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Game Preview: TEX @ HOU, 2:10pm, Sunday, August 11, 2013 @Minute Maid Park

Rangers, 67-50, 67-50 1st, 1 up

SP: Martin Perez (22, LHP, 4-3, 3.81)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (4-3) 59.0 63 30 25 19 39 7 3.81
2012 (1-4) 38.0 47 26 23 15 25 3 5.45
Last 7 GS 2-2 40.0 43 24 20 15 31 6 4.50 48
2013-08-05 @LAA W 6.1 4 2 2 4 7 0 111 60
2013-07-31 LAA ND 7.1 4 1 1 2 4 1 95 68
2013-07-26 @CLE ND 3.0 8 7 6 2 3 1 75 18
2013-07-21 BAL L 6.1 9 4 4 1 5 0 97 43
2013-07-14 @DET L 5.2 4 5 5 3 4 3 74 42
2013-07-09 @BAL W 6.0 6 4 2 1 4 1 99 51
2013-07-04 SEA ND 5.1 8 1 0 2 4 0 87 52
Has never faced HOU as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   33-24   Road:   34-26   ExtrInn: 2-7 
 vsRHP:  45-37   vsLHP:  22-13   1-Run:  19-10
 vsEast: 13-17   vsCntrl:10-13   vsWest: 35-14 IL: 9-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
117 Sat, Aug 10  @HOU  W   5-4       67-50  1st  1.0 up
116 Fri, Aug  9  @HOU  W   9-5       66-50  1st    Tied
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
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13
Astros, 37-78, 37-78 5th, 29 GB, 29 GB in WC

SP: Dallas Keuchel (25, LHP, 5-6, 4.96)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (5-6) 105.1 127 64 58 35 80 17 4.96
2012 (3-8) 85.1 93 56 50 39 38 14 5.27
Last 7 GS 2-2 40.2 48 22 22 14 35 8 4.87 47
2013-07-27 @TOR W 7.1 10 6 6 1 6 3 100 39
2013-07-22 OAK ND 6.0 5 1 1 4 5 0 88 59
2013-07-13 @TBR ND 5.1 6 3 3 0 3 1 80 47
2013-07-06 @TEX ND 5.0 6 2 2 1 4 0 91 50
2013-07-01 TBR L 4.2 8 5 5 5 4 1 108 27
2013-06-21 @CHC L 6.0 9 3 3 1 9 3 92 50
2013-06-16 CHW W 6.1 4 2 2 2 4 0 92 59
Last 5 v.TEX 0-0 16.0 15 5 5 7 9 1 2.81 53
2013-07-06 @TEX ND 5.0 6 2 2 1 4 0 91 50
2013-05-10 TEX ND 6.0 5 2 2 2 3 1 83 55
2012-06-17 @TEX ND 5.0 4 1 1 4 2 0 91 53
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   19-41   Road:   18-37   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  27-59   vsLHP:  10-19   1-Run:  14-22
 vsEast:  7-20   vsCntrl: 7-16   vsWest: 15-33 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
115 Sat, Aug 10   TEX  L   4-5       37-78  5th 29.0 gb
114 Fri, Aug  9   TEX  L   5-9       37-77  5th 28.0 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
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 6-24
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 10, 2013 TEX  5 @HOU  4        W:Jason Frasor (3-2), L: Lucas Harrell (5-13), S: Joe Nathan (34)
Fri, Aug 09, 2013 TEX  9 @HOU  5        W:Matt Garza (8-2), L: Josh Zeid (0-1), S: Neal Cotts (1)
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
Season Series: 2013 - TEX over 9-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; 2011 - TEX won 4-2; All-Time - TEX leads 51-32

