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Game Preview: MIN @ NYY, 7:05pm, Tuesday, April 17, 2012 @Yankee Stadium III

Twins, 3-7, 3-7 4th, 4 GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Francisco Liriano (28, LHP, 0-1, 10.00)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (0-1) 9.0 15 12 10 5 6 2 10.00
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 2-2 35.0 43 29 26 21 27 6 6.69 40
2012-04-12 LAA ND 5.0 7 6 5 3 2 1 91 30
2012-04-07 @BAL L 4.0 8 6 5 2 4 1 74 26
2011-08-25 BAL ND 2.0 2 1 1 3 2 0 42 47
2011-08-20 NYY W 7.0 3 1 0 3 6 0 108 72
2011-08-15 @DET W 6.0 9 5 5 1 4 2 94 37
2011-08-09 BOS ND 6.0 4 3 3 7 4 1 109 49
2011-08-04 @LAA L 5.0 10 7 7 2 5 1 94 22
Last 5 v.NYY 1-3 30.1 31 16 12 10 30 1 3.56 53
2011-08-20 NYY W 7.0 3 1 0 3 6 0 108 72
2011-04-07 @NYY L 5.0 4 4 4 3 5 0 97 45
2010-05-26 NYY ND 7.0 8 2 2 2 7 0 112 58
2010-05-15 @NYY L 6.0 9 3 3 0 7 0 101 49
2009-07-09 NYY L 5.1 7 6 3 2 5 1 105 39
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-4    Road:    1-3    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   3-5    vsLHP:   0-2    1-Run:   2-1 
 vsEast:  1-3    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  2-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Mon, Apr 16  @NYY  W   7-3        3-7   4th  4.0 gb
  9 Sun, Apr 15   TEX  L   3-4        2-7   5th  4.0 gb
  8 Sat, Apr 14   TEX  L   2-6        2-6   5th  3.5 gb
  7 Fri, Apr 13   TEX  L   1-4        2-5   5th  3.0 gb
  6 Thu, Apr 12   LAA  W  10-9        2-4   4th  3.0 gb
  5 Wed, Apr 11   LAA  W   6-5        1-4   4th  3.0 gb
  4 Mon, Apr  9   LAA  L   1-5        0-4   5th  3.5 gb
  3 Sun, Apr  8  @BAL  L   1-3        0-3   5th  3.0 gb
  2 Sat, Apr  7  @BAL  L   2-8        0-2   4th  2.0 gb
  1 Fri, Apr  6  @BAL  L   2-4        0-1   2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 3-7    Last 30: 3-7
Yankees, 5-5, 5-5 3rd, 1 GB, ½ GB in WC

