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Boston Red Sox vs. Toronto Blue Jays, Fenway Park, May 21, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Start Time:

7:10et (local)

Venue:

Fenway Park

Tickets:

Tickets for games at Fenway Park

Series:

Game #2 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

64° (based on last ten years)

Blue Jays

Manager:

John Gibbons

Game #:

On This Date:

16-18

Red Sox

Manager:

John Farrell

Game #:

On This Date:

55-50

Toronto Blue Jays

24-22, 24-22 2nd, ½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   10-11   Road:   14-11   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  16-16   vsLHP:   8-6    1-Run:   3-4 
 vsEast:  8-9    vsCntrl: 6-6    vsWest:  5-5  IL: 5-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 46 Tue, May 20  @BOS  W   7-4       24-22  2nd  0.5 gb
 45 Sun, May 18  @TEX  L   2-6       23-22  3rd  1.0 gb
 44 Sat, May 17  @TEX  W   4-2       23-21  3rd  0.5 gb
 43 Fri, May 16  @TEX  W   2-0       22-21  3rd  1.5 gb
 42 Thu, May 15   CLE  W   4-2       21-21  3rd  1.5 gb
 41 Wed, May 14   CLE  L   4-15      20-21  4th  1.5 gb
 40 Tue, May 13   CLE  W   5-4       20-20  2nd  1.5 gb
 39 Mon, May 12   LAA  W   7-3       19-20  4th  2.5 gb
 38 Sun, May 11   LAA  L   3-9       18-20  4th  3.5 gb
 37 Sat, May 10   LAA  L   3-5       18-19  4th  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:16-14

Boston Red Sox

20-24, 20-24 4th, 3½ GB, 4½ GB in WC

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   10-15   Road:   10-9    ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  10-19   vsLHP:  10-5    1-Run:   5-10
 vsEast:  9-12   vsCntrl: 3-6    vsWest:  6-3  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
 40 Thu, May 15  @MIN  L   3-4 (10)  20-20  3rd  1.5 gb
 39 Wed, May 14  @MIN  W   9-4       20-19  2nd  0.5 gb
 38 Tue, May 13  @MIN  L   6-8       19-19  2nd  1.5 gb
 37 Sun, May 11  @TEX  W   5-2       19-18  3rd  2.0 gb
 36 Sat, May 10  @TEX  W   8-3       18-18  3rd  3.0 gb
 35 Fri, May  9  @TEX  L   0-8       17-18  4th  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 20, 2014 TOR  7 @BOS  4        W:J.A. Happ (3-1), L: Felix Doubront (2-4), S: Casey Janssen (4)
Sun, Apr 27, 2014 TOR  7  BOS  1        W:R.A. Dickey (2-3), L: Jon Lester (2-4), S: none
Sat, Apr 26, 2014 BOS  7 @TOR  6        W:Clay Buchholz (1-2), L: Brandon Morrow (1-2), S: Koji Uehara (5)
Fri, Apr 25, 2014 BOS  8 @TOR  1        W:Jake Peavy (1-0), L: Mark Buehrle (4-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 22, 2013 BOS  5  TOR  2        W:Felix Doubront (11-6), L: R.A. Dickey (13-13), S: Koji Uehara (21)
Sat, Sep 21, 2013 TOR  4 @BOS  2        W:Mark Buehrle (12-9), L: Clay Buchholz (11-1), S: Casey Janssen (33)
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 BOS  6  TOR  3        W:Jon Lester (15-8), L: Esmil Rogers (5-8), S: Koji Uehara (20)
Thu, Aug 15, 2013 TOR  2  BOS  1        W:Mark Buehrle (9-7), L: Jake Peavy (9-5), S: Casey Janssen (22)
Wed, Aug 14, 2013 TOR  4  BOS  3 (10)   W:Brad Lincoln (1-1), L: Brandon Workman (3-2), S: none
Tue, Aug 13, 2013 BOS  4 @TOR  2 (11)   W:Koji Uehara (3-0), L: Aaron Loup (4-5), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - tied 2-2; 2013 - BOS won 11-8; 2012 - TOR won 11-7; All-Time - BOS leads 301-243

SP: Drew Hutchison (23, RHP, 2-3, 3.64)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (2-3)			54.1	47	22	22	16	55	4	3.64
2012 (5-3)			58.2	59	31	30	20	49	8	4.60

Last 7 GS		1-2	45.2	38	16	16	10	45	3	3.15	59
2014-05-16	@TEX	W	9.0	3	0	0	1	6	0	105	86
2014-05-11	LAA	L	4.1	3	3	3	4	5	0	93	46
2014-05-06	@PHI	ND	8.0	9	5	5	1	6	1	109	49
2014-04-30	@KCR	L	7.0	5	4	4	1	5	0	97	55
2014-04-24	BAL	ND	6.0	6	2	2	1	9	1	102	60
2014-04-18	@CLE	ND	5.1	8	2	2	0	9	1	100	53
2014-04-12	@BAL	ND	6.0	4	0	0	2	5	0	96	67

