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Minnesota Twins vs. Tampa Bay Rays, at Target Field, May 16, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Start Time:
1:10ct (local), 2:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
65° (based on last ten years)
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
38
On This Date:
11-5
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
37
On This Date:
46-50
Season Series
Fri, May 15, 2015 MIN  3  TBR  2     

Sat, May 16, 2015 TBR    @MIN  2:10pm
Sun, May 17, 2015 TBR    @MIN  2:10pm
Tue, Aug 25, 2015 MIN    @TBR  7:10pm
Wed, Aug 26, 2015 MIN    @TBR  7:10pm
Thu, Aug 27, 2015 MIN    @TBR  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Tampa Bay Rays
20-17, 2nd, 1 GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-11   Road:    8-6    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  16-11   vsLHP:   4-6    1-Run:   5-7 
 vsEast: 16-13   vsCntrl: 0-1    vsWest:  2-2  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 37 Fri, May 15  @MIN  L   2-3       20-17  2nd  1.0 gb
 36 Thu, May 14   NYY  W   6-1       20-16  2nd  1.0 gb
 35 Wed, May 13   NYY  W   3-2       19-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 34 Tue, May 12   NYY  W   4-2       18-16  2nd  3.0 gb
 33 Mon, May 11   NYY  L   5-11      17-16  2nd  4.0 gb
 32 Sun, May 10   TEX  L   1-2       17-15  2nd  3.0 gb
 31 Sat, May  9   TEX  W   7-2       17-14  2nd  2.0 gb
 30 Fri, May  8   TEX  W   8-2       16-14  2nd  3.0 gb
 29 Thu, May  7   TEX  L   4-5       15-14  2nd  3.0 gb
 28 Wed, May  6  @BOS  W   5-3       15-13  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Minnesota Twins
20-16, 3rd, 3 GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-5    Road:    7-11   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   9-11   vsLHP:  11-5    1-Run:   6-5 
 vsEast:  1-0    vsCntrl:14-14   vsWest:  5-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 36 Fri, May 15   TBR  W   3-2       20-16  3rd  3.0 gb
 35 Thu, May 14  @DET  L   1-13      19-16  3rd  3.0 gb
 34 Wed, May 13  @DET  W   6-2       19-15  3rd  2.0 gb
 33 Tue, May 12  @DET  L   1-2 (10)  18-15  3rd  3.0 gb
 32 Sun, May 10  @CLE  L   2-8       18-14  3rd  2.5 gb
 31 Sat, May  9  @CLE  W   7-4       18-13  3rd  1.5 gb
 30 Fri, May  8  @CLE  W   9-3       17-13  3rd  2.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 15, 2015 MIN  3  TBR  2        W:Phil Hughes (3-4), L: Jake Odorizzi (3-3), S: Glen Perkins (12)

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 TBR  5 @MIN  3        W:Chris Archer (6-5), L: Kevin Correia (5-12), S: Kirby Yates (1)
Sat, Jul 19, 2014 TBR  5 @MIN  1        W:David Price (10-7), L: Phil Hughes (10-6), S: Jake McGee (8)
Fri, Jul 18, 2014 TBR  6 @MIN  2        W:Alex Cobb (5-6), L: Kyle Gibson (8-8), S: none
Thu, Apr 24, 2014 MIN  9 @TBR  7        W:Ricky Nolasco (2-2), L: Erik Bedard (0-1), S: Glen Perkins (5)
Wed, Apr 23, 2014 MIN  6 @TBR  4 (12)   W:Casey Fien (3-0), L: Josh Lueke (0-1), S: Glen Perkins (4)
Tue, Apr 22, 2014 TBR  7  MIN  3        W:David Price (3-1), L: Kyle Gibson (3-1), S: none
Sun, Sep 15, 2013 MIN  6  TBR  4        W:Casey Fien (5-2), L: Joel Peralta (2-8), S: Glen Perkins (35)
Sat, Sep 14, 2013 TBR  7 @MIN  0        W:Brandon Gomes (1-1), L: Andrew Albers (2-3), S: none
Fri, Sep 13, 2013 TBR  3 @MIN  0        W:Chris Archer (9-7), L: Kevin Correia (9-12), S: Fernando Rodney (35)
Season Series: 2015 - MIN over 1-0; 2014 - TBR won 4-2; 2013 - TBR won 6-1; All-Time - TBR leads 66-64

