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Atlanta Braves vs. Boston Red Sox, at Turner Field, May 27, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Turner Field
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Turner Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
83° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
51
On This Date:
47-47
Braves
Manager:
Fredi Gonzalez
Game #:
51
On This Date:
66-52
Season Series
Mon, May 26, 2014 BOS  8 @ATL  6     

Tue, May 27, 2014 BOS    @ATL  7:10pm
Wed, May 28, 2014 ATL    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, May 29, 2014 ATL    @BOS  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
21-29, 5th, 8 GB, 7 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-17   Road:   11-12   ExtrInn: 2-4 
 vsRHP:  11-22   vsLHP:  10-7    1-Run:   5-12
 vsEast:  9-17   vsCntrl: 3-6    vsWest:  6-3  IL: 3-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 50 Mon, May 26  @ATL  W   8-6       21-29  5th  8.0 gb
 49 Sun, May 25  @TBR  L   5-8       20-29  5th  8.0 gb
 48 Sat, May 24  @TBR  L   5-6 (15)  20-28  5th  7.0 gb
 47 Fri, May 23  @TBR  L   0-1       20-27  4th  6.0 gb
 46 Thu, May 22   TOR  L   2-7       20-26  4th  5.0 gb
 45 Wed, May 21   TOR  L   4-6       20-25  4th  4.0 gb
 44 Tue, May 20   TOR  L   4-7       20-24  4th  3.5 gb
 43 Sun, May 18   DET  L   2-6       20-23  4th  3.0 gb
 42 Sat, May 17   DET  L   1-6       20-22  4th  2.5 gb
 41 Fri, May 16   DET  L   0-1       20-21  4th  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:12-18
Atlanta Braves
28-22, 1st, 2 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-11   Road:   10-11   ExtrInn: 4-1 
 vsRHP:  22-20   vsLHP:   6-2    1-Run:  12-7 
 vsEast: 12-9    vsCntrl:13-6    vsWest:  3-6  IL: 0-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 50 Mon, May 26   BOS  L   6-8       28-22  1st  2.0 up
 49 Sun, May 25   COL  W   7-0       28-21  1st  3.0 up
 48 Sat, May 24   COL  L   1-3       27-21  1st  2.0 up
 47 Fri, May 23   COL  W   3-2       27-20  1st  3.0 up
 46 Thu, May 22   MIL  W   5-4       26-20  1st  2.0 up
 45 Wed, May 21   MIL  L   1-6       25-20  1st  1.5 up
 44 Tue, May 20   MIL  W   5-0       25-19  1st  1.5 up
 43 Mon, May 19   MIL  W   9-3       24-19  1st  1.5 up
 42 Sun, May 18  @STL  W   6-5       23-19  1st  0.5 up
 41 Sat, May 17  @STL  L   1-4       22-19  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, May 26, 2014 BOS  8 @ATL  6        W:Edward Mujica (2-1), L: Ian Thomas (1-2), S: Koji Uehara (10)

Sun, Jun 24, 2012 BOS  9  ATL  4        W:Aaron Cook (1-1), L: Mike Minor (3-6), S: none
Sat, Jun 23, 2012 BOS  8  ATL  4        W:Franklin Morales (1-1), L: Randall Delgado (4-8), S: none
Fri, Jun 22, 2012 ATL  4 @BOS  1        W:Jair Jurrjens (1-2), L: Jon Lester (4-5), S: Craig Kimbrel (21)
Sun, Jun 28, 2009 ATL  2  BOS  1        W:Tommy Hanson (4-0), L: Brad Penny (6-3), S: Mike Gonzalez (9)
Sat, Jun 27, 2009 BOS  1 @ATL  0        W:Tim Wakefield (10-3), L: Javier Vazquez (5-7), S: Jonathan Papelbon (18)
Fri, Jun 26, 2009 BOS  4 @ATL  1        W:Josh Beckett (9-3), L: Jair Jurrjens (5-6), S: none
Sun, Jun 21, 2009 BOS  6  ATL  5        W:Jonathan Papelbon (1-1), L: Jeff Bennett (2-4), S: none
Sat, Jun 20, 2009 BOS  3  ATL  0        W:Josh Beckett (8-3), L: Derek Lowe (7-5), S: none
Fri, Jun 19, 2009 ATL  8 @BOS  2        W:Kenshin Kawakami (4-6), L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-5), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - BOS over 1-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 - BOS won 2-1; All-Time - ATL leads 28-27

