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Detroit Tigers vs. Boston Red Sox, at Comerica Park, June 7, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Start Time:
7:15et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Comerica Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
74° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
61
On This Date:
55-38
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
58
On This Date:
57-43
Season Series
Fri, May 16, 2014 DET  1 @BOS  0     
Sat, May 17, 2014 DET  6 @BOS  1     
Sun, May 18, 2014 DET  6 @BOS  2     
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 DET  6  BOS  2     

Sat, Jun 07, 2014 BOS    @DET  7:15pm
Sun, Jun 08, 2014 BOS    @DET  8:07pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
27-33, 4th, 10 GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   15-17   Road:   12-16   ExtrInn: 3-5 
 vsRHP:  14-24   vsLHP:  13-9    1-Run:   7-13
 vsEast: 12-17   vsCntrl: 3-10   vsWest:  6-3  IL: 6-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 60 Fri, Jun  6  @DET  L   2-6       27-33  4th 10.0 gb
 59 Wed, Jun  4  @CLE  L   4-7 (12)  27-32  4th  8.5 gb
 58 Tue, Jun  3  @CLE  L   3-5       27-31  4th  7.5 gb
 57 Mon, Jun  2  @CLE  L   2-3       27-30  4th  6.5 gb
 56 Sun, Jun  1   TBR  W   4-0       27-29  4th  6.0 gb
 55 Sat, May 31   TBR  W   7-1       26-29  4th  6.0 gb
 54 Fri, May 30   TBR  W   3-2 (10)  25-29  4th  6.0 gb
 53 Thu, May 29   ATL  W   4-3       24-29  4th  7.0 gb
 52 Wed, May 28   ATL  W   4-0       23-29  4th  8.0 gb
 51 Tue, May 27  @ATL  W   6-3       22-29  4th  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:13-17
Detroit Tigers
32-25, 1st, 3½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   15-14   Road:   17-11   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  22-19   vsLHP:  10-6    1-Run:  10-7 
 vsEast:  9-4    vsCntrl:12-9    vsWest:  9-9  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 57 Fri, Jun  6   BOS  W   6-2       32-25  1st  3.5 up
 56 Thu, Jun  5   TOR  L   3-7       31-25  1st  2.5 up
 55 Wed, Jun  4   TOR  L   2-8       31-24  1st  3.0 up
 54 Tue, Jun  3   TOR  L   3-5       31-23  1st  4.0 up
 53 Sun, Jun  1  @SEA  L   0-4       31-22  1st  4.5 up
 52 Sat, May 31  @SEA  L   2-3       31-21  1st  5.5 up
 51 Fri, May 30  @SEA  W   6-3       31-20  1st  5.5 up
 50 Thu, May 29  @OAK  W   5-4       30-20  1st  4.5 up
 49 Wed, May 28  @OAK  L   1-3       29-20  1st  4.0 up
 48 Tue, May 27  @OAK  W   6-5       29-19  1st  5.0 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 DET  6  BOS  2        W:Drew Smyly (3-4), L: Rubby De La Rosa (1-1), S: none
Sun, May 18, 2014 DET  6 @BOS  2        W:Anibal Sanchez (1-2), L: Jake Peavy (1-2), S: none
Sat, May 17, 2014 DET  6 @BOS  1        W:Rick Porcello (7-1), L: John Lackey (5-3), S: none
Fri, May 16, 2014 DET  1 @BOS  0        W:Max Scherzer (6-1), L: Jon Lester (4-5), S: Joe Nathan (11)

Wed, Sep 04, 2013 BOS 20  DET  4        W:Ryan Dempster (8-9), L: Rick Porcello (11-8), S: none
Tue, Sep 03, 2013 BOS  2  DET  1        W:Jon Lester (13-8), L: Max Scherzer (19-2), S: Koji Uehara (17)
Mon, Sep 02, 2013 DET  3 @BOS  0        W:Doug Fister (12-7), L: John Lackey (8-12), S: Jose Veras (21)
Sun, Jun 23, 2013 DET  7  BOS  5        W:Joaquin Benoit (2-0), L: Andrew Miller (0-2), S: none
Sat, Jun 22, 2013 DET 10  BOS  3        W:Max Scherzer (11-0), L: Allen Webster (0-2), S: none
Fri, Jun 21, 2013 BOS 10 @DET  6        W:Jon Lester (7-4), L: Doug Fister (6-5), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - DET over 4-0; 2013 - DET won 4-3; 2012 - Tied 5-5; All-Time - BOS leads 1026-961

