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Game Preview: HOU @ SFG, 10:15pm, Friday, July 3, 2009 @AT&T Park

Astros, 38-39, 5th, 3 GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Felipe Paulino (25, RHP, 2-4, 5.51)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-4) 50.2 61 34 31 17 46 8 5.51
2007 (2-1) 19.0 22 15 15 7 11 5 7.11
Last 7 GS 1-3 35.2 38 23 20 9 32 7 5.05 48
2009-06-27 DET W 7.0 3 1 1 0 9 1 96 76
2009-06-07 PIT ND 1.2 3 1 1 0 4 0 33 49
2009-06-02 COL ND 6.0 5 2 2 1 7 0 87 60
2009-05-27 @CIN L 6.0 7 5 4 0 4 3 84 44
2009-05-22 TEX ND 5.1 7 4 4 2 3 1 102 39
2009-05-12 @COL L 4.0 7 8 7 4 2 2 96 16
2009-04-29 @CIN L 5.2 6 2 1 2 3 0 88 52
Has never faced SFG.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-21   Road:   19-18   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  32-31   vsLHP:   6-8    1-Run:  12-11
 vsEast:  2-2    vsCntrl:15-23   vsWest: 15-5  IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 78 Thu, Jul  2  @SDP  W   7-2       38-39  5th  3.0 gb
 77 Wed, Jul  1  @SDP  W   7-1       37-39  5th  4.0 gb
 76 Tue, Jun 30  @SDP  L   3-4       36-39  5th  5.0 gb
 75 Mon, Jun 29  @SDP  W   3-1       36-38  5th  4.0 gb
 74 Sun, Jun 28   DET  L   3-4       35-38  5th  4.0 gb
 73 Sat, Jun 27   DET  W   8-1       35-37  5th  4.0 gb
 72 Fri, Jun 26   DET  W   5-4       34-37  5th  4.0 gb
 71 Thu, Jun 25   KCR  W   5-4       33-37  5th  5.0 gb
 70 Wed, Jun 24   KCR  L   3-4 (11)  32-37  5th  6.0 gb
 69 Tue, Jun 23   KCR  L   1-2       32-36  5th  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11
Giants, 42-36, 2nd, 7½ GB

SP: Ryan Sadowski (26, RHP, 1-0, 0.00)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-0) 6.0 4 0 0 3 2 0 0.00
Last 7 GS 1-0 6.0 4 0 0 3 2 0 0.00 63
2009-06-28 @MIL W 6.0 4 0 0 3 2 0 85 63
Has never faced HOU.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-12   Road:   18-24   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  30-28   vsLHP:  12-8    1-Run:   8-12
 vsEast: 10-7    vsCntrl: 8-7    vsWest: 15-16 IL: 9-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 78 Thu, Jul  2  @STL  L   2-5       42-36  2nd  7.5 gb
 77 Wed, Jul  1  @STL  L   1-2 (10)  42-35  2nd  7.0 gb
 76 Tue, Jun 30  @STL  W   6-3       42-34  2nd  6.0 gb
 75 Mon, Jun 29  @STL  W  10-0       41-34  2nd  7.0 gb
 74 Sun, Jun 28  @MIL  W   7-0       40-34  2nd  7.0 gb
 73 Sat, Jun 27  @MIL  L   6-7       39-34  2nd  8.0 gb
 72 Fri, Jun 26  @MIL  L   1-5       39-33  2nd  8.0 gb
 71 Wed, Jun 24  @OAK  W   6-3       39-32  2nd  7.5 gb
 70 Tue, Jun 23  @OAK  W   4-1       38-32  2nd  8.5 gb
 69 Mon, Jun 22  @OAK  L   1-5       37-32  2nd  8.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 HOU  7  SFG  4        W:LaTroy Hawkins (2-1), L: Keiichi Yabu (3-5), S: Jose Valverde (30)
Wed, Aug 13, 2008 HOU  6  SFG  2        W:Randy Wolf (8-10), L: Barry Zito (6-15), S: none
Tue, Aug 12, 2008 HOU 12  SFG  4        W:Roy Oswalt (10-8), L: Tyler Walker (4-7), S: none
Mon, Aug 11, 2008 HOU  3  SFG  1        W:Brandon Backe (7-11), L: Jonathan Sanchez (8-9), S: Jose Valverde (29)
Thu, May 15, 2008 HOU  8 @SFG  7        W:Tim Byrdak (2-0), L: Vinnie Chulk (0-2), S: Jose Valverde (11)
Wed, May 14, 2008 HOU  6 @SFG  3        W:Oscar Villarreal (1-3), L: Jack Taschner (2-1), S: Jose Valverde (10)
Tue, May 13, 2008 SFG  4  HOU  2        W:Matt Cain (2-3), L: Brandon Backe (2-5), S: Brian Wilson (12)
Mon, May 12, 2008 HOU  7 @SFG  3        W:Roy Oswalt (4-3), L: Vinnie Chulk (0-1), S: Jose Valverde (9)
Wed, May 23, 2007 SFG  9  HOU  1        W:Barry Zito (4-5), L: Matt Albers (1-4), S: none
Tue, May 22, 2007 SFG  4  HOU  2        W:Tim Lincecum (2-0), L: Roy Oswalt (6-3), S: Armando Benitez (9)
Season Series: 2009 -  0-0; 2008 - HOU won 7-1; 2007 - SFG won 4-2; All-Time - SFG leads 353-334

