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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. Houston Astros, Angel Stadium of Anaheim, May 20, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Start Time:
7:05pt (local), 10:05et
Venue:
Angel Stadium of Anaheim
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Angel Stadium of Anaheim
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
73° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
46
On This Date:
24-26
Angels
Manager:
Mike Scioscia
Game #:
45
On This Date:
30-17
Houston Astros
17-28, 17-28 5th, 11½ GB, 7½ GB in WC
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-15   Road:    7-13   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  12-18   vsLHP:   5-10   1-Run:   5-9 
 vsEast:  4-5    vsCntrl: 3-7    vsWest: 10-14 IL: 0-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 45 Mon, May 19  @LAA  W   5-2       17-28  5th 11.5 gb
 44 Sun, May 18   CHW  W   8-2       16-28  5th 12.0 gb
 43 Sat, May 17   CHW  W   6-5       15-28  5th 12.0 gb
 42 Fri, May 16   CHW  L   2-7       14-28  5th 12.0 gb
 41 Wed, May 14   TEX  W   5-4       14-27  5th 11.0 gb
 40 Tue, May 13   TEX  W   8-0       13-27  5th 12.0 gb
 39 Mon, May 12   TEX  L   0-4       12-27  5th 12.0 gb
 38 Sun, May 11  @BAL  W   5-2       12-26  5th 11.0 gb
 37 Sat, May 10  @BAL  L   4-5 (10)  11-26  5th 11.0 gb
 36 Fri, May  9  @BAL  L   3-4       11-25  5th 10.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
24-20, 24-20 2nd, 4 GB, 1 up in WC
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-12   Road:   13-8    ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  14-12   vsLHP:  10-8    1-Run:   5-8 
 vsEast:  8-6    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  6-10 IL: 6-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 44 Mon, May 19   HOU  L   2-5       24-20  2nd  4.0 gb
 43 Sun, May 18   TBR  W   6-2       24-19  2nd  3.5 gb
 42 Sat, May 17   TBR  W   6-0       23-19  2nd  3.5 gb
 41 Fri, May 16   TBR  L   0-3       22-19  2nd  3.5 gb
 40 Thu, May 15   TBR  W   6-5       22-18  2nd  2.5 gb
 39 Wed, May 14  @PHI  W   3-0       21-18  2nd  3.0 gb
 38 Tue, May 13  @PHI  W   4-3       20-18  2nd  4.0 gb
 37 Mon, May 12  @TOR  L   3-7       19-18  3rd  4.0 gb
 36 Sun, May 11  @TOR  W   9-3       19-17  2nd  3.0 gb
 35 Sat, May 10  @TOR  W   5-3       18-17  3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, May 19, 2014 HOU  5 @LAA  2        W:Dallas Keuchel (5-2), L: Garrett Richards (4-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 07, 2014 LAA  9 @HOU  1        W:C.J. Wilson (1-1), L: Jarred Cosart (1-1), S: none
Sun, Apr 06, 2014 HOU  7  LAA  4        W:Scott Feldman (2-0), L: Jered Weaver (0-2), S: Chad Qualls (1)
Sat, Apr 05, 2014 LAA  5 @HOU  1        W:Tyler Skaggs (1-0), L: Dallas Keuchel (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 04, 2014 LAA 11 @HOU  1        W:Garrett Richards (1-0), L: Lucas Harrell (0-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 15, 2013 LAA  2 @HOU  1        W:Jerome Williams (8-10), L: Paul Clemens (4-5), S: Ernesto Frieri (34)
Sat, Sep 14, 2013 LAA  6 @HOU  2        W:Jered Weaver (10-8), L: Brett Oberholtzer (4-3), S: none
Fri, Sep 13, 2013 HOU  9  LAA  7        W:Dallas Keuchel (6-9), L: Jason Vargas (8-7), S: Josh Fields (5)
Sun, Aug 18, 2013 HOU  7 @LAA  5        W:Brett Oberholtzer (3-1), L: J.C. Gutierrez (0-4), S: Kevin Chapman (1)
Sat, Aug 17, 2013 LAA  6  HOU  5 (10)   W:Ernesto Frieri (1-4), L: Josh Fields (1-3), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - LAA over 3-2; 2013 - HOU won 10-9; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - Tied 15-15

