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Cleveland Indians vs. Houston Astros, at Progressive Field, July 9, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Progressive Field
Series:
Game #4 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
78° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
88
On This Date:
22-17
Indians
Manager:
Terry Francona
Game #:
87
On This Date:
39-58
Season Series
Mon, Apr 06, 2015 HOU  2  CLE  0     
Wed, Apr 08, 2015 CLE  2 @HOU  0     
Thu, Apr 09, 2015 CLE  5 @HOU  1     
Mon, Jul 06, 2015 HOU  9 @CLE  4     
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CLE  2  HOU  0     
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 CLE  4  HOU  2     

Thu, Jul 09, 2015 HOU    @CLE  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
49-38, 1st, 1½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-16   Road:   21-22   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  32-20   vsLHP:  17-18   1-Run:  12-12
 vsEast: 11-10   vsCntrl: 8-11   vsWest: 22-16 IL: 8-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 87 Wed, Jul  8  @CLE  L   2-4       49-38  1st  1.5 up
 86 Tue, Jul  7  @CLE  L   0-2       49-37  1st  2.5 up
 85 Mon, Jul  6  @CLE  W   9-4       49-36  1st  3.5 up
 84 Sun, Jul  5  @BOS  L   4-5       48-36  1st  3.0 up
 83 Sat, Jul  4  @BOS  L   1-6       48-35  1st  4.0 up
 82 Fri, Jul  3  @BOS  W  12-8 (10)  48-34  1st  5.0 up
 81 Wed, Jul  1   KCR  W   6-5       47-34  1st  5.0 up
 80 Tue, Jun 30   KCR  W   4-0       46-34  1st  4.0 up
 79 Mon, Jun 29   KCR  W   6-1       45-34  1st  4.0 up
 78 Sun, Jun 28   NYY  W   3-1       44-34  1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Cleveland Indians
40-44, 4th, 10 GB, 6 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-24   Road:   23-20   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  28-24   vsLHP:  12-20   1-Run:   9-9 
 vsEast:  8-9    vsCntrl:14-22   vsWest: 11-8  IL: 7-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 84 Wed, Jul  8   HOU  W   4-2       40-44  4th 10.0 gb
 83 Tue, Jul  7   HOU  W   2-0       39-44  4th 10.0 gb
 82 Mon, Jul  6   HOU  L   4-9       38-44  4th  9.5 gb
 81 Sun, Jul  5  @PIT  L   3-5       38-43  4th  9.0 gb
 80 Sat, Jul  4  @PIT  L   0-1       38-42  4th  8.0 gb
 79 Fri, Jul  3  @PIT  W   5-2       38-41  4th  8.0 gb
 78 Thu, Jul  2  @TBR  W   5-4 (10)  37-41  4th  8.0 gb
 77 Wed, Jul  1  @TBR  W   8-1       36-41  4th  9.0 gb
 76 Tue, Jun 30  @TBR  W   6-2       35-41  4th 10.0 gb
 75 Mon, Jun 29  @TBR  W   7-1       34-41  4th 11.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 CLE  4  HOU  2        W:Trevor Bauer (8-5), L: Joe Thatcher (1-3), S: Cody Allen (17)
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CLE  2  HOU  0        W:Corey Kluber (4-9), L: Vincent Velasquez (0-1), S: Bryan Shaw (2)
Mon, Jul 06, 2015 HOU  9 @CLE  4        W:Dallas Keuchel (11-3), L: Carlos Carrasco (10-7), S: none
Thu, Apr 09, 2015 CLE  5 @HOU  1        W:Trevor Bauer (1-0), L: Asher Wojciechowski (0-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 08, 2015 CLE  2 @HOU  0        W:Carlos Carrasco (1-0), L: Scott Feldman (0-1), S: Cody Allen (1)
Mon, Apr 06, 2015 HOU  2  CLE  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (1-0), L: Corey Kluber (0-1), S: Luke Gregerson (1)

Thu, Sep 18, 2014 CLE  2 @HOU  1 (13)   W:Kyle Crockett (4-0), L: Sam Deduno (2-6), S: Cody Allen (22)
Wed, Sep 17, 2014 CLE  2 @HOU  0        W:Carlos Carrasco (8-5), L: Brett Oberholtzer (5-12), S: none
Tue, Sep 16, 2014 CLE  4 @HOU  2        W:Corey Kluber (16-9), L: Nick Tropeano (1-1), S: Cody Allen (21)
Mon, Sep 15, 2014 HOU  3  CLE  1        W:Collin McHugh (10-9), L: Zach McAllister (3-7), S: Chad Qualls (18)
Season Series: 2015 - CLE over 4-2; 2014 - CLE won 5-2; 2013 - CLE won 6-1; All-Time - CLE leads 23-15

