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Minnesota Twins vs. Chicago White Sox, at Target Field, September 1, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
White Sox
Manager:
Robin Ventura
Game #:
135
On This Date:
51-53
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
136
On This Date:
60-53
Season Series
Mon, Apr 11, 2016 CHW  4 @MIN  1     
Wed, Apr 13, 2016 CHW  3 @MIN  0     
Thu, Apr 14, 2016 CHW  3 @MIN  1     
Fri, May 06, 2016 CHW 10  MIN  4     
Sat, May 07, 2016 CHW  7  MIN  2     
Sun, May 08, 2016 CHW  3  MIN  1     
Tue, Jun 28, 2016 MIN  4 @CHW  0     
Wed, Jun 29, 2016 CHW  9  MIN  6     
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 CHW  6  MIN  5     
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 MIN  2  CHW  1 (12)
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 CHW  6 @MIN  5 (10)
Sun, Jul 31, 2016 MIN  6  CHW  4     

Thu, Sep 01, 2016 CHW    @MIN  8:10pm
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 CHW    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Sep 03, 2016 CHW    @MIN  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 04, 2016 CHW    @MIN  2:10pm
Fri, Sep 30, 2016 MIN    @CHW  8:10pm
Sat, Oct 01, 2016 MIN    @CHW  7:10pm
Sun, Oct 02, 2016 MIN    @CHW  3:10pm

                         All times ET
Chicago White Sox
63-69, 4th, 13 GB, 10½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-29   Road:   28-40   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  47-55   vsLHP:  16-14   1-Run:  21-26
 vsEast: 16-13   vsCntrl:20-32   vsWest: 18-15 IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Wed, Aug 31  @DET  L   2-3       63-69  4th 13.0 gb
131 Tue, Aug 30  @DET  L   4-8       63-68  4th 12.0 gb
130 Mon, Aug 29  @DET  L   3-4       63-67  4th 11.0 gb
129 Sun, Aug 28   SEA  W   4-1       63-66  4th 10.0 gb
128 Sat, Aug 27   SEA  W   9-3       62-66  4th 11.0 gb
127 Fri, Aug 26   SEA  L   1-3       61-66  4th 12.0 gb
126 Thu, Aug 25   SEA  W   7-6       61-65  4th 11.0 gb
125 Wed, Aug 24   PHI  L   3-5       60-65  4th 12.0 gb
124 Tue, Aug 23   PHI  W   9-1       60-64  4th 12.0 gb
123 Sun, Aug 21   OAK  W   4-2       59-64  4th 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
Minnesota Twins
49-84, 5th, 27½ GB, 25 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   25-40   Road:   24-44   ExtrInn: 5-7 
 vsRHP:  34-65   vsLHP:  15-19   1-Run:  11-24
 vsEast: 10-24   vsCntrl:15-38   vsWest: 16-13 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
133 Wed, Aug 31  @CLE  L   4-8       49-84  5th 27.5 gb
132 Tue, Aug 30  @CLE  L   4-5       49-83  5th 26.5 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
 Last 10: 0-10   Last 20: 3-17   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 31, 2016 MIN  6  CHW  4        W:Ervin Santana (4-9), L: Carlos Rodon (2-8), S: Ryan Pressly (1)
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 CHW  6 @MIN  5 (10)   W:Michael Ynoa (1-0), L: Fernando Abad (1-4), S: David Robertson (25)
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 MIN  2  CHW  1 (12)   W:Trevor May (2-2), L: Dan Jennings (4-3), S: none
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 CHW  6  MIN  5        W:Nate Jones (4-2), L: Fernando Abad (1-2), S: David Robertson (21)
Wed, Jun 29, 2016 CHW  9  MIN  6        W:James Shields (3-9), L: Ricky Nolasco (3-6), S: Nate Jones (2)
Tue, Jun 28, 2016 MIN  4 @CHW  0        W:Kyle Gibson (1-5), L: Jose Quintana (5-8), S: none
Sun, May 08, 2016 CHW  3  MIN  1        W:Jose Quintana (5-1), L: Tyler Duffey (0-2), S: David Robertson (10)
Sat, May 07, 2016 CHW  7  MIN  2        W:Chris Sale (7-0), L: Ervin Santana (0-2), S: none
Fri, May 06, 2016 CHW 10  MIN  4        W:Mat Latos (5-0), L: Ricky Nolasco (1-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 14, 2016 CHW  3 @MIN  1        W:Mat Latos (2-0), L: Ervin Santana (0-1), S: David Robertson (5)
Season Series: 2016 - CHW over 9-3; 2015 - MIN won 13-6; 2014 - MIN won 10-9; All-Time - CHW leads 1129-1042

