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Game Preview: HOU @ LAD, 10:10pm, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 @Dodger Stadium

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Houston Astros, 53-65, 4th, 9 GB, 10½ GB in WC

SP: Matt Albers (24, RHP, 2-5, 6.20)

   2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. LAD Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (2-5)             61    69  45  42  31  41 12    6.20      
 2006 (0-2)             15    17  10  10   7  11  1    6.00      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-5  31.1  38  27  24  14  25  7    6.89   41 
 2007-08-05    FLA   L   4.1   5   5   5   3   6  1      96   36 
 2007-07-25    LAD  ND   5     3   0   0   1   5  0      90   65 
 2007-05-23    SFG   L   6.1   4   4   4   5   4  0     102   48 
 2007-05-18    TEX   L   3     6   5   5   2   4  2      80   29 
 2007-05-10    CIN   L   3     9   7   7   1   2  2      68   14 
 2007-05-05    STL   W   7.1   3   0   0   1   2  0      91   73 
 2007-05-01    CIN   L   2.1   8   6   3   1   2  2      70   24 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.LAD      0-0   5     3   0   0   1   5  0    0.00   65 
 2007-07-25    LAD  ND   5     3   0   0   1   5  0      90   65 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   32-27   Road:   21-38   ExtrInn: 7-9 
 vsRHP:  34-47   vsLHP:  19-18   1-Run:  16-20
 vsEast: 10-11   vsCntrl:21-30   vsWest: 13-15 IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
118 Mon, Aug 13  @LAD  W   4-1       53-65  4th  9.0 gb
117 Sun, Aug 12   MIL  W   6-4       52-65  4th  9.5 gb
116 Sat, Aug 11   MIL  L   4-7       51-65  4th 10.5 gb
115 Fri, Aug 10   MIL  L   4-5 (11)  51-64  4th  9.5 gb
114 Wed, Aug  8   CHC  W   8-2       51-63  4th  8.5 gb
113 Tue, Aug  7   CHC  W   5-2       50-63  4th  9.5 gb
112 Mon, Aug  6   CHC  W   2-1 (10)  49-63  4th 10.5 gb
111 Sun, Aug  5  @FLA  L   5-6       48-63  4th 11.5 gb
110 Sat, Aug  4  @FLA  L   5-6 (12)  48-62  4th 11.5 gb
109 Fri, Aug  3  @FLA  W   8-2       48-61  4th 10.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15
Los Angeles Dodgers, 60-58, 4th, 6½ GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Brett Tomko (34, RHP, 2-9, 5.49)

