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Game Preview: TEX @ HOU, 8:10pm, Friday, August 9, 2013 @Minute Maid Park

Rangers, 65-50, 65-50 1st, Tied

SP: Matt Garza (29, RHP, 7-2, 3.09)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (7-2) 93.1 79 34 32 24 78 10 3.09
2012 (5-7) 103.2 90 48 45 32 96 15 3.91
2011 (10-10) 198.0 186 90 73 63 197 14 3.32
Last 7 GS 5-1 51.0 45 14 12 10 41 4 2.12 62
2013-08-03 @OAK L 8.0 8 4 4 1 5 1 114 54
2013-07-29 LAA ND 7.0 5 3 3 3 6 1 107 58
2013-07-24 NYY W 7.1 5 1 0 0 5 0 95 71
2013-07-13 STL W 6.2 10 2 2 2 4 0 113 48
2013-07-08 @CHW W 7.0 5 2 1 0 6 1 102 67
2013-07-03 @OAK W 8.0 4 1 1 3 5 1 114 72
2013-06-27 @MIL W 7.0 8 1 1 1 10 0 101 66
Last 5 v.HOU 2-1 32.1 30 15 15 10 24 6 4.18 53
2013-06-21 HOU W 8.0 4 1 1 2 8 1 98 76
2012-06-30 HOU W 5.1 9 2 2 3 1 0 104 40
2012-05-21 @HOU L 3.0 5 7 7 2 2 2 72 21
2011-09-16 HOU ND 9.0 7 3 3 0 4 2 124 65
2011-07-24 HOU ND 7.0 5 2 2 3 9 1 107 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   33-24   Road:   32-26   ExtrInn: 2-7 
 vsRHP:  44-37   vsLHP:  21-13   1-Run:  18-10
 vsEast: 13-17   vsCntrl:10-13   vsWest: 33-14 IL: 9-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
115 Wed, Aug  7  @LAA  W  10-3       65-50  1st    Tied
114 Tue, Aug  6  @LAA  W   8-3       64-50  2nd  1.0 gb
113 Mon, Aug  5  @LAA  W   5-2       63-50  2nd  2.0 gb
112 Sun, Aug  4  @OAK  W   4-0       62-50  2nd  2.5 gb
111 Sat, Aug  3  @OAK  L   2-4       61-50  2nd  3.5 gb
110 Fri, Aug  2  @OAK  W   8-3       61-49  2nd  2.5 gb
109 Thu, Aug  1   ARI  W   7-1       60-49  2nd  3.5 gb
108 Wed, Jul 31   LAA  W   2-1       59-49  2nd  4.0 gb
107 Tue, Jul 30   LAA  W  14-11(10)  58-49  2nd  5.0 gb
106 Mon, Jul 29   LAA  W   4-3       57-49  2nd  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Astros, 37-76, 37-76 5th, 27 GB, 27 GB in WC

