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Game Preview: MIN @ BOS, 1:05pm, Saturday, March 29, 2014 @Fenway Park

Twins, 66-96, 66-96

SP: Mike Pelfrey (29, RHP, 5-13, 5.19)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (5-13) 152.2 184 92 88 53 101 13 5.19
2012 (0-0) 19.2 24 5 5 4 13 0 2.29
2011 (7-13) 193.2 220 111 102 65 105 21 4.74
Last 7 GS 1-3 38.0 44 22 21 14 32 2 4.97 47
2013-09-23 DET ND 6.0 6 1 1 3 5 0 102 58
2013-09-17 @CHW L 4.1 9 3 3 1 6 0 96 38
2013-09-11 OAK L 3.0 8 7 7 1 2 1 78 16
2013-09-06 TOR L 6.0 6 6 5 2 7 0 102 43
2013-08-31 @TEX ND 7.0 6 1 1 0 7 0 98 68
2013-08-25 @CLE ND 5.0 2 1 1 6 3 0 94 56
2013-08-20 @DET W 6.2 7 3 3 1 2 1 96 49
Last 5 v.BOS 0-0 7.0 6 2 2 1 6 0 2.57 62
2009-05-23 @BOS ND 7.0 6 2 2 1 6 0 111 62
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-49   Road:   34-47   ExtrInn: 9-7 
 vsRHP:  50-75   vsLHP:  16-21   1-Run:  24-25
 vsEast: 10-23   vsCntrl:29-47   vsWest: 19-14 IL: 8-12

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29   CLE  L   1-5       66-96  4th 27.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 28   CLE  L   1-5       66-95  4th 27.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 27   CLE  L   6-12      66-94  4th 27.0 gb
159 Thu, Sep 26   CLE  L   5-6       66-93  4th 27.0 gb
158 Wed, Sep 25   DET  L   0-1       66-92  4th 26.5 gb
157 Tue, Sep 24   DET  L   2-4       66-91  4th 25.5 gb
156 Mon, Sep 23   DET  W   4-3 (11)  66-90  4th 24.5 gb
155 Sun, Sep 22  @OAK  L   7-11      65-90  4th 25.5 gb
154 Sat, Sep 21  @OAK  L   1-9       65-89  4th 25.5 gb
153 Fri, Sep 20  @OAK  L   0-11      65-88  4th 24.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 9-21
RedSox, 97-65, 97-65

SP: Jake Peavy (32, RHP, 12-5, 4.17)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (12-5) 144.2 130 70 67 36 121 20 4.17
2012 (11-12) 219.0 191 88 82 49 194 27 3.37
2011 (7-7) 111.2 117 61 61 24 95 10 4.92
Last 7 GS 3-0 46.2 37 19 19 16 34 3 3.66 56
2013-09-25 @COL W 6.0 8 5 5 4 5 1 110 37
2013-09-18 BAL ND 7.0 6 3 3 1 8 0 113 60
2013-09-12 @TBR ND 6.0 4 3 3 5 4 1 107 51
2013-09-05 @NYY ND 6.0 6 4 4 3 4 0 117 45
2013-08-31 CHW W 7.0 5 2 2 1 4 0 109 62
2013-08-25 @LAD W 9.0 3 1 1 1 5 1 111 81
2013-08-20 @SFG ND 5.2 5 1 1 1 4 0 92 58
Last 5 v.MIN 4-0 34.0 25 8 7 8 32 2 1.85 65
2013-05-14 @MIN W 7.0 5 2 2 0 6 0 104 65
2013-04-20 MIN ND 7.0 6 1 1 4 9 0 117 66
2012-09-16 @MIN W 6.0 4 2 2 1 6 1 101 61
2012-09-05 MIN W 6.0 5 1 1 1 3 0 107 60
2012-08-01 @MIN W 8.0 5 2 1 2 8 1 114 72
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   53-28   Road:   44-37   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  65-43   vsLHP:  32-22   1-Run:  21-21
 vsEast: 44-32   vsCntrl:19-15   vsWest: 20-12 IL:14-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29  @BAL  L   6-7       97-65  1st  6.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28  @BAL  L   5-6       97-64  1st  7.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27  @BAL  W  12-3       97-63  1st  7.0 up
159 Wed, Sep 25  @COL  W  15-5       96-63  1st  6.5 up
158 Tue, Sep 24  @COL  L   3-8       95-63  1st  6.5 up
157 Sun, Sep 22   TOR  W   5-2       95-62  1st  8.0 up
156 Sat, Sep 21   TOR  L   2-4       94-62  1st  8.0 up
155 Fri, Sep 20   TOR  W   6-3       94-61  1st  9.0 up
154 Thu, Sep 19   BAL  W   3-1       93-61  1st  9.0 up
153 Wed, Sep 18   BAL  L   3-5 (12)  92-61  1st  8.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 19, 2013 BOS  5 @MIN  1        W:John Lackey (2-4), L: Pedro Hernandez (2-1), S: none
Sat, May 18, 2013 BOS 12 @MIN  5        W:Craig Breslow (1-0), L: Scott Diamond (3-4), S: none
Fri, May 17, 2013 BOS  3 @MIN  2 (10)   W:Alex Wilson (1-0), L: Josh Roenicke (1-1), S: Koji Uehara (1)
Thu, May 09, 2013 MIN  5 @BOS  3        W:Kevin Correia (4-2), L: John Lackey (1-3), S: Glen Perkins (8)
Wed, May 08, 2013 MIN 15 @BOS  8        W:Ryan Pressly (1-0), L: Allen Webster (0-1), S: none
Tue, May 07, 2013 MIN  6 @BOS  1        W:Scott Diamond (3-2), L: Ryan Dempster (2-3), S: none
Mon, May 06, 2013 BOS  6  MIN  5 (11)   W:Clayton Mortensen (1-2), L: Jared Burton (0-1), S: none

