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Minnesota Twins vs. Chicago White Sox, at Target Field, June 23, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
79° (based on last ten years)
White Sox
Manager:
Robin Ventura
Game #:
74
On This Date:
59-48
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
72
On This Date:
54-57
Season Series
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 MIN  6 @CHW  0     
Sat, Apr 11, 2015 CHW  5  MIN  4     
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 CHW  6  MIN  2     
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 MIN 12  CHW  2     
Fri, May 01, 2015 MIN  1  CHW  0     
Sat, May 02, 2015 MIN  5  CHW  3     
Sun, May 03, 2015 MIN 13  CHW  3     
Fri, May 22, 2015 CHW  3  MIN  2     
Sat, May 23, 2015 MIN  4 @CHW  3     
Sun, May 24, 2015 MIN  8 @CHW  1     
Mon, Jun 22, 2015 MIN 13  CHW  2     

Tue, Jun 23, 2015 CHW    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, Jun 24, 2015 CHW    @MIN  1:10pm
Tue, Sep 01, 2015 CHW    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 02, 2015 CHW    @MIN  8:10pm
Thu, Sep 03, 2015 CHW    @MIN  1:10pm
Fri, Sep 11, 2015 MIN    @CHW  8:10pm
Sat, Sep 12, 2015 MIN    @CHW  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 13, 2015 MIN    @CHW  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Chicago White Sox
30-39, 5th, 11 GB, 7½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-15   Road:   12-24   ExtrInn: 5-2 
 vsRHP:  26-30   vsLHP:   4-9    1-Run:  13-12
 vsEast:  2-7    vsCntrl:13-22   vsWest: 11-4  IL: 4-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 69 Mon, Jun 22  @MIN  L   2-13      30-39  5th 11.0 gb
 68 Sun, Jun 21   TEX  W   3-2 (11)  30-38  5th 10.0 gb
 67 Sat, Jun 20   TEX  W   3-2       29-38  5th 11.0 gb
 66 Fri, Jun 19   TEX  L   1-2       28-38  5th 11.0 gb
 65 Thu, Jun 18   PIT  L   2-3       28-37  5th 11.0 gb
 64 Wed, Jun 17   PIT  L   2-3       28-36  5th 10.0 gb
 63 Tue, Jun 16  @PIT  L   0-3       28-35  5th  9.0 gb
 62 Mon, Jun 15  @PIT  L   0-11      28-34  5th  8.0 gb
 61 Sun, Jun 14  @TBR  L   1-2       28-33  5th  7.0 gb
 60 Sat, Jun 13  @TBR  L   4-5       28-32  5th  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19
Minnesota Twins
38-32, 2nd, 3½ GB, tied for WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-14   Road:   14-18   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  21-22   vsLHP:  17-10   1-Run:  13-9 
 vsEast:  9-4    vsCntrl:17-18   vsWest:  6-4  IL: 6-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 70 Mon, Jun 22   CHW  W  13-2       38-32  2nd  3.5 gb
 69 Sun, Jun 21   CHC  L   0-8       37-32  2nd  3.5 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Jun 22, 2015 MIN 13  CHW  2        W:Tommy Milone (4-1), L: John Danks (3-8), S: none
Sun, May 24, 2015 MIN  8 @CHW  1        W:Kyle Gibson (4-3), L: Jose Quintana (2-5), S: none
Sat, May 23, 2015 MIN  4 @CHW  3        W:Trevor May (3-3), L: Chris Sale (3-2), S: Glen Perkins (16)
Fri, May 22, 2015 CHW  3  MIN  2        W:Jeff Samardzija (4-2), L: Aaron Thompson (0-1), S: David Robertson (9)
Sun, May 03, 2015 MIN 13  CHW  3        W:Ryan Pressly (1-0), L: John Danks (1-3), S: none
Sat, May 02, 2015 MIN  5  CHW  3        W:Ricky Nolasco (1-1), L: Hector Noesi (0-3), S: Glen Perkins (8)
Fri, May 01, 2015 MIN  1  CHW  0        W:Kyle Gibson (2-2), L: Jose Quintana (1-2), S: Glen Perkins (7)
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 MIN 12  CHW  2        W:Trevor May (2-1), L: Chris Sale (2-1), S: none
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 CHW  6  MIN  2        W:Chris Sale (1-0), L: Phil Hughes (0-2), S: none
Sat, Apr 11, 2015 CHW  5  MIN  4        W:Zach Duke (1-0), L: Blaine Boyer (0-1), S: David Robertson (1)
Season Series: 2015 - MIN over 8-3; 2014 - MIN won 10-9; 2013 - MIN won 11-8; All-Time - CHW leads 1117-1034

