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Minnesota Twins vs. Texas Rangers, at Target Field, May 27, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Target Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
72° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
52
On This Date:
27-21
Twins
Manager:
Ron Gardenhire
Game #:
49
On This Date:
52-52
Season Series
Mon, May 26, 2014 TEX  7 @MIN  2     

Tue, May 27, 2014 TEX    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, May 28, 2014 TEX    @MIN  8:10pm
Thu, May 29, 2014 TEX    @MIN  1:10pm
Fri, Jun 27, 2014 MIN    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Jun 28, 2014 MIN    @TEX  4:05pm
Sun, Jun 29, 2014 MIN    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
26-25, 3rd, 5 GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-13   Road:   13-12   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  18-16   vsLHP:   8-9    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast:  4-8    vsCntrl: 6-2    vsWest: 13-11 IL: 3-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 51 Mon, May 26  @MIN  W   7-2       26-25  3rd  5.0 gb
 50 Sun, May 25  @DET  W  12-4       25-25  3rd  5.0 gb
 49 Sat, May 24  @DET  W  12-2       24-25  4th  6.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
Minnesota Twins
23-25, 3rd, 5½ GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-12   Road:   11-13   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  16-18   vsLHP:   7-7    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast:  8-4    vsCntrl:11-10   vsWest:  2-5  IL: 2-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 48 Mon, May 26   TEX  L   2-7       23-25  3rd  5.5 gb
 47 Sun, May 25  @SFG  L   1-8       23-24  2nd  5.5 gb
 46 Sat, May 24  @SFG  L   1-2       23-23  2nd  5.5 gb
 45 Fri, May 23  @SFG  L   2-6       23-22  2nd  5.5 gb
 44 Wed, May 21  @SDP  W   2-0       23-21  2nd  5.0 gb
 43 Tue, May 20  @SDP  W   5-3       22-21  2nd  6.0 gb
 42 Sun, May 18   SEA  L   2-6       21-21  3rd  7.5 gb
 41 Sat, May 17   SEA  W   4-3       21-20  2nd  6.5 gb
 40 Fri, May 16   SEA  W   5-4       20-20  2nd  6.5 gb
 39 Thu, May 15   BOS  W   4-3 (10)  19-20  3rd  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, May 26, 2014 TEX  7 @MIN  2        W:Nick Tepesch (2-0), L: Kevin Correia (2-6), S: none

Sun, Sep 01, 2013 MIN  4 @TEX  2        W:Kevin Correia (9-10), L: Travis Blackley (2-2), S: Glen Perkins (32)
Sat, Aug 31, 2013 TEX  2  MIN  1        W:Joe Nathan (5-2), L: Caleb Thielbar (2-2), S: none
Fri, Aug 30, 2013 MIN  3 @TEX  2        W:Liam Hendriks (1-2), L: Yu Darvish (12-6), S: Glen Perkins (31)
Sun, Apr 28, 2013 MIN  5  TEX  0        W:Kevin Correia (3-1), L: Alexi Ogando (2-2), S: none
Sat, Apr 27, 2013 MIN  7  TEX  2        W:Pedro Hernandez (1-0), L: Derek Holland (1-2), S: none
Fri, Apr 26, 2013 TEX  4 @MIN  3        W:Justin Grimm (2-0), L: Scott Diamond (1-2), S: Joe Nathan (8)
Thu, Apr 25, 2013 TEX  2 @MIN  1        W:Nick Tepesch (2-1), L: Vance Worley (0-3), S: Joe Nathan (7)
Sun, Aug 26, 2012 MIN  6 @TEX  5        W:Cole De Vries (3-5), L: Scott Feldman (6-10), S: Glen Perkins (8)
Sat, Aug 25, 2012 TEX  9  MIN  3        W:Ryan Dempster (8-6), L: Brian Duensing (3-9), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - TEX over 1-0; 2013 - MIN won 4-3; 2012 - TEX won 8-2; All-Time - MIN leads 364-325

SP: Yu Darvish (27, RHP, 4-2, 2.35)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-2) 61.1 49 16 16 19 71 3 2.35
2013 (13-9) 209.2 145 68 66 80 277 26 2.83
2012 (16-9) 191.1 156 89 83 89 221 14 3.90
Last 7 GS 3-2 46.1 41 16 16 17 56 3 3.11 60
2014-05-22 @DET W 7.0 6 2 2 3 6 0 106 60
2014-05-16 TOR L 8.0 5 2 2 3 11 0 116 72
2014-05-09 BOS W 8.2 2 0 0 2 12 0 126 90
2014-05-04 @LAA W 6.1 7 3 3 1 9 2 116 55
2014-04-28 OAK L 3.1 6 4 4 2 4 0 83 34
2014-04-21 @OAK ND 6.0 8 3 3 4 6 1 116 46
2014-04-16 SEA ND 7.0 7 2 2 2 8 0 107 61
Last 5 v.MIN 0-1 12.1 12 5 4 6 15 2 2.92 55
2013-08-30 MIN L 6.2 3 3 3 2 11 2 107 65
2012-04-14 @MIN ND 5.2 9 2 1 4 4 0 102 45

