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Boston Red Sox vs. Texas Rangers, at Fenway Park, May 21, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Start Time:

7:10et (local)

Venue:

Fenway Park

Series:

Game #3 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

65° (based on last ten years)

Rangers

Manager:

Jeff Banister

Game #:

On This Date:

24-25

Red Sox

Manager:

John Farrell

Game #:

On This Date:

55-51

Season Series
Tue, May 19, 2015 BOS  4  TEX  3     
Wed, May 20, 2015 TEX  2 @BOS  1     

Thu, May 21, 2015 TEX    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, May 28, 2015 BOS    @TEX  8:05pm
Fri, May 29, 2015 BOS    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, May 30, 2015 BOS    @TEX  7:15pm
Sun, May 31, 2015 BOS    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET

Texas Rangers

17-23, 4th, 9½ GB, 4½ GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:    6-13   Road:   11-10   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  12-14   vsLHP:   5-9    1-Run:   6-5 
 vsEast:  3-3    vsCntrl: 3-4    vsWest: 10-15 IL: 1-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Wed, May 20  @BOS  W   2-1       17-23  4th  9.5 gb
 39 Tue, May 19  @BOS  L   3-4       16-23  4th  9.5 gb
 38 Sun, May 17   CLE  W   5-1       16-22  4th  9.0 gb
 37 Sat, May 16   CLE  L   8-10      15-22  4th  9.0 gb
 36 Fri, May 15   CLE  L   3-8       15-21  4th  8.0 gb
 35 Thu, May 14   KCR  L   3-6       15-20  4th  7.0 gb
 34 Wed, May 13   KCR  W   5-2       15-19  4th  6.0 gb
 33 Tue, May 12   KCR  L   6-7 (10)  14-19  4th  6.0 gb
 32 Mon, May 11   KCR  W   8-2       14-18  4th  6.0 gb
 31 Sun, May 10  @TBR  W   2-1       13-18  4th  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:13-17

Boston Red Sox

19-21, 3rd, 2½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:    8-10   Road:   11-11   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  14-15   vsLHP:   5-6    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast: 10-15   vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  5-4  IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Wed, May 20   TEX  L   1-2       19-21  3rd  2.5 gb
 39 Tue, May 19   TEX  W   4-3       19-20  3rd  2.5 gb
 38 Sun, May 17  @SEA  L   0-5       18-20  3rd  3.5 gb
 37 Sat, May 16  @SEA  W   4-2       18-19  3rd  3.5 gb
 36 Fri, May 15  @SEA  L   1-2       17-19  3rd  3.5 gb
 35 Thu, May 14  @SEA  W   2-1       17-18  3rd  3.5 gb
 34 Wed, May 13  @OAK  W   2-0       16-18  4th  4.5 gb
 33 Tue, May 12  @OAK  L   2-9       15-18  4th  5.5 gb
 32 Mon, May 11  @OAK  W   5-4 (11)  15-17  4th  5.5 gb
 31 Sun, May 10  @TOR  W   6-3       14-17  4th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, May 20, 2015 TEX  2 @BOS  1        W:Phil Klein (1-0), L: Joe Kelly (1-3), S: Shawn Tolleson (1)
Tue, May 19, 2015 BOS  4  TEX  3        W:Wade Miley (3-4), L: Yovani Gallardo (3-6), S: Koji Uehara (10)

