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Game Preview: MIL @ HOU, 2:05pm, Sunday, August 9, 2009 @Minute Maid Park

Brewers, 55-55, 3rd, 5 GB, 6 GB in WC

SP: Yovani Gallardo (23, RHP, 10-8, 3.59)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (10-8) 140.1 112 57 56 66 154 16 3.59
2008 (0-0) 24.0 22 5 5 8 20 3 1.88
2007 (9-5) 110.1 103 48 45 37 101 8 3.67
Last 7 GS 2-4 42.2 43 25 25 22 52 5 5.27 50
2009-08-04 @LAD L 5.1 10 9 9 2 7 1 97 17
2009-07-30 WSN W 7.0 5 3 3 1 11 1 116 65
2009-07-25 ATL W 7.1 4 0 0 4 6 0 118 72
2009-07-19 @CIN ND 6.0 7 3 3 4 7 0 113 49
2009-07-12 LAD L 5.0 6 5 5 4 3 1 93 34
2009-07-07 STL L 5.0 6 4 4 5 6 2 102 40
2009-07-01 NYM L 7.0 5 1 1 2 12 0 114 73
Last 5 v.HOU 3-1 29.0 25 8 8 7 20 2 2.48 61
2009-05-20 @HOU L 5.0 7 6 6 2 3 1 94 30
2009-04-24 @HOU W 9.0 5 2 2 0 7 1 106 76
2007-09-17 @HOU W 8.0 7 0 0 3 5 0 109 70
2007-09-05 HOU W 7.0 6 0 0 2 5 0 91 68
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   27-26   Road:   28-29   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  40-43   vsLHP:  15-12   1-Run:  15-16
 vsEast: 14-12   vsCntrl:27-20   vsWest:  9-13 IL: 5-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Sat, Aug  8  @HOU  W  12-5       55-55  3rd  5.0 gb
109 Fri, Aug  7  @HOU  L   3-6       54-55  3rd  5.0 gb
108 Wed, Aug  5  @LAD  W   4-1       54-54  3rd  4.0 gb
107 Tue, Aug  4  @LAD  L   4-17      53-54  3rd  5.0 gb
106 Mon, Aug  3  @LAD  W   6-5       53-53  3rd  4.0 gb
105 Sun, Aug  2  @SDP  W   6-1       52-53  3rd  4.5 gb
104 Sat, Aug  1  @SDP  L   2-4       51-53  3rd  5.5 gb
103 Fri, Jul 31  @SDP  L   7-11      51-52  3rd  4.5 gb
102 Thu, Jul 30   WSN  W   7-3       51-51  3rd  4.0 gb
101 Wed, Jul 29   WSN  W   7-5       50-51  4th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
Astros, 54-56, 4th, 6 GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Wandy Rodriguez (30, LHP, 10-6, 2.63)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (10-6) 136.2 122 47 40 44 128 15 2.63
2008 (9-7) 137.1 136 65 54 44 131 14 3.54
2007 (9-13) 182.2 179 102 93 62 158 22 4.58
Last 7 GS 4-0 46.0 37 8 8 11 41 5 1.57 64
2009-08-01 @STL ND 4.0 3 1 1 0 4 1 53 56
2009-07-27 @CHC ND 7.0 6 1 1 2 7 1 101 66
2009-07-21 STL W 7.0 4 1 1 0 5 1 104 70
2009-07-16 @LAD W 6.0 5 0 0 2 6 0 108 66
2009-07-08 PIT W 9.0 5 0 0 1 11 0 125 87
2009-07-02 @SDP W 7.0 7 1 1 2 5 0 108 62
2009-06-26 DET ND 6.0 7 4 4 4 3 2 106 41
Last 5 v.MIL 2-2 30.1 25 12 11 16 27 2 3.26 55
2009-05-20 MIL W 7.0 6 1 1 1 5 1 110 65
2008-08-20 @MIL L 5.1 3 3 2 5 6 0 102 53
2008-07-25 @MIL W 6.0 3 1 1 3 7 0 100 66
2007-08-11 MIL ND 7.0 6 1 1 3 4 0 102 62
2007-06-26 @MIL L 5.0 7 6 6 4 5 1 92 30
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   30-28   Road:   24-28   ExtrInn: 3-6 
 vsRHP:  43-42   vsLHP:  11-14   1-Run:  17-14
 vsEast:  6-6    vsCntrl:23-30   vsWest: 19-11 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
110 Sat, Aug  8   MIL  L   5-12      54-56  4th  6.0 gb
109 Fri, Aug  7   MIL  W   6-3       54-55  3rd  5.0 gb
108 Wed, Aug  5   SFG  L   6-10      53-55  4th  5.0 gb
107 Tue, Aug  4   SFG  L   1-8       53-54  3rd  5.0 gb
106 Mon, Aug  3   SFG  W   4-3       53-53  3rd  4.0 gb
105 Sun, Aug  2  @STL  W   2-0       52-53  3rd  4.5 gb
104 Sat, Aug  1  @STL  L   1-3       51-53  3rd  5.5 gb
103 Fri, Jul 31  @STL  L   3-4       51-52  3rd  4.5 gb
102 Thu, Jul 30  @CHC  L   3-12      51-51  3rd  4.0 gb
101 Wed, Jul 29  @CHC  L   0-12      51-50  3rd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:16-14
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 07, 2009 HOU  6  MIL  3        W:Bud Norris (2-0), L: Carlos Villanueva (2-9), S: Jose Valverde (14)
Thu, May 21, 2009 MIL  4 @HOU  3        W:Seth McClung (1-1), L: Jeff Fulchino (0-1), S: Trevor Hoffman (11)
Wed, May 20, 2009 HOU  6  MIL  4        W:Wandy Rodriguez (5-2), L: Yovani Gallardo (4-2), S: Chris Sampson (2)
Tue, May 19, 2009 MIL  4 @HOU  2        W:David Bush (3-0), L: Russ Ortiz (2-2), S: Trevor Hoffman (10)
Sun, Apr 26, 2009 HOU  3  MIL  2        W:Russ Ortiz (2-0), L: Manny Parra (0-4), S: Jose Valverde (2)
Sat, Apr 25, 2009 MIL  9 @HOU  8 (11)   W:Mark DiFelice (1-0), L: Geoff Geary (0-3), S: none
Fri, Apr 24, 2009 MIL  5 @HOU  2        W:Yovani Gallardo (2-1), L: Felipe Paulino  (0-1), S: none

