NYM @ HOU, Sunday, August 3, 2008 Game Preview

New York Mets, 58-52, 3rd, 2 GB, 3½ GB in WC	SP: Oliver Perez (26, LHP, 7-6, 4.02) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (7-6) 123 104 62 55 67 112 18 4.02 2007 (15-10) 177 153 90 70 79 174 22 3.56 2006 (3-13) 112.2 129 90 82 68 102 20 6.55 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-2 44.2 33 13 11 16 47 5 2.22 62 2008-07-29 @FLA W 6 5 1 1 3 5 0 100 60 2008-07-24 PHI ND 7.2 6 1 1 1 12 1 108 74 2008-07-19 @CIN L 6 6 3 2 3 6 0 87 53 2008-07-11 COL ND 6 2 1 1 6 7 1 119 65 2008-07-06 @PHI ND 7 4 0 0 2 6 0 110 73 2008-06-29 NYY W 7 3 1 1 0 8 1 106 75 2008-06-24 SEA L 5 7 6 5 1 3 2 86 33 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.HOU 2-1 29.1 19 10 9 9 39 4 2.76 67 2006-05-28 HOU ND 8 5 2 2 3 9 0 127 70 2005-04-25 HOU W 7.2 4 0 0 2 9 0 121 78 2004-09-09 HOU W 8 3 1 0 1 14 0 114 87 2004-09-03 @HOU L 5.2 7 7 7 3 7 4 102 31
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 32-20 Road: 26-32 ExtrInn: 8-6 vsRHP: 37-41 vsLHP: 21-11 1-Run: 9-14 vsEast: 21-19 vsCntrl:10-13 vsWest: 18-14 IL: 9-6 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 110 Sat, Aug 2 @HOU L 4-5 (10) 58-52 3rd 2.0 gb 109 Fri, Aug 1 @HOU L 3-7 58-51 2nd 1.0 gb 108 Wed, Jul 30 @FLA L 5-7 58-50 2nd 0.5 gb 107 Tue, Jul 29 @FLA W 4-1 58-49 1st 0.5 up 106 Mon, Jul 28 @FLA L 3-7 57-49 1st 0.5 up 105 Sun, Jul 27 STL W 9-1 57-48 1st 1.0 up 104 Sat, Jul 26 STL L 8-10(14) 56-48 1st 1.0 up 103 Fri, Jul 25 STL W 7-2 56-47 1st 2.0 up 102 Thu, Jul 24 PHI W 3-1 55-47 1st 1.0 up 101 Wed, Jul 23 PHI W 6-3 54-47 1st Tied Last 10: 5-5 Last 20:12-8 Last 30:19-11
Houston Astros, 52-57, 4th, 13 GB, 9 GB in WC	SP: Randy Wolf (31, LHP, 6-10, 4.79) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2008 (6-10) 124 130 73 66 50 108 15 4.79 2007 (9-6) 102.2 110 55 54 39 94 10 4.73 2006 (4-0) 56.2 63 37 35 33 44 13 5.56 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 1-5 35.1 46 30 25 22 31 5 6.37 40 2008-07-27 @MIL ND 4.1 7 4 3 3 3 1 105 35 2008-07-19 @STL L 5.2 8 6 4 2 4 0 98 35 2008-07-13 ATL L 5 6 6 6 3 1 0 96 29 2008-07-08 FLA W 7 5 1 1 1 7 1 109 69 2008-07-02 @COL L 4 6 7 7 4 4 