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Houston Astros vs. Oakland Athletics, at Minute Maid Park, July 30, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Start Time:
1:10ct (local), 2:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
77° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
107
On This Date:
53-58
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
108
On This Date:
25-27
Season Series
Fri, Apr 18, 2014 OAK 11  HOU  3     
Sat, Apr 19, 2014 OAK  4  HOU  3     
Sun, Apr 20, 2014 OAK  4  HOU  1     
Thu, Apr 24, 2014 OAK 10 @HOU  1     
Fri, Apr 25, 2014 OAK 12 @HOU  5     
Sat, Apr 26, 2014 HOU  7  OAK  6     
Sun, Apr 27, 2014 HOU  5  OAK  1     
Tue, Jul 22, 2014 HOU  3 @OAK  2 (12)
Wed, Jul 23, 2014 OAK  9  HOU  7     
Thu, Jul 24, 2014 OAK 13  HOU  1     
Mon, Jul 28, 2014 HOU  7  OAK  3     
Tue, Jul 29, 2014 OAK  7 @HOU  4     

Wed, Jul 30, 2014 OAK    @HOU  2:10pm
Mon, Aug 25, 2014 OAK    @HOU  8:10pm
Tue, Aug 26, 2014 OAK    @HOU  8:10pm
Wed, Aug 27, 2014 OAK    @HOU  8:10pm
Fri, Sep 05, 2014 HOU    @OAK 10:05pm
Sat, Sep 06, 2014 HOU    @OAK  4:05pm
Sun, Sep 07, 2014 HOU    @OAK  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
66-40, 1st, 2½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   34-17   Road:   32-23   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  48-29   vsLHP:  18-11   1-Run:  15-13
 vsEast: 18-11   vsCntrl:11-8    vsWest: 27-19 IL:10-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
106 Tue, Jul 29  @HOU  W   7-4       66-40  1st  2.5 up
105 Mon, Jul 28  @HOU  L   3-7       65-40  1st  1.5 up
104 Sun, Jul 27  @TEX  W   9-3       65-39  1st  2.0 up
103 Sat, Jul 26  @TEX  W   5-1       64-39  1st  2.0 up
102 Fri, Jul 25  @TEX  L   1-4       63-39  1st  2.0 up
101 Thu, Jul 24   HOU  W  13-1       63-38  1st  3.0 up
100 Wed, Jul 23   HOU  W   9-7       62-38  1st  2.0 up
 99 Tue, Jul 22   HOU  L   2-3 (12)  61-38  1st  2.0 up
 98 Sun, Jul 20   BAL  W  10-2       61-37  1st  1.5 up
 97 Sat, Jul 19   BAL  L   4-8       60-37  1st  1.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-11
Houston Astros
43-64, 4th, 23½ GB, 21 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-32   Road:   21-32   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  29-43   vsLHP:  14-21   1-Run:  12-18
 vsEast:  9-14   vsCntrl:11-11   vsWest: 19-29 IL: 4-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
107 Tue, Jul 29   OAK  L   4-7       43-64  4th 23.5 gb
106 Mon, Jul 28   OAK  W   7-3       43-63  4th 22.5 gb
105 Sun, Jul 27   MIA  L   2-4       42-63  4th 23.5 gb
104 Sat, Jul 26   MIA  L   3-7       42-62  4th 22.5 gb
103 Fri, Jul 25   MIA  L   0-2       42-61  4th 21.5 gb
102 Thu, Jul 24  @OAK  L   1-13      42-60  4th 21.5 gb
101 Wed, Jul 23  @OAK  L   7-9       42-59  4th 20.5 gb
100 Tue, Jul 22  @OAK  W   3-2 (12)  42-58  4th 19.5 gb
 99 Sun, Jul 20  @CHW  W  11-7       41-58  4th 20.5 gb
 98 Sat, Jul 19  @CHW  L   3-4       40-58  4th 20.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 29, 2014 OAK  7 @HOU  4        W:Evan Scribner (1-0), L: Chad Qualls (1-2), S: Sean Doolittle (16)
Mon, Jul 28, 2014 HOU  7  OAK  3        W:Brett Oberholtzer (3-7), L: Jesse Chavez (8-7), S: none
Thu, Jul 24, 2014 OAK 13  HOU  1        W:Jeff Samardzija (4-8), L: Scott Feldman (4-8), S: none
Wed, Jul 23, 2014 OAK  9  HOU  7        W:Jesse Chavez (8-6), L: Brad Peacock (3-7), S: Sean Doolittle (15)
Tue, Jul 22, 2014 HOU  3 @OAK  2 (12)   W:Darin Downs (2-1), L: Fernando Abad (2-4), S: Chad Qualls (11)
Sun, Apr 27, 2014 HOU  5  OAK  1        W:Collin McHugh (2-0), L: Tommy Milone (0-2), S: none
Sat, Apr 26, 2014 HOU  7  OAK  6        W:Jerome Williams (1-1), L: Sean Doolittle (0-2), S: Raul Valdes (1)
Fri, Apr 25, 2014 OAK 12 @HOU  5        W:Luke Gregerson (1-1), L: Josh Fields (0-2), S: none
Thu, Apr 24, 2014 OAK 10 @HOU  1        W:Scott Kazmir (3-0), L: Brett Oberholtzer (0-4), S: none
Sun, Apr 20, 2014 OAK  4  HOU  1        W:Jesse Chavez (1-0), L: Brad Peacock (0-2), S: Luke Gregerson (3)
Season Series: 2014 - OAK over 8-4; 2013 - OAK won 15-4; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - OAK leads 28-9

