HOU @ SDP, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Game Preview

Houston Astros, 0-1, 3rd, 1 GB, 1 GB in WC	SP: Brandon Backe (30, RHP, 0-0, undef) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. SDP Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (3-1) 28.2 27 13 12 11 11 4 3.77 2006 (3-2) 43 43 18 18 18 19 4 3.77 2005 (10-8) 149.1 151 82 79 67 97 19 4.76 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 3-2 40 40 18 17 15 16 5 3.83 49 2007-09-29 ATL W 6 4 1 1 0 4 0 88 64 2007-09-21 STL W 6 6 2 2 2 2 0 87 52 2007-09-16 PIT W 6 3 2 2 2 2 2 91 58 2007-09-11 CHC ND 5 6 4 4 4 3 1 97 38 2007-09-04 MIL L 5.2 8 4 3 3 0 1 91 36 2006-08-18 MIL ND 6.1 4 2 2 2 2 1 90 57 2006-08-13 SDP L 5 9 3 3 2 3 0 97 38 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.SDP 2-1 18.1 20 5 5 8 8 0 2.45 52 2006-08-13 SDP L 5 9 3 3 2 3 0 97 38 2006-08-02 SDP W 7.2 7 1 1 2 3 0 101 62 2005-07-05 SDP W 5.2 4 1 1 4 2 0 94 55
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 0-0 Road: 0-1 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 0-1 vsLHP: 0-0 1-Run: 0-0 vsEast: 0-0 vsCntrl: 0-0 vsWest: 0-1 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 1 Mon, Mar 31 @SDP L 0-4 0-1 3rd 1.0 gb Last 10: 0-1 Last 20: 0-1 Last 30: 0-1
San Diego Padres, 1-0, 1st, Tied	SP: Chris Young (29, RHP, 0-0, undef) 2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (9-8) 173 118 66 60 72 167 10 3.12 2006 (11-5) 179.1 134 72 69 69 164 28 3.46 2005 (12-7) 164.2 162 84 78 45 137 19 4.26 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 0-4 37.1 29 28 28 24 37 5 6.75 46 2007-09-29 MIL ND 6 2 2 2 4 7 1 103 63 2007-09-24 SFG L 5 8 7 7 4 3 0 105 22 2007-09-19 PIT ND 6 5 3 3 2 5 0 96 53 2007-09-14 SFG ND 7 6 3 3 1 5 0 114 57 2007-09-09 COL L 5 2 3 3 5 8 1 99 54 2007-09-04 ARI L 4 4 5 5 2 6 2 69 38 2007-08-30 ARI L 4.1 2 5 5 6 3 1 93 36 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.HOU 2-0 12 8 5 5 1 10 3 3.75 59 2005-06-25 HOU W 7 3 3 3 1 4 2 104 62 2005-05-21 HOU W 5 5 2 2 0 6 1 93 55
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 1-0 Road: 0-0 ExtrInn: 0-0 vsRHP: 1-0 vsLHP: 0-0 1-Run: 0-0 vsEast: 0-0 vsCntrl: 1-0 vsWest: 0-0 IL: 0-0 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 1 Mon, Mar 31 HOU W 4-0 1-0 1st Tied Last 10: 1-0 Last 20: 1-0 Last 30: 1-0
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Mon, Mar 31, 2008 SDP 4 HOU 0 W:Jake Peavy (1-0), L: Roy Oswalt (0-1), S: none Sun, Aug 19, 2007 SDP 5 HOU 3 W:Greg Maddux , L: Matt Albers , S: Trevor Hoffman Sat, Aug 18, 2007 HOU 3 @SDP 2 W:Dave Borkowski , L: Justin Germano , S: Brad Lidge Fri, Aug 17, 2007 HOU 3 @SDP 1 W:Woody Williams , L: Heath Bell , S: Brad Lidge Sun, Jul 29, 2007 SDP 18 @HOU 11 W:Doug Brocail , L: Jason Jennings , S: none Sat, Jul 28, 2007 HOU 3 SDP 1 W:Roy Oswalt , L: Greg Maddux , S: Brad Lidge Fri, Jul 27, 2007 SDP 9 @HOU 4 W:Jake Peavy , L: Woody Williams , S: none Thu, Jul 26, 2007 HOU 7 SDP 1 W:Wandy Rodriguez , L: David Wells , S: none Sun, Aug 13, 2006 SDP 7 @HOU 2 W:Woody Williams (5-4), L: Brandon Backe (3-2), S: none Sat, Aug 12, 2006 SDP 6 @HOU 3 W:Jake Peavy (6-11), L: Jason Hirsh (0-1), S: Trevor Hoffman (31) Season Series: 2008 - SDP leads 1-0; 2007 - HOU won 4-3; 2006 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - HOU leads 292-264

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 2008 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

