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Minnesota Twins vs. Oakland Athletics, at Target Field, May 6, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Target Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
59° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
29
On This Date:
52-47
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
28
On This Date:
45-55
Season Series
Mon, May 04, 2015 MIN  8  OAK  7     
Tue, May 05, 2015 OAK  2 @MIN  1     

Wed, May 06, 2015 OAK    @MIN  8:10pm
Thu, May 07, 2015 OAK    @MIN  1:10pm
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 MIN    @OAK 10:05pm
Sat, Jul 18, 2015 MIN    @OAK  9:07pm
Sun, Jul 19, 2015 MIN    @OAK  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
12-16, 3rd, 6½ GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-9    Road:    8-7    ExtrInn: 0-4 
 vsRHP:  11-12   vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   1-7 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 2-3    vsWest: 10-13 IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 28 Tue, May  5  @MIN  W   2-1       12-16  3rd  6.5 gb
 27 Mon, May  4  @MIN  L   7-8       11-16  4th  7.5 gb
 26 Sun, May  3  @TEX  W   7-1       11-15  3rd  7.5 gb
 25 Sat, May  2  @TEX  L   7-8 (10)  10-15  4th  7.5 gb
 24 Fri, May  1  @TEX  W   7-5       10-14  4th  6.5 gb
 23 Thu, Apr 30   LAA  L   5-6        9-14  4th  6.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 29   LAA  L   3-6        9-13  4th  5.5 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 28   LAA  W   6-2        9-12  4th  4.5 gb
 20 Sun, Apr 26   HOU  L   6-7        8-12  3rd  4.0 gb
 19 Sat, Apr 25   HOU  L   3-9        8-11  3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-16
Minnesota Twins
14-13, 3rd, 3½ GB, 3 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-5    Road:    4-8    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:   7-8    vsLHP:   7-5    1-Run:   4-4 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl:11-11   vsWest:  3-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
 19 Mon, Apr 27   DET  L   4-5        8-11  4th  5.5 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 26  @SEA  W   4-2 (11)   8-10  4th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:14-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 05, 2015 OAK  2 @MIN  1        W:Jesse Chavez (1-2), L: Trevor May (2-2), S: Tyler Clippard (3)
Mon, May 04, 2015 MIN  8  OAK  7        W:Phil Hughes (1-4), L: Jesse Hahn (1-2), S: Glen Perkins (9)

Sun, Aug 10, 2014 MIN  6 @OAK  1        W:Phil Hughes (12-8), L: Luke Gregerson (2-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 09, 2014 OAK  9  MIN  4        W:Jeff Samardzija (5-8), L: Trevor May (0-1), S: none
Fri, Aug 08, 2014 OAK  6  MIN  5        W:Scott Kazmir (13-4), L: Kyle Gibson (10-9), S: Sean Doolittle (18)
Thu, Aug 07, 2014 OAK  3  MIN  0        W:Jon Lester (12-7), L: Yohan Pino (1-4), S: none
Thu, Apr 10, 2014 OAK  6 @MIN  1        W:Dan Straily (1-1), L: Mike Pelfrey (0-2), S: none
Wed, Apr 09, 2014 OAK  7 @MIN  4 (11)   W:Dan Otero (1-0), L: Jared Burton (0-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 07, 2014 OAK  8 @MIN  3        W:Scott Kazmir (2-0), L: Kevin Correia (0-1), S: none
Sun, Sep 22, 2013 OAK 11  MIN  7        W:Sonny Gray (4-3), L: Cole De Vries (0-1), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - tied 1-1; 2014 - OAK won 6-1; 2013 - OAK won 6-1; All-Time - MIN leads 997-995

SP: Scott Kazmir (31, LHP, 2-0, 1.62)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-0) 33.1 21 6 6 10 36 3 1.62
2014 (15-9) 190.1 171 81 75 50 164 16 3.55
2013 (10-9) 158.0 162 76 71 47 162 19 4.04
Last 7 GS 3-0 45.2 36 14 13 11 50 3 2.56 62
2015-05-01 @TEX ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 6 2 98 53
2015-04-24 HOU ND 7.0 5 0 0 3 7 0 106 71
2015-04-19 @KCR ND 7.1 6 2 2 1 5 0 103 62
2015-04-13 @HOU W 6.0 3 1 1 3 8 1 91 67
2015-04-08 TEX W 7.0 1 0 0 2 10 0 95 83
2014-09-26 @TEX W 7.0 4 2 1 0 5 0 101 68
2014-09-21 PHI ND 5.1 11 6 6 1 9 0 99 30
Last 5 v.MIN 3-0 30.2 26 12 10 11 31 0 2.93 57
2014-08-08 MIN W 6.2 5 5 5 1 4 0 85 47
2014-04-07 @MIN W 6.0 6 3 3 4 5 0 101 49
2013-09-28 @MIN W 6.0 6 1 1 2 11 0 104 65
2013-08-25 MIN ND 6.0 7 1 1 1 8 0 99 61
2013-07-19 @MIN ND 6.0 2 2 0 3 3 0 106 64

