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Game Preview: CLE @ HOU, 7:10pm, Saturday, April 20, 2013 @Minute Maid Park

Indians, 5-10, 5-10 5th, 3½ GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Scott Kazmir (29, LHP, 0-0, undef)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (0-0) 1.2 5 5 5 2 0 1 27.00
2010 (9-15) 150.0 158 103 99 79 93 25 5.94
2009 (10-9) 147.1 149 85 80 60 117 16 4.89
Last 7 GS 1-3 32.1 33 20 20 19 18 5 5.57 45
2011-04-03 @KCR ND 1.2 5 5 5 2 0 1 63 23
2010-09-30 @TEX ND 5.1 6 2 2 2 2 0 89 48
2010-09-25 CHW L 3.0 5 5 5 1 0 1 63 28
2010-09-19 @TBR W 5.0 6 1 1 2 4 1 103 53
2010-09-14 @CLE L 5.2 7 4 4 3 3 2 104 39
2010-09-08 CLE ND 6.0 2 1 1 3 6 0 88 67
2010-09-03 @OAK L 5.2 2 2 2 6 3 0 101 54
Last 5 v.HOU 0-1 5.2 4 3 3 2 7 2 4.76 54
2008-06-22 HOU L 5.2 4 3 3 2 7 2 106 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-6    Road:    3-4    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   2-5    vsLHP:   3-5    1-Run:   2-1 
 vsEast:  3-8    vsCntrl: 2-1    vsWest:  0-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 15 Fri, Apr 19  @HOU  L   2-3        5-10  5th  3.5 gb
 14 Thu, Apr 18   BOS  L   3-6        5-9   5th  3.5 gb
 13 Wed, Apr 17   BOS  L   3-6        5-8   5th  3.5 gb
 12 Tue, Apr 16   BOS  L   2-7        5-7   4th  2.5 gb
 11 Sun, Apr 14   CHW  L   1-3        5-6   3rd  1.5 gb
 10 Sat, Apr 13   CHW  W   9-4        5-5   3rd  0.5 gb
  9 Fri, Apr 12   CHW  W   1-0        4-5   3rd  1.5 gb
  8 Tue, Apr  9   NYY  L   1-14       3-5   5th  2.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr  8   NYY  L   6-11       3-4   5th  1.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr  7  @TBR  W  13-0        3-3   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 5-10   Last 30: 5-10
Astros, 5-11, 5-11 5th, 6½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Philip Humber (30, RHP, 0-3, 2.89)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (0-3) 18.2 17 6 6 4 8 1 2.89
2012 (5-5) 102.0 113 74 73 44 85 23 6.44
2011 (9-9) 163.0 151 71 68 41 116 14 3.75
Last 7 GS 2-4 39.1 44 21 21 11 16 8 4.81 46
2013-04-14 @LAA L 7.0 7 2 2 1 4 1 92 58
2013-04-08 @SEA L 6.0 5 3 3 1 2 0 86 51
2013-04-03 TEX L 5.2 5 1 1 2 2 0 85 55
2012-08-03 LAA ND 5.2 10 6 6 4 1 2 109 22
2012-07-28 @TEX W 6.0 4 1 1 2 4 1 100 62
2012-07-22 @DET L 3.0 7 6 6 1 0 4 57 20
2012-07-17 @BOS W 6.0 6 2 2 0 3 0 104 55
Last 5 v.CLE 0-2 21.2 31 20 20 10 21 4 8.31 39
2012-05-07 @CLE L 2.1 9 8 8 2 1 1 62 6
2012-05-02 CLE ND 6.0 4 3 3 6 6 1 107 52
2011-09-22 @CLE L 6.0 8 7 7 2 4 2 100 30
2011-09-10 CLE ND 6.0 7 2 2 0 7 0 73 57
2011-08-18 CLE ND 1.1 3 0 0 0 3 0 26 51
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-5    Road:    3-6    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   4-7    vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   1-2 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 1-0    vsWest:  4-11 IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 16 Fri, Apr 19   CLE  W   3-2        5-11  5th  6.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 17  @OAK  L   5-7        4-11  5th  7.5 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 16  @OAK  L   3-4        4-10  4th  6.5 gb
 13 Mon, Apr 15  @OAK  L   2-11       4-9   4th  5.5 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 14  @LAA  L   1-4        4-8   4th  4.5 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 13  @LAA  L   4-5        4-7   3rd  4.5 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 12  @LAA  W   5-0        4-6   3rd  4.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr 10  @SEA  W   8-3        3-6   4th  4.0 gb
  8 Tue, Apr  9  @SEA  W  16-9        2-6   5th  4.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr  8  @SEA  L   0-3        1-6   5th  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 5-11   Last 30: 5-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 24, 2012 HOU  7  CLE  1        W:J.A. Happ (6-7), L: Derek Lowe (7-6), S: none
Sat, Jun 23, 2012 HOU  8  CLE  1        W:Dallas Keuchel (1-0), L: Jeanmar Gomez (4-7), S: none
Fri, Jun 22, 2012 CLE  2 @HOU  0        W:Ubaldo Jimenez (7-5), L: Lucas Harrell (6-6), S: Chris Perez (23)
Tue, Jul 17, 2001 CLE 10 @HOU  4        W:Bartolo Colon (8-7), L: Shane Reynolds (8-9), S: none
Mon, Jul 16, 2001 HOU 10  CLE  8        W:Ron Villone (3-3), L: John Rocker (4-6), S: none
Sun, Jul 15, 2001 HOU  5  CLE  3        W:Tim Redding (2-0), L: Jake Westbrook (2-1), S: Billy Wagner (20)
Tue, Jul 18, 2000 CLE  8  HOU  2        W:Dave Burba (9-4), L: Shane Reynolds (6-7), S: none
Mon, Jul 17, 2000 CLE  8  HOU  6        W:Tim Drew (1-0), L: Wade Miller (0-2), S: Steve Karsay (19)
Sun, Jul 16, 2000 HOU  5 @CLE  1        W:Scott Elarton (9-3), L: Bartolo Colon (9-6), S: none
Tue, Jul 20, 1999 CLE  7 @HOU  1        W:Bartolo Colon (9-3), L: Shane Reynolds (11-7), S: none
Season Series: 2013 -  0-0; 2012 - HOU won 2-1; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - HOU leads 10-8

