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Baltimore Orioles vs. Minnesota Twins, at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, August 20, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Start Time:

7:05et (local)

Venue:

Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Series:

Game #1 of a 4-game series

Average Temp:

84° (based on last ten years)

Twins

Manager:

Paul Molitor

Game #:

122

On This Date:

46-62

Orioles

Manager:

Buck Showalter

Game #:

123

On This Date:

52-51

Season Series
Mon, Jul 06, 2015 MIN  4  BAL  2 (10)
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 MIN  8  BAL  3     
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 MIN  5  BAL  3     

Thu, Aug 20, 2015 MIN    @BAL  7:05pm
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 MIN    @BAL  7:05pm
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 MIN    @BAL  7:05pm
Sun, Aug 23, 2015 MIN    @BAL  1:35pm

                         All times ET

Minnesota Twins

59-61, 2nd, 14½ GB, 6½ GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   38-24   Road:   21-37   ExtrInn: 4-6 
 vsRHP:  38-42   vsLHP:  21-19   1-Run:  16-17
 vsEast: 13-13   vsCntrl:26-25   vsWest: 12-11 IL: 8-12

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
120 Wed, Aug 19  @NYY  L   3-4       59-61  2nd 14.5 gb
119 Tue, Aug 18  @NYY  L   4-8       59-60  2nd 13.5 gb
118 Mon, Aug 17  @NYY  L   7-8 (10)  59-59  2nd 12.5 gb
117 Sun, Aug 16   CLE  W   4-1       59-58  2nd 12.0 gb
116 Sat, Aug 15   CLE  W   4-1       58-58  2nd 12.0 gb
115 Fri, Aug 14   CLE  L   1-6       57-58  2nd 12.0 gb
114 Thu, Aug 13   TEX  L   5-6       57-57  2nd 11.0 gb
113 Wed, Aug 12   TEX  W  11-1       57-56  2nd 11.0 gb
112 Tue, Aug 11   TEX  W   3-2       56-56  2nd 12.0 gb
111 Sun, Aug  9  @CLE  L   1-8       55-56  2nd 11.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30: 9-21

Baltimore Orioles

62-57, 3rd, 5 GB, 3 GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   37-21   Road:   25-36   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  45-46   vsLHP:  17-11   1-Run:  17-19
 vsEast: 26-24   vsCntrl:12-10   vsWest: 15-15 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
119 Wed, Aug 19   NYM  W   5-4       62-57  3rd  5.0 gb
118 Tue, Aug 18   NYM  L   3-5       61-57  3rd  5.0 gb
117 Mon, Aug 17   OAK  W   4-2       61-56  3rd  4.0 gb
116 Sun, Aug 16   OAK  W  18-2       60-56  3rd  4.0 gb
115 Sat, Aug 15   OAK  W   4-3       59-56  3rd  5.0 gb
114 Fri, Aug 14   OAK  W   8-6 (13)  58-56  3rd  5.0 gb
113 Wed, Aug 12  @SEA  L   0-3       57-56  4th  5.0 gb
112 Tue, Aug 11  @SEA  L   5-6 (10)  57-55  3rd  4.5 gb
111 Mon, Aug 10  @SEA  W   3-2       57-54  3rd  4.5 gb
110 Sun, Aug  9  @LAA  L   4-5 (11)  56-54  3rd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 MIN  5  BAL  3        W:Tommy Milone (5-1), L: Bud Norris (2-9), S: Glen Perkins (28)
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 MIN  8  BAL  3        W:Kyle Gibson (7-6), L: Kevin Gausman (1-1), S: none
Mon, Jul 06, 2015 MIN  4  BAL  2 (10)   W:Trevor May (5-7), L: Tommy Hunter (2-2), S: none

Mon, Sep 01, 2014 MIN  6 @BAL  4        W:Phil Hughes (15-9), L: Kevin Gausman (7-7), S: Glen Perkins (33)
Sun, Aug 31, 2014 BAL 12  MIN  8        W:Wei-Yin Chen (14-4), L: Ricky Nolasco (5-10), S: Zach Britton (31)
Sat, Aug 30, 2014 BAL  3  MIN  2        W:Andrew Miller (5-5), L: Jared Burton (2-3), S: Zach Britton (30)
Fri, Aug 29, 2014 BAL  9  MIN  1        W:Miguel Gonzalez (7-7), L: Trevor May (0-4), S: none
Sun, May 04, 2014 MIN  5  BAL  2        W:Phil Hughes (3-1), L: Miguel Gonzalez (1-3), S: Glen Perkins (7)
Sat, May 03, 2014 MIN  6  BAL  1        W:Kevin Correia (1-3), L: Wei-Yin Chen (3-2), S: none
Fri, May 02, 2014 BAL  3 @MIN  0        W:Ubaldo Jimenez (1-4), L: Ricky Nolasco (2-3), S: Tommy Hunter (8)
Season Series: 2015 - MIN over 3-0; 2014 - BAL won 4-3; 2013 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - BAL leads 961-946

SP: Tyler Duffey (24, RHP, 1-1, 6.75)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (1-1)			8.0	6	6	6	7	8	2	6.75

Last 7 GS		1-1	8.0	6	6	6	7	8	2	6.75	47
2015-08-15	CLE	W	6.0	1	0	0	5	7	0	94	72
2015-08-05	@TOR	L	2.0	5	6	6	2	1	2	60	21

Has never faced BAL as starter.

