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Chicago White Sox vs. Boston Red Sox, at U.S. Cellular Field, August 24, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Monday, August 24, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
U.S. Cellular Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
77° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
127
On This Date:
53-55
White Sox
Manager:
Robin Ventura
Game #:
128
On This Date:
54-57
Season Series
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 CHW 10 @BOS  8     
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 CHW  9 @BOS  4     
Wed, Jul 29, 2015 CHW  9 @BOS  2     
Thu, Jul 30, 2015 BOS  8  CHW  2     

Mon, Aug 24, 2015 BOS    @CHW  8:10pm
Tue, Aug 25, 2015 BOS    @CHW  8:10pm
Wed, Aug 26, 2015 BOS    @CHW  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
56-68, 5th, 13 GB, 12½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-32   Road:   23-36   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  42-47   vsLHP:  14-21   1-Run:  15-16
 vsEast: 20-30   vsCntrl:13-14   vsWest: 15-18 IL: 8-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
124 Sun, Aug 23   KCR  L   6-8       56-68  5th 13.0 gb
123 Sat, Aug 22   KCR  L   3-6       56-67  5th 12.5 gb
122 Fri, Aug 21   KCR  W   7-2       56-66  5th 11.5 gb
121 Thu, Aug 20   KCR  W   4-1       55-66  5th 12.5 gb
120 Wed, Aug 19   CLE  W   6-4       54-66  5th 13.5 gb
119 Tue, Aug 18   CLE  W   9-1       53-66  5th 13.5 gb
118 Mon, Aug 17   CLE  L   2-8       52-66  5th 13.5 gb
117 Sun, Aug 16   SEA  L   8-10(12)  52-65  5th 12.5 gb
116 Sat, Aug 15   SEA  W  22-10      52-64  5th 12.5 gb
115 Fri, Aug 14   SEA  W  15-1       51-64  5th 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16
Chicago White Sox
58-64, 4th, 16½ GB, 9½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-28   Road:   28-36   ExtrInn:11-3 
 vsRHP:  48-50   vsLHP:  10-14   1-Run:  22-24
 vsEast: 12-14   vsCntrl:20-31   vsWest: 17-8  IL: 9-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
122 Sun, Aug 23  @SEA  L   6-8       58-64  4th 16.5 gb
121 Sat, Aug 22  @SEA  W   6-3 (10)  58-63  4th 15.5 gb
120 Fri, Aug 21  @SEA  W  11-4       57-63  4th 15.5 gb
119 Thu, Aug 20  @LAA  W   8-2       56-63  4th 16.5 gb
118 Wed, Aug 19  @LAA  L   0-1       55-63  4th 17.5 gb
117 Tue, Aug 18  @LAA  L   3-5       55-62  4th 16.5 gb
116 Mon, Aug 17  @LAA  L   1-2       55-61  4th 15.5 gb
115 Sun, Aug 16   CHC  W   3-1       55-60  3rd 15.0 gb
114 Sat, Aug 15   CHC  L   3-6       54-60  4th 15.0 gb
113 Fri, Aug 14   CHC  L   5-6       54-59  3rd 14.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jul 30, 2015 BOS  8  CHW  2        W:Steven Wright (4-4), L: Chris Sale (9-6), S: none
Wed, Jul 29, 2015 CHW  9 @BOS  2        W:Jose Quintana (6-9), L: Rick Porcello (5-11), S: none
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 CHW  9 @BOS  4        W:Jeff Samardzija (8-5), L: Wade Miley (8-9), S: none
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 CHW 10 @BOS  8        W:Matt Albers (1-0), L: Robbie Ross (0-1), S: David Robertson (22)

Thu, Jul 10, 2014 BOS  4  CHW  3 (10)   W:Andrew Miller (3-5), L: Ronald Belisario (3-6), S: none
Wed, Jul 09, 2014 BOS  5  CHW  4        W:Koji Uehara (5-2), L: Javy Guerra (0-1), S: none
Tue, Jul 08, 2014 CHW  8 @BOS  3        W:John Danks (8-6), L: Brandon Workman (1-3), S: none
Mon, Jul 07, 2014 CHW  4 @BOS  0        W:Scott Carroll (3-5), L: Clay Buchholz (3-5), S: none
Thu, Apr 17, 2014 BOS  3 @CHW  1        W:Jon Lester (2-2), L: Ronald Belisario (1-2), S: Koji Uehara (3)
Wed, Apr 16, 2014 BOS  6 @CHW  4 (14)   W:Chris Capuano (1-0), L: Leury Garcia (0-1), S: Burke Badenhop (1)
Season Series: 2015 - CHW over 3-1; 2014 - BOS won 4-3; 2013 - BOS won 4-2; All-Time - BOS leads 971-933

