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Tampa Bay Rays vs. Boston Red Sox, at Tropicana Field, May 25, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Start Time:
1:40et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
49
On This Date:
45-52
Rays
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
51
On This Date:
4-11
Season Series
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 BOS  7  TBR  4     
Thu, May 01, 2014 TBR  2 @BOS  1     
Thu, May 01, 2014 TBR  6 @BOS  5     
Fri, May 23, 2014 TBR  1  BOS  0     
Sat, May 24, 2014 TBR  6  BOS  5 (15)

Sun, May 25, 2014 BOS    @TBR  1:40pm
Fri, May 30, 2014 TBR    @BOS  7:10pm
Sat, May 31, 2014 TBR    @BOS  7:15pm
Sun, Jun 01, 2014 TBR    @BOS  1:35pm
Fri, Jul 25, 2014 BOS    @TBR  7:10pm
Sat, Jul 26, 2014 BOS    @TBR  7:10pm
Sun, Jul 27, 2014 BOS    @TBR  1:40pm
Fri, Aug 29, 2014 BOS    @TBR  7:10pm
Sat, Aug 30, 2014 BOS    @TBR  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 31, 2014 BOS    @TBR  1:40pm
Mon, Sep 01, 2014 BOS    @TBR  1:10pm
Tue, Sep 23, 2014 TBR    @BOS  7:10pm
Wed, Sep 24, 2014 TBR    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, Sep 25, 2014 TBR    @BOS  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
20-28, 5th, 7 GB, 7 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-17   Road:   10-11   ExtrInn: 2-4 
 vsRHP:  10-21   vsLHP:  10-7    1-Run:   5-12
 vsEast:  9-16   vsCntrl: 3-6    vsWest:  6-3  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 48 Sat, May 24  @TBR  L   5-6 (15)  20-28  5th  7.0 gb
 47 Fri, May 23  @TBR  L   0-1       20-27  4th  6.0 gb
 46 Thu, May 22   TOR  L   2-7       20-26  4th  5.0 gb
 45 Wed, May 21   TOR  L   4-6       20-25  4th  4.0 gb
 44 Tue, May 20   TOR  L   4-7       20-24  4th  3.5 gb
 43 Sun, May 18   DET  L   2-6       20-23  4th  3.0 gb
 42 Sat, May 17   DET  L   1-6       20-22  4th  2.5 gb
 41 Fri, May 16   DET  L   0-1       20-21  4th  2.5 gb
 40 Thu, May 15  @MIN  L   3-4 (10)  20-20  3rd  1.5 gb
 39 Wed, May 14  @MIN  W   9-4       20-19  2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:12-18
Tampa Bay Rays
22-28, 4th, 6 GB, 6 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-14   Road:   11-14   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  17-18   vsLHP:   5-10   1-Run:   9-4 
 vsEast: 10-11   vsCntrl: 4-9    vsWest:  6-7  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 50 Sat, May 24   BOS  W   6-5 (15)  22-28  4th  6.0 gb
 49 Fri, May 23   BOS  W   1-0       21-28  4th  6.0 gb
 48 Thu, May 22   OAK  W   5-2 (11)  20-28  5th  6.0 gb
 47 Wed, May 21   OAK  L   2-3       19-28  5th  6.0 gb
 46 Tue, May 20   OAK  L   0-3       19-27  5th  5.5 gb
 45 Sun, May 18  @LAA  L   2-6       19-26  5th  5.0 gb
 44 Sat, May 17  @LAA  L   0-6       19-25  5th  4.5 gb
 43 Fri, May 16  @LAA  W   3-0       19-24  5th  4.5 gb
 42 Thu, May 15  @LAA  L   5-6       18-24  5th  4.5 gb
 41 Wed, May 14  @SEA  W   2-0       18-23  5th  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, May 24, 2014 TBR  6  BOS  5 (15)   W:Cesar Ramos (2-3), L: Andrew Miller (1-4), S: none
Fri, May 23, 2014 TBR  1  BOS  0        W:Juan Carlos Oviedo (1-0), L: Andrew Miller (1-3), S: none
Thu, May 01, 2014 TBR  6 @BOS  5        W:Jake McGee (2-0), L: Koji Uehara (0-1), S: Grant Balfour (6)
Thu, May 01, 2014 TBR  2 @BOS  1        W:Brandon Gomes (2-1), L: Jake Peavy (1-1), S: Grant Balfour (5)
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 BOS  7  TBR  4        W:John Lackey (4-2), L: Brandon Gomes (1-1), S: Koji Uehara (6)