SP: Jason Hammel (31, RHP, 8-8, 3.41)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (8-8) 121.1 107 48 46 30 112 13 3.41
2013 (7-8) 139.1 155 81 77 48 96 22 4.97
2012 (8-6) 118.0 104 48 45 42 113 9 3.43
Last 7 GS 2-4 38.0 43 22 20 12 36 7 4.74 49
2014-07-25 @TEX L 5.2 7 4 3 2 3 0 89 42
2014-07-19 BAL L 2.0 6 5 5 2 2 2 58 24
2014-07-09 @SFG L 5.0 6 3 2 3 3 1 99 45
2014-07-04 @WSN W 6.0 5 2 2 2 7 1 92 59
2014-06-27 WSN W 6.1 5 2 2 1 6 1 101 60
2014-06-22 PIT L 7.0 6 2 2 1 6 1 108 62
2014-06-16 @MIA ND 6.0 8 4 4 1 9 1 90 48
Last 5 v.HOU 2-1 26.2 20 8 5 6 14 1 1.69 61
2011-09-24 @HOU ND 7.0 3 2 2 1 3 1 98 65
2010-06-07 HOU W 7.1 6 0 0 3 3 0 104 66
2009-06-04 @HOU W 7.0 4 2 2 2 4 0 96 63
2009-05-14 HOU L 5.1 7 4 1 0 4 0 89 48

SP: Dallas Keuchel (26, LHP, 9-7, 3.11)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (9-7) 127.1 130 49 44 30 99 6 3.11
2013 (6-10) 153.2 184 96 88 52 123 20 5.15
2012 (3-8) 85.1 93 56 50 39 38 14 5.27
Last 7 GS 2-4 44.2 62 25 21 13 29 2 4.23 45
2014-07-25 MIA L 7.0 9 2 0 0 7 0 98 62
2014-07-19 @CHW L 5.0 12 4 3 2 5 0 103 32
2014-07-09 @TEX W 6.2 8 4 4 1 3 0 109 44
2014-07-04 @LAA ND 5.0 13 5 5 1 1 1 92 21
2014-06-22 @TBR L 8.0 9 5 4 4 4 0 111 46
2014-06-17 @WSN L 5.0 6 4 4 4 4 0 105 39
2014-06-11 ARI W 8.0 5 1 1 1 5 1 101 72
Last 5 v.OAK 0-2 21.2 31 15 15 9 18 1 6.23 41
2014-04-26 OAK ND 6.1 6 3 3 2 6 0 97 53
2013-09-06 @OAK L 3.1 10 5 5 2 3 0 95 21
2013-07-22 OAK ND 6.0 5 1 1 4 5 0 88 59
2013-05-26 OAK L 6.0 10 6 6 1 4 1 110 31

