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

Braves, 96-66, 96-66

SP: Aaron Harang (35, RHP, 5-12, 5.40)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (5-12) 143.1 153 91 86 40 113 26 5.40
2012 (10-10) 179.2 167 85 72 85 131 14 3.61
2011 (14-7) 170.2 175 73 69 58 124 20 3.64
Last 7 GS 0-2 40.2 41 21 20 17 41 7 4.43 51
2013-09-28 MIL ND 6.0 5 1 1 2 7 1 107 63
2013-09-23 @CIN ND 6.0 5 2 2 6 1 0 104 49
2013-09-18 SFG ND 5.0 6 4 3 3 8 1 100 46
2013-09-12 WSN L 6.0 4 3 3 1 10 3 101 61
2013-08-25 LAA L 5.2 9 7 7 2 7 1 101 28
2013-08-19 @OAK ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 3 0 97 65
2013-08-14 @TBR ND 5.0 7 3 3 2 5 1 103 44
Last 5 v.DET 0-2 21.0 23 13 13 7 22 2 5.57 48
2013-04-16 DET L 5.0 7 3 3 0 6 1 95 47
2006-05-21 @DET L 8.0 5 1 1 1 9 0 112 76
2002-08-25 @DET ND 3.2 5 6 6 5 3 0 88 25
2002-08-01 DET ND 4.1 6 3 3 1 4 1 94 42
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: Max Scherzer (28, RHP, 21-3, 2.90)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (21-3) 214.1 152 73 69 56 240 18 2.90
2012 (16-7) 187.2 179 82 78 60 231 23 3.74
2011 (15-9) 195.0 207 101 96 56 174 29 4.43
Last 7 GS 3-2 42.0 35 17 15 18 55 4 3.21 58
2013-09-25 @MIN W 7.0 2 0 0 6 10 0 123 77
2013-09-20 CHW W 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 1 90 50
2013-09-15 KCR ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 12 1 116 74
2013-09-09 @CHW L 4.0 6 5 4 2 6 0 90 36
2013-09-03 @BOS L 7.0 5 2 2 3 8 0 111 64
2013-08-29 OAK ND 5.0 8 6 5 1 5 2 101 33
2013-08-24 @NYM W 6.0 3 0 0 4 11 0 118 73
Last 5 v.ATL 1-2 20.1 23 17 11 11 23 4 4.87 45
2010-06-26 @ATL ND 5.2 3 0 0 4 8 0 102 67
2009-08-17 @ATL L 5.0 6 9 3 1 7 2 93 37
2009-05-31 ATL L 3.2 10 8 8 3 4 2 86 10
2009-05-16 @ATL W 6.0 4 0 0 3 4 0 97 65
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

