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Houston Astros vs. Boston Red Sox, at Minute Maid Park, July 22, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
73° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
97
On This Date:
50-56
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
96
On This Date:
30-17
Season Series
Fri, Jul 03, 2015 HOU 12 @BOS  8 (10)
Sat, Jul 04, 2015 BOS  6  HOU  1     
Sun, Jul 05, 2015 BOS  5  HOU  4     
Tue, Jul 21, 2015 HOU  8  BOS  3     

Wed, Jul 22, 2015 BOS    @HOU  8:10pm
Thu, Jul 23, 2015 BOS    @HOU  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
42-52, 5th, 10 GB, 9½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-23   Road:   20-29   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  33-37   vsLHP:   9-15   1-Run:  13-11
 vsEast: 17-27   vsCntrl: 4-6    vsWest: 13-15 IL: 8-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 94 Tue, Jul 21  @HOU  L   3-8       42-52  5th 10.0 gb
 93 Mon, Jul 20  @LAA  L   3-7       42-51  5th  9.0 gb
 92 Mon, Jul 20  @LAA  L   1-11      42-50  5th  9.0 gb
 91 Sat, Jul 18  @LAA  L   0-3       42-49  5th  7.5 gb
 90 Fri, Jul 17  @LAA  L   0-1       42-48  5th  7.5 gb
 89 Sun, Jul 12   NYY  L   6-8       42-47  5th  6.5 gb
 88 Sat, Jul 11   NYY  W   5-3       42-46  5th  5.5 gb
 87 Fri, Jul 10   NYY  L   1-5       41-46  5th  6.5 gb
 86 Wed, Jul  8   MIA  W   6-3       41-45  5th  5.0 gb
 85 Tue, Jul  7   MIA  W   4-3       40-45  5th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Houston Astros
52-43, 2nd, 2 GB, 1 up in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-17   Road:   21-26   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  33-24   vsLHP:  19-19   1-Run:  13-14
 vsEast: 12-13   vsCntrl: 8-12   vsWest: 24-17 IL: 8-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 95 Tue, Jul 21   BOS  W   8-3       52-43  2nd  2.0 gb
 94 Sun, Jul 19   TEX  W  10-0       51-43  2nd  1.0 gb
 93 Sat, Jul 18   TEX  L   6-7       50-43  2nd  1.5 gb
 92 Fri, Jul 17   TEX  W   3-2       50-42  2nd  0.5 gb
 91 Sun, Jul 12  @TBR  L   3-4       49-42  2nd  0.5 gb
 90 Sat, Jul 11  @TBR  L   0-3       49-41  1st  0.5 up
 89 Fri, Jul 10  @TBR  L   1-3       49-40  1st  0.5 up
 88 Thu, Jul  9  @CLE  L   1-3       49-39  1st  1.5 up
 87 Wed, Jul  8  @CLE  L   2-4       49-38  1st  1.5 up
 86 Tue, Jul  7  @CLE  L   0-2       49-37  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 21, 2015 HOU  8  BOS  3        W:Vincent Velasquez (1-1), L: Brian Johnson (0-1), S: none
Sun, Jul 05, 2015 BOS  5  HOU  4        W:Matt Barnes (3-2), L: Tony Sipp (2-4), S: Koji Uehara (19)
Sat, Jul 04, 2015 BOS  6  HOU  1        W:Clay Buchholz (7-6), L: Collin McHugh (9-4), S: none
Fri, Jul 03, 2015 HOU 12 @BOS  8 (10)   W:Roberto Hernandez (3-5), L: Noe Ramirez (0-1), S: none

Sun, Aug 17, 2014 HOU  8 @BOS  1        W:Collin McHugh (6-9), L: Joe Kelly (2-3), S: none
Sat, Aug 16, 2014 BOS 10  HOU  7        W:Alex Wilson (1-0), L: Josh Fields (2-6), S: none
Fri, Aug 15, 2014 HOU  5 @BOS  3 (10)   W:Tony Sipp (3-2), L: Craig Breslow (2-4), S: none
Thu, Aug 14, 2014 BOS  9  HOU  4        W:Allen Webster (3-1), L: Scott Feldman (6-9), S: none
Sun, Jul 13, 2014 BOS 11 @HOU  0        W:Clay Buchholz (4-5), L: Brad Peacock (3-6), S: none
Sat, Jul 12, 2014 HOU  3  BOS  2        W:Josh Fields (2-4), L: Jake Peavy (1-8), S: Chad Qualls (10)
Season Series: 2015 - tied 2-2; 2014 - BOS won 4-3; 2013 - BOS won 6-1; All-Time - BOS leads 19-8

