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Game Preview: HOU @ OAK, 10:05pm, Thursday, September 5, 2013 @O.co Coliseum

Astros, 46-93, 46-93 5th, 34 GB, 34 GB in WC

SP: Brad Peacock (25, RHP, 3-5, 5.98)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (3-5) 58.2 58 41 39 31 52 13 5.98
2011 (2-0) 12.0 7 1 1 6 4 0 0.75
Last 7 GS 2-4 37.1 39 27 25 20 33 8 6.03 44
2013-08-30 SEA L 4.2 7 5 5 4 4 0 103 30
2013-08-24 TOR W 5.2 6 4 4 2 5 2 94 44
2013-08-16 @LAA W 6.1 4 2 0 2 5 0 98 64
2013-08-10 TEX ND 6.0 3 1 1 4 5 1 102 63
2013-08-04 @MIN L 7.0 4 3 3 2 10 2 117 65
2013-04-27 @BOS L 3.1 6 5 5 5 3 0 90 26
2013-04-22 SEA L 4.1 9 7 7 1 1 3 90 17
Last 5 v.OAK 0-1 8.2 7 5 5 6 12 1 5.19 49
2013-04-16 @OAK ND 4.1 4 3 3 3 7 0 92 47
2013-04-05 OAK L 4.1 3 2 2 3 5 1 89 51
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-49   Road:   23-44   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  35-65   vsLHP:  11-28   1-Run:  17-28
 vsEast:  9-21   vsCntrl: 9-20   vsWest: 20-43 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
139 Wed, Sep  4   MIN  W   6-5       46-93  5th 34.0 gb
138 Tue, Sep  3   MIN  L   6-9 (12)  45-93  5th 35.0 gb
137 Mon, Sep  2   MIN  L   6-10      45-92  5th 34.0 gb
136 Sun, Sep  1   SEA  W   2-0       45-91  5th 34.0 gb
135 Sat, Aug 31   SEA  L   1-3       44-91  5th 35.0 gb
134 Fri, Aug 30   SEA  L   1-7       44-90  5th 34.0 gb
133 Thu, Aug 29   SEA  L   2-3       44-89  5th 34.0 gb
132 Wed, Aug 28  @CHW  L   1-6       44-88  5th 33.5 gb
131 Tue, Aug 27  @CHW  L   3-4       44-87  5th 32.5 gb
130 Mon, Aug 26  @CHW  W  10-8       44-86  5th 31.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-20
Athletics, 80-59, 80-59 1st, Tied

SP: Sonny Gray (23, RHP, 2-2, 2.57)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-2) 35.0 25 12 10 10 37 2 2.57
Last 7 GS 2-2 31.0 23 12 10 9 31 2 2.90 59
2013-08-31 TBR W 6.2 5 0 0 1 7 0 102 70
2013-08-25 @BAL L 3.1 8 6 6 2 3 0 67 21
2013-08-20 SEA ND 7.0 2 2 2 2 7 1 94 70
2013-08-15 HOU W 8.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 118 82
2013-08-10 @TOR L 6.0 4 4 2 3 5 1 94 54
Last 5 v.HOU 1-0 8.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 0.00 82
2013-08-15 HOU W 8.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 118 82
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   44-26   Road:   36-33   ExtrInn: 7-5 
 vsRHP:  55-40   vsLHP:  25-19   1-Run:  26-17
 vsEast: 17-15   vsCntrl:16-11   vsWest: 34-26 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
139 Wed, Sep  4   TEX  W  11-4       80-59  1st    Tied
138 Tue, Sep  3   TEX  L   1-5       79-59  2nd  1.0 gb
137 Mon, Sep  2   TEX  W   4-2       79-58  1st    Tied
136 Sun, Sep  1   TBR  W   5-1       78-58  2nd  1.0 gb
135 Sat, Aug 31   TBR  W   2-1       77-58  2nd  2.0 gb
134 Fri, Aug 30   TBR  W   4-3       76-58  2nd  2.0 gb
133 Thu, Aug 29  @DET  L   6-7       75-58  2nd  3.0 gb
132 Wed, Aug 28  @DET  W  14-4       75-57  2nd  2.5 gb
131 Tue, Aug 27  @DET  W   6-3  (5)  74-57  2nd  2.5 gb
130 Mon, Aug 26  @DET  W   8-6       73-57  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Aug 15, 2013 OAK  5  HOU  0        W:Sonny Gray (1-1), L: Erik Bedard (3-9), S: none
Wed, Aug 14, 2013 HOU  2 @OAK  1 (11)   W:Lucas Harrell (6-13), L: Sean Doolittle (3-4), S: Josh Fields (2)
Tue, Aug 13, 2013 HOU  5 @OAK  4        W:Jordan Lyles (5-6), L: Bartolo Colon (14-5), S: Chia-Jen Lo (1)
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)
Season Series: 2013 - OAK over 12-3; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - OAK leads 17-4

