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Cleveland Indians vs. Minnesota Twins, at Progressive Field, May 8, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, May 8, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Progressive Field
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Progressive Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
59° (based on last ten years)
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
30
On This Date:
47-50
Indians
Manager:
Terry Francona
Game #:
28
On This Date:
42-51
Season Series
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 MIN  3  CLE  2 (11)
Sat, Apr 18, 2015 CLE  4 @MIN  2     
Sun, Apr 19, 2015 MIN  7  CLE  2     

Fri, May 08, 2015 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Sat, May 09, 2015 MIN    @CLE  4:10pm
Sun, May 10, 2015 MIN    @CLE  1:10pm
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Sat, Aug 08, 2015 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 09, 2015 MIN    @CLE  1:10pm
Fri, Aug 14, 2015 CLE    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 15, 2015 CLE    @MIN  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 16, 2015 CLE    @MIN  2:10pm
Tue, Sep 22, 2015 CLE    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 23, 2015 CLE    @MIN  8:10pm
Thu, Sep 24, 2015 CLE    @MIN  8:10pm
Mon, Sep 28, 2015 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Tue, Sep 29, 2015 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Wed, Sep 30, 2015 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Thu, Oct 01, 2015 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Minnesota Twins
16-13, 3rd, 2½ GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-5    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:   7-8    vsLHP:   9-5    1-Run:   5-4 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl:11-11   vsWest:  5-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Thu, May  7   OAK  W   6-5       16-13  3rd  2.5 gb
 28 Wed, May  6   OAK  W  13-0       15-13  3rd  2.5 gb
 27 Tue, May  5   OAK  L   1-2       14-13  3rd  3.5 gb
 26 Mon, May  4   OAK  W   8-7       14-12  3rd  3.0 gb
 25 Sun, May  3   CHW  W  13-3       13-12  3rd  3.5 gb
 24 Sat, May  2   CHW  W   5-3       12-12  3rd  4.0 gb
 23 Fri, May  1   CHW  W   1-0       11-12  3rd  5.0 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 30   CHW  W  12-2       10-12  3rd  5.0 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 29   DET  L   7-10       9-12  4th  5.5 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 28   DET  W   3-2        9-11  4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:16-13
Cleveland Indians
10-17, 5th, 7½ GB, 7 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-8    Road:    6-9    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   7-8    vsLHP:   3-9    1-Run:   0-2 
 vsEast:  2-2    vsCntrl: 6-14   vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Thu, May  7  @KCR  L   4-7       10-17  5th  7.5 gb
 26 Wed, May  6  @KCR  W  10-3       10-16  5th  6.5 gb
 25 Tue, May  5  @KCR  L   3-5        9-16  5th  7.5 gb
 24 Sun, May  3   TOR  W  10-7        9-15  4th  7.0 gb
 23 Sat, May  2   TOR  L   4-11       8-15  5th  7.5 gb
 22 Fri, May  1   TOR  W   9-4        8-14  5th  7.5 gb
 21 Thu, Apr 30   TOR  L   1-5        7-14  5th  7.5 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 29   KCR  W   7-5        7-13  5th  7.0 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 28   KCR  L   5-11       6-13  5th  7.5 gb
 18 Mon, Apr 27   KCR  L   2-6        6-12  5th  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:10-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 19, 2015 MIN  7  CLE  2        W:Trevor May (1-1), L: T.J. House (0-2), S: none
Sat, Apr 18, 2015 CLE  4 @MIN  2        W:Danny Salazar (1-0), L: Phil Hughes (0-3), S: Cody Allen (3)
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 MIN  3  CLE  2 (11)   W:Blaine Boyer (1-1), L: Bryan Shaw (0-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 21, 2014 CLE  7 @MIN  2        W:Corey Kluber (17-9), L: Anthony Swarzak (3-2), S: none
Sat, Sep 20, 2014 CLE  7 @MIN  3        W:T.J. House (4-3), L: Trevor May (3-5), S: Marc Rzepczynski (1)
Fri, Sep 19, 2014 MIN  5  CLE  4 (10)   W:Jared Burton (3-5), L: Kyle Crockett (4-1), S: none
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 CLE  2  MIN  0        W:T.J. House (3-3), L: Ricky Nolasco (5-11), S: Cody Allen (20)
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 CLE  8  MIN  2        W:Corey Kluber (15-9), L: Kyle Gibson (11-11), S: none
Tue, Sep 09, 2014 MIN  4 @CLE  3        W:Trevor May (2-4), L: Trevor Bauer (5-8), S: Jared Burton (2)
Thu, Aug 21, 2014 MIN  4  CLE  1        W:Phil Hughes (14-8), L: Corey Kluber (13-7), S: Glen Perkins (32)
Season Series: 2015 - MIN over 2-1; 2014 - CLE won 11-8; 2013 - CLE won 13-6; All-Time - CLE leads 1111-971

