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Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers, at Minute Maid Park, August 30, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Start Time:
6:10ct (local), 7:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
77° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
135
On This Date:
20-27
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
137
On This Date:
29-18
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 HOU  4  TEX  2     
Fri, Aug 29, 2014 TEX 13 @HOU  6     

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
53-81, 5th, 28 GB, 25 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-40   Road:   29-41   ExtrInn: 2-5 
 vsRHP:  37-57   vsLHP:  16-24   1-Run:  17-19
 vsEast: 10-23   vsCntrl:14-16   vsWest: 22-32 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
134 Fri, Aug 29  @HOU  W  13-6       53-81  5th 28.0 gb
133 Thu, Aug 28  @HOU  L   2-4       52-81  5th 28.0 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18
Houston Astros
57-79, 4th, 25 GB, 22 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-39   Road:   26-40   ExtrInn: 6-4 
 vsRHP:  41-56   vsLHP:  16-23   1-Run:  13-23
 vsEast: 16-18   vsCntrl:13-15   vsWest: 24-33 IL: 4-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
136 Fri, Aug 29   TEX  L   6-13      57-79  4th 25.0 gb
135 Thu, Aug 28   TEX  W   4-2       57-78  4th 24.0 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 29, 2014 TEX 13 @HOU  6        W:Scott Baker (3-3), L: Brett Oberholtzer (4-10), S: none
Thu, Aug 28, 2014 HOU  4  TEX  2        W:Collin McHugh (7-9), L: Roman Mendez (0-1), S: Tony Sipp (2)
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
Season Series: 2014 - HOU over 9-5; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; All-Time - TEX leads 64-41

SP: Robbie Ross (25, LHP, 2-5, 6.06)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-5) 65.1 90 54 44 21 41 9 6.06
2013 (4-2) 62.1 63 21 21 19 58 4 3.03
2012 (6-0) 65.0 55 21 16 23 47 3 2.22
Last 7 GS 0-5 35.1 54 37 30 10 24 7 7.64 34
2014-08-14 TBR L 4.1 8 6 6 2 3 2 98 24
2014-05-17 TOR ND 4.1 3 1 1 4 2 1 91 51
2014-05-11 BOS L 6.2 6 5 5 2 3 1 112 43
2014-05-06 @COL L 5.1 12 6 6 1 1 1 86 20
2014-04-30 OAK L 3.1 11 10 6 1 2 0 83 7
2014-04-25 @SEA ND 6.0 7 2 2 0 5 0 101 55
2014-04-20 CHW L 5.1 7 7 4 0 8 2 86 40
Has never faced HOU as starter.

SP: Scott Feldman (31, RHP, 7-10, 4.34)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (7-10) 143.0 159 79 69 43 83 14 4.34
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 3-3 46.2 54 23 23 16 26 4 4.44 48
2014-08-25 OAK L 7.0 7 3 3 1 5 1 104 55
2014-08-20 @NYY W 6.2 8 2 2 2 7 1 121 55
2014-08-14 @BOS L 5.1 9 7 7 2 1 0 92 21
2014-08-09 TEX W 6.1 8 3 3 1 6 1 110 50
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
Last 5 v.TEX 2-1 30.2 31 14 14 8 17 2 4.11 51
2014-08-09 TEX W 6.1 8 3 3 1 6 1 110 50
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