Sun, May 11, 2014 BOS  5 @TEX  2        W:John Lackey (5-2), L: Robbie Ross (1-4), S: Koji Uehara (9)
Sat, May 10, 2014 BOS  8 @TEX  3        W:Jon Lester (4-4), L: Martin Perez (4-3), S: none
Fri, May 09, 2014 TEX  8  BOS  0        W:Yu Darvish (3-1), L: Clay Buchholz (2-3), S: none
Wed, Apr 09, 2014 BOS  4  TEX  2        W:Andrew Miller (1-0), L: Alexi Ogando (0-1), S: Koji Uehara (2)
Tue, Apr 08, 2014 TEX 10 @BOS  7        W:Martin Perez (1-0), L: Felix Doubront (1-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 07, 2014 BOS  5  TEX  1        W:John Lackey (2-0), L: Tanner Scheppers (0-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 06, 2013 BOS  6  TEX  3        W:Andrew Bailey (2-0), L: Michael Kirkman (0-2), S: none
Wed, Jun 05, 2013 TEX  3 @BOS  2        W:Neal Cotts (1-0), L: Craig Breslow (2-1), S: Joe Nathan (18)
Season Series: 2015 - tied 1-1; 2014 - BOS won 4-2; 2013 - TEX won 4-2; All-Time - BOS leads 336-305

SP: Wandy Rodriguez (36, LHP, 1-2, 3.86)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (1-2)			28.0	23	12	12	11	24	2	3.86
2014 (0-2)			26.2	37	25	20	8	20	10	6.75
2013 (6-4)			62.2	58	26	25	12	46	10	3.59

Last 7 GS		1-2	34.2	34	20	15	13	28	5	3.89	50
2015-05-15	CLE	L	4.2	8	5	5	1	2	0	101	29
2015-05-10	@TBR	ND	6.0	2	1	1	1	6	0	91	69
2015-05-05	@HOU	W	8.0	3	1	1	1	8	1	104	79
2015-04-29	SEA	L	4.1	5	4	4	5	3	1	101	35
2015-04-24	@LAA	ND	5.0	5	1	1	3	5	0	89	55
2014-05-21	BAL	ND	1.2	7	6	1	1	0	1	61	26
2014-05-15	@MIL	ND	5.0	4	2	2	1	4	2	73	54

Has never faced BOS as starter.

SP: Clay Buchholz (30, RHP, 2-4, 4.93)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (2-4)			45.2	50	27	25	13	54	4	4.93
2014 (8-11)			170.1	182	108	101	54	132	17	5.34
2013 (12-1)			108.1	75	23	21	36	96	4	1.74

Last 7 GS		1-4	38.2	47	27	25	12	45	4	5.82	46
2015-05-15	@SEA	ND	8.0	3	1	1	0	11	1	102	83
2015-05-10	@TOR	W	6.1	7	3	3	3	3	0	102	47
2015-05-04	TBR	L	6.1	9	5	5	2	7	1	107	40
2015-04-28	TOR	L	2.2	6	5	4	1	4	0	62	31
2015-04-23	@TBR	ND	6.0	2	1	1	3	10	0	104	71
2015-04-18	BAL	L	6.0	11	2	2	1	7	0	102	48
2015-04-12	@NYY	L	3.1	9	10	9	2	3	2	79	5

Last 5 v.TEX		0-4	28.1	31	17	17	10	20	5	5.40	46
2014-05-09	@TEX	L	4.1	10	6	6	2	3	0	96	20
2012-07-24	@TEX	ND	7.0	4	1	1	3	1	0	105	63
2011-04-03	@TEX	L	6.1	5	4	4	2	3	4	86	48
2010-04-22	TEX	L	6.2	6	3	3	1	10	0	114	59
2009-07-22	@TEX	L	4.0	6	3	3	2	3	1	90	39

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

Rangers Batters (4.08 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 11.Buchholz
G/S/vB 68.Barnes
G/S/vB 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB 59.Layne*
G/S/vB 41.Ogando
G/S/vB 28.Ross*
G/S/vB 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB 19.Uehara
G/S/vB 35.Wright
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Andrus G/S/vP 11/1.000 1/.000 8/.857 ··· ··· ··· 7/1.571 9/.333 ··· 180/123 .229/.295/.287/.582 .863/.448 .510 112/.656 5/3 1/9

29.Beltre G/S/vP 12/.614 ··· 7/.286 ··· 1/.000 ··· 8/.875 6/.666 ··· 175/124 .264/.297/.423/.720 .927/.636 .726 110/.793 1/0 5/5

