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Game Preview: HOU @ CIN, 7:10pm, Friday, April 27, 2012 @Great American Ball Park

Astros, 7-12, 7-12 5th, 5 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Wandy Rodriguez (33, LHP, 1-2, 1.42)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. CIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (1-2) 25.1 20 8 4 6 16 0 1.42
2011 (11-11) 191.0 182 81 74 69 166 25 3.49
2010 (11-12) 195.0 183 95 78 68 178 16 3.60
Last 7 GS 1-3 44.1 38 15 11 15 27 2 2.23 57
2012-04-22 LAD W 7.0 3 0 0 3 6 0 107 74
2012-04-17 @WSN L 7.0 5 1 1 0 3 0 87 66
2012-04-11 ATL L 5.0 6 4 3 1 5 0 82 45
2012-04-06 COL ND 6.1 6 3 0 2 2 0 97 55
2011-09-26 STL ND 6.1 8 2 2 3 2 0 102 48
2011-09-21 @CIN L 7.0 4 2 2 2 4 1 95 63
2011-09-16 @CHC ND 5.2 6 3 3 4 5 1 107 46
Last 5 v.CIN 0-2 31.0 24 15 14 15 29 5 4.06 55
2011-09-21 @CIN L 7.0 4 2 2 2 4 1 95 63
2011-08-02 CIN L 5.0 4 5 5 3 3 1 78 39
2011-05-11 CIN ND 7.0 10 3 3 0 4 2 114 49
2010-09-28 @CIN ND 6.0 3 2 1 4 8 0 108 64
2010-09-17 CIN ND 6.0 3 3 3 6 10 1 120 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-5    Road:    3-7    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:   6-8    vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   2-5 
 vsEast:  3-7    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  3-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 19 Wed, Apr 25  @MIL  W   7-5        7-12  5th  5.0 gb
 18 Tue, Apr 24  @MIL  L   6-9        6-12  5th  5.0 gb
 17 Mon, Apr 23  @MIL  L   5-6        6-11  5th  5.0 gb
 16 Sun, Apr 22   LAD  W  12-0        6-10  5th  5.0 gb
 15 Sat, Apr 21   LAD  L   1-5        5-10  5th  5.0 gb
 14 Fri, Apr 20   LAD  L   1-3        5-9   5th  5.0 gb
 13 Thu, Apr 19  @WSN  W  11-4        5-8   4th  4.0 gb
 12 Wed, Apr 18  @WSN  L   2-3        4-8   4th  5.0 gb
 11 Tue, Apr 17  @WSN  L   0-1        4-7   3rd  4.0 gb
 10 Mon, Apr 16  @WSN  L   3-6        4-6   2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-12   Last 30: 7-12
Reds, 9-10, 9-10 2nd, 3 GB, 3 GB in WC

