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Minnesota Twins vs. St. Louis Cardinals, at Target Field, June 17, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
67
On This Date:
67-49
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
66
On This Date:
45-53
Season Series
Mon, Jun 15, 2015 STL  3  MIN  2     
Tue, Jun 16, 2015 STL  3  MIN  2     

Wed, Jun 17, 2015 STL    @MIN  8:10pm
Thu, Jun 18, 2015 STL    @MIN  1:10pm

                         All times ET
St. Louis Cardinals
43-21, 1st, 6 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-7    Road:   17-14   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  36-14   vsLHP:   7-7    1-Run:  14-10
 vsEast:  7-4    vsCntrl:19-8    vsWest:  9-4  IL: 8-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 64 Tue, Jun 16   MIN  W   3-2       43-21  1st  6.0 up
 63 Mon, Jun 15   MIN  W   3-2       42-21  1st  6.0 up
 62 Sat, Jun 13   KCR  W   3-2       41-21  1st  6.5 up
 61 Fri, Jun 12   KCR  W   4-0       40-21  1st  6.5 up
 60 Wed, Jun 10  @COL  W   4-2       39-21  1st  6.5 up
 59 Tue, Jun  9  @COL  L   3-4       38-21  1st  6.5 up
 58 Mon, Jun  8  @COL  L   3-11      38-20  1st  6.5 up
 57 Sun, Jun  7  @LAD  W   4-2       38-19  1st  6.5 up
 56 Sat, Jun  6  @LAD  L   0-2       37-19  1st  6.5 up
 55 Fri, Jun  5  @LAD  W   2-1       37-18  1st  6.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:19-11
Minnesota Twins
34-30, 2nd, 3½ GB, ½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   20-12   Road:   14-18   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  19-21   vsLHP:  15-9    1-Run:  12-9 
 vsEast:  9-4    vsCntrl:16-18   vsWest:  6-4  IL: 3-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 64 Tue, Jun 16  @STL  L   2-3       34-30  2nd  3.5 gb
 63 Mon, Jun 15  @STL  L   2-3       34-29  2nd  2.5 gb
 62 Sun, Jun 14  @TEX  W   4-3       34-28  2nd  1.5 gb
 61 Sat, Jun 13  @TEX  L   7-11      33-28  2nd  2.0 gb
 60 Fri, Jun 12  @TEX  L   2-6       33-27  2nd  2.0 gb
 59 Wed, Jun 10   KCR  L   2-7       33-26  2nd  2.0 gb
 58 Tue, Jun  9   KCR  L   0-2       33-25  2nd  1.0 gb
 57 Mon, Jun  8   KCR  L   1-3       33-24  1st    Tied
 56 Sun, Jun  7   MIL  W   2-0       33-23  1st  1.0 up
 55 Sat, Jun  6   MIL  L   2-4       32-23  1st  1.0 up
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jun 16, 2015 STL  3  MIN  2        W:Michael Wacha (9-2), L: Kyle Gibson (4-5), S: Kevin Siegrist (3)
Mon, Jun 15, 2015 STL  3  MIN  2        W:John Lackey (5-4), L: Trevor May (4-5), S: Kevin Siegrist (2)

Sun, Jun 28, 2009 MIN  6 @STL  2        W:Francisco Liriano (4-8), L: Joel Pineiro (6-9), S: Joe Nathan (19)
Sat, Jun 27, 2009 STL  5  MIN  3        W:Josh Kinney (1-0), L: Kevin Slowey (10-3), S: Ryan Franklin (18)
Fri, Jun 26, 2009 MIN  3 @STL  1        W:Glen Perkins (3-4), L: Adam Wainwright (8-5), S: Joe Nathan (18)
Tue, Jul 17, 2001 STL  4  MIN  2        W:Darryl Kile (10-7), L: Kyle Lohse (3-1), S: Jason Christiansen (3)
Mon, Jul 16, 2001 STL  4  MIN  3        W:Steve Kline (2-3), L: Travis Miller (1-3), S: Jason Christiansen (2)
Sun, Jul 15, 2001 STL  5  MIN  1        W:Dustin Hermanson (7-7), L: Joe Mays (11-6), S: none
Tue, Jul 18, 2000 MIN  3  STL  2        W:Brad Radke (7-10), L: Andy Benes (10-4), S: LaTroy Hawkins (6)
Mon, Jul 17, 2000 STL  8 @MIN  3        W:Pat Hentgen (9-6), L: Mike Lincoln (0-3), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 2-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - STL leads 12-8

