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Game Preview: HOU @ NYY, 7:05pm, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 @Yankee Stadium III

Astros, 8-18, 8-18 5th, 8½ GB, 7½ GB in WC

SP: Philip Humber (30, RHP, 0-5, 7.99)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (0-5) 23.2 35 21 21 8 13 3 7.99
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 1-5 35.1 49 28 28 14 18 6 7.13 38
2013-04-25 @BOS L 4.2 10 7 7 3 5 1 88 18
2013-04-20 CLE L 0.1 8 8 8 1 0 1 30 2
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
Last 5 v.NYY 1-1 13.1 6 4 4 4 8 1 2.70 63
2011-08-04 NYY L 6.1 5 4 4 2 3 1 94 48
2011-04-25 @NYY W 7.0 1 0 0 2 5 0 100 78
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-8    Road:    4-10   ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   5-12   vsLHP:   3-6    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  1-4    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  6-12 IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 26 Mon, Apr 29  @NYY  W   9-1        8-18  5th  8.5 gb
 25 Sun, Apr 28  @BOS  L   1-6        7-18  5th  9.0 gb
 24 Sat, Apr 27  @BOS  L   4-8        7-17  5th  9.0 gb
 23 Fri, Apr 26  @BOS  L   3-7        7-16  5th  9.0 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 25  @BOS  L   2-7        7-15  5th  8.0 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 24   SEA  W  10-3        7-14  4th  7.0 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 23   SEA  W   3-2        6-14  5th  7.0 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 22   SEA  L   1-7        5-14  5th  8.0 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 21   CLE  L   4-5        5-13  5th  7.0 gb
 17 Sat, Apr 20   CLE  L   6-19       5-12  5th  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30: 8-18
Yankees, 15-10, 15-10 2nd, 3 GB, 1 up in WC

SP: Hiroki Kuroda (38, RHP, 3-1, 2.79)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (3-1) 29.0 23 9 9 7 22 2 2.79
2012 (16-11) 219.2 205 86 81 51 167 25 3.32
2011 (13-16) 202.0 196 77 69 49 161 24 3.07
Last 7 GS 5-1 41.1 40 13 13 11 30 3 2.83 56
2013-04-25 TOR W 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 2 103 50
2013-04-20 @TOR ND 7.1 3 1 1 1 7 0 108 74
2013-04-14 BAL W 9.0 5 0 0 0 5 0 113 82
2013-04-08 @CLE W 5.1 5 3 3 4 6 0 111 48
2013-04-03 BOS L 1.1 4 2 2 1 1 0 41 38
2012-10-03 BOS W 7.0 7 2 2 2 4 0 94 57
2012-09-28 @TOR W 5.1 10 2 2 2 4 1 98 42
Last 5 v.HOU 2-0 31.0 26 7 7 8 18 2 2.03 59
2011-08-14 HOU W 7.0 5 0 0 1 6 0 106 72
2011-06-19 HOU ND 7.0 3 0 0 2 6 0 110 75
2010-09-10 @HOU ND 6.0 4 1 1 2 3 0 97 61
2010-05-18 HOU W 6.0 7 3 3 1 2 1 96 47
2009-07-19 HOU ND 5.0 7 3 3 2 1 1 92 40
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-5    Road:    6-5    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   8-7    vsLHP:   7-3    1-Run:   4-0 
 vsEast: 10-6    vsCntrl: 3-2    vsWest:  0-1  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 25 Mon, Apr 29   HOU  L   1-9       15-10  2nd  3.0 gb
 24 Sun, Apr 28   TOR  W   3-2       15-9   2nd  2.5 gb
 23 Sat, Apr 27   TOR  W   5-4       14-9   3rd  2.5 gb
 22 Fri, Apr 26   TOR  W   6-4       13-9   3rd  2.5 gb
 21 Thu, Apr 25   TOR  W   5-3       12-9   3rd  2.5 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 24  @TBR  L   0-3       11-9   3rd  2.5 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 23  @TBR  W   4-3       11-8   3rd  1.5 gb
 18 Mon, Apr 22  @TBR  L   1-5       10-8   3rd  2.5 gb
 17 Sun, Apr 21  @TOR  L   4-8       10-7   2nd  1.5 gb
 16 Sat, Apr 20  @TOR  W   5-3 (11)  10-6   2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:15-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 29, 2013 HOU  9 @NYY  1        W:Lucas Harrell (3-2), L: Andy Pettitte (3-2), S: none

