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Minnesota Twins vs. Boston Red Sox, at Target Field, May 25, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Monday, May 25, 2015

Start Time:

1:10ct (local), 2:10et

Venue:

Target Field

Series:

Game #1 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

72° (based on last ten years)

Red Sox

Manager:

John Farrell

Game #:

On This Date:

45-53

Twins

Manager:

Paul Molitor

Game #:

On This Date:

49-56

Season Series

Mon, May 25, 2015 BOS    @MIN  2:10pm
Tue, May 26, 2015 BOS    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, May 27, 2015 BOS    @MIN  1:10pm
Mon, Jun 01, 2015 MIN    @BOS  7:10pm
Tue, Jun 02, 2015 MIN    @BOS  7:10pm
Wed, Jun 03, 2015 MIN    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, Jun 04, 2015 MIN    @BOS  4:05pm

                         All times ET

Boston Red Sox

21-23, 3rd, 2½ GB, 4½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   10-12   Road:   11-11   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  14-16   vsLHP:   7-7    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast: 10-15   vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  7-6  IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 44 Sun, May 24   LAA  W   6-1       21-23  3rd  2.5 gb
 43 Sat, May 23   LAA  W   8-3       20-23  4th  3.5 gb
 42 Fri, May 22   LAA  L   5-12      19-23  4th  4.5 gb
 41 Thu, May 21   TEX  L   1-3       19-22  4th  3.5 gb
 40 Wed, May 20   TEX  L   1-2       19-21  3rd  2.5 gb
 39 Tue, May 19   TEX  W   4-3       19-20  3rd  2.5 gb
 38 Sun, May 17  @SEA  L   0-5       18-20  3rd  3.5 gb
 37 Sat, May 16  @SEA  W   4-2       18-19  3rd  3.5 gb
 36 Fri, May 15  @SEA  L   1-2       17-19  3rd  3.5 gb
 35 Thu, May 14  @SEA  W   2-1       17-18  3rd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18

Minnesota Twins

25-18, 2nd, 3 GB, tied for WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   14-6    Road:   11-12   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  10-13   vsLHP:  15-5    1-Run:   8-6 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl:16-15   vsWest:  5-2  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 43 Sun, May 24  @CHW  W   8-1       25-18  2nd  3.0 gb
 42 Sat, May 23  @CHW  W   4-3       24-18  3rd  4.0 gb
 41 Fri, May 22  @CHW  L   2-3       23-18  3rd  4.0 gb
 40 Wed, May 20  @PIT  W   4-3 (13)  23-17  3rd  3.0 gb
 39 Tue, May 19  @PIT  W   8-5       22-17  3rd  3.0 gb
 38 Sun, May 17   TBR  L   3-11      21-17  3rd  3.0 gb
 37 Sat, May 16   TBR  W   6-4       21-16  3rd  2.0 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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 18, 2014 BOS  2  MIN  1 (10)   W:Koji Uehara (2-1), L: Casey Fien (3-4), S: none
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 BOS  2  MIN  1        W:Jon Lester (8-7), L: Phil Hughes (7-3), S: Edward Mujica (2)
Mon, Jun 16, 2014 BOS  1  MIN  0        W:Rubby De La Rosa (2-2), L: Kevin Correia (3-8), S: Koji Uehara (15)
Thu, May 15, 2014 MIN  4  BOS  3 (10)   W:Brian Duensing (1-1), L: Andrew Miller (1-2), S: none
Wed, May 14, 2014 BOS  9 @MIN  4        W:Felix Doubront (2-3), L: Kevin Correia (1-5), S: none
Tue, May 13, 2014 MIN  8  BOS  6        W:Glen Perkins (1-0), L: Andrew Miller (1-1), S: none
Sun, May 19, 2013 BOS  5 @MIN  1        W:John Lackey (2-4), L: Pedro Hernandez (2-1), S: none
Sat, May 18, 2013 BOS 12 @MIN  5        W:Craig Breslow (1-0), L: Scott Diamond (3-4), S: none
Fri, May 17, 2013 BOS  3 @MIN  2 (10)   W:Alex Wilson (1-0), L: Josh Roenicke (1-1), S: Koji Uehara (1)
Thu, May 09, 2013 MIN  5 @BOS  3        W:Kevin Correia (4-2), L: John Lackey (1-3), S: Glen Perkins (8)
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 - BOS won 4-2; 2013 - BOS won 4-3; All-Time - BOS leads 962-927

SP: Joe Kelly (27, RHP, 1-3, 5.13)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (1-3)			47.1	43	27	27	19	43	6	5.13
2014 (6-4)			96.1	88	48	45	42	66	8	4.20
2013 (10-5)			124.0	124	42	37	44	79	10	2.69

Last 7 GS		0-3	40.1	42	26	26	17	35	6	5.80	46
2015-05-20	TEX	L	7.0	7	2	2	1	7	1	108	61
2015-05-14	@SEA	ND	6.1	5	1	1	3	2	0	92	58
2015-05-09	@TOR	L	5.2	4	6	6	7	3	1	113	33
2015-05-03	NYY	L	4.2	9	5	5	0	3	1	97	29
2015-04-27	TOR	ND	6.0	5	5	5	3	10	1	104	49
2015-04-22	@TBR	ND	5.0	8	5	5	1	7	1	82	37
2015-04-17	BAL	ND	5.2	4	2	2	2	3	1	118	54

Has never faced MIN as starter.

