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Game Preview: DET @ TEX, 8:05pm, Friday, August 10, 2012 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Tigers, 60-52, 60-52 2nd, 1 GB, ½ GB in WC

SP: Max Scherzer (27, RHP, 10-6, 4.72)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (10-6) 127.2 134 71 67 46 160 20 4.72
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 4-1 43.1 41 19 19 16 53 6 3.95 56
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
2012-07-19 LAA W 7.0 3 1 1 4 9 1 109 72
2012-07-14 @BAL ND 5.0 9 4 4 2 4 1 94 35
2012-07-08 KCR W 7.0 5 1 1 1 7 1 109 69
2012-06-28 @TBR W 6.0 4 2 2 2 7 0 111 61
Last 5 v.TEX 2-0 31.0 30 13 12 9 24 2 3.48 54
2011-08-02 TEX ND 6.0 6 2 2 1 1 0 99 52
2011-06-06 @TEX W 5.0 8 5 5 1 4 1 99 34
2011-04-13 TEX ND 6.0 7 2 2 2 7 0 113 55
2010-07-21 TEX W 7.0 4 0 0 3 5 0 123 71
2010-04-23 @TEX ND 7.0 5 4 3 2 7 1 104 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-23   Road:   27-29   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  43-37   vsLHP:  17-15   1-Run:  15-14
 vsEast: 17-16   vsCntrl:24-16   vsWest:  8-13 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
112 Thu, Aug  9   NYY  L   3-4       60-52  2nd  1.0 gb
111 Wed, Aug  8   NYY  L   8-12      60-51  2nd  0.5 gb
110 Tue, Aug  7   NYY  W   6-5       60-50  2nd  0.5 gb
109 Mon, Aug  6   NYY  W   7-2       59-50  2nd  1.5 gb
108 Sun, Aug  5   CLE  W  10-8 (10)  58-50  2nd  1.5 gb
107 Sat, Aug  4   CLE  W   6-1       57-50  2nd  1.5 gb
106 Fri, Aug  3   CLE  W  10-2       56-50  2nd  2.5 gb
105 Wed, Aug  1  @BOS  W   7-5       55-50  2nd  2.5 gb
104 Tue, Jul 31  @BOS  L   1-4  (6)  54-50  2nd  2.5 gb
103 Mon, Jul 30  @BOS  L   3-7       54-49  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:20-10
Rangers, 65-45, 65-45 1st, 5½ up

SP: Scott Feldman (29, RHP, 6-6, 4.52)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (6-6) 77.2 84 46 39 17 53 9 4.52
2011 (2-1) 32.0 25 14 14 10 22 3 3.94
2010 (7-11) 141.1 181 98 86 45 75 18 5.48
Last 7 GS 5-1 44.2 50 19 17 3 32 5 3.43 53
2012-08-04 @KCR W 7.2 6 2 2 1 4 0 105 62
2012-07-29 CHW W 8.0 7 0 0 0 5 0 88 73
2012-07-23 BOS W 7.0 7 1 1 0 5 1 105 64
2012-07-04 @CHW ND 6.0 6 4 4 1 4 0 101 47
2012-06-28 OAK W 5.0 9 4 4 1 3 3 99 35
2012-06-19 @SDP W 6.0 7 2 2 0 5 0 97 55
2012-06-14 ARI L 5.0 8 6 4 0 6 1 100 37
Last 5 v.DET 0-2 17.0 30 22 18 12 7 6 9.53 28
2010-07-19 @DET ND 5.0 7 5 5 2 1 3 86 32
2010-04-24 DET L 3.2 8 8 4 4 1 0 93 18
2009-07-29 DET L 2.1 10 6 6 2 1 2 71 12
2008-08-18 DET ND 6.0 5 3 3 4 4 1 94 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   34-21   Road:   31-24   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  45-30   vsLHP:  20-15   1-Run:  14-13
 vsEast: 16-8    vsCntrl:16-14   vsWest: 19-19 IL:14-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Wed, Aug  8  @BOS  W  10-9       65-45  1st  5.5 up
109 Tue, Aug  7  @BOS  W   6-3       64-45  1st  5.5 up
108 Mon, Aug  6  @BOS  L   2-9       63-45  1st  5.0 up
107 Sun, Aug  5  @KCR  L   6-7 (10)  63-44  1st  5.5 up
106 Sat, Aug  4  @KCR  W   4-2       63-43  1st  5.5 up
105 Fri, Aug  3  @KCR  W   5-3       62-43  1st  4.5 up
104 Thu, Aug  2   LAA  W  15-9       61-43  1st  4.5 up
103 Wed, Aug  1   LAA  W  11-10(10)  60-43  1st  4.0 up
102 Tue, Jul 31   LAA  L   2-6       59-43  1st  3.0 up
101 Mon, Jul 30   LAA  L   8-15      59-42  1st  3.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 27, 2012 TEX 13  DET  9        W:Roy Oswalt (2-0), L: Doug Fister (1-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 26, 2012 TEX  7  DET  5        W:Yu Darvish (10-4), L: Drew Smyly (2-3), S: Joe Nathan (17)
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)
Season Series: 2012 - TEX over 5-2; 2011 - DET won 6-3; 2010 - TEX won 6-3; All-Time - DET leads 346-293