SP: Brett Oberholtzer (25, LHP, 2-1, 4.32)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-1) 33.1 37 18 16 16 24 3 4.32
2014 (5-13) 143.2 170 73 70 28 94 12 4.39
2013 (4-5) 71.2 66 26 22 13 45 7 2.76
Last 7 GS 2-1 33.1 37 18 16 16 24 3 4.32 47
2015-06-27 NYY ND 1.1 4 6 6 3 1 2 49 20
2015-06-22 @LAA ND 5.2 4 2 2 4 5 1 101 54
2015-06-17 @COL W 6.1 8 3 3 0 5 0 86 50
2015-06-12 SEA W 8.0 3 0 0 2 5 0 108 79
2015-06-06 @TOR L 3.2 6 4 2 3 2 0 88 36
2015-06-01 BAL ND 5.1 7 2 2 2 3 0 82 47
2015-05-13 SFG ND 3.0 5 1 1 2 3 0 54 46
Last 5 v.CLE 0-3 20.1 21 7 5 3 11 0 2.21 56
2014-09-17 CLE L 7.2 7 2 2 0 3 0 94 60
2014-08-24 @CLE L 6.2 10 3 3 0 6 0 103 48
2013-09-20 @CLE L 6.0 4 2 0 3 2 0 107 59

SP: Cody Anderson (24, RHP, 1-1, 0.76)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-1) 23.2 14 2 2 1 10 1 0.76
Last 7 GS 1-1 23.2 14 2 2 1 10 1 0.76 72
2015-07-04 @PIT L 8.0 6 1 1 0 4 0 92 70
2015-06-29 @TBR W 8.0 2 1 1 0 2 1 100 76
2015-06-21 TBR ND 7.2 6 0 0 1 4 0 94 70
Has never faced HOU as starter.

