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Game Preview: BAL @ MIN, 2:10pm, Saturday, May 3, 2014 @Target Field

Orioles, 15-12, 15-12 1st, ½ up

SP: Wei-Yin Chen (28, LHP, 3-1, 4.34)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-1) 29.0 39 14 14 7 23 1 4.34
2013 (7-7) 137.0 142 62 62 39 104 17 4.07
2012 (12-11) 192.2 186 97 86 57 154 29 4.02
Last 7 GS 3-1 38.2 54 19 19 10 32 1 4.42 46
2014-04-26 KCR ND 7.0 9 2 2 2 6 0 102 55
2014-04-21 @BOS W 5.0 4 3 3 3 5 0 93 49
2014-04-14 TBR W 6.1 5 1 1 2 4 0 99 61
2014-04-08 @NYY W 5.0 9 4 4 0 3 1 102 36
2014-04-03 BOS L 5.2 12 4 4 0 5 0 98 34
2013-09-28 BOS ND 5.1 9 3 3 1 5 0 96 42
2013-09-23 @TBR ND 4.1 6 2 2 2 4 0 83 45
Last 5 v.MIN 2-0 12.0 11 3 3 1 8 0 2.25 59
2013-05-12 @MIN W 5.0 5 0 0 0 3 0 73 60
2012-07-19 @MIN W 7.0 6 3 3 1 5 0 108 57
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    7-6    Road:    8-6    ExtrInn: 3-0 
 vsRHP:  14-9    vsLHP:   1-3    1-Run:   6-3 
 vsEast: 10-8    vsCntrl: 3-4    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Fri, May  2  @MIN  W   3-0       15-12  1st  0.5 up
 26 Thu, May  1   PIT  W   6-5 (10)  14-12  2nd  0.5 gb
 25 Thu, May  1   PIT  W   5-1       13-12  2nd  0.5 gb
 24 Sun, Apr 27   KCR  L   3-9       12-12  2nd  2.5 gb
 23 Sat, Apr 26   KCR  W   3-2 (10)  12-11  2nd  1.5 gb
 22 Fri, Apr 25   KCR  L   0-5       11-11  2nd  1.5 gb
 21 Thu, Apr 24  @TOR  W  11-4       11-10  2nd  1.5 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 23  @TOR  W  10-8       10-10  3rd  1.5 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 22  @TOR  L   3-9        9-10  4th  2.5 gb
 18 Mon, Apr 21  @BOS  W   7-6        9-9   3rd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:15-12
Twins, 12-15, 12-15 4th, 4½ GB, 3 GB in WC

SP: Kevin Correia (33, RHP, 0-3, 7.33)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (0-3) 27.0 37 25 22 8 12 2 7.33
2013 (9-13) 185.1 218 89 86 45 101 24 4.18
2012 (12-11) 171.0 176 89 80 46 89 20 4.21
Last 7 GS 0-4 39.0 50 28 25 13 14 2 5.77 41
2014-04-25 DET L 2.1 8 8 7 2 0 1 66 9
2014-04-19 @KCR L 6.0 9 5 4 2 2 0 97 36
2014-04-13 KCR ND 7.0 6 3 3 1 2 0 87 54
2014-04-07 OAK L 5.2 9 6 6 2 3 1 97 28
2014-04-02 @CHW ND 6.0 5 3 2 1 5 0 82 56
2013-09-25 DET L 7.0 7 1 1 0 1 0 107 60
2013-09-19 @OAK ND 5.0 6 2 2 5 1 0 101 43
Last 5 v.BAL 1-1 12.0 19 9 7 2 6 1 5.25 39
2012-06-13 @BAL L 6.0 10 5 4 1 1 1 94 34
2011-06-22 BAL W 6.0 9 4 3 1 5 0 97 44
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    6-9    Road:    6-6    ExtrInn: 1-3 
 vsRHP:   8-10   vsLHP:   4-5    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  4-3    vsCntrl: 8-6    vsWest:  0-3  IL: 0-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Fri, May  2   BAL  L   0-3       12-15  4th  4.5 gb
 26 Thu, May  1   LAD  L   3-4 (12)  12-14  4th  3.5 gb
 25 Thu, May  1   LAD  L   4-9       12-13  4th  3.5 gb
 24 Wed, Apr 30   LAD  L   4-6       12-12  3rd  2.5 gb
 23 Sat, Apr 26   DET  W   5-3       12-11  2nd  1.0 gb
 22 Fri, Apr 25   DET  L   6-10      11-11  2nd  2.0 gb
 21 Thu, Apr 24  @TBR  W   9-7       11-10  2nd  1.0 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 23  @TBR  W   6-4 (12)  10-10  2nd  1.0 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 22  @TBR  L   3-7        9-10  3rd  2.0 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 20  @KCR  W   8-3        9-9   3rd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 02, 2014 BAL  3 @MIN  0        W:Ubaldo Jimenez (1-4), L: Ricky Nolasco (2-3), S: Tommy Hunter (8)

