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Game Preview: DET @ TEX, 8:05pm, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Tigers, 36-37, 36-37 3rd, 2 GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Drew Smyly (23, LHP, 2-2, 3.96)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (2-2) 63.2 63 30 28 18 58 10 3.96
Last 7 GS 1-2 35.2 38 24 23 10 29 7 5.80 46
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
2012-05-19 PIT L 4.2 7 4 4 2 6 2 92 38
2012-05-14 @CHW ND 5.0 5 4 4 1 4 2 69 44
2012-05-09 @SEA ND 6.0 2 1 1 2 5 0 93 67
Last 5 v.TEX 0-0 6.0 5 1 1 2 7 1 1.50 63
2012-04-22 TEX ND 6.0 5 1 1 2 7 1 100 63
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   17-18   Road:   19-19   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  28-25   vsLHP:   8-12   1-Run:  13-12
 vsEast:  8-8    vsCntrl:12-12   vsWest:  5-10 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 73 Mon, Jun 25  @TEX  W   8-2       36-37  3rd  2.0 gb
 72 Sun, Jun 24  @PIT  W   3-2       35-37  3rd  3.0 gb
 71 Sat, Jun 23  @PIT  L   1-4       34-37  3rd  3.5 gb
 70 Fri, Jun 22  @PIT  L   1-4       34-36  3rd  3.5 gb
 69 Thu, Jun 21   STL  W   2-1 (10)  34-35  3rd  2.5 gb
 68 Wed, Jun 20   STL  L   1-3       33-35  3rd  3.0 gb
 67 Tue, Jun 19   STL  W   6-3       33-34  3rd  2.0 gb
 66 Sun, Jun 17   COL  W   5-0       32-34  3rd  3.0 gb
 65 Sat, Jun 16   COL  W   4-1       31-34  3rd  4.0 gb
 64 Fri, Jun 15   COL  L   4-12(10)  30-34  3rd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Rangers, 45-29, 45-29 1st, 4½ up

SP: Yu Darvish (25, RHP, 9-4, 3.45)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (9-4) 88.2 78 38 34 49 96 7 3.45
Last 7 GS 4-3 44.1 39 22 20 25 45 3 4.06 53
2012-06-20 @SDP W 8.0 5 2 2 3 8 0 122 69
2012-06-15 HOU W 8.0 7 2 2 2 11 1 110 69
2012-06-07 @OAK L 5.1 6 6 6 6 4 1 110 30
2012-06-02 @LAA L 6.1 6 3 2 3 7 0 111 55
2012-05-27 TOR W 5.0 7 3 3 3 3 1 93 41
2012-05-21 @SEA L 4.0 4 5 4 6 5 0 96 35
2012-05-16 OAK W 7.2 4 1 1 2 7 0 118 72
Last 5 v.DET 1-0 6.1 2 1 1 5 5 0 1.42 65
2012-04-19 @DET W 6.1 2 1 1 5 5 0 121 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   22-14   Road:   23-15   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  31-20   vsLHP:  14-9    1-Run:   7-8 
 vsEast: 12-6    vsCntrl: 9-7    vsWest: 10-12 IL:14-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 74 Mon, Jun 25   DET  L   2-8       45-29  1st  4.5 up
 73 Sun, Jun 24   COL  W   4-2       45-28  1st  5.0 up
 72 Sat, Jun 23   COL  L   7-11      44-28  1st  5.0 up
 71 Fri, Jun 22   COL  W   4-1       44-27  1st  5.0 up
 70 Wed, Jun 20  @SDP  W   4-2       43-27  1st  5.0 up
 69 Tue, Jun 19  @SDP  W   7-3       42-27  1st  5.0 up
 68 Mon, Jun 18  @SDP  W   2-1       41-27  1st  5.0 up
 67 Sun, Jun 17   HOU  W   9-3       40-27  1st  4.0 up
 66 Sat, Jun 16   HOU  W   8-3       39-27  1st  4.0 up
 65 Fri, Jun 15   HOU  W   6-2       38-27  1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Jun 25, 2012 DET  8 @TEX  2        W:Rick Porcello (5-5), L: Justin Grimm (1-1), S: none
Sun, Apr 22, 2012 TEX  3 @DET  2 (11)   W:Robbie Ross (3-0), L: Thad Weber (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (4)
Sat, Apr 21, 2012 DET  3  TEX  2        W:Justin Verlander (2-1), L: Neftali Feliz (1-1), S: Jose Valverde (4)
Sat, Apr 21, 2012 TEX 10 @DET  4        W:Matt Harrison (3-0), L: Rick Porcello (1-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 19, 2012 TEX 10 @DET  3        W:Yu Darvish (2-0), L: Adam Wilk (0-2), S: none

Thu, Aug 04, 2011 TEX  5 @DET  2        W:Alexi Ogando (11-5), L: Brad Penny (7-9), S: Neftali Feliz (22)