SP: Jeff Samardzija (30, RHP, 4-4, 4.67)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-4) 94.1 110 53 49 16 77 11 4.67
2014 (7-13) 219.2 191 86 73 43 202 20 2.99
2013 (8-13) 213.2 210 109 103 78 214 25 4.34
Last 7 GS 2-2 49.1 57 26 25 8 42 5 4.56 51
2015-06-18 PIT ND 7.0 10 2 2 0 7 0 114 56
2015-06-13 @TBR ND 7.0 6 3 3 1 7 0 96 59
2015-06-07 DET L 7.1 10 6 6 1 5 2 102 38
2015-06-02 @TEX L 5.0 12 9 9 1 4 2 95 10
2015-05-27 @TOR ND 7.0 8 1 0 1 5 0 114 63
2015-05-22 MIN W 8.0 3 2 2 1 9 0 118 76
2015-05-17 @OAK W 8.0 8 3 3 3 5 1 120 56
Last 5 v.MIN 2-1 24.2 27 16 16 4 21 0 5.84 48
2015-05-22 MIN W 8.0 3 2 2 1 9 0 118 76
2015-04-11 MIN ND 7.0 8 4 4 0 6 0 113 51
2014-08-09 MIN W 6.0 7 2 2 2 5 0 109 53
2012-06-09 @MIN L 3.2 9 8 8 1 1 0 78 11

SP: Mike Pelfrey (31, RHP, 5-3, 2.97)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (5-3) 78.2 78 28 26 23 37 5 2.97
2014 (0-3) 23.2 29 23 21 18 10 5 7.99
2013 (5-13) 152.2 184 92 88 53 101 13 5.19
Last 7 GS 2-3 44.1 49 17 16 10 21 3 3.25 52
2015-06-18 STL ND 8.0 4 1 1 1 3 1 103 72
2015-06-13 @TEX L 3.2 11 8 8 3 0 1 65 4
2015-06-07 MIL W 8.0 8 0 0 1 7 0 105 72
2015-06-02 @BOS L 7.0 6 1 1 2 1 0 99 60
2015-05-26 BOS W 7.0 5 1 1 1 4 0 100 66
2015-05-20 @PIT ND 6.0 5 1 1 0 5 0 92 63
2015-05-14 @DET L 4.2 10 5 4 2 1 1 95 25
Last 5 v.CHW 0-2 24.0 32 17 16 10 15 3 6.00 41
2015-05-03 CHW ND 3.1 5 2 2 2 1 0 61 41
2015-04-11 @CHW ND 5.0 7 4 4 1 2 2 80 38
2013-09-17 @CHW L 4.1 9 3 3 1 6 0 96 38
2013-08-15 CHW ND 6.1 7 3 3 1 4 0 88 50
2013-08-10 @CHW L 5.0 4 5 4 5 2 1 98 38

