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Detroit Tigers vs. Tampa Bay Rays, at Comerica Park, September 8, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Start Time:
7:08et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
76° (based on last ten years)
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
139
On This Date:
6-7
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
140
On This Date:
43-56
Season Series
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 TBR  5  DET  2     
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 TBR 10  DET  2     
Wed, Jul 29, 2015 DET  2 @TBR  1     
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 DET  5  TBR  4     

Tue, Sep 08, 2015 TBR    @DET  7:08pm
Wed, Sep 09, 2015 TBR    @DET  7:08pm

                         All times ET
Tampa Bay Rays
67-70, 3rd, 11 GB, 10½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-35   Road:   34-35   ExtrInn: 2-11
 vsRHP:  43-55   vsLHP:  24-15   1-Run:  24-25
 vsEast: 27-29   vsCntrl:12-18   vsWest: 17-17 IL:11-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
137 Mon, Sep  7  @DET  L   4-5       67-70  3rd 11.0 gb
136 Sun, Sep  6  @NYY  L   4-6       67-69  3rd 11.0 gb
135 Sat, Sep  5  @NYY  W   3-2       67-68  3rd 10.0 gb
134 Fri, Sep  4  @NYY  L   2-5       66-68  3rd 10.0 gb
133 Wed, Sep  2  @BAL  L   6-7 (11)  66-67  3rd 10.0 gb
132 Tue, Sep  1  @BAL  W  11-2       66-66  3rd  9.0 gb
131 Mon, Aug 31  @BAL  W   6-3       65-66  3rd  9.0 gb
130 Sun, Aug 30   KCR  W   3-2       64-66  3rd 10.0 gb
129 Sat, Aug 29   KCR  L   3-6       63-66  3rd 10.0 gb
128 Fri, Aug 28   KCR  L   2-3       63-65  3rd  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16
Detroit Tigers
63-74, 5th, 19 GB, 14½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-37   Road:   31-37   ExtrInn: 4-8 
 vsRHP:  43-59   vsLHP:  20-15   1-Run:  21-18
 vsEast: 11-19   vsCntrl:32-24   vsWest: 11-20 IL: 9-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
137 Mon, Sep  7   TBR  W   5-4       63-74  5th 19.0 gb
136 Sun, Sep  6   CLE  L   0-4       62-74  5th 20.0 gb
135 Sat, Sep  5   CLE  W   6-0       62-73  5th 20.0 gb
134 Fri, Sep  4   CLE  L   1-8       61-73  5th 21.0 gb
133 Thu, Sep  3  @KCR  L   7-15      61-72  5th 21.0 gb
132 Wed, Sep  2  @KCR  L   1-12      61-71  5th 20.0 gb
131 Tue, Sep  1  @KCR  W   6-5       61-70  5th 19.0 gb
130 Sun, Aug 30  @TOR  L   2-9       60-70  5th 20.0 gb
129 Sat, Aug 29  @TOR  L   1-15      60-69  5th 20.0 gb
128 Fri, Aug 28  @TOR  L   3-5       60-68  5th 19.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 DET  5  TBR  4        W:Al Alburquerque (4-1), L: Brandon Gomes (2-5), S: Bruce Rondon (4)
Wed, Jul 29, 2015 DET  2 @TBR  1        W:Justin Verlander (1-3), L: Chris Archer (9-8), S: Joakim Soria (23)
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 TBR 10  DET  2        W:Jake Odorizzi (6-6), L: David Price (9-4), S: none
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 TBR  5  DET  2        W:Nate Karns (6-5), L: Anibal Sanchez (10-8), S: Brad Boxberger (25)

Thu, Aug 21, 2014 TBR  1  DET  0        W:Alex Cobb (9-6), L: David Price (12-9), S: Jake McGee (14)
Wed, Aug 20, 2014 DET  6 @TBR  0        W:Rick Porcello (14-8), L: Jake Odorizzi (9-10), S: none
Tue, Aug 19, 2014 DET  8 @TBR  6 (11)   W:Jim Johnson (5-2), L: Grant Balfour (1-5), S: Joe Nathan (26)
Sun, Jul 06, 2014 TBR  7 @DET  3        W:David Price (8-7), L: Rick Porcello (11-5), S: Jake McGee (5)
Sat, Jul 05, 2014 TBR  7 @DET  2        W:Chris Archer (5-5), L: Anibal Sanchez (5-3), S: none
Fri, Jul 04, 2014 TBR  6 @DET  3        W:Alex Cobb (4-6), L: Drew Smyly (4-8), S: Jake McGee (4)
Season Series: 2015 - tied 2-2; 2014 - TBR won 4-3; 2013 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - DET leads 65-62

SP: Erasmo Ramirez (25, RHP, 10-5, 3.84)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (10-5) 131.1 115 61 56 37 98 14 3.84
2014 (1-6) 75.1 82 44 44 34 60 13 5.26
2013 (5-3) 72.1 79 44 40 26 57 12 4.98
Last 7 GS 2-1 40.0 42 22 18 11 25 6 4.05 49
2015-09-02 @BAL ND 4.0 6 4 4 0 3 1 56 37
2015-08-28 KCR L 4.1 6 3 2 3 4 1 88 42
2015-08-22 @OAK ND 7.0 8 4 4 2 4 2 95 47
2015-08-17 @HOU W 5.2 6 2 2 2 2 1 102 49
2015-08-11 ATL W 7.0 5 0 0 0 4 0 70 71
2015-08-05 @CHW ND 6.0 6 5 5 2 2 1 98 40
2015-07-31 @BOS ND 6.0 5 4 1 2 6 0 95 56
Has never faced DET as starter.

