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Detroit Tigers vs. Texas Rangers, at Comerica Park, May 23, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, May 23, 2014
Start Time:
7:08et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Comerica Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
71° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
48
On This Date:
20-27
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
44
On This Date:
47-46
Season Series
Thu, May 22, 2014 TEX  9 @DET  2     

Fri, May 23, 2014 TEX    @DET  7:08pm
Sat, May 24, 2014 TEX    @DET  4:08pm
Sun, May 25, 2014 TEX    @DET  1:08pm
Tue, Jun 24, 2014 DET    @TEX  8:05pm
Wed, Jun 25, 2014 DET    @TEX  8:05pm
Thu, Jun 26, 2014 DET    @TEX  8:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
23-24, 4th, 7 GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-13   Road:   10-11   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  15-15   vsLHP:   8-9    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast:  4-8    vsCntrl: 3-1    vsWest: 13-11 IL: 3-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 47 Thu, May 22  @DET  W   9-2       23-24  4th  7.0 gb
 46 Wed, May 21   SEA  W   4-3       22-24  4th  8.0 gb
 45 Tue, May 20   SEA  L   2-6       21-24  4th  8.0 gb
 44 Sun, May 18   TOR  W   6-2       21-23  4th  7.0 gb
 43 Sat, May 17   TOR  L   2-4       20-23  4th  7.0 gb
 42 Fri, May 16   TOR  L   0-2       20-22  4th  6.0 gb
 41 Wed, May 14  @HOU  L   4-5       20-21  4th  5.0 gb
 40 Tue, May 13  @HOU  L   0-8       20-20  4th  5.0 gb
 39 Mon, May 12  @HOU  W   4-0       20-19  3rd  4.0 gb
 38 Sun, May 11   BOS  L   2-5       19-19  4th  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17
Detroit Tigers
27-16, 1st, 4½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-9    Road:   14-7    ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  17-14   vsLHP:  10-2    1-Run:   8-6 
 vsEast:  8-1    vsCntrl:12-9    vsWest:  5-3  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 43 Thu, May 22   TEX  L   2-9       27-16  1st  4.5 up
 42 Wed, May 21  @CLE  L  10-11(13)  27-15  1st  5.0 up
 41 Tue, May 20  @CLE  L   2-6       27-14  1st  6.0 up
 40 Mon, May 19  @CLE  L   4-5 (10)  27-13  1st  7.0 up
 39 Sun, May 18  @BOS  W   6-2       27-12  1st  7.0 up
 38 Sat, May 17  @BOS  W   6-1       26-12  1st  6.5 up
 37 Fri, May 16  @BOS  W   1-0       25-12  1st  6.5 up
 36 Wed, May 14  @BAL  W   7-5       24-12  1st  5.5 up
 35 Tue, May 13  @BAL  W   4-1       23-12  1st  5.5 up
 34 Mon, May 12  @BAL  W   4-1       22-12  1st  5.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, May 22, 2014 TEX  9 @DET  2        W:Yu Darvish (4-2), L: Robbie Ray (1-1), S: none

Sun, Jul 14, 2013 DET  5  TEX  0        W:Justin Verlander (10-6), L: Martin Perez (3-2), S: none
Sat, Jul 13, 2013 TEX  7 @DET  1        W:Derek Holland (8-4), L: Max Scherzer (13-1), S: none
Fri, Jul 12, 2013 DET  7  TEX  2        W:Doug Fister (7-5), L: Justin Grimm (7-7), S: none
Sun, May 19, 2013 TEX 11  DET  8        W:Robbie Ross (2-0), L: Jose Ortega (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (13)
Sat, May 18, 2013 TEX  7  DET  2        W:Justin Grimm (3-3), L: Anibal Sanchez (4-4), S: none
Fri, May 17, 2013 DET  2 @TEX  1        W:Rick Porcello (2-2), L: Nick Tepesch (3-4), S: Jose Valverde (4)
Thu, May 16, 2013 TEX 10  DET  4        W:Yu Darvish (7-1), L: Justin Verlander (4-4), S: none
Sun, Aug 12, 2012 TEX  8  DET  3        W:Yu Darvish (12-8), L: Rick Porcello (9-7), S: none
Sat, Aug 11, 2012 TEX  2  DET  1        W:Mike Adams (2-3), L: Brayan Villarreal (3-3), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - TEX over 1-0; 2013 - TEX won 4-3; 2012 - TEX won 7-3; All-Time - DET leads 350-300

