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Minnesota Twins vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, at Target Field, April 15, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, April 15, 2016
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
56° (based on last ten years)
Angels
Manager:
Mike Scioscia
Game #:
10
On This Date:
26-21
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
10
On This Date:
29-47
Season Series

Fri, Apr 15, 2016 LAA    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Apr 16, 2016 LAA    @MIN  2:10pm
Sun, Apr 17, 2016 LAA    @MIN  2:10pm
Mon, Jun 13, 2016 MIN    @LAA 10:05pm
Tue, Jun 14, 2016 MIN    @LAA 10:05pm
Wed, Jun 15, 2016 MIN    @LAA 10:05pm

                         All times ET
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
5-4, 1st, Tied / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-4    Road:    3-0    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   2-2    vsLHP:   3-2    1-Run:   2-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  5-2  IL: 0-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Wed, Apr 13  @OAK  W   5-1        5-4   1st  0.5 up
  8 Tue, Apr 12  @OAK  W   5-4        4-4   2nd  0.5 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 11  @OAK  W   4-1        3-4   3rd  0.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 10   TEX  W   3-1        2-4   3rd  1.5 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  9   TEX  L   1-4        1-4   5th  1.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  8   TEX  L   3-7        1-3   4th  1.0 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  7   TEX  W   4-3        1-2   2nd  1.0 gb
  2 Tue, Apr  5   CHC  L   1-6        0-2   4th  1.5 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  4   CHC  L   0-9        0-1   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-4    Last 20: 5-4    Last 30: 5-4
Minnesota Twins
0-9, 5th, 7 GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    0-3    Road:    0-6    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   0-7    vsLHP:   0-2    1-Run:   0-3 
 vsEast:  0-3    vsCntrl: 0-6    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Thu, Apr 14   CHW  L   1-3        0-9   5th  7.0 gb
  8 Wed, Apr 13   CHW  L   0-3        0-8   5th  6.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 11   CHW  L   1-4        0-7   5th  5.0 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 10  @KCR  L   3-4 (10)   0-6   5th  4.5 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  9  @KCR  L   0-7        0-5   5th  3.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  8  @KCR  L   3-4        0-4   5th  3.5 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  7  @BAL  L   2-4        0-3   5th  2.5 gb
  2 Wed, Apr  6  @BAL  L   2-4        0-2   5th  2.0 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  4  @BAL  L   2-3        0-1   5th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 0-9    Last 20: 0-9    Last 30: 0-9 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Sep 20, 2015 MIN  8  LAA  1        W:Tyler Duffey (4-1), L: Matt Shoemaker (7-10), S: none
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 LAA  5 @MIN  2        W:Garrett Richards (14-11), L: Mike Pelfrey (6-10), S: Huston Street (38)
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 LAA  4 @MIN  3 (12)   W:Mike Morin (3-1), L: Blaine Boyer (3-5), S: Huston Street (37)
Thu, Sep 17, 2015 LAA 11 @MIN  8        W:Mike Morin (2-1), L: A.J. Achter (0-1), S: Huston Street (36)
Thu, Jul 23, 2015 MIN  3 @LAA  0        W:Ervin Santana (2-0), L: Garrett Richards (10-7), S: Glen Perkins (29)
Wed, Jul 22, 2015 LAA  5  MIN  2        W:C.J. Wilson (8-7), L: Mike Pelfrey (5-7), S: Huston Street (25)
Tue, Jul 21, 2015 LAA  7  MIN  0        W:Matt Shoemaker (5-7), L: Kyle Gibson (8-7), S: none
Sun, Sep 07, 2014 LAA 14 @MIN  4        W:C.J. Wilson (11-9), L: Logan Darnell (0-2), S: none
Sat, Sep 06, 2014 LAA  8 @MIN  5        W:Joe Smith (7-2), L: Jared Burton (2-5), S: Huston Street (37)
Fri, Sep 05, 2014 LAA  7 @MIN  6 (10)   W:Huston Street (2-1), L: Jared Burton (2-4), S: Kevin Jepsen (2)
Season Series: 2016 -  0-0; 2015 - LAA won 5-2; 2014 - LAA won 7-0; All-Time - LAA leads 366-333

SP: Garrett Richards (28, RHP, 0-2, 3.86)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-2) 11.2 14 7 5 4 13 1 3.86
2015 (15-12) 207.1 181 94 84 76 176 20 3.65
2014 (13-4) 168.2 124 51 49 51 164 5 2.61
Last 7 GS 2-4 44.1 37 22 17 22 47 5 3.45 55
2016-04-09 TEX L 6.2 8 4 2 1 6 1 102 51
2016-04-04 CHC L 5.0 6 3 3 3 7 0 97 47
2015-10-04 @TEX L 6.0 6 3 3 2 6 1 99 52
2015-09-30 OAK ND 6.0 2 3 0 4 7 0 108 65
2015-09-25 SEA W 7.0 5 3 3 4 8 1 109 59
2015-09-19 @MIN W 8.2 5 2 2 4 7 1 122 69
2015-09-14 @SEA L 5.0 5 4 4 4 6 1 100 43
Last 5 v.MIN 2-1 24.0 13 7 7 12 17 3 2.63 65
2015-09-19 @MIN W 8.2 5 2 2 4 7 1 122 69
2015-07-23 MIN L 8.0 4 3 3 3 5 1 102 64
2014-06-25 MIN W 7.1 4 2 2 5 5 1 113 62

