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Tampa Bay Rays vs. Houston Astros, at Tropicana Field, June 19, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
74
On This Date:
17-30
Rays
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
74
On This Date:
8-6
Season Series
Fri, Jun 13, 2014 TBR  6 @HOU  1     
Sat, Jun 14, 2014 HOU  7  TBR  3     
Sun, Jun 15, 2014 TBR  4 @HOU  3     

Thu, Jun 19, 2014 HOU    @TBR  7:10pm
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 HOU    @TBR  7:10pm
Sat, Jun 21, 2014 HOU    @TBR  4:10pm
Sun, Jun 22, 2014 HOU    @TBR  1:40pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
32-41, 5th, 12½ GB, 7½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-20   Road:   15-21   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  23-26   vsLHP:   9-15   1-Run:   9-13
 vsEast:  7-9    vsCntrl: 8-8    vsWest: 14-19 IL: 3-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 73 Wed, Jun 18  @WSN  L   5-6       32-41  5th 12.5 gb
 72 Tue, Jun 17  @WSN  L   5-6       32-40  5th 11.5 gb
 71 Sun, Jun 15   TBR  L   3-4       32-39  5th 11.0 gb
 70 Sat, Jun 14   TBR  W   7-3       32-38  5th 10.0 gb
 69 Fri, Jun 13   TBR  L   1-6       31-38  5th 10.0 gb
 68 Thu, Jun 12   ARI  W   5-4 (10)  31-37  5th 10.0 gb
 67 Wed, Jun 11   ARI  W   5-1       30-37  5th 10.5 gb
 66 Tue, Jun 10  @ARI  L   1-4       29-37  5th 10.5 gb
 65 Mon, Jun  9  @ARI  W   4-3       29-36  5th 10.5 gb
 64 Sun, Jun  8  @MIN  W  14-5       28-36  5th 11.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Tampa Bay Rays
28-45, 5th, 13 GB, 11½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   15-22   Road:   13-23   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  22-31   vsLHP:   6-14   1-Run:  11-9 
 vsEast: 12-19   vsCntrl: 4-9    vsWest:  9-11 IL: 3-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 73 Wed, Jun 18   BAL  L   0-2       28-45  5th 13.0 gb
 72 Tue, Jun 17   BAL  L   5-7       28-44  5th 13.0 gb
 71 Mon, Jun 16   BAL  W   5-4       28-43  5th 13.0 gb
 70 Sun, Jun 15  @HOU  W   4-3       27-43  5th 13.5 gb
 69 Sat, Jun 14  @HOU  L   3-7       26-43  5th 13.5 gb
 68 Fri, Jun 13  @HOU  W   6-1       26-42  5th 13.5 gb
 67 Wed, Jun 11   STL  W   6-3       25-42  5th 14.0 gb
 66 Tue, Jun 10   STL  L   0-1       24-42  5th 15.0 gb
 65 Mon, Jun  9   SEA  L   0-3       24-41  5th 15.0 gb
 64 Sun, Jun  8   SEA  L   0-5       24-40  5th 14.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 5-15   Last 30: 9-21

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 15, 2014 TBR  4 @HOU  3        W:David Price (5-6), L: Jerome Williams (1-3), S: Jake McGee (1)
Sat, Jun 14, 2014 HOU  7  TBR  3        W:Jarred Cosart (6-5), L: Chris Archer (3-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 13, 2014 TBR  6 @HOU  1        W:Alex Cobb (2-4), L: Collin McHugh (4-4), S: none

Sun, Jul 14, 2013 TBR  5  HOU  0        W:Chris Archer (4-3), L: Erik Bedard (3-6), S: none
Sat, Jul 13, 2013 TBR  4  HOU  3        W:Roberto Hernandez (5-10), L: Lucas Harrell (5-10), S: Fernando Rodney (22)
Fri, Jul 12, 2013 HOU  2 @TBR  1        W:Jarred Cosart (1-0), L: David Price (3-5), S: Jose Veras (18)
Thu, Jul 04, 2013 TBR  7 @HOU  5 (11)   W:Jamey Wright (2-1), L: Josh Fields (0-1), S: Fernando Rodney (18)
Wed, Jul 03, 2013 HOU  4  TBR  1        W:Bud Norris (6-7), L: Roberto Hernandez (4-10), S: Jose Veras (17)
Tue, Jul 02, 2013 TBR  8 @HOU  0        W:David Price (2-4), L: Erik Bedard (3-4), S: none
Mon, Jul 01, 2013 TBR 12 @HOU  0        W:Matt Moore (11-3), L: Dallas Keuchel (4-5), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - TBR over 2-1; 2013 - TBR won 5-2; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - TBR leads 13-9