2 80 22 2008-06-27 SEA L 3.1 8 3 2 5 2 0 97 31 2008-06-22 DET L 6 6 3 2 4 10 1 103 56 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.NYM 4-0 29 32 12 12 11 15 3 3.72 49 2008-06-06 NYM W 7 7 1 1 2 2 0 101 59 2007-06-11 NYM W 6 9 3 3 0 3 0 96 45 2006-08-25 @NYM W 5 5 3 3 4 4 1 94 45 2006-08-15 NYM W 7 4 2 2 2 2 2 105 61 2006-08-04 @NYM ND 4 7 3 3 3 4 0 95 37
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 28-26 Road: 24-31 ExtrInn: 2-3 vsRHP: 36-42 vsLHP: 16-15 1-Run: 17-19 vsEast: 12-9 vsCntrl:21-26 vsWest: 12-11 IL: 7-11 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 109 Sat, Aug 2 NYM W 5-4 (10) 52-57 4th 13.0 gb 108 Fri, Aug 1 NYM W 7-3 51-57 4th 13.0 gb 107 Wed, Jul 30 CIN L 5-9 50-57 4th 13.5 gb 106 Tue, Jul 29 CIN W 6-2 50-56 4th 12.5 gb 105 Mon, Jul 28 CIN W 5-4 49-56 4th 12.5 gb 104 Sun, Jul 27 @MIL W 11-6 48-56 5th 12.5 gb 103 Sat, Jul 26 @MIL L 4-6 47-56 6th 12.5 gb 102 Fri, Jul 25 @MIL W 3-1 47-55 6th 12.5 gb 101 Wed, Jul 23 PIT L 7-8 46-55 6th 13.0 gb 100 Tue, Jul 22 PIT L 2-8 46-54 5th 12.0 gb Last 10: 6-4 Last 20:11-9 Last 30:15-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Sat, Aug 02, 2008 HOU 5 NYM 4 (10) W:Jose Valverde (5-3), L: Aaron Heilman (1-6), S: none Fri, Aug 01, 2008 HOU 7 NYM 3 W:Doug Brocail (5-5), L: Aaron Heilman (1-5), S: none Sun, Sep 09, 2007 NYM 4 HOU 1 W:Pedro Martinez (2-0), L: Roy Oswalt (14-7), S: Billy Wagner (32) Sat, Sep 08, 2007 NYM 3 HOU 1 W:Tom Glavine (13-6), L: Woody Williams (8-14), S: Billy Wagner (31) Fri, Sep 07, 2007 NYM 11 HOU 3 W:Mike Pelfrey (2-7), L: Wandy Rodriguez (8-13), S: none Sun, Jul 08, 2007 HOU 8 NYM 3 W:Roy Oswalt (8-5), L: Dave Williams (0-1), S: none Sat, Jul 07, 2007 NYM 5 @HOU 3 (17) W:Aaron Sele (2-0), L: Brian Moehler (1-3), S: Billy Wagner (17) Fri, Jul 06, 2007 HOU 4 NYM 0 W:Wandy Rodriguez (6-7), L: Mike Pelfrey (0-7), S: none Thu, Jul 05, 2007 NYM 6 @HOU 2 W:John Maine (10-4), L: Jason Jennings (1-4), S: none Sun, Sep 03, 2006 HOU 2 NYM 1 W:Roy Oswalt (11-8), L: Orlando Hernandez (9-10), S: Brad Lidge (29) Season Series: 2008 - HOU leads 2-0; 2007 - NYM won 5-2; 2006 - NYM won 4-2; All-Time - HOU leads 294-242