SP: Mike Pelfrey (31, RHP, 2-0, 2.63)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-0) 27.1 23 9 8 11 16 2 2.63
2014 (0-3) 23.2 29 23 21 18 10 5 7.99
2013 (5-13) 152.2 184 92 88 53 101 13 5.19
Last 7 GS 2-1 36.1 36 18 16 17 19 2 3.96 48
2015-05-03 CHW ND 3.1 5 2 2 2 1 0 61 41
2015-04-28 DET W 7.0 3 2 1 2 7 0 109 70
2015-04-22 @KCR W 7.0 5 0 0 2 4 0 99 69
2015-04-17 CLE ND 5.0 3 1 1 4 2 0 88 55
2015-04-11 @CHW ND 5.0 7 4 4 1 2 2 80 38
2014-05-01 LAD L 4.0 7 5 5 3 2 0 85 27
2014-04-23 @TBR ND 5.0 6 4 3 3 1 0 92 39
Last 5 v.CLE 1-1 27.0 16 8 8 17 20 2 2.67 56
2015-04-17 CLE ND 5.0 3 1 1 4 2 0 88 55
2014-04-04 @CLE L 5.1 3 3 3 3 3 2 81 50
2013-08-25 @CLE ND 5.0 2 1 1 6 3 0 94 56
2013-07-19 CLE ND 5.2 4 2 2 3 5 0 113 55
2013-05-05 @CLE W 6.0 4 1 1 1 7 0 92 66

SP: Trevor Bauer (24, RHP, 2-0, 3.38)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-0) 29.1 22 11 11 16 29 2 3.38
2014 (5-8) 153.0 151 76 71 60 143 16 4.18
2013 (1-2) 17.0 15 11 10 16 11 3 5.29
Last 7 GS 2-0 39.2 34 18 18 19 37 4 4.08 53
2015-05-03 TOR ND 4.1 7 6 6 3 1 1 90 23
2015-04-28 KCR ND 6.0 7 3 3 2 2 1 90 46
2015-04-20 @CHW ND 7.0 4 0 0 2 7 0 104 74
2015-04-15 CHW W 6.0 4 2 2 4 8 0 103 60
2015-04-09 @HOU W 6.0 0 0 0 5 11 0 111 78
2014-09-24 KCR ND 4.1 8 4 4 3 2 0 83 30
2014-09-19 @MIN ND 6.0 4 3 3 0 6 2 96 58
Last 5 v.MIN 0-2 24.2 18 15 15 5 25 5 5.47 54
2014-09-19 @MIN ND 6.0 4 3 3 0 6 2 96 58
2014-09-09 MIN L 8.0 4 4 4 1 8 1 102 65
2014-08-19 @MIN ND 4.2 4 5 5 2 4 1 87 38
2014-07-23 @MIN L 6.0 6 3 3 2 7 1 99 53

