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Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers, at Minute Maid Park, August 10, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Sunday, August 10, 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)

Rangers

Manager:

Ron Washington

Game #:

117

On This Date:

21-27

Astros

Manager:

Bo Porter

Game #:

118

On This Date:

23-26

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 HOU  8  TEX  3     

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

45-71, 5th, 27 GB, 23 GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   21-33   Road:   24-38   ExtrInn: 1-4 
 vsRHP:  34-49   vsLHP:  11-22   1-Run:  14-16
 vsEast:  9-20   vsCntrl:13-14   vsWest: 17-28 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
116 Sat, Aug  9  @HOU  L   3-8       45-71  5th 27.0 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30: 8-22

Houston Astros

49-68, 4th, 23½ GB, 19½ GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   28-33   Road:   21-35   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  34-47   vsLHP:  15-21   1-Run:  13-21
 vsEast: 12-15   vsCntrl:11-11   vsWest: 22-29 IL: 4-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
117 Sat, Aug  9   TEX  W   8-3       49-68  4th 23.5 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 09, 2014 HOU  8  TEX  3        W:Scott Feldman (6-8), L: Yu Darvish (10-7), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2014 - HOU over 8-3; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; All-Time - TEX leads 62-40

SP: Nick Martinez (23, RHP, 1-8, 5.31)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (1-8)			83.0	99	55	49	38	38	14	5.31

Last 7 GS		0-5	36.1	42	27	25	15	16	6	6.19	41
2014-08-04	@CHW	L	5.0	8	5	5	3	4	1	97	32
2014-07-29	NYY	L	5.2	6	6	6	3	2	1	83	32
2014-07-22	@NYY	ND	5.1	3	0	0	1	3	0	67	64
2014-07-01	@BAL	L	5.0	7	8	6	1	1	3	98	25
2014-06-26	DET	L	2.1	6	4	4	5	0	0	69	24
2014-06-21	@LAA	ND	7.0	3	2	2	1	3	1	97	65
2014-06-15	@SEA	L	6.0	9	2	2	1	3	0	97	48

Has never faced HOU as starter.

SP: Dallas Keuchel (26, LHP, 10-7, 2.89)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (10-7)			143.1	139	51	46	34	108	8	2.89
2013 (6-10)			153.2	184	96	88	52	123	20	5.15
2012 (3-8)			85.1	93	56	50	39	38	14	5.27

Last 7 GS		2-3	47.2	60	22	18	12	29	3	3.40	50
2014-08-05	@PHI	ND	7.0	5	1	1	1	4	1	114	66
2014-07-30	OAK	W	9.0	4	1	1	3	5	1	111	77
2014-07-25	MIA	L	7.0	9	2	0	0	7	0	98	62
2014-07-19	@CHW	L	5.0	12	4	3	2	5	0	103	32
2014-07-09	@TEX	W	6.2	8	4	4	1	3	0	109	44
2014-07-04	@LAA	ND	5.0	13	5	5	1	1	1	92	21
2014-06-22	@TBR	L	8.0	9	5	4	4	4	0	111	46

Last 5 v.TEX		2-2	35.0	35	19	17	6	27	1	4.37	52
2014-07-09	@TEX	W	6.2	8	4	4	1	3	0	109	44
2014-05-13	TEX	W	9.0	7	0	0	0	7	0	108	80
2013-09-25	@TEX	L	5.2	6	7	6	3	5	1	97	33
2013-08-11	TEX	L	8.2	8	6	5	1	8	0	116	53
2013-07-06	@TEX	ND	5.0	6	2	2	1	4	0	91	50

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Rangers Batters (4.05 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.72 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 60.Keuchel*
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 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 74/67 .227/.297/.318/.615 .000/.684 .391 61/.508 1/1 1/0

1.Andrus G/S/vP 23/.399 ··· 1/.000 5/.000 1/.000 5/1.200 5/1.600 8/.946 501/372 .274/.323/.349/.672 .848/.614 .677 94/.767 21/12 2/14

7.Arencibia G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 2/.000 146/107 .191/.260/.420/.680 1.061/.550 .753 80/.902 0/0 8/3

29.Beltre G/S/vP 22/.682 ··· 1/.000 5/1.200 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 7/.572 426/326 .318/.369/.503/.871 .916/.857 .770 89/.697 1/1 16/9

28.Carp* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 111/86 .194/.315/.269/.584 .376/.647 .583 20/.313 0/1 0/0

61.Chirinos G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 254/183 .237/.276/.427/.703 .770/.677 .809 43/.738 0/1 11/2

17.Choo* G/S/vP 12/.550 ··· 5/.400 1/no AB 1/2.000 3/1.167 3/.000 4/1.250 474/327 .248/.350/.371/.721 .728/.719 .787 87/.653 3/3 10/3

2.Martin* G/S/vP 13/.539 ··· 5/.400 2/2.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 406/311 .253/.310/.354/.664 .483/.719 .595 77/.497 19/9 5/6

12.Odor* G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 1/.000 258/185 .254/.296/.377/.674 .524/.731 .761 75/.641 2/5 4/5

51.Rios G/S/vP 16/.842 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 6/2.100 13/.558 446/341 .293/.323/.412/.735 .990/.659 .701 59/.486 16/9 4/6

