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Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers, at Minute Maid Park, August 9, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Start Time:

6:10ct (local), 7:10et

Venue:

Minute Maid Park

Tickets:

Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Minute Maid Park

Series:

Game #2 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

73° (based on last ten years)

Rangers

Manager:

Ron Washington

Game #:

116

On This Date:

24-23

Astros

Manager:

Bo Porter

Game #:

117

On This Date:

23-27

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 HOU  4  TEX  3     

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

45-70, 5th, 26 GB, 22 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   21-33   Road:   24-37   ExtrInn: 1-4 
 vsRHP:  34-48   vsLHP:  11-22   1-Run:  14-16
 vsEast:  9-20   vsCntrl:13-14   vsWest: 17-27 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
115 Fri, Aug  8  @HOU  L   3-4       45-70  5th 26.0 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30: 8-22

Houston Astros

48-68, 4th, 23½ GB, 19½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   27-33   Road:   21-35   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  33-47   vsLHP:  15-21   1-Run:  13-21
 vsEast: 12-15   vsCntrl:11-11   vsWest: 21-29 IL: 4-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
116 Fri, Aug  8   TEX  W   4-3       48-68  4th 23.5 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 08, 2014 HOU  4  TEX  3        W:Jose Veras (2-1), L: Neal Cotts (2-6), S: Chad Qualls (13)
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
Season Series: 2014 - HOU over 7-3; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; All-Time - TEX leads 62-39

SP: Yu Darvish (27, RHP, 10-6, 2.82)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (10-6)			140.1	124	48	44	45	175	13	2.82
2013 (13-9)			209.2	145	68	66	80	277	26	2.83
2012 (16-9)			191.1	156	89	83	89	221	14	3.90

Last 7 GS		3-2	44.0	42	16	16	9	57	6	3.27	59
2014-08-03	@CLE	ND	7.0	4	1	1	2	8	0	101	71
2014-07-28	NYY	W	7.0	9	2	2	1	8	2	108	58
2014-07-23	@NYY	L	4.1	5	2	2	0	5	1	67	50
2014-07-18	@TOR	W	6.2	5	1	1	3	12	1	117	69
2014-07-09	HOU	L	6.0	10	6	6	0	8	1	109	36
2014-07-04	@NYM	ND	5.0	5	4	4	2	6	1	94	45
2014-06-28	MIN	W	8.0	4	0	0	1	10	0	110	83

Last 5 v.HOU		1-2	33.1	22	14	14	10	47	4	3.78	63
2014-07-09	HOU	L	6.0	10	6	6	0	8	1	109	36
2014-04-11	HOU	ND	8.0	1	0	0	1	9	0	101	88
2013-09-24	HOU	ND	5.1	4	2	2	4	9	1	101	57
2013-08-12	@HOU	W	8.0	1	1	1	1	15	1	115	90
2013-07-06	HOU	L	6.0	6	5	5	4	6	1	113	42

SP: Scott Feldman (31, RHP, 5-8, 4.13)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (5-8)			117.2	127	64	54	37	64	11	4.13
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		2-3	45.2	53	22	22	17	21	3	4.34	47
2014-08-03	TOR	W	9.0	8	1	1	2	2	0	109	67
2014-07-29	OAK	ND	7.0	5	1	1	3	1	1	95	61
2014-07-24	@OAK	L	5.1	9	6	6	5	4	0	117	25
2014-07-18	@CHW	L	7.0	7	3	3	3	2	1	109	50
2014-07-11	BOS	L	5.1	11	7	7	3	3	0	116	18
2014-07-05	@LAA	ND	6.0	6	2	2	0	5	0	104	57
2014-06-29	DET	W	6.0	7	2	2	1	4	1	107	53

Last 5 v.TEX		1-1	24.1	23	11	11	7	11	1	4.07	51
2014-05-14	TEX	ND	5.0	10	4	4	1	3	1	80	33
2014-04-11	@TEX	ND	7.0	2	0	0	4	3	0	105	72
2013-07-08	TEX	L	5.1	9	7	7	1	2	0	87	23
2013-05-06	TEX	W	7.0	2	0	0	1	3	0	102	75

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

Rangers Batters (4.06 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 46.Feldman
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/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

35.Adduci* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 70/63 .226/.300/.274/.574 .000/.642 .294 57/.447 1/1 0/0

1.Andrus G/S/vP 12/.750 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 5/1.200 5/1.600 8/.946 496/367 .272/.322/.347/.670 .848/.611 .673 93/.764 21/12 2/14

7.Arencibia G/S/vP 9/.222 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 2/.000 142/103 .195/.261/.430/.690 1.061/.559 .774 76/.932 0/0 8/3

29.Beltre G/S/vP 27/.713 ··· 1/.000 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 7/.572 422/322 .319/.370/.505/.875 .916/.862 .775 89/.697 1/1 16/9

28.Carp* G/S/vP 15/.817 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 109/84 .198/.321/.275/.596 .376/.664 .608 19/.582 0/1 0/0

61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 254/183 .237/.276/.427/.703 .770/.677 .809 47/.672 0/1 11/2

17.Choo* G/S/vP 22/.286 ··· 5/.400 1/no AB ··· 3/1.167 3/.000 4/1.250 469/322 .241/.345/.363/.709 .728/.700 .763 84/.566 3/3 10/3

2.Martin* G/S/vP 9/.985 ··· 5/.400 1/4.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 402/307 .256/.313/.358/.671 .483/.729 .607 74/.518 19/9 5/6

12.Odor* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/.333 1/.000 254/181 .254/.297/.379/.676 .524/.736 .768 75/.670 2/5 4/4