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 2009 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

NYY  5.55

CHW  4.47

SDP  3.79

 RA/G

SFG  3.73

MIL  4.60

WSN  5.66

 BA

J. Mauer  .392

M. Teahen  .285

B. Giles  .191

 OBP

J. Mauer  .467

M. Cuddyer  .359

D. Navarro  .241

 SLG

A. Pujols  .745

M. Lowell  .470

N. Punto  .237

 OPS

A. Pujols  1.205

R. Cano  .813

N. Punto  .543

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.95

J. Niemann  3.95

A. Sonnanstine  6.61

 K/9IP

J. Verlander  10.70

C. Pavano  6.63

J. Garland  3.31

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Astros Batters (4.19 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (3.74 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Sadowski
G/S/vB		 41.Affeldt*
G/S/vB		 46.Howry
G/S/vB		 52.Medders
G/S/vB		 45.Miller
G/S/vB		 54.Romo
G/S/vB		 47.Valdez
G/S/vB		 38.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
17.Berkman# G/S/vP ··· 6/.334 7/.762 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 316/241 .261/.386/.518/.904 .626/.998 .916 97/1.056 5/2 17/4
27.Blum# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 5/.800 7/.143 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 189/177 .261/.333/.315/.648 .833/.634 .497 36/.528 0/1 2/2
21.Bourn* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 331/272 .289/.364/.402/.766 .756/.767 .830 110/.771 26/7 2/1
2.Erstad* G/S/vP ··· 9/.888 9/.708 2/2.000 7/.143 ··· ··· ··· 90/84 .163/.236/.263/.498 .000/.537 .367 32/.661 0/2 1/0
36.Kata# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/29 .200/.219/.233/.452 .000/.501 .472 30/.483 0/0 0/0
28.Keppinger G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/1.100 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 174/120 .257/.343/.385/.728 .899/.645 .960 76/.628 0/2 3/4
45.Lee G/S/vP ··· 19/.566 11/.909 3/2.667 5/1.300 ··· 1/no AB ··· 312/248 .300/.353/.481/.833 1.063/.776 .766 90/.709 2/2 12/2
3.Matsui# G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 2/1.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 213/170 .249/.300/.333/.633 .955/.557 .599 47/.806 6/3 2/2
4.Michaels G/S/vP ··· 11/.282 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 75/39 .176/.253/.294/.547 .641/.459 .501 27/.530 1/1 0/0
9.Pence G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 6/1.500 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 314/256 .310/.382/.502/.884 1.089/.837 .834 94/.803 8/5 10/1
55.Quintero G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 61/49 .283/.295/.350/.645 .697/.633 .548 28/.802 0/0 0/5
12.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 12/.500 13/1.077 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 235/196 .244/.278/.398/.676 .835/.643 .727 66/.530 0/2 7/2
10.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 7/1.000 16/.517 1/.000 11/1.727 ··· 1/.000 ··· 325/259 .331/.360/.475/.835 .880/.824 .746 96/.675 2/2 6/9
IP 6.0 31.1 28.0 32.2 33.1 10.2 24.0 36.0 TOTAL .266/.328/.403/.731 .810/.711 .721 .702 49/29 63/41
ERA-K/9 0.00/3.0 1.44/8.3 3.86/5.5 3.03/7.7 2.16/5.4 2.53/11.8 3.38/6.8 3.50/9.8 3.57/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 23/.200 122/.217 122/.245 146/.273 129/.224 46/.238 98/.214 154/.230 .244
OPS .554 .604 .679 .777 .686 .670 .636 .638 .709
