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Game Preview: HOU @ TEX, 8:05pm, Monday, August 19, 2013 @Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Astros, 41-82, 41-82 5th, 29½ GB, 29½ GB in WC

SP: Lucas Harrell (28, RHP, 6-13, 5.16)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (6-13) 129.0 139 83 74 71 74 16 5.16
2012 (11-11) 193.2 185 90 81 78 140 13 3.76
2011 (0-2) 18.0 23 12 9 8 15 0 4.50
Last 7 GS 1-3 38.1 34 28 23 21 29 7 5.40 46
2013-07-30 @BAL L 5.1 2 4 4 5 3 1 101 46
2013-07-05 @TEX L 3.2 5 9 7 6 3 3 103 16
2013-06-30 LAA ND 7.0 6 1 1 2 7 1 110 66
2013-06-25 STL L 3.1 7 7 7 4 5 0 91 19
2013-06-20 MIL ND 5.1 5 4 1 0 3 1 98 51
2013-06-15 CHW W 6.2 7 3 3 1 7 1 106 54
2013-06-09 @KCR ND 7.0 2 0 0 3 1 0 99 71
Last 5 v.TEX 1-3 20.2 23 19 14 11 15 5 6.10 41
2013-07-05 @TEX L 3.2 5 9 7 6 3 3 103 16
2013-04-02 TEX L 6.0 6 1 1 2 4 0 97 58
2012-06-16 @TEX L 5.1 7 5 5 0 2 1 78 36
2012-05-19 TEX W 5.2 5 4 1 3 6 1 109 52
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   19-43   Road:   22-39   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  30-62   vsLHP:  11-20   1-Run:  16-24
 vsEast:  7-20   vsCntrl: 7-16   vsWest: 19-37 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
123 Sun, Aug 18  @LAA  W   7-5       41-82  5th 29.5 gb
122 Sat, Aug 17  @LAA  L   5-6 (10)  40-82  5th 30.5 gb
121 Fri, Aug 16  @LAA  W   8-2       40-81  5th 29.5 gb
120 Thu, Aug 15  @OAK  L   0-5       39-81  5th 30.5 gb
119 Wed, Aug 14  @OAK  W   2-1 (11)  39-80  5th 30.0 gb
118 Tue, Aug 13  @OAK  W   5-4       38-80  5th 30.0 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30: 8-22
Rangers, 71-53, 71-53 1st, ½ up

SP: Matt Garza (29, RHP, 8-2, 3.40)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (8-2) 106.0 94 42 40 27 90 14 3.40
2012 (5-7) 103.2 90 48 45 32 96 15 3.91
2011 (10-10) 198.0 186 90 73 63 197 14 3.32
Last 7 GS 4-1 48.2 48 20 18 9 38 7 3.33 56
2013-08-14 MIL ND 5.2 8 4 4 2 4 2 99 39
2013-08-09 @HOU W 7.0 7 4 4 1 8 2 107 54
2013-08-03 @OAK L 8.0 8 4 4 1 5 1 114 54
2013-07-29 LAA ND 7.0 5 3 3 3 6 1 107 58
2013-07-24 NYY W 7.1 5 1 0 0 5 0 95 71
2013-07-13 STL W 6.2 10 2 2 2 4 0 113 48
2013-07-08 @CHW W 7.0 5 2 1 0 6 1 102 67
Last 5 v.HOU 3-1 32.1 32 17 17 8 23 7 4.73 51
2013-08-09 @HOU W 7.0 7 4 4 1 8 2 107 54
2013-06-21 HOU W 8.0 4 1 1 2 8 1 98 76
2012-06-30 HOU W 5.1 9 2 2 3 1 0 104 40
2012-05-21 @HOU L 3.0 5 7 7 2 2 2 72 21
2011-09-16 HOU ND 9.0 7 3 3 0 4 2 124 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   35-27   Road:   36-26   ExtrInn: 2-7 
 vsRHP:  47-40   vsLHP:  24-13   1-Run:  21-11
 vsEast: 13-17   vsCntrl:10-13   vsWest: 38-16 IL:10-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
124 Sun, Aug 18   SEA  L   3-4       71-53  1st  0.5 up
123 Sat, Aug 17   SEA  W  15-3       71-52  1st  1.5 up
122 Fri, Aug 16   SEA  L   1-3       70-52  1st  0.5 up
121 Wed, Aug 14   MIL  W   5-4       70-51  1st  2.0 up
120 Tue, Aug 13   MIL  L   1-5       69-51  1st  1.0 up
119 Mon, Aug 12  @HOU  W   2-1       69-50  1st  1.0 up
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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:17-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Aug 12, 2013 TEX  2 @HOU  1        W:Yu Darvish (12-5), L: Brett Oberholtzer (2-1), S: Joe Nathan (35)
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)
