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Game Preview: DET @ TEX, 8:05pm, Saturday, May 18, 2013 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Tigers, 23-17, 23-17 1st, Tied

SP: Anibal Sanchez (29, RHP, 4-3, 2.05)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (4-3) 52.2 45 14 12 12 66 1 2.05
2012 (9-13) 195.2 200 95 84 48 167 20 3.86
2011 (8-9) 196.1 187 85 80 64 202 20 3.67
Last 7 GS 4-3 47.2 43 14 12 9 61 1 2.27 64
2013-05-13 HOU W 7.0 6 2 2 1 8 0 113 64
2013-05-08 @WSN L 6.0 8 3 2 0 8 1 98 54
2013-05-01 MIN L 6.0 5 3 3 2 9 0 115 57
2013-04-26 ATL W 8.0 5 0 0 1 17 0 121 88
2013-04-19 @LAA L 6.2 11 3 2 0 3 0 92 45
2013-04-14 @OAK W 7.0 3 1 1 4 8 0 113 71
2013-04-09 TOR W 7.0 5 2 2 1 8 0 114 66
Last 5 v.TEX 0-2 9.2 15 10 8 5 10 2 7.45 36
2011-07-01 @TEX L 3.2 7 7 7 4 4 1 79 19
2010-06-16 TEX L 6.0 8 3 1 1 6 1 103 53
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   13-7    Road:   10-10   ExtrInn: 2-4 
 vsRHP:  20-12   vsLHP:   3-5    1-Run:   4-6 
 vsEast:  4-2    vsCntrl: 5-6    vsWest: 11-7  IL: 3-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Fri, May 17  @TEX  W   2-1       23-17  1st    Tied
 39 Thu, May 16  @TEX  L   4-10      22-17  1st    Tied
 38 Wed, May 15   HOU  L   5-7       22-16  1st  0.5 up
 37 Tue, May 14   HOU  W   6-2       22-15  1st  1.5 up
 36 Mon, May 13   HOU  W   7-2       21-15  1st  0.5 up
 35 Sun, May 12   CLE  L   3-4 (10)  20-15  1st    Tied
 34 Sat, May 11   CLE  L   6-7       20-14  1st  1.0 up
 33 Fri, May 10   CLE  W  10-4       20-13  1st  1.5 up
 32 Thu, May  9  @WSN  L   4-5       19-13  1st  0.5 up
 31 Wed, May  8  @WSN  L   1-3       19-12  1st  1.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12
Rangers, 27-15, 27-15 1st, 6½ up

SP: Justin Grimm (24, RHP, 2-3, 4.28)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-3) 33.2 37 17 16 13 34 5 4.28
2012 (1-1) 14.0 22 14 14 3 13 1 9.00
Last 7 GS 2-4 34.2 45 23 22 14 34 5 5.71 45
2013-05-13 @OAK L 5.0 7 5 5 2 3 2 90 34
2013-05-07 @MIL L 5.0 8 5 5 3 7 1 99 35
2013-05-02 CHW L 6.2 6 3 3 4 9 1 105 55
2013-04-26 @MIN W 7.0 5 0 0 0 4 0 94 71
2013-04-21 SEA W 6.0 6 2 1 1 9 0 96 62
2013-04-11 @SEA ND 4.0 5 2 2 3 2 1 92 43
2012-06-25 DET L 1.0 8 6 6 1 0 0 52 12
Last 5 v.DET 0-1 1.0 8 6 6 1 0 0 54.00 12
2012-06-25 DET L 1.0 8 6 6 1 0 0 52 12
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   12-5    Road:   15-10   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  16-10   vsLHP:  11-5    1-Run:   9-3 
 vsEast:  5-1    vsCntrl: 4-5    vsWest: 16-6  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Fri, May 17   DET  L   1-2       27-15  1st  6.5 up
 41 Thu, May 16   DET  W  10-4       27-14  1st  7.0 up
 40 Wed, May 15  @OAK  W   6-2       26-14  1st  7.0 up
 39 Tue, May 14  @OAK  W   6-5 (10)  25-14  1st  6.0 up
 38 Mon, May 13  @OAK  L   1-5       24-14  1st  5.0 up
 37 Sun, May 12  @HOU  W  12-7       24-13  1st  6.0 up
 36 Sat, May 11  @HOU  W   8-7       23-13  1st  5.0 up
 35 Fri, May 10  @HOU  W   4-2       22-13  1st  5.0 up
 34 Wed, May  8  @MIL  W   4-1       21-13  1st  3.5 up
 33 Tue, May  7  @MIL  L   3-6       20-13  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 17, 2013 DET  2 @TEX  1        W:Rick Porcello (2-2), L: Nick Tepesch (3-4), S: Jose Valverde (4)
Thu, May 16, 2013 TEX 10  DET  4        W:Yu Darvish (7-1), L: Justin Verlander (4-4), S: none

Sun, Aug 12, 2012 TEX  8  DET  3        W:Yu Darvish (12-8), L: Rick Porcello (9-7), S: none
Sat, Aug 11, 2012 TEX  2  DET  1        W:Mike Adams (2-3), L: Brayan Villarreal (3-3), S: none
