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Game Preview: HOU @ OAK, 10:05pm, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 @O.co Coliseum

Astros, 4-9, 4-9 4th, 5½ GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Brad Peacock (25, RHP, 1-1, 4.82)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (1-1) 9.1 7 5 5 4 8 3 4.82
2011 (2-0) 12.0 7 1 1 6 4 0 0.75
Last 7 GS 3-1 20.0 10 5 5 9 12 3 2.25 57
2013-04-10 @SEA W 5.0 4 3 3 1 3 2 95 49
2013-04-05 OAK L 4.1 3 2 2 3 5 1 89 51
2011-09-22 @PHI W 5.2 1 0 0 2 2 0 69 67
2011-09-14 @NYM W 5.0 2 0 0 3 2 0 94 62
Last 5 v.OAK 0-1 4.1 3 2 2 3 5 1 4.15 51
2013-04-05 OAK L 4.1 3 2 2 3 5 1 89 51
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    1-5    Road:    3-4    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   3-5    vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   0-1 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  4-9  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
  6 Sun, Apr  7   OAK  L   3-9        1-5   5th  3.5 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  6   OAK  L   3-6        1-4   5th  2.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  5   OAK  L   3-8        1-3   4th  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 4-9    Last 30: 4-9 
Athletics, 10-4, 10-4 1st, 1½ up

SP: A.J. Griffin (25, RHP, 2-0, 1.93)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-0) 14.0 12 3 3 3 5 1 1.93
2012 (7-1) 82.1 74 29 28 19 64 10 3.06
Last 7 GS 4-1 39.1 44 18 17 11 22 6 3.89 49
2013-04-11 @LAA W 8.0 5 1 1 1 2 0 110 69
2013-04-04 SEA W 6.0 7 2 2 2 3 1 95 51
2012-10-03 TEX ND 2.2 7 5 4 2 0 0 70 24
2012-09-28 SEA W 5.2 4 1 1 2 4 1 96 59
2012-09-23 @NYY ND 4.1 7 4 4 3 4 1 103 34
2012-09-18 @DET L 4.2 8 5 5 1 3 3 100 30
2012-09-12 @LAA W 8.0 6 0 0 0 6 0 107 76
Has never faced HOU as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    4-4    Road:    6-0    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   6-4    vsLHP:   4-0    1-Run:   1-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  9-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 14 Mon, Apr 15   HOU  W  11-2       10-4   1st  1.5 up
 13 Sun, Apr 14   DET  L   1-10       9-4   1st  1.0 up
 12 Sat, Apr 13   DET  L   3-7        9-3   1st  1.0 up
 11 Fri, Apr 12   DET  W   4-3 (12)   9-2   1st  2.0 up
 10 Thu, Apr 11  @LAA  W   8-1        8-2   1st  1.0 up
  9 Wed, Apr 10  @LAA  W  11-5        7-2   1st  1.0 up
  8 Tue, Apr  9  @LAA  W   9-5        6-2   1st    Tied
  7 Sun, Apr  7  @HOU  W   9-3        5-2   1st  0.5 up
  6 Sat, Apr  6  @HOU  W   6-3        4-2   1st  0.5 up
  5 Fri, Apr  5  @HOU  W   8-3        3-2   2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:10-4    Last 30:10-4 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 15, 2013 OAK 11  HOU  2        W:Tommy Milone (3-0), L: Erik Bedard (0-1), S: none
Sun, Apr 07, 2013 OAK  9 @HOU  3        W:Brett Anderson (1-1), L: Lucas Harrell (0-2), S: none
Sat, Apr 06, 2013 OAK  6 @HOU  3        W:Bartolo Colon (1-0), L: Bud Norris (1-1), S: Grant Balfour (1)
Fri, Apr 05, 2013 OAK  8 @HOU  3        W:Dan Straily (1-0), L: Brad Peacock (0-1), S: none