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Rangers Batters (4.03 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Feldman
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/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 15/.867 ··· 1/5.000 5/.000 1/.000 5/1.200 5/1.600 9/.833 582/427 .268/.322/.339/.661 .782/.619 .667 110/.639 23/13 2/15
7.Arencibia G/S/vP 12/.258 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 3/.000 187/129 .170/.230/.351/.581 .759/.503 .665 63/.482 0/0 8/4
29.Beltre G/S/vP 30/.637 ··· ··· 5/1.200 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 8/.750 502/378 .327/.380/.500/.880 .973/.851 .795 102/.876 1/1 17/11
28.Carp* G/S/vP 17/.710 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 149/123 .175/.289/.230/.519 .361/.553 .498 46/.342 0/1 0/2
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 291/207 .236/.286/.414/.700 .786/.666 .811 48/.818 0/1 11/2
15.Choice G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 235/157 .179/.251/.330/.581 .717/.517 .622 16/.813 1/0 9/3
2.Martin* G/S/vP 12/.717 ··· 5/.500 2/2.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 471/357 .274/.328/.370/.698 .517/.755 .641 82/.777 22/10 6/6
12.Odor* G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 1/.000 322/229 .247/.281/.381/.662 .588/.691 .755 86/.663 2/5 7/9
51.Rios G/S/vP 42/.920 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 6/2.100 13/.558 498/374 .280/.309/.399/.708 .907/.644 .704 68/.430 16/9 4/6
19.Robertson G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 145/65 .302/.375/.364/.739 .880/.568 .776 49/.977 4/4 0/2
9.Rosales G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 ··· 85/34 .333/.405/.520/.925 .924/.927 .955 56/.989 1/0 3/1
6.Telis# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 13/7 .308/.308/.385/.692 .667/.714 .692 13/.692 0/0 0/0
IP 143.0 26.2 12.2 51.1 11.2 45.2 42.0 35.1 TOTAL .256/.315/.378/.693 .745/.673 .707 .672 79/51 96/91
ERA-K/9 4.34/5.2 5.74/4.7 7.82/9.2 4.73/11.6 4.63/8.5 3.55/7.7 3.21/10.9 4.84/8.9 4.39/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (9-2-2)
 Chirinos (40-25-5)
 Telis (0-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 622/.283 121/.318 62/.286 220/.250 53/.313 192/.273 162/.152 159/.227 .268  Martin
 Robertson
 Rios
 Choice
 Carp
0/125/0/7
26/18/10/6
0/0/109/5
37/7/8/4
13/0/1/0
OPS .772 .830 .931 .656 .898 .693 .488 .723 .740
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 341/.765 70/.822 35/.826 101/.692 28/1.292 97/.820 81/.408 63/.751 .736
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 281/.780 51/.836 27/1.042 119/.624 25/.490 95/.572 81/.568 96/.706 .743
Home 350/.772 57/.753 23/1.209 110/.599 23/.970 102/.812 75/.410 88/.886
Last 28d days 144/.738 48/.874 29/.635 51/.721 50/.923 30/.828 35/.506 37/.567
HR/SB/CS 14/29/5 3/1/1 3/0/0 2/7/0 2/0/0 5/9/2 4/0/2 4/4/0 121/87/28
Usage ····X··· X·····o· ··X···XX ·X·Xo··o X·X··X·· ··Xo···o ·o··X·oo ··o·X·X·
Astros Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.99 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
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/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 3/.667 ··· 1/no AB 4/.833 594/455 .332/.369/.433/.803 .988/.745 .824 107/.720 49/7 6/9
23.Carter G/S/vP 1/.000 3/1.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· 2/2.500 ··· 2/.000 4/.833 468/330 .228/.299/.513/.812 .899/.777 .840 105/.929 2/1 33/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 4/1.833 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 448/338 .227/.297/.383/.680 .653/.688 .721 85/.598 1/0 14/4
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 3/.666 166/99 .240/.297/.373/.670 .638/.692 .700 27/.470 0/0 5/3
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 5/.400 530/385 .223/.265/.343/.607 .726/.563 .627 85/.492 0/1 14/10
21.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 402/301 .277/.378/.413/.791 .941/.741 .869 68/.874 7/3 8/3
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 275/235 .272/.320/.398/.717 .745/.713 .727 89/.708 1/4 6/6
19.Grossman# G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 313/238 .215/.330/.325/.655 .535/.692 .587 101/.724 5/1 6/2
14.Guzman G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 168/62 .196/.268/.261/.529 .500/.581 .614 8/.250 3/0 2/1
18.Krauss* G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 200/190 .201/.285/.335/.620 1.100/.593 .500 43/.777 0/0 6/2
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 148/119 .236/.270/.279/.549 .552/.548 .680 90/.687 5/1 1/0
3.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 50/30 .292/.320/.458/.778 1.239/.475 .680 33/.785 0/0 1/1
28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 304/226 .180/.293/.360/.653 .839/.589 .670 99/.598 1/3 12/10
IP 65.1 72.1 6.2 57.1 4.2 22.1 10.0 23.2 63.0 TOTAL .240/.308/.387/.695 .758/.672 .706 .695 92/27 149/85
ERA-K/9 6.06/5.7 5.23/5.9 1.35/12.1 3.77/9.4 0.00/7.7 2.82/5.7 2.70/9.9 1.90/6.1 2.86/8.9 4.73/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (66-22-11)
 Corporan (21-6-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 306/.330 299/.263 30/.250 245/.250 20/.222 86/.182 40/.139 95/.152 257/.207 .277  Grossman
 Marisnick
 Fowler
 Krauss
 Carter
 Sipp
 Guzman
 Gonzalez
42/6/32/6
2/26/12/6
0/90/0/3
19/0/5/1
6/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
8/0/0/0
4/0/1/0
OPS .877 .778 .586 .685 .578 .624 .614 .527 .657 .778
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 101/.797 148/.808 13/.538 85/.720 8/1.071 45/.532 17/1.153 50/.642 103/.654 .787
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 205/.916 151/.749 17/.620 160/.666 12/.258 41/.722 23/.226 45/.403 154/.659 .769
Road 112/.990 144/.741 15/.708 128/.760 11/.455 43/.792 19/.968 49/.636 125/.642
Last 28d days 23/1.101 61/.761 30/.586 45/.630 20/.578 38/.797 34/.467 43/.719 47/.477
HR/SB/CS 9/2/2 11/4/1 0/0/0 4/1/1 0/1/0 5/1/0 2/1/0 2/2/0 9/4/2 139/65/31
Usage X····X·· X··X··oX X····oo· ···X···X ····XX·· ·o·····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  4.75

TEX  4.03

SDP  3.30

 RA/G

SEA  3.27

PIT  4.13

COL  5.19

 BA

J. Altuve  .332

M. Prado  .273

C. Davis  .189

 OBP

G. Stanton  .403

N. Aoki  .332

G. Beckham  .263

 SLG

J. Abreu  .604

I. Kinsler  .414

A. Callaspo  .305

 OPS

J. Abreu  .979

L. Valbuena  .756

Z. Cozart  .582

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.73

E. Santana  3.53

E. Jackson  6.09

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.35

R. Vogelsong  7.34

K. Correia  4.56

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.