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Tampa Bay Rays vs. Texas Rangers, at Tropicana Field, August 20, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Start Time:
6:10et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
125
On This Date:
28-22
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
122
On This Date:
8-9
Season Series
Fri, Aug 19, 2016 TEX  6 @TBR  2     

Sat, Aug 20, 2016 TEX    @TBR  6:10pm
Sun, Aug 21, 2016 TEX    @TBR  1:10pm
Fri, Sep 30, 2016 TBR    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Oct 01, 2016 TBR    @TEX  8:05pm
Sun, Oct 02, 2016 TBR    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
73-50, 1st, 7 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   39-20   Road:   34-30   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  54-34   vsLHP:  19-16   1-Run:  27-8 
 vsEast: 15-13   vsCntrl:16-13   vsWest: 32-19 IL:10-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
123 Fri, Aug 19  @TBR  W   6-2       73-50  1st  7.0 up
122 Wed, Aug 17   OAK  W   6-2       72-50  1st  6.5 up
121 Tue, Aug 16   OAK  W   5-4 (10)  71-50  1st  6.5 up
120 Mon, Aug 15   OAK  W   5-2       70-50  1st  5.5 up
119 Sun, Aug 14   DET  L   0-7       69-50  1st  5.5 up
118 Sat, Aug 13   DET  L   0-2       69-49  1st  6.5 up
117 Fri, Aug 12   DET  W   8-5       69-48  1st  7.5 up
116 Thu, Aug 11   COL  L   9-12      68-48  1st  6.5 up
115 Wed, Aug 10   COL  W   5-4       68-47  1st  7.0 up
114 Tue, Aug  9  @COL  W   7-5       67-47  1st  7.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:18-12
Tampa Bay Rays
50-70, 5th, 18 GB, 17½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-35   Road:   22-35   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  37-53   vsLHP:  13-17   1-Run:   8-18
 vsEast: 20-26   vsCntrl:10-20   vsWest: 10-14 IL:10-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
120 Fri, Aug 19   TEX  L   2-6       50-70  5th 18.0 gb
119 Wed, Aug 17   SDP  W   2-0       50-69  5th 18.0 gb
118 Tue, Aug 16   SDP  W  15-1       49-69  5th 18.0 gb
117 Mon, Aug 15   SDP  W   8-2       48-69  5th 18.0 gb
116 Sun, Aug 14  @NYY  W  12-3       47-69  5th 19.0 gb
115 Sat, Aug 13  @NYY  L   4-8       46-69  5th 19.0 gb
114 Fri, Aug 12  @NYY  L   3-6       46-68  5th 18.5 gb
113 Wed, Aug 10  @TOR  L   0-7       46-67  5th 18.0 gb
112 Tue, Aug  9  @TOR  W   9-2       46-66  5th 17.0 gb
111 Mon, Aug  8  @TOR  L   5-7       45-66  5th 18.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 19, 2016 TEX  6 @TBR  2        W:Cole Hamels (13-4), L: Matt Andriese (6-5), S: none

Sun, Aug 16, 2015 TEX  5  TBR  3        W:Yovani Gallardo (9-9), L: Drew Smyly (0-2), S: Shawn Tolleson (23)
Sat, Aug 15, 2015 TEX 12  TBR  4        W:Colby Lewis (13-5), L: Chris Archer (10-9), S: none
Fri, Aug 14, 2015 TEX  5  TBR  3        W:Sam Dyson (4-4), L: Jake McGee (1-2), S: Shawn Tolleson (22)
Sun, May 10, 2015 TEX  2 @TBR  1        W:Keone Kela (3-1), L: Kevin Jepsen (0-2), S: Neftali Feliz (5)
Sat, May 09, 2015 TBR  7  TEX  2        W:Andrew Bellatti (1-0), L: Ross Detwiler (0-4), S: Brad Boxberger (8)
Fri, May 08, 2015 TBR  8  TEX  2        W:Nate Karns (2-1), L: Yovani Gallardo (2-5), S: none
Thu, May 07, 2015 TEX  5 @TBR  4        W:Alex Claudio (1-0), L: Chris Archer (3-4), S: Neftali Feliz (4)
Thu, Aug 14, 2014 TBR  6 @TEX  3        W:Jake Odorizzi (9-9), L: Robbie Ross (2-5), S: Jake McGee (13)
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 TBR 10 @TEX  1        W:Chris Archer (8-6), L: Miles Mikolas (1-5), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - TEX over 1-0; 2015 - TEX won 5-2; 2014 - TBR won 5-2; All-Time - TEX leads 89-73

