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Minnesota Twins vs. Oakland Athletics, at Target Field, May 5, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Target Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
60° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
28
On This Date:
40-50
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
27
On This Date:
46-40
Season Series
Mon, May 04, 2015 MIN  8  OAK  7     

Tue, May 05, 2015 OAK    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, May 06, 2015 OAK    @MIN  8:10pm
Thu, May 07, 2015 OAK    @MIN  1:10pm
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 MIN    @OAK 10:05pm
Sat, Jul 18, 2015 MIN    @OAK  9:07pm
Sun, Jul 19, 2015 MIN    @OAK  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
11-16, 4th, 7½ GB, 6 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-9    Road:    7-7    ExtrInn: 0-4 
 vsRHP:  10-12   vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   0-7 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 1-3    vsWest: 10-13 IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Mon, May  4  @MIN  L   7-8       11-16  4th  7.5 gb
 26 Sun, May  3  @TEX  W   7-1       11-15  3rd  7.5 gb
 25 Sat, May  2  @TEX  L   7-8 (10)  10-15  4th  7.5 gb
 24 Fri, May  1  @TEX  W   7-5       10-14  4th  6.5 gb
 23 Thu, Apr 30   LAA  L   5-6        9-14  4th  6.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 29   LAA  L   3-6        9-13  4th  5.5 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 28   LAA  W   6-2        9-12  4th  4.5 gb
 20 Sun, Apr 26   HOU  L   6-7        8-12  3rd  4.0 gb
 19 Sat, Apr 25   HOU  L   3-9        8-11  3rd  3.0 gb
 18 Fri, Apr 24   HOU  L   4-5 (11)   8-10  3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:11-16
Minnesota Twins
14-12, 3rd, 3 GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-4    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:   7-7    vsLHP:   7-5    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl:11-11   vsWest:  3-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 26 Mon, May  4   OAK  W   8-7       14-12  3rd  3.0 gb
 25 Sun, May  3   CHW  W  13-3       13-12  3rd  3.5 gb
 24 Sat, May  2   CHW  W   5-3       12-12  3rd  4.0 gb
 23 Fri, May  1   CHW  W   1-0       11-12  3rd  5.0 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 30   CHW  W  12-2       10-12  3rd  5.0 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 29   DET  L   7-10       9-12  4th  5.5 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 28   DET  W   3-2        9-11  4th  5.0 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 27   DET  L   4-5        8-11  4th  5.5 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 26  @SEA  W   4-2 (11)   8-10  4th  4.5 gb
 17 Sat, Apr 25  @SEA  W   8-5        7-10  4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:14-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, May 04, 2015 MIN  8  OAK  7        W:Phil Hughes (1-4), L: Jesse Hahn (1-2), S: Glen Perkins (9)

Sun, Aug 10, 2014 MIN  6 @OAK  1        W:Phil Hughes (12-8), L: Luke Gregerson (2-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 09, 2014 OAK  9  MIN  4        W:Jeff Samardzija (5-8), L: Trevor May (0-1), S: none
Fri, Aug 08, 2014 OAK  6  MIN  5        W:Scott Kazmir (13-4), L: Kyle Gibson (10-9), S: Sean Doolittle (18)
Thu, Aug 07, 2014 OAK  3  MIN  0        W:Jon Lester (12-7), L: Yohan Pino (1-4), S: none
Thu, Apr 10, 2014 OAK  6 @MIN  1        W:Dan Straily (1-1), L: Mike Pelfrey (0-2), S: none
Wed, Apr 09, 2014 OAK  7 @MIN  4 (11)   W:Dan Otero (1-0), L: Jared Burton (0-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 07, 2014 OAK  8 @MIN  3        W:Scott Kazmir (2-0), L: Kevin Correia (0-1), S: none
Sun, Sep 22, 2013 OAK 11  MIN  7        W:Sonny Gray (4-3), L: Cole De Vries (0-1), S: none
Sat, Sep 21, 2013 OAK  9  MIN  1        W:Jarrod Parker (12-7), L: Pedro Hernandez (3-2), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - MIN over 1-0; 2014 - OAK won 6-1; 2013 - OAK won 6-1; All-Time - MIN leads 997-994

