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Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves, at Minute Maid Park, June 26, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Start Time:
1:10ct (local), 2:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
73° (based on last ten years)
Braves
Manager:
Fredi Gonzalez
Game #:
78
On This Date:
55-66
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
80
On This Date:
21-26
Season Series
Tue, Jun 24, 2014 ATL  3 @HOU  2     
Wed, Jun 25, 2014 ATL  4 @HOU  0     

Thu, Jun 26, 2014 ATL    @HOU  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Atlanta Braves
40-37, 2nd, 1 GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   20-18   Road:   20-19   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  32-31   vsLHP:   8-6    1-Run:  15-10
 vsEast: 17-14   vsCntrl:13-6    vsWest:  6-10 IL: 4-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 77 Wed, Jun 25  @HOU  W   4-0       40-37  2nd  1.0 gb
 76 Tue, Jun 24  @HOU  W   3-2       39-37  2nd  2.0 gb
 75 Sun, Jun 22  @WSN  L   1-4       38-37  2nd  1.5 gb
 74 Sat, Jun 21  @WSN  L   0-3       38-36  2nd  0.5 gb
 73 Fri, Jun 20  @WSN  W   6-4 (13)  38-35  1st  0.5 up
 72 Thu, Jun 19  @WSN  W   3-0       37-35  2nd  0.5 gb
 71 Wed, Jun 18   PHI  L   5-10      36-35  2nd  1.5 gb
 70 Tue, Jun 17   PHI  L   2-5       36-34  2nd  0.5 gb
 69 Mon, Jun 16   PHI  L   1-6 (13)  36-33  1st  0.5 up
 68 Sun, Jun 15   LAA  W   7-3       36-32  1st  1.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
Houston Astros
33-46, 5th, 15½ GB, 11½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-22   Road:   16-24   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  23-29   vsLHP:  10-17   1-Run:   9-14
 vsEast:  8-12   vsCntrl: 8-8    vsWest: 14-19 IL: 3-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 79 Wed, Jun 25   ATL  L   0-4       33-46  5th 15.5 gb
 78 Tue, Jun 24   ATL  L   2-3       33-45  5th 14.5 gb
 77 Sun, Jun 22  @TBR  L   2-5       33-44  5th 14.5 gb
 76 Sat, Jun 21  @TBR  L   0-8       33-43  5th 14.5 gb
 75 Fri, Jun 20  @TBR  W   3-1       33-42  5th 13.5 gb
 74 Thu, Jun 19  @TBR  L   0-5       32-42  5th 13.5 gb
 73 Wed, Jun 18  @WSN  L   5-6       32-41  5th 12.5 gb
 72 Tue, Jun 17  @WSN  L   5-6       32-40  5th 11.5 gb
 71 Sun, Jun 15   TBR  L   3-4       32-39  5th 11.0 gb
 70 Sat, Jun 14   TBR  W   7-3       32-38  5th 10.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 25, 2014 ATL  4 @HOU  0        W:Alex Wood (6-6), L: Collin McHugh (4-6), S: none
Tue, Jun 24, 2014 ATL  3 @HOU  2        W:Aaron Harang (6-6), L: Scott Feldman (3-5), S: Craig Kimbrel (22)

Sun, Aug 05, 2012 ATL  6  HOU  1        W:Jonny Venters (4-3), L: Bud Norris (5-9), S: none
Sat, Aug 04, 2012 HOU  3 @ATL  2        W:Lucas Harrell (9-7), L: Paul Maholm (9-7), S: Wilton Lopez (1)
Fri, Aug 03, 2012 ATL  4  HOU  1        W:Tim Hudson (11-4), L: Armando Galarraga (0-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (31)
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 ATL  6 @HOU  3        W:Randall Delgado (1-0), L: Wandy Rodriguez (0-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (2)
Tue, Apr 10, 2012 ATL  6 @HOU  4        W:Tommy Hanson (1-1), L: Kyle Weiland (0-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (1)
Mon, Apr 09, 2012 HOU  8  ATL  3        W:J.A. Happ (1-0), L: Brandon Beachy (0-1), S: none
Mon, Jun 13, 2011 HOU  8  ATL  3        W:Wandy Rodriguez (4-3), L: Derek Lowe (3-5), S: none
Sun, Jun 12, 2011 ATL  4 @HOU  1        W:Tommy Hanson (8-4), L: Brett Myers (2-6), S: Jonny Venters (3)
Season Series: 2014 - ATL over 2-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 - ATL won 4-2; All-Time - ATL leads 381-321

