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Houston Astros vs. Detroit Tigers, at Minute Maid Park, June 29, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, June 29, 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)
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
79
On This Date:
44-60
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
83
On This Date:
23-22
Season Series
Mon, May 05, 2014 DET  2  HOU  0     
Tue, May 06, 2014 DET 11  HOU  4     
Wed, May 07, 2014 DET  3  HOU  2     
Thu, May 08, 2014 HOU  6 @DET  2     
Fri, Jun 27, 2014 HOU  4  DET  3 (11)
Sat, Jun 28, 2014 DET  4 @HOU  3     

Sun, Jun 29, 2014 DET    @HOU  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Detroit Tigers
44-33, 1st, 4½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-19   Road:   25-14   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  29-25   vsLHP:  15-8    1-Run:  14-10
 vsEast: 10-5    vsCntrl:19-15   vsWest: 13-10 IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 77 Sat, Jun 28  @HOU  W   4-3       44-33  1st  4.5 up
 76 Fri, Jun 27  @HOU  L   3-4 (11)  43-33  1st  3.5 up
 75 Thu, Jun 26  @TEX  W   6-0       43-32  1st  4.5 up
 74 Wed, Jun 25  @TEX  W   8-6       42-32  1st  4.0 up
 73 Tue, Jun 24  @TEX  W   8-2       41-32  1st  3.0 up
 72 Sun, Jun 22  @CLE  W  10-4       40-32  1st  2.5 up
 71 Sat, Jun 21  @CLE  W   5-4 (10)  39-32  1st  1.5 up
 70 Fri, Jun 20  @CLE  W   6-4       38-32  1st  0.5 up
 69 Thu, Jun 19   KCR  W   2-1       37-32  2nd  0.5 gb
 68 Wed, Jun 18   KCR  L   1-2       36-32  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:16-14
Houston Astros
35-47, 5th, 16 GB, 11½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-23   Road:   16-24   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  24-30   vsLHP:  11-17   1-Run:  10-15
 vsEast:  8-12   vsCntrl: 9-9    vsWest: 14-19 IL: 4-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 82 Sat, Jun 28   DET  L   3-4       35-47  5th 16.0 gb
 81 Fri, Jun 27   DET  W   4-3 (11)  35-46  5th 15.0 gb
 80 Thu, Jun 26   ATL  W   6-1       34-46  5th 15.0 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jun 28, 2014 DET  4 @HOU  3        W:Phil Coke (1-1), L: Jerome Williams (1-4), S: Joe Nathan (17)
Fri, Jun 27, 2014 HOU  4  DET  3 (11)   W:Jake Buchanan (1-1), L: Blaine Hardy (0-1), S: none
Thu, May 08, 2014 HOU  6 @DET  2        W:Dallas Keuchel (3-2), L: Drew Smyly (2-2), S: none
Wed, May 07, 2014 DET  3  HOU  2        W:Rick Porcello (5-1), L: Brad Peacock (0-3), S: Joe Nathan (7)
Tue, May 06, 2014 DET 11  HOU  4        W:Robbie Ray (1-0), L: Brett Oberholtzer (0-6), S: none
Mon, May 05, 2014 DET  2  HOU  0        W:Max Scherzer (4-1), L: Jarred Cosart (1-3), S: Joe Nathan (6)

Wed, May 15, 2013 HOU  7 @DET  5        W:Hector Ambriz (1-2), L: Al Alburquerque (0-1), S: Jose Veras (5)
Tue, May 14, 2013 DET  6  HOU  2        W:Doug Fister (5-1), L: Lucas Harrell (3-4), S: none
Mon, May 13, 2013 DET  7  HOU  2        W:Anibal Sanchez (4-3), L: Bud Norris (4-4), S: none
Sun, May 05, 2013 DET  9 @HOU  0        W:Justin Verlander (4-2), L: Philip Humber (0-7), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - DET over 4-2; 2013 - DET won 6-1; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - DET leads 16-12

SP: Drew Smyly (25, LHP, 4-6, 3.19)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-6) 73.1 69 28 26 24 62 10 3.19
2013 (6-0) 76.0 62 20 20 17 81 4 2.37
2012 (4-3) 99.1 93 49 44 33 94 12 3.99
Last 7 GS 2-4 39.0 43 18 16 13 31 6 3.69 50
2014-06-24 @TEX W 6.0 5 1 0 1 5 0 102 64
2014-06-18 KCR L 7.0 7 2 2 0 6 1 106 61
2014-06-13 MIN L 6.0 4 1 1 3 2 1 100 59
2014-06-06 BOS W 6.0 5 2 1 1 4 0 101 59
2014-05-31 @SEA L 4.0 7 3 3 1 5 0 105 40
2014-05-26 @OAK L 5.0 8 6 6 2 3 4 107 28
2014-05-19 @CLE ND 5.0 7 3 3 5 6 0 110 42
Last 5 v.HOU 0-1 5.1 5 3 3 3 2 1 5.06 45
2014-05-08 HOU L 5.1 5 3 3 3 2 1 91 45