19.Robertson G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 109/55 .284/.324/.314/.638 .774/.498 .702 39/.756 3/3 0/2

9.Rosales G/S/vP 6/.400 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 ··· 44/16 .342/.419/.632/1.050 .936/1.233 1.100 25/1.337 0/0 3/1

8.Soto G/S/vP 8/.536 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 6/1.500 18/12 .278/.278/.333/.611 .333/.750 .611 18/.611 0/0 0/0

IP 143.1 20.0 29.0 43.2 3.2 40.0 34.0 27.2 TOTAL .258/.317/.383/.700 .753/.681 .706 .682 70/47 86/77

ERA-K/9

2.89/6.8

4.95/5.0

4.34/6.5

4.53/12.2

4.91/9.7

3.38/8.3

2.91/11.4

5.53/8.8

4.38/7.2

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 582/.260 89/.278 124/.241 182/.242 16/.333 168/.269 134/.172 127/.233 .267 Martin
Rios
Robertson
Choo
Adduci
Carp 0/108/0/7
0/0/98/4
19/14/7/3
61/0/6/3
11/0/4/1
13/0/1/0

OPS .676 .763 .667 .643 .842 .687 .538 .739 .740

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 149/.656 57/.722 69/.636 74/.716 11/1.055 78/.871 67/.462 47/.837 .730

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 433/.683 32/.824 55/.706 108/.591 5/.400 90/.537 67/.612 80/.686 .748

Home 246/.660 31/.613 64/.689 89/.581 7/.452 88/.760 63/.414 70/.897

Last 28d days 117/.719 61/.693 21/.311 43/.531 16/.842 36/.960 32/.567 31/.683

HR/SB/CS 8/1/3 2/1/0 0/3/1 2/3/0 0/0/0 4/7/2 4/0/0 3/3/0 104/73/24

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

Astros Batters (3.95 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (5.09 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 22.Martinez
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 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/2.000 3/.667 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.167 509/382 .333/.369/.434/.803 .982/.742 .809 91/.777 45/6 4/6

23.Carter G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 5/.400 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 3/1.167 390/264 .229/.303/.503/.805 .861/.780 .784 87/1.016 2/1 25/2

15.Castro* G/S/vP 2/.500 1/2.000 1/.000 4/.500 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 387/292 .234/.300/.387/.687 .680/.689 .746 75/.674 0/0 11/3

22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 143/79 .244/.289/.397/.686 .669/.700 .751 23/.399 0/0 5/3

30.Dominguez G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 471/339 .232/.274/.360/.634 .753/.588 .657 86/.554 0/1 13/9

9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 208/176 .262/.312/.377/.689 .677/.691 .647 57/.631 1/3 5/5

19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.500 2/2.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 235/173 .206/.338/.325/.662 .530/.709 .610 81/.772 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 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 176/170 .189/.267/.333/.600 1.167/.578 .487 51/.643 0/0 6/2

6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 83/66 .192/.229/.192/.421 .235/.471 .597 33/.468 5/0 0/0

3.Petit G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 28/19 .286/.286/.429/.714 1.111/.526 .696 28/.714 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 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.667 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 232/172 .195/.284/.390/.675 .907/.592 .757 77/.748 1/2 10/8

IP 83.0 7.0 58.0 50.2 15.0 2.0 16.0 52.2 TOTAL .240/.307/.387/.694 .753/.672 .705 .692 84/23 128/73

ERA-K/9

5.31/4.1

5.14/9.0

5.90/6.5

3.73/9.9

3.00/4.2

9.00/9.0

1.69/5.6

3.25/8.7

4.84/7.3

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 373/.301 31/.259 243/.264 216/.258 56/.160 10/.333 64/.148 221/.223 .283 Hoes
Marisnick
Grossman
Santana
Krauss
Carter
Sipp
Gonzalez 36/0/12/4
0/21/0/3
31/6/25/3
2/0/2/1
14/0/3/1
5/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
4/0/1/0

OPS .873 .836 .785 .709 .572 1.400 .488 .711 .790

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 209/.908 19/.888 121/.772 79/.742 31/.483 6/2.000 38/.542 89/.743 .794

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 164/.829 12/.750 122/.798 137/.689 25/.684 4/.250 26/.404 132/.690 .786

Road 244/.810 19/.734 121/.729 116/.748 29/.626 10/1.400 29/.521 109/.710

Last 28d days 68/.820 31/.836 17/.364 44/.734 28/.599 10/1.400 42/.563 28/.681

HR/SB/CS 14/1/4 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·····o· ·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 4.93

ARI 4.04

SDP 3.18

RA/G

SEA 3.26

PIT 4.08

COL 5.26

T. Tulowitzki .340

B. Phillips .272

C. Davis .195

OBP

T. Tulowitzki .432

D. Wright .330

G. Beckham .267

SLG

J. Abreu .613

M. Montero .410

J. Bradley .293

OPS

T. Tulowitzki 1.035

L. Valbuena .752

E. Cabrera .572

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.82

Y. Gallardo 3.54

E. Jackson 5.61

K/9IP

Y. Darvish 11.35

J. Lackey 7.41

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.