CHC @ HOU, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Game Preview

Chicago Cubs, 28-18, 1st, 2 up	SP: Sean Gallagher (22, RHP, 1-0, 4.40) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (1-0) 14.1 14 7 7 7 10 1 4.40 2007 (0-0) 14.2 19 15 14 12 5 3 8.59 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-0 10.1 9 5 5 6 9 0 4.35 50 2008-05-16 PIT W 6 4 1 1 3 3 0 91 60 2008-05-11 ARI ND 4.1 5 4 4 3 6 0 83 40 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.HOU Has never faced HOU.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 19-8 Road: 9-10 ExtrInn: 4-2 vsRHP: 18-13 vsLHP: 10-5 1-Run: 5-5 vsEast: 4-4 vsCntrl:17-12 vsWest: 7-2 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 46 Tue, May 20 @HOU L 2-4 28-18 1st 2.0 up 45 Mon, May 19 @HOU W 7-2 28-17 1st 2.0 up 44 Sun, May 18 PIT W 4-3 27-17 1st 2.0 up 43 Sat, May 17 PIT L 6-7 26-17 1st 2.0 up 42 Fri, May 16 PIT W 7-4 26-16 1st 2.5 up 41 Thu, May 15 SDP W 4-0 25-16 1st 1.5 up 40 Wed, May 14 SDP W 8-5 24-16 1st 1.0 up 39 Tue, May 13 SDP L 3-4 23-16 1st 1.0 up 38 Mon, May 12 SDP W 12-3 23-15 1st 1.0 up 37 Sun, May 11 ARI W 6-4 22-15 1st Tied Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:12-8 Last 30:18-12
Houston Astros, 26-21, 3rd, 2½ GB, ½ GB in WC	SP: Shawn Chacon (30, RHP, 0-0, 4.14) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (0-0) 54.1 53 29 25 27 35 9 4.14 2007 (5-4) 96 95 42 42 48 79 9 3.94 2006 (7-6) 109 124 86 77 63 62 23 6.36 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 0-0 42.1 44 24 20 19 29 8 4.25 49 2008-05-16 @TEX ND 3.1 6 8 5 4 0 3 75 18 2008-05-11 @LAD ND 6 7 2 2 1 3 1 93 52 2008-05-06 WSN ND 7 8 4 4 4 8 2 115 49 2008-04-30 @ARI ND 5 7 5 5 1 7 1 96 39 2008-04-25 @STL ND 7 5 2 1 6 3 0 111 58 2008-04-20 COL ND 6 7 3 3 1 3 1 93 48 2008-04-15 @PHI ND 8 4 0 0 2 5 0 109 77 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CHC 1-3 26 36 25 24 11 21 7 8.31 36 2006-09-07 @CHC ND 6 8 5 5 2 5 3 97 39 2003-05-02 @CHC L 5 8 6 6 4 3 0 94 26 2003-04-26 CHC W 7 3 2 1 1 8 0 105 72 2002-08-10 CHC L 4 11 8 8 0 2 3 79 10 2002-08-04 @CHC L 4 6 4 4 4 3 1 87 33
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 12-7 Road: 14-14 ExtrInn: 1-0 vsRHP: 19-16 vsLHP: 7-5 1-Run: 7-7 vsEast: 5-4 vsCntrl: 9-7 vsWest: 11-8 IL: 1-2 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 47 Tue, May 20 CHC W 4-2 26-21 3rd 2.5 gb 46 Mon, May 19 CHC L 2-7 25-21 3rd 3.5 gb 45 Sun, May 18 @TEX W 5-4 25-20 3rd 2.5 gb 44 Sat, May 17 @TEX L 2-6 24-20 3rd 2.5 gb 43 Fri, May 16 @TEX L 8-16 24-19 2nd 2.5 gb 42 Thu, May 15 @SFG W 8-7 24-18 2nd 1.5 gb 41 Wed, May 14 @SFG W 6-3 23-18 3rd 1.5 gb 40 Tue, May 13 @SFG L 2-4 22-18 3rd 1.5 gb 39 Mon, May 12 @SFG W 7-3 22-17 3rd 1.5 gb 38 Sun, May 11 @LAD W 8-5 21-17 3rd 1.5 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:14-6 Last 30:20-10
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Tue, May 20, 2008 HOU 4 CHC 2 W:Chris Sampson (3-3), L: Ryan Dempster (5-2), S: Jose Valverde (13) Mon, May 19, 2008 CHC 7 @HOU 2 W:Ted Lilly (5-4), L: Brian Moehler (1-1), S: none Sun, Apr 06, 2008 CHC 3 HOU 2 W:Carlos Zambrano (1-0), L: Oscar Villarreal (0-2), S: Kerry Wood (3) Sat, Apr 05, 2008 CHC 9 HOU 7 W:Kevin Hart (1-0), L: Roy Oswalt (0-2), S: Kerry Wood (2) Fri, Apr 04, 2008 HOU 4 @CHC 3 W:Wesley Wright (1-0), L: Jon Lieber (0-1), S: Jose Valverde (1) Thu, Sep 13, 2007 CHC 6 @HOU 2 W:Steve Trachsel (7-10), L: Woody Williams (8-15), S: none Wed, Sep 12, 2007 CHC 3 @HOU 2 W:Rich Hill (9-8), L: Matt Albers (4-8), S: Ryan Dempster (26) Tue, Sep 11, 2007 HOU 5 CHC 4 (11) W:Brad Lidge (4-2), L: Ryan Dempster (2-6), S: none Sun, Sep 02, 2007 CHC 6 HOU 5 W:Carlos Marmol (5-1), L: Chad Qualls (6-4), S: Ryan Dempster (25) Sat, Sep 01, 2007 CHC 4 HOU 3 W:Jason Marquis (11-8), L: Troy Patton (0-2), S: Ryan Dempster (24) Season Series: 2008 - CHC leads 3-2; 2007 - CHC won 8-7; 2006 - HOU won 8-7; All-Time - HOU leads 338-290

