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Game Preview: CHW @ DET, 7:05pm, Saturday, September 1, 2012 @Comerica Park

WhiteSox, 72-59, 72-59 1st, 2 up

SP: Francisco Liriano (28, LHP, 5-10, 5.06)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (5-10) 131.2 119 78 74 71 142 15 5.06
2011 (9-10) 134.1 125 81 76 75 112 14 5.09
2010 (14-10) 191.2 184 77 77 58 201 9 3.62
Last 7 GS 2-1 34.1 37 22 22 17 35 6 5.77 46
2012-08-27 @BAL ND 5.0 6 2 2 4 3 1 104 46
2012-08-21 NYY W 6.0 6 2 2 3 7 1 108 56
2012-08-16 @TOR W 6.1 3 2 2 1 6 1 86 64
2012-08-11 OAK ND 3.1 7 6 6 3 5 0 76 24
2012-08-05 LAA ND 5.0 4 1 1 1 4 0 72 58
2012-07-31 @MIN ND 6.0 4 2 2 4 8 0 113 60
2012-07-23 @CHW L 2.2 7 7 7 1 2 3 53 17
Last 5 v.DET 1-3 21.1 27 15 15 10 19 4 6.33 44
2011-08-15 @DET W 6.0 9 5 5 1 4 2 94 37
2011-07-24 DET L 2.1 6 4 4 4 3 0 78 28
2011-05-10 DET L 3.0 3 4 4 3 1 1 59 35
2010-09-24 @DET L 3.0 4 2 2 1 4 1 58 46
2010-09-01 DET ND 7.0 5 0 0 1 7 0 104 73
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   38-26   Road:   34-33   ExtrInn: 5-7 
 vsRHP:  52-39   vsLHP:  20-20   1-Run:  22-16
 vsEast: 18-18   vsCntrl:25-23   vsWest: 20-9  IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
131 Fri, Aug 31  @DET  L   4-7       72-59  1st  2.0 up
130 Thu, Aug 30  @BAL  L   3-5       72-58  1st  3.0 up
129 Wed, Aug 29  @BAL  W   8-1       72-57  1st  3.0 up
128 Tue, Aug 28  @BAL  L   0-6       71-57  1st  2.0 up
127 Mon, Aug 27  @BAL  L   3-4       71-56  1st  2.0 up
126 Sun, Aug 26   SEA  W   4-3  (7)  71-55  1st  2.5 up
125 Sat, Aug 25   SEA  W   5-4       70-55  1st  2.5 up
124 Fri, Aug 24   SEA  W   9-8       69-55  1st  2.5 up
123 Wed, Aug 22   NYY  W   2-1       68-55  1st  2.0 up
122 Tue, Aug 21   NYY  W   7-3       67-55  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Tigers, 70-61, 70-61 2nd, 2 GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Max Scherzer (27, RHP, 14-6, 4.13)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (14-6) 154.2 155 75 71 54 195 22 4.13
2011 (15-9) 195.0 207 101 96 56 174 29 4.43
2010 (12-11) 195.2 174 84 76 70 184 20 3.50
Last 7 GS 5-1 45.1 41 15 15 15 61 5 2.98 61
2012-08-26 LAA W 7.0 4 1 1 2 9 0 120 72
2012-08-21 TOR W 7.0 5 1 1 2 8 1 112 69
2012-08-15 @MIN W 7.0 4 0 0 2 10 0 117 77
