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Cleveland Indians vs. Houston Astros, at Progressive Field, July 8, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Progressive Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
78° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
87
On This Date:
22-23
Indians
Manager:
Terry Francona
Game #:
86
On This Date:
47-53
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 CLE  2  HOU  0     

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

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
49-37, 1st, 2½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-16   Road:   21-21   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  32-19   vsLHP:  17-18   1-Run:  12-12
 vsEast: 11-10   vsCntrl: 8-10   vsWest: 22-16 IL: 8-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 86 Tue, Jul  7  @CLE  L   0-2       49-37  1st  2.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15
Cleveland Indians
39-44, 4th, 10 GB, 6 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   16-24   Road:   23-20   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  27-24   vsLHP:  12-20   1-Run:   9-9 
 vsEast:  8-9    vsCntrl:14-22   vsWest: 10-8  IL: 7-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 83 Tue, Jul  7   HOU  W   2-0       39-44  4th 10.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CLE  2  HOU  0        W:Corey Kluber (4-9), L: Vincent Velasquez (0-1), S: Bryan Shaw (2)
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)
Season Series: 2015 - CLE over 3-2; 2014 - CLE won 5-2; 2013 - CLE won 6-1; All-Time - CLE leads 22-15

SP: Dan Straily (26, RHP, 0-0, 7.71)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-0) 4.2 6 5 4 3 7 1 7.71
2014 (1-3) 52.0 53 41 39 24 47 10 6.75
2013 (10-8) 152.1 132 74 67 57 124 16 3.96
Last 7 GS 0-2 35.1 34 29 26 18 33 7 6.62 44
2015-07-03 @BOS ND 4.2 6 5 4 3 7 1 92 38
2014-08-16 @NYM L 5.1 4 7 5 3 4 0 89 37
2014-05-07 SEA ND 6.0 3 3 3 4 3 2 95 53
2014-05-02 @BOS L 4.1 4 2 2 3 3 0 82 47
2014-04-26 @HOU ND 6.1 4 3 3 2 7 2 89 58
2014-04-21 TEX ND 5.0 6 3 3 2 6 1 84 47
2014-04-15 @LAA ND 3.2 7 6 6 1 3 1 67 25
Last 5 v.CLE 0-1 5.2 6 3 3 4 7 1 4.76 48
2013-08-17 CLE L 5.2 6 3 3 4 7 1 103 48

SP: Trevor Bauer (24, RHP, 7-5, 3.88)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-5) 97.1 79 42 42 43 93 11 3.88
2014 (5-8) 153.0 151 76 71 60 143 16 4.18
2013 (1-2) 17.0 15 11 10 16 11 3 5.29
Last 7 GS 3-4 40.2 35 23 23 21 38 7 5.09 50
2015-07-03 @PIT W 6.1 3 2 2 1 3 1 74 61
2015-06-28 @BAL L 7.0 5 4 4 1 5 2 102 55
2015-06-22 DET L 3.0 9 7 7 4 3 1 88 12
2015-06-16 @CHC W 7.0 4 0 0 3 7 0 108 73
2015-06-10 SEA L 3.2 4 6 6 5 5 1 86 29
2015-06-04 @KCR W 6.2 4 2 2 4 5 1 102 59
2015-05-29 @SEA L 7.0 6 2 2 3 10 1 113 64
Last 5 v.HOU 2-0 12.0 4 0 0 8 20 0 0.00 74
2015-04-09 @HOU W 6.0 0 0 0 5 11 0 111 78
2014-08-24 HOU W 6.0 4 0 0 3 9 0 115 70

