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Texas Rangers vs. Toronto Blue Jays, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, August 27, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Start Time:
1:05ct (local), 2:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
94° (based on last ten years)
Blue Jays
Manager:
John Gibbons
Game #:
128
On This Date:
22-14
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
126
On This Date:
24-25
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  6 @TEX  5     
Wed, Aug 26, 2015 TOR 12 @TEX  4     

Thu, Aug 27, 2015 TOR    @TEX  2:05pm

                         All times ET
Toronto Blue Jays
71-55, 1st, 2 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-23   Road:   31-32   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  53-43   vsLHP:  18-12   1-Run:  13-24
 vsEast: 27-23   vsCntrl:15-13   vsWest: 19-12 IL:10-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Wed, Aug 26  @TEX  W  12-4       71-55  1st  2.0 up
125 Tue, Aug 25  @TEX  W   6-5       70-55  1st  1.0 up
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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:17-3    Last 30:23-7
Texas Rangers
64-61, 2nd, 5½ GB, 4½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-32   Road:   36-29   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  40-36   vsLHP:  24-25   1-Run:  22-20
 vsEast: 19-11   vsCntrl:16-13   vsWest: 20-29 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
125 Wed, Aug 26   TOR  L   4-12      64-61  2nd  5.5 gb
124 Tue, Aug 25   TOR  L   5-6       64-60  2nd  4.5 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Aug 26, 2015 TOR 12 @TEX  4        W:David Price (13-4), L: Colby Lewis (14-6), S: none
Tue, Aug 25, 2015 TOR  6 @TEX  5        W:LaTroy Hawkins (3-1), L: Shawn Tolleson (5-3), S: Roberto Osuna (15)
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)
Season Series: 2015 - TOR over 4-1; 2014 - TOR won 4-2; 2013 - TOR won 6-1; All-Time - TOR leads 204-199

SP: Marco Estrada (31, RHP, 11-7, 3.27)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (11-7) 129.1 101 51 47 40 99 15 3.27
2014 (7-6) 150.2 137 77 73 44 127 29 4.36
2013 (7-4) 128.0 109 56 55 29 118 19 3.87
Last 7 GS 5-2 42.1 27 13 13 11 30 5 2.76 59
2015-08-22 @LAA W 5.2 5 3 3 0 4 2 95 51
2015-08-15 NYY L 6.0 3 2 2 3 3 2 102 58
2015-08-09 @NYY W 6.1 3 0 0 3 6 0 89 70
2015-08-04 MIN W 6.2 2 1 1 2 5 0 103 69
2015-07-30 KCR W 5.2 3 2 2 0 3 0 93 58
2015-07-24 @SEA L 4.0 8 5 5 3 4 1 94 27
2015-07-19 TBR W 8.0 3 0 0 0 5 0 111 81
Last 5 v.TEX 1-0 6.0 4 1 1 0 2 1 1.50 62
2013-08-13 @TEX W 6.0 4 1 1 0 2 1 76 62

SP: Yovani Gallardo (29, RHP, 10-9, 3.25)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (10-9) 149.1 147 60 54 55 97 11 3.25
2014 (8-11) 192.1 195 86 75 54 146 21 3.51
2013 (12-10) 180.2 180 92 84 66 144 18 4.18
Last 7 GS 3-1 36.0 48 21 21 15 18 4 5.25 42
2015-08-22 @DET W 6.0 8 0 0 1 4 0 98 59
2015-08-16 TBR W 5.1 11 3 3 1 5 0 99 38
2015-08-11 @MIN ND 5.2 2 0 0 3 1 0 100 63
2015-08-04 HOU W 5.0 4 3 3 2 3 1 98 48
2015-07-30 NYY ND 6.0 8 5 5 2 1 2 103 35
2015-07-25 @LAA ND 4.0 8 5 5 3 3 0 92 26
2015-07-19 @HOU L 4.0 7 5 5 3 1 1 93 26
Last 5 v.TOR 2-0 15.0 10 3 3 4 11 1 1.80 66
2015-06-27 @TOR W 8.1 3 0 0 2 4 0 105 79
2012-06-20 TOR W 6.2 7 3 3 2 7 1 113 53