Sun, Jun 13, 2010 NYY  9  HOU  5        W:Phil Hughes (9-1), L: Brian Moehler (0-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 12, 2010 NYY  9  HOU  3        W:Javier Vazquez (6-5), L: Wandy Rodriguez (3-9), S: none
Fri, Jun 11, 2010 NYY  4  HOU  3        W:Andy Pettitte (8-1), L: Brett Myers (4-4), S: Mariano Rivera (15)
Sun, Jun 15, 2008 NYY 13 @HOU  0        W:Chien-Ming Wang (8-2), L: Roy Oswalt (5-7), S: none
Sat, Jun 14, 2008 NYY  8 @HOU  4        W:Mike Mussina (10-4), L: Wandy Rodriguez (2-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 NYY  2 @HOU  1        W:Jose Veras (1-0), L: Doug Brocail (2-1), S: Kyle Farnsworth (1)
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 NYY  6  HOU  5        W:Antonio Osuna (2-2), L: Octavio Dotel (5-2), S: Mariano Rivera (7)
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 HOU  8 @NYY  0        W:Brad Lidge (4-0), L: Jeff Weaver (3-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 NYY  5  HOU  3        W:Mike Mussina (8-4), L: Wade Miller (4-7), S: Mariano Rivera (6)
Season Series: 2013 - HOU over 1-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - NYY leads 8-2

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 (4.12 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.24 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Kuroda
G/S/vB		 62.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 27.Kelley
G/S/vB		 48.Logan*
G/S/vB		 41.Phelps
G/S/vB		 42.Rivera
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 43.Warren
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 630/461 .290/.340/.399/.740 .911/.676 .754 110/.807 33/11 7/11
28.Ankiel* G/S/vP 8/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 171/148 .228/.282/.411/.694 .435/.736 .673 45/.768 1/3 5/2
2.Barnes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 105/54 .204/.250/.265/.515 .578/.458 .557 41/1.071 1/1 1/0
23.Carter G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 260/151 .239/.350/.514/.864 .898/.837 .888 98/.792 0/0 16/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 295/238 .257/.334/.401/.735 .361/.831 .668 77/.768 0/0 6/6
13.Cedeno G/S/vP 15/.517 3/2.500 ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 186/84 .259/.332/.410/.741 .759/.718 .831 39/.820 0/1 4/4
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 5/.200 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 85/66 .269/.310/.449/.758 .433/.855 .702 26/1.091 0/1 4/2
30.Dominguez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 113/88 .284/.310/.477/.787 .655/.824 .992 91/.614 0/0 5/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 219/164 .234/.280/.327/.607 .296/.713 .601 65/.871 3/3 2/5
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 / /// / 28/.371 / /
4.Laird G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 37/17 .257/.297/.371/.669 .461/.915 .863 30/.836 0/0 1/1
21.Martinez* G/S/vP ··· 5/.200 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 130/117 .237/.300/.466/.766 .154/.839 .997 24/.598 0/1 6/0
12.Pena* G/S/vP 6/.900 12/1.012 2/1.500 7/1.000 6/.833 13/.237 7/.286 1/.000 600/418 .197/.330/.354/.684 .636/.705 .670 95/.720 2/3 19/7
IP 219.2 20.2 44.1 55.1 99.2 8.1 60.2 2.1 TOTAL .256/.314/.414/.728 .776/.703 .760 .744 12/4 26/16
ERA-K/9 3.32/6.8 4.35/9.6 3.25/9.1 3.74/11.1 3.34/8.7 2.16/8.7 2.67/12.0 23.14/3.9 4.00/8.2

