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Game Preview: HOU @ OAK, 10:05pm, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 @O.co Coliseum

Astros, 37-80, 37-80 5th, 31 GB, 30 GB in WC

SP: Jordan Lyles (22, RHP, 4-6, 5.40)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (4-6) 100.0 121 67 60 32 70 9 5.40
2012 (5-12) 141.1 159 97 80 42 99 20 5.09
2011 (2-8) 94.0 107 61 56 26 67 14 5.36
Last 7 GS 0-4 36.1 52 37 34 15 21 4 8.42 33
2013-08-06 BOS L 4.2 9 8 8 3 6 1 92 17
2013-08-01 @BAL L 5.2 9 5 3 0 5 0 94 40
2013-07-26 @TOR ND 5.0 9 4 4 3 1 2 98 31
2013-07-21 SEA L 4.0 8 10 9 2 3 1 95 9
2013-07-10 @STL ND 6.1 6 4 4 2 2 0 95 45
2013-07-04 TBR ND 6.2 6 2 2 3 3 0 98 54
2013-06-29 LAA L 4.0 5 4 4 2 1 0 86 35
Has never faced OAK as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-43   Road:   18-37   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  27-60   vsLHP:  10-20   1-Run:  14-23
 vsEast:  7-20   vsCntrl: 7-16   vsWest: 15-35 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
117 Mon, Aug 12   TEX  L   1-2       37-80  5th 31.0 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
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 6-24
Athletics, 67-50, 67-50 2nd, 1 GB, ½ up in WC

SP: Bartolo Colon (40, RHP, 14-4, 2.75)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (14-4) 150.1 151 47 46 24 80 11 2.75
2012 (10-9) 152.1 161 62 58 23 91 17 3.43
2011 (8-10) 164.1 172 85 73 40 135 21 4.00
Last 7 GS 3-2 44.0 49 14 13 11 19 3 2.66 53
2013-08-07 @CIN L 2.2 7 5 5 3 2 1 67 23
2013-07-31 TOR ND 6.0 7 2 1 3 1 0 97 50
2013-07-26 LAA W 6.0 7 2 2 2 2 1 96 50
2013-07-21 @LAA W 9.0 4 0 0 1 5 0 116 83
2013-07-14 BOS ND 6.1 8 2 2 0 4 0 107 53
2013-07-08 @PIT W 7.0 7 1 1 1 5 0 108 63
2013-07-03 CHC L 7.0 9 2 2 1 0 1 106 50
Last 5 v.HOU 3-1 32.0 38 14 14 5 19 4 3.94 50
2013-05-26 @HOU W 7.0 9 0 0 0 9 0 96 68
2013-04-17 HOU W 6.0 4 1 1 0 3 0 97 63
2013-04-06 @HOU W 6.0 8 3 3 0 2 1 83 46
2007-06-19 HOU L 6.0 11 7 7 3 3 2 110 22
2002-08-03 HOU ND 7.0 6 3 3 2 2 1 97 53
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-20   Road:   32-30   ExtrInn: 7-4 
 vsRHP:  46-33   vsLHP:  21-17   1-Run:  21-14
 vsEast: 13-13   vsCntrl:11-9    vsWest: 30-21 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
117 Mon, Aug 12  @TOR  W   5-1       67-50  2nd  1.0 gb
116 Sun, Aug 11  @TOR  W   6-4       66-50  2nd  1.0 gb
115 Sat, Aug 10  @TOR  L   4-5       65-50  2nd  1.0 gb
114 Fri, Aug  9  @TOR  W  14-6       65-49  1st    Tied
113 Wed, Aug  7  @CIN  L   5-6       64-49  1st    Tied
112 Tue, Aug  6  @CIN  L   1-3       64-48  1st  1.0 up
111 Sun, Aug  4   TEX  L   0-4       64-47  1st  2.5 up
110 Sat, Aug  3   TEX  W   4-2       64-46  1st  3.5 up
109 Fri, Aug  2   TEX  L   3-8       63-46  1st  2.5 up
108 Wed, Jul 31   TOR  L   2-5 (10)  63-45  1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 24, 2013 OAK  4 @HOU  3        W:A.J. Griffin (9-7), L: Travis Blackley (1-1), S: Ryan Cook (2)
Tue, Jul 23, 2013 HOU  5  OAK  4        W:Josh Fields (1-1), L: Grant Balfour (0-2), S: none
Mon, Jul 22, 2013 OAK  4 @HOU  3        W:Ryan Cook (3-2), L: Wesley Wright (0-4), S: Grant Balfour (26)
Sun, May 26, 2013 OAK  6 @HOU  2        W:Bartolo Colon (5-2), L: Dallas Keuchel (1-2), S: none
Sat, May 25, 2013 OAK 11 @HOU  5        W:A.J. Griffin (5-3), L: Lucas Harrell (3-6), S: none
Fri, May 24, 2013 OAK  6 @HOU  5        W:Pat Neshek (1-0), L: Jose Veras (0-3), S: Grant Balfour (10)
Wed, Apr 17, 2013 OAK  7  HOU  5        W:Bartolo Colon (2-0), L: Bud Norris (2-2), S: Grant Balfour (3)
Tue, Apr 16, 2013 OAK  4  HOU  3        W:Sean Doolittle (1-0), L: Rhiner Cruz (0-1), S: Grant Balfour (2)
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
Season Series: 2013 - OAK over 11-1; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - OAK leads 16-2

