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Houston Astros vs. Tampa Bay Rays, at Minute Maid Park, August 27, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Start Time:
6:10ct (local), 7:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
79° (based on last ten years)
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
129
On This Date:
7-9
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
131
On This Date:
24-19
Season Series
Fri, Jun 10, 2016 TBR  4  HOU  3     
Sat, Jun 11, 2016 HOU  4 @TBR  3     
Sun, Jun 12, 2016 TBR  5  HOU  0     
Fri, Aug 26, 2016 HOU  5  TBR  4     

Sat, Aug 27, 2016 TBR    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 28, 2016 TBR    @HOU  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Tampa Bay Rays
54-73, 5th, 17½ GB, 16½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-37   Road:   22-36   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  39-55   vsLHP:  15-18   1-Run:  10-20
 vsEast: 22-28   vsCntrl:10-20   vsWest: 12-15 IL:10-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
127 Fri, Aug 26  @HOU  L   4-5       54-73  5th 17.5 gb
126 Thu, Aug 25   BOS  W   2-1       54-72  5th 16.5 gb
125 Wed, Aug 24   BOS  W   4-3 (11)  53-72  5th 17.5 gb
124 Tue, Aug 23   BOS  L   1-2       52-72  5th 18.5 gb
123 Mon, Aug 22   BOS  L   2-6       52-71  5th 17.5 gb
122 Sun, Aug 21   TEX  W   8-4       52-70  5th 17.0 gb
121 Sat, Aug 20   TEX  W   8-2       51-70  5th 18.0 gb
120 Fri, Aug 19   TEX  L   2-6       50-70  5th 18.0 gb
119 Wed, Aug 17   SDP  W   2-0       50-69  5th 18.0 gb
118 Tue, Aug 16   SDP  W  15-1       49-69  5th 18.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14
Houston Astros
67-61, 3rd, 7½ GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-28   Road:   32-33   ExtrInn: 9-6 
 vsRHP:  47-40   vsLHP:  20-21   1-Run:  21-21
 vsEast: 14-17   vsCntrl:15-14   vsWest: 28-23 IL:10-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
128 Fri, Aug 26   TBR  W   5-4       67-61  3rd  7.5 gb
127 Wed, Aug 24  @PIT  W   5-4       66-61  3rd  8.0 gb
126 Tue, Aug 23  @PIT  L   1-7       65-61  3rd  8.0 gb
125 Mon, Aug 22  @PIT  W   3-1       65-60  3rd  8.0 gb
124 Sun, Aug 21  @BAL  W   5-3       64-60  3rd  8.5 gb
123 Sat, Aug 20  @BAL  W  12-2       63-60  3rd  9.5 gb
122 Fri, Aug 19  @BAL  W  15-8       62-60  3rd 10.5 gb
121 Thu, Aug 18  @BAL  L   5-13      61-60  3rd 10.5 gb
120 Wed, Aug 17   STL  L   2-8       61-59  3rd 10.0 gb
119 Tue, Aug 16   STL  L   5-8       61-58  3rd  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 26, 2016 HOU  5  TBR  4        W:Ken Giles (2-3), L: Alex Colome (1-4), S: none
Sun, Jun 12, 2016 TBR  5  HOU  0        W:Matt Moore (3-4), L: Dallas Keuchel (3-9), S: none
Sat, Jun 11, 2016 HOU  4 @TBR  3        W:Mike Fiers (4-3), L: Chris Archer (4-8), S: Will Harris (3)
Fri, Jun 10, 2016 TBR  4  HOU  3        W:Matt Andriese (5-0), L: Lance McCullers (3-2), S: Alex Colome (18)

Thu, Aug 20, 2015 TBR  1 @HOU  0        W:Chris Archer (11-9), L: Collin McHugh (13-7), S: none
Wed, Aug 19, 2015 HOU  3  TBR  2 (13)   W:Josh Fields (4-1), L: Matt Andriese (3-3), S: none
Tue, Aug 18, 2015 HOU  3  TBR  2 (10)   W:Luke Gregerson (6-2), L: Brad Boxberger (4-9), S: none
Mon, Aug 17, 2015 TBR  9 @HOU  2        W:Erasmo Ramirez (10-4), L: Scott Kazmir (6-8), S: none
Sun, Jul 12, 2015 TBR  4  HOU  3        W:Matt Moore (1-0), L: Lance McCullers (4-3), S: Brad Boxberger (23)
Sat, Jul 11, 2015 TBR  3  HOU  0        W:Jake Odorizzi (5-5), L: Dallas Keuchel (11-4), S: Brad Boxberger (22)
Season Series: 2016 - tied 2-2; 2015 - TBR won 5-2; 2014 - TBR won 5-2; All-Time - TBR leads 23-14

SP: Blake Snell (23, LHP, 4-6, 3.17)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (4-6) 65.1 64 31 23 40 69 3 3.17
Last 7 GS 3-2 33.2 31 13 10 23 42 2 2.67 54
2016-08-22 BOS L 3.2 4 2 2 5 3 0 94 43
2016-08-16 SDP W 5.0 5 1 1 4 8 0 95 57
2016-08-10 @TOR L 1.2 5 5 2 4 2 1 68 29
2016-08-05 MIN ND 5.1 4 1 1 2 7 0 97 61
2016-07-31 NYY W 5.1 5 2 2 3 9 1 101 56
2016-07-24 @OAK ND 6.2 7 2 2 2 4 0 99 54
2016-07-19 @COL W 6.0 1 0 0 3 9 0 96 76
Has never faced HOU as starter.

