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Minnesota Twins vs. Chicago White Sox, at Target Field, September 4, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Start Time:
1:10ct (local), 2:10et
Venue:
Target Field
Series:
Game #4 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
73° (based on last ten years)
White Sox
Manager:
Robin Ventura
Game #:
138
On This Date:
54-58
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
139
On This Date:
49-57
Season Series
Mon, Apr 11, 2016 CHW  4 @MIN  1     
Wed, Apr 13, 2016 CHW  3 @MIN  0     
Thu, Apr 14, 2016 CHW  3 @MIN  1     
Fri, May 06, 2016 CHW 10  MIN  4     
Sat, May 07, 2016 CHW  7  MIN  2     
Sun, May 08, 2016 CHW  3  MIN  1     
Tue, Jun 28, 2016 MIN  4 @CHW  0     
Wed, Jun 29, 2016 CHW  9  MIN  6     
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 CHW  6  MIN  5     
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 MIN  2  CHW  1 (12)
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 CHW  6 @MIN  5 (10)
Sun, Jul 31, 2016 MIN  6  CHW  4     
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 MIN  8  CHW  5     
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 CHW 11 @MIN  4     
Sat, Sep 03, 2016 MIN 11  CHW  3     

Sun, Sep 04, 2016 CHW    @MIN  2:10pm
Fri, Sep 30, 2016 MIN    @CHW  8:10pm
Sat, Oct 01, 2016 MIN    @CHW  7:10pm
Sun, Oct 02, 2016 MIN    @CHW  3:10pm

                         All times ET
Chicago White Sox
64-71, 4th, 14½ GB, 12 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-29   Road:   29-42   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  48-56   vsLHP:  16-15   1-Run:  21-26
 vsEast: 16-13   vsCntrl:21-34   vsWest: 18-15 IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
135 Sat, Sep  3  @MIN  L   3-11      64-71  4th 14.5 gb
134 Fri, Sep  2  @MIN  W  11-4       64-70  4th 13.5 gb
133 Thu, Sep  1  @MIN  L   5-8       63-70  4th 13.5 gb
132 Wed, Aug 31  @DET  L   2-3       63-69  4th 13.0 gb
131 Tue, Aug 30  @DET  L   4-8       63-68  4th 12.0 gb
130 Mon, Aug 29  @DET  L   3-4       63-67  4th 11.0 gb
129 Sun, Aug 28   SEA  W   4-1       63-66  4th 10.0 gb
128 Sat, Aug 27   SEA  W   9-3       62-66  4th 11.0 gb
127 Fri, Aug 26   SEA  L   1-3       61-66  4th 12.0 gb
126 Thu, Aug 25   SEA  W   7-6       61-65  4th 11.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
Minnesota Twins
51-85, 5th, 28 GB, 25½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-41   Road:   24-44   ExtrInn: 5-7 
 vsRHP:  35-65   vsLHP:  16-20   1-Run:  11-24
 vsEast: 10-24   vsCntrl:17-39   vsWest: 16-13 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
136 Sat, Sep  3   CHW  W  11-3       51-85  5th 28.0 gb
135 Fri, Sep  2   CHW  L   4-11      50-85  5th 28.0 gb
134 Thu, Sep  1   CHW  W   8-5       50-84  5th 27.0 gb
133 Wed, Aug 31  @CLE  L   4-8       49-84  5th 27.5 gb
132 Tue, Aug 30  @CLE  L   4-5       49-83  5th 26.5 gb
131 Mon, Aug 29  @CLE  L   0-1 (10)  49-82  5th 25.5 gb
130 Sun, Aug 28  @TOR  L   6-9       49-81  5th 24.5 gb
129 Sat, Aug 27  @TOR  L   7-8       49-80  5th 24.5 gb
128 Fri, Aug 26  @TOR  L   8-15      49-79  5th 24.5 gb
127 Thu, Aug 25   DET  L   5-8       49-78  5th 23.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 5-15   Last 30: 9-21

