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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. Houston Astros, Angel Stadium of Anaheim, May 21, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Start Time:
7:05pt (local), 10:05et
Venue:
Angel Stadium of Anaheim
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Angel Stadium of Anaheim
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
71° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
47
On This Date:
22-28
Angels
Manager:
Mike Scioscia
Game #:
46
On This Date:
21-24
Houston Astros
17-29, 17-29 5th, 12½ GB, 8½ GB in WC
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-15   Road:    7-14   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  12-18   vsLHP:   5-11   1-Run:   5-9 
 vsEast:  4-5    vsCntrl: 3-7    vsWest: 10-15 IL: 0-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 46 Tue, May 20  @LAA  L   3-9       17-29  5th 12.5 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
25-20, 25-20 2nd, 4 GB, 1½ up in WC
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-12   Road:   13-8    ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  15-12   vsLHP:  10-8    1-Run:   5-8 
 vsEast:  8-6    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  7-10 IL: 6-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 45 Tue, May 20   HOU  W   9-3       25-20  2nd  4.0 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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 20, 2014 LAA  9  HOU  3        W:Tyler Skaggs (4-1), L: Scott Feldman (2-2), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2014 - LAA over 4-2; 2013 - HOU won 10-9; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - LAA leads 16-15

SP: Collin McHugh (27, RHP, 2-2, 3.48)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-2) 31.0 23 13 12 10 34 2 3.48
2013 (0-4) 26.0 45 29 29 5 11 6 10.04
2012 (0-4) 21.1 27 21 18 8 17 5 7.59
Last 7 GS 2-4 40.0 43 27 26 11 38 5 5.85 46
2014-05-16 CHW L 5.1 3 4 4 4 7 1 92 49
2014-05-10 @BAL ND 6.1 7 2 2 2 4 1 101 53
2014-05-04 SEA L 4.0 8 6 5 1 4 0 85 27
2014-04-27 OAK W 8.2 2 1 1 3 7 0 114 80
2014-04-22 @SEA W 6.2 3 0 0 0 12 0 89 80
2013-09-27 @LAD L 4.0 9 8 8 1 3 2 88 14
2013-09-21 ARI L 5.0 11 6 6 0 1 1 80 22
Has never faced LAA as starter.

SP: Jered Weaver (31, RHP, 4-3, 3.14)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-3) 57.1 45 21 20 18 45 7 3.14
2013 (11-8) 154.1 139 58 56 37 117 17 3.27
2012 (20-5) 188.2 147 63 59 45 142 20 2.81
Last 7 GS 4-1 45.1 34 12 12 15 33 3 2.38 60
2014-05-16 TBR L 7.0 3 2 2 3 5 1 105 65
2014-05-11 @TOR W 6.1 4 1 1 2 5 0 102 64
2014-05-05 NYY W 8.0 6 1 1 1 7 0 104 72
2014-04-29 CLE W 5.1 8 2 2 1 6 1 90 49
2014-04-23 @WSN ND 6.0 7 1 1 1 2 0 82 55
2014-04-18 @DET W 6.0 3 1 1 3 3 0 100 62
2014-04-12 NYM ND 6.2 3 4 4 4 5 1 99 53
Last 5 v.HOU 1-1 11.2 11 7 7 1 11 5 5.40 51
2014-04-06 @HOU L 5.2 5 5 5 0 6 4 100 45
2013-09-14 @HOU W 6.0 6 2 2 1 5 1 108 56