Last 5 v.BOS		1-0	7.0	5	1	1	1	5	1	1.29	67
2012-06-03	BOS	W	7.0	5	1	1	1	5	1	109	67

SP: Clay Buchholz (29, RHP, 2-3, 6.17)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (2-3)			42.1	62	32	29	14	33	5	6.17
2013 (12-1)			108.1	75	23	21	36	96	4	1.74
2012 (11-8)			189.1	187	104	96	64	129	25	4.56

Last 7 GS		2-3	38.0	49	26	23	14	30	3	5.45	44
2014-05-15	@MIN	ND	6.0	10	3	3	3	6	1	107	43
2014-05-09	@TEX	L	4.1	10	6	6	2	3	0	96	20
2014-05-02	OAK	W	6.1	3	1	1	3	5	0	110	65
2014-04-26	@TOR	W	7.0	6	3	3	3	3	0	105	53
2014-04-21	BAL	L	2.1	7	6	6	1	1	0	55	19
2014-04-16	@CHW	ND	6.0	6	3	2	2	6	1	109	54
2014-04-10	@NYY	L	6.0	7	4	2	0	6	1	94	52

Last 5 v.TOR		2-1	35.0	24	10	8	16	22	0	2.06	61
2014-04-26	@TOR	W	7.0	6	3	3	3	3	0	105	53
2013-09-21	TOR	L	6.0	6	3	2	2	2	0	106	50
2013-05-11	TOR	ND	8.0	6	2	2	3	4	0	101	63
2013-05-01	@TOR	W	7.0	2	0	0	3	8	0	101	78
2012-09-15	@TOR	ND	7.0	4	2	1	5	5	0	111	63

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

Blue Jays Batters (4.83 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 11.Buchholz
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 PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

19.Bautista G/S/vP 40/.804 3/.333 3/1.000 21/1.309 4/.500 4/1.000 6/1.917 10/1.300 206/161 .293/.432/.543/.975 1.309/.872 1.040 111/.908 1/1 11/2

53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 20/.522 3/.666 8/.542 4/.000 17/.423 7/1.572 7/.857 5/.000 205/144 .323/.361/.516/.877 .837/.894 .894 105/.794 4/1 7/0

10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 26/.279 8/1.000 2/2.500 20/.726 8/1.250 4/2.250 10/1.025 6/.666 199/155 .249/.332/.531/.863 .956/.836 .745 106/1.057 2/0 11/4

47.Francisco* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 102/78 .292/.373/.629/1.002 .352/1.210 .845 85/1.031 0/1 8/4

8.Gose* G/S/vP 9/.666 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 24/18 .294/.500/.412/.912 1.100/.833 .967 19/.940 2/1 0/0

31.Kratz G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 1/.000 38/19 .243/.263/.486/.750 1.094/.421 .927 28/.767 0/0 3/0

13.Lawrie G/S/vP 24/.310 3/1.666 2/2.500 2/1.500 5/1.400 2/.500 11/.311 3/.666 161/122 .228/.280/.409/.689 .716/.680 .553 75/.818 0/0 7/2

26.Lind* G/S/vP 46/.883 1/.000 6/.167 2/.000 5/.200 1/.000 7/2.404 4/1.250 79/64 .309/.405/.500/.905 .277/1.053 1.056 36/.833 0/0 2/1

30.Navarro# G/S/vP 6/.900 6/1.267 4/.250 ··· 4/.500 7/.715 1/2.000 4/1.750 135/95 .268/.311/.333/.644 .545/.687 .543 61/.626 1/0 1/2

11.Pillar G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/7 .143/.143/.214/.357 .714/.000 .714 14/.357 0/0 0/0

7.Reyes# G/S/vP 13/.840 8/1.125 7/1.286 25/.781 12/.817 11/.473 5/1.650 4/.500 132/92 .222/.303/.419/.722 .744/.711 .631 111/.732 5/1 3/3

22.Thole* G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 52/36 .362/.423/.404/.827 .838/.823 .702 32/.629 0/3 0/0

18.Tolleson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 35/13 .226/.314/.484/.798 .890/.608 .535 35/.798 1/0 0/1

IP 42.1 26.1 13.1 22.1 19.1 15.2 19.0 16.2 TOTAL .253/.325/.440/.766 .749/.772 .733 .800 20/8 63/24

ERA-K/9

6.17/7.0

2.39/4.8

3.38/7.4

2.01/9.3

2.79/13.5

8.04/5.7

2.84/7.6

1.08/13.5

3.86/8.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Kratz (3-2-0)
Navarro (26-5-3)
Thole (6-2-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 201/.337 108/.276 58/.250 92/.220 79/.194 73/.343 77/.260 66/.226 .265 Cabrera
Bautista
Gose
Pillar
Tolleson 43/1/0/4
0/7/42/3
2/6/0/1
3/4/0/0
0/0/3/0

OPS .861 .725 .660 .611 .531 .987 .669 .616 .743

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 116/.802 46/.780 25/.821 33/.628 29/.511 34/.897 33/.771 32/.229 .712

