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Game Preview: HOU @ ATL, 6:05pm, Monday, March 24, 2014 @Turner Field

Astros, 51-111, 51-111

SP: Dallas Keuchel (25, LHP, 6-10, 5.15)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (6-10) 153.2 184 96 88 52 123 20 5.15
2012 (3-8) 85.1 93 56 50 39 38 14 5.27
Last 7 GS 1-3 39.2 49 26 25 16 35 3 5.67 44
2013-09-25 @TEX L 5.2 6 7 6 3 5 1 97 33
2013-09-19 @CLE ND 7.0 7 1 1 1 7 0 112 65
2013-09-13 LAA W 5.2 10 6 6 2 9 1 105 32
2013-09-06 @OAK L 3.1 10 5 5 2 3 0 95 21
2013-08-31 SEA L 7.0 4 3 3 2 8 0 109 63
2013-08-25 TOR ND 7.0 4 0 0 3 2 0 105 68
2013-08-17 @LAA ND 4.0 8 4 4 3 1 1 86 28
Has never faced ATL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-57   Road:   27-54   ExtrInn: 4-8 
 vsRHP:  38-78   vsLHP:  13-33   1-Run:  18-36
 vsEast:  9-24   vsCntrl: 9-24   vsWest: 25-51 IL: 8-12

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29   NYY  L   1-5 (14)  51-111 5th 45.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 28   NYY  L   1-2       51-110 5th 44.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 27   NYY  L   2-3       51-109 5th 44.0 gb
159 Wed, Sep 25  @TEX  L   3-7       51-108 5th 43.0 gb
158 Tue, Sep 24  @TEX  L   2-3       51-107 5th 43.0 gb
157 Mon, Sep 23  @TEX  L   0-12      51-106 5th 43.0 gb
156 Sun, Sep 22  @CLE  L   2-9       51-105 5th 42.0 gb
155 Sat, Sep 21  @CLE  L   1-4       51-104 5th 41.0 gb
154 Fri, Sep 20  @CLE  L   1-2  (7)  51-103 5th 40.0 gb
153 Thu, Sep 19  @CLE  L   1-2 (11)  51-102 5th 39.0 gb
 Last 10: 0-10   Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 7-23
Braves, 96-66, 96-66

SP: David Hale (25, RHP, 1-0, 0.82)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (1-0) 11.0 11 1 1 1 14 0 0.82
Last 7 GS 1-0 11.0 11 1 1 1 14 0 0.82 63
2013-09-26 PHI W 6.0 7 1 1 0 5 0 82 59
2013-09-13 SDP ND 5.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 87 67
Has never faced HOU as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   56-25   Road:   40-41   ExtrInn:12-5 
 vsRHP:  71-50   vsLHP:  25-16   1-Run:  27-20
 vsEast: 47-29   vsCntrl:19-14   vsWest: 19-14 IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29   PHI  W  12-5       96-66  1st 10.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28   PHI  L   4-5       95-66  1st  9.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27   PHI  W   1-0       95-65  1st 10.0 up
159 Thu, Sep 26   PHI  W   7-1       94-65  1st 10.0 up
158 Wed, Sep 25   MIL  L   0-4       93-65  1st  9.5 up
157 Tue, Sep 24   MIL  W   3-2       93-64  1st  9.5 up
156 Mon, Sep 23   MIL  L   0-5       92-64  1st  8.5 up
155 Sun, Sep 22  @CHC  W   5-2       92-63  1st  8.5 up
154 Sat, Sep 21  @CHC  L   1-3       91-63  1st  8.0 up
153 Fri, Sep 20  @CHC  W   9-5       91-62  1st  8.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 05, 2012 ATL  6  HOU  1        W:Jonny Venters (4-3), L: Bud Norris (5-9), S: none
Sat, Aug 04, 2012 HOU  3 @ATL  2        W:Lucas Harrell (9-7), L: Paul Maholm (9-7), S: Wilton Lopez (1)
Fri, Aug 03, 2012 ATL  4  HOU  1        W:Tim Hudson (11-4), L: Armando Galarraga (0-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (31)
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 ATL  6 @HOU  3        W:Randall Delgado (1-0), L: Wandy Rodriguez (0-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (2)
Tue, Apr 10, 2012 ATL  6 @HOU  4        W:Tommy Hanson (1-1), L: Kyle Weiland (0-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (1)
Mon, Apr 09, 2012 HOU  8  ATL  3        W:J.A. Happ (1-0), L: Brandon Beachy (0-1), S: none
Mon, Jun 13, 2011 HOU  8  ATL  3        W:Wandy Rodriguez (4-3), L: Derek Lowe (3-5), S: none
Sun, Jun 12, 2011 ATL  4 @HOU  1        W:Tommy Hanson (8-4), L: Brett Myers (2-6), S: Jonny Venters (3)
Sat, Jun 11, 2011 ATL  6 @HOU  3 (10)   W:Scott Linebrink (2-1), L: Brandon Lyon (3-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 10, 2011 ATL 11 @HOU  4        W:Tim Hudson (5-5), L: Aneury Rodriguez (0-4), S: none
Season Series: 2013 -  0-0; 2012 - ATL won 4-2; 2011 - ATL won 5-1; All-Time - ATL leads 379-321

