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Tampa Bay Rays vs. New York Yankees, at Tropicana Field, April 17, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Friday, April 17, 2015

Start Time:

7:10et (local)

Venue:

Tropicana Field

Tickets:

Tickets for games at Tropicana Field

Series:

Game #1 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

° (based on last ten years)

Yankees

Manager:

Joe Girardi

Game #:

On This Date:

46-34

Rays

Manager:

Kevin Cash

Game #:

On This Date:

5-10

Season Series

Fri, Apr 17, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm
Sat, Apr 18, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm
Sun, Apr 19, 2015 NYY    @TBR  1:10pm
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 TBR    @NYY  7:05pm
Tue, Apr 28, 2015 TBR    @NYY  7:05pm
Wed, Apr 29, 2015 TBR    @NYY  1:05pm
Mon, May 11, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm
Tue, May 12, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm
Wed, May 13, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm
Thu, May 14, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm
Fri, Jul 03, 2015 TBR    @NYY  7:05pm
Sat, Jul 04, 2015 TBR    @NYY  1:05pm
Sun, Jul 05, 2015 TBR    @NYY  1:05pm
Fri, Sep 04, 2015 TBR    @NYY  7:05pm
Sat, Sep 05, 2015 TBR    @NYY  1:05pm
Sun, Sep 06, 2015 TBR    @NYY  1:05pm
Mon, Sep 14, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm
Wed, Sep 16, 2015 NYY    @TBR  7:10pm

                         All times ET

New York Yankees

3-6, 5th, 3 GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:    2-4    Road:    1-2    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   2-4    vsLHP:   1-2    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast:  3-6    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Wed, Apr 15  @BAL  L   5-7        3-6   5th  3.0 gb
  8 Tue, Apr 14  @BAL  L   3-4        3-5   5th  3.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 13  @BAL  W   6-5        3-4   4th  2.0 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 12   BOS  W  14-4        2-4   5th  2.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr 11   BOS  L   4-8        1-4   5th  3.0 gb
  4 Fri, Apr 10   BOS  L   5-6 (19)   1-3   4th  2.0 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  9   TOR  L   3-6        1-2   4th  1.0 gb
  2 Wed, Apr  8   TOR  W   4-3        1-1   2nd  0.5 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  6   TOR  L   1-6        0-1   4th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-6    Last 20: 3-6    Last 30: 3-6

Tampa Bay Rays

6-4, 2nd, ½ GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:    1-2    Road:    5-2    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   5-2    vsLHP:   1-2    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast:  4-3    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Thu, Apr 16  @TOR  W   4-2        6-4   2nd  0.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr 15  @TOR  L   7-12       5-4   2nd  1.0 gb
  8 Tue, Apr 14  @TOR  W   3-2        5-3   2nd  1.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 13  @TOR  W   2-1        4-3   2nd  1.0 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 12  @MIA  W   8-5        3-3   3rd  1.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr 11  @MIA  W   2-0        2-3   4th  2.0 gb
  4 Fri, Apr 10  @MIA  L   9-10(10)   1-3   4th  2.0 gb
  3 Wed, Apr  8   BAL  W   2-0        1-2   5th  1.0 gb
  2 Tue, Apr  7   BAL  L   5-6        0-2   5th  2.0 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  6   BAL  L   2-6        0-1   4th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 6-4    Last 30: 6-4

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Sep 17, 2014 NYY  3 @TBR  2        W:Brandon McCarthy (10-14), L: Alex Cobb (9-8), S: David Robertson (37)
Tue, Sep 16, 2014 TBR  6  NYY  1        W:Jake Odorizzi (11-12), L: Michael Pineda (3-5), S: none
Mon, Sep 15, 2014 TBR  1  NYY  0        W:Joel Peralta (3-4), L: Shawn Kelley (3-6), S: none
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 NYY  5  TBR  4        W:Shawn Kelley (3-5), L: Jake McGee (4-2), S: none
Wed, Sep 10, 2014 NYY  8  TBR  5        W:Preston Claiborne (3-0), L: Jake Odorizzi (10-12), S: none
Tue, Sep 09, 2014 TBR  4 @NYY  3        W:Chris Archer (9-8), L: Hiroki Kuroda (10-9), S: Jake McGee (17)
Sun, Aug 17, 2014 NYY  4 @TBR  2        W:Hiroki Kuroda (8-8), L: Jeremy Hellickson (1-2), S: David Robertson (33)
Sat, Aug 16, 2014 NYY  3 @TBR  2        W:Dellin Betances (5-0), L: Jake McGee (3-1), S: David Robertson (32)
Fri, Aug 15, 2014 TBR  5  NYY  0        W:Alex Cobb (8-6), L: Brandon McCarthy (7-12), S: none
Wed, Jul 02, 2014 TBR  6 @NYY  3        W:Jake Odorizzi (4-7), L: Vidal Nuno (2-5), S: Brad Boxberger (1)
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 - TBR won 11-8; 2013 - TBR won 12-7; All-Time - NYY leads 173-121

SP: Adam Warren (27, RHP, 0-1, 1.69)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (0-1)			5.1	5	2	1	2	1	0	1.69
2014 (3-6)			78.2	63	27	26	24	76	4	2.97
2013 (3-2)			77.0	80	29	29	30	64	10	3.39

Last 7 GS		1-1	15.2	19	10	9	7	10	3	5.17	45
2015-04-11	BOS	L	5.1	5	2	1	2	1	0	98	51
2013-09-27	@HOU	W	5.0	2	0	0	1	4	0	64	66
2013-08-21	TOR	ND	3.0	4	2	2	2	4	1	61	45
2012-06-29	CHW	ND	2.1	8	6	6	2	1	2	77	16

Has never faced TBR as starter.