SP: Dallas Keuchel (28, LHP, 8-12, 4.64)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (8-12) 161.0 159 86 83 47 140 19 4.64
2015 (20-8) 232.0 185 68 64 51 216 17 2.48
2014 (12-9) 200.0 187 71 65 48 146 11 2.93
Last 7 GS 2-3 48.0 36 20 20 12 41 4 3.75 58
2016-08-21 @BAL W 8.0 5 2 2 1 7 1 95 70
2016-08-16 STL L 5.0 6 6 6 1 7 1 100 37
2016-08-05 TEX W 9.0 3 0 0 2 7 0 111 86
2016-07-31 @DET L 5.0 7 7 7 3 4 2 83 26
2016-07-25 NYY L 7.2 6 2 2 0 5 0 105 64
2016-07-19 @OAK ND 6.1 5 2 2 3 6 0 116 58
2016-07-10 OAK ND 7.0 4 1 1 2 5 0 99 68
Last 5 v.TBR 0-3 32.1 34 18 16 9 25 1 4.45 50
2016-06-12 @TBR L 5.0 5 5 4 2 9 0 89 46
2015-08-19 TBR ND 7.0 7 2 2 1 5 0 105 59
2015-07-11 @TBR L 7.0 7 3 3 2 4 0 96 53
2014-06-22 @TBR L 8.0 9 5 4 4 4 0 111 46
2013-07-13 @TBR ND 5.1 6 3 3 0 3 1 80 47

