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Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers, at Fenway Park, July 27, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Start Time:

1:35et (local)

Venue:

Fenway Park

Series:

Game #3 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

80° (based on last ten years)

Tigers

Manager:

Brad Ausmus

Game #:

103

On This Date:

47-63

Red Sox

Manager:

John Farrell

Game #:

102

On This Date:

57-51

Season Series
Mon, Jul 25, 2016 DET  4 @BOS  2     
Tue, Jul 26, 2016 DET  9 @BOS  8     

Wed, Jul 27, 2016 DET    @BOS  1:35pm
Thu, Aug 18, 2016 BOS    @DET  1:10pm
Fri, Aug 19, 2016 BOS    @DET  7:10pm
Sat, Aug 20, 2016 BOS    @DET  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 21, 2016 BOS    @DET  1:10pm

                         All times ET

Detroit Tigers

53-48, 2nd, 5½ GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   26-19   Road:   27-29   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  40-34   vsLHP:  13-14   1-Run:  15-12
 vsEast: 15-11   vsCntrl:18-23   vsWest: 10-10 IL:10-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
101 Tue, Jul 26  @BOS  W   9-8       53-48  2nd  5.5 gb
100 Mon, Jul 25  @BOS  W   4-2       52-48  2nd  5.5 gb
 99 Sun, Jul 24  @CHW  L   4-5       51-48  2nd  6.0 gb
 98 Sat, Jul 23  @CHW  L   3-4       51-47  2nd  6.0 gb
 97 Fri, Jul 22  @CHW  W   7-5       51-46  2nd  6.0 gb
 96 Thu, Jul 21  @CHW  W   2-1  (7)  50-46  2nd  7.0 gb
 95 Wed, Jul 20   MIN  L   1-4       49-46  2nd  7.5 gb
 94 Tue, Jul 19   MIN  L   2-6       49-45  2nd  6.5 gb
 93 Mon, Jul 18   MIN  W   1-0       49-44  2nd  5.5 gb
 92 Sun, Jul 17   KCR  W   4-2       48-44  2nd  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:17-13

Boston Red Sox

55-43, 3rd, 2½ GB, ½ GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   34-24   Road:   21-19   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  46-32   vsLHP:   9-11   1-Run:  11-11
 vsEast: 21-20   vsCntrl:11-13   vsWest: 15-7  IL: 8-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 98 Tue, Jul 26   DET  L   8-9       55-43  3rd  2.5 gb
 97 Mon, Jul 25   DET  L   2-4       55-42  2nd  2.5 gb
 96 Sun, Jul 24   MIN  W   8-7       55-41  2nd  1.5 gb
 95 Sat, Jul 23   MIN  L   9-11      54-41  2nd  1.5 gb
 94 Fri, Jul 22   MIN  L   1-2       54-40  2nd  0.5 gb
 93 Thu, Jul 21   MIN  W  13-2       54-39  1st  0.5 up
 92 Wed, Jul 20   SFG  W  11-7       53-39  1st  0.5 up
 91 Tue, Jul 19   SFG  W   4-0       52-39  2nd  0.5 gb
 90 Sun, Jul 17  @NYY  L   1-3       51-39  2nd  2.0 gb
 89 Sat, Jul 16  @NYY  W   5-2       51-38  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 26, 2016 DET  9 @BOS  8        W:Alex Wilson (1-0), L: Robbie Ross (1-2), S: Francisco Rodriguez (29)
Mon, Jul 25, 2016 DET  4 @BOS  2        W:Justin Verlander (10-6), L: Drew Pomeranz (8-8), S: Francisco Rodriguez (28)

Sun, Aug 09, 2015 BOS  7 @DET  2        W:Henry Owens (1-1), L: Justin Verlander (1-5), S: none
Sat, Aug 08, 2015 DET  7  BOS  6        W:Blaine Hardy (4-2), L: Junichi Tazawa (2-5), S: Bruce Rondon (1)
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 BOS  7 @DET  2        W:Joe Kelly (4-6), L: Daniel Norris (2-2), S: Koji Uehara (25)
Sun, Jul 26, 2015 BOS 11  DET  1        W:Eduardo Rodriguez (6-3), L: Shane Greene (4-8), S: none
Sat, Jul 25, 2015 DET  5 @BOS  1        W:Alfredo Simon (9-6), L: Steven Wright (3-4), S: none
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 BOS  2  DET  1 (11)   W:Justin Masterson (4-2), L: Blaine Hardy (3-2), S: none
Sun, Jun 08, 2014 BOS  5 @DET  3        W:John Lackey (7-4), L: Joba Chamberlain (1-3), S: Koji Uehara (12)
Sat, Jun 07, 2014 DET  8  BOS  6        W:Max Scherzer (7-2), L: Jon Lester (6-7), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - DET over 2-0; 2015 - BOS won 4-2; 2014 - DET won 5-1; All-Time - BOS leads 1031-966

