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Game Preview: MIN @ TEX, 4:05pm, Saturday, August 25, 2012 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Twins, 51-74, 51-74 5th, 18½ GB, 18½ GB in WC

SP: Brian Duensing (29, LHP, 3-8, 4.46)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (3-8) 84.2 97 49 42 20 50 8 4.46
2011 (9-14) 161.2 193 102 94 52 115 21 5.23
2010 (10-3) 130.2 122 42 38 35 78 11 2.62
Last 7 GS 2-4 37.1 50 27 21 7 24 5 5.06 44
2012-08-20 @OAK W 6.0 5 2 1 1 7 0 102 62
2012-08-14 DET L 6.0 8 5 5 2 4 1 91 38
2012-08-08 @CLE L 7.0 11 6 4 1 3 0 104 37
2012-08-03 @BOS ND 6.0 10 5 2 0 3 1 90 41
2012-07-29 CLE W 6.0 5 1 1 0 2 0 70 60
2012-07-15 OAK L 2.0 7 6 6 2 3 3 67 19
2012-07-04 @DET L 4.1 4 2 2 1 2 0 64 48
Last 5 v.TEX 2-2 21.2 23 13 9 4 21 2 3.74 52
2011-07-27 @TEX W 6.2 7 1 1 1 6 0 113 61
2011-06-10 TEX L 2.0 7 7 3 1 2 0 56 23
2010-08-25 @TEX L 6.0 6 4 4 1 5 2 99 48
2009-08-28 TEX W 7.0 3 1 1 1 8 0 96 74
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-37   Road:   27-37   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  35-52   vsLHP:  16-22   1-Run:  19-20
 vsEast: 10-18   vsCntrl:23-24   vsWest:  9-23 IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
125 Fri, Aug 24  @TEX  L   0-8       51-74  5th 18.5 gb
124 Thu, Aug 23  @TEX  L   6-10      51-73  5th 17.5 gb
123 Wed, Aug 22  @OAK  L   1-5       51-72  5th 17.0 gb
122 Tue, Aug 21  @OAK  L   1-4       51-71  5th 16.0 gb
121 Mon, Aug 20  @OAK  W   7-2       51-70  5th 15.0 gb
120 Sun, Aug 19  @SEA  L   1-5       50-70  5th 15.0 gb
119 Sat, Aug 18  @SEA  L   2-3       50-69  5th 15.0 gb
118 Fri, Aug 17  @SEA  L   3-5       50-68  5th 15.0 gb
117 Wed, Aug 15   DET  L   1-5       50-67  5th 14.5 gb
116 Tue, Aug 14   DET  L   4-8       50-66  5th 13.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:11-19
Rangers, 74-51, 74-51 1st, 6 up

