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Detroit Tigers vs. Texas Rangers, at Comerica Park, May 7, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Start Time:
1:10et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
66° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
32
On This Date:
17-32
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
30
On This Date:
49-52
Season Series
Fri, May 06, 2016 TEX  5 @DET  1     

Sat, May 07, 2016 TEX    @DET  1:10pm
Sun, May 08, 2016 TEX    @DET  1:10pm
Fri, Aug 12, 2016 DET    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Aug 13, 2016 DET    @TEX  8:05pm
Sun, Aug 14, 2016 DET    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
16-14, 2nd, 1½ GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-5    Road:    6-9    ExtrInn: 0-3 
 vsRHP:  12-9    vsLHP:   4-5    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  5-5    vsCntrl: 1-3    vsWest: 10-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 30 Fri, May  6  @DET  W   5-1       16-14  2nd  1.5 gb
 29 Thu, May  5  @TOR  L   2-12      15-14  2nd  2.5 gb
 28 Wed, May  4  @TOR  L   3-4       15-13  2nd  1.5 gb
 27 Tue, May  3  @TOR  L   1-3 (10)  15-12  2nd  0.5 gb
 26 Mon, May  2  @TOR  W   2-1       15-11  1st  0.5 up
 25 Sun, May  1   LAA  L   6-9       14-11  1st  0.5 up
 24 Sat, Apr 30   LAA  W   7-2       14-10  1st  0.5 up
 23 Fri, Apr 29   LAA  W   4-2       13-10  1st  0.5 up
 22 Wed, Apr 27   NYY  W   3-2       12-10  1st  0.5 up
 21 Tue, Apr 26   NYY  W  10-1       11-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Detroit Tigers
14-14, 3rd, 5 GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-7    Road:    9-7    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:  13-9    vsLHP:   1-5    1-Run:   3-3 
 vsEast:  1-1    vsCntrl: 4-8    vsWest:  4-4  IL: 5-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 28 Fri, May  6   TEX  L   1-5       14-14  3rd  5.0 gb
 27 Thu, May  5  @CLE  L   4-9       14-13  2nd  4.0 gb
 26 Wed, May  4  @CLE  L   0-4       14-12  2nd  4.0 gb
 25 Tue, May  3  @CLE  L   3-7       14-11  2nd  4.0 gb
 24 Sun, May  1  @MIN  W   6-5       14-10  2nd  3.0 gb
 23 Sat, Apr 30  @MIN  W   4-1       13-10  2nd  3.0 gb
 22 Fri, Apr 29  @MIN  W   9-2       12-10  2nd  3.0 gb
 21 Thu, Apr 28   OAK  W   7-3       11-10  3rd  4.0 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 27   OAK  W   9-4       10-10  4th  5.0 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 26   OAK  L   1-5        9-10  4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:14-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 06, 2016 TEX  5 @DET  1        W:Cole Hamels (4-0), L: Jordan Zimmermann (5-1), S: none

Wed, Sep 30, 2015 TEX  6  DET  2        W:Yovani Gallardo (13-11), L: Matt Boyd (1-6), S: none
Tue, Sep 29, 2015 TEX  7  DET  6        W:Cole Hamels (12-8), L: Buck Farmer (0-4), S: Shawn Tolleson (34)
Mon, Sep 28, 2015 DET  7 @TEX  4        W:Justin Verlander (5-8), L: Colby Lewis (17-9), S: Neftali Feliz (10)
Sun, Aug 23, 2015 TEX  4 @DET  2        W:Cole Hamels (7-8), L: Matt Boyd (1-4), S: Shawn Tolleson (25)
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 TEX  5 @DET  3        W:Yovani Gallardo (10-9), L: Randy Wolf (0-1), S: none
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 TEX  2 @DET  0        W:Colby Lewis (14-5), L: Justin Verlander (1-6), S: Shawn Tolleson (24)
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 DET  4  TEX  0        W:Alfredo Simon (11-7), L: Martin Perez (1-3), S: none
Thu, Jun 26, 2014 DET  6 @TEX  0        W:Rick Porcello (10-4), L: Nick Martinez (1-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 25, 2014 DET  8 @TEX  6        W:Anibal Sanchez (5-2), L: Joe Saunders (0-4), S: Joe Nathan (16)
Season Series: 2016 - TEX over 1-0; 2015 - TEX won 5-2; 2014 - DET won 4-3; All-Time - DET leads 356-308