SP: Ricky Nolasco (32, RHP, 4-1, 6.00)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (4-1)			24.0	34	19	16	10	22	1	6.00
2014 (6-12)			159.0	203	96	95	38	115	22	5.38
2013 (13-11)			199.1	195	90	82	46	165	17	3.70

Last 7 GS		5-2	34.2	48	26	23	13	33	3	5.97	42
2015-05-19	@PIT	W	5.2	10	4	3	1	8	1	93	42
2015-05-13	@DET	W	5.1	4	2	0	3	7	0	106	60
2015-05-07	OAK	W	5.0	6	4	4	1	1	0	94	39
2015-05-02	CHW	W	5.0	8	3	3	1	4	0	76	42
2015-04-08	@DET	L	3.0	6	6	6	4	2	0	78	21
2014-09-27	@DET	W	6.0	5	2	2	2	6	1	91	58
2014-09-22	ARI	L	4.2	9	5	5	1	5	1	94	30

Last 5 v.BOS		2-2	28.1	23	17	16	3	22	5	5.08	52
2014-05-13	BOS	ND	6.0	6	3	3	1	6	2	102	53
2013-08-23	BOS	W	8.0	2	0	0	0	6	0	101	84
2012-06-20	@BOS	L	3.1	9	9	9	1	1	1	64	6
2012-06-13	BOS	L	6.0	5	4	3	1	4	1	75	51
2009-06-18	@BOS	W	5.0	1	1	1	0	5	1	74	66

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

Red Sox Batters (4.00 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.28 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 47.Nolasco
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 22.Stauffer
G/S/vB 64.Thompson*
G/S/vB 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

50.Betts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 195/145 .233/.289/.381/.669 .524/.720 .519 105/.695 5/1 5/1

16.Bianchi G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 0/ /// / 0/ 0/0 0/0

2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 158/113 .290/.340/.407/.747 .778/.734 .723 86/.771 2/0 2/5

38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/6 .250/.250/.250/.500 .333/.667 12/.500 0/0 0/1

26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 104/76 .297/.379/.429/.807 .774/.820 1.113 60/.663 1/0 1/1

3.Leon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 43/28 .167/.250/.167/.417 .154/.551 .368 20/.284 0/0 0/0

12.Napoli G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 13/.398 ··· 4/.500 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· ··· 158/106 .203/.304/.420/.724 .980/.608 .538 83/.887 1/1 8/2

29.Nava# G/S/vP 6/.900 ··· 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 70/62 .167/.261/.200/.461 .452/.462 .618 30/.542 0/0 0/0

34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 13/1.762 ··· 6/.334 ··· 13/.923 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 173/117 .227/.318/.393/.711 .271/.945 .601 96/.699 0/0 6/0

15.Pedroia G/S/vP 11/.364 ··· 7/.971 ··· 10/.311 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 2/2.000 197/144 .281/.357/.415/.772 .765/.775 .693 107/.710 1/1 5/3

13.Ramirez G/S/vP 3/.666 8/.700 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 12/.973 ··· 1/.000 166/116 .263/.313/.480/.794 1.028/.698 .850 84/.640 1/2 10/2

48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 23/1.617 7/.572 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· 23/1.335 ··· ··· 154/110 .273/.344/.417/.761 .185/1.003 .701 75/.716 0/0 5/3

23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 57/41 .185/.214/.241/.455 .333/.500 .480 57/.455 0/0 0/0

IP 24.0 22.0 9.2 17.1 20.1 10.2 9.2 23.0 6.2 TOTAL .240/.317/.376/.692 .647/.711 .639 .688 14/5 45/24

ERA-K/9

6.00/8.2

2.45/3.7

8.38/3.7

3.63/6.8

1.33/9.3

4.22/9.3

8.38/1.9

3.52/5.5

5.40/9.4

4.05/5.8

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Leon (1-3-1)
Swihart (12-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 114/.337 88/.259 48/.366 74/.254 81/.228 47/.244 50/.372 93/.229 30/.296 .273 Betts
Ramirez
Nava
Holt
Castillo 0/42/0/3
37/0/0/2
6/0/14/1
4/2/9/0
0/1/3/0

OPS .870 .743 1.019 .802 .538 .636 1.207 .593 .852 .748

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 51/.842 31/.348 19/1.089 31/.787 21/.879 22/.718 19/1.169 37/.318 15/1.119 .709

