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Washington Nationals vs. Houston Astros, at Nationals Park, June 18, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Start Time:
7:05et (local)
Venue:
Nationals Park
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Nationals Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 2-game series
Average Temp:
84° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
Bo Porter
Game #:
73
On This Date:
25-21
Nationals
Manager:
Matt Williams
Game #:
71
On This Date:
19-24
Season Series
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 WSN  4 @HOU  3     
Wed, Apr 30, 2014 WSN  7 @HOU  0     
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 WSN  6  HOU  5     

Wed, Jun 18, 2014 HOU    @WSN  7:05pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
32-40, 5th, 11½ GB, 7 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-20   Road:   15-20   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  23-26   vsLHP:   9-14   1-Run:   9-12
 vsEast:  7-9    vsCntrl: 8-8    vsWest: 14-19 IL: 3-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
 63 Sat, Jun  7  @MIN  L   0-8       27-36  5th 11.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12
Washington Nationals
36-33, 1st, ½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   20-15   Road:   16-18   ExtrInn: 1-6 
 vsRHP:  25-26   vsLHP:  11-7    1-Run:   8-13
 vsEast: 15-11   vsCntrl: 4-10   vsWest: 11-6  IL: 6-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 69 Tue, Jun 17   HOU  W   6-5       36-33  1st  0.5 up
 68 Sun, Jun 15  @STL  L   2-5       35-33  2nd  1.0 gb
 67 Sat, Jun 14  @STL  L   1-4       35-32  1st    Tied
 66 Fri, Jun 13  @STL  L   0-1       35-31  1st    Tied
 65 Thu, Jun 12  @SFG  L   1-7       35-30  1st  1.0 up
 64 Wed, Jun 11  @SFG  W   6-2       35-29  1st  1.0 up
 63 Tue, Jun 10  @SFG  W   2-1       34-29  1st    Tied
 62 Mon, Jun  9  @SFG  W   9-2       33-29  1st    Tied
 61 Sun, Jun  8  @SDP  W   6-0       32-29  1st    Tied
 60 Sat, Jun  7  @SDP  L   3-4 (11)  31-29  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 WSN  6  HOU  5        W:Tanner Roark (6-4), L: Dallas Keuchel (8-4), S: Rafael Soriano (14)
Wed, Apr 30, 2014 WSN  7 @HOU  0        W:Jordan Zimmermann (2-1), L: Brett Oberholtzer (0-5), S: none
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 WSN  4 @HOU  3        W:Tyler Clippard (2-2), L: Josh Fields (0-3), S: Rafael Soriano (5)

Thu, Aug 09, 2012 WSN  5 @HOU  0        W:Jordan Zimmermann (9-6), L: Lucas Harrell (9-8), S: none
Wed, Aug 08, 2012 WSN  4 @HOU  3        W:Gio Gonzalez (14-6), L: Armando Galarraga (0-2), S: none
Tue, Aug 07, 2012 WSN  3 @HOU  2 (12)   W:Drew Storen (1-0), L: Mickey Storey (0-1), S: Tyler Clippard (23)
Mon, Aug 06, 2012 WSN  5 @HOU  4 (11)   W:Craig Stammen (5-1), L: Wilton Lopez (3-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 19, 2012 HOU 11 @WSN  4        W:Bud Norris (1-0), L: Edwin Jackson (1-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 18, 2012 WSN  3  HOU  2        W:Ryan Mattheus (2-0), L: Fernando Rodriguez (0-2), S: Henry Rodriguez (3)
Tue, Apr 17, 2012 WSN  1  HOU  0        W:Gio Gonzalez (1-0), L: Wandy Rodriguez (0-2), S: Brad Lidge (2)
Season Series: 2014 - WSN over 3-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 - WSN won 7-1; All-Time - HOU leads 243-204

SP: Scott Feldman (31, RHP, 3-4, 3.98)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-4) 61.0 64 37 27 16 33 6 3.98
2013 (12-12) 181.2 159 87 78 56 132 19 3.86
2012 (6-11) 123.2 139 79 70 32 96 14 5.09
Last 7 GS 1-3 34.1 48 31 22 7 24 6 5.77 41
2014-06-12 ARI ND 6.1 4 3 2 0 6 1 94 61
2014-06-07 @MIN L 1.2 1 3 0 2 2 0 58 47
2014-06-01 BAL L 5.1 11 9 9 1 3 2 106 12
2014-05-26 @KCR W 6.0 8 2 2 1 0 0 96 47
2014-05-20 @LAA L 4.0 9 8 3 2 4 0 94 24
2014-05-14 TEX ND 5.0 10 4 4 1 3 1 80 33
2014-05-09 @BAL ND 6.0 5 2 2 0 6 2 88 60
Last 5 v.WSN 0-0 6.0 5 1 1 3 6 0 1.50 61
2013-05-12 @WSN ND 6.0 5 1 1 3 6 0 102 61

