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Houston Astros vs. Baltimore Orioles, at Minute Maid Park, May 29, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
84° (based on last ten years)
Orioles
Manager:
Buck Showalter
Game #:
52
On This Date:
46-49
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
55
On This Date:
22-22
Season Series
Fri, May 09, 2014 BAL  4  HOU  3     
Sat, May 10, 2014 BAL  5  HOU  4 (10)
Sun, May 11, 2014 HOU  5 @BAL  2     

Thu, May 29, 2014 BAL    @HOU  8:10pm
Fri, May 30, 2014 BAL    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, May 31, 2014 BAL    @HOU  4:10pm
Sun, Jun 01, 2014 BAL    @HOU  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Baltimore Orioles
26-25, 3rd, 4½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-12   Road:   15-13   ExtrInn: 5-2 
 vsRHP:  21-19   vsLHP:   5-6    1-Run:  11-7 
 vsEast: 13-8    vsCntrl: 7-13   vsWest:  2-1  IL: 4-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 51 Wed, May 28  @MIL  L   3-8       26-25  3rd  4.5 gb
 50 Tue, May 27  @MIL  L   6-7 (10)  26-24  3rd  3.5 gb
 49 Mon, May 26  @MIL  W   7-6 (10)  26-23  3rd  2.5 gb
 48 Sun, May 25   CLE  W   4-2       25-23  3rd  2.5 gb
 47 Sat, May 24   CLE  L   0-9       24-23  3rd  2.5 gb
 46 Fri, May 23   CLE  W   8-4       24-22  2nd  1.5 gb
 45 Thu, May 22   CLE  L   7-8 (13)  23-22  3rd  1.5 gb
 44 Wed, May 21  @PIT  L   8-9       23-21  3rd  0.5 gb
 43 Tue, May 20  @PIT  W   9-2       23-20  1st  0.5 up
 42 Sun, May 18  @KCR  L   6-8       22-20  2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15
Houston Astros
22-32, 5th, 10½ GB, 8 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-15   Road:   12-17   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  16-20   vsLHP:   6-12   1-Run:   5-10
 vsEast:  4-5    vsCntrl: 6-7    vsWest: 12-18 IL: 0-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 54 Wed, May 28  @KCR  W   9-3       22-32  5th 10.5 gb
 53 Tue, May 27  @KCR  W   3-0       21-32  5th 10.5 gb
 52 Mon, May 26  @KCR  W   9-2       20-32  5th 11.5 gb
 51 Sun, May 25  @SEA  W   4-1       19-32  5th 11.5 gb
 50 Sat, May 24  @SEA  W   9-4       18-32  5th 12.5 gb
 49 Fri, May 23  @SEA  L   1-6       17-32  5th 13.5 gb
 48 Thu, May 22  @SEA  L   1-3       17-31  5th 13.5 gb
 47 Wed, May 21  @LAA  L   1-2       17-30  5th 13.5 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 11, 2014 HOU  5 @BAL  2        W:Jarred Cosart (2-3), L: Chris Tillman (3-2), S: Chad Qualls (2)
Sat, May 10, 2014 BAL  5  HOU  4 (10)   W:Ryan Webb (2-0), L: Paul Clemens (0-1), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2014 - BAL over 2-1; 2013 - BAL won 4-2; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - BAL leads 12-6

SP: Ubaldo Jimenez (30, RHP, 2-6, 4.98)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-6) 56.0 58 31 31 28 51 6 4.98
2013 (13-9) 182.2 163 75 67 80 194 16 3.30
2012 (9-17) 176.2 190 116 106 95 143 25 5.40
Last 7 GS 2-3 40.0 35 18 18 18 38 2 4.05 53
2014-05-24 CLE L 4.0 4 5 5 5 3 0 99 32
2014-05-18 @KCR L 5.0 8 5 5 1 7 1 98 37
2014-05-13 DET ND 7.0 3 0 0 2 7 0 97 76
2014-05-08 @TBR W 5.1 7 1 1 2 3 0 117 51
2014-05-02 @MIN W 7.1 3 0 0 1 10 0 118 81
2014-04-25 KCR L 6.0 6 4 4 4 3 0 104 43
2014-04-20 @BOS ND 5.1 4 3 3 3 5 1 107 50
Last 5 v.HOU 2-0 31.2 22 6 6 11 29 1 1.71 63
2013-09-19 HOU ND 7.0 6 1 1 0 9 0 98 70
2013-04-21 @HOU ND 5.0 4 4 4 1 4 1 65 46
2012-06-22 @HOU W 6.2 4 0 0 4 8 0 110 70
2010-05-20 @HOU W 7.0 1 0 0 2 4 0 92 77
2009-06-02 @HOU ND 6.0 7 1 1 4 4 0 113 54