SP: Jon Lester (30, LHP, 4-6, 3.36)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-6) 67.0 61 32 25 18 76 5 3.36
2013 (15-8) 213.1 209 94 89 67 177 19 3.75
2012 (9-14) 205.1 216 117 110 68 166 25 4.82
Last 7 GS 3-4 46.0 42 24 19 14 56 3 3.72 56
2014-05-22 TOR L 6.1 10 7 7 2 3 2 106 26
2014-05-16 DET L 5.0 4 1 1 3 7 0 94 59
2014-05-10 @TEX W 7.0 4 3 3 3 8 0 103 62
2014-05-03 OAK W 8.0 1 0 0 2 15 0 119 93
2014-04-27 @TOR L 7.0 5 4 4 0 7 1 122 58
2014-04-22 NYY L 4.2 11 8 3 4 7 0 118 23
2014-04-17 @CHW W 8.0 7 1 1 0 9 0 112 73
Last 5 v.ATL 1-1 13.0 15 4 4 4 10 0 2.77 55
2012-06-22 ATL L 7.0 10 3 3 1 5 0 118 49
2006-06-16 @ATL W 6.0 5 1 1 3 5 0 93 60

SP: Aaron Harang (36, RHP, 4-4, 3.32)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-4) 59.2 55 25 22 18 64 2 3.32
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
Last 7 GS 2-3 41.0 46 23 20 12 47 2 4.39 51
2014-05-22 MIL ND 5.1 9 4 4 1 5 0 89 38
2014-05-17 @STL L 6.0 6 3 2 0 7 0 85 57
2014-05-11 CHC W 6.0 6 2 2 2 9 0 107 59
2014-05-05 STL L 6.0 9 4 2 1 6 0 111 47
2014-04-30 @MIA L 4.2 10 9 9 1 4 2 93 11
2014-04-23 MIA ND 6.0 6 1 1 1 11 0 101 66
2014-04-18 @NYM W 7.0 0 0 0 6 5 0 121 76
Last 5 v.BOS 2-2 22.1 24 14 14 10 18 2 5.64 45
2013-07-10 BOS L 5.0 8 7 7 3 0 1 93 20
2008-06-13 BOS W 7.0 4 1 1 0 7 0 118 72
2005-06-15 @BOS L 4.2 9 5 5 3 7 0 111 30
2002-08-07 @BOS W 5.2 3 1 1 4 4 1 105 59

