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Minnesota Twins vs. Chicago Cubs, at Target Field, June 21, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Start Time:
1:10ct (local), 2:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
76° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
71
On This Date:
62-60
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
70
On This Date:
48-58
Season Series
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 MIN  7  CHC  2     
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 CHC  4 @MIN  1 (10)

Sun, Jun 21, 2015 CHC    @MIN  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
36-30, 3rd, 8 GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-13   Road:   18-17   ExtrInn: 7-3 
 vsRHP:  31-26   vsLHP:   5-4    1-Run:  17-12
 vsEast:  9-5    vsCntrl:17-14   vsWest:  6-6  IL: 4-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 66 Sat, Jun 20  @MIN  W   4-1 (10)  36-30  3rd  8.0 gb
 65 Fri, Jun 19  @MIN  L   2-7       35-30  3rd  8.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15
Minnesota Twins
37-31, 2nd, 3½ GB, 1 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-13   Road:   14-18   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  21-21   vsLHP:  16-10   1-Run:  13-9 
 vsEast:  9-4    vsCntrl:16-18   vsWest:  6-4  IL: 6-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 68 Sat, Jun 20   CHC  L   1-4 (10)  37-31  2nd  3.5 gb
 67 Fri, Jun 19   CHC  W   7-2       37-30  2nd  2.5 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 CHC  4 @MIN  1 (10)   W:Jason Motte (4-1), L: Blaine Boyer (2-3), S: Hector Rondon (12)
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 MIN  7  CHC  2        W:Phil Hughes (5-6), L: Kyle Hendricks (2-3), S: none

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)
Season Series: 2015 - tied 1-1; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - Tied 13-13

SP: Jake Arrieta (29, RHP, 6-5, 3.40)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-5) 82.0 74 35 31 21 89 8 3.40
2014 (10-5) 156.2 114 46 44 41 167 5 2.53
2013 (5-4) 75.1 59 41 40 41 60 9 4.78
Last 7 GS 3-2 45.0 40 20 17 12 51 6 3.40 58
2015-06-16 CLE L 5.0 3 4 4 6 6 1 112 45
2015-06-10 @DET W 6.0 8 3 3 1 8 1 93 51
2015-06-04 @WSN W 6.0 6 1 1 0 8 0 97 64
2015-05-29 KCR ND 7.0 8 4 4 0 5 3 93 50
2015-05-23 @ARI ND 6.0 7 6 3 2 7 1 92 45
2015-05-17 PIT L 7.0 5 1 1 1 7 0 106 69
2015-05-12 NYM W 8.0 3 1 1 2 10 0 116 80
Last 5 v.MIN 2-1 22.0 20 10 10 11 13 1 4.09 50
2013-04-05 MIN ND 5.0 7 5 5 2 5 0 93 36
2012-04-06 MIN W 7.0 2 0 0 2 4 0 97 75
2011-04-19 MIN W 6.0 4 0 0 3 4 0 108 65
2010-07-25 MIN L 4.0 7 5 5 4 0 1 87 24

SP: Kyle Gibson (27, RHP, 4-5, 3.33)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-5) 81.0 76 33 30 25 49 9 3.33
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 1-3 44.2 42 20 18 10 38 7 3.63 55
2015-06-16 @STL L 6.0 6 3 3 2 4 0 96 50
2015-06-10 KCR L 6.0 5 5 4 2 6 1 117 48
2015-06-05 MIL ND 7.0 6 5 5 0 9 3 101 54
2015-05-30 TOR ND 5.2 8 2 1 4 3 1 103 46
2015-05-24 @CHW W 8.0 4 1 1 0 8 1 106 78
2015-05-17 TBR L 5.0 8 3 3 2 2 0 94 39
2015-05-12 @DET ND 7.0 5 1 1 0 6 1 105 69
Has never faced CHC as starter.

