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Game Preview: ATL @ DET, 1:05pm, Thursday, February 27, 2014 @Comerica Park

Braves, 96-66, 96-66

SP: Kris Medlen (27, RHP, 15-12, 3.11)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (15-12) 197.0 194 77 68 47 157 18 3.11
2012 (10-1) 138.0 103 26 24 23 120 6 1.57
2011 (0-0) 2.1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0.00
Last 7 GS 5-1 49.0 37 7 7 9 42 1 1.29 67
2013-09-27 PHI W 8.0 2 0 0 2 7 0 101 83
2013-09-21 @CHC ND 7.1 6 1 1 2 6 0 106 66
2013-09-14 SDP W 7.1 4 0 0 2 5 0 110 73
2013-09-09 @MIA W 6.1 6 2 2 2 6 0 108 57
2013-09-03 NYM W 7.0 7 1 1 0 9 0 95 68
2013-08-29 CLE W 7.0 6 0 0 0 6 0 96 71
2013-08-23 @STL L 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 1 78 50
Last 5 v.DET 1-1 12.0 16 6 6 3 8 2 4.50 46
2013-04-27 @DET L 5.1 10 5 5 2 3 2 108 29
2010-06-25 DET W 6.2 6 1 1 1 5 0 105 62
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   56-25   Road:   40-41   ExtrInn:12-5 
 vsRHP:  71-50   vsLHP:  25-16   1-Run:  27-20
 vsEast: 47-29   vsCntrl:19-14   vsWest: 19-14 IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29   PHI  W  12-5       96-66  1st 10.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28   PHI  L   4-5       95-66  1st  9.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27   PHI  W   1-0       95-65  1st 10.0 up
159 Thu, Sep 26   PHI  W   7-1       94-65  1st 10.0 up
158 Wed, Sep 25   MIL  L   0-4       93-65  1st  9.5 up
157 Tue, Sep 24   MIL  W   3-2       93-64  1st  9.5 up
156 Mon, Sep 23   MIL  L   0-5       92-64  1st  8.5 up
155 Sun, Sep 22  @CHC  W   5-2       92-63  1st  8.5 up
154 Sat, Sep 21  @CHC  L   1-3       91-63  1st  8.0 up
153 Fri, Sep 20  @CHC  W   9-5       91-62  1st  8.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Tigers, 93-69, 93-69

SP: Rick Porcello (24, RHP, 13-8, 4.32)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (13-8) 177.0 185 87 85 42 142 18 4.32
2012 (10-12) 176.1 226 101 90 44 107 16 4.59
2011 (14-9) 182.0 210 103 96 46 104 18 4.75
Last 7 GS 4-2 43.2 41 23 22 14 41 6 4.53 52
2013-09-21 CHW ND 6.2 6 2 2 0 9 0 101 63
2013-09-16 SEA W 6.0 5 1 1 2 10 1 105 66
2013-09-10 @CHW W 9.0 7 1 1 1 5 0 105 73
2013-09-04 @BOS L 5.0 7 9 8 4 4 3 102 19
2013-08-30 CLE W 5.2 5 2 2 2 3 0 100 52
2013-08-25 @NYM W 7.0 4 3 3 3 4 1 102 58
2013-08-20 MIN L 4.1 7 5 5 2 6 1 87 33
Last 5 v.ATL 1-0 6.1 5 3 3 2 5 0 4.26 54
2013-04-27 ATL W 6.1 5 3 3 2 5 0 90 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   51-30   Road:   42-39   ExtrInn: 6-13
 vsRHP:  66-46   vsLHP:  27-23   1-Run:  20-26
 vsEast: 17-15   vsCntrl:47-29   vsWest: 17-17 IL:12-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29  @MIA  L   0-1       93-69  1st  1.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28  @MIA  L   1-2 (10)  93-68  1st  2.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27  @MIA  L   2-3       93-67  1st  3.0 up
159 Wed, Sep 25  @MIN  W   1-0       93-66  1st  4.5 up
158 Tue, Sep 24  @MIN  W   4-2       92-66  1st  4.5 up
157 Mon, Sep 23  @MIN  L   3-4 (11)  91-66  1st  4.5 up
156 Sun, Sep 22   CHW  L   3-6       91-65  1st  5.0 up
155 Sat, Sep 21   CHW  W   7-6 (12)  91-64  1st  6.0 up
154 Fri, Sep 20   CHW  W  12-5       90-64  1st  6.0 up
153 Thu, Sep 19   SEA  W   5-4       89-64  1st  6.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 28, 2013 DET  8  ATL  3        W:Doug Fister (4-0), L: Mike Minor (3-2), S: none
Sat, Apr 27, 2013 DET  7  ATL  4        W:Rick Porcello (1-2), L: Kris Medlen (1-3), S: Jose Valverde (2)
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 DET 10  ATL  0        W:Anibal Sanchez (3-1), L: Paul Maholm (3-2), S: none