88.Blanks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 63/44 .322/.365/.542/.907 1.316/.714 .741 63/.907 1/0 3/0

61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 101/72 .190/.300/.440/.740 1.179/.567 .800 65/.723 0/0 4/2

17.Choo* G/S/vP 16/.480 ··· 11/1.323 1/.000 6/.666 2/.000 2/1.000 4/.833 ··· 151/105 .233/.318/.451/.769 .583/.849 .613 106/.892 0/0 6/2

3.Corporan# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 60/43 .200/.300/.300/.600 .978/.426 .533 36/.411 0/0 1/1

7.DeShields G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 70/47 .271/.386/.390/.776 .733/.794 .741 59/.873 11/1 0/1

84.Fielder* G/S/vP 10/.650 ··· 4/.500 1/no AB ··· 5/.933 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 175/115 .348/.406/.500/.906 .877/.920 .781 109/.905 0/0 5/4

39.Field G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 30/23 .222/.300/.444/.744 .629/.761 .333 30/.744 1/0 2/2

2.Martin* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· 135/84 .206/.246/.302/.548 .648/.486 .750 67/.514 6/3 2/0

18.Moreland* G/S/vP 4/1.000 ··· 7/1.285 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.334 ··· 85/68 .288/.365/.452/.817 .840/.811 .837 47/.769 0/0 2/1

9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 48/21 .156/.208/.289/.497 .425/.588 .517 30/.381 2/0 2/1

IP 45.2 8.1 17.1 11.1 16.0 11.2 19.0 13.0 15.2 TOTAL .237/.312/.383/.695 .780/.656 .657 .727 31/9 39/33

ERA-K/9

4.93/10.6

1.08/5.4

3.63/7.8

3.18/6.4

3.38/7.9

6.17/5.4

1.42/8.5

2.08/10.4

4.02/5.2

4.53/7.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Chirinos (14-6-1)
Corporan (9-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 200/.273 36/.273 75/.250 47/.225 63/.190 53/.340 72/.191 47/.159 69/.274 .259 Martin
DeShields
Choo
Blanks 0/31/0/5
8/11/0/1
0/0/34/1
2/0/0/0

OPS .724 .636 .762 .569 .668 .952 .560 .532 .816 .745

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 111/.660 19/.498 29/1.039 26/.405 24/.292 15/.850 26/.654 26/.584 49/.719 .704

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 89/.805 17/.787 46/.592 21/.782 39/.922 38/.992 46/.503 21/.476 20/1.034 .783

Home 74/.904 3/.000 35/.771 12/.750 30/.733 32/.911 41/.620 20/.350 /

Last 28d days 99/.741 36/.636 35/1.178 27/.514 37/.752 27/1.065 44/.712 38/.611 47/.738

HR/SB/CS 4/1/1 0/2/0 3/0/1 0/0/0 3/0/1 2/0/0 3/2/1 2/0/0 3/0/0 45/21/7

Usage ·····X·· o··X··o· ···o···· o···ooo· ···X···· ········ oo··oo·o ·X··o·oo ···X····

Red Sox Batters (3.90 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.58 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 51.Rodriguez*
G/S/vB 63.Bass
G/S/vB 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB 30.Feliz
G/S/vB 71.Freeman*
G/S/vB 50.Kela
G/S/vB 35.Klein
G/S/vB 25.Ohlendorf
G/S/vB 52.Scheppers
G/S/vB 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

50.Betts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 178/136 .233/.294/.396/.690 .530/.740 .897 108/.752 5/1 5/1

2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 4/.500 1/.000 143/106 .260/.312/.382/.694 .658/.706 .659 83/.657 2/0 2/2

25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 13/12 .000/.154/.000/.154 .000/.167 13/.154 0/0 0/0