SP: Collin McHugh (27, RHP, 4-4, 3.03)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-4) 59.1 42 22 20 22 66 4 3.03
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 2-3 40.0 29 15 14 18 43 4 3.15 57
2014-06-13 TBR L 5.0 5 4 3 3 6 0 100 46
2014-06-08 @MIN ND 4.1 3 3 3 5 6 1 101 46
2014-06-03 LAA W 5.0 2 0 0 2 4 0 97 65
2014-05-27 @KCR W 7.0 5 0 0 0 9 0 102 76
2014-05-21 @LAA L 7.0 4 2 2 2 7 1 112 66
2014-05-16 CHW L 5.1 3 4 4 4 7 1 92 49
2014-05-10 @BAL ND 6.1 7 2 2 2 4 1 101 53
Last 5 v.TBR 0-1 5.0 5 4 3 3 6 0 5.40 46
2014-06-13 TBR L 5.0 5 4 3 3 6 0 100 46

SP: Chris Archer (25, RHP, 3-4, 3.40)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-4) 79.1 77 35 30 32 71 3 3.40
2013 (9-7) 128.2 107 49 46 38 101 15 3.22
2012 (1-3) 29.1 23 17 15 13 36 3 4.60
Last 7 GS 1-3 39.0 33 13 8 21 37 1 1.85 57
2014-06-14 @HOU L 3.0 3 6 1 3 2 0 74 38
2014-06-08 SEA ND 6.1 5 0 0 1 2 0 90 64
2014-06-03 @MIA L 7.0 5 1 1 2 8 0 93 69
2014-05-28 @TOR ND 6.0 6 2 2 2 7 0 100 57
2014-05-23 BOS ND 6.0 4 0 0 4 11 0 119 71
2014-05-16 @LAA W 5.2 2 0 0 5 5 0 104 65
2014-05-11 CLE L 5.0 8 4 4 4 2 1 100 33
Last 5 v.HOU 1-1 18.0 10 8 3 6 15 1 1.50 62
2014-06-14 @HOU L 3.0 3 6 1 3 2 0 74 38
2013-07-14 HOU W 9.0 5 0 0 0 8 0 112 85
2013-07-04 @HOU ND 6.0 2 2 2 3 5 1 97 62

