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Detroit Tigers vs. Boston Red Sox, at Comerica Park, August 9, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Start Time:
1:08et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
80° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
114
On This Date:
56-47
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
113
On This Date:
52-50
Season Series
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 BOS  2  DET  1 (11)
Sat, Jul 25, 2015 DET  5 @BOS  1     
Sun, Jul 26, 2015 BOS 11  DET  1     
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 BOS  7 @DET  2     
Sat, Aug 08, 2015 DET  7  BOS  6     

Sun, Aug 09, 2015 BOS    @DET  1:08pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
49-62, 5th, 13 GB, 10½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-28   Road:   22-34   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  37-44   vsLHP:  12-18   1-Run:  15-15
 vsEast: 20-30   vsCntrl: 8-11   vsWest: 13-17 IL: 8-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
111 Sat, Aug  8  @DET  L   6-7       49-62  5th 13.0 gb
110 Fri, Aug  7  @DET  W   7-2       49-61  5th 13.0 gb
109 Thu, Aug  6  @NYY  L   1-2       48-61  5th 14.0 gb
108 Wed, Aug  5  @NYY  W   2-1       48-60  5th 13.0 gb
107 Tue, Aug  4  @NYY  L   3-13      47-60  5th 14.0 gb
106 Sun, Aug  2   TBR  L   3-4       47-59  5th 13.0 gb
105 Sat, Aug  1   TBR  W  11-7       47-58  5th 12.0 gb
104 Fri, Jul 31   TBR  W   7-5       46-58  5th 13.0 gb
103 Thu, Jul 30   CHW  W   8-2       45-58  5th 13.0 gb
102 Wed, Jul 29   CHW  L   2-9       44-58  5th 14.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:12-18
Detroit Tigers
54-56, 3rd, 11½ GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-29   Road:   26-27   ExtrInn: 3-8 
 vsRHP:  38-45   vsLHP:  16-11   1-Run:  19-16
 vsEast: 10-15   vsCntrl:29-18   vsWest:  8-13 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Sat, Aug  8   BOS  W   7-6       54-56  3rd 11.5 gb
109 Fri, Aug  7   BOS  L   2-7       53-56  3rd 11.5 gb
108 Thu, Aug  6   KCR  W   8-6       53-55  3rd 10.5 gb
107 Wed, Aug  5   KCR  W   2-1       52-55  3rd 11.5 gb
106 Tue, Aug  4   KCR  L   1-5       51-55  3rd 12.5 gb
105 Sun, Aug  2  @BAL  W   6-1       51-54  3rd 11.5 gb
104 Sat, Aug  1  @BAL  L   2-6       50-54  4th 12.5 gb
103 Fri, Jul 31  @BAL  L   7-8       50-53  3rd 11.5 gb
102 Thu, Jul 30  @BAL  W   9-8       50-52  3rd 11.5 gb
101 Wed, Jul 29  @TBR  W   2-1       49-52  4th 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 08, 2015 DET  7  BOS  6        W:Blaine Hardy (4-2), L: Junichi Tazawa (2-5), S: Bruce Rondon (1)
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 BOS  7 @DET  2        W:Joe Kelly (4-6), L: Daniel Norris (2-2), S: Koji Uehara (25)
Sun, Jul 26, 2015 BOS 11  DET  1        W:Eduardo Rodriguez (6-3), L: Shane Greene (4-8), S: none
Sat, Jul 25, 2015 DET  5 @BOS  1        W:Alfredo Simon (9-6), L: Steven Wright (3-4), S: none
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 BOS  2  DET  1 (11)   W:Justin Masterson (4-2), L: Blaine Hardy (3-2), S: none

Sun, Jun 08, 2014 BOS  5 @DET  3        W:John Lackey (7-4), L: Joba Chamberlain (1-3), S: Koji Uehara (12)
Sat, Jun 07, 2014 DET  8  BOS  6        W:Max Scherzer (7-2), L: Jon Lester (6-7), S: none
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 DET  6  BOS  2        W:Drew Smyly (3-4), L: Rubby De La Rosa (1-1), S: none
Sun, May 18, 2014 DET  6 @BOS  2        W:Anibal Sanchez (1-2), L: Jake Peavy (1-2), S: none
Sat, May 17, 2014 DET  6 @BOS  1        W:Rick Porcello (7-1), L: John Lackey (5-3), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - BOS over 3-2; 2014 - DET won 5-1; 2013 - DET won 4-3; All-Time - BOS leads 1030-964

SP: Henry Owens (22, LHP, 0-1, 5.40)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-1) 5.0 5 3 3 1 5 0 5.40
Last 7 GS 0-1 5.0 5 3 3 1 5 0 5.40 49
2015-08-04 @NYY L 5.0 5 3 3 1 5 0 96 49
Has never faced DET as starter.

