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Seattle Mariners vs. Texas Rangers, at Safeco Field, August 8, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Start Time:
1:10pt (local), 4:10et
Venue:
Safeco Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
73° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
109
On This Date:
21-35
Mariners
Manager:
Lloyd McClendon
Game #:
111
On This Date:
18-18
Season Series
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 TEX  3 @SEA  1     
Sat, Apr 18, 2015 SEA  3  TEX  1     
Sun, Apr 19, 2015 SEA 11  TEX 10     
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 SEA  3 @TEX  1     
Tue, Apr 28, 2015 SEA  2 @TEX  1     
Wed, Apr 29, 2015 SEA  5 @TEX  2     
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 SEA  4  TEX  3     

Sat, Aug 08, 2015 TEX    @SEA  4:10pm
Sun, Aug 09, 2015 TEX    @SEA  4:10pm
Mon, Aug 17, 2015 SEA    @TEX  8:05pm
Tue, Aug 18, 2015 SEA    @TEX  8:05pm
Wed, Aug 19, 2015 SEA    @TEX  2:05pm
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 TEX    @SEA  6:40pm
Tue, Sep 08, 2015 TEX    @SEA 10:10pm
Wed, Sep 09, 2015 TEX    @SEA 10:10pm
Thu, Sep 10, 2015 TEX    @SEA  3:40pm
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 SEA    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 SEA    @TEX  8:05pm
Sun, Sep 20, 2015 SEA    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
54-54, 3rd, 5½ GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-29   Road:   31-25   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  35-31   vsLHP:  19-23   1-Run:  20-17
 vsEast: 16-9    vsCntrl:12-10   vsWest: 17-27 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
108 Fri, Aug  7  @SEA  L   3-4       54-54  3rd  5.5 gb
107 Wed, Aug  5   HOU  W   4-3       54-53  3rd  5.0 gb
106 Tue, Aug  4   HOU  W   4-3       53-53  3rd  6.0 gb
105 Mon, Aug  3   HOU  W  12-9       52-53  3rd  7.0 gb
104 Sun, Aug  2   SFG  W   2-1       51-53  3rd  8.0 gb
103 Sat, Aug  1   SFG  L   7-9 (11)  50-53  3rd  8.0 gb
102 Fri, Jul 31   SFG  W   6-3       50-52  3rd  7.0 gb
101 Thu, Jul 30   NYY  W   7-6       49-52  3rd  8.0 gb
100 Wed, Jul 29   NYY  W   5-2       48-52  3rd  8.0 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 28   NYY  L   5-21      47-52  3rd  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:14-16
Seattle Mariners
51-59, 4th, 9½ GB, 8 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-31   Road:   28-28   ExtrInn: 8-8 
 vsRHP:  38-43   vsLHP:  13-16   1-Run:  22-19
 vsEast: 12-14   vsCntrl:10-14   vsWest: 22-21 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Fri, Aug  7   TEX  W   4-3       51-59  4th  9.5 gb
109 Wed, Aug  5  @COL  L   5-7 (11)  50-59  4th 10.0 gb
108 Tue, Aug  4  @COL  W  10-4       50-58  4th 10.0 gb
107 Mon, Aug  3  @COL  W   8-7       49-58  4th 11.0 gb
106 Sun, Aug  2  @MIN  W   4-1 (11)  48-58  4th 12.0 gb
105 Sat, Aug  1  @MIN  L   2-3       47-58  4th 12.0 gb
104 Fri, Jul 31  @MIN  W   6-1       47-57  4th 11.0 gb
103 Thu, Jul 30  @MIN  L   5-9       46-57  4th 12.0 gb
102 Wed, Jul 29   ARI  L   2-8       46-56  4th 11.0 gb
101 Tue, Jul 28   ARI  L   4-8       46-55  4th 10.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 SEA  4  TEX  3        W:Hisashi Iwakuma (3-2), L: Cole Hamels (6-8), S: Carson Smith (11)
Wed, Apr 29, 2015 SEA  5 @TEX  2        W:Felix Hernandez (4-0), L: Wandy Rodriguez (0-1), S: Fernando Rodney (7)
Tue, Apr 28, 2015 SEA  2 @TEX  1        W:J.A. Happ (2-1), L: Ross Detwiler (0-3), S: Fernando Rodney (6)
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 SEA  3 @TEX  1        W:Taijuan Walker (1-2), L: Yovani Gallardo (2-3), S: Fernando Rodney (5)
Sun, Apr 19, 2015 SEA 11  TEX 10        W:Yoervis Medina (1-0), L: Neftali Feliz (0-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 18, 2015 SEA  3  TEX  1        W:Felix Hernandez (2-0), L: Colby Lewis (1-1), S: Fernando Rodney (3)
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 TEX  3 @SEA  1        W:Yovani Gallardo (2-1), L: J.A. Happ (0-1), S: Neftali Feliz (2)