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 85/.938 62/.685 33/.535 59/.599 50/.543 39/1.064 44/.591 34/.976 .765

Home 66/.990 82/.643 36/.824 45/.699 42/.375 53/1.131 44/.648 44/.629

Last 28d days 109/.763 52/.495 40/.713 44/.895 45/.592 40/1.051 37/.910 35/.824

HR/SB/CS 5/1/2 1/0/1 0/0/0 1/0/1 1/0/0 4/3/1 2/0/0 2/0/1 42/24/10

Usage ·····X·· X·o·X·X· o·o··o·X ···X·o·X ··X··X·X X··oo·X· X·o·o··o ···o····

Red Sox Batters (4.07 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.61 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 36.Hutchison
G/S/vB 27.Cecil*
G/S/vB 50.Delabar
G/S/vB 44.Janssen
G/S/vB 62.Loup*
G/S/vB 58.Redmond
G/S/vB 32.Rogers
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 172/119 .270/.372/.378/.750 .889/.691 .707 83/.755 1/2 2/6

25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 149/99 .206/.302/.305/.607 .636/.592 .644 79/.620 3/0 0/0

37.Carp* G/S/vP ··· 6/.833 3/.333 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 53/46 .250/.321/.313/.633 .571/.643 .576 22/.714 0/1 0/0

5.Gomes G/S/vP ··· 11/1.852 6/1.166 11/.482 3/2.334 1/.000 8/.833 105/55 .256/.343/.444/.787 .958/.631 .931 50/.868 0/0 4/2

10.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 47/35 .184/.295/.184/.480 .384/.510 .618 14/.350 0/2 0/1

26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 39/24 .303/.368/.394/.762 .883/.697 .762 15/.445 2/0 0/2

12.Napoli G/S/vP 3/.667 16/.792 8/.625 8/1.000 2/.000 3/.000 11/.920 183/129 .267/.399/.427/.826 .856/.810 .895 91/.682 0/1 5/2

34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 3/.000 24/.783 3/1.667 16/.331 2/2.000 3/.333 9/1.389 185/117 .291/.389/.551/.940 1.037/.886 .814 94/1.099 0/0 11/

15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 18/1.189 9/1.158 20/1.050 3/.666 5/.900 12/1.250 201/141 .280/.348/.401/.749 .883/.695 .766 106/.787 2/4 2/1

40.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· 8/.500 4/.000 9/.819 3/.333 1/3.000 5/.400 129/92 .244/.281/.353/.634 .292/.763 .682 65/.659 0/0 3/2

3.Ross G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 52/24 .167/.231/.333/.564 .744/.375 .500 28/.365 0/1 2/3

38.Sizemore* G/S/vP ··· 14/.297 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 128/98 .226/.297/.348/.645 .600/.658 .613 56/.666 2/0 2/0

18.Victorino G/S/vP ··· 9/1.334 1/2.000 9/.222 2/1.000 5/.900 6/.733 86/61 .269/.306/.359/.665 .784/.618 .689 86/.665 2/0 0/0

IP 54.1 19.1 19.1 5.0 19.2 24.0 20.1 TOTAL .245/.331/.377/.709 .753/.688 .720 .721 13/11 35/29

ERA-K/9

3.64/9.1

4.19/13.5

3.26/8.4

0.00/3.6

3.66/7.3

3.38/6.4

5.75/9.3

4.37/7.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Pierzynski (13-7-3)
Ross (11-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 221/.234 89/.227 80/.191 18/.176 82/.179 102/.315 92/.298 .262 Bradley
Sizemore
Carp
Victorino
Gomes 1/35/6/3
19/12/4/3
9/0/0/0
0/0/18/0
26/0/5/0

OPS .675 .670 .627 .399 .584 .831 .883 .765

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 137/.697 38/.628 36/.411 11/.282 37/.532 52/1.008 48/1.104 .793

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 84/.641 51/.702 44/.799 7/.571 45/.620 50/.651 44/.654 .739

Road 157/.594 43/.384 37/.822 7/.571 48/.520 42/.921 42/1.080

Last 28d days 134/.623 53/.764 50/.700 18/.399 42/.637 46/.903 42/.828

HR/SB/CS 4/8/2 0/4/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 0/2/1 1/2/1 5/3/0 36/35/9

Usage ····X··· ··X··o·X o··X·o·· o··o·o·o o··o·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

COL 5.52

BOS 4.07

SDP 3.09

RA/G

ATL 3.11

LAD 4.33

ARI 5.28

T. Tulowitzki .389

B. Revere .268

C. Santana .151

OBP

T. Tulowitzki .492

A. Rios .332

J. Gyorko .217

SLG

T. Tulowitzki .757

M. Reynolds .416

N. Schierholtz .254

OPS

T. Tulowitzki 1.249

C. Owings .752

B. Miller .489

ERA

J. Samardzija 1.62

N. Eovaldi 3.62

K. Correia 6.52

K/9IP

J. Fernandez 12.19

J. Hammel 7.51

E. Stults 4.11

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.