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

Athletics Batters (5.04 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.83 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Keuchel*
G/S/vB		 58.Buchanan
G/S/vB		 56.Clemens
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 55.Veras
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Burns# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ .000 1/.000 0/0 0/
7.Callaspo# G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· 5/.000 1/.000 4/.500 5/.800 4/.000 5/1.000 323/213 .237/.310/.310/.620 .501/.681 .550 35/.562 0/1 3/7
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 6/1.833 1/.000 4/1.833 1/.000 6/.500 2/2.000 1/.000 3/.000 428/319 .258/.306/.468/.774 .804/.764 .759 87/.603 3/2 17/4
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 15/1.050 2/.500 8/1.250 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 7/.453 7/.453 334/248 .274/.372/.416/.789 .695/.823 .756 56/.521 16/4 7/2
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 14/.742 1/.000 6/.167 1/no AB 4/.833 2/.500 1/no AB 5/.900 460/351 .246/.328/.461/.789 1.073/.704 .798 91/.809 4/0 22/18
5.Jaso* G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 3/.000 4/2.000 293/267 .285/.358/.465/.824 .487/.856 .693 67/.945 2/0 8/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 16/.688 2/.000 6/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 3/3.500 4/.250 5/1.467 429/315 .241/.323/.357/.680 .661/.687 .667 89/.797 0/0 5/10
37.Moss* G/S/vP 6/.334 2/1.000 7/.286 3/.666 4/.250 2/1.000 4/.833 2/2.500 414/333 .260/.341/.505/.846 .830/.850 .868 82/.660 1/0 23/3
36.Norris G/S/vP 12/1.045 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 3/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 264/160 .299/.399/.473/.872 1.027/.771 .822 57/.715 2/1 9/3
1.Punto# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/.500 3/1.167 5/.250 199/102 .206/.298/.280/.578 .635/.520 .567 39/.483 3/1 2/6
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 9/.347 2/2.500 2/1.000 4/.500 2/.000 4/1.250 3/.000 ··· 226/156 .246/.305/.406/.711 .416/.843 .683 30/1.081 1/0 6/2
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/1.000 4/.250 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 199/175 .201/.273/.240/.513 .258/.549 .409 33/.667 8/2 0/2
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 160/134 .351/.381/.530/.911 .868/.919 .902 82/1.000 1/0 5/0
IP 127.1 11.1 23.2 25.2 39.2 36.2 31.2 24.0 TOTAL .254/.329/.406/.735 .720/.741 .696 .730 60/12 111/69
ERA-K/9 3.11/7.0 5.56/4.8 6.08/5.3 4.91/6.7 4.08/12.9 3.19/8.1 2.56/12.2 6.00/8.2 4.48/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (25-3-1)
 Norris (32-7-3)
 Vogt (0-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 522/.271 54/.298 114/.283 111/.260 164/.221 154/.260 124/.159 114/.244 .269  Cespedes
 Moss
 Reddick
 Vogt
 Punto
 Crisp
81/9/0/12
28/0/31/5
0/1/60/2
1/0/16/0
0/0/1/0
0/73/0/0
OPS .691 .760 .881 .719 .616 .657 .496 .762 .748
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 129/.640 30/.947 60/.801 61/.667 64/.670 71/.903 60/.372 43/.773 .736
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 393/.708 24/.534 54/.971 50/.783 100/.581 83/.461 64/.610 71/.751 .757
Home 213/.682 12/.167 71/.675 61/.726 78/.551 75/.704 60/.436 59/.948
Last 28d days 111/.947 26/.599 / 29/.762 44/.354 37/.902 37/.647 39/.627
HR/SB/CS 6/1/3 0/1/0 5/1/1 0/3/1 2/3/0 3/7/2 3/0/0 2/3/0 94/70/22
Usage ····X··· ··Xo··X· ········ ··oo··oo Xo··X··X X··o···o oX·o···X o··oX··X
Astros Batters (3.84 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Hammel