SP: Alex Colome (26, RHP, 2-1, 5.63)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-1) 16.0 18 10 10 1 16 4 5.63
2014 (2-0) 23.2 19 7 7 10 13 1 2.66
2013 (1-1) 16.0 14 8 4 9 12 2 2.25
Last 7 GS 4-2 40.2 34 15 15 9 31 6 3.32 55
2015-05-11 NYY L 6.0 11 8 8 1 6 4 99 23
2015-05-06 @BOS W 5.0 4 2 2 0 4 0 79 55
2015-05-01 BAL W 5.0 3 0 0 0 6 0 60 67
2014-09-27 @CLE W 6.1 4 0 0 1 6 0 79 70
2014-09-15 NYY ND 6.2 6 0 0 1 4 0 113 65
2014-06-27 @BAL W 5.2 2 1 1 4 3 0 104 60
2013-06-28 DET L 6.0 4 4 4 2 2 2 84 48
Has never faced MIN as starter.

SP: Trevor May (25, RHP, 2-3, 5.40)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-3) 30.0 39 18 18 8 24 2 5.40
2014 (3-6) 45.2 59 41 40 22 44 7 7.88
Last 7 GS 2-4 36.0 44 21 21 9 31 4 5.25 46
2015-05-10 @CLE L 4.0 9 6 6 3 4 1 89 21
2015-05-05 OAK L 5.2 5 2 2 2 3 0 101 52
2015-04-30 CHW W 5.2 10 2 2 1 4 0 97 44
2015-04-25 @SEA ND 3.1 3 2 2 1 5 0 51 50
2015-04-19 CLE W 6.0 4 1 1 0 4 0 97 64
2015-04-13 KCR L 5.1 8 5 5 1 4 1 78 35
2014-09-25 @DET L 6.0 5 3 3 1 7 2 92 56
Has never faced TBR as starter.

