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Game Preview: HOU @ TOR, 7:07pm, Friday, May 20, 2011 @Rogers Centre

Astros, 15-29, 15-29 6th, 10½ GB, 10 GB in WC

SP: Aneury Rodriguez (23, RHP, 0-2, 6.26)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (0-2) 23.0 23 21 16 10 15 5 6.26
Last 7 GS 0-2 15.0 14 12 10 6 8 3 6.00 44
2011-05-15 NYM L 5.0 5 7 5 4 2 1 91 31
2011-05-09 CIN L 5.0 8 5 5 1 3 2 81 33
2011-05-04 @CIN ND 5.0 1 0 0 1 3 0 83 67
Has never faced TOR as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-13   Road:    6-16   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   9-22   vsLHP:   6-7    1-Run:   7-7 
 vsEast:  4-10   vsCntrl: 9-17   vsWest:  2-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 44 Thu, May 19  @STL  L   2-4       15-29  6th 10.5 gb
 43 Wed, May 18  @STL  L   1-5       15-28  6th 10.0 gb
 42 Tue, May 17  @ATL  L   1-3 (11)  15-27  6th 10.0 gb
 41 Mon, May 16  @ATL  L   2-3       15-26  6th  9.0 gb
 40 Sun, May 15   NYM  L   4-7       15-25  6th  8.0 gb
 39 Sat, May 14   NYM  W   7-3       15-24  6th  7.0 gb
 38 Fri, May 13   NYM  L   4-6       14-24  6th  7.5 gb
 37 Wed, May 11   CIN  W   4-3       14-23  6th  7.0 gb
 36 Tue, May 10   CIN  L   3-7       13-23  6th  8.0 gb
 35 Mon, May  9   CIN  L   1-6       13-22  6th  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:11-19
Blue Jays, 22-21, 22-21 4th, 2½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Jo-Jo Reyes (26, LHP, 0-3, 4.75)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (0-3) 41.2 55 31 22 12 30 3 4.75
2010 (0-0) 3.1 10 9 9 3 2 2 24.30
2009 (0-2) 27.0 27 25 21 13 21 4 7.00
Last 7 GS 0-3 38.1 46 26 17 11 27 3 3.99 47
2011-05-14 @MIN ND 5.2 10 3 2 1 6 1 107 44
2011-05-08 DET L 7.0 8 5 5 1 1 1 81 41
2011-05-03 @TBR ND 6.0 4 1 1 1 4 0 92 63
2011-04-27 @TEX ND 2.2 5 6 0 1 1 0 53 36
2011-04-22 TBR ND 7.0 6 4 4 1 6 0 100 54
2011-04-16 @BOS L 3.0 7 4 4 5 3 1 94 27
2011-04-10 @LAA L 7.0 6 3 1 1 6 0 119 62
Last 5 v.HOU 1-1 19.1 23 15 14 12 9 2 6.52 39
2009-05-03 HOU ND 5.1 6 4 4 3 3 0 77 40
2008-07-05 HOU L 4.1 6 4 4 3 2 0 86 34
2007-09-28 @HOU W 6.2 7 2 2 2 3 0 106 53
2007-08-02 HOU ND 3.0 4 5 4 4 1 2 70 30
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-9    Road:   12-12   ExtrInn: 5-1 
 vsRHP:  15-17   vsLHP:   7-4    1-Run:   7-9 
 vsEast:  8-11   vsCntrl: 7-4    vsWest:  7-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 43 Thu, May 19   TBR  W   3-2       22-21  4th  2.5 gb
 42 Wed, May 18   TBR  L   5-6       21-21  4th  3.5 gb
 41 Mon, May 16  @DET  W   4-2       21-20  2nd  3.0 gb
 40 Sun, May 15  @MIN  W  11-3       20-20  3rd  3.0 gb
 39 Sat, May 14  @MIN  W   9-3 (11)  19-20  3rd  4.0 gb
 38 Fri, May 13  @MIN  W   2-0       18-20  3rd  5.0 gb
 37 Wed, May 11   BOS  W   9-3       17-20  3rd  4.5 gb
 36 Tue, May 10   BOS  W   7-6 (10)  16-20  4th  5.5 gb
 35 Mon, May  9   DET  L   5-10      15-20  4th  5.5 gb
 34 Sun, May  8   DET  L   2-5       15-19  4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 12, 2005 HOU  3  TOR  0        W:Roy Oswalt (7-7), L: Josh Towers (5-5), S: none
Sat, Jun 11, 2005 HOU  6  TOR  3        W:Brad Lidge (2-2), L: Scott Schoeneweis (2-2), S: none
Fri, Jun 10, 2005 HOU  4  TOR  2        W:Wandy Rodriguez (2-2), L: Ted Lilly (3-7), S: Brad Lidge (16)
Season Series: 2011 -  0-0; 2010 -  0-0; 2009 -  0-0; All-Time - HOU leads 3-0

