4/2
52.Berry* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 269/212 .272/.352/.374/.727 .607/.758 .732 42/.581 17/0 2/2
26.Boesch* G/S/vP 6/.000 5/.400 ··· 1/5.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 436/313 .248/.287/.382/.669 .600/.695 .647 62/.605 5/3 11/2
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 13/.693 7/.714 ··· 5/1.200 8/.500 4/.000 1/.000 546/390 .327/.394/.591/.984 .859/1.028 1.095 101/1.049 4/1 32/10
12.Dirks* G/S/vP 6/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 216/164 .328/.386/.497/.883 .752/.922 .907 70/.859 1/1 5/3
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 3/1.167 2/.000 3/1.000 5/1.550 9/.958 ··· ··· 538/343 .305/.403/.509/.912 .787/.988 .978 102/.998 1/0 22/8
4.Infante G/S/vP 12/1.000 7/.143 1/.000 4/.500 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 460/328 .288/.311/.449/.760 .885/.709 .731 94/.873 11/2 11/13
14.Jackson G/S/vP 4/1.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 466/325 .309/.390/.498/.888 .946/.863 .865 107/.849 10/6 13/0
9.Laird G/S/vP 12/.166 3/.333 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 142/61 .283/.348/.394/.741 .597/.931 .711 22/.573 0/0 2/2
27.Peralta G/S/vP 24/.467 7/.429 1/.000 7/.453 3/.666 4/.500 ··· 445/310 .256/.322/.408/.730 .741/.725 .775 89/.750 1/1 9/5
39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· 245/186 .214/.295/.284/.578 .526/.595 .621 21/.440 1/0 2/6
21.Young G/S/vP 21/.476 5/.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 4/.833 2/.000 465/317 .265/.297/.397/.694 .818/.634 .671 89/.658 0/2 13/2
IP 128.2 37.1 52.1 36.1 41.2 27.2 30.0 TOTAL .269/.337/.423/.761 .720/.779 .783 .801 45/16 124/78
ERA-K/9 4.90/7.1 2.89/5.8 2.24/14.3 3.72/5.5 4.10/6.0 3.58/8.4 4.20/11.4 4.22/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (62-30-7)
 Laird (30-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 559/.287 157/.245 216/.150 152/.277 181/.245 110/.212 139/.258 .251  Boesch
 Jackson
 Berry
 Young
 Dirks
 Baker
0/0/105/4
0/103/0/3
50/19/5/2
28/0/0/1
39/1/12/1
2/0/23/0
OPS .809 .641 .556 .727 .738 .578 .761 .723
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 291/.745 71/.514 97/.451 80/.589 92/.809 56/.700 70/.769 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 268/.879 86/.747 119/.645 72/.880 89/.670 54/.459 69/.754 .731
Road 232/.822 65/.623 105/.622 79/.795 94/.872 55/.634 67/.861
Last 28d days 61/.881 12/.962 42/.725 51/.987 42/1.171 45/.535 10/1.300
HR/SB/CS 22/7/2 2/2/0 6/3/1 4/12/1 7/7/1 2/1/0 2/5/2 143/109/35
Usage ········ oo·o·Xo· ·Xoo··o· ··X··X·X ·o····Xo ·oXo··X· ·o·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.