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Game Preview: HOU @ TEX, 8:05pm, Saturday, April 12, 2014 @Globe Life Park in Arlington

Astros, 4-7, 4-7 5th, 3 GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Jarred Cosart (24, RHP, 1-1, 4.09)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (1-1) 11.0 7 5 5 4 7 1 4.09
2013 (1-1) 60.0 46 15 13 35 33 3 1.95
Last 7 GS 1-2 38.0 28 14 13 22 26 4 3.08 54
2014-04-07 LAA L 6.0 3 5 5 4 4 1 99 46
2014-04-02 NYY W 5.0 4 0 0 0 3 0 88 62
2013-09-09 @SEA ND 5.0 2 1 0 6 3 0 91 58
2013-09-03 MIN ND 4.0 5 4 4 3 5 2 90 38
2013-08-28 @CHW ND 6.0 7 1 1 5 4 0 113 53
2013-08-20 @TEX L 6.0 4 3 3 3 3 1 112 52
2013-08-14 @OAK ND 6.0 3 0 0 1 4 0 99 69
Last 5 v.TEX 0-1 6.0 4 3 3 3 3 1 4.50 52
2013-08-20 @TEX L 6.0 4 3 3 3 3 1 112 52
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-4    Road:    1-3    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   3-4    vsLHP:   1-3    1-Run:   0-1 
 vsEast:  3-3    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  1-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 11 Fri, Apr 11  @TEX  L   0-1 (12)   4-7   5th  3.0 gb
 10 Thu, Apr 10  @TOR  W   6-4        4-6   5th  2.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr  9  @TOR  L   3-7        3-6   5th  2.5 gb
  8 Tue, Apr  8  @TOR  L   2-5        3-5   4th  2.5 gb
  7 Mon, Apr  7   LAA  L   1-9        3-4   3rd  1.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr  6   LAA  W   7-4        3-3   2nd  1.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  5   LAA  L   1-5        2-3   2nd  2.0 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  4   LAA  L   1-11       2-2   2nd  1.0 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  3   NYY  L   2-4        2-1   2nd  0.5 gb
  2 Wed, Apr  2   NYY  W   3-1        2-0   2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 4-7    Last 30: 4-7 
Rangers, 5-5, 5-5 3rd, 1½ GB, ½ GB in WC

SP: Tanner Scheppers (27, RHP, 0-1, 9.00)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (0-1) 9.0 17 9 9 4 5 1 9.00
2013 (6-2) 76.2 58 21 16 24 59 6 1.88
2012 (1-1) 32.1 47 18 16 9 30 6 4.45
Last 7 GS 0-1 9.0 17 9 9 4 5 1 9.00 30
2014-04-07 @BOS L 5.0 9 2 2 1 3 0 91 43
2014-03-31 PHI ND 4.0 8 7 7 3 2 1 93 17
Has never faced HOU as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-1    Road:    2-4    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   4-3    vsLHP:   1-2    1-Run:   3-1 
 vsEast:  2-4    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  1-0  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Fri, Apr 11   HOU  W   1-0 (12)   5-5   3rd  1.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr  9  @BOS  L   2-4        4-5   3rd  1.5 gb
  8 Tue, Apr  8  @BOS  W  10-7        4-4   3rd  1.5 gb
  7 Mon, Apr  7  @BOS  L   1-5        3-4   3rd  1.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr  6  @TBR  W   3-0        3-3   2nd  1.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  5  @TBR  L   4-5        2-3   2nd  2.0 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  4  @TBR  L   1-8        2-2   2nd  1.0 gb
  3 Wed, Apr  2   PHI  W   4-3        2-1   3rd  1.0 gb
  2 Tue, Apr  1   PHI  W   3-2        1-1   3rd  1.0 gb
  1 Mon, Mar 31   PHI  L  10-14       0-1   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 5-5    Last 30: 5-5 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Apr 11, 2014 TEX  1  HOU  0 (12)   W:Jason Frasor (1-0), L: Brad Peacock (0-1), S: none