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

Blue Jays Batters (5.46 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Gallardo
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 13/.322 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 3/.333 515/409 .242/.359/.521/.880 .790/.904 .823 102/.988 5/2 30/2
3.Carrera* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 169/147 .283/.329/.375/.704 .840/.683 .751 10/1.000 2/1 3/2
15.Colabello G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 292/215 .332/.373/.531/.905 .940/.892 .837 39/1.325 2/0 13/4
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 7/.858 5/2.600 1/.000 2/2.500 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 7/.762 555/442 .299/.368/.577/.945 1.117/.902 .848 108/1.148 4/0 34/16
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 17/1.471 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 2/.000 484/388 .264/.353/.513/.867 .838/.873 .836 84/1.246 1/2 26/2
17.Goins* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB ··· 295/231 .230/.308/.336/.644 .623/.649 .701 70/.836 0/1 4/5
55.Martin G/S/vP 30/.661 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/no AB 416/320 .240/.329/.428/.758 .936/.706 .719 68/.371 4/4 15/4
30.Navarro# G/S/vP 4/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 148/119 .221/.284/.328/.612 .630/.607 .662 30/.517 0/0 3/2
9.Pennington# G/S/vP 3/.000 3/1.667 2/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 181/147 .222/.303/.268/.571 .573/.569 .577 40/.496 3/0 1/6
11.Pillar G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 493/365 .265/.301/.373/.674 .690/.668 .717 91/.579 16/3 8/2
7.Revere* G/S/vP 17/.753 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 4/.833 ··· ··· 3/.333 477/347 .294/.334/.362/.696 .589/.736 .738 89/.637 24/5 1/0
13.Smoak# G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 241/214 .218/.282/.445/.728 1.103/.678 .649 69/.576 0/0 13/1
22.Thole* G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· 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 25/1.230 12/.083 3/2.000 2/.000 2/.500 2/.000 2/1.000 3/2.334 463/362 .286/.346/.448/.793 .923/.757 .762 103/.645 1/0 15/8
IP 149.1 59.2 49.1 57.1 32.1 51.2 24.0 57.1 TOTAL .264/.333/.446/.779 .829/.764 .741 .799 60/18 173/70
ERA-K/9 3.25/5.8 4.53/6.5 4.38/10.8 3.30/7.9 3.06/8.9 2.79/9.7 9.00/10.5 2.83/9.7 4.43/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (39-28-17)
 Navarro (9-8-2)
 Thole (4-0-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 639/.254 252/.272 222/.238 242/.245 144/.212 210/.246 109/.261 234/.227 .265  Pillar
 Revere
 Bautista
 Carrera
 Pennington
 Goins
 Colabello
14/108/3/10
78/43/12/5
0/0/84/2
44/4/27/1
5/0/0/1
2/0/2/0
33/0/13/0
OPS .690 .751 .701 .643 .644 .645 .870 .651 .757
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 320/.720 107/.778 88/.713 96/.563 74/.805 92/.786 40/.925 133/.696 .758
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 319/.659 145/.731 134/.692 146/.695 70/.485 118/.538 69/.838 101/.589 .756
Home 313/.705 139/.680 117/.667 151/.620 89/.759 96/.715 54/1.022 118/.719
Last 28d days 95/.781 34/.710 47/.441 52/.589 36/.683 26/.308 39/.952 54/.606
HR/SB/CS 11/8/3 5/1/1 4/3/1 4/7/1 2/3/1 4/6/1 5/0/1 7/1/0 139/64/17
Usage ····X··· X·····X· ·o··o··X ·o·oX··o X······· ·o·X·o·o Xo····X· ·X·ooX··
Rangers Batters (4.46 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.09 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 25.Estrada
