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Boston Red Sox vs. Minnesota Twins, at Fenway Park, June 4, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Start Time:
4:05et (local)
Venue:
Fenway Park
Series:
Game #4 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
70° (based on last ten years)
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
54
On This Date:
46-55
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
56
On This Date:
60-45
Season Series
Mon, May 25, 2015 MIN  7  BOS  2     
Tue, May 26, 2015 MIN  2  BOS  1     
Wed, May 27, 2015 MIN  6  BOS  4     
Tue, Jun 02, 2015 BOS  1  MIN  0     
Wed, Jun 03, 2015 BOS  6  MIN  3     
Wed, Jun 03, 2015 MIN  2 @BOS  0     

Thu, Jun 04, 2015 MIN    @BOS  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Minnesota Twins
31-21, 1st, Tied / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-7    Road:   12-14   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  16-14   vsLHP:  15-7    1-Run:  11-7 
 vsEast:  8-4    vsCntrl:16-15   vsWest:  5-2  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 52 Wed, Jun  3  @BOS  W   2-0       31-21  1st    Tied
 51 Wed, Jun  3  @BOS  L   3-6       30-21  1st    Tied
 50 Tue, Jun  2  @BOS  L   0-1       30-20  1st  0.5 up
 49 Sun, May 31   TOR  W   6-5       30-19  1st  0.5 up
 48 Sat, May 30   TOR  W   3-2       29-19  2nd  0.5 gb
 47 Fri, May 29   TOR  L   4-6       28-19  2nd  1.0 gb
 46 Wed, May 27   BOS  W   6-4       28-18  1st    Tied
 45 Tue, May 26   BOS  W   2-1       27-18  2nd  1.0 gb
 44 Mon, May 25   BOS  W   7-2       26-18  2nd  2.0 gb
 43 Sun, May 24  @CHW  W   8-1       25-18  2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:21-9
Boston Red Sox
24-30, 4th, 5 GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-13   Road:   12-17   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  17-22   vsLHP:   7-8    1-Run:   9-7 
 vsEast: 10-15   vsCntrl: 2-4    vsWest:  8-9  IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 54 Wed, Jun  3   MIN  L   0-2       24-30  4th  5.0 gb
 53 Wed, Jun  3   MIN  W   6-3       24-29  4th  5.0 gb
 52 Tue, Jun  2   MIN  W   1-0       23-29  4th  4.5 gb
 51 Sun, May 31  @TEX  L   3-4       22-29  5th  4.0 gb
 50 Sat, May 30  @TEX  L   0-8       22-28  5th  4.0 gb
 49 Fri, May 29  @TEX  L   4-7       22-27  5th  3.0 gb
 48 Thu, May 28  @TEX  W   5-1       22-26  4th  3.0 gb
 47 Wed, May 27  @MIN  L   4-6       21-26  4th  4.0 gb
 46 Tue, May 26  @MIN  L   1-2       21-25  4th  3.0 gb
 45 Mon, May 25  @MIN  L   2-7       21-24  4th  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 03, 2015 MIN  2 @BOS  0        W:Trevor May (4-3), L: Rick Porcello (4-5), S: Glen Perkins (20)
Wed, Jun 03, 2015 BOS  6  MIN  3        W:Eduardo Rodriguez (2-0), L: Phil Hughes (4-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 02, 2015 BOS  1  MIN  0        W:Clay Buchholz (3-6), L: Mike Pelfrey (4-2), S: Koji Uehara (11)
Wed, May 27, 2015 MIN  6  BOS  4        W:Phil Hughes (4-4), L: Rick Porcello (4-4), S: Glen Perkins (18)
Tue, May 26, 2015 MIN  2  BOS  1        W:Mike Pelfrey (4-1), L: Clay Buchholz (2-6), S: Glen Perkins (17)
Mon, May 25, 2015 MIN  7  BOS  2        W:Ricky Nolasco (5-1), L: Joe Kelly (1-4), S: none

Wed, Jun 18, 2014 BOS  2  MIN  1 (10)   W:Koji Uehara (2-1), L: Casey Fien (3-4), S: none
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 BOS  2  MIN  1        W:Jon Lester (8-7), L: Phil Hughes (7-3), S: Edward Mujica (2)
Mon, Jun 16, 2014 BOS  1  MIN  0        W:Rubby De La Rosa (2-2), L: Kevin Correia (3-8), S: Koji Uehara (15)
Thu, May 15, 2014 MIN  4  BOS  3 (10)   W:Brian Duensing (1-1), L: Andrew Miller (1-2), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - MIN over 4-2; 2014 - BOS won 4-2; 2013 - BOS won 4-3; All-Time - BOS leads 964-931

