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Boston Red Sox vs. Texas Rangers, at Fenway Park, May 19, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Fenway Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
66° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
39
On This Date:
15-31
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
39
On This Date:
52-43
Season Series

Tue, May 19, 2015 TEX    @BOS  7:10pm
Wed, May 20, 2015 TEX    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, May 21, 2015 TEX    @BOS  7:10pm
Thu, May 28, 2015 BOS    @TEX  8:05pm
Fri, May 29, 2015 BOS    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, May 30, 2015 BOS    @TEX  7:15pm
Sun, May 31, 2015 BOS    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
16-22, 4th, 8½ GB, 6½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-13   Road:   10-9    ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  11-14   vsLHP:   5-8    1-Run:   5-4 
 vsEast:  2-2    vsCntrl: 3-4    vsWest: 10-15 IL: 1-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 38 Sun, May 17   CLE  W   5-1       16-22  4th  9.0 gb
 37 Sat, May 16   CLE  L   8-10      15-22  4th  9.0 gb
 36 Fri, May 15   CLE  L   3-8       15-21  4th  8.0 gb
 35 Thu, May 14   KCR  L   3-6       15-20  4th  7.0 gb
 34 Wed, May 13   KCR  W   5-2       15-19  4th  6.0 gb
 33 Tue, May 12   KCR  L   6-7 (10)  14-19  4th  6.0 gb
 32 Mon, May 11   KCR  W   8-2       14-18  4th  6.0 gb
 31 Sun, May 10  @TBR  W   2-1       13-18  4th  6.5 gb
 30 Sat, May  9  @TBR  L   2-7       12-18  4th  7.5 gb
 29 Fri, May  8  @TBR  L   2-8       12-17  3rd  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
Boston Red Sox
18-20, 3rd, 3½ GB, 4½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-9    Road:   11-11   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  13-14   vsLHP:   5-6    1-Run:   7-4 
 vsEast: 10-15   vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  4-3  IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 38 Sun, May 17  @SEA  L   0-5       18-20  3rd  3.5 gb
 37 Sat, May 16  @SEA  W   4-2       18-19  3rd  3.5 gb
 36 Fri, May 15  @SEA  L   1-2       17-19  3rd  3.5 gb
 35 Thu, May 14  @SEA  W   2-1       17-18  3rd  3.5 gb
 34 Wed, May 13  @OAK  W   2-0       16-18  4th  4.5 gb
 33 Tue, May 12  @OAK  L   2-9       15-18  4th  5.5 gb
 32 Mon, May 11  @OAK  W   5-4 (11)  15-17  4th  5.5 gb
 31 Sun, May 10  @TOR  W   6-3       14-17  4th  5.5 gb
 30 Sat, May  9  @TOR  L   1-7       13-17  5th  5.5 gb
 29 Fri, May  8  @TOR  L   0-7       13-16  4th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 11, 2014 BOS  5 @TEX  2        W:John Lackey (5-2), L: Robbie Ross (1-4), S: Koji Uehara (9)
Sat, May 10, 2014 BOS  8 @TEX  3        W:Jon Lester (4-4), L: Martin Perez (4-3), S: none
Fri, May 09, 2014 TEX  8  BOS  0        W:Yu Darvish (3-1), L: Clay Buchholz (2-3), S: none
Wed, Apr 09, 2014 BOS  4  TEX  2        W:Andrew Miller (1-0), L: Alexi Ogando (0-1), S: Koji Uehara (2)
Tue, Apr 08, 2014 TEX 10 @BOS  7        W:Martin Perez (1-0), L: Felix Doubront (1-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 07, 2014 BOS  5  TEX  1        W:John Lackey (2-0), L: Tanner Scheppers (0-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 06, 2013 BOS  6  TEX  3        W:Andrew Bailey (2-0), L: Michael Kirkman (0-2), S: none
Wed, Jun 05, 2013 TEX  3 @BOS  2        W:Neal Cotts (1-0), L: Craig Breslow (2-1), S: Joe Nathan (18)
Tue, Jun 04, 2013 BOS 17  TEX  5        W:Ryan Dempster (3-6), L: Justin Grimm (5-4), S: none
Sun, May 05, 2013 TEX  4  BOS  3        W:Joe Nathan (1-0), L: Clayton Mortensen (0-2), S: none
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 - BOS won 4-2; 2013 - TEX won 4-2; All-Time - BOS leads 335-304