2012-08-10 @TEX W 6.0 8 2 2 2 8 1 112 54
2012-08-05 CLE ND 5.0 10 4 4 1 9 1 105 39
2012-07-30 @BOS L 6.1 7 5 5 2 9 1 101 46
2012-07-25 @CLE W 7.0 3 2 2 4 8 1 105 67
Last 5 v.CHW 1-2 30.0 28 12 11 8 37 4 3.30 57
2012-05-15 @CHW ND 4.0 8 6 5 3 3 1 99 24
2012-05-05 CHW ND 7.0 4 1 1 0 9 1 97 74
2012-04-13 @CHW L 6.0 5 3 3 1 11 1 100 60
2011-09-04 CHW W 7.0 5 0 0 0 6 0 113 73
2011-07-27 @CHW L 6.0 6 2 2 4 8 1 116 56
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-26   Road:   30-35   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  49-42   vsLHP:  21-19   1-Run:  17-20
 vsEast: 21-18   vsCntrl:27-20   vsWest: 11-16 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
131 Fri, Aug 31   CHW  W   7-4       70-61  2nd  2.0 gb
130 Thu, Aug 30  @KCR  L   1-2       69-61  2nd  3.0 gb
129 Wed, Aug 29  @KCR  L   0-1       69-60  2nd  3.0 gb
128 Tue, Aug 28  @KCR  L   8-9       69-59  2nd  2.0 gb
127 Sun, Aug 26   LAA  W   5-2       69-58  2nd  2.5 gb
126 Sat, Aug 25   LAA  W   5-3       68-58  2nd  2.5 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 31, 2012 DET  7  CHW  4        W:Octavio Dotel (5-2), L: Jake Peavy (9-10), S: Jose Valverde (27)
Sun, Jul 22, 2012 DET  6  CHW  4        W:Jacob Turner (1-1), L: Philip Humber (4-5), S: Joaquin Benoit (2)
Sat, Jul 21, 2012 DET  7  CHW  1        W:Rick Porcello (7-5), L: Chris Sale (11-3), S: none
Fri, Jul 20, 2012 DET  4  CHW  2        W:Justin Verlander (11-5), L: Jake Peavy (7-7), S: Jose Valverde (18)
Tue, May 15, 2012 DET 10 @CHW  8        W:Collin Balester (2-0), L: Will Ohman (0-2), S: Octavio Dotel (1)
Mon, May 14, 2012 CHW  7  DET  5        W:Zach Stewart (1-1), L: Luke Putkonen (0-2), S: Addison Reed (3)
Sun, May 06, 2012 DET  3  CHW  1        W:Rick Porcello (3-2), L: Dylan Axelrod (0-1), S: Jose Valverde (5)
Sat, May 05, 2012 CHW  3 @DET  2        W:Nate Jones (1-0), L: Jose Valverde (2-1), S: Addison Reed (1)
Fri, May 04, 2012 DET  5  CHW  4        W:Jose Valverde (2-0), L: Matt Thornton (1-1), S: none
Sun, Apr 15, 2012 DET  5 @CHW  2        W:Rick Porcello (1-0), L: Chris Sale (1-1), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - DET over 8-4; 2011 - DET won 13-5; 2010 - DET won 10-8; All-Time - DET leads 1030-1005

