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Game Preview: CLE @ STL, 8:15pm, Friday, June 8, 2012 @Busch Stadium III

Indians, 30-26, 30-26 2nd, 1½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Josh Tomlin (27, RHP, 2-3, 5.32)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (2-3) 45.2 50 28 27 10 34 6 5.32
2011 (12-7) 165.1 157 80 78 21 89 24 4.25
2010 (6-4) 73.0 72 38 37 19 43 10 4.56
Last 7 GS 2-3 42.0 44 23 23 10 34 6 4.93 49
2012-06-02 MIN L 6.0 10 5 5 1 3 1 97 34
2012-05-28 KCR W 5.0 4 4 4 2 4 2 81 45
2012-05-07 CHW ND 7.1 5 2 2 2 8 0 104 66
2012-05-02 @CHW ND 6.0 5 3 3 2 4 1 82 52
2012-04-26 KCR L 4.2 8 4 4 2 1 0 87 31
2012-04-19 @SEA W 8.0 5 1 1 0 7 0 96 75
2012-04-09 CHW L 5.0 7 4 4 1 7 2 95 43
Has never faced STL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   16-16   Road:   14-10   ExtrInn: 2-4 
 vsRHP:  25-13   vsLHP:   5-13   1-Run:  10-2 
 vsEast:  2-5    vsCntrl:17-15   vsWest: 10-4  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 56 Thu, Jun  7  @DET  L   5-7       30-26  2nd  1.5 gb
 55 Wed, Jun  6  @DET  W   9-6       30-25  2nd  0.5 gb
 54 Tue, Jun  5  @DET  W   4-2       29-25  2nd  1.5 gb
 53 Sun, Jun  3   MIN  L   3-6       28-25  2nd  2.5 gb
 52 Sat, Jun  2   MIN  L   4-7       28-24  2nd  1.5 gb
 51 Fri, Jun  1   MIN  W   7-1       28-23  2nd  1.5 gb
 50 Wed, May 30   KCR  L   3-6       27-23  2nd  1.5 gb
 49 Tue, May 29   KCR  L   2-8       27-22  2nd  0.5 gb
 48 Mon, May 28   KCR  W   8-5       27-21  1st  0.5 up
 47 Sun, May 27  @CHW  L   6-12      26-21  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Cardinals, 30-28, 30-28 2nd, 2 GB, 3 GB in WC

SP: Jake Westbrook (34, RHP, 4-5, 4.23)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (4-5) 66.0 74 34 31 21 46 6 4.23
2011 (12-9) 183.1 208 103 95 73 104 16 4.66
2010 (10-11) 202.2 203 99 95 68 128 20 4.22
Last 7 GS 1-4 38.1 53 28 27 14 31 6 6.34 41
2012-06-03 @NYM L 5.0 9 5 5 2 2 1 106 29
2012-05-29 @ATL L 5.0 5 5 5 3 6 2 88 40
2012-05-24 PHI ND 3.2 8 6 6 3 4 0 92 22
2012-05-19 @LAD L 6.1 6 4 3 1 5 1 109 51
2012-05-14 CHC ND 5.0 12 4 4 2 2 1 107 27
2012-05-08 @ARI W 7.0 4 0 0 2 8 0 115 75
2012-05-03 PIT L 6.1 9 4 4 1 4 1 89 42
Has never faced CLE as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-11   Road:   17-17   ExtrInn: 1-3 
 vsRHP:  20-21   vsLHP:  10-7    1-Run:   5-10
 vsEast:  4-11   vsCntrl:19-13   vsWest:  7-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 58 Thu, Jun  7  @HOU  W  14-2       30-28  2nd  2.0 gb
 57 Wed, Jun  6  @HOU  W   4-3       29-28  2nd  3.0 gb
 56 Tue, Jun  5  @HOU  L   8-9       28-28  3rd  3.0 gb
 55 Mon, Jun  4  @NYM  W   5-4       28-27  2nd  3.0 gb
 54 Sun, Jun  3  @NYM  L   1-6       27-27  3rd  3.5 gb
 53 Sat, Jun  2  @NYM  L   0-5       27-26  2nd  3.5 gb
 52 Fri, Jun  1  @NYM  L   0-8       27-25  2nd  2.5 gb
 51 Wed, May 30  @ATL  L   7-10      27-24  2nd  1.5 gb
 50 Tue, May 29  @ATL  L   4-5       27-23  2nd  1.5 gb
 49 Mon, May 28  @ATL  W   8-2       27-22  2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 14, 2009 CLE  3  STL  0        W:Cliff Lee (4-6), L: Chris Carpenter (4-1), S: none
Sat, Jun 13, 2009 STL  3 @CLE  1        W:Brad Thompson (1-2), L: Tomo Ohka (0-1), S: Ryan Franklin (15)
Fri, Jun 12, 2009 CLE  7  STL  3        W:David Huff (2-2), L: Joel Pineiro (5-7), S: none
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 STL  5  CLE  4        W:Jason Isringhausen (2-3), L: Bob Wickman (1-3), S: none
Tue, Jun 27, 2006 CLE  3 @STL  1        W:CC Sabathia (6-4), L: Anthony Reyes (1-2), S: Bob Wickman (11)
Mon, Jun 26, 2006 CLE 10 @STL  3        W:Cliff Lee (7-5), L: Jason Marquis (9-6), S: none
Sun, Jul 08, 2001 STL  4 @CLE  3        W:Mike Timlin (3-4), L: John Rocker (4-4), S: none
Sat, Jul 07, 2001 CLE  7  STL  6 (10)   W:John Rocker (4-3), L: Dave Veres (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jul 06, 2001 CLE 14  STL  2        W:Charles Nagy (3-3), L: Matt Morris (10-5), S: none
Sun, Jun 04, 2000 CLE  3 @STL  2        W:Tom Martin (1-0), L: Matt Morris (0-1), S: Steve Karsay (12)
Season Series: 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; 2010 -  0-0; All-Time - CLE leads 12-5