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Astros Batters (4.51 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.28 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Bauer
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 6/.533 1/3.000 6/.334 ··· 1/no AB 7/.762 4/1.000 5/.400 2/.000 342/229 .299/.344/.417/.761 .828/.728 .714 76/.900 24/8 7/3
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 7/.629 3/.333 ··· 12/1.151 ··· 4/.250 ··· 327/206 .193/.309/.396/.705 .718/.698 .636 95/.723 1/1 15/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.200 5/1.350 1/.000 4/1.250 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 228/159 .211/.281/.368/.648 .579/.681 .580 67/.611 0/0 7/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/2.833 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 108/48 .237/.336/.419/.756 .575/.988 .681 32/.858 0/0 4/3
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 121/71 .293/.322/.552/.874 1.027/.766 .938 109/.860 5/0 7/3
11.Gattis G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 321/204 .249/.277/.456/.733 .642/.784 .671 93/.788 0/0 14/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 1/.000 192/123 .250/.274/.413/.687 .761/.646 .740 63/.941 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 32/.578 11/4 5/2
3.Presley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/1.167 7/.762 3/1.334 2/.000 11/10 .300/.364/.300/.664 2.000/.522 .664 11/.664 0/0 0/0
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/2.000 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 7/.762 231/166 .246/.316/.473/.789 .824/.775 .768 60/.812 1/1 10/1
21.Singleton* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 25/21 .130/.200/.174/.374 .000/.449 .154 25/.374 1/0 0/0
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 178/120 .258/.320/.436/.756 .513/.878 .730 82/.778 0/0 5/0
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 311/210 .203/.286/.438/.725 .620/.774 .653 90/.944 1/0 19/4
IP 97.1 15.0 35.0 27.1 8.0 42.1 17.0 29.2 25.1 TOTAL .244/.311/.426/.736 .724/.743 .727 .804 68/22 120/46
ERA-K/9 3.88/8.6 3.00/7.2 3.34/14.7 4.28/9.2 1.13/6.8 2.98/11.1 3.71/11.6 1.82/8.8 2.84/6.4 3.93/9.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 407/.219 63/.232 147/.213 124/.273 27/.083 180/.267 76/.246 120/.204 106/.223 .247  Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Conger
 Tucker
 Presley
 Gattis
0/62/0/5
39/27/9/1
1/0/0/0
40/0/6/0
1/1/1/0
5/0/0/0
OPS .667 .664 .607 .741 .356 .688 .670 .629 .720 .706
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 201/.614 24/.697 70/.453 59/.688 10/.644 82/.625 52/.640 34/.469 46/.510 .677
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 206/.717 39/.642 77/.753 65/.790 17/.184 98/.741 24/.732 86/.692 60/.882 .730
Home 197/.828 50/.761 67/.669 75/.826 21/.468 117/.711 37/.836 62/.661 62/.742
Last 28d days 98/.737 19/.764 39/.344 25/.678 27/.356 31/.336 17/.804 35/.510 39/1.150
HR/SB/CS 11/5/4 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····· Xo··o··o ··o·o··· o···oo·· ··X·····
Indians Batters (3.99 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.81 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Straily
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 55/.533 1/0 4/5
24.Bourn* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/2.167 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 4/.833 259/183 .231/.300/.279/.580 .583/.579 .648 57/.462 7/4 0/0
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 3/3.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 326/187 .293/.365/.425/.790 .743/.826 .849 107/.697 9/1 5/1
10.Gomes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 139/91 .226/.237/.338/.576 .583/.572 .710 69/.536 0/0 3/1
22.Kipnis* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 381/230 .336/.414/.498/.913 .763/1.012 1.132 106/.891 10/5 6/3
12.Lindor# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 90/53 .205/.239/.253/.492 .462/.511 .520 90/.492 1/0 1/4
44.Moss* G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 6/.167 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· 318/199 .229/.302/.444/.746 .839/.690 .638 100/.634 0/0 14/3
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 14/.940 21/1.024 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 5/.400 1/.000 190/178 .329/.372/.488/.861 1.010/.852 .921 59/.910 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 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 329/208 .212/.347/.361/.707 .586/.780 .702 98/.576 3/1 9/2
39.Urshela G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 88/58 .256/.307/.341/.648 1.038/.446 .635 84/.680 0/0 2/2
IP 4.2 83.2 28.0 32.1 38.2 31.2 31.0 18.0 TOTAL .250/.323/.387/.709 .724/.700 .733 .659 39/14 69/46
ERA-K/9 7.71/13.4 4.41/4.5 2.57/12.2 3.34/8.9 0.93/9.1 2.84/7.9 3.19/9.6 2.50/10.5 3.57/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gomes (14-10-3)
 Perez (23-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 23/.300 354/.278 111/.167 125/.202 146/.123 120/.189 125/.219 77/.246 .238  Brantley
 Moss
 Bourn
 Aviles
 Raburn
 Murphy
54/21/0/7
0/0/65/5
1/69/0/4
14/3/0/1
15/0/10/1
18/0/14/0
OPS .841 .781 .514 .585 .439 .571 .672 .606 .676
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 10/.786 173/.741 49/.588 67/.618 68/.404 45/.561 61/.581 48/.553 .656
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 13/.846 181/.817 62/.453 58/.546 78/.470 75/.575 64/.753 29/.696 .691
Road 23/.841 193/.813 64/.567 53/.553 80/.408 59/.653 71/.752 38/.633
Last 28d days 23/.841 74/.591 49/.557 28/.143 46/.660 38/.552 41/.804 30/.629
HR/SB/CS 1/0/0 9/10/3 1/2/2 4/3/0 4/2/0 4/0/1 5/1/2 0/2/0 74/46/20
Usage ····X··· X··Xo··· ·XX·o·o· ····X·o· ··X·o··· ·o··X·oX o·X·X··· ·X··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  5.40

SFG  4.11

CHW  3.41

 RA/G

STL  2.87

MIA  4.08

COL  5.17

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .351

B. Belt  .268

S. Drew  .176

 OBP

B. Harper  .471

B. Dozier  .331

O. Infante  .246

 SLG

B. Harper  .709

K. Seager  .422

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.181

T. Plouffe  .758

O. Infante  .555

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.48

T. Ross  3.56

K. Lohse  6.29

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.78

A. Burnett  7.49

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.