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Minnesota Twins vs. Detroit Tigers, at Target Field, April 29, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Friday, April 29, 2016

Start Time:

7:10ct (local), 8:10et

Venue:

Target Field

Series:

Game #1 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

57° (based on last ten years)

Tigers

Manager:

Brad Ausmus

Game #:

On This Date:

52-48

Twins

Manager:

Paul Molitor

Game #:

On This Date:

42-50

Season Series

Fri, Apr 29, 2016 DET    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Apr 30, 2016 DET    @MIN  2:10pm
Sun, May 01, 2016 DET    @MIN  2:10pm
Mon, May 16, 2016 MIN    @DET  7:10pm
Tue, May 17, 2016 MIN    @DET  7:10pm
Wed, May 18, 2016 MIN    @DET  1:10pm
Mon, Jul 18, 2016 MIN    @DET  7:10pm
Tue, Jul 19, 2016 MIN    @DET  7:10pm
Wed, Jul 20, 2016 MIN    @DET  1:10pm
Tue, Aug 23, 2016 DET    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, Aug 24, 2016 DET    @MIN  8:10pm
Thu, Aug 25, 2016 DET    @MIN  1:10pm
Mon, Sep 12, 2016 MIN    @DET  7:10pm
Tue, Sep 13, 2016 MIN    @DET  7:10pm
Wed, Sep 14, 2016 MIN    @DET  7:10pm
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 MIN    @DET  1:10pm
Tue, Sep 20, 2016 DET    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 21, 2016 DET    @MIN  8:10pm
Thu, Sep 22, 2016 DET    @MIN  8:10pm

                         All times ET

Detroit Tigers

11-10, 3rd, 4 GB, 1 GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:    5-6    Road:    6-4    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:  10-6    vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  1-1    vsCntrl: 1-5    vsWest:  4-3  IL: 5-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 21 Thu, Apr 28   OAK  W   7-3       11-10  3rd  4.0 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 27   OAK  W   9-4       10-10  4th  5.0 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 26   OAK  L   1-5        9-10  4th  5.0 gb
 18 Mon, Apr 25   OAK  W   7-3        9-9   4th  4.0 gb
 17 Sun, Apr 24   CLE  L   3-6        8-9   4th  4.0 gb
 16 Sat, Apr 23   CLE  L   1-10       8-8   4th  3.0 gb
 15 Fri, Apr 22   CLE  L   1-2        8-7   3rd  2.5 gb
 14 Thu, Apr 21  @KCR  L   0-4        8-6   3rd  1.5 gb
 13 Wed, Apr 20  @KCR  W   3-2        8-5   3rd  1.0 gb
 12 Tue, Apr 19  @KCR  L   6-8        7-5   3rd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:11-10

Minnesota Twins

7-15, 5th, 8½ GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:    6-5    Road:    1-10   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:   7-12   vsLHP:   0-3    1-Run:   4-6 
 vsEast:  0-3    vsCntrl: 2-7    vsWest:  3-0  IL: 2-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 22 Wed, Apr 27   CLE  L   5-6        7-15  5th  9.0 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 26   CLE  W   6-5        7-14  5th  8.0 gb
 20 Mon, Apr 25   CLE  W   4-3        6-14  5th  8.0 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 24  @WSN  L   5-6 (16)   5-14  5th  8.0 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 23  @WSN  L   0-2        5-13  5th  7.0 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 22  @WSN  L   4-8        5-12  5th  6.5 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 21  @MIL  W   8-1        5-11  5th  5.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 20  @MIL  L   5-10       4-11  5th  6.0 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 19   MIL  L   5-6        4-10  5th  5.5 gb
 13 Mon, Apr 18   MIL  W   7-4  (6)   4-9   5th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30: 7-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Sep 27, 2015 MIN  7 @DET  1        W:Ervin Santana (7-4), L: Randy Wolf (0-5), S: none
Sat, Sep 26, 2015 MIN  6 @DET  2        W:Tyler Duffey (5-1), L: Alfredo Simon (13-11), S: none
Fri, Sep 25, 2015 DET  6  MIN  4        W:Alex Wilson (3-3), L: Glen Perkins (2-5), S: Neftali Feliz (9)
Wed, Sep 16, 2015 DET  7 @MIN  4 (12)   W:Ian Krol (2-3), L: Brian Duensing (4-1), S: none
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 DET  5 @MIN  4        W:Alfredo Simon (13-9), L: Phil Hughes (10-9), S: Bruce Rondon (5)
Mon, Sep 14, 2015 MIN  7  DET  1        W:Tyler Duffey (3-1), L: Kyle Lobstein (3-8), S: none
Sun, Jul 12, 2015 MIN  7  DET  1        W:Kyle Gibson (8-6), L: Shane Greene (4-7), S: none
Sat, Jul 11, 2015 MIN  9  DET  5        W:Phil Hughes (8-6), L: Alfredo Simon (8-6), S: none
Fri, Jul 10, 2015 MIN  8  DET  6        W:Trevor May (6-7), L: Joakim Soria (3-1), S: none
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 DET  4 @MIN  2        W:David Price (9-2), L: Mike Pelfrey (5-6), S: Joakim Soria (20)
Season Series: 2016 -  0-0; 2015 - DET won 11-8; 2014 - MIN won 10-9; All-Time - DET leads 1096-1005

SP: (2016, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc

Last 7 GS

Has never faced MIN as starter.