SP: Miguel Gonzalez (31, RHP, 9-8, 4.42)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (9-8)			126.1	126	63	62	41	97	22	4.42
2014 (10-9)			159.0	155	61	57	51	111	25	3.23
2013 (11-8)			171.1	157	81	72	53	120	24	3.78

Last 7 GS		2-3	38.0	48	24	24	13	30	7	5.68	44
2015-08-15	OAK	ND	7.0	6	3	3	3	5	2	110	55
2015-08-09	@LAA	ND	4.2	7	4	4	2	6	2	102	38
2015-08-04	@OAK	L	5.1	5	3	3	3	5	0	94	48
2015-07-30	DET	L	3.1	10	5	5	1	1	0	66	20
2015-07-25	@TBR	W	7.2	5	1	1	0	5	1	107	70
2015-07-19	@DET	W	5.0	6	2	2	2	4	0	90	49
2015-07-11	WSN	L	5.0	9	6	6	2	4	2	79	27

Last 5 v.MIN		1-1	11.2	10	4	4	5	13	1	3.09	57
2014-08-29	MIN	W	7.0	4	1	1	1	6	1	103	70
2014-05-04	@MIN	L	4.2	6	3	3	4	7	0	94	43

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Twins Batters (4.23 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (3.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 50.Gonzalez
G/S/vB 35.Brach
G/S/vB 53.Britton*
G/S/vB 61.Garcia
G/S/vB 60.Givens
G/S/vB 17.Matusz*
G/S/vB 66.McFarland*
G/S/vB 56.O'Day
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

25.Buxton G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 39/27 .189/.231/.270/.501 .348/.567 .600 / 1/2 0/0

2.Dozier G/S/vP 6/.900 3/1.334 6/.167 ··· ··· 2/.500 1/.000 4/.000 520/365 .244/.315/.486/.801 .825/.792 .779 106/.669 10/4 25/5

5.Escobar# G/S/vP 5/.400 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 290/193 .243/.285/.377/.662 .584/.701 .644 67/.595 2/3 4/4

12.Herrmann* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 85/64 .169/.238/.325/.563 .246/.661 .472 13/.769 0/0 2/3

48.Hunter G/S/vP 6/1.500 ··· 6/.533 ··· ··· 13/1.045 ··· 13/.462 430/296 .235/.288/.413/.701 .703/.700 .773 75/.543 2/4 18/4

7.Mauer* G/S/vP 4/.000 3/2.334 9/.944 ··· ··· 10/.522 2/1.500 3/.667 488/336 .267/.332/.378/.710 .720/.705 .724 98/.611 1/1 8/4

9.Nunez G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 10/.222 ··· ··· 8/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 162/111 .263/.298/.401/.699 .556/.767 .697 38/.480 5/4 2/2

24.Plouffe G/S/vP 6/1.700 4/1.250 5/1.800 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/1.167 469/328 .249/.306/.456/.761 .813/.739 .695 90/.743 2/1 18/9

21.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 165/93 .260/.313/.340/.653 .582/.707 .677 32/.816 5/1 0/0

20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 318/233 .275/.297/.449/.747 .641/.784 .521 90/.880 9/5 7/5

22.Sano G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 165/117 .285/.394/.555/.949 .670/1.069 .762 103/.970 1/1 9/0

8.Suzuki G/S/vP 4/1.750 4/.500 7/.762 ··· ··· 15/.800 2/.000 9/.111 359/244 .232/.290/.310/.600 .632/.585 .566 74/.640 0/0 4/1

IP 126.1 58.1 50.0 17.2 9.2 39.2 20.0 47.0 TOTAL .247/.301/.398/.699 .707/.696 .638 .709 55/36 112/64

ERA-K/9

4.42/6.9

2.47/10.3

1.80/10.1

4.58/4.6

1.86/11.1

2.27/10.9

2.25/7.2

1.15/11.5

3.72/7.8

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Herrmann (8-4-0)
Suzuki (56-12-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 533/.261 232/.201 193/.219 77/.180 36/.147 167/.210 97/.306 185/.198 .249 Rosario
Robinson
Escobar
Hunter
Buxton
Nunez
Herrmann 54/4/29/11
46/15/8/5
34/0/1/4
0/0/91/3
0/11/0/2
3/0/0/1
0/0/2/0

OPS .786 .611 .543 .715 .466 .603 .827 .545 .721

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 266/.819 123/.491 53/.251 30/.689 14/.286 82/.405 47/.600 67/.757 .705

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 267/.753 109/.750 140/.653 47/.697 22/.590 85/.813 50/1.051 118/.431 .734