Thu, Sep 12, 2013 TBR  4  BOS  3        W:Jake McGee (5-3), L: Rubby De La Rosa (0-1), S: Fernando Rodney (34)
Wed, Sep 11, 2013 BOS  7 @TBR  3 (10)   W:Koji Uehara (4-0), L: Joel Peralta (2-7), S: none
Tue, Sep 10, 2013 BOS  2 @TBR  0        W:Clay Buchholz (10-0), L: David Price (8-8), S: Koji Uehara (19)
Mon, Jul 29, 2013 TBR  2 @BOS  1        W:David Price (6-5), L: Felix Doubront (7-5), S: Fernando Rodney (26)
Wed, Jul 24, 2013 TBR  5 @BOS  1        W:David Price (5-5), L: Felix Doubront (7-4), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - TBR over 4-1; 2013 - BOS won 12-7; 2012 - Tied 9-9; All-Time - BOS leads 163-120

SP: Brandon Workman (25, RHP, 0-0, 1.42)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (0-0) 6.1 4 1 1 1 7 0 1.42
2013 (6-3) 41.2 44 23 23 15 47 5 4.97
Last 7 GS 1-1 18.1 15 5 5 4 18 1 2.45 60
2013-07-30 SEA W 6.0 6 1 1 1 9 0 103 64
2013-07-22 TBR L 6.0 7 2 2 2 4 0 103 52
2013-07-14 @OAK ND 6.1 2 2 2 1 5 1 103 65
Last 5 v.TBR 0-1 6.0 7 2 2 2 4 0 3.00 52
2013-07-22 TBR L 6.0 7 2 2 2 4 0 103 52

SP: Jake Odorizzi (24, RHP, 2-4, 4.98)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-4) 43.1 46 24 24 23 52 4 4.98
2013 (0-1) 29.2 28 13 13 8 22 3 3.94
2012 (0-1) 7.1 8 4 4 4 4 1 4.91
Last 7 GS 1-3 32.1 33 17 17 19 44 3 4.73 49
2014-05-20 OAK L 4.2 4 3 3 5 8 0 113 47
2014-05-14 @SEA W 6.0 1 0 0 2 7 0 95 75
2014-05-09 CLE ND 5.0 5 0 0 2 11 0 101 66
2014-05-03 @NYY ND 4.0 5 3 3 2 4 1 87 42
2014-04-28 @CHW L 4.1 8 4 4 2 5 1 87 34
2014-04-23 MIN ND 3.1 5 4 4 3 5 1 88 36
2014-04-16 @BAL L 5.0 5 3 3 3 4 0 95 46
Last 5 v.BOS 0-0 5.2 5 1 1 0 2 1 1.59 57
2013-06-18 @BOS ND 5.2 5 1 1 0 2 1 96 57

