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Game Preview: TEX @ HOU, 8:05pm, Friday, May 22, 2009 @Minute Maid Park

Rangers, 23-17, 1st, 2 up

SP: Derek Holland (22, LHP, 1-1, 4.85)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-1) 13.0 13 7 7 6 6 2 4.85
Last 7 GS
Has never faced HOU.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-6    Road:    9-11   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  14-12   vsLHP:   9-5    1-Run:   9-6 
 vsEast:  5-5    vsCntrl: 8-10   vsWest: 10-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Thu, May 21  @DET  L   3-4       23-17  1st  2.0 up
 39 Wed, May 20  @DET  L   3-5       23-16  1st  3.0 up
 38 Tue, May 19  @DET  L   0-4       23-15  1st  3.0 up
 37 Sun, May 17   LAA  W   3-0       23-14  1st  4.5 up
 36 Sat, May 16   LAA  W   5-3       22-14  1st  3.5 up
 35 Fri, May 15   LAA  W  10-8       21-14  1st  2.5 up
 34 Thu, May 14   SEA  W   3-2       20-14  1st  1.5 up
 33 Wed, May 13   SEA  W   6-5 (11)  19-14  1st  1.5 up
 32 Tue, May 12   SEA  W   7-1       18-14  1st  1.5 up
 31 Sun, May 10  @CHW  W   7-1       17-14  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-11
Astros, 18-21, 5th, 7 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Felipe Paulino (25, RHP, 1-3, 6.93)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-3) 24.2 36 21 19 14 19 3 6.93
2007 (2-1) 19.0 22 15 15 7 11 5 7.11
Last 7 GS 2-4 36.2 41 24 22 13 23 4 5.40 45
2009-05-12 @COL L 4.0 7 8 7 4 2 2 96 16
2009-04-29 @CIN L 5.2 6 2 1 2 3 0 88 52
2009-04-24 MIL L 6.0 10 4 4 0 4 0 91 40
2009-04-19 CIN ND 6.0 3 0 0 2 6 0 97 70
2007-09-30 ATL W 6.0 2 0 0 3 3 0 78 68
2007-09-25 @CIN W 5.0 8 5 5 1 2 1 87 32
2007-09-18 MIL L 4.0 5 5 5 1 3 1 73 34
Has never faced TEX.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-12   Road:    9-9    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  14-17   vsLHP:   4-4    1-Run:   5-5 
 vsEast:  2-2    vsCntrl: 9-17   vsWest:  7-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Thu, May 21   MIL  L   3-4       18-21  5th  7.0 gb
 39 Wed, May 20   MIL  W   6-4       18-20  5th  6.0 gb
 38 Tue, May 19   MIL  L   2-4       17-20  5th  7.0 gb
 37 Sun, May 17  @CHC  W   6-5       17-19  5th  5.5 gb
 36 Sat, May 16  @CHC  L   4-5       16-19  5th  5.5 gb
 35 Thu, May 14  @COL  W   5-3       16-18  5th  4.5 gb
 34 Wed, May 13  @COL  W  15-11      15-18  5th  4.5 gb
 33 Tue, May 12  @COL  L   1-12      14-18  5th  5.5 gb
 32 Sun, May 10   SDP  W  12-5       14-17  5th  5.5 gb
 31 Sat, May  9   SDP  W   5-4       13-17  5th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-9    Last 30:15-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 26, 2008 HOU  7  TEX  2        W:Wandy Rodriguez (3-3), L: Kevin Millwood (5-4), S: none
Wed, Jun 25, 2008 TEX  3 @HOU  2        W:Luis Mendoza (1-2), L: Roy Oswalt (6-8), S: C.J. Wilson (16)
Tue, Jun 24, 2008 HOU  4  TEX  3        W:Brian Moehler (4-3), L: Eric Hurley (0-1), S: Jose Valverde (19)
Sun, May 18, 2008 HOU  5 @TEX  4        W:Brandon Backe (3-5), L: Kason Gabbard (1-1), S: Jose Valverde (12)
Sat, May 17, 2008 TEX  6  HOU  2        W:Vicente Padilla (6-2), L: Roy Oswalt (4-4), S: none
Fri, May 16, 2008 TEX 16  HOU  8        W:Jamey Wright (2-1), L: Wesley Wright (3-1), S: none
Sun, Jun 24, 2007 HOU 12 @TEX  9 (10)   W:Dan Wheeler (1-4), L: C.J. Wilson (0-1), S: Chad Qualls (2)
Sat, Jun 23, 2007 TEX  7  HOU  2        W:Jamey Wright (1-1), L: Roy Oswalt (7-5), S: none
Fri, Jun 22, 2007 TEX 11  HOU  3        W:Kevin Millwood (4-6), L: Woody Williams (3-10), S: none
Sun, May 20, 2007 TEX 14 @HOU  1        W:Brandon McCarthy (4-4), L: Woody Williams (1-6), S: none
Season Series: 2009 -  0-0; 2008 - Tied 3-3; 2007 - TEX won 4-2; All-Time - HOU leads 25-23

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 2009 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

PHI  5.74

LAA  4.85

SDP  3.71

 RA/G

LAD  3.76

SDP  4.78

WSN  6.37

 BA

V. Martinez  .400

  

G. Sizemore  .213

 OBP

V. Martinez  .474

  

G. Sizemore  .298

 SLG

J. Morneau  .629

  

E. Bonifacio  .320

 OPS

V. Martinez  1.098

  