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

White Sox Batters (3.39 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Pelfrey
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
79.Abreu G/S/vP 5/.200 3/.000 2/.000 4/.500 2/1.000 9/1.667 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 275/218 .290/.342/.490/.832 .739/.856 .813 95/.864 0/0 12/6
15.Beckham G/S/vP 12/.900 1/5.000 27/.491 10/.200 2/.500 22/.912 7/.143 2/.500 ··· 146/94 .223/.288/.354/.642 .489/.725 .673 78/.580 0/1 4/4
64.Bonifacio# G/S/vP 17/.544 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 71/40 .162/.186/.176/.362 .367/.358 .306 24/.125 0/3 0/3
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 26/.598 2/1.000 19/.684 2/1.000 1/.000 12/.834 1/.000 4/.500 1/.000 292/221 .248/.289/.289/.578 .397/.635 .582 105/.599 0/0 1/4
1.Eaton* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/1.500 7/.572 2/.500 4/2.250 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 282/207 .238/.309/.344/.652 .449/.729 .670 110/.700 5/3 3/3
21.Flowers G/S/vP 2/1.500 1/2.000 8/1.292 8/.583 ··· 9/.347 4/.500 ··· 2/.500 153/125 .204/.261/.331/.592 .646/.581 .625 54/.611 0/0 4/0
26.Garcia G/S/vP 11/1.181 2/1.000 3/.666 3/.666 1/2.000 9/.111 2/.500 2/2.000 3/.666 241/193 .272/.324/.397/.721 .801/.700 .766 85/.533 2/5 7/1
12.Gillaspie* G/S/vP 13/.846 1/3.000 7/.572 4/1.250 2/1.000 4/.250 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 151/145 .248/.285/.390/.675 .733/.672 .597 43/.654 0/1 3/8
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 21/1.762 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.666 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 259/201 .226/.336/.376/.711 .531/.768 .793 97/.735 0/0 8/0
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 19/.806 2/1.000 27/.795 18/.478 4/1.250 34/.803 7/.715 1/.000 3/2.000 269/216 .227/.249/.298/.547 .594/.536 .496 101/.426 8/2 2/8
5.Sanchez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 117/90 .159/.209/.196/.405 .302/.437 .442 78/.373 0/1 0/1
20.Shuck* G/S/vP 5/.400 2/2.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 3/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 79/71 .265/.338/.294/.632 .375/.651 .549 34/.674 4/2 0/0
58.Soto G/S/vP 10/1.389 4/1.750 3/1.334 1/no AB 3/.000 2/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 105/77 .216/.276/.392/.668 .857/.599 .563 48/.854 0/0 4/4
IP 78.2 33.2 15.1 20.1 31.2 30.1 22.2 28.0 11.0 TOTAL .238/.294/.346/.639 .554/.664 .632 .610 22/20 48/49
ERA-K/9 2.97/4.2 2.41/4.0 8.22/5.3 2.21/6.2 3.41/6.2 1.48/8.3 2.78/7.5 5.14/4.8 5.73/8.2 3.82/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Flowers (31-9-5)
 Soto (16-4-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 326/.265 136/.248 74/.328 76/.203 135/.287 121/.222 93/.220 119/.252 51/.295 .270  Garcia
 Eaton
 Cabrera
 Shuck
 Bonifacio
0/0/60/9
0/64/0/5
68/0/0/3
4/6/14/3
2/3/0/0
OPS .696 .704 .914 .497 .843 .539 .557 .656 .941 .738
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 146/.708 51/.398 35/.905 28/.519 57/.835 33/.844 35/.637 53/.519 22/1.164 .713
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 180/.685 85/.879 39/.921 48/.485 78/.849 88/.426 58/.509 66/.761 29/.754 .757
Home 148/.556 79/.537 36/1.095 40/.500 87/.777 75/.650 54/.305 60/.752 22/1.121
Last 28d days 107/.756 40/.626 26/.700 35/.348 61/.894 35/.560 46/.478 25/.952 21/1.076
HR/SB/CS 5/5/1 3/2/3 1/2/0 1/1/0 6/2/0 2/1/0 0/0/2 2/2/0 4/2/0 69/38/15
Usage ····X··· o·X·o·X· ·o·····X ··X··o·· X··o···· ··o··X·· ·X····oX ·oo···o· ·X·····X
Twins Batters (4.19 RS/G) vs. White Sox Pitchers (4.54 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 29.Samardzija
G/S/vB		 67.Carroll
G/S/vB		 33.Duke*