SP: Ryan Dempster (35, RHP, 7-6, 2.99)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (7-6) 129.1 109 48 43 35 105 14 2.99
2011 (10-14) 202.1 211 111 108 82 191 23 4.80
2010 (15-12) 215.1 198 110 92 86 208 25 3.85
Last 7 GS 3-3 43.1 44 27 24 13 35 8 4.98 49
2012-08-20 BAL W 8.0 4 1 1 2 6 0 111 74
2012-08-13 @NYY L 6.0 9 8 8 2 4 2 93 24
2012-08-07 @BOS W 6.2 6 3 0 1 6 1 99 61
2012-08-02 LAA ND 4.2 9 8 8 3 6 2 103 17
2012-07-25 @PIT L 6.0 5 3 3 0 6 2 93 56
2012-07-20 @STL L 6.0 7 4 4 2 2 1 94 42
2012-07-14 ARI W 6.0 4 0 0 3 5 0 89 66
Last 5 v.MIN 1-1 12.0 15 10 10 5 6 0 7.50 38
2012-06-10 @MIN W 8.0 4 0 0 1 6 0 117 79
2002-06-07 @MIN L 4.0 11 10 10 4 0 0 86 -4
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-23   Road:   34-28   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  53-35   vsLHP:  21-16   1-Run:  16-15
 vsEast: 21-13   vsCntrl:20-15   vsWest: 19-19 IL:14-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
125 Fri, Aug 24   MIN  W   8-0       74-51  1st  6.0 up
124 Thu, Aug 23   MIN  W  10-6       73-51  1st  6.0 up
123 Wed, Aug 22   BAL  W  12-3       72-51  1st  5.0 up
122 Tue, Aug 21   BAL  L   3-5       71-51  1st  5.0 up
121 Mon, Aug 20   BAL  W   5-1       71-50  1st  6.0 up
120 Sun, Aug 19  @TOR  W  11-2       70-50  1st  5.0 up
119 Sat, Aug 18  @TOR  W   2-1       69-50  1st  5.0 up
118 Fri, Aug 17  @TOR  L   2-3       68-50  1st  5.0 up
117 Thu, Aug 16  @NYY  W  10-6       68-49  1st  6.0 up
116 Wed, Aug 15  @NYY  L   2-3       67-49  1st  6.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 24, 2012 TEX  8  MIN  0        W:Matt Harrison (15-7), L: Sam Deduno (4-2), S: none
Thu, Aug 23, 2012 TEX 10  MIN  6        W:Mike Adams (3-3), L: Jared Burton (1-1), S: Joe Nathan (25)
Sun, Jul 08, 2012 TEX  4  MIN  3 (13)   W:Scott Feldman (3-6), L: Alex Burnett (2-2), S: none
Sat, Jul 07, 2012 TEX  4  MIN  3 (10)   W:Joe Nathan (1-2), L: Kyle Waldrop (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jul 06, 2012 MIN  5 @TEX  1        W:Francisco Liriano (3-7), L: Martin Perez (1-1), S: none
Sun, Apr 15, 2012 TEX  4 @MIN  3        W:Robbie Ross (2-0), L: Glen Perkins (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (3)
Sat, Apr 14, 2012 TEX  6 @MIN  2        W:Robbie Ross (1-0), L: Brian Duensing (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 13, 2012 TEX  4 @MIN  1        W:Matt Harrison (2-0), L: Anthony Swarzak (0-2), S: Alexi Ogando (1)

Thu, Jul 28, 2011 TEX  4  MIN  1        W:Matt Harrison (9-7), L: Scott Baker (8-6), S: Neftali Feliz (21)
Wed, Jul 27, 2011 MIN  7 @TEX  2        W:Brian Duensing (8-8), L: Colby Lewis (10-8), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - TEX over 7-1; 2011 - MIN won 5-3; 2010 - MIN won 7-3; All-Time - MIN leads 359-320