Wed, Aug 20, 2008 MIL  5  HOU  2        W:Manny Parra (10-6), L: Wandy Rodriguez (7-6), S: Salomon Torres (24)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 HOU  5 @MIL  2        W:Brian Moehler (9-4), L: Ben Sheets (11-7), S: Jose Valverde (32)
Mon, Aug 18, 2008 MIL  9  HOU  3        W:C.C. Sabathia (14-8), L: Randy Wolf (8-11), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - MIL leads 5-3; 2008 - MIL won 8-7; 2007 - MIL won 13-5; All-Time - HOU leads 104-78

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

LAA  5.71

WSN  4.57

SDP  3.77

RA/G

SFG  3.70

NYM  4.63

WSN  5.48

BA

I. Suzuki  .365

C. Blake  .291

A. Casilla  .163

OBP

A. Pujols  .447

J. Bautista  .364

R. Cedeno  .227

SLG

A. Pujols  .686

I. Stewart  .479

A. Casilla  .200

OPS

A. Pujols  1.133

S. Rolen  .839

A. Casilla  .456

ERA

T. Lincecum  2.20

M. Buehrle  3.89

T. Wellemeyer  5.67

K/9IP

T. Lincecum  10.89

R. Wolf  6.73

N. Blackburn  3.72

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Brewers Batters (4.72 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.72 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Rodriguez*
G/S/vB
50.Arias
G/S/vB
48.Byrdak*
G/S/vB
39.Fulchino
G/S/vB
11.Hampton*
G/S/vB
38.Moehler
G/S/vB
20.Norris
G/S/vB
44.Oswalt
G/S/vB
52.Paulino
G/S/vB
43.Sampson
G/S/vB
47.Valverde
G/S/vB
53.Wright*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
8.Braun G/S/vP 12/.969 2/.000 2/.500 3/.333 5/1.550 10/.733 3/1.000 13/1.720 6/1.300 10/.700 4/.500 1/.000 465/373 .320/.391/.570/.961 1.223/.898 1.008 94/1.058 9/4 22/2
25.Cameron G/S/vP 13/.975 1/2.000 1/no AB 3/.000 38/.885 38/.802 3/.667 28/.765 3/1.667 7/.953 12/.705 2/.000 426/323 .251/.362/.447/.808 .732/.826 .803 88/.694 6/3 15/3
27.Catalanotto* G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 5/.250 1/.000 ··· 9/1.413 3/.000 20/.600 ··· 4/.500 1/3.000 ··· 82/73 .264/.329/.347/.676 .222/.737 .390 31/.624 2/0 1/1
30.Counsell* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/.333 ··· 29/.727 17/.494 3/.667 29/.667 2/1.500 10/.733 7/.500 3/1.334 340/309 .293/.368/.424/.792 .550/.817 .819 88/.876 3/3 4/4
28.Fielder* G/S/vP 24/.708 1/.000 6/.533 2/.000 5/1.600 12/1.694 3/.333 32/.317 6/.900 10/.875 6/1.500 6/.000 479/347 .300/.418/.574/.992 1.007/.984 1.053 96/.755 2/2 27/6
22.Gerut* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 176/155 .202/.239/.325/.564 .738/.539 .747 13/.930 4/1 4/1
2.Hall G/S/vP 34/.604 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 9/1.333 9/.111 ··· 48/.875 4/1.250 13/.641 7/.429 3/.666 222/145 .197/.261/.330/.591 .662/.553 .462 18/.590 1/0 5/4
7.Hardy G/S/vP 22/.968 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 5/.650 10/1.225 3/.666 24/.668 5/1.200 8/1.000 7/.286 1/3.000 406/323 .227/.296/.365/.661 .514/.694 .607 71/.568 0/1 11/6
9.Iribarren* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/3 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 2/.000 0/0 0/0
