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Game Preview: HOU @ BAL, 7:05pm, Saturday, May 10, 2014 @Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Astros, 11-25, 11-25 5th, 10 GB, 9 GB in WC

SP: Collin McHugh (27, RHP, 2-1, 2.79)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-1) 19.1 13 7 6 4 23 0 2.79
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 38.1 46 28 27 6 31 4 6.34 44
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
2013-09-16 STL ND 5.0 4 1 1 0 2 0 72 57
2013-07-27 MIL L 5.0 9 6 6 1 2 1 84 26
Has never faced BAL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-13   Road:    5-12   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:   8-16   vsLHP:   3-9    1-Run:   3-8 
 vsEast:  3-4    vsCntrl: 1-6    vsWest:  7-13 IL: 0-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 36 Fri, May  9  @BAL  L   3-4       11-25  5th 10.0 gb
 35 Thu, May  8  @DET  W   6-2       11-24  5th  9.0 gb
 34 Wed, May  7  @DET  L   2-3       10-24  5th  9.5 gb
 33 Tue, May  6  @DET  L   4-11      10-23  5th  9.0 gb
 32 Mon, May  5  @DET  L   0-2       10-22  5th  9.0 gb
 31 Sun, May  4   SEA  L   7-8       10-21  5th  9.0 gb
 30 Sat, May  3   SEA  L   8-9       10-20  5th  8.0 gb
 29 Fri, May  2   SEA  W   5-4 (11)  10-19  5th  8.0 gb
 28 Wed, Apr 30   WSN  L   0-7        9-19  5th  9.0 gb
 27 Tue, Apr 29   WSN  L   3-4        9-18  5th  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30: 8-22
Orioles, 19-14, 19-14 1st, ½ up

SP: Miguel Gonzalez (30, RHP, 1-3, 5.28)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (1-3) 30.2 35 20 18 12 28 5 5.28
2013 (11-8) 171.1 157 81 72 53 120 24 3.78
2012 (9-4) 105.1 92 38 38 35 77 13 3.25
Last 7 GS 2-3 37.2 37 21 18 13 33 5 4.30 50
2014-05-04 @MIN L 4.2 6 3 3 4 7 0 94 43
2014-04-27 KCR L 6.0 6 4 3 1 4 0 98 49
2014-04-22 @TOR ND 5.2 4 3 2 2 7 1 102 56
2014-04-16 TBR W 5.0 3 0 0 3 6 0 98 64
2014-04-09 @NYY ND 6.0 7 3 3 1 3 2 85 48
2014-04-04 @DET L 3.1 9 7 7 1 1 2 78 14
2013-09-26 TOR W 7.0 2 1 0 1 5 0 106 75
Last 5 v.HOU 1-1 9.2 14 10 5 3 12 2 4.66 42
2013-07-31 HOU L 3.2 9 9 4 2 5 2 86 20
2013-06-06 @HOU W 6.0 5 1 1 1 7 0 95 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-6    Road:   11-8    ExtrInn: 3-0 
 vsRHP:  16-11   vsLHP:   3-3    1-Run:   8-3 
 vsEast: 13-8    vsCntrl: 3-6    vsWest:  1-0  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 33 Fri, May  9   HOU  W   4-3       19-14  1st  0.5 up
 32 Thu, May  8  @TBR  W   3-1       18-14  1st  0.5 up
 31 Wed, May  7  @TBR  W   4-3       17-14  1st    Tied
 30 Tue, May  6  @TBR  W   5-3       16-14  1st    Tied
 29 Sun, May  4  @MIN  L   2-5       15-14  2nd  0.5 gb
 28 Sat, May  3  @MIN  L   1-6       15-13  2nd  0.5 gb
 27 Fri, May  2  @MIN  W   3-0       15-12  1st  0.5 up
 26 Thu, May  1   PIT  W   6-5 (10)  14-12  2nd  0.5 gb
 25 Thu, May  1   PIT  W   5-1       13-12  2nd  0.5 gb
 24 Sun, Apr 27   KCR  L   3-9       12-12  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 09, 2014 BAL  4  HOU  3        W:Wei-Yin Chen (4-2), L: Jerome Williams (1-2), S: Tommy Hunter (11)

