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New York Mets vs. Texas Rangers, at Citi Field, July 5, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Start Time:

7:15et (local)

Venue:

Citi Field

Tickets:

Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Citi Field

Series:

Game #2 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

81° (based on last ten years)

Rangers

Manager:

Ron Washington

Game #:

On This Date:

29-22

Mets

Manager:

Terry Collins

Game #:

On This Date:

26-24

Season Series
Fri, Jul 04, 2014 NYM  6  TEX  5     

Sat, Jul 05, 2014 TEX    @NYM  7:15pm
Sun, Jul 06, 2014 TEX    @NYM  1:10pm

                         All times ET

Texas Rangers

37-49, 4th, 16 GB, 12½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   18-23   Road:   19-26   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  28-34   vsLHP:   9-15   1-Run:  13-11
 vsEast:  5-14   vsCntrl:11-10   vsWest: 16-17 IL: 5-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 86 Fri, Jul  4  @NYM  L   5-6       37-49  4th 16.0 gb
 85 Thu, Jul  3  @BAL  L   2-5       37-48  4th 15.0 gb
 84 Wed, Jul  2  @BAL  L   4-6       37-47  4th 14.0 gb
 83 Tue, Jul  1  @BAL  L   3-8       37-46  4th 14.0 gb
 82 Mon, Jun 30  @BAL  L   1-7       37-45  4th 14.0 gb
 81 Sun, Jun 29   MIN  L   2-3       37-44  4th 14.0 gb
 80 Sat, Jun 28   MIN  W   5-0       37-43  4th 13.0 gb
 79 Fri, Jun 27   MIN  W   5-4       36-43  4th 13.0 gb
 78 Thu, Jun 26   DET  L   0-6       35-43  4th 13.0 gb
 77 Wed, Jun 25   DET  L   6-8       35-42  4th 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 5-15   Last 30: 9-21

New York Mets

38-48, 4th, 10 GB, 9 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   18-21   Road:   20-27   ExtrInn: 5-7 
 vsRHP:  30-38   vsLHP:   8-10   1-Run:  11-20
 vsEast: 15-19   vsCntrl:10-13   vsWest:  8-11 IL: 5-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 86 Fri, Jul  4   TEX  W   6-5       38-48  4th 10.0 gb
 85 Wed, Jul  2  @ATL  L   1-3       37-48  4th 10.0 gb
 84 Tue, Jul  1  @ATL  L   4-5       37-47  4th  9.0 gb
 83 Mon, Jun 30  @ATL  L   3-5       37-46  4th  8.0 gb
 82 Sun, Jun 29  @PIT  L   2-5       37-45  4th  7.0 gb
 81 Sat, Jun 28  @PIT  W   5-3       37-44  4th  6.0 gb
 80 Fri, Jun 27  @PIT  L   2-3 (11)  36-44  5th  5.5 gb
 79 Thu, Jun 26  @PIT  L   2-5       36-43  5th  5.5 gb
 78 Wed, Jun 25   OAK  L   5-8       36-42  4th  5.5 gb
 77 Tue, Jun 24   OAK  W  10-1       36-41  4th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:11-19

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jul 04, 2014 NYM  6  TEX  5        W:Jenrry Mejia (5-3), L: Aaron Poreda (2-1), S: none

Sun, Jun 26, 2011 NYM  8 @TEX  5        W:Dillon Gee (8-1), L: Derek Holland (6-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 25, 2011 NYM 14 @TEX  5        W:Jon Niese (7-6), L: Alexi Ogando (7-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 24, 2011 TEX  8  NYM  1        W:Matt Harrison (6-6), L: Mike Pelfrey (4-6), S: none
Sun, Jun 15, 2008 NYM  4  TEX  2        W:Pedro Martinez (2-0), L: Kason Gabbard (1-3), S: Billy Wagner (14)
Sun, Jun 15, 2008 TEX  8 @NYM  7        W:Kevin Millwood (5-3), L: John Maine (6-5), S: C.J. Wilson (13)
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 NYM  7  TEX  1        W:Oliver Perez (5-4), L: Scott Feldman (1-3), S: none
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 NYM 11 @TEX  0        W:Al Leiter (7-3), L: Colby Lewis (4-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 NYM  8 @TEX  2        W:Jae Weong Seo (4-2), L: Victor Santos (0-1), S: none
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 TEX  9  NYM  7        W:John Thomson (4-7), L: Steve Trachsel (4-4), S: Ugueth Urbina (18)
Season Series: 2014 - NYM over 1-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - NYM leads 7-3

SP: Colby Lewis (34, RHP, 5-5, 5.71)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (5-5)			75.2	106	49	48	26	65	9	5.71
2012 (6-6)			105.0	99	48	40	14	93	16	3.43
2011 (14-10)			200.1	187	103	98	56	169	35	4.40

