Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Game Previews > TBR @ BOS, Saturday, May 26, 2012

Game Preview: TBR @ BOS, 7:15pm, Saturday, May 26, 2012 @Fenway Park

Rays, 28-18, 28-18 2nd, 1 GB, 4 up in WC

SP: David Price (26, LHP, 6-3, 2.88)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (6-3) 59.1 54 20 19 18 52 5 2.88
2011 (12-13) 224.1 192 93 87 63 218 22 3.49
2010 (19-6) 208.2 170 71 63 79 188 15 2.72
Last 7 GS 5-2 50.0 45 15 14 11 44 5 2.52 61
2012-05-20 ATL L 7.0 6 2 1 3 7 1 123 63
2012-05-15 @TOR W 7.0 6 3 3 0 6 1 112 59
2012-05-10 @NYY L 7.0 11 5 5 3 4 2 110 36
2012-05-04 OAK W 8.0 3 1 1 1 12 0 106 83
2012-04-29 @TEX W 6.1 6 2 2 1 6 0 117 58
2012-04-24 LAA W 9.0 5 0 0 1 6 0 119 82
2012-04-18 @TOR W 5.2 8 2 2 2 3 1 106 46
Last 5 v.BOS 2-2 26.0 20 11 11 15 23 3 3.81 53
2012-04-13 @BOS L 3.0 4 3 3 3 3 0 83 39
2011-09-18 @BOS ND 4.0 3 2 2 3 2 0 78 47
2011-08-17 @BOS W 8.0 3 0 0 3 6 0 116 79
2011-07-15 BOS W 6.0 5 3 3 1 7 3 121 56
2011-06-16 BOS L 5.0 5 3 3 5 5 0 106 45
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-7    Road:   11-11   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  21-10   vsLHP:   7-8    1-Run:  11-3 
 vsEast: 14-10   vsCntrl: 3-3    vsWest: 10-3  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 46 Fri, May 25  @BOS  W   7-4       28-18  2nd  1.0 gb
 45 Wed, May 23   TOR  W   5-4 (11)  27-18  2nd  1.0 gb
 44 Tue, May 22   TOR  W   8-5       26-18  2nd  2.0 gb
 43 Mon, May 21   TOR  L   2-6       25-18  2nd  2.0 gb
 42 Sun, May 20   ATL  L   0-2       25-17  2nd  2.0 gb
 41 Sat, May 19   ATL  W   5-2       25-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 40 Fri, May 18   ATL  L   3-5       24-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 39 Thu, May 17   BOS  L   3-5       24-15  2nd  1.0 gb
 38 Wed, May 16   BOS  W   2-1       24-14  1st    Tied
 37 Tue, May 15  @TOR  W   4-3       23-14  1st    Tied
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:19-11
RedSox, 22-23, 22-23 5th, 6½ GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Josh Beckett (32, RHP, 4-4, 4.38)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (4-4) 49.1 48 24 24 15 40 9 4.38
2011 (13-7) 193.0 146 65 62 52 175 21 2.89
2010 (6-6) 127.2 151 89 82 45 116 20 5.78
Last 7 GS 4-3 44.2 41 17 17 14 37 4 3.43 56
2012-05-20 @PHI W 7.2 7 1 1 2 5 0 103 64
2012-05-15 SEA W 7.0 4 0 0 2 9 0 93 76
2012-05-10 CLE L 2.1 7 7 7 2 2 2 56 15
2012-04-29 @CHW L 6.2 6 3 3 3 8 1 126 55
