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Cleveland Indians vs. Minnesota Twins, at Progressive Field, August 30, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Start Time:

7:10et (local)

Venue:

Progressive Field

Series:

Game #2 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

76° (based on last ten years)

Twins

Manager:

Paul Molitor

Game #:

134

On This Date:

42-54

Indians

Manager:

Terry Francona

Game #:

134

On This Date:

52-47

Season Series
Mon, Apr 25, 2016 MIN  4  CLE  3     
Tue, Apr 26, 2016 MIN  6  CLE  5     
Wed, Apr 27, 2016 CLE  6 @MIN  5     
Fri, May 13, 2016 CLE  7  MIN  6     
Sat, May 14, 2016 MIN  6 @CLE  3     
Sun, May 15, 2016 MIN  5 @CLE  1     
Fri, Jul 15, 2016 CLE  5 @MIN  2     
Sat, Jul 16, 2016 MIN  5  CLE  4 (11)
Sun, Jul 17, 2016 CLE  6 @MIN  1     
Mon, Aug 01, 2016 MIN 12 @CLE  5     
Tue, Aug 02, 2016 MIN 10 @CLE  6     
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 MIN 13 @CLE  5     
Thu, Aug 04, 2016 CLE  9  MIN  2     
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 CLE  1  MIN  0 (10)

Tue, Aug 30, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Fri, Sep 09, 2016 CLE    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Sep 10, 2016 CLE    @MIN  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 11, 2016 CLE    @MIN  2:10pm

                         All times ET

Minnesota Twins

49-82, 5th, 25½ GB, 24 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   25-40   Road:   24-42   ExtrInn: 5-7 
 vsRHP:  34-63   vsLHP:  15-19   1-Run:  11-23
 vsEast: 10-24   vsCntrl:15-36   vsWest: 16-13 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
131 Mon, Aug 29  @CLE  L   0-1 (10)  49-82  5th 25.5 gb
130 Sun, Aug 28  @TOR  L   6-9       49-81  5th 24.5 gb
129 Sat, Aug 27  @TOR  L   7-8       49-80  5th 24.5 gb
128 Fri, Aug 26  @TOR  L   8-15      49-79  5th 24.5 gb
127 Thu, Aug 25   DET  L   5-8       49-78  5th 23.5 gb
126 Wed, Aug 24   DET  L   4-9       49-77  5th 23.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 23   DET  L   3-8       49-76  5th 23.5 gb
124 Sun, Aug 21  @KCR  L   1-2       49-75  5th 23.0 gb
123 Sat, Aug 20  @KCR  L   0-10      49-74  5th 22.0 gb
122 Fri, Aug 19  @KCR  L   4-5 (11)  49-73  5th 22.0 gb
 Last 10: 0-10   Last 20: 4-16   Last 30:11-19

Cleveland Indians

74-56, 1st, 4½ up / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   40-23   Road:   34-33   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  47-41   vsLHP:  27-15   1-Run:  20-18
 vsEast: 14-18   vsCntrl:34-17   vsWest: 16-14 IL:10-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
130 Mon, Aug 29   MIN  W   1-0 (10)  74-56  1st  4.5 up
129 Sun, Aug 28  @TEX  L   1-2       73-56  1st  4.5 up
128 Sat, Aug 27  @TEX  L   0-7       73-55  1st  4.5 up
127 Fri, Aug 26  @TEX  W  12-1       73-54  1st  4.5 up
126 Thu, Aug 25  @TEX  L   0-9       72-54  1st  4.5 up
125 Wed, Aug 24  @OAK  L   1-5       72-53  1st  5.5 up
124 Tue, Aug 23  @OAK  L   1-9       72-52  1st  6.5 up
123 Mon, Aug 22  @OAK  W   1-0       72-51  1st  7.5 up
122 Sun, Aug 21   TOR  W   3-2       71-51  1st  7.0 up
121 Sat, Aug 20   TOR  L   5-6       70-51  1st  7.0 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 CLE  1  MIN  0 (10)   W:Zach McAllister (3-2), L: Brandon Kintzler (0-1), S: none
Thu, Aug 04, 2016 CLE  9  MIN  2        W:Dan Otero (3-1), L: Hector Santiago (10-5), S: none
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 MIN 13 @CLE  5        W:Tyler Duffey (6-8), L: Trevor Bauer (7-5), S: none
Tue, Aug 02, 2016 MIN 10 @CLE  6        W:Ryan Pressly (6-5), L: Carlos Carrasco (7-5), S: none
Mon, Aug 01, 2016 MIN 12 @CLE  5        W:Jose Berrios (2-1), L: Danny Salazar (11-4), S: none
Sun, Jul 17, 2016 CLE  6 @MIN  1        W:Josh Tomlin (10-2), L: Kyle Gibson (2-6), S: none
Sat, Jul 16, 2016 MIN  5  CLE  4 (11)   W:Trevor May (1-2), L: Joseph Colon (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jul 15, 2016 CLE  5 @MIN  2        W:Carlos Carrasco (6-3), L: Ervin Santana (3-8), S: Cody Allen (19)
Sun, May 15, 2016 MIN  5 @CLE  1        W:Tyler Duffey (1-2), L: Trevor Bauer (3-1), S: none
Sat, May 14, 2016 MIN  6 @CLE  3        W:Ervin Santana (1-2), L: Corey Kluber (2-5), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - MIN over 8-6; 2015 - MIN won 12-7; 2014 - CLE won 11-8; All-Time - CLE leads 1123-989

