Mobile Site You Are Here > > > Minnesota Twins vs. Cleveland Indians, at Target Field, April 27, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Minnesota Twins vs. Cleveland Indians, at Target Field, April 27, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
57° (based on last ten years)
Indians
Manager:
Terry Francona
Game #:
22
On This Date:
44-43
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
22
On This Date:
53-33
Season Series
Mon, Apr 25, 2016 MIN  4  CLE  3     
Tue, Apr 26, 2016 MIN  6  CLE  5     

Wed, Apr 27, 2016 CLE    @MIN  8:10pm
Fri, May 13, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Sat, May 14, 2016 MIN    @CLE  4:10pm
Sun, May 15, 2016 MIN    @CLE  1:10pm
Fri, Jul 15, 2016 CLE    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Jul 16, 2016 CLE    @MIN  7:10pm
Sun, Jul 17, 2016 CLE    @MIN  2:10pm
Mon, Aug 01, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Tue, Aug 02, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Wed, Aug 03, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Thu, Aug 04, 2016 MIN    @CLE 12:10pm
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 MIN    @CLE  7:10pm
Fri, Sep 09, 2016 CLE    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Sep 10, 2016 CLE    @MIN  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 11, 2016 CLE    @MIN  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Cleveland Indians
9-9, 3rd, 4½ GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-5    Road:    6-4    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   6-4    vsLHP:   3-5    1-Run:   3-4 
 vsEast:  3-2    vsCntrl: 4-3    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 18 Tue, Apr 26  @MIN  L   5-6        9-9   3rd  4.5 gb
 17 Mon, Apr 25  @MIN  L   3-4        9-8   3rd  3.5 gb
 16 Sun, Apr 24  @DET  W   6-3        9-7   3rd  2.5 gb
 15 Sat, Apr 23  @DET  W  10-1        8-7   3rd  2.5 gb
 14 Fri, Apr 22  @DET  W   2-1        7-7   4th  3.0 gb
 13 Thu, Apr 21   SEA  L   7-10(10)   6-7   4th  3.0 gb
 12 Wed, Apr 20   SEA  L   1-2        6-6   4th  2.5 gb
 11 Tue, Apr 19   SEA  W   3-2        6-5   4th  2.0 gb
 10 Sun, Apr 17   NYM  L   0-6        5-5   4th  2.0 gb
  9 Sat, Apr 16   NYM  W   7-5        5-4   4th  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-9    Last 30: 9-9
Minnesota Twins
7-14, 5th, 8 GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-4    Road:    1-10   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:   7-11   vsLHP:   0-3    1-Run:   4-5 
 vsEast:  0-3    vsCntrl: 2-6    vsWest:  3-0  IL: 2-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 21 Tue, Apr 26   CLE  W   6-5        7-14  5th  8.0 gb
 20 Mon, Apr 25   CLE  W   4-3        6-14  5th  8.0 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 24  @WSN  L   5-6 (16)   5-14  5th  8.0 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 23  @WSN  L   0-2        5-13  5th  7.0 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 22  @WSN  L   4-8        5-12  5th  6.5 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 21  @MIL  W   8-1        5-11  5th  5.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 20  @MIL  L   5-10       4-11  5th  6.0 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 19   MIL  L   5-6        4-10  5th  5.5 gb
 13 Mon, Apr 18   MIL  W   7-4  (6)   4-9   5th  4.5 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 17   LAA  W   3-2 (12)   3-9   5th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30: 7-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Apr 26, 2016 MIN  6  CLE  5        W:Kevin Jepsen (2-3), L: Cody Allen (0-2), S: none
Mon, Apr 25, 2016 MIN  4  CLE  3        W:Kevin Jepsen (1-3), L: Zach McAllister (1-1), S: none

Thu, Oct 01, 2015 MIN  4 @CLE  2        W:Glen Perkins (3-5), L: Cody Allen (2-5), S: Kevin Jepsen (15)
Wed, Sep 30, 2015 CLE 10  MIN  2        W:Cody Anderson (7-3), L: Mike Pelfrey (6-11), S: none
Wed, Sep 30, 2015 MIN  7 @CLE  1        W:Kyle Gibson (11-11), L: Carlos Carrasco (14-12), S: none
Mon, Sep 28, 2015 MIN  4 @CLE  2        W:Tommy Milone (9-5), L: Corey Kluber (8-16), S: Kevin Jepsen (14)
Thu, Sep 24, 2015 CLE  6 @MIN  3        W:Cody Anderson (6-3), L: Kyle Gibson (10-11), S: Cody Allen (32)
Wed, Sep 23, 2015 MIN  4  CLE  2        W:Phil Hughes (11-9), L: Corey Kluber (8-15), S: none
Tue, Sep 22, 2015 MIN  3  CLE  1        W:Ervin Santana (6-4), L: Danny Salazar (13-9), S: Kevin Jepsen (13)
Sun, Aug 16, 2015 MIN  4  CLE  1        W:Tommy Milone (6-3), L: Carlos Carrasco (11-9), S: Glen Perkins (31)
Season Series: 2016 - MIN over 2-0; 2015 - MIN won 12-7; 2014 - CLE won 11-8; All-Time - CLE leads 1117-983