SP: CC Sabathia (31, LHP, 0-0, 6.75)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (0-0) 12.0 16 9 9 5 15 2 6.75
2011 (19-8) 237.1 230 87 79 61 230 17 3.00
2010 (21-7) 237.2 209 92 84 74 197 20 3.18
Last 7 GS 2-1 44.1 57 20 20 18 54 5 4.06 51
2012-04-11 @BAL ND 6.0 8 4 4 2 8 0 112 46
2012-04-06 @TBR ND 6.0 8 5 5 3 7 2 104 40
2011-09-21 TBR ND 7.1 7 2 2 2 6 2 127 60
2011-09-16 @TOR ND 5.2 10 4 4 4 8 0 120 37
2011-09-10 @LAA L 6.0 8 1 1 4 5 0 119 53
2011-09-04 TOR W 7.1 6 2 2 1 10 0 111 67
2011-08-30 @BOS W 6.0 10 2 2 2 10 1 128 52
Last 5 v.MIN 4-0 38.0 26 5 4 4 29 1 0.95 71
2011-08-18 @MIN W 7.0 10 4 3 1 9 0 106 51
2011-04-05 MIN ND 7.0 2 0 0 1 6 0 104 78
2009-07-07 @MIN W 7.0 3 1 1 1 3 1 100 69
2008-06-10 MIN W 9.0 5 0 0 0 5 0 106 82
2007-09-03 @MIN W 8.0 6 0 0 1 6 0 100 75
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-2    Road:    3-3    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:   3-3    vsLHP:   2-2    1-Run:   1-1 
 vsEast:  3-3    vsCntrl: 0-1    vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Mon, Apr 16   MIN  L   3-7        5-5   3rd  1.0 gb
  9 Sun, Apr 15   LAA  W  11-5        5-4   1st    Tied
  8 Sat, Apr 14   LAA  L   1-7        4-4   2nd  1.0 gb
  7 Fri, Apr 13   LAA  W   5-0        4-3   1st    Tied
  6 Wed, Apr 11  @BAL  W   6-4 (10)   3-3   3rd  1.5 gb
  5 Tue, Apr 10  @BAL  W   5-4 (12)   2-3   4th  1.5 gb
  4 Mon, Apr  9  @BAL  W   6-2        1-3   4th  2.5 gb
  3 Sun, Apr  8  @TBR  L   0-3        0-3   4th  3.0 gb
  2 Sat, Apr  7  @TBR  L   6-8        0-2   4th  2.0 gb
  1 Fri, Apr  6  @TBR  L   6-7        0-1   4th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 5-5    Last 30: 5-5 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 16, 2012 MIN  7 @NYY  3        W:Carl Pavano (1-1), L: Freddy Garcia (0-1), S: none

Mon, Sep 19, 2011 NYY  6  MIN  4        W:Cory Wade (6-1), L: Scott Diamond (1-5), S: Mariano Rivera (43)
Sun, Aug 21, 2011 NYY  3 @MIN  0        W:Ivan Nova (13-4), L: Phil Dumatrait (1-2), S: Mariano Rivera (33)
Sat, Aug 20, 2011 MIN  9  NYY  4        W:Francisco Liriano (9-9), L: A.J. Burnett (9-10), S: none
Fri, Aug 19, 2011 NYY  8 @MIN  1        W:Phil Hughes (4-4), L: Kevin Slowey (0-1), S: none
Thu, Aug 18, 2011 NYY  8 @MIN  4        W:CC Sabathia (17-7), L: Brian Duensing (8-12), S: none
Thu, Apr 07, 2011 NYY  4  MIN  3        W:A.J. Burnett (2-0), L: Francisco Liriano (0-2), S: Mariano Rivera (4)
Tue, Apr 05, 2011 MIN  5 @NYY  4 (10)   W:Matt Capps (1-0), L: Boone Logan (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (2)
Mon, Apr 04, 2011 NYY  4  MIN  3        W:Ivan Nova (1-0), L: Scott Baker (0-1), S: Mariano Rivera (3)
Thu, May 27, 2010 MIN  8  NYY  2        W:Nick Blackburn (6-1), L: Javier Vazquez (3-5), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - MIN over 1-0; 2011 - NYY won 6-2; 2010 - NYY won 4-2; All-Time - NYY leads 1111-769

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

For the 2011 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.40

CLE  4.35

SEA  3.43

 RA/G

PHI  3.27

FLA  4.33

BAL  5.31

 BA

M. Cabrera  .344

A. Ramirez  .269

V. Wells  .218

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .448

J. Bruce  .341

V. Wells  .248

 SLG

J. Bautista  .608

C. Lee  .446

J. Bartlett  .307

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.056

Y. Escobar  .782

A. Rios  .613

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.28

R. Wolf  3.69

B. Penny  5.30

 K/9IP

Z. Greinke  10.54

G. Floyd  7.02

B. Penny  3.67

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2012 season. Player Stats for the 2011 season. We will switch to 2012 stats on May 1st.

