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Atlanta Braves vs. Boston Red Sox, at Turner Field, June 17, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Turner Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
85° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
68
On This Date:
72-49
Braves
Manager:
Fredi Gonzalez
Game #:
66
On This Date:
80-71
Season Series
Mon, Jun 15, 2015 ATL  4 @BOS  2     
Tue, Jun 16, 2015 BOS  9  ATL  4     

Wed, Jun 17, 2015 BOS    @ATL  7:10pm
Thu, Jun 18, 2015 BOS    @ATL  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
28-38, 5th, 8 GB, 7½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   16-18   Road:   12-20   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  20-28   vsLHP:   8-10   1-Run:   9-10
 vsEast: 10-21   vsCntrl: 2-5    vsWest: 11-9  IL: 5-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 66 Tue, Jun 16   ATL  W   9-4       28-38  5th  8.0 gb
 65 Mon, Jun 15   ATL  L   2-4       27-38  5th  9.0 gb
 64 Sun, Jun 14   TOR  L   5-13      27-37  5th  8.0 gb
 63 Sat, Jun 13   TOR  L   4-5 (11)  27-36  5th  7.0 gb
 62 Fri, Jun 12   TOR  L  10-13      27-35  5th  7.0 gb
 61 Thu, Jun 11  @BAL  L   5-6       27-34  5th  7.0 gb
 60 Wed, Jun 10  @BAL  L   2-5       27-33  5th  6.5 gb
 59 Tue, Jun  9  @BAL  L   0-1       27-32  5th  6.5 gb
 58 Sun, Jun  7   OAK  W   7-4       27-31  4th  5.5 gb
 57 Sat, Jun  6   OAK  W   4-2       26-31  4th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19
Atlanta Braves
31-34, 3rd, 4½ GB, 6½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   15-14   Road:   16-20   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  27-29   vsLHP:   4-5    1-Run:  11-10
 vsEast: 14-16   vsCntrl: 7-7    vsWest:  6-8  IL: 4-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 65 Tue, Jun 16  @BOS  L   4-9       31-34  3rd  4.5 gb
 64 Mon, Jun 15  @BOS  W   4-2       31-33  3rd  3.5 gb
 63 Sun, Jun 14  @NYM  L   8-10      30-33  3rd  3.5 gb
 62 Sat, Jun 13  @NYM  W   5-3 (11)  30-32  3rd  2.5 gb
 61 Fri, Jun 12  @NYM  L   3-5       29-32  3rd  3.5 gb
 60 Thu, Jun 11   SDP  L   4-6 (11)  29-31  3rd  2.5 gb
 59 Wed, Jun 10   SDP  W   4-1       29-30  3rd  2.0 gb
 58 Tue, Jun  9   SDP  W   6-5       28-30  3rd  2.5 gb
 57 Mon, Jun  8   SDP  L   3-5 (11)  27-30  3rd  3.5 gb
 56 Sun, Jun  7   PIT  L   0-3       27-29  3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jun 16, 2015 BOS  9  ATL  4        W:Wade Miley (6-6), L: Julio Teheran (4-3), S: none
Mon, Jun 15, 2015 ATL  4 @BOS  2        W:Williams Perez (3-0), L: Rick Porcello (4-7), S: Jason Grilli (17)

Thu, May 29, 2014 BOS  4  ATL  3        W:Koji Uehara (1-1), L: Craig Kimbrel (0-1), S: none
Wed, May 28, 2014 BOS  4  ATL  0        W:John Lackey (6-3), L: Gavin Floyd (0-2), S: none
Tue, May 27, 2014 BOS  6 @ATL  3        W:Jon Lester (5-6), L: Anthony Varvaro (1-1), S: Koji Uehara (11)
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)
Season Series: 2015 - tied 1-1; 2014 - BOS won 4-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - BOS leads 31-29

SP: Joe Kelly (27, RHP, 2-4, 5.45)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-4) 66.0 68 41 40 26 55 7 5.45
2014 (6-4) 96.1 88 48 45 42 66 8 4.20
2013 (10-5) 124.0 124 42 37 44 79 10 2.69
Last 7 GS 1-3 37.2 41 23 22 18 24 3 5.26 46
2015-06-12 TOR ND 6.0 7 4 4 2 3 0 101 43
2015-06-06 OAK W 6.0 4 1 1 2 6 0 100 64
2015-05-31 @TEX ND 5.0 6 2 1 2 3 0 100 50
2015-05-25 @MIN L 1.2 8 7 7 1 0 1 52 10
2015-05-20 TEX L 7.0 7 2 2 1 7 1 108 61
2015-05-14 @SEA ND 6.1 5 1 1 3 2 0 92 58
2015-05-09 @TOR L 5.2 4 6 6 7 3 1 113 33
Last 5 v.ATL 1-0 12.1 14 2 2 5 6 1 1.46 55
2013-08-22 ATL W 6.0 7 2 2 2 3 1 109 51
2013-07-27 @ATL ND 6.1 7 0 0 3 3 0 86 59

