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Baltimore Orioles vs. Minnesota Twins, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, August 31, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Start Time:
1:35et (local)
Venue:
Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
83° (based on last ten years)
Twins
Manager:
Ron Gardenhire
Game #:
136
On This Date:
56-51
Orioles
Manager:
Buck Showalter
Game #:
138
On This Date:
51-59
Season Series
Fri, May 02, 2014 BAL  3 @MIN  0     
Sat, May 03, 2014 MIN  6  BAL  1     
Sun, May 04, 2014 MIN  5  BAL  2     
Fri, Aug 29, 2014 BAL  9  MIN  1     
Sat, Aug 30, 2014 BAL  3  MIN  2     

Sun, Aug 31, 2014 MIN    @BAL  1:35pm
Mon, Sep 01, 2014 MIN    @BAL  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Minnesota Twins
59-76, 5th, 15 GB, 15 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   29-37   Road:   30-39   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  40-51   vsLHP:  19-25   1-Run:  17-21
 vsEast: 13-17   vsCntrl:28-30   vsWest: 11-19 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
135 Sat, Aug 30  @BAL  L   2-3       59-76  5th 15.0 gb
134 Fri, Aug 29  @BAL  L   1-9       59-75  5th 15.0 gb
133 Thu, Aug 28  @KCR  W  11-5 (10)  59-74  5th 15.0 gb
132 Wed, Aug 27  @KCR  L   1-6       58-74  5th 16.0 gb
131 Tue, Aug 26  @KCR  L   1-2       58-73  5th 15.0 gb
130 Sun, Aug 24   DET  L   4-13      58-72  5th 14.5 gb
129 Sat, Aug 23   DET  L   6-8       58-71  5th 14.5 gb
128 Sat, Aug 23   DET  W  12-4       58-70  5th 14.5 gb
127 Fri, Aug 22   DET  W  20-6       57-70  5th 14.0 gb
126 Thu, Aug 21   CLE  W   4-1       56-70  5th 14.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:11-19
Baltimore Orioles
78-56, 1st, 8 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   39-27   Road:   39-29   ExtrInn:12-5 
 vsRHP:  57-39   vsLHP:  21-17   1-Run:  27-19
 vsEast: 33-20   vsCntrl:15-16   vsWest: 21-12 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
134 Sat, Aug 30   MIN  W   3-2       78-56  1st  8.0 up
133 Fri, Aug 29   MIN  W   9-1       77-56  1st  7.0 up
132 Thu, Aug 28   TBR  W   5-4       76-56  1st  7.0 up
131 Wed, Aug 27   TBR  L   1-3       75-56  1st  6.0 up
130 Tue, Aug 26   TBR  W   4-2       75-55  1st  7.0 up
129 Mon, Aug 25   TBR  W   9-1       74-55  1st  6.0 up
128 Sun, Aug 24  @CHC  L   1-2       73-55  1st  6.0 up
127 Sat, Aug 23  @CHC  L   2-7       73-54  1st  7.0 up
126 Fri, Aug 22  @CHC  L   1-4       73-53  1st  8.0 up
125 Wed, Aug 20  @CHW  W   4-3       73-52  1st  9.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 30, 2014 BAL  3  MIN  2        W:Andrew Miller (5-5), L: Jared Burton (2-3), S: Zach Britton (30)
Fri, Aug 29, 2014 BAL  9  MIN  1        W:Miguel Gonzalez (7-7), L: Trevor May (0-4), S: none
Sun, May 04, 2014 MIN  5  BAL  2        W:Phil Hughes (3-1), L: Miguel Gonzalez (1-3), S: Glen Perkins (7)
Sat, May 03, 2014 MIN  6  BAL  1        W:Kevin Correia (1-3), L: Wei-Yin Chen (3-2), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2014 - BAL over 3-2; 2013 - Tied 3-3; 2012 - BAL won 5-2; All-Time - BAL leads 960-942

SP: Ricky Nolasco (31, RHP, 5-9, 5.62)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (5-9) 123.1 158 77 77 31 87 17 5.62
2013 (13-11) 199.1 195 90 82 46 165 17 3.70
2012 (12-13) 191.0 214 100 95 47 125 18 4.48
Last 7 GS 1-4 39.0 50 24 24 7 26 4 5.54 45
2014-08-26 @KCR ND 7.0 3 0 0 1 6 0 97 76
2014-08-20 CLE L 6.2 8 4 4 1 6 1 105 47
2014-08-15 KCR L 6.0 7 5 5 1 3 0 81 40
2014-07-06 NYY L 2.0 7 6 6 1 0 1 42 17
2014-07-01 KCR W 6.0 8 1 1 0 3 0 100 55
2014-06-26 @LAA L 6.0 11 6 6 1 6 0 107 31
2014-06-20 CHW ND 5.1 6 2 2 2 2 2 104 48
Last 5 v.BAL 2-2 30.0 32 13 10 3 23 4 3.00 57
2014-05-02 BAL L 9.0 9 3 3 1 6 1 110 62
2010-06-23 @BAL W 7.0 8 4 4 1 8 2 119 52
2009-06-24 BAL W 7.0 7 2 0 1 7 0 101 65
2006-06-21 @BAL L 7.0 8 4 3 0 2 1 95 49