Season Series: 2013 - TEX over 11-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; 2011 - TEX won 4-2; All-Time - TEX leads 53-32

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
Astros Batters (3.84 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (3.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Garza
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 12/.697 2/2.000 4/.000 1/.000 2/.000 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 502/367 .277/.316/.355/.671 .780/.631 .646 96/.676 30/8 4/9
2.Barnes G/S/vP 7/.953 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 337/230 .232/.289/.343/.632 .866/.526 .532 86/.516 10/7 6/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 6/1.333 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 5/1.400 1/.000 1/no AB 444/316 .214/.313/.441/.754 .742/.759 .880 92/.620 0/0 23/3
15.Castro* G/S/vP 9/1.444 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/1.666 1/no AB 1/.000 1/2.000 437/343 .267/.339/.455/.794 .630/.839 .734 90/.816 2/1 14/5
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 165/86 .247/.311/.413/.724 .638/.809 .719 35/.604 0/0 7/5
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/2.000 1/.000 442/325 .237/.268/.397/.665 .628/.678 .619 100/.743 0/0 16/11
10.Elmore G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 115/75 .245/.310/.343/.653 .728/.611 .627 41/.547 0/3 2/7
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 192/165 .230/.250/.337/.587 .628/.580 .605 4/.500 6/2 4/8
19.Grossman# G/S/vP 4/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 220/172 .262/.344/.356/.700 .740/.688 .740 89/.908 6/5 3/2
28.Hoes G/S/vP 4/.750 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 65/47 .317/.338/.476/.815 .611/.894 .935 65/.815 4/1 1/2
59.Krauss* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 82/72 .169/.207/.325/.532 .200/.580 .718 45/.588 2/0 3/1
6.Villar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 88/70 .257/.345/.311/.656 .393/.718 .529 84/.664 11/4 0/5
29.Wallace* G/S/vP 7/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 2/1.500 1/no AB 1/.000 195/149 .221/.277/.442/.719 .383/.823 .799 96/.723 1/1 10/3
IP 106.0 40.1 37.1 49.2 49.2 55.1 11.0 42.2 TOTAL .238/.297/.379/.677 .695/.670 .682 .702 88/41 121/91
ERA-K/9 3.40/7.6 1.34/10.0 2.89/8.9 1.63/9.2 2.90/8.5 1.79/6.7 4.09/8.2 3.80/3.4 3.65/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (50-16-10)
 Corporan (18-10-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 437/.236 161/.182 151/.207 193/.161 214/.263 222/.204 48/.200 182/.298 .246  Barnes
 Grossman
 Krauss
 Carter
 Hoes
 Elmore
8/82/13/6
32/26/2/2
11/0/9/0
40/0/2/0
1/2/15/0
7/0/1/0
OPS .680 .510 .614 .485 .693 .603 .533 .763 .698
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 233/.685 81/.568 55/.453 101/.526 82/.976 108/.652 24/.304 104/.823 .721
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 204/.674 80/.452 96/.710 92/.442 132/.520 114/.555 24/.774 78/.685 .677
Home 194/.735 92/.562 69/.506 102/.463 115/.625 123/.730 26/.673 93/.791
Last 28d days 144/.719 52/.500 38/.516 41/.685 31/.953 40/.668 34/.671 31/.887
HR/SB/CS 14/4/1 2/3/0 4/5/1 2/2/1 3/1/0 5/1/4 0/3/0 4/1/2 120/59/19
Usage ····X··· ·XX·oo·· ····X··· X···X·o· o····o·· ··X·o··· ·····X·· ·o······
Rangers Batters (4.41 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.25 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 64.Harrell