Fri, Aug 10, 2012 DET  6 @TEX  2        W:Max Scherzer (11-6), L: Scott Feldman (6-7), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2013 - tied 1-1; 2012 - TEX won 7-3; 2011 - DET won 6-3; All-Time - DET leads 348-296

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
Tigers Batters (5.30 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (3.52 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Grimm
G/S/vB
57.Burns
G/S/vB
44.Frasor
G/S/vB
50.Kirkman*
G/S/vB
55.Lowe
G/S/vB
36.Nathan
G/S/vB
58.Ortiz*
G/S/vB
46.Ross*
G/S/vB
52.Scheppers
G/S/vB
49.Tepesch
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 3/.333 3/1.667 5/.650 ··· 4/.500 ··· 3/.333 121/102 .185/.264/.315/.579 .105/.675 .480 63/.629 0/0 4/0
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 2/2.500 1/.000 11/1.414 4/1.167 32/.729 12/.432 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 3/2.333 188/152 .376/.447/.606/1.053 .939/1.078 .945 108/1.160 1/0 8/3
12.Dirks* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 3/1.334 126/109 .261/.336/.414/.750 .741/.752 .648 72/.936 4/0 4/0
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/.917 33/.595 8/.875 ··· 5/.933 1/no AB 3/.333 183/130 .272/.404/.517/.921 .977/.899 .870 105/.836 0/1 9/2
34.Garcia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/ .200/.200/.800/1.000 1.000/ 5/1.000 0/0 1/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 14/1.107 2/2.000 32/.862 7/.829 ··· 2/.500 3/1.000 3/.000 174/141 .309/.351/.407/.758 .700/.771 .773 100/.573 1/0 1/1
4.Infante G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 21/.588 8/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 146/110 .316/.349/.449/.798 .863/.776 .538 89/.990 2/0 3/3
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.333 1/no AB 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 62/49 .196/.274/.321/.596 .769/.544 .502 44/.695 1/0 1/0
41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 13/.826 2/.000 3/1.334 12/.834 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.167 166/117 .213/.271/.300/.571 .576/.569 .557 95/.598 0/0 2/0
55.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 50/22 .261/.286/.413/.699 .377/1.109 .696 36/.702 0/0 2/0
27.Peralta G/S/vP 1/3.000 1/.000 11/1.064 5/.600 9/.666 19/.669 ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.333 160/120 .319/.384/.461/.845 1.076/.770 .782 90/.929 2/1 4/2
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 6/.167 7/.334 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 35/23 .152/.200/.273/.473 .550/.435 .583 16/.670 0/0 0/0
18.Tuiasosopo G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 46/14 .375/.457/.575/1.032 .815/1.429 .958 29/1.115 0/0 2/0
IP 33.2 1.2 12.0 17.0 12.1 15.0 21.0 18.2 20.2 43.0 TOTAL .280/.348/.428/.776 .757/.783 .703 .812 16/2 43/14
ERA-K/9 4.28/9.1 0.00/5.3 3.00/9.0 6.35/11.1 8.03/5.9 2.40/9.0 3.43/7.3 0.48/5.8 0.44/5.7 3.98/6.5 3.42/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (18-7-3)
 Pena (6-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 152/.270 6/.000 51/.239 82/.314 53/.292 64/.214 84/.228 75/.206 76/.174 185/.260 .234  Hunter
 Dirks
 Kelly
 Garcia
 Tuiasosopo
0/0/37/3
31/0/0/2
11/7/7/0
0/3/0/0
16/0/0/0
OPS .768 .167 .794 .831 .900 .618 .633 .515 .482 .721 .669
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 71/.713 2/.500 14/.297 29/.991 20/1.274 32/.607 31/.262 22/.511 29/.705 99/.848 .657
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 81/.818 4/.000 37/.988 53/.737 33/.690 32/.629 53/.859 53/.517 47/.351 86/.574 .677
Home 56/.669 6/.167 18/.722 30/.880 18/.111 21/.496 26/.382 36/.465 32/.526 88/.727