Sun, Sep 07, 2014 TEX  1  SEA  0        W:Derek Holland (1-0), L: James Paxton (5-2), S: Neftali Feliz (8)
Sat, Sep 06, 2014 SEA  4 @TEX  2        W:Danny Farquhar (2-1), L: Neal Cotts (2-9), S: Fernando Rodney (43)
Fri, Sep 05, 2014 SEA  7 @TEX  5        W:Hisashi Iwakuma (14-6), L: Scott Baker (3-4), S: Fernando Rodney (42)
Season Series: 2015 - SEA over 6-1; 2014 - TEX won 10-9; 2013 - TEX won 12-7; All-Time - TEX leads 297-289

SP: Martin Perez (24, LHP, 1-2, 6.64)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-2) 20.1 24 16 15 6 11 0 6.64
2014 (4-3) 51.1 50 25 25 19 35 3 4.38
2013 (10-6) 124.1 129 55 50 37 84 15 3.62
Last 7 GS 1-5 33.2 48 35 34 16 23 3 9.09 34
2015-08-02 SFG W 8.1 2 1 1 0 6 0 80 81
2015-07-28 NYY L 1.0 7 8 8 0 1 0 45 8
2015-07-22 @COL ND 6.0 6 4 3 4 2 0 94 44
2015-07-17 @HOU L 5.0 9 3 3 2 2 0 86 37
2014-05-10 BOS L 3.2 9 6 6 4 4 1 86 19
2014-05-05 @COL L 5.0 7 5 5 3 5 2 95 35
2014-04-29 OAK L 4.2 8 8 8 3 3 0 87 16
Last 5 v.SEA 2-1 22.1 27 10 8 7 15 3 3.22 49
2013-08-28 @SEA W 6.0 5 2 2 2 3 2 100 55
2013-08-17 SEA W 7.0 8 3 3 1 5 1 97 53
2013-07-04 SEA ND 5.1 8 1 0 2 4 0 87 52
2012-09-21 @SEA L 4.0 6 4 3 2 3 0 81 37

SP: Mike Montgomery (25, LHP, 4-4, 3.07)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-4) 76.1 64 29 26 27 56 8 3.07
Last 7 GS 2-2 41.0 37 21 18 19 34 7 3.95 52
2015-08-01 @MIN ND 6.0 4 1 1 2 6 0 91 64
2015-07-27 ARI ND 6.2 5 3 2 4 5 2 116 55
2015-07-22 @DET L 2.2 6 8 6 5 2 1 76 15
2015-07-17 @NYY ND 6.0 7 3 3 3 9 1 104 52
2015-07-10 LAA L 5.0 8 5 5 0 3 2 95 34
2015-07-05 @OAK W 5.2 6 1 1 1 2 1 82 54
2015-06-30 @SDP W 9.0 1 0 0 4 7 0 113 88
Has never faced TEX as starter.