SP: Matt Boyd (24, LHP, 1-5, 8.36)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-5) 37.2 57 35 35 12 26 12 8.36
Last 7 GS 1-4 30.1 47 30 30 12 19 9 8.90 36
2015-09-03 @KCR ND 1.0 7 6 6 2 0 1 50 13
2015-08-28 @TOR L 6.0 7 5 5 3 4 3 93 39
2015-08-23 TEX L 6.0 5 3 3 2 3 1 99 51
2015-08-16 @HOU ND 5.0 6 5 5 3 4 2 97 36
2015-08-10 @KCR L 5.1 9 3 3 1 6 0 98 43
2015-08-05 KCR W 7.0 7 1 1 0 2 0 106 61
2015-07-02 BOS L 0.0 6 7 7 1 0 2 28 9
Has never faced TBR as starter.

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

Rays Batters (3.79 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (5.02 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Boyd*
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 39.Feliz
G/S/vB		 26.Ferrell
G/S/vB		 32.Gorzelanny*
G/S/vB		 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB		 43.Rondon
G/S/vB		 56.Ryan*
G/S/vB		 58.Valdez
G/S/vB		 54.VerHagen
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
40.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 27/16 .346/.333/.769/1.103 1.173/1.063 1.471 27/1.103 0/0 3/0
1.Beckham G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 3/1.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 175/85 .234/.286/.462/.748 .790/.700 .856 29/.868 3/1 7/7
9.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 262/158 .272/.324/.395/.719 .692/.738 .737 16/.375 5/2 6/1
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 12/1.300 8/.250 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 3/.666 473/353 .266/.320/.423/.743 .778/.730 .719 98/.856 6/3 11/8
11.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· 3/.667 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.000 540/385 .287/.361/.448/.809 1.008/.731 .866 99/.832 9/4 15/9
5.Guyer G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 318/139 .271/.365/.407/.772 .824/.707 .780 59/.908 10/3 6/0
28.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 162/148 .283/.377/.428/.804 .821/.797 .915 74/.736 1/2 2/0
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/2.500 462/354 .263/.296/.420/.716 .548/.768 .774 83/.886 16/3 8/3
21.Loney* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 10/.856 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 314/251 .266/.312/.352/.664 .593/.682 .628 80/.659 2/4 4/5
3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 8/1.089 ··· 3/.333 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 564/430 .271/.335/.437/.772 1.024/.696 .733 108/.727 3/1 19/8
27.Mahtook G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/12 .233/.313/.488/.801 .986/.258 .811 7/1.238 0/2 3/0
46.Maile G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 4/.000 0/0 0/0
7.Nava# G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 154/117 .186/.307/.240/.547 .556/.545 .541 69/.678 1/0 1/1
44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 309/214 .180/.214/.280/.494 .468/.506 .468 35/.393 0/0 5/10
36.Shaffer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 32/13 .269/.406/.538/.945 .330/1.797 .751 18/.528 0/0 2/1
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 254/234 .230/.283/.357/.641 .929/.618 .553 71/.652 2/2 6/2
IP 37.2 55.0 37.1 4.0 33.0 57.0 25.0 38.0 2.0 13.0 64.0 TOTAL .249/.313/.399/.711 .772/.688 .730 .775 78/39 134/82
ERA-K/9 8.36/6.2 4.09/8.2 7.23/7.7 11.25/4.5 6.82/7.9 2.53/8.2 6.12/12.2 5.92/5.2 9.00/4.5 2.08/4.2 2.25/5.3 4.72/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (3-2-0)
 Maile (0-0-0)
 Rivera (37-21-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 175/.354 237/.251 170/.320 20/.333 156/.305 240/.243 115/.260 169/.305 10/.444 56/.239 251/.244 .271  Kiermaier
 Nava
 Sizemore
 Jaso
 Butler
 Guyer
 Shaffer
 Mahtook
0/128/2/13
10/0/32/3
22/0/42/2
5/0/1/1
29/0/4/1
48/21/39/0
0/0/2/0
7/7/5/0
OPS 1.052 .707 .875 .961 .921 .658 .748 .862 1.278 .679 .619 .779
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 55/1.212 92/.797 85/.867 8/.536 70/.727 115/.527 45/.821 52/.845 6/.900 17/1.042 113/.623 .786
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 120/.982 145/.651 85/.883 12/1.235 86/1.085 125/.777 70/.700 117/.870 4/1.750 39/.521 138/.615 .774
Home 88/.955 130/.705 75/.934 20/.961 69/.801 130/.727 62/.729 58/.851 6/.333 33/.594 128/.591