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 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 87/54 .232/.250/.280/.530 .323/.655 .703 9/.222 1/0 0/2
1.Andrus G/S/vP 3/.000 12/.900 8/1.375 6/.000 5/.650 ··· ··· 1/.000 511/329 .257/.304/.350/.653 .728/.611 .734 92/.741 11/6 6/19
29.Beltre G/S/vP 2/.000 8/.536 6/.667 6/.334 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 455/301 .267/.308/.418/.726 .829/.675 .804 101/.904 1/0 12/12
17.Choo* G/S/vP 3/1.167 15/.481 4/.250 7/.572 6/.334 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 482/309 .249/.345/.425/.770 .611/.860 .883 94/.923 3/1 15/4
7.DeShields G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 351/232 .254/.344/.370/.714 .741/.699 .800 102/.577 22/5 2/4
84.Fielder* G/S/vP ··· 6/.167 6/1.633 7/.829 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 528/324 .316/.381/.476/.856 .769/.912 .804 96/.662 0/0 17/4
38.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 43/30 .282/.317/.590/.907 1.700/.621 .955 43/.907 2/0 3/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 2/3.500 7/.715 3/.666 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 390/271 .287/.336/.493/.829 .702/.885 .772 80/.756 1/0 18/3
25.Napoli G/S/vP 5/1.300 21/.580 2/no AB 6/1.133 7/.715 1/3.000 6/.167 4/.000 407/274 .214/.312/.400/.712 .917/.615 .767 54/.862 3/1 15/6
12.Odor* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 337/216 .280/.333/.479/.812 .816/.810 .757 85/.907 5/6 11/13
20.Strausborger G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 46/21 .225/.267/.300/.567 .583/.549 .746 46/.567 1/1 1/1
30.Venable* G/S/vP 5/.000 1/.000 8/1.500 1/no AB 4/.833 ··· ··· 1/no AB 318/285 .259/.324/.379/.703 .431/.736 .582 54/.692 12/1 6/1
8.Wilson G/S/vP ··· 9/1.929 1/2.000 2/1.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 100/68 .187/.242/.220/.462 .265/.554 .416 41/.633 0/0 0/2
IP 129.1 41.0 32.0 52.0 43.1 56.2 79.1 38.0 TOTAL .255/.318/.409/.727 .713/.735 .764 .755 73/28 132/93
ERA-K/9 3.27/6.9 3.29/9.9 2.81/8.2 2.25/9.7 1.87/11.0 1.91/10.0 3.18/6.0 2.61/6.6 3.80/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gimenez (8-0-2)
 Wilson (20-6-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 527/.211 166/.225 129/.274 203/.209 173/.250 217/.184 326/.220 146/.174 .250  DeShields
 Choo
 Venable
 Strausborger
35/55/0/6
0/0/111/4
14/58/17/4
13/0/1/0
OPS .645 .655 .676 .529 .632 .530 .676 .558 .708
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 277/.650 53/.704 61/.681 84/.734 75/.700 110/.607 175/.901 65/.483 .718
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 250/.639 113/.633 68/.672 119/.382 98/.581 107/.451 151/.425 81/.611 .701
Road 264/.694 84/.630 63/.533 87/.510 90/.633 101/.472 143/.767 81/.699
Last 28d days 95/.586 25/.360 32/.677 30/.531 29/.775 40/.457 35/.335 39/.609
HR/SB/CS 15/7/4 4/2/1 3/0/2 2/4/2 2/1/3 3/2/2 9/4/6 6/5/0 128/52/36
Usage ····X··· ·o·oo··· ·X··o··· ·X··o··X X····o·o ·X·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  5.46

LAD  4.14

ATL  3.65

 RA/G

STL  2.97

MIA  4.18

COL  5.35

 BA

D. Gordon  .333

K. Calhoun  .266

C. Carter  .179

 OBP

B. Harper  .456

Y. Cespedes  .328

O. Infante  .234

 SLG

B. Harper  .639

N. Castellanos  .424

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.095

E. Longoria  .751

O. Infante  .544

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.67

A. Wood  3.70

K. Lohse  6.27

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.03

J. Quintana  7.59

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.