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Rangers Batters (4.44 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (4.22 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Montgomery*
G/S/vB		 97.Beimel*
G/S/vB		 53.Guaipe
G/S/vB		 38.Nuno*
G/S/vB		 50.Rasmussen*
G/S/vB		 56.Rodney
G/S/vB		 59.Rollins*
G/S/vB		 39.Smith
G/S/vB		 54.Wilhelmsen
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· 1/.000 15/.897 ··· 1/.000 11/.273 448/290 .256/.306/.340/.646 .702/.614 .573 90/.781 11/5 4/18
29.Beltre G/S/vP ··· 6/1.700 ··· ··· ··· 15/.343 ··· 1/.000 9/.778 384/256 .264/.307/.407/.715 .746/.699 .678 91/.837 1/0 9/8
17.Choo* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 17/.882 ··· 1/.000 7/.629 411/265 .239/.322/.425/.747 .575/.842 .678 67/1.008 2/1 14/3
7.DeShields G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 275/181 .261/.358/.380/.738 .733/.741 .676 86/.730 18/3 0/3
84.Fielder* G/S/vP ··· 16/.876 ··· ··· ··· 8/.500 ··· ··· 7/.629 463/282 .324/.391/.494/.885 .781/.952 .921 90/.677 0/0 16/4
38.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 13/7 .333/.333/.667/1.000 1.000/1.000 13/1.000 2/0 1/0
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 12/1.000 ··· 1/.000 10/1.000 131/86 .252/.298/.431/.729 .671/.758 .601 77/.705 0/0 5/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB ··· ··· 1/2.000 10/1.100 ··· 2/2.000 11/.473 336/233 .290/.342/.505/.847 .672/.924 .913 67/.735 1/0 16/3
12.Odor* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· 278/180 .272/.332/.460/.792 .779/.799 .878 89/.959 5/4 8/12
9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 123/48 .232/.301/.348/.649 .617/.699 .632 18/.556 4/4 3/3
16.Rua G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 83/33 .200/.229/.413/.641 .698/.556 .655 27/.776 0/0 4/0
20.Strausborger G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ 3/.000 0/0 0/0
8.Wilson G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 70/50 .197/.243/.227/.470 .311/.531 .542 11/1.091 0/0 0/1
IP 76.1 36.0 6.1 39.1 3.2 45.1 10.2 44.2 36.2 TOTAL .254/.318/.408/.726 .687/.748 .704 .775 66/22 112/82
ERA-K/9 3.07/6.6 2.50/4.8 9.95/8.6 2.52/9.4 2.45/7.3 5.56/7.5 9.28/7.6 2.82/11.7 4.17/9.3 3.96/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gimenez (7-0-0)
 Wilson (17-6-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 318/.223 140/.244 30/.407 159/.231 13/.154 200/.256 54/.383 180/.190 168/.290 .249  DeShields
 Choo
 Hamilton
 Strausborger
 Rosales
 Rua
35/38/0/4
0/0/95/2
25/0/10/1
0/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
21/0/4/0
OPS .659 .638 1.100 .658 .308 .829 1.006 .555 .806 .714
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/.652 59/.578 13/.801 42/.404 8/.500 90/.941 12/1.556 74/.574 68/1.114 .723
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 244/.660 81/.682 17/1.337 117/.747 5/.000 110/.740 42/.864 106/.542 100/.604 .708
Home 168/.612 75/.597 18/.722 80/.722 4/.500 83/.812 33/1.210 92/.363 66/.813
Last 28d days 101/.837 33/.648 12/1.583 54/.725 9/.222 44/.751 36/1.078 45/.805 53/.755
HR/SB/CS 8/0/1 3/0/4 2/0/1 5/2/0 0/0/0 8/1/2 2/2/0 2/3/1 2/2/0 121/42/27
Usage ······X· o·oXo··· ··XX···· ···X···· ··oXo··· ··Xo·oX· ········ o·o·XoX· o···Xoo·
Mariners Batters (3.75 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Perez*
G/S/vB		 63.Bass
G/S/vB		 41.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 47.Dyson
G/S/vB		 71.Freeman*
G/S/vB		 44.Patton
