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Boston Red Sox vs. Minnesota Twins, at Fenway Park, June 3, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Fenway Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
71° (based on last ten years)
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
53
On This Date:
53-47
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
55
On This Date:
43-50
Season Series
Mon, May 25, 2015 MIN  7  BOS  2     
Tue, May 26, 2015 MIN  2  BOS  1     
Wed, May 27, 2015 MIN  6  BOS  4     
Tue, Jun 02, 2015 BOS  1  MIN  0     

Wed, Jun 03, 2015 MIN    @BOS  1:35pm
Wed, Jun 03, 2015 MIN    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, Jun 04, 2015 MIN    @BOS  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Minnesota Twins
30-20, 1st, ½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-7    Road:   11-13   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  15-14   vsLHP:  15-6    1-Run:  11-7 
 vsEast:  7-3    vsCntrl:16-15   vsWest:  5-2  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 50 Tue, Jun  2  @BOS  L   0-1       30-20  1st  0.5 up
 49 Sun, May 31   TOR  W   6-5       30-19  1st  0.5 up
 48 Sat, May 30   TOR  W   3-2       29-19  2nd  0.5 gb
 47 Fri, May 29   TOR  L   4-6       28-19  2nd  1.0 gb
 46 Wed, May 27   BOS  W   6-4       28-18  1st    Tied
 45 Tue, May 26   BOS  W   2-1       27-18  2nd  1.0 gb
 44 Mon, May 25   BOS  W   7-2       26-18  2nd  2.0 gb
 43 Sun, May 24  @CHW  W   8-1       25-18  2nd  3.0 gb
 42 Sat, May 23  @CHW  W   4-3       24-18  3rd  4.0 gb
 41 Fri, May 22  @CHW  L   2-3       23-18  3rd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:21-9
Boston Red Sox
23-29, 4th, 4½ GB, 7½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-12   Road:   12-17   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  16-21   vsLHP:   7-8    1-Run:   9-7 
 vsEast: 10-15   vsCntrl: 1-3    vsWest:  8-9  IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 52 Tue, Jun  2   MIN  W   1-0       23-29  4th  4.5 gb
 51 Sun, May 31  @TEX  L   3-4       22-29  5th  4.0 gb
 50 Sat, May 30  @TEX  L   0-8       22-28  5th  4.0 gb
 49 Fri, May 29  @TEX  L   4-7       22-27  5th  3.0 gb
 48 Thu, May 28  @TEX  W   5-1       22-26  4th  3.0 gb
 47 Wed, May 27  @MIN  L   4-6       21-26  4th  4.0 gb
 46 Tue, May 26  @MIN  L   1-2       21-25  4th  3.0 gb
 45 Mon, May 25  @MIN  L   2-7       21-24  4th  2.5 gb
 44 Sun, May 24   LAA  W   6-1       21-23  3rd  2.5 gb
 43 Sat, May 23   LAA  W   8-3       20-23  4th  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:11-19

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jun 02, 2015 BOS  1  MIN  0        W:Clay Buchholz (3-6), L: Mike Pelfrey (4-2), S: Koji Uehara (11)
Wed, May 27, 2015 MIN  6  BOS  4        W:Phil Hughes (4-4), L: Rick Porcello (4-4), S: Glen Perkins (18)
Tue, May 26, 2015 MIN  2  BOS  1        W:Mike Pelfrey (4-1), L: Clay Buchholz (2-6), S: Glen Perkins (17)
Mon, May 25, 2015 MIN  7  BOS  2        W:Ricky Nolasco (5-1), L: Joe Kelly (1-4), S: none

Wed, Jun 18, 2014 BOS  2  MIN  1 (10)   W:Koji Uehara (2-1), L: Casey Fien (3-4), S: none
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 BOS  2  MIN  1        W:Jon Lester (8-7), L: Phil Hughes (7-3), S: Edward Mujica (2)
Mon, Jun 16, 2014 BOS  1  MIN  0        W:Rubby De La Rosa (2-2), L: Kevin Correia (3-8), S: Koji Uehara (15)
Thu, May 15, 2014 MIN  4  BOS  3 (10)   W:Brian Duensing (1-1), L: Andrew Miller (1-2), S: none
Wed, May 14, 2014 BOS  9 @MIN  4        W:Felix Doubront (2-3), L: Kevin Correia (1-5), S: none
Tue, May 13, 2014 MIN  8  BOS  6        W:Glen Perkins (1-0), L: Andrew Miller (1-1), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - MIN over 3-1; 2014 - BOS won 4-2; 2013 - BOS won 4-3; All-Time - BOS leads 963-930

SP: Trevor May (25, RHP, 3-3, 5.07)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-3) 49.2 59 28 28 9 41 4 5.07
2014 (3-6) 45.2 59 41 40 22 44 7 7.88
Last 7 GS 2-2 38.1 47 22 22 8 33 3 5.17 47
2015-05-29 TOR ND 6.0 8 4 4 1 5 1 86 44
2015-05-23 @CHW W 7.0 5 3 3 0 9 0 80 64
2015-05-16 TBR ND 6.2 7 3 3 0 3 1 104 51
2015-05-10 @CLE L 4.0 9 6 6 3 4 1 89 21
2015-05-05 OAK L 5.2 5 2 2 2 3 0 101 52
2015-04-30 CHW W 5.2 10 2 2 1 4 0 97 44
2015-04-25 @SEA ND 3.1 3 2 2 1 5 0 51 50
Has never faced BOS as starter.