Sun, Jun 27, 2010 DET 10 @ATL  4        W:Justin Verlander (9-5), L: Tommy Hanson (7-5), S: none
Sat, Jun 26, 2010 ATL  4  DET  3        W:Kenshin Kawakami (1-9), L: Joel Zumaya (2-1), S: Peter Moylan (1)
Fri, Jun 25, 2010 ATL  3  DET  1        W:Kris Medlen (5-1), L: Andy Oliver (0-1), S: Billy Wagner (15)
Sun, Jun 24, 2007 DET  5 @ATL  0        W:Andrew Miller (3-1), L: Chuck James (6-7), S: Chad Durbin (1)
Sat, Jun 23, 2007 DET  2 @ATL  1        W:Justin Verlander (9-2), L: Kyle Davies (3-7), S: Todd Jones (18)
Fri, Jun 22, 2007 DET  5 @ATL  0        W:Kenny Rogers (1-0), L: John Smoltz (8-4), S: none
Thu, Jun 10, 2004 DET  7  ATL  4        W:Mike Maroth (5-3), L: Antonio Alfonseca (5-2), S: Ugueth Urbina (9)
Season Series: 2013 - DET over 3-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - DET leads 12-6

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 2013 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 2012 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  4.99

MIN  4.33

HOU  3.60

 RA/G

TBR  3.56

LAA  4.31

COL  5.49

 BA

B. Posey  .336

A. Rodriguez  .272

C. Pena  .197

 OBP

J. Mauer  .416

A. Jones  .334

D. Stubbs  .277

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .606

H. Ramirez  .437

J. Weeks  .304

 OPS

M. Cabrera  .999

A. Pagan  .778

J. Weeks  .609

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.53

T. Cahill  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

U. Jimenez  7.28

H. Alvarez  3.80

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Braves Batters (4.25 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (3.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 21.Porcello
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 52.Alvarez*
G/S/vB		 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 45.Crosby*
G/S/vB		 46.Krol*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 56.Ortega
G/S/vB		 39.Putkonen
G/S/vB		 57.Reed
G/S/vB		 43.Rondon
G/S/vB		 33.Smyly*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
58.Bethancourt G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 1/.000 / /
13.Constanza* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 86/74 .250/.321/.276/.598 .364/.635 .505 4/1.500 5/2 0/0
20.Cunningham# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
4.Doumit# G/S/vP 19/.812 4/.500 ··· 7/.715 6/1.917 ··· 1/.000 6/.833 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 8/.000 528/361 .275/.320/.461/.781 .690/.823 .791 75/.847 0/0 18/5
5.Freeman* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 620/363 .259/.340/.456/.796 .714/.855 .735 95/1.080 2/0 23/12
24.Gattis G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 97/.711 / /
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 651/394 .269/.335/.479/.814 .635/.934 .875 35/.838 21/8 27/5
23.Johnson G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 528/377 .281/.326/.451/.777 .672/.819 .743 84/.715 5/1 15/19
11.Laird G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 10/.311 ··· ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 191/82 .282/.337/.374/.710 .622/.828 .721 28/.677 0/0 2/4
1.Pastornicky G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 188/125 .243/.287/.325/.613 .536/.651 .626 / 2/0 2/7
14.Pena# G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .250/.250/.250/.500 .000/.667 / 0/0 0/0
17.Schafer* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 360/303 .211/.297/.294/.591 .356/.636 .544 43/.368 27/9 4/2
19.Simmons G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 182/117 .289/.335/.416/.751 .796/.726 .651 87/.799 1/0 3/3
25.Terdoslavich# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 16/.188 / /
26.Uggla G/S/vP 3/.333 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 630/420 .220/.348/.384/.732 .776/.710 .803 49/.486 4/3 19/12
2.Upton G/S/vP 8/.393 1/.000 ··· 20/.463 5/.900 ··· ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 633/454 .246/.298/.454/.752 .792/.737 .687 42/.171 31/6 28/3
8.Upton G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 3/1.334 ··· 3/3.333 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 628/439 .280/.355/.430/.785 .830/.766 .670 93/.750 18/8 17/5
IP 176.1 13.1 20.2 54.0 12.1 64.1 2.2 16.0 99.1 TOTAL .249/.321/.402/.723 .701/.731 .694 .662 64/31 181/85