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 2008 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

CHC 5.74

DET 4.53

SDP 3.30

RA/G

CLE 3.58

MIN 4.47

TEX 5.57

C. Jones .409

R. Howard .183

OBP

A. Pujols .486

K. Greene .270

SLG

L. Berkman .776

O. Cabrera .292

OPS

L. Berkman 1.244

O. Cabrera .569

ERA

E. Volquez 1.33

J. Blanton 3.87

K. Rogers 6.65

K/9IP

E. Volquez 10.28

P. Maholm 6.37

J. Garland 2.01

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Chicago Cubs Batters (5.74 RS/G) vs. Houston Astros Pitchers (4.64 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 30.Chacon
G/S/vB 41.Backe
G/S/vB 58.Borkowski
G/S/vB 26.Brocail
G/S/vB 48.Byrdak*
G/S/vB 38.Moehler
G/S/vB 64.Nieve
G/S/vB 44.Oswalt
G/S/vB 43.Sampson
G/S/vB 47.Valverde
G/S/vB 56.Villarreal
G/S/vB 53.Wright*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

24.Blanco G/S/vP 6/1.167 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.750 ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 28/19 .320/.393/.320/.713 1.056/.551 .889 12/.606 0/0 0/

5.Cedeno G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 5/.000 2/1.000 ··· 4/.500 4/.500 8/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 1/no AB 79/40 .324/.410/.456/.866 .683/1.050 .767 47/.798 2/0 1/

7.DeRosa G/S/vP 16/.563 6/1.166 5/.000 1/.000 2/.500 4/.500 ··· 21/1.176 9/.666 5/1.400 4/.583 1/2.000 179/123 .311/.410/.453/.863 .960/.817 .554 97/.806 3/0 4/

15.Edmonds* G/S/vP 7/.858 16/.557 6/1.500 6/.000 5/.400 38/1.333 ··· 55/.653 8/.821 5/1.800 3/.667 1/.000 116/94 .176/.261/.225/.486 .279/.537 .597 54/.368 2/1 1/

17.Fontenot* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 7/.572 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 74/67 .258/.370/.419/.789 .533/.812 .917 38/1.000 1/0 2/

1.Fukudome* G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/2.000 3/.666 6/.666 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 195/146 .311/.412/.439/.851 .818/.862 .587 109/.755 4/2 2/

6.Hoffpauir* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 2/1 .000/.500/.000/.500 .000/ 2/.500 0/0 0/

9.Johnson G/S/vP 9/.708 5/1.000 1/.000 3/1.334 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.500 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 151/93 .256/.340/.326/.666 .677/.657 .568 86/.556 1/2 1/

25.Lee G/S/vP 7/.453 17/.561 7/.429 3/1.334 ··· 5/1.000 2/1.000 51/1.001 9/1.333 4/.000 6/2.500 ··· 210/154 .302/.367/.540/.906 .932/.897 .860 115/.763 3/1 10/