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

TEX 5.61

COL 4.64

WSN 3.75

RA/G

OAK 3.87

CLE 4.61

TEX 5.93

C. Jones .369

J. Drew .286

J. Towles .143

OBP

C. Jones .466

D. Ortiz .358

T. Pena .171

SLG

L. Berkman .615

C. Blake .475

T. Pena .198

OPS

C. Jones 1.062

C. Beltran .817

T. Pena .369

ERA

J. Duchscherer 2.33

J. Maine 4.13

N. Robertson 6.06

K/9IP

T. Lincecum 10.04

T. Wellemeyer 6.20

L. Hernandez 3.48

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New York Mets Batters (4.90 RS/G) vs. Houston Astros Pitchers (4.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 39.Wolf*
G/S/vB 26.Brocail
G/S/vB 48.Byrdak*
G/S/vB 29.Geary
G/S/vB 22.Hawkins
G/S/vB 43.Sampson
G/S/vB 47.Valverde
G/S/vB 53.Wright*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

15.Beltran# G/S/vP 26/.929 9/.000 2/.000 14/.571 25/.969 ··· 5/1.100 1/.000 480/360 .265/.363/.454/.817 .767/.833 .776 105/.800 16/2 15/

40.Cancel G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/9 .200/.200/.267/.467 1.167/.000 .600 11/.455 1/0 0/

11.Castro G/S/vP 3/.833 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 114/72 .272/.342/.495/.837 .919/.788 .714 36/.980 0/0 6/

10.Chavez* G/S/vP 10/1.125 1/2.000 1/.000 9/.833 3/1.000 ··· 7/1.096 ··· 274/236 .266/.309/.323/.632 .535/.648 .559 79/.667 6/1 1/

21.Delgado* G/S/vP 27/.439 12/1.317 8/1.089 7/.429 14/.812 ··· 4/1.750 1/.000 463/335 .263/.346/.496/.842 .679/.908 .863 106/1.168 1/1 23/

3.Easley G/S/vP 16/.980 2/.000 ··· 9/.958 23/.846 ··· 1/5.000 ··· 248/177 .283/.329/.385/.714 .739/.704 .801 75/.730 0/0 5/

6.Evans G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/21 .244/.286/.333/.619 .833/.343 .979 25/.724 0/0 0/

28.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/4 .250/.250/.250/.500 /.500 .500 4/.500 0/0 0/

4.Reyes# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 48/37 .295/.326/.364/.690 .600/.716 .563 46/.722 1/0 1/

7.Reyes# G/S/vP 32/.827 2/1.000 1/2.000 19/.551 3/1.000 ··· 6/.666 ··· 518/367 .306/.369/.498/.867 .829/.887 .827 116/.971 36/11 12/

23.Schneider* G/S/vP 11/.697 4/.000 1/3.000 11/1.000 4/.000 3/.333 2/.500 ··· 268/203 .250/.340/.302/.641 .467/.699 .551 56/.618 0/0 2/

17.Tatis G/S/vP 23/.374 4/.000 ··· ··· 8/.875 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 183/126 .314/.361/.503/.864 .815/.884 .740 88/1.128 3/0 7/

5.Wright G/S/vP 20/.426 3/1.667 1/no AB 12/1.167 3/.666 1/.000 7/.286 ··· 504/382 .287/.385/.504/.888 1.209/.794 .849 109/.874 13/4 20/

IP 124.0 50.0 36.1 49.1 41.2 89.0 50.1 39.0 TOTAL .267/.341/.413/.754 .758/.752 .727 .847 101/24 108/67

ERA-K/9

4.79/7.8

3.96/7.9

2.72/6.2

2.55/7.1

5.62/5.4

4.35/4.6

4.47/10.4

4.38/7.6

4.57/6.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Cancel (0-0-0)
Castro (11-4-0)
Schneider (25-16-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 545/.272 208/.242 159/.221 202/.194 175/.271 363/.267 221/.250 171/.208 .272 Chavez
Beltran
Tatis
Murphy
Evans
Easley 31/7/49/6
0/106/0/4
33/0/17/1
1/0/0/1
12/0/0/0
7/0/0/0

OPS .769 .647 .755 .553 .720 .695 .782 .725 .799

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 117/.886 89/.850 69/.592 88/.608 78/.990 151/.689 101/.671 71/.507 .809

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 428/.738 119/.498 90/.888 114/.510 97/.516 212/.699 120/.868 100/.890 .793

Home 274/.663 109/.615 85/.706 114/.603 98/.698 163/.890 122/.752 95/.720 .809

Last 28d days 102/.809 38/.876 37/1.013 67/.421 21/.488 60/.424 38/.734 27/.385

HR/SB/CS 15/8/3 4/2/1 5/3/1 2/0/0 3/2/2 6/2/1 10/6/0 5/5/0 149/38/16

Usage ······X· ·o·X···X oo·o·X·· X····o·X X······· ·o·X··X· oX···o·· ·o·ooo··

Houston Astros Batters (4.39 RS/G) vs. New York Mets Pitchers (4.53 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 46.Perez*
G/S/vB 25.Feliciano*
G/S/vB 48.Heilman
G/S/vB 32.Muniz
G/S/vB 50.Sanchez
G/S/vB 60.Schoeneweis*
G/S/vB 35.Smith
G/S/vB 13.Wagner*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