SP: Wei-Yin Chen (28, LHP, 13-4, 3.76)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (13-4) 148.1 158 63 62 28 109 21 3.76
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 4-1 44.1 40 14 14 10 34 4 2.84 57
2014-08-26 TBR ND 4.2 7 2 2 3 0 0 91 39
2014-08-20 @CHW W 7.1 6 3 3 1 7 1 86 60
2014-08-15 @CLE ND 7.0 4 1 1 1 6 1 92 70
2014-08-06 @TOR L 5.0 8 4 4 2 6 1 99 39
2014-08-01 SEA W 7.1 5 1 1 1 8 0 104 71
2014-07-24 @SEA W 8.0 5 0 0 1 3 0 109 74
2014-07-19 @OAK W 5.0 5 3 3 1 4 1 86 48
Last 5 v.MIN 2-1 17.0 17 6 5 2 13 1 2.65 55
2014-05-03 @MIN L 5.0 6 3 2 1 5 1 108 49
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

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Twins Batters (4.34 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (3.74 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 35.Brach
G/S/vB		 53.Britton*
G/S/vB		 29.Hunter
G/S/vB		 17.Matusz*
G/S/vB		 66.McFarland*
G/S/vB		 48.Miller*
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
31.Arcia* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 4/.000 ··· 322/214 .223/.292/.435/.727 .573/.805 .630 86/.762 1/2 14/3
2.Dozier G/S/vP 8/1.375 1/2.000 4/.000 4/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 603/434 .240/.346/.417/.763 .758/.765 .741 112/.785 20/7 20/11
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 403/288 .272/.315/.397/.712 .812/.671 .670 83/.750 1/1 4/7
26.Fryer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 68/42 .210/.279/.290/.570 .471/.634 .650 28/.450 1/0 1/1
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 9/1.181 1/5.000 7/1.238 14/1.071 10/.522 2/1.500 10/.300 2/no AB 417/274 .271/.350/.369/.719 .611/.776 .713 78/.824 3/0 4/1
9.Nunez G/S/vP 8/.875 ··· 9/.250 2/.000 7/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 170/96 .253/.280/.358/.638 .514/.740 .530 24/.565 8/3 3/5
27.Parmelee* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 1/.000 1/2.000 4/1.250 2/1.500 235/165 .244/.298/.369/.667 .797/.610 .770 50/.433 0/3 6/2
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 8/1.000 2/1.000 5/1.800 6/1.100 ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 3/1.167 492/350 .252/.317/.420/.737 .754/.730 .682 91/.773 1/1 11/10
39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 330/232 .314/.351/.466/.817 .795/.826 .861 119/.741 12/4 6/5
1.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 177/137 .238/.324/.311/.635 .419/.694 .615 84/.823 25/3 0/1
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 5/1.000 3/.000 6/.533 21/.715 15/.800 2/.000 4/1.250 9/.111 432/310 .293/.353/.386/.739 .782/.720 .682 75/.619 0/1 3/4
19.Vargas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 126/75 .314/.341/.475/.816 .608/.958 .647 111/.814 0/0 4/1
IP 148.1 51.1 65.2 50.1 45.2 52.1 54.1 59.2 TOTAL .250/.322/.384/.706 .689/.713 .687 .731 80/29 105/76
ERA-K/9 3.76/6.6 2.45/8.1 1.92/7.8 3.58/6.6 3.74/9.1 3.10/5.0 1.99/14.3 0.91/9.5 3.56/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Fryer (15-1-0)
 Suzuki (56-16-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 619/.272 202/.185 243/.171 202/.251 203/.257 228/.308 212/.160 231/.175 .247  Arcia
 Santana
 Parmelee
 Schafer
 Escobar
 Nunez
0/0/77/8
0/56/0/4
17/3/30/3
35/14/6/2
2/1/0/2
13/0/2/2
OPS .752 .548 .484 .673 .773 .758 .467 .519 .698
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 160/.716 89/.621 88/.361 97/.673 101/.611 96/.747 89/.433 90/.518 .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 459/.765 113/.492 155/.557 105/.673 102/.939 132/.766 123/.491 141/.520 .701
Home 328/.768 96/.554 136/.418 106/.624 94/.659 135/.802 106/.345 109/.455
Last 28d days 102/.729 42/.322 32/.429 39/.599 26/.551 49/.696 36/.400 40/.314
HR/SB/CS 21/3/1 3/5/3 4/0/0 4/4/1 7/0/1 2/0/0 2/2/1 3/4/1 125/70/27
Usage ··X·X·o· o·o·oo·· o··oo··X ·X····X· ···X···· X·o·X··· o··o·X··