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

Rays Batters (3.81 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.28 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 65.May
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.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 84/45 .200/.250/.360/.610 .812/.424 .887 53/.482 2/1 3/1
9.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 41/29 .289/.341/.500/.841 .583/.952 .846 41/.841 0/1 2/0
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 31/.870 ··· 11/1.245 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 143/113 .211/.266/.316/.582 .467/.613 .517 93/.643 1/1 1/1
7.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/1.167 ··· 13/.770 ··· ··· ··· 90/88 .301/.356/.446/.801 1.000/.797 .943 66/.695 1/0 3/0
11.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 136/89 .295/.368/.467/.835 .877/.811 .777 91/.825 1/1 3/2
5.Guyer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 90/39 .280/.382/.440/.822 .807/.840 .784 64/.844 3/1 2/0
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 115/86 .234/.281/.421/.701 .633/.725 .842 77/.546 0/1 3/0
21.Loney* G/S/vP ··· 9/.777 2/.500 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 2/.000 84/61 .241/.286/.354/.640 .594/.657 .525 81/.648 0/1 2/0
3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 11/.364 ··· 5/1.400 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 147/112 .272/.367/.440/.807 1.098/.721 .745 101/.806 0/0 4/2
44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 109/76 .147/.194/.245/.440 .375/.468 .483 69/.517 0/0 2/2
20.Souza G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/108 .230/.336/.421/.756 .895/.711 .801 100/.749 5/3 6/0
46.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 36/23 .152/.222/.152/.374 .237/.451 .513 22/.232 0/0 0/0
IP 30.0 18.0 7.0 13.2 16.1 7.2 21.1 5.0 TOTAL .237/.310/.380/.690 .730/.674 .697 .686 18/13 34/13
ERA-K/9 5.40/7.2 2.50/4.0 7.71/5.1 4.61/6.6 1.10/7.7 3.52/10.5 2.11/5.5 3.60/7.2 4.07/5.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Rivera (13-5-2)
 Wilson (10-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 135/.310 74/.279 37/.419 62/.273 62/.210 32/.276 81/.181 20/.211 .274  Kiermaier
 DeJesus
 Souza
 Butler
 Guyer
0/32/2/2
11/0/0/1
0/0/34/1
5/0/0/0
21/2/4/0
OPS .761 .756 1.159 .882 .452 .692 .512 .776 .757
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 92/.818 26/.374 17/1.101 28/.761 17/1.000 17/.732 34/.349 11/1.091 .727
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 43/.636 48/.953 20/1.206 34/.982 45/.244 15/.641 47/.619 9/.347 .784
Home 97/.678 34/.393 17/1.255 31/.739 39/.513 16/.250 41/.432 8/.821
Last 28d days 111/.717 42/.533 21/1.384 43/.951 45/.467 32/.692 52/.644 20/.776
HR/SB/CS 2/3/0 1/2/2 1/2/0 3/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/1 2/2/0 2/0/0 36/23/8
Usage ·····X·· o·oX···· ·Xo···X· ·X···o·X o·o···o· ·X·o·X·· ··X···X· ··o··o·o
Twins Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.51 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 59.Bellatti
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 43.Frieri
G/S/vB		 54.Geltz
G/S/vB		 47.Gomes
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 30.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
17.Bernier G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/5 .000/.200/.000/.200 /.200 5/.200 0/0 0/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 3/.333 4/.000 3/1.000 158/103 .259/.329/.468/.797 .874/.755 .819 112/.858 3/0 5/1
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 100/59 .232/.260/.347/.607 .629/.593 .697 77/.665 1/0 2/2
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 30/17 .179/.233/.286/.519 .322/.647 .500 21/.348 0/0 0/0
32.Hicks# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 3/.000 14/12 .357/.357/.429/.786 1.000/.750 .667 14/.786 0/1 0/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 6/.500 3/2.334 137/86 .280/.328/.480/.808 .801/.813 .794 99/.909 1/2 6/1
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB 7/.286 3/.666 ··· 153/90 .281/.340/.367/.707 .846/.607 .659 107/.717 0/0 0/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.500 4/.833 3/.666 139/85 .260/.345/.439/.784 .799/.775 .960 100/.867 0/0 5/3
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 28/16 .222/.214/.370/.585 .970/.313 1.208 28/.585 1/0 1/2
39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 133/87 .252/.269/.346/.616 .752/.545 .749 91/.710 3/2 0/9
1.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 74/57 .217/.250/.261/.511 .688/.459 .730 44/.619 0/3 0/1
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 4/.833 7/1.071 1/.000 3/.000 113/75 .230/.304/.330/.634 .695/.600 .608 81/.592 0/0 2/1
19.Vargas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 111/70 .250/.297/.365/.663 .862/.547 .815 72/.736 0/0 3/0
IP 16.0 3.1 14.0 8.1 16.0 16.2 13.2 15.2 24.1 TOTAL .259/.311/.385/.697 .756/.661 .775 .743 12/10 26/24
ERA-K/9 5.63/9.0 0.00/5.5 1.29/12.9 2.16/9.8 3.94/7.9 3.24/11.3 1.98/8.5 2.30/6.9 /0.0 6.66/7.4 3.43/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (3-2-0)
 Suzuki (20-6-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 67/.277 14/.083 54/.146 37/.250 66/.214 65/.140 57/.226 66/.182 / 105/.258 .220  Escobar
 Schafer
 Rosario
 Hunter
 Herrmann
 Hicks
18/0/0/4
1/26/0/1
4/0/4/1
0/0/28/0
0/0/1/0
0/4/0/0
OPS .791 .298 .428 .695 .782 .457 .601 .527 .724 .641
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 39/.835 6/.333 27/.499 20/.358 28/.905 33/.415 29/.806 34/.437 / 53/.580 .665
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 28/.730 8/.250 27/.353 17/1.145 38/.691 32/.500 28/.399 32/.627 / 52/.855 .617
Road 20/.516 / 26/.773 20/.917 28/1.049 27/.390 18/.896 24/.508 / 43/1.123
Last 28d days 67/.791 14/.298 32/.291 22/.568 42/.540 39/.488 57/.601 44/.632 / 68/.416
HR/SB/CS 4/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/1 1/1/0 4/3/0 1/1/0 1/3/0 1/1/0 // 2/1/0 34/23/7
Usage ····X··· ······X· ··oo··o· ··X··o·o ····XX·· ······oo o·X···X· o·Xo·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

LAD  5.26

ATL  4.23

PHI  2.89

 RA/G

STL  3.17

WSN  4.41

COL  5.53

 BA

D. Gordon  .433

R. Cano  .268

C. Utley  .124

 OBP

A. Rizzo  .468

J. Jay  .330

C. Utley  .197

 SLG

N. Cruz  .730

D. Pedroia  .416

J. Mercer  .206

 OPS

B. Harper  1.150

N. Markakis  .754

C. Utley  .418

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.52

Y. Gallardo  3.94

K. Kendrick  7.65

 K/9IP

M. Fiers  12.25

T. Lincecum  7.08

J. Guthrie  3.27

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.