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Texas Rangers vs. Toronto Blue Jays, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, August 25, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Start Time:
7:05ct (local), 8:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
95° (based on last ten years)
Blue Jays
Manager:
John Gibbons
Game #:
126
On This Date:
13-19
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
124
On This Date:
25-27
Season Series
Fri, Jun 26, 2015 TOR 12  TEX  2     
Sat, Jun 27, 2015 TEX  4 @TOR  0     
Sun, Jun 28, 2015 TOR  3  TEX  2     

Tue, Aug 25, 2015 TOR    @TEX  8:05pm
Wed, Aug 26, 2015 TOR    @TEX  8:05pm
Thu, Aug 27, 2015 TOR    @TEX  2:05pm

                         All times ET
Toronto Blue Jays
69-55, 1st, Tied / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-23   Road:   29-32   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  52-43   vsLHP:  17-12   1-Run:  12-24
 vsEast: 27-23   vsCntrl:15-13   vsWest: 17-12 IL:10-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
124 Sun, Aug 23  @LAA  W  12-5       69-55  1st  0.5 up
123 Sat, Aug 22  @LAA  W  15-3       68-55  2nd  0.5 gb
122 Fri, Aug 21  @LAA  W   9-2       67-55  2nd  0.5 gb
121 Wed, Aug 19  @PHI  L   4-7       66-55  2nd  2.0 gb
120 Tue, Aug 18  @PHI  W   8-5       66-54  2nd  1.0 gb
119 Sun, Aug 16   NYY  W   3-1       65-54  2nd  0.5 gb
118 Sat, Aug 15   NYY  L   1-4       64-54  2nd  1.5 gb
117 Fri, Aug 14   NYY  L   3-4       64-53  2nd  0.5 gb
116 Thu, Aug 13   OAK  W   4-2       64-52  1st  0.5 up
115 Wed, Aug 12   OAK  W  10-3       63-52  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:16-4    Last 30:22-8
Texas Rangers
64-59, 2nd, 3½ GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-30   Road:   36-29   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  40-36   vsLHP:  24-23   1-Run:  22-19
 vsEast: 19-9    vsCntrl:16-13   vsWest: 20-29 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
123 Sun, Aug 23  @DET  W   4-2       64-59  2nd  4.0 gb
122 Sat, Aug 22  @DET  W   5-3       63-59  2nd  4.0 gb
121 Fri, Aug 21  @DET  W   2-0       62-59  3rd  4.0 gb
120 Thu, Aug 20  @DET  L   0-4       61-59  3rd  4.0 gb
119 Wed, Aug 19   SEA  W   7-2       61-58  3rd  4.0 gb
118 Tue, Aug 18   SEA  L   2-3       60-58  3rd  4.0 gb
117 Mon, Aug 17   SEA  W   4-3       60-57  3rd  3.0 gb
116 Sun, Aug 16   TBR  W   5-3       59-57  3rd  4.0 gb
115 Sat, Aug 15   TBR  W  12-4       58-57  3rd  4.0 gb
114 Fri, Aug 14   TBR  W   5-3       57-57  3rd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 28, 2015 TOR  3  TEX  2        W:Drew Hutchison (8-1), L: Chi Chi Gonzalez (2-3), S: Roberto Osuna (2)
Sat, Jun 27, 2015 TEX  4 @TOR  0        W:Yovani Gallardo (7-6), L: Matt Boyd (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jun 26, 2015 TOR 12  TEX  2        W:Mark Buehrle (8-4), L: Nick Martinez (5-4), S: none