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 2011 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  5.19

ATL  4.09

MIN  3.29

 RA/G

ATL  3.17

TEX  4.16

MIN  5.21

 BA

J. Votto  .340

  

D. Uggla  .193

 OBP

J. Votto  .466

  

C. Young  .264

 SLG

R. Braun  .579

  

J. Pierre  .282

 OPS

J. Votto  1.008

  

J. Pierre  .596

 ERA

J. Johnson  1.64

D. Price  3.59

R. Dempster  6.91

 K/9IP

M. Garza  10.99

J. Litsch  7.00

C. Pavano  3.31

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

Astros Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.28 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Reyes*
G/S/vB		 57.Camp
G/S/vB		 29.Dotel
G/S/vB		 50.Francisco
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
G/S/vB		 44.Janssen
G/S/vB		 60.Rauch
G/S/vB		 34.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Barmes G/S/vP 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 1/.000 4/.750 ··· 4/1.000 70/51 .200/.314/.333/.648 .273/.785 .730 70/.648 0/0 1/1
19.Bogusevic* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/19 .313/.450/.313/.763 /.734 .857 20/.763 1/0 0/0
21.Bourn* G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 3/1.333 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 11/.573 189/138 .260/.330/.343/.673 .494/.738 .614 108/.548 14/1 0/0
16.Downs G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/44 .286/.345/.571/.917 .473/1.030 .600 26/.983 0/0 3/2
22.Hall G/S/vP 6/.334 3/.000 5/.000 2/.000 7/.143 6/.567 5/.000 ··· ··· 140/106 .225/.279/.341/.620 .802/.562 .527 73/.654 0/1 2/2
23.Johnson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 144/111 .206/.250/.360/.610 .438/.661 .578 75/.643 0/1 4/6
45.Lee G/S/vP 11/.955 8/.625 8/1.232 4/.750 1/no AB ··· 5/1.000 ··· 20/.929 168/130 .245/.274/.390/.664 .925/.587 .707 84/.716 1/0 4/3
4.Michaels G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 5/.000 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 6/.833 ··· 7/.953 27/15 .160/.222/.240/.462 .788/.205 .000 10/.600 0/0 0/0
9.Pence G/S/vP 8/.804 ··· 2/.000 3/.667 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 19/.790 194/146 .285/.335/.447/.782 .798/.777 .714 107/.781 2/0 5/3
55.Quintero G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 104/90 .258/.291/.340/.631 .968/.584 .603 56/.510 1/0 0/4
36.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 145/108 .260/.314/.323/.637 .656/.629 .581 57/.571 1/0 1/6
46.Towles G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 67/40 .224/.328/.379/.708 .731/.693 .751 39/.462 0/0 2/1
29.Wallace* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 162/130 .303/.379/.444/.823 .588/.882 .617 87/.839 1/0 3/2
IP 41.2 21.0 11.2 11.0 17.2 17.2 16.2 19.2 24.1 TOTAL .256/.312/.375/.688 .683/.689 .630 .675 33/5 25/38
ERA-K/9 4.75/6.5 2.14/4.7 6.17/12.3 3.27/9.8 1.53/9.7 1.53/6.1 2.70/4.9 2.75/8.2 1.48/7.8 3.80/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Quintero (22-9-1)
 Towles (16-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 195/.314 83/.260 59/.239 46/.154 73/.200 72/.215 64/.169 74/.179 87/.132 .240  Pence
 Lee
 Michaels
 Bourn
 Bogusevic
0/0/44/4
34/0/0/4
5/0/0/1
0/41/0/1