Thu, Jun 14, 2007 OAK  6 @HOU  5 (11)   W:Alan Embree (1-0), L: Brian Moehler (0-2), S: Santiago Casilla (2)
Wed, Jun 13, 2007 OAK  7 @HOU  3        W:Joe Blanton (6-4), L: Dan Wheeler (0-4), S: none
Tue, Jun 12, 2007 HOU  5  OAK  4 (11)   W:Dave Borkowski (1-0), L: Ron Flores (0-1), S: none
Sun, Jun 09, 2002 OAK  7  HOU  6        W:Billy Koch (4-0), L: Octavio Dotel (3-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 08, 2002 OAK  5  HOU  1        W:Aaron Harang (2-1), L: Shane Reynolds (3-6), S: none
Fri, Jun 07, 2002 OAK  5  HOU  3        W:Mark Mulder (5-4), L: Roy Oswalt (6-4), S: Billy Koch (12)
Season Series: 2013 - OAK over 4-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - OAK leads 9-1

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

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 (4.08 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.93 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 42.Griffin
G/S/vB
42.Balfour
G/S/vB
42.Blevins*
G/S/vB
42.Cook
G/S/vB
42.Doolittle*
G/S/vB
42.Neshek
G/S/vB
42.Resop
G/S/vB
42.Scribner
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
42.Altuve G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 3/1.000 2/.000 630/461 .290/.340/.399/.740 .911/.676 .754 59/.791 33/11 7/11
42.Ankiel* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/5.000 2/.000 171/148 .228/.282/.411/.694 .435/.736 .673 23/.652 1/3 5/2
42.Barnes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 105/54 .204/.250/.265/.515 .578/.458 .557 18/.844 1/1 1/0
42.Carter G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/4.000 ··· 1/.000 260/151 .239/.350/.514/.864 .898/.837 .888 55/.867 0/0 16/6
42.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 295/238 .257/.334/.401/.735 .361/.831 .668 47/.582 0/0 6/6
42.Cedeno G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 186/84 .259/.332/.410/.741 .759/.718 .831 22/.591 0/1 4/4
42.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 85/66 .269/.310/.449/.758 .433/.855 .702 12/.500 0/1 4/2
42.Dominguez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/3.000 113/88 .284/.310/.477/.787 .655/.824 .992 47/.572 0/0 5/1
42.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 219/164 .234/.280/.327/.607 .296/.713 .601 29/1.054 3/3 2/5
42.Martinez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 439/320 .241/.311/.375/.685 .690/.683 .647 39/.671 0/2 11/2
42.Maxwell G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 352/228 .229/.304/.460/.764 .892/.697 .734 56/.820 9/4 18/2
42.Pena* G/S/vP 3/1.667 6/.000 9/.111 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/1.000 2/.000 600/418 .197/.330/.354/.684 .636/.705 .670 50/.626 2/3 19/7
42.Wallace* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 4/1.167 ··· 254/196 .253/.323/.424/.746 .711/.757 .775 26/.157 0/0 9/9
IP 82.1 74.2 65.1 73.1 47.1 19.2 73.2 35.1 TOTAL .252/.301/.392/.693 .625/.739 .824 .693 1/2 12/6
ERA-K/9 3.06/7.0 2.53/8.7 2.48/7.4 2.09/9.8 3.04/11.4 1.37/7.3 3.91/5.6 2.55/7.6 3.49/6.7

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 336/.236 289/.160 261/.201 288/.166 191/.227 77/.147 330/.276 148/.221 .253  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 .630 .495 .637 .517 .611 .530 .722 .637 .687
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 172/.629 151/.476 125/.575 136/.568 67/.794 16/1.108 131/.694 62/.834 .601
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 164/.631 138/.516 136/.693 152/.473 124/.509 61/.369 199/.740 86/.501 .758
Home 169/.570 151/.406 127/.781 137/.567 94/.529 37/.253 156/.760 70/.624
Last 28d days 56/.586 20/.671 29/.612 26/.460 20/.255 33/.943 25/.367 38/.570
HR/SB/CS 10/1/3 4/3/3 7/4/3 4/4/2 3/5/1 3/2/0 6/6/1 2/2/0 11/5/0
Usage ····X··· X··X··X· ·X·X·Xo· ·o·X··X· o··o··o· o·X··Xo· ·X·o·oX· ·Xo·oo··