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 63/.893 57/.943 29/.974 43/.813 60/.421 25/.558 31/1.215 56/.762 15/.564 .784

Home 43/.869 37/.361 22/1.275 34/.767 44/.614 24/.250 29/1.288 46/.563 14/1.012

Last 28d days 95/.810 39/.570 32/1.093 49/.755 52/.628 47/.636 5/2.400 44/.778 30/.852

HR/SB/CS 1/1/2 2/2/2 1/2/0 3/1/0 1/1/0 0/0/1 3/0/0 2/2/0 2/1/0 41/26/11

Usage ·····X·· ·o··Xo·· o···o··o ····X··X ·X··Xo·· ····oo·X ········ ·oo·oo·X ··o·o··X

Twins Batters (4.58 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 56.Kelly
G/S/vB 68.Barnes
G/S/vB 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB 37.Hembree
G/S/vB 59.Layne*
G/S/vB 41.Ogando
G/S/vB 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB 19.Uehara
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.933 3/.000 ··· 191/120 .253/.335/.506/.841 .885/.814 .891 106/1.013 3/1 9/1

5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 121/73 .237/.267/.351/.618 .534/.673 .773 78/.723 1/0 2/2

12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/20 .143/.211/.229/.439 .289/.550 .409 24/.255 0/0 0/0

32.Hicks# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 42/27 .220/.238/.244/.482 .481/.481 .200 42/.482 1/1 0/0

48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· ··· 10/1.611 ··· ··· 18/.457 5/1.400 15/.667 167/102 .281/.329/.471/.800 .838/.775 .762 97/.961 1/2 7/1

7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 11/.955 ··· ··· 5/.000 3/.666 3/.000 180/106 .274/.333/.372/.705 .843/.606 .668 97/.654 1/0 1/2

9.Nunez G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.800 1/.000 ··· 5/1.200 4/.500 4/.000 29/11 .370/.414/.630/1.043 .748/1.536 .764 9/.958 0/1 1/1

24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.833 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 1/.000 168/99 .265/.351/.456/.807 .940/.718 .896 94/.908 0/0 6/3

21.Robinson G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 76/30 .268/.316/.296/.612 .583/.655 .766 40/.487 3/1 0/0

20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/26 .250/.262/.350/.612 .915/.408 1.018 43/.612 2/0 1/2

39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 157/101 .233/.253/.320/.573 .694/.508 .732 88/.614 4/2 0/10

8.Suzuki G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.733 ··· 4/.000 134/88 .231/.308/.325/.633 .640/.626 .631 75/.634 0/0 2/1

IP 47.1 8.2 19.1 1.1 12.0 17.2 20.0 15.0 TOTAL .253/.308/.383/.691 .753/.650 .770 .752 16/11 34/26

ERA-K/9

5.13/8.2

3.12/5.2

3.72/7.5

40.50/20.8

3.00/6.0

3.06/7.6

1.80/8.6

1.80/10.8

4.48/7.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Herrmann (3-3-0)
Suzuki (23-8-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 204/.238 41/.297 85/.254 11/.600 50/.214 70/.200 77/.205 55/.140 .256 Escobar
Robinson
Rosario
Nunez
Hicks
Hunter
Herrmann 20/0/0/4
16/13/3/3
6/0/6/1
2/0/0/1
0/11/0/0
0/0/33/0
0/0/1/0

OPS .679 .852 .770 1.936 .558 .673 .589 .500 .739

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 98/.506 22/.739 32/.983 4/3.500 28/.374 27/.444 28/.714 29/.567 .709

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 106/.849 19/.977 53/.644 7/.929 22/.807 43/.829 49/.513 26/.432 .765

Road 105/.586 33/.697 40/.746 11/1.936 35/.512 33/.606 31/.484 27/.676

Last 28d days 107/.730 33/.946 37/1.066 / 30/.500 34/.794 44/.663 35/.333

HR/SB/CS 6/5/0 2/2/0 3/0/1 1/0/0 0/0/0 3/0/1 3/2/1 2/0/0 49/23/9

Usage ····X··· ··X·o··X ··X····o ········ ···oo··· ·o·X···X ·X··oo·· oX···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 5.13

CHC 4.30

PHI 3.17

RA/G

STL 3.05

MIN 4.28

COL 5.26

D. Gordon .376

R. Braun .270

C. Carter .170

OBP

B. Harper .471

S. Marte .326

E. Gattis .233

SLG

B. Harper .728

D. Freese .422

J. Ramirez .248

OPS

B. Harper 1.198

J. Soler .753

J. Ramirez .507

ERA

A. Burnett 1.37

J. Teheran 3.91

K. Kendrick 6.58

K/9IP

J. Shields 11.85

S. Miller 7.20

J. Guthrie 3.42

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.