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Cano* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 4/.750 450/319 .268/.313/.423/.737 .603/.793 .763 85/1.070 2/4 12/5
23.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.750 462/352 .323/.387/.600/.988 1.214/.920 .854 103/1.201 3/2 32/3
30.Gutierrez G/S/vP 5/1.150 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 72/26 .299/.333/.552/.886 .883/.891 .830 39/.998 0/0 4/0
16.Jackson G/S/vP 4/.500 3/1.334 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 5/.400 365/265 .254/.298/.357/.655 .761/.615 .737 99/.686 13/9 6/3
4.Marte# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 28/17 .217/.357/.217/.575 .384/.697 .833 28/.575 0/0 0/0
5.Miller* G/S/vP 7/1.000 4/.750 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 3/.000 363/286 .245/.321/.399/.721 .422/.804 .830 73/.678 11/1 9/12
63.Montero G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 35/13 .344/.400/.563/.963 .935/1.000 .748 29/1.043 0/0 1/0
20.Morrison* G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 3/.000 391/280 .222/.299/.368/.667 .467/.749 .623 48/.466 6/2 12/1
15.Seager* G/S/vP 14/1.286 4/.833 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/2.417 456/327 .269/.327/.441/.768 .837/.739 .730 104/.811 4/3 16/12
7.Smith* G/S/vP ··· 8/.125 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 321/294 .254/.331/.452/.784 .828/.779 .854 59/.719 0/0 9/1
2.Sucre G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 47/39 .071/.071/.167/.238 .500/.194 .435 18/.500 0/0 1/0
35.Trumbo G/S/vP 6/.733 3/1.667 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 364/253 .253/.294/.433/.727 .811/.690 .782 74/.745 0/0 13/3
3.Zunino G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 342/255 .174/.231/.305/.537 .570/.526 .535 69/.588 0/1 10/4
IP 20.1 51.2 40.2 47.2 27.2 21.0 48.1 TOTAL .243/.304/.398/.702 .708/.700 .712 .791 49/29 126/59
ERA-K/9 6.64/4.9 4.35/6.6 4.65/11.1 3.59/8.1 2.93/8.4 6.86/10.3 2.98/9.5 4.54/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Sucre (3-6-2)
 Zunino (36-21-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 90/.293 218/.270 189/.255 207/.258 122/.218 89/.231 195/.232 .265  Cruz
 Trumbo
 Smith
 Jackson
 Gutierrez
 Marte
 Miller
0/0/64/5
5/0/60/4
47/0/33/3
0/86/0/2
16/0/4/1
0/1/0/0
5/1/2/0
OPS .739 .756 .738 .685 .651 .787 .655 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 25/.345 97/.756 75/.774 87/.601 68/.842 34/.847 115/.740 .765
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 65/.883 121/.755 114/.713 120/.747 54/.428 55/.751 80/.531 .757
Road 50/.852 88/.834 87/.811 75/.733 50/.470 46/.722 94/.570
Last 28d days 90/.739 17/.750 28/.522 35/1.131 44/.636 48/.693 40/.491
HR/SB/CS 0/1/0 5/1/1 3/3/1 4/7/1 2/3/1 4/0/1 6/1/0 123/60/17
Usage ·····X·· ········ ··Xo·ooX ··X·ooX· o·XXo·o· X·XoX··· ···Xo·oX

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  5.31

PIT  4.12

MIA  3.58

 RA/G

STL  2.88

SEA  4.22

COL  5.21

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .336

Y. Solarte  .267

M. Zunino  .174

 OBP

B. Harper  .463

K. Seager  .327

M. Zunino  .231

 SLG

B. Harper  .663

O. Herrera  .421

B. Hamilton  .282

 OPS

B. Harper  1.126

S. Choo  .747

M. Zunino  .537

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.71

K. Hendricks  3.67

K. Kendrick  6.43

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.71

J. Teheran  7.57

M. Pelfrey  4.28

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.