SP: Brad Peacock (26, RHP, 1-4, 5.20)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (1-4) 45.0 45 28 26 30 44 6 5.20
2013 (5-6) 83.1 78 51 48 37 77 15 5.18
2011 (2-0) 12.0 7 1 1 6 4 0 0.75
Last 7 GS 1-4 41.1 39 23 21 23 40 7 4.57 50
2014-05-18 CHW W 6.2 5 2 2 4 5 0 104 57
2014-05-12 TEX L 6.0 8 4 4 2 11 2 106 49
2014-05-07 @DET L 6.2 4 3 3 4 4 2 105 54
2014-05-02 SEA ND 6.0 6 4 4 3 6 1 92 47
2014-04-25 OAK ND 5.0 5 5 3 6 3 0 92 38
2014-04-20 @OAK L 5.0 5 2 2 3 4 1 83 50
2013-09-24 @TEX L 6.0 6 3 3 1 7 1 95 54
Has never faced BAL as starter.

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

Orioles Batters (4.29 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.56 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Peacock
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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 4/.250 1/5.000 ··· 5/1.000 20/1.863 218/175 .306/.376/.663/1.039 1.414/.956 1.133 108/1.150 0/2 19/0
19.Davis* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 3/2.334 ··· 2/.000 4/.000 8/1.375 161/113 .244/.373/.458/.831 .843/.824 .885 67/.937 2/0 7/0
3.Flaherty* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· 5/.200 104/84 .202/.279/.287/.566 .513/.579 .614 30/.707 0/0 1/2
2.Hardy G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 7/1.571 2/3.000 10/.500 5/.400 20/.956 178/139 .303/.330/.370/.699 .593/.728 .744 104/.772 0/0 0/1
40.Hundley G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· ··· 72/60 .257/.278/.343/.621 .500/.645 .632 38/.431 0/0 1/1
10.Jones G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/.650 ··· 3/.666 4/.000 12/.969 224/173 .290/.308/.439/.747 1.336/.582 .801 112/.844 3/0 6/3
36.Joseph G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/11 .043/.154/.043/.197 .192/.200 .125 27/.197 0/0 0/0
9.Lough* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.333 97/88 .161/.232/.207/.438 .000/.481 .584 31/.421 5/1 0/1
13.Machado G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 7/1.429 108/84 .224/.280/.296/.576 .292/.663 .550 103/.606 0/0 2/5
21.Markakis* G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 12/.781 ··· 1/2.000 9/.555 13/1.121 236/176 .301/.352/.398/.750 .655/.783 .775 116/.716 3/2 3/0
28.Pearce G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.334 2/.000 1/.000 68/53 .328/.368/.578/.946 .905/.957 .831 53/.990 1/0 4/0
6.Schoop G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 166/128 .223/.261/.363/.624 .384/.690 .759 80/.569 0/0 5/6
27.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· 16/.313 ··· 7/.572 8/.708 3/.000 78/52 .284/.321/.378/.699 .615/.740 .684 33/.492 0/0 1/0
IP 45.0 8.1 20.2 18.0 15.1 9.2 29.1 TOTAL .265/.317/.410/.728 .725/.728 .773 .735 15/6 53/23
ERA-K/9 5.20/8.8 2.16/7.6 3.48/5.2 8.00/12.5 2.93/10.6 0.00/12.1 5.52/6.1 4.26/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hundley (11-1-2)
 Joseph (6-4-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 205/.259 33/.233 88/.273 82/.264 65/.295 31/.033 132/.300 .258  Lough
 Young
 Markakis
 Jones
 Cruz
 Pearce
 Flaherty
32/3/0/3
5/0/0/2
0/0/47/2
0/50/0/2
26/0/5/0
4/0/1/0
1/0/1/0
OPS .774 .603 .769 .715 .732 .098 .843 .722
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 127/.763 18/.631 40/.861 39/.831 32/1.024 18/.170 73/.850 .704
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 78/.789 15/.564 48/.693 43/.599 33/.461 13/.000 59/.835 .738
Home 141/.784 14/.368 46/.988 36/.615 28/.837 13/.000 76/.875
Last 28d days 108/.765 33/.603 43/.754 33/.603 23/.310 31/.098 56/.688
HR/SB/CS 6/6/0 0/1/1 2/0/1 1/2/0 1/4/1 0/0/0 5/2/0 48/33/12
Usage ········ o···Xo·· X···o··o ··o·o·X· ·o···o·· ·oo···X· X·X·····
Astros Batters (3.81 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (4.51 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Jimenez