SP: Joe Kelly (27, RHP, 6-6, 5.37)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-6) 105.2 119 66 63 40 90 13 5.37
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 4-2 34.2 46 23 21 11 32 6 5.45 44
2015-08-19 CLE W 6.0 5 1 0 3 3 0 100 60
2015-08-14 SEA W 6.0 4 1 1 2 6 1 106 64
2015-08-07 @DET W 5.1 7 2 2 2 7 1 96 51
2015-08-01 TBR W 5.0 9 5 5 1 6 0 94 34
2015-07-27 CHW ND 3.1 7 5 4 0 2 0 73 30
2015-07-22 @HOU L 5.1 6 4 4 1 6 3 85 45
2015-06-23 BAL L 3.2 8 5 5 2 2 1 87 25
Last 5 v.CHW 0-0 3.1 7 5 4 0 2 0 10.80 30
2015-07-27 CHW ND 3.1 7 5 4 0 2 0 73 30

SP: Jeff Samardzija (30, RHP, 8-9, 4.64)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (8-9) 170.2 179 92 88 35 127 21 4.64
2014 (7-13) 219.2 191 86 73 43 202 20 2.99
2013 (8-13) 213.2 210 109 103 78 214 25 4.34
Last 7 GS 2-5 45.1 49 32 32 12 25 9 6.35 44
2015-08-19 @LAA L 7.0 8 1 1 2 7 1 116 62
2015-08-14 CHC L 6.0 9 6 6 2 5 3 110 33
2015-08-08 @KCR L 4.2 6 7 7 2 1 0 79 23
2015-08-02 NYY L 4.2 8 9 9 2 3 2 101 13
2015-07-28 @BOS W 8.0 7 4 4 1 3 1 115 54
2015-07-23 @CLE W 8.0 4 1 1 0 3 0 99 73
2015-07-17 KCR L 7.0 7 4 4 3 3 2 111 47
Last 5 v.BOS 1-1 13.1 11 7 7 4 9 2 4.73 53
2015-07-28 @BOS W 8.0 7 4 4 1 3 1 115 54
2012-06-16 BOS L 5.1 4 3 3 3 6 1 108 51