SP: Andrew Albers (30, LHP, 0-0, 4.32)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (0-0)			8.1	12	7	4	1	6	2	4.32
2015 (0-0)			2.2	1	1	1	2	1	1	3.38
2013 (2-5)			60.0	64	34	27	7	25	6	4.05

Last 7 GS		0-4	35.2	50	29	22	5	18	5	5.55	41
2013-09-26	CLE	L	5.2	7	4	3	2	2	1	102	41
2013-09-20	@OAK	L	4.2	8	8	3	1	2	1	96	27
2013-09-14	TBR	L	4.0	6	4	4	1	1	0	73	34
2013-09-08	TOR	ND	7.0	5	0	0	0	5	0	97	72
2013-09-02	@HOU	ND	1.2	9	5	5	0	2	0	46	19
2013-08-28	KCR	L	7.0	6	3	2	0	2	2	99	57
2013-08-22	@DET	ND	5.2	9	5	5	1	4	1	96	34

Last 5 v.CLE		1-1	14.2	9	4	3	2	4	1	1.84	63
2013-09-26	CLE	L	5.2	7	4	3	2	2	1	102	41
2013-08-12	CLE	W	9.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	102	85

SP: Josh Tomlin (31, RHP, 11-8, 4.70)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (11-8)			145.2	159	87	76	20	106	34	4.70
2015 (7-2)			65.2	47	22	22	8	57	13	3.02
2014 (6-9)			104.0	120	66	55	14	94	18	4.76

Last 7 GS		1-6	38.0	52	37	36	8	34	12	8.53	37
2016-08-25	@TEX	L	4.1	6	8	7	2	5	2	81	24
2016-08-20	TOR	L	4.1	9	6	6	1	5	3	85	25
2016-08-15	BOS	L	7.2	7	3	3	0	3	2	104	56
2016-08-10	@WSN	L	4.0	8	7	7	1	4	1	77	21
2016-08-05	@NYY	L	4.2	9	7	7	2	2	1	93	18
2016-07-30	OAK	W	7.0	6	2	2	2	7	1	103	62
2016-07-23	@BAL	L	6.0	7	4	4	0	8	2	97	50

Last 5 v.MIN		3-1	32.1	25	13	11	5	18	8	3.06	56
2016-07-17	@MIN	W	7.2	6	1	1	1	4	1	107	66
2016-05-13	MIN	ND	6.1	4	4	3	2	4	3	103	53
2016-04-27	@MIN	W	5.1	6	5	4	1	1	1	65	38
2015-08-15	@MIN	L	6.1	5	2	2	0	5	2	84	60
2014-05-06	MIN	W	6.2	4	1	1	1	4	1	93	65

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

Twins Batters (4.54 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.18 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 43.Tomlin
G/S/vB 37.Allen
G/S/vB 51.Armstrong
G/S/vB 52.Clevinger
G/S/vB 53.Manship
G/S/vB 34.McAllister
G/S/vB 24.Miller*
G/S/vB 61.Otero
G/S/vB 27.Shaw
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

37.Centeno* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 154/112 .257/.301/.375/.676 .519/.735 .842 43/.685 0/0 2/4

