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Game Preview: HOU @ SFG, 4:05pm, Saturday, July 4, 2009 @AT&T Park

Astros, 38-40, 5th, 4 GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Russ Ortiz (35, RHP, 3-3, 3.36)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (3-3) 64.1 61 27 24 32 47 6 3.36
2007 (2-3) 49.0 57 32 30 20 27 4 5.51
2006 (0-8) 63.0 86 60 57 40 44 18 8.14
Last 7 GS 2-2 38.0 34 16 15 18 25 4 3.55 52
2009-06-28 DET ND 7.1 6 2 2 0 5 1 91 63
2009-06-23 KCR L 7.0 5 2 2 2 4 1 110 61
2009-06-17 @TEX ND 6.0 7 4 3 1 5 2 81 48
2009-06-11 CHC ND 5.1 3 0 0 3 5 0 92 64
2009-05-07 CHC L 2.1 6 3 3 3 1 0 57 31
2009-04-26 MIL W 5.0 4 2 2 4 3 0 96 50
2009-04-21 LAD W 5.0 3 3 3 5 2 0 116 46
Last 5 v.SFG 0-2 24.2 26 19 19 14 12 4 6.93 41
2006-04-18 SFG ND 2.1 1 0 0 3 3 0 36 55
2005-09-04 SFG L 6.2 6 3 3 1 4 0 96 53
2005-05-02 SFG ND 3.2 7 7 7 5 2 1 85 16
2005-04-21 @SFG ND 7.0 3 2 2 2 2 1 101 63
2004-08-29 SFG L 5.0 9 7 7 3 1 2 96 19
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-21   Road:   19-19   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  32-32   vsLHP:   6-8    1-Run:  12-11
 vsEast:  2-2    vsCntrl:15-23   vsWest: 15-6  IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 79 Fri, Jul  3  @SFG  L   0-13      38-40  5th  4.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12
Giants, 43-36, 2nd, 7½ GB, 1½ up in WC

SP: Tim Lincecum (25, RHP, 8-2, 2.37)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (8-2) 114.0 94 34 30 28 132 4 2.37
2008 (18-5) 227.0 182 72 66 84 265 11 2.62
2007 (7-5) 146.1 122 70 65 65 150 12 4.00
Last 7 GS 5-1 56.2 40 11 8 11 56 3 1.27 72
2009-06-29 @STL W 9.0 2 0 0 0 8 0 95 91
2009-06-23 @OAK W 9.0 7 1 1 2 12 1 108 79
2009-06-17 LAA L 8.0 8 4 3 0 9 0 109 61
2009-06-12 OAK W 9.0 7 0 0 1 8 0 110 80
2009-06-07 @FLA W 7.1 3 2 2 4 4 1 110 64
2009-06-02 @WSN ND 6.1 8 4 2 2 7 1 110 50
2009-05-26 ATL W 8.0 5 0 0 2 8 0 122 78
Last 5 v.HOU 1-0 25.1 13 8 6 7 31 0 2.13 66
2008-08-12 @HOU ND 4.1 1 2 1 2 7 0 76 60
2008-05-15 HOU ND 6.0 5 3 3 3 10 0 105 57
2007-05-22 HOU W 8.0 5 2 2 1 4 0 104 67
2007-05-17 @HOU ND 7.0 2 1 0 1 10 0 95 80
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   25-12   Road:   18-24   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  31-28   vsLHP:  12-8    1-Run:   8-12
 vsEast: 10-7    vsCntrl: 9-7    vsWest: 15-16 IL: 9-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 79 Fri, Jul  3   HOU  W  13-0       43-36  2nd  7.5 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    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 - SFG leads 1-0; 2008 - HOU won 7-1; 2007 - SFG won 4-2; All-Time - SFG leads 354-334