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  5.15

SFG  4.31

HOU  3.64

 RA/G

WSN  3.54

DET  4.31

COL  5.52

 BA

M. Cabrera  .346

J. Morneau  .274

C. Pena  .190

 OBP

P. Fielder  .410

M. Teixeira  .335

J. Smoak  .258

 SLG

R. Braun  .606

J. Reyes  .435

J. Carroll  .290

 OPS

R. Braun  .993

K. Morales  .777

J. Smoak  .575

 ERA

F. Hernandez  2.43

C. Wilson  3.86

R. Wolf  5.69

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.34

G. Floyd  7.42

H. Alvarez  3.41

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

WhiteSox Batters (4.72 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.31 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 20.Dotel
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 33.Smyly*
G/S/vB		 46.Valverde
G/S/vB		 60.Villarreal
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Beckham G/S/vP 24/.590 4/.000 3/1.000 4/1.250 ··· 5/1.350 10/.200 1/.000 487/364 .231/.285/.360/.644 .696/.627 .564 82/.740 3/3 12/6
7.Danks* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 59/36 .241/.271/.315/.586 .435/.693 .600 23/.481 2/1 1/0
32.Dunn* G/S/vP 25/.971 5/.000 6/.750 7/.143 ··· 7/1.086 13/.891 ··· 563/373 .205/.337/.483/.820 .786/.838 .865 107/.739 2/1 38/1
38.Gimenez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 1.000/1.000/1.000/2.000 /2.000 2.000 1/2.000 0/0 0/0
14.Konerko G/S/vP 25/.862 24/.638 5/.400 9/1.111 ··· 5/1.200 8/.500 ··· 482/356 .309/.380/.498/.877 .784/.910 .781 71/.801 0/0 21/1
18.Lopez G/S/vP 6/.167 20/.812 1/.000 9/.444 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB 228/136 .253/.276/.373/.650 .719/.603 .550 8/1.125 0/1 4/3
66.Olmedo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/13 .278/.278/.278/.556 .400/.615 .250 18/.556 0/0 0/0
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 26/.962 11/1.182 11/.637 5/2.000 ··· 5/.400 12/1.083 ··· 420/313 .288/.334/.534/.868 .689/.930 .722 82/.824 0/0 24/6
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 29/.374 2/.000 4/.666 6/.833 ··· 5/1.200 8/1.071 1/2.000 511/393 .272/.295/.379/.674 .778/.642 .618 94/.819 14/6 8/11
51.Rios G/S/vP 20/.411 5/.400 6/.334 13/1.154 ··· 4/.000 11/.586 1/.000 526/390 .300/.331/.511/.842 .836/.844 .792 99/.638 20/5 20/6
24.Viciedo G/S/vP 9/1.000 2/2.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 4/1.750 3/.000 ··· 449/338 .255/.292/.422/.714 .936/.641 .726 86/.712 0/1 19/1
28.Wise* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/2.500 ··· 139/95 .263/.295/.444/.739 .715/.749 .589 76/.705 12/1 6/1
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 11/.864 15/.508 8/1.625 4/.250 ··· 4/.500 6/.167 1/.000 401/274 .240/.344/.427/.771 .957/.689 .580 90/.771 0/0 16/8
IP 154.2 58.0 48.1 50.0 15.2 85.2 54.2 45.1 TOTAL .257/.317/.423/.740 .760/.733 .683 .742 83/33 171/61
ERA-K/9 4.13/11.3 3.10/10.6 3.72/8.2 2.88/10.4 1.72/9.2 4.31/8.5 3.46/6.6 2.18/11.7 3.93/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gimenez (0-0-0)
 Pierzynski (62-19-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 659/.261 231/.208 219/.332 195/.208 59/.170 359/.256 231/.215 186/.204 .261  Viciedo
 Rios
 Wise
 Danks
 Dunn
 Lopez
110/0/0/11
0/0/127/8
46/19/8/3
17/7/5/0
5/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .760 .678 .853 .566 .537 .764 .631 .565 .730
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 373/.858 116/.690 111/.678 68/.727 24/.167 99/.739 123/.759 63/.688 .760
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 286/.635 115/.665 108/1.037 127/.481 35/.820 260/.774 108/.491 123/.507 .702
Home 282/.717 138/.644 105/.769 104/.494 41/.545 167/.785 122/.645 109/.512