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 891/.249 95/.302 190/.256 239/.234 414/.223 32/.200 248/.229 17/.533 .273  Barnes
 Ankiel
 Martinez
 Wright
1/32/5/3
0/62/0/2
31/0/6/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .705 .835 .717 .718 .682 .550 .638 1.588 .753
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 520/.734 37/.609 58/.747 133/.665 191/.786 14/.522 131/.575 6/1.500 .722
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 371/.665 58/.962 132/.701 106/.788 223/.597 18/.572 117/.710 11/1.636 .771
Home 515/.615 48/.985 84/.521 119/.693 246/.616 9/.222 118/.502 17/1.588
Last 28d days 118/.570 37/.564 39/1.048 25/.851 69/.786 40/.609 38/.515 40/.668
HR/SB/CS 25/17/8 3/4/0 5/2/1 6/3/1 14/3/1 0/0/0 5/8/1 2/1/0 27/7/6
Usage ····X··· ··Xoo··· ·····X·· ·X······ ···X···· ·o·Xo·o· ·o·oo·o· X······X

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

Yankees Batters (4.52 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 59.Humber
G/S/vB		 62.Ambriz
G/S/vB		 54.Blackley*
G/S/vB		 68.Cisnero
G/S/vB		 56.Clemens
G/S/vB		 55.Cruz
G/S/vB		 43.Peacock
G/S/vB		 41.Veras
G/S/vB		 53.Wright*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
22.Boesch* G/S/vP 6/2.000 4/1.250 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 503/366 .240/.286/.372/.659 .625/.671 .651 34/.765 6/3 12/2
24.Cano* G/S/vP 6/1.500 2/2.500 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 697/428 .313/.379/.550/.929 .646/1.108 .941 107/1.006 3/2 33/6
45.Francisco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.500 ··· 207/105 .240/.285/.385/.670 .626/.713 .657 31/.301 0/1 4/1
11.Gardner* G/S/vP 5/.600 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 37/28 .323/.417/.387/.804 2.032/.426 .873 109/.751 2/2 0/0
33.Hafner* G/S/vP 9/.958 ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 263/191 .228/.346/.438/.784 .748/.798 .735 73/1.078 0/0 12/
17.Nix G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 202/91 .243/.306/.384/.690 .726/.645 .879 63/.546 6/3 4/4
26.Nunez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 100/45 .292/.330/.393/.723 .860/.552 .623 75/.484 11/2 1/7
55.Overbay* G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 7/.572 ··· 131/116 .259/.331/.397/.727 .552/.751 .748 80/.704 0/0 2/1
53.Romine G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· / /// / 4/.250 / /
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/94 .241/.292/.319/.611 .579/.633 .753 33/.679 2/0 1/4
31.Suzuki* G/S/vP 10/.100 1/2.000 6/2.166 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 663/426 .283/.307/.390/.696 .649/.724 .707 81/.615 29/7 9/1
12.Wells G/S/vP 5/.650 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.267 ··· 262/178 .230/.279/.403/.682 .671/.686 .662 95/.955 3/1 11/1
36.Youkilis G/S/vP 10/1.100 ··· 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/1.571 ··· 509/364 .235/.336/.409/.745 .878/.693 .960 68/.770 0/0 19/9
IP 102.0 19.1 107.2 55.0 67.0 52.1 TOTAL .255/.327/.429/.755 .626/.840 .730 .766 9/4 35/16
ERA-K/9 6.44/7.5 4.19/10.3 4.10/5.9 /0.0 /0.0 6.05/7.5 /0.0 3.63/10.6 3.27/9.3 5.33/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Stewart (27-8-8)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 462/.276 83/.206 444/.243 / / 253/.297 / 300/.239 223/.226 .295  Boesch
 Suzuki
 Francisco
 Gardner
 Nix
 Wells
 Nunez
0/0/121/5
35/7/132/5
24/0/29/1
15/0/0/1
11/0/0/0
69/6/2/0
3/0/1/0
OPS .846 .613 .694 .870 .694 .638 .868
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 264/.893 27/.487 125/.630 / / 100/.974 / 146/.724 133/.538 .909
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 198/.783 56/.675 319/.719 / / 153/.798 / 154/.665 90/.790 .825
Road 225/.702 37/.628 229/.797 / / 139/.955 / 148/.721 100/.533
Last 28d days 113/.955 62/.836 33/.815 29/.466 67/.770 58/.942 103/1.029 35/.617 47/.614
HR/SB/CS 23/15/1 0/2/1 10/2/4 // // 8/5/1 // 5/10/2 4/3/1 35/13/5
Usage ····X··· ··X···o· X·X·X·X· ·X··X··X ···X·o·· o··X·X·· ··X····X ··o···oo ··Xo····

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.