Sun, Aug 05, 2012 BOS  6  MIN  4        W:Franklin Morales (3-2), L: Nick Blackburn (4-7), S: Alfredo Aceves (23)
Sat, Aug 04, 2012 MIN  6 @BOS  4        W:Alex Burnett (4-3), L: Alfredo Aceves (2-7), S: Jared Burton (5)
Fri, Aug 03, 2012 MIN  6 @BOS  5 (10)   W:Jeff Gray (6-1), L: Vicente Padilla (4-1), S: Jared Burton (4)
Season Series: 2013 - BOS over 4-3; 2012 - BOS won 4-3; 2011 - BOS won 5-2; All-Time - BOS leads 958-925

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 2013 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 2012 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  4.99

MIN  4.33

HOU  3.60

 RA/G

TBR  3.56

LAA  4.31

COL  5.49

 BA

B. Posey  .336

A. Rodriguez  .272

C. Pena  .197

 OBP

J. Mauer  .416

A. Jones  .334

D. Stubbs  .277

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .606

H. Ramirez  .437

J. Weeks  .304

 OPS

M. Cabrera  .999

A. Pagan  .778

J. Weeks  .609

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.53

T. Cahill  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

U. Jimenez  7.28

H. Alvarez  3.80

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Twins Batters (3.79 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.05 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Peavy
G/S/vB		 35.Badenhop
G/S/vB		 11.Buchholz
G/S/vB		 55.Capuano*
G/S/vB		 22.Doubront*
G/S/vB		 41.Lackey
G/S/vB		 31.Lester*
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 54.Mujica
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 67.Workman
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
31.Arcia* G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 6/.733 ··· 3/2.333 5/2.350 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· / /// / / / /
55.Colabello G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
2.Dozier G/S/vP 16/.626 2/.000 10/.311 ··· 2/.000 4/.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 340/260 .234/.271/.332/.603 .775/.547 .568 / 9/2 6/15
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/no AB 3/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 146/107 .214/.278/.260/.537 .844/.419 .490 / 3/0 0/2
25.Florimon# G/S/vP 9/.222 2/.000 6/.834 ··· 3/1.000 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 150/98 .219/.272/.307/.579 .619/.558 .600 / 3/1 1/7
32.Hicks# G/S/vP 5/.200 1/3.000 6/.833 ··· 3/1.167 5/.600 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· / /// / / / /
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 38/.895 1/no AB 15/1.082 10/1.000 6/1.417 31/.954 24/.908 9/.333 2/1.500 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 641/419 .319/.416/.446/.861 .754/.918 .844 / 8/4 10/5
43.Pinto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 23/.652 1/.000 11/.382 ··· 3/1.334 5/.600 6/.533 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 465/323 .235/.301/.455/.756 .911/.691 .655 / 1/3 24/19
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 12/1.083 2/.000 2/1.000 35/.594 18/.583 2/.000 4/.500 ··· 4/.000 ··· 442/341 .235/.276/.328/.605 .628/.598 .662 / 2/0 6/5
16.Willingham G/S/vP 26/.412 7/1.429 9/1.111 9/1.556 6/.167 6/.000 16/.620 4/.500 1/.000 1/no AB 5/.000 ··· 615/427 .260/.366/.524/.890 .920/.877 .770 / 3/2 35/4
IP 219.0 62.1 189.1 198.1 161.0 205.1 40.1 65.1 44.0 36.0 TOTAL .242/.312/.380/.692 .697/.691 .689 52/33 151/81
ERA-K/9 3.37/8.0 3.03/6.1 4.56/6.1 3.72/7.4 4.86/9.3 /0.0 4.82/7.3 3.35/11.4 3.03/6.5 1.43/9.2 1.75/10.8 /0.0 3.79/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Mauer (56-9-1)
 Suzuki (65-28-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 882/.234 262/.259 802/.263 817/.254 709/.259 / 876/.273 169/.194 258/.230 172/.227 130/.160 / .248  Willingham
 Plouffe
 Escobar
119/0/0/6
2/0/15/2
1/0/0/0
OPS .671 .687 .757 .715 .775 .773 .588 .643 .558 .466 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 506/.714 88/.844 429/.761 174/.599 197/.760 / 231/.738 102/.429 119/.669 67/.519 71/.545 / .678
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 376/.614 174/.610 373/.751 643/.746 512/.781 / 645/.785 67/.829 139/.620 105/.583 59/.369 / .736
Home 403/.619 124/.591 403/.799 390/.702 359/.815 / 478/.870 80/.555 141/.712 101/.563 73/.294 /
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 27/9/8 6/1/0 25/9/2 25/6/3 24/19/3 // 25/13/3 3/0/0 7/1/1 1/4/1 4/1/0 // 156/133/43
Usage ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