SP: Gio Gonzalez (28, LHP, 3-4, 4.62)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-4) 50.2 48 26 26 20 53 5 4.62
2013 (11-8) 195.2 169 79 73 76 192 17 3.36
2012 (21-8) 199.1 149 69 64 76 207 9 2.89
Last 7 GS 1-4 38.2 42 25 25 17 42 5 5.82 47
2014-05-17 NYM L 3.0 7 5 5 2 4 1 84 27
2014-05-11 @OAK L 4.1 9 7 7 3 4 2 88 18
2014-05-04 @PHI L 7.1 4 1 1 2 7 0 103 71
2014-04-29 @HOU ND 6.0 5 3 3 2 9 0 111 57
2014-04-23 LAA ND 5.0 4 2 2 3 5 0 83 53
2014-04-18 STL W 7.0 4 1 1 1 7 0 101 71
2014-04-13 @ATL L 6.0 9 6 6 4 6 2 103 32
Last 5 v.HOU 2-0 22.0 16 6 6 6 24 0 2.45 66
2014-04-29 @HOU ND 6.0 5 3 3 2 9 0 111 57
2012-08-08 @HOU W 9.0 9 3 3 2 7 0 117 62
2012-04-17 HOU W 7.0 2 0 0 2 8 0 91 79

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

Astros Batters (3.90 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (3.55 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 30.Barrett
G/S/vB		 13.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 48.Detwiler*
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 35.Stammen
G/S/vB		 22.Storen
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 10/.844 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 5/1.600 3/.333 1/.000 3/.000 1/3.000 311/233 .326/.367/.441/.808 .983/.747 .812 96/.901 24/3 2/2
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 235/150 .192/.281/.442/.723 .738/.714 .673 68/.861 0/1 13/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB 243/189 .223/.305/.363/.667 .629/.680 .652 79/.532 0/0 6/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 84/37 .216/.277/.432/.710 .633/.813 .641 29/.859 0/0 5/1
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 290/206 .253/.303/.411/.715 .789/.684 .712 109/.674 0/1 10/6
21.Fowler# G/S/vP 9/1.333 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 6/1.100 11/1.170 2/.500 11/.384 5/1.267 298/222 .286/.389/.412/.801 .904/.765 .706 110/.876 6/3 5/3
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 98/81 .273/.340/.386/.727 .665/.740 .900 49/.763 0/2 2/2
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 122/88 .173/.289/.288/.578 .445/.629 .722 67/.601 3/0 2/1
14.Guzman G/S/vP 9/.944 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 4/1.500 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 122/45 .202/.287/.284/.571 .500/.698 .391 26/.537 2/0 2/1
8.Presley* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 174/157 .242/.287/.329/.617 .912/.584 .610 59/.747 2/0 3/0
28.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 58/43 .231/.293/.500/.793 1.179/.664 .750 58/.793 1/1 4/3
4.Springer G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 237/174 .250/.346/.471/.817 .667/.867 1.053 96/.983 1/2 12/6
2.Villar# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 2/1.000 ··· 218/151 .205/.260/.340/.600 .659/.574 .405 65/.414 13/4 5/9
IP 50.2 24.0 24.1 2.1 30.0 27.1 27.0 33.2 22.1 TOTAL .240/.314/.390/.704 .743/.689 .696 .735 52/17 77/45
ERA-K/9 4.62/9.4 1.88/10.9 4.07/10.0 0.00/0.0 2.40/11.7 4.94/5.3 1.33/7.7 2.94/7.2 1.21/8.5 3.06/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (31-13-4)
 Corporan (10-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 217/.251 102/.233 101/.202 8/.250 125/.213 128/.315 101/.176 137/.238 86/.177 .248  Springer
 Presley
 Fowler
 Sipp
 Guzman
 Gonzalez
 Grossman
0/0/53/3
33/9/12/3
0/67/0/1
1/0/1/0
3/0/0/0
4/0/1/0
28/2/1/0
OPS .747 .606 .572 .500 .631 .888 .532 .595 .501 .671
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 38/.910 37/.716 46/.324 3/.667 62/.679 38/.583 51/.650 65/.632 34/.412 .636
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 179/.713 65/.544 55/.780 5/.400 63/.581 90/1.023 50/.416 72/.562 52/.561 .698
Home 86/.610 56/.604 69/.542 5/.800 76/.741 68/1.042 55/.364 78/.393 54/.526
Last 28d days / 36/.817 22/.349 3/.000 39/.768 26/.746 29/.577 34/.747 31/.603
HR/SB/CS 5/1/1 0/0/1 1/1/0 0/0/0 2/1/1 4/3/1 1/1/1 1/2/1 1/0/0 46/20/17