SP: Michael Fulmer (23, RHP, 9-2, 2.41)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (9-2)			89.2	69	27	24	30	81	7	2.41

Last 7 GS		3-1	42.0	29	11	9	14	32	2	1.93	60
2016-07-22	@CHW	ND	5.0	6	5	4	2	4	1	86	39
2016-07-17	KCR	ND	8.0	6	2	2	1	5	0	95	66
2016-07-06	@CLE	W	6.0	5	2	1	2	2	0	95	56
2016-07-01	@TBR	W	7.0	2	0	0	1	10	0	92	82
2016-06-22	SEA	ND	4.1	3	1	1	1	3	0	74	55
2016-06-17	@KCR	L	5.2	5	1	1	4	5	1	100	56
2016-06-12	@NYY	W	6.0	2	0	0	3	3	0	91	68

Has never faced BOS as starter.

SP: Eduardo Rodriguez (23, LHP, 2-4, 6.70)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (2-4)			41.2	49	32	31	15	30	11	6.70
2015 (10-6)			121.2	120	55	52	37	98	13	3.85

Last 7 GS		1-4	35.2	43	30	29	15	27	11	7.32	40
2016-07-22	MIN	L	5.1	6	2	2	1	8	1	95	55
2016-07-16	@NYY	W	7.0	4	1	1	2	1	1	97	64
2016-06-27	@TBR	L	2.2	11	9	9	1	2	2	75	1
2016-06-22	CHW	ND	6.0	4	4	3	2	7	1	102	55
2016-06-16	BAL	L	4.1	8	5	5	2	5	1	83	30
2016-06-11	@MIN	ND	4.2	6	4	4	4	4	1	93	36
2016-06-05	TOR	L	5.2	4	5	5	3	0	4	99	38

Last 5 v.DET		1-0	7.0	3	1	1	1	6	1	1.29	72
2015-07-26	DET	W	7.0	3	1	1	1	6	1	95	72

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

Tigers Batters (4.66 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.84 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 52.Rodriguez*
G/S/vB 68.Barnes
G/S/vB 11.Buchholz
G/S/vB 59.Layne*
G/S/vB 28.Ross*
G/S/vB 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB 29.Ziegler
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

14.Aviles G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.167 8/.500 2/1.500 4/.500 2/.000 2/2.000 160/103 .209/.255/.264/.518 .429/.567 .417 60/.509 2/2 1/5

24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· ··· 26/.626 ··· 3/1.334 7/.762 9/1.181 429/317 .296/.378/.512/.890 .622/.978 .781 90/.784 0/0 20/3

9.Castellanos G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 402/291 .296/.336/.522/.857 .708/.914 .875 91/.848 1/1 18/7

18.Collins* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 43/31 .190/.209/.357/.566 .258/.677 .736 23/.850 1/0 2/0

1.Iglesias G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 4/.500 3/.000 ··· 348/245 .261/.315/.349/.664 .741/.633 .694 81/.707 5/2 4/4

3.Kinsler G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 10/1.933 ··· 3/1.334 10/1.933 11/1.245 444/321 .290/.345/.499/.843 .893/.824 .838 99/.845 10/3 20/6

41.Martinez# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 7/.286 ··· 2/.000 5/1.400 5/.800 385/281 .290/.343/.474/.817 .795/.826 .908 94/.567 0/0 17/0

4.Maybin G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 8/.125 238/160 .325/.392/.392/.784 .944/.708 .627 82/.718 12/4 2/2

34.McCann G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 212/131 .195/.242/.297/.539 .756/.406 .465 55/.432 0/0 5/2

17.Romine# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.533 ··· 1/no AB 83/69 .233/.317/.315/.632 .368/.688 .697 21/1.008 5/0 1/2

39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· 3/3.000 192/152 .206/.328/.438/.766 .503/.839 .838 43/.731 0/0 10/3

8.Upton G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/1.000 1/3.000 1/no AB 2/1.000 8/1.071 396/281 .236/.290/.392/.682 .711/.670 .674 85/.774 6/1 11/2

IP 41.2 47.1 84.2 28.1 37.2 35.1 44.1 TOTAL .265/.326/.434/.760 .730/.771 .742 .709 43/16 130/51

ERA-K/9

6.70/6.5

3.23/8.8

6.06/6.0

3.81/7.6

4.06/9.5

3.31/9.9

2.44/6.7

4.43/8.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
McCann (15-16-2)
Saltalamacchia (27-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 184/.292 200/.233 370/.272 119/.262 159/.217 143/.220 185/.253 .256 Upton
Aviles
Collins
Romine
Maybin 89/6/0/4
8/0/29/2
5/7/4/1
0/15/1/0
0/56/0/0

OPS .907 .697 .833 .705 .583 .644 .652 .743

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 40/.872 79/.790 180/.933 62/.700 56/.460 63/.482 93/.718 .725

