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Minnesota Twins vs. Chicago Cubs, at Target Field, June 19, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, June 19, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
76° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
69
On This Date:
60-62
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
68
On This Date:
54-53
Season Series

Fri, Jun 19, 2015 CHC    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 CHC    @MIN  2:10pm
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 CHC    @MIN  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
35-29, 3rd, 7 GB, 3 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-13   Road:   17-16   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  30-25   vsLHP:   5-4    1-Run:  17-12
 vsEast:  9-5    vsCntrl:17-14   vsWest:  6-6  IL: 3-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 64 Thu, Jun 18  @CLE  L   3-4       35-29  3rd  7.0 gb
 63 Wed, Jun 17  @CLE  W  17-0       35-28  3rd  7.0 gb
 62 Tue, Jun 16   CLE  L   0-6       34-28  3rd  8.0 gb
 61 Sun, Jun 14   CIN  W   2-1 (11)  34-27  3rd  6.5 gb
 60 Sat, Jun 13   CIN  W   4-3       33-27  3rd  7.0 gb
 59 Fri, Jun 12   CIN  L   4-5 (10)  32-27  3rd  7.0 gb
 58 Thu, Jun 11   CIN  W   6-3       32-26  2nd  6.0 gb
 57 Wed, Jun 10  @DET  W  12-3       31-26  2nd  6.5 gb
 56 Tue, Jun  9  @DET  L   0-6       30-26  2nd  6.5 gb
 55 Sun, Jun  7  @WSN  W   6-3       30-25  3rd  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Minnesota Twins
36-30, 2nd, 3½ GB, tied for WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-12   Road:   14-18   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  20-21   vsLHP:  16-9    1-Run:  13-9 
 vsEast:  9-4    vsCntrl:16-18   vsWest:  6-4  IL: 5-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 66 Thu, Jun 18   STL  W   2-1       36-30  2nd  3.5 gb
 65 Wed, Jun 17   STL  W   3-1       35-30  2nd  3.5 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 10, 2012 CHC  8 @MIN  2        W:Ryan Dempster (2-3), L: Francisco Liriano (1-7), S: none
Sat, Jun 09, 2012 MIN 11  CHC  3        W:Scott Diamond (5-1), L: Jeff Samardzija (5-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 08, 2012 MIN  8  CHC  7 (10)   W:Matt Capps (1-3), L: Shawn Camp (2-3), S: none
Sun, Jun 14, 2009 CHC  3  MIN  2        W:Carlos Marmol (2-1), L: Jesse Crain (2-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 13, 2009 MIN  2 @CHC  0        W:Anthony Swarzak (2-2), L: Rich Harden (4-3), S: Joe Nathan (15)
Fri, Jun 12, 2009 MIN  7 @CHC  4        W:Kevin Slowey (9-2), L: Randy Wells (0-3), S: Joe Nathan (14)
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 MIN  8  CHC  1        W:Brad Radke (6-7), L: Sean Marshall (4-6), S: none
Sat, Jun 24, 2006 MIN  3  CHC  0        W:Boof Bonser (2-1), L: Mark Prior (0-2), S: Joe Nathan (12)
Fri, Jun 23, 2006 MIN  7  CHC  2        W:Johan Santana (8-4), L: Carlos Marmol (1-2), S: none
Sun, Jun 17, 2001 CHC  5  MIN  4        W:Kerry Wood (7-4), L: Brad Radke (8-3), S: Tom Gordon (10)
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - Tied 12-12

SP: Kyle Hendricks (25, RHP, 2-2, 3.80)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-2) 68.2 66 30 29 13 59 7 3.80
2014 (7-2) 80.1 72 24 22 15 47 4 2.46
Last 7 GS 2-1 43.0 39 14 13 7 39 4 2.72 58
2015-06-13 CIN ND 5.0 4 1 1 0 7 1 57 62
2015-06-07 @WSN W 5.0 6 3 2 0 4 1 84 49
2015-06-02 @MIA L 6.0 7 4 4 2 7 0 97 47
2015-05-26 WSN ND 7.0 4 1 1 2 4 1 85 67
2015-05-21 @SDP W 9.0 5 0 0 0 7 0 108 84
2015-05-15 PIT ND 5.2 8 5 5 1 7 1 99 39
2015-05-10 @MIL ND 5.1 5 0 0 2 3 0 85 59
Has never faced MIN as starter.