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

Red Sox Batters (4.06 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.20 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		 57.Hale
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 58.Thomas*
G/S/vB		 38.Varvaro
G/S/vB		 40.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 199/137 .279/.377/.407/.784 .935/.717 .779 93/.805 1/2 3/6
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 164/106 .193/.280/.283/.563 .543/.574 .507 74/.382 3/0 0/0
37.Carp* G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 73/58 .231/.315/.308/.623 .481/.661 .527 38/.610 0/1 0/0
5.Gomes G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 125/64 .238/.336/.429/.765 .920/.623 .693 52/.801 0/0 5/2
10.Herrera# G/S/vP 16/.688 2/2.000 ··· ··· 5/.900 ··· ··· ··· 50/36 .171/.277/.171/.447 .322/.494 .334 11/.347 0/2 0/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 67/39 .322/.364/.424/.787 1.003/.643 .686 39/.732 2/0 0/4
20.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ .000 1/.000 0/0 0/
29.Nava# G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 82/58 .137/.232/.247/.478 .212/.596 .518 7/.143 1/0 2/3
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 9/1.778 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 208/135 .270/.365/.517/.882 .967/.839 1.048 100/.973 0/0 12/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· 230/159 .268/.348/.380/.728 .847/.678 .700 110/.788 2/4 2/1
40.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 12/.473 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 157/111 .267/.301/.390/.692 .444/.790 .678 76/.677 0/0 4/2
3.Ross G/S/vP 12/1.416 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/26 .167/.224/.315/.539 .710/.346 .569 27/.454 0/1 2/3
38.Sizemore* G/S/vP 24/1.003 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 151/112 .221/.291/.353/.644 .455/.711 .709 71/.654 3/0 2/0
IP 59.2 16.1 22.1 37.1 18.1 9.2 17.2 53.0 TOTAL .240/.325/.373/.698 .724/.685 .675 .675 14/11 40/32
ERA-K/9 3.32/9.6 3.86/6.6 2.42/10.9 1.45/4.6 1.96/17.7 4.66/11.1 2.04/11.7 3.23/9.3 2.89/8.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pierzynski (16-8-3)
 Ross (12-3-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 247/.252 71/.286 94/.250 151/.209 76/.167 45/.270 66/.190 218/.271 .237  Bradley
 Sizemore
 Nava
 Gomes
 Carp
1/40/6/4
23/16/4/3
3/0/17/1
30/0/8/0
11/0/0/0
OPS .662 .706 .650 .559 .464 .661 .529 .714 .645
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 97/.718 35/.590 38/.661 71/.635 40/.560 25/.781 15/.733 56/.769 .685
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 150/.626 36/.824 56/.643 80/.493 36/.356 20/.503 51/.464 162/.695 .618
Home 149/.680 34/.629 52/.583 80/.436 53/.447 24/.685 44/.328 90/.665
Last 28d days 126/.899 36/.500 46/.656 55/.536 30/.311 22/.952 37/.439 61/.859
HR/SB/CS 2/5/3 1/2/0 2/1/0 0/4/3 0/1/0 0/1/0 1/0/0 6/2/2 35/30/11
Usage ····X··· oo·o·o·· X··oo··o X·X····o ···oX··· X···o··· ·oo··o·X o···o···
Braves Batters (3.44 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.56 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Lester*
G/S/vB		 35.Badenhop
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 55.Capuano*
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 54.Mujica
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 67.Workman
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Doumit# G/S/vP 6/1.333 2/.000 2/.000 10/.311 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 52/41 .235/.250/.333/.583 .636/.568 .669 22/.864 0/0 1/1
5.Freeman* G/S/vP 4/.833 2/.000 2/1.500 17/.236 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 215/152 .303/.395/.519/.914 .921/.911 .853 104/.828 0/2 9/3
24.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 139/118 .248/.295/.527/.822 1.323/.735 .872 67/.741 0/0 10/5
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 3/2.667 9/.365 2/1.000 10/.200 8/.833 5/1.400 ··· ··· ··· 215/163 .241/.335/.326/.661 .563/.693 .682 104/.755 8/2 3/1
23.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/3.000 20/1.117 5/.650 5/.400 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 190/161 .268/.289/.355/.645 1.038/.575 .553 97/.678 1/0 2/2
11.Laird G/S/vP 14/.571 4/.833 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 63/48 .214/.302/.268/.569 .552/.574 .614 35/.589 0/0 0/0
1.Pastornicky G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/20 .212/.297/.273/.570 .944/.217 .557 29/.516 0/0 0/1
14.Pena# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 73/61 .169/.250/.308/.558 1.000/.470 .545 50/.474 0/0 2/0
17.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 34/27 .103/.188/.172/.360 1.000/.235 .243 16/.143 3/0 0/0
19.Simmons G/S/vP 3/1.333 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· 182/154 .259/.280/.402/.683 .929/.636 .696 91/.597 0/2 4/2
26.Uggla G/S/vP 9/.958 4/.500 2/.000 29/.476 ··· 7/.000 ··· 5/1.400 ··· 125/105 .177/.248/.257/.505 .618/.482 .381 32/.293 0/0 2/7
2.Upton G/S/vP 60/.581 5/.400 4/.833 4/.500 10/1.400 5/.000 1/.000 11/.455 ··· 192/141 .211/.288/.345/.633 .553/.654 .677 92/.693 8/2 4/1
8.Upton G/S/vP 3/2.667 8/1.625 ··· 18/.980 11/.582 15/1.767 ··· 1/.000 ··· 201/161 .299/.380/.598/.978 1.572/.849 1.248 100/.923 5/0 13/4
IP 67.0 29.2 16.1 27.0 23.0 19.0 22.1 19.2 11.1 TOTAL .235/.299/.379/.678 .852/.632 .695 .664 25/8 50/27
ERA-K/9 3.36/10.2 2.12/4.5 5.51/7.2 2.00/8.3 2.74/13.7 6.63/5.7 2.42/8.1 0.92/13.2 3.18/8.0 4.01/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (7-0-0)
 Gattis (19-7-1)
 Laird (4-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 273/.243 123/.286 76/.313 111/.202 95/.198 84/.312 91/.247 75/.211 47/.214 .266  Heyward
 Upton
 Upton
 Schafer
 Doumit
0/0/48/4
47/0/0/2
0/47/0/1
7/6/1/0
3/0/3/0
OPS .671 .756 .820 .562 .531 .895 .650 .567 .610 .745
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 65/.670 48/.814 30/.793 40/.566 34/.555 33/.925 38/.705 35/.209 15/.624 .712
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 208/.671 75/.719 46/.836 71/.558 61/.517 51/.873 53/.611 40/.876 32/.603 .767
Road 137/.611 39/.982 35/.816 56/.434 48/.697 31/.502 42/.627 28/.536 27/.805
Last 28d days 106/.606 54/.610 46/.776 58/.758 53/.511 38/.845 46/.648 36/.590 23/.798
HR/SB/CS 5/5/1 1/1/1 1/0/0 1/0/1 1/0/0 4/4/1 2/0/0 2/0/1 1/2/0 48/28/11
Usage ····X··· X·Xoo·X· ·XX·X·o· o·X··X·· o·oo·X·· oXX···X· o·XoX·X· o·o··o·· ·X······

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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

OAK  5.06

BOS  4.06

SDP  3.17

 RA/G

OAK  3.10

DET  4.28

ARI  5.04

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .378

B. Posey  .264

B. Miller  .153

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .480

J. Uribe  .331

J. Gyorko  .218

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .720

S. Perez  .407

B. Miller  .250

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.200

J. Reyes  .736

B. Miller  .473

 ERA

A. Wainwright  1.67

A. Burnett  3.51

K. Correia  6.34

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

A. Cashner  7.38

C. Young  3.77

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.