Twins Batters (3.50 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Sabathia*
G/S/vB		 48.Logan*
G/S/vB		 41.Phelps
G/S/vB		 39.Rapada*
G/S/vB		 42.Rivera
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 53.Wade
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
37.Burroughs* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 115/101 .273/.289/.336/.626 .643/.623 .556 6/.167 1/0 1/1
8.Carroll G/S/vP 6/.900 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 510/370 .290/.359/.347/.706 .751/.689 .791 43/.599 10/0 0/9
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 15/1.333 2/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 365/247 .260/.322/.368/.691 .579/.750 .611 25/.490 15/4 2/11
18.Doumit# G/S/vP 10/.400 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/2.500 1/2.000 236/174 .303/.353/.477/.830 .912/.802 .703 29/.526 0/1 8/6
38.Hughes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 317/214 .223/.289/.338/.627 .608/.636 .638 8/.536 3/2 7/5
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 32/.531 11/.920 ··· 5/.800 8/.750 5/.650 5/1.100 ··· 333/207 .287/.360/.368/.729 .562/.829 .752 43/.828 0/0 3/5
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 50/.496 14/1.417 ··· 5/.400 9/.444 4/.250 5/.000 1/.000 288/193 .227/.285/.333/.618 .401/.728 .587 42/.722 0/0 4/1
27.Parmelee* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 88/66 .355/.443/.592/1.035 .935/1.069 .786 27/.605 0/0 4/2
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 4/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 320/236 .238/.305/.392/.697 .782/.665 .696 7/.429 3/3 8/12
2.Span* G/S/vP 6/.334 4/.333 ··· 3/.666 6/.000 3/1.167 5/.800 1/2.000 311/225 .264/.328/.359/.687 .657/.698 .660 44/.921 6/1 2/1
36.Thomas* G/S/vP ··· 4/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 / /// / 7/1.262 / /
22.Valencia G/S/vP 5/1.400 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 2/.500 2/3.000 608/449 .246/.294/.383/.677 .822/.626 .649 36/.601 2/6 15/18
16.Willingham G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 2/2.000 7/.453 5/.600 563/377 .246/.332/.477/.810 .783/.823 .750 42/1.254 4/1 29/2
IP 237.1 41.2 16.1 61.1 66.2 39.1 39.2 TOTAL .270/.330/.401/.730 .710/.736 .607 .730 5/2 8/8
ERA-K/9 3.00/8.7 3.46/9.9 /0.0 6.06/9.9 1.91/8.8 1.08/13.5 4.12/8.2 2.04/6.8 4.34/9.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (41-13-4)
 Mauer (28-12-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 985/.255 185/.261 / 69/.230 233/.215 272/.170 164/.229 157/.221 .273  Willingham
 Plouffe
 Span
 Mauer
96/0/0/3
3/0/11/1
0/67/0/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .666 .746 .747 .534 .506 .645 .624 .813
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 266/.554 118/.789 / 53/.336 109/.595 142/.466 76/.850 67/.730 .834
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 719/.709 67/.673 / 16/2.212 124/.480 130/.549 88/.477 90/.541 .798
Home 467/.618 94/.639 / 40/.649 120/.435 129/.570 94/.745 79/.621
Last 28d days 56/.842 20/.613 28/.261 14/.862 17/.945 21/.496 16/.864 27/.576
HR/SB/CS 17/11/6 4/3/2 // 3/0/1 3/5/1 1/16/2 4/6/2 5/2/2 13/6/2
Usage ·····X·· XX···Xo· ··X···X· o·o···o· ·····XXX ·X·o··XX ·X···X·· X·····X·

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2012 season. Player Stats for the 2011 season. We will switch to 2012 stats on May 1st.