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Sep 03, 2016 MIN 11  CHW  3        W:Hector Santiago (11-8), L: James Shields (5-17), S: none
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 CHW 11 @MIN  4        W:Carlos Rodon (6-8), L: Kyle Gibson (5-9), S: none
Thu, Sep 01, 2016 MIN  8  CHW  5        W:Ervin Santana (7-10), L: Jose Quintana (11-10), S: Brandon Kintzler (13)
Sun, Jul 31, 2016 MIN  6  CHW  4        W:Ervin Santana (4-9), L: Carlos Rodon (2-8), S: Ryan Pressly (1)
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 CHW  6 @MIN  5 (10)   W:Michael Ynoa (1-0), L: Fernando Abad (1-4), S: David Robertson (25)
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 MIN  2  CHW  1 (12)   W:Trevor May (2-2), L: Dan Jennings (4-3), S: none
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 CHW  6  MIN  5        W:Nate Jones (4-2), L: Fernando Abad (1-2), S: David Robertson (21)
Wed, Jun 29, 2016 CHW  9  MIN  6        W:James Shields (3-9), L: Ricky Nolasco (3-6), S: Nate Jones (2)
Tue, Jun 28, 2016 MIN  4 @CHW  0        W:Kyle Gibson (1-5), L: Jose Quintana (5-8), S: none
Sun, May 08, 2016 CHW  3  MIN  1        W:Jose Quintana (5-1), L: Tyler Duffey (0-2), S: David Robertson (10)
Season Series: 2016 - CHW over 10-5; 2015 - MIN won 13-6; 2014 - MIN won 10-9; All-Time - CHW leads 1130-1044

SP: Anthony Ranaudo (26, RHP, 1-1, 8.76)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (1-1) 24.2 23 24 24 18 13 7 8.76
2015 (0-1) 15.1 18 13 13 8 11 2 7.63
2014 (4-3) 39.1 39 21 21 16 15 10 4.81
Last 7 GS 1-2 36.1 38 25 25 15 19 6 6.19 44
2016-08-30 @DET ND 5.0 5 3 3 3 2 1 100 44
2016-08-25 SEA ND 5.1 6 6 6 2 4 1 96 34
2016-08-17 @CLE ND 4.0 8 5 5 1 2 2 88 27
2016-07-27 @CHC L 6.2 2 3 3 4 3 2 107 57
2015-06-18 @LAD ND 6.2 5 0 0 2 4 0 100 66
2015-04-15 LAA L 1.2 6 6 6 2 2 0 62 19
2014-09-24 TBR W 7.0 6 2 2 1 2 0 98 58
Has never faced MIN as starter.

SP: Andrew Albers (30, LHP, 0-0, 6.97)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-0) 10.1 18 11 8 4 8 4 6.97
2015 (0-0) 2.2 1 1 1 2 1 1 3.38
2013 (2-5) 60.0 64 34 27 7 25 6 4.05
Last 7 GS 0-4 32.0 47 28 21 7 16 6 5.91 40
2016-08-30 @CLE ND 2.0 6 4 4 3 2 2 58 27
2013-09-26 CLE L 5.2 7 4 3 2 2 1 102 41
2013-09-20 @OAK L 4.2 8 8 3 1 2 1 96 27
2013-09-14 TBR L 4.0 6 4 4 1 1 0 73 34
2013-09-08 TOR ND 7.0 5 0 0 0 5 0 97 72
2013-09-02 @HOU ND 1.2 9 5 5 0 2 0 46 19
2013-08-28 KCR L 7.0 6 3 2 0 2 2 99 57
Last 5 v.CHW 0-1 7.0 8 5 5 1 3 1 6.43 43
2013-08-17 CHW L 7.0 8 5 5 1 3 1 97 43