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  5.16

SFG  4.32

HOU  3.70

 RA/G

WSN  3.54

DET  4.34

COL  5.57

 BA

A. McCutchen  .349

N. Swisher  .273

J. Smoak  .188

 OBP

A. McCutchen  .415

A. Callaspo  .335

J. Smoak  .254

 SLG

R. Braun  .600

D. Pedroia  .434

J. Carroll  .286

 OPS

M. Trout  1.000

M. Bourn  .772

J. Smoak  .576

 ERA

D. Price  2.28

T. Milone  3.87

R. Wolf  5.69

 K/9IP

S. Strasburg  11.34

V. Worley  7.20

D. Lowe  3.42

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

Twins Batters (4.36 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Dempster
G/S/vB		 37.Adams
G/S/vB		 11.Darvish
G/S/vB		 50.Kirkman*
G/S/vB		 57.Lowe
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
41.Butera G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 91/64 .212/.264/.306/.570 .188/.735 .652 11/.182 0/0 1/0
8.Carroll G/S/vP 12/.781 8/1.000 4/.250 ··· 2/.500 5/.800 1/2.000 ··· 3/2.500 442/325 .245/.330/.286/.617 .714/.582 .583 81/.676 6/3 0/11
12.Casilla# G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 3/.666 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 280/211 .206/.248/.284/.532 .581/.516 .448 52/.389 15/1 1/7
18.Doumit# G/S/vP 25/.414 2/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/1.667 3/.666 2/1.000 1/.000 417/290 .286/.333/.468/.802 .685/.853 .824 96/.764 0/0 14/1
25.Florimon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 29/15 .280/.357/.440/.797 .670/.929 .797 29/.797 1/0 0/3
19.Mastroianni G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 149/91 .273/.336/.394/.730 .655/.778 .679 58/.706 15/2 3/2
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 4/.000 9/.000 4/.833 7/.762 4/1.167 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 505/332 .314/.411/.433/.843 .775/.877 .833 106/.727 7/3 8/4
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 3/.333 ··· 5/1.400 2/1.000 1/.000 4/.000 2/2.500 434/277 .269/.329/.459/.789 .552/.929 .833 103/.880 1/0 16/3
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 1/.000 4/1.500 333/229 .243/.309/.472/.781 .976/.696 .652 45/.321 0/3 19/12
11.Revere* G/S/vP 4/.500 2/.000 ··· 4/.833 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 397/268 .308/.339/.362/.701 .726/.690 .641 103/.661 29/7 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP 4/.333 3/1.167 4/2.000 3/.666 3/.666 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 474/324 .289/.353/.399/.752 .715/.768 .562 62/.789 14/6 3/4
16.Willingham G/S/vP 12/.555 4/.000 3/.667 2/.000 1/.000 4/.750 4/1.250 3/1.167 1/.000 508/357 .260/.368/.540/.908 1.008/.867 .795 94/.688 2/2 31/3
IP 129.1 41.0 147.2 26.2 35.0 48.2 52.1 58.2 24.2 TOTAL .261/.326/.396/.722 .728/.720 .659 .677 100/30 107/80
ERA-K/9 2.99/7.3 2.63/7.9 4.51/10.5 4.05/8.8 2.06/6.9 2.59/10.9 2.75/8.9 1.69/6.6 4.74/7.7 3.93/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (18-6-2)
 Doumit (22-5-2)
 Mauer (44-6-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 527/.226 176/.255 654/.233 115/.162 136/.194 195/.232 206/.201 236/.220 115/.343 .246  Willingham
 Revere
 Span
 Mastroianni
 Plouffe
 Doumit
104/0/0/6
2/22/65/5
0/103/0/3
18/3/27/2
2/0/15/2
9/0/6/0
OPS .648 .660 .711 .562 .565 .616 .606 .599 .914 .707
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 258/.600 95/.678 375/.735 42/.545 63/.524 118/.616 84/.663 105/.561 43/.887 .699
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 269/.694 81/.638 279/.680 73/.570 73/.598 77/.616 122/.565 131/.629 72/.930 .713
Home 239/.700 92/.638 311/.715 88/.503 92/.686 116/.679 98/.669 120/.545 77/.979
Last 28d days 110/.893 34/.617 116/.802 52/.536 15/.497 33/.821 44/.701 46/.806 41/.877