2012-04-24 @MIN W 6.0 5 2 2 3 5 0 100 56
2012-04-18 TEX L 7.0 7 3 3 1 7 1 110 57
2012-04-13 TBR W 8.0 5 1 1 1 1 0 94 68
Last 5 v.TBR 3-0 38.0 18 5 3 3 28 1 0.71 75
2012-04-13 TBR W 8.0 5 1 1 1 1 0 94 68
2011-09-16 TBR W 6.0 7 3 2 1 7 1 109 54
2011-07-17 @TBR ND 8.0 1 0 0 0 6 0 106 86
2011-06-15 @TBR W 9.0 1 0 0 0 6 0 97 91
2010-04-16 TBR ND 7.0 4 1 0 1 8 0 106 74
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-12   Road:   13-11   ExtrInn: 0-3 
 vsRHP:  14-16   vsLHP:   8-7    1-Run:   4-5 
 vsEast:  7-11   vsCntrl:10-7    vsWest:  3-4  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 45 Fri, May 25   TBR  L   4-7       22-23  5th  6.5 gb
 44 Wed, May 23  @BAL  W   6-5       22-22  5th  5.5 gb
 43 Tue, May 22  @BAL  L   1-4       21-22  5th  6.5 gb
 42 Mon, May 21  @BAL  W   8-6       21-21  4th  5.5 gb
 41 Sun, May 20  @PHI  W   5-1       20-21  5th  6.5 gb
 40 Sat, May 19  @PHI  W   7-5       19-21  5th  7.5 gb
 39 Fri, May 18  @PHI  L   4-6       18-21  5th  7.5 gb
 38 Thu, May 17  @TBR  W   5-3       18-20  5th  6.5 gb
 37 Wed, May 16  @TBR  L   1-2       17-20  5th  6.5 gb
 36 Tue, May 15   SEA  W   5-0       17-19  5th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 25, 2012 TBR  7 @BOS  4        W:Alex Cobb (2-0), L: Jon Lester (3-4), S: Fernando Rodney (15)
Thu, May 17, 2012 BOS  5 @TBR  3        W:Felix Doubront (4-1), L: Matt Moore (1-4), S: Alfredo Aceves (8)
Wed, May 16, 2012 TBR  2  BOS  1        W:Jeremy Hellickson (4-0), L: Clay Buchholz (4-2), S: Fernando Rodney (12)
Mon, Apr 16, 2012 TBR  1 @BOS  0        W:James Shields (2-0), L: Daniel Bard (0-2), S: Fernando Rodney (4)
Sun, Apr 15, 2012 BOS  6  TBR  4        W:Vicente Padilla (1-0), L: Matt Moore (0-1), S: Alfredo Aceves (2)
Sat, Apr 14, 2012 BOS 13  TBR  5        W:Clay Buchholz (1-0), L: Burke Badenhop (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 13, 2012 BOS 12  TBR  2        W:Josh Beckett (1-1), L: David Price (1-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 18, 2011 TBR  8 @BOS  5        W:Jake McGee (3-1), L: Tim Wakefield (7-7), S: Joel Peralta (5)
Sat, Sep 17, 2011 TBR  4 @BOS  3        W:Jeff Niemann (11-7), L: Jon Lester (15-8), S: Joel Peralta (4)
Fri, Sep 16, 2011 BOS  4  TBR  3        W:Josh Beckett (13-5), L: James Shields (15-11), S: Jonathan Papelbon (30)
Season Series: 2012 - BOS over 4-3; 2011 - TBR won 12-6; 2010 - TBR won 11-7; All-Time - BOS leads 145-103