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Cubs Batters (4.18 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.04 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		 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 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 32/29 .250/.344/.286/.629 2.000/.507 .929 27/.704 0/0 0/0
17.Bryant G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 259/218 .283/.386/.466/.852 .852/.852 .728 103/.873 5/1 8/8
13.Castro G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 280/241 .264/.300/.347/.647 .710/.637 .682 94/.650 4/3 5/14
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 222/203 .249/.330/.437/.767 .476/.789 .850 83/.840 5/1 8/0
15.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 62/51 .345/.377/.448/.825 .727/.848 .848 40/.766 0/1 1/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 6/1.583 6/.333 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 295/247 .238/.317/.385/.702 .876/.669 .753 106/.566 11/4 7/1
19.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/46 .228/.241/.263/.505 .714/.437 .667 14/.615 3/0 0/2
47.Montero* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 191/170 .241/.361/.437/.798 .895/.787 .741 67/.717 0/0 9/5
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP ··· 3/3.333 3/.000 1/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 295/235 .306/.417/.580/.997 1.079/.975 1.063 102/.961 10/5 14/2
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 75/58 .188/.297/.297/.594 .561/.604 .566 33/.533 0/0 0/1
22.Russell G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 199/162 .257/.317/.415/.732 .615/.759 .646 83/.776 1/3 5/8
12.Schwarber* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 18/15 .389/.389/.667/1.056 .667/1.133 1.118 18/1.056 0/0 1/0
IP 81.0 32.2 14.1 20.1 29.2 30.1 20.2 28.0 10.0 TOTAL .245/.320/.392/.712 .753/.703 .731 .717 47/19 66/51
ERA-K/9 3.33/5.4 2.48/3.9 8.79/4.4 2.21/6.2 3.64/6.4 1.48/8.3 3.05/7.8 3.86/4.8 4.50/8.1 3.78/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Montero (30-11-2)
 Ross (23-5-2)
 Schwarber (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 337/.249 132/.254 71/.345 76/.203 128/.291 121/.222 86/.227 115/.230 45/.282 .269  Coghlan
 Fowler
 Denorfia
 Baxter
 Bryant
58/0/0/7
0/64/0/2
7/1/9/1
1/0/4/0
3/2/0/0
OPS .713 .716 .957 .497 .851 .539 .581 .602 .868 .734
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 163/.670 48/.399 33/.966 28/.519 54/.855 33/.844 31/.725 51/.430 19/.963 .708
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 174/.754 84/.890 38/.949 48/.485 74/.849 88/.426 55/.499 64/.730 26/.794 .755
Home 184/.700 75/.549 33/1.209 40/.500 80/.786 75/.650 47/.308 56/.649 16/.976
Last 28d days 104/.799 44/.661 23/.807 35/.348 54/.918 40/.539 39/.514 22/.644 15/.900
HR/SB/CS 9/2/1 3/2/3 1/2/0 1/1/0 6/2/0 2/1/0 0/0/2 2/2/0 3/2/0 67/38/15
Usage ····X··· X·o·X··· ·····X·o X··o··X· ·o·····X o··X··o· ····oX·· o···o··o ·····X·o
Twins Batters (4.12 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.97 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Arrieta
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 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 24/19 .091/.167/.182/.348 .200/.380 .143 24/.348 0/1 0/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP 2/2.000 3/.666 1/.000 5/1.900 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 5/.000 2/.000 297/204 .259/.340/.517/.857 .893/.841 .836 106/.887 5/2 13/2
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 2/2.000 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 189/123 .246/.271/.374/.646 .550/.697 .767 68/.695 2/2 3/4
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 57/39 .196/.268/.353/.621 .289/.762 .586 19/1.014 0/0 1/2
48.Hunter G/S/vP 10/.600 6/1.667 19/1.362 5/.400 1/2.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 254/169 .260/.319/.407/.726 .729/.724 .667 87/.581 1/2 8/3
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 6/.167 3/.000 15/.867 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 5/.400 ··· 280/182 .254/.329/.359/.687 .770/.641 .725 100/.653 1/1 3/3
9.Nunez G/S/vP 4/1.417 ··· 3/3.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 78/51 .306/.338/.514/.852 .607/.987 .728 49/.736 1/3 1/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 3/1.167 3/.666 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 5/.000 2/5.000 267/176 .249/.315/.444/.759 .771/.752 .859 99/.678 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 33/.629 3/1 0/0
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 127/92 .292/.317/.442/.759 .689/.785 1.013 84/.833 5/1 3/3
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 7/.929 1/2.000 16/.527 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 210/144 .233/.297/.317/.614 .658/.594 .621 76/.582 0/0 3/1
19.Vargas# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 147/97 .229/.265/.343/.608 .784/.518 .742 35/.457 0/0 4/0
IP 82.0 16.0 25.0 14.0 25.1 28.1 15.1 31.0 50.0 TOTAL .248/.302/.383/.685 .702/.677 .744 .676 28/20 51/40
ERA-K/9 3.40/9.8 1.13/13.5 2.52/6.8 2.57/5.8 3.20/6.0 2.54/7.6 2.35/4.1 2.90/9.9 4.68/9.4 3.57/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (8-4-0)
 Suzuki (30-11-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 331/.242 65/.193 105/.234 60/.208 107/.223 117/.250 66/.283 118/.146 213/.245 .245  Escobar
 Rosario
 Robinson
 Hunter
 Nunez
 Buxton
 Herrmann
27/0/0/4
19/0/16/4
28/14/3/3
0/0/49/1
2/0/0/1
0/7/0/0
0/0/2/0
OPS .666 .555 .592 .677 .625 .675 .715 .507 .731 .693
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 135/.665 16/.250 38/.483 27/.713 31/.751 52/.496 35/.601 43/.620 60/.633 .672
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 196/.665 49/.639 67/.647 33/.648 76/.575 65/.824 31/.838 75/.445 153/.768 .704
Road 152/.715 38/.615 63/.673 31/.469 53/.664 53/.836 31/.590 56/.472 118/.809
Last 28d days 101/.826 38/.596 51/.592 6/.000 32/.433 35/.410 30/.823 38/.513 44/.560
HR/SB/CS 8/11/5 1/1/0 0/4/1 1/2/1 2/1/1 2/5/1 1/1/1 2/1/0 10/0/0 63/54/16
Usage ····X··· o·o·o··X ·X··X·o· ···X···· o·····XX o·····o· o·o·X··o o·X····X ··X····o

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  5.49

MIN  4.12

PHI  3.01

 RA/G

STL  2.84

TEX  4.19

COL  5.06

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .358

J. Heyward  .271

S. Drew  .181

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .477

C. Carter  .325

O. Infante  .236

 SLG

B. Harper  .730

M. Holliday  .421

M. Cabrera  .274

 OPS

B. Harper  1.206

D. Murphy  .749

A. Ramirez  .538

 ERA

M. Scherzer  1.76

A. Warren  3.62

J. Williams  6.43

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.07

C. McHugh  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.