SP: Scott Baker (32, RHP, 0-0, 3.38)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (0-0) 5.1 4 2 2 1 2 0 3.38
2013 (0-0) 15.0 9 6 6 4 6 3 3.60
2011 (8-6) 134.2 126 50 47 32 123 15 3.14
Last 7 GS 1-1 36.0 34 17 16 6 22 6 4.00 51
2013-09-20 ATL ND 4.0 4 5 5 3 1 2 70 32
2013-09-14 @PIT ND 6.0 3 1 1 0 4 1 75 66
2013-09-08 MIL ND 5.0 2 0 0 1 1 0 55 63
2011-08-08 BOS ND 6.0 9 5 5 0 5 2 93 39
2011-08-03 @LAA ND 3.0 5 4 3 1 2 1 77 36
2011-07-28 @TEX L 7.0 8 2 2 0 4 0 97 57
2011-07-23 DET W 5.0 3 0 0 1 5 0 82 65
Last 5 v.DET 2-1 24.1 26 14 14 13 25 3 5.18 48
2011-07-23 DET W 5.0 3 0 0 1 5 0 82 65
2011-06-01 @DET L 6.0 7 4 4 3 5 1 107 44
2011-05-11 DET ND 4.1 6 5 5 5 6 1 99 32
2010-09-02 DET ND 2.0 3 2 2 2 3 1 46 43
2010-05-03 DET W 7.0 7 3 3 2 6 0 102 55

SP: Anibal Sanchez (30, RHP, 1-2, 2.89)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (1-2) 28.0 20 13 9 14 27 0 2.89
2013 (14-8) 182.0 156 56 52 54 202 9 2.57
2012 (9-13) 195.2 200 95 84 48 167 20 3.86
Last 7 GS 1-2 33.0 22 13 9 14 35 0 2.45 56
2014-05-18 @BOS W 5.0 5 2 1 3 3 0 80 51
2014-04-26 @MIN ND 2.2 0 0 0 2 2 0 54 58
2014-04-21 CHW L 6.1 5 3 3 1 5 0 92 55
2014-04-16 CLE L 5.0 2 3 2 4 8 0 104 57
2014-04-09 @LAD ND 5.0 6 3 1 1 6 0 110 52
2014-04-04 BAL ND 4.0 2 2 2 3 3 0 69 50
2013-09-28 @MIA ND 5.0 2 0 0 0 8 0 66 71
Last 5 v.TEX 0-3 12.1 24 16 13 7 12 3 9.49 30
2013-05-18 @TEX L 2.2 9 6 5 2 2 1 74 18
2011-07-01 @TEX L 3.2 7 7 7 4 4 1 79 19
2010-06-16 TEX L 6.0 8 3 1 1 6 1 103 53