SP: Jon Lester (30, LHP, 6-6, 3.15)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (6-6) 80.0 73 35 28 22 95 6 3.15
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 4-3 46.1 36 18 18 14 59 4 3.50 61
2014-06-01 TBR W 7.0 4 0 0 1 12 0 112 80
2014-05-27 @ATL W 6.0 8 3 3 3 7 1 111 48
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
Last 5 v.DET 2-1 31.1 37 12 12 9 30 2 3.45 53
2014-05-16 DET L 5.0 4 1 1 3 7 0 94 59
2013-09-03 DET W 7.0 8 1 1 0 9 0 111 66
2013-06-21 @DET W 5.2 9 5 5 3 3 2 102 31
2012-05-30 DET ND 6.2 10 4 4 0 7 0 120 45
2012-04-05 @DET ND 7.0 6 1 1 3 4 0 107 62

SP: Max Scherzer (29, RHP, 6-2, 3.20)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (6-2) 78.2 70 28 28 24 89 8 3.20
2013 (21-3) 214.1 152 73 69 56 240 18 2.90
2012 (16-7) 187.2 179 82 78 60 231 23 3.74
Last 7 GS 4-1 45.2 44 19 19 16 45 4 3.74 55
2014-06-01 @SEA L 6.2 9 4 4 0 7 1 116 47
2014-05-27 @OAK ND 6.0 8 5 5 2 4 1 107 38
2014-05-21 @CLE ND 7.0 12 7 7 2 5 1 113 28
2014-05-16 @BOS W 6.0 3 0 0 4 7 0 106 69
2014-05-10 MIN W 6.0 5 3 3 4 6 1 116 52
2014-05-05 HOU W 8.0 3 0 0 1 9 0 111 84
2014-04-30 @CHW W 6.0 4 0 0 3 7 0 105 68
Last 5 v.BOS 3-2 32.1 28 12 12 11 36 3 3.34 58
2014-05-16 @BOS W 6.0 3 0 0 4 7 0 106 69
2013-09-03 @BOS L 7.0 5 2 2 3 8 0 111 64
2013-06-22 BOS W 7.0 6 2 2 0 6 1 105 63
2012-07-30 @BOS L 6.1 7 5 5 2 9 1 101 46
2012-05-31 @BOS W 6.0 7 3 3 2 6 1 117 50

