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Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, July 8, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Start Time:
7:05ct (local), 8:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
91° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
92
On This Date:
21-23
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
90
On This Date:
22-22
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    @TEX  8:05pm
Wed, Jul 09, 2014 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Fri, Aug 08, 2014 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 09, 2014 TEX    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 10, 2014 TEX    @HOU  2:10pm
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
Houston Astros
37-54, 5th, 20 GB, 16½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   20-26   Road:   17-28   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  25-35   vsLHP:  12-19   1-Run:  10-16
 vsEast:  8-12   vsCntrl:10-9    vsWest: 15-26 IL: 4-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 91 Mon, Jul  7  @TEX  W  12-7       37-54  5th 20.0 gb
 90 Sun, Jul  6  @LAA  L   1-6       36-54  5th 20.0 gb
 89 Sat, Jul  5  @LAA  L   5-11      36-53  5th 19.0 gb
 88 Fri, Jul  4  @LAA  L   6-7       36-52  5th 18.0 gb
 87 Thu, Jul  3  @LAA  L   2-5       36-51  5th 17.0 gb
 86 Wed, Jul  2   SEA  L   2-5       36-50  5th 16.0 gb
 85 Tue, Jul  1   SEA  L   2-13      36-49  5th 16.0 gb
 84 Mon, Jun 30   SEA  L   4-10      36-48  5th 16.0 gb
 83 Sun, Jun 29   DET  W   6-4       36-47  5th 16.0 gb
 82 Sat, Jun 28   DET  L   3-4       35-47  5th 16.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 5-15   Last 30:11-19
Texas Rangers
38-51, 4th, 18 GB, 14½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-24   Road:   20-27   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  29-36   vsLHP:   9-15   1-Run:  13-11
 vsEast:  5-14   vsCntrl:11-10   vsWest: 16-18 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 89 Mon, Jul  7   HOU  L   7-12      38-51  4th 18.0 gb
 88 Sun, Jul  6  @NYM  L   4-8       38-50  4th 17.0 gb
 87 Sat, Jul  5  @NYM  W   5-3       38-49  4th 16.0 gb
 86 Fri, Jul  4  @NYM  L   5-6       37-49  4th 16.0 gb
 85 Thu, Jul  3  @BAL  L   2-5       37-48  4th 15.0 gb
 84 Wed, Jul  2  @BAL  L   4-6       37-47  4th 14.0 gb
 83 Tue, Jul  1  @BAL  L   3-8       37-46  4th 14.0 gb
 82 Mon, Jun 30  @BAL  L   1-7       37-45  4th 14.0 gb
 81 Sun, Jun 29   MIN  L   2-3       37-44  4th 14.0 gb
 80 Sat, Jun 28   MIN  W   5-0       37-43  4th 13.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 9-21

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
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)
Sat, Apr 12, 2014 HOU  6 @TEX  5 (10)   W:Kevin Chapman (1-0), L: Joakim Soria (1-1), S: Anthony Bass (2)
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
Season Series: 2014 - HOU over 4-3; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; All-Time - TEX leads 62-36

SP: Brad Peacock (26, RHP, 2-5, 4.38)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-5) 78.0 76 41 38 42 69 8 4.38
2013 (5-6) 83.1 78 51 48 37 77 15 5.18
2011 (2-0) 12.0 7 1 1 6 4 0 0.75
Last 7 GS 2-1 39.2 36 15 14 16 30 2 3.18 53
2014-07-02 SEA L 5.1 6 4 4 2 6 0 97 44
2014-06-27 DET ND 6.2 7 2 1 2 3 1 92 55
2014-06-15 TBR ND 4.0 3 2 2 4 3 0 91 47
2014-06-10 @ARI ND 6.0 3 1 1 3 4 1 91 63
2014-06-05 LAA W 5.0 6 3 3 1 1 0 81 43
2014-05-29 BAL ND 6.0 6 1 1 0 8 0 93 64
2014-05-18 CHW W 6.2 5 2 2 4 5 0 104 57
Last 5 v.TEX 0-2 18.0 17 8 8 7 23 4 4.00 55
2014-05-12 TEX L 6.0 8 4 4 2 11 2 106 49
2013-09-24 @TEX L 6.0 6 3 3 1 7 1 95 54
2013-08-10 TEX ND 6.0 3 1 1 4 5 1 102 63

