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Tampa Bay Rays vs. Minnesota Twins, at Tropicana Field, August 5, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 5, 2016
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
110
On This Date:
45-65
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
109
On This Date:
8-8
Season Series
Thu, Jun 02, 2016 MIN  6  TBR  4     
Fri, Jun 03, 2016 TBR  4 @MIN  2     
Sat, Jun 04, 2016 TBR  7 @MIN  4     
Sun, Jun 05, 2016 TBR  7 @MIN  5     

Fri, Aug 05, 2016 MIN    @TBR  7:10pm
Sat, Aug 06, 2016 MIN    @TBR  6:10pm
Sun, Aug 07, 2016 MIN    @TBR  1:10pm

                         All times ET
Minnesota Twins
43-65, 5th, 19 GB, 18½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-32   Road:   20-33   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  29-50   vsLHP:  14-15   1-Run:  11-19
 vsEast:  8-20   vsCntrl:14-26   vsWest: 15-10 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
108 Thu, Aug  4  @CLE  L   2-9       43-65  5th 19.0 gb
107 Wed, Aug  3  @CLE  W  13-5       43-64  5th 18.0 gb
106 Tue, Aug  2  @CLE  W  10-6       42-64  5th 19.0 gb
105 Mon, Aug  1  @CLE  W  12-5       41-64  5th 20.0 gb
104 Sun, Jul 31   CHW  W   6-4       40-64  5th 21.0 gb
103 Sat, Jul 30   CHW  L   5-6 (10)  39-64  5th 21.0 gb
102 Fri, Jul 29   CHW  W   2-1 (12)  39-63  5th 20.0 gb
101 Thu, Jul 28   BAL  W   6-2       38-63  5th 20.0 gb
100 Wed, Jul 27   ATL  L   7-9       37-63  5th 20.5 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 26   ATL  L   0-2       37-62  5th 20.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12
Tampa Bay Rays
44-63, 5th, 17 GB, 17 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-32   Road:   20-31   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  32-49   vsLHP:  12-14   1-Run:   8-18
 vsEast: 18-22   vsCntrl: 9-18   vsWest: 10-13 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
107 Thu, Aug  4   KCR  W   3-2       44-63  5th 17.0 gb
106 Wed, Aug  3   KCR  W  12-0       43-63  5th 18.0 gb
105 Tue, Aug  2   KCR  L   2-3       42-63  5th 18.0 gb
104 Mon, Aug  1   KCR  L   0-3       42-62  5th 17.0 gb
103 Sun, Jul 31   NYY  W   5-3       42-61  5th 16.5 gb
102 Sat, Jul 30   NYY  W   6-3       41-61  5th 17.0 gb
101 Fri, Jul 29   NYY  W   5-1       40-61  5th 17.5 gb
100 Wed, Jul 27  @LAD  W   3-1       39-61  5th 19.0 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 26  @LAD  L   2-3       38-61  5th 20.0 gb
 98 Sun, Jul 24  @OAK  L   2-3       38-60  5th 19.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:11-19

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 05, 2016 TBR  7 @MIN  5        W:Xavier Cedeno (3-1), L: Kevin Jepsen (2-5), S: Alex Colome (15)
Sat, Jun 04, 2016 TBR  7 @MIN  4        W:Matt Andriese (4-0), L: Ervin Santana (1-5), S: Alex Colome (14)
Fri, Jun 03, 2016 TBR  4 @MIN  2        W:Erasmo Ramirez (7-4), L: Ricky Nolasco (2-4), S: Alex Colome (13)
Thu, Jun 02, 2016 MIN  6  TBR  4        W:Taylor Rogers (1-0), L: Erasmo Ramirez (6-4), S: Kevin Jepsen (7)

Thu, Aug 27, 2015 TBR  5  MIN  4        W:Brandon Gomes (2-4), L: Tommy Milone (6-4), S: Brad Boxberger (31)
Wed, Aug 26, 2015 MIN  5 @TBR  3        W:Brian Duensing (4-0), L: Chris Archer (11-10), S: Kevin Jepsen (8)
Tue, Aug 25, 2015 MIN 11 @TBR  7        W:J.R. Graham (1-1), L: Matt Andriese (3-4), S: none
Sun, May 17, 2015 TBR 11 @MIN  3        W:Chris Archer (4-4), L: Kyle Gibson (3-3), S: none
Sat, May 16, 2015 MIN  6  TBR  4        W:Brian Duensing (1-0), L: Kevin Jepsen (1-3), S: Glen Perkins (13)
Fri, May 15, 2015 MIN  3  TBR  2        W:Phil Hughes (3-4), L: Jake Odorizzi (3-3), S: Glen Perkins (12)
Season Series: 2016 - TBR over 3-1; 2015 - MIN won 4-2; 2014 - TBR won 4-2; All-Time - TBR leads 71-68