SP: Erik Bedard (34, LHP, 3-8, 4.29)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (3-8) 109.0 103 57 52 54 101 14 4.29
2012 (7-14) 125.2 129 76 70 56 118 14 5.01
2011 (5-9) 129.1 118 63 52 48 125 14 3.62
Last 7 GS 1-5 40.0 35 22 18 22 41 4 4.05 52
2013-08-03 @MIN ND 6.0 6 3 3 2 6 0 104 52
2013-07-25 @TOR L 5.0 3 1 1 1 6 0 95 62
2013-07-20 SEA L 6.1 0 3 1 5 10 0 109 70
2013-07-14 @TBR L 5.0 8 3 2 2 6 0 109 45
2013-07-07 @TEX L 6.1 5 5 4 5 4 2 104 44
2013-07-02 TBR L 5.1 6 4 4 6 3 0 95 37
2013-06-26 STL W 6.0 7 3 3 1 6 2 96 51
Last 5 v.TEX 1-2 30.1 23 16 15 13 24 4 4.45 53
2013-07-07 @TEX L 6.1 5 5 4 5 4 2 104 44
2013-05-11 TEX ND 5.0 4 2 2 1 7 1 90 57
2011-09-03 TEX W 6.0 5 3 3 4 6 0 101 52
2011-08-22 @TEX L 6.0 7 4 4 1 4 1 108 45
2011-05-03 TEX ND 7.0 2 2 2 2 3 0 103 66
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   19-39   Road:   18-37   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  27-58   vsLHP:  10-18   1-Run:  14-21
 vsEast:  7-20   vsCntrl: 7-16   vsWest: 15-31 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
113 Wed, Aug  7   BOS  L   5-7       37-76  5th 27.0 gb
112 Tue, Aug  6   BOS  L  10-15      37-75  5th 27.0 gb
111 Mon, Aug  5   BOS  W   2-0       37-74  5th 27.0 gb
110 Sun, Aug  4  @MIN  L   2-3       36-74  5th 27.5 gb
109 Sat, Aug  3  @MIN  L   4-6       36-73  5th 27.5 gb
108 Fri, Aug  2  @MIN  L   3-4 (13)  36-72  5th 26.5 gb
107 Thu, Aug  1  @BAL  L   3-6       36-71  5th 26.5 gb
106 Wed, Jul 31  @BAL  W  11-0       36-70  5th 26.0 gb
105 Tue, Jul 30  @BAL  L   3-4       35-70  5th 27.0 gb
104 Sun, Jul 28  @TOR  L   1-2       35-69  5th 26.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 7-23
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 07, 2013 TEX  5  HOU  4        W:Cory Burns (1-0), L: Erik Bedard (3-5), S: Joe Nathan (29)
Sat, Jul 06, 2013 HOU  9 @TEX  5        W:Travis Blackley (1-0), L: Yu Darvish (8-4), S: none
Fri, Jul 05, 2013 TEX 10  HOU  5        W:Nick Tepesch (4-6), L: Lucas Harrell (5-9), S: none
Sun, May 12, 2013 TEX 12 @HOU  7        W:Nick Tepesch (3-3), L: Jordan Lyles (1-1), S: none
Sat, May 11, 2013 TEX  8 @HOU  7        W:Yu Darvish (6-1), L: Philip Humber (0-8), S: Joe Nathan (11)
Fri, May 10, 2013 TEX  4 @HOU  2        W:Robbie Ross (1-0), L: Wesley Wright (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (10)
Wed, Apr 03, 2013 TEX  4 @HOU  0        W:Alexi Ogando (1-0), L: Philip Humber (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 02, 2013 TEX  7 @HOU  0        W:Yu Darvish (1-0), L: Lucas Harrell (0-1), S: none
Sun, Mar 31, 2013 HOU  8  TEX  2        W:Bud Norris (1-0), L: Matt Harrison (0-1), S: Erik Bedard (1)

Sun, Jun 17, 2012 TEX  9  HOU  3        W:Colby Lewis (6-5), L: Fernando Rodriguez (1-7), S: none
Season Series: 2013 - TEX over 7-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; 2011 - TEX won 4-2; All-Time - TEX leads 49-32