Last 28d days 132/.753 6/.167 29/.699 56/.889 23/1.240 38/.691 38/.750 46/.475 42/.421 123/.731
HR/SB/CS 5/2/1 0/0/0 3/1/0 1/2/0 3/0/0 1/2/0 2/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/1 5/2/0 37/15/5
Usage ····X··· oX······ o··Xo·o· ··X··Xo· ·····X·· ···X··Xo o···Xo·· X··o···X ··oX···o X····X··
Rangers Batters (4.62 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (3.93 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 19.Sanchez
G/S/vB
53.Benoit
G/S/vB
40.Coke*
G/S/vB
38.Downs*
G/S/vB
56.Ortega
G/S/vB
57.Reed
G/S/vB
33.Smyly*
G/S/vB
46.Valverde
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 7/.000 5/1.100 6/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 7/.619 7/.000 187/134 .262/.310/.314/.624 .441/.693 .448 112/.695 10/1 0/1
15.Baker G/S/vP 2/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.667 49/11 .333/.429/.667/1.095 1.280/.545 1.185 33/1.114 0/0 4/0
29.Beltre G/S/vP 3/1.667 24/.714 5/.650 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 5/2.100 178/131 .273/.326/.491/.817 .920/.780 .858 110/.923 0/0 9/4
27.Berkman# G/S/vP 16/1.115 17/1.538 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 149/109 .293/.416/.455/.871 .775/.908 .929 97/.766 0/0 3/
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/9 .250/.333/.500/.833 /.833 9/.833 0/0 0/0
17.Cruz G/S/vP 2/2.500 5/1.850 6/.167 2/.000 1/2.000 1/5.000 5/.650 3/.333 168/117 .263/.315/.513/.829 1.120/.704 .819 100/.895 2/1 11/1
3.Garcia# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/19 .280/.308/.360/.668 .762/.632 .333 17/.588 1/0 0/1
23.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 83/32 .233/.317/.370/.687 .732/.617 .796 52/.565 5/1 1/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 6/.750 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 6/1.500 8/.250 180/119 .302/.369/.500/.869 .645/.989 .986 109/.831 3/2 7/7
2.Martin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 91/80 .274/.330/.417/.746 .545/.776 .980 58/.872 3/2 2/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/.533 159/95 .288/.340/.562/.901 .827/.950 1.028 102/1.107 0/0 9/2
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.500 6/.567 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 7/.453 137/95 .211/.263/.367/.630 .603/.642 .715 74/.680 0/2 4/0
8.Soto G/S/vP 10/1.200 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.200 62/40 .185/.279/.333/.612 .282/.804 .780 51/.635 0/0 2/2
IP 52.2 19.0 10.2 20.1 7.0 2.2 24.2 8.0 TOTAL .266/.330/.445/.775 .747/.789 .833 .809 24/9 56/18
ERA-K/9 2.05/11.3 1.42/11.4 7.59/8.4 2.66/11.1 0.00/9.0 3.38/3.3 1.82/9.8 1.13/7.9 3.58/9.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (0-0-0)
 Soto (5-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 211/.231 73/.169 44/.257 80/.192 26/.125 10/.200 97/.198 29/.040 .235  Martin
 Murphy
 Baker
 Cruz
 Gentry
2/27/3/3
40/0/0/1
13/0/1/0
0/0/40/0
0/29/0/0
OPS .579 .553 .790 .591 .317 .700 .489 .212 .649
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 100/.693 43/.564 19/.356 35/.681 13/.237 4/.500 38/.269 16/.327 .611
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 111/.478 30/.536 25/1.117 45/.517 13/.397 6/.833 59/.632 13/.077 .691
Road 103/.641 44/.485 21/.638 46/.339 12/.167 10/.700 59/.527 11/.182
Last 28d days 106/.611 40/.468 23/.914 49/.763 26/.317 10/.700 38/.431 29/.212
HR/SB/CS 1/5/0 2/3/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 0/0/0 1/1/1 0/1/1 0/1/0 22/24/10
Usage ····X··· o··o·X·o ··o··o·· ·X···Xo· o···Xo·· ·X······ o·o···X· o··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.