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Boston Red Sox vs. Texas Rangers, at Fenway Park, May 20, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Fenway Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
65° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
40
On This Date:
24-23
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
40
On This Date:
49-51
Season Series
Tue, May 19, 2015 BOS  4  TEX  3     

Wed, May 20, 2015 TEX    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, May 21, 2015 TEX    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, May 28, 2015 BOS    @TEX  8:05pm
Fri, May 29, 2015 BOS    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, May 30, 2015 BOS    @TEX  7:15pm
Sun, May 31, 2015 BOS    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
16-23, 4th, 9½ GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-13   Road:   10-10   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  11-14   vsLHP:   5-9    1-Run:   5-5 
 vsEast:  2-3    vsCntrl: 3-4    vsWest: 10-15 IL: 1-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 39 Tue, May 19  @BOS  L   3-4       16-23  4th  9.5 gb
 38 Sun, May 17   CLE  W   5-1       16-22  4th  9.0 gb
 37 Sat, May 16   CLE  L   8-10      15-22  4th  9.0 gb
 36 Fri, May 15   CLE  L   3-8       15-21  4th  8.0 gb
 35 Thu, May 14   KCR  L   3-6       15-20  4th  7.0 gb
 34 Wed, May 13   KCR  W   5-2       15-19  4th  6.0 gb
 33 Tue, May 12   KCR  L   6-7 (10)  14-19  4th  6.0 gb
 32 Mon, May 11   KCR  W   8-2       14-18  4th  6.0 gb
 31 Sun, May 10  @TBR  W   2-1       13-18  4th  6.5 gb
 30 Sat, May  9  @TBR  L   2-7       12-18  4th  7.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18
Boston Red Sox
19-20, 3rd, 2½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-9    Road:   11-11   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  14-14   vsLHP:   5-6    1-Run:   8-4 
 vsEast: 10-15   vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  5-3  IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 39 Tue, May 19   TEX  W   4-3       19-20  3rd  2.5 gb
 38 Sun, May 17  @SEA  L   0-5       18-20  3rd  3.5 gb
 37 Sat, May 16  @SEA  W   4-2       18-19  3rd  3.5 gb
 36 Fri, May 15  @SEA  L   1-2       17-19  3rd  3.5 gb
 35 Thu, May 14  @SEA  W   2-1       17-18  3rd  3.5 gb
 34 Wed, May 13  @OAK  W   2-0       16-18  4th  4.5 gb
 33 Tue, May 12  @OAK  L   2-9       15-18  4th  5.5 gb
 32 Mon, May 11  @OAK  W   5-4 (11)  15-17  4th  5.5 gb
 31 Sun, May 10  @TOR  W   6-3       14-17  4th  5.5 gb
 30 Sat, May  9  @TOR  L   1-7       13-17  5th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 19, 2015 BOS  4  TEX  3        W:Wade Miley (3-4), L: Yovani Gallardo (3-6), S: Koji Uehara (10)

Sun, May 11, 2014 BOS  5 @TEX  2        W:John Lackey (5-2), L: Robbie Ross (1-4), S: Koji Uehara (9)
Sat, May 10, 2014 BOS  8 @TEX  3        W:Jon Lester (4-4), L: Martin Perez (4-3), S: none
Fri, May 09, 2014 TEX  8  BOS  0        W:Yu Darvish (3-1), L: Clay Buchholz (2-3), S: none
Wed, Apr 09, 2014 BOS  4  TEX  2        W:Andrew Miller (1-0), L: Alexi Ogando (0-1), S: Koji Uehara (2)
Tue, Apr 08, 2014 TEX 10 @BOS  7        W:Martin Perez (1-0), L: Felix Doubront (1-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 07, 2014 BOS  5  TEX  1        W:John Lackey (2-0), L: Tanner Scheppers (0-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 06, 2013 BOS  6  TEX  3        W:Andrew Bailey (2-0), L: Michael Kirkman (0-2), S: none
Wed, Jun 05, 2013 TEX  3 @BOS  2        W:Neal Cotts (1-0), L: Craig Breslow (2-1), S: Joe Nathan (18)
Tue, Jun 04, 2013 BOS 17  TEX  5        W:Ryan Dempster (3-6), L: Justin Grimm (5-4), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - BOS over 1-0; 2014 - BOS won 4-2; 2013 - TEX won 4-2; All-Time - BOS leads 336-304

SP: Phil Klein (26, RHP, 0-0, 7.71)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-0) 4.2 5 4 4 2 3 1 7.71
2014 (1-2) 19.0 11 6 6 10 23 3 2.84
Last 7 GS
Has never faced BOS as starter.

