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Game 57 Preview: Tampa Bay Rays vs Arizona Diamondbacks

Evan Longoria is out of tonight's lineup despite the team having a couple of off-days coming up

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TODAY'S STARTING PITCHERS:

2016 W L ERA FIP K% BB% AVG BABIP HR GS IP fWAR
Matt Moore 2 3 5.46 4.8 21.6% 7.6% .290 .339 12 11 62.2 0.3
Zack Greinke 7 3 4.29 3.34 22.0% 4.3% .265 .319 9 12 77.2 1.7

It was more of the same from Moore his last time out as he allowed two more home runs and delivered his fifth start of five innings or less over his last six outings. He put up five innings against the Twins on the second and yielded four runs on eight hits -- two homers -- while he also walked two and struck out four.

Zack Greinke Scouting Report:

This past off-season, the Diamondbacks surprisingly turned out to be the highest bidders to obtain Zack Greinke. Since then, Greinke has turned in several quality starts for Arizona as he has pitched excellently for the Diamondbacks...away from Phoenix. So far this year, Greinke has given up 31 runs over 42 innings at home...compared to just six runs while pitching away from Arizona (35 innings). Greinke's last start may have been his best of the year as he delivered seven shutout innings against the Astros, allowing just four hits, walking none, and struck out 11.

His Arsenal:

PITCH AVG. VELO. FREQUENCY vs LHB vs RHB
Fastball 92.3 MPH

44.1% vs LHB

***

41.0% vs RHB

Low and away Low and away
Sinker 92.4 MPH

1.9% vs LHB

***

11.8% vs RHB

Sporadic Paints the inside corner
Change-up 88.8 MPH

31.9% vs LHB

***

8.7% vs RHB

Low and away from the zone Low and inside, off the plate
Slider 86.5 MPH

10.9% vs LHB

***

30.7% vs RHB

Anywhere below the zone Low and away from the zone
Curveball 75.9 MPH

10.5% vs LHB

***

7.1% vs RHB

Below the zone Low and away from the zone
Slow-Curve 68.4 MPH

0.4% vs LHB

***

0.4% vs RHB

Sporadic Sporadic

His Splits:

2016 TBF wOBA AVG OBP SLG HR K% BB%
vs LHB 169 .336 .288 .317 .469 5 23.1% 3.6%
vs RHB 154 .298 .240 .283 .413 4 20.8% 5.2%
HOME 188 .382 .303 .346 .561 8 17.6% 5.3%
AWAY 135 .229 .214 .239 .285 1 28.2% 3.0%

Today's Lineups

TAMPA BAY RAYS ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS
Taylor Motter - 3B Jean Segura - 2B
Brad Miller - SS Michael Bourn - CF
Desmond Jennings - CF Paul Goldschmidt - 1B
Logan Morrison - 1B Welington Castillo - C
Mikie Mahtook - RF Brandon Drury - RF
Corey Dickerson - LF Jake Lamb - 3B
Tim Beckham - 2B Yasmany Tomas - LF
Hank Conger - C Zack Greinke - RHP
Matt Moore - LHP Nick Ahmed - SS