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Texas Rangers vs. Atlanta Braves, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, September 14, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Start Time:
2:05ct (local), 3:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
84° (based on last ten years)
Braves
Manager:
Fredi Gonzalez
Game #:
149
On This Date:
55-61
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
149
On This Date:
21-25
Season Series
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 TEX  2  ATL  1     
Sat, Sep 13, 2014 TEX  3  ATL  2     

Sun, Sep 14, 2014 ATL    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Atlanta Braves
75-73, 2nd, 9½ GB, 7 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-31   Road:   35-42   ExtrInn: 7-10
 vsRHP:  58-60   vsLHP:  17-13   1-Run:  24-25
 vsEast: 37-30   vsCntrl:19-10   vsWest: 12-21 IL: 7-12

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
148 Sat, Sep 13  @TEX  L   2-3       75-73  2nd  9.5 gb
147 Fri, Sep 12  @TEX  L   1-2       75-72  2nd  8.5 gb
146 Wed, Sep 10  @WSN  W   6-2       75-71  2nd  8.0 gb
145 Tue, Sep  9  @WSN  L   4-6       74-71  2nd  9.0 gb
144 Mon, Sep  8  @WSN  L   1-2       74-70  2nd  8.0 gb
143 Sun, Sep  7  @MIA  L   0-4       74-69  2nd  7.0 gb
142 Sat, Sep  6  @MIA  W   4-3 (10)  74-68  2nd  6.0 gb
141 Fri, Sep  5  @MIA  L   3-11      73-68  2nd  7.0 gb
140 Wed, Sep  3   PHI  W   7-4       73-67  2nd  7.0 gb
139 Tue, Sep  2   PHI  L   0-4       72-67  2nd  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15
Texas Rangers
56-92, 5th, 37 GB, 26 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-46   Road:   29-46   ExtrInn: 2-5 
 vsRHP:  38-64   vsLHP:  18-28   1-Run:  20-22
 vsEast: 10-23   vsCntrl:14-19   vsWest: 23-40 IL: 9-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
148 Sat, Sep 13   ATL  W   3-2       56-92  5th 37.0 gb
147 Fri, Sep 12   ATL  W   2-1       55-92  5th 37.0 gb
146 Thu, Sep 11   LAA  L   3-7       54-92  5th 37.0 gb
145 Wed, Sep 10   LAA  L   1-8       54-91  5th 36.0 gb
144 Tue, Sep  9   LAA  L   3-9       54-90  5th 35.0 gb
143 Sun, Sep  7   SEA  W   1-0       54-89  5th 33.5 gb
142 Sat, Sep  6   SEA  L   2-4       53-89  5th 33.5 gb
141 Fri, Sep  5   SEA  L   5-7       53-88  5th 32.5 gb
140 Thu, Sep  4   SEA  L   2-10      53-87  5th 31.5 gb
139 Wed, Sep  3  @KCR  L   1-4       53-86  5th 30.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Sep 13, 2014 TEX  3  ATL  2        W:Lisalverto Bonilla (1-0), L: Julio Teheran (13-12), S: Neal Cotts (1)
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 TEX  2  ATL  1        W:Phil Klein (1-2), L: David Carpenter (6-4), S: Neftali Feliz (9)

Sun, Jun 19, 2011 ATL  4  TEX  2        W:Jair Jurrjens (9-3), L: Alexi Ogando (7-2), S: Craig Kimbrel (19)
Sat, Jun 18, 2011 TEX  5 @ATL  4 (10)   W:Mark Lowe (2-1), L: Scott Proctor (1-1), S: Neftali Feliz (14)
Fri, Jun 17, 2011 TEX  6 @ATL  2        W:Colby Lewis (6-7), L: Randall Delgado (0-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 19, 2008 TEX  5  ATL  4        W:Jamey Wright (4-2), L: Blaine Boyer (1-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 18, 2008 ATL  5 @TEX  2        W:Jeff Bennett (1-4), L: C.J. Wilson (0-2), S: Mike Gonzalez (1)
Tue, Jun 17, 2008 TEX  7  ATL  5        W:Vicente Padilla (9-3), L: Tim Hudson (7-5), S: C.J. Wilson (14)
Wed, Jun 15, 2005 TEX  9  ATL  5        W:Chan Ho Park (7-1), L: Kyle Davies (2-2), S: Francisco Cordero (17)
Tue, Jun 14, 2005 ATL  7 @TEX  2        W:Jorge Sosa (3-0), L: Pedro Astacio (2-8), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - TEX over 2-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - ATL leads 9-8

SP: Mike Minor (26, LHP, 6-10, 4.58)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (6-10) 139.2 157 71 71 40 119 21 4.58
2013 (13-9) 204.2 177 79 73 46 181 22 3.21
2012 (11-10) 179.1 151 88 82 56 145 26 4.12
Last 7 GS 2-4 46.2 39 17 17 13 33 5 3.28 57
2014-09-08 @WSN L 6.0 7 2 2 2 3 0 82 51
2014-09-02 PHI L 7.1 7 3 3 2 5 1 109 55
2014-08-28 @NYM W 7.0 4 1 1 0 5 0 98 70
2014-08-22 @CIN ND 7.2 1 1 1 4 5 0 107 74
2014-08-17 OAK W 7.0 3 2 2 2 7 2 111 68
2014-08-12 LAD L 6.2 8 3 3 1 7 0 100 52
2014-08-01 @SDP L 5.0 9 5 5 2 1 2 92 28
Has never faced TEX as starter.