SP: Jose Quintana (27, LHP, 11-9, 2.77)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (11-9) 172.1 151 55 53 39 150 16 2.77
2015 (9-10) 206.1 218 81 77 44 177 16 3.36
2014 (9-11) 200.1 197 87 74 52 178 10 3.32
Last 7 GS 3-1 48.2 42 11 10 8 38 3 1.85 62
2016-08-27 SEA W 7.2 5 2 1 1 8 0 104 70
2016-08-21 OAK W 7.0 8 2 2 1 6 1 99 58
2016-08-16 @CLE L 6.0 7 2 2 2 3 0 105 51
2016-08-10 @KCR ND 7.1 4 1 1 1 5 0 97 70
2016-08-04 @DET W 7.1 8 3 3 1 3 2 93 52
2016-07-29 @MIN ND 6.2 7 1 1 1 9 0 112 64
2016-07-24 DET ND 6.2 3 0 0 1 4 0 117 71
Last 5 v.MIN 3-1 32.2 27 9 8 9 32 2 2.20 61
2016-07-29 @MIN ND 6.2 7 1 1 1 9 0 112 64
2016-06-28 MIN L 7.0 6 4 4 1 8 2 100 56
2016-05-08 MIN W 7.0 6 1 1 1 5 0 104 65
2016-04-11 @MIN W 6.0 4 1 1 3 5 0 100 62
2015-09-12 MIN W 6.0 4 2 1 3 5 0 120 60

SP: Ervin Santana (33, RHP, 6-10, 3.54)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (6-10) 147.1 138 66 58 39 113 15 3.54
2015 (7-5) 108.0 104 50 48 36 82 12 4.00
2014 (14-10) 196.0 193 90 86 63 179 16 3.95
Last 7 GS 3-2 49.0 38 16 13 11 40 4 2.39 62
2016-08-27 @TOR ND 6.2 5 6 6 5 4 1 111 39
2016-08-21 @KCR L 7.0 4 2 1 1 10 0 116 72
2016-08-16 @ATL W 7.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 107 73
2016-08-05 @TBR W 6.1 6 2 2 0 8 1 108 61
2016-07-31 CHW W 6.0 6 3 1 2 5 0 97 55
2016-07-26 ATL L 9.0 7 2 2 0 5 1 97 70
2016-07-20 @DET ND 7.0 6 1 1 1 2 1 110 62
Last 5 v.CHW 2-3 29.1 30 13 10 10 26 4 3.07 54
2016-07-31 CHW W 6.0 6 3 1 2 5 0 97 55
2016-05-07 @CHW L 3.1 7 3 3 3 4 1 83 35
2016-04-14 CHW L 7.0 7 3 3 1 6 1 100 56
2015-09-11 @CHW W 7.0 6 2 2 2 6 1 107 61
2013-08-20 CHW L 6.0 4 2 1 2 5 1 111 61

