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Texas Rangers vs. Seattle Mariners, Globe Life Park in Arlington, May 20, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Start Time:
7:05ct (local), 8:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #1 of a 2-game series
Average Temp:
84° (based on last ten years)
Mariners
Manager:
Lloyd McClendon
Game #:
44
On This Date:
18-15
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
45
On This Date:
24-22
Seattle Mariners
21-22, 21-22 3rd, 6½ GB, 2½ GB in WC
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-10   Road:   13-12   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  10-16   vsLHP:  11-6    1-Run:   5-7 
 vsEast:  3-2    vsCntrl: 3-4    vsWest: 15-13 IL: 0-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 43 Sun, May 18  @MIN  W   6-2       21-22  3rd  6.5 gb
 42 Sat, May 17  @MIN  L   3-4       20-22  3rd  6.5 gb
 41 Fri, May 16  @MIN  L   4-5       20-21  3rd  5.5 gb
 40 Wed, May 14   TBR  L   0-2       20-20  3rd  4.5 gb
 39 Tue, May 13   TBR  L   1-2       20-19  3rd  4.5 gb
 38 Mon, May 12   TBR  W  12-5       20-18  2nd  3.5 gb
 37 Sun, May 11   KCR  L   7-9       19-18  3rd  3.5 gb
 36 Sat, May 10   KCR  W   3-1       19-17  2nd  2.5 gb
 35 Fri, May  9   KCR  L   1-6       18-17  3rd  2.5 gb
 34 Thu, May  8   KCR  W   1-0       18-16  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:14-16
Texas Rangers
21-23, 21-23 4th, 7 GB, 3 GB in WC
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-12   Road:    9-11   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  14-14   vsLHP:   7-9    1-Run:   7-5 
 vsEast:  4-8    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest: 12-10 IL: 3-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
 38 Sun, May 11   BOS  L   2-5       19-19  4th  4.0 gb
 37 Sat, May 10   BOS  L   3-8       19-18  3rd  3.0 gb
 36 Fri, May  9   BOS  W   8-0       19-17  2nd  2.0 gb
 35 Thu, May  8   COL  W   5-0       18-17  3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 27, 2014 SEA  6  TEX  5        W:Danny Farquhar (1-0), L: Alexi Ogando (1-2), S: Fernando Rodney (5)
Sat, Apr 26, 2014 TEX  6 @SEA  3        W:Aaron Poreda (1-0), L: Charlie Furbush (0-2), S: Joakim Soria (6)
Fri, Apr 25, 2014 SEA  6  TEX  5        W:Yoervis Medina (1-1), L: Neal Cotts (1-2), S: Fernando Rodney (4)
Thu, Apr 17, 2014 TEX  8  SEA  6        W:Pedro Figueroa (2-1), L: Joe Beimel (0-1), S: Joakim Soria (2)
Wed, Apr 16, 2014 TEX  3  SEA  2        W:Pedro Figueroa (1-1), L: Fernando Rodney (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 15, 2014 TEX  5  SEA  0        W:Robbie Ross (1-0), L: Blake Beavan (0-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 14, 2014 SEA  7 @TEX  1        W:Roenis Elias (1-1), L: Colby Lewis (0-1), S: none

Wed, Aug 28, 2013 TEX 12 @SEA  4        W:Martin Perez (8-3), L: Felix Hernandez (12-8), S: none
Tue, Aug 27, 2013 TEX  4 @SEA  3 (10)   W:Tanner Scheppers (6-2), L: Danny Farquhar (0-2), S: Joe Nathan (38)
Mon, Aug 26, 2013 TEX  8 @SEA  3        W:Travis Blackley (2-1), L: Joe Saunders (10-13), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - TEX over 4-3; 2013 - TEX won 12-7; 2012 - TEX won 10-9; All-Time - TEX leads 290-277

SP: Hisashi Iwakuma (33, RHP, 2-0, 1.59)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-0) 22.2 14 4 4 1 15 1 1.59
2013 (14-6) 219.2 179 69 65 42 185 25 2.66
2012 (9-5) 125.1 117 49 44 43 101 17 3.16
Last 7 GS 4-0 51.1 33 7 7 8 36 2 1.23 69
2014-05-13 TBR ND 8.0 4 0 0 0 5 0 97 79
2014-05-08 KCR W 8.0 4 0 0 0 7 0 93 81
2014-05-03 @HOU W 6.2 6 4 4 1 3 1 81 48
2013-09-25 KCR W 8.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 101 82
2013-09-18 @DET W 8.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 105 78
2013-09-13 @STL ND 7.0 3 0 0 2 1 0 94 70
2013-09-06 TBR ND 5.2 8 3 3 2 5 1 98 44
Last 5 v.TEX 2-1 33.2 24 11 11 6 31 4 2.94 62
2013-08-27 TEX ND 6.0 7 3 3 1 7 0 103 52
2013-08-16 @TEX W 7.0 4 1 1 3 8 0 94 70
2013-07-04 @TEX L 6.0 5 4 4 1 2 2 88 47
2013-05-26 TEX ND 8.0 5 2 2 0 8 1 96 72
2013-04-12 TEX W 6.2 3 1 1 1 6 1 90 69