Last 28d days 130/.707 38/.780 26/.920 56/.478 21/.449 28/.619 45/.582 49/.626
HR/SB/CS 22/11/8 11/1/0 4/5/2 2/8/3 1/1/1 12/6/5 3/11/1 2/8/2 131/105/39
Usage ·····X·· X····o·· ···o···· X·X···Xo ·o·o···· X·····X· o····Xo· ·X·X···X
Tigers Batters (4.55 RS/G) vs. WhiteSox Pitchers (4.18 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 26.Crain
G/S/vB		 65.Jones
G/S/vB		 39.Myers
G/S/vB		 62.Quintana*
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 53.Santiago*
G/S/vB		 37.Thornton*
G/S/vB		 46.Veal*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 5/1.800 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 6/.200 5/.450 2/.000 361/271 .247/.350/.383/.733 .561/.787 .780 70/.744 2/0 7/4
52.Berry* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 274/216 .268/.346/.368/.714 .603/.743 .729 26/.261 17/0 2/2
26.Boesch* G/S/vP 14/1.116 5/1.600 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.750 8/.875 1/.000 446/322 .246/.287/.377/.664 .595/.690 .647 50/.505 5/3 11/2
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 32/1.177 14/1.434 4/.000 47/.721 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 12/.533 ··· 568/409 .329/.393/.591/.983 .863/1.024 1.100 98/1.117 4/1 33/12
12.Dirks* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· 243/187 .333/.393/.502/.895 .732/.941 .960 92/.884 1/1 5/3
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 18/.389 4/2.417 3/1.167 27/1.843 ··· 1/2.000 4/2.000 4/.250 1/no AB 563/362 .314/.410/.521/.931 .787/1.016 1.002 103/1.034 1/0 23/8
4.Infante G/S/vP 7/.286 4/.500 ··· 12/.417 ··· ··· ··· 5/.833 2/1.500 480/348 .283/.306/.439/.745 .885/.692 .721 97/.775 12/2 11/14
14.Jackson G/S/vP 23/.697 10/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 4/.250 3/.000 ··· 494/349 .304/.384/.488/.873 .956/.839 .830 109/.763 11/6 13/1
9.Laird G/S/vP 19/.600 6/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.250 ··· 148/67 .278/.340/.383/.724 .597/.875 .671 25/.584 0/0 2/2
27.Peralta G/S/vP 37/.847 22/.449 2/2.000 ··· ··· 3/2.500 6/.333 24/.705 1/.000 469/330 .256/.318/.415/.734 .734/.734 .778 94/.692 1/1 11/5
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 13/.717 10/.555 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 10/.600 ··· 248/186 .211/.291/.280/.571 .499/.595 .621 15/.286 1/0 2/6
21.Young G/S/vP 5/2.000 5/.600 4/.500 ··· ··· 3/.333 3/.000 9/1.181 ··· 490/337 .273/.306/.421/.727 .834/.677 .734 95/.847 0/2 15/2
IP 131.2 35.1 53.0 49.1 113.2 46.0 48.1 53.2 7.1 TOTAL .270/.337/.425/.763 .717/.782 .790 .790 47/16 130/83
ERA-K/9 5.06/9.7 2.80/11.0 3.06/8.3 3.47/5.3 3.17/5.0 4.11/9.2 3.91/9.5 3.52/7.4 1.23/14.8 4.02/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (66-31-7)
 Laird (30-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 579/.242 145/.173 228/.275 209/.267 459/.261 198/.249 213/.219 223/.262 27/.080 .250  Boesch
 Jackson
 Berry
 Young
 Dirks
0/0/108/4
0/109/0/3
53/19/5/2
29/0/0/1
43/1/15/1
OPS .724 .575 .737 .723 .719 .703 .735 .694 .268 .724
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 118/.544 58/.826 87/.584 95/.815 144/.711 96/.736 93/.654 107/.635 15/.067 .744
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 461/.773 87/.403 141/.834 114/.644 315/.722 102/.672 120/.794 116/.748 12/.523 .708
Road 264/.808 67/.429 87/.644 85/.779 271/.771 90/.557 103/.757 118/.789 22/.091
Last 28d days 113/.753 29/.568 39/.823 53/.770 132/.833 36/.802 38/.710 28/.713 22/.332
HR/SB/CS 15/16/2 4/5/2 4/3/0 6/0/0 12/6/3 4/6/1 9/4/0 4/3/2 0/0/0 154/84/31
Usage ····X··· ····X··· ·Xo··Xo· ····X·X· ·X····X· ······oX ·X···X·· o·····oo ·Xo····o

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.