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Minnesota Twins vs. Atlanta Braves, at Target Field, July 27, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 2-game series
Average Temp:
81° (based on last ten years)
Braves
Manager:
Brian Snitker
Game #:
102
On This Date:
60-68
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
101
On This Date:
67-47
Season Series
Tue, Jul 26, 2016 ATL  2 @MIN  0     

Wed, Jul 27, 2016 ATL    @MIN  8:10pm
Tue, Aug 16, 2016 MIN    @ATL  7:10pm
Wed, Aug 17, 2016 MIN    @ATL  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Atlanta Braves
34-66, 5th, 24 GB, 22½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-36   Road:   20-30   ExtrInn: 7-9 
 vsRHP:  23-40   vsLHP:  11-26   1-Run:  10-15
 vsEast: 17-23   vsCntrl: 7-16   vsWest:  5-18 IL: 5-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
100 Tue, Jul 26  @MIN  W   2-0       34-66  5th 24.0 gb
 99 Sun, Jul 24  @COL  L   2-7       33-66  5th 25.0 gb
 98 Sat, Jul 23  @COL  L   4-8       33-65  5th 25.0 gb
 97 Fri, Jul 22  @COL  L   3-4       33-64  5th 24.0 gb
 96 Thu, Jul 21  @COL  L   3-7       33-63  5th 24.0 gb
 95 Wed, Jul 20  @CIN  L   3-6       33-62  5th 24.0 gb
 94 Tue, Jul 19  @CIN  W   5-4 (11)  33-61  5th 23.0 gb
 93 Mon, Jul 18  @CIN  L   2-8       32-61  5th 24.0 gb
 92 Sun, Jul 17   COL  W   1-0       32-60  5th 23.5 gb
 91 Sat, Jul 16   COL  L   3-4       31-60  5th 24.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-20
Minnesota Twins
37-62, 5th, 20½ GB, 19 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   20-30   Road:   17-32   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  25-47   vsLHP:  12-15   1-Run:  10-18
 vsEast:  7-20   vsCntrl: 9-24   vsWest: 15-10 IL: 6-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 99 Tue, Jul 26   ATL  L   0-2       37-62  5th 20.5 gb
 98 Sun, Jul 24  @BOS  L   7-8       37-61  5th 19.5 gb
 97 Sat, Jul 23  @BOS  W  11-9       37-60  5th 19.5 gb
 96 Fri, Jul 22  @BOS  W   2-1       36-60  5th 20.5 gb
 95 Thu, Jul 21  @BOS  L   2-13      35-60  5th 21.5 gb
 94 Wed, Jul 20  @DET  W   4-1       35-59  5th 21.0 gb
 93 Tue, Jul 19  @DET  W   6-2       34-59  5th 21.0 gb
 92 Mon, Jul 18  @DET  L   0-1       33-59  5th 21.0 gb
 91 Sun, Jul 17   CLE  L   1-6       33-58  5th 21.0 gb
 90 Sat, Jul 16   CLE  W   5-4 (11)  33-57  5th 20.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 26, 2016 ATL  2 @MIN  0        W:Lucas Harrell (2-2), L: Ervin Santana (3-9), S: Jim Johnson (3)

Wed, May 22, 2013 ATL  8  MIN  3        W:Paul Maholm (6-4), L: Vance Worley (1-5), S: none
Tue, May 21, 2013 ATL  5  MIN  4 (10)   W:Craig Kimbrel (1-1), L: Brian Duensing (0-1), S: none
Mon, May 20, 2013 ATL  5  MIN  1        W:Julio Teheran (3-1), L: Kevin Correia (4-4), S: Cory Gearrin (1)
Sun, Jun 13, 2010 ATL  7 @MIN  3        W:Kris Medlen (4-1), L: Kevin Slowey (7-4), S: none
Sat, Jun 12, 2010 ATL  3 @MIN  2        W:Jonny Venters (2-0), L: Matt Guerrier (1-2), S: Billy Wagner (11)
Fri, Jun 11, 2010 MIN  2  ATL  1        W:Francisco Liriano (6-3), L: Tim Hudson (6-2), S: Jon Rauch (16)
Thu, Jun 14, 2007 MIN  3  ATL  2        W:Dennys Reyes (1-1), L: Bob Wickman (1-2), S: none
Wed, Jun 13, 2007 MIN  6  ATL  0        W:Carlos Silva (4-7), L: Chuck James (5-6), S: none
Tue, Jun 12, 2007 MIN  7  ATL  3        W:Kevin Slowey (2-0), L: Kyle Davies (3-5), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - ATL over 1-0; 2015 -  0-0; 2014 -  0-0; All-Time - ATL leads 8-5