SP: Mike Leake (24, RHP, 0-2, 6.50)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (0-2) 18.0 22 13 13 5 8 2 6.50
2011 (12-9) 167.2 159 74 72 38 118 23 3.86
2010 (8-4) 138.1 158 77 65 49 91 19 4.23
Last 7 GS 2-3 47.0 44 22 22 9 23 6 4.21 52
2012-04-21 @CHC L 5.2 10 5 5 1 3 0 82 31
2012-04-15 @WSN ND 6.1 5 5 5 3 1 0 95 41
2012-04-10 STL L 6.0 7 3 3 1 4 2 99 49
2011-09-13 CHC W 8.0 6 1 1 2 2 0 91 66
2011-09-06 @CHC ND 9.0 3 2 2 0 6 1 91 79
2011-09-01 PHI L 6.0 7 4 4 1 3 1 97 44
2011-08-27 WSN W 6.0 6 2 2 1 4 2 104 55
Last 5 v.HOU 2-2 29.0 29 14 14 11 20 3 4.34 50
2011-05-03 HOU L 3.2 7 7 7 1 5 1 72 23
2011-04-05 HOU W 6.0 3 2 2 2 4 0 94 60
2010-07-25 @HOU L 6.1 7 4 4 3 3 2 94 43
2010-05-30 HOU ND 6.0 7 0 0 3 3 0 97 58
2010-04-28 @HOU W 7.0 5 1 1 2 5 0 105 66
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-4    Road:    4-6    ExtrInn: 1-3 
 vsRHP:   5-7    vsLHP:   4-3    1-Run:   3-4 
 vsEast:  3-4    vsCntrl: 4-5    vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 19 Thu, Apr 26   SFG  L   5-6        9-10  2nd  3.0 gb
 18 Wed, Apr 25   SFG  W   4-2        9-9   2nd  2.5 gb
 17 Tue, Apr 24   SFG  W   9-2        8-9   3rd  2.5 gb
 16 Sun, Apr 22  @CHC  W   4-3        7-9   2nd  4.0 gb
 15 Sat, Apr 21  @CHC  L   1-6        6-9   4th  4.0 gb
 14 Fri, Apr 20  @CHC  W   9-4        6-8   2nd  4.0 gb
 13 Thu, Apr 19  @STL  W   6-3        5-8   4th  4.0 gb
 12 Wed, Apr 18  @STL  L   1-11       4-8   4th  5.0 gb
 11 Tue, Apr 17  @STL  L   1-2 (10)   4-7   3rd  4.0 gb
 10 Sun, Apr 15  @WSN  W   8-5 (11)   4-6   3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-10   Last 30: 9-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Sep 21, 2011 CIN  2  HOU  0        W:Bronson Arroyo (9-12), L: Wandy Rodriguez (11-11), S: none
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 CIN  6  HOU  4        W:Homer Bailey (9-7), L: Bud Norris (6-11), S: Francisco Cordero (34)
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 HOU  3 @CIN  2        W:David Carpenter (1-3), L: Nick Masset (3-6), S: Mark Melancon (19)
Wed, Aug 03, 2011 HOU  5  CIN  4        W:Jordan Lyles (1-6), L: Nick Masset (1-5), S: Mark Melancon (11)
Tue, Aug 02, 2011 CIN  5 @HOU  1        W:Homer Bailey (6-5), L: Wandy Rodriguez (7-8), S: none
Mon, Aug 01, 2011 HOU  4  CIN  3 (10)   W:Mark Melancon (6-3), L: Logan Ondrusek (4-4), S: none
Wed, May 11, 2011 HOU  4  CIN  3        W:Mark Melancon (3-1), L: Mike Leake (3-2), S: none
Tue, May 10, 2011 CIN  7 @HOU  3        W:Homer Bailey (2-0), L: Brett Myers (1-3), S: none
Mon, May 09, 2011 CIN  6 @HOU  1        W:Travis Wood (2-3), L: Aneury Rodriguez (0-1), S: none
Thu, May 05, 2011 CIN 10  HOU  4        W:Homer Bailey (1-0), L: Brett Myers (1-2), S: none
Season Series: 2012 -  0-0; 2011 - CIN won 9-6; 2010 - CIN won 10-5; All-Time - CIN leads 429-394

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 2012 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 2011 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.40

CLE  4.35

SEA  3.43

 RA/G

PHI  3.27

FLA  4.33

BAL  5.31

 BA

M. Cabrera  .344

A. Ramirez  .269

V. Wells  .218

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .448

J. Bruce  .341

V. Wells  .248

 SLG

J. Bautista  .608

C. Lee  .446

J. Bartlett  .307

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.056

Y. Escobar  .782

A. Rios  .613

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.28

R. Wolf  3.69

B. Penny  5.30

 K/9IP

Z. Greinke  10.54

G. Floyd  7.02

B. Penny  3.67

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2012 season. Player Stats for the 2011 season. We will switch to 2012 stats on May 1st.