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  5.34

HOU  4.23

PIT  3.20

 RA/G

WSN  3.31

TEX  4.24

COL  5.46

 BA

P. Konerko  .371

D. Uggla  .267

R. Weeks  .160

 OBP

J. Votto  .477

J. Reddick  .333

A. Ramirez  .232

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .697

J. Arencibia  .428

B. Ryan  .252

 OPS

J. Votto  1.097

M. Wieters  .764

A. Ramirez  .504

 ERA

B. Beachy  1.87

K. Millwood  3.90

M. Minor  6.57

 K/9IP

G. Gonzalez  11.40

J. Weaver  7.43

H. Alvarez  2.62

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

Indians Batters (4.48 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.17 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Westbrook
G/S/vB		 41.Boggs
G/S/vB		 63.Cleto
G/S/vB		 61.Freeman*
G/S/vB		 66.Marte
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 34.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 59.Salas
G/S/vB		 52.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 50.Wainwright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Brantley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 226/146 .282/.323/.399/.722 .733/.716 .808 92/.808 9/4 1/1
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 5/1.100 ··· ··· ··· 213/133 .296/.385/.468/.853 .903/.822 .969 91/.725 2/2 5/3
8.Chisenhall* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 26/18 .231/.231/.462/.692 .000/1.000 .000 26/.692 2/0 2/1
17.Choo* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 4/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 224/140 .281/.384/.406/.790 .537/.940 .806 108/.867 8/1 3/0
2.Cunningham G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 68/34 .200/.284/.233/.517 .501/.531 .449 17/.301 0/1 0/0
33.Damon* G/S/vP 20/.528 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 7/.572 ··· ··· ··· 105/77 .185/.286/.261/.547 .593/.528 .494 63/.624 1/0 1/1
47.Duncan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 134/71 .202/.306/.342/.648 .730/.577 .771 37/.537 1/2 4/1
22.Kipnis* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 252/151 .279/.340/.447/.787 .645/.878 1.031 108/.714 14/1 9/3
35.Kotchman* G/S/vP 12/.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/2.500 191/130 .221/.289/.331/.621 .503/.675 .739 79/.696 3/0 4/2
7.LaPorta G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/3 .182/.182/.182/.364 .250/.667 .286 11/.364 0/0 0/0
4.Lopez G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.334 ··· ··· 3/.000 103/70 .274/.311/.411/.721 .787/.689 .450 82/.760 0/0 2/2
6.Marson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 59/34 .216/.322/.314/.636 .860/.467 .782 36/.826 2/0 0/0
41.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/no AB ··· ··· ··· 203/129 .232/.345/.363/.708 .606/.763 .647 67/.525 2/1 5/4
IP 66.0 25.2 4.0 3.1 26.1 24.2 21.1 16.2 10.0 70.2 TOTAL .251/.332/.382/.715 .635/.761 .773 .700 48/13 45/29
ERA-K/9 4.23/6.3 2.10/8.4 2.25/13.5 5.40/10.9 4.10/8.2 2.92/8.7 5.06/6.8 5.94/11.9 2.70/8.1 4.97/8.3 3.98/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Marson (16-3-0)
 Santana (18-9-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 287/.280 107/.228 17/.375 16/.214 112/.248 95/.181 89/.241 83/.329 40/.121 304/.275 .261  Brantley
 Choo
 Cunningham
 Duncan
 Damon
0/53/0/3
0/0/50/2
29/6/10/2
34/0/0/1
24/0/0/0
OPS .739 .604 1.099 .598 .714 .567 .714 .854 .402 .775 .714
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 133/.808 44/.747 10/1.100 9/.583 50/.648 50/.400 49/.549 34/1.000 24/.488 165/.735 .726