SP: Josh Tomlin (31, RHP, 2-0, 1.54)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (2-0) 11.2 8 2 2 1 10 1 1.54
2015 (7-2) 65.2 47 22 22 8 57 13 3.02
2014 (6-9) 104.0 120 66 55 14 94 18 4.76
Last 7 GS 5-1 42.0 33 14 14 6 35 7 3.00 58
2016-04-22 @DET W 6.2 4 1 1 1 4 0 85 65
2016-04-16 NYM W 5.0 4 1 1 0 6 1 76 61
2015-10-02 BOS W 6.1 5 2 2 2 5 1 99 58
2015-09-26 @KCR ND 3.2 7 5 5 0 0 1 53 27
2015-09-20 CHW W 5.2 4 0 0 3 8 0 105 66
2015-09-15 KCR L 9.0 4 2 2 0 6 1 110 77
2015-09-09 @CHW W 5.2 5 3 3 0 6 3 101 53
Last 5 v.MIN 2-3 29.1 33 17 17 3 16 6 5.22 47
2015-08-15 @MIN L 6.1 5 2 2 0 5 2 84 60
2014-05-06 MIN W 6.2 4 1 1 1 4 1 93 65
2012-07-27 @MIN L 4.0 10 8 8 0 2 2 70 12
2012-06-02 MIN L 6.0 10 5 5 1 3 1 97 34
2011-08-13 MIN W 6.1 4 1 1 1 2 0 84 62

SP: (2016, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced CLE as starter.

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

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

Indians Batters (4.39 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Abad*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 49.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 65.May
G/S/vB		 51.Meyer
G/S/vB		 61.O'Rourke*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 6/.666 9/1.181 7/1.071 12/.944 ··· 2/.500 6/.367 1/5.000 596/362 .310/.379/.480/.859 .785/.908 .812 5/.000 15/1 15/2
6.Byrd G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 5/.650 4/1.250 ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 544/405 .247/.290/.453/.743 .820/.717 .678 52/.862 2/1 23/0
8.Chisenhall* G/S/vP 1/.000 10/.333 3/.000 11/.773 ··· ··· 5/1.200 4/.000 362/297 .246/.294/.372/.667 .624/.676 .676 18/.333 4/1 7/6
20.Davis G/S/vP 2/1.000 6/.334 7/.453 5/.400 ··· ··· 4/.750 3/.666 370/219 .258/.306/.440/.746 .758/.738 .665 60/.815 18/8 8/2
10.Gomes G/S/vP 1/.000 12/1.000 9/1.000 9/1.301 ··· 1/no AB 4/2.500 2/.000 389/280 .231/.267/.391/.659 .545/.702 .600 60/.689 0/0 12/3
22.Kipnis* G/S/vP 8/.393 13/.802 7/.971 8/1.768 ··· 2/.500 5/2.000 3/.333 641/406 .303/.372/.451/.823 .679/.908 .684 79/.752 12/8 9/7
12.Lindor# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 5/.400 3/1.000 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 2/1.000 438/283 .313/.353/.482/.835 .890/.804 .799 79/.754 12/2 12/10
26.Napoli G/S/vP 3/.667 4/1.750 10/.700 4/.000 ··· ··· 4/.833 1/5.000 469/290 .224/.324/.410/.734 .954/.603 .667 74/.720 3/3 18/9
30.Naquin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 36/.778 / /
55.Perez G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 6/.333 ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 226/161 .228/.348/.402/.751 .841/.715 .659 12/.500 0/0 7/4
11.Ramirez# G/S/vP 1/.000 2/2.000 2/.000 11/.637 ··· 3/.333 1/2.000 1/.000 355/248 .219/.291/.340/.631 .574/.655 .684 54/.711 10/4 6/11
41.Santana# G/S/vP 7/.286 13/.000 8/.661 15/.481 ··· 1/no AB 5/1.150 3/1.667 666/438 .231/.357/.395/.752 .755/.750 .725 77/.725 11/3 19/3
4.Uribe G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/2.000 397/294 .253/.320/.417/.737 .893/.683 .808 55/.663 2/0 14/9
IP 47.2 63.1 69.2 114.2 2.2 22.0 27.2 23.1 TOTAL .250/.310/.408/.718 .619/.788 .749 .718 14/5 19/10
ERA-K/9 4.15/8.5 3.55/5.8 2.33/7.6 4.00/8.6 16.88/10.0 6.14/9.8 2.93/7.1 3.47/7.3 3.82/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gomes (39-19-6)
 Perez (25-18-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 205/.251 257/.250 285/.206 492/.279 15/.364 97/.200 119/.257 99/.239 .255  Brantley
 Chisenhall
 Byrd
 Davis
 Napoli
 Ramirez
101/28/0/8
0/0/51/5
88/4/41/4
39/46/10/2
11/0/0/1
2/0/0/0
OPS .813 .648 .560 .752 1.409 .660 .645 .699 .735
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 110/.859 109/.717 156/.653 257/.759 6/1.500 49/.560 42/.678 40/1.011 .712
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 95/.753 148/.597 129/.449 235/.743 9/1.333 48/.764 77/.626 59/.485 .749
Home 109/.630 129/.672 140/.510 273/.734 / 51/.655 57/.344 50/.735
Last 28d days 33/.345 38/.854 40/.800 50/.729 / 26/.656 64/.762 39/.858
HR/SB/CS 11/0/3 6/5/1 5/4/2 11/10/2 2/2/0 3/1/0 0/1/2 4/4/1 23/6/3
Usage ·oX··o·X o·oX·oX· ooX····o ·XX··o·· ··X·o·Xo ·XX·o·X· ··X·X·Xo