Last 7 GS		2-2	39.0	52	27	26	16	30	5	6.00	41
2014-06-29	MIN	ND	6.0	5	2	2	0	8	0	92	62
2014-06-24	DET	L	6.1	9	4	4	0	6	2	93	45
2014-06-16	@OAK	W	5.1	10	5	5	3	2	1	102	27
2014-06-10	MIA	ND	5.0	7	3	3	4	3	0	106	40
2014-06-05	BAL	ND	5.0	7	5	5	2	4	1	98	35
2014-05-30	@WSN	L	5.2	9	6	5	2	5	1	97	32
2014-05-25	@DET	W	5.2	5	2	2	5	2	0	108	48

Last 5 v.NYM		0-1	2.1	7	6	6	1	2	1	23.14	20
2003-06-12	NYM	L	2.1	7	6	6	1	2	1	58	20

SP: Bartolo Colon (41, RHP, 8-6, 3.88)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (8-6)			106.2	109	49	46	15	79	12	3.88
2013 (18-6)			190.1	193	60	56	29	117	14	2.65
2012 (10-9)			152.1	161	62	58	23	91	17	3.43

Last 7 GS		5-1	49.1	38	14	12	9	36	3	2.19	62
2014-06-29	@PIT	L	6.0	7	5	5	1	2	1	82	39
2014-06-24	OAK	W	8.0	4	1	1	1	8	0	112	77
2014-06-18	@STL	W	8.0	4	1	1	0	1	1	86	71
2014-06-13	SDP	W	7.1	4	2	2	1	7	1	118	68
2014-06-07	@SFG	ND	5.2	8	3	1	2	4	0	93	47
2014-06-02	@PHI	W	7.0	6	2	2	3	5	0	110	59
2014-05-28	PIT	W	7.1	5	0	0	1	9	0	121	76

Last 5 v.TEX		2-2	33.0	33	13	10	5	18	3	2.73	55
2013-09-14	@TEX	W	8.0	7	0	0	1	7	0	108	74
2013-09-03	TEX	L	5.0	8	4	1	0	3	1	83	44
2013-05-20	@TEX	W	7.0	6	2	2	2	3	0	95	58
2013-05-14	TEX	ND	6.0	4	3	3	1	0	1	77	51
2012-07-17	TEX	L	7.0	8	4	4	1	5	1	97	49

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

Rangers Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 40.Colon
G/S/vB 38.Black
G/S/vB 66.Edgin*
G/S/vB 61.Eveland*
G/S/vB 27.Familia
G/S/vB 71.Germen
G/S/vB 58.Mejia
G/S/vB 52.Torres
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Andrus G/S/vP 22/.511 ··· ··· 2/2.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 368/270 .272/.320/.347/.668 .858/.602 .695 105/.700 19/7 2/10

29.Beltre G/S/vP 72/.864 ··· ··· 16/.775 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.666 300/230 .336/.383/.515/.898 .890/.900 .825 99/.969 1/1 10/8

61.Chirinos G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 183/131 .246/.279/.425/.704 .712/.701 .726 55/.885 0/0 7/2

15.Choice G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 218/146 .173/.243/.315/.558 .656/.512 .582 66/.362 1/0 8/2

17.Choo* G/S/vP 14/.748 1/.000 ··· 6/1.917 1/no AB ··· ··· 7/.571 347/239 .254/.378/.401/.778 .813/.762 .868 102/.656 3/3 9/3

60.Gimenez G/S/vP 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 80/65 .293/.338/.427/.764 .867/.738 .820 43/.564 0/0 0/1

2.Martin* G/S/vP 8/.375 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 300/230 .271/.330/.364/.694 .496/.753 .599 79/.670 17/8 3/5

16.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 128/93 .196/.268/.330/.598 .761/.539 .744 26/.453 0/1 4/0

73.Odor* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.000 149/110 .263/.297/.394/.691 .501/.761 .765 75/.598 2/4 3/3

21.Pena* G/S/vP 42/.859 1/no AB ··· 11/.091 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 35/27 .091/.143/.182/.325 .000/.425 .083 35/.325 0/0 1/0

51.Rios G/S/vP 34/.718 ··· ··· 11/.182 2/2.500 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 348/265 .300/.330/.425/.756 1.063/.663 .761 92/.541 13/8 3/4

19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 56/31 .226/.268/.264/.532 .720/.369 .522 28/.692 1/2 0/1

9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 10/6 .300/.300/.400/.700 .750/.667 .700 10/.700 0/0 0/0

IP 106.2 17.2 13.0 12.2 44.2 25.2 60.0 55.1 TOTAL .260/.319/.384/.703 .763/.682 .714 .653 59/35 60/60

ERA-K/9

3.88/6.7

1.53/10.7

1.38/7.6

1.42/8.5

2.22/7.7

3.86/8.4

4.05/8.8

3.09/9.8

3.59/7.8

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Chirinos (22-21-4)
Gimenez (8-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 444/.259 76/.200 45/.095 48/.136 189/.224 108/.240 268/.252 239/.270 .245 Martin
Choice
Rios
Choo
Robertson 0/80/0/5
33/7/8/4
0/0/78/3
54/0/0/3
12/9/3/2

OPS .694 .593 .322 .436 .584 .745 .714 .729 .695

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 232/.724 35/.668 31/.368 22/.427 83/.830 45/1.061 128/.583 94/.586 .725