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

Red Sox Batters (4.03 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 49.Knebel
G/S/vB		 46.Krol*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 57.Reed
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 248/166 .296/.387/.454/.841 .943/.791 .820 108/1.015 1/2 5/6
25.Bradley* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 203/124 .200/.282/.294/.577 .640/.535 .508 79/.462 4/0 1/0
7.Drew* G/S/vP 9/.472 3/.333 3/2.000 5/1.150 ··· ··· 5/.650 1/2.000 8/8 .000/.250/.000/.250 /.250 .250 8/.250 0/0 0/0
5.Gomes G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· 5/.650 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 164/81 .234/.335/.387/.722 .907/.543 .658 74/.712 0/0 5/2
68.Hassan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/2 .143/.250/.143/.393 .333/.500 .000 8/.393 0/0 0/0
10.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 ··· 66/41 .250/.317/.268/.585 .667/.536 .520 24/.729 0/3 0/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 116/63 .314/.357/.448/.804 .904/.721 .540 88/.785 3/0 1/5
29.Nava# G/S/vP 10/.311 1/5.000 4/.250 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 2/.000 92/65 .134/.228/.232/.460 .188/.580 .520 17/.243 1/0 2/3
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 21/1.630 4/1.750 24/.804 20/.317 ··· ··· 12/.432 ··· 249/156 .262/.369/.486/.855 .859/.853 1.003 99/.839 0/0 13/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 20/.776 5/.000 29/1.137 9/1.127 ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· 270/183 .270/.344/.373/.718 .787/.687 .720 106/.674 2/4 2/1
40.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 34/.839 4/.500 8/.000 14/.500 ··· 2/.000 15/.343 ··· 189/126 .277/.309/.401/.710 .502/.811 .635 82/.693 0/0 4/2
3.Ross G/S/vP 7/.929 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 73/33 .162/.219/.294/.513 .675/.333 .547 32/.381 0/1 2/3
38.Sizemore* G/S/vP 13/.322 1/.000 7/.453 7/.286 ··· 2/.000 18/.181 ··· 184/129 .223/.293/.337/.631 .476/.697 .664 76/.594 5/0 2/1
IP 78.2 24.0 25.1 19.2 4.2 20.2 22.0 24.0 TOTAL .243/.326/.372/.698 .715/.689 .665 .673 18/12 45/35
ERA-K/9 3.20/10.2 3.38/10.9 2.49/10.3 6.41/5.0 9.64/9.6 2.18/6.5 6.55/8.6 4.50/7.9 3.96/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pierzynski (23-9-3)
 Ross (13-3-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 321/.240 99/.222 102/.234 91/.321 24/.318 86/.253 96/.250 101/.293 .253  Bradley
 Sizemore
 Nava
 Gomes
 Hassan
1/50/6/5
24/16/11/3
4/0/18/1
39/0/9/1
0/0/2/0
OPS .700 .649 .592 .920 .830 .733 .762 .780 .719
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 187/.765 48/.657 51/.598 36/.828 12/.788 43/.638 52/.820 46/.998 .678
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 134/.607 51/.642 51/.586 55/.985 12/.871 43/.826 44/.695 55/.603 .760
Home 133/.544 56/.714 50/.773 35/.919 14/1.167 36/.979 47/.627 67/.821
Last 28d days 112/.876 39/.545 47/.536 50/.793 24/.830 43/.723 42/.857 44/.797
HR/SB/CS 8/5/6 4/3/0 0/2/1 3/0/1 0/1/0 3/0/0 4/5/0 2/3/2 50/40/25
Usage ·····X·· ···o··o· o··o···X ·oo··X·· ··X··o·· o··o··oo o··X···· ·oX···X·
Tigers Batters (4.46 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.30 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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 8/.875 2/.000 3/.000 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 3/.333 3/.000 165/125 .217/.341/.370/.711 .608/.744 .654 78/.690 0/3 4/2
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 27/1.307 3/1.167 6/.533 23/1.348 2/2.500 4/2.000 5/.650 4/2.000 244/185 .314/.365/.545/.910 .690/.979 .887 104/1.054 0/1 11/3
9.Castellanos G/S/vP 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 193/136 .260/.306/.384/.690 .765/.661 .779 80/.683 1/1 4/4
20.Davis G/S/vP 43/.898 2/.000 2/.000 6/1.667 2/1.000 ··· 7/1.143 6/.000 179/127 .280/.330/.409/.738 .816/.707 .752 73/.671 16/3 4/2
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 51/29 .271/.314/.333/.647 .455/.798 .706 20/.668 1/0 0/3
48.Hunter G/S/vP 25/1.160 6/.666 10/1.611 22/1.074 7/.619 3/.666 5/1.400 14/.714 210/160 .270/.295/.460/.755 .711/.768 .646 90/.652 1/1 9/2
14.Jackson G/S/vP 17/.686 1/.000 4/1.750 4/.000 2/no AB 1/no AB 2/.000 4/1.000 223/166 .241/.305/.374/.679 .773/.648 .877 95/.466 6/1 3/4
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/5.000 77/67 .265/.351/.324/.674 .900/.643 .860 43/.492 2/0 0/1
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 32/.761 5/1.200 6/1.100 3/3.500 7/1.571 8/.000 6/1.500 10/.708 255/197 .300/.329/.463/.792 .819/.784 .878 109/.860 6/3 6/1
28.Martinez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 6/.834 ··· ··· 73/49 .242/.301/.455/.756 .125/1.054 .495 43/.815 2/2 3/0
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 18/1.313 1/.000 9/.555 7/1.286 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 240/181 .332/.388/.589/.976 1.210/.899 .905 106/.986 2/2 14/2
27.Romine# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 133/109 .205/.265/.254/.519 .652/.490 .630 65/.485 4/1 1/7
30.Suarez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ .000 1/.000 0/0 0/0
IP 80.0 34.2 20.0 27.2 24.2 22.0 26.0 25.2 TOTAL .269/.323/.425/.748 .724/.756 .777 .725 41/19 59/37
ERA-K/9 3.15/10.7 1.82/4.1 4.50/6.8 2.93/8.1 2.55/14.2 6.95/5.7 2.08/8.3 0.70/12.6 3.84/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (29-21-1)
 Holaday (8-3-0)
 Martinez (3-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 327/.244 136/.266 92/.300 119/.236 101/.196 99/.326 105/.235 95/.182 .265  Davis
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Hunter
 Martinez
42/2/0/4
0/54/0/1
3/2/6/0
0/0/50/0
12/0/6/0
OPS .678 .706 .760 .669 .529 .929 .623 .490 .734
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 77/.745 50/.779 41/.724 45/.638 36/.611 37/1.075 44/.676 48/.226 .725
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 250/.657 86/.664 51/.789 74/.689 65/.483 62/.834 61/.584 47/.742 .740
Road 164/.675 47/.850 47/.729 61/.661 53/.688 38/.718 50/.654 38/.439
Last 28d days 106/.779 50/.563 47/.788 46/.723 42/.678 46/.982 41/.541 36/.239
HR/SB/CS 6/5/1 1/1/1 1/1/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 5/4/1 2/0/0 2/0/1 55/36/12
Usage ·····X·· o·oo···X ··Xo···· o·o····· ···X···o o·X··X·o ··X····o ··X··o·o

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  5.13

ARI  4.14

SDP  3.13

 RA/G

OAK  3.15

LAA  4.27

ARI  4.98

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .359

J. Mauer  .269

J. Gyorko  .162

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .452

M. Bourn  .330

J. Gyorko  .213

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .682

P. Sandoval  .413

J. Gyorko  .270

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.134

Y. Gomes  .746

J. Gyorko  .482

 ERA

T. Hudson  1.75

C. Wilson  3.52

K. Correia  6.11

 K/9IP

S. Strasburg  11.18

R. Dickey  7.47

J. Guthrie  4.31

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.