SP: Phil Hughes (30, RHP, 1-3, 3.91)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (1-3)			25.1	25	12	11	4	19	2	3.91
2015 (11-9)			155.1	184	76	76	16	94	29	4.40
2014 (16-10)			209.2	221	88	82	16	186	16	3.52

Last 7 GS		2-5	36.1	44	22	21	6	29	3	5.20	47
2016-04-23	@WSN	L	7.0	6	2	2	2	2	0	94	57
2016-04-18	MIL	W	6.0	6	4	3	2	6	0	88	50
2016-04-13	CHW	L	6.1	7	3	3	0	7	1	88	54
2016-04-07	@BAL	L	6.0	6	3	3	0	4	1	93	52
2015-09-23	CLE	W	5.0	4	0	0	0	4	0	66	63
2015-09-15	DET	L	3.0	6	3	3	1	4	0	65	38
2015-08-09	@CLE	L	3.0	9	7	7	1	2	1	63	14

Last 5 v.DET		2-2	26.0	37	14	14	2	20	3	4.85	46
2015-09-15	DET	L	3.0	6	3	3	1	4	0	65	38
2015-07-11	DET	W	5.0	8	4	4	0	3	1	74	38
2015-04-29	DET	ND	5.0	7	3	3	0	4	0	71	45
2015-04-06	@DET	L	6.0	8	4	4	1	6	2	93	45
2014-05-09	@DET	W	7.0	8	0	0	0	3	0	86	64

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Tigers Batters (4.57 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 45.Hughes
G/S/vB 58.Abad*
G/S/vB 50.Fien
G/S/vB 49.Jepsen
G/S/vB 65.May
G/S/vB 51.Meyer
G/S/vB 61.O'Rourke*
G/S/vB 57.Pressly
G/S/vB 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

14.Aviles G/S/vP 19/.579 2/.000 11/.364 9/.778 3/2.000 ··· ··· 5/.400 4/1.250 317/146 .231/.282/.317/.599 .650/.542 .633 18/.423 3/1 5/10

24.Cabrera G/S/vP 40/1.449 ··· 15/1.687 6/.334 7/.714 ··· ··· 6/.733 5/1.350 511/408 .338/.440/.534/.974 1.016/.964 .948 89/.798 1/1 18/4

9.Castellanos G/S/vP 15/.938 2/.500 5/.400 4/.500 9/.222 ··· ··· 5/.200 4/.000 595/470 .255/.303/.419/.721 .970/.656 .688 76/.869 0/3 15/12

12.Gose* G/S/vP 16/.467 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/3.000 ··· 535/454 .254/.321/.367/.688 .546/.713 .667 62/.574 23/11 5/4

1.Iglesias G/S/vP 8/.500 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 454/341 .300/.347/.370/.717 .889/.661 .727 75/.659 11/8 2/11

3.Kinsler G/S/vP 33/.565 1/no AB 10/1.300 15/.277 9/1.000 ··· ··· 7/.715 3/.000 675/534 .296/.342/.428/.770 .798/.763 .757 93/.905 10/6 11/13

28.Martinez G/S/vP 10/.856 1/no AB 5/.000 2/.000 10/.522 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 657/519 .282/.344/.535/.879 .915/.870 .867 91/.835 3/2 38/2

41.Martinez# G/S/vP 35/.727 2/.000 11/.273 9/.583 10/1.700 ··· ··· 4/1.000 5/1.850 485/387 .245/.301/.366/.667 .870/.616 .659 75/.912 0/0 11/1

17.Romine# G/S/vP 9/.444 2/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 203/166 .255/.307/.315/.622 .640/.617 .710 13/.408 10/5 2/7

39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 15/.466 3/.333 1/.000 6/.333 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 227/181 .225/.310/.435/.745 .979/.684 .597 59/.995 0/0 9/3

8.Upton G/S/vP ··· 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 620/499 .251/.336/.454/.790 .558/.848 .714 90/.501 19/5 26/3

46.Wilson G/S/vP 6/.800 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 147/104 .189/.255/.250/.505 .296/.590 .445 10/.100 0/1 1/2

IP 155.1 47.2 63.1 69.2 114.2 2.2 22.0 27.2 23.1 TOTAL .258/.316/.414/.730 .706/.738 .745 .730 4/3 25/12

ERA-K/9

4.40/5.4

4.15/8.5

3.55/5.8

2.33/7.6

4.00/8.6

16.88/10.0

6.14/9.8

2.93/7.1

3.47/7.3

3.88/8.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Saltalamacchia (22-5-0)
Wilson (28-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 651/.293 205/.251 257/.250 285/.206 492/.279 15/.364 97/.200 119/.257 99/.239 .256 Martinez
Upton
Gose
Aviles
Romine 0/0/148/15
146/0/0/9
0/137/0/4
34/5/1/1
2/0/0/0