SP: Colby Lewis (34, RHP, 3-2, 4.99)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-2) 30.2 45 17 17 7 29 4 4.99
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 3-2 35.2 48 18 18 9 32 5 4.54 46
2014-05-12 @HOU W 5.2 7 0 0 2 8 0 108 61
2014-05-07 COL L 3.2 12 7 7 0 1 1 79 10
2014-05-02 @LAA W 5.2 7 2 2 1 6 0 87 52
2014-04-26 @SEA ND 5.0 5 3 3 3 6 2 91 48
2014-04-19 CHW W 5.1 6 1 1 1 4 0 85 55
2014-04-14 SEA L 5.1 8 4 4 0 4 1 89 40
2012-07-18 @OAK ND 5.0 3 1 1 2 3 1 75 58
Last 5 v.SEA 2-1 31.1 30 13 13 6 31 4 3.73 55
2014-04-26 @SEA ND 5.0 5 3 3 3 6 2 91 48
2014-04-14 SEA L 5.1 8 4 4 0 4 1 89 40
2012-04-11 SEA ND 6.2 5 0 0 0 6 0 109 70
2011-09-17 @SEA W 5.2 8 6 6 1 7 1 94 35
2011-07-15 @SEA W 8.2 4 0 0 2 8 0 121 82

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

Mariners Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.73 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		 44.Frasor
G/S/vB		 22.Martinez
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Ackley* G/S/vP 14/.536 ··· 5/.650 5/.400 ··· 10/.800 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 140/96 .258/.314/.430/.744 .659/.784 .669 67/.850 1/1 4/0
8.Bloomquist G/S/vP 7/.715 12/.334 3/1.000 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 46/22 .178/.196/.200/.396 .467/.318 .471 30/.367 0/0 0/0
4.Buck G/S/vP 5/1.000 18/.528 4/.833 1/.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 33/25 .233/.303/.300/.603 .393/.668 .859 18/.631 0/0 0/1
22.Cano* G/S/vP 6/.900 14/.928 7/.929 22/.714 ··· 10/.500 1/.000 10/.000 1/.000 186/112 .318/.366/.406/.771 .763/.776 .779 100/.857 2/1 1/2
16.Gillespie G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/1 .263/.333/.316/.649 .578/2.000 .523 21/.649 1/1 0/2
27.Hart G/S/vP 10/.000 15/.624 2/.500 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB 156/95 .209/.295/.353/.647 .638/.650 .663 91/.503 2/0 5/0
99.Jones* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/40 .326/.396/.465/.861 .889/.851 .751 48/.835 2/0 0/0
5.Miller* G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 150/98 .154/.223/.257/.480 .540/.450 .592 68/.333 2/0 3/8
7.Romero G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 91/36 .212/.247/.365/.612 .607/.620 .679 67/.633 0/1 2/1
55.Saunders* G/S/vP 20/.993 6/.200 3/.666 3/.333 ··· 9/.111 ··· 2/1.000 3/1.667 108/80 .263/.318/.411/.728 .643/.752 .809 70/.854 2/3 2/0
15.Seager* G/S/vP 15/1.181 ··· 9/1.333 3/.000 ··· 9/1.319 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 163/108 .224/.319/.413/.732 .495/.857 .583 88/.922 2/1 6/5
17.Smoak# G/S/vP 12/1.583 6/1.100 5/1.000 3/.000 ··· 15/1.067 ··· 2/2.000 1/2.000 174/100 .244/.310/.429/.740 .706/.765 .840 98/.763 0/1 6/2
3.Zunino G/S/vP 4/2.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 130/83 .246/.292/.466/.758 .840/.711 .783 69/.718 0/1 6/2
IP 30.2 5.1 17.2 14.2 27.2 17.2 11.0 15.0 23.1 TOTAL .233/.296/.372/.668 .653/.678 .693 .701 18/11 36/29
ERA-K/9 4.99/8.5 3.38/3.4 4.58/9.7 2.45/9.8 2.28/5.2 7.64/8.1 2.45/5.7 2.40/12.0 3.47/7.3 4.42/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (6-1-1)
 Zunino (18-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 142/.349 22/.200 78/.271 61/.212 117/.250 89/.333 45/.268 56/.151 91/.205 .272  Ackley
 Saunders
 Gillespie
 Romero
 Hart
 Bloomquist
 Jones
38/0/0/2
1/9/28/1
7/0/1/0
3/0/24/0
0/0/3/0
2/0/1/0
0/14/1/0
OPS .899 .673 .752 .622 .756 .826 .772 .405 .757 .763
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 84/.864 9/.222 29/.935 25/.467 71/.771 40/.859 18/.631 32/.509 36/.735 .747
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 58/.950 13/1.021 49/.638 36/.733 46/.733 49/.794 27/.870 24/.261 55/.771 .775
Home 68/.990 22/.673 37/.535 33/.355 44/.687 42/.813 24/.659 29/.365 54/.664
Last 28d days 96/.947 22/.673 45/.770 35/.748 69/.700 44/1.079 39/.724 21/.333 53/.743
HR/SB/CS 4/8/3 0/0/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 3/0/1 1/2/0 1/1/1 0/0/0 6/2/1 38/21/12