Home 250/.801 107/.511 106/.607 40/.608 23/.565 68/.672 37/1.005 92/.509

Last 28d days 122/.905 53/.591 45/.638 14/.143 33/.510 36/.515 31/.762 48/.659

HR/SB/CS 22/2/1 5/5/2 2/0/1 3/1/1 1/0/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 4/3/1 128/52/24

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

Orioles Batters (4.49 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.48 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 56.Duffey
G/S/vB 58.Achter
G/S/vB 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB 50.Fien
G/S/vB 62.Graham
G/S/vB 49.Jepsen
G/S/vB 65.May
G/S/vB 61.O'Rourke*
G/S/vB 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

45.Clevenger* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 32/29 .406/.406/.563/.969 .667/1.000 1.000 21/.952 0/0 1/0

19.Davis* G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.143 2/2.500 1/.000 7/1.262 2/2.500 ··· 4/.000 485/352 .258/.342/.546/.888 .931/.871 .974 107/1.212 2/1 34/2

3.Flaherty* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 221/165 .208/.279/.330/.608 .561/.624 .498 35/.057 0/0 4/1

2.Hardy G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.929 2/.000 ··· 8/.250 2/2.000 1/.000 5/.400 344/246 .225/.254/.320/.574 .487/.610 .572 97/.477 0/0 7/3

10.Jones G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.334 5/1.200 1/3.000 6/.533 4/.833 ··· 7/.310 461/362 .283/.323/.508/.831 .985/.790 .871 110/.872 3/1 23/2

36.Joseph G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 275/201 .252/.320/.451/.771 .809/.756 .840 58/1.030 0/0 11/2

13.Machado G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 5/1.750 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 521/408 .300/.366/.519/.885 .809/.907 .916 115/.837 16/5 25/14

38.Paredes# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 351/293 .274/.308/.425/.732 .639/.751 .833 55/.449 3/3 10/2

18.Parra* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 1/5.000 ··· 1/no AB 429/352 .321/.362/.513/.875 .697/.913 .897 104/.905 10/3 13/2

14.Reimold G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 2/1.000 ··· 4/1.250 ··· ··· 2/.000 102/51 .231/.314/.352/.665 .873/.455 .715 41/.647 0/0 2/1

6.Schoop G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/.666 164/113 .301/.335/.529/.865 .657/.957 .988 91/.880 1/0 9/3

51.Urrutia* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/19 .211/.250/.368/.618 .000/.652 .618 20/.618 0/0 1/0

32.Wieters# G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.800 4/.000 1/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· 3/.000 171/122 .284/.310/.451/.761 .868/.716 .963 57/.913 0/0 5/3

IP 8.0 6.0 34.2 43.2 57.0 49.1 98.0 14.1 47.1 TOTAL .256/.310/.429/.739 .730/.742 .800 .768 34/18 160/48

ERA-K/9

6.75/9.0

9.00/12.0

4.67/4.4

3.71/5.4

5.05/7.3

2.74/7.3

4.13/8.1

5.02/12.0

2.66/8.2

4.24/6.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Clevenger (2-1-1)
Joseph (34-16-5)
Wieters (13-5-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 36/.214 26/.250 145/.262 177/.249 249/.283 207/.215 423/.287 61/.160 193/.238 .273 Jones
Parra
Davis
Reimold
Paredes
Urrutia 0/105/0/11
50/32/31/5
0/0/27/2
24/2/13/2
1/0/1/0
4/0/0/0

OPS .836 .808 .728 .640 .814 .600 .765 .520 .632 .753

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 15/.630 11/1.121 60/.879 74/.759 111/.776 109/.724 224/.746 37/.500 52/.872 .730

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 21/.969 15/.600 85/.624 103/.556 138/.845 98/.467 199/.785 24/.542 141/.544 .772

Road 13/1.683 13/1.538 77/.592 87/.681 112/.891 102/.725 175/.780 34/.710 76/.421

Last 28d days 36/.836 26/.808 47/.801 56/.482 64/.866 35/.390 44/.748 41/.631 42/1.247

HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 2/1/0 2/3/0 5/4/0 10/4/0 4/3/2 9/8/2 1/1/0 6/1/0 131/65/16

Usage ····X··· ·o···X·X ··XX·oo· ··Xoo·X· ·X···X·· ··oXX·o· o····X·· ·Xo···o· ··oXX···

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 2015 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

TOR 5.24

LAA 4.06

ATL 3.68

RA/G

STL 2.91

CLE 4.22

COL 5.30

D. Gordon .334

F. Galvis .267

M. Zunino .175

OBP

B. Harper .454

C. Gonzalez .326

M. Zunino .231

SLG

B. Harper .634

E. Longoria .425

B. Hamilton .290

OPS

B. Harper 1.088

N. Walker .751

O. Infante .529

ERA

Z. Greinke 1.58

D. Haren 3.63

K. Lohse 6.11

K/9IP

C. Sale 11.90

S. Miller 7.58

M. Buehrle 4.25

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.