HR/SB/CS 14/16/2 1/9/1 13/20/2 3/1/0 3/0/1 5/3/0 6/3/0 3/1/1 5/5/0 129/82/19
Usage ····X··· ·X····o· ·······X ·X·X··o· ··o··o·· ·o··o·X· ·Xo····X o··X··X· ·X·o··X·
Rangers Batters (5.16 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.20 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 31.Burnett
G/S/vB		 61.Burton
G/S/vB		 38.De Vries
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 60.Gray
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 64.Robertson*
G/S/vB		 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 57.Waldrop
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 12/.955 4/.500 2/1.000 3/.000 2/2.000 8/.750 7/.572 ··· 12/.819 2/1.000 553/400 .298/.366/.391/.757 .687/.784 .716 113/.740 19/7 2/12
29.Beltre G/S/vP 4/1.750 4/.000 2/1.500 3/.333 ··· 7/.572 15/1.446 1/.000 10/1.100 2/2.000 512/374 .316/.352/.528/.879 .641/.967 .957 114/.928 1/0 24/7
17.Cruz G/S/vP 8/.250 6/1.333 4/.000 3/.000 1/.000 9/.476 4/.750 ··· 12/.584 2/1.500 498/369 .263/.329/.460/.789 .930/.741 .860 102/.891 8/4 19/2
23.Gentry G/S/vP 2/1.000 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 4/.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/.650 2/1.000 226/124 .313/.381/.398/.779 .879/.699 .758 26/.490 12/6 1/0
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 14/.714 2/.500 2/.000 3/.000 2/2.500 5/1.000 13/1.462 2/2.000 14/.557 2/.000 506/347 .286/.352/.575/.927 .831/.972 .894 113/.913 7/3 34/5
3.Hernandez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 0/ /// / 0/ 0/0 0/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 7/.143 6/.666 2/.500 3/1.334 1/5.000 6/.750 14/.220 ··· 10/.900 2/1.000 569/423 .268/.341/.432/.773 .990/.699 .919 114/.741 20/8 14/14
15.Martinez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 9/9 .000/.111/.000/.111 /.111 .250 9/.111 0/0 0/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 6/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 254/219 .294/.344/.519/.863 .695/.890 .973 81/.917 1/1 13/1
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 7/.619 4/.500 3/.667 2/.000 1/.000 7/.572 4/.500 ··· 5/.200 1/.000 383/327 .314/.394/.495/.889 .926/.883 1.017 103/1.027 8/3 11/1
9.Olt G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 29/16 .182/.310/.227/.538 .580/.494 .583 29/.538 1/1 0/3
8.Soto G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 263/192 .209/.287/.357/.645 .658/.640 .649 69/.707 0/0 8/8
IP 84.2 56.0 47.2 70.0 20.2 51.2 53.1 15.2 73.1 7.0 TOTAL .278/.342/.446/.787 .773/.793 .826 .808 83/36 147/67
ERA-K/9 4.46/5.3 3.05/3.5 2.27/7.9 4.89/6.2 1.31/7.8 5.23/4.5 2.87/10.1 6.89/11.5 4.66/5.8 3.86/3.9 4.84/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martinez (2-0-0)
 Soto (49-15-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 365/.286 235/.233 192/.201 308/.264 81/.192 232/.268 223/.249 72/.295 312/.287 34/.367 .281  Cruz
 Hamilton
 Murphy
 Gentry
 Olt
 Moreland
6/0/116/7
73/69/1/5
87/2/14/4
0/93/2/3
0/0/2/0
0/0/3/0
OPS .753 .619 .572 .808 .551 .793 .678 .888 .798 .941 .792
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 129/.645 83/.484 71/.830 139/.750 32/.342 92/.980 83/.567 47/.719 138/.738 12/.606 .780
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 236/.810 152/.682 121/.428 169/.852 49/.677 140/.673 140/.745 25/1.220 174/.845 22/1.132 .799
Road 208/.734 124/.682 89/.557 158/.701 44/.458 115/.867 99/.574 34/1.158 159/.844 27/1.004
Last 28d days 136/.734 40/.632 36/.581 112/.910 41/.589 45/.799 35/.454 27/.938 23/1.066 13/.615
HR/SB/CS 8/4/0 3/6/0 4/5/0 16/2/1 0/1/0 7/5/1 5/2/2 4/2/1 12/0/1 1/0/0 159/84/17
Usage ····X··· ··X·X·o· ·X····X· ···X···· ··o·X·oo ·X·o·X·· ··o··o·· ·oXo··oo ·X·X···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.