G/S/vB		 35.Brach
G/S/vB		 53.Britton*
G/S/vB		 63.Guilmet
G/S/vB		 17.Matusz*
G/S/vB		 66.McFarland*
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 58.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 9/.833 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/2.333 1/.000 1/.000 249/185 .317/.361/.430/.792 1.027/.708 .810 123/.890 17/3 2/1
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 5/2.100 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 181/114 .200/.287/.431/.719 .739/.706 .748 81/.855 0/0 8/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 4/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· 191/140 .235/.309/.394/.703 .626/.733 .716 94/.651 0/0 6/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 64/29 .193/.254/.421/.675 .587/.780 .707 32/.804 0/0 4/0
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/2.000 1/.000 1/2.000 214/148 .246/.299/.400/.699 .794/.656 .711 112/.689 0/1 7/3
21.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 9/.619 220/163 .263/.377/.366/.743 .771/.733 .941 119/.805 6/3 3/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 65/58 .300/.344/.400/.744 .857/.730 .566 41/.780 0/2 1/1
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 69/48 .150/.261/.300/.561 .349/.652 .285 14/.607 2/0 2/1
14.Guzman G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 107/38 .206/.280/.299/.579 .512/.706 .699 49/.476 2/0 2/1
18.Krauss* G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 122/119 .178/.279/.318/.596 1.667/.566 .467 62/.716 0/0 4/2
8.Presley* G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 2/.000 1/.000 140/124 .248/.271/.353/.625 .971/.581 .634 72/.635 1/0 3/0
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 166/121 .269/.361/.510/.872 .734/.919 .676 105/1.108 1/2 9/6
6.Villar# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 169/115 .201/.259/.370/.629 .683/.604 .942 76/.478 11/1 5/7
IP 56.0 11.1 28.2 6.0 18.1 11.0 20.2 22.0 TOTAL .239/.311/.390/.702 .736/.687 .726 .766 40/12 58/32
ERA-K/9 4.98/8.2 4.76/8.8 0.94/5.6 0.00/12.0 3.44/5.9 5.73/5.7 0.87/7.0 3.27/8.2 4.33/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (27-10-1)
 Corporan (6-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 247/.269 51/.298 109/.175 20/.000 83/.278 54/.383 83/.222 89/.241 .269  Presley
 Springer
 Fowler
 Guzman
 Gonzalez
 Krauss
 Grossman
25/7/10/3
0/0/37/2
0/49/0/0
3/0/0/0
3/0/1/0
3/0/0/0
14/2/1/0
OPS .737 .821 .479 .050 .820 1.027 .652 .597 .757
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 127/.748 16/1.429 43/.428 8/.000 35/.721 22/1.282 27/.792 29/.625 .765
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 120/.724 35/.558 66/.516 12/.083 48/.896 32/.851 56/.583 60/.582 .752
Road 124/.707 44/.789 57/.560 4/.000 54/.942 9/.778 50/.772 55/.624
Last 28d days 118/.597 51/.821 44/.418 20/.050 34/.599 36/1.163 37/.540 43/.568
HR/SB/CS 6/8/3 2/2/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 2/0/0 1/2/0 54/36/9
Usage ····X··· X·X·X··X ·oXX··X· ·X·X··X· oo·X·ooX ·o··Xo·· ·Xo··oX· ·oo·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

OAK  5.02

BOS  4.10

SDP  3.24

 RA/G

OAK  3.11

DET  4.27

ARI  5.04

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .369

N. Aoki  .264

C. Santana  .159

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .471

C. Yelich  .330

J. Gyorko  .218

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .702

J. Smoak  .406

W. Venable  .263

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.174

D. Pedroia  .738

J. Gyorko  .506

 ERA

A. Wainwright  1.67

T. Milone  3.50

K. Correia  6.34

 K/9IP

S. Strasburg  10.67

P. Hughes  7.34

C. Young  3.77

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.