SP: Phil Hughes (29, RHP, 4-6, 4.79)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-6) 82.2 102 44 44 9 51 15 4.79
2014 (16-10) 209.2 221 88 82 16 186 16 3.52
2013 (4-14) 145.2 170 91 84 42 121 24 5.19
Last 7 GS 3-2 45.0 56 23 23 5 23 7 4.60 47
2015-06-14 @TEX ND 6.0 9 3 3 1 3 2 88 44
2015-06-08 KCR L 7.2 7 3 3 1 3 1 104 55
2015-06-03 @BOS L 4.1 11 5 5 1 4 0 77 24
2015-05-27 BOS W 6.2 6 4 4 0 3 2 89 49
2015-05-22 @CHW ND 7.0 8 2 2 1 3 0 89 55
2015-05-15 TBR W 7.0 5 2 2 1 3 1 100 61
2015-05-09 @CLE W 6.1 10 4 4 0 4 1 94 41
Has never faced CHC as starter.

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

Cubs Batters (4.22 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.08 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Hughes
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
29.Baxter* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 32/29 .250/.344/.286/.629 2.000/.507 .929 29/.653 0/0 0/0
17.Bryant G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 250/209 .294/.396/.483/.879 .852/.885 .769 103/.894 5/1 8/8
13.Castro G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 272/233 .265/.301/.350/.652 .710/.642 .693 95/.643 4/3 5/13
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 214/195 .253/.333/.447/.781 .476/.805 .884 81/.932 4/1 8/0
15.Denorfia G/S/vP 2/1.500 1/no AB 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 54/44 .373/.396/.490/.886 .800/.908 .943 32/.855 0/1 1/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 3/1.333 5/.400 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 286/238 .243/.324/.394/.718 .876/.688 .789 106/.579 11/4 7/1
19.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/46 .228/.241/.263/.505 .714/.437 .667 17/.500 3/0 0/2
47.Montero* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 187/167 .240/.364/.442/.805 .950/.789 .752 72/.732 0/0 9/4
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP ··· 2/4.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 286/226 .301/.416/.555/.971 1.079/.943 1.022 102/.902 10/5 12/2
3.Ross G/S/vP 8/1.125 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 71/55 .167/.286/.267/.552 .464/.579 .486 29/.429 0/0 0/1
22.Russell G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 192/156 .254/.313/.418/.731 .632/.753 .638 80/.754 1/3 5/8
12.Schwarber* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/8 .600/.600/1.100/1.700 1.000/1.875 1.889 10/1.700 0/0 1/0
IP 82.2 32.0 14.1 18.1 28.2 29.1 20.2 27.2 10.0 TOTAL .246/.322/.394/.716 .758/.707 .739 .721 46/19 64/49
ERA-K/9 4.79/5.6 2.25/3.9 8.79/4.4 2.45/5.9 3.45/6.6 1.53/8.0 3.05/7.8 3.90/4.9 4.50/8.1 3.84/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Montero (29-9-2)
 Ross (21-5-2)
 Schwarber (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 352/.301 125/.241 71/.345 70/.221 124/.283 117/.221 86/.227 114/.232 45/.282 .270  Coghlan
 Denorfia
 Fowler
 Baxter
 Bryant
56/0/0/7
7/1/7/1
0/62/0/1
1/0/4/0
3/2/0/0
OPS .824 .696 .957 .541 .820 .540 .581 .608 .868 .738
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 192/.798 44/.361 33/.966 25/.583 52/.787 32/.871 31/.725 50/.440 19/.963 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 160/.854 81/.873 38/.949 45/.518 72/.844 85/.417 55/.499 64/.730 26/.794 .761
Home 160/.781 68/.498 33/1.209 34/.588 76/.730 71/.659 47/.308 55/.662 16/.976
Last 28d days 107/.864 38/.570 26/.700 29/.421 50/.847 41/.558 39/.514 23/.611 15/.900
HR/SB/CS 15/6/2 3/2/3 1/2/0 1/1/0 5/2/0 2/1/0 0/0/2 2/2/0 3/2/0 65/37/15
Usage ····X··· o·X····· ···X·oo· ·o··X··· ·····X·· ·X··o··· ··oX··o· ··o··oo· ···X·oo·