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 TOR  9  TEX  6        W:Todd Redmond (1-4), L: Neftali Feliz (0-1), S: Aaron Loup (4)
Sat, Jul 19, 2014 TOR  4  TEX  1        W:Marcus Stroman (5-2), L: Colby Lewis (6-7), S: Aaron Loup (3)
Fri, Jul 18, 2014 TEX  5 @TOR  1        W:Yu Darvish (9-5), L: R.A. Dickey (7-10), S: none
Sun, May 18, 2014 TEX  6  TOR  2        W:Aaron Poreda (2-0), L: R.A. Dickey (4-4), S: none
Sat, May 17, 2014 TOR  4 @TEX  2        W:Steve Delabar (3-0), L: Neal Cotts (1-3), S: Casey Janssen (3)
Fri, May 16, 2014 TOR  2 @TEX  0        W:Drew Hutchison (2-3), L: Yu Darvish (3-2), S: none
Sun, Jun 16, 2013 TOR  7 @TEX  2        W:Chien-Ming Wang (1-0), L: Derek Holland (5-4), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - TOR over 2-1; 2014 - TOR won 4-2; 2013 - TOR won 6-1; All-Time - TOR leads 202-199

SP: Mark Buehrle (36, LHP, 13-6, 3.45)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (13-6) 159.0 163 67 61 24 75 17 3.45
2014 (13-10) 202.0 228 83 76 46 119 15 3.39
2013 (12-10) 203.2 223 100 94 51 139 24 4.15
Last 7 GS 4-1 44.2 47 19 18 4 16 5 3.63 51
2015-08-19 @PHI L 4.0 7 4 4 0 2 1 53 34
2015-08-13 OAK W 7.0 7 2 2 2 2 0 95 55
2015-08-06 MIN W 7.0 5 3 3 1 1 2 83 55
2015-08-01 KCR ND 7.0 5 4 3 0 3 1 89 56
2015-07-26 @SEA ND 5.2 10 3 3 1 3 1 98 39
2015-07-21 @OAK W 7.0 8 1 1 0 3 0 95 60
2015-07-11 @KCR W 7.0 5 2 2 0 2 0 85 61
Last 5 v.TEX 2-0 33.2 28 10 10 9 24 2 2.67 59
2015-06-26 TEX W 7.0 5 2 2 2 5 1 98 62
2014-07-20 TEX ND 6.0 8 5 5 3 5 0 97 38
2014-05-17 @TEX ND 6.2 7 2 2 1 4 0 102 55
2013-06-14 @TEX W 7.0 4 0 0 1 7 0 100 75
2013-06-08 TEX ND 7.0 4 1 1 2 3 1 92 66

SP: Derek Holland (28, LHP, 1-1, 3.68)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-1) 7.1 10 3 3 0 6 2 3.68
2014 (2-0) 37.0 34 8 6 5 25 0 1.46
2013 (10-9) 213.0 210 90 81 64 189 20 3.42
Last 7 GS 3-1 41.2 41 9 8 4 30 2 1.73 60
2015-08-19 SEA W 6.1 8 2 2 0 6 1 93 55
2015-04-10 HOU L 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 1 9 45
2014-09-22 HOU W 7.0 7 3 2 1 2 0 100 54
2014-09-17 @OAK ND 6.1 4 1 1 3 5 0 112 63
2014-09-12 ATL ND 7.0 8 1 1 0 6 0 113 63
2014-09-07 SEA W 7.0 6 0 0 0 5 0 93 70
2014-09-02 @KCR ND 7.0 6 1 1 0 6 0 105 67
Last 5 v.TOR 3-1 32.1 33 11 11 7 30 3 3.06 57
2013-06-16 TOR L 6.0 10 4 4 0 6 2 104 42
2012-05-25 TOR W 7.1 5 2 2 1 9 1 105 68
2011-07-30 @TOR W 9.0 4 0 0 1 5 0 95 83
2011-04-27 TOR ND 5.0 11 5 5 3 2 0 100 24
2010-09-08 @TOR W 5.0 3 0 0 2 8 0 88 67