SP: Ervin Santana (33, RHP, 4-9, 3.66)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (4-9) 120.1 119 56 49 31 85 13 3.66
2015 (7-5) 108.0 104 50 48 36 82 12 4.00
2014 (14-10) 196.0 193 90 86 63 179 16 3.95
Last 7 GS 2-2 47.2 36 13 10 10 32 2 1.89 62
2016-07-31 CHW W 6.0 6 3 1 2 5 0 97 55
2016-07-26 ATL L 9.0 7 2 2 0 5 1 97 70
2016-07-20 @DET ND 7.0 6 1 1 1 2 1 110 62
2016-07-15 CLE L 5.1 6 4 3 2 5 0 99 45
2016-07-06 OAK W 9.0 2 0 0 0 8 0 100 91
2016-07-01 TEX ND 6.1 3 2 2 3 5 0 117 61
2016-06-25 @NYY ND 5.0 6 1 1 2 2 0 102 51
Last 5 v.TBR 2-2 27.1 31 20 16 8 17 8 5.27 45
2016-06-04 TBR L 6.0 6 5 5 3 4 3 99 41
2015-08-25 @TBR ND 2.2 8 5 5 2 1 0 60 21
2013-06-13 @TBR W 7.2 5 1 0 0 3 0 104 70
2012-04-24 @TBR L 5.0 8 5 5 1 4 4 96 34
2011-04-29 @TBR W 6.0 4 4 1 2 5 1 98 57

SP: Blake Snell (23, LHP, 3-4, 3.08)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (3-4) 49.2 46 22 17 25 49 2 3.08
Last 7 GS 3-3 41.1 36 16 15 21 40 2 3.27 54
2016-07-31 NYY W 5.1 5 2 2 3 9 1 101 56
2016-07-24 @OAK ND 6.2 7 2 2 2 4 0 99 54
2016-07-19 @COL W 6.0 1 0 0 3 9 0 96 76
2016-07-07 LAA L 6.0 4 2 2 2 7 0 100 61
2016-07-02 DET L 5.1 4 3 3 4 4 1 101 48
2016-06-27 BOS W 5.1 8 4 4 4 4 0 103 36
2016-06-21 @CLE L 6.2 7 3 2 3 3 0 104 50
Has never faced MIN as starter.