G/S/vB
66.Chapman*
G/S/vB
48.Cosart
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
1.Andrus G/S/vP 12/.808 1/5.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.000 3/.000 1/.000 540/391 .254/.318/.306/.624 .658/.611 .582 111/.746 31/5 1/12
15.Baker G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 123/46 .300/.366/.600/.966 1.216/.579 .911 27/.551 1/0 9/1
29.Beltre G/S/vP 14/1.346 ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 4/1.750 3/.333 1/2.000 524/403 .326/.376/.532/.908 .978/.887 .910 108/.974 0/0 25/11
23.Gentry G/S/vP 5/1.400 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 188/82 .250/.349/.350/.699 .775/.606 .751 48/.826 14/3 1/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP 14/.539 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 4/.750 3/.000 1/no AB 437/315 .266/.339/.409/.748 .790/.732 .790 112/.619 8/8 10/10
2.Martin* G/S/vP 3/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 6/.900 3/1.167 ··· 367/273 .274/.324/.398/.722 .568/.777 .821 100/.669 27/8 6/3
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 7/.143 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 3/.333 ··· 393/271 .244/.308/.449/.757 .712/.777 .781 80/.673 0/0 17/4
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 12/1.151 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 414/307 .224/.285/.382/.667 .554/.706 .762 63/.730 1/4 12/2
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 6/.733 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.100 3/1.666 ··· 382/259 .277/.304/.434/.738 .747/.733 .699 87/.683 1/1 13/0
13.Profar# G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 2/.000 ··· 237/156 .243/.310/.333/.644 .613/.657 .669 72/.608 1/3 4/7
51.Rios G/S/vP 7/1.096 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/1.167 ··· 499/392 .276/.325/.417/.742 .837/.717 .667 99/.619 28/6 12/3
9.Rosales G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 155/66 .190/.265/.314/.579 .706/.402 .595 8/.125 0/0 4/7
8.Soto G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 149/97 .208/.304/.392/.696 .465/.826 1.007 40/.836 0/2 6/2
IP 129.0 4.0 39.0 25.0 7.1 34.0 48.1 8.2 TOTAL .261/.323/.412/.736 .739/.734 .757 .728 93/37 137/64
ERA-K/9 5.16/5.2 0.00/4.5 1.15/4.2 6.84/9.4 0.00/6.2 2.91/5.8 5.59/8.0 7.27/7.2 4.84/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pierzynski (41-14-6)
 Soto (18-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 583/.279 13/.083 153/.211 110/.258 29/.192 138/.244 216/.239 37/.273 .276  Martin
 Rios
 Murphy
 Gentry
 Baker
 Rosales
 Profar
6/90/19/10
0/0/116/9
112/0/1/6
8/64/0/4
19/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .817 .487 .549 .906 .468 .672 .838 .788 .806
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 317/.764 6/.000 100/.571 44/.990 15/.277 44/.876 121/1.034 18/.423 .836
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 266/.880 7/.952 53/.505 66/.851 14/.665 94/.578 95/.600 19/1.127 .783
Road 262/.768 8/.125 100/.422 40/1.057 18/.583 63/.571 149/.798 22/.686
Last 28d days 74/.741 13/.487 127/.605 45/.914 29/.468 104/.566 78/.561 37/.788
HR/SB/CS 16/10/4 1/0/0 0/4/1 7/0/1 0/0/1 3/0/3 11/7/1 2/1/0 153/68/26
Usage ···Xo··· ooo·oo·· ····X··· ·X··o·X· ··X··XX· X·····X· ··X····· ·oX··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.