SP: Kyle Gibson (27, RHP, 2-2, 3.56)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-2) 30.1 30 13 12 13 10 2 3.56
2014 (13-12) 179.1 178 91 89 57 107 12 4.47
2013 (2-4) 51.0 69 38 37 20 29 7 6.53
Last 7 GS 3-3 44.2 41 17 16 16 24 3 3.22 54
2015-05-01 CHW W 8.0 4 0 0 1 4 0 94 77
2015-04-26 @SEA ND 7.0 5 2 2 3 3 1 99 59
2015-04-20 @KCR L 5.0 4 4 3 4 0 0 94 41
2015-04-15 KCR W 6.2 9 1 1 0 3 0 109 55
2015-04-09 @DET L 3.2 8 6 6 5 0 1 89 16
2014-09-28 @DET L 7.1 4 3 3 3 6 1 88 61
2014-09-23 ARI W 7.0 7 1 1 0 8 0 103 67
Last 5 v.OAK 0-1 5.0 5 6 5 5 3 0 9.00 33
2014-08-08 @OAK L 5.0 5 6 5 5 3 0 93 33

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Athletics Batters (5.00 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.26 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Gibson
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Burns# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 20/18 .368/.400/.421/.821 1.000/.801 .821 20/.821 1/1 0/0
16.Butler G/S/vP 9/.347 ··· 26/.699 ··· 20/.616 11/.920 1/.000 2/.000 114/95 .267/.325/.400/.725 .888/.694 .804 100/.708 0/0 3/0
20.Canha G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 93/74 .271/.333/.447/.780 .566/.831 .663 88/.731 2/1 4/1
17.Davis* G/S/vP 2/.500 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 98/91 .281/.337/.382/.719 .714/.719 .662 89/.723 0/0 1/2
23.Fuld* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 4/1.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 98/93 .216/.278/.341/.619 .200/.640 .540 89/.525 2/0 0/2
3.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/1.667 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 40/22 .086/.175/.086/.261 .292/.234 .191 27/.310 1/0 0/2
15.Lawrie G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 112/86 .260/.291/.356/.647 .408/.718 .628 99/.640 1/0 2/3
50.Muncy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/10 .333/.400/.444/.844 /.844 2.500 10/.844 0/0 0/0
19.Phegley G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 26/13 .280/.308/.280/.588 .769/.397 .473 21/.536 0/0 0/0
22.Reddick* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 11/.455 ··· 2/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 86/76 .368/.442/.605/1.047 .600/1.112 .928 86/1.047 2/1 4/2
10.Semien G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 4/.500 2/1.000 1/3.000 1/.000 119/98 .273/.322/.427/.749 .762/.745 .715 108/.758 4/0 3/6
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 2/.500 1/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 85/74 .247/.265/.309/.574 .000/.653 .591 76/.572 1/0 0/1
21.Vogt* G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/2.500 2/.000 1/.000 97/82 .358/.454/.691/1.145 1.015/1.169 1.300 90/1.118 0/0 7/1
IP 30.1 13.2 5.2 7.2 12.0 3.2 18.1 1.0 TOTAL .268/.327/.407/.734 .577/.769 .742 .724 15/3 25/24
ERA-K/9 3.56/3.0 3.29/3.9 4.76/4.7 2.35/5.8 1.50/8.2 0.00/9.7 2.45/4.9 0.00/0.0 4.07/5.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Phegley (4-1-1)
 Vogt (11-6-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 132/.259 56/.288 27/.375 38/.281 45/.200 11/.000 68/.164 3/.000 .268  Fuld
 Reddick
 Gentry
 Burns
 Canha
3/23/1/2
0/1/21/2
9/5/3/1
0/4/0/0
20/0/0/0
OPS .723 .802 .944 .801 .444 .000 .499 .000 .744
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 72/.733 22/.427 14/.967 16/.875 12/1.083 5/.000 30/.360 / .718
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 60/.709 34/1.039 13/.916 22/.742 33/.212 6/.000 38/.598 3/.000 .767
Home 58/.530 27/.345 17/1.255 25/.940 30/.533 11/.000 38/.468 3/.000
Last 28d days 132/.723 50/.768 27/.944 29/.872 45/.444 11/.000 59/.453 3/.000
HR/SB/CS 2/1/0 1/2/2 0/0/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/2/0 0/0/0 26/18/7