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 6/.533 52/.822 43/.813 53/.879 52/.534 15/.522 39/.526 67/.518 .652
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 17/.561 70/.449 79/.607 93/.721 77/.781 31/.736 59/.694 87/.727 .743
Home / 59/.702 47/.824 69/.654 59/.733 18/.669 46/.545 88/.504
Last 28d days 23/.554 24/.440 33/.542 37/.965 34/.639 41/.547 28/.549 44/.510
HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 1/1/0 2/2/0 3/2/1 4/2/1 1/1/0 1/2/1 2/4/1 65/56/16
Usage ····X··· ·oX··o·· ·o··X··· o····X·· X······· ·Xo··o·· X·····X· ··X··X··
Giants Batters (4.03 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Paulino
G/S/vB		 48.Byrdak*
G/S/vB		 39.Fulchino
G/S/vB		 22.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 43.Sampson
G/S/vB		 47.Valverde
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
37.Downs G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/31 .212/.289/.333/.623 .286/.707 .713 38/.623 1/0 1/0
10.Ishikawa* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 172/157 .253/.322/.403/.724 .533/.744 .941 47/.822 1/1 5/2
14.Lewis* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/3.000 ··· 10/.800 3/.000 226/173 .255/.341/.395/.736 .517/.803 .850 38/.482 5/4 4/3
1.Molina G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/.000 10/.600 6/.666 4/.000 285/222 .259/.267/.430/.696 .899/.636 .793 87/.725 0/0 10/3
16.Renteria G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 9/.583 6/1.550 2/.000 288/225 .266/.323/.340/.663 .791/.627 .650 98/.665 5/2 2/6
33.Rowand G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 2/1.000 9/.000 6/1.167 3/.000 295/235 .299/.359/.474/.833 .868/.824 .858 99/.814 4/1 9/1
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 294/224 .332/.384/.556/.940 1.024/.915 1.081 106/1.201 2/2 11/6
12.Schierholtz* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 134/115 .302/.328/.444/.773 1.474/.651 .810 69/.938 2/1 3/1
59.Torres# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 65/38 .255/.359/.509/.868 1.345/.524 1.091 46/.894 4/0 2/0
5.Uribe G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 5/.000 3/.000 ··· 156/119 .282/.303/.423/.726 .246/.878 .736 64/.765 1/1 2/4
22.Whiteside G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/26 .267/.290/.300/.590 .400/.628 .462 21/.586 0/0 0/0
2.Winn# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 10/.444 11/1.363 9/.000 313/252 .271/.321/.384/.704 .250/.819 .605 99/.584 8/1 2/0
IP 50.2 26.2 32.1 35.1 44.0 16.2 TOTAL .261/.312/.386/.698 .693/.700 .746 .722 45/17 51/46
ERA-K/9 5.51/8.2 3.71/8.1 2.51/6.1 2.55/7.4 2.66/4.9 3.78/10.8 4.13/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 228/.299 111/.200 129/.197 148/.252 180/.236 68/.210 .265
OPS .837 .685 .588 .689 .654 .720 .770
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 90/1.006 55/.814 56/.530 74/.575 86/.689 29/.877 .778
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 138/.728 56/.560 73/.624 74/.799 94/.622 39/.602 .764
Road 89/1.019 60/.598 51/.702 61/.648 83/.865 27/.630
Last 28d days 32/.500 29/.771 48/.550 53/.764 44/.565 34/.579
HR/SB/CS 8/1/0 5/1/2 3/2/0 4/5/3 1/0/0 4/2/0 92/29/11
Usage ·····X·· X···o·o· ·X···o·· ·o····oo ··X···oo o···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.