51.Rios G/S/vP 42/.920 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 6/2.100 13/.558 446/341 .293/.323/.412/.735 .990/.659 .701 63/.541 16/9 4/6

19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 107/53 .290/.330/.320/.650 .774/.518 .724 40/.841 3/3 0/2

9.Rosales G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 ··· 44/16 .342/.419/.632/1.050 .936/1.233 1.100 27/1.308 0/0 3/1

8.Soto G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 6/1.500 14/8 .286/.286/.357/.643 .333/.875 .643 14/.643 0/0 0/0

IP 117.2 20.0 29.0 42.0 2.2 40.0 34.0 27.2 TOTAL .258/.317/.383/.701 .753/.681 .706 .683 70/47 85/76

ERA-K/9

4.13/4.9

4.95/5.0

4.34/6.5

4.71/12.4

6.75/10.0

3.38/8.3

2.91/11.4

5.53/8.8

4.39/7.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Arencibia (9-2-2)
Chirinos (33-25-5)
Soto (3-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 511/.278 89/.278 124/.241 176/.244 12/.364 168/.269 134/.172 127/.233 .267 Martin
Rios
Choo
Robertson
Adduci
Carp 0/107/0/7
0/0/98/4
61/0/6/3
18/14/7/2
11/0/3/1
12/0/1/0

OPS .768 .763 .667 .652 .962 .687 .538 .739 .741

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 270/.743 57/.722 69/.636 72/.736 9/1.069 78/.871 67/.462 47/.837 .729

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 241/.795 32/.824 55/.706 104/.592 3/.667 90/.537 67/.612 80/.686 .750

Home 293/.780 31/.613 64/.689 83/.596 3/.333 88/.760 63/.414 70/.897

Last 28d days 120/.765 61/.693 27/.451 37/.556 12/.962 36/.960 32/.567 37/.699

HR/SB/CS 11/24/4 2/1/0 0/3/1 2/3/0 0/0/0 4/7/2 4/0/0 3/3/0 103/73/24

Usage ·····X·· ···X···· ··XX···o ·o·o···· ··X···o· Xo·····o ·o·o··o· o··o···o

Astros Batters (3.91 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (5.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 11.Darvish
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/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

27.Altuve G/S/vP 23/.461 ··· 3/.666 2/2.000 3/.667 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.167 509/382 .333/.369/.434/.803 .982/.742 .809 95/.743 45/6 4/6

23.Carter G/S/vP 15/.138 ··· 2/.000 5/.400 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 3/1.167 385/259 .225/.299/.500/.799 .861/.769 .770 85/.983 2/1 25/2

15.Castro* G/S/vP 15/.333 ··· ··· 4/.500 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 382/287 .231/.298/.387/.686 .680/.687 .744 73/.665 0/0 11/3

22.Corporan# G/S/vP 14/.785 ··· 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 18/1.043 ··· 2/.000 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 467/335 .230/.272/.359/.631 .753/.583 .651 85/.513 0/1 13/9

9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 9/.444 ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 204/172 .262/.313/.380/.693 .677/.696 .653 56/.605 1/3 5/5

19.Grossman# G/S/vP 12/.969 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 230/168 .203/.328/.323/.650 .530/.694 .586 79/.739 4/1 5/2

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 12/.606 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 171/165 .194/.269/.342/.611 1.167/.589 .501 46/.683 0/0 6/2

6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 79/62 .176/.215/.176/.391 .235/.435 .560 29/.392 5/0 0/0

3.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 24/15 .333/.333/.500/.833 1.111/.667 .842 24/.833 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/.666 ··· 2/3.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 227/167 .188/.273/.381/.654 .907/.562 .720 75/.659 1/2 10/8

IP 140.1 5.0 57.0 50.2 15.0 1.0 16.0 52.2 TOTAL .239/.306/.387/.693 .753/.669 .702 .662 84/23 128/73

ERA-K/9

2.82/11.2

5.40/10.8

5.84/6.2

3.73/9.9

3.00/4.2

18.00/9.0

1.69/5.6

3.25/8.7

4.82/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Castro (54-18-8)
Corporan (19-6-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 581/.234 22/.250 238/.265 216/.258 56/.160 7/.500 64/.148 221/.223 .282 Hoes
Marisnick
Grossman
Santana
Krauss
Carter
Sipp
Gonzalez 35/0/12/4
0/20/0/3
31/6/24/3
2/0/2/1
13/0/3/1
5/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
4/0/1/0

OPS .664 .868 .783 .709 .572 2.071 .488 .711 .789

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 372/.713 14/.702 117/.787 79/.742 31/.483 5/2.400 38/.542 89/.743 .793

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 209/.579 8/1.125 121/.778 137/.689 25/.684 2/.500 26/.404 132/.690 .785

Road 295/.728 10/.733 116/.722 116/.748 29/.626 7/2.071 29/.521 109/.710

Last 28d days 104/.707 22/.868 34/.748 50/.755 34/.602 7/2.071 42/.563 34/.771

HR/SB/CS 13/10/0 2/0/0 9/3/0 4/1/1 3/1/0 2/0/0 1/2/0 9/4/2 119/56/29

Usage ·····X·· ····X··X ·······X X·X··o·· ··o··X·· ·····o·X o·X··Xo· 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 4.90

KCR 4.04

SDP 3.19

RA/G

SEA 3.27

PIT 4.10

COL 5.19

T. Tulowitzki .340

M. Napoli .272

C. Davis .198

OBP

T. Tulowitzki .432

J. Peralta .331

G. Beckham .267

SLG

J. Abreu .612

D. Viciedo .412

J. Bradley .296

OPS

T. Tulowitzki 1.035

J. Heyward .755

E. Cabrera .569

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.82

A. Sanchez 3.53

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.