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

BOS  5.11

NYY  4.05

MIA  3.25

 RA/G

ATL  3.40

CLE  4.27

HOU  5.30

 BA

M. Cabrera  .355

D. Brown  .274

D. Uggla  .184

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .446

T. Hunter  .335

J. Arencibia  .242

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .676

J. Lowrie  .432

A. Escobar  .298

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.121

D. Fowler  .773

A. Escobar  .559

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.89

M. Leake  3.51

E. Volquez  6.05

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  12.02

J. Shields  7.39

B. Colon  4.77

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

Astros Batters (3.90 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.91 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Gray
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		 65.Figueroa*
G/S/vB		 47.Neshek
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.333 1/3.000 4/.500 2/1.500 4/.833 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 2/.000 570/407 .274/.309/.350/.658 .690/.646 .607 111/.603 31/9 4/9
2.Barnes G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 387/256 .246/.296/.356/.652 .835/.559 .524 88/.681 10/10 7/3
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· 4/.250 4/.000 5/.200 ··· 2/3.500 1/.000 1/.000 502/348 .220/.321/.456/.777 .775/.777 .923 100/.960 2/0 27/3
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/.000 3/.666 2/2.500 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 482/373 .282/.357/.495/.852 .753/.881 .800 73/1.225 2/1 18/5
39.Clark G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/7 .000/.056/.000/.056 .091/.000 .333 18/.056 0/0 0/0
8.Crowe# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 2/2.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 96/73 .239/.302/.318/.620 .911/.533 .718 18/.833 3/1 1/3
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 3/.000 5/1.850 1/.000 3/.666 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/3.000 501/360 .239/.277/.404/.681 .655/.691 .670 100/.797 0/0 19/12
10.Elmore G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 130/81 .243/.313/.330/.643 .702/.605 .655 35/.520 1/5 2/8
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 216/178 .217/.250/.318/.568 .591/.563 .587 28/.417 6/2 4/10
19.Grossman# G/S/vP 4/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 288/212 .268/.332/.370/.702 .785/.669 .728 115/.644 6/7 4/3
28.Hoes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 134/90 .252/.291/.339/.630 .536/.676 .679 105/.641 7/1 1/4
59.Krauss* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 86/76 .175/.221/.325/.546 .200/.594 .718 13/.481 2/0 3/1
44.Pagnozzi G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/5 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 5/.000 0/0 0/0
6.Villar# G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/2.500 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 134/100 .272/.352/.368/.720 .720/.720 .523 69/.784 12/6 0/7
29.Wallace* G/S/vP 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 239/180 .228/.293/.457/.750 .458/.847 .795 81/.707 1/1 12/3
IP 35.0 54.2 53.0 50.1 60.0 58.0 0.0 37.2 31.1 21.2 TOTAL .241/.300/.383/.684 .699/.677 .688 .725 96/51 136/102
ERA-K/9 2.57/9.5 2.47/10.0 3.57/8.0 4.11/8.1 2.10/8.7 3.57/7.6 /0.0 3.58/6.7 1.15/6.0 4.57/5.0 3.62/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (58-19-10)
 Clark (2-6-2)
 Elmore (0-0-0)
 Pagnozzi (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 140/.197 226/.204 221/.227 222/.237 251/.220 230/.222 2/1.000 166/.265 125/.269 95/.239 .245  Barnes
 Grossman
 Crowe
 Hoes
 Elmore
 Carter
 Krauss
8/97/13/7
45/29/2/2
12/5/20/1
1/2/30/0
7/0/1/0
43/0/2/0
11/0/9/0
OPS .541 .609 .690 .643 .561 .608 3.000 .764 .601 .749 .687
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 81/.630 112/.524 98/.788 120/.646 114/.736 80/.571 1/3.000 58/.956 62/.555 42/.525 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 59/.423 114/.696 123/.611 102/.638 137/.421 150/.627 1/ 108/.662 63/.645 53/.921 .667
Home 79/.417 131/.554 102/.682 121/.738 142/.506 139/.628 2/3.000 77/.608 93/.561 37/.809
Last 28d days 125/.566 50/.746 39/.770 49/.571 51/.753 40/.910 2/3.000 19/1.579 46/.681 9/.476