   2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (2-9)             95   112  65  58  35  73 12    5.49      
 2006 (8-7)            112.1 123  67  59  29  76 17    4.73      
 2005 (8-15)           190.2 205  99  95  57 114 20    4.48      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-4  35.2  44  28  25  12  19  6    6.31   41 
 2007-08-09    CIN  ND   6     6   3   3   1   3  1      87   50 
 2007-08-02    SFG   L   5     5   3   3   3   1  0     102   43 
 2007-07-28    COL   L   6     7   5   5   4   4  2      99   38 
 2007-07-20    NYM  ND   6     5   1   0   1   3  0      81   62 
 2007-07-15    SFG   W   5     4   3   1   2   3  0      77   52 
 2007-05-21    MIL   L   5.1   8   5   5   1   5  2     107   36 
 2007-05-14    STL   L   2.1   9   8   8   0   0  1      56    7 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.HOU      2-1  30.2  23  11  11  11  22  4    3.23   57 
 2006-05-10    HOU   W   6     1   0   0   3   3  0     104   70 
 2005-05-14    HOU   L   6     6   4   4   1   4  2      85   47 
 2004-09-21    HOU   W   8.2   4   2   2   3   5  2     117   70 
 2004-04-06    HOU  ND   4     7   3   3   2   4  0     102   38 
 2003-09-20    HOU  ND   6     5   2   2   2   6  0     101   58 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   30-30   Road:   30-28   ExtrInn: 7-3 
 vsRHP:  41-44   vsLHP:  19-14   1-Run:  23-15
 vsEast: 14-13   vsCntrl:18-14   vsWest: 23-21 IL: 5-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
118 Mon, Aug 13   HOU  L   1-4       60-58  4th  6.5 gb
117 Sun, Aug 12  @STL  L   2-12      60-57  4th  6.0 gb
116 Sat, Aug 11  @STL  L   1-6       60-56  3rd  6.0 gb
115 Fri, Aug 10  @STL  W   2-1       60-55  3rd  5.0 gb
114 Thu, Aug  9  @CIN  W   5-4 (11)  59-55  3rd  5.0 gb
113 Wed, Aug  8  @CIN  L   0-1       58-55  4th  5.0 gb
112 Tue, Aug  7  @CIN  L   0-4       58-54  3rd  4.0 gb
111 Sun, Aug  5   ARI  L   0-3       58-53  3rd  4.0 gb
110 Sat, Aug  4   ARI  L   7-8       58-52  3rd  3.0 gb
109 Fri, Aug  3   ARI  L   0-1       58-51  3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 5-15   Last 30:12-18
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Aug 13, 2007 HOU  4 @LAD  1    W:Roy Oswalt (13-6), L: Chad Billingsley (7-4), S: Chad Qualls (3)
Wed, Jul 25, 2007 HOU  2  LAD  1    W:Chad Qualls (6-3), L: D.J. Houlton (0-2), S: Brad Lidge (5)
Tue, Jul 24, 2007 HOU  7  LAD  4    W:Jason Jennings (2-6), L: Rudy Seanez (6-2), S: Brad Lidge (4)
Mon, Jul 23, 2007 LAD 10 @HOU  2    W:Chad Billingsley (7-0), L: Chris Sampson (7-7), S: none

Thu, May 11, 2006 HOU  4 @LAD  2    W:Wandy Rodriguez (5-1), L: Derek Lowe (1-2), S: Dan Wheeler (1)
Wed, May 10, 2006 LAD  9  HOU  6    W:Brett Tomko (4-1), L: Taylor Buchholz (2-2), S: none
Tue, May 09, 2006 LAD 12  HOU  7    W:Takashi Saito (3-2), L: Dan Wheeler (0-2), S: none
Wed, Apr 26, 2006 HOU  8  LAD  5    W:Wandy Rodriguez (4-0), L: Odalis Perez (3-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 25, 2006 HOU  4  LAD  3 (14)   W:Ezequiel Astacio (2-0), L: Hong-Chih Kuo (0-3), S: none
Mon, Apr 24, 2006 LAD  6 @HOU  2    W:Takashi Saito (2-0), L: Brad Lidge (0-1), S: Danys Baez (6)
Season Series: 2007 - HOU leads 3-1; 2006 - Tied 3-3; 2005 - HOU won 4-2; All-Time - LAD leads 367-303

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 2007 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