For the 2007 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY 5.98

BAL 4.67

WSN 4.15

RA/G

BOS 4.06

KCR 4.80

TBD 5.83

M. Ordonez .363

J. Pierre .293

J. LaRue .148

OBP

B. Bonds .480

W. Taveras .367

J. LaRue .240

SLG

C. Ross .653

T. Tulowitzki .479

A. Gonzalez .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez 1.067

T. Glaus .839

J. LaRue .512

ERA

J. Peavy 2.54

A. Pettitte 4.05

S. Olsen 5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

G. Meche 6.50

A. Cook 3.31

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Houston Astros Batters (0.00 RS/G) vs. San Diego Padres Pitchers (0.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 32.Young
G/S/vB 21.Bell
G/S/vB 57.Germano
G/S/vB 52.Gonzalez
G/S/vB 51.Hoffman
G/S/vB 49.Ledezma*
G/S/vB 30.Maddux
G/S/vB 43.Meredith
G/S/vB 44.Peavy
G/S/vB 38.Rusch*
G/S/vB 50.Thatcher*
G/S/vB 25.Wolf*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

11.Ausmus G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 8/.250 ··· 55/.755 3/.666 32/.326 29/.731 1/.000 6/.334 397/ .235/.318/.324/.642 / .581 7/.452 6/1 3/4

17.Berkman# G/S/vP 5/1.400 5/1.850 3/.333 ··· 8/.250 ··· 36/.979 1/.000 37/.751 41/.861 ··· 21/.627 668/ .278/.386/.510/.896 / .970 33/1.187 7/3 34/12

27.Blum# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 7/1.142 3/.000 2/.000 28/.472 ··· 6/.900 26/.384 ··· 11/1.245 370/ .252/.319/.367/.685 / .616 38/.688 0/0 5/5

14.Bourn* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 133/ .277/.348/.378/.727 / .664 3/1.333 18/1 1/0

22.Cruz# G/S/vP 6/.333 ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 3/.666 8/.000 1/.000 14/.445 3/2.500 ··· 18/1.233 293/ .234/.316/.375/.691 / .730 / 6/1 6/1

2.Erstad* G/S/vP 17/.706 ··· ··· ··· 7/.286 5/1.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 10/.929 ··· ··· 346/ .249/.311/.337/.647 / .604 17/.820 7/2 4/2

45.Lee G/S/vP 3/.666 6/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.000 12/1.000 33/.790 ··· 19/.596 12/1.875 1/2.000 9/1.111 697/ .303/.354/.528/.882 / .789 37/1.034 10/5 32/4

8.Loretta G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 2/.000 ··· 7/.666 1/.000 27/.641 2/1.000 9/.819 23/.768 ··· 16/.917 511/ .287/.352/.372/.724 / .700 12/.667 1/2 4/7

9.Pence G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 484/ .322/.360/.539/.899 / .886 38/.968 11/5 17/6

13.Perez# G/S/vP 3/1.334 4/.250 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 7/.286 ··· 6/.500 2/1.000 ··· ··· / /// / / / /

10.Tejada G/S/vP 7/.714 ··· 3/1.667 ··· 2/.000 14/.703 3/.000 1/2.000 6/.833 6/.500 ··· 7/1.000 569/ .296/.357/.442/.799 / .734 45/.778 2/1 18/15

46.Towles G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 44/ .375/.432/.575/1.007 / 1.310 25/.878 0/1 1/0

21.Wigginton G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 5/1.100 1/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 29/.717 5/.200 21/.438 13/.802 ··· 29/.774 604/ .278/.333/.459/.792 / .753 33/.515 3/4 22/11

IP 173.0 93.2 133.1 2.0 57.1 59.1 198.0 79.2 223.1 21.0 102.2 TOTAL /// / / /0

ERA-K/9

3.12/8.7

2.02/9.8

4.46/5.3

13.50/0.0

2.98/6.9

5.61/7.1

4.14/4.7

3.50/6.7

2.54/9.7

/0.0

1.29/6.9

4.73/8.2

0.00/0.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Ausmus (47-17-2)
Towles (3-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 705/.192 363/.185 566/.259 11/.400 235/.228 280/.295 830/.285 342/.296 898/.208 / 85/.167 458/.273 Lee
Pence
Cruz
Erstad
Berkman
Wigginton
Blum
Bourn 157/0/0/8
0/95/14/6
49/3/23/5
12/45/9/2
0/1/31/1
1/0/1/0
9/0/0/0
79/12/6/0

OPS .578 .503 .733 .955 .634 .848 .729 .721 .584 .492 .762

vs LHB (BF-OPS) / / / / / / / / / / / /

vs RHB (BF-OPS) / / / / / / / / / / / /

Home 337/.498 170/.515 280/.703 11/.955 139/.509 135/.754 391/.716 153/.588 504/.581 / 36/.495 276/.701