SP: A.J. Griffin (28, RHP, 3-0, 2.32)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (3-0) 31.0 20 9 8 11 26 2 2.32
2013 (14-10) 200.0 171 91 85 54 171 36 3.83
2012 (7-1) 82.1 74 29 28 19 64 10 3.06
Last 7 GS 3-1 42.0 26 14 13 14 39 4 2.79 60
2016-05-02 @TOR ND 6.0 3 1 1 2 9 0 107 69
2016-04-26 NYY W 8.0 4 1 1 1 5 0 98 74
2016-04-21 HOU W 6.0 4 2 2 2 6 1 108 60
2016-04-13 @SEA ND 5.0 3 2 1 4 5 1 103 56
2016-04-08 @LAA W 6.0 6 3 3 2 1 0 88 47
2013-09-24 @LAA L 5.0 5 3 3 1 7 1 95 51
2013-09-18 LAA ND 6.0 1 2 2 2 6 1 90 66
Last 5 v.DET 1-1 9.2 15 9 9 2 7 5 8.38 35
2013-08-26 @DET W 5.0 7 4 4 1 4 2 91 40
2012-09-18 @DET L 4.2 8 5 5 1 3 3 100 30

SP: Mike Pelfrey (32, RHP, 0-4, 5.68)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-4) 25.1 37 21 16 15 12 3 5.68
2015 (6-11) 164.2 198 86 78 45 86 11 4.26
2014 (0-3) 23.2 29 23 21 18 10 5 7.99
Last 7 GS 0-5 32.0 49 26 21 17 20 3 5.91 38
2016-05-01 @MIN ND 4.0 8 5 5 3 3 0 98 26
2016-04-26 OAK L 6.2 9 5 5 0 1 1 100 37
2016-04-21 @KCR L 5.0 8 4 3 5 2 1 104 34
2016-04-15 @HOU L 6.0 5 1 1 6 3 0 104 55
2016-04-09 NYY L 3.2 7 6 2 1 3 1 74 33
2015-09-30 @CLE L 1.2 6 4 4 2 1 0 46 26
2015-09-25 @DET ND 5.0 6 1 1 0 7 0 85 58
Last 5 v.TEX 1-2 23.2 29 14 14 6 14 2 5.32 45
2015-08-12 TEX W 7.0 4 1 1 1 4 0 101 68
2015-06-13 @TEX L 3.2 11 8 8 3 0 1 65 4
2013-08-31 @TEX ND 7.0 6 1 1 0 7 0 98 68
2011-06-24 @TEX L 6.0 8 4 4 2 3 1 111 41