5/0/0/0
OPS .823 .707 .853 .667 .642 .538 .607 .496 .454 .706
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 45/.751 44/.947 27/1.427 30/.825 35/.487 42/.394 37/.641 40/.393 41/.583 .766
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 150/.841 39/.433 32/.460 16/.392 38/.783 30/.746 27/.556 34/.608 46/.342 .651
Home 78/.851 37/.659 16/.837 23/.804 43/.849 44/.671 30/.431 33/.628 48/.573
Last 28d days 97/.751 44/.795 36/.881 41/.583 34/.594 48/.482 29/.565 40/.583 51/.491
HR/SB/CS 3/5/1 1/1/1 3/0/0 3/4/0 2/5/0 0/1/2 3/0/0 1/0/1 2/2/0 42/31/11
Usage ·····X·· ····Xo·· ····Xo·· o··X··o· ·X···o·· ·o···o·· ·····X·· X··o·o·· ·X··X···
Blue Jays Batters (4.58 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.18 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 66.Del Rosario
G/S/vB		 52.Escalona*
G/S/vB		 47.Fulchino
G/S/vB		 59.Lopez
G/S/vB		 54.Melancon
G/S/vB		 43.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 128/96 .235/.305/.496/.800 1.147/.687 .899 73/.734 0/0 7/2
19.Bautista G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 163/133 .360/.509/.816/1.325 1.612/1.263 1.526 88/1.489 4/1 16/2
11.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 102/80 .250/.294/.323/.617 .718/.590 .742 70/.748 12/4 0/1
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 133/102 .244/.271/.339/.609 .427/.665 .614 73/.504 1/0 0/10
5.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 181/140 .279/.358/.383/.741 .939/.683 .801 106/.663 1/1 3/3
2.Hill G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 114/95 .231/.272/.298/.570 .433/.598 .458 46/.592 7/0 0/0
6.McDonald G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 107/82 .211/.276/.326/.603 .667/.584 .685 71/.494 1/2 2/0
8.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 54/42 .292/.358/.458/.817 1.667/.566 .899 28/.667 0/0 1/0
28.Nix G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 61/51 .212/.328/.365/.693 1.457/.563 .626 7/.000 3/0 2/3
16.Patterson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 141/103 .280/.314/.447/.761 .878/.718 .729 96/.815 6/4 2/0
20.Rivera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 150/119 .214/.307/.305/.612 .699/.589 .576 99/.731 2/2 3/0
IP 23.0 16.2 2.0 19.0 14.0 20.2 TOTAL .254/.327/.411/.737 .841/.707 .770 .752 45/16 46/31
ERA-K/9 6.26/5.9 4.32/4.3 4.50/9.0 3.79/8.5 3.21/6.4 2.18/6.1 /0.0 4.86/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (19-7-3)
 Molina (12-4-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 103/.258 77/.328 7/.200 84/.247 61/.241 84/.234 / .282  Bautista
 Rivera
 Patterson
 Nix
 Davis
0/0/34/3
13/0/4/2
10/23/0/1
1/0/0/0
0/18/6/0
OPS .831 .811 .629 .768 .601 .588 .790
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 40/.664 25/.909 3/.667 39/.717 16/.842 31/.600 / .852
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 63/.935 52/.764 4/.500 45/.808 45/.510 53/.582 / .760
Road 39/.627 40/.897 3/.667 43/.688 26/.258 41/.652 /
Last 28d days 72/.802 31/.770 7/.629 42/.889 38/.438 38/.651 /
HR/SB/CS 5/5/0 1/3/1 0/0/0 3/2/0 0/1/0 1/2/0 // 48/38/10
Usage ·o··o··· ·o··o··· X·X···o· o··o·Xo· ··o··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.