SP: Alex Wood (24, LHP, 4-4, 3.56)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-4) 73.1 83 31 29 23 53 4 3.56
2014 (11-11) 171.2 151 58 53 45 170 16 2.78
2013 (3-3) 77.2 76 29 27 27 77 3 3.13
Last 7 GS 3-3 44.1 51 18 16 12 33 3 3.25 52
2015-06-12 @NYM L 6.1 6 5 4 4 6 2 107 45
2015-06-07 PIT L 5.0 7 3 3 1 5 0 88 45
2015-06-01 @ARI W 8.0 7 1 1 0 4 0 113 68
2015-05-27 @LAD W 7.0 7 1 1 2 6 0 92 63
2015-05-16 @MIA W 7.0 7 2 1 2 1 1 103 56
2015-05-10 @WSN ND 6.2 8 3 3 1 7 0 100 52
2015-05-04 PHI L 4.1 9 3 3 2 4 0 90 35
Has never faced BOS as starter.

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Red Sox Batters (3.91 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (4.54 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Wood*
G/S/vB		 32.Aardsma
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 50.Cunniff
G/S/vB		 56.Eveland*
G/S/vB		 39.Grilli
G/S/vB		 53.Johnson
G/S/vB		 54.Marimon
G/S/vB		 51.Masset
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 270/205 .253/.309/.404/.713 .650/.733 .579 92/.756 10/2 6/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 239/176 .293/.333/.401/.734 .871/.686 .639 96/.793 4/1 3/4
38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 72/49 .232/.264/.290/.554 .565/.548 .399 72/.554 1/0 1/2
31.De Aza* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.500 1/4.000 ··· 139/116 .217/.273/.364/.638 .178/.728 .493 43/.508 2/2 3/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.583 2/.000 1/4.000 ··· 176/134 .309/.400/.454/.854 .952/.824 .955 87/.930 3/1 2/4
3.Leon# G/S/vP 7/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 67/50 .158/.238/.175/.414 .133/.506 .470 30/.407 0/0 0/1
12.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 9/.666 ··· ··· 5/1.267 7/.143 6/.666 1/.000 1/.000 237/167 .202/.295/.380/.675 .795/.626 .541 95/.786 1/1 9/2
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 3/2.000 ··· 8/.804 6/.500 16/.938 ··· ··· 248/172 .230/.315/.410/.725 .296/.930 .610 92/.665 0/0 9/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 13/.917 5/.000 22/.838 ··· ··· 291/219 .313/.376/.459/.835 .903/.815 .727 112/.940 1/1 9/5
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.750 7/.858 2/.000 ··· 11/.899 247/179 .270/.320/.465/.784 .893/.745 .821 96/.736 3/3 13/3
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 3/.333 3/.333 5/.400 ··· 5/1.400 8/1.000 2/.500 1/3.000 5/.800 228/165 .265/.320/.408/.728 .306/.895 .609 76/.668 0/0 6/9
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 115/80 .222/.263/.296/.559 .548/.564 .585 66/.662 1/0 1/0
IP 73.1 2.2 26.0 25.0 1.1 23.1 30.1 8.1 20.0 TOTAL .251/.319/.385/.704 .671/.717 .632 .739 27/9 62/39
ERA-K/9 3.56/6.5 0.00/3.3 3.81/6.9 4.68/9.7 6.75/20.8 3.09/11.2 2.97/7.4 8.64/5.4 3.15/6.8 4.26/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Leon (4-5-1)
 Swihart (18-6-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 313/.293 11/.111 108/.248 102/.174 9/.500 99/.233 129/.235 41/.353 84/.257 .263  Betts
 De Aza
 Ramirez
 Holt
 Castillo
0/62/0/5
23/0/18/3
52/0/0/2
11/2/15/1
0/5/18/1
OPS .736 .422 .663 .620 1.806 .682 .638 1.047 .740 .749
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 68/.602 2/.000 50/.756 32/.938 5/1.200 45/.814 57/.475 17/1.197 36/.625 .783
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 245/.775 9/.472 58/.581 70/.470 4/2.750 54/.575 72/.764 24/.941 48/.827 .727
Home 99/.799 4/.000 56/.652 44/.335 1/ 54/.765 53/.409 17/.670 30/.509
Last 28d days 110/.685 11/.422 43/.824 55/.871 9/1.806 41/.674 48/.536 7/1.857 40/.854
HR/SB/CS 4/4/2 0/2/0 2/2/0 3/0/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 2/6/0 1/1/0 3/1/1 67/40/13
Usage ····X··· ··o·oo·o o·XX·o·X ··X··Xoo ·ooo·o·· ·X·o·o·X ·o·o··oX X······· ·o·ooo··
