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Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, July 9, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, July 9, 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 #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
92° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
93
On This Date:
21-17
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
91
On This Date:
25-17
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    @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
38-54, 5th, 20 GB, 15½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   20-26   Road:   18-28   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  26-35   vsLHP:  12-19   1-Run:  10-16
 vsEast:  8-12   vsCntrl:10-9    vsWest: 16-26 IL: 4-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 92 Tue, Jul  8  @TEX  W   8-3       38-54  5th 20.0 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:11-19
Texas Rangers
38-52, 4th, 19 GB, 14½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-25   Road:   20-27   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  29-37   vsLHP:   9-15   1-Run:  13-11
 vsEast:  5-14   vsCntrl:11-10   vsWest: 16-19 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 90 Tue, Jul  8   HOU  L   3-8       38-52  4th 19.0 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
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 3-17   Last 30: 8-22

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
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
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)
Season Series: 2014 - HOU over 5-3; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; 2012 - TEX won 5-1; All-Time - TEX leads 62-37

SP: Dallas Keuchel (26, LHP, 8-5, 3.06)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (8-5) 108.2 101 39 37 27 84 6 3.06
2013 (6-10) 153.2 184 96 88 52 123 20 5.15
2012 (3-8) 85.1 93 56 50 39 38 14 5.27
Last 7 GS 3-3 47.0 48 19 17 15 29 2 3.26 54
2014-07-04 @LAA ND 5.0 13 5 5 1 1 1 92 21
2014-06-22 @TBR L 8.0 9 5 4 4 4 0 111 46
2014-06-17 @WSN L 5.0 6 4 4 4 4 0 105 39
2014-06-11 ARI W 8.0 5 1 1 1 5 1 101 72
2014-06-06 @MIN W 6.0 5 0 0 2 6 0 101 66
2014-05-31 BAL L 6.0 6 3 3 3 3 0 83 48
2014-05-25 @SEA W 9.0 4 1 0 0 6 0 106 83
Last 5 v.TEX 1-2 34.1 32 17 15 7 27 2 3.93 54
2014-05-13 TEX W 9.0 7 0 0 0 7 0 108 80
2013-09-25 @TEX L 5.2 6 7 6 3 5 1 97 33
2013-08-11 TEX L 8.2 8 6 5 1 8 0 116 53
2013-07-06 @TEX ND 5.0 6 2 2 1 4 0 91 50
2013-05-10 TEX ND 6.0 5 2 2 2 3 1 83 55

SP: Yu Darvish (27, RHP, 8-4, 2.63)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (8-4) 109.1 91 36 32 39 134 8 2.63
2013 (13-9) 209.2 145 68 66 80 277 26 2.83
2012 (16-9) 191.1 156 89 83 89 221 14 3.90
Last 7 GS 4-2 48.0 42 20 16 20 63 5 3.00 60
2014-07-04 @NYM ND 5.0 5 4 4 2 6 1 94 45
2014-06-28 MIN W 8.0 4 0 0 1 10 0 110 83
2014-06-22 @LAA L 6.0 5 5 4 4 9 2 105 49
2014-06-17 @OAK L 5.0 8 7 4 5 8 0 99 32
2014-06-11 MIA W 9.0 6 0 0 3 10 0 117 82
2014-06-06 CLE W 7.0 9 4 4 3 8 2 110 48
2014-06-01 @WSN W 8.0 5 0 0 2 12 0 102 82
Last 5 v.HOU 2-1 34.1 15 11 11 13 47 5 2.88 68
2014-04-11 HOU ND 8.0 1 0 0 1 9 0 101 88
2013-09-24 HOU ND 5.1 4 2 2 4 9 1 101 57
2013-08-12 @HOU W 8.0 1 1 1 1 15 1 115 90
2013-07-06 HOU L 6.0 6 5 5 4 6 1 113 42
2013-05-11 @HOU W 7.0 3 3 3 3 8 2 105 64