SP: Tommy Milone (28, LHP, 2-1, 4.76)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-1) 22.2 22 12 12 11 13 5 4.76
2014 (6-4) 118.0 128 63 55 37 75 16 4.19
2013 (12-9) 156.1 160 83 72 39 126 25 4.14
Last 7 GS 2-1 36.0 46 24 21 17 19 7 5.25 41
2015-04-27 DET L 4.0 8 5 5 2 2 2 83 26
2015-04-21 @KCR ND 5.2 5 4 4 4 1 2 92 40
2015-04-16 KCR W 5.1 7 3 3 3 3 1 101 42
2015-04-10 @CHW W 7.2 2 0 0 2 7 0 100 80
2014-09-02 CHW ND 3.2 5 3 3 4 3 1 86 38
2014-08-28 @KCR ND 5.1 9 4 3 2 0 0 88 34
2014-08-22 DET ND 4.1 10 5 3 0 3 1 99 30
Last 5 v.BOS 0-2 13.2 22 19 18 6 13 8 11.85 27
2014-06-22 BOS ND 5.0 8 5 5 1 3 2 95 33
2014-05-03 @BOS L 4.0 6 6 6 4 5 3 77 27
2012-04-30 @BOS L 4.2 8 8 7 1 5 3 98 22

SP: Steven Wright (30, RHP, 2-2, 3.90)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-2) 27.2 26 13 12 9 15 5 3.90
2014 (0-1) 21.0 21 8 6 4 22 2 2.57
2013 (2-0) 13.1 12 8 8 9 10 0 5.40
Last 7 GS 1-3 23.0 19 13 10 7 15 3 3.91 51
2015-05-29 @TEX L 5.2 5 3 3 1 4 2 82 50
2015-05-23 LAA W 6.1 4 2 2 1 2 0 75 58
2015-05-17 @SEA L 5.0 5 3 2 1 4 1 83 50
2014-09-26 NYY L 5.0 4 2 0 2 4 0 92 57
2013-08-06 @HOU ND 1.0 1 3 3 2 1 0 38 38
Has never faced MIN as starter.