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White Sox Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.52 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Albers*
G/S/vB		 62.Boshers*
G/S/vB		 60.Chargois
G/S/vB		 27.Kintzler
G/S/vB		 53.Light
G/S/vB		 61.O'Rourke*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 55.Rogers*
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 51.Wimmers
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
79.Abreu G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 9/.583 1/5.000 3/.000 1/2.000 577/458 .291/.345/.466/.810 .729/.832 .730 105/.988 0/2 20/7
12.Anderson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 312/246 .282/.300/.430/.729 .869/.691 .637 97/.847 7/2 7/11
31.Avila* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/1.750 1/no AB 2/.500 ··· 169/148 .230/.361/.381/.742 .943/.716 .640 20/.913 0/0 5/2
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 5/1.550 2/2.000 1/2.000 5/1.350 2/.500 4/1.250 1/.000 528/423 .295/.345/.444/.789 .861/.770 .756 95/.730 2/0 10/2
1.Eaton* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 8/.453 3/.666 2/1.000 1/no AB 605/452 .281/.365/.420/.784 .752/.797 .814 109/.872 12/4 12/4
21.Frazier G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 8/.286 2/.000 ··· 6/.500 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 553/448 .214/.298/.459/.757 .805/.746 .758 103/.704 10/3 35/9
26.Garcia G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 5/.000 1/.000 1/.000 4/.500 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 367/276 .237/.302/.375/.678 .755/.653 .685 47/.611 3/3 10/1
44.Morneau* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.167 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 156/125 .260/.301/.445/.746 .710/.755 .827 84/.718 0/0 5/
38.Narvaez* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 59/51 .327/.441/.388/.828 1.000/.803 .893 42/.748 0/0 0/0
18.Saladino G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 1/no AB 264/193 .264/.298/.407/.704 .737/.692 .710 82/.716 10/4 8/7
5.Sanchez# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 2/.000 3/.000 1/no AB 92/70 .174/.211/.244/.455 .364/.486 .530 29/.729 0/1 0/1
20.Shuck* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 230/197 .210/.251/.308/.560 .855/.512 .471 46/.548 2/3 4/2
61.Smith G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 5/.000 0/0 0/0
IP 10.1 25.2 11.2 44.1 10.0 18.0 68.0 50.1 63.2 4.1 TOTAL .254/.316/.405/.720 .760/.710 .707 .761 62/30 139/76
ERA-K/9 6.97/7.0 5.61/8.8 8.49/5.4 1.83/5.7 10.80/9.9 3.00/7.5 3.71/8.1 3.04/8.9 4.95/10.0 4.15/6.3 5.14/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (21-6-3)
 Narvaez (7-1-0)
 Smith (0-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 53/.367 113/.274 61/.388 174/.247 53/.318 74/.226 296/.269 216/.253 278/.273 22/.357 .287  Eaton
 Cabrera
 Shuck
 Garcia
 Saladino
1/35/109/18
121/0/0/11
2/58/2/4
11/0/29/3
1/1/1/1
OPS 1.191 .735 .982 .641 1.070 .658 .729 .684 .818 1.167 .817
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 11/.636 46/.594 26/1.132 70/.591 13/.585 18/.118 123/.676 73/.558 101/1.060 12/.830 .772
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 42/1.345 67/.838 35/.880 104/.675 40/1.215 56/.819 173/.760 143/.748 177/.685 10/1.600 .846
Home 30/1.021 67/.755 45/.832 102/.749 29/1.072 26/.397 136/.674 124/.697 164/.801 8/1.381
Last 28d days 53/1.191 23/1.119 53/.930 31/.581 35/.793 42/.593 51/.882 47/.674 44/1.096 22/1.167
HR/SB/CS 4/0/1 3/4/0 0/1/0 4/0/0 3/1/0 2/1/0 7/2/0 5/1/1 11/13/1 1/0/0 191/65/16
Usage ····X··· o······· ·X·X··o· ··o··X·· XX··X·X· oo·X···· ··X··o·X ··X·X··o ········ ·X··X·X·
Twins Batters (4.60 RS/G) vs. White Sox Pitchers (4.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Ranaudo
G/S/vB		 34.Albers
G/S/vB		 54.Beck
G/S/vB		 43.Jennings*
G/S/vB		 65.Jones
G/S/vB		 48.Kahnle
G/S/vB		 67.Minaya
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 29.Turner
G/S/vB		 66.Ynoa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Buxton G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 228/149 .213/.262/.367/.629 .650/.619 .710 10/2.000 9/1 3/2
