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Tampa Bay Rays vs. New York Mets, at Tropicana Field, August 8, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Start Time:
6:10et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Mets
Manager:
Terry Collins
Game #:
110
On This Date:
27-24
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
112
On This Date:
11-4
Season Series
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 NYM  4 @TBR  3     

Sat, Aug 08, 2015 NYM    @TBR  6:10pm
Sun, Aug 09, 2015 NYM    @TBR  1:10pm

                         All times ET
New York Mets
59-50, 1st, 2½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   38-18   Road:   21-32   ExtrInn: 7-2 
 vsRHP:  47-40   vsLHP:  12-10   1-Run:  20-17
 vsEast: 30-17   vsCntrl: 9-17   vsWest: 14-12 IL: 6-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
109 Fri, Aug  7  @TBR  W   4-3       59-50  1st  2.5 up
108 Wed, Aug  5  @MIA  W   8-6       58-50  1st  2.0 up
107 Tue, Aug  4  @MIA  W   5-1       57-50  1st  1.0 up
106 Mon, Aug  3  @MIA  W  12-1       56-50  1st  1.0 up
105 Sun, Aug  2   WSN  W   5-2       55-50  1st    Tied
104 Sat, Aug  1   WSN  W   3-2       54-50  2nd  1.0 gb
103 Fri, Jul 31   WSN  W   2-1 (12)  53-50  2nd  2.0 gb
102 Thu, Jul 30   SDP  L   7-8       52-50  2nd  3.0 gb
101 Wed, Jul 29   SDP  L   3-7       52-49  2nd  2.0 gb
100 Tue, Jul 28   SDP  W   4-0       52-48  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11
Tampa Bay Rays
54-56, 4th, 8 GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-31   Road:   27-25   ExtrInn: 2-8 
 vsRHP:  34-44   vsLHP:  20-12   1-Run:  16-20
 vsEast: 24-26   vsCntrl:10-13   vsWest: 13-11 IL: 7-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Fri, Aug  7   NYM  L   3-4       54-56  4th  8.0 gb
109 Wed, Aug  5  @CHW  L   5-6 (10)  54-55  4th  7.5 gb
108 Tue, Aug  4  @CHW  W  11-3       54-54  4th  7.5 gb
107 Mon, Aug  3  @CHW  W   5-4       53-54  4th  7.5 gb
106 Sun, Aug  2  @BOS  W   4-3       52-54  4th  8.0 gb
105 Sat, Aug  1  @BOS  L   7-11      51-54  4th  8.0 gb
104 Fri, Jul 31  @BOS  L   5-7       51-53  4th  8.0 gb
103 Wed, Jul 29   DET  L   1-2       51-52  4th  7.5 gb
102 Tue, Jul 28   DET  W  10-2       51-51  3rd  7.5 gb
101 Mon, Jul 27   DET  W   5-2       50-51  4th  7.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 NYM  4 @TBR  3        W:Tyler Clippard (2-3), L: Brad Boxberger (4-8), S: Jeurys Familia (30)

Thu, Jun 14, 2012 NYM  9 @TBR  6        W:Johan Santana (4-3), L: Jeremy Hellickson (4-3), S: Frank Francisco (16)
Wed, Jun 13, 2012 NYM  9 @TBR  1        W:R.A. Dickey (10-1), L: David Price (8-4), S: none
Tue, Jun 12, 2012 NYM 11 @TBR  2        W:Chris Young (1-0), L: Alex Cobb (2-3), S: none
Sun, Jun 21, 2009 TBR 10 @NYM  6        W:Joe Nelson (2-0), L: Bobby Parnell (2-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 20, 2009 TBR  3 @NYM  1        W:James Shields (6-5), L: Johan Santana (8-5), S: J.P. Howell (4)
Fri, Jun 19, 2009 NYM  5  TBR  3        W:Fernando Nieve (2-0), L: Andy Sonnanstine (5-7), S: Francisco Rodriguez (18)
Sun, Jun 10, 2001 NYM 10 @TBD  0        W:Kevin Appier (4-5), L: Albie Lopez (3-8), S: none
Sat, Jun 09, 2001 TBD  5  NYM  2        W:Tanyon Sturtze (3-5), L: Al Leiter (3-4), S: Travis Phelps (2)
Fri, Jun 08, 2001 TBD  7  NYM  5        W:Ryan Rupe (3-5), L: Steve Trachsel (1-7), S: Esteban Yan (6)
Season Series: 2015 - NYM over 1-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - NYM leads 12-7