SP: Yovani Gallardo (29, RHP, 3-5, 3.94)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-5) 45.2 45 24 20 15 32 5 3.94
2014 (8-11) 192.1 195 86 75 54 146 21 3.51
2013 (12-10) 180.2 180 92 84 66 144 18 4.18
Last 7 GS 3-4 41.2 39 20 16 14 27 4 3.46 52
2015-05-13 KCR W 7.0 6 2 2 1 2 0 92 58
2015-05-08 @TBR L 5.1 3 4 3 2 3 1 92 49
2015-05-03 OAK L 6.2 7 4 3 4 1 1 118 43
2015-04-27 SEA L 6.0 3 3 3 3 5 0 101 56
2015-04-22 @ARI L 5.0 6 5 3 1 6 1 96 44
2015-04-17 @SEA W 6.0 6 0 0 2 3 0 99 61
2015-04-11 HOU W 5.2 8 2 2 1 7 1 90 51
Last 5 v.BOS 1-1 9.2 16 8 5 2 7 2 4.66 40
2014-04-06 @BOS W 6.2 7 0 0 0 3 0 109 63
2011-06-19 @BOS L 3.0 9 8 5 2 4 2 94 17

SP: Wade Miley (28, LHP, 2-4, 5.60)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-4) 35.1 37 23 22 16 22 3 5.60
2014 (8-12) 201.1 207 103 97 75 183 23 4.34
2013 (10-10) 202.2 201 88 80 66 147 21 3.55
Last 7 GS 2-4 35.1 37 23 22 16 22 3 5.60 45
2015-05-13 @OAK W 6.2 5 0 0 4 1 0 99 61
2015-05-08 @TOR L 6.0 8 4 4 1 8 2 104 47
2015-05-02 NYY L 7.0 7 3 3 0 3 0 102 54
2015-04-26 @BAL L 2.1 5 7 6 2 0 0 57 19
2015-04-21 @TBR W 5.2 3 0 0 4 3 0 88 62
2015-04-15 WSN L 2.1 5 7 7 3 1 1 75 17
2015-04-10 @NYY ND 5.1 4 2 2 2 6 0 90 56
Last 5 v.TEX 0-1 7.2 3 1 1 1 8 0 1.17 76
2012-06-13 @TEX L 7.2 3 1 1 1 8 0 93 76