SP: Joe Kelly (27, RHP, 2-5, 5.67)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-5) 74.2 81 48 47 31 60 8 5.67
2014 (6-4) 96.1 88 48 45 42 66 8 4.20
2013 (10-5) 124.0 124 42 37 44 79 10 2.69
Last 7 GS 1-3 34.1 45 23 22 13 24 3 5.77 43
2015-06-23 BAL L 3.2 8 5 5 2 2 1 87 25
2015-06-17 @ATL ND 5.0 5 2 2 3 3 0 103 49
2015-06-12 TOR ND 6.0 7 4 4 2 3 0 101 43
2015-06-06 OAK W 6.0 4 1 1 2 6 0 100 64
2015-05-31 @TEX ND 5.0 6 2 1 2 3 0 100 50
2015-05-25 @MIN L 1.2 8 7 7 1 0 1 52 10
2015-05-20 TEX L 7.0 7 2 2 1 7 1 108 61
Last 5 v.HOU 0-1 4.0 7 7 7 6 3 2 15.75 17
2014-08-17 HOU L 4.0 7 7 7 6 3 2 91 17

SP: Collin McHugh (28, RHP, 10-5, 4.35)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (10-5) 120.0 127 59 58 28 95 14 4.35
2014 (11-9) 154.2 117 53 47 41 157 13 2.73
2013 (0-4) 26.0 45 29 29 5 11 6 10.04
Last 7 GS 4-3 43.1 46 22 21 14 34 4 4.36 51
2015-07-17 TEX W 6.0 11 1 1 0 4 0 97 50
2015-07-10 @TBR L 7.0 4 3 3 1 6 1 96 62
2015-07-04 @BOS L 5.1 7 4 3 3 1 0 104 38
2015-06-28 NYY W 8.0 2 1 1 2 8 0 106 80
2015-06-23 @LAA W 8.0 9 2 2 1 6 0 114 61
2015-06-18 @COL W 6.0 4 3 3 5 8 1 112 55
2015-06-13 SEA L 3.0 9 8 8 2 1 2 74 8
Last 5 v.BOS 1-1 11.1 14 5 4 7 7 0 3.18 47
2015-07-04 @BOS L 5.1 7 4 3 3 1 0 104 38
2014-08-17 @BOS W 6.0 7 1 1 4 6 0 109 56