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Rangers Batters (4.17 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.39 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Pelfrey
G/S/vB		 45.Farmer
G/S/vB		 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB		 21.Lowe
G/S/vB		 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 56.Ryan*
G/S/vB		 54.VerHagen
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 38.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Alberto G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 22/8 .143/.143/.143/.286 .308/.250 .364 19/.333 0/0 0/0
1.Andrus G/S/vP 9/.750 1/.000 1/no AB 5/.650 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 104/84 .302/.330/.427/.757 1.032/.690 .643 85/.771 1/3 0/2
29.Beltre G/S/vP 9/1.083 1/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 15/.600 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 123/87 .268/.317/.420/.737 .826/.700 .675 98/.699 0/0 3/0
3.DeShields G/S/vP 6/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/1.333 105/79 .226/.301/.290/.591 .376/.659 .709 82/.578 3/3 1/2
20.Desmond G/S/vP 22/.937 ··· ··· ··· 12/.717 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 118/86 .236/.314/.387/.700 .996/.589 .587 93/.802 5/1 3/2
84.Fielder* G/S/vP 35/1.110 1/no AB 3/1.334 1/.000 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.334 123/89 .205/.252/.304/.556 .550/.557 .480 97/.534 0/0 2/0
8.Holaday G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 47/27 .167/.255/.190/.446 .522/.389 .578 41/.435 0/0 0/0
30.Mazara* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 101/65 .318/.376/.443/.819 .609/.943 .890 101/.819 0/0 3/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 12/.667 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/.667 104/81 .250/.308/.417/.724 .445/.806 .445 83/.773 0/0 3/0
12.Odor* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 121/83 .287/.322/.496/.818 .787/.832 .717 96/.892 4/1 5/3
16.Rua G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 45/25 .256/.289/.349/.638 .926/.408 .604 37/.696 0/0 1/0
6.Wilson G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 23/20 .250/.304/.250/.554 1.333/.426 .686 23/.554 0/0 0/0
IP 25.1 8.1 7.1 9.2 9.2 13.2 13.0 8.0 12.0 TOTAL .254/.311/.388/.698 .718/.690 .646 .719 14/8 24/11
ERA-K/9 5.68/4.3 2.16/10.8 2.45/6.2 2.79/6.5 4.66/6.5 1.98/2.6 6.23/4.2 2.25/9.0 1.50/11.2 4.08/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Holaday (3-4-0)
 Wilson (2-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 122/.359 33/.207 30/.214 35/.188 40/.257 52/.294 62/.368 31/.207 47/.250 .274  Rua
 Desmond
 Mazara
 DeShields
6/0/2/2
24/6/0/2
0/0/23/2
0/25/0/1
OPS .944 .613 .660 .572 .896 .661 .912 .467 .578 .753
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 69/.981 20/.871 11/.382 14/.548 16/1.018 21/.683 25/1.433 16/.375 16/.688 .770
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 53/.896 13/.237 19/.816 21/.588 24/.815 31/.645 37/.543 15/.574 31/.517 .738
Home 47/.930 16/.976 17/.686 5/.000 8/.375 32/.700 29/1.078 12/.583 22/.699
Last 28d days 103/.908 20/.311 30/.660 27/.502 31/.722 48/.674 50/.993 31/.467 35/.627
HR/SB/CS 3/7/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 0/0/1 2/1/0 0/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 23/17/10
Usage ·····X·· ···X···o ·o·o···· ·····oo· ·····oX· ··o··o·· ·X·····o ·o···X·o o····X·X
Tigers Batters (4.39 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 64.Griffin
G/S/vB		 43.Barnette
G/S/vB		 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 41.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 47.Dyson
G/S/vB		 55.Ramos*
G/S/vB		 53.Ranaudo
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 54.Wilhelmsen
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
14.Aviles G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.750 ··· 2/.000 7/.500 31/23 .148/.233/.148/.381 .143/.451 .450 26/.361 0/0 0/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 6/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 2/2.500 ··· 1/3.000 7/.286 120/92 .262/.342/.430/.772 .539/.831 .979 102/.751 0/0 4/1
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 5/.600 4/1.250 103/80 .371/.379/.608/.987 .602/1.095 .808 89/1.013 1/0 5/2
12.Gose* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 4/1.167 83/58 .203/.289/.324/.613 .423/.689 .469 67/.584 0/1 2/0
1.Iglesias G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.833 93/70 .259/.323/.271/.593 .598/.591 .499 75/.512 3/0 0/0
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 14/.368 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 5/.200 ··· 5/1.400 8/.500 124/96 .302/.339/.474/.813 1.082/.735 .830 104/.761 3/1 5/0
28.Martinez G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.666 4/1.000 118/95 .250/.322/.385/.707 1.058/.619 .939 100/.696 0/1 3/3
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 4/.500 ··· 2/.500 3/.000 104/80 .323/.375/.583/.958 .825/.993 .835 94/.935 0/0 5/
34.McCann G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 25/14 .087/.160/.087/.247 .182/.298 .308 12/.167 0/0 0/0
17.Romine# G/S/vP 7/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/1.000 16/16 .077/.250/.077/.327 /.327 .286 15/.277 1/0 0/2
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 11/.473 ··· ··· 6/.167 ··· 6/.666 ··· 1/.000 5/1.267 73/57 .227/.301/.591/.892 .521/1.000 .527 68/.835 0/0 6/2
8.Upton G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 6/.333 5/.400 1/2.000 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 118/89 .246/.263/.351/.614 .491/.653 .548 99/.620 1/0 2/1
IP 31.0 12.1 5.2 10.2 14.0 10.1 11.0 11.0 TOTAL .258/.312/.410/.722 .648/.744 .678 .706 9/3 32/14
ERA-K/9 2.32/7.5 3.65/5.9 3.18/4.7 2.53/10.9 2.57/7.1 2.61/4.4 /0.0 5.73/7.4 9.00/3.3 3.91/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (1-4-0)
 Saltalamacchia (15-6-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 122/.180 52/.306 27/.360 42/.132 55/.229 43/.300 / 50/.298 53/.370 .254  Martinez
 Aviles
 Romine
 Gose
 Upton
0/0/27/1
1/0/1/0
0/3/0/0
0/24/0/0
27/0/0/0
OPS .560 .735 .847 .504 .681 .874 .829 1.195 .755
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 67/.629 28/.839 7/.571 11/.282 19/.568 15/.795 / 23/1.331 17/1.731 .766
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 55/.476 24/.610 20/.950 31/.583 36/.730 28/.913 / 27/.416 36/.955 .750
Road 71/.599 24/.530 17/.937 17/.443 32/.919 15/.624 / 16/1.152 28/.618
Last 28d days 96/.527 42/.694 27/.847 34/.590 41/.706 43/.874 / 37/.594 35/.937
HR/SB/CS 2/1/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 1/1/0 2/0/0 // 2/1/0 4/0/0 40/7/5
Usage ····X··· ··XoX·o· ·····X·· o··X·X·· o··oXX·o ·X······ ···Xo··o ··oX·oo·

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

CHC  6.14

MIA  4.21

ATL  3.04

 RA/G

CHC  2.64

OAK  4.17

MIL  5.93

 BA

D. Murphy  .406

B. McCann  .266

R. Goins  .149

 OBP

D. Fowler  .455

J. Bradley  .333

R. Goins  .204

 SLG

A. Diaz  .693

H. Ramirez  .436

R. Goins  .218

 OPS

A. Diaz  1.129

A. Eaton  .772

R. Goins  .423

 ERA

J. Arrieta  .84

H. Santiago  3.58

J. Peavy  9.00

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.55

T. Roark  7.99

M. Perez  4.63

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.