37.Centeno* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 161/119 .252/.294/.364/.658 .519/.707 .464 41/.584 0/0 2/4
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· 9/.722 2/2.000 3/.000 8/.700 2/.500 ··· 7/1.262 1/.000 2/.000 579/449 .273/.345/.552/.897 1.055/.851 .870 114/1.090 13/2 34/7
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· 6/1.166 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 7/.000 ··· 1/2.000 299/216 .264/.295/.380/.676 .704/.665 .802 47/.711 1/2 5/9
36.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 318/206 .269/.384/.437/.820 .990/.724 .887 59/.820 1/3 9/6
26.Kepler* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/1.500 ··· 2/.000 2/1.500 3/.333 1/2.000 3/.333 362/251 .246/.324/.467/.791 .612/.870 .778 104/.580 5/0 16/6
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 2/.000 7/.629 4/1.167 1/no AB ··· 12/.533 1/no AB 3/.333 531/413 .274/.373/.401/.774 .648/.812 .749 83/.663 2/0 10/2
12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 44/38 .075/.119/.100/.219 .533/.169 .180 / 0/0 0/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· 9/1.306 2/.000 4/.250 14/.676 1/.000 ··· 8/.000 1/5.000 2/.500 329/245 .259/.302/.416/.718 .801/.692 .741 98/.807 1/0 11/7
11.Polanco# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 1/no AB 2/.500 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 165/122 .307/.350/.447/.796 .872/.770 .699 97/.736 3/2 1/8
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 317/243 .268/.295/.415/.710 .556/.754 .564 90/.645 5/1 8/4
22.Sano G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 8/.625 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 427/338 .233/.319/.448/.767 .788/.761 .708 84/.552 1/0 21/15
32.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/.650 ··· 14/10 .308/.357/.385/.742 1.250/.522 .750 14/.742 0/0 0/0
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· 15/.277 ··· 2/.500 2/2.000 2/1.500 1/.000 11/1.155 4/.000 1/.000 327/226 .277/.319/.419/.738 .783/.718 .719 53/.717 0/0 6/4
IP 24.2 48.0 13.1 53.0 62.1 19.0 3.0 54.2 19.0 23.0 TOTAL .256/.320/.426/.746 .763/.740 .745 .730 82/26 162/102
ERA-K/9 8.76/4.7 6.19/5.1 5.40/6.1 1.87/6.5 2.60/10.0 3.79/8.5 0.00/9.0 3.79/10.0 7.58/7.6 3.52/9.0 4.11/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Centeno (13-3-4)
 Murphy (4-1-2)
 Suzuki (48-12-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 115/.245 221/.316 64/.309 226/.260 245/.192 88/.239 11/.200 234/.238 101/.373 109/.209 .259  Kepler
 Rosario
 Grossman
 Buxton
 Schafer
 Sano
 Escobar
0/4/87/8
48/37/0/8
65/1/0/3
0/66/0/2
1/3/1/1
0/0/38/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .870 .921 .845 .688 .568 .781 .673 .696 1.152 .643 .750
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 65/.788 68/.992 26/1.143 83/.706 97/.696 30/.791 8/.536 114/.648 37/.888 47/.814 .722
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 50/.977 153/.892 38/.645 143/.677 148/.484 58/.775 3/1.000 120/.741 64/1.287 62/.515 .763
Road 82/.896 117/1.080 33/.756 95/.705 134/.660 44/.785 11/.673 129/.723 65/1.265 59/.629
Last 28d days 68/.951 28/1.044 26/.631 28/.729 48/.628 29/.399 11/.673 40/.657 49/1.208 37/.411
HR/SB/CS 7/0/0 9/3/1 1/1/0 1/1/1 7/2/2 2/0/0 0/0/1 6/5/0 5/4/0 0/1/0 156/67/18
Usage ····X··· ····X··· ··o··oo· ·····ooo ·o···oXo X·X··o·· X·o····· ···o··X· X···X··X Xo······

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  5.56

PIT  4.49

PHI  3.70

 RA/G

CHC  3.39

DET  4.47

ARI  5.63

 BA

J. Altuve  .348

A. Rendon  .274

T. Frazier  .214

 OBP

M. Trout  .439

H. Kendrick  .339

F. Galvis  .268

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .629

D. Gregorius  .456

A. Hechavarria  .318

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.035

M. Prado  .801

A. Ramirez  .605

 ERA

K. Hendricks  2.09

C. Rodon  3.90

J. Shields  6.07

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.58

J. Hellickson  7.71

M. Perez  4.61

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.