SP: Mike Minor (26, LHP, 2-4, 4.20)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-4) 60.0 71 28 28 18 60 10 4.20
2013 (13-9) 204.2 177 79 73 46 181 22 3.21
2012 (11-10) 179.1 151 88 82 56 145 26 4.12
Last 7 GS 1-2 43.0 50 20 20 14 44 7 4.19 51
2014-06-20 @WSN ND 7.0 7 2 2 2 11 1 105 64
2014-06-15 LAA ND 5.0 11 3 3 1 6 2 103 38
2014-06-10 @COL ND 4.0 11 8 8 3 3 1 92 8
2014-06-04 SEA L 7.0 5 1 1 3 10 0 109 70
2014-05-29 @BOS ND 7.0 7 1 1 0 3 0 113 62
2014-05-24 COL L 6.1 4 3 3 3 6 2 103 56
2014-05-19 MIL W 6.2 5 2 2 2 5 1 112 59
Last 5 v.HOU 0-0 12.0 9 6 5 3 9 0 3.75 55
2011-06-11 @HOU ND 6.0 4 2 2 2 4 0 93 58
2010-08-09 @HOU ND 6.0 5 4 3 1 5 0 94 52

SP: Jarred Cosart (24, RHP, 7-5, 3.78)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (7-5) 88.0 81 39 37 35 60 6 3.78
2013 (1-1) 60.0 46 15 13 35 33 3 1.95
Last 7 GS 5-2 44.0 44 17 16 15 29 1 3.27 53
2014-06-20 @TBR W 8.0 6 0 0 1 2 0 109 71
2014-06-14 TBR W 7.0 9 3 3 1 2 1 104 48
2014-06-09 @ARI W 6.0 5 3 3 2 8 0 103 56
2014-06-04 LAA L 6.2 8 3 3 1 8 0 108 53
2014-05-28 @KCR W 5.0 4 2 1 2 1 0 95 52
2014-05-22 @SEA L 6.1 5 3 3 4 6 0 105 53
2014-05-17 CHW W 5.0 7 3 3 4 2 0 102 39
Has never faced ATL as starter.