SP: Phil Hughes (28, RHP, 5-1, 3.15)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (5-1) 54.1 59 20 19 6 47 4 3.15
2013 (4-14) 145.2 170 91 84 42 121 24 5.19
2012 (16-13) 191.1 196 101 89 46 165 35 4.19
Last 7 GS 5-1 44.1 47 12 11 2 37 2 2.23 59
2014-05-21 @SDP W 7.0 7 0 0 0 7 0 94 70
2014-05-15 BOS ND 6.0 5 1 1 0 8 0 97 66
2014-05-09 @DET W 7.0 8 0 0 0 3 0 86 64
2014-05-04 BAL W 6.1 6 2 2 0 3 1 94 56
2014-04-26 DET W 7.0 4 2 1 0 6 0 105 69
2014-04-20 @KCR W 6.0 9 3 3 1 3 1 96 44
2014-04-15 TOR L 5.0 8 4 4 1 7 0 87 41
Last 5 v.TEX 2-2 30.2 17 9 6 8 20 2 1.76 62
2013-07-23 @TEX ND 5.2 4 3 0 3 1 0 80 53
2013-06-27 TEX L 8.0 5 2 2 1 5 1 106 68
2012-04-25 @TEX L 2.2 5 4 4 0 2 1 52 34
2009-05-25 @TEX W 8.0 3 0 0 1 6 0 101 81
2007-05-01 @TEX W 6.1 0 0 0 3 6 0 80 76