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

Astros Batters (3.92 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.36 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Archer
G/S/vB		 50.Balfour
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 46.Oviedo
G/S/vB		 62.Peralta
G/S/vB		 27.Ramos*
G/S/vB		 49.Yates
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 7/.286 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 316/234 .329/.370/.442/.812 .977/.753 .821 97/.873 24/3 2/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· ··· 3/2.667 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 236/151 .191/.280/.440/.720 .738/.709 .666 65/.879 0/1 13/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 9/.476 3/.333 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 1/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 247/190 .224/.304/.365/.669 .649/.676 .655 79/.573 0/0 6/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 84/37 .216/.277/.432/.710 .633/.813 .641 29/.859 0/0 5/1
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 2/2.500 6/1.500 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 294/207 .253/.303/.409/.712 .784/.681 .706 109/.674 0/1 10/6
21.Fowler# G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 303/223 .286/.389/.409/.799 .901/.762 .704 111/.873 6/3 5/3
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 1/3.000 2/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 98/81 .273/.340/.386/.727 .665/.740 .900 48/.780 0/2 2/2
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 126/89 .168/.288/.280/.568 .439/.621 .693 71/.583 3/0 2/1
14.Guzman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 122/45 .202/.287/.284/.571 .500/.698 .391 23/.514 2/0 2/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP 5/.650 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 174/157 .242/.287/.329/.617 .912/.584 .610 56/.790 2/0 3/0
28.Singleton* G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 62/43 .241/.323/.500/.823 1.221/.664 .810 62/.823 1/2 4/3
4.Springer G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 242/175 .246/.347/.464/.811 .664/.862 1.033 101/.962 1/2 12/6
2.Villar# G/S/vP 1/.000 3/2.333 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 222/152 .207/.260/.345/.605 .680/.570 .420 65/.466 13/4 5/9
IP 79.1 27.1 24.0 31.1 24.1 30.2 52.0 5.2 TOTAL .240/.315/.389/.703 .744/.687 .695 .742 52/18 77/45
ERA-K/9 3.40/8.1 5.93/7.6 3.00/13.5 1.44/10.4 2.22/8.1 3.82/10.3 3.98/6.6 1.59/9.5 4.00/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (36-13-4)
 Corporan (10-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 341/.256 122/.220 99/.183 117/.168 104/.189 129/.231 229/.241 24/.190 .245  Springer
 Presley
 Fowler
 Sipp
 Guzman
 Gonzalez
 Grossman
0/0/54/4
33/9/12/3
0/68/0/1
1/0/1/0
3/0/0/0
4/0/1/0
29/2/1/0
OPS .671 .732 .648 .429 .620 .690 .696 .673 .694
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 193/.573 71/.790 42/.545 39/.520 50/.606 76/.711 87/.606 9/.873 .678
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 148/.799 51/.650 57/.720 78/.385 54/.633 53/.660 142/.753 15/.557 .707
Home 146/.637 77/.703 63/.715 59/.275 61/.377 74/.719 81/.558 16/.607
Last 28d days 120/.579 38/.706 38/.646 40/.307 45/.761 42/.627 66/.605 24/.673
HR/SB/CS 3/5/2 2/1/0 4/3/1 0/1/1 1/4/0 5/2/0 5/1/0 1/0/0 67/28/11
Usage ····X··· ·Xo····X ·Xo··o·X ··Xo·o·· o·X·X··X ··X··X·· oX··X··o XX··XX··
Rays Batters (3.63 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.47 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.McHugh
G/S/vB		 56.Clemens
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 44.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 36.Williams
G/S/vB		 61.Zeid
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
7.DeJesus* G/S/vP 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 3/.667 4/1.500 4/.500 8/.250 ··· 210/203 .269/.367/.440/.806 .629/.811 .843 76/.801 0/2 5/0
11.Escobar G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 4/.833 6/.333 2/5.000 6/.533 2/.000 274/214 .247/.322/.337/.660 .908/.588 .639 92/.590 0/1 4/8
10.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 134/65 .195/.246/.244/.490 .515/.464 .550 41/.500 0/0 0/1
24.Hanigan G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 147/116 .223/.308/.354/.662 .522/.699 .854 27/.579 0/0 4/0
8.Jennings G/S/vP 3/1.000 4/1.750 ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 1/no AB 10/.347 2/.000 291/218 .241/.325/.383/.709 .778/.686 .670 103/.690 12/3 6/0
20.Joyce* G/S/vP 2/3.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 11/1.255 1/no AB 237/215 .266/.354/.387/.741 .141/.807 .840 81/.677 1/2 3/1
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP 3/1.333 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 78/60 .319/.372/.597/.969 .284/1.179 1.036 66/1.011 1/1 3/0
21.Loney* G/S/vP 3/.333 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 14/.464 3/.000 6/.833 1/.000 298/211 .274/.336/.376/.712 .681/.724 .727 109/.613 2/0 3/3
3.Longoria G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 4/.500 1/.000 1/no AB 10/.700 2/.000 315/231 .265/.333/.399/.733 .849/.691 .900 111/.820 2/0 8/5
28.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 8/.500 ··· 111/88 .137/.183/.137/.321 .451/.286 .262 50/.367 0/0 0/1
1.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 4/.833 5/.400 ··· 113/49 .214/.261/.495/.756 .802/.698 .787 41/.659 1/0 7/1
19.Sands G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 16/8 .200/.250/.400/.650 .625/.661 .958 16/.650 0/0 1/
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 3/2.334 2/.000 2/2.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 8/.393 11/1.101 ··· 260/193 .251/.324/.377/.701 .835/.656 .718 80/.665 4/2 5/6
IP 59.1 22.2 17.1 28.1 23.2 17.2 40.0 11.2 TOTAL .244/.316/.370/.687 .674/.691 .729 .686 27/12 55/36
ERA-K/9 3.03/10.0 5.16/5.6 2.60/6.8 4.13/5.7 2.28/8.7 2.04/12.2 5.40/7.0 4.63/9.2 4.17/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (8-7-1)
 Molina (19-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 243/.193 107/.261 69/.234 126/.290 95/.242 67/.159 182/.299 48/.302 .255  Joyce
 Kiermaier
 DeJesus
 Rodriguez
 Forsythe
 Zobrist
 Jennings
46/0/7/3
1/7/18/1
13/3/0/0
14/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
8/0/2/0
0/64/0/0
OPS .588 .798 .587 .804 .625 .470 .831 .966 .715
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 132/.583 56/.709 35/.493 51/.801 42/1.020 34/.309 95/.846 16/1.205 .683
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 111/.594 51/.899 34/.686 75/.806 53/.324 33/.637 87/.815 32/.844 .742
Road 122/.528 36/1.064 34/.740 63/.718 45/.600 40/.502 77/.774 26/1.317
Last 28d days 91/.611 26/.663 50/.654 46/.797 35/.343 43/.669 63/.801 18/.886
HR/SB/CS 4/1/2 3/1/1 0/1/1 2/2/1 2/5/1 2/0/0 6/2/0 3/1/0 61/46/15
Usage ·····X·· ········ oo·X·oo· oX·o·X·· ······oo oo·oo·o· ·o·X···· oo·ooX··

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  5.18

WSN  4.13

SDP  2.94

 RA/G

OAK  3.35

BAL  4.20

ARI  4.92

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .356

P. Sandoval  .265

B. Hicks  .172

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .445

G. Jones  .330

Y. Alonso  .250

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .653

Y. Molina  .407

W. Venable  .289

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.097

M. Joyce  .741

B. Miller  .559

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.92

G. Cole  3.64

J. Nicasio  5.92

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  10.86

T. Wood  7.37

K. Correia  4.60

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.