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San Francisco Giants vs. Minnesota Twins, at AT&T Park, May 23, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, May 23, 2014
Start Time:
7:15pt (local), 10:15et
Venue:
AT&T Park
Tickets:
Tickets for games at AT&T Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
62° (based on last ten years)
Twins
Manager:
Ron Gardenhire
Game #:
45
On This Date:
33-56
Giants
Manager:
Bruce Bochy
Game #:
49
On This Date:
57-46
Season Series

Fri, May 23, 2014 MIN    @SFG 10:15pm
Sat, May 24, 2014 MIN    @SFG 10:05pm
Sun, May 25, 2014 MIN    @SFG  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Minnesota Twins
23-21, 2nd, 4½ GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-11   Road:   11-10   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  16-15   vsLHP:   7-6    1-Run:   8-4 
 vsEast:  8-4    vsCntrl:11-10   vsWest:  2-4  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
 38 Wed, May 14   BOS  L   4-9       18-20  3rd  7.0 gb
 37 Tue, May 13   BOS  W   8-6       18-19  3rd  6.0 gb
 36 Sun, May 11  @DET  W   4-3       17-19  4th  5.5 gb
 35 Sat, May 10  @DET  L   3-9       16-19  4th  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
San Francisco Giants
29-18, 1st, 3 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-8    Road:   15-10   ExtrInn: 6-1 
 vsRHP:  17-10   vsLHP:  12-8    1-Run:   9-9 
 vsEast:  7-3    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest: 18-13 IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 48 Thu, May 22  @COL  -   2-2  (6)  29-18  1st  3.0 up
 47 Wed, May 21  @COL  W   5-1       29-18  1st  3.0 up
 46 Tue, May 20  @COL  L   4-5       28-18  1st  2.0 up
 45 Sun, May 18   MIA  W   4-1       28-17  1st  3.0 up
 44 Sat, May 17   MIA  L   0-5       27-17  1st  3.0 up
 43 Fri, May 16   MIA  L   5-7       27-16  1st  3.0 up
 42 Thu, May 15   MIA  W   6-4       27-15  1st  4.0 up
 41 Wed, May 14   ATL  W  10-4       26-15  1st  3.5 up
 40 Tue, May 13   ATL  L   0-5       25-15  1st  2.5 up
 39 Mon, May 12   ATL  W   4-2       25-14  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 5-4    Last 20:12-7    Last 30:19-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 23, 2011 SFG  2  MIN  1        W:Tim Lincecum (6-6), L: Brian Duensing (4-7), S: Brian Wilson (21)
Wed, Jun 22, 2011 SFG  5  MIN  1        W:Ryan Vogelsong (5-1), L: Nick Blackburn (6-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 21, 2011 MIN  9 @SFG  2        W:Carl Pavano (5-5), L: Madison Bumgarner (3-9), S: none
Thu, Jun 16, 2005 SFG 14 @MIN  7        W:Jason Christiansen (3-1), L: Joe Nathan (1-3), S: none
Wed, Jun 15, 2005 SFG  8 @MIN  4        W:Noah Lowry (3-6), L: Kyle Lohse (5-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 14, 2005 MIN  4  SFG  3 (11)   W:Jesse Crain (6-0), L: Jeff Fassero (1-4), S: none
Thu, Jun 05, 2003 MIN  5 @SFG  2        W:Kyle Lohse (5-4), L: Jesse Foppert (3-5), S: Eddie Guardado (17)
Wed, Jun 04, 2003 SFG  4  MIN  3        W:Tim Worrell (2-2), L: Juan Rincon (1-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 03, 2003 MIN  6 @SFG  4        W:Joe Mays (7-3), L: Damian Moss (6-4), S: Eddie Guardado (16)
Season Series: 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - SFG leads 5-4

SP: Kyle Gibson (26, RHP, 4-3, 4.20)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-3) 45.0 46 21 21 20 21 1 4.20
2013 (2-4) 51.0 69 38 37 20 29 7 6.53
Last 7 GS 3-3 40.0 43 20 20 16 18 1 4.50 48
2014-05-16 SEA W 7.0 6 1 1 2 4 0 96 63
2014-05-10 @DET L 2.0 7 6 6 1 1 1 48 18
2014-05-05 @CLE ND 7.0 2 0 0 3 1 0 100 71
2014-04-30 LAD L 6.2 9 5 5 3 2 0 101 35
2014-04-22 @TBR L 3.0 10 7 7 2 3 0 86 12
2014-04-17 TOR W 8.0 4 0 0 1 4 0 105 77
2014-04-11 KCR W 6.1 5 1 1 4 3 0 100 58
Has never faced SFG as starter.