Sun, May 12, 2013 BAL  6 @MIN  0        W:Wei-Yin Chen (3-3), L: Scott Diamond (3-3), S: none
Sat, May 11, 2013 MIN  8  BAL  5        W:Vance Worley (1-4), L: Steve Johnson (0-1), S: Jared Burton (1)
Fri, May 10, 2013 BAL  9 @MIN  6 (10)   W:Tommy Hunter (3-1), L: Anthony Swarzak (1-1), S: Jim Johnson (14)
Sun, Apr 07, 2013 MIN  4 @BAL  3        W:Anthony Swarzak (1-0), L: Jason Hammel (1-1), S: Glen Perkins (2)
Sat, Apr 06, 2013 MIN  6 @BAL  5        W:Josh Roenicke (1-0), L: Jim Johnson (0-1), S: Glen Perkins (1)
Fri, Apr 05, 2013 BAL  9  MIN  5        W:Luis Ayala (1-0), L: Casey Fien (0-1), S: none
Thu, Jul 19, 2012 BAL  4 @MIN  3        W:Wei-Yin Chen (8-5), L: Alex Burnett (3-3), S: Jim Johnson (28)
Wed, Jul 18, 2012 BAL  2 @MIN  1        W:Tommy Hunter (4-4), L: Francisco Liriano (3-9), S: Jim Johnson (27)
Tue, Jul 17, 2012 MIN  6  BAL  4        W:Alex Burnett (3-2), L: Luis Ayala (2-3), S: Jared Burton (3)
Season Series: 2014 - BAL over 1-0; 2013 - Tied 3-3; 2012 - BAL won 5-2; All-Time - BAL leads 958-940