Usage ····X··· ·o·o··o· X·Xo···· ··X··o·· ·o·oX··o o·X····· oX·X··o· o··o·o··
Twins Batters (4.22 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.36 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 26.Kazmir*
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 37.Alvarez
G/S/vB		 40.Bassitt
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 63.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
205.Bernier G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
2.Dozier G/S/vP 22/.432 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 4/1.750 ··· 119/76 .248/.319/.400/.719 .836/.651 .818 112/.749 2/0 2/0
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/3.000 ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 69/39 .194/.217/.299/.516 .367/.633 .558 67/.532 1/0 1/2
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 24/15 .227/.292/.364/.655 .476/.733 .643 23/.685 0/0 0/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP 27/.703 ··· 1/5.000 5/.400 1/.000 3/2.334 2/2.000 ··· 101/62 .263/.297/.411/.708 .554/.805 .882 94/.762 1/2 3/1
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 22/.559 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/no AB ··· ··· 118/64 .288/.364/.375/.739 .817/.671 .647 111/.751 0/0 0/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 21/.903 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 5/.400 3/.000 ··· 109/63 .268/.349/.454/.802 .741/.847 1.003 102/.846 0/0 5/1
21.Robinson G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/21 .348/.400/.370/.770 .687/.879 .893 49/.786 2/1 0/0
39.Santana# G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 101/65 .260/.276/.313/.588 .755/.496 .649 93/.641 2/2 0/9
1.Schafer* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 5/.800 1/3.000 1/4.000 ··· 63/51 .237/.274/.288/.562 .750/.515 .730 58/.522 0/3 0/1
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 32/.331 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 81/51 .208/.275/.292/.567 .542/.573 .647 75/.587 0/0 2/1
19.Vargas# G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 85/51 .213/.259/.300/.559 .759/.425 .696 79/.560 0/0 2/0
IP 33.1 7.2 8.0 9.1 12.0 12.1 15.1 1.0 TOTAL .257/.311/.364/.675 .682/.670 .765 .699 8/9 17/19
ERA-K/9 1.62/9.7 7.04/4.7 11.25/15.8 2.89/7.7 2.25/6.8 4.38/5.9 1.17/10.6 9.00/18.0 3.84/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (3-2-0)
 Suzuki (15-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 132/.178 36/.333 40/.324 41/.125 50/.159 49/.277 55/.170 7/.400 .235  Robinson
 Escobar
 Schafer
 Hunter
 Herrmann
11/11/3/3
12/0/0/2
1/22/0/1
0/0/23/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .540 1.071 1.018 .567 .533 .733 .502 .971 .668
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 37/.586 19/1.507 16/1.042 24/.451 22/.182 16/.583 26/.442 5/1.100 .643
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 95/.520 17/.580 24/.996 17/.694 28/.783 33/.803 29/.552 2/.500 .688
Road 78/.682 15/1.650 24/1.250 14/.729 20/.206 34/.569 22/.432 7/.971
Last 28d days 107/.624 34/1.144 36/1.050 41/.567 50/.533 45/.754 52/.532 7/.971
HR/SB/CS 3/0/0 2/0/0 3/0/0 1/0/0 1/4/0 1/0/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 24/15/7
Usage ····X··· ···oo·o· ·Xoo···· ·X·X··X· X···oo·· ··ooooo· o··Xo·oo ··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  5.36

CLE  4.20

PHI  2.75

 RA/G

STL  2.77

ARI  4.21

COL  5.46

 BA

D. Gordon  .422

J. Soler  .265

C. Utley  .103

 OBP

A. Rizzo  .473

J. Soler  .327

C. Utley  .182

 SLG

N. Cruz  .766

P. Sandoval  .402

J. Werth  .203

 OPS

A. Gonzalez  1.179

J. Soler  .725

C. Utley  .389

 ERA

D. Keuchel  .80

J. Hammel  3.73

K. Kendrick  8.73

 K/9IP

J. Shields  11.90

C. Sabathia  7.10

K. Gibson  2.97

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.