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

Red Sox Batters (4.07 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.76 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.McHugh
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		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP 4/1.500 1/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 2/2.000 399/306 .264/.316/.444/.759 .629/.798 .689 95/.679 13/4 10/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 6/1.100 2/.500 3/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 355/264 .311/.343/.419/.762 .901/.714 .707 91/.856 4/1 3/5
31.De Aza* G/S/vP 2/1.000 17/1.000 3/.666 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/1.500 6/.666 223/187 .267/.318/.456/.775 .444/.836 .818 64/1.067 5/3 6/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP 4/.333 1/no AB 1/no AB 3/.000 3/.666 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 108/86 .218/.358/.287/.646 .703/.631 .460 41/.608 0/0 1/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP 6/1.167 2/.000 1/.000 3/.666 2/.000 3/.000 1/.000 5/.400 287/228 .287/.372/.406/.778 .778/.778 .890 78/.552 5/1 2/6
12.Napoli G/S/vP 3/.000 29/.717 3/.333 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/2.500 2/.000 320/228 .197/.297/.355/.652 .822/.585 .588 60/.572 3/1 10/6
29.Nava# G/S/vP 3/1.000 7/1.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 2/.500 73/65 .159/.250/.190/.440 .452/.439 .567 / 0/0 0/0
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 6/.333 29/1.137 4/1.250 4/.500 ··· 4/.750 1/.000 10/.300 359/257 .233/.323/.435/.758 .424/.900 .690 83/.823 0/0 16/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 22/.406 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 5/.000 3/.666 4/3.500 333/247 .288/.349/.425/.774 .797/.767 .638 19/.053 1/1 9/5
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 3/.000 4/.500 2/.500 5/.600 6/1.333 4/.000 10/.200 4/1.833 334/243 .261/.305/.471/.776 .866/.744 .774 61/.620 3/3 19/3
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 3/.000 12/.833 1/.000 18/.411 7/.829 ··· 11/1.233 4/.833 332/238 .263/.304/.378/.682 .411/.793 .610 86/.533 0/0 7/12
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/100 .237/.280/.319/.598 .581/.606 .624 19/.541 1/2 1/0
18.Victorino G/S/vP 3/.666 11/.700 ··· 7/.829 4/.000 1/no AB 10/1.000 2/.500 97/56 .247/.333/.306/.639 .896/.455 .687 31/.467 5/0 1/0
IP 120.0 84.2 31.0 34.1 43.1 35.1 27.0 33.2 TOTAL .253/.317/.390/.707 .667/.720 .662 .668 39/14 85/54
ERA-K/9 4.35/7.1 4.36/4.5 2.90/12.2 3.15/8.7 0.83/8.7 2.80/7.6 4.67/8.0 2.94/9.1 3.56/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (17-6-2)
 Swihart (23-9-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 508/.273 357/.275 125/.183 133/.205 162/.124 132/.187 114/.243 133/.205 .239  Betts
 De Aza
 Ramirez
 Victorino
 Nava
 Holt
0/90/0/6
40/0/30/4
71/0/0/2
0/0/29/1
6/0/15/1
12/2/17/1
OPS .741 .774 .577 .579 .441 .565 .706 .629 .677
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 241/.657 175/.732 57/.736 73/.594 75/.450 49/.579 43/.572 67/.526 .659
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 267/.817 182/.813 68/.442 60/.561 87/.433 83/.555 71/.785 66/.729 .691
Home 207/.779 164/.729 56/.540 76/.602 73/.513 69/.525 62/.572 58/.532
Last 28d days 108/.575 46/.502 40/.830 17/.235 37/.712 32/.661 7/.429 26/.647
HR/SB/CS 14/3/3 9/10/3 1/2/2 4/3/0 4/3/0 4/0/1 4/6/1 5/1/2 79/50/20
Usage ····X··· ··o····· o··X···· ····o··· o···X··· o···X··· ··oo···· ···X····
Astros Batters (4.44 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.78 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 63.Masterson
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 66.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/3.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 4/1.000 10/.800 1/no AB 4/.250 5/.450 1/.000 382/259 .296/.342/.419/.761 .864/.713 .833 93/.915 27/8 8/3
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 6/1.166 12/.643 1/.000 3/.000 5/.400 4/.750 344/217 .190/.305/.393/.698 .710/.692 .814 54/.639 1/1 16/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 3/.666 2/3.000 7/.000 1/.000 5/1.400 3/1.167 4/1.250 244/171 .206/.279/.353/.632 .575/.658 .693 49/.440 0/0 7/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 14/.885 9/.444 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 124/59 .236/.341/.462/.804 .569/1.064 .874 29/.963 0/0 6/3
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 ··· 5/1.000 1/5.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 158/99 .291/.329/.534/.863 .992/.786 .894 85/.842 5/0 8/3
11.Gattis G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 356/229 .243/.272/.444/.716 .655/.750 .792 78/.801 0/0 15/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 2/.000 4/.000 ··· 2/no AB 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 213/134 .257/.289/.411/.700 .798/.643 .642 44/.851 3/2 6/6
Hoes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 12/5 .333/.333/.333/.667 .857/.400 .571 11/.727 0/0 0/0
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/2.334 1/no AB 232/148 .235/.272/.376/.648 .565/.696 .502 32/.476 12/4 5/2
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP ··· 6/.834 1/2.000 14/.522 4/.250 ··· 5/.250 6/.334 5/.000 263/190 .233/.304/.462/.766 .766/.764 .817 53/.586 1/1 12/2
21.Singleton* G/S/vP 3/.667 3/.000 4/.250 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 43/35 .167/.279/.194/.474 .393/.493 .632 43/.474 1/0 0/0
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 206/148 .259/.320/.434/.754 .513/.852 .835 75/.768 0/1 6/0
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 12/.250 5/1.200 3/.667 5/.400 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 335/229 .205/.287/.430/.716 .619/.760 .794 63/.630 1/0 19/5
IP 74.2 33.2 29.0 49.2 41.1 3.1 35.0 40.1 33.2 TOTAL .242/.309/.421/.731 .726/.733 .760 .720 72/23 129/48
ERA-K/9 5.67/7.2 3.74/6.4 3.10/8.7 5.98/6.9 3.70/7.4 5.40/5.5 3.34/6.7 2.68/9.2 2.67/10.1 4.50/7.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 334/.273 145/.274 127/.239 230/.291 164/.220 20/.294 150/.256 160/.217 133/.192 .264  Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Conger
 Tucker
 Gattis
 Hoes
0/71/0/6
44/31/13/3
1/0/0/0
44/0/10/0
6/0/0/0
3/0/4/0
OPS .756 .818 .682 .845 .747 .871 .716 .572 .579 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 168/.668 53/.768 65/.455 135/.916 59/.528 7/.762 60/.561 65/.610 66/.429 .699
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 166/.845 92/.847 62/.929 95/.745 105/.872 13/.930 90/.812 95/.545 67/.725 .784
Road 167/.695 79/.882 74/.576 108/.793 80/.635 12/.833 65/.823 74/.508 58/.680
Last 28d days / 28/1.014 33/.923 65/.793 44/.820 20/.871 51/.501 36/.544 33/.333
HR/SB/CS 8/6/2 6/1/2 2/2/0 5/2/3 9/1/2 1/2/0 4/0/0 3/3/1 3/0/0 101/47/24
Usage ·X······ oo······ X··X···· ·X······ ·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  5.32

MIL  4.11

CHW  3.38

 RA/G

STL  2.97

MIN  4.13

COL  5.09

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

G. Stanton  .265

M. Zunino  .165

 OBP

B. Harper  .463

B. McCann  .327

M. Zunino  .229

 SLG

B. Harper  .690

L. Duda  .419

B. Hamilton  .282

 OPS

B. Harper  1.152

C. Maybin  .752

M. Zunino  .525

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.30

M. Pineda  3.77

K. Lohse  6.17

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.95

C. Wilson  7.46

M. Pelfrey  4.45

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.