SP: Scott Feldman (31, RHP, 2-1, 2.63)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-1) 37.2 31 12 11 10 18 3 2.63
2013 (12-12) 181.2 159 87 78 56 132 19 3.86
2012 (6-11) 123.2 139 79 70 32 96 14 5.09
Last 7 GS 2-2 40.0 39 20 19 11 19 4 4.28 50
2014-05-14 TEX ND 5.0 10 4 4 1 3 1 80 33
2014-05-09 @BAL ND 6.0 5 2 2 0 6 2 88 60
2014-04-17 KCR L 6.0 9 5 4 1 2 0 89 37
2014-04-11 @TEX ND 7.0 2 0 0 4 3 0 105 72
2014-04-06 LAA W 7.0 3 1 1 2 1 0 106 66
2014-04-01 NYY W 6.2 2 0 0 2 3 0 102 71
2013-09-27 BOS L 2.1 8 8 8 1 1 1 57 9
Last 5 v.LAA 1-3 27.2 32 15 15 10 7 3 4.88 44
2014-04-06 LAA W 7.0 3 1 1 2 1 0 106 66
2013-06-04 @LAA ND 6.0 6 2 2 1 1 0 106 52
2010-07-24 LAA L 5.1 7 3 3 1 0 1 80 41
2010-06-29 @LAA L 5.2 9 5 5 3 2 1 106 30
2009-09-29 @LAA L 3.2 7 4 4 3 3 1 88 31

SP: Tyler Skaggs (22, LHP, 3-1, 4.53)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-1) 51.2 47 28 26 13 33 5 4.53
2013 (2-3) 38.2 38 23 22 15 36 7 5.12
2012 (1-3) 29.1 30 20 19 13 21 6 5.83
Last 7 GS 2-1 43.2 43 27 26 12 28 5 5.36 48
2014-05-15 TBR ND 6.0 8 5 5 1 5 1 95 40
2014-05-10 @TOR W 8.0 4 3 2 0 4 0 103 68
2014-05-04 TEX L 2.2 8 6 6 3 2 1 70 17
2014-04-28 CLE ND 7.0 4 3 3 1 6 1 103 62
2014-04-22 @WSN W 7.0 3 2 2 4 5 0 94 64
2014-04-16 OAK ND 6.0 7 4 4 3 2 1 95 41
2014-04-11 NYM ND 7.0 9 4 4 0 4 1 89 47
Last 5 v.HOU 1-0 8.0 4 1 0 1 5 0 0.00 76
2014-04-05 @HOU W 8.0 4 1 0 1 5 0 95 76