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 2014 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
Orioles Batters (4.52 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Correia
G/S/vB
61.Burton
G/S/vB
21.Deduno
G/S/vB
52.Duensing*
G/S/vB
50.Fien
G/S/vB
15.Perkins*
G/S/vB
51.Swarzak
G/S/vB
56.Thielbar*
G/S/vB
59.Tonkin
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
45.Clevenger* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 27/24 .261/.370/.522/.892 .000/1.017 1.295 22/.753 0/0 0/0
23.Cruz G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.000 5/1.000 11/.728 3/.000 5/.900 13/.539 ··· ··· 114/97 .297/.377/.594/.971 1.465/.897 1.154 94/1.001 0/1 8/0
3.Flaherty* G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 74/60 .194/.270/.239/.509 .593/.489 .623 59/.647 0/0 0/2
2.Hardy G/S/vP 12/.872 8/.250 3/.666 5/1.350 2/.000 2/1.000 9/1.194 ··· ··· 78/62 .254/.276/.296/.572 .259/.651 .511 62/.536 0/0 0/0
10.Jones G/S/vP 6/.167 5/.400 3/1.666 6/.334 2/3.000 7/.310 6/1.334 ··· ··· 116/90 .261/.284/.360/.645 1.114/.517 .841 97/.640 2/0 1/1
9.Lough* G/S/vP 8/1.875 3/2.334 8/.453 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 5/.000 2/.000 ··· 66/59 .164/.215/.230/.445 .000/.492 .690 54/.408 4/0 0/1
13.Machado G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· ··· 9/8 .111/.111/.111/.222 .000/.250 .500 9/.222 0/0 0/0
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 3/1.667 3/1.666 3/2.000 8/.250 2/.500 13/1.248 9/.619 ··· ··· 124/95 .304/.363/.411/.774 .570/.838 .770 102/.854 2/1 2/0
28.Pearce G/S/vP 7/.858 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 19/14 .316/.316/.474/.789 .600/.857 .429 17/.882 0/0 0/0
6.Schoop G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 90/71 .235/.278/.388/.666 .273/.760 .771 76/.739 0/0 2/5
1.Weeks# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/1.200 2/.000 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 13/12 .273/.273/.455/.727 /.727 13/.727 0/0 0/0
32.Wieters# G/S/vP 6/.167 2/5.000 3/1.167 5/1.800 2/.000 2/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 90/71 .354/.389/.598/.986 .822/1.030 1.056 75/1.014 0/1 5/1
27.Young G/S/vP 9/.666 5/.200 5/1.000 11/.728 4/1.000 10/.200 12/.969 ··· ··· 49/34 .304/.347/.435/.782 .933/.708 .745 42/.832 0/0 1/0
IP 27.0 10.1 18.2 13.1 11.0 12.0 15.1 8.1 8.0 TOTAL .267/.320/.401/.721 .661/.736 .813 .747 11/3 21/12
ERA-K/9 7.33/4.0 8.71/5.2 2.89/8.7 2.03/3.4 2.45/7.4 3.75/13.5 5.28/4.1 2.16/5.4 2.25/6.8 5.01/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Clevenger (5-1-0)
 Wieters (9-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 125/.327 48/.289 83/.278 52/.229 41/.154 49/.200 69/.290 34/.276 35/.241 .284  Lough
 Young
 Markakis
 Jones
 Cruz
 Pearce
 Flaherty
17/2/0/3
3/0/0/2
0/0/23/2
0/26/0/1
10/0/4/0
1/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .858 .943 .667 .691 .400 .578 .766 .708 .703 .778
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 61/.679 23/.949 46/.777 20/.596 19/.596 12/.333 29/.789 16/.517 10/1.200 .769
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 64/1.013 25/.931 37/.535 32/.748 22/.232 37/.664 40/.746 18/.905 25/.450 .786
Home 71/.940 23/1.272 57/.675 27/.948 15/.333 18/.520 43/.641 13/.308 24/.875
Last 28d days 101/.929 40/.966 73/.639 41/.839 28/.218 31/.362 60/.697 24/.500 31/.733
HR/SB/CS 2/3/0 3/1/0 0/1/0 2/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 1/3/0 24/15/1
Usage ·······X ·o····o· ·X······ ·XX····· ·X·····o ·X····X· ·Xo····X ·o·····o ·Xo····X
Twins Batters (5.11 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (4.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 16.Chen*
G/S/vB
35.Brach
G/S/vB
53.Britton*
G/S/vB
29.Hunter
G/S/vB
17.Matusz*
G/S/vB
56.O'Day
G/S/vB
40.Patton*
G/S/vB
58.Webb
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
20.Colabello G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 112/77 .279/.330/.452/.782 .884/.737 .661 93/.707 0/2 3/1
2.Dozier G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· 3/.000 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 133/91 .227/.353/.427/.781 .604/.868 .853 108/.814 9/1 7/2
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 41/30 .333/.375/.444/.819 .664/.879 .962 37/.917 1/0 0/1
25.Florimon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 62/36 .111/.200/.167/.367 .376/.359 .481 48/.403 4/0 0/1
1.Fuld* G/S/vP 14/.517 1/.000 3/.333 3/.000 4/1.250 4/.000 3/.000 ··· 67/53 .262/.328/.459/.787 .824/.777 .783 57/.720 3/0 1/1
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/24 .120/.185/.120/.305 .000/.345 .170 27/.305 0/0 0/0
13.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 6/.750 9/1.069 3/.000 4/.750 1/.000 1/no AB 100/69 .286/.350/.407/.757 .612/.821 .783 87/.729 0/0 1/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 6/1.100 ··· 7/1.238 14/1.071 10/.522 2/no AB 5/.650 1/.000 130/80 .282/.385/.336/.721 .616/.788 .781 106/.765 1/0 1/0
43.Pinto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 96/61 .208/.354/.416/.770 .756/.776 .718 87/.765 0/0 5/2
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 5/1.000 ··· 5/1.800 6/1.100 ··· 3/1.167 1/.000 2/.500 124/88 .276/.379/.438/.817 .727/.856 .647 100/.762 0/0 1/2
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 6/.533 21/.715 15/.800 9/.111 2/1.000 2/4.000 85/57 .286/.369/.386/.755 .819/.716 .461 71/.705 0/0 1/2
IP 29.0 17.0 10.2 9.2 11.0 0.1 11.0 TOTAL .243/.340/.369/.709 .664/.731 .673 .706 20/4 20/16
ERA-K/9 4.34/7.1 /0.0 1.06/6.4 2.53/8.4 4.66/7.4 0.82/6.5 27.00/0.0 4.09/9.0 4.19/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pinto (8-0-0)
 Suzuki (7-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 129/.325 / 67/.167 44/.293 49/.333 46/.268 3/.667 46/.250 .277  Fuld
 Colabello
 Herrmann
 Escobar
 Kubel
2/10/4/3
0/0/14/2
2/0/6/0
1/0/0/0
20/0/2/0
OPS .784 .504 .782 .987 .738 1.667 .624 .777
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 38/1.045 / 27/.264 23/.642 24/.899 17/.728 1/.000 15/.690 .738
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 91/.676 / 40/.678 21/.931 25/1.076 29/.745 2/2.500 31/.591 .815
Road 45/.868 / 28/.632 22/.959 34/1.113 25/.922 / 23/.625
Last 28d days 102/.745 / 53/.498 38/.816 40/.965 38/.736 3/1.667 31/.328
HR/SB/CS 1/1/0 // 1/0/0 1/0/0 1/0/1 1/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 29/14/2
Usage ······X· oX····o· Xo····X· ·X····o· ·X····o· ·o······ ·X···o··

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.