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  5.57

SFG  4.13

PIT  2.82

 RA/G

WSN  3.29

MIA  4.11

MIN  5.64

 BA

D. Wright  .397

D. Barney  .265

R. Weeks  .157

 OBP

D. Wright  .495

L. Morrison  .331

C. Barmes  .209

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .768

B. McCann  .421

A. Ramirez  .253

 OPS

J. Hamilton  1.199

M. Aviles  .754

A. Ramirez  .481

 ERA

B. Beachy  1.77

T. Cahill  3.74

C. Buchholz  7.84

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.64

R. Halladay  7.17

D. Lowe  2.30

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

Rays Batters (4.43 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (5.02 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 19.Beckett
G/S/vB		 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 32.Albers
G/S/vB		 48.Atchison
G/S/vB		 53.Hill*
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 46.Morales*
G/S/vB		 44.Padilla
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 70/33 .200/.246/.215/.462 .714/.186 .563 49/.321 0/0 0/3
9.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 2/1.500 1/.000 105/61 .275/.353/.407/.760 .886/.673 1.056 81/.825 8/3 3/3
20.Joyce* G/S/vP 15/.134 5/.000 7/.286 5/.400 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 4/3.250 166/119 .283/.400/.551/.951 .780/1.018 .894 95/.847 2/0 9/0
28.Molina G/S/vP 26/.320 5/.000 5/.650 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 4/.750 82/69 .173/.244/.307/.551 .490/.560 .573 38/.553 0/0 2/2
23.Pena* G/S/vP 35/.481 6/.000 12/1.017 6/.000 ··· 4/1.000 5/.000 8/.750 203/128 .218/.365/.394/.758 .688/.800 .671 111/.668 1/1 7/2
10.Rhymes* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/4.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 66/47 .250/.318/.283/.602 .105/.800 .644 66/.602 1/1 0/5
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP 3/.000 10/.111 8/1.071 6/.533 ··· 3/.666 3/.000 5/.200 155/105 .239/.291/.355/.646 .733/.603 .617 88/.726 2/0 4/7
30.Scott* G/S/vP 29/1.309 7/.143 ··· 3/1.667 4/.000 1/no AB 3/1.167 14/.445 163/100 .236/.307/.465/.772 .527/.924 .760 103/.662 0/0 8/
44.Sutton# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 13/5 .545/.615/.727/1.343 1.292/1.400 1.417 13/1.343 0/0 0/1
24.Thompson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 13/7 .091/.231/.091/.322 .533/.143 13/.322 2/1 0/0
2.Upton G/S/vP 33/.509 15/.498 20/.950 11/.364 ··· 7/1.286 2/.000 9/.958 132/85 .304/.359/.478/.837 .970/.770 .606 105/.849 11/1 4/2
26.Vogt* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/16 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 4/.000 0/0 0/0
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 23/.269 7/.143 9/.889 7/.143 ··· 6/2.000 5/.400 6/.583 191/129 .213/.356/.426/.782 .666/.837 1.040 102/.837 3/4 6/4
IP 49.1 21.2 21.0 27.0 9.1 8.2 15.1 19.1 TOTAL .246/.335/.408/.743 .764/.732 .739 .721 40/16 54/42
ERA-K/9 4.38/7.3 4.15/9.5 2.14/5.6 1.00/6.7 1.93/8.7 2.08/11.4 4.11/7.1 5.59/9.3 4.69/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gimenez (17-3-0)
 Molina (10-3-3)
 Vogt (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 209/.251 95/.235 80/.192 104/.198 37/.156 31/.143 72/.295 86/.295 .264  Upton
 Zobrist
 Joyce
 Gimenez
 Vogt
 Thompson
 Johnson
0/31/0/4
0/0/35/1
29/0/19/1
1/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
3/0/0/0
3/0/0/0
OPS .758 .638 .591 .501 .458 .444 .750 .810 .759
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 127/.818 54/.641 37/.744 54/.582 23/.419 20/.466 33/.623 42/.571 .748
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 82/.666 41/.633 43/.471 50/.414 14/.516 11/.384 39/.851 44/1.044 .769
Home 101/.691 52/.619 41/.406 77/.577 25/.251 15/.267 44/.816 33/1.039