Astros Batters (4.68 RS/G) vs. Reds Pitchers (4.16 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Leake
G/S/vB		 33.Arredondo
G/S/vB		 54.Chapman*
G/S/vB		 60.Hoover
G/S/vB		 63.LeCure
G/S/vB		 51.Marshall*
G/S/vB		 66.Ondrusek
G/S/vB		 31.Simon
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 234/174 .276/.297/.357/.654 .766/.618 .657 77/.979 7/3 2/2
19.Bogusevic* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB ··· 182/167 .287/.348/.457/.805 .421/.839 .799 70/.705 4/2 4/2
6.Buck* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 160/142 .228/.275/.342/.617 .300/.654 .574 25/.820 1/1 2/1
15.Castro* G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· / /// / 47/.668 / /
16.Downs G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 2/.000 4/.500 ··· 222/169 .276/.347/.518/.864 1.032/.812 .781 18/.748 0/0 10/6
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 40/.558 / /
23.Johnson G/S/vP 7/1.762 ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 3/1.334 4/1.500 ··· 405/302 .251/.291/.378/.670 .635/.681 .737 75/.636 2/2 7/15
45.Lee G/S/vP 12/.250 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/1.000 10/.733 3/1.167 ··· 653/498 .275/.342/.446/.788 1.028/.715 .779 86/.738 4/3 18/7
4.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 341/224 .252/.303/.382/.685 .876/.582 .593 57/.677 1/1 6/15
14.Martinez G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 1/2.000 ··· 226/169 .274/.319/.423/.742 1.119/.620 .728 81/.940 0/1 6/1
22.Maxwell G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 21/.707 / /
1.Schafer* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 338/256 .242/.309/.315/.624 .560/.645 .586 84/.715 22/4 2/2
18.Snyder G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 7/.715 4/1.167 ··· 119/84 .271/.376/.396/.772 .826/.750 .938 33/.380 0/1 3/0
IP 167.2 53.0 50.0 77.2 75.2 61.1 115.2 TOTAL .262/.338/.379/.717 .656/.764 .704 .717 15/4 11/13
ERA-K/9 3.86/6.3 3.23/8.2 3.60/12.8 /0.0 3.71/8.5 2.26/9.4 3.23/6.0 4.90/6.5 3.66/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Snyder (17-6-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 693/.250 226/.226 207/.147 / 307/.205 307/.234 268/.238 499/.284 .254  Lee
 Bogusevic
 Martinez
 Schafer
 Buck
 Wright
 Downs
80/0/0/10
13/0/40/9
51/0/1/5
0/79/0/1
25/1/14/0
0/0/1/0
0/0/3/0
OPS .714 .720 .534 .645 .566 .676 .834 .719
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 331/.743 92/.705 63/.392 / 116/.661 104/.503 94/.635 262/.808 .701
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 362/.688 134/.730 144/.598 / 191/.635 203/.599 174/.698 237/.862 .723
Home 400/.718 124/.619 98/.527 / 152/.717 152/.636 129/.701 273/.835
Last 28d days 78/.908 37/.539 41/.329 3/.333 40/.869 33/.830 36/.465 38/.837
HR/SB/CS 23/5/2 5/2/4 2/2/4 // 10/4/2 1/9/2 6/4/1 15/10/8 17/13/4
Usage ·····X·· ·oo···o· ·X··X·o· ·o······ ··X····· Xo··X··X X···oo·· ·····X··

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2012 season. Player Stats for the 2011 season. We will switch to 2012 stats on May 1st.