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 2013 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 2012 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  4.99

MIN  4.33

HOU  3.60

 RA/G

TBR  3.56

LAA  4.31

COL  5.49

 BA

B. Posey  .336

A. Rodriguez  .272

C. Pena  .197

 OBP

J. Mauer  .416

A. Jones  .334

D. Stubbs  .277

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .606

H. Ramirez  .437

J. Weeks  .304

 OPS

M. Cabrera  .999

A. Pagan  .778

J. Weeks  .609

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.53

T. Cahill  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

U. Jimenez  7.28

H. Alvarez  3.80

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Astros Batters (3.77 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 57.Hale
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 48.Carpenter
G/S/vB		 53.Gearrin
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 30.Santana
G/S/vB		 49.Teheran
G/S/vB		 38.Varvaro
G/S/vB		 52.Walden
G/S/vB		 40.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 630/461 .290/.340/.399/.740 .911/.676 .754 / 33/11 7/11
23.Carter G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/1.133 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 260/151 .239/.350/.514/.864 .898/.837 .888 / 0/0 16/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 295/238 .257/.334/.401/.735 .361/.831 .668 / 0/0 6/6
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 85/66 .269/.310/.449/.758 .433/.855 .702 / 0/1 4/2
30.Dominguez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 113/88 .284/.310/.477/.787 .655/.824 .992 / 0/0 5/1
21.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 6/.200 2/2.000 2/1.500 ··· 6/1.167 2/.000 3/.333 3/.333 530/363 .300/.389/.474/.863 .857/.866 .720 / 12/5 13/6
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 219/164 .234/.280/.327/.607 .296/.713 .601 / 3/3 2/5
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
14.Guzman G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 321/179 .247/.319/.418/.737 .942/.580 .748 / 3/3 9/2
28.Hoes G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 / 0/0 0/0
18.Krauss* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
6.Villar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
IP 36.0 32.1 20.0 62.2 178.0 6.1 16.2 39.0 TOTAL .240/.299/.375/.674 .687/.669 .680 110/61 148/125
ERA-K/9 /0.0 2.00/8.2 8.07/8.6 1.80/9.0 1.01/16.7 5.16/6.7 5.68/7.1 5.40/11.3 3.46/11.1 /0.0 3.18/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (57-13-8)
 Corporan (14-7-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 142/.211 163/.357 80/.233 231/.126 764/.239 24/.217 76/.250 172/.229 / .244  Fowler
 Guzman
 Hoes
0/131/0/4
52/0/7/4
1/0/0/0
OPS .547 .953 .642 .358 .774 .467 .766 .674 .671
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 58/.528 65/1.123 32/.992 122/.331 419/.867 8/.250 39/.869 87/.606 / .671
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 84/.559 98/.842 48/.411 109/.387 345/.664 16/.579 37/.656 85/.743 / .671
Home / 68/.434 64/.938 50/.648 126/.379 363/.652 18/.513 53/.682 90/.635 /
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS // 1/2/0 5/3/0 1/1/0 3/8/1 39/16/2 0/0/0 2/0/0 3/5/2 // 127/79/32
Usage ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Braves Batters (4.25 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Keuchel*
G/S/vB		 37.Albers
G/S/vB		 45.Bass
G/S/vB		 66.Chapman*
G/S/vB		 48.Cosart
G/S/vB		 26.Crain
G/S/vB		 46.Feldman