NYY  5.98

TOR  4.66

WSN  3.92

RA/G

SDP  3.88

WSN  4.69

TBD  6.11

BA

M. Ordonez  .356

C. Floyd  .290

R. Langerhans  .155

OBP

B. Bonds  .496

B. Abreu  .361

M. Olivo  .254

SLG

R. Braun  .666

K. Youkilis  .465

N. Punto  .271

OPS

B. Bonds  1.081

J. Francoeur  .817

R. Langerhans  .540

ERA

C. Young  2.02

J. Blanton  4.10

A. Eaton  6.36

K/9IP

E. Bedard  11.06

C. Gaudin  6.29

S. Trachsel  3.06

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Houston Astros Batters (4.54 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers (4.34 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Tomko
G/S/vB
97.Beimel*
G/S/vB
51.Broxton
G/S/vB
36.Hernandez
G/S/vB
45.Proctor
G/S/vB
44.Saito
G/S/vB
38.Seanez
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
11.Ausmus G/S/vP 26/.708 6/.167 1/.000 11/.899 ··· ··· 2/.000 327/238 .233/.313/.319/.632 .691/.609 .554 63/.513 5/1 3/4
17.Berkman# G/S/vP 28/.779 15/1.233 1/.000 6/2.433 ··· 1/5.000 5/2.000 483/360 .262/.373/.457/.830 .779/.847 .891 98/.801 5/3 21/7
7.Biggio G/S/vP 43/.644 10/.400 ··· 7/1.167 ··· 2/.000 10/1.700 426/313 .248/.285/.396/.681 .854/.618 .525 72/.662 4/2 9/8
4.Bruntlett G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 123/65 .262/.361/.291/.652 .616/.686 .616 65/.606 4/2 0/5
2.Burke G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 244/149 .229/.308/.364/.672 .793/.598 .611 65/.654 6/2 4/3
26.Lamb* G/S/vP 14/.967 1/.000 ··· 8/.900 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 281/231 .296/.375/.478/.853 1.050/.812 .789 62/.887 0/0 11/7
16.Lane G/S/vP 3/.333 2/1.500 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.667 159/85 .175/.241/.371/.612 .567/.649 .743 79/.699 0/0 8/0
45.Lee G/S/vP 5/.650 1/.000 1/5.000 17/1.122 1/.000 ··· 4/1.167 520/383 .302/.356/.536/.892 .999/.854 .777 108/.979 8/5 24/2
8.Loretta G/S/vP 33/1.066 14/.297 ··· 2/1.000 7/.762 ··· 7/.310 383/290 .285/.358/.371/.729 .750/.722 .753 91/.497 1/1 2/6
13.Munson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 105/79 .269/.343/.441/.784 .804/.777 .633 42/.831 0/0 4/1
19.Palmeiro* G/S/vP 4/.500 3/.666 ··· 15/.714 ··· ··· 3/.667 100/93 .233/.327/.267/.594 .750/.583 .708 17/.301 0/1 0/0
30.Scott* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 318/274 .255/.355/.507/.862 .923/.853 .980 59/1.324 2/1 14/3
21.Wigginton G/S/vP 13/.154 1/.000 ··· 6/.334 4/.000 1/.000 3/.666 466/328 .280/.337/.459/.796 .922/.747 .775 92/.934 2/4 17/8
IP 95.0 51.0 59.1 36.2 64.0 45.2 56.1 TOTAL .256/.327/.411/.738 .771/.725 .716 48/25 124/71
ERA-K/9 5.49/6.9 4.06/5.5 2.43/10.8 5.40/5.4 3.66/6.0 1.58/10.6 3.83/8.6 4.02/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ausmus (36-14-2)
 Munson (20-2-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 431/.290 213/.243 244/.218 169/.288 282/.248 173/.177 242/.265 .255  Scott
 Lee
 Palmeiro
 Lane
 Burke
 Berkman
 Lamb
 Bruntlett
 Wigginton
1/3/76/8
115/0/0/8
11/0/15/2
3/29/18/2
1/26/14/2
0/1/26/1
0/0/1/0
1/2/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .817 .634 .564 .830 .751 .494 .749 .703
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 202/.874 78/.473 124/.599 77/.790 123/.784 92/.617 93/.707 .676
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 229/.768 135/.725 120/.526 92/.864 159/.725 81/.355 149/.775 .720
Home 190/.884 121/.683 131/.461 90/.880 136/.756 93/.421 116/.761 .704
Last 28d days 103/.720 56/.763 50/.552 44/.715 60/.894 28/.517 62/.964
HR/SB/CS 12/6/4 1/0/3 0/4/3 4/2/1 9/6/4 4/2/0 9/7/1 95/72/34
Usage ····X··· ·X·oo··· ····oo·· ·oo····· ·X··XX·· ···Xo··· ·Xo·o·X·
Los Angeles Dodgers Batters (4.38 RS/G) vs. Houston Astros Pitchers (5.08 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Albers
G/S/vB
37.Albers
G/S/vB
58.Borkowski
G/S/vB