SP: Noah Syndergaard (22, RHP, 6-5, 2.66)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-5) 94.2 80 32 28 20 100 8 2.66
Last 7 GS 4-1 50.0 31 8 8 10 52 4 1.44 70
2015-08-02 WSN W 8.0 7 2 2 0 9 2 109 69
2015-07-28 SDP W 8.0 3 0 0 0 9 0 107 85
2015-07-22 @WSN ND 5.0 5 1 1 5 4 0 98 52
2015-07-17 @STL L 7.0 5 2 2 1 6 1 96 64
2015-07-10 ARI W 8.0 4 1 1 2 13 0 116 81
2015-07-03 @LAD ND 6.0 2 1 1 2 6 1 107 68
2015-06-26 CIN W 8.0 5 1 1 0 5 0 89 73
Has never faced TBR as starter.

SP: Nate Karns (27, RHP, 6-5, 3.37)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-5) 120.1 102 47 45 42 113 13 3.37
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 2-2 41.1 35 14 14 11 41 4 3.05 58
2015-08-03 @CHW ND 5.1 3 2 2 2 7 1 79 59
2015-07-27 DET W 6.0 3 1 1 0 3 1 71 65
2015-07-21 @PHI W 5.0 3 0 0 2 4 0 85 63
2015-07-09 @KCR L 6.0 9 7 7 0 5 2 110 31
2015-07-04 @NYY ND 7.0 5 2 2 2 10 0 113 67
2015-06-29 CLE L 6.0 9 2 2 2 7 0 99 51
2015-06-24 TOR ND 6.0 3 0 0 3 5 0 81 68
Has never faced NYM as starter.