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

Astros Batters (3.85 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (5.09 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Darvish
G/S/vB		 25.Baker
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 44.Frasor
G/S/vB		 47.Irwin
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 20/.368 2/1.000 2/2.000 3/.667 8/.268 3/1.334 ··· 2/2.500 3/1.167 400/293 .341/.380/.438/.818 .959/.765 .817 99/.938 41/3 2/4
23.Carter G/S/vP 12/.000 2/.000 4/.000 2/2.500 2/.000 2/.500 2/3.500 2/.500 3/1.167 288/183 .194/.274/.446/.720 .799/.675 .743 70/.632 0/1 17/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 15/.333 ··· 3/.666 2/.500 2/.500 ··· 1/no AB 4/1.000 ··· 300/225 .228/.303/.366/.669 .756/.639 .661 70/.679 0/0 7/3
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 11/.455 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 3/1.000 3/.666 115/59 .250/.298/.423/.721 .695/.747 .635 38/.855 0/0 5/2
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 15/1.262 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 3/.666 2/1.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 3/.000 369/257 .238/.287/.374/.661 .796/.602 .631 101/.570 0/1 11/6
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 6/.666 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 137/116 .282/.346/.427/.773 .633/.800 .823 51/.873 1/3 4/2
19.Grossman# G/S/vP 9/.111 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 138/99 .153/.270/.254/.524 .415/.567 .625 30/.167 3/0 2/1
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 ··· 2/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 29/22 .346/.414/.538/.952 1.238/.864 .708 29/.952 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
28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· 2/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 139/97 .198/.295/.397/.692 1.048/.540 .738 100/.669 1/2 6/5
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 2/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 325/232 .235/.342/.466/.807 .771/.818 .950 110/.723 5/2 18/7
IP 109.1 48.1 37.0 5.0 28.1 4.0 20.1 29.1 44.2 TOTAL .238/.310/.384/.694 .769/.664 .689 .673 77/19 98/56
ERA-K/9 2.63/11.0 5.96/5.8 3.65/10.7 1.80/5.4 2.86/9.2 6.75/4.5 5.31/8.9 2.76/12.3 3.22/8.1 4.79/7.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 450/.224 201/.262 159/.254 19/.118 122/.238 20/.353 91/.325 116/.180 184/.215 .282  Springer
 Hoes
 Hernandez
 Guzman
 Gonzalez
 Sipp
 Grossman
0/4/71/6
25/0/8/4
4/0/0/1
5/0/0/0
4/0/1/0
1/0/1/0
31/2/2/0
OPS .626 .801 .691 .505 .663 .979 .891 .486 .712 .791
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 278/.687 97/.806 62/.784 9/.111 49/.595 9/.583 34/.805 69/.649 67/.749 .792
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 172/.531 104/.796 97/.629 10/.856 73/.706 11/1.323 57/.942 47/.241 117/.692 .789
Home 229/.501 93/.829 71/.627 7/.714 56/.339 20/.979 47/1.121 61/.545 94/.684
Last 28d days 104/.719 80/.689 46/.575 19/.505 30/1.010 20/.979 33/.894 28/.767 56/.668
HR/SB/CS 8/8/0 9/3/0 2/0/1 1/1/0 1/1/0 1/1/0 2/3/3 0/0/0 9/3/2 93/45/26
Usage ····X··· ·X···X·· ···X·oX· X·o·X··· ··X·X·Xo X······· o·o·oX·o ·o·X···· oX·o·X·X
Rangers Batters (4.13 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.68 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Keuchel*
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 20/.461 2/1.000 1/.000 4/.000 3/2.000 4/1.000 5/1.600 6/1.300 4/.500 388/290 .269/.317/.346/.662 .858/.599 .640 107/.677 19/7 2/10
29.Beltre G/S/vP 19/.684 2/.000 1/.000 4/1.000 3/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 5/.400 4/.833 317/247 .333/.379/.533/.911 .890/.916 1.024 99/.983 1/1 12/9
61.Chirinos G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 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/.804 ··· 5/.400 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 3/.000 4/1.250 ··· 367/255 .250/.373/.391/.765 .794/.752 .697 105/.669 3/3 9/3
60.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 86/69 .275/.326/.400/.726 .853/.694 .572 41/.509 0/0 0/2
2.Martin* G/S/vP 13/.539 ··· 5/.400 1/4.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 315/243 .274/.333/.391/.725 .481/.796 .846 83/.864 17/8 5/5
73.Odor* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· 165/123 .263/.298/.388/.686 .544/.736 .587 81/.556 2/4 3/4
21.Pena* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.000 3/.000 7/.821 ··· 50/40 .152/.220/.261/.481 .300/.528 .476 50/.481 0/0 1/0
51.Rios G/S/vP 13/.802 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 3/3.667 2/.000 6/2.100 12/.606 3/.666 366/283 .304/.333/.438/.771 1.063/.689 .751 94/.556 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 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 10/6 .300/.300/.400/.700 .750/.667 10/.700 0/0 0/0
20.Smolinski G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 6/5 .333/.333/.500/.833 .000/1.000 .833 6/.833 0/0 0/0
IP 108.2 21.0 22.0 31.0 3.0 30.2 25.2 18.0 17.1 TOTAL .261/.320/.391/.710 .759/.694 .696 .683 60/35 67/63
ERA-K/9 3.06/7.0 6.00/3.0 4.50/7.4 5.23/13.1 3.00/12.0 2.05/8.2 2.81/12.6 7.50/8.5 6.23/8.3 4.38/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (26-22-5)
 Gimenez (10-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 437/.252 92/.279 93/.262 133/.248 12/.182 126/.242 99/.154 84/.246 78/.324 .262  Martin
 Rios
 Choo
 Robertson
 Smolinski
0/84/0/6
0/0/82/3
56/0/0/3
14/10/3/2
2/0/0/0
OPS .661 .826 .702 .697 .705 .611 .503 .790 1.025 .734
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 108/.586 47/.625 49/.662 55/.759 5/1.400 55/.902 49/.348 33/.770 26/1.365 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 329/.685 45/1.029 44/.748 78/.652 7/.286 71/.397 50/.649 51/.799 52/.857 .753
Road 252/.649 38/.968 45/.731 74/.792 12/.705 64/.651 52/.624 41/.512 36/1.335
Last 28d days 86/.966 15/1.400 41/.953 16/.625 12/.705 36/.688 49/.513 20/.633 48/1.034
HR/SB/CS 6/1/2 5/1/0 0/2/1 2/2/0 1/0/0 2/6/2 3/0/0 2/2/0 6/1/0 82/59/20
Usage ····X··· ··oX··X· oo·oo··X XX··X··· ··X····· X·o···o· oX·Xo·X· ·X···X·· o··XX··o

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  5.00

PIT  4.07

SDP  2.99

 RA/G

SEA  3.34

LAA  4.12

COL  5.23

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .348

B. Moss  .269

C. Carter  .194

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .440

A. Jones  .329

E. Cabrera  .256

 SLG

J. Abreu  .619

P. Sandoval  .414

E. Cabrera  .290

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.037

T. Hunter  .747

E. Cabrera  .546

 ERA

A. Wainwright  1.79

P. Hughes  3.70

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.