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Detroit Tigers vs. Texas Rangers, at Comerica Park, May 24, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Start Time:
4:08et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Comerica Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
70° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
49
On This Date:
20-26
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
45
On This Date:
58-46
Season Series
Thu, May 22, 2014 TEX  9 @DET  2     
Fri, May 23, 2014 DET  7  TEX  2     

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
23-25, 4th, 7 GB, 4½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-13   Road:   10-12   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  15-16   vsLHP:   8-9    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast:  4-8    vsCntrl: 3-2    vsWest: 13-11 IL: 3-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 48 Fri, May 23  @DET  L   2-7       23-25  4th  7.0 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18
Detroit Tigers
28-16, 1st, 5½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-9    Road:   14-7    ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  18-14   vsLHP:  10-2    1-Run:   8-6 
 vsEast:  8-1    vsCntrl:12-9    vsWest:  6-3  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 44 Fri, May 23   TEX  W   7-2       28-16  1st  5.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 23, 2014 DET  7  TEX  2        W:Anibal Sanchez (2-2), L: Scott Baker (0-1), S: none
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
Season Series: 2014 - tied 1-1; 2013 - TEX won 4-3; 2012 - TEX won 7-3; All-Time - DET leads 351-300

SP: Nick Martinez (23, RHP, 0-1, 2.28)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (0-1) 27.2 25 9 7 14 16 3 2.28
Last 7 GS 0-0 16.0 14 8 6 9 7 3 3.38 49
2014-05-18 TOR ND 5.0 4 1 1 3 3 1 84 55
2014-04-22 @OAK ND 5.0 6 4 2 3 1 0 92 41
2014-04-05 @TBR ND 6.0 4 3 3 3 3 2 85 52
Has never faced DET as starter.

SP: Rick Porcello (25, RHP, 7-1, 2.91)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (7-1) 52.2 46 17 17 7 33 4 2.91
2013 (13-8) 177.0 185 87 85 42 142 18 4.32
2012 (10-12) 176.1 226 101 90 44 107 16 4.59
Last 7 GS 6-1 46.0 43 16 16 5 30 4 3.13 57
2014-05-17 @BOS W 8.0 6 1 1 1 4 1 110 69
2014-05-12 @BAL W 6.0 5 1 1 0 2 0 83 60
2014-05-07 HOU W 6.2 7 2 2 2 5 0 100 55
2014-05-02 @KCR W 7.0 4 2 2 0 6 1 106 67
2014-04-25 @MIN W 5.0 6 4 4 1 4 1 92 42
2014-04-20 LAA W 7.0 5 1 1 1 4 0 103 66
2014-04-11 @SDP L 6.1 10 5 5 0 5 1 91 38
Last 5 v.TEX 3-2 24.2 36 18 15 6 17 3 5.47 42
2013-05-17 @TEX W 5.2 5 1 1 1 6 1 106 60
2012-08-12 @TEX L 6.0 9 6 4 0 1 1 90 35
2012-06-25 @TEX W 6.0 6 1 1 3 7 0 96 60
2012-04-21 TEX L 1.0 10 9 8 1 1 1 51 -1
2011-06-07 @TEX W 6.0 6 1 1 1 2 0 87 57

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

Rangers Batters (4.00 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (3.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 21.Porcello
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 14/.297 1/.000 9/1.334 9/.888 1/no AB 3/.666 2/.000 207/141 .245/.309/.337/.646 .763/.594 .616 102/.607 11/3 2/8
29.Beltre G/S/vP 17/.912 2/5.000 14/.671 6/.533 1/.000 26/.323 4/.500 143/95 .277/.343/.438/.781 .819/.762 .859 100/.772 0/0 4/6
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 101/63 .198/.263/.297/.559 .594/.539 .661 48/.451 0/0 2/2
15.Choice G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 116/61 .190/.284/.260/.544 .577/.514 .560 65/.503 1/0 2/0
17.Choo* G/S/vP 31/.851 1/.000 6/1.167 16/.321 1/2.000 12/.417 1/no AB 185/114 .309/.432/.497/.929 1.005/.882 1.164 97/.927 3/2 6/2
60.Gimenez G/S/vP 8/.250 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 5/1.150 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 166/110 .280/.329/.353/.683 .595/.725 .429 77/.573 9/4 2/2
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 8/.875 1/.000 2/no AB 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 125/106 .277/.325/.420/.745 .435/.793 .774 58/.746 0/0 2/2
16.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 82/59 .211/.293/.296/.588 .664/.560 .656 17/.369 0/0 1/0
73.Odor* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/22 .194/.219/.290/.509 .091/.714 .747 33/.509 0/2 1/0
51.Rios G/S/vP 38/.685 7/.971 12/.533 7/.453 1/.000 11/1.000 4/1.000 197/137 .308/.340/.459/.800 1.172/.643 .825 94/.791 8/6 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 52.2 20.0 19.2 14.2 17.2 17.2 19.1 TOTAL .259/.328/.377/.705 .779/.669 .727 .663 33/19 31/34
ERA-K/9 2.91/5.6 3.60/11.2 3.20/11.4 6.75/3.7 1.53/5.6 4.08/8.1 3.72/7.5 3.50/7.8