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

CIN  4.27

CHC  3.67

 RA/G

WSN  3.53

TEX  4.42

COL  5.76

 BA

A. McCutchen  .369

D. Pedroia  .272

J. Smoak  .189

 OBP

J. Votto  .465

M. Teixeira  .339

J. Smoak  .253

 SLG

A. McCutchen  .621

J. Mauer  .438

J. Carroll  .294

 OPS

J. Votto  1.069

D. Murphy  .774

J. Smoak  .573

 ERA

J. Weaver  2.13

M. Latos  3.81

J. Guthrie  6.10

 K/9IP

S. Strasburg  11.31

D. Haren  7.32

D. Lowe  3.10

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

Tigers Batters (4.64 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Feldman
G/S/vB		 37.Adams
G/S/vB		 11.Darvish
G/S/vB		 50.Kirkman*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 52.Scheppers
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/1.000 6/.733 2/.000 5/.650 6/.000 2/.500 ··· 308/236 .261/.358/.409/.767 .643/.803 .687 83/.874 2/0 7/3
18.Baker G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 147/47 .277/.313/.460/.773 .799/.716 .822 35/.814 4/1 4/2
52.Berry* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 256/203 .276/.356/.378/.734 .584/.773 .728 83/.642 15/0 2/2
26.Boesch* G/S/vP 6/.000 2/2.500 6/.167 3/1.667 4/.500 12/.083 1/.000 ··· 415/296 .254/.289/.394/.684 .592/.720 .717 93/.811 4/3 11/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 11/2.227 5/1.800 6/.167 3/1.667 12/.432 11/1.145 1/2.000 ··· 493/358 .322/.383/.583/.967 .890/.991 .858 108/1.029 4/1 29/10
12.Dirks* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.900 ··· ··· 167/136 .349/.398/.526/.924 .675/.974 .852 21/1.135 1/0 4/1
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 3/.000 7/.000 6/1.700 3/1.333 8/.875 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 482/317 .314/.400/.513/.914 .802/.975 .859 106/1.025 1/0 19/7
4.Infante G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 8/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 405/296 .291/.313/.453/.765 .856/.731 .795 95/.788 11/2 10/12
14.Jackson G/S/vP 7/.453 2/1.000 6/.167 4/1.750 3/.000 7/.143 ··· ··· 406/289 .317/.401/.504/.905 .909/.904 .917 112/.790 10/5 11/0
9.Laird G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· 127/57 .289/.349/.395/.744 .596/.926 .732 18/.465 0/0 2/2
27.Peralta G/S/vP 13/.846 3/.000 6/.000 4/.750 19/.669 8/.250 2/.000 ··· 392/281 .263/.330/.419/.749 .780/.737 .680 86/.781 1/1 8/5
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 5/.200 2/.000 7/.334 7/.858 1/.000 ··· 241/184 .213/.295/.284/.580 .546/.591 .530 45/.401 1/0 2/5
21.Young G/S/vP 12/1.000 3/.666 6/.733 3/.000 3/.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 412/287 .266/.299/.401/.699 .812/.647 .720 92/.631 0/2 12/2
IP 77.2 36.1 134.0 19.1 45.1 47.1 54.0 19.1 TOTAL .272/.338/.427/.765 .719/.785 .737 .803 42/14 112/68
ERA-K/9 4.52/6.1 2.97/7.9 4.57/10.3 5.59/8.9 2.78/10.7 2.66/9.1 1.67/6.0 5.12/7.9 4.03/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (51-22-6)
 Laird (30-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 333/.268 157/.257 598/.238 86/.176 184/.241 183/.190 211/.212 85/.346 .250  Boesch
 Berry
 Jackson
 Young
 Baker
 Dirks
0/0/98/4
43/19/5/2
0/90/0/2
27/0/0/1
2/0/14/0
29/1/5/0
OPS .706 .666 .719 .630 .643 .561 .577 .925 .718
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 176/.688 82/.693 351/.742 28/.626 111/.638 74/.572 91/.534 31/1.077 .703
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 157/.725 75/.636 247/.685 58/.631 73/.652 109/.554 120/.610 54/.835 .729