Last 28d days 50/.782 33/.286 26/.824 / 17/1.404 17/.782 42/.998 29/.618 85/.761 / 31/.715 /

HR/SB/CS 10/44/0 3/8/3 14/18/2 0/1/0 2/3/1 7/7/3 14/37/2 6/7/2 13/21/2 // 1/3/0 10/4/3 //

Usage X······· o······· X·······

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

San Diego Padres Batters (4.00 RS/G) vs. Houston Astros Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 41.Backe
G/S/vB 58.Borkowski
G/S/vB 26.Brocail
G/S/vB 32.Chacon
G/S/vB 29.Geary
G/S/vB 38.Moehler
G/S/vB 44.Oswalt
G/S/vB 51.Rodriguez*
G/S/vB 43.Sampson
G/S/vB 47.Valverde
G/S/vB 56.Villarreal
G/S/vB 53.Wright*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

28.Bard# G/S/vP 5/.400 3/.333 ··· 4/1.000 1/2.000 6/.750 3/1.667 3/.667 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 443/ .285/.364/.404/.768 / .685 46/.958 0/1 5/3

8.Barrett G/S/vP 11/1.000 6/.167 1/.000 13/.802 1/2.000 3/1.334 36/.948 11/.455 5/.650 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 367/ .244/.281/.372/.653 / .720 7/.571 2/2 9/6

7.Clark# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.000 3/.000 2/.000 4/1.000 5/.600 3/.333 3/.000 ··· 3/2.334 ··· 245/ .249/.310/.511/.822 / 1.014 24/1.036 0/0 17/2

33.Gerut* G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· / /// / / / /

24.Giles* G/S/vP 10/.900 6/2.333 5/.400 17/.886 1/.000 19/1.099 52/.768 7/.762 ··· 12/.350 5/1.400 1/.000 552/ .271/.361/.416/.777 / .665 56/.755 4/6 13/5

23.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 6/1.000 5/.600 ··· 3/.333 3/1.334 7/1.428 8/1.000 3/.666 ··· 6/.000 5/.933 ··· 720/ .282/.347/.502/.849 / .760 53/1.070 0/0 30/10

3.Greene G/S/vP 5/.650 6/.933 ··· 9/1.444 3/.666 7/.715 13/.308 5/.600 ··· 9/.111 8/.625 ··· 659/ .254/.291/.468/.759 / .670 53/.745 4/0 27/11

12.Hairston G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 2/.500 11/.091 3/2.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 294/ .243/.313/.452/.765 / .858 42/.678 2/0 11/3

26.Huber G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/ .100/.100/.100/.200 / .333 5/.400 0/0 0/0

10.Iguchi G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 8/1.500 1/.000 1/2.000 6/1.300 3/.000 4/2.417 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 533/ .267/.347/.400/.747 / .786 3/.000 14/2 9/6

5.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.500 ··· 6/.533 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 534/ .275/.329/.457/.786 / .743 53/.853 1/0 18/22

18.McAnulty* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/ .200/.256/.300/.556 / .944 / 0/0 1/0

IP 28.2 71.2 76.2 96.0 67.1 59.2 212.0 182.2 121.2 64.1 76.1 TOTAL /// / / /0

ERA-K/9

3.77/3.4

5.15/7.9

3.05/5.0

3.94/7.4

4.41/5.1

4.07/5.4

3.18/6.5

4.58/7.8

4.59/3.8

2.66/10.9

4.24/6.8

/0.0

0.00/0.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bard (121-10-3)
Barrett (72-14-12)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 123/.248 325/.273 319/.228 428/.265 296/.283 257/.282 910/.265 782/.254 522/.292 265/.196 336/.260 / Hairston
Giles
McAnulty
Huber 78/3/0/4
0/1/120/2
4/0/5/0
3/0/0/0

OPS .747 .796 .652 .771 .797 .757 .708 .743 .819 .611 .722

vs LHB (BF-OPS) / / / / / / / / / / / /

vs RHB (BF-OPS) / / / / / / / / / / / /

Road 53/.805 141/.886 179/.527 221/.863 151/.638 116/.715 426/.807 403/.840 293/.845 119/.582 166/.724 /

Last 28d days 47/.556 13/.077 25/1.127 / 18/.801 17/.529 31/.590 28/.593 / 9/.222 5/.650 /

HR/SB/CS 4/0/1 8/2/0 8/3/0 9/7/4 8/2/2 8/3/0 14/5/1 22/13/9 20/3/1 7/4/2 6/3/0 // //

Usage X······· o······· X······· X······· o·······

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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Game Preview: HOU @ SDP, 10:05pm, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 @Petco Park

SP: Brandon Backe (30, RHP, 0-0, undef)

SP: Chris Young (29, RHP, 0-0, undef)

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