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 202/.238 84/.247 80/.257 67/.351 70/.227 72/.206 81/.284 .245  Martin
 Choo
 Choice
 Rios
 Robertson
 Moreland
0/44/0/4
32/0/0/2
16/7/4/1
0/0/44/1
4/2/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .630 .674 .637 .953 .696 .657 .778 .690
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 103/.633 41/.740 37/.688 30/.863 36/.583 36/.861 36/.924 .659
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 99/.628 43/.610 43/.595 37/1.026 34/.809 36/.465 45/.667 .719
Home 75/.524 53/.654 39/.829 23/1.028 26/.968 35/.596 53/.775
Last 28d days 106/.569 43/.512 44/.523 35/.876 37/.591 28/.454 43/.824
HR/SB/CS 4/1/1 3/3/0 0/2/1 1/0/1 3/0/0 3/4/0 2/3/2 32/32/18
Usage ······X· oXo·XX·· ··o·oo·o ·oX·X·o· X·X·Xo·o ··X····o ·X·X·o·o
Tigers Batters (4.86 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Martinez
G/S/vB		 25.Baker
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 44.Frasor
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 ··· 13/.237 ··· 3/.666 7/.000 ··· 6/.167 ··· 125/95 .231/.355/.423/.778 .704/.800 .633 65/.906 0/2 4/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 43/1.122 ··· 13/1.315 13/1.083 ··· 8/1.125 ··· 191/149 .326/.366/.543/.909 .778/.944 .939 100/1.087 0/1 7/2
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 151/111 .238/.258/.371/.629 .722/.598 .677 79/.527 0/1 4/2
20.Davis G/S/vP ··· 14/1.269 ··· 2/1.000 8/.500 ··· 4/1.250 ··· 143/106 .277/.329/.392/.721 .672/.738 .764 66/.534 14/2 3/2
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 41/29 .289/.341/.316/.657 .333/.798 .571 24/.798 1/0 0/2
48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· 17/.494 6/2.000 15/1.025 18/.457 ··· 14/.748 1/.000 163/128 .286/.319/.468/.787 .687/.813 .694 89/.725 1/1 6/1
14.Jackson G/S/vP ··· 15/1.396 ··· 1/2.000 9/.347 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 175/131 .260/.331/.420/.751 .866/.714 .936 91/.598 6/1 3/3
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 ··· 31/.734 1/.000 12/.167 1/3.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 201/159 .326/.358/.481/.839 .893/.825 .859 105/.946 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 40/.881 2/1 2/0
41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· 43/.716 16/.833 14/.917 13/.718 2/.500 9/.222 ··· 188/147 .323/.383/.599/.982 1.350/.878 .861 103/1.127 2/2 12/2
27.Romine# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.666 1/.000 1/.000 7/.572 ··· 2/.500 ··· 94/79 .176/.247/.224/.471 .708/.426 .589 52/.357 4/0 1/4
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 27.2 11.1 18.2 15.2 21.2 12.0 16.0 24.1 TOTAL .275/.329/.435/.764 .769/.762 .778 .776 38/15 46/26
ERA-K/9 2.28/5.2 6.35/2.4 4.34/10.1 2.30/9.7 6.65/7.5 3.00/6.8 2.25/11.8 3.33/7.4 4.43/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (23-15-1)
 Holaday (6-2-0)
 Martinez (3-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 117/.250 50/.261 82/.264 64/.218 104/.315 50/.289 59/.143 94/.198 .271  Davis
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Hunter
 Martinez
33/1/0/4
0/41/0/1
3/2/5/0
0/0/38/0
7/0/4/0
OPS .756 .863 .740 .624 .786 .849 .384 .731 .762
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 71/.771 18/.461 33/.892 27/.509 50/.751 20/.876 35/.465 36/.735 .741
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 46/.733 32/1.096 49/.638 37/.711 54/.817 30/.828 24/.261 58/.729 .780
Road 73/.799 28/1.011 41/.956 31/.906 55/.831 21/.902 27/.444 40/.813
Last 28d days 69/.700 50/.863 42/.617 35/.810 55/1.014 36/.907 21/.333 56/.701
HR/SB/CS 3/0/1 2/0/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 1/2/0 1/1/2 0/0/0 6/2/1 41/23/13
Usage ·····X·· X······· ··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  5.29

TEX  4.00

SDP  3.14

 RA/G

OAK  3.13

TBR  4.27

ARI  5.20

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .377

M. Kemp  .265

C. Santana  .156

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .479

Y. Escobar  .332

J. Gyorko  .219

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .721

C. Owings  .408

B. Miller  .255

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.200

S. Perez  .738

B. Miller  .483

 ERA

J. Samardzija  1.46

Y. Gallardo  3.51

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.