SP: Nick Martinez (23, RHP, 1-6, 5.10)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (1-6) 67.0 82 44 38 31 29 12 5.10
Last 7 GS 0-5 33.1 49 34 30 16 11 9 8.10 34
2014-07-01 @BAL L 5.0 7 8 6 1 1 3 98 25
2014-06-26 DET L 2.1 6 4 4 5 0 0 69 24
2014-06-21 @LAA ND 7.0 3 2 2 1 3 1 97 65
2014-06-15 @SEA L 6.0 9 2 2 1 3 0 97 48
2014-06-09 CLE L 2.0 6 8 8 3 1 2 64 10
2014-06-04 BAL L 5.1 9 6 4 3 1 2 93 28
2014-05-29 @MIN ND 5.2 9 4 4 2 2 1 108 35
Has never faced HOU as starter.

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

Astros Batters (3.80 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (5.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Martinez
G/S/vB		 25.Baker
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 44.Frasor
G/S/vB		 49.Poreda*
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 2/.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 3/.667 8/.268 ··· 2/2.500 2/1.000 395/288 .338/.377/.436/.813 .959/.758 .808 94/.924 39/3 2/4
23.Carter G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 4/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 3/1.167 283/179 .189/.269/.421/.690 .755/.653 .681 69/.621 0/1 15/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 3/.666 2/.500 2/.500 1/no AB 4/1.000 ··· 300/225 .228/.303/.366/.669 .756/.639 .661 74/.688 0/0 7/3
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 3/.666 110/55 .253/.303/.434/.737 .670/.806 .656 33/.925 0/0 5/2
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 2/2.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 1/2.000 3/.000 364/253 .239/.288/.376/.665 .804/.604 .637 100/.555 0/1 11/6
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 133/113 .275/.341/.425/.766 .563/.804 .810 50/.837 1/3 4/2
14.Guzman G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 147/56 .211/.286/.286/.571 .526/.648 .436 29/.562 2/0 2/1
6.Hernandez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 25/19 .364/.440/.545/.985 .900/1.009 .694 25/.985 0/0 1/0
Hoes G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 103/45 .187/.245/.297/.542 .777/.255 .522 26/.282 0/0 2/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 221/200 .252/.291/.359/.650 .874/.628 .642 57/.729 4/0 5/0
28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· 2/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 134/93 .188/.284/.385/.668 .994/.528 .694 99/.620 1/2 6/5
4.Springer G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· 320/227 .234/.341/.458/.799 .771/.806 .936 109/.708 5/2 17/7
IP 67.0 48.1 37.0 3.0 28.1 20.0 29.1 44.0 TOTAL .237/.309/.381/.690 .757/.662 .681 .664 75/19 95/56
ERA-K/9 5.10/3.9 5.96/5.8 3.65/10.7 0.00/6.0 2.86/9.2 4.05/8.6 2.76/12.3 3.07/8.2 4.75/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (44-15-5)
 Corporan (15-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 305/.305 201/.262 159/.254 12/.100 122/.238 85/.286 116/.180 181/.217 .281  Springer
 Hoes
 Presley
 Hernandez
 Gonzalez
 Sipp
 Guzman
0/3/71/6
25/0/8/4
37/19/12/3
3/0/0/1
4/0/1/0
1/0/1/0
5/0/0/0
OPS .885 .801 .691 .350 .663 .769 .486 .717 .788
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 165/.950 97/.806 62/.784 6/.167 49/.595 33/.733 69/.649 66/.762 .795
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 140/.810 104/.796 97/.629 6/.533 73/.706 52/.791 47/.241 115/.692 .782
Home 104/1.024 93/.829 71/.627 / 56/.339 41/.904 61/.545 91/.692
Last 28d days 94/.857 80/.689 46/.575 12/.350 30/1.010 27/.505 28/.767 53/.682
HR/SB/CS 12/0/3 9/3/0 2/0/1 0/1/0 1/1/0 1/3/3 0/0/0 9/2/2 90/43/26
Usage ······X· X···X··o ··X·oX·· ·o·X···· ·X·X·Xo· ·o·oX·o· o·X····· X·o·X·XX