16.Ramirez G/S/vP 20/2.306 18/1.125 11/1.273 2/.000 ··· 15/.971 6/.334 59/.728 12/1.084 5/.200 11/.664 ··· 188/136 .290/.410/.523/.932 .810/.981 .994 95/.911 1/1 8/

12.Soriano G/S/vP 7/.453 21/.688 9/.111 5/.650 2/.000 11/1.101 4/.000 28/.572 11/.282 ··· 9/1.301 ··· 143/103 .278/.315/.556/.871 1.293/.703 .651 82/1.128 3/0 10/

18.Soto G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.666 1/.000 3/1.333 6/.666 2/.000 ··· ··· 177/127 .315/.418/.604/1.022 1.212/.949 1.054 100/1.061 0/0 9/

2.Theriot G/S/vP 3/1.334 6/.333 8/1.464 5/.800 ··· 4/.000 1/3.000 6/.533 9/.000 2/2.000 4/.000 ··· 193/145 .325/.401/.408/.809 .954/.763 .711 116/.753 9/7 1/

IP 54.1 55.0 20.0 25.1 10.2 22.2 2.2 63.0 45.2 24.0 22.1 15.2 TOTAL .285/.371/.448/.819 .848/.807 .720 .810 30/13 51/28

ERA-K/9

4.14/5.8

4.58/6.9

4.50/6.3

3.20/8.2

0.00/3.4

4.76/4.4

3.38/6.7

5.43/7.0

5.91/4.3

3.75/10.9

6.04/6.1

4.60/7.5

4.38/6.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Blanco (4-1-1)
Soto (18-10-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 234/.261 246/.270 89/.333 100/.250 45/.194 106/.320 12/.417 277/.291 204/.326 105/.245 99/.308 71/.220 .276 Fukudome
Soriano
Edmonds
DeRosa
Johnson 0/2/43/3
31/0/0/2
0/29/0/1
12/0/3/0
10/31/0/0

OPS .804 .836 .923 .645 .646 .833 .917 .870 .840 .752 1.056 .733 .806

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 109/.917 107/.972 33/.544 40/.975 19/.557 40/.889 3/1.333 123/.967 77/.796 50/.641 45/.930 27/.792 .866

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 125/.706 139/.730 56/1.137 60/.414 26/.716 66/.800 9/.778 154/.788 127/.864 55/.837 54/1.163 44/.692 .765

Home 82/.850 101/.742 39/.981 48/.685 17/.584 53/.824 6/1.167 107/1.017 74/1.108 53/.505 42/1.030 30/.693 .809

Last 28d days 130/.927 125/.828 46/.992 54/.492 40/.646 72/.833 12/.917 143/.796 151/.835 52/.396 40/1.114 48/.737

HR/SB/CS 9/1/2 10/1/0 4/0/0 2/0/1 0/2/1 3/3/0 0/0/0 14/0/0 3/2/0 4/3/0 10/0/1 1/1/0 65/14/6

Usage ····X··· ··X····X ·X··Xo·· o·X·o·o· ·o·o·ooo ·X····X· ·X·X···· ···X···· X····X·· o·X··oo· ····X·oo ·X··X·oo

Houston Astros Batters (4.87 RS/G) vs. Chicago Cubs Pitchers (4.13 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 36.Gallagher
G/S/vB 58.Ascanio
G/S/vB 46.Dempster
G/S/vB 47.Eyre*
G/S/vB 62.Howry
G/S/vB 32.Lieber
G/S/vB 30.Lilly*
G/S/vB 49.Marmol
G/S/vB 21.Marquis
G/S/vB 34.Wood
G/S/vB 43.Wuertz
G/S/vB 38.Zambrano
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

11.Ausmus G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 28/.681 5/.650 11/.875 35/.629 5/.400 6/.900 34/.491 28/.706 8/1.571 47/.548 62/43 .217/.230/.317/.546 .722/.471 .500 41/.710 0/1 1/

17.Berkman# G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 47/1.107 9/.472 6/.900 32/1.054 12/.174 11/1.402 50/1.344 36/1.030 11/.697 67/.683 199/153 .388/.467/.776/1.244 1.185/1.263 1.429 113/1.398 8/1 16/

27.Blum# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 38/.728 3/.666 4/1.000 14/.077 12/.697 ··· 16/.913 26/.863 1/.000 23/.534 96/83 .209/.240/.341/.580 .154/.636 .787 34/.429 0/0 3/