Thu, Aug 01, 2013 BAL  6  HOU  3        W:Bud Norris (7-9), L: Jordan Lyles (4-5), S: Jim Johnson (37)
Wed, Jul 31, 2013 HOU 11 @BAL  0        W:Brett Oberholtzer (1-0), L: Miguel Gonzalez (8-5), S: none
Tue, Jul 30, 2013 BAL  4  HOU  3        W:Wei-Yin Chen (6-3), L: Lucas Harrell (5-11), S: Jim Johnson (36)
Thu, Jun 06, 2013 BAL  3 @HOU  1        W:Miguel Gonzalez (3-2), L: Bud Norris (5-5), S: Jim Johnson (20)
Wed, Jun 05, 2013 HOU 11  BAL  7        W:Dallas Keuchel (3-2), L: Freddy Garcia (2-3), S: none
Tue, Jun 04, 2013 BAL  4 @HOU  1        W:Chris Tillman (5-2), L: Lucas Harrell (4-7), S: Jim Johnson (19)
Thu, Jun 19, 2008 BAL  7  HOU  5        W:Brian Burres (6-5), L: Shawn Chacon (2-3), S: George Sherrill (24)
Wed, Jun 18, 2008 BAL  2  HOU  1 (10)   W:Chad Bradford (3-2), L: Jose Valverde (4-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 17, 2008 BAL  6  HOU  5        W:Jim Johnson (2-2), L: Doug Brocail (2-2), S: George Sherrill (23)
Season Series: 2014 - BAL over 1-0; 2013 - BAL won 4-2; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - BAL leads 11-5