SP: Rick Porcello (26, RHP, 4-4, 5.37)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-4) 62.0 66 38 37 18 50 11 5.37
2014 (15-13) 204.2 211 89 78 41 129 18 3.43
2013 (13-8) 177.0 185 87 85 42 142 18 4.32
Last 7 GS 3-2 43.0 44 23 23 12 34 6 4.81 50
2015-05-27 @MIN L 7.0 7 6 6 2 2 2 93 39
2015-05-22 LAA L 4.1 7 7 7 3 4 1 91 22
2015-05-16 @SEA W 6.2 5 2 2 2 6 2 104 60
2015-05-11 @OAK ND 5.0 9 3 3 1 3 0 101 39
2015-05-05 TBR W 7.0 8 0 0 0 6 0 102 67
2015-04-29 TOR W 7.0 2 1 1 2 6 0 99 73
2015-04-24 @BAL ND 6.0 6 4 4 2 7 1 97 49
Last 5 v.MIN 1-2 30.2 31 21 19 11 21 6 5.58 46
2015-05-27 @MIN L 7.0 7 6 6 2 2 2 93 39
2014-09-26 MIN L 3.2 6 6 4 3 6 2 70 32
2014-09-16 @MIN ND 8.0 7 2 2 2 5 1 103 63
2014-06-15 MIN ND 7.0 5 3 3 3 4 0 107 56
2014-04-25 @MIN W 5.0 6 4 4 1 4 1 92 42