Wed, Aug 03, 2011 DET  5  TEX  4        W:Doug Fister (4-12), L: Matt Harrison (9-8), S: Jose Valverde (30)
Tue, Aug 02, 2011 DET  6  TEX  5        W:Joaquin Benoit (3-3), L: Mike Adams (3-2), S: Jose Valverde (29)
Wed, Jun 08, 2011 TEX  7  DET  3        W:Alexi Ogando (7-0), L: Phil Coke (1-6), S: none
Tue, Jun 07, 2011 DET  8 @TEX  1        W:Rick Porcello (6-3), L: Matt Harrison (5-5), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - TEX over 3-2; 2011 - DET won 6-3; 2010 - TEX won 6-3; All-Time - DET leads 346-291

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
Tigers Batters (4.30 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.04 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Darvish
G/S/vB
37.Adams
G/S/vB
51.Grimm
G/S/vB
50.Kirkman*
G/S/vB
57.Lowe
G/S/vB
36.Nathan
G/S/vB
46.Ross*
G/S/vB
52.Scheppers
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/1.750 4/.833 1/no AB ··· 177/130 .234/.324/.396/.720 .732/.715 .577 24/.583 2/0 5/3
52.Berry* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 117/91 .307/.397/.416/.812 .788/.817 .850 83/.828 12/0 1/1
26.Boesch* G/S/vP 3/.333 2/2.500 1/.000 3/1.667 4/.750 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 284/202 .236/.275/.356/.630 .581/.650 .816 89/.576 3/1 7/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 3/.000 4/2.250 2/2.500 3/1.667 10/.522 12/.432 1/2.000 ··· 324/235 .307/.364/.534/.898 .951/.877 .771 107/.996 3/1 15/7
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 3/.333 6/.000 1/.000 3/1.333 1/.000 8/.875 1/2.000 ··· 315/207 .303/.378/.493/.870 .744/.940 .879 103/.849 1/0 11/7
14.Jackson G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 4/1.750 4/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 228/156 .311/.398/.520/.919 .872/.941 .909 69/.829 7/1 7/0
32.Kelly* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 98/89 .186/.286/.244/.530 .476/.534 .441 29/.785 1/0 1/3
9.Laird G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 6/.333 6/.334 ··· ··· 99/52 .303/.357/.416/.773 .660/.877 .832 57/.702 0/0 2/1
27.Peralta G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 4/.750 7/.143 18/.708 1/.000 ··· 255/184 .258/.335/.396/.730 .688/.745 .664 81/.744 1/1 4/5
25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 6/.000 ··· ··· 156/98 .168/.226/.245/.471 .502/.452 .546 21/.783 1/1 1/2
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 4/.500 7/.334 1/.000 ··· 149/117 .233/.309/.316/.625 .410/.682 .541 63/.753 1/0 2/2
29.Worth G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 65/31 .182/.270/.200/.470 .583/.348 .564 39/.455 0/0 0/1
21.Young G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 7/.286 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 260/182 .263/.296/.381/.677 .814/.615 .711 93/.682 0/1 5/2
IP 88.2 25.0 7.0 9.0 31.1 30.2 40.0 7.1 TOTAL .263/.328/.408/.735 .709/.746 .734 .742 33/6 66/49
ERA-K/9 3.45/9.7 2.88/7.2 11.57/9.0 5.00/8.0 2.30/7.2 2.05/10.8 1.13/5.8 8.59/11.1 3.61/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (30-15-4)
 Laird (18-3-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 391/.234 106/.263 35/.412 38/.156 121/.198 117/.225 151/.227 35/.353 .242  Kelly
 Berry
 Boesch
 Young
 Raburn
 Jackson
14/8/17/3
9/17/4/2
0/0/65/2
25/0/0/1
21/0/14/1
0/51/0/1
OPS .691 .675 1.105 .701 .572 .563 .572 .960 .687
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 242/.695 62/.695 16/1.104 15/.448 57/.526 78/.550 65/.610 17/1.103 .681
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 149/.684 44/.645 19/1.105 23/.832 64/.613 39/.590 86/.542 18/.833 .692