SP: Justin Verlander (32, RHP, 1-4, 5.05)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-4) 57.0 60 33 32 12 40 10 5.05
2014 (15-12) 206.0 223 114 104 65 159 18 4.54
2013 (13-12) 218.1 212 94 84 75 217 19 3.46
Last 7 GS 1-3 45.1 47 25 24 9 36 6 4.76 51
2015-08-04 KCR L 7.0 10 5 5 0 5 1 106 42
2015-07-29 @TBR W 8.0 4 1 1 0 10 1 107 80
2015-07-24 @BOS ND 8.0 7 1 1 0 3 0 111 67
2015-07-19 BAL L 3.2 8 7 7 1 4 2 84 20
2015-07-10 @MIN ND 7.2 5 1 1 1 6 0 116 70
2015-07-05 TOR L 5.0 7 7 7 2 5 2 94 28
2015-06-30 PIT ND 6.0 6 3 2 5 3 0 103 48
Last 5 v.BOS 0-2 32.0 32 14 13 9 27 0 3.66 54
2015-07-24 @BOS ND 8.0 7 1 1 0 3 0 111 67
2013-06-23 BOS ND 5.0 7 4 4 3 4 0 112 38
2012-07-31 @BOS L 5.0 6 4 3 4 6 0 107 43
2012-05-29 @BOS L 6.0 10 5 5 1 7 0 105 38
2012-04-05 BOS ND 8.0 2 0 0 1 7 0 105 84