SP: Tim Lincecum (30, RHP, 3-3, 4.74)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-3) 49.1 60 27 26 18 52 7 4.74
2013 (10-14) 197.2 184 102 96 76 193 21 4.37
2012 (10-15) 186.0 183 111 107 90 190 23 5.18
Last 7 GS 3-2 39.1 45 16 15 17 40 3 3.43 51
2014-05-17 MIA L 6.0 7 3 3 3 6 0 114 49
2014-05-12 ATL W 7.2 3 1 1 4 11 1 113 76
2014-05-07 @PIT L 4.0 8 4 4 2 4 0 88 32
2014-05-02 @ATL W 6.0 6 1 1 3 4 0 93 57
2014-04-26 CLE ND 4.2 9 3 2 2 3 0 98 37
2014-04-20 @SDP W 6.0 7 3 3 3 7 1 102 50
2014-04-15 LAD ND 5.0 5 1 1 0 5 1 93 58
Last 5 v.MIN 1-0 7.0 3 0 0 2 12 0 0.00 81
2011-06-23 MIN W 7.0 3 0 0 2 12 0 109 81

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

Twins Batters (4.59 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (3.52 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Lincecum
G/S/vB		 41.Affeldt*
G/S/vB		 57.Gutierrez
G/S/vB		 34.Huff*
G/S/vB		 70.Kontos
G/S/vB		 49.Lopez*
G/S/vB		 63.Machi
G/S/vB		 52.Petit
G/S/vB		 54.Romo
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
20.Colabello G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 160/114 .233/.281/.380/.661 .661/.661 .755 67/.357 0/2 4/2
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 211/152 .257/.370/.469/.838 .820/.845 .675 102/.863 12/3 11/3
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 95/68 .337/.362/.506/.867 .681/.944 .822 71/.953 1/1 1/1
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/36 .128/.190/.128/.319 .333/.316 .417 21/.243 0/0 0/1
32.Hicks# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 125/78 .196/.331/.265/.595 .746/.504 .526 45/.641 2/1 1/1
13.Kubel* G/S/vP 8/.393 4/.500 ··· 14/.812 1/2.000 6/1.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 153/114 .257/.340/.338/.678 .636/.692 .546 72/.465 1/0 1/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· 7/.572 1/.000 25/1.256 ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 177/112 .283/.373/.349/.722 .602/.793 .670 70/.755 2/0 2/0
9.Nunez G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 30/17 .296/.345/.407/.752 .462/1.009 .558 25/.737 1/0 1/1
27.Parmelee* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/31 .231/.279/.462/.741 .917/.665 .744 43/.741 0/1 3/1
43.Pinto G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 128/81 .245/.359/.443/.803 .635/.897 .926 53/.739 0/0 6/3
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 6/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 193/142 .257/.337/.427/.764 .656/.804 .787 91/.625 0/0 3/4
39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/26 .321/.387/.429/.816 1.100/.763 .853 31/.816 0/0 0/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 20/.500 1/2.000 ··· 8/1.071 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.000 152/110 .303/.371/.424/.795 .906/.747 .855 78/.785 0/0 2/2
IP 49.1 14.2 20.2 15.1 2.0 8.0 22.2 34.0 21.0 TOTAL .248/.330/.376/.707 .668/.724 .688 .668 29/9 35/25
ERA-K/9 4.74/9.5 1.84/8.6 3.92/7.4 3.52/4.7 0.00/4.5 2.25/3.4 0.40/7.5 4.76/8.7 3.00/7.3 3.16/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pinto (8-0-3)
 Suzuki (14-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 219/.302 57/.222 80/.230 65/.262 7/.429 36/.219 84/.197 144/.269 80/.167 .247  Hicks
 Colabello
 Escobar
 Parmelee
 Santana
 Nunez
 Kubel
 Herrmann
0/33/0/3
0/0/17/2
2/1/0/2
0/0/11/1
0/2/0/0
5/0/0/0
32/0/3/0
2/0/11/0
OPS .844 .596 .659 .685 1.143 .649 .519 .738 .560 .697