Home 174/.733 85/.652 281/.713 70/.557 112/.705 85/.686 107/.529 58/1.061
Last 28d days 87/.544 30/.704 151/.814 33/.690 35/.924 53/.719 34/.819 27/.616
HR/SB/CS 9/12/2 1/8/1 12/17/2 3/0/0 5/3/0 4/3/0 3/1/1 4/3/0 118/71/19
Usage ·····X·· ··o··oXo ···X···· ···Xo··· ·oo····X ·X···oX· ··o·X··o ···o··o·
Rangers Batters (5.15 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB		 64.Below*
G/S/vB		 53.Benoit
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 20.Dotel
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
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 18/.368 3/.333 5/1.100 6/1.000 5/.400 ··· 7/.000 2/.000 489/343 .299/.371/.402/.773 .693/.809 .745 101/.816 18/7 2/10
29.Beltre G/S/vP 11/.728 2/.000 23/.654 5/.650 24/.728 ··· 5/2.100 2/1.000 449/317 .304/.341/.495/.836 .656/.911 .862 101/.661 1/0 19/6
17.Cruz G/S/vP 15/.734 4/.500 4/2.417 6/.167 3/1.666 ··· 3/.333 2/1.000 445/319 .264/.328/.469/.797 .928/.747 .898 97/.929 7/4 18/1
23.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 208/110 .328/.400/.421/.821 .918/.736 .763 46/.832 11/5 1/0
14.Gonzalez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 55/33 .241/.241/.315/.556 .500/.594 .682 3/.000 0/0 0/2
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 12/.334 4/.250 3/.000 8/.679 1/.000 ··· 9/.476 1/5.000 444/293 .288/.351/.575/.926 .843/.971 .880 98/.644 6/3 30/5
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 15/.862 4/.000 3/.000 ··· 8/.411 ··· 7/.286 2/.000 504/366 .278/.347/.444/.791 1.015/.706 .922 100/.823 20/7 13/14
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 8/.500 4/.500 1/no AB ··· 2/2.500 ··· 4/.250 ··· 204/174 .281/.335/.524/.859 .731/.882 .980 31/.980 1/0 12/1
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 15/.690 5/1.200 4/.500 6/.567 3/.333 ··· 7/.453 2/.000 324/276 .300/.385/.473/.858 .890/.853 1.037 77/.839 8/2 9/1
25.Napoli G/S/vP 6/.334 6/.000 5/1.933 6/.750 4/.000 ··· 4/1.833 2/.000 355/239 .226/.346/.434/.781 .550/.896 .758 66/.907 1/0 17/6
9.Olt G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/5 .222/.357/.222/.579 .619/.400 .667 14/.579 1/1 0/2
8.Soto G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 4/.000 ··· 218/154 .201/.289/.356/.645 .673/.633 .626 58/.742 0/0 7/7
10.Young G/S/vP 18/.896 4/1.500 6/.666 5/.650 14/.594 ··· 7/.858 2/.000 457/321 .270/.298/.346/.644 .762/.595 .595 96/.586 2/2 3/4
IP 127.2 45.1 50.1 45.1 37.2 11.1 46.2 36.0 TOTAL .278/.342/.446/.787 .779/.791 .821 .772 79/32 131/60
ERA-K/9 4.72/11.3 3.38/5.6 3.40/10.2 3.97/7.9 3.11/12.2 2.38/10.4 3.86/6.7 1.75/12.0 4.05/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Napoli (38-9-8)
 Soto (40-15-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 553/.270 182/.272 204/.220 206/.326 147/.197 45/.220 200/.215 148/.202 .262  Cruz
 Hamilton
 Gentry
 Murphy
 Moreland
6/0/102/7
69/57/1/4
0/85/2/3
73/2/10/3
0/0/3/0
OPS .790 .691 .734 .846 .568 .655 .640 .567 .738
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 326/.881 80/.719 102/.749 105/.669 52/.634 17/.235 109/.773 52/.728 .752
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 227/.663 102/.667 102/.718 101/1.034 95/.531 28/.935 91/.489 96/.488 .725
Road 324/.812 59/.843 86/.737 106/.921 75/.657 7/1.071 102/.619 53/.625
Last 28d days 131/.859 43/.959 39/1.147 40/1.167 31/.362 30/.885 43/.550 30/.619
HR/SB/CS 20/11/6 5/5/2 11/1/0 4/5/2 2/7/3 1/1/1 3/11/0 2/3/1 118/90/30
Usage ····X··· ·X······ X···X··· ·X··X··· o·o·X··· ·o··X·X· o·XX···· ·Xo·o·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.