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

Twins Batters (4.59 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (5.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Bauer
G/S/vB		 37.Allen
G/S/vB		 48.Atchison
G/S/vB		 50.Hagadone*
G/S/vB		 34.McAllister
G/S/vB		 35.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 27.Shaw
G/S/vB		 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 54.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
17.Bernier G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 /1.000// / 1/ 0/0 0/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP 13/.413 6/.750 4/1.250 2/5.000 15/.629 1/.000 13/.231 1/no AB 1/2.000 127/78 .236/.323/.382/.705 .789/.651 .604 110/.733 2/0 2/0
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 5/.000 3/.666 2/1.000 2/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 4/.750 1/.000 ··· 78/43 .230/.256/.378/.635 .564/.693 .458 68/.635 1/0 2/2
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 13/.077 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 28/15 .192/.250/.308/.558 .322/.733 .675 27/.579 0/0 0/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP 9/1.111 11/.495 8/.000 2/.000 17/.470 7/.143 9/.222 22/.636 1/2.000 110/65 .252/.291/.388/.679 .524/.790 .476 94/.756 1/2 3/1
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 8/1.000 3/.667 5/.800 8/.929 10/1.056 9/.873 6/.733 1/2.000 1/.000 122/65 .287/.361/.370/.731 .772/.693 .861 106/.715 0/0 0/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 10/.200 12/.697 10/.200 1/no AB 15/.421 4/1.750 6/1.166 1/3.000 3/.333 118/66 .269/.356/.452/.808 .746/.855 .553 103/.869 0/0 5/1
21.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 58/23 .315/.362/.333/.695 .624/.800 .596 57/.708 3/1 0/0
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/3 .286/.250/.714/.964 1.650/.000 8/.964 0/0 1/0
39.Santana# G/S/vP 8/1.125 2/1.000 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 108/68 .272/.286/.350/.635 .781/.550 .506 96/.718 2/2 0/9
1.Schafer* G/S/vP 8/.125 1/.000 3/.333 1/.000 2/1.000 5/.200 3/1.334 ··· 4/1.250 63/51 .237/.274/.288/.562 .750/.515 .379 50/.568 0/3 0/1
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 7/.143 6/.733 12/.166 ··· 4/.000 3/1.167 4/.000 7/.572 3/3.500 85/53 .213/.286/.293/.579 .615/.551 .476 71/.592 0/0 2/1
19.Vargas# G/S/vP 8/1.500 2/.000 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 90/54 .229/.289/.349/.638 .813/.522 .368 75/.637 0/0 3/0
IP 29.1 10.0 9.2 10.0 19.0 7.2 9.0 11.1 6.0 TOTAL .258/.315/.372/.687 .694/.682 .563 .716 9/9 20/19
ERA-K/9 3.38/8.9 9.00/13.5 4.66/6.5 5.40/10.8 3.79/9.9 4.70/11.7 3.00/10.0 3.97/8.8 0.00/3.0 4.72/9.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (3-2-0)
 Suzuki (16-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 124/.208 54/.349 40/.243 48/.262 87/.333 32/.222 43/.300 55/.353 20/.111 .271  Robinson
 Escobar
 Schafer
 Hunter
 Herrmann
 Rosario
12/13/3/3
14/0/0/2
1/23/0/1
0/0/23/0
0/0/1/0
0/0/2/0
OPS .619 .988 .707 .830 .767 .545 .849 .890 .325 .756
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 64/.769 21/.734 11/.182 18/.708 34/.643 20/.551 9/.778 17/.790 6/.167 .705
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 60/.470 33/1.154 29/.922 30/.905 53/.845 12/.533 34/.866 38/.935 14/.385 .788
Home 75/.800 26/1.081 19/.652 23/.891 60/.794 18/.828 23/1.071 32/.873 16/.333
Last 28d days 101/.704 51/1.055 31/.856 37/.749 62/.549 28/.551 37/.837 49/.919 20/.325
HR/SB/CS 2/3/1 1/2/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 1/2/2 0/1/0 2/2/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 24/26/6
Usage ····X··· X···o·o· o···o·o· o·X··o·X ·o··X·o· oo··oo·· o·o·oo·X ·····o·· o····X·X
Indians Batters (4.41 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.14 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Pelfrey