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

Red Sox Batters (4.19 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Verlander
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 45.Farmer
G/S/vB		 39.Feliz
G/S/vB		 32.Gorzelanny*
G/S/vB		 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB		 46.Krol*
G/S/vB		 43.Rondon
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 3/.666 2/2.000 2/1.500 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 431/319 .312/.340/.405/.746 .933/.680 .660 95/.732 7/1 3/7
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· ··· 71/50 .121/.254/.172/.426 .679/.323 .424 36/.385 1/0 1/1
38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 121/79 .278/.308/.357/.665 .855/.563 .577 44/.883 3/0 2/2
31.De Aza* G/S/vP 37/.797 7/.619 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 3/.333 5/.400 2/.500 262/222 .271/.326/.442/.767 .450/.824 .794 47/.711 5/3 6/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 1/no AB ··· 13/.930 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 140/105 .246/.355/.314/.669 .924/.582 .495 45/.644 0/0 1/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 349/271 .274/.347/.374/.721 .699/.727 .778 70/.456 5/1 2/7
16.Marrero G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/4 .143/.143/.143/.286 .000/.500 .286 1/2.000 0/0 0/0
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 30/1.174 5/1.350 2/.500 4/1.833 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 429/304 .247/.338/.485/.823 .527/.954 .752 89/1.053 0/0 23/0
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 6/.900 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 13/.802 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 397/286 .262/.302/.446/.748 .791/.732 .750 81/.491 6/3 19/3
30.Rutledge G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 12/8 .091/.167/.091/.258 .250/.250 .000 12/.258 0/0 0/1
48.Sandoval* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/5.000 1/.000 9/1.194 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 384/270 .257/.305/.383/.687 .466/.783 .618 71/.671 0/0 9/12
47.Shaw* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 35/24 .313/.343/.531/.874 .909/.851 .174 19/1.245 0/0 2/0
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 182/127 .254/.287/.341/.628 .573/.652 .639 41/.717 1/2 1/2
IP 57.0 46.0 20.2 27.2 24.0 49.1 20.2 16.2 57.2 TOTAL .257/.319/.392/.711 .704/.714 .661 .682 48/14 100/64
ERA-K/9 5.05/6.3 3.13/9.0 8.27/6.1 7.81/7.5 6.38/7.1 2.55/7.3 5.23/9.1 5.94/13.5 1.72/5.1 4.48/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (19-10-3)
 Swihart (24-11-11)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 239/.273 199/.256 99/.341 131/.336 116/.327 206/.231 98/.310 73/.266 222/.228 .270  De Aza
 Ramirez
 Bradley
 Holt
 Castillo
 Shaw
45/1/37/4
85/0/0/3
2/12/11/1
12/2/17/1
0/6/32/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .756 .704 .999 .925 .926 .633 .890 .729 .569 .765
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 111/.744 78/.777 52/.965 66/.933 51/.799 98/.503 41/.762 26/.651 98/.644 .792
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 128/.767 121/.659 47/1.038 65/.916 65/1.025 108/.747 57/.982 47/.772 124/.508 .744
Home 125/.927 120/.745 13/.685 66/1.008 63/.794 116/.718 38/.740 45/.778 117/.614
Last 28d days 106/.723 37/.807 34/.831 37/1.334 / 42/.755 34/.686 40/.697 41/.417
HR/SB/CS 10/1/1 4/6/0 5/0/1 5/0/2 2/1/0 0/1/0 4/0/0 1/2/0 2/2/2 126/46/26
Usage ····X··· ·X··o··· ·X······ ··o····· ········ X·ooo··o ·X·····X X·oo··o· ··Xo··o·
Tigers Batters (4.45 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.83 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Owens*
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 64.Machi
G/S/vB		 63.Masterson
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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 34/.738 7/.000 5/.400 3/.333 4/.000 161/132 .182/.325/.273/.598 .374/.648 .751 53/.483 0/1 3/0
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 3/.333 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 409/321 .240/.293/.395/.688 .890/.633 .765 81/.814 0/1 11/6
18.Collins* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/63 .270/.303/.460/.763 .000/.801 .596 12/.583 1/0 2/0
20.Davis G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 1/.000 9/.250 9/.444 6/.334 8/1.000 6/.000 256/151 .254/.306/.415/.721 .758/.696 .735 49/.517 16/5 3/1
12.Gose* G/S/vP ··· 7/.572 1/.000 2/.500 3/.333 3/.333 3/.666 1/2.000 337/297 .259/.307/.361/.668 .339/.712 .771 65/.476 16/7 2/3
1.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 5/.000 2/.500 2/1.000 2/.000 3/.000 369/279 .309/.350/.388/.738 .916/.681 .750 86/.738 10/7 2/10
3.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· 7/.929 1/.000 19/.566 1/3.000 2/1.000 9/2.167 11/.633 479/376 .302/.359/.426/.785 .777/.787 .805 95/1.064 8/5 6/5
55.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 39/12 .235/.316/.471/.786 .933/.384 .442 32/.693 0/0 2/2
28.Martinez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 2/1.500 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 448/348 .291/.350/.565/.915 .852/.931 .963 88/.926 2/1 30/2
41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· 9/.555 ··· 31/1.016 14/.762 1/.000 3/1.666 3/.000 323/248 .247/.310/.384/.693 .863/.642 .683 93/.585 0/0 9/
34.McCann G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 272/204 .289/.320/.434/.753 1.054/.657 .781 63/.762 0/0 5/0
27.Romine# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 8/.500 6/.533 ··· ··· 109/87 .276/.327/.367/.694 .747/.680 .515 22/.452 6/5 2/4
IP 5.0 42.1 37.2 58.1 48.2 43.0 47.0 40.1 TOTAL .275/.332/.432/.764 .782/.758 .784 .732 64/37 112/53
ERA-K/9 5.40/9.0 4.25/6.6 5.50/6.0 5.55/7.4 3.88/7.4 3.98/7.3 3.26/9.2 2.23/10.5 4.55/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (14-6-1)
 McCann (22-18-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 21/.250 183/.272 172/.270 268/.290 199/.227 187/.256 191/.251 160/.188 .267  Martinez
 Gose
 Davis
 Collins
 Romine
0/0/102/12
0/91/0/2
17/38/8/2
5/0/4/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .586 .830 .783 .861 .761 .732 .676 .562 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 7/.000 66/.810 64/.368 148/.924 72/.612 68/.742 77/.725 79/.507 .720
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 14/.890 117/.841 108/1.020 120/.784 127/.845 119/.728 114/.642 81/.614 .788
Road 21/.586 91/.997 83/.798 116/.807 98/.715 78/.807 82/.643 65/.657
Last 28d days 21/.586 46/.790 17/1.040 59/.950 39/.876 47/.706 39/1.103 30/.600
HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 8/1/2 4/2/1 6/2/5 11/1/2 4/0/0 4/3/1 3/0/0 124/50/30
Usage ····X··· ····X··X ·o··X··X ·X·····X X···X··· ·oo·X·o· X·····X· ·o·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 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  5.31

PIT  4.14

MIA  3.57

 RA/G

STL  2.85

CLE  4.24

COL  5.21

 BA

B. Harper  .337

K. Wong  .266

M. Zunino  .173

 OBP

B. Harper  .466

B. Miller  .325

M. Zunino  .231

 SLG

B. Harper  .663

C. Coghlan  .420

B. Hamilton  .279

 OPS

B. Harper  1.128

D. Gordon  .745

M. Zunino  .535

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.71

A. DeSclafani  3.71

K. Kendrick  6.43

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.71

S. Gray  7.57

M. Pelfrey  4.28

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.