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

Astros Batters (3.67 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (4.04 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Weaver
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		 53.Santiago*
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 6/.666 6/.800 5/.733 4/2.000 ··· 4/1.000 3/.000 5/.000 211/154 .313/.355/.426/.781 1.002/.697 .746 113/.903 15/3 1/0
23.Carter G/S/vP 4/.000 2/.000 6/.533 3/no AB ··· 1/3.000 4/1.250 6/1.700 164/106 .193/.280/.400/.680 .680/.681 .603 88/.741 0/0 6/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 3/1.666 5/.000 3/.666 3/.333 ··· ··· 5/.800 ··· 161/116 .234/.317/.411/.728 .597/.784 .741 83/.687 0/0 6/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 55/22 .163/.222/.408/.630 .460/.877 .526 29/.650 0/0 4/0
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 5/1.400 5/.450 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.000 2/1.000 178/122 .259/.315/.438/.753 .878/.694 .803 99/.788 0/1 7/3
21.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· 6/1.300 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 4/1.750 1/.000 ··· 184/134 .274/.380/.395/.775 .786/.771 .596 106/.892 5/3 3/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 49/43 .267/.313/.378/.690 1.000/.645 .915 28/.693 0/1 1/1
14.Guzman G/S/vP 6/1.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 93/32 .209/.269/.314/.583 .493/.758 .357 52/.519 1/0 2/1
28.Hoes G/S/vP 2/.000 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 5/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 102/99 .182/.294/.318/.612 1.667/.575 .769 50/.701 0/0 3/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP 6/.834 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/.286 1/.000 ··· 112/101 .213/.232/.333/.565 1.182/.497 .496 57/.519 1/0 3/0
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 137/96 .238/.321/.361/.682 .603/.714 .687 101/.762 1/2 3/6
6.Villar# G/S/vP 6/.533 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 150/101 .226/.279/.416/.695 .726/.679 .436 76/.740 11/1 5/6
IP 57.1 18.1 14.2 20.1 9.2 18.0 37.1 18.0 TOTAL .236/.306/.388/.694 .722/.681 .655 .749 35/11 48/28
ERA-K/9 3.14/7.1 4.91/11.3 4.91/12.9 2.21/10.2 0.93/7.4 3.00/10.0 4.82/7.5 2.50/9.0 3.77/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (25-9-1)
 Corporan (4-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 230/.214 73/.235 64/.185 86/.145 33/.188 78/.221 165/.257 72/.224 .227  Presley
 Hoes
 Springer
 Fowler
 Gonzalez
 Krauss
 Guzman
22/5/8/3
16/0/7/2
0/0/31/2
0/42/0/0
3/0/1/0
3/0/0/0
3/0/0/0
OPS .626 .802 .646 .534 .525 .705 .755 .546 .656
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 148/.648 51/.702 33/.726 45/.546 17/.706 45/.526 47/.721 43/.627 .636
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 82/.586 22/1.030 31/.560 41/.521 16/.321 33/.933 118/.769 29/.427 .673
Home 132/.632 36/.889 42/.805 49/.606 29/.599 51/.538 96/.786 38/.607
Last 28d days 105/.573 31/.301 30/.507 38/.521 33/.525 36/.628 70/.857 29/.586
HR/SB/CS 7/8/2 6/0/0 2/1/0 1/1/0 1/0/1 2/1/0 6/3/2 1/1/0 40/24/11
Usage ····X··· ··o···oX o····X·· X···o··X ··o·oo·· o···oo·X ·X······ ··o···oo
Angels Batters (5.00 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.89 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.McHugh
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 ··· 2/no AB 3/.666 2/.000 3/2.667 4/.000 2/2.000 1/2.000 183/131 .260/.297/.391/.687 .542/.745 .543 102/.754 2/3 2/2
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 69/63 .295/.368/.508/.876 1.000/.856 .807 44/.986 0/0 3/2
7.Cowgill G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 114/62 .299/.393/.402/.795 .826/.768 .721 88/.744 1/0 2/2
20.Cron G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 47/23 .283/.298/.478/.776 .875/.670 .658 47/.776 0/0 2/0
6.Freese G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 6/1.600 ··· 4/.750 ··· 99/74 .213/.273/.303/.576 .760/.519 .508 29/.932 0/0 2/0
10.Green G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 45/22 .357/.378/.476/.854 .935/.768 .936 45/.854 1/2 1/0
17.Iannetta G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 7/.286 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 113/64 .239/.372/.402/.774 .880/.689 .789 50/.805 2/0 3/0
28.Ibanez* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.400 2/.000 5/.200 3/.000 17/.857 2/.000 132/105 .152/.273/.277/.550 .235/.631 .573 60/.572 2/0 3/0
47.Kendrick G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 6/.200 3/3.500 2/no AB 2/2.500 3/.666 2/2.000 197/137 .310/.388/.437/.825 .793/.839 .649 100/.879 9/2 2/3
8.McDonald G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 33/15 .241/.333/.276/.609 .722/.481 .900 19/.388 1/0 0/2
19.Navarro* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 29/20 .308/.379/.500/.879 .333/1.147 .724 29/.879 0/0 0/0
5.Pujols G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 28/1.193 2/.000 20/1.450 ··· 17/.882 ··· 200/138 .273/.330/.536/.866 .865/.866 .845 103/.763 2/0 12/2
27.Trout G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 2/.500 2/1.000 2/1.500 ··· 4/1.000 2/2.000 205/141 .270/.361/.511/.872 .985/.822 .996 107/.781 5/0 8/1
IP 31.0 4.2 17.2 15.1 13.2 6.2 26.1 7.0 TOTAL .255/.326/.420/.746 .755/.742 .711 .742 32/7 49/24
ERA-K/9 3.48/9.9 0.00/9.6 4.08/5.1 9.39/12.9 3.29/10.5 0.00/14.8 5.81/6.2 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 125/.204 19/.125 77/.299 73/.297 60/.321 20/.000 119/.306 30/.321 .265  Cowgill
 Navarro
 Trout
 Green
 Ibanez
5/5/28/1
3/0/4/1
0/43/0/1
10/0/0/0
10/0/0/0
OPS .590 .388 .841 .790 .795 .000 .847 1.010 .750
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/.521 11/.282 34/.978 34/.960 30/1.096 11/.000 67/.908 10/1.267 .744
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 51/.692 8/.542 43/.731 39/.632 30/.508 9/.000 52/.770 20/.882 .755
Road 49/.521 5/.400 31/.624 37/.964 32/.758 7/.000 43/.799 19/1.105
Last 28d days 103/.662 19/.388 36/.988 34/1.017 26/.558 20/.000 60/.717 19/.957
HR/SB/CS 2/1/2 0/1/0 2/0/1 1/2/0 1/4/1 0/0/0 4/1/0 2/1/0 45/29/11
Usage ····X··· X··oo·o· ···X···· X·XX···· ···o··o· ···o··X· X·o····· ·o··X···

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  5.52

BOS  4.07

SDP  3.09

 RA/G

ATL  3.11

LAD  4.33

ARI  5.28

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .389

B. Revere  .268

C. Santana  .151

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .492

A. Rios  .332

J. Gyorko  .217

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .757

M. Reynolds  .416

N. Schierholtz  .254

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.249

C. Owings  .752

B. Miller  .489

 ERA

J. Samardzija  1.62

N. Eovaldi  3.62

K. Correia  6.52

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

J. Hammel  7.51

E. Stults  4.11

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.