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Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers, at Minute Maid Park, August 8, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 8, 2014
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
115
On This Date:
21-34
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
116
On This Date:
19-27
Season Series
Fri, Apr 11, 2014 TEX  1  HOU  0 (12)
Sat, Apr 12, 2014 HOU  6 @TEX  5 (10)
Sun, Apr 13, 2014 TEX  1  HOU  0     
Mon, May 12, 2014 TEX  4 @HOU  0     
Tue, May 13, 2014 HOU  8  TEX  0     
Wed, May 14, 2014 HOU  5  TEX  4     
Mon, Jul 07, 2014 HOU 12 @TEX  7     
Tue, Jul 08, 2014 HOU  8 @TEX  3     
Wed, Jul 09, 2014 HOU  8 @TEX  4     

Fri, Aug 08, 2014 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 09, 2014 TEX    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 10, 2014 TEX    @HOU  2:10pm
Thu, Aug 28, 2014 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm
Fri, Aug 29, 2014 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 30, 2014 TEX    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 31, 2014 TEX    @HOU  2:10pm
Mon, Sep 22, 2014 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Tue, Sep 23, 2014 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Wed, Sep 24, 2014 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
45-69, 5th, 25 GB, 22 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-33   Road:   24-36   ExtrInn: 1-4 
 vsRHP:  34-48   vsLHP:  11-21   1-Run:  14-15
 vsEast:  9-20   vsCntrl:13-14   vsWest: 17-26 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
114 Wed, Aug  6  @CHW  W   3-1       45-69  5th 24.5 gb
113 Tue, Aug  5  @CHW  W  16-0       44-69  5th 25.5 gb
112 Mon, Aug  4  @CHW  L   3-5  (7)  43-69  5th 25.5 gb
111 Sun, Aug  3  @CLE  L   3-4 (12)  43-68  5th 24.5 gb
110 Sat, Aug  2  @CLE  L   0-2       43-67  5th 24.5 gb
109 Fri, Aug  1  @CLE  L   2-12      43-66  5th 23.5 gb
108 Wed, Jul 30   NYY  W   3-2       43-65  5th 23.5 gb
107 Tue, Jul 29   NYY  L  11-12      42-65  5th 24.5 gb
106 Mon, Jul 28   NYY  W   4-2       42-64  5th 23.5 gb
105 Sun, Jul 27   OAK  L   3-9       41-64  5th 24.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30: 8-22
Houston Astros
47-68, 4th, 23½ GB, 20½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-33   Road:   21-35   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  32-47   vsLHP:  15-21   1-Run:  12-21
 vsEast: 12-15   vsCntrl:11-11   vsWest: 20-29 IL: 4-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
115 Thu, Aug  7  @PHI  L   5-6       47-68  4th 23.5 gb
114 Wed, Aug  6  @PHI  L   3-10      47-67  4th 22.5 gb
113 Tue, Aug  5  @PHI  L   1-2 (15)  47-66  4th 22.5 gb
112 Sun, Aug  3   TOR  W   6-1       47-65  4th 21.0 gb
111 Sat, Aug  2   TOR  W   8-2       46-65  4th 22.0 gb
110 Fri, Aug  1   TOR  W   3-1       45-65  4th 22.0 gb
109 Thu, Jul 31   TOR  L   5-6       44-65  4th 23.0 gb
108 Wed, Jul 30   OAK  W   8-1       44-64  4th 22.5 gb
107 Tue, Jul 29   OAK  L   4-7       43-64  4th 23.5 gb
106 Mon, Jul 28   OAK  W   7-3       43-63  4th 22.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 09, 2014 HOU  8 @TEX  4        W:Dallas Keuchel (9-5), L: Yu Darvish (8-5), S: none
Tue, Jul 08, 2014 HOU  8 @TEX  3        W:Brad Peacock (3-5), L: Phil Irwin (0-1), S: none
Mon, Jul 07, 2014 HOU 12 @TEX  7        W:Jarred Cosart (9-6), L: Miles Mikolas (0-1), S: none
Wed, May 14, 2014 HOU  5  TEX  4        W:Chad Qualls (1-1), L: Nick Martinez (0-1), S: none
Tue, May 13, 2014 HOU  8  TEX  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (4-2), L: Matt Harrison (1-1), S: none
Mon, May 12, 2014 TEX  4 @HOU  0        W:Colby Lewis (3-2), L: Brad Peacock (0-4), S: none
Sun, Apr 13, 2014 TEX  1  HOU  0        W:Martin Perez (2-0), L: Brett Oberholtzer (0-3), S: Alexi Ogando (1)
Sat, Apr 12, 2014 HOU  6 @TEX  5 (10)   W:Kevin Chapman (1-0), L: Joakim Soria (1-1), S: Anthony Bass (2)
Fri, Apr 11, 2014 TEX  1  HOU  0 (12)   W:Jason Frasor (1-0), L: Brad Peacock (0-1), S: none