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 (3.43 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Tomlin
G/S/vB		 37.Allen
G/S/vB		 47.Bauer
G/S/vB		 62.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 44.Detwiler*
G/S/vB		 53.Manship
G/S/vB		 34.McAllister
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 27.Shaw
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
31.Arcia* G/S/vP ··· 8/.804 10/2.200 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 9/.904 1/.000 1/2.000 65/40 .276/.338/.379/.718 .624/.779 .993 43/.764 0/0 2/1
2.Dozier G/S/vP 13/.308 8/1.000 22/.332 9/.756 ··· 1/2.000 18/.810 6/.000 19/.673 704/498 .236/.307/.444/.751 .762/.746 .789 93/.695 12/4 28/8
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 4/.500 5/.400 10/.100 5/1.400 1/.000 3/1.000 4/1.750 3/2.333 8/.946 446/308 .262/.309/.445/.754 .789/.737 .734 79/.576 2/3 12/6
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 16/.876 6/1.000 17/1.059 9/1.834 ··· 1/no AB 14/.742 4/2.000 11/.697 666/457 .265/.338/.380/.718 .720/.718 .696 93/.928 2/1 10/5
12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 172/86 .277/.327/.406/.734 .770/.696 .761 35/.246 0/0 3/3
9.Nunez G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 204/139 .282/.327/.431/.758 .649/.809 .763 53/.942 8/4 4/3
52.Park G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / 61/.839 / /
11.Polanco# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/9 .300/.417/.300/.717 1.333/.476 .717 8/.583 1/0 0/2
20.Rosario* G/S/vP 2/2.500 2/2.000 8/1.125 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/1.333 ··· 2/4.500 474/354 .267/.289/.459/.748 .811/.727 .907 73/.607 11/6 13/7
22.Sano G/S/vP 3/.666 2/1.000 6/.334 ··· ··· 2/1.000 4/1.250 2/.000 4/.000 335/244 .269/.385/.530/.916 .881/.929 1.065 89/.763 1/1 18/0
39.Santana# G/S/vP 2/.000 4/1.000 10/.900 4/.833 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.666 4/.833 277/196 .215/.241/.291/.532 .624/.494 .593 20/.650 8/4 0/16
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 4/.833 7/.619 15/.838 17/.352 ··· 5/.400 6/.000 3/.000 5/.000 479/324 .240/.296/.314/.610 .658/.587 .625 47/.581 0/0 5/3
IP 65.2 69.1 176.0 27.2 58.1 39.1 69.0 46.2 64.0 TOTAL .241/.315/.388/.703 .609/.721 .762 .703 12/5 19/14
ERA-K/9 3.02/7.8 2.99/12.9 4.55/8.7 4.88/7.5 7.25/6.3 0.92/7.6 3.00/11.0 6.75/5.4 2.95/7.6 4.07/8.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 251/.195 286/.219 744/.232 128/.325 288/.340 144/.155 299/.258 204/.333 265/.242 .225  Rosario
 Escobar
 Nunez
 Arcia
 Santana
86/4/34/16
35/0/1/4
3/0/0/1
15/0/4/0
0/5/1/0
OPS .642 .596 .713 .959 .984 .440 .702 .886 .693 .691
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 124/.448 140/.512 377/.705 61/1.073 92/.660 55/.644 139/.632 68/.884 104/.673 .709
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 127/.838 146/.676 367/.721 67/.848 196/1.136 89/.310 160/.764 136/.887 161/.704 .669
Road 122/.633 155/.674 338/.608 56/1.026 149/1.024 62/.492 123/.688 106/.990 131/.621
Last 28d days 44/.553 37/.793 52/.762 17/.243 21/.833 21/.508 29/.438 18/.170 37/1.133
HR/SB/CS 13/0/1 2/4/1 23/11/6 6/1/0 10/4/5 1/0/0 7/4/3 7/1/2 8/5/1 23/4/4
Usage ····X··· X·o·oX·o ··X··X·· ·o···o·· ·o···oo· Xoo···X· ·oo·oX·o X··X···· ·oX·oo·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 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.