Reds Batters (3.74 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.26 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Rodriguez*
G/S/vB		 28.Carpenter
G/S/vB		 55.Cruz
G/S/vB		 59.Lopez
G/S/vB		 37.Lyon
G/S/vB		 39.Myers
G/S/vB		 43.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 53.Wright*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Bruce* G/S/vP 26/.076 1/no AB ··· 7/.286 3/1.000 18/.977 ··· 10/1.375 664/468 .256/.341/.474/.814 .804/.818 .842 77/.792 8/7 32/4
2.Cozart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/26 .324/.324/.486/.811 .667/.880 1.385 80/.760 0/0 2/0
21.Frazier G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 121/95 .232/.289/.438/.727 .985/.654 .644 10/1.278 1/0 6/2
29.Hanigan G/S/vP 13/.641 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 3/.666 12/.900 ··· 2/1.000 304/256 .267/.356/.357/.714 .871/.685 .646 45/.623 0/0 6/4
9.Harris* G/S/vP 3/2.667 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 19/.263 ··· 1/.000 283/241 .246/.351/.317/.668 .887/.631 .531 30/.306 5/4 2/1
28.Heisey G/S/vP 9/1.319 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 2/1.000 3/1.167 ··· 2/.000 308/242 .254/.309/.487/.797 .553/.865 .861 40/.581 6/1 18/3
48.Ludwick G/S/vP 35/.806 ··· ··· 3/.666 4/1.000 18/1.736 1/no AB ··· 558/417 .237/.310/.363/.674 .763/.644 .657 56/.764 1/1 13/2
39.Mesoraco G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/45 .180/.226/.360/.586 .625/.579 .911 31/.707 0/0 2/3
4.Phillips G/S/vP 51/.666 3/.666 ··· 5/2.300 9/1.112 31/.470 1/.000 8/1.768 675/518 .300/.353/.457/.810 .851/.798 .882 52/.690 14/9 18/6
27.Rolen G/S/vP 17/.710 ··· ··· 1/.000 9/1.556 21/1.326 ··· 3/.333 269/208 .242/.279/.397/.676 .769/.648 .782 67/.609 1/0 5/4
6.Stubbs G/S/vP 23/.620 ··· ··· 5/1.400 4/.500 13/.968 1/.000 3/2.334 681/547 .243/.321/.364/.686 .896/.636 .761 80/.668 40/10 15/3
15.Valdez G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 5/1.000 ··· ··· 300/197 .249/.294/.341/.634 .665/.618 .718 28/.491 3/3 1/9
19.Votto* G/S/vP 42/.832 2/.500 ··· 4/1.000 7/.572 23/.891 1/.000 6/.533 719/518 .309/.416/.531/.947 .987/.930 .874 86/.854 8/6 29/6
IP 191.0 27.2 71.0 13.1 216.0 52.1 12.0 TOTAL .237/.305/.369/.674 .674/.645 .756 .674 6/3 14/13
ERA-K/9 3.49/7.8 2.93/9.4 /0.0 2.79/7.1 11.48/4.1 4.46/6.7 3.96/9.8 1.50/8.2 3.96/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (34-18-2)
 Mesoraco (8-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 808/.251 125/.272 / 298/.264 71/.409 917/.267 231/.264 44/.154 .261  Bruce
 Ludwick
 Stubbs
 Heisey
 Frazier
 Harris
0/0/155/10
117/0/14/10
0/157/0/8
88/18/10/2
4/0/0/1
33/7/6/0
OPS .739 .809 .686 1.133 .751 .781 .583 .745
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 162/.628 54/.697 / 108/.804 25/2.071 404/.786 88/.755 30/.205 .725
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 646/.768 71/.889 / 190/.619 46/.628 513/.724 143/.796 14/1.352 .772
Road 458/.740 55/.977 / 143/.688 33/1.112 493/.727 105/.755 22/.282
Last 28d days 105/.513 40/.712 33/.589 42/.452 32/.989 19/.711 38/.724 20/.775
HR/SB/CS 25/20/3 3/1/0 // 6/1/2 4/2/0 31/15/6 6/7/1 1/2/0 21/15/4
Usage ····X··· ·X···Xoo ···X·X·· ·o·o·ooo ···Xo·o· ·oo····o ··X·o··· ·o·o··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.