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Detroit Tigers vs. Tampa Bay Rays, at Comerica Park, May 21, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Start Time:
4:10et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
71° (based on last ten years)
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
41
On This Date:
7-9
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
43
On This Date:
48-49
Season Series
Fri, May 20, 2016 TBR  7 @DET  5     

Sat, May 21, 2016 TBR    @DET  4:10pm
Sun, May 22, 2016 TBR    @DET  1:10pm
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 DET    @TBR  7:10pm
Fri, Jul 01, 2016 DET    @TBR  7:10pm
Sat, Jul 02, 2016 DET    @TBR  4:10pm
Sun, Jul 03, 2016 DET    @TBR  1:10pm

                         All times ET
Tampa Bay Rays
20-19, 3rd, 4½ GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-11   Road:   10-8    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  13-14   vsLHP:   7-5    1-Run:   3-4 
 vsEast: 11-10   vsCntrl: 4-3    vsWest:  4-5  IL: 1-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 39 Fri, May 20  @DET  W   7-5       20-19  3rd  4.5 gb
 38 Wed, May 18  @TOR  W   6-3       19-19  3rd  5.0 gb
 37 Tue, May 17  @TOR  W  12-2       18-19  3rd  5.0 gb
 36 Mon, May 16  @TOR  W  13-2       17-19  3rd  6.0 gb
 35 Sun, May 15   OAK  L   6-7       16-19  4th  6.5 gb
 34 Sat, May 14   OAK  W   6-0       16-18  4th  6.5 gb
 33 Fri, May 13   OAK  L   3-6       15-18  4th  6.5 gb
 32 Wed, May 11  @SEA  L   5-6 (11)  15-17  4th  5.0 gb
 31 Tue, May 10  @SEA  L   4-6       15-16  4th  4.0 gb
 30 Mon, May  9  @SEA  L   2-5       15-15  3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Detroit Tigers
19-22, 4th, 5½ GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-10   Road:   11-12   ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:  18-16   vsLHP:   1-6    1-Run:   5-6 
 vsEast:  2-5    vsCntrl: 7-8    vsWest:  4-6  IL: 6-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 41 Fri, May 20   TBR  L   5-7       19-22  4th  5.5 gb
 40 Wed, May 18   MIN  W   6-3       19-21  4th  5.0 gb
 39 Tue, May 17   MIN  W   7-2       18-21  4th  6.0 gb
 38 Mon, May 16   MIN  W  10-8       17-21  4th  7.0 gb
 37 Sun, May 15  @BAL  W   6-5       16-21  4th  7.5 gb
 36 Sat, May 14  @BAL  L   3-9       15-21  4th  8.5 gb
 35 Fri, May 13  @BAL  L   0-1       15-20  4th  8.5 gb
 34 Thu, May 12  @BAL  L   5-7       15-19  4th  7.5 gb
 33 Wed, May 11  @WSN  L   2-3       15-18  4th  7.0 gb
 32 Tue, May 10  @WSN  W   5-4       15-17  3rd  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 20, 2016 TBR  7 @DET  5        W:Matt Andriese (3-0), L: Anibal Sanchez (3-5), S: Alex Colome (11)

Wed, Sep 09, 2015 TBR  8 @DET  0        W:Jake Odorizzi (7-8), L: Kyle Lobstein (3-7), S: none
Tue, Sep 08, 2015 DET  8  TBR  7 (13)   W:Kyle Ryan (2-3), L: Andrew Bellatti (2-1), S: none
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 DET  5  TBR  4        W:Al Alburquerque (4-1), L: Brandon Gomes (2-5), S: Bruce Rondon (4)
Wed, Jul 29, 2015 DET  2 @TBR  1        W:Justin Verlander (1-3), L: Chris Archer (9-8), S: Joakim Soria (23)
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 TBR 10  DET  2        W:Jake Odorizzi (6-6), L: David Price (9-4), S: none
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 TBR  5  DET  2        W:Nate Karns (6-5), L: Anibal Sanchez (10-8), S: Brad Boxberger (25)
Thu, Aug 21, 2014 TBR  1  DET  0        W:Alex Cobb (9-6), L: David Price (12-9), S: Jake McGee (14)
Wed, Aug 20, 2014 DET  6 @TBR  0        W:Rick Porcello (14-8), L: Jake Odorizzi (9-10), S: none
Tue, Aug 19, 2014 DET  8 @TBR  6 (11)   W:Jim Johnson (5-2), L: Grant Balfour (1-5), S: Joe Nathan (26)
Season Series: 2016 - TBR over 1-0; 2015 - Tied 3-3; 2014 - TBR won 4-3; All-Time - DET leads 66-64