18.Kendall G/S/vP 8/.250 ··· 2/2.500 2/1.000 44/.817 14/1.632 2/2.500 48/.893 3/.666 11/1.355 4/.000 3/.000 372/302 .232/.316/.282/.598 .554/.608 .590 77/.603 2/1 1/5
3.Lopez# G/S/vP 14/.297 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 6/.900 12/.697 3/.000 31/.702 ··· 9/.666 4/.583 1/.000 454/355 .303/.362/.405/.767 .706/.785 .669 89/.752 6/4 6/11
14.McGehee G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 209/150 .314/.364/.524/.887 .953/.861 .900 50/.779 0/0 9/7
11.Rivera G/S/vP 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 5/.000 5/1.100 ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 68/51 .203/.294/.271/.565 .435/.609 .548 14/.286 1/0 0/0
IP 136.2 41.2 40.0 52.2 107.0 103.1 16.0 137.0 59.1 52.2 32.0 31.0 TOTAL .257/.338/.420/.757 .763/.756 .749 .743 40/22 120/71
ERA-K/9 2.63/8.4 2.59/7.8 3.83/8.8 3.42/6.5 5.30/6.0 5.23/5.9 1.69/9.0 3.61/7.0 7.28/8.0 3.93/5.6 2.81/9.8 5.81/9.6 4.37/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 557/.242 179/.230 164/.196 213/.226 460/.293 459/.294 65/.148 558/.249 282/.340 228/.271 129/.217 127/.313 .270
OPS .693 .639 .681 .649 .818 .845 .518 .706 .962 .731 .680 .904 .778
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 114/.577 73/.675 73/.773 97/.562 105/.719 241/.684 27/.350 266/.738 117/1.216 110/.734 58/.886 43/.737 .767
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 443/.723 106/.614 91/.608 116/.717 355/.848 218/1.019 38/.633 292/.676 165/.786 118/.729 71/.513 84/.989 .786
Home 267/.642 101/.704 77/.721 110/.597 245/.837 259/.864 25/.670 268/.787 177/.849 121/.586 72/.696 65/.870
Last 28d days 93/.622 64/.859 29/.658 47/.485 103/.993 134/.784 65/.518 63/.517 24/1.022 28/1.069 47/.636 43/1.062
HR/SB/CS 15/1/1 1/3/0 6/1/3 5/3/0 11/5/2 16/7/2 1/0/0 15/2/1 13/1/0 2/0/0 5/3/3 7/4/0 124/44/18
Usage ·······X X··o·X·· Xo·oX··· ·X·o···X X····X·· ···X···· ·X····X· ········ ·X·o·oo· ·o···XXX X···X·o·
Astros Batters (4.15 RS/G) vs. Brewers Pitchers (4.97 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Gallardo
G/S/vB
47.Burns
G/S/vB
60.Coffey
G/S/vB
43.Colome
G/S/vB
45.DiFelice
G/S/vB
51.Hoffman
G/S/vB
41.Looper
G/S/vB
26.Parra*
G/S/vB
52.Smith
G/S/vB
57.Stetter*
G/S/vB
50.Vargas
G/S/vB
12.Villanueva
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Blum# G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· 3/1.000 1/2.000 1/.000 4/.500 21/1.033 5/1.200 ··· ··· 13/.077 6/1.000 297/272 .270/.340/.384/.724 .985/.700 .843 75/.740 0/1 6/2
21.Bourn* G/S/vP 7/.900 ··· 3/.666 4/1.500 ··· 3/.666 6/.334 12/.909 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 8/.536 457/362 .286/.360/.405/.765 .712/.779 .730 85/.718 39/10 3/2
41.Coste G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 6/.533 ··· 2/.000 7/1.000 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 171/120 .233/.324/.353/.677 .714/.661 .849 51/.598 0/0 2/1
2.Erstad* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 4/.500 2/.500 8/.250 11/1.091 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 6/.500 105/95 .191/.260/.309/.568 .400/.587 .713 10/1.056 0/2 1/0