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 154/.680 63/.505 7/1.071 7/.619 62/.765 45/.748 40/.918 49/.752 16/.250 139/.818 .703
Home 131/.817 48/.604 / / 59/.865 41/.545 29/.528 39/.692 10/.100 150/.845
Last 28d days 125/.982 48/.604 17/1.099 16/.598 60/.875 45/.707 46/.870 26/.703 40/.402 164/.713
HR/SB/CS 6/1/3 1/2/0 1/0/1 0/0/0 3/3/0 3/1/1 4/1/0 1/2/1 0/0/0 8/1/0 46/19/12
Usage ····X··· ·oX··X·· ··X·o·X· o·X·o·X· ·oo··X·· ·X·Xo··· ·o·Xo··· o······· oX·o·o·· ·X····X·
Cardinals Batters (5.21 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Tomlin
G/S/vB		 57.Accardo
G/S/vB		 51.Barnes*
G/S/vB		 50.Hagadone*
G/S/vB		 54.Perez
G/S/vB		 52.Pestano
G/S/vB		 49.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Adams* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/40 .273/.333/.473/.806 .463/.983 .970 60/.806 0/0 2/3
3.Beltran# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 226/164 .276/.367/.561/.928 .910/.935 1.156 92/.731 6/2 16/1
56.Chambers* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/19 .250/.333/.333/.667 .393/.780 .452 28/.667 0/1 0/0
21.Craig G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 87/54 .382/.437/.737/1.174 1.188/1.165 1.343 50/1.149 1/0 7/1
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/24 .175/.175/.200/.375 .375/.375 .350 19/.421 0/1 0/0
33.Descalso* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 128/107 .225/.323/.378/.701 .667/.708 .708 57/.791 2/1 3/2
23.Freese G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 209/162 .271/.325/.516/.841 .912/.821 .795 88/.737 0/1 12/3
15.Furcal# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 254/174 .319/.373/.441/.814 .907/.773 .769 110/.672 9/2 5/6
27.Greene G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 136/67 .210/.274/.395/.669 .782/.546 .769 72/.642 6/1 4/3
60.Hill G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/3 .143/.143/.286/.429 .750/.000 1.000 7/.429 0/0 0/0
7.Holliday G/S/vP ··· 5/.650 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.000 253/179 .276/.364/.462/.825 .935/.781 .819 105/.866 2/2 10/2
4.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 212/163 .328/.381/.521/.902 1.017/.867 1.029 89/.958 5/0 8/2
43.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 93/47 .276/.312/.391/.703 .630/.774 .444 45/.624 1/0 2/1
IP 45.2 11.2 4.0 18.2 23.1 23.2 20.2 24.0 TOTAL .276/.341/.452/.793 .786/.795 .853 .744 38/13 75/35
ERA-K/9 5.32/6.7 1.54/10.0 0.00/6.8 2.89/8.7 2.70/8.1 2.28/11.8 6.53/9.6 3.38/7.1 4.52/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (3-2-1)
 Molina (16-10-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 194/.276 44/.179 15/.000 74/.179 97/.193 95/.179 92/.268 97/.233 .256  Holliday
 Robinson
 Beltran
 Greene
 Chambers
 Craig
56/0/0/3
3/24/2/2
0/1/48/1
0/0/1/0
1/7/2/0
3/0/5/0
OPS .775 .506 .200 .510 .520 .559 .828 .623 .721
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 100/.852 19/.344 8/.250 38/.388 51/.472 49/.660 45/.479 36/.551 .762
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 94/.697 25/.613 7/.143 36/.631 46/.572 46/.455 47/1.196 61/.667 .679
Road 71/.660 19/.566 6/.000 26/.442 34/.464 36/.503 43/.913 41/.714
Last 28d days 48/.910 44/.506 15/.200 38/.793 37/.481 38/.413 37/.702 35/.619
HR/SB/CS 6/0/2 0/1/1 0/0/0 1/4/1 0/1/0 2/1/2 3/1/1 1/1/0 46/37/13
Usage ·····X·· o···X·o· X····o·· ··o·X·X· ·oX·o··· ·oo····· ·o···o·· ·o···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.