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

Blue Jays Batters (5.40 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.64 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Holland*
G/S/vB		 63.Bass
G/S/vB		 41.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 47.Dyson
G/S/vB		 71.Freeman*
G/S/vB		 50.Kela
G/S/vB		 44.Patton
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Bautista G/S/vP 18/.457 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 505/402 .243/.356/.519/.875 .759/.905 .812 101/.927 5/2 29/2
3.Carrera* G/S/vP 9/.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 169/147 .283/.329/.375/.704 .840/.683 .751 15/1.143 2/1 3/2
15.Colabello G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 288/214 .330/.372/.521/.892 .880/.896 .808 43/1.142 2/0 12/4
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 20/1.178 4/3.417 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.900 544/435 .302/.370/.585/.956 1.129/.913 .866 106/1.262 4/0 34/16
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 12/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 475/382 .265/.356/.505/.861 .805/.874 .824 75/1.260 1/2 24/2
17.Goins* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 290/227 .228/.299/.335/.634 .611/.640 .678 73/.804 0/1 4/5
55.Martin G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 407/315 .244/.327/.434/.761 .946/.709 .724 67/.455 4/4 15/4
30.Navarro# G/S/vP 4/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 148/119 .221/.284/.328/.612 .630/.607 .662 34/.690 0/0 3/2
9.Pennington# G/S/vP 20/.358 3/1.667 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 178/147 .227/.308/.273/.581 .639/.569 .596 41/.539 3/0 1/6
11.Pillar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 484/360 .261/.298/.365/.663 .697/.651 .697 90/.505 15/3 7/2
7.Revere* G/S/vP 7/.143 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· 2/.000 468/342 .295/.334/.364/.698 .591/.736 .744 88/.629 24/5 1/0
13.Smoak# G/S/vP 31/.656 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 235/209 .215/.281/.435/.715 1.146/.659 .620 64/.532 0/0 12/1
22.Thole* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 32/28 .241/.313/.310/.623 1.250/.526 .321 3/.000 0/0 0/1
2.Tulowitzki G/S/vP ··· 11/.091 3/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 452/355 .283/.343/.449/.792 .904/.761 .757 101/.695 1/0 15/8
IP 7.1 56.2 49.0 56.2 31.1 50.2 23.2 56.2 TOTAL .264/.332/.445/.777 .823/.763 .735 .807 59/18 167/70
ERA-K/9 3.68/7.4 4.76/6.5 4.41/10.8 3.34/7.8 2.59/8.9 2.84/9.8 7.23/10.6 2.70/9.8 4.37/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (37-28-17)
 Navarro (9-8-2)
 Thole (4-0-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 30/.333 243/.277 220/.236 240/.248 137/.217 207/.250 103/.239 228/.226 .265  Pillar
 Revere
 Bautista
 Carrera
 Pennington
 Colabello
 Goins
14/106/3/10
76/43/12/5
0/0/82/2
44/4/26/1
5/0/0/1
33/0/13/0
2/0/2/0
OPS .900 .766 .698 .648 .640 .655 .798 .647 .754
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 6/1.000 104/.767 87/.697 96/.563 72/.810 92/.786 39/.910 131/.697 .756
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 24/.875 139/.764 133/.697 144/.706 65/.466 115/.552 64/.730 97/.578 .752
Home 30/.900 130/.702 115/.661 149/.628 82/.760 93/.738 48/.884 112/.715
Last 28d days 26/.769 25/.850 45/.416 59/.744 35/.751 30/.433 33/.737 55/.532
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 5/1/1 4/3/1 4/7/1 2/3/1 4/6/1 4/0/1 7/1/0 133/63/17
Usage ·····X·· ····X··· ··o··XX· ·oX··o·o ······X· ·X·o·oo· ····X·o· ·ooX···o
Rangers Batters (4.46 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.08 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Buehrle*
G/S/vB		 27.Cecil*
G/S/vB		 32.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 31.Hendriks