Wed, Sep 25, 2013 TEX  7  HOU  3        W:Martin Perez (10-5), L: Dallas Keuchel (6-10), S: none
Tue, Sep 24, 2013 TEX  3  HOU  2        W:Neal Cotts (6-3), L: Brad Peacock (5-6), S: Joe Nathan (41)
Mon, Sep 23, 2013 TEX 12  HOU  0        W:Derek Holland (10-9), L: Jordan Lyles (7-9), S: none
Wed, Aug 21, 2013 TEX  5  HOU  4        W:Joe Nathan (4-2), L: Chia-Jen Lo (0-1), S: none
Tue, Aug 20, 2013 TEX  4  HOU  2        W:Neal Cotts (5-2), L: Jarred Cosart (1-1), S: Joe Nathan (37)
Mon, Aug 19, 2013 TEX 16  HOU  5        W:Matt Garza (9-2), L: Lucas Harrell (6-14), S: none
Mon, Aug 12, 2013 TEX  2 @HOU  1        W:Yu Darvish (12-5), L: Brett Oberholtzer (2-1), S: Joe Nathan (35)
Sun, Aug 11, 2013 TEX  6 @HOU  1        W:Martin Perez (5-3), L: Dallas Keuchel (5-7), S: none
Sat, Aug 10, 2013 TEX  5 @HOU  4        W:Jason Frasor (3-2), L: Lucas Harrell (5-13), S: Joe Nathan (34)
Season Series: 2014 - TEX over 1-0; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; All-Time - TEX leads 60-32

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

For the 2013 season

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2014 season. Player Stats for the 2013 season. We will switch to 2014 stats on May 1st.

Astros Batters (2.91 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Scheppers
G/S/vB
56.Cotts*
G/S/vB
32.Figueroa*
G/S/vB
44.Frasor
G/S/vB
39.McCutchen
G/S/vB
41.Ogando
G/S/vB
28.Soria
G/S/vB
37.Tolleson
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 7/.858 2/2.000 ··· 7/.000 1/.000 8/.750 ··· ··· 672/480 .283/.316/.363/.678 .733/.656 .630 46/.714 35/13 5/9
23.Carter G/S/vP 7/1.262 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 11/.598 1/.000 ··· 585/410 .223/.320/.451/.770 .782/.765 .925 38/.468 2/0 29/5
15.Castro* G/S/vP 2/no AB 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 6/.000 2/.000 ··· 491/380 .276/.350/.485/.835 .738/.864 .769 36/.594 2/1 18/5
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 210/123 .225/.287/.361/.648 .660/.640 .641 12/.583 0/0 7/6
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 5/.933 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 5/.000 1/2.000 ··· 589/424 .241/.286/.403/.690 .627/.714 .694 40/.650 0/1 21/16
21.Fowler# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 ··· 2/.500 2/2.000 492/346 .263/.369/.407/.776 .860/.741 .678 27/.970 19/9 12/3
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.334 1/.000 ··· 222/183 .221/.252/.319/.571 .575/.570 .575 8/.250 6/2 4/10
19.Grossman# G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 288/212 .268/.332/.370/.702 .785/.669 .728 44/.443 6/7 4/3
14.Guzman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 318/166 .226/.297/.378/.675 .691/.661 .865 23/.826 3/0 9/6
28.Hoes G/S/vP 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 184/122 .282/.332/.365/.696 .669/.710 .735 16/.976 7/1 1/4
18.Krauss* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 146/131 .209/.267/.366/.633 .333/.669 .813 28/.374 2/0 4/2
8.Presley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 195/144 .276/.313/.373/.686 .634/.705 .689 31/.516 1/4 3/1
6.Villar# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 241/176 .243/.321/.319/.640 .673/.627 .512 38/.692 18/8 1/16
IP 76.2 57.0 3.0 49.0 104.1 23.2 0.0 TOTAL .188/.258/.364/.622 .652/.607 .575 .622 7/0 14/5
ERA-K/9 1.88/6.9 1.11/10.3 12.00/9.0 2.57/8.8 /0.0 3.11/6.2 3.80/10.6 /0.0 4.45/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (58-19-9)
 Corporan (31-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 302/.214 223/.180 18/.400 200/.203 / 428/.231 101/.212 2/ .272  Krauss
 Fowler
 Presley
 Grossman
 Carter
 Guzman
 Hoes
18/0/9/3
0/110/0/3
12/28/12/2
45/29/2/2
49/0/2/0
35/0/5/0
3/2/44/0
OPS .605 .499 1.367 .598 .678 .624 .757
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 145/.599 109/.565 7/1.000 74/.427 / 237/.620 50/.316 / .840
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 157/.610 114/.436 11/1.670 126/.699 / 191/.753 51/.943 2/ .685
Home 171/.740 124/.546 10/2.200 100/.521 / 135/.731 58/.627 /
Last 28d days 48/.947 22/.937 20/1.013 16/.598 14/1.095 27/.551 17/.607 13/.692
HR/SB/CS 6/2/6 2/3/1 2/0/0 4/7/1 // 11/3/2 2/5/0 0/0/0 9/3/2
Usage ····X··· o·oX·oX· ····o··X o··X··o· ·······X o·X··o·o o··X·o·· ····X···

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2014 season. Player Stats for the 2013 season. We will switch to 2014 stats on May 1st.