E. Bonifacio  .623

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .82

K. Uehara  4.34

A. Eaton  8.56

 K/9IP

J. Verlander  12.31

B. McCarthy  6.60

M. Pelfrey  2.41

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

Rangers Batters (5.38 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Paulino
G/S/vB		 48.Byrdak*
G/S/vB		 39.Fulchino
G/S/vB		 22.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 43.Sampson
G/S/vB		 53.Wright*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 126/90 .270/.311/.417/.729 .900/.664 .553 78/.738 5/0 2/7
9.Blalock* G/S/vP ··· 6/.334 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 148/105 .237/.270/.525/.795 .448/.944 .836 87/.800 0/0 10/0
22.Byrd G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 140/90 .291/.314/.440/.755 .628/.822 .654 94/.669 2/0 2/0
17.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/116 .278/.325/.500/.825 .689/.873 .756 87/.697 6/0 8/3
19.Davis* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 149/104 .212/.275/.460/.735 .539/.819 .741 91/.792 0/0 10/0
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.666 2/3.000 99/70 .239/.293/.466/.759 .772/.753 .805 32/1.036 3/0 5/0
25.Jones G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 5/1.000 7/.000 ··· 85/41 .292/.447/.585/1.032 1.048/1.015 .760 60/.900 1/0 4/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/.000 1/no AB 189/132 .295/.367/.572/.939 1.362/.744 .562 114/.778 10/1 11/3
7.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 87/73 .233/.333/.370/.703 .143/.824 .813 61/.886 2/2 2/0
21.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 115/79 .252/.304/.383/.688 .677/.693 .587 67/.656 0/1 3/1
2.Teagarden G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/32 .216/.310/.243/.553 .733/.496 .829 25/.764 0/0 0/1
13.Vizquel# G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 ··· 25/.708 8/.750 ··· 43/29 .368/.415/.526/.941 1.071/.870 .708 28/.968 2/0 0/0
10.Young G/S/vP ··· 5/1.350 2/.500 6/.533 4/.000 1/2.000 171/123 .335/.374/.559/.933 .983/.914 .811 99/.895 3/1 7/3
IP 24.2 14.0 13.2 17.2 26.0 12.0 TOTAL .271/.329/.481/.810 .805/.812 .709 .790 34/5 64/21
ERA-K/9 6.93/6.9 3.21/6.4 5.27/4.6 2.55/8.1 2.08/3.5 7.50/9.8 4.66/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 123/.350 60/.212 55/.200 75/.246 106/.240 60/.389 .276
OPS .956 .704 .653 .663 .698 .969 .785
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 46/1.184 32/.946 18/.603 34/.603 48/.647 25/1.084 .803
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 77/.821 28/.423 37/.661 41/.713 58/.742 35/.887 .774
Home 59/.875 17/1.139 36/.461 43/.747 52/.543 23/.739
Last 28d days 73/1.162 39/.808 32/.634 41/.598 66/.670 35/.895
HR/SB/CS 3/1/0 3/1/1 2/0/0 1/2/2 1/0/0 2/0/0 41/13/6
Usage ········ o···o··· o·X····· o····o·X oo··Xo·o o····o··
Astros Batters (4.38 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Holland*
G/S/vB		 18.Guardado*
G/S/vB		 60.Madrigal
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 36.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
17.Berkman# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.000 161/118 .233/.379/.457/.836 .704/.887 .753 89/.901 0/2 8/3
27.Blum# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 132/122 .261/.333/.304/.638 1.000/.604 .727 79/.583 0/1 0/1
21.Bourn* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 162/135 .289/.365/.401/.766 .654/.789 .689 104/.789 13/3 1/1
2.Erstad* G/S/vP ··· 22/.318 ··· ··· 4/1.000 49/44 .159/.208/.227/.436 .000/.489 .493 33/.495 0/0 0/0
28.Keppinger G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/37 .293/.369/.448/.818 1.123/.581 .669 40/.539 0/0 1/0
45.Lee G/S/vP ··· 8/.375 ··· ··· 3/1.167 165/128 .322/.370/.550/.920 1.187/.844 .995 98/.970 1/1 8/0
3.Matsui# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 150/118 .233/.293/.316/.608 1.010/.513 .641 97/.598 6/3 1/2
4.Michaels G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 36/17 .200/.333/.333/.667 .806/.508 .836 15/.350 1/1 0/0
9.Pence G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 165/133 .347/.418/.535/.953 .777/.995 1.091 98/.989 5/2 5/0
55.Quintero G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/9 .133/.133/.200/.333 .500/.222 .000 7/.714 0/0 0/1
12.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 19/.887 ··· 2/.000 ··· 135/115 .274/.321/.476/.797 1.350/.692 .800 76/.949 0/2 5/0
31.Smith* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 27/25 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 8/.000 0/0 0/0
10.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 9/1.556 ··· ··· 6/.334 169/132 .327/.355/.484/.839 1.005/.793 .932 98/.864 1/1 4/6
IP 13.0 8.2 3.2 12.0 16.1 TOTAL .266/.333/.408/.741 .883/.703 .768 .764 27/16 34/18
ERA-K/9 4.85/4.2 6.23/4.1 9.82/4.9 1.50/9.0 3.86/5.5 4.56/5.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 56/.260 44/.342 18/.083 52/.261 75/.258 .262
OPS .819 1.024 .472 .677 .748 .761
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 20/.979 21/1.460 5/.400 14/.901 23/.522 .754
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 36/.725 23/.623 13/.496 38/.589 52/.839 .766
Road 30/.519 7/.452 16/.466 25/.876 35/1.026
Last 28d days 46/.873 20/.780 3/.000 33/.609 32/.576
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 48/17/8
Usage ······X· ····o··· ·o······ ····X·o· ·····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.