G/S/vB		 36.Boyer
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 62.Graham
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 64.Thompson*
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Aviles G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 23/.856 ··· 20/.463 5/.400 2/.000 1/2.000 59/17 .288/.373/.462/.834 .781/.941 .703 54/.775 0/0 2/2
24.Bourn* G/S/vP 16/.599 4/1.000 7/.619 ··· 7/1.071 3/1.334 4/1.750 ··· 102/59 .187/.267/.231/.498 .556/.458 .645 84/.456 2/2 0/0
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 14/.368 ··· 31/.361 ··· 11/.400 4/.583 3/.666 ··· 91/53 .341/.407/.512/.919 1.027/.845 1.057 83/.974 4/0 2/0
8.Chisenhall* G/S/vP 10/.633 2/.500 8/.250 1/2.000 4/1.000 4/1.500 4/.500 2/.000 98/58 .250/.302/.398/.700 .702/.697 .659 86/.738 0/0 2/2
12.Hayes G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/12 .143/.182/.429/.610 1.400/.000 .530 23/.610 0/0 2/1
22.Kipnis* G/S/vP 15/.277 ··· 16/.599 ··· 6/.500 4/2.000 4/.500 2/.500 124/68 .268/.323/.402/.724 .526/.889 .923 107/.723 2/1 3/2
44.Moss* G/S/vP 13/1.083 3/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 1/3.000 98/61 .230/.286/.483/.768 .845/.721 .693 83/.875 0/0 5/3
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 10/.300 2/.000 13/.481 ··· 7/.286 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 54/54 .235/.278/.392/.670 /.670 .399 44/.631 0/0 2/0
55.Perez G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 62/40 .184/.300/.388/.688 .238/.892 .745 58/.597 0/0 3/2
9.Raburn G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 27/.579 ··· 18/.287 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 51/7 .362/.392/.596/.988 1.155/.000 .898 46/1.101 0/0 1/0
11.Ramirez# G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 4/.583 ··· 84/57 .184/.222/.250/.472 .157/.619 .418 68/.422 3/1 1/4
41.Santana# G/S/vP 13/.685 2/.000 27/.268 1/5.000 13/2.292 3/1.667 2/.500 2/1.500 117/68 .242/.402/.396/.797 .688/.882 .753 100/.749 2/1 4/0
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 19/.787 2/1.000 16/.875 ··· 9/.958 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 11/5 .091/.091/.091/.182 .333/.000 11/.182 0/0 0/
IP 27.1 14.1 5.2 9.2 13.1 4.2 19.1 2.0 TOTAL .244/.316/.393/.708 .721/.699 .723 .716 13/5 27/17
ERA-K/9 2.63/5.3 3.14/4.4 4.76/4.7 1.86/5.6 1.35/8.1 0.00/13.4 2.33/5.1 4.50/9.0 3.96/5.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hayes (6-1-0)
 Perez (15-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 116/.235 59/.291 27/.375 44/.237 49/.184 16/.125 71/.156 8/.143 .265  Moss
 Brantley
 Raburn
 Bourn
 Aviles
 Murphy
0/0/22/3
18/2/0/2
4/0/1/1
0/24/0/1
5/2/0/0
3/0/3/0
OPS .674 .795 .944 .683 .408 .250 .477 .821 .734
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 61/.600 23/.408 14/.967 19/.728 13/1.000 8/.250 31/.347 3/1.667 .701
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 55/.745 36/1.036 13/.916 25/.646 36/.194 8/.250 40/.567 5/.200 .764
Road 51/.775 29/1.226 10/.422 13/.558 15/.267 / 30/.541 /
Last 28d days 116/.674 47/.730 19/1.115 35/.710 46/.435 16/.250 62/.430 8/.821
HR/SB/CS 2/4/0 1/2/2 0/0/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/2/0 1/0/0 27/19/7
Usage ····X··· o··o·o·· ··X·Xo·· ·X··X··o o··o·oX· ·Xo·X··· o·oX·X·· X·o··o·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  5.34

CLE  4.41

PHI  2.83

 RA/G

STL  2.82

WSN  4.21

COL  5.73

 BA

D. Gordon  .437

X. Bogaerts  .269

C. Utley  .103

 OBP

M. Holliday  .474

I. Suzuki  .330

C. Utley  .182

 SLG

N. Cruz  .757

J. Kipnis  .402

C. Utley  .207

 OPS

A. Gonzalez  1.153

M. Betts  .742

C. Utley  .389

 ERA

D. Keuchel  .80

L. Lynn  3.82

K. Kendrick  8.73

 K/9IP

M. Fiers  12.73

E. Volquez  7.24

K. Gibson  2.73

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.