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Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers, at Minute Maid Park, August 28, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Thursday, August 28, 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 4-game series

Average Temp:

73° (based on last ten years)

Rangers

Manager:

Ron Washington

Game #:

133

On This Date:

28-20

Astros

Manager:

Bo Porter

Game #:

135

On This Date:

23-22

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  6 @HOU  2     

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

52-80, 5th, 27 GB, 26 GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   24-40   Road:   28-40   ExtrInn: 2-5 
 vsRHP:  37-56   vsLHP:  15-24   1-Run:  17-19
 vsEast: 10-23   vsCntrl:14-16   vsWest: 21-31 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Wed, Aug 27  @SEA  W  12-4       52-80  5th 27.0 gb
131 Tue, Aug 26  @SEA  L   0-5       51-80  5th 27.0 gb
130 Mon, Aug 25  @SEA  W   2-0       51-79  5th 26.0 gb
129 Sun, Aug 24   KCR  W   3-1       50-79  5th 27.0 gb
128 Sat, Aug 23   KCR  L   3-6       49-79  5th 27.0 gb
127 Fri, Aug 22   KCR  L   3-6       49-78  5th 27.0 gb
126 Wed, Aug 20  @MIA  W   5-4       49-77  5th 26.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 19  @MIA  L   3-4 (10)  48-77  5th 26.5 gb
124 Sun, Aug 17   LAA  W   3-2       48-76  5th 25.0 gb
123 Sat, Aug 16   LAA  L   4-5       47-76  5th 26.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18

Houston Astros

56-78, 4th, 24 GB, 23 GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   30-38   Road:   26-40   ExtrInn: 6-4 
 vsRHP:  40-55   vsLHP:  16-23   1-Run:  13-23
 vsEast: 16-18   vsCntrl:13-15   vsWest: 23-32 IL: 4-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
134 Wed, Aug 27   OAK  L   4-5       56-78  4th 24.0 gb
133 Tue, Aug 26   OAK  W   4-2       56-77  4th 23.0 gb
132 Mon, Aug 25   OAK  L   2-8       55-77  4th 23.0 gb
131 Sun, Aug 24  @CLE  L   1-3       55-76  4th 23.0 gb
130 Sat, Aug 23  @CLE  L   2-3       55-75  4th 22.0 gb
129 Fri, Aug 22  @CLE  W   5-1       55-74  4th 22.0 gb
128 Thu, Aug 21  @NYY  L   0-3       54-74  4th 23.0 gb
127 Wed, Aug 20  @NYY  W   5-2       54-73  4th 22.0 gb
126 Tue, Aug 19  @NYY  W   7-4       53-73  4th 22.0 gb
125 Sun, Aug 17  @BOS  W   8-1       52-73  4th 21.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 10, 2014 TEX  6 @HOU  2        W:Nick Martinez (2-8), L: Dallas Keuchel (10-8), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2014 - HOU over 8-4; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; All-Time - TEX leads 63-40

SP: Nick Tepesch (25, RHP, 4-8, 4.45)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (4-8)			93.0	93	47	46	31	46	12	4.45
2013 (4-6)			93.0	100	53	50	27	76	12	4.84

Last 7 GS		1-3	42.1	42	21	21	10	13	5	4.46	48
2014-08-23	KCR	L	6.1	7	6	6	3	2	1	89	34
2014-08-17	LAA	ND	7.0	6	2	2	4	1	0	91	54
2014-08-12	TBR	ND	7.0	4	2	2	0	4	0	102	65
2014-08-06	@CHW	W	5.2	6	0	0	1	2	0	79	58
2014-07-26	OAK	L	6.0	4	3	3	0	2	2	70	54
2014-07-20	@TOR	ND	4.1	9	5	5	2	0	1	99	23
2014-07-11	LAA	L	6.0	6	3	3	0	2	1	90	50

Last 5 v.HOU		2-0	16.1	13	6	6	5	25	1	3.31	59
2014-05-14	@HOU	ND	5.1	2	1	1	3	8	0	104	65
2013-07-05	HOU	W	5.0	7	4	4	1	9	0	98	45
2013-05-12	@HOU	W	6.0	4	1	1	1	8	1	84	67