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Twins Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.59 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Wright
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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 6/1.167 ··· 3/.000 ··· 228/148 .260/.338/.525/.863 .961/.808 .831 101/1.056 3/1 10/1
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 4/.833 ··· 4/1.666 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 148/93 .229/.252/.343/.595 .508/.646 .469 70/.549 1/1 3/2
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 47/29 .182/.234/.341/.575 .289/.724 .576 19/.599 0/0 1/2
32.Hicks# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 70/48 .258/.300/.318/.618 .511/.668 .575 70/.618 4/1 1/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 10/1.611 ··· 19/.498 3/1.167 7/1.000 16/.626 200/128 .273/.325/.443/.768 .797/.751 .786 90/.879 1/2 7/2
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 12/.872 ··· 6/.000 4/1.167 5/.800 4/.000 214/133 .268/.322/.361/.683 .793/.613 .691 92/.621 1/0 1/2
9.Nunez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 5/.800 1/.000 6/1.000 ··· 4/.500 4/.000 45/22 .286/.333/.476/.810 .581/1.055 .983 21/.540 0/2 1/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/.650 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 4/.500 2/.500 205/128 .262/.337/.459/.796 .861/.757 .642 87/.779 0/0 8/3
21.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 83/30 .260/.313/.286/.599 .567/.655 .454 25/.374 3/1 0/0
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 67/49 .302/.318/.413/.731 .863/.682 .438 59/.703 4/1 2/2
39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 181/119 .221/.239/.297/.535 .668/.468 .412 73/.386 4/3 0/12
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 8/.536 1/.000 ··· 5/.000 157/104 .223/.295/.309/.604 .631/.588 .573 72/.634 0/0 2/1
IP 27.2 13.1 21.1 15.2 21.2 17.0 23.0 17.0 TOTAL .252/.304/.383/.686 .729/.662 .604 .685 21/15 41/31
ERA-K/9 3.90/4.9 2.03/7.4 4.22/7.6 2.87/7.5 4.15/6.6 5.29/6.4 1.57/8.2 1.59/10.1 4.37/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (5-3-0)
 Suzuki (27-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 115/.248 63/.310 95/.288 64/.214 88/.244 76/.299 86/.195 65/.140 .255  Escobar
 Robinson
 Rosario
 Hicks
 Hunter
 Nunez
 Herrmann
24/0/0/4
21/13/3/3
10/0/9/2
0/20/0/1
0/0/39/1
2/0/0/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .755 .831 .812 .547 .783 .833 .550 .517 .728
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 73/.818 31/.819 38/1.028 37/.336 33/.667 22/.773 32/.688 33/.635 .712
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 42/.645 32/.842 57/.671 27/.854 55/.858 54/.858 54/.464 32/.400 .743
Home 24/.469 8/1.518 45/.786 15/.673 46/.817 42/.802 49/.621 32/.329
Last 28d days 93/.701 55/.882 30/.993 35/.507 38/.924 27/.907 32/.344 39/.456
HR/SB/CS 5/0/1 2/3/0 3/0/1 0/1/0 4/0/1 2/0/0 3/2/1 2/0/0 56/28/12
Usage ·····X·· ····oo·· ·····X·· ···o·oX· X··o·o·· ····X··· o··o···o ·X·o··o·
Red Sox Batters (3.74 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 36.Boyer
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 62.Graham
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 22.Stauffer
G/S/vB		 64.Thompson*
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 237/183 .238/.297/.374/.670 .601/.691 .756 110/.592 8/2 5/1
16.Bianchi G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 0/ /// / 0/ 0/0 0/0
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 189/139 .287/.332/.391/.722 .780/.701 .807 87/.737 4/0 2/4
38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 39/28 .211/.231/.211/.441 .545/.399 .400 39/.441 1/0 0/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 127/96 .279/.365/.396/.761 .810/.746 .629 59/.672 2/0 1/4
3.Leon# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 57/41 .170/.264/.170/.434 .143/.545 .397 30/.426 0/0 0/0
12.Napoli G/S/vP 13/.930 1/2.000 13/.398 3/2.334 ··· 6/.334 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 196/138 .207/.316/.414/.731 .866/.676 .890 94/.942 1/1 9/2
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 9/2.270 ··· 6/.334 3/2.334 ··· 14/.857 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 205/142 .227/.307/.387/.694 .304/.883 .811 94/.625 0/0 6/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 9/.944 1/2.000 7/.971 7/1.000 ··· 11/.282 4/.000 2/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 240/183 .299/.360/.439/.799 .704/.827 .880 114/.775 1/1 7/5
39.Peguero* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· 90/80 .187/.311/.400/.711 .786/.699 .615 32/.394 2/0 4/0
13.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 9/.611 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 12/.973 ··· 3/.333 205/148 .259/.307/.471/.778 .995/.699 .693 102/.615 3/2 12/3
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 3/.000 8/.500 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 23/1.335 1/2.000 ··· 189/138 .244/.312/.360/.673 .279/.825 .795 77/.526 0/0 5/5
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 78/57 .216/.247/.257/.504 .450/.522 .393 63/.525 1/0 0/0
IP 22.2 26.2 10.2 13.1 20.1 25.0 15.1 13.1 23.2 8.0 TOTAL .240/.313/.367/.680 .650/.691 .732 .653 24/6 50/32
ERA-K/9 4.76/5.2 2.03/3.7 7.59/4.2 3.38/4.7 3.10/7.5 1.80/8.3 2.93/8.2 7.43/2.0 3.42/5.3 5.63/7.9 3.85/5.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Leon (2-4-1)
 Swihart (16-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 99/.256 105/.247 51/.341 52/.235 87/.260 101/.235 62/.182 65/.386 96/.233 37/.281 .271  Betts
 Ramirez
 Peguero
 Castillo
 Holt
0/52/0/4
44/0/0/2
25/1/9/1
0/1/10/1
8/2/11/0
OPS .794 .691 .954 .569 .780 .574 .494 1.201 .595 .914 .736
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 30/.750 39/.327 19/1.089 18/.824 37/.836 26/.942 25/.628 22/1.193 39/.357 18/1.021 .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 69/.812 66/.897 32/.875 34/.441 50/.738 75/.447 37/.399 43/1.195 57/.748 19/.806 .769
Road 52/.566 54/.971 26/.801 27/.538 40/.826 40/.409 28/.883 24/1.036 47/.623 21/.865
Last 28d days / 46/.554 24/.967 11/.364 43/.874 52/.735 46/.586 15/1.181 25/.935 29/.939
HR/SB/CS 5/3/1 2/2/3 1/2/0 1/1/0 3/1/0 2/1/0 0/0/1 4/0/0 2/2/0 3/2/0 48/32/12
Usage o··oo··· ····oo·o ·o··oo·· ···X···· o··o·X·X X··ooo·o o··X·o·· ·····o·o X······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  5.15

BAL  4.12

PHI  3.09

 RA/G

STL  2.91

DET  4.19

COL  5.08

 BA

D. Gordon  .368

M. Machado  .264

S. Drew  .165

 OBP

B. Harper  .471

T. Hunter  .325

S. Drew  .232

 SLG

B. Harper  .718

W. Flores  .415

J. Ramirez  .245

 OPS

B. Harper  1.189

E. Gattis  .753

J. Ramirez  .496

 ERA

S. Gray  1.65

C. Kershaw  3.73

K. Kendrick  6.55

 K/9IP

D. Salazar  11.68

J. Locke  7.27

J. Guthrie  3.33

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.