SP: Jesse Chavez (31, RHP, 0-2, 2.55)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-2) 17.2 13 6 5 7 18 1 2.55
2014 (8-8) 146.0 142 64 56 49 136 17 3.45
2013 (2-4) 57.1 50 27 25 20 55 3 3.92
Last 7 GS 2-5 38.2 39 22 21 19 41 5 4.89 49
2015-04-30 LAA L 5.0 7 4 4 3 5 0 95 39
2015-04-23 @LAA L 6.0 1 2 1 3 4 1 90 65
2014-07-28 @HOU L 5.1 5 6 6 3 5 3 91 36
2014-07-23 HOU W 5.2 4 2 2 2 7 0 101 58
2014-07-12 @SEA L 5.2 10 3 3 2 6 1 102 41
2014-07-07 SFG W 6.0 4 0 0 2 9 0 101 71
2014-07-02 @DET L 5.0 8 5 5 4 5 0 105 32
Last 5 v.MIN 0-0 7.0 6 1 1 0 9 1 1.29 70
2014-04-09 @MIN ND 7.0 6 1 1 0 9 1 94 70

SP: Trevor May (25, RHP, 2-1, 4.43)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-1) 20.1 25 10 10 3 17 1 4.43
2014 (3-6) 45.2 59 41 40 22 44 7 7.88
Last 7 GS 3-3 37.0 43 23 23 6 37 5 5.59 47
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
2015-04-19 CLE W 6.0 4 1 1 0 4 0 97 64
2015-04-13 KCR L 5.1 8 5 5 1 4 1 78 35
2014-09-25 @DET L 6.0 5 3 3 1 7 2 92 56
2014-09-20 CLE L 4.2 8 7 7 2 3 1 96 21
2014-09-14 @CHW W 6.0 5 3 3 0 10 1 93 60
Last 5 v.OAK 0-1 2.0 3 4 4 7 0 0 18.00 27
2014-08-09 @OAK L 2.0 3 4 4 7 0 0 63 27