Wed, Sep 25, 2013 TEX  7  HOU  3        W:Martin Perez (10-5), L: Dallas Keuchel (6-10), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - HOU over 6-3; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; All-Time - TEX leads 62-38

SP: Miles Mikolas (25, RHP, 1-4, 7.29)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (1-4) 33.1 40 29 27 11 22 3 7.29
2013 (0-0) 1.2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.00
2012 (2-1) 32.1 32 15 13 15 23 4 3.62
Last 7 GS 1-4 33.1 40 29 27 11 22 3 7.29 39
2014-08-02 @CLE L 7.0 5 2 2 2 6 0 100 63
2014-07-27 OAK L 4.2 7 8 7 4 1 0 88 17
2014-07-21 @NYY W 7.1 4 2 2 2 3 1 105 63
2014-07-12 LAA L 5.2 9 5 4 1 3 0 84 35
2014-07-07 HOU L 3.1 12 9 9 0 5 1 88 5
2014-07-02 @BAL ND 5.1 3 3 3 2 4 1 77 52
Last 5 v.HOU 0-1 3.1 12 9 9 0 5 1 24.30 5
2014-07-07 HOU L 3.1 12 9 9 0 5 1 88 5

SP: Brett Oberholtzer (24, LHP, 4-7, 4.17)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-7) 90.2 104 43 42 21 58 7 4.17
2013 (4-5) 71.2 66 26 22 13 45 7 2.76
Last 7 GS 3-1 46.2 49 16 16 9 19 2 3.09 53
2014-08-02 TOR W 7.0 6 2 2 1 5 0 92 61
2014-07-28 OAK W 6.2 8 3 3 1 2 1 97 47
2014-07-22 @OAK ND 7.0 6 2 2 2 0 0 99 55
2014-07-12 BOS ND 6.1 11 2 2 0 3 1 102 46
2014-07-03 @LAA L 6.1 9 5 5 3 4 0 105 36
2014-06-28 DET ND 6.1 5 1 1 2 4 0 88 61
2014-05-30 BAL W 7.0 4 1 1 0 1 0 81 66
Last 5 v.TEX 0-2 13.2 12 3 3 2 13 0 1.98 63
2014-04-13 @TEX L 7.0 5 1 1 0 7 0 89 70
2013-08-12 TEX L 6.2 7 2 2 2 6 0 98 56