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 (4.39 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.35 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Keuchel*
G/S/vB
66.Chapman*
G/S/vB
48.Cosart
G/S/vB
67.De Leon
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 9/.583 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 4/.833 1/.000 510/369 .260/.322/.313/.635 .689/.615 .687 98/.866 30/3 1/12
15.Baker G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 113/45 .304/.363/.627/.990 1.303/.563 1.075 21/.588 1/0 9/1
29.Beltre G/S/vP 8/.625 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.333 ··· 1/2.000 495/382 .319/.366/.531/.897 .939/.885 .887 96/.879 0/0 25/11
43.Beltre* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/33 .278/.297/.306/.603 .400/.635 .566 21/.616 1/2 0/0
23.Gentry G/S/vP 4/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 169/75 .248/.341/.352/.693 .778/.592 .676 36/.974 12/2 1/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 9/.819 ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 5/1.267 1/no AB 407/294 .269/.342/.415/.757 .781/.748 .722 100/.646 8/7 10/9
2.Martin* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/1.167 3/1.000 ··· 340/260 .278/.325/.411/.736 .519/.808 .620 87/.674 27/6 6/3
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 5/.600 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 3/.333 3/.000 ··· 376/255 .245/.306/.448/.754 .707/.777 .740 78/.551 0/0 16/4
7.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.500 6/.333 ··· 402/296 .226/.289/.386/.674 .540/.723 .575 64/.800 1/4 12/2
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 3/1.666 4/.000 ··· 363/244 .277/.303/.439/.742 .738/.744 .768 85/.671 1/1 13/0
13.Profar# G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.667 ··· 209/139 .243/.309/.346/.655 .585/.687 .616 54/.655 0/3 4/7
51.Rios G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 469/371 .279/.331/.427/.758 .843/.736 .820 85/.773 26/6 12/3
8.Soto G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/1.250 ··· 139/92 .215/.312/.405/.717 .448/.858 .400 34/.998 0/2 6/2
IP 105.1 1.0 33.0 1.1 21.1 4.0 21.1 42.0 41.1 5.2 TOTAL .262/.323/.419/.742 .734/.745 .719 .753 87/31 136/63
ERA-K/9 4.96/6.8 0.00/18.0 1.36/3.8 13.50/6.9 7.59/9.7 0.00/6.8 2.53/5.1 6.43/8.1 3.92/8.7 6.35/6.3 4.95/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pierzynski (37-13-5)
 Soto (16-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 467/.299 5/.200 132/.221 8/.429 96/.253 17/.200 85/.220 190/.250 184/.278 24/.190 .278  Rios
 Martin
 Murphy
 Gentry
 Baker
 Profar
 Beltre
0/0/109/8
6/83/19/7
107/0/1/6
1/63/0/3
19/0/1/0
4/0/0/0
4/5/4/0
OPS .833 1.000 .584 1.214 .914 .494 .613 .895 .794 .625 .814
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 114/.851 2/.000 85/.613 5/.900 37/.896 8/.393 31/.635 106/1.126 95/.836 12/.258 .848
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 353/.827 3/1.667 47/.529 3/1.667 59/.925 9/.583 54/.600 84/.626 89/.751 12/1.017 .786
Home 263/.876 5/1.000 53/.793 8/1.214 65/.859 8/.125 47/.809 67/.927 99/.729 15/.938
Last 28d days 71/.918 5/1.000 106/.660 8/1.214 38/1.089 17/.494 51/.360 52/.625 39/.734 24/.625
HR/SB/CS 17/5/2 1/0/0 0/4/1 0/0/0 6/0/1 0/0/0 2/0/1 11/7/1 5/5/1 1/1/0 147/67/23
Usage ····X··· oo······ ···X···· ·X······ ·o·X·XX· ···Xo··· ·····X·· X·····X· ·o·X·Xo· ·o·XX···
Astros Batters (3.85 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Perez*
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 ··· 2/2.000 4/.000 1/.000 2/.000 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 469/345 .282/.321/.361/.682 .772/.650 .694 81/.758 29/8 4/8
2.Barnes G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 306/205 .242/.299/.357/.656 .869/.553 .764 72/.763 10/7 6/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 5/2.550 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 5/1.400 1/.000 1/no AB 410/290 .212/.315/.428/.742 .724/.750 .619 76/.509 0/0 20/3
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/1.666 1/no AB 1/.000 1/2.000 418/326 .272/.340/.467/.806 .644/.852 .854 89/.807 2/1 14/5
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 149/77 .243/.304/.397/.701 .630/.772 .694 24/.342 0/0 6/5
30.Dominguez G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/2.000 1/.000 409/299 .231/.263/.386/.649 .632/.655 .743 80/.685 0/0 14/11
10.Elmore G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 103/69 .242/.307/.352/.659 .699/.637 .689 44/.702 0/3 2/6
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 3/.667 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 183/143 .256/.352/.365/.717 .817/.687 .717 52/1.127 6/4 3/1
28.Hoes G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 39/28 .237/.256/.342/.599 .364/.693 .759 39/.599 3/0 0/1
59.Krauss* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 74/64 .174/.216/.333/.550 .200/.607 .240 41/.571 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 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 2/1.500 1/no AB 1/.000 166/126 .222/.283/.458/.741 .334/.873 .659 79/.749 0/1 9/3
IP 59.0 37.1 36.1 46.2 48.0 53.0 10.1 41.2 TOTAL .237/.297/.378/.676 .694/.669 .680 .711 83/38 113/85
ERA-K/9 3.81/5.9 0.96/10.1 2.97/8.9 1.54/9.3 3.00/8.6 1.70/6.3 3.48/7.9 3.89/3.5 3.68/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (49-16-10)
 Corporan (18-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 258/.268 149/.182 148/.211 180/.158 209/.265 214/.207 43/.189 178/.293 .249  Barnes
 Grossman
 Krauss
 Carter
 Hoes
 Elmore
8/74/13/5
24/26/2/2
11/0/7/0
40/0/2/0
1/2/9/0
7/0/1/0
OPS .728 .494 .618 .476 .700 .602 .492 .757 .701
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/.657 73/.530 55/.453 90/.505 78/1.003 103/.633 23/.317 101/.807 .716
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 184/.757 76/.461 93/.719 90/.447 131/.524 111/.571 20/.694 77/.694 .688
Road 151/.772 69/.441 82/.706 88/.529 99/.770 99/.447 22/.377 89/.733
Last 28d days 103/.750 43/.435 38/.481 32/.679 30/.917 39/.598 33/.586 43/1.188
HR/SB/CS 7/1/1 1/3/0 4/5/0 2/2/1 3/1/0 4/1/4 0/0/0 4/1/2 110/53/18
Usage ·····X·· ·X·o·X·· X··X·o·· o····oo· ···X···· ·X··X··· X··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.