SP: Drew Smyly (27, LHP, 2-4, 3.44)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (2-4) 49.2 37 20 19 12 58 7 3.44
2015 (5-2) 66.2 58 24 23 20 77 11 3.11
2014 (9-10) 153.0 136 57 55 42 133 18 3.24
Last 7 GS 2-3 43.0 31 15 14 11 53 4 2.93 62
2016-05-16 @TOR W 5.0 4 1 1 4 6 0 101 57
2016-05-10 @SEA L 5.0 10 6 6 0 5 2 88 28
2016-05-04 LAD ND 5.0 5 2 2 2 6 0 93 53
2016-04-29 TOR L 6.0 2 2 2 1 8 2 99 67
2016-04-24 @NYY W 7.0 6 1 1 1 6 0 93 66
2016-04-19 @BOS ND 8.0 1 0 0 2 11 0 105 89
2016-04-13 CLE L 7.0 3 3 2 1 11 0 104 71
Last 5 v.DET 0-0 5.0 7 4 4 1 3 2 7.20 39
2015-09-07 @DET ND 5.0 7 4 4 1 3 2 85 39

SP: Michael Fulmer (23, RHP, 2-1, 6.52)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (2-1) 19.1 29 15 14 9 22 4 6.52
Last 7 GS 2-1 19.1 29 15 14 9 22 4 6.52 40
2016-05-15 @BAL ND 4.1 5 5 4 3 6 1 98 38
2016-05-10 @WSN W 5.0 7 3 3 3 6 1 96 44
2016-05-05 @CLE L 5.0 10 5 5 2 6 2 92 31
2016-04-29 @MIN W 5.0 7 2 2 1 4 0 93 48
Has never faced TBR as starter.