Home 169/.693 62/.755 35/1.105 38/.701 83/.666 63/.644 68/.493 20/1.082
Last 28d days 120/.671 35/.833 35/1.105 38/.701 48/.555 36/.520 53/.496 35/.960
HR/SB/CS 7/12/1 1/3/1 1/2/1 2/0/0 3/0/1 2/1/0 2/1/1 2/3/0 71/45/12
Usage ·····X·· ·X·o···o X······· X·X····· X·X····o ·X·o·X·X ·X·X··X· ·Xo···o·
Rangers Batters (5.24 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB
64.Below*
G/S/vB
53.Benoit
G/S/vB
40.Coke*
G/S/vB
20.Dotel
G/S/vB
49.Marte
G/S/vB
46.Valverde
G/S/vB
60.Villarreal
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 5/1.100 6/1.000 4/.000 ··· 7/.000 2/.000 328/232 .300/.376/.406/.783 .724/.807 .756 100/.732 13/3 1/8
29.Beltre G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 23/.654 5/.650 23/.626 ··· 5/2.100 2/1.000 292/210 .328/.360/.535/.895 .631/.999 .948 103/.909 1/0 13/5
17.Cruz G/S/vP 3/.333 3/.666 4/2.417 6/.167 2/2.500 ··· 3/.333 2/1.000 294/213 .258/.316/.443/.759 .910/.702 .855 85/.736 5/4 11/1
23.Gentry G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 131/63 .345/.415/.431/.846 .922/.767 .818 45/1.013 9/3 1/0
14.Gonzalez G/S/vP 2/1.500 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 51/29 .260/.260/.340/.600 .500/.679 .789 9/1.111 0/0 0/1
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 3/3.000 3/.000 3/.000 8/.679 ··· ··· 9/.476 1/5.000 292/195 .318/.380/.651/1.031 .918/1.090 .974 89/.705 6/2 23/4
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 3/.333 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 7/.000 ··· 7/.286 2/.000 344/255 .267/.331/.428/.759 .899/.710 .887 110/.676 13/5 7/10
27.Martin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 17/15 .267/.353/.533/.886 .000/1.015 1.017 17/.886 1/0 0/0
7.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 4/.500 6/.567 2/.500 ··· 6/.533 2/.000 214/186 .271/.363/.459/.822 .629/.853 .872 67/.928 6/1 7/1
25.Napoli G/S/vP 3/.000 4/.000 5/1.933 6/.750 4/.000 ··· 3/2.667 2/.000 244/166 .245/.348/.466/.815 .664/.884 .788 77/.858 0/0 12/4
21.Snyder G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/17 .304/.347/.522/.869 1.071/.450 .759 11/.522 0/0 3/0
8.Torrealba G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/2.000 4/1.000 ··· 10/1.056 ··· 132/70 .228/.302/.333/.636 .605/.659 .600 40/.619 1/0 2/1
10.Young G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.334 6/.666 5/.650 13/.641 ··· 7/.858 2/.000 306/217 .269/.297/.348/.646 .851/.562 .541 95/.580 2/1 3/1
IP 63.2 30.2 34.0 31.1 21.1 13.0 28.0 25.0 TOTAL .282/.343/.456/.800 .782/.807 .822 .754 57/19 93/42
ERA-K/9 3.96/8.2 2.35/5.9 1.85/11.9 3.73/8.3 3.80/13.5 4.15/7.6 4.18/6.1 1.44/13.0 3.95/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Napoli (22-5-6)
 Snyder (0-0-0)
 Torrealba (23-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 266/.259 113/.215 141/.221 140/.320 86/.205 52/.260 128/.238 99/.151 .262  Cruz
 Murphy
 Hamilton
 Snyder
 Martin
 Gentry
4/0/70/6
53/2/5/3
46/43/1/3
5/0/3/0
1/4/0/0
0/58/0/0
OPS .778 .515 .600 .800 .591 .768 .721 .502 .735
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 83/.788 55/.505 65/.611 71/.743 28/.697 24/.641 66/.913 31/.725 .763
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 183/.773 58/.523 76/.591 69/.862 58/.538 28/.877 62/.523 68/.413 .708
Road 151/.717 35/.849 61/.604 69/.827 44/.542 32/.648 68/.690 44/.684
Last 28d days 64/.935 29/.429 53/.466 56/.859 25/.804 41/.856 39/.542 64/.542
HR/SB/CS 10/3/3 2/2/1 1/1/0 1/3/2 2/4/2 3/0/0 2/10/0 2/1/0 70/57/19
Usage ·····o·· X···o·o· ··o·X·o· ··X·o··· ···X···· ········ X···oX··

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.