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Game 55 Preview: Tampa Bay Rays vs Minnesota Twins

The Rays go for the series victory behind Drew Smyly

Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports

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TODAY'S STARTING PITCHERS:

2016 W L ERA FIP K% BB% AVG BABIP HR GS IP fWAR
Drew Smyly 2 7 4.77 4.14 25.8% 5.9% .244 .291 12 11 66 0.9
Tyler Duffey 2 4 4.57 3.44 19.8% 5.0% .292 .351 4 7 41.1 0.9

Seemingly every time the Royals made contact off Drew Smyly on Tuesday fell in for base hits as he suffered his worst start of the season. The Royals would chase him from the game after just four innings pitched, as they tallied eight runs on twelve hits, giving Smyly his seventh loss of the season and third in a row.

Tyler Duffey Scouting Report:

Duffey has had a rough go of it over his past couple of starts as he has given up a total of 16 runs over his last 17 innings pitched. His last start may have been his worst of the season as the Athletics got to him for five runs on ten hits knocking him out of the game after recording two outs in the fifth inning. Duffey did rack up six strikeouts though, and also walked a batter.

His Arsenal:

PITCH AVG. VELO. FREQUENCY vs LHB vs RHB
Fastball 91.6 MPH

24.6% vs LHB

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39.3% vs RHB

Tends to stay middle-away Paints the outside corner
Sinker 91.0 MPH

27.8% vs LHB

***

10.6% vs RHB

Paints the outside corner Low and inside, off the plate
Change-up 83.3 MPH

10.3% vs LHB

***

3.9% vs RHB

Anywhere below the zone Paints the outside corner
Curveball 80.8 MPH

36.8% vs LHB

***

46.0% vs RHB

Anywhere below the zone Low and away from the zone

His Splits:

2016 TBF wOBA AVG OBP SLG HR K% BB%
vs LHB 79 .338 .380 .459 .459 1 24.1% 3.8%
vs RHB 103 .258 .301 .454 .454 3 16.5% 5.8%
HOME 81 .303 .346 .487 .487 2 17.3% 3.7%
AWAY 101 .284 .327 .432 .432 2 21.8% 5.9%

Today's Lineups

TAMPA BAY RAYS MINNESOTA TWINS
Mikie Mahtook - CF Eduardo Nunez - 3B
Brad Miller - SS Brian Dozier - 2B
Evan Longoria - 3B Joe Mauer - DH
Logan Morrison - 1B Byung-ho Park - 1B
Steve Pearce - DH Robbie Grossman - LF
Corey Dickerson - LF Eduardo Escobar - SS
Steven Souza - RF Max Kepler - RF
Hank Conger - C Kurt Suzuki - C
Tim Beckham - 2B Byron Buxton - CF
Drew Smyly - LHP Tyler Duffey - RHP