SP: A.J. Griffin (28, RHP, 5-2, 4.68)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (5-2) 84.2 80 45 44 32 73 17 4.68
2013 (14-10) 200.0 171 91 85 54 171 36 3.83
2012 (7-1) 82.1 74 29 28 19 64 10 3.06
Last 7 GS 2-2 37.2 43 28 28 12 28 12 6.69 42
2016-08-14 DET L 6.2 11 6 6 1 8 3 106 35
2016-08-09 @COL ND 4.2 7 5 5 3 5 1 97 32
2016-08-04 @BAL W 5.2 5 3 3 0 6 3 77 53
2016-07-29 KCR W 5.2 3 2 2 2 1 1 98 54
2016-07-24 @KCR ND 5.0 4 1 1 2 3 1 89 56
2016-07-18 @LAA ND 5.0 4 5 5 3 2 1 76 38
2016-07-10 MIN L 5.0 9 6 6 1 3 2 94 27
Last 5 v.TBR 1-0 14.0 10 4 4 3 13 2 2.57 64
2013-09-01 TBR W 7.0 5 1 1 1 7 1 102 69
2012-07-30 TBR ND 7.0 5 3 3 2 6 1 104 59

SP: Jake Odorizzi (26, RHP, 7-5, 3.72)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (7-5) 142.2 132 62 59 41 131 21 3.72
2015 (9-9) 169.1 149 65 63 46 150 18 3.35
2014 (11-13) 168.0 156 79 77 59 174 20 4.13
Last 7 GS 4-1 43.0 39 13 11 8 37 5 2.30 59
2016-08-14 @NYY W 6.0 5 3 3 1 6 2 90 55
2016-08-08 @TOR ND 5.1 8 4 2 3 4 1 107 41
2016-08-03 KCR W 6.0 2 0 0 2 6 0 106 72
2016-07-29 NYY W 6.2 6 0 0 0 5 0 104 67
2016-07-22 @OAK ND 8.0 5 0 0 0 5 0 100 77
2016-07-17 BAL W 6.0 7 2 2 1 7 1 100 56
2016-07-10 @BOS L 5.0 6 4 4 1 4 1 86 42
Last 5 v.TEX 2-0 19.2 14 3 3 4 18 2 1.37 66
2015-05-10 TEX ND 6.2 7 1 1 0 7 1 91 63
2014-08-14 @TEX W 7.0 4 2 2 1 7 1 102 67
2014-04-04 TEX W 6.0 3 0 0 3 4 0 95 67