SP: Nate Karns (27, RHP, 1-1, 4.97)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (1-1)			12.2	7	8	7	6	10	1	4.97
2014 (1-1)			12.0	7	6	6	4	13	3	4.50
2013 (0-1)			12.0	17	11	10	6	11	5	7.50

Last 7 GS		2-3	36.2	31	25	23	16	34	9	5.65	48
2015-04-12	@MIA	W	7.0	2	2	1	2	6	0	106	71
2015-04-07	BAL	L	5.2	5	6	6	4	4	1	95	35
2014-09-21	CHW	L	5.0	5	6	6	2	5	3	91	36
2014-09-12	@TOR	W	7.0	2	0	0	2	8	0	114	79
2013-06-09	MIN	ND	3.0	5	4	4	3	2	1	74	32
2013-06-02	@ATL	L	4.2	7	4	3	1	6	2	88	41
2013-05-28	BAL	ND	4.1	5	3	3	2	3	2	85	42

Has never faced NYY as starter.

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2015 season. Player Stats for the 2014 season. We will switch to 2015 stats on May 1st.

Yankees Batters (5.00 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 51.Karns
G/S/vB 50.Balfour
G/S/vB 38.Beliveau*
G/S/vB 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB 43.Frieri
G/S/vB 54.Geltz
G/S/vB 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB 30.Ramirez
G/S/vB 49.Yates
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

36.Beltran# G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 449/296 .233/.301/.402/.703 .564/.777 .627 38/.496 3/1 15/3

14.Drew* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 4/.000 2/.000 5/.400 ··· 2/1.000 6/.167 ··· 300/233 .162/.237/.299/.536 .371/.584 .490 30/.570 1/1 7/7

22.Ellsbury* G/S/vP ··· 11/.606 2/.000 4/.000 6/.167 1/.000 4/1.000 3/3.500 1/.000 635/438 .271/.328/.419/.747 .828/.711 .683 40/.689 39/5 16/1

11.Gardner* G/S/vP ··· 7/.334 1/.000 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 636/447 .256/.327/.422/.749 .687/.775 .743 29/.828 21/5 17/2

18.Gregorius* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 299/241 .226/.290/.363/.653 .424/.706 .652 32/.391 3/0 6/6

12.Headley# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 6/.000 ··· 531/393 .243/.328/.372/.700 .721/.693 .659 38/.689 7/3 13/9

33.Jones* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 2/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 547/474 .246/.309/.411/.720 .539/.749 .712 14/.445 0/1 15/13

34.McCann* G/S/vP 2/.000 7/.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 538/393 .232/.286/.406/.692 .850/.633 .591 29/.601 0/0 23/3

66.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 85/46 .284/.318/.370/.688 .686/.690 .588 12/.917 0/0 1/1

31.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 100/70 .278/.300/.423/.723 1.124/.551 .902 12/.432 0/1 2/2

13.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 15/.354 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 9/.111 ··· ··· / /// / 33/.965 / /

25.Teixeira# G/S/vP ··· 19/1.052 ··· 2/.000 3/1.666 1/.000 5/.650 ··· ··· 508/364 .216/.313/.398/.711 .691/.718 .721 36/1.016 1/1 22/6

24.Young G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 10/.422 1/.000 2/3.000 2/1.000 2/1.500 366/273 .222/.299/.385/.683 .561/.720 .698 24/1.102 8/3 11/2

IP 12.0 62.1 24.0 64.2 41.2 8.1 65.0 75.1 36.0 TOTAL .227/.303/.404/.707 .716/.701 .673 .707 3/4 13/11

ERA-K/9

4.50/9.8

4.91/8.2

2.63/10.5

2.37/14.5

7.34/10.4

3.24/15.2

2.63/10.4

5.26/7.2

3.75/10.5

4.03/7.8

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
McCann (49-29-10)
Murphy (10-2-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 49/.163 270/.217 100/.213 247/.155 184/.280 37/.200 260/.192 338/.277 156/.241 .207 Young
Gardner
Ellsbury
Beltran
Jones 73/27/7/6
126/25/1/5
0/141/0/3
0/0/32/2
0/0/9/0

OPS .661 .688 .552 .538 .884 .851 .547 .815 .699 .635

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 22/.384 142/.716 47/.483 118/.399 115/.879 11/.582 126/.628 197/.790 46/.824 .744

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 27/.859 128/.657 53/.612 129/.665 69/.894 26/.973 134/.470 141/.848 110/.650 .566

Home 23/1.048 144/.637 50/.457 122/.531 97/.793 20/.683 137/.591 155/.788 88/.736

Last 28d days 51/.584 14/.445 15/1.252 22/.634 19/1.171 23/.462 17/.184 37/1.268 20/.950

HR/SB/CS 3/1/0 3/5/0 1/3/0 9/4/2 11/0/0 3/0/1 4/4/1 13/6/2 4/2/1 8/3/2

Usage ····X··· ·oo···o· ·X··o·o· X··X·Xo· ·o··o·X· o·X···X· o·o··o·· ·X····X· ··X·o·X·

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2015 season. Player Stats for the 2014 season. We will switch to 2015 stats on May 1st.