SP: Collin McHugh (27, RHP, 6-9, 3.02)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (6-9)			119.1	94	45	40	40	126	11	3.02
2013 (0-4)			26.0	45	29	29	5	11	6	10.04
2012 (0-4)			21.1	27	21	18	8	17	5	7.59

Last 7 GS		2-2	41.0	40	13	12	9	37	3	2.63	56
2014-08-23	@CLE	ND	5.1	8	2	2	1	2	0	109	45
2014-08-17	@BOS	W	6.0	7	1	1	4	6	0	109	56
2014-08-12	MIN	W	6.0	4	1	1	0	3	1	93	63
2014-08-07	@PHI	ND	7.0	5	1	1	0	8	0	100	71
2014-08-01	TOR	ND	6.1	5	1	1	1	5	0	111	63
2014-07-27	MIA	L	6.1	7	4	4	1	9	2	107	51
2014-07-06	@LAA	L	4.0	4	3	2	2	4	0	70	46

Has never faced TEX as starter.

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Rangers Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.65 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 31.McHugh
G/S/vB 58.Buchanan
G/S/vB 66.Chapman*
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 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 109/100 .177/.250/.240/.490 .000/.531 .391 57/.301 3/1 1/0

1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 5/.000 1/.000 5/1.200 5/1.600 9/.833 573/421 .266/.320/.336/.656 .773/.615 .657 110/.638 23/13 2/15

7.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 3/.000 183/126 .174/.235/.359/.594 .773/.515 .693 67/.522 0/0 8/4

29.Beltre G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/1.200 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 8/.750 493/372 .326/.379/.500/.879 .954/.856 .791 100/.862 1/1 17/11

28.Carp* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 145/119 .179/.297/.236/.532 .361/.571 .528 42/.373 0/1 0/2

61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 288/204 .231/.282/.408/.689 .786/.650 .792 49/.799 0/1 11/2

15.Choice G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 227/152 .171/.242/.307/.550 .627/.513 .565 8/.125 1/0 8/2

2.Martin* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.500 2/2.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 467/353 .272/.326/.369/.695 .517/.752 .635 86/.715 22/10 6/6

12.Odor* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 1/.000 313/223 .248/.282/.376/.658 .609/.678 .754 85/.585 2/5 6/9

51.Rios G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 6/2.100 13/.558 493/372 .281/.310/.399/.709 .905/.648 .706 72/.392 16/9 4/6

19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 138/61 .293/.365/.358/.723 .870/.538 .751 47/.976 3/4 0/2

9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 ··· 80/31 .314/.392/.514/.907 .921/.887 .928 52/.988 1/0 3/1

6.Telis# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/4 .375/.375/.500/.875 .500/1.250 .875 8/.875 0/0 0/0

IP 119.1 24.0 12.2 50.1 9.2 45.2 41.0 35.1 TOTAL .255/.315/.376/.691 .738/.673 .703 .644 78/51 94/90

ERA-K/9

3.02/9.5

4.50/4.5

7.82/9.2

4.83/11.8

5.59/10.2

3.55/7.7

3.29/10.8

4.84/8.9

4.35/7.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Arencibia (9-2-2)
Chirinos (40-25-5)
Telis (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 488/.216 106/.301 62/.286 217/.254 46/.333 192/.273 159/.155 159/.227 .267 Martin
Robertson
Rios
Choice
Adduci
Carp 0/124/0/7
26/17/9/5
0/0/108/5
35/7/8/4
20/0/7/1
13/0/1/0

OPS .630 .788 .931 .666 .963 .693 .498 .723 .738

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 283/.655 66/.757 35/.826 100/.700 26/1.402 97/.820 80/.414 63/.751 .738

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 205/.595 40/.829 27/1.042 117/.636 20/.450 95/.572 79/.584 96/.706 .738

Home 248/.680 42/.628 23/1.209 107/.617 16/1.207 102/.812 72/.428 88/.886

Last 28d days 122/.605 33/.753 29/.635 48/.771 46/.963 34/.788 33/.541 39/.536

HR/SB/CS 11/6/5 2/1/1 3/0/0 2/7/0 2/0/0 5/9/2 4/0/2 4/4/0 119/86/28

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

Astros Batters (3.96 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.99 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 23.Tepesch
G/S/vB 25.Baker
G/S/vB 65.Claudio*
G/S/vB 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB 62.Edwards
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 9/.666 3/.666 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 3/.667 ··· 1/no AB 4/.833 585/448 .332/.370/.435/.805 .988/.748 .830 107/.740 49/7 6/8