11.Ausmus G/S/vP 7/.486 4/.250 5/.000 ··· 4/1.417 13/.490 1/.000 6/1.167 185/135 .239/.306/.307/.612 .747/.564 .597 45/.843 0/1 1/

17.Berkman# G/S/vP 6/.334 3/1.334 5/2.300 ··· 3/1.333 4/.250 ··· 4/.250 457/336 .340/.442/.615/1.057 .880/1.125 1.088 89/.828 15/2 22/

27.Blum# G/S/vP 2/1.000 5/.000 4/1.750 ··· 4/.250 3/.666 1/2.000 8/1.333 199/170 .225/.261/.390/.652 .406/.686 .713 46/.841 1/0 9/

14.Bourn* G/S/vP ··· 3/.667 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 379/275 .233/.290/.305/.595 .591/.596 .684 40/.731 33/8 4/

2.Erstad* G/S/vP 3/1.667 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 4/2.250 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 193/159 .267/.307/.367/.674 .509/.707 .625 67/.437 1/2 2/

45.Lee G/S/vP 11/.705 ··· 9/1.181 ··· 7/.829 14/.486 3/.000 6/1.000 452/343 .303/.352/.545/.897 .966/.874 .945 94/.947 4/1 25/

8.Loretta G/S/vP 8/1.950 4/1.500 11/1.455 ··· 5/.800 1/.000 2/1.000 19/.591 209/142 .277/.340/.404/.744 .969/.644 .861 36/.740 0/0 4/

3.Matsui# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 3/.333 337/241 .284/.348/.405/.753 .858/.712 .789 83/.980 17/4 4/

31.Newhan* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 33/30 .226/.273/.355/.628 .000/.693 .714 16/.521 0/0 0/

9.Pence G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 3/.666 441/328 .274/.313/.446/.758 .734/.767 .762 93/.889 7/8 14/

55.Quintero G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 62/47 .200/.200/.233/.433 .286/.478 .385 21/.211 0/0 0/

10.Tejada G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/1.000 32/.825 ··· 2/.000 453/337 .282/.318/.420/.738 .729/.741 .799 83/.659 7/5 11/

21.Wigginton G/S/vP 5/1.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 261/181 .263/.352/.447/.800 .991/.720 .858 59/.785 4/4 9/

IP 123.0 39.1 60.0 21.0 47.0 42.1 44.2 47.0 TOTAL .262/.323/.412/.735 .773/.723 .784 .754 89/36 112/53

ERA-K/9

4.02/8.2

3.89/8.7

5.25/10.1

5.14/6.0

3.83/6.9

3.19/4.9

3.83/6.8

2.30/10.0

4.10/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Ausmus (16-4-3)
Quintero (9-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 539/.231 172/.268 275/.260 89/.263 201/.223 178/.243 192/.224 184/.185 .250 Pence
Bourn
Lee
Erstad 0/0/105/9
0/91/0/7
103/0/0/4
30/23/4/2

OPS .723 .754 .774 .726 .628 .730 .677 .517 .721

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 134/.600 82/.534 108/1.020 35/.743 97/.653 85/.482 50/.805 46/.527 .776

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 405/.765 90/.954 167/.619 54/.715 104/.604 93/.963 142/.631 138/.513 .685

Road 293/.740 89/.900 140/.865 56/.923 98/.494 101/.841 95/.744 86/.649 .786

Last 28d days 135/.584 26/.813 73/.850 40/.631 45/.711 36/.780 49/.699 50/.512

HR/SB/CS 18/7/1 5/0/0 8/2/0 2/0/0 3/4/0 5/1/2 4/2/1 4/0/1 113/40/22

Usage ····X··· oo·o·o·o oX··X··X ···X·X·o o··o·X·X o····X·o oo·o·o·X 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: NYM @ HOU, 2:05pm, Sunday, August 3, 2008 @Minute Maid Park

SP: Oliver Perez (26, LHP, 7-6, 4.02)

SP: Randy Wolf (31, LHP, 6-10, 4.79)

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