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 144/.917 121/.639 190/.741 57/.711 103/.645 80/.771 92/.587 .754

Home 92/.898 120/.711 248/.865 84/.779 98/.698 86/.519 100/.720

Last 28d days 47/.663 39/.608 39/1.035 28/.804 52/.613 24/.804 34/.419

HR/SB/CS 11/0/2 5/7/2 17/1/4 1/1/4 1/0/1 5/4/1 1/1/0 113/43/22

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

Red Sox Batters (5.68 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 32.Fulmer
G/S/vB 61.Greene
G/S/vB 21.Lowe
G/S/vB 50.Molleken
G/S/vB 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB 43.Rondon
G/S/vB 56.Ryan*
G/S/vB 30.Wilson
G/S/vB 38.Wilson*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

50.Betts G/S/vP ··· 7/.286 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 3/.000 453/371 .305/.344/.532/.876 .741/.906 .940 83/1.088 16/1 20/1

2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· 8/1.375 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 2/1.000 445/363 .332/.389/.473/.862 .981/.835 .897 94/.775 12/3 11/10

25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 2/2.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 3/1.334 387/280 .306/.385/.556/.941 .829/.982 .988 82/.937 7/1 16/3

64.Brentz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 51/19 .286/.314/.388/.701 .777/.579 .522 28/.545 0/0 1/1

10.Hanigan G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 4/.833 91/72 .176/.231/.247/.478 .161/.562 .420 15/.467 0/0 1/0

18.Hill G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/2.000 ··· 12/.523 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 318/218 .272/.345/.398/.743 .696/.764 .675 52/.608 4/2 8/3

12.Holt* G/S/vP ··· 10/.600 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/.500 189/158 .255/.330/.400/.730 .410/.788 .712 59/.873 3/1 5/2

3.Leon# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 90/53 .386/.433/.627/1.060 1.374/.859 .919 55/.949 0/0 3/1

40.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 70/43 .273/.304/.364/.668 .588/.717 .750 10/.311 0/2 1/3

34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· 8/1.357 3/.333 ··· 9/.777 2/.500 1/2.000 1/.000 5/1.000 388/299 .328/.418/.666/1.083 .869/1.149 1.202 84/1.013 2/0 25/

15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 5/.650 6/.733 ··· 6/.533 1/3.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 439/357 .304/.370/.446/.815 .764/.826 .818 95/.822 5/1 10/4

13.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 2/2.000 ··· 6/.533 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/1.100 395/305 .279/.357/.451/.808 1.041/.740 .826 73/1.056 7/2 13/3

47.Shaw* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 370/283 .265/.327/.464/.791 .608/.849 .892 61/.839 4/1 12/13

IP 89.2 37.0 31.1 7.0 37.2 13.2 35.2 41.2 38.0 TOTAL .290/.356/.477/.833 .826/.835 .863 .882 61/11 125/54

ERA-K/9

2.41/8.1

4.14/8.5

9.19/7.5

3.86/9.0

2.63/8.8

5.27/10.5

3.79/5.8

3.24/6.5

3.55/10.9

4.44/7.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hanigan (14-6-18)
Leon (12-7-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 366/.211 149/.206 147/.328 34/.310 147/.201 53/.196 154/.295 174/.268 156/.257 .269 Bradley
Betts
Holt
Martinez
Shaw
Brentz 0/94/0/10
0/0/95/8
45/0/2/6
8/8/9/2
1/0/0/0
16/0/0/0

OPS .610 .547 1.037 .796 .624 .731 .763 .711 .615 .757

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 179/.604 64/.619 60/.902 14/.702 64/.730 28/.495 69/.870 68/.703 61/.628 .752

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 187/.612 85/.489 87/1.132 20/.862 83/.544 25/.957 85/.674 106/.715 95/.605 .761

Road 269/.658 101/.557 88/1.172 22/.785 81/.699 27/.704 64/.892 99/.710 81/.666

Last 28d days 103/.545 38/.413 32/.830 34/.796 34/.510 29/1.037 41/.856 28/.417 36/.704

HR/SB/CS 7/1/1 0/2/1 10/0/2 0/0/0 4/2/1 4/1/1 2/2/2 2/0/0 1/2/1 104/43/24

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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 2016 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

BOS 5.68

SDP 4.41

ATL 3.37

RA/G

NYM 3.52

PHI 4.50

CIN 5.79

J. Altuve .355

A. Hill .272

D. Norris .199

OBP

M. Trout .425

L. Forsythe .339

D. Norris .259

SLG

D. Ortiz .666

L. Forsythe .454

J. Heyward .315

OPS

D. Ortiz 1.083

M. Reynolds .785

A. Ramirez .601

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.79

J. Garcia 3.97

S. Gray 5.43

K/9IP

J. Fernandez 13.05

J. Hellickson 7.66

M. Pelfrey 3.92

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.