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

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

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

Indians Batters (3.73 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.25 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 59.Humber
G/S/vB		 62.Ambriz
G/S/vB		 56.Clemens
G/S/vB		 55.Cruz
G/S/vB		 60.Keuchel*
G/S/vB		 43.Peacock
G/S/vB		 41.Veras
G/S/vB		 53.Wright*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Aviles G/S/vP 7/.953 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 546/388 .250/.282/.381/.663 .753/.626 .640 26/.686 14/6 13/15
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 6/.833 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 609/407 .288/.348/.402/.750 .680/.785 .815 53/.641 12/9 6/1
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 12/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.250 ··· 3/.000 ··· 616/414 .270/.338/.423/.762 .796/.745 .752 61/.455 9/4 16/19
8.Chisenhall* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 151/112 .268/.311/.430/.741 .442/.848 .487 41/.545 2/1 5/6
25.Giambi* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.500 113/83 .225/.372/.303/.675 .848/.599 .602 8/.625 0/0 1/0
10.Gomes G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 111/62 .204/.264/.367/.631 .701/.567 .418 14/.357 0/0 4/1
22.Kipnis* G/S/vP 11/.964 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 672/431 .257/.335/.379/.714 .581/.787 .762 35/.390 31/7 14/6
46.Phelps# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 34/24 .212/.235/.303/.538 1.100/.297 .392 8/.000 0/0 1/0
9.Raburn G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 222/124 .171/.226/.254/.480 .477/.482 .565 28/.613 1/1 1/4
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 11/.455 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 538/396 .221/.335/.429/.763 .722/.778 .765 53/.980 1/3 23/11
41.Santana# G/S/vP 9/1.917 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 609/403 .252/.365/.420/.785 .808/.772 .751 43/1.191 3/5 18/9
11.Stubbs G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/.286 3/2.334 544/395 .213/.277/.333/.610 .788/.541 .595 48/.571 30/7 14/5
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 6/.333 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 624/402 .272/.364/.473/.837 .769/.873 .841 59/.844 2/3 24/6
IP 102.0 19.1 55.0 85.1 67.0 52.1 TOTAL .228/.303/.400/.703 .713/.694 .766 .703 4/1 17/12
ERA-K/9 6.44/7.5 4.19/10.3 /0.0 6.05/7.5 5.27/4.0 /0.0 3.63/10.6 3.27/9.3 5.00/5.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gomes (0-0-0)
 Santana (70-25-10)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 462/.276 83/.206 / 253/.297 377/.286 / 300/.239 223/.226 .268  Brantley
 Stubbs
 Swisher
 Raburn
 Santana
 Gomes
0/144/0/5
0/135/0/5
0/0/109/4
30/0/22/2
1/0/0/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .846 .613 .870 .823 .694 .638 .798
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 264/.893 27/.487 / 100/.974 85/.750 / 146/.724 133/.538 .897
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 198/.783 56/.675 / 153/.798 292/.844 / 154/.665 90/.790 .710
Home 237/.992 46/.601 / 114/.766 249/.684 / 152/.666 123/.726
Last 28d days 77/.665 40/.796 38/.809 38/1.051 30/.624 59/.871 28/.909 34/.627
HR/SB/CS 23/15/1 0/2/1 // 8/5/1 14/9/2 // 5/10/2 4/3/1 17/8/3
Usage ·····X·· ··o·o·Xo ····X··· ···X·Xoo ···X···· ···X···· ··o···X· ··X·X··o