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

Astros Batters (3.69 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (4.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Skaggs*
G/S/vB		 49.Frieri
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 58.Kohn
G/S/vB		 64.Morin
G/S/vB		 59.Salas
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/1.167 6/.800 5/.733 3/1.667 ··· 3/.666 5/.000 206/152 .305/.350/.416/.765 1.021/.672 .708 113/.839 15/3 1/0
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 6/.533 2/no AB ··· 1/3.000 6/1.700 160/105 .197/.281/.408/.690 .719/.674 .620 88/.802 0/0 6/1
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 3/.666 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 157/115 .225/.312/.406/.718 .542/.786 .719 84/.661 0/0 6/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 52/22 .149/.196/.404/.600 .395/.877 .445 26/.591 0/0 4/0
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.450 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 174/121 .264/.322/.447/.768 .918/.700 .840 99/.819 0/1 7/3
21.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· 6/1.300 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.750 ··· 180/133 .268/.378/.392/.770 .794/.761 .574 107/.890 5/3 3/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 49/43 .267/.313/.378/.690 1.000/.645 .915 28/.693 0/1 1/1
14.Guzman G/S/vP 10/.800 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 90/32 .217/.278/.325/.603 .519/.758 .395 50/.567 1/0 2/1
28.Hoes G/S/vP 3/.666 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 71/25 .226/.300/.371/.671 .835/.382 .665 35/.757 0/0 2/1
18.Krauss* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 101/98 .184/.297/.322/.619 1.667/.582 .786 52/.699 0/0 3/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/.286 ··· 111/100 .215/.234/.336/.571 1.182/.502 .506 60/.526 1/0 3/0
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 132/94 .237/.318/.364/.683 .619/.707 .688 100/.749 1/2 3/6
6.Villar# G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 146/100 .233/.287/.429/.715 .776/.687 .463 76/.793 11/1 5/5
IP 51.2 18.1 14.1 19.2 9.2 17.0 18.0 TOTAL .235/.306/.390/.695 .735/.678 .657 .752 35/11 48/26
ERA-K/9 4.53/5.7 4.91/11.3 5.02/13.2 1.37/10.1 0.93/7.4 3.18/10.1 2.50/9.0 3.79/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (25-9-1)
 Corporan (4-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 211/.241 73/.235 63/.189 80/.108 33/.188 74/.219 72/.224 .226  Presley
 Hoes
 Springer
 Fowler
 Gonzalez
 Krauss
 Guzman
21/5/8/3
16/0/7/2
0/0/30/2
0/41/0/0
3/0/1/0
3/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .675 .802 .657 .460 .525 .717 .546 .657
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 41/.722 51/.702 32/.751 43/.514 17/.706 43/.552 43/.627 .635
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 170/.664 22/1.030 31/.560 37/.399 16/.321 31/.930 29/.427 .677
Home 126/.869 36/.889 41/.828 43/.478 29/.599 47/.541 38/.607
Last 28d days 100/.712 36/.586 29/.526 36/.315 33/.525 33/.690 33/.515
HR/SB/CS 5/3/1 6/0/0 2/1/0 1/1/0 1/0/1 2/1/0 1/1/0 40/24/11
Usage ····X··· ·o···oX· ····X··o ···o··X· ·o·oo··o ···oo·X· ·o···oo·
Angels Batters (4.91 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Feldman
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 44.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 36.Williams
G/S/vB		 61.Zeid
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Aybar# G/S/vP 24/1.227 1/no AB 3/.666 2/.000 3/2.667 4/.000 2/2.000 1/2.000 179/128 .259/.292/.392/.684 .527/.747 .532 102/.760 2/2 2/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 65/60 .293/.359/.517/.877 .933/.866 .802 40/.998 0/0 3/2
7.Cowgill G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 110/59 .301/.398/.409/.807 .844/.774 .738 89/.742 1/0 2/2
20.Cron G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 46/22 .289/.304/.489/.793 .875/.701 .677 46/.793 0/0 2/0
10.Green G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 44/21 .366/.386/.488/.874 .935/.807 .969 44/.874 1/2 1/0
17.Iannetta G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· ··· 3/.000 7/.286 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 113/64 .239/.372/.402/.774 .880/.689 .789 54/.780 2/0 3/0
28.Ibanez* G/S/vP 19/.897 ··· 5/.400 1/.000 5/.200 3/.000 16/.913 2/.000 127/100 .148/.268/.269/.536 .235/.618 .553 56/.530 2/0 3/0
13.Jimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 29/9 .160/.222/.200/.422 .458/.347 .393 29/.422 0/0 0/0
47.Kendrick G/S/vP 22/1.150 1/.000 6/.200 2/3.500 2/no AB 2/2.500 2/.000 2/2.000 192/132 .304/.377/.433/.810 .793/.818 .615 100/.836 9/2 2/3
8.McDonald G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 9/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 32/14 .250/.344/.286/.629 .722/.516 1.071 18/.411 1/0 0/2
19.Navarro* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 25/17 .318/.400/.500/.900 .375/1.172 .708 25/.900 0/0 0/0
5.Pujols G/S/vP 6/.000 1/2.000 28/1.193 2/.000 20/1.450 ··· 16/.938 ··· 196/134 .274/.332/.536/.868 .865/.869 .849 104/.790 2/0 12/2
27.Trout G/S/vP 6/.334 2/2.000 2/.500 2/1.000 2/1.500 ··· 3/.666 2/2.000 201/137 .263/.358/.509/.867 .985/.813 .989 108/.794 5/0 8/1
IP 37.2 4.0 17.2 14.1 13.2 6.2 24.0 7.0 TOTAL .253/.324/.419/.743 .756/.738 .704 .738 32/6 49/23
ERA-K/9 2.63/4.3 0.00/9.0 4.08/5.1 10.05/12.6 3.29/10.5 0.00/14.8 6.00/6.4 3.86/10.3 4.58/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Conger (12-5-0)
 Iannetta (12-6-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 153/.225 15/.143 77/.299 69/.311 60/.321 20/.000 109/.306 30/.321 .263  Cowgill
 Navarro
 Trout
 Green
 Ibanez
5/4/28/1
3/0/3/1
0/43/0/1
10/0/0/0
9/0/0/0
OPS .634 .343 .841 .818 .795 .000 .861 1.010 .748
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 82/.649 10/.311 34/.978 33/.991 30/1.096 11/.000 64/.954 10/1.267 .744
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 71/.613 5/.400 43/.731 36/.651 30/.508 9/.000 45/.731 20/.882 .751
Road 50/.578 1/.000 31/.624 33/1.041 32/.758 7/.000 33/.830 19/1.105
Last 28d days 48/.887 15/.343 41/1.045 34/1.259 29/.498 20/.000 50/.720 19/.957
HR/SB/CS 3/3/2 0/1/0 2/0/1 1/2/0 1/4/1 0/0/0 4/1/0 2/1/0 45/29/10
Usage ·····X·· ··oo·o·o ··X····o ·XX····· ··o··o·· ··o··X·· ·o······ o··X···o

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 2014 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

COL  5.53

PHI  4.00

SDP  3.09

 RA/G

OAK  3.18

NYM  4.23

ARI  5.28

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .393

M. Holliday  .267

C. Santana  .148

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .494

D. Wright  .332

J. Gyorko  .211

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .764

K. Suzuki  .416

N. Schierholtz  .252

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.259

D. Gordon  .748

B. Miller  .480

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.25

P. Hughes  3.61

J. Danks  5.64

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

R. Dickey  7.50

C. Young  3.62

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.