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 64.Harrell
G/S/vB		 39.Oberholtzer*
G/S/vB		 41.Peacock
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 44.Valdes*
G/S/vB		 43.White
G/S/vB		 36.Williams
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Doumit# G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/no AB 3/.000 3/1.666 4/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 4/1.750 ··· ··· 5/.400 528/361 .275/.320/.461/.781 .690/.823 .771 / 0/0 18/5
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 4/1.250 6/.833 2/.500 ··· 620/363 .259/.340/.456/.796 .714/.855 .865 / 2/0 23/12
24.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· / /// / / / /
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 6/.533 8/.375 2/.000 ··· 651/394 .269/.335/.479/.814 .635/.934 .750 / 21/8 27/5
23.Johnson G/S/vP 3/.333 2/1.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 528/377 .281/.326/.451/.777 .672/.819 .810 / 5/1 15/19
11.Laird G/S/vP ··· 5/.200 ··· ··· ··· 6/.666 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.100 1/.000 ··· ··· 191/82 .282/.337/.374/.710 .622/.828 .695 / 0/0 2/4
1.Pastornicky G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 188/125 .243/.287/.325/.613 .536/.651 .598 / 2/0 2/7
14.Pena# G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .250/.250/.250/.500 .000/.667 .500 / 0/0 0/0
17.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3.000 ··· 9/.750 ··· 360/303 .211/.297/.294/.591 .356/.636 .649 / 27/9 4/2
19.Simmons G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.800 3/1.000 ··· ··· 182/117 .289/.335/.416/.751 .796/.726 .828 / 1/0 3/3
26.Uggla G/S/vP ··· 7/1.857 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 12/.697 4/.000 2/.000 4/1.750 630/420 .220/.348/.384/.732 .776/.710 .656 / 4/3 19/12
2.Upton G/S/vP ··· 20/.950 ··· ··· ··· 6/.666 19/.445 ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/.572 5/.200 ··· 6/.167 633/454 .246/.298/.454/.752 .792/.737 .814 / 31/6 28/3
8.Upton G/S/vP 5/.400 1/.000 5/.400 ··· ··· 1/.000 9/1.444 ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/.500 6/.750 5/2.000 ··· 628/439 .280/.355/.430/.785 .830/.766 .924 / 18/8 17/5
IP 85.1 60.1 97.0 48.0 123.2 193.2 52.1 31.0 98.0 137.2 TOTAL .249/.321/.402/.723 .701/.731 .753 64/31 181/85
ERA-K/9 5.27/4.0 2.39/6.6 4.73/7.4 /0.0 /0.0 2.44/11.2 5.09/7.0 /0.0 3.76/6.5 /0.0 /0.0 5.33/4.6 2.90/10.2 5.51/5.9 4.58/6.4 4.79/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (31-8-2)
 Laird (42-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 377/.286 241/.215 411/.243 / / 194/.171 536/.279 / 827/.253 / / 231/.297 113/.168 459/.288 572/.263 .272  Heyward
 Upton
 Upton
 Schafer
 Doumit
 Johnson
0/2/154/11
0/142/0/10
0/0/149/6
0/87/0/4
16/0/6/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .823 .642 .719 .561 .745 .685 .809 .467 .854 .743 .792
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 85/.750 101/.702 201/.756 / / 77/.717 294/.752 / 378/.713 / / 98/.988 49/.443 249/.833 296/.747 .804
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 292/.844 140/.600 210/.683 / / 117/.456 242/.736 / 449/.663 / / 133/.679 64/.484 210/.880 276/.738 .782
Road 128/1.115 109/.579 199/.774 / / 85/.468 254/.658 / 482/.712 / / 97/.706 44/.604 233/.805 279/.879
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 14/9/2 9/6/2 10/15/3 // // 5/6/2 14/20/3 // 13/18/5 // // 7/12/1 3/0/1 13/13/4 17/14/3 191/98/37
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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.