2.Dozier G/S/vP 23/.478 11/.697 1/.000 3/2.334 2/2.000 21/.690 5/.000 9/.682 22/.739 557/435 .270/.342/.535/.878 1.067/.825 .908 117/1.072 11/2 30/7

5.Escobar# G/S/vP 7/.572 5/.400 2/.000 2/.000 3/1.000 6/1.467 2/1.500 6/1.167 10/.900 289/209 .269/.299/.389/.688 .731/.671 .569 54/.635 1/2 5/9

36.Grossman# G/S/vP 4/.250 4/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 5/.450 4/.500 318/206 .269/.384/.437/.820 .990/.724 .739 72/.759 1/3 9/6

26.Kepler* G/S/vP 3/1.666 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 3/1.334 4/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 341/235 .246/.326/.465/.791 .623/.867 .804 106/.542 5/0 15/6

7.Mauer* G/S/vP 22/.759 10/.667 1/.000 3/2.000 1/no AB 17/.769 17/.782 5/1.300 13/.581 514/400 .275/.375/.402/.778 .653/.815 .794 85/.838 2/0 10/2

24.Plouffe G/S/vP 14/.643 15/.785 ··· ··· 2/.000 19/.616 7/.286 6/.666 10/.856 307/230 .262/.301/.409/.710 .787/.685 .710 76/.796 1/0 9/7

11.Polanco# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/3.000 1/.000 148/110 .292/.329/.431/.759 .828/.736 .826 98/.667 3/0 1/8

20.Rosario* G/S/vP 7/1.000 5/1.400 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 6/1.834 1/.000 2/.500 3/3.000 302/231 .266/.290/.420/.710 .551/.755 .810 91/.772 5/1 8/4

22.Sano G/S/vP 9/1.111 5/.650 2/.000 3/1.667 3/.666 6/1.133 1/.000 3/.666 9/.347 406/323 .241/.328/.459/.787 .852/.771 .836 86/.814 1/0 20/15

32.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 2/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 2/.000 0/0 0/0

8.Suzuki G/S/vP 12/.639 8/.536 ··· 2/2.000 6/.334 9/.333 9/.555 5/.000 7/.286 315/220 .277/.318/.421/.740 .791/.717 .769 54/.669 0/0 6/4

IP 145.2 55.0 3.0 35.2 35.1 41.0 58.1 55.0 54.1 TOTAL .255/.319/.423/.742 .763/.735 .747 .729 80/24 152/101

ERA-K/9

4.70/6.5

2.95/11.8

3.00/6.0

5.30/8.1

2.80/6.9

4.17/9.9

1.39/15.3

1.31/6.7

3.31/9.1

3.82/8.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Centeno (12-3-4)
Suzuki (47-11-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 614/.272 221/.192 10/.200 157/.235 153/.243 190/.280 218/.165 213/.210 221/.230 .242 Kepler
Rosario
Grossman
Escobar
Schafer
Sano 0/4/82/8
44/37/0/7
65/1/0/3
1/0/0/0
0/1/0/0
0/0/38/0

OPS .802 .635 .400 .714 .717 .806 .504 .538 .701 .709

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 251/.701 112/.685 7/.286 72/.572 56/.831 94/.706 63/.535 101/.511 93/.816 .703

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 363/.873 109/.584 3/.667 85/.827 97/.649 96/.908 155/.491 112/.559 128/.620 .715

Home 274/.835 113/.686 10/.400 92/.640 67/.686 98/.776 119/.480 112/.514 111/.634

Last 28d days 120/1.042 39/.646 6/.000 83/.619 24/.393 51/.710 44/.346 41/.482 26/.352

HR/SB/CS 34/2/0 7/2/1 0/1/0 4/4/0 5/0/1 5/7/0 7/0/0 2/1/0 7/2/1 152/40/22

Usage ····X··· X··o···· ········ ·o··X·X· ··X··Xo· o··XX·X· X·o····o ·Xo·o··· o··o·o··

Indians Batters (4.87 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.49 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 58.Albers*
G/S/vB 60.Chargois
G/S/vB 64.Dean*
G/S/vB 27.Kintzler
G/S/vB 53.Light
G/S/vB 61.O'Rourke*
G/S/vB 57.Pressly
G/S/vB 55.Rogers*
G/S/vB 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB 51.Wimmers
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

35.Almonte# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 125/72 .277/.296/.412/.708 .782/.654 .755 81/.668 4/0 1/1