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

Rays Batters (4.17 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.21 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Keuchel*
G/S/vB		 47.Devenski
G/S/vB		 45.Feliz
G/S/vB		 53.Giles
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 41.Peacock
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Beckham G/S/vP 5/1.150 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 198/109 .224/.276/.421/.696 .703/.691 .773 65/.579 2/1 5/4
10.Dickerson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 4/1.000 4/.750 ··· ··· 2/2.500 411/343 .232/.283/.450/.733 .511/.779 .855 82/.737 0/1 17/1
5.Duffy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/.200 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 334/238 .264/.319/.356/.676 .731/.654 .456 48/.702 8/5 4/5
11.Forsythe G/S/vP 16/.750 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· 4/.000 420/329 .271/.336/.463/.799 .894/.772 .844 96/.866 6/3 16/7
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 2/.000 2/1.500 2/.000 2/1.000 280/215 .219/.307/.381/.688 .604/.711 .733 93/.658 12/2 7/2
3.Longoria G/S/vP 15/.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 6/.000 5/.900 5/.650 2/.500 2/2.000 538/423 .288/.340/.550/.890 .811/.911 .942 106/.939 0/2 30/6
27.Mahtook G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 122/79 .152/.207/.223/.430 .442/.421 .582 52/.492 0/0 1/0
46.Maile G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 77/58 .229/.270/.329/.599 .333/.688 .393 43/.677 0/0 1/2
13.Miller* G/S/vP 17/.746 ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 15/.534 7/.667 468/384 .259/.316/.513/.829 .695/.859 .776 106/1.002 6/4 25/17
7.Morrison* G/S/vP 9/.777 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 3/1.666 2/.500 4/1.833 7/.857 5/1.000 362/300 .230/.309/.373/.682 .637/.691 .776 33/.756 4/2 10/4
20.Souza G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 396/293 .240/.293/.396/.689 .606/.719 .666 90/.717 6/6 13/4
21.Wilson G/S/vP 8/1.500 1/.000 5/1.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 194/142 .237/.273/.335/.608 .746/.559 .507 38/.629 0/0 4/2
IP 161.0 87.2 55.0 51.1 45.2 50.2 37.1 4.0 34.2 TOTAL .241/.309/.425/.733 .718/.738 .754 .765 47/29 168/77
ERA-K/9 4.64/7.8 2.36/7.9 4.09/13.3 3.68/13.9 3.15/10.8 2.49/9.8 2.65/8.0 4.50/9.0 5.45/9.1 3.97/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Maile (14-4-0)
 Wilson (33-7-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 672/.256 336/.218 225/.220 222/.248 179/.172 204/.226 141/.178 17/.200 158/.313 .258  Souza
 Kiermaier
 Mahtook
 Dickerson
0/3/93/6
0/73/0/4
18/16/9/3
49/0/2/1
OPS .730 .599 .626 .725 .559 .566 .589 .694 .999 .741
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 140/.605 168/.686 103/.709 110/.622 88/.737 90/.584 39/1.060 6/.667 80/.952 .780
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 532/.763 168/.514 122/.558 112/.828 91/.395 114/.551 102/.420 11/.717 78/1.044 .712
Home 292/.634 171/.581 116/.359 123/.652 100/.577 108/.554 79/.613 / 80/.963
Last 28d days 107/.642 71/.535 41/.607 42/.874 8/.875 34/.727 23/.565 17/.694 31/1.133
HR/SB/CS 19/2/1 4/7/4 7/3/1 7/1/0 3/4/0 3/7/0 5/1/1 1/0/0 11/2/1 149/45/22
Usage ·····X·· ··X····X o··X···· X·o·oX·· ········ o·X·o··· ··o····o ···X··oo ···X··X·
Astros Batters (4.55 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.31 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 4.Snell*
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 43.Farquhar
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 30.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 45.Romero*
G/S/vB		 50.Sturdevant
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 6/1.667 11/.606 16/.732 1/2.000 1/.000 571/423 .358/.419/.567/.986 1.067/.958 .871 106/.947 26/7 20/4
2.Bregman G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 131/95 .233/.290/.408/.698 .845/.645 .608 112/.797 0/0 4/4
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 10/.733 7/.572 10/1.600 1/no AB 1/no AB 317/233 .215/.322/.391/.712 .542/.776 .655 54/.745 2/1 9/4
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 2/.000 1/.000 6/.334 ··· ··· 544/401 .271/.362/.468/.830 .730/.865 .802 109/.799 11/3 19/11
11.Gattis G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/2.500 5/1.400 1/2.000 9/1.555 1/no AB 1/.000 380/240 .244/.308/.477/.785 .887/.724 .767 89/.919 2/1 21/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· 4/1.833 ··· 2/1.000 6/.533 7/.858 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 406/254 .252/.289/.412/.701 .740/.679 .753 74/.612 9/4 11/5
10.Gurriel G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 8/5 .286/.375/.286/.661 .000/1.100 .667 8/.661 0/0 0/
35.Hernandez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 47/35 .244/.340/.512/.853 .833/.859 .300 47/.853 0/1 3/1
16.Kemp* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 87/70 .237/.314/.303/.617 .369/.678 .849 36/.513 2/1 0/1
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 5/1.400 2/.000 ··· 215/127 .219/.258/.353/.611 .692/.558 .629 52/.675 7/4 4/0
23.Reed* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 117/101 .178/.282/.297/.579 .259/.630 .697 65/.611 0/0 3/2
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 8/.125 3/.667 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 590/434 .259/.358/.465/.822 1.001/.762 .814 119/.823 8/9 25/2
IP 65.1 11.2 39.1 46.0 18.1 43.2 77.0 35.0 18.1 TOTAL .247/.321/.420/.741 .754/.735 .721 .731 86/35 160/56
ERA-K/9 3.17/9.5 1.54/10.0 3.89/9.4 2.15/11.3 5.40/11.3 5.15/6.4 3.74/6.4 4.89/9.3 3.93/6.9 4.07/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (30-7-12)
 Gattis (11-11-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 294/.256 51/.238 166/.233 181/.194 85/.304 194/.306 321/.271 154/.244 75/.273 .254  Springer
 Marisnick
 Kemp
 Gonzalez
 Hernandez
 Bregman
0/1/118/12
26/41/5/5
21/0/1/2
13/1/0/1
6/9/1/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .692 .682 .607 .586 .973 .888 .778 .726 .706 .726
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 73/.623 25/.653 85/.454 74/.543 28/1.143 75/1.002 122/.946 64/.715 24/.848 .692
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 221/.713 26/.709 81/.760 107/.613 57/.880 119/.816 199/.680 90/.732 51/.644 .746
Road 111/.623 12/.972 67/.803 78/.605 27/.970 70/.941 158/.892 76/.489 35/.795
Last 28d days 101/.821 45/.544 29/.656 34/.590 35/.797 38/.816 64/.717 16/.393 2/.000
HR/SB/CS 3/5/2 1/2/0 2/1/0 6/0/1 7/1/0 9/1/0 12/6/1 5/1/0 1/0/1 163/77/26
Usage ····X··· X·XX·X·o ··oX·oX· o·oo·o·· ····X··o o··oX·o· ·oX·Xoo· ·oo·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 2016 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

BOS  5.41

PIT  4.52

ATL  3.71

 RA/G

CHC  3.42

PIT  4.45

ARI  5.58

 BA

J. Altuve  .358

D. Freese  .273

T. Frazier  .214

 OBP

J. Votto  .435

B. Crawford  .340

F. Galvis  .265

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .633

B. Zobrist  .452

E. Aybar  .320

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.042

L. Forsythe  .799

E. Aybar  .613

 ERA

K. Hendricks  2.19

T. Bauer  3.88

J. Shields  5.98

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.89

M. Moore  7.68

J. Weaver  4.56

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.