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

Twins Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Porcello
G/S/vB		 68.Barnes
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Dozier G/S/vP 30/.926 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.933 3/.000 ··· 220/143 .254/.332/.508/.840 .909/.800 .784 97/.991 3/1 9/1
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 13/.750 2/1.000 4/.833 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 141/89 .233/.257/.331/.588 .538/.617 .440 67/.547 1/1 2/2
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP 8/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 44/26 .171/.227/.317/.544 .289/.692 .481 16/.521 0/0 1/2
32.Hicks# G/S/vP 13/.885 2/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 64/44 .250/.297/.317/.614 .563/.637 .558 64/.614 4/1 1/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP 18/1.150 2/1.000 10/1.611 ··· 18/.457 6/1.166 16/.626 192/123 .278/.328/.455/.783 .833/.754 .819 86/.880 1/2 7/2
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 53/.715 1/3.000 12/.872 ··· 5/.000 4/1.000 4/.000 209/128 .275/.330/.370/.701 .793/.639 .727 87/.658 1/0 1/2
9.Nunez G/S/vP 7/.572 2/1.000 5/.800 1/.000 5/1.200 4/.500 4/.000 41/21 .316/.366/.526/.892 .671/1.108 1.209 17/.673 0/2 1/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 28/.659 1/.000 5/.650 ··· 3/.666 3/.666 2/.500 197/123 .274/.350/.480/.830 .900/.789 .703 83/.876 0/0 8/3
21.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 80/30 .267/.313/.293/.606 .577/.655 .459 26/.314 3/1 0/0
20.Rosario* G/S/vP 3/1.666 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 64/46 .300/.317/.417/.734 .863/.683 .414 60/.697 3/1 2/2
39.Santana# G/S/vP 14/.715 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 175/115 .222/.240/.299/.539 .657/.480 .413 70/.368 4/3 0/12
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 29/.614 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 7/.619 ··· 5/.000 153/103 .230/.303/.319/.621 .673/.594 .602 72/.683 0/0 2/1
IP 62.0 13.1 21.1 15.2 19.2 22.0 17.0 TOTAL .255/.307/.386/.693 .742/.665 .612 .695 20/15 39/31
ERA-K/9 5.37/7.3 2.03/7.4 4.22/7.6 2.87/7.5 3.66/7.3 1.64/8.2 1.59/10.1 4.44/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (5-3-0)
 Suzuki (24-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 267/.269 63/.310 95/.288 64/.214 79/.230 83/.203 65/.140 .259  Escobar
 Robinson
 Rosario
 Hunter
 Nunez
 Hicks
 Herrmann
22/0/0/4
19/13/3/3
10/0/8/2
0/0/38/1
2/0/0/1
0/18/0/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .779 .831 .812 .547 .738 .570 .517 .736
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 145/.824 31/.819 38/1.028 37/.336 29/.517 31/.710 33/.635 .714
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 122/.725 32/.842 57/.671 27/.854 50/.876 52/.482 32/.400 .756
Home 137/.772 8/1.518 45/.786 15/.673 37/.729 46/.664 32/.329
Last 28d days 102/.890 55/.882 30/.993 35/.507 29/.845 29/.379 39/.456
HR/SB/CS 11/7/2 2/3/0 3/0/1 0/1/0 3/0/1 3/2/1 2/0/0 54/27/12
Usage ······X· ···oo··· ····X··· ··o·oX·· ··o·o··o ··o···o· X·o··o··
Red Sox Batters (3.77 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.10 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 65.May
G/S/vB		 36.Boyer
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 62.Graham
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 22.Stauffer
G/S/vB		 64.Thompson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 229/175 .246/.303/.386/.689 .601/.717 .804 102/.627 8/2 5/1
16.Bianchi G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 0/ /// / 0/ 0/0 0/0
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 182/132 .281/.328/.389/.717 .780/.693 .803 80/.726 3/0 2/4
38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 34/24 .242/.265/.242/.507 .600/.467 .533 34/.507 1/0 0/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 120/89 .286/.370/.410/.779 .810/.769 .647 52/.702 1/0 1/4
3.Leon# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 53/37 .182/.280/.182/.462 .143/.594 .451 26/.482 0/0 0/0
12.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 13/.398 3/2.334 ··· 6/.334 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 189/131 .210/.323/.407/.730 .866/.673 .905 87/.960 1/1 8/2
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.334 3/2.334 ··· 14/.857 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 198/135 .224/.308/.379/.687 .304/.884 .805 87/.605 0/0 6/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 7/.971 7/1.000 ··· 10/.311 3/.000 1/no AB ··· 231/175 .288/.352/.429/.781 .719/.800 .846 105/.735 1/1 7/5
39.Peguero* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.667 ··· 88/78 .178/.307/.397/.704 .786/.691 .596 34/.370 2/0 4/0
13.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 9/.611 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 12/.973 ··· 200/144 .255/.305/.473/.778 1.015/.690 .687 97/.605 2/2 12/2
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP ··· 8/.500 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 23/1.335 1/2.000 186/135 .249/.317/.367/.684 .279/.844 .835 74/.549 0/0 5/5
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 75/54 .225/.257/.268/.524 .450/.552 .433 60/.552 1/0 0/0
IP 49.2 25.2 10.2 13.1 20.1 24.0 13.2 12.1 23.2 TOTAL .241/.315/.368/.683 .654/.694 .744 .658 21/6 49/31
ERA-K/9 5.07/7.4 2.10/3.9 7.59/4.2 3.38/4.7 3.10/7.5 1.88/7.9 3.29/9.2 8.03/1.5 3.42/5.3 3.87/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Leon (2-4-1)
 Swihart (15-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 214/.292 102/.255 51/.341 52/.235 87/.260 98/.242 57/.200 62/.389 96/.233 .272  Betts
 Ramirez
 Peguero
 Castillo
 Holt
0/50/0/4
43/0/0/2
24/1/9/1
0/1/9/1
8/2/10/0
OPS .758 .712 .954 .569 .780 .592 .541 1.229 .595 .741
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 130/.798 38/.336 19/1.089 18/.824 37/.836 26/.942 23/.685 22/1.193 39/.357 .703
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 84/.696 64/.926 32/.875 34/.441 50/.738 72/.466 34/.437 40/1.238 57/.748 .773
Road 65/.788 51/1.032 26/.801 27/.538 40/.826 37/.443 23/1.110 21/1.095 47/.623
Last 28d days 103/.856 46/.600 24/.967 11/.364 43/.874 53/.721 41/.665 12/1.318 28/.829
HR/SB/CS 4/4/1 2/2/3 1/2/0 1/1/0 3/1/0 2/1/0 0/0/1 4/0/0 2/2/0 47/29/12
Usage ····X··· ··oo···X ···oo·o· o··oo··· ··X····· ··o·X·XX ··ooo·o· ··X·o··· ····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 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  5.09

ATL  4.15

PHI  3.06

 RA/G

STL  2.88

NYY  4.21

COL  5.06

 BA

D. Gordon  .367

N. Walker  .267

S. Drew  .168

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .471

B. Phillips  .328

S. Drew  .236

 SLG

B. Harper  .718

J. Altuve  .418

J. Ramirez  .245

 OPS

B. Harper  1.188

L. Cain  .760

J. Ramirez  .496

 ERA

D. Keuchel  1.76

J. Paxton  3.70

K. Kendrick  6.55

 K/9IP

D. Salazar  11.68

J. Teheran  7.23

J. Guthrie  3.33

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.