SP: Tommy Milone (29, LHP, 0-1, 3.86)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-1) 4.2 4 4 2 1 4 2 3.86
2015 (9-5) 128.2 128 64 56 36 91 17 3.92
2014 (6-4) 118.0 128 63 55 37 75 16 4.19
Last 7 GS 3-2 35.1 35 21 16 9 27 3 4.08 50
2016-04-09 @KCR L 4.2 4 4 2 1 4 2 84 47
2015-10-03 KCR ND 6.0 6 1 1 2 5 0 95 59
2015-09-28 @CLE W 5.2 4 2 2 0 4 1 82 57
2015-09-17 LAA ND 1.1 4 5 5 3 0 0 52 23
2015-09-12 @CHW L 3.2 8 7 4 2 3 0 82 24
2015-09-07 @KCR W 7.0 6 2 2 1 4 0 95 60
2015-09-02 CHW W 7.0 3 0 0 0 7 0 91 78
Last 5 v.LAA 2-0 25.1 30 17 13 9 16 2 4.62 45
2015-09-17 LAA ND 1.1 4 5 5 3 0 0 52 23
2014-06-11 @LAA W 6.2 6 1 1 2 4 0 95 60
2014-05-31 LAA ND 6.0 9 3 3 1 3 1 85 44
2014-04-16 @LAA ND 6.0 6 3 2 2 1 0 95 49
2013-09-23 @LAA W 5.1 5 5 2 1 8 1 88 51

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Angels Batters (2.89 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Milone*
G/S/vB		 58.Abad*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 49.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 65.May
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
56.Calhoun* G/S/vP 8/.833 7/.953 1/.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 686/462 .256/.308/.422/.731 .663/.763 .670 34/.893 4/1 26/4
51.Choi# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 8/.250 / /
24.Cron G/S/vP 7/.143 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 404/270 .262/.300/.439/.739 .677/.771 .658 32/.325 3/1 16/6
6.Escobar G/S/vP 8/1.500 2/.000 4/.000 2/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 591/459 .314/.375/.415/.790 .760/.798 .727 41/.890 2/2 9/7
3.Gentry G/S/vP 9/1.127 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 56/25 .120/.196/.200/.396 .408/.382 .505 21/.644 1/1 0/2
12.Giavotella G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 1/3.000 ··· 502/374 .272/.318/.375/.694 .674/.700 .653 24/.297 2/1 4/12
25.Nava# G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/5.000 7/.929 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 166/128 .194/.315/.245/.560 .597/.548 .565 14/.665 1/0 1/1
7.Pennington# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 16/.775 ··· ··· ··· 249/195 .210/.298/.281/.578 .427/.618 .600 8/1.167 3/0 3/9
58.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 283/205 .250/.299/.346/.645 .455/.717 .551 23/.408 2/0 4/5
5.Pujols G/S/vP 24/1.185 1/.000 5/1.200 2/1.000 2/1.500 ··· 2/.500 661/490 .244/.307/.480/.787 .761/.796 .741 37/.449 5/3 40/5
2.Simmons G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 583/464 .265/.321/.338/.660 .565/.683 .604 34/.529 5/3 4/8
18.Soto G/S/vP 10/.333 ··· 3/.667 3/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 210/147 .219/.301/.406/.708 .780/.676 .638 11/.964 0/1 9/5
27.Trout G/S/vP 24/.857 2/1.500 5/.400 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.667 682/506 .299/.402/.590/.991 1.025/.980 1.023 38/.748 11/7 41/0
IP 128.2 47.2 63.1 69.2 114.2 27.2 23.1 TOTAL .229/.302/.315/.618 .632/.607 .764 .618 2/1 3/7
ERA-K/9 3.92/6.4 4.15/8.5 3.55/5.8 2.33/7.6 4.00/8.6 2.93/7.1 3.47/7.3 3.61/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Perez (41-25-7)
 Soto (21-9-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 543/.260 205/.251 257/.250 285/.206 492/.279 119/.257 99/.239 .261  Calhoun
 Trout
 Nava
 Gentry
 Pennington
0/0/157/11
0/156/0/7
12/0/34/3
13/8/6/2
8/0/0/1
OPS .731 .813 .648 .560 .752 .645 .699 .743
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 132/.603 110/.859 109/.717 156/.653 257/.759 42/.678 40/1.011 .713
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 411/.772 95/.753 148/.597 129/.449 235/.743 77/.626 59/.485 .762
Home 260/.759 109/.630 129/.672 140/.510 273/.734 57/.344 50/.735
Last 28d days 20/.776 16/.259 17/1.396 14/1.012 28/.761 28/.486 11/.919
HR/SB/CS 17/8/3 11/0/3 6/5/1 5/4/2 11/10/2 0/1/2 4/4/1 9/2/1
Usage ·····X·· oo····o· ·····X·· ····o·X· X··XX··X ·o·X··X· ·X···X··