54.Lidge
G/S/vB
62.McLemore*
G/S/vB
47.Miller*
G/S/vB
36.Moehler
G/S/vB
50.Qualls
G/S/vB
63.Randolph*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Ethier* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 2/.500 ··· 1/3.000 3/2.333 ··· ··· 367/288 .299/.364/.469/.833 .866/.824 .827 70/.967 0/3 9/5
15.Furcal# G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 3/.000 8/.125 ··· 4/.500 12/1.235 2/.000 3/1.667 501/375 .278/.339/.368/.707 .832/.664 .802 110/.694 12/6 5/17
5.Garciaparra G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/1.071 4/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 19/.757 9/1.127 ··· 430/338 .280/.326/.363/.689 .606/.710 .816 84/.844 3/1 6/9
26.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 5/1.600 ··· 9/.611 10/.200 4/.500 ··· 431/337 .275/.353/.424/.777 .815/.766 .735 83/.539 6/0 11/1
27.Kemp G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 159/102 .311/.352/.480/.832 .857/.818 .876 55/.544 4/3 6/2
12.Kent G/S/vP 2/2.000 2/2.000 3/2.667 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 4/.250 5/1.000 2/.000 420/329 .288/.364/.482/.846 1.048/.794 .864 67/.930 1/2 15/13
14.Lieberthal G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.500 4/1.167 ··· 2/1.000 5/1.000 3/.666 1/.000 62/51 .237/.274/.254/.528 .182/.606 .792 14/.572 0/0 0/2
7.Loney* G/S/vP 2/2.000 2/2.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 3/3.000 1/.000 ··· 199/146 .324/.377/.495/.872 1.046/.809 .628 94/.707 0/1 5/8
18.Martinez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 8/.708 ··· ··· 1/3.000 3/.666 3/.000 118/71 .171/.231/.200/.431 .527/.369 .531 44/.452 1/0 0/1
55.Martin G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/1.000 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· 466/355 .292/.361/.454/.815 1.066/.738 .735 98/.567 18/4 12/10
9.Pierre* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 9/.347 7/.858 ··· 6/.400 4/.250 2/1.000 4/.000 527/389 .283/.320/.337/.657 .575/.685 .698 104/.656 46/9 0/4
8.Saenz G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.500 109/63 .182/.303/.330/.633 .687/.594 .781 23/.230 0/0 3/0
21.Sweeney* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/1.250 1/.000 1/.000 111/103 .255/.364/.404/.768 .500/.792 .810 26/1.062 2/0 2/0
49.Young# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/6 .500/.500/.571/1.071 1.000/1.167 .334 14/1.071 0/0 0/0
IP 61.0 61.0 51.1 49.2 15.2 33.2 40.2 62.1 7.0 TOTAL .271/.335/.394/.729 .770/.715 .737 95/32 85/92
ERA-K/9 6.20/6.0 6.20/6.0 5.44/8.1 3.26/12.0 4.02/10.9 5.08/9.3 5.31/6.0 3.32/9.1 12.86/15.4 4.74/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lieberthal (6-2-0)
 Martin (66-32-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 285/.285 285/.285 239/.296 214/.230 73/.313 157/.252 180/.304 259/.278 41/.367 .275  Ethier
 Gonzalez
 Pierre
 Kemp
 Sweeney
 Loney
 Young
28/0/90/8
105/0/0/2
0/118/0/1
0/5/51/1
7/0/3/0
0/0/1/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .852 .852 .861 .730 .892 .784 .814 .755 1.312 .791
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 135/.858 135/.858 106/.926 89/.764 23/1.192 83/.745 71/.948 107/.625 17/1.529 .800
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 150/.847 150/.847 133/.809 125/.707 50/.755 74/.827 109/.729 152/.849 24/1.125 .784
Road 182/.820 182/.820 100/.942 89/.686 31/.625 70/.799 94/.710 115/.703 37/1.255 .826
Last 28d days 83/.897 83/.897 66/1.060 58/.926 39/.713 39/.570 34/.763 54/.611 12/.560
HR/SB/CS 12/6/0 12/6/0 7/1/0 7/3/0 3/0/0 3/2/0 6/3/0 8/6/5 3/1/0 151/61/20
Usage ···X·X·· ···X·X·· ···X·oX· ·oXo··Xo ·o······ ·o·o·o·· ···X·o·· ··XX··oo ········

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.

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