SP: Scott Feldman (31, RHP, 3-5, 4.00)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-5) 72.0 74 42 32 20 43 8 4.00
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 1-4 34.1 43 30 21 10 25 5 5.50 42
2014-06-24 ATL L 6.0 4 3 3 1 5 2 107 56
2014-06-18 @WSN ND 5.0 6 2 2 3 5 0 103 49
2014-06-12 ARI ND 6.1 4 3 2 0 6 1 94 61
2014-06-07 @MIN L 1.2 1 3 0 2 2 0 58 47
2014-06-01 BAL L 5.1 11 9 9 1 3 2 106 12
2014-05-26 @KCR W 6.0 8 2 2 1 0 0 96 47
2014-05-20 @LAA L 4.0 9 8 3 2 4 0 94 24
Last 5 v.DET 0-3 22.2 36 26 22 13 9 7 8.74 31
2012-08-10 DET L 5.2 6 4 4 1 2 1 88 42
2010-07-19 @DET ND 5.0 7 5 5 2 1 3 86 32
2010-04-24 DET L 3.2 8 8 4 4 1 0 93 18
2009-07-29 DET L 2.1 10 6 6 2 1 2 71 12
2008-08-18 DET ND 6.0 5 3 3 4 4 1 94 50

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Tigers Batters (4.64 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.39 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Feldman
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 55.Veras
G/S/vB		 36.Williams
G/S/vB		 61.Zeid
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 5/1.100 1/.000 1/2.000 12/.817 2/2.500 4/1.250 ··· 221/168 .230/.345/.364/.709 .556/.759 .799 70/.716 0/3 4/3
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 14/2.022 ··· 9/.361 6/4.333 5/.000 12/1.000 ··· 331/248 .315/.369/.540/.909 .730/.967 .903 104/.865 0/1 13/4
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 274/192 .267/.303/.408/.711 .848/.655 .626 93/.850 1/1 6/6
20.Davis G/S/vP 16/.625 2/.000 4/.000 2/1.500 2/.000 4/1.666 2/.000 238/158 .274/.321/.406/.727 .857/.662 .758 67/.638 21/6 5/2
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 77/37 .306/.338/.347/.685 .539/.844 .701 27/.887 1/1 0/4
48.Hunter G/S/vP 25/.949 ··· 2/.000 5/.200 2/.500 4/2.083 1/.000 259/189 .256/.282/.419/.701 .678/.709 .758 65/.494 1/1 9/4
14.Jackson G/S/vP 10/.744 1/.000 3/.000 7/.000 1/.000 6/.666 ··· 293/221 .249/.315/.366/.681 .850/.627 .525 85/.670 8/3 3/4
32.Kelly* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 5/.200 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 96/83 .233/.313/.291/.603 .785/.578 .513 23/.356 3/1 0/1
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.000 2/.500 3/2.000 5/1.400 28/1.109 4/.833 348/262 .308/.343/.489/.832 .771/.853 .799 110/.961 8/3 10/2
28.Martinez G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.750 1/.000 5/.400 6/1.000 ··· 146/105 .311/.342/.615/.957 .492/1.135 1.030 82/1.084 2/2 9/2
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 4/3.000 ··· 4/.500 3/1.666 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 329/245 .323/.383/.592/.975 1.147/.914 1.061 106/.953 2/2 20/4
27.Romine# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 141/115 .215/.271/.262/.533 .760/.481 .397 20/.628 4/1 1/7
30.Suarez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 1/2.000 72/47 .300/.391/.533/.925 1.125/.836 .841 72/.925 0/1 3/3
IP 72.0 18.1 28.1 21.0 14.2 45.2 14.0 TOTAL .276/.329/.441/.770 .769/.770 .755 .821 51/27 83/56
ERA-K/9 4.00/5.4 2.45/6.4 1.91/8.6 1.71/11.6 7.36/8.6 5.91/7.1 3.86/7.7 4.06/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (36-23-2)
 Holaday (15-4-1)
 Martinez (3-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 316/.264 72/.227 114/.236 79/.149 70/.231 209/.299 58/.302 .254  Davis
 Jackson
 Kelly
 Hunter
 Martinez
55/5/0/5
0/72/0/2
4/3/8/0
0/0/61/0
21/0/15/0
OPS .737 .580 .600 .439 .782 .841 .898 .712
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 148/.691 38/.487 47/.951 41/.283 29/.850 104/.817 16/1.205 .676
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 168/.776 34/.686 67/.361 38/.604 41/.739 105/.863 42/.781 .740
Home 180/.757 38/.437 59/.599 39/.374 38/.995 115/.914 32/.554
Last 28d days 83/.661 35/.567 42/.500 47/.640 6/.167 65/.861 28/.773
HR/SB/CS 8/14/3 0/1/1 2/5/1 2/0/0 2/2/0 7/2/0 3/1/0 68/50/17
Usage ····X··· ·o·o···· oo··o··· ·XX·o··· ·Xo····· o··o···X X·o·o···
