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Game Preview: TEX @ HOU, 2:10pm, Monday, August 12, 2013 @Minute Maid Park

Rangers, 68-50, 68-50 1st, 1 up

SP: Yu Darvish (26, RHP, 11-5, 2.72)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (11-5) 145.2 102 46 44 50 192 18 2.72
2012 (16-9) 191.1 156 89 83 89 221 14 3.90
Last 7 GS 4-2 44.1 35 12 12 19 55 7 2.44 62
2013-08-06 @LAA W 7.0 8 3 3 3 6 2 113 52
2013-08-01 ARI W 7.0 5 0 0 0 14 0 111 81
2013-07-27 @CLE L 6.0 3 1 1 4 11 1 123 69
2013-07-22 NYY W 6.1 2 0 0 2 4 0 90 71
2013-07-06 HOU L 6.0 6 5 5 4 6 1 113 42
2013-06-30 CIN W 6.2 4 0 0 4 8 0 117 70
2013-06-25 @NYY ND 5.1 7 3 3 2 6 3 110 46
Last 5 v.HOU 3-1 29.2 17 10 10 9 39 4 3.03 68
2013-07-06 HOU L 6.0 6 5 5 4 6 1 113 42
2013-05-11 @HOU W 7.0 3 3 3 3 8 2 105 64
2013-04-02 @HOU W 8.2 1 0 0 0 14 0 111 96
2012-06-15 HOU W 8.0 7 2 2 2 11 1 110 69
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   33-24   Road:   35-26   ExtrInn: 2-7 
 vsRHP:  45-37   vsLHP:  23-13   1-Run:  19-10
 vsEast: 13-17   vsCntrl:10-13   vsWest: 36-14 IL: 9-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
118 Sun, Aug 11  @HOU  W   6-1       68-50  1st  1.0 up
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
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:17-13
Astros, 37-79, 37-79 5th, 30 GB, 29 GB in WC

SP: Brett Oberholtzer (23, LHP, 2-0, 2.53)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-0) 21.1 18 6 6 2 12 2 2.53
Last 7 GS 2-0 14.0 7 0 0 2 8 0 0.00 73
2013-08-05 BOS W 7.0 4 0 0 2 2 0 101 69
2013-07-31 @BAL W 7.0 3 0 0 0 6 0 87 77
Has never faced TEX as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   19-42   Road:   18-37   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  27-59   vsLHP:  10-20   1-Run:  14-22
 vsEast:  7-20   vsCntrl: 7-16   vsWest: 15-34 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
116 Sun, Aug 11   TEX  L   1-6       37-79  5th 30.0 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
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 6-24
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 11, 2013 TEX  6 @HOU  1        W:Martin Perez (5-3), L: Dallas Keuchel (5-7), S: none
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
Season Series: 2013 - TEX over 10-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; 2011 - TEX won 4-2; All-Time - TEX leads 52-32