Braves Batters (4.28 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Kelly
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 37.Hembree
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 35.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 41/26 .231/.244/.359/.603 .619/.592 .269 28/.509 1/0 0/0
5.Freeman* G/S/vP 6/.750 3/1.667 ··· 3/.333 3/1.334 1/.000 1/.000 4/.250 ··· 280/208 .303/.371/.526/.897 .769/.941 .918 114/.952 3/1 12/4
7.Gomes G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 3/.000 8/.661 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 134/91 .212/.291/.331/.622 .825/.533 .612 59/.566 1/0 3/0
23.Johnson G/S/vP 6/.900 2/2.500 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 78/52 .239/.295/.338/.633 .983/.448 .845 29/.493 1/1 1/3
24.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· 5/.600 ··· ··· 4/1.750 3/.000 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 107/99 .280/.327/.500/.827 .750/.834 .902 20/.821 0/1 6/2
30.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 34/24 .100/.206/.133/.339 .650/.216 .490 10/.200 0/0 0/1
22.Markakis* G/S/vP 4/.500 16/.563 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 5/1.000 6/.500 7/.429 ··· 282/209 .302/.394/.367/.761 .634/.807 .710 116/.815 1/0 0/0
25.Maybin G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 215/168 .293/.364/.403/.768 .711/.783 .942 111/.755 11/3 5/1
8.Peterson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 244/206 .278/.347/.370/.717 .621/.736 .724 112/.767 7/6 2/2
15.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 5/.400 8/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.000 5/.800 12/.750 6/.833 ··· 162/143 .282/.321/.423/.744 .498/.776 .723 65/.685 0/1 4/1
19.Simmons G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 269/226 .267/.327/.372/.700 .404/.757 .726 106/.639 1/1 3/3
2.Uribe G/S/vP 5/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 161/130 .284/.335/.385/.721 .805/.700 .521 76/.893 2/0 3/2
IP 66.0 22.1 6.1 20.2 27.0 18.2 28.2 21.0 41.2 TOTAL .260/.323/.375/.698 .616/.719 .711 .697 35/15 41/35
ERA-K/9 5.45/7.5 4.03/7.3 8.53/4.3 3.05/9.6 3.67/6.3 4.82/6.3 2.51/8.8 3.00/9.9 3.89/5.2 4.52/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (3-3-1)
 Pierzynski (30-6-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 292/.261 100/.289 27/.320 85/.203 107/.224 83/.311 111/.208 88/.225 174/.239 .261  Gomes
 Markakis
 Maybin
 Johnson
38/0/2/4
0/0/63/3
0/56/0/3
22/0/3/2
OPS .720 .821 .970 .591 .749 .834 .564 .663 .710 .733
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 141/.607 39/.998 7/2.000 44/.353 40/.653 27/.775 43/.589 43/.601 92/.690 .699
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 151/.829 61/.709 20/.578 41/.869 67/.807 56/.863 68/.548 45/.723 82/.731 .761
Road 144/.695 50/.833 14/1.655 51/.489 49/.692 34/.869 44/.386 33/.710 102/.805
Last 28d days 88/.814 25/1.006 16/.321 38/.616 44/.866 30/.630 39/.572 41/.819 105/.641
HR/SB/CS 7/6/1 3/0/1 1/0/0 1/1/0 5/0/1 2/0/0 3/3/1 2/0/0 7/1/2 66/32/14
Usage ····X··· ········ ··X·X··· ··ooo·o· ·o·X··X· ·X······ X···Xo·o X··o···· ··X··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 2015 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

TOR  5.47

MIN  4.17

PHI  3.03

 RA/G

STL  2.86

MIN  4.17

COL  4.97

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .361

A. Rodriguez  .267

S. Drew  .174

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .481

J. Giavotella  .327

O. Infante  .229

 SLG

B. Harper  .735

W. Ramos  .418

M. Cabrera  .277

 OPS

B. Harper  1.216

A. Hechavarria  .748

O. Infante  .536

 ERA

S. Gray  1.60

J. Zimmermann  3.74

K. Lohse  6.44

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.71

M. Gonzalez  7.27

J. Guthrie  4.00

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.