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Chicago White Sox vs. Houston Astros, at U.S. Cellular Field, June 8, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Monday, June 8, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
U.S. Cellular Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
72° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
59
On This Date:
29-22
White Sox
Manager:
Robin Ventura
Game #:
60
On This Date:
48-59
Season Series
Fri, May 29, 2015 CHW  6 @HOU  3 (11)
Sat, May 30, 2015 HOU  3  CHW  0     
Sun, May 31, 2015 CHW  6 @HOU  0     

Mon, Jun 08, 2015 HOU    @CHW  8:10pm
Tue, Jun 09, 2015 HOU    @CHW  8:10pm
Wed, Jun 10, 2015 HOU    @CHW  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
34-24, 1st, 3½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-13   Road:   15-11   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  22-14   vsLHP:  12-10   1-Run:  11-8 
 vsEast:  8-6    vsCntrl: 4-6    vsWest: 18-11 IL: 4-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 58 Sun, Jun  7  @TOR  L   6-7       34-24  1st  3.5 up
 57 Sat, Jun  6  @TOR  L   2-7       34-23  1st  3.5 up
 56 Fri, Jun  5  @TOR  L   2-6       34-22  1st  4.5 up
 55 Thu, Jun  4   BAL  L   2-3       34-21  1st  5.5 up
 54 Wed, Jun  3   BAL  W   3-1       34-20  1st  6.0 up
 53 Tue, Jun  2   BAL  W   6-4       33-20  1st  5.0 up
 52 Mon, Jun  1   BAL  W   5-2       32-20  1st  4.0 up
 51 Sun, May 31   CHW  L   0-6       31-20  1st  4.0 up
 50 Sat, May 30   CHW  W   3-0       31-19  1st  5.0 up
 49 Fri, May 29   CHW  L   3-6 (11)  30-19  1st  5.0 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:16-14
Chicago White Sox
25-30, 5th, 7½ GB, 6½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-12   Road:   12-18   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  22-24   vsLHP:   3-6    1-Run:  11-7 
 vsEast:  2-4    vsCntrl:13-21   vsWest:  6-3  IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 55 Sun, Jun  7   DET  L   4-6       25-30  5th  7.5 gb
 54 Sat, Jun  6   DET  L   1-7       25-29  5th  6.5 gb
 53 Fri, Jun  5   DET  W   4-3 (11)  25-28  5th  6.5 gb
 52 Thu, Jun  4  @TEX  L   1-2 (11)  24-28  5th  7.5 gb
 51 Wed, Jun  3  @TEX  W   9-2       24-27  5th  6.5 gb
 50 Tue, Jun  2  @TEX  L   2-15      23-27  5th  7.0 gb
 49 Sun, May 31  @HOU  W   6-0       23-26  5th  7.0 gb
 48 Sat, May 30  @HOU  L   0-3       22-26  5th  7.5 gb
 47 Fri, May 29  @HOU  W   6-3 (11)  22-25  4th  7.0 gb
 46 Thu, May 28  @BAL  L   3-6       21-25  5th  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 31, 2015 CHW  6 @HOU  0        W:John Danks (3-4), L: Roberto Hernandez (2-4), S: none
Sat, May 30, 2015 HOU  3  CHW  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (7-1), L: Jose Quintana (2-6), S: none
Fri, May 29, 2015 CHW  6 @HOU  3 (11)   W:Dan Jennings (1-1), L: Josh Fields (2-1), S: David Robertson (10)

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 HOU 11 @CHW  7        W:Tony Sipp (2-1), L: Daniel Webb (5-3), S: none
Sat, Jul 19, 2014 CHW  4  HOU  3        W:Hector Noesi (4-7), L: Dallas Keuchel (9-6), S: Zach Putnam (3)
Fri, Jul 18, 2014 CHW  3  HOU  2        W:Daniel Webb (5-2), L: Scott Feldman (4-7), S: Zach Putnam (2)
Sun, May 18, 2014 HOU  8  CHW  2        W:Brad Peacock (1-4), L: John Danks (3-4), S: none
Sat, May 17, 2014 HOU  6  CHW  5        W:Jarred Cosart (3-3), L: Hector Noesi (0-4), S: Chad Qualls (3)
Fri, May 16, 2014 CHW  7 @HOU  2        W:Jose Quintana (2-3), L: Collin McHugh (2-2), S: none
Wed, Aug 28, 2013 CHW  6  HOU  1        W:Chris Sale (10-12), L: Lucas Harrell (6-15), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - CHW over 2-1; 2014 - Tied 3-3; 2013 - HOU won 4-3; All-Time - CHW leads 19-18