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 98/.875 25/.628 25/.844 28/.321 3/2.000 21/.638 27/.264 63/.825 32/.763 .699
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 121/.818 32/.573 55/.581 37/.978 4/.500 15/.650 57/.649 81/.673 48/.443 .696
Home 120/.860 24/.639 26/.275 35/.560 / 21/.807 44/.483 75/.574 35/.175
Last 28d days 128/.774 39/.677 39/.606 38/.731 7/1.143 15/1.015 50/.416 82/.778 46/.507
HR/SB/CS 7/4/2 0/1/0 3/3/1 2/1/0 0/0/1 1/1/0 0/0/1 4/8/1 3/1/1 43/38/16
Usage ·····X·· ·o··o·oo ·o···o·· X····Xo· ········ ·o····o· ··X···X· ·X····X· ··X·o··o
Giants Batters (4.15 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Gibson
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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
6.Adrianza# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/28 .158/.175/.211/.386 .167/.484 .692 15/.297 0/0 0/2
13.Arias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 65/28 .148/.188/.148/.335 .388/.264 .339 27/.308 0/0 0/0
7.Blanco* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 66/49 .148/.281/.241/.522 .529/.508 .873 30/.678 5/0 0/0
10.Colvin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 34/26 .323/.382/.677/1.060 1.214/1.013 1.219 34/1.060 0/0 1/0
35.Crawford* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 174/116 .252/.328/.457/.785 1.117/.616 .814 96/.790 2/2 6/4
14.Hicks G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 152/96 .195/.313/.398/.712 .721/.704 .629 96/.647 0/1 7/4
38.Morse G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 172/112 .268/.326/.516/.842 .750/.891 .906 95/.764 0/0 10/0
16.Pagan# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 180/111 .313/.361/.428/.789 .853/.749 .868 88/.766 9/2 3/1
8.Pence G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 4/1.000 4/1.250 2/1.000 ··· 210/142 .289/.362/.460/.822 1.005/.736 .861 109/.881 6/1 5/2
28.Posey G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 171/116 .279/.368/.442/.811 .741/.844 .703 88/.907 0/1 7/1
29.Sanchez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 82/62 .270/.305/.432/.737 .650/.769 .745 48/.817 0/1 2/1
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 182/113 .225/.280/.361/.641 .502/.725 .710 90/.714 0/0 4/5
IP 45.0 18.1 18.0 19.0 4.0 22.1 21.1 14.0 TOTAL .245/.312/.407/.719 .732/.712 .734 .730 25/9 55/28
ERA-K/9 4.20/4.2 5.40/5.9 1.50/3.5 1.89/6.2 4.50/0.0 3.22/12.5 5.48/5.1 4.50/6.4 4.51/6.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Posey (24-10-2)
 Sanchez (14-6-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 198/.258 76/.227 73/.250 71/.185 16/.214 91/.218 99/.284 57/.265 .272  Pence
 Pagan
 Blanco
 Colvin
 Morse
0/0/48/4
0/40/0/2
16/8/0/0
9/0/0/0
36/0/0/0
OPS .659 .770 .726 .459 .552 .552 .761 .768 .743
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 120/.728 34/.782 27/.656 35/.617 10/.700 23/.565 44/.814 30/.711 .752
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 78/.546 42/.759 46/.765 36/.314 6/.200 68/.548 55/.719 27/.833 .734
Road 80/.829 38/.523 36/.497 43/.518 5/1.000 49/.507 44/.864 28/.776
Last 28d days 102/.678 38/.608 38/1.046 33/.491 16/.552 50/.600 41/.802 24/.815
HR/SB/CS 1/2/1 4/1/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 36/22/2
Usage ······X· ··o··o·o ··o··o·X ·oX···oo ····o··· ·Xo··oXX ····X··· ····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

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.