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White Sox Batters (4.05 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Santana
G/S/vB		 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/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
79.Abreu G/S/vP 8/.929 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 8/.661 ··· 3/.000 ··· 562/447 .288/.343/.462/.805 .709/.830 .716 103/1.066 0/2 19/7
12.Anderson G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 306/243 .281/.299/.428/.727 .863/.691 .629 99/.845 7/2 7/11
31.Avila* G/S/vP 18/.678 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/1.750 ··· 2/.500 ··· 161/145 .241/.366/.398/.765 1.083/.732 .672 12/1.317 0/0 5/2
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 35/.809 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.550 ··· 1/2.000 4/1.750 1/no AB 4/1.250 ··· 513/412 .291/.341/.436/.777 .845/.760 .731 92/.611 2/0 9/1
1.Eaton* G/S/vP 14/1.121 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 7/.334 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 590/443 .274/.358/.409/.767 .731/.781 .783 107/.766 12/4 11/4
21.Frazier G/S/vP 13/.985 ··· ··· ··· 7/.000 ··· ··· 6/.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 539/438 .212/.293/.450/.743 .808/.728 .731 100/.601 10/3 33/8
26.Garcia G/S/vP 14/1.121 3/1.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 353/267 .247/.312/.391/.702 .802/.671 .730 40/.812 3/3 10/1
44.Morneau* G/S/vP 38/.941 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.167 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 145/115 .261/.290/.457/.746 .733/.749 .836 85/.675 0/0 5/
38.Narvaez* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 54/46 .311/.426/.378/.804 1.000/.772 .862 40/.733 0/0 0/0
18.Saladino G/S/vP 8/.268 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 253/182 .266/.302/.414/.715 .737/.707 .730 82/.765 10/4 8/7
5.Sanchez# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 81/63 .132/.175/.171/.346 .333/.350 .296 23/.499 0/1 0/1
20.Shuck* G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 230/197 .210/.251/.308/.560 .855/.512 .471 50/.500 2/3 4/2
IP 147.1 10.1 10.1 53.1 43.1 8.0 16.2 66.2 48.2 63.2 3.2 TOTAL .252/.314/.402/.716 .763/.704 .698 .740 62/30 134/74
ERA-K/9 3.54/6.9 6.97/7.0 6.97/3.5 6.75/6.4 1.87/5.6 13.50/9.0 3.24/7.0 3.65/8.0 2.77/8.9 4.95/10.0 4.91/7.3 5.14/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (19-6-3)
 Narvaez (7-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 602/.248 53/.367 53/.381 237/.318 170/.247 43/.333 70/.241 290/.270 208/.251 278/.273 14/.273 .286  Eaton
 Cabrera
 Shuck
 Garcia
 Saladino
1/32/109/17
118/0/0/11
2/58/2/4
11/0/26/2
1/1/1/1
OPS .680 1.191 .967 .929 .644 1.164 .700 .729 .669 .818 1.065 .815
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 295/.633 11/.636 21/.952 46/.592 70/.591 10/.311 16/.133 119/.661 70/.534 101/1.060 7/.619 .763
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 307/.726 42/1.345 32/.969 191/1.010 100/.682 33/1.441 54/.853 171/.769 138/.737 177/.685 7/1.571 .849
Home 318/.639 30/1.021 37/.780 111/.840 98/.759 19/1.257 22/.473 130/.672 116/.671 164/.801 /
Last 28d days 107/.588 53/1.191 45/.904 66/1.008 34/.529 25/.850 38/.661 53/.858 44/.561 52/.998 14/1.065
HR/SB/CS 15/2/1 4/0/1 0/1/0 11/1/0 4/0/0 3/1/0 2/1/0 7/2/0 4/1/1 11/13/1 1/0/0 186/65/16
Usage ····X··· ·X···X·· X··o··oo X····X·· ··X···o· ·X·X·X·X X····X·X ··o·X··X ·X··o·o· ·····XX· ·X·X·o··
Twins Batters (4.53 RS/G) vs. White Sox Pitchers (4.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 62.Quintana*
G/S/vB		 34.Albers
G/S/vB		 54.Beck
G/S/vB		 43.Jennings*
G/S/vB		 65.Jones
G/S/vB		 48.Kahnle
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 29.Turner