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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

DET  5.13

LAD  4.08

MIA  3.16

 RA/G

ATL  3.44

CHC  4.25

HOU  5.32

 BA

M. Cabrera  .366

D. Brown  .272

D. Uggla  .186

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .459

S. Victorino  .335

J. Arencibia  .247

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .692

J. Morneau  .425

P. Kozma  .293

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.151

B. Zobrist  .756

P. Kozma  .574

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.88

C. Hamels  3.65

E. Volquez  5.80

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  12.12

J. Blanton  7.26

B. Colon  4.79

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Astros Batters (3.80 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Colon
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 60.Chavez
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 54.Gray
G/S/vB		 47.Neshek
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 9/.888 3/.333 ··· 2/1.000 2/1.500 3/.333 ··· 2/.500 ··· 473/345 .282/.321/.362/.683 .772/.650 .669 85/.759 29/8 4/8
2.Barnes G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 312/208 .238/.296/.351/.647 .857/.544 .546 78/.720 10/7 6/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 8/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 3/.000 4/.250 ··· 2/3.500 ··· 417/293 .211/.312/.431/.742 .744/.741 .872 83/.531 0/0 21/3
15.Castro* G/S/vP 9/1.667 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 418/326 .272/.340/.467/.806 .644/.852 .755 89/.807 2/1 14/5
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 155/80 .246/.305/.415/.721 .631/.809 .709 30/.511 0/0 7/5
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 7/.286 5/1.850 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 416/302 .227/.258/.379/.637 .609/.648 .557 87/.627 0/0 14/11
10.Elmore G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 109/72 .240/.308/.344/.652 .734/.608 .621 50/.684 0/3 2/7
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 191/147 .244/.337/.348/.684 .739/.667 .718 60/.963 6/4 3/2
28.Hoes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/28 .214/.233/.310/.542 .267/.693 .375 43/.542 3/0 0/2
59.Krauss* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 78/68 .164/.205/.315/.520 .200/.570 .715 45/.517 2/0 3/1
6.Villar# G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 68/51 .236/.344/.291/.635 .421/.701 .435 68/.635 11/3 0/4
29.Wallace* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 172/129 .215/.279/.443/.722 .338/.852 .830 85/.711 0/1 9/3
IP 150.1 46.0 44.1 39.1 52.2 51.1 10.0 35.1 21.2 TOTAL .235/.295/.376/.671 .688/.665 .671 .685 84/38 115/88
ERA-K/9 2.75/4.8 1.96/10.4 3.25/8.1 4.12/7.3 2.05/8.2 2.81/8.2 1.80/9.9 3.06/6.1 1.66/6.2 3.61/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (49-16-10)
 Corporan (18-9-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 603/.264 186/.192 187/.228 173/.245 212/.202 198/.200 41/.162 154/.252 82/.259 .241  Barnes
 Grossman
 Krauss
 Carter
 Hoes
 Elmore
8/76/13/5
26/26/2/2
11/0/8/0
40/0/2/0
1/2/10/0
7/0/1/0
OPS .658 .578 .669 .664 .524 .542 .487 .715 .552 .678
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 314/.715 89/.466 81/.803 93/.673 91/.730 72/.534 17/.307 50/.857 41/.420 .700
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 289/.597 97/.685 106/.566 80/.652 121/.375 126/.547 24/.598 104/.648 41/.683 .659
