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Tampa Bay Rays vs. Houston Astros, at Tropicana Field, June 20, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, June 20, 2014
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
75
On This Date:
31-21
Rays
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
75
On This Date:
8-8
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 TBR  5  HOU  0     

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
32-42, 5th, 13½ GB, 7½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-20   Road:   15-22   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  23-27   vsLHP:   9-15   1-Run:   9-13
 vsEast:  7-10   vsCntrl: 8-8    vsWest: 14-19 IL: 3-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 74 Thu, Jun 19  @TBR  L   0-5       32-42  5th 13.5 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14
Tampa Bay Rays
29-45, 5th, 12 GB, 10½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   16-22   Road:   13-23   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  23-31   vsLHP:   6-14   1-Run:  11-9 
 vsEast: 12-19   vsCntrl: 4-9    vsWest: 10-11 IL: 3-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 74 Thu, Jun 19   HOU  W   5-0       29-45  5th 12.0 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 19, 2014 TBR  5  HOU  0        W:Chris Archer (4-4), L: Collin McHugh (4-5), S: none
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
Season Series: 2014 - TBR over 3-1; 2013 - TBR won 5-2; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - TBR leads 14-9

SP: Jarred Cosart (24, RHP, 6-5, 4.16)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (6-5) 80.0 75 39 37 34 58 6 4.16
2013 (1-1) 60.0 46 15 13 35 33 3 1.95
Last 7 GS 5-2 42.0 46 19 18 16 30 1 3.86 50
2014-06-14 TBR W 7.0 9 3 3 1 2 1 104 48
2014-06-09 @ARI W 6.0 5 3 3 2 8 0 103 56
2014-06-04 LAA L 6.2 8 3 3 1 8 0 108 53
2014-05-28 @KCR W 5.0 4 2 1 2 1 0 95 52
2014-05-22 @SEA L 6.1 5 3 3 4 6 0 105 53
2014-05-17 CHW W 5.0 7 3 3 4 2 0 102 39
2014-05-11 @BAL W 6.0 8 2 2 2 3 0 98 49
Last 5 v.TBR 2-0 15.0 11 3 3 4 4 1 1.80 63
2014-06-14 TBR W 7.0 9 3 3 1 2 1 104 48
2013-07-12 @TBR W 8.0 2 0 0 3 2 0 96 77

SP: David Price (28, LHP, 5-6, 3.93)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (5-6) 107.2 110 54 47 10 121 15 3.93
2013 (10-8) 186.2 178 78 69 27 151 16 3.33
2012 (20-5) 211.0 173 63 60 59 205 16 2.56
Last 7 GS 2-3 54.0 49 25 20 4 63 6 3.33 62
2014-06-15 @HOU W 8.0 5 3 3 0 10 2 116 70
2014-06-09 SEA L 8.0 7 3 3 1 10 0 118 65
2014-06-04 MIA L 7.1 9 5 1 0 11 1 114 59
2014-05-30 @BOS ND 7.0 6 2 2 1 6 0 110 62
2014-05-24 BOS ND 8.0 5 5 5 2 7 1 115 57
2014-05-18 @LAA L 6.2 11 6 5 0 7 2 119 37
2014-05-13 @SEA W 9.0 6 1 1 0 12 0 109 83
Last 5 v.HOU 3-1 29.0 22 10 10 3 25 4 3.10 63
2014-06-15 @HOU W 8.0 5 3 3 0 10 2 116 70
2013-07-12 HOU L 9.0 8 2 2 0 3 0 87 66
2013-07-02 @HOU W 7.0 3 0 0 0 10 0 70 81
2010-05-23 @HOU W 5.0 6 5 5 3 2 2 88 34

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

Astros Batters (3.86 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 14.Price*
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/.000 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 320/238 .331/.372/.443/.814 .977/.757 .825 97/.840 26/3 2/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 13/.581 ··· ··· 3/2.667 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 239/154 .189/.276/.434/.710 .738/.695 .646 68/.837 0/1 13/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 1/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 251/194 .221/.303/.360/.663 .649/.668 .645 79/.590 0/0 6/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 9/.444 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 84/37 .216/.277/.432/.710 .633/.813 .641 29/.859 0/0 5/1
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 8/1.250 7/1.262 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 298/211 .249/.299/.403/.702 .784/.667 .687 109/.674 0/1 10/6
21.Fowler# G/S/vP 8/1.500 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 3/1.000 2/.500 3/1.667 1/.000 307/227 .282/.388/.405/.792 .901/.753 .694 111/.867 6/3 5/3
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 98/81 .273/.340/.386/.727 .665/.740 .900 45/.803 0/2 2/2
19.Grossman# G/S/vP 3/.000 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 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 122/45 .202/.287/.284/.571 .500/.698 .391 23/.514 2/0 2/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 177/160 .239/.288/.325/.613 .912/.581 .604 56/.776 2/0 3/0
28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 66/47 .224/.303/.466/.769 1.221/.604 .717 66/.769 1/2 4/3
4.Springer G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 246/179 .246/.346/.460/.805 .664/.853 1.013 105/.941 1/2 12/6
2.Villar# G/S/vP 3/.666 3/2.333 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 225/155 .204/.257/.340/.597 .680/.559 .408 65/.466 13/4 5/10
IP 107.2 28.1 24.1 31.1 24.1 31.2 52.0 5.2 TOTAL .238/.313/.385/.698 .744/.680 .686 .739 54/18 77/47
ERA-K/9 3.93/10.1 5.72/8.3 2.96/13.7 1.44/10.4 2.22/8.1 3.69/9.9 3.98/6.6 1.59/9.5 3.94/8.6