36.Kata# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 6/.666 ··· 49/43 .213/.224/.234/.459 .333/.476 .500 14/.571 1/0 0/0
28.Keppinger G/S/vP 7/.857 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 12/.666 9/.536 ··· 1/.000 4/.833 12/.586 242/163 .268/.343/.397/.740 .914/.652 .614 53/.641 0/2 3/4
45.Lee G/S/vP 12/.916 3/.000 13/.718 11/.788 1/.000 3/1.000 29/.455 15/1.667 ··· 1/.000 21/1.159 16/.938 445/351 .314/.362/.511/.873 1.004/.839 .977 92/1.041 3/2 19/2
3.Matsui# G/S/vP 11/.955 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 6/.500 12/1.167 13/.826 ··· 2/2.000 13/1.280 12/.166 334/263 .249/.302/.340/.643 .856/.589 .689 85/.681 12/3 5/4
4.Michaels G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/5.000 5/.800 11/.664 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 6/1.133 103/60 .211/.272/.421/.693 .656/.720 .780 21/1.095 1/1 3/0
9.Pence G/S/vP 13/.770 ··· 8/.250 1/.000 2/2.000 2/2.000 23/1.205 16/.517 ··· 2/2.500 9/.583 15/.600 445/356 .290/.355/.463/.818 .915/.792 .863 91/.719 10/8 14/3
55.Quintero G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.334 3/1.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 2/.000 101/81 .242/.287/.326/.613 .671/.599 .597 22/.753 0/0 1/5
77.Rodriguez G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.400 2/.000 3/.833 5/1.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· 5/1.400 7/.953 318/255 .244/.274/.383/.657 .785/.625 .630 62/.570 0/2 8/4
10.Tejada G/S/vP 6/1.333 2/.500 3/.000 17/.794 2/.000 2/.000 12/1.060 18/.778 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 10/1.600 468/367 .323/.353/.467/.820 .805/.823 .877 97/.763 3/2 10/14
IP 140.1 36.2 56.2 16.0 41.2 33.0 132.0 102.0 32.1 35.2 15.0 58.0 TOTAL .267/.328/.408/.736 .775/.725 .762 .740 75/35 93/63
ERA-K/9 3.59/9.9 5.89/6.6 2.22/7.8 7.88/6.8 2.81/8.4 1.91/7.4 4.84/5.0 6.26/7.6 3.62/6.1 3.28/9.8 3.00/6.6 6.05/7.1 4.84/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 593/.216 164/.318 223/.250 78/.362 171/.217 134/.227 578/.273 456/.298 133/.214 148/.172 54/.208 258/.273 .265
OPS .683 .940 .661 .952 .665 .548 .822 .839 .778 .596 .609 .815 .798
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 308/.624 78/.973 94/.858 36/1.117 51/.896 67/.751 279/.904 105/.774 63/.896 86/.505 25/1.080 137/.780 .826
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 285/.745 86/.911 129/.520 42/.813 120/.571 67/.357 299/.746 351/.857 70/.678 62/.727 29/.245 121/.856 .774
Road 281/.719 86/1.043 117/.595 34/.805 89/.744 53/.574 268/.870 254/.898 45/.689 70/.729 26/.694 144/.651
Last 28d days 134/.790 52/1.109 41/.392 3/1.333 40/1.042 30/.625 132/.822 117/.802 44/.958 33/.899 47/.631 81/.925
HR/SB/CS 16/13/2 8/0/0 3/2/1 1/4/0 6/1/0 0/1/0 27/4/3 10/6/2 8/0/0 4/1/1 1/1/0 10/3/0 147/57/17
Usage ····X··· o······X ···o··X· ·o······ ·o··X··o ···o·oX· ···X···· X····X·· X···X··· ····o·oo Xo····XX ·X····X·

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.