HR/SB/CS 2/0/1 6/0/1 7/2/2 3/1/0 1/14/1 4/5/1 0/0/0 6/2/1 0/1/0 3/6/0 143/76/25
Usage ····X··· ··o·XXX· ·X····o· ·X······ ··oo·X·· ···oX·o· ·o······ ········ ··Xoo·X· ·X······
Athletics Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Peacock
G/S/vB		 66.Chapman*
G/S/vB		 56.Clemens
G/S/vB		 48.Cosart
G/S/vB		 67.De Leon
G/S/vB		 50.Fields
G/S/vB		 21.Humber
G/S/vB		 63.Lo
G/S/vB		 65.Oberholtzer*
G/S/vB		 61.Zeid
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.000 ··· ··· ··· 52/46 .239/.308/.370/.677 .667/.679 .714 29/.819 0/0 2/0
18.Callaspo# G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 ··· 2/.000 8/.661 ··· ··· ··· 439/304 .258/.335/.358/.693 .781/.653 .630 89/.801 0/2 6/15
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/3.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/5.000 501/347 .231/.291/.424/.715 .792/.681 .760 102/.699 6/7 21/3
35.Choice G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/1 .200/.333/.200/.533 .650/.000 .533 6/.533 0/0 0/0
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 6/3.083 ··· 3/1.000 4/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 7/.715 ··· ··· ··· 492/311 .260/.332/.437/.769 .632/.858 .656 81/1.038 17/4 18/0
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 5/1.800 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 577/404 .293/.370/.487/.857 1.021/.787 .846 110/.863 3/2 20/12
7.Freiman G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.500 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 187/41 .276/.332/.406/.737 .830/.406 .877 34/.967 0/0 4/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 6/.334 ··· ··· 1/2.000 572/368 .288/.346/.432/.779 .756/.786 .735 110/.815 1/0 10/16
37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.000 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 440/363 .251/.332/.503/.834 .687/.866 .780 81/1.111 4/1 26/8
12.Parrino# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/12 .120/.185/.160/.345 .552/.083 .091 1/.000 0/0 0/1
15.Smith* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/5.000 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 380/294 .243/.321/.372/.693 .628/.713 .649 38/.717 0/0 7/0
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 4/2.250 ··· 1/.000 5/.600 ··· 2/1.500 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 364/298 .265/.324/.370/.694 .616/.711 .693 81/.559 8/5 2/6
22.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 302/239 .231/.287/.330/.616 .664/.604 .631 39/.816 2/0 4/6
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 104/90 .255/.304/.415/.719 .857/.694 .658 63/.736 0/0 3/1
19.Weeks# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/
25.Young G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 3/.666 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 5/.200 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 324/180 .192/.281/.369/.650 .701/.610 .634 52/.626 8/3 11/2
IP 58.2 10.2 56.1 55.0 2.2 29.2 45.1 12.0 48.1 16.0 TOTAL .248/.323/.408/.731 .752/.721 .713 .823 61/23 152/84
ERA-K/9 5.98/8.0 2.53/5.9 5.91/6.2 2.13/4.9 10.13/3.3 6.07/9.7 8.54/5.6 5.25/7.5 2.79/5.6 5.63/6.8 4.87/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Suzuki (56-7-2)
 Vogt (13-8-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 265/.251 43/.171 250/.280 224/.228 14/.417 126/.243 218/.328 56/.244 194/.238 73/.281 .275  Cespedes
 Crisp
 Young
 Moss
 Smith
 Choice
86/18/0/8
0/90/0/2
15/49/23/2
2/2/21/1
45/0/9/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .841 .624 .891 .637 1.095 .851 .960 .686 .652 .767 .805
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 154/.975 20/.217 109/.893 128/.479 7/1.095 51/.982 120/1.280 27/.476 64/.852 32/.545 .819
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 111/.660 23/.990 141/.890 96/.853 7/1.095 75/.761 98/.565 29/.872 130/.553 41/.931 .793
Road 149/.798 13/.154 139/.825 151/.521 / 41/1.029 134/.828 26/.584 87/.698 31/.811
Last 28d days 100/.686 43/.624 42/.921 92/.712 14/1.095 33/.682 39/.689 39/.777 109/.682 52/.856
HR/SB/CS 13/9/1 1/0/0 15/5/1 3/5/3 0/0/0 7/1/2 8/5/0 1/0/1 5/0/4 2/3/1 174/81/35
Usage ·····X·· ·XX···X· ··X····· ·X·····X ·o······ ··X····· ·····X·· ··X···o· ···X···· ·X···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.