Usage o····X·· ···o··o· ···o···· X·····XX ··X····· o·o····X o····X·· X··o··o·
Nationals Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Feldman
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
20.Desmond G/S/vP 3/.667 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 9/.444 1/2.000 ··· ··· 286/218 .234/.297/.429/.726 .665/.745 .740 92/.849 5/2 13/13
33.Dobbs* G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 6/.000 ··· ··· ··· 38/36 .194/.211/.222/.433 1.000/.400 .607 16/.464 0/0 0/0
8.Espinosa# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/3.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 229/165 .220/.284/.364/.647 .809/.585 .635 75/.597 5/0 6/4
19.Frandsen G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/3.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 ··· ··· 127/90 .241/.296/.310/.606 .520/.644 .444 41/.575 0/0 1/1
7.Hairston G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/no AB 1/no AB 2/1.000 8/.929 1/no AB 6/.333 ··· 31/8 .370/.387/.556/.943 .935/.964 1.217 12/.889 0/0 1/2
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 3/.667 9/.347 1/5.000 6/.334 ··· 217/167 .296/.415/.486/.901 .741/.948 .967 84/.859 0/0 8/3
41.Leon# G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/31 .188/.264/.271/.535 .558/.517 .293 4/.500 0/0 1/0
59.Lobaton# G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 125/96 .239/.312/.345/.657 .427/.729 .706 33/.678 0/0 2/1
15.McLouth* G/S/vP 3/2.667 1/no AB 2/1.500 2/1.000 6/1.350 ··· 6/1.467 ··· 130/108 .180/.295/.243/.538 .452/.554 .583 42/.681 4/0 1/2
6.Rendon G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 288/221 .270/.331/.456/.787 .970/.731 .849 91/.848 3/0 9/8
2.Span* G/S/vP 17/.647 2/.000 3/.666 7/2.114 2/1.000 17/.204 4/1.417 ··· 281/207 .265/.308/.381/.689 .639/.706 .739 104/.676 10/2 1/1
28.Werth G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 12/.583 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 293/232 .284/.362/.402/.764 .885/.732 .727 96/.712 4/0 6/4
11.Zimmerman G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 5/.800 2/.000 ··· ··· 96/76 .264/.323/.437/.760 .794/.751 .891 59/.586 0/0 2/2
IP 61.0 22.2 17.1 27.1 23.2 16.2 40.0 10.2 TOTAL .247/.316/.383/.699 .754/.681 .709 .697 32/6 60/52
ERA-K/9 3.98/4.9 5.16/5.6 2.08/6.8 4.28/5.9 2.28/8.7 2.16/12.4 5.40/7.0 2.53/9.3 4.14/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Leon (2-3-1)
 Lobaton (10-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 269/.269 107/.261 68/.222 121/.288 95/.242 64/.167 182/.299 42/.256 .254  Werth
 Span
 Frandsen
 Zimmerman
 Hairston
 McLouth
0/0/64/5
0/61/0/3
16/0/0/1
13/0/0/0
6/0/0/0
28/8/7/0
OPS .735 .798 .565 .796 .625 .494 .831 .797 .713
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 129/.691 56/.709 34/.448 48/.814 42/1.020 33/.319 95/.846 13/1.084 .680
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 140/.774 51/.899 34/.686 73/.785 53/.324 31/.680 87/.815 29/.671 .740
Road 112/.717 36/1.064 33/.700 58/.695 45/.600 37/.546 77/.774 20/1.050
Last 28d days 92/.831 26/.663 49/.626 41/.773 35/.343 44/.736 63/.801 12/.258
HR/SB/CS 6/9/3 3/1/1 0/1/1 2/2/1 2/5/1 2/0/0 6/2/0 2/1/0 60/41/15
Usage ·····X·· ········ o·X·oo·· X·o·X··X ·····oo· o·oo·o·· o·X····· o·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  5.20

ARI  4.11

SDP  2.96

 RA/G

OAK  3.37

LAA  4.23

ARI  4.95

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .361

D. Wright  .266

J. Gyorko  .162

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .450

D. Jeter  .330

J. Gyorko  .213

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .661

Y. Molina  .408

J. Gyorko  .270

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.111

M. Carpenter  .743

J. Gyorko  .482

 ERA

T. Hudson  1.81

T. Milone  3.56

J. Nicasio  5.92

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  10.86

N. Eovaldi  7.42

K. Gibson  4.50

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.