SP: Lance McCullers (21, RHP, 2-0, 1.88)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-0) 24.0 18 6 5 6 29 0 1.88
Last 7 GS 2-0 24.0 18 6 5 6 29 0 1.88 63
2015-06-03 BAL W 9.0 4 1 1 0 11 0 107 86
2015-05-29 CHW ND 4.1 5 2 1 2 7 0 89 52
2015-05-23 @DET W 6.0 6 2 2 1 6 0 100 57
2015-05-18 OAK ND 4.2 3 1 1 3 5 0 93 56
Last 5 v.CHW 0-0 4.1 5 2 1 2 7 0 2.08 52
2015-05-29 CHW ND 4.1 5 2 1 2 7 0 89 52

SP: Chris Sale (26, LHP, 5-2, 3.27)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (5-2) 66.0 53 26 24 16 79 6 3.27
2014 (12-4) 174.0 129 48 42 39 208 13 2.17
2013 (11-14) 214.1 184 81 73 46 226 23 3.07
Last 7 GS 3-2 47.0 35 21 19 13 63 5 3.64 61
2015-06-03 @TEX W 7.0 3 0 0 2 13 0 112 82
2015-05-28 @BAL W 7.2 4 0 0 0 12 0 120 83
2015-05-23 MIN L 8.0 5 4 3 1 10 2 113 67
2015-05-18 CLE ND 8.0 4 1 1 2 7 0 109 75
2015-05-12 @MIL W 8.0 3 2 2 1 11 1 110 78
2015-05-06 DET ND 5.1 7 5 5 5 6 1 109 35
2015-04-30 @MIN L 3.0 9 9 8 2 4 1 73 9
Last 5 v.HOU 2-1 24.0 14 3 1 3 33 1 0.38 80
2013-08-28 HOU W 8.0 4 1 1 2 12 1 107 80
2013-06-14 @HOU L 8.0 6 2 0 1 14 0 124 79
2012-06-09 HOU W 8.0 4 0 0 0 7 0 101 81