OPS .812 .813 .648 .560 .752 1.409 .660 .645 .699 .734

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 346/.761 110/.859 109/.717 156/.653 257/.759 6/1.500 49/.560 42/.678 40/1.011 .733

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 305/.869 95/.753 148/.597 129/.449 235/.743 9/1.333 48/.764 77/.626 59/.485 .734

Home 359/.758 109/.630 129/.672 140/.510 273/.734 / 51/.655 57/.344 50/.735

Last 28d days 103/.665 35/.329 45/.808 40/.800 55/.684 / 26/.656 64/.762 46/.833

HR/SB/CS 29/7/2 11/0/3 6/5/1 5/4/2 11/10/2 2/2/0 3/1/0 0/1/2 4/4/1 23/8/3

Usage ·····X·· ·o·oX··o ·Xo·oX·o ··ooX··· ·X·XX··o ····X·o· ···XX·o· ·X··X·X·

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Twins Batters (3.50 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.29 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 45.Farmer
G/S/vB 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB 21.Lowe
G/S/vB 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB 56.Ryan*
G/S/vB 54.VerHagen
G/S/vB 30.Wilson
G/S/vB 38.Wilson*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

31.Arcia* G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 65/40 .276/.338/.379/.718 .624/.779 .993 47/.740 0/0 2/1

2.Dozier G/S/vP 5/1.300 2/3.000 1/no AB 4/1.000 4/.250 1/.000 6/.666 2/.000 704/498 .236/.307/.444/.751 .762/.746 .789 98/.656 12/4 28/8

5.Escobar# G/S/vP 1/2.000 4/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 5/2.550 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 446/308 .262/.309/.445/.754 .789/.737 .734 79/.576 2/3 12/6

7.Mauer* G/S/vP 4/1.250 6/.900 4/1.167 8/.393 5/1.000 1/no AB 4/.500 2/1.000 666/457 .265/.338/.380/.718 .720/.718 .696 98/.907 2/1 10/5

12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 172/86 .277/.327/.406/.734 .770/.696 .761 35/.246 0/0 3/3

9.Nunez G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 204/139 .282/.327/.431/.758 .649/.809 .763 57/.909 8/4 4/3

52.Park G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 65/.877 / /

11.Polanco# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/9 .300/.417/.300/.717 1.333/.476 .717 8/.583 1/0 0/2

20.Rosario* G/S/vP 1/2.000 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 474/354 .267/.289/.459/.748 .811/.727 .907 77/.601 11/6 13/7

22.Sano G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 1/2.000 335/244 .269/.385/.530/.916 .881/.929 1.065 93/.779 1/1 18/0

39.Santana# G/S/vP 4/.500 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 277/196 .215/.241/.291/.532 .624/.494 .593 25/.800 8/4 0/16

8.Suzuki G/S/vP 2/.000 2/1.000 11/.273 9/.250 5/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 479/324 .240/.296/.314/.610 .658/.587 .625 51/.574 0/0 5/3

IP 40.1 61.1 55.0 57.0 56.1 26.1 70.0 61.0 TOTAL .242/.315/.388/.703 .605/.721 .757 .703 14/5 20/16

ERA-K/9

7.36/5.4

3.08/8.1

1.96/10.0

2.21/9.8

4.47/4.8

2.05/4.4

2.19/4.9

3.10/9.7

3.90/6.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Murphy (21-8-7)
Suzuki (80-14-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 186/.323 265/.260 215/.231 216/.189 237/.282 106/.200 273/.238 244/.223 .272 Rosario
Escobar
Nunez
Arcia
Santana 86/4/34/16
35/0/1/4
3/0/0/1
15/0/4/0
0/5/1/0

OPS .986 .704 .612 .547 .795 .559 .609 .602 .759

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 84/1.067 128/.631 97/.724 109/.538 61/.817 39/.691 124/.566 83/.629 .771

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 102/.920 137/.770 118/.523 107/.558 176/.788 67/.487 149/.645 161/.588 .748

Road 167/.999 124/.663 106/.547 81/.566 134/.836 52/.612 130/.611 103/.602

Last 28d days 22/.687 23/.733 29/.649 33/.940 47/.646 51/1.038 19/.368 33/.492

HR/SB/CS 10/1/2 2/1/0 4/1/3 6/2/2 9/2/2 1/2/0 5/3/4 3/6/1 18/16/9

Usage ········ X··X·X·· ···o···· oo······ o·o··X·X ·X··X·o· ·oo··X·o ·o·o··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 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

For the 2015 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

TOR 5.50

CHC 4.25

ATL 3.54

RA/G

STL 3.24

NYY 4.31

COL 5.21

M. Cabrera .338

E. Longoria .270

J. Pederson .210

OBP

B. Harper .460

M. Duffy .334

W. Ramos .258

SLG

B. Harper .649

E. Longoria .435

A. Escobar .320

OPS

B. Harper 1.109

J. Pederson .763

C. Owings .587

ERA

Z. Greinke 1.66

J. Zimmermann 3.66

A. Simon 5.05

K/9IP

C. Sale 11.82

J. Teheran 7.67

M. Buehrle 4.12

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.