SP: Colby Lewis (34, RHP, 9-13, 5.29)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (9-13) 151.1 191 97 89 41 121 21 5.29
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 2-5 49.0 48 25 21 7 37 8 3.86 54
2014-09-09 LAA L 7.0 5 3 2 0 4 1 91 61
2014-09-01 @KCR L 7.0 9 4 4 1 5 1 98 47
2014-08-27 @SEA W 9.0 7 4 4 1 7 2 112 63
2014-08-22 KCR L 6.0 6 4 4 0 2 2 102 46
2014-08-16 LAA L 6.0 10 5 5 0 10 2 105 42
2014-08-11 TBR L 5.0 5 5 2 4 2 0 101 41
2014-08-05 @CHW W 9.0 6 0 0 1 7 0 110 81
Last 5 v.ATL 1-0 6.2 5 2 2 3 10 2 2.70 63
2011-06-17 @ATL W 6.2 5 2 2 3 10 2 117 63

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Braves Batters (3.66 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.95 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Lewis
G/S/vB		 59.Bonilla
G/S/vB		 65.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 62.Edwards
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 50.Kirkman*
G/S/vB		 64.Klein
G/S/vB		 55.Mendez
G/S/vB		 44.Patton
G/S/vB		 46.Ross*
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Bethancourt G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 73/59 .271/.301/.286/.587 .857/.521 .499 20/.700 1/1 0/1
1.Bonifacio# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 ··· 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 386/290 .270/.311/.354/.664 .960/.568 .608 49/.612 22/8 2/6
13.Constanza* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 2/.000 0/0 0/
4.Doumit# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/1.417 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 149/122 .200/.242/.314/.556 .481/.573 .559 22/.818 1/0 4/1
5.Freeman* G/S/vP 3/1.666 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 653/460 .293/.389/.475/.864 .781/.899 .872 106/.827 3/3 18/5
24.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 391/323 .270/.325/.507/.832 1.044/.785 .783 60/.800 0/0 22/5
15.Gosselin G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 87/47 .284/.326/.358/.684 .622/.735 .596 58/.660 1/1 1/2
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 3/1.000 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 616/462 .274/.354/.392/.745 .485/.833 .781 103/.830 18/4 11/1
23.Johnson G/S/vP 8/.625 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/1.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 571/460 .261/.290/.357/.647 1.010/.562 .674 86/.420 6/0 9/5
11.Laird G/S/vP 8/1.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 162/120 .211/.284/.265/.549 .544/.551 .515 20/.358 0/0 0/2
7.La Stella* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 350/285 .256/.334/.324/.658 .839/.617 .642 67/.491 2/1 1/6
14.Pena# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 149/120 .227/.297/.326/.622 .630/.619 .672 10/.844 1/0 3/7
19.Simmons G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 531/433 .242/.285/.331/.616 .723/.592 .605 91/.510 4/5 7/13
17.Terdoslavich# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ 1/.000 0/0 0/
2.Upton G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 546/421 .207/.284/.332/.616 .549/.632 .557 53/.703 19/7 11/7
8.Upton G/S/vP 4/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 590/464 .279/.353/.505/.858 1.017/.816 .726 97/.768 7/3 27/8
IP 151.1 9.2 8.2 62.1 6.1 26.2 2.2 15.2 28.0 4.1 73.0 68.2 TOTAL .243/.308/.365/.673 .718/.661 .661 .643 86/30 117/78
ERA-K/9 5.29/7.2 4.66/5.6 2.08/12.4 4.19/8.8 5.68/10.0 2.36/5.7 3.38/3.3 2.87/10.3 2.57/5.8 2.08/6.3 6.53/5.9 2.88/8.8 4.68/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Bethancourt (7-1-4)
 Doumit (7-0-0)
 Gattis (48-13-5)
 Laird (29-11-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 679/.309 41/.200 40/.250 269/.256 34/.321 104/.194 12/.222 65/.175 116/.167 17/.067 346/.325 281/.206 .275  Heyward
 Upton
 Upton
 Bonifacio
 Doumit
 Gosselin
0/0/140/9
0/129/0/8
137/0/0/4
4/61/3/1
8/0/8/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .842 .689 .631 .714 .798 .628 .861 .663 .564 .310 .869 .654 .775
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 375/.891 24/.743 18/.458 95/.776 12/.871 54/.527 10/1.071 26/1.124 59/.640 3/1.667 108/.795 117/.641 .785
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 304/.782 17/.610 22/.778 174/.681 22/.749 50/.733 2/.000 39/.352 57/.485 14/.071 238/.903 164/.663 .765
Home 348/.900 41/.689 23/.638 136/.650 21/.971 58/.441 8/.708 34/.464 60/.499 17/.310 216/.863 146/.665