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Red Sox Batters (3.96 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.28 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Odorizzi
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 52.Lueke
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 46.Oviedo
G/S/vB		 62.Peralta
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 1/no AB 189/128 .279/.370/.406/.776 .926/.707 .763 87/.768 1/2 3/6
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 158/101 .200/.291/.293/.584 .553/.601 .546 72/.479 3/0 0/0
37.Carp* G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/.500 2/1.000 68/53 .246/.324/.328/.651 .481/.701 .580 33/.667 0/1 0/0
5.Gomes G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 7/.821 1/no AB 12/1.667 120/61 .235/.325/.402/.727 .900/.564 .604 52/.727 0/0 4/2
10.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 49/35 .175/.283/.175/.458 .322/.510 .347 10/.393 0/2 0/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 57/30 .320/.375/.420/.795 .962/.657 .636 29/.729 2/0 0/4
12.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 9/.222 2/.500 2/2.000 4/1.250 ··· 10/.967 187/133 .260/.390/.416/.806 .856/.783 .684 81/.625 0/1 5/2
29.Nava# G/S/vP 2/2.500 4/1.500 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 5/.200 77/53 .145/.234/.261/.495 .212/.631 .553 2/.000 1/0 2/3
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 2/1.000 13/.581 1/no AB 1/3.000 6/.833 6/.533 17/.548 199/127 .275/.372/.515/.886 .972/.840 1.074 96/.957 0/0 11/
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 3/.666 11/1.011 2/.000 4/.500 5/.450 5/.400 17/.779 220/150 .269/.345/.386/.731 .838/.684 .705 105/.779 2/4 2/1
40.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· 7/.000 2/.500 1/2.000 5/.750 7/.858 15/.204 148/103 .255/.293/.372/.665 .407/.773 .617 71/.639 0/0 4/2
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.333 1/.000 58/26 .167/.224/.315/.539 .710/.346 .569 27/.454 0/1 2/3
38.Sizemore* G/S/vP ··· 5/1.600 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 9/1.111 7/.929 143/106 .211/.287/.320/.607 .481/.652 .631 63/.569 3/0 2/0
IP 43.1 19.1 16.2 26.2 22.1 15.2 21.1 TOTAL .240/.324/.369/.693 .721/.680 .664 .677 14/11 38/32
ERA-K/9 4.98/10.8 5.59/7.0 1.62/11.9 4.73/5.4 1.21/9.3 1.72/8.6 4.64/8.9 3.93/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pierzynski (15-8-3)
 Ross (12-3-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 195/.274 87/.194 68/.167 117/.284 83/.173 63/.175 90/.222 .243  Bradley
 Sizemore
 Nava
 Carp
 Gomes
1/38/6/3
21/15/4/3
3/0/16/1
10/0/0/0
29/0/7/0
OPS .778 .711 .591 .775 .457 .517 .695 .691
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 118/.819 55/.600 32/.651 59/.674 29/.593 30/.467 52/.793 .696
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 77/.707 32/.916 36/.536 58/.883 54/.385 33/.562 38/.560 .687
Home 86/.696 46/.650 43/.498 66/.690 40/.150 37/.280 50/.664
Last 28d days 107/.770 42/.662 53/.688 51/.754 48/.594 52/.516 57/.814
HR/SB/CS 4/1/4 2/1/0 2/2/1 5/0/0 0/1/1 0/2/0 4/1/0 45/19/11
Usage ····X··· o·XX···· X··oX·XX ··o·o··X oooo···· ·XX·X··X ·ooX····
Rays Batters (3.86 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.46 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 35.Badenhop
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 55.Capuano*
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 54.Mujica
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 52.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