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 (4.00 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (5.13 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 37.Allen
G/S/vB		 50.Hagadone*
G/S/vB		 53.Hill*
G/S/vB		 28.Kluber
G/S/vB		 54.Perez
G/S/vB		 52.Pestano
G/S/vB		 27.Shaw
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 630/461 .290/.340/.399/.740 .911/.676 .725 68/.872 33/11 7/11
28.Ankiel* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 171/148 .228/.282/.411/.694 .435/.736 .716 28/.714 1/3 5/2
2.Barnes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 105/54 .204/.250/.265/.515 .578/.458 .481 21/.782 1/1 1/0
23.Carter G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 5/.900 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/3.000 260/151 .239/.350/.514/.864 .898/.837 .831 63/.809 0/0 16/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 295/238 .257/.334/.401/.735 .361/.831 .805 55/.588 0/0 6/6
13.Cedeno G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 5/.650 186/84 .259/.332/.410/.741 .759/.718 .647 22/.591 0/1 4/4
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 85/66 .269/.310/.449/.758 .433/.855 .848 12/.500 0/1 4/2
30.Dominguez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 113/88 .284/.310/.477/.787 .655/.824 .608 55/.561 0/0 5/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 219/164 .234/.280/.327/.607 .296/.713 .612 37/.951 3/3 2/5
4.Laird G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/17 .257/.297/.371/.669 .461/.915 .485 / 0/0 1/1
14.Martinez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 439/320 .241/.311/.375/.685 .690/.683 .724 47/.619 0/2 11/2
44.Maxwell G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 352/228 .229/.304/.460/.764 .892/.697 .794 64/.746 9/4 18/2
12.Pena* G/S/vP 9/.611 ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 6/.933 2/.000 ··· ··· 600/418 .197/.330/.354/.684 .636/.705 .699 58/.770 2/3 19/7
IP 29.0 25.1 19.2 63.0 57.2 70.0 59.1 67.0 TOTAL .251/.301/.398/.699 .639/.734 .520 .699 4/3 15/7
ERA-K/9 /0.0 3.72/8.4 6.39/9.2 1.83/9.6 5.14/7.7 3.59/9.2 2.57/9.8 3.49/6.2 2.96/7.1 4.68/8.2

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 126/.266 116/.263 83/.236 281/.295 242/.222 286/.207 252/.273 278/.213 .247  Martinez
 Maxwell
 Barnes
 Ankiel
 Wright
100/0/0/9
38/59/20/5
1/32/5/3
0/62/0/2
0/0/1/0
OPS .710 .778 .685 .834 .652 .631 .747 .594 .758
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 59/.776 50/.575 47/.674 162/.860 130/.538 158/.752 125/.863 111/.585 .821
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 67/.654 66/.936 36/.697 119/.801 112/.780 128/.487 127/.630 167/.600 .690
Road / 47/.854 45/.777 30/.793 113/.891 97/.618 131/.626 114/.543 132/.605
Last 28d days / 37/.905 15/.277 17/.584 5/1.400 19/.655 20/.583 29/.458 17/.313
HR/SB/CS // 2/2/2 4/4/1 0/5/1 9/15/3 6/3/0 7/4/2 4/3/3 4/2/2 20/9/4
Usage ···X···· ·X·X··o· ··XX···· ··o····· ·X···o·· ··o··X·· ·X·X·oo· ··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.