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

Rangers Batters (4.37 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Hughes
G/S/vB		 61.Burton
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 56.Thielbar*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 13/.154 3/1.334 15/1.038 6/.400 6/1.000 8/.500 12/.819 ··· 223/154 .260/.318/.355/.673 .790/.624 .672 105/.735 13/4 2/8
29.Beltre G/S/vP 23/.704 6/.500 6/1.100 3/.000 10/1.278 16/1.349 11/1.000 ··· 157/107 .289/.357/.458/.814 .857/.795 .904 103/.859 0/0 5/6
61.Chirinos G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 106/68 .219/.279/.333/.612 .594/.622 .759 42/.587 0/0 2/2
15.Choice G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 127/71 .198/.283/.306/.590 .566/.602 .640 64/.572 1/0 3/0
17.Choo* G/S/vP 10/.443 5/.650 29/.631 2/.000 7/.858 8/.708 8/1.667 ··· 200/127 .306/.435/.481/.916 .997/.870 1.097 107/.886 3/3 6/2
60.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 6/.666 ··· 18/14 .412/.444/.529/.974 1.000/.967 1.143 18/.974 0/0 0/0
2.Martin* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.334 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 180/124 .276/.326/.344/.669 .595/.701 .443 80/.568 10/4 2/3
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 6/.533 3/1.000 10/.500 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 4/.000 ··· 142/120 .273/.321/.414/.735 .472/.779 .749 68/.730 0/0 2/2
16.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 88/65 .227/.318/.347/.665 .664/.665 .768 21/.793 0/0 2/0
73.Odor* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 47/35 .295/.311/.477/.788 .083/1.030 1.100 47/.788 0/3 1/0
51.Rios G/S/vP 25/1.148 8/.542 19/.387 3/1.667 24/.830 21/.952 9/.888 1/3.000 212/150 .322/.354/.477/.831 1.166/.698 .884 98/.858 9/6 3/2
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 22/16 .150/.227/.150/.377 .333/.393 .473 21/.396 0/2 0/0
3.Sardinas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 24/11 .273/.304/.318/.623 .801/.400 .472 20/.579 0/0 0/0
IP 54.1 20.1 19.1 20.0 6.0 22.1 23.2 16.0 TOTAL .267/.335/.393/.728 .781/.703 .769 .739 37/22 34/35
ERA-K/9 3.15/7.8 6.20/5.8 1.40/3.7 1.80/5.8 4.50/0.0 3.22/12.5 4.94/5.3 4.50/7.3 4.64/6.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (15-12-3)
 Gimenez (0-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 225/.272 87/.250 78/.246 74/.176 24/.227 91/.218 106/.274 64/.255 .271  Martin
 Choo
 Rios
 Choice
 Robertson
 Moreland
0/47/0/4
33/0/0/2
0/0/47/2
19/7/4/1
4/2/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .685 .794 .703 .440 .579 .552 .728 .754 .743
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 97/.534 39/.783 31/.563 36/.598 14/.643 23/.565 47/.758 32/.798 .748
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 128/.796 48/.801 47/.793 38/.297 10/.472 68/.548 59/.704 32/.704 .738
Home 118/.616 45/1.071 41/.906 28/.371 11/.311 42/.603 55/.668 29/.757
Last 28d days 104/.548 44/.640 43/.963 36/.447 24/.579 45/.489 48/.720 31/.777
HR/SB/CS 4/2/0 4/2/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 40/24/3
Usage ·····X·· X·X···o· o·o···o· ··o··oX· ·X·o···· ·····Xo· ·X······ ···X····
Twins Batters (4.33 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.59 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Darvish
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		 46.Ross*
G/S/vB		 28.Soria
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
31.Arcia* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 23/16 .136/.174/.273/.447 .143/.563 .750 4/.750 0/1 0/1
2.Dozier G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· 3/1.334 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 228/166 .246/.351/.445/.796 .786/.799 .953 115/.782 12/4 11/3
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 109/78 .347/.380/.525/.904 .756/.966 .946 81/1.025 1/1 1/2
32.Hicks# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 136/87 .198/.333/.261/.595 .741/.513 .688 52/.591 2/1 1/1
13.Kubel* G/S/vP 6/.667 ··· 2/.000 8/.661 1/.000 ··· ··· 12/.000 2/.500 163/124 .243/.331/.319/.651 .636/.655 .755 78/.459 1/0 1/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 4/.833 ··· 6/1.166 7/1.238 3/.000 1/.000 4/1.167 14/1.310 ··· 194/124 .284/.366/.361/.727 .556/.825 .748 83/.763 2/0 2/0
9.Nunez G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 36/19 .242/.286/.333/.619 .353/.889 .853 31/.591 1/0 1/1
27.Parmelee* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 54/37 .200/.241/.380/.621 .765/.550 .737 54/.621 0/1 3/1
43.Pinto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 133/86 .243/.353/.459/.813 .635/.906 .714 54/.698 0/0 7/3
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· ··· 7/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 210/154 .249/.333/.422/.755 .619/.806 .765 105/.615 0/0 4/4
39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 34/27 .355/.412/.452/.863 1.381/.733 .629 34/.863 0/0 0/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 3/.333 9/.555 1/2.000 7/.143 5/.450 ··· 1/.000 7/.715 1/2.000 165/118 .299/.366/.410/.776 .883/.729 .752 91/.752 0/0 2/2
16.Willingham G/S/vP 6/.500 3/1.666 2/1.000 4/1.833 7/1.047 ··· 6/.900 3/.666 ··· 27/20 .250/.407/.300/.707 .762/.686 .250 4/.250 0/0 0/0
IP 61.1 11.1 21.0 16.2 21.2 13.0 52.1 16.2 25.1 TOTAL .243/.324/.370/.694 .650/.713 .724 .647 29/10 37/27
ERA-K/9 2.35/10.4 6.35/2.4 3.86/9.4 2.16/9.7 6.65/7.5 3.46/6.9 4.82/6.0 2.16/11.3 3.20/7.8 4.33/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pinto (8-0-3)
 Suzuki (16-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 250/.215 50/.261 93/.268 68/.220 104/.315 55/.300 241/.310 61/.138 98/.200 .273  Hicks
 Escobar
 Arcia
 Parmelee
 Willingham
 Kubel
 Santana
 Nunez
0/36/0/3
2/1/0/2
0/0/5/1
1/0/14/1
6/0/0/0
34/0/3/0
0/3/0/0
6/0/0/0
OPS .596 .863 .743 .616 .786 .864 .834 .371 .721 .762
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 154/.621 18/.461 35/.837 29/.545 50/.751 21/.833 75/.788 35/.465 37/.714 .747
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 96/.556 32/1.096 58/.686 39/.671 54/.817 34/.882 166/.855 26/.240 61/.725 .774
Road 115/.769 28/1.011 52/.914 35/.855 55/.831 26/.923 89/.912 29/.414 44/.784
Last 28d days 118/.551 50/.863 48/.647 34/.790 48/.911 39/.927 115/.974 23/.304 48/.694
HR/SB/CS 3/5/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 1/2/0 1/1/2 6/1/2 0/0/0 6/2/1 42/24/15
Usage ····X··· ···X···· X·X··o·· o···o··· ···X··X· ··X···X· ·X···o·· ·o···o·· ··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 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

OAK  5.06

BOS  4.06

SDP  3.17

 RA/G

OAK  3.10

DET  4.28

ARI  5.04

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .378

B. Posey  .264

B. Miller  .153

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .480

J. Uribe  .331

J. Gyorko  .218

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .720

S. Perez  .407

B. Miller  .250

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.200

J. Reyes  .736

B. Miller  .473

 ERA

A. Wainwright  1.67

A. Burnett  3.51

K. Correia  6.34

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

A. Cashner  7.38

C. Young  3.77

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.