Astros Batters (3.73 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.36 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Smyly*
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 40.Coke*
G/S/vB		 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB		 63.McCoy*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 55.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/1.500 2/.500 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 355/259 .343/.383/.447/.830 .981/.773 .822 91/.951 34/3 2/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/.333 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 262/163 .184/.267/.406/.673 .648/.688 .719 70/.640 0/1 13/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 279/209 .218/.297/.363/.660 .708/.644 .693 77/.577 0/0 7/3
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 3/.333 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 91/41 .210/.267/.407/.674 .635/.725 .762 23/.776 0/0 5/1
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 329/227 .230/.286/.380/.666 .745/.630 .684 100/.544 0/1 11/6
21.Fowler# G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.667 ··· 334/240 .270/.377/.396/.774 .907/.721 .858 99/.916 6/3 6/3
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 108/88 .265/.327/.367/.694 .563/.726 .599 38/.577 1/3 2/2
14.Guzman G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 136/49 .213/.294/.287/.581 .527/.680 .683 23/.542 2/0 2/1
Hoes G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 87/37 .195/.267/.312/.579 .792/.310 .576 10/.200 0/0 2/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 190/172 .239/.284/.335/.619 .859/.594 .666 39/.568 3/0 4/0
28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 95/63 .200/.274/.388/.662 1.005/.498 .706 95/.662 1/2 4/4
4.Springer G/S/vP 2/2.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 280/198 .242/.343/.467/.810 .680/.858 .645 97/.738 1/2 15/7
2.Villar# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 243/166 .203/.255/.347/.602 .657/.577 .758 63/.568 14/4 6/12
IP 73.1 30.0 33.2 28.2 7.1 1.1 29.2 2.2 TOTAL .234/.308/.378/.686 .731/.667 .698 .668 65/19 85/52
ERA-K/9 3.19/7.6 3.00/10.2 2.67/9.9 5.34/6.6 2.45/9.9 0.00/6.9 6.37/9.1 13.50/13.3 4.03/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (39-14-5)
 Corporan (11-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 305/.247 125/.232 134/.221 130/.304 27/.125 5/.200 136/.283 16/.467 .258  Springer
 Hoes
 Presley
 Fowler
 Guzman
 Sipp
 Gonzalez
0/0/63/6
21/0/7/3
37/11/12/3
0/75/0/1
5/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
4/0/1/0
OPS .710 .653 .586 .812 .472 .400 .795 1.100 .720
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 87/.399 63/.677 69/.632 56/.594 14/.451 4/.000 76/.902 11/1.273 .670
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 218/.840 62/.630 65/.539 74/.987 13/.490 1/2.000 60/.658 5/.650 .774
Road 155/.686 59/.581 60/.380 73/.802 15/.557 5/.400 68/.900 16/1.100
Last 28d days 99/.585 28/.815 38/.472 45/.614 27/.472 5/.400 49/.894 16/1.100
HR/SB/CS 10/6/5 4/4/0 1/2/1 3/1/1 1/0/0 0/0/0 5/6/0 0/0/0 67/54/28
Usage ····X··· ·o·oX··o ·o·X···· X··oo··X ·X·X··oo ·o····o· X··X···X ·X··X·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  5.18

PIT  4.07

SDP  2.96

 RA/G

STL  3.45

TBR  4.19

COL  5.18

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .348

E. Andrus  .268

C. Carter  .184

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .442

B. Butler  .332

N. Schierholtz  .253

 SLG

J. Abreu  .631

A. Pagan  .411

E. Cabrera  .291

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.060

M. Ozuna  .750

E. Cabrera  .546

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.88

B. Colon  3.67

R. Nolasco  5.74

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.05

B. McCarthy  7.53

K. Correia  4.49

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.