SP: Joe Kelly (27, RHP, 1-2, 5.58)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-2) 40.1 36 25 25 18 36 5 5.58
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 1-2 40.1 36 25 25 18 36 5 5.58 48
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
2015-05-03 NYY L 4.2 9 5 5 0 3 1 97 29
2015-04-27 TOR ND 6.0 5 5 5 3 10 1 104 49
2015-04-22 @TBR ND 5.0 8 5 5 1 7 1 82 37
2015-04-17 BAL ND 5.2 4 2 2 2 3 1 118 54
2015-04-11 @NYY W 7.0 1 1 1 2 8 0 93 77
Has never faced TEX as starter.

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

Rangers Batters (4.13 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.79 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Kelly
G/S/vB		 68.Barnes
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 8/.857 ··· ··· ··· 7/1.571 9/.333 ··· 176/119 .227/.297/.286/.582 .863/.444 .508 108/.658 5/3 1/9
29.Beltre G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 7/.286 ··· 1/.000 ··· 7/1.000 6/.666 ··· 171/120 .258/.292/.421/.714 .927/.624 .713 106/.785 1/0 5/4
88.Blanks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 63/44 .322/.365/.542/.907 1.316/.714 .741 63/.907 1/0 3/0
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 97/68 .188/.302/.413/.715 1.179/.518 .752 61/.679 0/0 3/2
17.Choo* G/S/vP 6/1.667 ··· 11/1.323 ··· 6/.666 2/.000 2/1.000 4/.833 ··· 147/102 .240/.327/.465/.792 .597/.876 .645 102/.929 0/0 6/2
3.Corporan# G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 60/43 .200/.300/.300/.600 .978/.426 .533 36/.411 0/0 1/1
7.DeShields G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/44 .268/.379/.375/.754 .623/.821 .675 55/.853 10/1 0/1
84.Fielder* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 5/.933 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 171/112 .348/.404/.503/.907 .866/.928 .778 105/.906 0/0 5/4
39.Field G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 27/20 .250/.333/.500/.833 .629/.879 .667 27/.833 1/0 2/2
2.Martin* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· 131/80 .205/.246/.295/.541 .648/.472 .749 63/.499 6/3 2/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 7/1.285 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.334 ··· 81/64 .290/.370/.464/.834 .840/.832 .882 43/.796 0/0 2/1
43.Peguero* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 84/76 .186/.310/.414/.724 .833/.711 .865 57/.692 2/0 4/0
9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 48/21 .156/.208/.289/.497 .425/.588 .517 30/.381 1/0 2/1
IP 40.1 7.1 17.1 11.0 16.0 11.2 18.1 13.0 15.2 TOTAL .237/.313/.383/.695 .776/.657 .655 .728 29/9 38/32
ERA-K/9 5.58/8.0 1.23/4.9 3.63/7.8 3.27/6.5 3.38/7.9 6.17/5.4 1.47/7.9 2.08/10.4 4.02/5.2 4.60/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (14-6-1)
 Corporan (9-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 177/.231 33/.300 75/.250 44/.211 63/.190 53/.340 70/.197 47/.159 69/.274 .260  Martin
 DeShields
 Choo
 Peguero
 Blanks
0/30/0/5
7/11/0/1
0/0/33/1
21/1/9/1
2/0/0/0
OPS .670 .697 .762 .506 .668 .952 .576 .532 .816 .746
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 86/.495 18/.528 29/1.039 24/.390 24/.292 15/.850 25/.680 26/.584 49/.719 .708
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 91/.845 15/.895 46/.592 20/.650 39/.922 38/.992 45/.515 21/.476 20/1.034 .782
Home 72/.782 / 35/.771 9/.476 30/.733 32/.911 39/.653 20/.350 /
Last 28d days 105/.727 33/.697 35/1.178 24/.393 41/.709 27/1.065 46/.724 38/.611 47/.738
HR/SB/CS 5/5/0 0/2/0 3/0/1 0/0/0 3/0/1 2/0/0 3/0/1 2/0/0 3/0/0 44/19/7
Usage ·····X·· ··X··o·· ··o····· ···ooo·· ··X····· ········ o··oo·o· X··o·oo· ··X····X
Red Sox Batters (3.97 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 63.Bass