Rangers Batters (3.90 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.82 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Cosart
G/S/vB
37.Albers
G/S/vB
45.Bass
G/S/vB
66.Chapman*
G/S/vB
35.Fields
G/S/vB
41.Peacock
G/S/vB
50.Qualls
G/S/vB
36.Williams
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
35.Adduci* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 34/28 .258/.324/.290/.614 .667/.601 1.026 7/1.000 2/0 0/1
1.Andrus G/S/vP 3/.333 12/.773 1/.000 1/5.000 2/.000 7/.000 2/2.000 27/.612 698/498 .271/.328/.331/.659 .698/.644 .589 45/.690 42/8 4/14
7.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 2/1.500 8/1.607 497/354 .194/.227/.365/.592 .588/.594 .732 19/.325 0/2 21/11
29.Beltre G/S/vP 3/2.667 8/1.089 2/.000 ··· 2/2.000 6/1.500 ··· 29/1.081 690/516 .315/.371/.509/.880 .948/.857 .891 33/.787 1/0 30/14
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 30/16 .179/.233/.286/.519 .445/.583 .368 19/.753 0/0 0/1
15.Choice G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/10 .278/.316/.333/.649 .583/.700 .619 14/.226 0/0 0/0
17.Choo* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 1/no AB 4/1.417 1/.000 ··· 712/491 .285/.423/.462/.885 .612/1.011 .948 46/.971 20/11 21/4
84.Fielder* G/S/vP ··· 17/1.074 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 14/.214 7/.715 712/451 .279/.362/.457/.819 .819/.819 .842 45/.444 1/1 25/6
6.Kouzmanoff G/S/vP ··· 10/.200 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 12/.432 ··· / /// / 7/.971 / /
2.Martin* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 6/1.100 ··· 11/.546 508/364 .260/.313/.385/.698 .573/.749 .742 38/.624 36/9 8/5
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 7/.143 1/.000 25/.508 518/363 .232/.299/.437/.736 .701/.752 .704 33/.757 0/0 23/5
16.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 163/123 .255/.319/.530/.849 .950/.818 .955 26/.574 2/0 11/4
51.Rios G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 8/.542 2/.000 13/.539 662/502 .278/.324/.432/.756 .889/.714 .694 43/.819 42/7 18/3
12.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 65/20 .200/.262/.300/.562 .511/.671 .852 19/.722 0/0 1/2
IP 60.0 63.0 42.0 20.1 38.0 83.1 62.0 169.1 TOTAL .258/.329/.359/.688 .868/.616 .747 .688 9/3 4/11
ERA-K/9 1.95/5.0 3.14/5.0 5.36/6.6 1.77/6.7 4.97/9.5 5.18/8.3 2.61/7.1 4.57/5.7 4.61/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (62-21-13)
 Chirinos (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 246/.220 262/.242 193/.297 87/.183 160/.220 365/.241 252/.251 728/.272 .249  Martin
 Rios
 Choo
 Adduci
 Choice
 Moreland
6/127/21/14
0/1/155/9
3/150/0/9
8/0/0/0
2/2/4/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .631 .621 .829 .585 .783 .779 .658 .772 .724
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 148/.489 114/.683 90/.881 42/.463 71/.884 211/.919 103/.600 402/.818 .855
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 98/.849 148/.573 103/.785 45/.706 89/.706 154/.594 149/.698 326/.716 .602
Road 173/.526 121/.696 124/.965 37/.439 54/.893 222/.726 121/.689 367/.781
Last 28d days 46/.532 19/.596 19/.579 16/1.199 18/.722 45/.724 22/.933 30/.977
HR/SB/CS 3/5/3 2/2/3 4/2/2 1/1/0 8/2/2 15/12/1 4/5/1 23/9/7 9/10/2
Usage ····X··· ······X· oo···X·X X··X···· ·X·X··X· X···X··· Xo···oo· ··X····X

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.