Rays Batters (4.40 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (5.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 43.Warren
G/S/vB 68.Betances
G/S/vB 29.Carpenter
G/S/vB 57.Martin
G/S/vB 48.Miller*
G/S/vB 53.Rogers
G/S/vB 45.Shreve*
G/S/vB 41.Wilson*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 25/.972 / /

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 6/.533 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 616/432 .241/.307/.387/.694 .689/.696 .715 44/.489 10/2 14/15

7.DeJesus* G/S/vP 2/.000 4/.250 ··· ··· 5/1.600 4/1.250 ··· 3/.666 273/264 .248/.344/.403/.748 .476/.756 .792 20/1.117 0/3 6/0

11.Forsythe G/S/vP 4/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 336/180 .223/.287/.329/.616 .708/.536 .645 38/.766 2/0 6/2

5.Guyer G/S/vP 4/.666 4/.500 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 294/167 .266/.334/.367/.701 .762/.656 .707 22/.762 6/1 3/0

28.Jaso* G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 344/317 .264/.337/.430/.767 .468/.793 .834 1/ 2/0 9/1

8.Jennings G/S/vP 5/.933 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 4/.250 9/.722 ··· ··· 542/406 .244/.319/.378/.697 .833/.653 .600 41/.577 15/6 10/0

39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 364/286 .263/.315/.450/.765 .497/.840 .774 34/1.132 5/4 10/6

21.Loney* G/S/vP 7/1.571 6/1.333 1/.000 ··· 13/1.052 24/1.083 ··· ··· 651/470 .290/.336/.380/.716 .601/.762 .744 3/.333 4/0 9/9

3.Longoria G/S/vP 9/.583 8/.393 1/3.000 ··· 10/.425 14/1.357 ··· ··· 700/519 .253/.320/.404/.724 .824/.691 .763 40/.852 5/0 22/13

44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 329/218 .252/.319/.432/.751 .881/.684 .698 36/.343 0/0 11/9

20.Souza G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 26/19 .130/.231/.391/.622 2.071/.105 .778 38/.837 0/0 2/1

46.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .250/.250/.250/.500 .000/.667 10/.733 0/0 0/0

IP 78.2 90.0 61.0 15.2 62.1 45.2 12.1 60.0 TOTAL .233/.331/.403/.734 .825/.693 .683 .734 11/4 10/3

ERA-K/9

2.97/8.7

1.40/13.5

3.54/9.9

6.89/8.0

2.02/14.9

5.72/8.7

0.73/11.0

4.20/9.2

4.04/8.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Jaso (32-4-1)
Rivera (58-33-7)
Wilson (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 324/.219 341/.149 259/.256 69/.338 242/.153 202/.276 50/.217 256/.220 .261 Kiermaier
Jennings
Guyer
DeJesus
Souza
Forsythe 1/42/68/5
0/118/0/2
62/11/1/0
13/3/0/0
4/1/8/0
3/0/0/0

OPS .615 .442 .663 .915 .456 .809 .526 .643 .703

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 149/.525 172/.402 119/.634 27/.866 98/.467 97/.948 25/.652 86/.681 .737

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 175/.690 169/.485 140/.688 42/.943 144/.446 105/.684 25/.408 170/.622 .689

Road 161/.712 183/.423 129/.743 36/.745 119/.594 80/.939 10/.700 119/.642

Last 28d days 22/.618 22/.705 22/.654 22/.372 14/.214 30/.781 18/.647 15/.673

HR/SB/CS 4/1/2 4/12/3 5/1/1 2/0/0 3/2/1 8/3/0 0/1/1 4/7/1 9/6/2

Usage ·····X·· ·o·X··X· ·o··X·Xo ·oo··XX· ···X··X· ······XX ······X· ·o···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

For the 2014 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

LAA 4.77

MIA 3.98

SDP 3.30

RA/G

SEA 3.42

CLE 4.03

COL 5.05

J. Altuve .341

J. Upton .270

C. Davis .196

OBP

A. McCutchen .410

C. Headley .328

M. Dominguez .256

SLG

J. Abreu .581

C. Utley .407

Z. Cozart .300

OPS

V. Martinez .974

H. Kendrick .744

Z. Cozart .568

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.77

W. Chen 3.54

C. Buchholz 5.34

K/9IP

C. Kershaw 10.85

T. Koehler 7.20

M. Buehrle 5.30

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.