G/S/vB		 57.Lowe
G/S/vB		 54.Osuna
G/S/vB		 41.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 47.Schultz
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
68.Alberto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 82/51 .234/.253/.286/.539 .345/.654 .739 4/.000 1/0 0/2
1.Andrus G/S/vP 27/.551 12/.900 7/1.285 6/.000 5/.650 ··· ··· ··· 503/327 .257/.302/.349/.651 .728/.608 .731 93/.728 11/6 6/19
29.Beltre G/S/vP 42/.691 8/.536 5/.800 6/.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 446/298 .266/.307/.408/.715 .784/.682 .785 101/.862 1/0 11/10
17.Choo* G/S/vP 42/.967 14/.517 4/.250 7/.572 5/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 472/306 .242/.340/.422/.762 .591/.855 .870 92/.964 3/1 15/4
7.DeShields G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 343/230 .254/.346/.363/.709 .734/.696 .795 103/.585 21/5 1/4
84.Fielder* G/S/vP 9/1.158 5/.200 6/1.633 7/.829 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 519/322 .320/.385/.483/.868 .787/.918 .826 95/.685 0/0 17/4
38.Gimenez G/S/vP 5/.650 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 39/28 .286/.324/.629/.953 2.100/.593 1.056 39/.953 2/0 3/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 6/.334 7/.715 2/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 386/270 .287/.337/.496/.833 .721/.881 .778 81/.765 1/0 18/3
25.Napoli G/S/vP 31/.767 21/.580 2/no AB 6/1.133 7/.715 1/3.000 6/.167 3/.000 403/273 .214/.313/.402/.714 .924/.618 .773 58/.971 3/1 15/6
12.Odor* G/S/vP 6/1.350 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 334/216 .276/.330/.464/.794 .764/.810 .719 88/.800 5/6 10/13
20.Strausborger G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/19 .229/.282/.314/.596 .689/.498 .863 40/.596 1/1 1/1
30.Venable* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 7/1.738 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 314/281 .257/.318/.378/.697 .431/.729 .564 55/.667 11/1 6/1
8.Wilson G/S/vP 2/.000 9/1.929 ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 96/66 .182/.240/.216/.455 .274/.539 .399 37/.631 0/0 0/2
IP 159.0 40.1 31.0 51.2 42.1 55.2 79.1 36.0 TOTAL .255/.318/.407/.725 .710/.734 .761 .762 71/28 129/91
ERA-K/9 3.45/4.2 3.35/9.8 2.90/8.4 2.26/9.6 1.49/11.3 1.94/9.9 3.18/6.0 2.75/7.0 3.79/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gimenez (8-0-2)
 Wilson (19-6-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 649/.267 164/.228 123/.263 200/.206 167/.234 213/.183 326/.220 138/.176 .249  DeShields
 Choo
 Venable
 Strausborger
35/53/0/6
0/0/109/4
13/57/17/4
11/0/1/0
OPS .716 .664 .660 .520 .606 .531 .676 .567 .706
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 174/.723 51/.733 59/.670 83/.726 73/.662 108/.599 175/.901 62/.487 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 475/.713 113/.633 64/.651 117/.371 94/.562 105/.460 151/.425 76/.626 .700
Road 357/.733 82/.646 57/.483 84/.489 84/.582 97/.471 143/.767 73/.731
Last 28d days 101/.704 24/.375 31/.633 27/.468 26/.552 39/.417 38/.307 34/.602
HR/SB/CS 17/0/1 4/0/1 3/0/2 2/4/2 2/1/3 3/2/2 9/4/6 6/5/0 125/50/36
Usage ·····X·· ·oo···X· ··o···o· ··o··Xo· ···o·o·· ·o····o· ·o····X· ··o··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  5.40

LAD  4.11

ATL  3.68

 RA/G

STL  3.00

MIA  4.18

COL  5.41

 BA

D. Gordon  .332

G. Polanco  .267

C. Carter  .181

 OBP

B. Harper  .455

K. Calhoun  .328

O. Infante  .235

 SLG

B. Harper  .640

D. Fowler  .425

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.095

J. Bruce  .755

O. Infante  .549

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.67

J. Shields  3.74

K. Lohse  6.04

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.16

A. Burnett  7.58

M. Buehrle  4.25

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.