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  5.74

CLE  4.06

SDP  2.76

 RA/G

ATL  3.06

BAL  4.27

ARI  5.53

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .402

A. Jones  .267

C. Santana  .139

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .503

N. Aoki  .336

Y. Alonso  .194

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .769

A. Soriano  .413

W. Venable  .240

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.273

J. Lowrie  .747

Y. Alonso  .437

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.43

R. Porcello  3.49

C. Buchholz  6.44

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

C. Archer  7.59

P. Maholm  3.47

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

Astros Batters (3.42 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (4.27 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 50.Gonzalez
G/S/vB		 53.Britton*
G/S/vB		 29.Hunter
G/S/vB		 17.Matusz*
G/S/vB		 66.McFarland*
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 40.Patton*
G/S/vB		 58.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 162/118 .270/.321/.372/.693 .978/.583 .587 111/.675 11/2 1/0
23.Carter G/S/vP 5/.400 5/2.100 7/1.143 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 128/84 .162/.266/.378/.644 .615/.659 .637 85/.709 0/0 5/1
15.Castro* G/S/vP 6/2.833 ··· 2/2.000 4/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 124/93 .215/.315/.374/.688 .499/.756 .681 83/.686 0/0 4/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 40/16 .167/.205/.417/.622 .447/.893 .556 23/.703 0/0 3/0
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 4/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 134/95 .240/.306/.430/.736 .740/.734 .838 90/.785 0/1 5/3
21.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 9/.619 137/104 .242/.314/.347/.661 .688/.652 .545 105/.612 4/2 2/0
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 37/31 .324/.378/.471/.849 1.000/.819 1.051 29/1.025 0/1 1/1
14.Guzman G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 74/28 .200/.243/.314/.558 .468/.706 .410 51/.427 1/0 2/1
28.Hoes G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 58/20 .196/.276/.275/.550 .697/.300 .690 42/.398 0/0 1/1
18.Krauss* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 79/78 .164/.291/.284/.575 .000/.583 .718 51/.690 0/0 2/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 89/82 .221/.236/.360/.596 1.143/.549 .500 53/.702 0/0 3/0
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 90/62 .217/.278/.289/.567 .632/.537 .646 90/.567 1/2 1/5
6.Villar# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 120/81 .231/.291/.472/.763 .762/.763 .458 78/.842 8/1 5/5
IP 30.2 20.1 13.2 12.0 4.0 14.0 2.1 14.0 TOTAL .218/.288/.368/.656 .659/.654 .633 .670 26/9 37/24
ERA-K/9 5.28/8.2 0.89/6.7 3.29/8.5 3.75/6.0 2.25/4.5 0.64/5.8 3.86/3.9 4.50/7.7 4.06/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (22-8-1)
 Corporan (4-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 138/.287 79/.155 60/.321 58/.298 18/.313 57/.260 9/.444 60/.236 .273  Presley
 Hoes
 Springer
 Fowler
 Gonzalez
 Krauss
 Guzman
14/5/8/3
12/0/7/1
0/0/21/1
0/32/0/0
2/0/1/0
2/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .854 .466 .863 .882 .764 .693 1.000 .645 .767
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 75/.676 32/.285 28/.815 26/.824 8/.929 22/.668 4/.500 19/.754 .744
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 63/1.074 47/.598 32/.904 32/.927 10/.633 35/.710 5/1.400 41/.594 .788
Home 45/.564 39/.407 26/.686 15/.673 13/.846 24/.440 3/1.667 23/.623
Last 28d days 94/.673 51/.535 44/.857 42/.776 18/.764 40/.649 9/1.000 39/.514
HR/SB/CS 5/3/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 1/0/1 0/0/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 1/1/0 34/20/3
Usage ·····X·· ··oo·X·o o·XX···X ·Xo··o·· ········ oo·o···· ·····oX· ·XX··o··
Orioles Batters (4.27 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.14 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.McHugh
G/S/vB		 45.Bass
G/S/vB		 56.Clemens
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
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
45.Clevenger* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 38/35 .206/.289/.412/.701 .000/.766 .378 28/.646 0/0 0/0
23.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 4/1.250 20/1.863 ··· 139/115 .278/.345/.540/.885 1.056/.850 .693 93/.914 0/2 9/0
3.Flaherty* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.200 ··· 78/64 .211/.282/.268/.550 .593/.540 .373 43/.665 0/0 0/2
2.Hardy G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 1/no AB 9/.555 5/.400 20/.956 1/.000 102/80 .258/.280/.323/.603 .385/.660 .633 81/.621 0/0 0/1
10.Jones G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 3/.000 12/.969 1/.000 141/110 .267/.284/.393/.676 1.409/.480 .425 95/.650 3/0 3/2
36.Joseph G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/3 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 7/.000 0/0 0/0
9.Lough* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.333 ··· 69/62 .172/.221/.234/.455 .000/.501 .194 43/.439 4/0 0/1
13.Machado G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· ··· 7/1.429 ··· 34/26 .161/.235/.258/.493 .000/.656 .556 34/.493 0/0 1/3
21.Markakis* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 4/.000 1/2.000 7/.715 13/1.121 ··· 151/113 .314/.371/.416/.787 .573/.860 .843 101/.877 2/1 2/0
28.Pearce G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/.400 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 42/32 .275/.310/.575/.885 1.178/.797 1.133 39/.955 0/0 3/0
6.Schoop G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 108/84 .235/.278/.392/.670 .393/.743 .492 71/.680 0/0 3/5
32.Wieters# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 3/.666 5/.200 9/.555 1/.000 107/85 .323/.355/.525/.880 .799/.901 .818 70/.858 0/1 5/1
27.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.666 8/.708 3/.000 ··· 57/39 .315/.351/.426/.777 .778/.774 .831 35/.648 0/0 1/0
IP 19.1 17.0 13.1 1.1 11.0 1.2 23.0 3.1 TOTAL .263/.312/.399/.711 .680/.719 .623 .724 12/4 29/17
ERA-K/9 2.79/10.7 4.24/2.1 4.73/3.4 0.00/6.9 4.09/11.5 0.00/10.6 6.26/5.9 5.40/13.6 4.90/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Clevenger (7-2-0)
 Joseph (2-0-0)
 Wieters (11-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 75/.186 70/.215 59/.245 5/.200 51/.375 5/.000 105/.309 12/.333 .264  Lough
 Young
 Markakis
 Jones
 Cruz
 Pearce
 Flaherty
22/2/0/3
3/0/0/2
0/0/29/2
0/32/0/1
15/0/4/0
1/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .497 .671 .782 .400 .912 .000 .876 1.000 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 57/.399 35/.519 36/.611 2/1.000 28/1.118 3/.000 61/.970 6/1.167 .741
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 18/.804 35/.814 23/1.064 3/.000 23/.666 2/.000 44/.749 6/.833 .778
Road 22/.273 24/.614 20/.961 1/.000 28/.819 / 33/.830 12/1.000
Last 28d days 75/.497 46/.713 59/.782 5/.400 29/.895 5/.000 75/.808 1/.000
HR/SB/CS 0/1/1 3/1/0 3/0/0 0/1/0 1/4/1 0/0/0 4/1/0 1/1/0 39/26/9
Usage ·····X·· ·o··X··X ········ ···o·o·· ·oo····o ·······X X····Xo· ··o·····

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.