23.Carter G/S/vP 8/.536 3/1.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 4/.833 459/323 .229/.298/.519/.818 .901/.783 .852 104/1.007 2/1 33/2

15.Castro* G/S/vP 8/1.625 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 440/331 .224/.293/.367/.660 .659/.660 .684 81/.572 1/0 12/4

22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 3/.666 166/99 .240/.297/.373/.670 .638/.692 .700 30/.492 0/0 5/3

30.Dominguez G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 5/.400 526/381 .222/.263/.343/.606 .726/.560 .623 89/.446 0/1 14/10

21.Fowler# G/S/vP 3/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 396/295 .274/.376/.409/.785 .941/.731 .858 62/.844 7/3 8/3

9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 266/228 .264/.312/.386/.698 .703/.697 .689 80/.642 1/3 6/6

19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 313/238 .215/.330/.325/.655 .535/.692 .587 109/.684 5/1 6/2

14.Guzman G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 165/61 .193/.267/.260/.527 .490/.591 .612 7/.286 3/0 2/1

18.Krauss* G/S/vP 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 192/184 .202/.281/.341/.622 1.125/.598 .496 38/.754 0/0 6/2

6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 141/114 .231/.262/.276/.539 .444/.562 .672 90/.626 5/1 1/0

3.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 46/28 .295/.326/.477/.803 1.268/.509 .704 36/.863 0/0 1/1

28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 296/220 .185/.297/.370/.667 .842/.606 .701 96/.726 1/3 12/10

IP 93.0 66.0 5.0 56.1 4.2 22.1 9.0 22.0 62.0 TOTAL .239/.307/.386/.693 .755/.671 .703 .694 92/26 147/84

ERA-K/9

4.45/4.5

5.45/6.0

0.00/9.0

3.36/9.6

0.00/7.7

2.82/5.7

3.00/10.0

1.23/5.7

2.90/9.0

4.72/7.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Castro (65-22-11)
Corporan (21-6-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 392/.265 276/.263 20/.158 238/.243 20/.222 86/.182 37/.152 87/.137 254/.210 .277 Grossman
Marisnick
Fowler
Krauss
Gonzalez
Carter
Sipp
Guzman 42/6/32/6
2/25/10/5
0/88/0/3
17/0/4/1
4/0/1/0
6/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
7/0/0/0

OPS .771 .776 .411 .669 .578 .624 .667 .458 .665 .777

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 236/.758 136/.756 9/.556 84/.712 8/1.071 45/.532 15/1.323 45/.505 101/.668 .784

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 156/.789 140/.795 11/.282 154/.645 12/.258 41/.722 22/.236 42/.404 153/.663 .770

Road 183/.895 121/.729 5/.200 121/.732 11/.455 43/.792 16/1.188 41/.509 122/.659

Last 28d days 103/.668 44/.631 20/.411 38/.523 20/.578 38/.797 37/.667 39/.559 44/.512

HR/SB/CS 12/3/6 10/4/0 0/0/0 4/1/1 0/1/0 5/1/0 2/1/0 1/2/0 9/4/2 137/65/30

Usage ····X··· ···X···· ·X··oX·· ···oo··· ·X···X·o ··XX···X ·····X·· ····X··o ···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 4.80

SEA 4.00

SDP 3.30

RA/G

SEA 3.23

CHC 4.14

COL 5.20

J. Altuve .332

M. Prado .271

C. Davis .190

OBP

G. Stanton .403

J. Reyes .333

G. Beckham .262

SLG

J. Abreu .602

B. Dozier .415

Z. Cozart .301

OPS

J. Abreu .973

M. Ozuna .752

Z. Cozart .575

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.73

W. Peralta 3.56

E. Jackson 6.09

K/9IP

Y. Darvish 11.35

J. Lackey 7.34

K. Correia 4.58

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.