Twins Batters (4.12 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.97 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Hendricks
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 36.Jackson
G/S/vB		 33.Medina
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Buxton G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 16/13 .125/.125/.250/.375 .000/.462 .000 16/.375 0/1 0/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 5/1.900 ··· ··· 2/.000 4/.000 2/.000 288/198 .260/.344/.524/.868 .925/.841 .855 106/.971 4/2 13/1
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 181/117 .234/.261/.363/.624 .535/.672 .735 68/.568 1/2 3/4
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 57/39 .196/.268/.353/.621 .289/.762 .586 23/.890 0/0 1/2
48.Hunter G/S/vP ··· 6/1.667 19/1.362 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 250/168 .260/.320/.410/.730 .757/.716 .672 91/.629 1/2 8/3
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 14/.829 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 ··· 272/178 .253/.316/.359/.675 .757/.629 .703 98/.589 1/0 3/3
9.Nunez G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/3.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 74/47 .309/.342/.515/.857 .607/1.008 .724 48/.798 1/2 1/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 5/.000 2/5.000 259/171 .249/.317/.442/.759 .800/.738 .866 99/.703 0/0 9/5
21.Robinson G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/no AB 109/54 .250/.296/.320/.616 .574/.656 .605 42/.612 3/1 0/0
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/87 .277/.305/.420/.725 .692/.736 .980 80/.798 4/1 3/3
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· ··· 15/.564 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 202/138 .227/.294/.298/.592 .589/.590 .574 72/.532 0/0 2/1
19.Vargas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 139/91 .235/.273/.348/.622 .818/.519 .782 27/.481 0/0 4/0
IP 68.2 15.1 22.0 14.0 24.1 27.1 15.1 30.0 50.0 TOTAL .247/.300/.381/.682 .705/.670 .740 .668 25/18 50/39
ERA-K/9 3.80/7.7 1.17/13.5 2.86/7.0 2.57/5.8 3.33/6.3 2.63/7.9 2.35/4.1 3.00/10.2 4.68/9.4 3.57/8.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (8-4-0)
 Suzuki (29-11-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 280/.252 62/.185 95/.247 60/.208 104/.220 113/.250 65/.283 115/.139 213/.245 .243  Escobar
 Rosario
 Robinson
 Hunter
 Nunez
 Buxton
 Herrmann
26/0/0/4
18/0/14/4
27/14/3/3
0/0/48/1
2/0/0/1
0/5/0/0
0/0/2/0
OPS .683 .550 .610 .677 .624 .682 .705 .491 .731 .689
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 119/.679 14/.286 34/.508 27/.713 31/.751 50/.475 34/.582 42/.582 60/.633 .659
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 161/.686 48/.610 61/.661 33/.648 73/.572 63/.852 31/.838 73/.441 153/.768 .705
Road 166/.696 35/.610 53/.720 31/.469 50/.664 49/.866 30/.567 53/.437 118/.809
Last 28d days 92/.681 38/.596 44/.588 6/.000 31/.379 31/.398 30/.774 38/.423 44/.560
HR/SB/CS 7/3/0 1/1/0 0/4/1 1/2/1 2/1/0 2/5/1 1/1/1 2/1/0 10/0/0 62/51/14
Usage ·····X·· o·o··X·o ··X·o··· ·X······ ····XXX· ····o·Xo o·X··ooo X····Xoo X····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  5.53

CLE  4.14

PHI  3.03

 RA/G

STL  2.85

DET  4.14

COL  5.06

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .357

B. McCann  .270

S. Drew  .169

 OBP

B. Harper  .476

X. Bogaerts  .327

O. Infante  .236

 SLG

B. Harper  .720

H. Kendrick  .418

M. Cabrera  .281

 OPS

B. Harper  1.197

C. Santana  .749

C. Utley  .539

 ERA

S. Gray  1.60

J. Zimmermann  3.75

K. Lohse  6.44

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.81

J. Kelly  7.35

J. Guthrie  4.17

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.