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  5.53

NYM  4.51

SDP  3.77

 RA/G

SFG  3.74

COL  4.63

WSN  5.66

 BA

J. Mauer  .392

C. Blake  .286

B. Giles  .191

 OBP

J. Mauer  .467

M. Cuddyer  .359

D. Navarro  .241

 SLG

A. Pujols  .740

C. Barmes  .471

N. Punto  .237

 OPS

A. Pujols  1.200

C. Granderson  .813

N. Punto  .543

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.95

A. Burnett  3.93

A. Sonnanstine  6.61

 K/9IP

J. Verlander  10.70

C. Pavano  6.63

J. Garland  3.31

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Astros Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (3.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Lincecum
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		 56.Sadowski
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 11/.586 6/.334 7/.762 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 321/245 .265/.393/.527/.919 .658/1.008 .946 98/1.079 5/2 17/4
27.Blum# G/S/vP 9/.111 3/.000 5/.800 7/.143 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 193/181 .266/.337/.337/.674 .833/.662 .561 36/.699 0/1 2/2
21.Bourn* G/S/vP 5/.000 2/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 336/276 .291/.364/.402/.766 .778/.763 .828 110/.737 26/7 2/1
2.Erstad* G/S/vP 2/1.500 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 29/.501 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 71/.654 0/2 3/4
45.Lee G/S/vP 9/.472 19/.566 11/.909 3/2.667 5/1.300 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 317/252 .302/.353/.479/.832 1.045/.779 .767 90/.673 2/2 12/2
3.Matsui# G/S/vP 7/.762 4/.500 2/1.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 217/174 .244/.294/.326/.620 .955/.544 .576 51/.738 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 9/.708 3/.333 6/1.500 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 318/260 .306/.377/.495/.872 1.089/.823 .810 93/.745 8/5 10/1
55.Quintero G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 65/52 .266/.277/.328/.605 .641/.596 .486 28/.536 0/0 0/5
12.Rodriguez G/S/vP 3/3.000 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 2/.000 7/1.000 16/.517 1/.000 11/1.727 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 330/263 .333/.364/.476/.839 .889/.827 .757 101/.695 2/2 6/9
IP 114.0 31.1 28.0 32.2 33.1 10.2 13.0 24.0 36.0 TOTAL .266/.329/.403/.732 .813/.711 .722 .688 50/29 64/42
ERA-K/9 2.37/10.4 1.44/8.3 3.86/5.5 3.03/7.7 2.16/5.4 2.53/11.8 0.00/4.2 3.38/6.8 3.50/9.8 3.59/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 461/.224 122/.217 122/.245 149/.274 135/.221 46/.238 23/.200 101/.218 154/.230 .244
OPS .579 .604 .679 .774 .668 .670 .554 .637 .638 .708
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 260/.590 52/.822 43/.813 54/.860 54/.511 15/.522 6/.533 40/.569 67/.518 .652
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 201/.566 70/.449 79/.607 95/.727 81/.766 31/.736 17/.561 61/.670 87/.727 .742
Home 203/.585 59/.702 47/.824 69/.654 59/.733 18/.669 / 46/.545 88/.504
Last 28d days 157/.488 24/.440 33/.542 36/.976 40/.589 34/.606 23/.554 31/.563 38/.480
HR/SB/CS 4/11/1 1/1/0 2/2/0 3/2/1 4/2/1 1/1/0 0/0/0 1/2/1 2/4/1 65/56/16
Usage ····X··· ··oX··o· ··o··X·· ·o····X· ·X······ ··Xo··o· X····X·· ·X·····X ···X··X·
Giants Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.53 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Ortiz
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 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/35 .194/.286/.306/.591 .286/.659 .713 42/.591 1/0 1/0
10.Ishikawa* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 176/161 .253/.320/.399/.719 .533/.738 .941 51/.795 1/1 6/2
14.Lewis* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/3.000 ··· 10/.800 3/.000 230/177 .250/.335/.387/.722 .517/.783 .850 38/.482 5/4 4/3
1.Molina G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.000 2/.000 10/.600 6/.666 4/.000 289/226 .263/.270/.431/.701 .899/.643 .793 87/.725 0/0 10/3
16.Renteria G/S/vP 28/.871 ··· ··· 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 7/.453 2/2.500 2/1.000 9/.000 6/1.167 3/.000 299/239 .298/.358/.482/.839 .868/.832 .858 98/.802 4/1 9/1
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 298/228 .327/.379/.548/.927 1.024/.898 1.081 106/1.128 2/2 12/6
12.Schierholtz* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 135/116 .307/.333/.449/.782 1.474/.663 .810 68/.953 2/1 3/1
59.Torres# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 65/38 .255/.359/.509/.868 1.345/.524 1.091 45/.916 4/0 2/0
5.Uribe G/S/vP 22/.641 2/.500 ··· 5/.000 3/.000 ··· 160/123 .281/.302/.418/.720 .246/.865 .736 64/.749 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 12/.916 2/.000 2/2.000 10/.444 11/1.363 9/.000 317/255 .274/.323/.389/.712 .279/.822 .605 99/.595 8/1 2/0
IP 64.1 27.2 37.1 35.1 44.0 16.2 TOTAL .261/.312/.386/.698 .695/.699 .746 .718 45/17 52/46
ERA-K/9 3.36/6.6 3.58/7.8 3.13/6.3 2.55/7.4 2.66/4.9 3.78/10.8 4.11/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 277/.256 116/.212 129/.197 148/.252 180/.236 69/.206 .265
OPS .744 .713 .588 .689 .654 .709 .769
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 126/.724 55/.814 56/.530 74/.575 86/.689 29/.877 .778
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 151/.761 61/.622 73/.624 74/.799 94/.622 40/.586 .763
Road 67/.867 65/.653 51/.702 61/.648 83/.865 28/.607
Last 28d days 114/.680 34/.856 41/.566 53/.764 44/.565 35/.562
HR/SB/CS 6/4/3 5/1/2 3/2/0 4/5/3 1/0/0 4/2/0 92/30/11
Usage ·····X·· XX···o·o X·X···o· ··o····o ···X···o ·o···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.