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 444/.259 125/.214 100/.181 117/.168 104/.189 133/.225 229/.241 24/.190 .243  Springer
 Presley
 Fowler
 Sipp
 Guzman
 Gonzalez
 Grossman
0/0/55/4
34/9/12/3
0/69/0/1
1/0/1/0
3/0/0/0
4/0/1/0
29/2/1/0
OPS .700 .713 .640 .429 .620 .679 .696 .673 .689
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 127/.739 73/.766 43/.531 39/.520 50/.606 78/.710 87/.606 9/.873 .671
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 317/.685 52/.636 57/.720 78/.385 54/.633 55/.635 142/.753 15/.557 .704
Home 233/.732 80/.675 64/.702 59/.275 61/.377 78/.699 81/.558 16/.607
Last 28d days 155/.585 41/.653 39/.628 37/.332 41/.790 43/.645 66/.605 24/.673
HR/SB/CS 15/6/1 2/1/0 4/3/1 0/1/1 1/4/0 5/2/0 5/1/0 1/0/0 67/30/11
Usage ····X··· o·Xo···· o·Xo··o· ···Xo·o· ·o·X·X·· X··X··X· ·oX··X·· ·XX··XX·
Rays Batters (3.65 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.47 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Cosart
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
11.Escobar G/S/vP 5/.000 3/.666 ··· 4/.833 7/.286 2/5.000 6/.533 2/.000 278/218 .247/.321/.336/.657 .908/.587 .635 93/.606 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
5.Guyer G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 69/34 .246/.269/.338/.607 .658/.555 .476 15/1.038 1/0 1/0
24.Hanigan G/S/vP 3/.666 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 151/120 .235/.322/.364/.686 .522/.728 .895 28/.787 0/0 4/0
8.Jennings G/S/vP 7/.453 5/1.400 ··· 1/2.000 4/.500 1/no AB 10/.347 2/.000 296/223 .241/.326/.381/.708 .778/.686 .670 104/.704 12/3 6/0
20.Joyce* G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 2/.000 11/1.255 1/no AB 241/219 .266/.353/.389/.742 .141/.807 .838 82/.665 1/2 3/1
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP 4/1.500 1/5.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 82/64 .316/.366/.618/.984 .284/1.185 1.060 70/1.026 1/1 4/0
21.Loney* G/S/vP 6/.833 3/1.334 1/.000 1/.000 14/.464 3/.000 6/.833 1/.000 302/215 .278/.338/.378/.716 .681/.730 .734 109/.652 2/0 3/3
3.Longoria G/S/vP 7/1.000 2/2.500 1/3.000 4/.500 1/.000 1/no AB 10/.700 2/.000 319/235 .265/.332/.408/.740 .849/.702 .910 111/.812 2/0 9/5
28.Molina G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 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 38/.698 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 6/.334 3/.000 2/2.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 8/.393 11/1.101 ··· 264/197 .248/.323/.372/.695 .835/.649 .707 84/.649 4/2 5/6
IP 80.0 23.2 17.1 28.1 24.2 17.2 40.0 11.2 TOTAL .245/.317/.372/.688 .674/.693 .731 .699 27/12 57/36
ERA-K/9 4.16/6.5 6.08/5.3 2.60/6.8 4.13/5.7 2.19/8.4 2.04/12.2 5.40/7.0 4.63/9.2 4.16/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (10-7-1)
 Molina (19-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 342/.251 114/.283 69/.234 126/.290 99/.242 67/.159 182/.299 48/.302 .256  Joyce
 Kiermaier
 Forsythe
 Rodriguez
 Guyer
 Zobrist
 Jennings
46/0/7/3
1/7/19/1
2/0/0/0
14/0/0/0
14/6/1/0
8/0/2/0
0/65/0/0
OPS .686 .881 .587 .804 .620 .470 .831 .966 .717
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 191/.692 59/.801 35/.493 51/.801 43/.995 34/.309 95/.846 16/1.205 .685
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 151/.680 55/.971 34/.686 75/.806 56/.342 33/.637 87/.815 32/.844 .743
Road 187/.670 43/1.248 34/.740 63/.718 49/.591 40/.502 77/.774 26/1.317
Last 28d days 104/.689 33/1.014 46/.624 46/.797 36/.389 43/.669 63/.801 18/.886
HR/SB/CS 6/1/2 5/1/1 0/1/1 2/2/1 2/5/1 2/0/0 6/2/0 3/1/0 63/46/15
Usage ·····X·· o······· ·oo·X·oo ·oX·o·X· o······o ·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  5.16

NYY  4.10

SDP  2.96

 RA/G

OAK  3.33

BAL  4.20

ARI  4.91

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .356

D. Pedroia  .266

B. Hicks  .172

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .445

A. Rendon  .331

Y. Alonso  .250

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .653

B. Lawrie  .406

W. Venable  .288

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.097

C. Granderson  .747

W. Venable  .562

 ERA

J. Cueto  1.92

J. Weaver  3.67

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.