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

Braves Batters (3.57 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.46 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Cosart
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 44.Farnsworth
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Doumit# G/S/vP 3/.000 8/.375 2/.000 4/1.750 4/.500 5/.400 ··· 86/74 .207/.233/.305/.537 .583/.529 .333 25/.558 1/0 2/1
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 4/1.250 4/.833 ··· ··· 341/242 .286/.375/.495/.870 .948/.838 .891 113/.766 0/2 12/4
24.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 238/197 .292/.345/.562/.906 1.184/.847 .831 91/1.075 0/0 16/5
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 6/.533 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 341/255 .254/.343/.388/.731 .438/.833 .727 111/.833 9/3 8/1
23.Johnson G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 5/.200 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 305/254 .280/.299/.362/.661 1.036/.589 .694 103/.747 1/0 3/4
11.Laird G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.000 5/1.100 6/.500 ··· 1/.000 87/68 .221/.310/.273/.583 .541/.595 .606 20/.644 0/0 0/1
7.La Stella* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 104/88 .280/.350/.312/.661 .579/.677 .623 96/.668 2/0 0/1
14.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 97/77 .205/.263/.341/.604 .789/.554 .762 18/.765 0/0 3/4
17.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/3.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 66/54 .186/.250/.254/.504 .495/.505 .515 32/.646 10/0 0/0
19.Simmons G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.800 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 283/236 .251/.286/.363/.650 .905/.597 .646 94/.544 1/3 5/5
26.Uggla G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 12/.697 2/3.000 4/1.750 ··· 137/108 .163/.241/.236/.477 .422/.491 .560 11/.091 0/0 2/9
2.Upton G/S/vP ··· ··· 11/1.355 8/.572 4/.000 6/.167 1/.000 310/229 .204/.272/.339/.611 .490/.647 .557 105/.588 11/2 7/5
8.Upton G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 9/.444 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 294/235 .272/.341/.513/.855 1.274/.757 .660 81/.538 6/0 16/5
IP 88.0 18.0 28.2 26.1 19.0 44.2 12.2 TOTAL .241/.302/.377/.679 .762/.656 .654 .681 41/10 74/49
ERA-K/9 3.78/6.1 2.50/6.5 4.40/5.6 2.05/8.9 1.89/11.8 5.44/7.0 4.26/8.5 4.15/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (7-0-0)
 Gattis (31-9-3)
 Laird (11-8-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 371/.248 71/.231 128/.294 107/.243 71/.149 203/.291 53/.313 .255  Heyward
 Upton
 Upton
 Schafer
 Doumit
0/0/75/6
0/72/0/4
68/0/0/3
13/8/2/0
6/0/3/0
OPS .667 .588 .817 .611 .443 .815 .949 .716
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 198/.672 37/.500 51/.801 46/.973 37/.283 103/.826 16/1.205 .682
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 173/.661 34/.686 77/.826 61/.347 34/.617 100/.803 37/.837 .743
Home 155/.705 37/.449 65/.909 52/.622 31/.367 109/.870 27/.583
Last 28d days 112/.640 38/.575 40/.925 39/.462 40/.723 71/.760 23/.864
HR/SB/CS 6/2/2 0/1/1 2/2/1 2/5/1 2/0/0 6/2/0 3/1/0 66/49/16
Usage ·····X·· o······o o······o ·o···Xo· ·o·····o o···X··· ·o·····o
Astros Batters (3.71 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Minor*
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 57.Hale
G/S/vB		 58.Jaime
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 59.Simmons
G/S/vB		 38.Varvaro
G/S/vB		 52.Walden
G/S/vB		 40.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 342/250 .332/.374/.437/.811 .958/.756 .781 89/.820 28/3 2/2
23.Carter G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 3/.000 254/159 .190/.276/.420/.696 .677/.707 .764 70/.670 0/1 13/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 266/202 .219/.297/.354/.651 .625/.661 .676 71/.533 0/0 6/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 91/41 .210/.267/.407/.674 .635/.725 .762 27/.671 0/0 5/1
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 3/.000 316/218 .235/.288/.381/.669 .707/.651 .692 98/.610 0/1 10/6
21.Fowler# G/S/vP 12/.917 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/.333 6/1.000 330/240 .274/.382/.402/.784 .951/.721 .882 106/.885 6/3 6/3
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 101/84 .264/.330/.374/.704 .665/.712 .602 36/.628 0/2 2/2
14.Guzman G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 129/45 .209/.295/.287/.582 .522/.698 .694 21/.556 2/0 2/1
Hoes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 80/30 .200/.278/.329/.607 .792/.315 .625 3/.000 0/0 2/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 181/164 .234/.282/.317/.599 .912/.566 .624 37/.485 3/0 3/0
28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 82/56 .192/.268/.397/.666 1.051/.503 .732 82/.666 1/2 4/3
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 267/190 .240/.341/.463/.804 .711/.837 .617 97/.659 1/2 14/7
2.Villar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 239/162 .205/.258/.352/.610 .657/.588 .779 66/.601 14/4 6/11
IP 60.0 24.0 48.2 3.0 30.1 11.0 29.0 19.1 67.1 TOTAL .234/.309/.378/.686 .729/.668 .700 .655 58/18 81/49
ERA-K/9 4.20/9.0 4.50/6.0 3.14/4.1 0.00/15.0 2.37/15.7 1.64/8.2 2.48/10.2 3.26/11.7 3.07/9.0 3.30/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (38-13-4)
 Corporan (11-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 266/.292 109/.293 209/.235 10/.000 126/.147 43/.250 118/.227 82/.200 275/.258 .250  Springer
 Presley
 Hoes
 Fowler
 Guzman
 Sipp
 Gonzalez
0/0/60/5
36/9/12/3
19/0/7/2
0/74/0/1
4/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
4/0/1/0
OPS .828 .747 .653 .100 .467 .629 .616 .576 .687 .679
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 57/.833 61/.613 98/.729 4/.250 63/.456 21/.201 34/.749 43/.654 80/.747 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 209/.826 48/.918 111/.587 6/.000 63/.476 22/1.026 84/.564 39/.490 195/.662 .652
Road 107/.806 53/.703 89/.755 10/.100 63/.476 25/.544 56/.913 32/.584 177/.689
Last 28d days 111/.925 31/.720 53/.971 10/.100 46/.415 43/.629 47/.676 31/.595 43/.454
HR/SB/CS 10/2/0 1/3/0 2/6/3 0/0/0 1/3/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 1/3/0 7/3/2 57/49/17
Usage ·····X·· ···o·o·· ···o···X o···oX·· ·X···XX· o··X···X ·X···Xo· ·X···oo· 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  5.10

KCR  4.10

SDP  3.01

 RA/G

STL  3.44

BOS  4.20

COL  5.16

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .351

K. Seager  .267

C. Carter  .190

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .443

A. Ramirez  .330

Y. Alonso  .250

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .625

K. Suzuki  .410

W. Venable  .278

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.069

D. Gordon  .745

W. Venable  .539

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.86

J. Quintana  3.69

R. Nolasco  5.52

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.03

B. McCarthy  7.42

C. Young  4.48

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.