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Cleveland Indians vs. Houston Astros, at Progressive Field, July 7, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Progressive Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
79° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
86
On This Date:
19-27
Indians
Manager:
Terry Francona
Game #:
85
On This Date:
47-46
Season Series
Mon, Apr 06, 2015 HOU  2  CLE  0     
Wed, Apr 08, 2015 CLE  2 @HOU  0     
Thu, Apr 09, 2015 CLE  5 @HOU  1     
Mon, Jul 06, 2015 HOU  9 @CLE  4     

Tue, Jul 07, 2015 HOU    @CLE  7:10pm
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 HOU    @CLE  7:10pm
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 HOU    @CLE  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
49-36, 1st, 3½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-16   Road:   21-20   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  32-18   vsLHP:  17-18   1-Run:  12-12
 vsEast: 11-10   vsCntrl: 8-9    vsWest: 22-16 IL: 8-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 85 Mon, Jul  6  @CLE  W   9-4       49-36  1st  3.5 up
 84 Sun, Jul  5  @BOS  L   4-5       48-36  1st  3.0 up
 83 Sat, Jul  4  @BOS  L   1-6       48-35  1st  4.0 up
 82 Fri, Jul  3  @BOS  W  12-8 (10)  48-34  1st  5.0 up
 81 Wed, Jul  1   KCR  W   6-5       47-34  1st  5.0 up
 80 Tue, Jun 30   KCR  W   4-0       46-34  1st  4.0 up
 79 Mon, Jun 29   KCR  W   6-1       45-34  1st  4.0 up
 78 Sun, Jun 28   NYY  W   3-1       44-34  1st  4.0 up
 77 Sat, Jun 27   NYY  L   6-9       43-34  1st  4.0 up
 76 Fri, Jun 26   NYY  L   2-3       43-33  1st  5.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:15-15
Cleveland Indians
38-44, 4th, 9½ GB, 6 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   15-24   Road:   23-20   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  26-24   vsLHP:  12-20   1-Run:   9-9 
 vsEast:  8-9    vsCntrl:14-22   vsWest:  9-8  IL: 7-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 82 Mon, Jul  6   HOU  L   4-9       38-44  4th  9.5 gb
 81 Sun, Jul  5  @PIT  L   3-5       38-43  4th  9.0 gb
 80 Sat, Jul  4  @PIT  L   0-1       38-42  4th  8.0 gb
 79 Fri, Jul  3  @PIT  W   5-2       38-41  4th  8.0 gb
 78 Thu, Jul  2  @TBR  W   5-4 (10)  37-41  4th  8.0 gb
 77 Wed, Jul  1  @TBR  W   8-1       36-41  4th  9.0 gb
 76 Tue, Jun 30  @TBR  W   6-2       35-41  4th 10.0 gb
 75 Mon, Jun 29  @TBR  W   7-1       34-41  4th 11.0 gb
 74 Sun, Jun 28  @BAL  L   0-8       33-41  4th 12.0 gb
 73 Sun, Jun 28  @BAL  L   0-4       33-40  4th 12.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Jul 06, 2015 HOU  9 @CLE  4        W:Dallas Keuchel (11-3), L: Carlos Carrasco (10-7), S: none
Thu, Apr 09, 2015 CLE  5 @HOU  1        W:Trevor Bauer (1-0), L: Asher Wojciechowski (0-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 08, 2015 CLE  2 @HOU  0        W:Carlos Carrasco (1-0), L: Scott Feldman (0-1), S: Cody Allen (1)
Mon, Apr 06, 2015 HOU  2  CLE  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (1-0), L: Corey Kluber (0-1), S: Luke Gregerson (1)

Thu, Sep 18, 2014 CLE  2 @HOU  1 (13)   W:Kyle Crockett (4-0), L: Sam Deduno (2-6), S: Cody Allen (22)
Wed, Sep 17, 2014 CLE  2 @HOU  0        W:Carlos Carrasco (8-5), L: Brett Oberholtzer (5-12), S: none
Tue, Sep 16, 2014 CLE  4 @HOU  2        W:Corey Kluber (16-9), L: Nick Tropeano (1-1), S: Cody Allen (21)
Mon, Sep 15, 2014 HOU  3  CLE  1        W:Collin McHugh (10-9), L: Zach McAllister (3-7), S: Chad Qualls (18)
Sun, Aug 24, 2014 CLE  3  HOU  1        W:Trevor Bauer (5-7), L: Brett Oberholtzer (4-9), S: Cody Allen (17)
Sat, Aug 23, 2014 CLE  3  HOU  2        W:Cody Allen (5-3), L: Jake Buchanan (1-3), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - tied 2-2; 2014 - CLE won 5-2; 2013 - CLE won 6-1; All-Time - CLE leads 21-15

SP: Vincent Velasquez (23, RHP, 0-0, 4.21)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-0) 25.2 22 12 12 12 26 2 4.21
Last 7 GS 0-0 25.2 22 12 12 12 26 2 4.21 52
2015-07-01 KCR ND 6.1 5 4 4 1 7 1 88 53
2015-06-26 NYY ND 6.1 5 2 2 1 2 0 89 56
2015-06-21 @SEA ND 3.1 2 1 1 4 5 0 93 53
2015-06-16 COL ND 4.2 7 5 5 2 7 1 102 35
2015-06-10 @CHW ND 5.0 3 0 0 4 5 0 89 62
Has never faced CLE as starter.