Rangers Batters (4.15 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Peacock
G/S/vB		 45.Bass
G/S/vB		 38.Downs*
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 54.Martinez
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 55.Veras
G/S/vB		 61.Zeid
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 10/.300 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/2.000 3/1.334 5/1.600 6/1.300 4/.500 383/285 .270/.318/.348/.666 .858/.603 .647 106/.723 19/7 2/10
29.Beltre G/S/vP 9/1.842 2/.000 1/.000 3/1.334 3/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 5/.400 4/.833 313/243 .334/.380/.530/.910 .890/.915 1.024 99/.993 1/1 12/9
61.Chirinos G/S/vP 5/.650 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 195/141 .251/.283/.453/.735 .684/.755 .672 59/.924 0/0 9/2
17.Choo* G/S/vP 8/.929 ··· 5/.400 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.000 4/1.250 ··· 362/251 .250/.373/.393/.766 .802/.750 .698 104/.694 3/3 9/3
60.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 82/66 .286/.329/.416/.745 .813/.727 .613 41/.560 0/0 0/1
2.Martin* G/S/vP 9/.661 ··· 4/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 311/240 .270/.331/.371/.702 .489/.764 .798 83/.762 17/8 4/5
73.Odor* G/S/vP 3/2.334 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 161/120 .262/.293/.389/.682 .526/.738 .572 81/.565 2/4 3/3
21.Pena* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 7/.821 ··· 46/37 .167/.239/.286/.525 .333/.573 .551 46/.525 0/0 1/0
51.Rios G/S/vP 11/.384 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/3.667 2/.000 6/2.100 12/.606 3/.666 362/279 .305/.334/.440/.774 1.063/.692 .757 94/.534 14/8 4/4
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 61/33 .224/.262/.259/.521 .714/.345 .457 26/.577 1/2 0/1
9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 10/6 .300/.300/.400/.700 .750/.667 10/.700 0/0 0/0
IP 78.0 21.0 21.1 29.2 3.0 29.2 25.1 18.0 17.1 TOTAL .261/.320/.389/.709 .760/.692 .693 .678 60/35 66/61
ERA-K/9 4.38/8.0 6.00/3.0 4.22/7.2 5.46/13.3 3.00/12.0 2.12/8.2 2.84/12.5 7.50/8.5 6.23/8.3 4.40/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (26-22-5)
 Gimenez (8-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 341/.257 92/.279 90/.268 128/.250 12/.182 121/.241 97/.156 84/.246 77/.314 .262  Martin
 Rios
 Choo
 Robertson
0/83/0/5
0/0/81/3
56/0/0/3
14/10/3/2
OPS .737 .826 .711 .692 .705 .609 .500 .790 .997 .733
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 191/.663 47/.625 47/.691 54/.695 5/1.400 52/.926 47/.338 33/.770 26/1.365 .707
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 150/.831 45/1.029 43/.733 74/.690 7/.286 69/.380 50/.649 51/.799 51/.812 .753
Road 86/.709 38/.968 42/.752 69/.790 12/.705 59/.651 50/.623 41/.512 35/1.283
Last 28d days 68/.724 15/1.400 38/.993 11/.545 12/.705 34/.628 47/.508 20/.633 47/.989
HR/SB/CS 8/6/1 5/1/0 0/2/1 2/2/0 1/0/0 2/6/2 3/0/0 2/2/0 6/1/0 81/59/20
Usage ·····X·· ·oX··X·· o·oo··X· X··X···· ·X······ ·o···o·· X·Xo·X·· X···X··· ··XX··oX

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  4.99

WSN  4.10

SDP  3.01

 RA/G

SEA  3.36

LAA  4.13

COL  5.27

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .349

B. Zobrist  .268

C. Carter  .189

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .442

M. Kemp  .329

E. Cabrera  .256

 SLG

J. Abreu  .611

B. Zobrist  .411

E. Cabrera  .290

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.044

H. Kendrick  .744

E. Cabrera  .546

 ERA

A. Wainwright  1.79

A. Harang  3.67

R. Nolasco  5.90

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.03

H. Ryu  7.57

K. Correia  4.27

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.