SP: Mike Foltynewicz (24, RHP, 3-4, 3.79)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (3-4) 61.2 57 27 26 18 55 12 3.79
2015 (4-6) 86.2 112 63 55 29 77 17 5.71
2014 (0-1) 18.2 23 11 11 7 14 3 5.30
Last 7 GS 2-2 40.0 30 16 15 16 38 7 3.38 56
2016-07-21 @COL L 5.2 4 3 3 5 5 1 112 49
2016-07-16 COL ND 7.0 4 3 3 2 5 0 107 60
2016-07-10 @CHW W 7.0 5 0 0 0 10 0 106 77
2016-07-05 @PHI L 5.2 8 5 5 1 5 4 87 37
2016-06-30 MIA ND 3.0 2 3 2 2 2 1 61 45
2016-05-30 SFG W 6.0 3 1 1 2 4 1 89 64
2016-05-25 MIL ND 5.2 4 1 1 4 7 0 104 60
Has never faced MIN as starter.

SP: Tyler Duffey (25, RHP, 5-7, 5.71)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (5-7) 88.1 107 61 56 22 70 15 5.71
2015 (5-1) 58.0 56 20 20 20 53 4 3.10
Last 7 GS 3-2 36.0 40 27 25 11 23 7 6.25 44
2016-07-21 @BOS L 2.1 9 6 6 1 0 1 55 14
2016-07-16 CLE ND 6.1 6 4 4 3 2 0 97 44
2016-07-07 @TEX W 6.0 2 0 0 4 9 0 107 73
2016-07-02 TEX W 6.0 8 4 4 0 2 2 96 42
2016-06-26 @NYY W 8.0 2 1 1 0 8 1 104 82
2016-06-21 PHI ND 3.0 7 6 6 0 0 3 53 21
2016-06-15 @LAA L 4.1 6 6 4 3 2 0 99 30
Has never faced ATL as starter.