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Mets Batters (3.69 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Karns
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 54.Geltz
G/S/vB		 47.Gomes
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 49.Yates
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
29.Campbell G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 187/150 .179/.301/.276/.577 .539/.585 .709 24/.614 5/2 3/8
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 3/1.666 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 4/.500 4/.500 3/1.000 454/357 .291/.322/.499/.820 .573/.886 .905 91/.790 3/4 18/5
30.Conforto* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 36/30 .233/.333/.433/.767 .533/.813 .944 36/.767 0/0 1/0
7.d'Arnaud G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 99/85 .278/.333/.489/.822 .452/.880 .859 22/.634 0/0 4/2
21.Duda* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 445/335 .247/.348/.480/.829 .894/.805 .578 90/1.018 0/1 21/1
4.Flores G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 384/308 .253/.283/.390/.673 .877/.623 .654 69/.614 0/0 11/10
3.Granderson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 10/.422 ··· 465/376 .257/.348/.440/.788 .415/.883 .760 99/.891 9/4 17/5
55.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 3/.000 6/.334 ··· 228/199 .265/.313/.436/.749 .752/.748 .816 49/.633 1/1 10/7
12.Lagares G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 377/297 .253/.281/.337/.618 .762/.581 .625 50/.579 7/3 3/1
28.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 348/265 .278/.330/.416/.746 .523/.817 .773 90/.826 1/2 8/10
22.Plawecki G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 223/184 .232/.284/.300/.584 .443/.615 .605 48/.530 0/0 2/1
11.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 289/222 .263/.328/.355/.683 .738/.666 .820 84/.743 2/1 2/5
2.Uribe G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 288/221 .266/.326/.422/.748 .932/.695 .843 55/.699 2/0 11/8
IP 120.1 44.2 31.1 82.2 52.0 37.0 29.2 9.1 TOTAL .237/.302/.371/.673 .654/.678 .644 .740 39/14 98/61
ERA-K/9 3.37/8.5 3.02/11.3 2.59/8.6 4.35/6.4 3.63/8.1 4.38/6.3 2.12/12.1 7.71/10.6 3.59/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 d'Arnaud (9-4-0)
 Plawecki (30-11-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 500/.228 196/.234 133/.250 351/.285 202/.177 157/.261 113/.176 42/.341 .236  Cespedes
 Granderson
 Lagares
 Johnson
 Campbell
 Conforto
103/4/0/9
0/2/105/7
0/99/0/2
28/0/6/2
4/0/0/1
9/0/0/0
OPS .662 .688 .673 .756 .559 .739 .499 1.138 .672
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 271/.649 103/.620 73/.478 192/.781 96/.628 74/.694 37/.605 19/1.421 .666
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 229/.675 93/.767 60/.926 159/.725 106/.498 83/.776 76/.447 23/.913 .677
Home 295/.696 101/.608 58/.762 195/.749 99/.509 80/.695 56/.620 17/1.290
Last 28d days 61/.533 45/.684 22/.273 39/.551 43/.631 37/.747 40/.601 9/1.333
HR/SB/CS 13/12/2 5/4/3 3/1/2 9/3/5 6/5/2 5/3/0 3/0/0 5/1/1 111/57/29
Usage ····X··· X·X·Xo·· ····ooX· o··o··X· o·X·ooX· ··o·o··X X·X·oX·X ···o··X·
Rays Batters (3.70 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.54 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Syndergaard
G/S/vB		 46.Clippard
G/S/vB		 27.Familia
G/S/vB		 36.Gilmartin*
G/S/vB		 44.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 39.Parnell
G/S/vB		 47.Robles
G/S/vB		 72.Torres
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/77 .229/.288/.435/.723 .768/.677 .661 41/.801 3/1 5/5
9.Butler G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 245/155 .279/.335/.412/.746 .758/.739 .712 34/.584 5/2 6/0
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 3/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/1.514 364/273 .252/.303/.404/.707 .688/.713 .771 39/1.372 3/3 7/4
19.Casali G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 76/56 .232/.289/.580/.869 .856/.874 1.012 44/.931 0/0 7/0
11.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 2/.500 ··· 3/.000 430/302 .277/.363/.443/.805 .976/.735 .763 80/.904 7/3 13/7
5.Guyer G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 254/113 .249/.359/.380/.739 .763/.710 .740 48/.767 10/2 5/0
28.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 75/67 .318/.387/.470/.856 .833/.856 .449 51/.716 0/1 1/0
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 372/291 .244/.276/.397/.672 .576/.700 .549 70/.550 11/2 4/2
21.Loney* G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 223/178 .270/.323/.368/.691 .600/.714 .689 66/.662 2/4 4/4
3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 3/.333 444/340 .281/.349/.443/.792 .925/.753 .872 85/.867 3/1 13/7
7.Nava# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 80/69 .147/.253/.176/.430 .425/.430 .294 7/.286 0/0 0/0
44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 268/181 .183/.215/.290/.505 .477/.518 .548 30/.333 0/0 5/9
36.Shaffer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/3 .143/.455/.571/1.026 .375/2.667 11/1.026 0/0 1/0
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 3/1.334 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 5/.000 172/157 .238/.267/.360/.627 .938/.599 .742 29/.813 1/1 4/1
IP 94.2 44.1 53.2 32.2 22.1 16.2 31.0 41.2 TOTAL .242/.307/.389/.696 .750/.676 .674 .755 65/33 103/62
ERA-K/9 2.66/9.5 2.64/8.1 2.01/8.9 2.20/8.3 7.25/6.5 4.32/4.9 4.35/8.7 3.67/7.8 3.22/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Casali (14-4-0)
 Rivera (29-19-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 381/.227 192/.187 212/.205 133/.220 116/.330 70/.300 128/.211 168/.269 .240  Kiermaier
 Sizemore
 Jaso
 Butler
 Nava
 Guyer
0/102/2/12
9/0/33/2
3/0/0/1
24/0/3/1
7/0/16/1
42/15/24/0
OPS .615 .599 .579 .601 .862 .736 .652 .702 .660
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 166/.610 95/.376 96/.582 59/.711 56/.574 23/.908 44/.640 60/.655 .699
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 215/.619 97/.824 116/.575 74/.508 60/1.136 47/.654 84/.657 108/.727 .631
Road 167/.777 72/.451 68/.546 70/.569 66/.836 31/.790 63/.605 63/.674
Last 28d days 107/.565 36/.906 50/.808 28/.653 30/.914 38/.885 34/.773 33/.692
HR/SB/CS 8/9/1 4/5/1 5/2/1 1/0/1 1/1/0 0/1/1 3/1/0 3/0/1 93/52/16
Usage ·····X·· o··X·X·X X·oX··oX ····o··· o·o····· o·o···o· ··o···oo ·······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  5.31

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.