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 39.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 3/1.000 7/1.071 4/.000 1/2.000 6/1.867 3/.000 468/349 .343/.378/.449/.827 .989/.770 .831 97/.823 42/6 4/6
23.Carter G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 7/.476 7/.143 3/2.000 ··· 4/.250 4/.000 350/230 .212/.291/.474/.766 .872/.712 .741 84/1.097 1/1 21/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 3/1.667 10/.200 2/2.500 ··· ··· 2/1.500 351/262 .226/.293/.384/.677 .669/.680 .737 64/.773 0/0 10/3
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/3.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· 132/71 .248/.290/.413/.703 .669/.733 .749 34/.676 0/0 5/3
30.Dominguez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 8/.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 6/1.166 2/1.500 429/304 .231/.275/.363/.638 .786/.578 .661 86/.515 0/1 13/7
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 2/1.000 186/157 .273/.321/.401/.722 .702/.726 .686 67/.637 1/3 5/5
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 195/142 .192/.304/.287/.592 .466/.638 .418 62/.711 4/0 3/2
14.Guzman G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 2/.500 5/.000 ··· 3/1.000 2/1.000 1/.000 158/58 .196/.272/.266/.538 .489/.624 .618 11/.091 2/0 2/1
6.Hernandez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 84/62 .289/.357/.434/.791 .742/.804 .895 79/.708 0/0 1/2
Hoes G/S/vP ··· 3/1.666 2/.000 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 125/55 .170/.226/.295/.520 .712/.285 .512 30/.383 0/0 3/2
18.Krauss* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 2/1.000 146/142 .191/.274/.336/.610 1.750/.575 .540 21/.762 0/0 5/2
3.Petit G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/ .500/.500/.500/1.000 1.000/ 1.000 2/1.000 0/0 0/0
28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 192/138 .172/.266/.337/.603 .875/.495 .562 79/.564 1/2 7/7
IP 121.1 42.1 33.1 48.2 50.1 8.0 61.0 5.1 TOTAL .238/.306/.386/.692 .756/.666 .692 .710 80/22 116/69
ERA-K/9 3.41/8.3 1.91/8.1 2.70/8.4 2.59/12.8 1.97/7.7 2.25/5.6 2.36/4.1 1.69/5.1 3.14/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (52-17-7)
 Corporan (18-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 491/.238 159/.168 139/.193 178/.157 196/.223 33/.188 245/.247 19/.158 .231  Hoes
 Grossman
 Hernandez
 Carter
 Sipp
 Guzman
 Gonzalez
 Krauss
31/0/11/4
31/5/16/2
8/10/0/2
2/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
7/0/0/0
4/0/1/0
8/0/1/0
OPS .675 .506 .625 .431 .593 .400 .605 .474 .643
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 197/.689 68/.580 55/.867 61/.267 77/.553 12/.667 108/.628 9/.444 .658
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 294/.665 91/.451 84/.472 117/.518 119/.621 21/.243 137/.586 10/.500 .633
Road 303/.662 74/.386 64/.590 88/.615 97/.662 16/.579 129/.591 11/.636
Last 28d days 86/.950 31/.548 34/.273 32/.292 26/.589 33/.400 42/.802 15/.600
HR/SB/CS 13/8/2 4/1/1 3/2/0 4/5/1 3/8/0 0/1/0 3/2/3 1/0/0 94/57/13
Usage ····X··· ·oo····o ··o·o·oo o··X··oX ···o··oX ··X·X··· oo·o··oX ooX··X··

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 2014 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

OAK  5.04

NYY  4.03

SDP  3.08

 RA/G

SEA  3.34

PIT  4.10

COL  5.19

 BA

J. Altuve  .343

T. Hunter  .272

C. Davis  .199

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .432

A. Jackson  .332

E. Cabrera  .256

 SLG

J. Abreu  .632

A. Gordon  .414

Z. Cozart  .289

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.035

B. Dozier  .750

E. Cabrera  .546

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.76

A. Sanchez  3.57

E. Jackson  5.79

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.30

M. Estrada  7.42

K. Correia  4.14

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.