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Braves Batters (3.37 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Duffey
G/S/vB		 58.Abad*
G/S/vB		 62.Boshers*
G/S/vB		 27.Kintzler
G/S/vB		 65.May
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 55.Rogers*
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Aybar# G/S/vP 3/.333 4/.500 ··· ··· 2/.500 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 295/204 .215/.277/.268/.545 .462/.584 .477 75/.615 2/4 1/11
7.Beckham G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 8/.583 ··· ··· 162/105 .236/.321/.389/.710 .728/.700 .695 52/.478 1/0 4/2
23.d'Arnaud G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 201/120 .260/.328/.354/.682 .731/.649 .735 57/.627 7/2 1/2
18.Francoeur G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 243/122 .248/.288/.372/.660 .781/.542 .641 70/.621 1/0 5/3
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· 4/1.417 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 427/265 .272/.356/.501/.857 .900/.831 .865 94/.860 3/0 17/4
13.Garcia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 303/205 .264/.300/.389/.689 .685/.691 .728 86/.843 2/1 8/12
11.Inciarte* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 299/204 .243/.311/.318/.629 .601/.643 .638 75/.654 11/3 1/4
22.Markakis* G/S/vP ··· 5/1.200 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 426/277 .259/.338/.364/.702 .639/.737 .767 93/.764 0/0 5/3
8.Peterson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 206/173 .264/.351/.388/.739 .515/.783 .684 79/.739 1/4 5/6
15.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/1.334 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 209/177 .215/.234/.285/.519 .250/.570 .601 45/.698 1/0 1/4
20.Recker G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/15 .353/.476/.471/.947 .833/1.007 .878 23/.947 1/0 0/0
19.Snyder G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/22 .200/.226/.567/.792 2.000/.281 .500 12/.583 0/0 2/1
IP 88.1 31.0 16.0 30.2 35.0 50.2 33.2 47.0 TOTAL .237/.301/.349/.651 .644/.654 .657 .697 50/22 62/67
ERA-K/9 5.71/7.1 2.61/8.1 2.81/10.1 2.05/5.9 5.66/12.3 3.91/8.2 2.67/9.3 3.83/11.1 4.90/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pierzynski (35-11-4)
 Recker (7-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 392/.295 126/.216 66/.238 121/.239 156/.248 219/.258 141/.267 196/.244 .282  Inciarte
 Francoeur
 Markakis
 d'Arnaud
 Peterson
 Snyder
 Garcia
10/59/0/11
50/0/8/6
0/0/92/3
7/4/1/1
9/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .833 .599 .622 .666 .789 .713 .698 .753 .797
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 185/.714 48/.497 29/.517 44/.531 53/.635 88/.733 48/.506 66/1.023 .757
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 207/.943 78/.662 37/.709 77/.744 103/.861 131/.695 93/.799 130/.619 .824
Home 202/.930 68/.571 34/.515 74/.791 66/.757 98/.673 82/.643 114/.730
Last 28d days 93/.880 30/.742 18/.918 37/.631 33/.609 43/.907 42/.452 35/.657
HR/SB/CS 15/2/1 2/2/0 1/1/0 4/0/0 6/3/1 6/1/0 4/0/1 7/9/1 134/44/13
Usage ·····X·· ···X···· ···X·X·· ···oX·XX ··X··X·· ···X··o· ··XX···· ···o·X··
Twins Batters (4.39 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (4.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 26.Foltynewicz
G/S/vB		 39.Alvarez*
G/S/vB		 62.Cabrera
G/S/vB		 54.Cervenka*
G/S/vB		 60.De La Cruz
G/S/vB		 53.Johnson
G/S/vB		 46.Krol*
G/S/vB		 34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 51.Withrow
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Buxton G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 198/133 .207/.256/.335/.592 .554/.609 .612 55/.695 7/1 1/2
37.Centeno* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 103/72 .265/.301/.398/.699 .525/.775 .447 33/.924 0/0 2/2
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.100 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 405/313 .249/.332/.462/.793 1.082/.711 .704 96/.736 7/0 17/5
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1.500 5/.000 1/2.000 ··· 207/153 .258/.282/.369/.650 .767/.610 .834 22/.545 1/2 3/8
36.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2.000 ··· 223/142 .275/.408/.445/.853 1.051/.734 .910 68/.826 1/3 6/3
26.Kepler* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 210/138 .237/.311/.489/.800 .716/.844 .808 95/.857 2/0 10/3
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 4/.500 ··· ··· 402/305 .258/.358/.365/.723 .565/.777 .759 79/.651 2/0 8/2
9.Nunez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 386/290 .298/.326/.445/.770 .856/.742 .740 100/.593 26/6 12/11
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 185/141 .250/.268/.398/.665 .584/.688 .561 64/.917 3/1 5/2
22.Sano G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 301/245 .246/.342/.462/.804 1.036/.755 .723 90/.814 1/0 15/13
39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.833 6/.666 1/2.000 ··· 184/143 .244/.284/.349/.633 .437/.688 .736 38/.596 11/8 2/2
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 8/.125 3/.000 3/1.667 ··· 238/163 .288/.325/.432/.757 .872/.704 .701 56/.802 0/0 5/3
19.Vargas# G/S/vP 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 60/47 .327/.433/.694/1.127 1.538/1.010 .833 60/1.127 0/0 3/0
IP 61.2 15.0 13.1 30.0 18.2 35.1 28.1 22.2 28.2 TOTAL .250/.315/.413/.728 .769/.714 .730 .783 65/21 113/71
ERA-K/9 3.79/8.0 3.00/16.8 3.38/6.1 3.00/9.9 4.82/5.8 4.33/7.6 3.18/10.2 6.35/6.7 3.14/7.2 4.41/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Centeno (9-2-2)
 Suzuki (31-10-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 255/.247 61/.200 54/.234 122/.186 83/.286 151/.263 122/.275 101/.316 119/.223 .255  Kepler
 Grossman
 Buxton
 Santana
 Rosario
 Sano
 Escobar
0/4/53/4
45/1/0/3
0/57/0/2
5/38/2/2
41/10/0/2
0/0/38/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .757 .642 .584 .638 .901 .743 .742 .845 .634 .740
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 102/.880 25/.628 20/.411 64/.529 39/.897 74/.782 47/.691 56/.743 43/.542 .780
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 153/.679 36/.653 34/.696 58/.758 44/.905 77/.706 75/.774 45/.971 76/.685 .706
Road 142/.891 29/.563 38/.685 58/.813 53/.994 76/.859 56/.842 48/.725 56/.432
Last 28d days 116/.697 43/.702 48/.605 24/.917 58/.938 42/.929 36/.785 15/.667 36/.619
HR/SB/CS 12/1/3 3/1/0 0/1/0 2/5/2 4/1/0 3/2/0 3/4/2 3/1/0 3/5/0 112/77/15
Usage ·····X·· ··o·X··X X··X·X·X o·o··o·o ··X·Xo·· o··X···o ···oX·X· ··o··oo· o···X··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  5.68

SDP  4.41

ATL  3.37

 RA/G

NYM  3.52

PHI  4.50

CIN  5.79

 BA

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.