SP: Carlos Martinez (23, RHP, 7-2, 2.93)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-2) 73.2 61 24 24 32 79 8 2.93
2014 (2-4) 89.1 90 41 40 36 84 4 4.03
2013 (2-1) 28.1 31 16 16 9 24 1 5.08
Last 7 GS 4-2 44.0 35 12 12 18 51 3 2.45 61
2015-06-10 @COL W 6.1 8 2 2 1 4 1 106 52
2015-06-05 @LAD W 7.0 3 1 1 4 11 0 100 74
2015-05-31 LAD W 7.0 1 0 0 3 8 0 108 80
2015-05-25 ARI ND 7.0 5 0 0 2 8 0 97 73
2015-05-20 @NYM W 6.1 4 0 0 2 5 0 100 68
2015-05-15 DET L 5.0 7 2 2 2 8 1 103 51
2015-05-09 @PIT L 5.1 7 7 7 4 7 1 89 29
Has never faced MIN as starter.

SP: Tommy Milone (28, LHP, 2-1, 4.15)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-1) 34.2 34 18 16 13 21 8 4.15
2014 (6-4) 118.0 128 63 55 37 75 16 4.19
2013 (12-9) 156.1 160 83 72 39 126 25 4.14
Last 7 GS 2-1 38.1 39 21 19 17 24 9 4.46 47
2015-06-12 @TEX ND 7.0 3 2 2 1 8 1 101 70
2015-06-04 @BOS ND 5.0 9 4 2 1 0 2 97 36
2015-04-27 DET L 4.0 8 5 5 2 2 2 83 26
2015-04-21 @KCR ND 5.2 5 4 4 4 1 2 92 40
2015-04-16 KCR W 5.1 7 3 3 3 3 1 101 42
2015-04-10 @CHW W 7.2 2 0 0 2 7 0 100 80
2014-09-02 CHW ND 3.2 5 3 3 4 3 1 86 38
Last 5 v.STL 1-0 6.0 7 5 4 2 5 3 6.00 43
2013-06-30 STL W 6.0 7 5 4 2 5 3 94 43