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Rangers Batters (4.07 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.75 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Oberholtzer*
G/S/vB		 58.Buchanan
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 48.Foltynewicz
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 55.Veras
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
35.Adduci* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 70/63 .226/.300/.274/.574 .000/.642 .294 57/.447 1/1 0/0
1.Andrus G/S/vP 7/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 5/1.200 5/1.600 7/1.096 492/366 .274/.324/.350/.674 .862/.612 .681 93/.764 21/12 2/14
7.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 1/.000 138/102 .194/.261/.411/.672 1.000/.565 .746 72/.911 0/0 7/3
29.Beltre G/S/vP 4/1.750 ··· 1/.000 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 6/.666 418/321 .319/.371/.508/.879 .924/.865 .780 89/.690 1/1 16/9
28.Carp* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 108/83 .189/.315/.267/.581 .376/.646 .577 18/.492 0/1 0/0
61.Chirinos G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 254/183 .237/.276/.427/.703 .770/.677 .809 51/.644 0/1 11/2
17.Choo* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 5/.400 1/no AB ··· 3/1.167 3/.000 4/1.250 465/322 .238/.344/.362/.706 .735/.693 .768 84/.532 3/3 10/3
2.Martin* G/S/vP 9/.583 ··· 5/.400 1/4.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 398/306 .256/.314/.359/.673 .477/.732 .609 74/.490 19/9 5/6
12.Odor* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 1/.000 250/180 .253/.294/.380/.674 .529/.729 .766 75/.694 2/4 4/4
51.Rios G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 6/2.100 13/.558 446/341 .293/.323/.412/.735 .990/.659 .701 67/.554 16/9 4/6
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 103/52 .292/.333/.323/.656 .781/.528 .739 36/.881 3/3 0/2
9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 40/15 .324/.410/.618/1.028 .975/1.110 1.075 23/1.320 0/0 3/1
IP 90.2 20.0 29.0 42.0 2.2 39.0 34.0 26.2 TOTAL .258/.317/.383/.700 .756/.680 .707 .671 70/46 84/76
ERA-K/9 4.17/5.8 4.95/5.0 4.34/6.5 4.71/12.4 6.75/10.0 3.23/8.5 2.91/11.4 5.74/8.4 4.41/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (9-2-2)
 Chirinos (33-25-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 389/.291 89/.278 124/.241 176/.244 12/.364 163/.258 134/.172 124/.240 .267  Martin
 Rios
 Choo
 Robertson
 Adduci
 Carp
0/106/0/7
0/0/98/4
61/0/5/3
17/14/7/2
11/0/2/1
12/0/1/0
OPS .748 .763 .667 .652 .962 .664 .538 .759 .741
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 88/.661 57/.722 69/.636 72/.736 9/1.069 75/.851 67/.462 47/.837 .729
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 301/.775 32/.824 55/.706 104/.592 3/.667 88/.514 67/.612 77/.715 .752
Home 204/.799 31/.613 64/.689 83/.596 3/.333 83/.721 63/.414 67/.943
Last 28d days 112/.741 61/.693 27/.451 43/.512 12/.962 32/.856 35/.637 34/.767
HR/SB/CS 7/7/1 2/1/0 0/3/1 2/3/0 0/0/0 4/7/2 4/0/0 3/3/0 102/73/23
Usage ·····X·· ··X····X ·XX···o· o·o····X ·X···o·· o·····oo o·o··o·o ··o···oX
Astros Batters (3.91 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (5.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Mikolas
G/S/vB		 57.Adcock
G/S/vB		 25.Baker
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 64.Klein
G/S/vB		 55.Mendez
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/.666 2/2.000 3/.667 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.167 506/379 .335/.372/.436/.808 .982/.748 .819 96/.800 45/6 4/6
23.Carter G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 5/.400 2/2.500 ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 381/255 .225/.299/.494/.793 .861/.761 .759 85/.944 2/1 24/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 377/283 .234/.300/.392/.692 .687/.693 .757 72/.784 0/0 11/3
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 143/79 .244/.289/.397/.686 .669/.700 .751 24/.382 0/0 5/3
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 463/332 .230/.272/.360/.632 .759/.582 .654 85/.537 0/1 13/8
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 200/169 .266/.315/.386/.701 .700/.701 .666 55/.591 1/3 5/5
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 226/165 .190/.316/.291/.607 .443/.665 .499 79/.620 4/1 4/2
Hoes G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 134/59 .175/.233/.292/.525 .718/.285 .500 27/.493 0/0 3/2
18.Krauss* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 167/161 .192/.269/.338/.607 1.167/.584 .489 42/.677 0/0 6/2
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 75/59 .155/.187/.155/.342 .125/.402 .487 25/.245 5/0 0/0
3.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 22/14 .318/.318/.455/.773 .875/.714 .765 22/.773 0/0 1/1
13.Santana G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/8 .000/.071/.000/.071 .167/.000 .000 1/ 0/0 0/0
28.Singleton* G/S/vP 3/2.334 ··· 2/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 223/164 .187/.274/.384/.657 .888/.573 .729 75/.631 1/2 10/8
IP 33.1 5.0 57.0 49.2 15.0 1.0 15.0 51.2 TOTAL .238/.305/.385/.691 .747/.668 .698 .654 84/23 126/72
ERA-K/9 7.29/5.9 5.40/10.8 5.84/6.2 3.26/9.8 3.00/4.2 18.00/9.0 1.80/4.8 3.31/8.5 4.82/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (54-17-8)
 Corporan (19-6-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 151/.294 22/.250 238/.265 209/.246 56/.160 7/.500 61/.157 216/.218 .282  Hoes
 Marisnick
 Grossman
 Santana
 Krauss
 Carter
 Sipp
 Gonzalez
34/0/12/4
0/19/0/3
31/6/23/3
2/0/2/1
12/0/3/1
5/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
4/0/1/0
OPS .751 .868 .783 .672 .572 2.071 .514 .709 .788
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 87/.703 14/.702 117/.787 77/.735 31/.483 5/2.400 36/.575 87/.737 .793
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 64/.818 8/1.125 121/.778 132/.635 25/.684 2/.500 25/.421 129/.690 .782
Road 75/.512 10/.733 116/.722 109/.679 29/.626 7/2.071 26/.587 104/.706
Last 28d days 109/.657 22/.868 34/.748 43/.587 34/.602 7/2.071 44/.615 29/.766
HR/SB/CS 3/1/0 2/0/0 9/3/0 3/1/1 3/1/0 2/0/0 1/2/0 9/4/2 117/56/29
Usage ·····X·· ···X··X· ······X· ·X··o··· ·o··X··· ····o·X· ·X··Xo·· ····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  4.89

MIA  4.04

SDP  3.21

 RA/G

SEA  3.29

PIT  4.12

COL  5.19

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .340

B. Phillips  .272

C. Davis  .198

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .432

P. Sandoval  .331

E. Cabrera  .267

 SLG

J. Abreu  .616

B. Holt  .414

E. Cabrera  .294

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.035

J. Heyward  .752

E. Cabrera  .562

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.82

J. Niese  3.51

E. Jackson  5.66

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.23

T. Wood  7.44

K. Correia  4.25

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.