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Rangers Batters (4.68 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.37 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Odorizzi
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 43.Farquhar
G/S/vB		 52.Garton
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 30.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 9/.333 3/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 8/.250 1/2.000 19/.378 15/.486 434/325 .293/.348/.406/.754 .909/.700 .743 79/.727 16/7 4/11
29.Beltre G/S/vP 9/1.111 1/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 10/.700 1/5.000 23/1.200 11/.728 489/362 .291/.346/.483/.829 .990/.774 .800 106/1.034 0/1 21/9
36.Beltran# G/S/vP 15/.400 5/.000 1/.000 9/1.222 2/.500 1/.000 4/2.250 8/.250 449/304 .301/.341/.533/.874 1.002/.814 .808 91/.807 0/0 24/1
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2.334 ··· 2/.000 3/1.000 133/108 .181/.271/.440/.710 .741/.703 .878 33/.391 0/1 8/1
3.DeShields G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 170/118 .228/.305/.329/.634 .505/.694 .728 41/.774 6/3 3/3
20.Desmond G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 3/.000 528/394 .293/.341/.475/.816 .928/.778 .721 108/.532 18/4 20/9
25.Lucroy G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 431/313 .295/.357/.514/.872 .804/.897 .776 77/.946 5/0 20/6
30.Mazara* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 439/330 .281/.335/.417/.752 .550/.821 .742 72/.664 0/2 13/1
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 7/.286 1/no AB 3/.666 5/.450 376/295 .254/.319/.487/.806 .809/.805 .701 78/1.116 1/0 21/2
12.Odor* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 8/1.042 1/.000 1/.000 5/1.000 483/343 .274/.296/.489/.785 .743/.802 .759 101/.827 11/4 22/17
19.Profar# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 239/169 .261/.324/.376/.700 .473/.796 .574 82/.585 1/1 5/5
16.Rua G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 234/135 .264/.338/.409/.746 .849/.673 .701 23/.488 7/0 7/2
15.Stubbs G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 65/25 .250/.338/.357/.696 .560/.905 .412 4/.833 8/0 2/0
IP 142.2 7.1 36.2 42.1 17.1 26.2 39.2 72.0 TOTAL .263/.322/.430/.752 .764/.748 .719 .763 71/27 157/76
ERA-K/9 3.72/8.3 2.45/6.2 4.17/9.3 1.91/11.7 5.19/11.4 4.73/8.1 5.22/6.6 4.00/6.6 4.15/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (22-5-2)
 Lucroy (52-34-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 590/.244 35/.310 156/.236 167/.197 78/.292 121/.294 178/.308 301/.269 .255  Mazara
 Desmond
 Rua
 Beltran
 DeShields
 Profar
 Stubbs
30/0/82/6
29/95/0/6
55/4/3/4
0/0/63/3
17/30/0/1
11/0/0/1
12/13/5/0
OPS .711 .842 .621 .566 .929 .799 .895 .776 .729
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 256/.571 18/.944 79/.464 70/.558 25/1.280 47/.871 69/.985 115/.933 .698
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 334/.820 17/.745 77/.774 97/.570 53/.746 74/.754 109/.838 186/.683 .747
Home 307/.649 27/.712 89/.487 91/.637 51/.908 83/.850 111/.859 143/.651
Last 28d days 101/.635 29/.659 28/.681 28/.294 28/.629 49/.890 24/.742 55/.816
HR/SB/CS 21/5/4 1/1/0 2/0/0 4/0/1 6/1/0 4/1/1 8/1/0 12/5/1 154/71/24
Usage ·····X·· o···X··· ··oX···· ··X··X·· o··o··X· X··X·o·X ····X··· ···o··X·
Rays Batters (4.17 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.59 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 64.Griffin
G/S/vB		 43.Barnette
G/S/vB		 51.Bush
G/S/vB		 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 41.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 47.Dyson
G/S/vB		 23.Jeffress
G/S/vB		 50.Kela
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 184/101 .212/.268/.394/.662 .684/.644 .538 56/.553 2/1 5/4
10.Dickerson* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· 388/327 .227/.282/.448/.730 .537/.767 .633 79/.633 0/1 17/1
5.Duffy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 3/1.334 4/.000 ··· 309/222 .257/.313/.354/.666 .717/.647 .856 23/.609 8/4 4/5
11.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 2/1.000 1/no AB 2/.000 393/311 .280/.341/.476/.817 .887/.799 .788 92/.916 6/2 15/7
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.500 2/1.000 ··· 257/198 .219/.315/.388/.704 .672/.711 .649 88/.714 12/2 7/2
3.Longoria G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 3/1.334 1/.000 509/403 .289/.340/.542/.882 .809/.900 .815 97/.913 0/2 27/6
27.Mahtook G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 103/69 .147/.204/.179/.383 .471/.334 .263 33/.379 0/0 0/0
46.Maile G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/52 .213/.262/.262/.524 .308/.580 .667 45/.511 0/0 0/2
13.Miller* G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 439/364 .266/.321/.529/.850 .735/.874 .903 99/1.165 6/4 25/15
7.Morrison* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/1.000 345/285 .228/.307/.375/.682 .637/.691 .595 21/.619 4/2 10/4
20.Souza G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 373/279 .238/.292/.392/.685 .622/.706 .704 81/.649 6/5 12/3
21.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 180/132 .235/.269/.333/.602 .765/.543 .679 33/.692 0/0 4/2
IP 84.2 52.0 41.1 37.1 44.1 55.1 51.2 20.2 TOTAL .241/.309/.424/.733 .731/.733 .712 .760 47/26 161/73
ERA-K/9 4.68/7.8 2.25/6.8 2.83/8.7 2.41/5.8 2.84/10.2 2.60/6.3 2.44/7.0 6.10/13.5 4.31/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Maile (11-3-0)
 Wilson (30-6-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 359/.248 211/.251 167/.216 158/.277 173/.163 223/.246 219/.259 89/.197 .263  Souza
 Kiermaier
 Dickerson
 Mahtook
0/3/86/4
0/67/0/4
44/0/2/1
14/14/8/1
OPS .789 .645 .578 .709 .503 .651 .658 .688 .759
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 180/.969 97/.805 59/.697 46/.543 62/.508 99/.758 98/.869 33/.488 .764
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 179/.605 114/.512 108/.514 112/.780 111/.501 124/.566 121/.488 56/.799 .757
Road 212/.802 106/.651 74/.446 59/.763 82/.385 123/.816 86/.606 38/.645
Last 28d days 119/.914 26/.828 50/.741 56/.656 37/.395 49/.695 46/.548 45/.429
HR/SB/CS 17/4/2 3/2/1 3/0/0 2/0/0 3/0/0 3/3/1 2/0/2 4/0/0 157/65/19
Usage ·····X·· o······o ··o·X··· ···X·X·· X·oo···· ···Xo··o ···X···o ···X··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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.53

HOU  4.52

ATL  3.57

 RA/G

CHC  3.39

BAL  4.50

ARI  5.57

 BA

J. Altuve  .365

A. Jones  .274

T. Frazier  .207

 OBP

J. Votto  .431

J. Werth  .342

F. Galvis  .267

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .628

T. Frazier  .451

E. Aybar  .312

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.038

M. Reynolds  .800

E. Aybar  .604

 ERA

K. Hendricks  2.16

J. Eickhoff  3.91

J. Shields  5.98

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.96

J. Eickhoff  7.70

J. Weaver  4.49

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.