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

Athletics Batters (6.07 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.46 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 42.Peacock
G/S/vB
42.Ambriz
G/S/vB
42.Bedard*
G/S/vB
42.Cedeno*
G/S/vB
42.Clemens
G/S/vB
42.Cruz
G/S/vB
42.Keuchel*
G/S/vB
42.Veras
G/S/vB
42.Wright*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
42.Crisp# G/S/vP 3/4.000 1/.000 17/.243 2/.000 2/1.500 1/3.000 1/3.000 5/.400 4/.833 508/336 .259/.325/.418/.742 .682/.774 .806 59/1.110 39/4 11/3
42.Donaldson G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 3/1.334 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 294/205 .241/.289/.398/.687 .703/.680 .649 59/.748 4/1 9/13
42.Freiman G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 / /// / 19/.563 / /
42.Jaso* G/S/vP 2/.500 2/2.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 361/308 .276/.394/.456/.850 .393/.927 .877 41/.739 5/0 10/0
42.Lowrie# G/S/vP 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 3/1.167 2/.500 1/no AB 2/1.000 4/1.417 1/2.000 387/287 .244/.331/.438/.769 .623/.819 .856 59/1.131 2/0 16/8
42.Moss* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.167 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 4/1.000 296/234 .291/.358/.596/.954 .770/1.006 .868 52/.844 1/1 21/9
42.Norris G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 232/139 .201/.276/.349/.625 .618/.630 .605 31/1.099 5/1 7/5
42.Parrino# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 138/86 .207/.316/.276/.592 .595/.590 .703 16/.258 1/0 1/6
42.Reddick* G/S/vP 2/.500 2/2.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 673/434 .242/.305/.463/.768 .751/.778 .795 43/.426 11/1 32/6
42.Smith* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/5.000 4/.000 2/.000 441/361 .240/.333/.420/.754 .521/.805 .742 34/1.288 2/2 14/2
42.Sogard* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 2/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 108/88 .167/.206/.275/.480 .450/.487 .362 38/.580 2/0 2/2
42.Taylor G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/9 .143/.143/.190/.333 .167/.556 .231 5/.000 0/0 0/0
42.Young G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 8/.393 3/1.667 2/.000 3/3.333 5/1.200 4/.750 2/.000 363/229 .231/.311/.434/.745 .810/.707 .702 51/.703 8/3 14/2
IP 19.1 125.2 31.0 55.0 85.1 67.0 52.1 TOTAL .265/.349/.465/.814 .933/.760 .667 .814 11/3 20/7
ERA-K/9 /0.0 4.19/10.3 5.01/8.4 3.77/10.5 /0.0 6.05/7.5 5.27/4.0 3.63/10.6 3.27/9.3 4.83/5.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Donaldson (4-2-0)
 Jaso (27-7-5)
 Norris (34-12-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 83/.206 557/.263 138/.254 / 253/.297 377/.286 300/.239 223/.226 .264  Reddick
 Crisp
 Young
 Smith
 Moss
 Taylor
 Parrino
0/14/136/15
16/97/0/4
0/87/0/4
57/0/13/3
11/0/13/2
2/0/4/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .613 .758 .704 .870 .823 .694 .638 .791
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 27/.487 101/.628 70/.616 / 100/.974 85/.750 146/.724 133/.538 .938
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 56/.675 456/.786 68/.797 / 153/.798 292/.844 154/.665 90/.790 .719
Road / 37/.628 286/.916 86/.845 / 139/.955 128/1.115 148/.721 100/.533
Last 28d days 39/.867 36/.887 33/.562 26/1.171 38/.809 34/1.003 19/.675 24/.982 24/.625
HR/SB/CS // 0/2/1 14/6/0 3/3/0 // 8/5/1 14/9/2 5/10/2 4/3/1 17/4/3
Usage ·····X·· o·Xo··X· X·····X· X······· X·····X· ·Xoo·X·o ·····X·· ··X··o·· X··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.