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Rangers Batters (4.16 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.84 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 20.Miley*
G/S/vB		 68.Barnes
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 35.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 8/.857 ··· ··· ··· 7/1.571 8/.375 ··· 171/118 .235/.305/.295/.601 .934/.448 .539 108/.671 5/3 1/9
29.Beltre G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 7/.286 ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/1.166 6/.666 ··· 167/119 .258/.293/.426/.719 .945/.629 .724 106/.850 1/0 5/4
88.Blanks G/S/vP 16/.607 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 ··· 59/43 .327/.373/.545/.918 1.375/.731 .739 59/.918 1/0 3/0
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 93/67 .184/.304/.395/.699 1.154/.526 .721 61/.682 0/0 3/2
17.Choo* G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· 11/1.323 ··· 6/.666 2/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 ··· 142/101 .242/.331/.476/.807 .660/.865 .662 101/.951 0/0 6/2
3.Corporan# G/S/vP 2/3.500 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 60/43 .200/.300/.300/.600 .978/.426 .533 36/.411 0/0 1/1
7.DeShields G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 63/44 .283/.397/.396/.793 .728/.821 .782 52/.907 10/1 0/1
84.Fielder* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 5/.933 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 167/112 .344/.401/.497/.898 .837/.928 .754 105/.870 0/0 5/4
39.Field G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 24/20 .238/.333/.524/.857 .500/.879 24/.857 1/0 2/2
2.Martin* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 130/79 .198/.240/.264/.505 .648/.411 .679 67/.439 6/3 1/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/1.285 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· 77/63 .288/.364/.470/.833 .774/.847 .887 40/.769 0/0 2/1
43.Peguero* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 83/75 .188/.313/.420/.734 .833/.722 .891 56/.705 2/0 4/0
9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 48/21 .156/.208/.289/.497 .425/.588 .517 31/.435 1/0 2/1
IP 35.1 7.1 17.1 11.0 16.0 11.2 17.1 12.0 15.2 TOTAL .237/.314/.381/.695 .784/.655 .653 .731 29/9 37/32
ERA-K/9 5.60/5.6 1.23/4.9 3.63/7.8 3.27/6.5 3.38/7.9 6.17/5.4 1.56/7.3 1.50/10.5 4.02/5.2 4.64/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (14-6-1)
 Corporan (9-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 155/.272 33/.300 75/.250 44/.211 63/.190 53/.340 67/.206 42/.128 69/.274 .260  Martin
 DeShields
 Choo
 Peguero
 Blanks
0/30/0/5
7/10/0/1
0/0/32/1
21/1/9/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .778 .697 .762 .506 .668 .952 .603 .423 .816 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 35/.688 18/.528 29/1.039 24/.390 24/.292 15/.850 24/.708 23/.330 49/.719 .701
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 120/.805 15/.895 46/.592 20/.650 39/.922 38/.992 43/.540 19/.526 20/1.034 .792
Home 42/.945 / 35/.771 9/.476 30/.733 32/.911 36/.712 15/.000 /
Last 28d days 96/.790 33/.697 38/1.133 24/.393 41/.709 27/1.065 43/.777 33/.482 47/.738
HR/SB/CS 3/1/0 0/2/0 3/0/1 0/0/0 3/0/1 2/0/0 3/0/1 1/0/0 3/0/0 43/19/7
Usage ·····X·· ·X··o··X ·o·····o ··ooo··o ·X·····X ········ ··oo·o·o ··o·oo·o ·X····X·
Red Sox Batters (3.97 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.68 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Gallardo
G/S/vB		 63.Bass
G/S/vB		 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 71.Freeman*
G/S/vB		 50.Kela
G/S/vB		 25.Ohlendorf
G/S/vB		 52.Scheppers
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 168/126 .221/.287/.389/.677 .530/.726 .898 107/.717 5/1 5/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 3/.666 2/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 135/98 .260/.316/.358/.674 .658/.679 .606 82/.605 2/0 1/2
25.Bradley* G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 13/12 .000/.154/.000/.154 .000/.167 13/.154 0/0 0/0
26.Holt* G/S/vP 4/1.000 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 85/67 .307/.381/.440/.821 .889/.803 .610 54/.765 1/0 1/0
3.Leon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/28 .161/.257/.161/.418 .000/.551 .481 20/.328 0/0 0/0
12.Napoli G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/.200 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.467 1/.000 134/92 .162/.269/.282/.551 .739/.469 .568 81/.602 1/1 3/2
29.Nava# G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 1/2.000 60/55 .160/.271/.180/.451 .250/.464 .186 32/.330 0/0 0/0
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 5/1.100 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.000 1/.000 146/102 .236/.322/.402/.723 .346/.902 .900 92/.737 0/0 5/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 6/1.500 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 5/.000 2/.500 169/125 .276/.363/.414/.777 .749/.786 .915 106/.751 1/1 5/2
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 8/.393 5/1.600 ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/.619 ··· ··· 141/101 .264/.312/.504/.816 1.131/.699 .755 83/.769 1/2 10/1
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 22/.560 8/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/1.600 ··· ··· 148/106 .269/.338/.418/.756 .120/1.024 .849 92/.798 0/0 5/3
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 41/27 .179/.200/.256/.456 .385/.491 .414 41/.456 0/0 0/0
18.Victorino G/S/vP 3/1.666 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 7/.000 ··· 1/.000 62/35 .212/.339/.308/.646 1.005/.390 .476 21/.984 3/0 1/0
IP 45.2 25.2 7.0 16.1 2.1 17.2 1.0 6.0 17.1 TOTAL .230/.311/.361/.672 .624/.690 .722 .665 14/5 38/17
ERA-K/9 3.94/6.3 3.86/5.6 3.86/5.1 5.51/8.3 3.86/3.9 2.55/7.6 0.00/9.0 7.50/6.0 3.63/12.5 4.25/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Leon (1-2-1)
 Swihart (8-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 195/.250 105/.258 28/.192 77/.300 9/.250 76/.275 3/.000 30/.250 70/.258 .264  Betts
 Ramirez
 Victorino
 Nava
 Holt
 Bradley
0/36/0/3
31/0/0/2
0/0/17/1
5/0/11/1
4/2/9/0
1/1/4/0
OPS .685 .713 .753 .792 .972 .704 .000 .700 .684 .742
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 97/.791 42/.650 15/1.048 42/.881 5/1.900 38/.822 2/.000 15/.667 40/.736 .776
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 98/.582 63/.749 13/.410 35/.687 4/.000 38/.588 1/.000 15/.733 30/.609 .716
Road 88/.721 46/.782 5/1.000 37/.562 / 39/.741 / 24/.903 33/.605
Last 28d days 126/.599 46/.893 28/.753 46/.790 9/.972 46/.676 3/.000 16/.598 45/.923
HR/SB/CS 5/3/2 3/1/0 3/0/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 1/2/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 38/23/10
Usage ·····X·· ···Xo·o· ··o·X·oo ··X··oX· ···oX··· ··oo···X ·o······ ·X······ ·XX··oo·

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 2015 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

TOR  5.25

STL  4.26

PHI  3.10

 RA/G

STL  3.11

ATL  4.38

COL  5.23

 BA

D. Gordon  .406

J. Lagares  .269

C. Utley  .143

 OBP

B. Harper  .476

B. Miller  .328

E. Gattis  .204

 SLG

B. Harper  .729

D. LeMahieu  .417

J. Mercer  .204

 OPS

B. Harper  1.206

J. Soler  .744

J. Mercer  .434

 ERA

S. Miller  1.33

T. Ross  3.94

K. Kendrick  6.70

 K/9IP

J. Shields  11.93

D. Price  7.13

J. Guthrie  3.27

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.