G/S/vB		 63.Guerra
G/S/vB		 52.Petricka
G/S/vB		 57.Putnam
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 40.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Buxton G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/24 .200/.250/.300/.550 .536/.554 .523 32/.550 1/1 0/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP 13/.725 14/.895 2/2.000 1/5.000 7/.858 4/.833 5/1.400 5/.933 306/210 .261/.340/.522/.862 .885/.852 .847 106/.918 6/2 14/2
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 9/.873 9/.333 2/.000 ··· 3/1.000 3/.000 2/.000 3/.333 192/126 .242/.267/.368/.635 .550/.680 .744 64/.643 2/2 3/4
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP 3/1.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 61/43 .182/.250/.327/.577 .289/.687 .522 23/.818 0/0 1/2
48.Hunter G/S/vP 3/.666 10/.800 2/.000 ··· 5/.650 5/1.100 10/.200 5/.200 261/173 .262/.322/.409/.731 .719/.737 .679 85/.593 1/2 8/3
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 8/.625 8/.708 6/.334 ··· 4/1.750 ··· 10/.650 1/.000 287/186 .256/.331/.374/.705 .799/.651 .757 98/.707 1/1 4/3
9.Nunez G/S/vP 1/no AB 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 3/1.333 85/56 .304/.333/.532/.865 .741/.931 .771 52/.733 1/3 2/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 11/.773 12/1.084 4/.833 1/.000 4/1.000 2/.000 7/.000 7/1.262 276/182 .244/.308/.436/.744 .779/.726 .826 99/.584 0/0 9/5
21.Robinson G/S/vP 8/.929 3/.000 7/.453 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 110/55 .248/.294/.317/.610 .574/.643 .593 34/.609 3/1 0/0
20.Rosario* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 135/97 .281/.306/.422/.728 .687/.743 .931 85/.774 5/1 3/3
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 8/.536 7/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.500 1/2.000 8/1.357 6/.833 214/145 .229/.291/.313/.604 .632/.589 .600 72/.519 0/0 3/1
19.Vargas# G/S/vP 6/.533 8/.750 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 152/99 .248/.283/.379/.662 .915/.528 .826 40/.675 0/0 5/0
IP 94.1 19.0 28.2 4.0 21.2 23.2 30.2 8.2 TOTAL .249/.302/.387/.689 .718/.674 .747 .672 30/20 55/40
ERA-K/9 4.67/7.3 3.79/3.8 3.45/8.8 6.75/6.8 3.74/6.2 3.42/13.7 2.35/12.3 0.00/10.3 4.18/8.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 405/.292 87/.312 118/.252 18/.412 95/.318 101/.221 120/.184 37/.265 .270  Escobar
 Rosario
 Robinson
 Buxton
 Hunter
 Nunez
 Herrmann
27/0/0/4
21/0/16/4
28/14/4/3
0/9/0/2
0/0/51/1
2/0/0/1
0/0/2/0
OPS .779 .838 .779 1.033 .788 .649 .523 .618 .749
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 191/.825 40/.792 37/.794 4/1.000 32/.848 44/.720 53/.449 9/1.181 .714
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 214/.740 47/.879 81/.772 14/1.044 63/.758 57/.592 67/.578 28/.442 .767
Road 233/.860 48/.754 61/1.004 18/1.033 39/.962 39/.895 41/.845 32/.654
Last 28d days 146/.859 10/1.056 42/.847 18/1.033 32/.744 35/.487 48/.500 37/.618
HR/SB/CS 11/8/2 1/4/0 5/2/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 3/4/1 3/2/0 0/2/0 66/47/13
Usage ····X··· X······· ·oo·ooX· X······o ·o··o··· ·oo·X··· ·ooX·X·· ······Xo

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  5.57

SDP  4.18

PHI  3.21

 RA/G

STL  2.93

TEX  4.17

COL  5.04

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .356

J. Martinez  .271

C. Utley  .179

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .474

S. Smith  .327

O. Infante  .237

 SLG

B. Harper  .735

D. Gordon  .425

C. Utley  .275

 OPS

B. Harper  1.208

C. Beltran  .748

C. Utley  .532

 ERA

M. Scherzer  1.76

J. Shields  3.75

K. Lohse  6.30

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.07

J. Samardzija  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.