8.Chisenhall* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 8/1.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 345/299 .294/.335/.463/.798 .670/.817 .861 63/.753 6/0 8/1

20.Davis G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 8/.625 1/.000 5/.800 ··· 419/259 .255/.316/.399/.715 .672/.741 .696 74/.693 33/4 11/5

38.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 132/101 .223/.264/.347/.611 .706/.581 .599 24/1.057 0/0 4/1

6.Guyer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 304/181 .256/.363/.415/.778 1.028/.618 .885 55/.893 2/1 8/3

22.Kipnis* G/S/vP 7/.715 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.500 7/1.607 3/.666 6/.750 ··· 556/375 .286/.343/.480/.823 .824/.823 .874 107/.780 11/3 20/9

12.Lindor# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.650 2/.000 4/1.750 ··· 559/379 .311/.355/.448/.803 .762/.823 .914 108/.758 16/5 14/9

1.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 90/58 .247/.281/.329/.610 .590/.621 .651 20/.411 0/2 1/3

26.Napoli G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· ··· 8/1.357 1/.000 3/3.000 ··· 523/366 .255/.340/.493/.834 .891/.810 1.045 100/.805 4/1 29/12

30.Naquin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/no AB 3/.333 ··· 283/250 .303/.363/.567/.930 .730/.954 1.098 55/.616 4/2 14/2

55.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 4/.500 ··· 107/74 .148/.280/.216/.496 .468/.508 .382 62/.599 0/0 1/1

11.Ramirez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 4/.833 ··· 3/.000 ··· 490/343 .308/.362/.458/.820 .810/.824 .945 107/1.006 20/7 10/6

41.Santana# G/S/vP 7/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 7/1.096 4/1.000 6/1.667 ··· 550/395 .244/.344/.466/.810 .689/.859 .789 97/.723 5/2 27/5

IP 8.1 9.2 49.0 43.1 6.1 13.2 66.2 46.0 63.2 2.0 TOTAL .264/.325/.435/.760 .743/.767 .835 .763 104/26 161/71

ERA-K/9

4.32/6.5

6.52/3.7

6.24/7.0

1.87/5.6

17.05/7.1

3.29/6.6

3.65/8.0

2.93/8.6

4.95/10.0

4.50/9.0

5.11/7.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Gimenez (16-4-4)
Perez (5-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 39/.316 47/.359 215/.313 170/.247 36/.387 59/.229 290/.270 198/.258 278/.273 7/.143 .285 Davis
Chisenhall
Almonte
Naquin
Guyer
Martinez
Ramirez 54/65/1/9
0/2/97/7
21/2/20/4
0/82/4/2
42/18/13/2
8/8/9/2
48/0/0/1

OPS .912 .904 .903 .644 1.311 .705 .729 .686 .818 .714 .811

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 9/.222 17/.721 43/.604 70/.591 7/.452 13/.167 119/.661 68/.550 101/1.060 3/.000 .762

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 30/1.124 30/.985 172/.979 100/.682 29/1.517 46/.847 171/.769 130/.758 177/.685 4/1.250 .843

Road 9/.556 10/1.414 104/.965 72/.490 17/1.357 37/.864 160/.777 82/.708 114/.843 7/.714

Last 28d days 39/.912 39/.822 44/.922 34/.529 18/1.044 27/.656 53/.858 38/.635 58/1.083 7/.714

HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 0/1/0 9/1/0 4/0/0 3/1/0 2/0/0 7/2/0 4/0/1 11/13/1 1/0/0 182/63/15

Usage ···X···· ·o··ooo· ···X··o· X···o··· ·X·X·Xo· ···X·X·· o·X··X·· ··o·o··· ···XX·X· ·X·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 2016 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

BOS 5.44

SFG 4.51

ATL 3.70

RA/G

CHC 3.42

PIT 4.47

ARI 5.61

J. Altuve .354

E. Hosmer .274

T. Frazier .213

OBP

M. Trout .434

M. Napoli .340

F. Galvis .270

SLG

D. Ortiz .632

D. Pedroia .457

E. Aybar .318

OPS

D. Ortiz 1.038

J. Abreu .800

E. Aybar .610

ERA

K. Hendricks 2.19

J. Eickhoff 3.87

A. Sanchez 5.92

K/9IP

J. Fernandez 12.74

D. Keuchel 7.71

M. Perez 4.56

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.