Orioles Batters (4.29 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Nolasco
G/S/vB		 61.Burton
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 56.Thielbar*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
45.Clevenger* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 83/77 .234/.289/.364/.653 .500/.665 .683 2/.000 0/0 0/0
23.Cruz G/S/vP 4/2.000 5/.000 11/.728 5/.000 5/.900 1/.000 13/.539 ··· 561/419 .254/.323/.505/.828 .899/.804 .724 100/.724 4/4 34/0
19.Davis* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 6/.167 ··· 3/.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· 477/327 .188/.292/.399/.691 .689/.691 .681 95/.706 2/1 24/5
3.Flaherty* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 231/193 .195/.261/.305/.566 .670/.543 .648 34/.473 1/0 5/5
2.Hardy G/S/vP 8/.572 9/.555 5/1.350 2/.000 3/.666 1/no AB 9/1.194 ··· 497/364 .282/.318/.390/.708 .638/.734 .649 83/.931 0/0 8/12
40.Hundley G/S/vP 8/.250 2/.500 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 192/158 .249/.277/.354/.631 .531/.652 .728 33/.788 1/0 4/1
10.Jones G/S/vP 7/1.000 6/.334 6/.334 3/2.000 7/.310 1/.000 6/1.334 ··· 579/430 .287/.320/.472/.792 1.046/.707 .822 103/.795 7/1 24/5
36.Joseph G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 215/127 .225/.284/.398/.682 .619/.726 .711 56/.848 0/1 8/3
9.Lough* G/S/vP ··· 3/2.334 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 4/.750 5/.000 2/.000 160/144 .213/.284/.319/.603 .200/.648 .493 14/.641 7/5 2/1
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 14/.142 3/1.666 8/.250 3/1.167 14/1.143 1/.000 9/.619 1/.000 615/431 .279/.340/.393/.733 .689/.751 .705 110/.673 4/2 12/0
38.Paredes# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/15 .313/.353/.563/.915 2.500/.690 .973 7/1.738 2/0 1/0
28.Pearce G/S/vP 6/.500 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 314/218 .289/.354/.532/.885 1.059/.810 .931 59/.965 5/0 16/1
6.Schoop G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 406/276 .219/.254/.357/.611 .539/.643 .504 77/.790 1/0 12/11
27.Young G/S/vP 10/.600 5/.200 11/.728 4/1.000 11/.182 ··· 12/.969 ··· 220/144 .300/.341/.454/.795 .695/.849 .828 71/.791 1/0 7/0
IP 123.1 54.2 48.2 56.0 56.1 18.1 66.0 43.2 TOTAL .256/.310/.419/.729 .733/.727 .725 .772 36/15 173/64
ERA-K/9 5.62/6.4 4.28/6.7 3.33/5.4 3.38/7.2 2.72/10.4 2.45/4.9 3.95/5.0 3.30/6.0 4.50/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Clevenger (17-3-0)
 Hundley (27-4-3)
 Joseph (24-19-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 537/.319 231/.246 205/.260 226/.250 234/.243 78/.232 278/.265 181/.274 .278  Markakis
 Jones
 Pearce
 Lough
 Young
 Cruz
 Flaherty
0/0/127/11
0/131/0/7
35/0/4/4
80/10/1/4
22/0/1/3
58/0/8/2
1/0/1/0
OPS .879 .698 .753 .664 .642 .757 .696 .720 .749
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 277/.919 95/.631 92/.587 107/.710 68/.797 33/.741 134/.643 97/.747 .736
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 260/.837 136/.741 113/.892 119/.623 166/.578 45/.765 144/.746 84/.688 .761
Road 282/.944 102/.572 97/.601 117/.671 104/.547 33/.682 120/.867 80/.697
Last 28d days 78/.724 44/.552 39/1.180 37/.686 41/.626 52/.879 44/.725 39/.832
HR/SB/CS 17/12/5 6/9/0 6/2/2 5/1/0 3/2/1 3/3/0 4/2/0 3/5/1 114/87/17
Usage ····X··· o·X·o··X X·oo··X· ··oo··Xo ··o·o·o· o·X····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  4.72

TEX  4.00

SDP  3.29

 RA/G

SEA  3.27

PIT  4.11

COL  5.15

 BA

J. Altuve  .332

A. Gonzalez  .273

C. Davis  .188

 OBP

G. Stanton  .403

N. Aoki  .331

G. Beckham  .263

 SLG

J. Abreu  .605

B. Dozier  .417

A. Callaspo  .302

 OPS

J. Abreu  .985

J. Heyward  .751

Z. Cozart  .578

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.73

M. Buehrle  3.50

E. Jackson  6.09

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.35

C. Lewis  7.34

K. Correia  4.56

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.