14.Bourn* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.666 181/138 .196/.263/.276/.539 .559/.533 .576 97/.446 19/3 3/

22.Cruz# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 10/1.100 10/.856 3/.666 18/.706 24/.762 1/.000 9/.777 5/1.800 4/2.417 8/1.042 52/31 .122/.308/.146/.454 .521/.410 .652 29/.401 0/0 0/

2.Erstad* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 13/1.062 8/.804 5/.000 22/.279 2/.000 4/.750 1/.000 1/.000 7/.762 67/62 .308/.328/.477/.805 1.000/.789 .566 41/.954 1/1 1/

45.Lee G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 13/.975 7/1.071 9/.555 27/.407 24/.578 9/.708 33/1.148 28/1.118 11/.717 48/1.167 194/152 .279/.320/.503/.822 .645/.872 .748 108/.859 2/0 9/

8.Loretta G/S/vP ··· ··· 19/1.045 17/.620 6/.400 31/.400 18/1.098 4/.500 19/.474 32/.652 4/1.500 15/.733 106/77 .239/.330/.293/.624 1.063/.474 .701 43/.602 0/0 0/

3.Matsui# G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/.000 5/.650 4/.500 1/.000 8/.250 3/.333 1/2.000 15/.498 8/1.196 2/1.000 7/.286 137/100 .291/.382/.393/.776 .824/.758 .759 113/.771 10/1 1/

9.Pence G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 6/1.166 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 6/.000 4/.000 12/1.200 3/.000 3/1.666 9/.555 182/136 .293/.341/.461/.802 .811/.799 .947 104/.941 5/3 5/

10.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/1.000 4/.250 13/.398 9/.666 31/.480 1/.000 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 200/156 .342/.375/.524/.899 .886/.903 1.024 113/.797 3/3 5/

46.Towles G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 113/95 .144/.259/.309/.568 1.086/.483 .725 59/.278 0/0 4/

21.Wigginton G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/.222 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 7/.929 1/2.000 18/1.063 11/.473 4/.250 3/.667 77/53 .217/.286/.319/.605 .893/.476 .656 54/.563 3/0 1/

IP 14.1 2.0 63.1 2.1 22.2 24.0 56.0 29.0 45.1 22.2 22.2 66.0 TOTAL .263/.324/.422/.746 .808/.727 .818 .758 51/13 50/28

ERA-K/9

4.40/6.3

0.00/4.5

2.70/7.5

0.00/7.8

5.96/5.9

3.38/5.2

5.14/9.0

1.55/12.7

4.96/5.4

3.57/8.7

3.18/4.8

2.45/6.3

3.70/7.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Ausmus (5-1-2)
Towles (9-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 62/.269 10/.286 257/.181 9/.222 104/.337 103/.303 241/.239 106/.125 206/.311 88/.177 91/.229 268/.243 .239 Bourn
Lee
Pence
Cruz
Erstad 0/43/0/5
45/0/0/4
0/0/44/2
9/4/3/0
9/5/3/0

OPS .790 .873 .525 .556 .958 .879 .712 .408 .844 .544 .651 .652 .699

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 27/.736 5/.250 114/.563 6/.000 37/1.156 34/1.224 55/.866 43/.630 76/.782 40/.488 35/.651 134/.691 .753

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 35/.832 5/1.350 143/.495 3/1.667 67/.850 69/.712 186/.668 63/.262 130/.876 48/.585 56/.651 134/.612 .666

Road 17/.908 10/.873 102/.497 / 42/.771 73/.919 115/.772 33/.451 82/.824 34/.518 39/.826 86/.614 .732

Last 28d days 62/.790 10/.873 161/.540 9/.556 52/.907 55/.964 126/.586 53/.355 133/.857 46/.616 46/.535 137/.625

HR/SB/CS 1/0/1 0/0/0 4/1/1 0/0/0 5/0/0 6/0/0 7/3/1 2/2/0 5/5/0 1/0/0 3/1/2 4/2/5 45/22/11

Usage ····X··· X······· X····X·· ···o···o ·oX·X··· ·o·X···· ·X····X· ·oXo··X· ··X····X ··o·ooX· ·o·X···X ···X····

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.

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Game Preview: CHC @ HOU, 8:05pm, Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @Minute Maid Park

SP: Sean Gallagher (22, RHP, 1-0, 4.40)

SP: Shawn Chacon (30, RHP, 0-0, 4.14)

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