Last 28d days 116/.711 41/.689 32/.732 42/.821 30/.793 33/.897 12/.861 40/.628 39/.726 17/.310 40/.800 40/.447
HR/SB/CS 21/17/7 1/1/0 0/1/0 6/3/1 0/2/0 5/1/0 0/3/0 2/4/0 2/2/0 0/0/0 9/2/2 10/4/2 151/80/32
Usage ····X··· X··X···· ··X····· X··o···X ···X···· ·oo···X· oo··o··o ·X·X···X o···o··· o·o·o··o ··o·X··· ·o·o··o·
Rangers Batters (3.84 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Minor*
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 48.Carpenter
G/S/vB		 57.Hale
G/S/vB		 58.Jaime
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 51.Russell*
G/S/vB		 50.Schlosser
G/S/vB		 61.Shreve*
G/S/vB		 38.Varvaro
G/S/vB		 52.Walden
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 631/464 .262/.316/.333/.648 .788/.600 .642 94/.545 26/13 2/16
7.Arencibia G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 3/.000 205/136 .170/.229/.356/.586 .729/.515 .525 42/.465 0/0 9/4
29.Beltre G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/3.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 555/415 .324/.386/.491/.877 .998/.837 .983 96/.904 1/1 18/11
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 299/209 .233/.285/.407/.692 .746/.669 .594 30/.573 0/1 11/3
15.Choice G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 277/187 .176/.245/.304/.549 .677/.491 .506 58/.491 1/0 9/4
2.Martin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 524/393 .276/.327/.374/.701 .537/.756 .785 88/.827 27/11 7/7
12.Odor* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 367/261 .254/.293/.389/.682 .577/.724 .568 82/.733 2/6 8/9
51.Rios G/S/vP 4/1.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 3/2.667 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 521/388 .280/.311/.398/.709 .898/.646 .712 52/.676 17/9 4/6
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 172/74 .276/.339/.340/.679 .797/.524 .581 51/.745 4/4 0/2
60.Rodriguez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/3 .000/.200/.000/.200 .000/.333 .200 5/.200 0/0 0/0
9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 130/69 .276/.349/.431/.780 .854/.719 .733 70/.634 3/2 4/1
16.Rua G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 59/42 .263/.288/.316/.604 .728/.555 .639 59/.604 1/0 0/0
3.Sardinas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 99/73 .253/.292/.275/.566 .679/.525 .648 27/.352 1/1 0/4
6.Telis# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 52/41 .240/.255/.260/.515 .400/.543 .577 52/.515 0/0 0/1
IP 139.2 37.0 54.2 79.1 9.2 57.0 47.1 12.2 7.0 51.2 45.1 TOTAL .254/.312/.371/.683 .732/.665 .672 .637 91/55 101/98
ERA-K/9 4.58/7.7 4.14/4.6 3.46/10.4 2.84/4.3 5.59/13.9 1.74/13.9 3.23/6.5 5.68/5.7 1.29/12.9 2.79/8.2 2.38/10.9 3.30/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (9-3-3)
 Chirinos (43-25-5)
 Telis (12-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 607/.282 163/.273 234/.265 341/.248 48/.282 226/.143 197/.212 53/.214 30/.259 209/.237 183/.186 .249  Martin
 Robertson
 Rios
 Choice
 Rua
0/139/0/9
30/20/12/7
0/0/114/6
41/7/16/5
6/0/0/0
OPS .787 .730 .671 .658 .789 .441 .595 .671 .644 .654 .527 .674
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 135/.875 88/.689 105/.632 157/.696 24/.966 123/.441 88/.840 22/.801 16/.829 78/.501 89/.604 .701
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 472/.762 75/.779 129/.703 184/.624 24/.625 103/.440 109/.390 31/.584 14/.445 131/.743 94/.456 .653
Road 291/.726 87/.716 121/.748 168/.754 36/.749 103/.521 96/.583 39/.401 4/1.250 105/.784 79/.616
Last 28d days 109/.490 23/.374 36/.472 37/.489 13/1.292 26/.598 30/.345 6/1.417 8/.536 16/.325 23/.411
HR/SB/CS 21/9/1 2/3/0 4/1/1 3/11/3 1/1/0 2/4/1 3/4/1 1/2/0 0/1/0 5/1/0 2/8/0 108/91/25
Usage ·····X·· ·o··X·o· ·X·o···X ·o···o·· ········ ···X···o ······o· ········ ········ ····X·X· ·····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

LAA  4.92

KCR  3.99

SDP  3.23

 RA/G

SEA  3.24

NYY  4.10

COL  5.09

 BA

J. Altuve  .338

M. Ozuna  .270

C. Davis  .196

 OBP

V. Martinez  .403

N. Cruz  .332

M. Dominguez  .262

 SLG

J. Abreu  .598

I. Desmond  .415

D. Jeter  .300

 OPS

J. Abreu  .982

B. Zobrist  .749

Z. Cozart  .573

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.67

J. Hammel  3.60

C. Lewis  5.29

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  10.66

T. Koehler  7.22

K. Correia  4.68

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.