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Cardinals Batters (3.95 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.17 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Milone*
G/S/vB		 36.Boyer
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
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
8.Bourjos G/S/vP 7/.000 1/.000 8/1.250 ··· ··· 4/.500 1/no AB ··· ··· 116/77 .257/.339/.416/.755 .734/.764 .564 41/.668 4/6 2/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 3/2.667 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 260/184 .291/.381/.489/.870 .644/.966 .788 98/.704 1/1 8/6
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/31 .231/.286/.282/.568 .899/.459 .613 15/.516 0/0 0/0
23.Easley G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 3/.000 0/0 0/0
15.Grichuk G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 109/78 .267/.284/.514/.799 .724/.829 .692 77/.719 1/0 3/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 229/174 .254/.297/.380/.677 .822/.632 .582 72/.626 6/1 5/2
19.Jay* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 157/122 .228/.314/.279/.594 .458/.633 .585 42/.583 0/2 1/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/36 .102/.170/.102/.272 .301/.258 .169 14/.143 1/0 0/1
4.Molina G/S/vP 3/.000 5/1.200 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 231/179 .288/.335/.354/.689 .600/.712 .683 82/.672 0/1 1/3
27.Peralta G/S/vP 6/.533 4/.500 34/1.092 5/.900 ··· 16/.521 3/.666 ··· ··· 263/205 .312/.373/.506/.879 .858/.885 .941 95/.902 1/1 10/3
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 6/.334 5/1.000 3/2.667 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 175/128 .259/.331/.405/.736 .694/.751 .766 80/.686 2/1 5/2
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 260/190 .294/.346/.458/.804 .678/.852 .843 98/.760 5/4 7/9
IP 34.2 31.0 14.1 17.2 28.2 28.0 20.2 27.2 10.0 TOTAL .262/.327/.395/.722 .659/.743 .689 .675 24/18 49/37
ERA-K/9 4.15/5.4 2.32/3.8 8.79/4.4 2.55/5.6 3.45/6.6 1.61/7.7 3.05/7.8 3.90/4.9 4.50/8.1 3.93/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (3-1-0)
 Easley (0-0-0)
 Molina (15-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 149/.254 121/.241 71/.345 67/.215 124/.283 111/.215 86/.227 114/.232 45/.282 .272  Heyward
 Jay
 Bourjos
 Grichuk
 Reynolds
 Kozma
0/0/56/4
12/32/4/2
0/40/0/1
14/11/8/1
5/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .775 .694 .957 .520 .820 .533 .581 .608 .868 .744
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 50/.540 43/.295 33/.966 23/.636 52/.787 30/.862 31/.725 50/.440 19/.963 .708
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 99/.890 78/.908 38/.949 44/.460 72/.844 81/.413 55/.499 64/.730 26/.794 .773
Home 47/1.045 64/.481 33/1.209 31/.548 76/.730 65/.658 47/.308 55/.662 16/.976
Last 28d days 50/.738 34/.548 26/.700 26/.352 50/.847 35/.538 39/.514 25/.611 18/.889
HR/SB/CS 8/4/2 3/2/3 1/2/0 1/1/0 5/2/0 2/1/0 0/0/2 2/2/0 3/2/0 64/35/15
Usage ····X··· X······X ·X·oo··o ··X····X ···X··X· ··o····· oX··o··o o··oo··· ·X·oo···
Twins Batters (4.17 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Martinez
G/S/vB		 37.Belisle
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 40.Harris
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 63.Socolovich
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Buxton G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/10 .200/.200/.400/.600 /.600 10/.600 0/1 0/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 280/194 .265/.343/.535/.878 .953/.844 .876 102/.963 4/2 13/1
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 181/117 .234/.261/.363/.624 .535/.672 .735 71/.591 1/2 3/4
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 54/36 .184/.245/.347/.592 .289/.728 .533 20/.845 0/0 1/2
48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 8/1.232 242/163 .264/.322/.418/.740 .769/.727 .689 87/.644 1/2 8/3
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.619 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 7/.429 264/175 .253/.318/.346/.664 .743/.621 .682 94/.557 1/0 2/3
9.Nunez G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 4/.500 66/41 .302/.333/.508/.841 .657/.954 .667 40/.762 1/2 1/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 251/166 .248/.315/.442/.757 .805/.733 .870 95/.668 0/0 9/5
21.Robinson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 108/53 .253/.299/.323/.622 .574/.668 .618 41/.628 3/1 0/0
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 111/83 .269/.300/.404/.704 .721/.698 .977 75/.753 4/1 3/3
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/.500 2/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 198/136 .225/.289/.298/.587 .574/.590 .563 71/.492 0/0 2/1
19.Vargas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 132/86 .232/.273/.328/.601 .810/.490 .758 20/.300 0/0 3/0
IP 73.2 27.0 11.2 17.1 23.2 30.1 29.2 7.2 24.0 TOTAL .247/.300/.380/.680 .710/.665 .740 .647 25/18 48/39
ERA-K/9 2.93/9.6 2.00/7.7 3.09/5.4 3.63/4.7 3.42/6.1 0.59/9.8 1.52/12.1 1.17/9.4 0.75/7.9 2.63/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (6-4-0)
 Suzuki (29-11-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 305/.225 116/.275 46/.214 81/.314 99/.330 117/.178 123/.204 29/.179 95/.190 .240  Escobar
 Robinson
 Rosario
 Hunter
 Nunez
 Herrmann
 Buxton
26/0/0/4
27/14/3/3
16/0/14/3
0/0/46/1
2/0/0/1
0/0/2/0
0/3/0/0
OPS .659 .656 .600 .814 .776 .453 .648 .421 .552 .648
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 151/.725 40/.589 39/.632 31/.727 26/.692 52/.428 46/.867 13/.397 41/.337 .670
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 154/.597 76/.689 7/.429 50/.865 73/.808 65/.465 77/.527 16/.438 54/.715 .633
Road 157/.649 42/.649 26/.815 37/.693 44/.749 46/.245 53/.507 13/.154 46/.661
Last 28d days 105/.489 37/.651 9/.778 34/.745 26/.596 41/.428 45/.681 / 25/.640
HR/SB/CS 8/0/3 0/1/1 1/0/0 2/1/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 2/0/2 0/1/0 1/2/2 41/18/10
Usage ······X· o··X···X o··o···o ········ o··o···o ···X··X· Xo·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  5.47

MIN  4.17

PHI  3.03

 RA/G

STL  2.86

MIN  4.17

COL  4.97

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .361

A. Rodriguez  .267

S. Drew  .174

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .481

J. Giavotella  .327

O. Infante  .229

 SLG

B. Harper  .735

W. Ramos  .418

M. Cabrera  .277

 OPS

B. Harper  1.216

A. Hechavarria  .748

O. Infante  .536

 ERA

S. Gray  1.60

J. Zimmermann  3.74

K. Lohse  6.44

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.71

M. Gonzalez  7.27

J. Guthrie  4.00

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.