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Astros Batters (4.22 RS/G) vs. White Sox Pitchers (4.65 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Sale*
G/S/vB		 33.Duke*
G/S/vB		 48.Noesi
G/S/vB		 52.Petricka
G/S/vB		 57.Putnam
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 40.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 11/.664 2/1.000 10/.900 4/.500 1/no AB 3/.333 4/.500 253/176 .296/.337/.403/.741 .947/.653 .773 106/.554 17/6 5/1
23.Carter G/S/vP 10/.800 ··· 7/.286 3/1.334 1/.000 5/2.000 4/.750 220/143 .198/.305/.385/.690 .681/.694 .661 99/.857 1/0 10/4
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.834 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 157/115 .218/.287/.394/.681 .645/.695 .614 65/.727 0/0 6/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 67/28 .211/.318/.421/.739 .675/.828 .762 33/.736 0/0 3/2
11.Gattis G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 216/145 .234/.264/.478/.742 .643/.790 .690 102/.896 0/0 12/0
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.500 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 122/90 .227/.233/.353/.586 .677/.554 .587 55/.509 1/1 2/4
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 168/109 .265/.305/.413/.718 .543/.816 .974 68/.486 10/3 4/2
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 4/.667 16/.464 3/1.667 1/.000 1/.000 12/.000 ··· 169/125 .242/.308/.484/.791 .850/.771 .831 67/.741 1/1 8/1
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/1.572 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 4/.500 226/156 .235/.356/.417/.773 .850/.739 .804 107/.872 12/2 8/3
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 88/60 .263/.330/.438/.767 .816/.744 .696 74/.810 0/0 2/0
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 1/2.000 5/.000 3/.000 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 217/156 .184/.253/.398/.651 .410/.749 .540 91/.597 1/0 12/2
2.Villar# G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 3/.666 ··· 101/51 .264/.320/.374/.694 .728/.659 .676 65/.842 4/2 1/9
IP 66.0 23.0 29.2 19.0 17.2 23.2 6.2 TOTAL .236/.304/.414/.717 .718/.717 .727 .725 48/15 78/32
ERA-K/9 3.27/10.8 3.52/8.6 6.67/6.1 3.79/6.2 4.08/13.2 2.28/13.3 0.00/9.4 4.32/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (28-14-3)
 Conger (10-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 263/.219 94/.256 136/.283 83/.316 77/.231 91/.182 24/.217 .272  Springer
 Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Conger
 Tucker
 Gattis
 Villar
0/0/52/3
0/50/0/2
32/17/6/1
1/0/0/0
21/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
3/2/0/0
OPS .618 .783 .884 .774 .703 .538 .511 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 39/.650 29/.974 73/.827 29/.837 32/.787 38/.405 8/1.071 .740
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 224/.612 65/.708 63/.950 54/.740 45/.638 53/.631 16/.250 .771
Home 139/.675 42/.452 76/.806 47/.600 43/.570 50/.300 5/.400
Last 28d days 141/.436 33/.930 58/.972 43/.707 21/.516 41/.655 24/.511
HR/SB/CS 6/1/2 4/1/1 7/1/0 1/0/0 3/2/1 3/2/0 0/0/0 55/33/10
Usage ····X··· o··XX··· ·X···X·· o·ooX··· ··o····· ··X····· ·X·X····
White Sox Batters (3.64 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.91 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.McCullers
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 54.Thatcher*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
79.Abreu G/S/vP 3/1.334 2/.000 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 219/178 .274/.333/.473/.806 .644/.843 .797 95/.741 0/0 9/4
15.Beckham G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/5.000 6/.533 3/.833 112/76 .263/.321/.394/.715 .471/.827 .714 68/.669 0/1 3/2
64.Bonifacio# G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/.700 ··· 3/.666 5/.500 ··· 1/.000 58/33 .200/.228/.218/.446 .458/.436 .616 30/.448 0/2 0/1
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/2.500 11/.664 1/.000 4/.250 4/1.167 7/.619 2/1.000 237/184 .226/.263/.258/.521 .176/.620 .473 110/.424 0/0 1/1
1.Eaton* G/S/vP 3/.667 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.167 1/2.000 227/173 .238/.295/.367/.662 .444/.733 .664 117/.751 3/2 3/3
21.Flowers G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 1/5.000 124/107 .203/.242/.331/.572 .551/.576 .461 62/.576 0/0 3/0
26.Garcia G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 191/155 .294/.346/.435/.781 .848/.764 .677 76/.813 1/3 6/1
12.Gillaspie* G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 125/122 .246/.280/.373/.653 .667/.653 .751 50/.552 0/1 2/7
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/2.000 4/.500 2/3.500 2/.000 9/.347 2/3.500 11/.364 214/166 .239/.360/.400/.760 .560/.823 .642 100/.807 0/0 7/0
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 3/1.667 3/.666 2/.000 ··· 4/.750 2/.500 5/.400 ··· 218/181 .237/.257/.324/.581 .564/.584 .708 105/.522 7/2 2/5
5.Sanchez# G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 82/68 .151/.213/.192/.404 .445/.395 .229 79/.366 0/1 0/1
20.Shuck* G/S/vP 2/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 64/58 .268/.333/.286/.619 .333/.641 .802 37/.664 4/1 0/0
58.Soto G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/3.000 ··· 81/62 .211/.259/.342/.601 .721/.565 .658 41/.617 0/0 2/4
IP 24.0 15.0 24.0 27.2 21.2 20.1 19.2 11.1 TOTAL .241/.296/.351/.647 .520/.679 .644 .618 18/15 38/35
ERA-K/9 1.88/10.9 2.40/15.0 4.50/10.1 0.65/10.4 2.08/7.9 4.43/9.8 2.29/10.1 2.38/10.4 3.65/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Flowers (22-8-4)
 Soto (11-2-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 98/.200 58/.176 97/.242 96/.080 76/.162 83/.224 77/.197 46/.225 .241  Garcia
 Eaton
 Cabrera
 Shuck
 Bonifacio
0/0/47/8
0/51/0/4
54/0/0/3
3/4/12/2
1/3/0/0
OPS .554 .494 .717 .304 .484 .647 .578 .558 .679
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 50/.420 26/.656 51/.739 46/.295 25/.382 33/.355 36/.721 26/.573 .656
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 48/.690 32/.362 46/.693 50/.312 51/.529 50/.821 41/.457 20/.533 .696
Road 24/.639 28/.757 42/.652 49/.300 31/.526 35/.676 36/.644 24/.477
Last 28d days 98/.554 35/.490 47/.918 43/.338 31/.262 35/.657 25/.840 15/.358
HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 0/2/2 4/3/0 2/1/0 3/0/0 3/3/1 2/1/1 0/1/0 50/38/15
Usage ····X··· ·X·X···· X····oo· X··X··X· o····oo· ···X···· ··o····o ·oo·····

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 2015 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

TOR  5.22

SFG  4.12

PHI  3.21

 RA/G

STL  2.81

DET  4.17

COL  5.05

 BA

D. Gordon  .372

J. Harrison  .265

S. Drew  .168

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .468

D. Fowler  .325

O. Infante  .230

 SLG

B. Harper  .706

C. Coghlan  .419

M. Cabrera  .258

 OPS

B. Harper  1.170

S. Souza  .747

M. Cabrera  .521

 ERA

S. Gray  1.65

N. Karns  3.63

K. Lohse  6.59

 K/9IP

D. Salazar  11.82

Y. Ventura  7.28

J. Guthrie  3.73

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.