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 212/.661 41/.531 14/.220 26/.442 106/.397 63/.511 140/.825 145/.819 .672

Home 168/.531 32/.536 16/.393 23/.460 81/.654 66/.963 149/.568 130/.849

Last 28d days 109/.540 43/.596 22/.234 42/.372 60/.573 35/.785 39/.402 82/.743

HR/SB/CS 12/0/0 1/3/1 1/0/0 1/1/0 1/4/0 4/0/0 6/5/0 4/5/0 72/42/13

Usage ·····X·· X·X·o··o ··o·o··o ····oX·· X·o·X·oo ·····o·· X·o···oX X··X····

Mets Batters (3.88 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.97 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 48.Lewis
G/S/vB 25.Baker
G/S/vB 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB 30.Feliz
G/S/vB 44.Frasor
G/S/vB 49.Poreda*
G/S/vB 28.Soria
G/S/vB 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

53.Abreu* G/S/vP 17/.694 16/.321 2/1.000 7/.143 11/.764 1/no AB 12/.872 ··· 114/100 .276/.360/.398/.758 .516/.794 .998 43/.673 1/0 1/2

29.Campbell G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 102/59 .340/.373/.457/.830 .908/.774 .786 56/.866 1/0 1/2

15.d'Arnaud G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 181/132 .205/.289/.317/.606 .658/.587 .605 36/.846 1/0 4/3

21.Duda* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 290/238 .250/.345/.472/.817 .491/.888 .763 89/.894 2/1 13/2

3.Granderson* G/S/vP ··· 53/.814 4/.000 5/.200 14/1.012 ··· 15/.690 ··· 346/252 .233/.347/.413/.760 .837/.731 .704 93/1.022 6/2 12/2

12.Lagares G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 196/149 .294/.332/.411/.743 .981/.666 .756 24/.583 1/3 2/1

28.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/2.334 383/290 .296/.347/.416/.763 .841/.739 .706 103/.747 11/4 7/9

9.Nieuwenhuis* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 36/32 .281/.333/.500/.833 .500/.879 .413 15/.971 0/0 1/0

20.Recker G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 120/98 .209/.254/.327/.582 .465/.609 .450 30/.493 1/1 2/1

11.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 258/188 .234/.345/.294/.639 .730/.605 .706 83/.593 1/1 2/5

5.Wright G/S/vP 2/.000 6/1.500 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 354/271 .277/.333/.396/.729 1.005/.643 .734 68/.790 4/4 6/9

1.Young G/S/vP 3/.000 6/1.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· 4/.000 227/167 .199/.279/.343/.622 .571/.637 .621 64/.590 7/3 7/1

22.Young# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 219/164 .237/.321/.316/.637 .510/.681 .496 54/.687 22/3 1/1

IP 75.2 45.0 36.0 2.0 27.1 20.0 27.2 41.1 TOTAL .239/.313/.359/.672 .706/.661 .649 .696 60/23 64/52

ERA-K/9

5.71/7.7

5.80/5.8

3.75/10.5

0.00/9.0

2.63/9.6

3.60/8.6

2.93/12.7

3.27/8.7

4.66/7.5

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
d'Arnaud (23-7-5)
Recker (10-6-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 350/.337 186/.263 155/.259 8/.000 117/.238 84/.286 109/.173 173/.221 .280 Young
Granderson
Young
Nieuwenhuis
Campbell
Lagares
Duda
Abreu 47/1/0/5
10/11/72/5
41/26/4/4
0/7/0/2
8/0/1/1
0/47/0/1
1/0/0/0
1/0/24/0

OPS .897 .793 .701 .250 .653 .761 .461 .732 .784

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 186/.984 92/.727 60/.812 5/.200 45/.548 32/.713 64/.605 64/.754 .781

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 164/.797 94/.858 95/.629 3/.333 72/.716 52/.791 45/.252 109/.719 .786

Road 155/.875 108/.777 84/.764 8/.250 61/.938 43/.627 51/.396 87/.751

Last 28d days 101/.946 91/.836 50/.648 8/.250 32/.858 26/.478 25/.697 57/.733

HR/SB/CS 9/13/7 8/2/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 1/1/0 1/3/3 0/0/0 9/2/2 85/39/25

Usage ·····X·· ·X··o··· ·oX··ooo X······· X·Xo···o oX·o·X·· ·····X·X ·X·XX···

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 5.00

PIT 4.10

SDP 2.98

RA/G

STL 3.43

LAA 4.18

COL 5.22

T. Tulowitzki .350

D. Span .266

C. Carter .187

OBP

T. Tulowitzki .441

M. Adams .331

E. Cabrera .256

SLG

J. Abreu .629

N. Castellanos .411

E. Cabrera .290

OPS

T. Tulowitzki 1.049

E. Longoria .745

E. Cabrera .546

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.85

T. Milone 3.55

R. Nolasco 5.49

K/9IP

C. Kershaw 11.86

B. McCarthy 7.63

K. Correia 4.49

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.