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Twins Batters (4.61 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.36 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 4.Snell*
G/S/vB		 35.Andriese
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 49.Floro
G/S/vB		 52.Garton
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 30.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 45.Romero*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Buxton G/S/vP ··· 4/1.750 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.500 2/.000 216/144 .195/.249/.318/.567 .579/.560 .546 52/.394 9/1 1/2
37.Centeno* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 116/81 .257/.296/.376/.672 .478/.755 .868 34/.783 0/0 2/2
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· 5/2.000 2/.000 2/.500 6/.750 ··· ··· 4/.250 5/.900 1/.000 450/351 .263/.341/.506/.847 1.144/.765 .934 101/1.039 8/1 22/5
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· 2/.000 4/1.250 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/no AB ··· 244/182 .265/.288/.397/.686 .731/.670 .520 52/.857 1/2 5/9
36.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 6/.750 ··· 250/162 .267/.396/.427/.823 .984/.730 .749 60/.660 1/3 6/3
26.Kepler* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 244/163 .263/.346/.554/.900 .657/1.024 .963 90/1.049 3/0 15/3
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· 5/.450 ··· 3/.666 5/.400 ··· ··· 8/.393 2/no AB 3/1.000 439/336 .280/.380/.413/.794 .625/.848 .806 86/.959 2/0 9/2
11.Polanco# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/40 .298/.370/.574/.945 .917/.956 1.098 23/1.123 1/0 1/1
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 216/164 .259/.280/.420/.700 .514/.754 .778 73/1.006 4/1 6/3
22.Sano G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 329/267 .239/.337/.447/.785 .977/.743 .865 82/.686 1/0 15/15
39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 210/165 .260/.301/.362/.664 .471/.715 .597 35/.778 12/8 2/3
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 3/1.334 3/1.167 ··· ··· 8/1.000 6/.334 ··· 265/185 .283/.322/.433/.755 .816/.728 .820 58/.747 0/0 6/3
19.Vargas# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 84/64 .294/.417/.603/1.020 1.663/.821 1.092 71/.868 0/0 4/0
IP 49.2 76.0 3.2 34.0 39.1 10.1 17.2 35.2 63.1 32.2 TOTAL .256/.322/.427/.749 .770/.742 .760 .826 72/22 129/77
ERA-K/9 3.08/8.9 2.72/6.8 4.91/9.7 3.97/8.7 2.06/11.9 4.35/7.0 4.58/8.1 5.55/6.3 3.84/7.0 5.23/8.8 4.18/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Centeno (9-2-2)
 Suzuki (37-11-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 215/.246 297/.223 21/.444 144/.238 155/.204 49/.364 78/.286 161/.317 267/.279 147/.256 .256  Kepler
 Rosario
 Grossman
 Buxton
 Santana
 Sano
 Escobar
0/4/61/6
43/15/0/4
49/1/0/3
0/62/0/2
9/38/4/2
0/0/38/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .643 .573 1.135 .627 .581 .840 .673 .912 .778 .754 .727
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 57/.625 120/.560 11/1.323 74/.451 64/.540 22/.905 22/.529 60/1.013 100/.898 60/.767 .704
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 158/.649 177/.583 10/.944 70/.804 91/.609 27/.787 56/.728 101/.852 167/.708 87/.743 .740
Home 118/.758 143/.534 15/.895 79/.498 83/.660 20/.844 57/.702 97/.853 128/.606 71/1.051
Last 28d days 71/.581 51/.527 15/.895 21/.588 29/.600 42/.799 6/.000 20/.463 37/.717 20/.713
HR/SB/CS 2/2/2 4/9/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 4/0/1 0/2/0 0/1/1 7/1/0 9/4/1 5/1/0 133/61/24
Usage ····X··· ··X··X·· X·o·X··· ··X·o·o· o···ooo· ··o···X· ·X······ ··oX··o· ··X·X·o· ·X·X····
Rays Batters (4.00 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Santana
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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Beckham G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 146/75 .215/.269/.415/.684 .702/.666 .494 36/.961 1/1 5/3
10.Dickerson* G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 347/294 .234/.286/.456/.742 .543/.779 .614 81/.750 0/1 15/1
11.Forsythe G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 347/272 .275/.340/.446/.786 .896/.755 .790 97/.662 5/2 10/6
2.Franklin# G/S/vP 5/1.350 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 73/53 .292/.370/.431/.801 .566/.893 .831 27/.750 5/1 1/2
8.Jennings G/S/vP 8/.875 1/no AB ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 225/153 .200/.281/.350/.631 .549/.672 .529 7/.429 2/0 7/2
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 209/159 .218/.325/.397/.722 .719/.722 .701 72/.647 10/2 6/2
3.Longoria G/S/vP 23/1.285 2/.500 2/2.500 4/.750 3/.000 ··· 5/.400 452/360 .281/.330/.524/.854 .859/.852 .789 89/.816 0/2 23/6
46.Maile G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/32 .184/.244/.237/.481 .222/.557 .646 42/.481 0/0 0/2
13.Miller* G/S/vP 8/.411 2/.000 1/.000 4/.250 3/.000 ··· 2/3.000 384/327 .254/.305/.493/.798 .724/.811 .831 80/.980 4/4 19/13
36.Shaffer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/2 .000/.250/.000/.250 .500/.000 .250 4/.250 0/0 0/0
20.Souza G/S/vP 4/1.833 ··· 2/.500 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 326/247 .242/.291/.401/.692 .661/.702 .695 70/.483 5/5 11/2
IP 120.1 21.0 34.2 41.1 55.1 38.2 53.1 TOTAL .238/.307/.417/.724 .766/.711 .697 .695 39/26 138/66
ERA-K/9 3.66/6.4 3.43/9.4 2.08/5.7 4.79/12.6 3.58/8.3 2.56/9.1 4.22/10.6 4.88/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Maile (4-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 495/.259 87/.238 136/.250 177/.224 237/.251 164/.266 226/.252 .282  Souza
 Jennings
 Kiermaier
 Dickerson
 Franklin
0/3/76/4
33/30/0/3
0/56/0/2
39/0/2/1
10/0/1/0
OPS .700 .645 .674 .710 .697 .694 .777 .798
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 248/.623 35/.514 52/.564 65/.529 98/.723 57/.578 86/1.004 .766
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 247/.777 52/.737 84/.742 112/.808 139/.676 107/.756 140/.642 .820
Road 177/.810 43/.708 50/.444 100/.741 126/.730 67/.753 94/.853
Last 28d days 109/.593 36/.876 41/.716 46/.434 39/.750 51/.487 45/.775
HR/SB/CS 13/2/1 2/1/0 4/0/0 6/3/1 6/1/0 4/0/1 9/13/1 148/50/14
Usage ····X··· ·X·X·o·· ··o··Xoo Xo·Xo·o· ··o·o··X ·XX·X·o· X·X·oX··

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  5.46

SDP  4.43

ATL  3.48

 RA/G

CHC  3.47

KCR  4.44

CIN  5.55

 BA

D. Murphy  .358

T. Story  .272

D. Norris  .192

 OBP

M. Trout  .430

A. Hill  .341

D. Norris  .255

 SLG

D. Murphy  .630

H. Ramirez  .451

A. Escobar  .305

 OPS

D. Murphy  1.027

L. Forsythe  .786

A. Escobar  .586

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.79

H. Iwakuma  3.99

S. Gray  5.84

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.12

A. Sanchez  7.62

M. Pelfrey  4.06

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.