G/S/vB		 66.Ynoa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
37.Centeno* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/115 .252/.295/.367/.662 .519/.715 .462 41/.635 0/0 2/4
2.Dozier G/S/vP 46/.885 9/.722 1/2.000 3/.000 8/.700 2/.500 7/1.262 ··· 1/.000 567/444 .269/.343/.543/.886 1.058/.839 .848 117/1.033 11/2 32/7
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 23/.348 6/1.166 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 7/.000 ··· ··· 294/214 .265/.297/.384/.680 .731/.662 .817 50/.651 1/2 5/9
36.Grossman# G/S/vP 12/.334 1/3.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 318/206 .269/.384/.437/.820 .990/.724 .887 68/.806 1/3 9/6
26.Kepler* G/S/vP 6/.666 1/no AB ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 2/.500 349/243 .243/.325/.467/.792 .623/.865 .778 105/.540 5/0 16/6
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 37/.878 3/1.667 1/.000 7/.629 4/1.167 1/no AB 12/.533 ··· 2/.500 523/408 .276/.375/.405/.780 .647/.819 .761 84/.710 2/0 10/2
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 34/.769 9/1.306 1/.000 4/.250 13/.731 ··· 8/.000 ··· 1/no AB 316/238 .261/.298/.403/.702 .776/.679 .709 85/.757 1/0 9/7
11.Polanco# G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 152/114 .305/.340/.447/.787 .828/.773 .655 97/.706 3/0 1/8
20.Rosario* G/S/vP 12/.606 ··· ··· 3/.333 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 310/238 .269/.292/.418/.711 .543/.758 .559 94/.735 5/1 8/4
22.Sano G/S/vP 12/.450 2/.000 ··· ··· 7/.714 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 414/331 .238/.324/.452/.776 .852/.757 .725 85/.740 1/0 20/15
32.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.650 ··· 10/9 .333/.400/.333/.733 2.000/.583 10/.733 0/0 0/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 20/.566 15/.277 ··· 2/.500 2/2.000 1/.000 11/1.155 4/.000 ··· 319/223 .275/.318/.417/.735 .782/.714 .710 54/.630 0/0 6/4
IP 172.1 48.0 12.1 53.0 61.1 17.0 54.2 18.2 19.2 TOTAL .255/.319/.423/.742 .760/.736 .737 .713 80/24 155/101
ERA-K/9 2.77/7.8 6.19/5.1 5.84/5.9 1.87/6.5 2.64/10.0 3.71/7.4 3.79/10.0 7.71/7.7 4.12/8.7 4.07/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Centeno (13-3-4)
 Suzuki (48-12-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 686/.236 221/.316 60/.314 226/.260 242/.195 80/.250 234/.238 94/.338 98/.224 .258  Rosario
 Kepler
 Grossman
 Schafer
 Escobar
 Sano
46/37/0/8
0/4/84/8
65/1/0/3
0/3/0/1
1/0/0/0
0/0/38/0
OPS .652 .921 .871 .688 .576 .806 .696 1.047 .687 .746
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 152/.561 68/.992 25/1.194 83/.706 96/.704 26/.873 114/.648 33/.714 41/.897 .723
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 534/.679 153/.892 35/.643 143/.677 146/.491 54/.775 120/.741 61/1.209 57/.543 .757
Road 396/.677 117/1.080 29/.796 95/.705 131/.676 36/.843 129/.723 58/1.114 48/.719
Last 28d days 111/.600 38/1.107 22/.656 32/.700 50/.602 34/.746 43/.639 48/.883 37/.448
HR/SB/CS 16/4/2 9/3/1 1/1/0 1/1/1 7/2/2 2/0/0 6/5/0 4/3/0 0/1/0 149/65/16
Usage ····X··· ·X····oo ··oo···· ··ooo·Xo ··oXo·o· ··o····X o··X··X· ·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  4.49

PHI  3.70

 RA/G

CHC  3.41

DET  4.46

ARI  5.58

 BA

J. Altuve  .351

B. Belt  .273

T. Frazier  .212

 OBP

M. Trout  .436

L. Forsythe  .340

F. Galvis  .271

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .622

A. Rendon  .456

J. Iglesias  .322

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.022

C. Carter  .800

A. Ramirez  .610

 ERA

K. Hendricks  2.09

M. Shoemaker  3.91

J. Shields  5.86

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.74

D. Keuchel  7.71

M. Perez  4.61

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.