Last 28d days 88/1.109 30/.892 35/.799 9/.708 32/.784 34/.802 42/.780 22/.764 6/.333 49/.629 29/.986
HR/SB/CS 12/0/2 4/6/0 5/1/2 1/0/0 4/4/0 1/1/0 2/3/1 7/1/1 1/0/0 1/0/0 4/3/3 166/58/32
Usage ····X··· o···X··· ·X····o· ···X···· ·o··Xo·· o·····o· X·o···X· ····X··· ···X···· X··Xo··· o·o···o·
Tigers Batters (4.33 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.91 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 35.Andriese
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 54.Geltz
G/S/vB		 47.Gomes
G/S/vB		 34.Riefenhauser*
G/S/vB		 45.Romero*
G/S/vB		 49.Yates
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 182/153 .173/.315/.253/.568 .374/.605 .733 18/.411 0/1 3/0
24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/4.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 2/.500 431/336 .350/.450/.567/1.018 1.055/1.007 1.009 98/.963 1/1 17/3
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 510/396 .249/.304/.421/.725 1.005/.645 .755 94/.909 0/2 15/7
18.Collins* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/134 .273/.294/.424/.718 .900/.704 .551 70/.710 1/0 3/4
20.Davis G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· 311/174 .244/.294/.422/.715 .718/.713 .753 49/.734 18/5 6/1
12.Gose* G/S/vP 4/.833 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 437/375 .255/.315/.375/.690 .458/.728 .736 89/.810 20/10 5/4
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/38 .245/.245/.358/.604 .400/.684 .727 5/.000 0/0 1/0
1.Iglesias G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 454/341 .300/.347/.370/.717 .889/.661 .706 77/.674 11/8 2/11
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 6/.733 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 2/.000 5/1.600 ··· ··· 2/.000 588/455 .306/.357/.451/.808 .832/.801 .808 97/.943 8/6 10/11
49.Machado G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 19/15 .222/.263/.278/.541 .833/.467 .636 11/.636 0/0 0/1
28.Martinez G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 555/429 .283/.344/.549/.893 .860/.901 .941 96/.813 3/1 35/2
41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 420/326 .236/.293/.353/.646 .875/.581 .638 85/.526 0/0 9/1
34.McCann G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 357/265 .265/.297/.399/.696 .973/.603 .787 77/.552 0/1 7/0
27.Romine# G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 142/114 .233/.286/.310/.596 .729/.561 .467 26/.279 8/5 2/4
IP 131.1 57.2 54.0 41.2 98.1 62.2 50.1 7.2 19.2 13.0 TOTAL .271/.327/.428/.754 .808/.739 .769 .744 74/44 138/69
ERA-K/9 3.84/6.7 4.37/6.9 3.33/10.8 2.16/9.3 3.66/6.9 3.88/8.0 3.58/7.2 8.22/3.5 4.58/9.6 9.69/11.1 3.71/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (16-9-2)
 Holaday (10-2-0)
 McCann (32-21-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 542/.233 248/.279 234/.229 171/.229 406/.262 247/.182 201/.231 33/.321 89/.284 60/.328 .237  Martinez
 Gose
 Collins
 Davis
 Romine
0/0/128/14
0/116/0/2
24/0/5/2
28/42/10/2
2/0/0/0
OPS .671 .748 .691 .617 .691 .574 .689 1.001 .682 1.143 .680
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 298/.579 122/.816 128/.635 92/.500 214/.739 117/.610 92/.659 16/1.563 29/.967 29/1.485 .666
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 244/.782 126/.683 106/.760 79/.760 192/.638 130/.541 109/.713 17/.502 60/.541 31/.839 .693
Road 290/.724 88/.766 119/.831 92/.497 191/.675 131/.663 107/.692 5/.400 14/.368 43/1.087
Last 28d days 94/.913 55/.987 35/.766 28/.438 55/.284 38/.717 40/.566 5/.400 37/.494 18/1.157
HR/SB/CS 14/2/2 8/2/2 7/5/3 4/1/2 9/3/5 7/6/2 7/3/1 2/0/1 0/2/0 8/3/1 145/73/36
Usage ·····X·· X····o·X ··o··X·X ··X····· ··X··o·o ·o···X·· X·o··X·· ·X·o···· ·o·o···· ······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  5.48

OAK  4.19

ATL  3.59

 RA/G

STL  3.12

OAK  4.18

COL  5.25

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

C. Maybin  .268

L. Valbuena  .209

 OBP

B. Harper  .468

K. Seager  .330

O. Infante  .230

 SLG

B. Harper  .646

Y. Solarte  .428

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.114

R. Martin  .758

O. Infante  .537

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.68

C. Hamels  3.70

K. Lohse  6.20

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.04

M. Wacha  7.67

M. Buehrle  4.13

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.