Last 28d days 102/.760 62/.480 48/.508 58/.468 37/.458 31/.444 36/.817 46/.738
HR/SB/CS 9/5/0 1/2/0 3/1/1 1/1/0 0/1/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 2/1/0 52/28/7
Usage ·····X·· ··X·ooX· o··X···X X······· ··o·X·o· ··X·X··· o··o···X ··X·ooX·
RedSox Batters (5.33 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 14.Price*
G/S/vB		 31.Badenhop
G/S/vB		 40.Davis
G/S/vB		 39.Howell*
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 62.Peralta
G/S/vB		 27.Ramos*
G/S/vB		 56.Rodney
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP 7/.429 4/1.583 5/.200 2/1.000 3/1.667 3/1.167 2/2.500 7/1.429 196/135 .265/.289/.465/.754 1.044/.626 .705 112/.679 6/3 8/3
23.Byrd G/S/vP 8/.375 3/.666 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 5/.200 ··· 3/2.167 141/100 .206/.243/.244/.487 .802/.355 .335 69/.593 0/3 1/3
28.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 18/.478 ··· 9/.889 6/1.300 4/.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 202/125 .268/.332/.408/.740 .701/.765 .761 113/.692 0/0 3/0
67.Lin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/3 .200/.200/.200/.400 1.000/.000 5/.400 0/0 0/0
64.Middlebrooks G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 84/53 .296/.321/.568/.889 .791/.947 .826 84/.889 2/1 5/3
66.Nava# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 59/38 .326/.475/.558/1.033 .598/1.283 1.476 59/1.033 1/0 2/1
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 22/.596 2/2.000 12/.705 20/.728 2/.000 9/.666 4/.500 13/1.058 193/124 .310/.383/.573/.957 .932/.969 1.151 107/.827 0/1 10/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 24/.967 6/.900 14/.665 15/.582 1/.000 6/.900 1/.000 3/.000 209/147 .289/.344/.453/.797 .668/.850 .813 119/.769 3/2 5/1
26.Podsednik* G/S/vP 6/1.100 1/no AB 3/.000 8/.929 ··· 3/.000 ··· 14/.585 9/9 .429/.429/.857/1.286 /1.286 .667 9/1.286 1/0 1/0
5.Punto# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.667 ··· 10/.675 ··· 11/.829 47/37 .135/.298/.162/.460 .550/.435 .347 28/.333 0/0 0/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 10/.550 1/.000 4/.750 5/1.350 2/.000 6/.000 1/.000 2/.000 120/99 .268/.308/.545/.853 .659/.893 .789 69/.873 0/0 7/3
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 1/no AB 3/1.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.250 ··· 10/.555 67/36 .281/.379/.509/.888 .804/.962 1.233 36/.859 1/0 2/1
20.Youkilis G/S/vP 25/.855 2/1.500 8/.700 14/1.589 1/.000 8/.536 ··· 4/1.417 83/62 .243/.313/.392/.705 1.226/.551 .798 11/1.155 0/0 3/2
IP 59.1 21.2 21.1 14.1 16.0 20.1 6.0 23.2 TOTAL .270/.330/.456/.786 .791/.783 .809 .760 15/11 57/19
ERA-K/9 2.88/7.9 4.15/7.5 2.11/8.0 4.40/8.8 1.69/11.2 4.87/11.1 1.50/7.5 0.38/8.7 3.53/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Saltalamacchia (20-3-2)
 Shoppach (8-4-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 244/.242 94/.244 91/.229 61/.231 63/.190 82/.211 26/.182 89/.167 .238  Byrd
 Nava
 Gonzalez
 Podsednik
 Lin
0/39/1/1
15/0/0/1
0/0/4/0
0/3/0/0
0/1/3/0
OPS .640 .698 .599 .729 .478 .768 .490 .381 .685
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 58/.651 27/.644 42/.583 29/.550 34/.552 42/.654 14/.762 51/.343 .701
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 186/.635 67/.719 49/.607 32/.894 29/.392 40/.893 12/.167 38/.431 .671
Road 129/.792 47/1.052 41/.428 37/.857 32/.710 37/.800 14/.539 41/.560
Last 28d days 143/.652 48/.436 50/.664 31/.675 42/.365 49/.683 26/.490 58/.438
HR/SB/CS 5/6/1 4/0/0 2/1/0 2/0/0 0/0/0 5/0/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 48/29/7
Usage ·····X·· o··oXo·· ···X···· o······o X·o··o·· X·oo··o· ····X··X X·Xo··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.