G/S/vB		 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 71.Freeman*
G/S/vB		 50.Kela
G/S/vB		 25.Ohlendorf
G/S/vB		 52.Scheppers
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 173/131 .227/.291/.390/.680 .530/.729 .890 107/.723 5/1 5/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 139/102 .260/.314/.362/.676 .658/.682 .617 82/.643 2/0 1/2
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 13/12 .000/.154/.000/.154 .000/.167 13/.154 0/0 0/0
26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 85/67 .307/.381/.440/.821 .889/.803 .610 54/.765 1/0 1/0
3.Leon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/28 .161/.257/.161/.418 .000/.551 .481 20/.328 0/0 0/0
12.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 5/.200 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.467 1/.000 138/95 .174/.275/.314/.589 .720/.533 .654 81/.612 1/1 4/2
29.Nava# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 1/2.000 63/58 .151/.258/.170/.428 .250/.439 .163 35/.300 0/0 0/0
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.000 1/.000 151/106 .244/.331/.427/.759 .338/.955 .970 92/.760 0/0 6/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 5/.000 2/.500 174/130 .280/.364/.427/.791 .749/.804 .940 106/.740 1/1 5/3
13.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 5/1.600 ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 9/.619 ··· ··· 146/105 .276/.322/.522/.844 1.182/.721 .836 83/.826 1/2 10/1
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP ··· 8/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 5/1.600 ··· ··· 152/109 .270/.342/.416/.758 .142/1.013 .849 92/.837 0/0 5/3
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 45/31 .163/.182/.233/.414 .385/.427 .325 45/.414 0/0 0/0
18.Victorino G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 7/.000 ··· 1/.000 63/36 .212/.349/.308/.657 1.005/.411 .511 20/1.038 3/0 1/0
IP 4.2 25.2 7.0 17.2 3.0 18.2 1.0 6.0 17.1 TOTAL .234/.313/.369/.682 .629/.702 .744 .678 14/5 40/18
ERA-K/9 7.71/5.7 3.86/5.6 3.86/5.1 5.09/7.6 3.00/3.0 2.41/7.7 0.00/9.0 7.50/6.0 3.63/12.5 4.26/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Leon (1-2-1)
 Swihart (8-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 21/.263 105/.258 28/.192 84/.293 13/.273 80/.274 3/.000 30/.250 70/.258 .266  Betts
 Ramirez
 Victorino
 Nava
 Holt
 Bradley
0/37/0/3
32/0/0/2
0/0/18/1
5/0/12/1
4/2/9/0
2/1/4/0
OPS .754 .713 .753 .796 1.035 .694 .000 .700 .684 .751
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 8/1.357 42/.650 15/1.048 44/.874 6/1.533 39/.800 2/.000 15/.667 40/.736 .774
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 13/.397 63/.749 13/.410 40/.711 7/.619 41/.594 1/.000 15/.733 30/.609 .732
Road 10/1.067 46/.782 5/1.000 44/.600 4/1.167 43/.717 / 24/.903 33/.605
Last 28d days / 46/.893 28/.753 53/.796 13/1.035 50/.662 3/.000 16/.598 45/.923
HR/SB/CS 1/2/0 3/1/0 3/0/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 1/2/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 40/23/10
Usage ····Xo·o ···o·X·o X··X··oX o···oX·· X··oo··· ··o····· ··X····· ··XX··oo

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  5.17

ATL  4.26

PHI  3.15

 RA/G

STL  3.08

ATL  4.39

COL  5.22

 BA

D. Gordon  .403

B. Butler  .267

C. Utley  .148

 OBP

B. Harper  .474

D. Ortiz  .331

E. Gattis  .213

 SLG

B. Harper  .737

R. Zimmerman  .418

J. Ramirez  .250

 OPS

B. Harper  1.212

C. Davis  .750

J. Ramirez  .487

 ERA

S. Miller  1.33

A. DeSclafani  3.80

K. Kendrick  6.70

 K/9IP

J. Shields  12.21

S. Miller  7.17

J. Guthrie  3.27

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.