Home 317/.632 105/.537 84/.692 82/.777 115/.466 114/.526 / 75/.597 64/.516
Last 28d days 102/.717 31/.661 30/.472 34/1.019 38/.374 37/.307 34/.531 27/.570 45/.449
HR/SB/CS 11/1/2 5/0/1 4/0/1 2/1/0 1/13/1 3/5/1 1/0/1 4/2/1 0/0/0 119/66/20
Usage ·····X·· ·XX····· ···X·oX· ·····X·· oXo··X·· oX···o·· ··X····· ···X··o· ···o··X·
Athletics Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.32 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Lyles
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		 61.Zeid
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
18.Callaspo# G/S/vP 7/.629 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 362/250 .255/.326/.358/.684 .713/.672 .626 70/.617 0/2 5/13
52.Cespedes G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 418/288 .225/.292/.423/.715 .808/.674 .734 77/.722 6/7 18/3
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 6/3.083 ··· 426/265 .249/.329/.383/.713 .621/.778 .567 97/.562 16/4 10/0
20.Donaldson G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/2.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 485/338 .296/.375/.482/.858 .984/.803 .841 94/.669 2/2 17/12
7.Freiman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 160/36 .268/.306/.369/.675 .773/.342 .802 28/.619 0/0 2/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 481/303 .286/.351/.418/.769 .706/.798 .772 98/.695 1/0 9/15
37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 370/304 .242/.316/.456/.772 .559/.819 .754 68/.776 3/1 18/7
36.Norris G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 250/115 .230/.333/.394/.728 .965/.440 .905 32/1.106 3/0 8/3
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 333/226 .214/.301/.383/.684 .711/.671 .584 82/.805 8/0 10/3
15.Smith* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 347/261 .248/.320/.379/.699 .628/.723 .660 46/.413 0/0 6/0
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/2.250 ··· 298/248 .273/.332/.382/.714 .632/.730 .722 65/.858 7/4 2/5
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/47 .265/.315/.429/.743 .250/.836 .635 41/.819 0/0 2/0
25.Young G/S/vP 9/1.556 ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 282/158 .196/.284/.388/.672 .674/.668 .648 52/.816 8/2 10/2
IP 100.0 1.0 33.0 1.2 22.2 5.0 28.0 42.0 5.2 TOTAL .245/.321/.398/.719 .718/.719 .700 .722 56/21 121/73
ERA-K/9 5.40/6.3 0.00/18.0 1.36/3.8 10.80/5.3 7.15/9.5 0.00/7.2 2.57/5.8 6.43/8.1 6.35/6.3 4.92/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Norris (30-12-6)
 Vogt (8-4-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 458/.293 5/.200 132/.221 9/.375 101/.250 20/.222 113/.231 190/.250 24/.190 .277  Cespedes
 Reddick
 Young
 Crisp
 Smith
 Moss
67/16/0/6
0/0/85/3
14/36/21/1
0/77/0/1
38/0/8/1
2/2/11/1
OPS .804 1.000 .584 1.069 .885 .522 .627 .895 .625 .810
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 241/.792 2/.000 85/.613 5/.900 37/.896 10/.311 38/.714 106/1.126 12/.258 .847
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 217/.816 3/1.667 47/.529 4/1.250 64/.879 10/.733 75/.583 84/.626 12/1.017 .781
Road 209/.760 / 79/.444 / 31/1.033 9/.819 38/.373 123/.878 9/.111
Last 28d days 103/1.069 5/1.000 106/.660 9/1.069 43/.991 20/.522 79/.468 52/.625 24/.625
HR/SB/CS 9/2/2 1/0/0 0/4/1 0/0/0 6/0/1 0/0/1 2/0/2 11/7/1 1/1/0 147/67/25
Usage ······X· ··oo···· ·····X·· ·o·X···· X··o·X·X X····Xo· X······X ··X····· ···o·XX·

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.