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

Rays Batters (4.26 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.76 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Fulmer
G/S/vB		 21.Lowe
G/S/vB		 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 56.Ryan*
G/S/vB		 53.Saupold
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
1.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/16 .174/.224/.304/.529 .606/.375 .656 30/.579 1/0 1/1
19.Casali G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 87/53 .188/.244/.425/.669 .702/.647 .696 53/.804 0/0 5/2
24.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 54/51 .157/.204/.157/.361 .333/.359 .264 31/.331 0/0 0/1
10.Dickerson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 127/101 .188/.246/.470/.716 .117/.877 1.012 70/.595 0/0 8/0
5.Guyer G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 4/.000 103/54 .299/.398/.506/.904 .974/.841 .742 70/.882 1/1 4/1
8.Jennings G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 2/4.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 112/73 .190/.268/.310/.578 .453/.647 .666 49/.500 2/0 3/0
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 3/1.666 6/.334 135/99 .240/.311/.455/.766 .747/.770 .826 84/.740 6/2 5/1
3.Longoria G/S/vP ··· 12/1.045 3/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 4/1.000 2/.000 171/125 .258/.304/.472/.776 .838/.753 .732 97/.808 0/1 7/2
13.Miller* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 129/103 .212/.279/.407/.686 .631/.700 .752 78/.881 2/2 5/4
7.Morrison* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.167 2/no AB ··· ··· 4/.250 3/.666 109/97 .177/.275/.229/.504 .606/.492 .679 61/.746 2/0 1/2
38.Motter G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/8 .200/.273/.500/.773 1.167/.625 .773 11/.773 0/0 1/0
28.Pearce G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· 101/62 .302/.396/.581/.977 1.401/.692 1.229 67/1.211 0/0 7/2
20.Souza G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 146/106 .276/.336/.530/.865 .982/.820 .947 91/.895 2/2 9/1
IP 19.1 14.1 14.2 18.1 3.1 18.0 14.1 16.0 TOTAL .235/.307/.433/.739 .799/.716 .816 .801 19/10 60/21
ERA-K/9 6.52/10.3 7.53/7.6 3.68/6.7 2.95/3.9 0.00/10.9 6.50/4.5 4.40/7.6 3.94/11.2 4.56/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Casali (8-4-0)
 Conger (13-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 93/.345 62/.255 60/.241 72/.299 15/.231 83/.333 59/.241 65/.274 .272  Jennings
 Souza
 Dickerson
 Kiermaier
 Guyer
 Motter
29/0/0/2
0/1/33/2
7/0/2/0
0/37/0/0
8/4/6/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .944 .966 .781 .766 .564 .906 .621 .684 .772
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 39/.799 25/.709 25/.775 34/.963 4/.250 34/1.096 25/.457 29/.655 .753
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 54/1.053 37/1.145 35/.786 38/.595 11/.664 49/.768 34/.743 36/.710 .788
Home / 25/1.027 20/.500 47/.806 / 35/.931 23/.733 34/.718
Last 28d days 93/.944 35/1.208 31/.526 33/.881 15/.564 48/.987 45/.708 38/.824
HR/SB/CS 4/1/0 4/0/1 2/1/0 1/0/2 0/0/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 1/1/0 47/27/14
Usage ·····X·· X··X··o· ··o·oo·· o··X···· ·····Xo· o·····X· X·o··o·· ···oo···
Tigers Batters (4.49 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Smyly*
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 51.Eveland*
G/S/vB		 54.Geltz
G/S/vB		 30.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 45.Romero*
G/S/vB		 58.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
14.Aviles G/S/vP 11/.455 2/2.500 8/.250 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 4/1.000 37/26 .121/.194/.121/.316 .100/.397 .450 26/.317 0/0 0/2
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 5/2.800 7/.629 ··· 4/2.250 ··· 5/1.800 175/139 .308/.377/.519/.896 .628/.961 1.150 105/1.088 0/0 8/2
9.Castellanos G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 155/122 .340/.368/.583/.951 .725/1.010 .850 98/1.028 1/0 8/3
1.Iglesias G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 134/104 .226/.278/.274/.552 .559/.550 .452 79/.445 3/0 1/0
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 11/1.155 ··· 2/.000 8/1.125 2/.000 10/.633 ··· 3/.000 185/148 .316/.362/.544/.906 1.147/.845 1.022 111/.895 3/2 10/2
28.Martinez G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 4/.500 177/145 .256/.333/.468/.801 .961/.765 .938 108/.785 0/1 8/4
41.Martinez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 4/1.500 155/122 .333/.387/.518/.905 .756/.942 .687 101/.980 0/0 5/0
4.Maybin G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 7/1.071 1/.000 2/1.000 16/12 .615/.667/.615/1.282 1.000/1.394 1.282 16/1.282 4/0 0/0
34.McCann G/S/vP 2/3.500 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/2.000 59/43 .127/.186/.127/.314 .192/.359 .333 44/.330 0/0 0/0
33.Moya* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 19/18 .368/.368/.579/.947 2.000/.889 .500 19/.947 0/0 0/0
17.Romine# G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 ··· 2/.000 20/19 .063/.250/.063/.313 .000/.330 .286 11/.273 1/0 0/2
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB 95/73 .212/.295/.529/.824 .468/.938 .479 51/.518 0/0 7/3
8.Upton G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/1.250 ··· 5/.000 1/2.000 11/1.364 173/132 .228/.272/.327/.599 .505/.628 .623 101/.620 1/0 2/1
IP 49.2 9.1 18.1 11.0 14.2 35.0 16.1 12.0 TOTAL .263/.321/.427/.748 .656/.773 .746 .773 13/4 51/22
ERA-K/9 3.44/10.5 3.86/9.7 1.47/12.8 8.18/8.2 4.30/7.3 2.06/6.7 2.76/6.6 3.75/3.8 3.66/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (7-8-0)
 Saltalamacchia (19-6-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 195/.207 42/.206 69/.185 53/.289 60/.204 129/.205 61/.111 50/.362 .230  Upton
 Martinez
 Maybin
 Aviles
 Moya
 Romine
37/4/0/1
0/0/40/1
0/4/0/0
1/0/1/0
4/0/0/0
0/5/0/0
OPS .620 .641 .478 .885 .765 .628 .380 .911 .680
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 54/.691 24/.620 22/.604 22/1.111 27/.502 55/.848 30/.313 15/1.072 .672
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 141/.591 18/.667 47/.419 31/.730 33/.989 74/.464 31/.435 35/.843 .685
Road 100/.620 18/.932 29/.207 21/.914 27/.755 61/.765 40/.204 19/.895
Last 28d days 116/.716 18/.641 41/.502 27/.936 42/.733 70/.663 36/.536 31/.902
HR/SB/CS 7/1/1 0/0/0 1/0/1 2/6/0 5/1/1 5/0/0 1/1/0 2/2/1 52/21/7
Usage ····X··· ·····o·· X·X··X·· ···oo··X ····oo·X X·X··X·· o··oo··· o··oo··o

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  5.76

CHW  4.26

PHI  3.26

 RA/G

CHC  2.90

STL  4.38

CIN  6.05

 BA

D. Murphy  .387

C. Hernandez  .262

R. Howard  .164

 OBP

B. Harper  .451

Z. Cozart  .336

E. Aybar  .215

 SLG

Y. Cespedes  .642

D. Peralta  .439

E. Aybar  .207

 OPS

J. Altuve  1.039

R. Odor  .773

E. Aybar  .423

 ERA

J. Arrieta  1.29

H. Santiago  3.93

J. Peavy  8.21

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.02

R. Nolasco  7.85

M. Latos  4.40

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.