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Twins Batters (1.56 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Richards
G/S/vB		 48.Alvarez*
G/S/vB		 65.Mahle*
G/S/vB		 64.Morin
G/S/vB		 46.Rasmus
G/S/vB		 59.Salas
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 16.Street
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
31.Arcia* G/S/vP 3/2.667 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.250 1/.000 3/.333 1/no AB 65/40 .276/.338/.379/.718 .624/.779 .993 5/.200 0/0 2/1
25.Buxton G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 138/93 .209/.250/.326/.576 .318/.704 .415 26/.450 2/2 2/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP 9/.222 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 3/1.000 10/.522 3/1.167 704/498 .236/.307/.444/.751 .762/.746 .789 39/.536 12/4 28/8
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/2.334 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 446/308 .262/.309/.445/.754 .789/.737 .734 36/.802 2/3 12/6
26.Kepler* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/6 .143/.143/.143/.286 .000/.333 .400 7/.286 0/0 0/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 12/.817 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/1.667 2/.000 9/1.069 8/.625 666/457 .265/.338/.380/.718 .720/.718 .696 39/1.068 2/1 10/5
12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 172/86 .277/.327/.406/.734 .770/.696 .761 11/.273 0/0 3/3
9.Nunez G/S/vP 13/.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 204/139 .282/.327/.431/.758 .649/.809 .763 7/1.381 8/4 4/3
52.Park G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 28/.570 / /
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 7/1.429 2/.500 ··· 3/.000 4/.250 2/1.000 10/.311 2/1.500 632/452 .244/.307/.435/.742 .780/.727 .771 32/.478 2/1 22/12
20.Rosario* G/S/vP 7/.286 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 2/.000 474/354 .267/.289/.459/.748 .811/.727 .907 32/.427 11/6 13/7
22.Sano G/S/vP 7/.629 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/3.000 1/.000 1/no AB 335/244 .269/.385/.530/.916 .881/.929 1.065 34/.437 1/1 18/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 3/1.167 4/1.250 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 1/3.000 6/.000 ··· 479/324 .240/.296/.314/.610 .658/.587 .625 22/.445 0/0 5/3
IP 207.1 67.0 35.1 20.2 63.2 65.1 62.1 TOTAL .201/.278/.304/.582 .549/.590 .454 .582 5/4 4/6
ERA-K/9 3.65/7.6 3.49/7.9 /0.0 6.37/10.5 5.23/11.7 4.24/10.5 3.58/7.9 3.18/8.2 3.67/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Murphy (21-8-7)
 Suzuki (80-14-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 865/.236 283/.228 / 151/.265 88/.200 269/.249 271/.259 255/.226 .231  Rosario
 Escobar
 Buxton
 Nunez
 Arcia
 Kepler
86/4/34/16
35/0/1/4
0/44/0/2
3/0/0/1
15/0/4/0
0/0/2/0
OPS .664 .642 .720 .697 .716 .684 .641 .679
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 468/.628 117/.575 / 59/.687 50/.731 116/.729 136/.786 131/.758 .675
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 397/.707 166/.690 / 92/.740 38/.653 153/.707 135/.587 124/.522 .682
Road 391/.726 133/.589 / 84/.998 52/.691 115/.653 106/.720 103/.600
Last 28d days 50/.838 14/.286 3/.000 18/.863 19/.707 19/.740 17/.607 13/.000
HR/SB/CS 20/6/5 5/0/0 // 3/3/1 3/2/1 8/3/0 4/2/2 7/4/1 11/6/2
Usage ·····X·· ·o·X·o·o ·o······ ··o··oX· ······X· ·o·Xo·oo ·o·oo··X ··ooo··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

For the 2015 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TOR  5.50

CHC  4.25

ATL  3.54

 RA/G

STL  3.24

NYY  4.31

COL  5.21

 BA

M. Cabrera  .338

E. Longoria  .270

J. Pederson  .210

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

M. Duffy  .334

W. Ramos  .258

 SLG

B. Harper  .649

E. Longoria  .435

A. Escobar  .320

 OPS

B. Harper  1.109

J. Pederson  .763

C. Owings  .587

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.66

J. Zimmermann  3.66

A. Simon  5.05

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.82

J. Teheran  7.67

M. Buehrle  4.12

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.