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

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 Scherzer
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 46.Krol*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 21.Porcello
G/S/vB		 39.Putkonen
G/S/vB		 57.Reed
G/S/vB		 43.Rondon
G/S/vB		 19.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 33.Smyly*
G/S/vB		 35.Verlander
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Doumit# G/S/vP 20/.538 4/.500 7/.715 6/1.917 1/.000 6/.833 19/.812 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 20/.522 8/.000 15/.466 528/361 .275/.320/.461/.781 .690/.823 .791 / 0/0 18/5
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 11/.546 ··· ··· 620/363 .259/.340/.456/.796 .714/.855 .735 / 2/0 23/12
24.Gattis G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· / /// / / / /
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/.991 ··· ··· 651/394 .269/.335/.479/.814 .635/.934 .875 / 21/8 27/5
23.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 12/1.000 ··· ··· 528/377 .281/.326/.451/.777 .672/.819 .743 / 5/1 15/19
11.Laird G/S/vP ··· ··· 10/.311 ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 11/.546 191/82 .282/.337/.374/.710 .622/.828 .721 / 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 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 7/.286 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.200 4/3 .250/.250/.250/.500 .000/.667 / 0/0 0/0
17.Schafer* G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 13/.237 1/.000 ··· 360/303 .211/.297/.294/.591 .356/.636 .544 / 27/9 4/2
19.Simmons G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 7/1.571 ··· ··· 182/117 .289/.335/.416/.751 .796/.726 .651 / 1/0 3/3
26.Uggla G/S/vP 3/1.666 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 14/1.072 ··· ··· 630/420 .220/.348/.384/.732 .776/.710 .803 / 4/3 19/12
2.Upton G/S/vP 8/.125 1/.000 20/.463 5/.900 ··· 3/.667 8/.393 ··· ··· ··· 13/.725 2/.000 23/1.145 633/454 .246/.298/.454/.752 .792/.737 .687 / 31/6 28/3
8.Upton G/S/vP 3/.333 2/.500 2/.000 3/1.334 3/3.333 2/.000 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· 16/.813 ··· 4/.500 628/439 .280/.355/.430/.785 .830/.766 .670 / 18/8 17/5
IP 187.2 13.1 20.2 54.0 64.1 176.1 16.0 195.2 99.1 238.1 TOTAL .249/.321/.402/.723 .701/.731 .694 64/31 181/85
ERA-K/9 3.74/11.1 0.68/12.2 4.35/9.6 4.00/8.5 /0.0 2.80/10.9 4.59/5.5 3.94/5.6 /0.0 /0.0 3.86/7.7 3.99/8.5 2.64/9.0 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 787/.250 53/.133 95/.302 245/.324 / 257/.231 783/.310 72/.302 / / 820/.265 416/.247 956/.217 .247  Heyward
 Upton
 Upton
 Schafer
 Johnson
 Doumit
0/2/154/11
0/142/0/10
0/0/149/6
0/87/0/4
0/0/1/0
16/0/6/0
OPS .721 .420 .835 .854 .631 .808 .777 .716 .732 .601 .681
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 436/.831 24/.345 37/.609 130/.685 / 151/.617 415/.883 38/.890 / / 444/.645 127/.671 536/.608 .691
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 351/.588 29/.484 58/.962 115/1.050 / 106/.650 368/.725 34/.653 / / 376/.797 289/.759 420/.593 .670
Home 343/.686 29/.276 48/.985 118/.804 / 149/.702 401/.803 26/.863 / / 390/.709 193/.765 445/.536
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 23/15/9 0/1/1 3/4/0 5/5/2 // 7/3/1 16/18/5 0/1/1 // // 20/23/4 12/8/6 19/16/4 128/128/29
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 34.Harang
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		 30.Santana
G/S/vB		 49.Teheran
G/S/vB		 38.Varvaro
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 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/.722 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 434/331 .243/.352/.384/.736 .539/.796 .772 / 2/0 9/6
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 18/.833 ··· ··· 2/3.500 ··· ··· 24/.714 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· 697/502 .330/.393/.606/.999 .913/1.027 1.094 / 4/1 44/13
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
20.Davis G/S/vP 5/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 21/.488 ··· 1/2.000 2/.500 ··· 487/322 .257/.309/.378/.687 .783/.638 .701 / 46/13 8/8
12.Dirks* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/.864 ··· ··· ··· ··· 344/261 .322/.370/.487/.857 .751/.889 .906 / 1/1 8/3
28.Gonzalez G/S/vP 16/1.554 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 14/.142 ··· ··· ··· ··· 89/69 .259/.326/.457/.783 .671/.816 .694 / 1/1 4/3
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 13/9 .250/.250/.333/.583 1.250/.250 .700 / 0/0 0/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP 12/.781 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 14/.536 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 584/425 .313/.365/.451/.817 .868/.798 .802 / 9/1 16/4
1.Iglesias G/S/vP 3/.833 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 77/45 .118/.200/.191/.391 .536/.284 .222 / 1/0 1/2
14.Jackson G/S/vP 3/1.333 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/.118 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 617/432 .300/.377/.479/.856 .856/.856 .851 / 12/9 16/1
32.Kelly* G/S/vP 6/.167 2/2.500 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 127/113 .186/.276/.248/.523 .298/.551 .545 / 2/0 1/3
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 6/.900 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 63/.957 ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 ··· 731/550 .256/.326/.423/.749 .988/.671 .886 / 21/9 19/18
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 21/.712 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 24/.917 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· / /// / / / /
27.Romine# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/17 .412/.500/.412/.912 .833/.929 / 1/0 0/2
IP 179.2 36.0 32.1 20.0 62.2 178.0 6.1 16.2 39.0 TOTAL .283/.346/.434/.780 .764/.788 .821 35/20 176/76
ERA-K/9 3.61/6.6 2.00/8.2 8.07/8.6 1.80/9.0 /0.0 1.01/16.7 5.16/6.7 5.68/7.1 5.40/11.3 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 786/.246 142/.211 163/.357 80/.233 / 231/.126 764/.239 24/.217 76/.250 172/.229 / .244  Hunter
 Davis
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Dirks
0/0/134/14
114/6/24/8
0/137/0/5
18/8/35/3
59/1/24/1
OPS .711 .547 .953 .642 .358 .774 .467 .766 .674 .671
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 396/.761 58/.528 65/1.123 32/.992 / 122/.331 419/.867 8/.250 39/.869 87/.606 / .671
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 390/.662 84/.559 98/.842 48/.411 / 109/.387 345/.664 16/.579 37/.656 85/.743 / .671
Road 425/.709 74/.654 99/.958 30/.633 / 105/.334 401/.887 6/.333 23/.961 82/.717 /
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 14/8/4 1/2/0 5/3/0 1/1/0 // 3/8/1 39/16/2 0/0/0 2/0/0 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.