SP: Corey Kluber (29, RHP, 3-9, 3.64)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-9) 118.2 111 52 48 24 141 9 3.64
2014 (18-9) 235.2 207 72 64 51 269 14 2.44
2013 (11-5) 147.1 153 67 63 33 136 15 3.85
Last 7 GS 1-4 49.0 45 22 21 12 58 5 3.86 58
2015-07-02 @TBR ND 8.0 7 4 3 1 14 0 115 67
2015-06-26 @BAL ND 7.0 7 3 3 1 10 1 111 60
2015-06-20 TBR L 7.0 4 4 4 4 6 1 112 55
2015-06-14 @DET L 5.0 4 2 2 1 2 1 69 52
2015-06-09 SEA L 7.0 7 2 2 3 4 0 112 56
2015-06-03 @KCR L 8.0 9 4 4 1 9 0 110 56
2015-05-28 @SEA W 7.0 7 3 3 1 13 2 112 63
Last 5 v.HOU 2-1 19.2 16 5 5 5 27 1 2.29 64
2015-04-06 @HOU L 7.1 3 2 2 2 7 0 102 69
2014-09-16 @HOU W 7.0 7 1 1 2 14 0 110 71
2013-09-22 HOU W 5.1 6 2 2 1 6 1 81 53

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Astros Batters (4.56 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Kluber
G/S/vB		 49.Adams
G/S/vB		 37.Allen
G/S/vB		 50.Hagadone*
G/S/vB		 53.Manship
G/S/vB		 34.McAllister
G/S/vB		 35.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 27.Shaw
G/S/vB		 54.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 10/.700 1/3.000 6/.334 ··· 1/no AB 6/.900 4/1.000 5/.400 2/.000 338/225 .303/.348/.423/.771 .828/.742 .732 77/.887 24/8 7/3
23.Carter G/S/vP 15/.871 1/.000 7/.629 3/.333 ··· 12/1.151 ··· 4/.250 ··· 327/206 .193/.309/.396/.705 .718/.698 .636 99/.740 1/1 15/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 5/.200 5/1.350 1/.000 4/1.250 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 228/159 .211/.281/.368/.648 .579/.681 .580 71/.574 0/0 7/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/2.833 1/.000 ··· ··· 104/44 .233/.330/.422/.752 .575/.999 .668 29/.826 0/0 4/3
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 117/67 .304/.333/.571/.905 1.027/.813 .994 109/.888 5/0 7/3
11.Gattis G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 317/200 .246/.274/.455/.730 .642/.780 .662 93/.744 0/0 14/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 5/1.200 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 188/119 .256/.280/.422/.702 .761/.668 .769 63/.967 3/2 6/6
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 4/.500 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 208/130 .246/.283/.387/.670 .570/.732 .876 35/.535 11/4 5/2
3.Presley* G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/1.167 7/.762 3/1.334 2/.000 8/7 .250/.250/.250/.500 2.000/.286 .500 8/.500 0/0 0/0
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 6/.533 1/2.000 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 7/.762 227/162 .251/.322/.483/.804 .824/.796 .792 56/.875 1/1 10/1
21.Singleton* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 22/18 .150/.227/.200/.427 .000/.528 .200 22/.427 1/0 0/0
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 174/116 .252/.316/.434/.750 .513/.874 .719 82/.727 0/0 5/0
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 311/210 .203/.286/.438/.725 .620/.774 .653 90/.944 1/0 19/4
IP 118.2 15.0 35.0 27.1 8.0 41.0 17.0 28.2 25.1 TOTAL .244/.311/.428/.740 .724/.749 .734 .805 68/22 120/46
ERA-K/9 3.64/10.7 3.00/7.2 3.34/14.7 4.28/9.2 1.13/6.8 3.07/11.2 3.71/11.6 1.88/8.8 2.84/6.4 3.98/9.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (31-19-3)
 Conger (15-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 479/.250 63/.232 147/.213 124/.273 27/.083 176/.267 76/.246 117/.210 106/.223 .248  Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Conger
 Tucker
 Presley
 Gattis
0/62/0/5
39/26/9/1
1/0/0/0
40/0/5/0
0/1/1/0
5/0/0/0
OPS .668 .664 .607 .741 .356 .693 .670 .646 .720 .709
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 249/.773 24/.697 70/.453 59/.688 10/.644 81/.607 52/.640 31/.517 46/.510 .680
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 230/.557 39/.642 77/.753 65/.790 17/.184 95/.766 24/.732 86/.692 60/.882 .733
Home 193/.706 50/.761 67/.669 75/.826 21/.468 113/.719 37/.836 59/.698 62/.742
Last 28d days 106/.644 30/.895 39/.344 29/.580 27/.356 27/.310 17/.804 37/.552 43/1.085