Yankees Batters (4.90 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.10 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 31.Burnett
G/S/vB		 61.Burton
G/S/vB		 55.Capps
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 60.Gray
G/S/vB		 44.Maloney*
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cano* G/S/vP 19/.757 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 11/.637 5/.000 ··· 10/1.267 681/458 .302/.349/.533/.882 .879/.884 .885 47/.682 8/2 28/10
12.Chavez* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 175/152 .263/.320/.356/.676 .609/.687 .559 4/.500 0/0 2/0
11.Gardner* G/S/vP 13/1.045 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 5/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 588/464 .259/.345/.369/.713 .616/.738 .731 30/.614 49/13 7/5
14.Granderson* G/S/vP 28/.542 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 15/.762 5/1.400 ··· 16/1.063 691/472 .262/.364/.552/.916 .944/.902 .921 46/.851 25/10 41/3
27.Ibanez* G/S/vP 11/.182 ··· ··· 4/1.250 1/.000 ··· 5/1.000 11/1.727 575/437 .245/.289/.419/.707 .585/.747 .833 30/.748 2/0 20/1
2.Jeter G/S/vP 20/1.097 2/1.000 1/.000 1/2.000 10/1.067 2/1.000 ··· 11/.637 607/439 .297/.355/.388/.743 .946/.666 .783 48/1.071 16/6 6/12
22.Jones G/S/vP 18/.800 1/.000 3/.666 4/2.750 8/1.750 3/.333 ··· 4/.250 222/76 .247/.356/.495/.851 .923/.709 .916 13/.685 0/0 13/1
55.Martin G/S/vP 8/.250 1/2.000 5/.650 8/.417 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· 476/343 .237/.324/.408/.732 .684/.750 .780 36/.577 8/2 18/11
26.Nunez G/S/vP 2/1.500 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 3/.666 2/1.000 ··· ··· 338/217 .265/.313/.385/.698 .742/.673 .679 11/.899 22/6 5/20
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 16/.466 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 8/.417 4/.500 ··· 10/1.711 428/319 .276/.362/.461/.823 .750/.848 .862 46/.723 4/1 16/6
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 183/132 .204/.283/.309/.592 .801/.511 .514 3/.000 0/0 3/7
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 23/.594 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 9/1.413 5/1.400 ··· 4/1.833 635/437 .260/.374/.449/.822 .957/.763 .853 47/.769 2/2 23/1
25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 23/.561 ··· 3/.667 3/.000 11/1.767 5/.400 ··· 5/1.400 684/464 .248/.341/.494/.835 .967/.779 .862 46/.673 4/1 39/4
IP 134.1 50.2 4.2 65.2 161.2 48.1 18.2 61.2 TOTAL .254/.343/.413/.756 .691/.788 .762 .756 9/2 12/2
ERA-K/9 5.09/7.5 5.51/5.9 3.86/5.7 4.25/4.7 5.23/6.4 4.28/4.3 9.16/6.3 2.48/9.5 4.97/5.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (95-40-4)
 Stewart (34-22-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 591/.249 225/.263 23/.316 274/.262 711/.299 215/.275 96/.409 253/.244 .271  Granderson
 Swisher
 Gardner
 Ibanez
 Jones
 Nunez
0/155/0/11
0/0/141/9
149/18/0/7
134/0/0/5
39/0/19/1
1/0/3/0
OPS .726 .749 .988 .726 .833 .758 1.182 .644 .765
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 140/.669 91/.692 8/1.625 129/.765 187/.522 97/.695 28/1.162 101/.589 .696
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 451/.744 134/.789 15/.670 145/.689 524/.947 118/.811 68/1.190 152/.681 .799
Road 282/.778 94/.810 4/.500 123/.737 346/.762 112/.788 50/1.371 103/.643
Last 28d days 45/1.044 21/.616 15/.910 17/.647 16/.527 14/.607 15/.497 21/1.034
HR/SB/CS 14/9/5 4/7/1 1/2/0 10/2/0 21/6/6 4/3/3 7/0/0 2/3/2 13/9/0
Usage ····X··· ·oo·X··· ·o·oo··o o···Xo·o o·X·X··· ··X·oo·· ·o·o···· ·oX··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.