RedSox Batters (5.27 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Pelfrey
G/S/vB		 61.Burton
G/S/vB		 30.Correia
G/S/vB		 21.Deduno
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 44.Gibson
G/S/vB		 45.Hughes
G/S/vB		 47.Nolasco
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 56.Thielbar*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
37.Carp* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 13/1.515 ··· 2/1.000 5/.650 ··· 189/145 .213/.312/.341/.654 .722/.631 .701 / 1/0 5/2
5.Gomes G/S/vP 3/.666 3/2.000 7/.453 ··· 6/1.500 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 333/137 .262/.377/.491/.868 .974/.715 .764 / 3/1 18/2
10.Herrera# G/S/vP 6/.833 ··· 10/.311 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/.985 ··· ··· ··· 251/193 .262/.317/.351/.668 .638/.677 .784 / 4/1 3/3
16.Middlebrooks G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 3/1.000 2/.000 4/.000 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 6/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 286/186 .288/.325/.509/.835 .906/.798 .841 / 4/1 15/9
12.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 3/1.000 2/no AB 11/.364 2/1.000 ··· 9/1.778 ··· 2/1.000 16/.683 ··· 417/285 .227/.343/.469/.812 .706/.861 .785 / 1/0 24/7
29.Nava# G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 3/1.334 ··· 4/.250 1/5.000 ··· 13/.462 6/.900 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 317/222 .243/.352/.390/.742 .613/.797 .800 / 3/0 6/2
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 3/.333 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 27/1.299 10/.871 11/.909 6/1.667 ··· 383/245 .318/.415/.611/1.026 .985/1.050 1.169 / 0/1 23/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 3/1.334 2/2.500 4/1.000 3/.333 6/1.167 4/1.750 ··· 30/.976 8/.500 9/.347 6/.167 ··· 623/437 .290/.347/.449/.797 .848/.775 .831 / 20/6 15/5
40.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 3/1.334 4/1.833 3/.000 5/.650 17/.544 4/.833 ··· 18/.334 3/1.000 15/.276 6/.833 1/.000 520/399 .278/.326/.501/.827 .673/.874 .943 / 0/0 27/6
3.Ross G/S/vP 4/.500 2/2.500 16/.517 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/2.334 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 196/108 .256/.321/.449/.770 .712/.818 .779 / 1/0 9/2
38.Sizemore* G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB 3/.333 ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 6/.000 ··· 9/.666 3/2.667 ··· / /// / / / /
18.Victorino# G/S/vP 53/.838 4/.750 19/1.232 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 43/.390 3/1.000 3/.000 ··· 666/480 .255/.321/.383/.704 .906/.627 .695 / 39/6 11/2
IP 19.2 62.0 171.0 79.0 109.0 35.0 191.1 191.0 70.1 96.2 TOTAL .277/.349/.446/.795 .751/.818 .819 123/19 178/80
ERA-K/9 2.29/5.9 2.18/8.0 4.21/4.7 4.44/6.5 5.12/5.7 2.06/8.2 /0.0 4.19/7.8 4.48/5.9 2.56/10.0 5.03/5.8 /0.0 4.55/6.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Napoli (42-11-8)
 Pierzynski (76-27-8)
 Ross (19-15-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 85/.300 245/.186 728/.267 347/.241 472/.288 141/.195 / 815/.259 832/.285 281/.222 413/.284 / .280  Victorino
 Nava
 Carp
 Gomes
48/109/1/9
76/0/4/5
24/0/0/1
39/0/3/1
OPS .683 .549 .733 .759 .759 .578 .765 .755 .631 .798 .770
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 52/.672 99/.748 349/.735 201/.723 178/.678 59/.491 / 422/.610 436/.809 106/.488 190/.771 / .779
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 33/.697 146/.421 379/.731 146/.805 294/.808 82/.638 / 393/.928 396/.696 175/.721 223/.821 / .762
Road 28/.690 112/.484 391/.756 192/.934 254/.780 79/.452 / 403/.781 406/.784 127/.585 220/.851 /
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 0/2/1 5/6/0 20/7/4 10/8/1 10/5/1 3/3/0 // 35/4/3 18/14/4 8/2/3 15/1/1 // 168/73/38
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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.