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
Rangers Batters (4.35 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.32 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Bedard*
G/S/vB
54.Blackley*
G/S/vB
48.Cosart
G/S/vB
50.Fields
G/S/vB
63.Lo
G/S/vB
65.Oberholtzer*
G/S/vB
43.Peacock
G/S/vB
53.Wright*
G/S/vB
61.Zeid
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 21/.619 14/.517 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· 500/363 .261/.324/.309/.633 .654/.625 .686 95/.830 30/3 0/11
15.Baker G/S/vP 13/.658 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 110/45 .310/.373/.640/1.013 1.354/.563 1.122 18/.667 1/0 9/1
29.Beltre G/S/vP 26/.791 14/.742 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 486/376 .319/.364/.535/.899 .951/.884 .892 96/.919 0/0 25/12
43.Beltre* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/32 .286/.306/.314/.620 .400/.656 .588 20/.649 1/2 0/0
20.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ .000 1/.000 0/0 0/0
23.Gentry G/S/vP 6/.333 9/.946 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 164/74 .248/.344/.355/.698 .807/.572 .684 31/1.044 12/2 1/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 39/.614 15/1.114 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/1.267 ··· 397/287 .269/.341/.415/.756 .771/.751 .719 99/.584 7/7 10/9
2.Martin* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 330/256 .279/.325/.412/.737 .521/.804 .615 86/.629 26/5 6/3
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 7/.429 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 3/.000 ··· 370/249 .248/.305/.454/.759 .707/.785 .748 80/.629 0/0 16/4
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 14/.517 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.333 ··· 398/292 .224/.284/.383/.666 .540/.713 .558 67/.733 1/4 12/2
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 16/1.251 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 4/.000 ··· 354/239 .273/.299/.427/.727 .729/.725 .738 81/.597 1/1 12/0
13.Profar# G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 200/135 .249/.313/.356/.669 .580/.709 .639 52/.675 0/3 4/7
8.Soto G/S/vP 8/.661 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/1.250 ··· 139/92 .215/.312/.405/.717 .448/.858 .400 37/1.013 0/2 6/2
IP 109.0 35.0 33.0 21.0 4.0 21.1 36.0 41.1 5.1 TOTAL .262/.322/.418/.740 .731/.744 .715 .735 85/30 134/63
ERA-K/9 4.29/8.3 4.89/7.5 1.36/3.8 6.86/9.9 0.00/6.8 2.53/5.1 7.25/8.2 3.92/8.7 3.38/6.8 4.94/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pierzynski (35-13-5)
 Soto (16-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 472/.252 152/.234 132/.221 93/.256 17/.200 85/.220 165/.264 182/.273 21/.158 .278  Murphy
 Martin
 Gentry
 Baker
 Beltre
 Profar
 Butler
105/0/1/6
6/81/18/6
0/62/0/3
19/0/1/0
4/5/3/0
4/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .775 .830 .584 .910 .494 .613 .934 .777 .554 .813
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 102/.844 66/.624 85/.613 35/.904 8/.393 31/.635 93/1.157 94/.810 12/.258 .849
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 370/.756 86/1.003 47/.529 58/.913 9/.583 54/.600 72/.667 88/.743 9/.958 .784
Home 216/.635 86/1.126 53/.793 62/.852 8/.125 47/.809 42/1.091 97/.696 12/.879
Last 28d days 90/.629 29/.870 106/.660 37/1.024 17/.494 51/.360 27/.622 37/.647 21/.554
HR/SB/CS 14/4/1 10/0/2 0/4/1 6/0/1 0/0/0 2/0/1 10/6/0 5/5/1 1/0/0 145/65/22
Usage ·····X·· ·o····Xo ·X····X· ·X·XX·X· ·Xo···X· ···X···· ····X··· ·X·Xo·o· ·XX···oo
Astros Batters (3.84 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (3.99 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Garza
G/S/vB
56.Cotts*
G/S/vB
44.Frasor
G/S/vB
36.Nathan
G/S/vB
46.Ross*
G/S/vB
52.Scheppers
G/S/vB
28.Soria
G/S/vB
55.Wolf
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 9/.347 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 459/339 .279/.317/.355/.672 .743/.646 .674 79/.678 29/8 4/8
2.Barnes G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 299/200 .240/.296/.347/.643 .888/.523 .741 68/.679 9/7 5/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/2.667 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 4/1.250 ··· 1/no AB 402/285 .210/.311/.421/.732 .665/.759 .593 68/.422 0/0 19/3
15.Castro* G/S/vP 6/.834 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 3/1.666 ··· ··· 1/2.000 409/321 .267/.335/.455/.790 .627/.835 .824 88/.737 2/1 13/4
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 149/77 .243/.304/.397/.701 .630/.772 .694 27/.303 0/0 6/5
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 401/294 .232/.263/.389/.652 .647/.654 .755 75/.680 0/0 14/11
10.Elmore G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 95/64 .250/.319/.369/.688 .769/.647 .752 39/.724 0/3 2/5
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 173/137 .265/.361/.381/.742 .855/.710 .764 42/1.331 6/4 3/1
28.Hoes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 29/22 .241/.241/.345/.586 .286/.682 .846 29/.586 2/0 0/1
59.Krauss* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 73/64 .176/.219/.338/.557 .222/.607 .250 43/.543 2/0 3/1
6.Villar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 65/48 .245/.344/.302/.646 .421/.720 1.154 65/.646 10/3 0/4
29.Wallace* G/S/vP 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 158/121 .233/.291/.479/.771 .362/.898 .710 78/.849 0/1 9/3
IP 93.1 36.0 35.1 45.2 48.0 52.1 9.1 41.2 TOTAL .237/.296/.377/.674 .692/.667 .676 .685 81/38 110/83
ERA-K/9 3.09/7.5 0.75/10.0 2.80/9.2 1.58/9.5 3.00/8.6 1.72/6.0 3.86/6.8 3.89/3.5 3.67/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (47-15-9)
 Corporan (18-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 382/.227 143/.167 143/.208 176/.161 209/.265 209/.210 38/.182 178/.293 .248  Barnes
 Grossman
 Krauss
 Carter
 Hoes
 Elmore
8/72/13/5
22/25/2/2
10/0/7/0
40/0/2/0
1/2/7/0
7/0/1/0
OPS .640 .471 .612 .480 .700 .598 .471 .757 .699
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 212/.646 71/.546 54/.462 89/.497 78/1.003 101/.633 21/.296 101/.807 .717
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 170/.633 72/.399 89/.705 87/.464 131/.524 108/.564 17/.697 77/.694 .684
Road 214/.604 63/.384 77/.699 84/.541 99/.770 94/.433 17/.301 89/.733
Last 28d days 120/.624 40/.311 33/.440 28/.741 30/.917 34/.575 32/.566 43/1.188
HR/SB/CS 10/4/1 1/3/0 4/3/0 2/2/1 3/1/0 4/1/4 0/0/0 4/1/2 107/51/18
Usage ·····X·· ·o·X··Xo ·X·o··o· ···oo··· ·X····X· ··X···o· ·o····Xo ·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.