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

Rangers Batters (4.04 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (3.84 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 19.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 46.Krol*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 57.Reed
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 10/.800 1/.000 9/1.334 9/.888 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 203/138 .249/.310/.343/.653 .753/.608 .629 103/.635 11/3 2/7
29.Beltre G/S/vP 5/1.800 2/5.000 14/.671 6/.533 ··· 26/.323 4/.500 139/92 .270/.338/.437/.775 .838/.743 .851 101/.778 0/0 4/6
61.Chirinos G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 98/60 .205/.271/.307/.578 .594/.567 .709 49/.521 0/0 2/2
15.Choice G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 113/58 .196/.292/.268/.560 .577/.542 .592 67/.519 1/0 2/0
17.Choo* G/S/vP 13/.826 1/.000 6/1.167 16/.321 ··· 12/.417 1/no AB 181/111 .310/.436/.503/.940 .989/.909 1.208 93/.948 3/2 6/2
84.Fielder* G/S/vP 17/.118 ··· 3/2.000 ··· ··· 8/.875 ··· 178/114 .247/.360/.360/.720 .688/.733 .762 78/.763 0/0 3/4
60.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/2.000 9/6 .500/.556/.500/1.056 1.333/.900 1.600 9/1.056 0/0 0/0
2.Martin* G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 162/106 .288/.338/.363/.701 .595/.754 .454 77/.627 9/4 2/2
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 4/1.833 1/.000 2/no AB 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 122/103 .275/.325/.413/.738 .435/.787 .759 59/.722 0/0 2/2
73.Odor* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 30/19 .179/.207/.286/.493 .091/.722 .773 30/.493 0/2 1/0
51.Rios G/S/vP 6/.167 7/.971 12/.533 7/.453 ··· 11/1.000 4/1.000 193/134 .304/.337/.453/.790 1.193/.620 .804 95/.750 8/5 3/2
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 22/16 .150/.227/.150/.377 .333/.393 .473 22/.377 0/2 0/0
3.Sardinas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 23/10 .286/.318/.333/.652 .801/.444 .536 19/.611 0/0 0/0
IP 28.0 19.0 19.2 14.2 16.2 17.2 19.1 TOTAL .260/.329/.379/.708 .779/.673 .735 .670 33/18 31/33
ERA-K/9 2.89/8.7 3.79/10.9 3.20/11.4 6.75/3.7 1.62/5.4 4.08/8.1 3.72/7.5 3.53/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (14-11-3)
 Gimenez (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 117/.196 80/.247 80/.257 67/.351 66/.222 72/.206 81/.284 .246  Martin
 Choo
 Choice
 Rios
 Robertson
 Moreland
0/43/0/4
31/0/0/2
16/7/4/1
0/0/43/1
4/2/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .577 .684 .637 .953 .686 .657 .778 .693
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 70/.513 39/.726 37/.688 30/.863 35/.541 36/.861 36/.924 .662
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 47/.676 41/.641 43/.595 37/1.026 31/.839 36/.465 45/.667 .722
Home 63/.561 49/.667 39/.829 23/1.028 22/.983 35/.596 53/.775
Last 28d days 33/.482 45/.633 44/.523 46/.832 33/.563 28/.454 43/.824
HR/SB/CS 0/7/1 3/3/0 0/2/1 1/0/1 3/0/0 3/4/0 2/3/2 32/32/17
Usage ····X··· Xo·XX··· ·o·oo·o· oX·X·o·· ·X·Xo·o· ·X····o· X·X·o·o·
Tigers Batters (4.81 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.66 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 25.Baker
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 44.Frasor
G/S/vB		 22.Martinez
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 49.Poreda*
G/S/vB		 28.Soria
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 10/.311 ··· 3/.666 ··· 6/.000 ··· 6/.167 ··· 121/91 .240/.367/.440/.807 .704/.840 .674 63/.965 0/2 4/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 40/1.086 ··· 13/1.315 ··· 12/1.183 ··· 8/1.125 ··· 187/145 .326/.364/.541/.904 .778/.939 .930 100/1.069 0/1 7/2
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 147/107 .237/.259/.374/.633 .722/.601 .687 79/.501 0/1 4/2
20.Davis G/S/vP 10/1.389 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 8/.500 ··· 4/1.250 ··· 139/102 .270/.324/.389/.713 .672/.727 .749 65/.510 14/2 3/2
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 41/29 .289/.341/.316/.657 .333/.798 .571 26/.732 1/0 0/2
48.Hunter G/S/vP 14/.607 6/2.000 15/1.025 ··· 17/.485 ··· 14/.748 1/.000 159/124 .293/.327/.480/.807 .687/.840 .728 89/.807 1/1 6/1
14.Jackson G/S/vP 12/1.318 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 8/.125 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 171/127 .253/.327/.397/.725 .866/.678 .891 91/.573 6/1 2/3
32.Kelly* G/S/vP 6/1.166 ··· 4/.250 ··· 10/.500 ··· 3/.666 ··· 60/54 .264/.350/.340/.690 1.300/.625 .987 39/.598 2/0 0/1
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 28/.590 1/.000 12/.167 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 197/155 .317/.350/.459/.809 .893/.786 .800 105/.856 6/3 4/1
28.Martinez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 51/36 .267/.333/.489/.822 .133/1.104 .508 41/.858 2/1 2/0
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 40/.735 16/.833 14/.917 ··· 12/.666 2/.500 9/.222 ··· 184/143 .327/.380/.606/.986 1.350/.882 .866 103/1.154 2/2 12/2
27.Romine# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/.666 ··· 2/.500 ··· 90/75 .173/.247/.185/.432 .708/.378 .524 51/.262 4/0 0/4
29.Worth G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 36/21 .212/.250/.242/.492 .276/.649 .697 32/.452 0/1 0/1
IP 5.1 18.2 15.2 27.2 19.2 12.0 16.0 24.1 TOTAL .275/.328/.431/.759 .769/.756 .769 .764 38/15 44/26
ERA-K/9 3.38/3.4 4.34/10.1 2.30/9.7 2.28/5.2 6.86/7.8 3.00/6.8 2.25/11.8 3.33/7.4 4.37/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (23-14-1)
 Holaday (6-2-0)
 Martinez (3-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 22/.200 82/.264 64/.218 117/.250 96/.318 50/.289 59/.143 94/.198 .271  Davis
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Hunter
 Martinez
32/1/0/4
0/40/0/1
3/2/5/0
0/0/37/0
7/0/4/0
OPS .673 .740 .624 .756 .784 .849 .384 .731 .758
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 9/.222 33/.892 27/.509 71/.771 47/.771 20/.876 35/.465 36/.735 .742
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 13/1.021 49/.638 37/.711 46/.733 49/.794 30/.828 24/.261 58/.729 .772
Road / 41/.956 31/.906 73/.799 47/.835 21/.902 27/.444 40/.813
Last 28d days 22/.673 44/.587 35/.810 69/.700 48/1.027 44/.816 24/.292 56/.701
HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 3/0/1 1/2/0 1/1/2 0/0/0 6/2/1 39/23/13
Usage ········ ·o···Xo· o····X·· ····X··· ··X··o·· ··X·Xo·· ·o··X··· o···oX··

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 2014 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

COL  5.35

TEX  4.04

SDP  2.98

 RA/G

OAK  3.13

LAD  4.31

ARI  5.20

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .380

M. Montero  .266

C. Santana  .153

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .484

J. Uribe  .331

J. Gyorko  .213

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .733

C. Owings  .408

B. Miller  .255

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.217

C. McGehee  .739

B. Miller  .483

 ERA

J. Samardzija  1.46

C. Young  3.53

K. Correia  6.52

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

R. Erlin  7.36

C. Young  3.35

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.