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Astros Batters (4.48 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.25 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Anderson
G/S/vB		 49.Adams
G/S/vB		 37.Allen
G/S/vB		 57.Crockett*
G/S/vB		 53.Manship
G/S/vB		 34.McAllister
G/S/vB		 35.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 27.Shaw
G/S/vB		 54.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 6/.334 ··· 1/no AB 7/.762 4/1.000 5/.400 2/.000 346/233 .299/.343/.415/.758 .828/.724 .709 80/.879 25/8 7/3
23.Carter G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 8/.542 ··· ··· 12/1.151 ··· 4/.250 ··· 331/210 .190/.305/.391/.696 .718/.683 .619 99/.691 1/1 15/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.200 1/no AB 1/.000 4/1.250 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 231/162 .208/.277/.362/.639 .579/.667 .565 70/.583 0/0 7/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 6/2.833 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 108/48 .237/.336/.419/.756 .575/.988 .681 32/.858 0/0 4/3
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 125/75 .283/.312/.533/.845 1.027/.724 .888 113/.828 5/0 7/3
11.Gattis G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 325/208 .249/.277/.463/.740 .642/.793 .686 97/.808 0/0 15/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 1/.000 195/126 .251/.275/.412/.686 .761/.646 .738 66/.928 3/2 6/6
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 1/no AB 3/.000 4/.500 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 211/133 .247/.284/.387/.670 .570/.731 .869 35/.586 11/4 5/2
3.Presley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 7/.762 3/1.334 2/.000 11/10 .300/.364/.300/.664 2.000/.522 .664 11/.664 0/0 0/0
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 7/.762 235/170 .242/.311/.464/.775 .824/.756 .745 64/.757 1/1 10/1
21.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 25/21 .130/.200/.174/.374 .000/.449 .154 25/.374 1/0 0/0
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 182/124 .263/.324/.437/.761 .513/.882 .741 86/.788 0/0 5/0
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 311/210 .203/.286/.438/.725 .620/.774 .653 90/.944 1/0 19/4
IP 23.2 15.0 36.0 3.2 8.0 42.1 17.0 29.2 25.1 TOTAL .243/.309/.424/.733 .724/.738 .722 .791 69/22 121/46
ERA-K/9 0.76/3.8 3.00/7.2 3.25/14.5 0.00/9.7 1.13/6.8 2.98/11.1 3.71/11.6 1.82/8.8 2.84/6.4 3.90/9.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (31-19-3)
 Conger (15-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 84/.171 63/.232 150/.208 13/.100 27/.083 180/.267 76/.246 120/.204 106/.223 .246  Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Conger
 Tucker
 Presley
 Gattis
0/63/0/5
40/27/9/1
1/0/0/0
40/0/7/0
1/1/1/0
5/0/0/0
OPS .425 .664 .594 .408 .356 .688 .670 .629 .720 .703
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 37/.389 24/.697 71/.446 3/.333 10/.644 82/.625 52/.640 34/.469 46/.510 .674
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 47/.452 39/.642 79/.732 10/.425 17/.184 98/.741 24/.732 86/.692 60/.882 .727
Home 29/.491 50/.761 70/.639 9/.476 21/.468 117/.711 37/.836 62/.661 62/.742
Last 28d days 84/.425 19/.764 39/.344 4/.500 27/.356 28/.374 17/.804 35/.510 39/1.150
HR/SB/CS 1/1/1 1/0/0 1/3/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 3/2/2 1/3/0 4/3/0 3/1/0 85/45/22
Usage ····X··· ··X····o o····Xo· ········ ··XX···· ·Xo··o·· ···o·o·· ·o···oo· ···X····
Indians Batters (3.99 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.82 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Oberholtzer*
G/S/vB		 56.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 54.Thatcher*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
4.Aviles G/S/vP 10/.600 23/.652 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 4/1.000 1/no AB 178/73 .255/.313/.360/.673 .710/.621 .602 51/.526 1/0 4/5
24.Bourn* G/S/vP 11/.182 ··· ··· 3/2.167 1/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 4/.833 262/186 .228/.297/.276/.573 .583/.569 .632 60/.437 7/4 0/0
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 8/.750 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/no AB 330/190 .293/.367/.424/.791 .748/.823 .849 107/.691 9/1 5/1
10.Gomes G/S/vP 4/1.500 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 143/95 .221/.238/.331/.569 .583/.561 .687 69/.555 0/0 3/1
22.Kipnis* G/S/vP 8/.572 ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 385/233 .335/.413/.502/.914 .758/1.018 1.129 110/.897 10/5 6/3
12.Lindor# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 94/56 .207/.239/.264/.503 .535/.482 .541 94/.503 1/0 1/4
44.Moss* G/S/vP 8/.542 4/.000 6/.167 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 4/.833 ··· 321/202 .227/.302/.441/.743 .839/.687 .634 99/.587 0/0 14/3
7.Murphy* G/S/vP 1/.000 21/1.024 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 5/.400 2/1.500 194/181 .333/.375/.500/.875 1.200/.854 .949 63/.953 0/1 5/0
55.Perez G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 147/102 .218/.340/.412/.752 .753/.747 .839 26/.929 0/0 5/3
9.Raburn G/S/vP 4/1.250 12/.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.250 1/.000 132/17 .289/.379/.518/.896 .937/.627 .878 31/.878 0/0 4/0
41.Santana# G/S/vP 11/1.142 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· 333/212 .210/.345/.357/.702 .586/.770 .693 98/.589 3/1 9/2
39.Urshela G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 91/61 .247/.297/.329/.626 1.038/.424 .590 83/.600 0/0 2/2
IP 33.1 83.2 28.0 32.1 39.2 32.1 31.0 18.1 TOTAL .249/.322/.386/.708 .729/.696 .730 .652 39/14 69/46
ERA-K/9 4.32/6.5 4.41/4.5 2.57/12.2 3.34/8.9 0.91/9.1 2.78/8.1 3.19/9.6 3.44/10.8 3.58/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gomes (15-10-3)
 Perez (23-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 149/.287 354/.278 111/.167 125/.202 149/.120 122/.186 125/.219 81/.265 .238  Brantley
 Moss
 Bourn
 Aviles
 Raburn
 Murphy
55/21/0/7
0/0/66/5
1/70/0/4
14/3/0/1
15/0/10/1
18/0/14/0
OPS .791 .781 .514 .585 .430 .561 .672 .674 .675
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 37/1.036 173/.741 49/.588 67/.618 70/.392 46/.548 61/.581 51/.609 .656
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 112/.705 181/.817 62/.453 58/.546 79/.464 76/.567 64/.753 30/.785 .690
Road 72/.776 193/.813 64/.567 53/.553 83/.392 61/.630 71/.752 42/.762
Last 28d days 91/.731 74/.591 49/.557 28/.143 49/.615 40/.521 41/.804 34/.795
HR/SB/CS 3/4/2 9/10/3 1/2/2 4/3/0 4/2/0 4/0/1 5/1/2 0/2/0 74/46/20
Usage ········ ·X··Xo·· ··XX·o·o ·····X·o o··X·o·· o·o··X·o ·o·X·X·· o·X··o·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 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  5.40

SFG  4.07

PHI  3.44

 RA/G

STL  2.89

MIA  4.11

COL  5.14

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

M. Carpenter  .266

S. Drew  .179

 OBP

B. Harper  .471

A. Jones  .330

O. Infante  .243

 SLG

B. Harper  .709

K. Seager  .421

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.181

X. Bogaerts  .755

O. Infante  .547

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.48

T. Ross  3.56

K. Lohse  6.29

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.78

K. Hendricks  7.34

M. Pelfrey  4.44

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.