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

Athletics Batters (5.11 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.35 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		 62.Graham
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 64.Thompson*
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Burns# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/14 .357/.400/.429/.829 .000/.890 .829 15/.829 0/1 0/0
16.Butler G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 26/.699 ··· 20/.616 11/.920 1/.000 1/.000 110/91 .257/.318/.396/.714 .888/.680 .790 101/.715 0/0 3/0
20.Canha G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 89/71 .284/.348/.469/.817 .600/.867 .716 89/.817 2/1 4/1
17.Davis* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 94/89 .282/.340/.388/.729 .600/.736 .676 85/.734 0/0 1/1
23.Fuld* G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 4/1.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 98/93 .216/.278/.341/.619 .200/.640 .540 89/.525 2/0 0/2
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/1.667 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 40/22 .086/.175/.086/.261 .292/.234 .191 32/.295 1/0 0/2
15.Lawrie G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· ··· 1/no AB 108/84 .260/.292/.360/.652 .356/.736 .638 100/.687 1/0 2/3
50.Muncy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/10 .333/.400/.444/.844 /.844 2.500 10/.844 0/0 0/0
19.Phegley G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 26/13 .280/.308/.280/.588 .769/.397 .473 26/.588 0/0 0/0
22.Reddick* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 10/.500 ··· 2/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 82/73 .389/.463/.639/1.102 .667/1.162 1.000 82/1.102 2/1 4/2
10.Semien G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 2/1.000 1/3.000 1/.000 115/95 .271/.316/.430/.746 .694/.753 .706 108/.777 4/0 3/6
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 81/71 .234/.253/.299/.552 .000/.624 .550 73/.539 1/0 0/1
21.Vogt* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 93/79 .372/.462/.718/1.180 1.095/1.196 1.374 86/1.155 0/0 7/1
IP 20.1 13.2 4.2 7.2 12.0 2.2 17.1 0.2 TOTAL .268/.328/.413/.741 .564/.779 .756 .740 14/3 25/23
ERA-K/9 4.43/7.5 3.29/3.9 5.79/1.9 2.35/5.8 1.50/8.2 0.00/10.0 2.60/4.7 0.00/0.0 4.15/5.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Phegley (4-1-1)
 Vogt (11-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 88/.298 56/.288 20/.294 38/.281 45/.200 8/.000 65/.172 2/.000 .269  Fuld
 Reddick
 Gentry
 Burns
 Canha
2/23/1/2
0/1/20/2
9/5/3/1
0/3/0/0
19/0/0/0
OPS .699 .802 .871 .801 .444 .000 .524 .000 .751
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 57/.740 22/.427 11/1.055 16/.875 12/1.083 3/.000 28/.388 / .729
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 31/.625 34/1.039 9/.619 22/.742 33/.212 5/.000 37/.615 2/.000 .770
Home 74/.719 27/.345 10/1.350 25/.940 30/.533 8/.000 35/.510 2/.000
Last 28d days 88/.699 56/.802 20/.871 30/.840 45/.444 8/.000 65/.524 2/.000
HR/SB/CS 1/0/0 1/2/2 0/0/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/2/0 0/0/0 26/17/7
Usage ····X··· o·o··o·X ·Xo····· ·X··o··· o·oX··o· ·X······ X·X··o·· ··o·o···
Twins Batters (4.35 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.48 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Chavez
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 37.Alvarez
G/S/vB		 40.Bassitt
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 63.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Dozier G/S/vP 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 3/1.667 ··· 115/72 .248/.322/.406/.728 .836/.660 .841 111/.737 2/0 2/0
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/3.000 ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 66/36 .203/.227/.313/.540 .367/.688 .604 65/.548 1/0 1/2
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 24/15 .227/.292/.364/.655 .476/.733 .643 24/.655 0/0 0/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP 5/1.350 ··· 1/5.000 5/.400 ··· 3/2.334 2/2.000 ··· 97/58 .253/.289/.407/.695 .554/.792 .873 93/.726 1/1 3/1
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/no AB ··· ··· 114/60 .290/.368/.380/.748 .817/.683 .657 110/.758 0/0 0/1
9.Nunez G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 24/10 .409/.458/.591/1.049 .593/1.700 .764 24/1.049 0/1 0/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 5/.800 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 3/.000 ··· 105/59 .277/.352/.468/.820 .741/.882 1.048 102/.846 0/0 5/1
21.Robinson G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/21 .348/.400/.370/.770 .687/.879 .893 50/.770 2/1 0/0
39.Santana# G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 98/62 .269/.284/.323/.607 .755/.521 .686 94/.634 2/2 0/9
1.Schafer* G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 5/.800 1/3.000 1/4.000 ··· 60/48 .232/.271/.286/.557 .750/.505 .737 58/.541 0/3 0/1
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 77/47 .221/.289/.309/.598 .542/.625 .719 74/.595 0/0 2/1
19.Vargas# G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 81/47 .224/.272/.316/.587 .759/.463 .760 78/.584 0/0 2/0
IP 17.2 7.2 8.0 9.1 10.1 12.1 15.1 1.0 TOTAL .260/.315/.371/.687 .682/.690 .793 .699 8/8 17/19
ERA-K/9 2.55/9.2 7.04/4.7 11.25/15.8 2.89/7.7 2.61/6.1 4.38/5.9 1.17/10.6 9.00/18.0 3.98/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (3-2-0)
 Suzuki (14-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 74/.206 36/.333 40/.324 41/.125 45/.179 49/.277 54/.154 7/.400 .238  Robinson
 Escobar
 Schafer
 Nunez
 Hunter
 Herrmann
11/11/3/3
11/0/0/2
1/21/0/1
2/0/0/1
0/0/22/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .581 1.071 1.018 .567 .597 .733 .474 .971 .680
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 30/.624 19/1.507 16/1.042 24/.451 20/.200 16/.583 26/.442 5/1.100 .659
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 44/.546 17/.580 24/.996 17/.694 25/.882 33/.803 28/.500 2/.500 .694
Road 43/.501 15/1.650 24/1.250 14/.729 15/.277 34/.569 21/.353 7/.971
Last 28d days 69/.608 34/1.144 40/1.018 41/.567 45/.597 49/.733 51/.502 7/.971
HR/SB/CS 1/2/0 2/0/0 3/0/0 1/0/0 1/4/0 1/0/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 24/15/6
Usage ····X··· ··oo·o·· Xoo····· X·X··X·· ···oo··· ·ooooo·· ··Xo·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  5.44

ATL  4.19

PHI  2.85

 RA/G

STL  2.72

CIN  4.32

COL  5.46

 BA

D. Gordon  .433

C. Davis  .263

C. Utley  .103

 OBP

J. Reddick  .463

J. Kipnis  .327

R. Rivera  .160

 SLG

N. Cruz  .796

E. Inciarte  .404

R. Rivera  .192

 OPS

S. Vogt  1.180

L. Valbuena  .728

R. Rivera  .353

 ERA

D. Keuchel  .80

T. Hudson  3.78

K. Kendrick  8.73

 K/9IP

J. Shields  11.90

C. Heston  6.97

K. Gibson  2.97

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.