HR/SB/CS 9/12/6 1/0/0 1/3/0 3/0/1 1/0/0 3/2/2 1/3/0 4/3/0 3/1/0 84/44/22
Usage ····X··· X····o·· ···Xo·o· Xo······ XX······ o··o··o· ·o·o···· ···oo··o ·X······
Indians Batters (4.01 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.84 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 67.Velasquez
G/S/vB		 56.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 54.Thatcher*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Aviles G/S/vP ··· 23/.652 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 4/1.000 1/no AB 178/73 .255/.313/.360/.673 .710/.621 .602 59/.566 1/0 4/5
24.Bourn* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/2.167 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 4/.833 256/181 .235/.304/.283/.587 .591/.586 .666 58/.453 7/4 0/0
23.Brantley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 322/183 .286/.360/.410/.770 .743/.791 .806 107/.637 9/1 4/1
10.Gomes G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 135/87 .225/.237/.341/.578 .583/.575 .725 69/.565 0/0 3/1
22.Kipnis* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 377/227 .340/.416/.503/.919 .769/1.020 1.150 107/.913 10/5 6/3
12.Lindor# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 86/49 .215/.250/.266/.516 .462/.554 .577 86/.516 1/0 1/4
44.Moss* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 6/.167 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· 314/195 .232/.306/.450/.756 .839/.705 .658 101/.679 0/0 14/3
7.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· 20/.971 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 5/.400 1/.000 186/174 .323/.364/.479/.843 1.010/.833 .886 59/.862 0/1 5/0
55.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 147/102 .218/.340/.412/.752 .753/.747 .839 29/.972 0/0 5/3
9.Raburn G/S/vP ··· 12/.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.250 1/.000 132/17 .289/.379/.518/.896 .937/.627 .878 35/.829 0/0 4/0
41.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 326/205 .207/.344/.357/.701 .586/.771 .690 100/.567 3/1 9/2
39.Urshela G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 85/55 .266/.318/.354/.672 1.038/.472 .687 82/.698 0/0 2/2
IP 25.2 82.2 28.0 32.1 38.2 31.2 30.1 18.0 TOTAL .250/.323/.387/.709 .726/.699 .734 .663 39/14 68/46
ERA-K/9 4.21/9.1 4.46/4.5 2.57/12.2 3.34/8.9 0.93/9.1 2.84/7.9 3.26/9.8 2.50/10.5 3.59/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gomes (14-10-2)
 Perez (23-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 106/.234 349/.276 111/.167 125/.202 146/.123 120/.189 123/.223 77/.246 .238  Brantley
 Moss
 Bourn
 Aviles
 Raburn
 Murphy
54/21/0/7
0/0/64/5
1/68/0/4
14/3/0/1
15/0/10/1
17/0/14/0
OPS .714 .781 .514 .585 .439 .571 .683 .606 .676
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 67/.693 169/.735 49/.588 67/.618 68/.404 45/.561 59/.603 48/.553 .653
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 39/.750 180/.822 62/.453 58/.546 78/.470 75/.575 64/.753 29/.696 .693
Road 36/.611 188/.814 64/.567 53/.553 80/.408 59/.653 69/.775 38/.633
Last 28d days 106/.714 69/.576 49/.557 28/.143 50/.717 44/.731 43/.928 31/.680
HR/SB/CS 2/2/2 9/10/3 1/2/2 4/3/0 4/2/0 4/0/1 5/1/2 0/2/0 73/46/20
Usage ·····X·· ··Xo···· XX·o·o·· ···X·o·· ·X·o···X o··X·oX· ·X·X···· X··o·o·o

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 2015 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

TOR  5.44

LAA  4.10

SEA  3.41

 RA/G

STL  2.79

MIA  4.08

COL  5.11

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

K. Calhoun  .266

S. Drew  .178

 OBP

B. Harper  .471

B. Dozier  .332

O. Infante  .240

 SLG

B. Harper  .714

B. Holt  .424

B. Hamilton  .287

 OPS

B. Harper  1.185

T. Plouffe  .754

O. Infante  .547

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.48

C. Kluber  3.64

K. Lohse  6.29

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.78

K. Hendricks  7.34

M. Pelfrey  4.44

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.