Usage ·······X ········ ··Xo·X·o ··X··o·· ·X···X·X ··o···o· ·Xo··o·· ·X·····X ·oX···X·
Rangers Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (3.98 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Iwakuma
G/S/vB		 97.Beimel*
G/S/vB		 40.Farquhar
G/S/vB		 41.Furbush*
G/S/vB		 52.Leone
G/S/vB		 31.Medina
G/S/vB		 56.Rodney
G/S/vB		 54.Wilhelmsen
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 20/.513 1/3.000 3/.666 8/.268 3/.000 7/.733 11/1.065 10/.300 190/129 .247/.305/.329/.634 .747/.584 .641 100/.572 11/2 1/7
7.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 5/1.850 4/1.167 66/49 .133/.182/.233/.415 .937/.252 .202 34/.602 0/0 1/2
29.Beltre G/S/vP 23/1.073 5/2.100 4/1.000 4/3.500 ··· 9/.730 11/.473 7/.714 126/81 .252/.317/.400/.717 .772/.687 .582 93/.693 0/0 3/5
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 95/57 .212/.280/.318/.597 .594/.599 .501 50/.552 0/0 2/2
15.Choice G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 2/.500 101/49 .209/.307/.291/.598 .589/.604 .608 65/.555 1/0 2/0
17.Choo* G/S/vP 5/1.350 1/.000 1/no AB 7/.286 2/.000 1/no AB 15/1.000 7/.629 168/104 .311/.435/.474/.909 .975/.868 .746 80/.884 3/2 4/2
84.Fielder* G/S/vP 7/1.000 15/.933 3/.666 6/.533 2/.000 2/1.000 7/.572 7/.629 178/114 .247/.360/.360/.720 .688/.733 .680 86/.754 0/0 3/4
2.Martin* G/S/vP 13/.160 2/2.000 2/1.000 6/.666 3/.000 3/.333 2/2.000 2/1.000 158/104 .282/.333/.359/.692 .578/.749 .917 81/.603 9/4 2/2
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 19/.325 2/no AB 4/.500 10/.944 1/3.000 5/1.200 9/1.238 10/.522 110/94 .283/.324/.434/.758 .536/.790 .716 52/.784 0/0 2/2
73.Odor* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/16 .200/.231/.320/.551 .091/.867 .400 27/.551 0/2 1/0
51.Rios G/S/vP 14/.714 1/no AB 8/.500 8/1.071 2/2.000 4/.500 11/.697 8/.542 180/123 .298/.333/.452/.786 1.182/.610 .780 90/.787 7/5 3/2
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/8 .182/.250/.182/.432 .000/.661 .667 12/.432 0/0 0/0
3.Sardinas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 15/5 .308/.357/.308/.665 .733/.500 .727 12/.545 0/0 0/0
IP 22.2 13.2 21.0 12.0 17.1 18.0 17.1 21.0 TOTAL .258/.327/.376/.703 .767/.671 .687 .660 32/15 27/32
ERA-K/9 1.59/5.9 2.63/5.9 3.00/10.3 6.00/9.0 1.56/10.9 4.00/8.5 3.12/12.0 2.14/8.1 3.58/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (9-2-2)
 Chirinos (12-10-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 80/.179 57/.286 90/.205 55/.319 71/.210 80/.227 82/.294 90/.182 .242  Martin
 Choice
 Choo
 Rios
 Robertson
 Moreland
0/41/0/4
16/6/4/1
29/0/0/1
0/0/40/1
3/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .457 .719 .569 .814 .639 .714 .775 .588 .689
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 41/.634 25/.499 42/.677 23/.711 33/.792 33/.789 48/.867 40/.703 .713
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 39/.265 32/.884 48/.475 32/.899 38/.506 47/.651 34/.625 50/.496 .668
Road 26/.769 38/.677 59/.463 26/.962 39/.832 47/.857 42/.650 57/.575
Last 28d days 80/.457 19/.889 44/.638 28/.755 28/.655 39/.703 57/.804 46/.384
HR/SB/CS 1/0/1 0/0/1 1/0/0 1/1/0 2/3/2 2/0/0 1/1/0 1/5/0 39/24/9
Usage ······X· ···o···· ·····oo· ·····X·· ·····X·· ··o····X ·X····X· ···o·X·X

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  5.53

PHI  4.00

SDP  3.09

 RA/G

OAK  3.18

NYM  4.23

ARI  5.28

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .393

M. Holliday  .267

C. Santana  .148

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .494

D. Wright  .332

J. Gyorko  .211

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .764

K. Suzuki  .416

N. Schierholtz  .252

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.259

D. Gordon  .748

B. Miller  .480

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.25

P. Hughes  3.61

J. Danks  5.64

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

R. Dickey  7.50

C. Young  3.62

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.