7.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 7/.929 5/.200 5/1.600 7/1.143 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 143/139 .262/.350/.444/.794 .500/.797 .842 77/.940 0/0 4/0
11.Escobar G/S/vP 3/1.167 15/.564 7/.453 6/1.267 14/.630 4/.500 6/1.333 12/.416 1/.000 191/148 .254/.332/.343/.675 .844/.624 .632 94/.770 0/0 3/8
35.Figueroa* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/8 .250/.250/.375/.625 /.625 1.250 8/.625 0/0 0/0
10.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 1/3.000 9/.666 ··· 4/.250 2/1.000 ··· ··· 99/50 .202/.263/.270/.532 .538/.527 .558 44/.567 0/0 0/0
5.Guyer G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 61/27 .241/.254/.345/.599 .616/.577 .435 37/.750 0/0 1/0
24.Hanigan G/S/vP ··· 7/.572 ··· 9/.619 1/.000 6/.833 ··· 1/.000 ··· 125/98 .218/.306/.345/.652 .352/.736 .858 68/.487 0/0 3/0
8.Jennings G/S/vP 4/.666 2/.000 2/2.000 ··· 3/.333 2/1.000 10/.300 7/.286 ··· 199/148 .238/.327/.378/.704 .763/.684 .627 104/.626 11/3 4/0
20.Joyce* G/S/vP 4/.000 3/.000 10/.425 1/.000 4/.500 4/.500 4/.250 9/.889 ··· 166/152 .274/.367/.393/.760 .000/.836 .900 85/.524 1/2 3/0
21.Loney* G/S/vP 4/2.167 3/1.334 9/.708 7/1.142 10/1.389 10/1.600 4/.500 5/.200 ··· 200/144 .296/.360/.374/.734 .703/.747 .757 103/.659 1/0 1/3
3.Longoria G/S/vP 4/1.250 7/.572 8/.661 4/.750 9/.476 3/.000 8/.000 18/.278 ··· 215/153 .263/.326/.371/.697 .717/.687 .866 106/.595 1/0 4/3
28.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.750 3/.333 3/2.000 5/.600 2/1.500 ··· ··· 64/49 .115/.156/.115/.271 .421/.227 .253 30/.205 0/0 0/1
9.Myers G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/2.000 3/.000 1/no AB 3/.333 2/.000 1/3.000 204/146 .232/.304/.351/.655 .573/.688 .679 103/.663 1/1 4/3
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 2/2.500 4/.500 4/.500 2/.000 1/3.000 2/.000 ··· 77/33 .222/.263/.500/.763 .795/.719 .794 45/.761 1/0 5/1
IP 6.1 28.2 15.2 26.0 22.0 16.2 21.1 18.2 TOTAL .246/.319/.362/.680 .662/.687 .724 .642 19/8 36/26
ERA-K/9 1.42/10.0 2.20/4.7 2.87/7.5 2.08/8.3 2.86/13.5 7.56/5.9 2.53/8.0 0.96/14.0 /0.0 3.87/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (8-7-1)
 Molina (11-4-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 24/.182 118/.280 68/.263 107/.211 92/.193 77/.338 88/.256 72/.206 / .266  Myers
 Joyce
 DeJesus
 Jennings
 Forsythe
 Rodriguez
 Guyer
0/1/47/3
31/0/4/3
9/3/0/0
0/42/0/0
2/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
12/5/1/0
OPS .436 .745 .671 .584 .526 .960 .674 .563 .741
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 6/.833 47/.833 29/.747 38/.596 32/.526 34/.897 36/.745 35/.209 / .712
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 18/.292 71/.688 39/.615 69/.576 60/.526 43/1.008 52/.623 37/.894 / .762
Road 4/.833 34/.978 27/.443 52/.470 45/.699 24/.598 39/.676 25/.520 /
Last 28d days / 49/.568 38/.503 54/.821 50/.501 36/1.038 43/.697 34/.565 /
HR/SB/CS 0/1/0 1/1/1 0/0/0 1/0/1 1/0/0 4/4/1 2/0/0 2/0/1 // 46/27/11
Usage Xoo·X·o· X·X·o·o· X··X···X oo·X··X· X···X··o XoX·X·o· o··o···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  5.24

NYM  3.98

SDP  3.12

 RA/G

OAK  3.16

COL  4.26

ARI  5.14

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .382

S. Marte  .264

B. Miller  .156

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .485

M. Adams  .332

J. Gyorko  .216

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .739

A. Simmons  .410

B. Miller  .255

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.223

D. Fowler  .737

B. Miller  .483

 ERA

J. Samardzija  1.46

J. Lyles  3.45

R. Nolasco  5.50

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

R. Vogelsong  7.35

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.