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Red Sox Batters (4.55 RS/G) vs. White Sox Pitchers (4.29 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 29.Samardzija
G/S/vB		 34.Albers
G/S/vB		 33.Duke*
G/S/vB		 43.Jennings*
G/S/vB		 65.Jones
G/S/vB		 52.Petricka
G/S/vB		 57.Putnam
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 483/364 .271/.319/.441/.760 .709/.777 .702 59/.768 16/4 11/2
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 4/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 489/358 .314/.342/.409/.751 .936/.683 .673 106/.743 7/1 4/8
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 118/80 .257/.347/.535/.882 1.344/.660 .675 83/1.060 1/0 5/1
38.Castillo G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 159/103 .293/.329/.420/.749 .996/.614 .574 79/.939 3/0 4/4
31.De Aza* G/S/vP 19/.498 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 8/.125 281/238 .268/.323/.447/.770 .458/.824 .780 37/.934 5/3 7/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP 10/.400 2/.000 12/.872 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/1.000 160/119 .248/.348/.328/.677 .883/.603 .495 39/.739 0/0 2/2
26.Holt* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 396/298 .287/.359/.398/.757 .806/.741 .781 88/.748 6/1 2/8
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 8/1.458 10/.425 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 1/no AB 15/.553 488/340 .265/.355/.508/.863 .643/.966 .805 106/1.090 0/0 26/0
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 23/.957 10/.856 16/1.188 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 2/.000 2/.500 418/302 .254/.294/.433/.728 .755/.717 .750 59/.467 6/3 19/4
30.Rutledge G/S/vP 3/1.334 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 41/29 .265/.350/.353/.703 .667/.706 .393 41/.703 0/0 1/3
48.Sandoval* G/S/vP 10/1.400 2/.500 18/.389 2/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 2/.000 1/2.000 431/299 .259/.309/.394/.703 .481/.803 .608 77/.825 0/0 10/14
47.Shaw* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 88/61 .350/.398/.638/1.035 1.324/.904 .251 72/1.169 0/0 6/0
23.Swihart# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 218/150 .273/.313/.366/.679 .637/.698 .585 62/.852 1/2 1/2
IP 170.2 22.2 49.1 40.1 6.1 42.2 40.0 48.0 TOTAL .266/.326/.412/.738 .762/.729 .668 .852 52/14 119/77
ERA-K/9 4.64/6.7 1.99/7.1 3.47/8.9 5.13/7.1 0.00/14.3 3.59/6.1 2.93/12.2 2.81/12.4 3.98/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (22-11-3)
 Swihart (29-12-14)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 718/.270 95/.244 205/.218 177/.260 21/.056 180/.294 165/.209 191/.196 .260  Betts
 De Aza
 Ramirez
 Bradley
 Castillo
 Holt
 Shaw
0/107/0/8
50/1/37/4
90/0/0/3
8/14/16/2
0/6/41/1
12/2/17/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .742 .678 .716 .703 .206 .743 .656 .553 .730
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 357/.810 33/.906 75/.599 71/.672 10/.111 51/.895 74/.645 83/.425 .694
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 361/.675 62/.565 130/.780 106/.725 11/.282 129/.685 91/.665 108/.648 .746
Home 312/.714 50/.827 104/.556 101/.685 11/.182 86/.754 96/.617 121/.414
Last 28d days 140/.901 55/.810 37/.762 43/.659 21/.206 36/.833 30/.584 28/.583
HR/SB/CS 21/12/4 3/3/0 8/2/1 3/0/0 0/0/0 2/2/0 6/4/1 4/2/0 114/63/20
Usage ····X··· X····o·· o·X····· ·X·o···· ·X·o···o X··o···· ····o··· ·o·····X
White Sox Batters (3.84 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Kelly
G/S/vB		 65.Aro
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 37.Hembree
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 64.Machi
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
79.Abreu G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 4/1.167 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 5/1.400 3/.666 502/392 .293/.353/.511/.863 .689/.912 .850 109/1.015 0/0 23/6
15.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 9/.583 3/.667 10/.100 202/128 .188/.249/.298/.547 .457/.599 .528 19/.334 0/1 4/4
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 8/1.375 ··· 11/.586 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 10/1.200 6/.000 11/.673 519/390 .271/.313/.387/.700 .578/.741 .681 106/.741 2/0 8/5
1.Eaton* G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 2/2.500 1/2.000 519/385 .265/.343/.409/.752 .578/.816 .718 112/.810 12/5 10/5
21.Flowers G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 3/1.666 ··· 2/2.500 ··· 6/.500 4/1.500 1/.000 291/233 .222/.273/.348/.622 .837/.570 .542 62/.673 0/1 8/2
26.Garcia G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 458/359 .266/.317/.384/.700 .758/.684 .729 104/.735 6/7 11/2
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 430/339 .213/.298/.357/.655 .395/.728 .547 74/.657 0/0 12/1
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 10/.644 ··· 2/3.000 ··· 13/.539 4/.500 11/1.000 473/372 .239/.267/.347/.614 .679/.596 .696 100/.789 15/5 8/12
18.Saladino G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 169/134 .248/.283/.350/.633 .610/.639 .696 107/.551 5/2 3/3
5.Sanchez# G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 310/242 .239/.275/.346/.621 .486/.660 .472 93/.735 1/1 3/4
20.Shuck* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 4/.250 ··· 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 1/3.000 1/.000 124/109 .280/.347/.355/.702 .729/.697 .925 17/.878 5/4 0/0
58.Soto G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 165/126 .248/.339/.469/.808 1.028/.741 .945 33/1.070 0/1 8/4
28.Thompson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/7 .474/.524/.842/1.366 1.571/.929 1.571 21/1.366 0/0 2/0
IP 105.2 4.2 48.1 10.2 39.1 43.1 52.2 47.2 53.0 TOTAL .250/.305/.381/.686 .627/.703 .682 .769 50/34 103/73
ERA-K/9 5.37/7.7 11.57/5.7 4.28/6.5 5.91/5.0 4.35/8.9 5.19/6.0 3.76/7.9 3.97/7.7 3.74/8.3 4.60/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Flowers (43-13-10)
 Soto (20-7-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 472/.281 25/.500 214/.281 44/.286 173/.255 195/.256 219/.234 207/.261 218/.266 .268  Garcia
 Eaton
 Cabrera
 Shuck
 Thompson
0/0/107/14
0/113/0/8
120/0/0/5
7/9/20/4
2/5/2/0
OPS .792 1.355 .826 .842 .721 .768 .778 .734 .714 .764
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 245/.736 10/1.200 80/.823 16/1.313 83/.425 76/.365 80/.619 78/.692 90/.759 .733
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 227/.854 15/1.467 134/.829 28/.555 90/.991 119/1.021 139/.871 129/.759 128/.681 .786
Road 213/.761 17/1.346 95/1.040 14/1.655 84/.549 92/.782 102/.711 90/.822 90/.634
Last 28d days 97/.771 / 55/.819 17/.647 36/.858 36/.747 41/.880 40/.668 48/1.083
HR/SB/CS 13/6/3 1/0/0 8/1/2 2/0/0 3/3/1 5/2/1 12/3/2 5/0/0 4/4/1 143/58/32
Usage ····X··· ········ ·X·····X ·XX···X· oo··o·X· o···Xo·o X··oX··X ···o···o X··oo··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  5.40

LAD  4.11

ATL  3.67

 RA/G

STL  3.00

CLE  4.20

COL  5.41

 BA

D. Gordon  .335

N. Walker  .266

C. Carter  .183

 OBP

B. Harper  .455

O. Herrera  .327

O. Infante  .233

 SLG

B. Harper  .640

M. Moustakas  .426

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.095

J. Bruce  .755

O. Infante  .535

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.67

F. Hernandez  3.74

K. Lohse  6.04

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.16

A. Burnett  7.58

M. Buehrle  4.25

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.