ERA-K/9 4.59/5.5 0.68/12.2 /0.0 4.35/9.6 4.00/8.5 9.49/6.6 /0.0 2.80/10.9 3.38/13.3 3.94/5.6 /0.0 /0.0 3.99/8.5 3.61/8.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (31-8-2)
 Laird (42-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 783/.310 53/.133 / 95/.302 245/.324 59/.313 / 257/.231 13/.250 72/.302 / / 416/.247 .247  Heyward
 Upton
 Upton
 Schafer
 Constanza
 Johnson
 Doumit
0/2/154/11
0/142/0/10
0/0/149/6
0/87/0/4
21/5/0/2
0/0/1/0
16/0/6/0
OPS .808 .420 .835 .854 1.003 .631 .891 .777 .732 .681
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 415/.883 24/.345 / 37/.609 130/.685 20/.900 / 151/.617 6/.167 38/.890 / / 127/.671 .691
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 368/.725 29/.484 / 58/.962 115/1.050 39/1.055 / 106/.650 7/1.429 34/.653 / / 289/.759 .670
Home 401/.803 29/.276 / 48/.985 118/.804 59/1.003 / 149/.702 10/.644 26/.863 / / 193/.765
Last 28d days 119/.685 36/.597 39/.751 24/1.230 16/1.261 / 10/1.200 36/.314 / 28/.706 29/.986 3/.000 30/.707
HR/SB/CS 16/18/5 0/1/1 // 3/4/0 5/5/2 2/2/0 // 7/3/1 1/0/0 0/1/1 // // 12/8/6 128/128/29
Usage ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Tigers Batters (4.91 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Medlen
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 48.Carpenter
G/S/vB		 53.Gearrin
G/S/vB		 57.Hale
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 38.Varvaro
G/S/vB		 39.Venters*
G/S/vB		 52.Walden
G/S/vB		 40.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 6/.733 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 434/331 .243/.352/.384/.736 .539/.796 .772 71/.956 2/0 9/6
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· ··· 2/3.500 ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· 697/502 .330/.393/.606/.999 .913/1.027 1.094 82/.768 4/1 44/13
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 16/.625 / /
20.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 2/.500 ··· 487/322 .257/.309/.378/.687 .783/.638 .701 63/.733 46/13 8/8
12.Dirks* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 344/261 .322/.370/.487/.857 .751/.889 .906 64/.635 1/1 8/3
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 13/9 .250/.250/.333/.583 1.250/.250 .700 3/1.000 0/0 0/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 584/425 .313/.365/.451/.817 .868/.798 .802 83/.756 9/1 16/4
1.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 77/45 .118/.200/.191/.391 .536/.284 .222 43/.502 1/0 1/2
14.Jackson G/S/vP 4/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 617/432 .300/.377/.479/.856 .856/.856 .851 106/.682 12/9 16/1
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 127/113 .186/.276/.248/.523 .298/.551 .545 35/.442 2/0 1/3
3.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 ··· 731/550 .256/.326/.423/.749 .988/.671 .886 114/.784 21/9 19/18
4.Lombardozzi# G/S/vP 6/.900 7/.572 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 4/1.250 5/.200 3/.000 ··· 416/315 .273/.317/.354/.671 .532/.715 .716 46/.600 5/3 3/4
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· / /// / 86/.903 / /
26.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1 .500/.500/.500/1.000 .000/2.000 10/.200 0/0 0/0
IP 138.0 36.0 32.1 20.0 62.2 16.2 58.2 39.0 TOTAL .283/.346/.434/.780 .764/.788 .821 .718 35/20 176/76
ERA-K/9 1.57/7.8 2.00/8.2 8.07/8.6 1.80/9.0 /0.0 1.01/16.7 5.40/11.3 3.22/10.6 3.46/11.1 /0.0 3.18/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (79-34-10)
 Holaday (3-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 520/.208 142/.211 163/.357 80/.233 / 231/.126 76/.250 262/.270 172/.229 / .244  Hunter
 Davis
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Lombardozzi
 Dirks
0/0/134/14
114/6/24/8
0/137/0/5
18/8/35/3
41/0/0/2
59/1/24/1
OPS .529 .547 .953 .642 .358 .766 .739 .674 .671
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 263/.519 58/.528 65/1.123 32/.992 / 122/.331 39/.869 94/.646 87/.606 / .671
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 257/.539 84/.559 98/.842 48/.411 / 109/.387 37/.656 168/.791 85/.743 / .671
Road 227/.496 74/.654 99/.958 30/.633 / 105/.334 23/.961 133/.615 82/.717 /
Last 28d days 108/.451 27/.696 39/.323 / 46/.572 37/.594 48/.759 / 18/1.382 56/.867
HR/SB/CS 6/5/2 1/2/0 5/3/0 1/1/0 // 3/8/1 2/0/0 6/5/0 3/5/2 // 127/79/32
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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.