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 (4.41 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.35 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 65.Oberholtzer*
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
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 2/.000 1/5.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 4/.833 1/.000 515/370 .257/.319/.309/.628 .669/.613 .674 103/.821 30/3 1/12
15.Baker G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 117/45 .305/.368/.619/.987 1.281/.563 1.063 25/.628 1/0 9/1
29.Beltre G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/2.000 499/382 .320/.367/.533/.900 .950/.885 .893 100/.895 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 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 173/75 .243/.339/.345/.684 .758/.592 .660 40/.905 12/2 1/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 5/1.267 1/no AB 411/294 .266/.339/.410/.749 .752/.748 .708 104/.620 8/7 10/9
2.Martin* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 3/1.000 ··· 345/260 .277/.324/.408/.731 .512/.808 .613 92/.658 27/6 6/3
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 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/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 6/.333 ··· 402/296 .226/.289/.386/.674 .540/.723 .575 64/.800 1/4 12/2
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 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 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.667 ··· 213/139 .243/.308/.344/.652 .581/.687 .612 58/.643 0/3 4/7
51.Rios G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 473/371 .281/.333/.430/.763 .860/.736 .827 89/.795 26/6 12/3
8.Soto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/1.250 ··· 143/92 .216/.310/.408/.718 .474/.858 .421 38/.970 0/2 6/2
IP 21.1 1.0 33.0 1.2 21.1 4.0 42.0 41.1 5.2 TOTAL .262/.323/.418/.741 .730/.745 .717 .745 87/31 136/63
ERA-K/9 2.53/5.1 0.00/18.0 1.36/3.8 10.80/5.3 7.59/9.7 0.00/6.8 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 85/.220 5/.200 132/.221 9/.375 96/.253 17/.200 190/.250 184/.278 24/.190 .277  Rios
 Martin
 Murphy
 Gentry
 Baker
 Profar
 Beltre
0/0/110/9
6/84/19/7
107/0/1/6
2/63/0/3
19/0/1/0
4/0/0/0
4/5/4/0
OPS .613 1.000 .584 1.069 .914 .494 .895 .794 .625 .812
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 31/.635 2/.000 85/.613 5/.900 37/.896 8/.393 106/1.126 95/.836 12/.258 .847
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 54/.600 3/1.667 47/.529 4/1.250 59/.925 9/.583 84/.626 89/.751 12/1.017 .783
Home 47/.809 5/1.000 53/.793 9/1.069 65/.859 8/.125 67/.927 99/.729 15/.938
Last 28d days 51/.360 5/1.000 106/.660 9/1.069 38/1.089 17/.494 52/.625 39/.734 24/.625
HR/SB/CS 2/0/1 1/0/0 0/4/1 0/0/0 6/0/1 0/0/0 11/7/1 5/5/1 1/1/0 147/67/23
Usage ······X· ·oo····· ····X··· o·X····· ··o·X·XX ····Xo·· ·X·····X ··o·X·Xo ··o·XX··
Astros Batters (3.83 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (3.97 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Darvish
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 14/.143 2/2.000 4/.000 1/.000 2/.000 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 473/345 .282/.321/.362/.683 .772/.650 .695 85/.759 29/8 4/8
2.Barnes G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 309/205 .240/.299/.355/.654 .857/.553 .758 75/.751 10/7 6/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 5/1.400 1/.000 1/no AB 414/290 .213/.314/.434/.748 .744/.750 .632 80/.552 0/0 21/3
15.Castro* G/S/vP 12/.417 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 6/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 152/77 .245/.305/.396/.700 .631/.772 .693 27/.379 0/0 6/5
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 6/1.666 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/2.000 1/.000 413/299 .229/.260/.382/.642 .609/.655 .728 84/.650 0/0 14/11
10.Elmore G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 106/69 .247/.317/.355/.672 .734/.637 .712 47/.731 0/3 2/7
19.Grossman# G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 2/1.500 3/.667 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 187/143 .250/.344/.356/.701 .739/.687 .686 56/1.038 6/4 3/1
28.Hoes G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/28 .214/.233/.310/.542 .267/.693 .644 43/.542 3/0 0/2
59.Krauss* G/S/vP 3/1.334 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 9/.873 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 2/1.500 1/no AB 1/.000 169/126 .219/.284/.452/.736 .338/.873 .653 82/.739 0/1 9/3
IP 145.2 37.1 36.1 46.2 48.0 53.0 10.1 41.2 TOTAL .236/.297/.378/.674 .688/.669 .677 .702 83/38 114/87
ERA-K/9 2.72/11.9 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 3.66/7.9

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 587/.193 149/.182 148/.211 180/.158 209/.265 214/.207 43/.189 178/.293 .248  Barnes
 Grossman
 Krauss
 Carter
 Hoes
 Elmore
8/75/13/5
25/26/2/2
11/0/7/0
40/0/2/0
1/2/10/0
7/0/1/0
OPS .602 .494 .618 .476 .700 .602 .492 .757 .700
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 355/.659 73/.530 55/.453 90/.505 78/1.003 103/.633 23/.317 101/.807 .716
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 232/.516 76/.461 93/.719 90/.447 131/.524 111/.571 20/.694 77/.694 .685
Road 242/.600 69/.441 82/.706 88/.529 99/.770 99/.447 22/.377 89/.733
Last 28d days 104/.578 43/.435 38/.481 32/.679 30/.917 39/.598 33/.586 43/1.188
HR/SB/CS 18/13/2 1/3/0 4/5/0 2/2/1 3/1/0 4/1/4 0/0/0 4/1/2 111/53/18
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.