26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 89/70 .291/.364/.418/.781 .839/.766 .561 58/.708 1/0 1/0

3.Leon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/28 .161/.257/.161/.418 .000/.551 .481 18/.301 0/0 0/0

12.Napoli G/S/vP 6/.533 1/2.000 ··· 5/.200 1/.000 ··· 3/1.334 1/.000 5/1.467 1/.000 142/99 .184/.282/.320/.602 .720/.553 .676 81/.663 1/1 4/2

29.Nava# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 4/.500 1/2.000 65/60 .164/.266/.200/.466 .250/.478 .268 33/.421 0/0 0/0

34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 6/.167 2/.500 156/111 .241/.340/.421/.761 .338/.952 .963 93/.799 0/0 6/0

15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 2/1.000 6/.000 3/.333 179/135 .271/.354/.413/.767 .749/.772 .871 107/.733 1/1 5/3

13.Ramirez G/S/vP 28/1.292 5/1.600 ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 3/.000 9/.619 1/.000 1/.000 151/110 .266/.311/.504/.815 1.182/.687 .763 87/.787 1/2 10/2

48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 10/.522 8/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 5/1.600 ··· ··· 152/109 .270/.342/.416/.758 .142/1.013 .849 88/.841 0/0 5/3

23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 49/35 .170/.188/.234/.422 .385/.435 .356 49/.422 0/0 0/0

18.Victorino G/S/vP 18/.722 3/.333 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· ··· 8/.250 ··· 1/.000 65/37 .241/.369/.333/.703 1.045/.458 .679 22/1.132 3/0 1/0

IP 28.0 25.2 7.1 17.2 3.0 18.2 10.0 2.0 7.1 18.1 TOTAL .234/.313/.369/.682 .631/.701 .740 .692 14/5 41/19

ERA-K/9

3.86/7.7

3.86/5.6

3.68/6.2

5.09/7.6

3.00/3.0

2.41/7.7

4.50/6.3

0.00/9.0

6.14/4.9

3.44/11.8

4.18/6.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Leon (1-2-1)
Swihart (10-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 120/.219 105/.258 30/.214 84/.293 13/.273 80/.274 44/.244 7/.143 36/.241 75/.257 .266 Betts
Ramirez
Victorino
Nava
Holt
Bradley 0/38/0/3
33/0/0/2
0/0/19/1
5/0/13/1
4/2/9/0
2/1/4/0

OPS .642 .713 .769 .796 1.035 .694 .710 .286 .671 .697 .749

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 28/.953 42/.650 16/.979 44/.874 6/1.533 39/.800 17/1.012 3/.000 17/.661 42/.735 .770

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 92/.545 63/.749 14/.527 40/.711 7/.619 41/.594 27/.530 4/.500 19/.681 33/.648 .732

Road 72/.455 46/.782 7/1.000 44/.600 4/1.167 43/.717 33/.787 4/.500 30/.825 38/.642

Last 28d days 120/.642 46/.893 30/.769 53/.796 13/1.035 50/.662 23/.670 7/.286 22/.581 50/.921

HR/SB/CS 2/2/0 3/1/0 3/0/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 1/2/0 2/2/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 41/23/10

Usage ·····X·· ·····Xo· o···o·X· ·X··X··o ·o···oX· ·X··oo·· X······· X··o···· X··X···· X··XX··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 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 5.12

ATL 4.21

PHI 3.17

RA/G

STL 3.00

WSN 4.32

COL 5.19

D. Gordon .395

N. Walker .267

C. Utley .159

OBP

B. Harper .472

A. Escobar .331

E. Gattis .221

SLG

B. Harper .732

P. Sandoval .416

D. Gregorius .250

OPS

B. Harper 1.203

A. Pagan .742

C. Utley .513

ERA

S. Miller 1.33

C. Kluber 3.79

J. Marquis 6.91

K/9IP

J. Shields 12.21

K. Lohse 7.04

J. Guthrie 3.42

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.