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Detroit Tigers vs. Houston Astros, at Comerica Park, May 22, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, May 22, 2015
Start Time:
7:08et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
70° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
43
On This Date:
20-31
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
43
On This Date:
49-45
Season Series
Thu, May 21, 2015 DET  6  HOU  5 (11)

Fri, May 22, 2015 HOU    @DET  7:08pm
Sat, May 23, 2015 HOU    @DET  4:08pm
Sun, May 24, 2015 HOU    @DET  1:08pm
Fri, Aug 14, 2015 DET    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 15, 2015 DET    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 16, 2015 DET    @HOU  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
27-15, 1st, 5½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   15-10   Road:   12-5    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  17-9    vsLHP:  10-6    1-Run:  10-4 
 vsEast:  4-0    vsCntrl: 1-3    vsWest: 18-11 IL: 4-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Thu, May 21  @DET  L   5-6 (11)  27-15  1st  5.5 up
 41 Wed, May 20   OAK  W   6-1       27-14  1st  5.5 up
 40 Tue, May 19   OAK  W   6-4       26-14  1st  5.5 up
 39 Mon, May 18   OAK  L   1-2       25-14  1st  5.5 up
 38 Sun, May 17   TOR  W   4-2       25-13  1st  5.5 up
 37 Sat, May 16   TOR  W   6-5       24-13  1st  4.5 up
 36 Fri, May 15   TOR  W   8-4       23-13  1st  4.5 up
 35 Thu, May 14   TOR  W   6-4       22-13  1st  4.5 up
 34 Wed, May 13   SFG  W   4-3       21-13  1st  4.0 up
 33 Tue, May 12   SFG  L   1-8       20-13  1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:21-9
Detroit Tigers
25-17, 2nd, 2 GB, 2½ up in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-10   Road:   12-7    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  17-14   vsLHP:   8-3    1-Run:   9-7 
 vsEast:  1-3    vsCntrl:18-10   vsWest:  1-0  IL: 5-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Thu, May 21   HOU  W   6-5 (11)  25-17  2nd  2.0 gb
 41 Wed, May 20   MIL  W   5-2       24-17  2nd  2.5 gb
 40 Tue, May 19   MIL  L   1-8       23-17  2nd  2.5 gb
 39 Mon, May 18   MIL  L   2-3       23-16  2nd  1.5 gb
 38 Sun, May 17  @STL  L   1-2       23-15  2nd  1.0 gb
 37 Sat, May 16  @STL  W   4-3 (10)  23-14  1st    Tied
 36 Fri, May 15  @STL  W  10-4       22-14  2nd  1.0 gb
 35 Thu, May 14   MIN  W  13-1       21-14  2nd  1.0 gb
 34 Wed, May 13   MIN  L   2-6       20-14  2nd  1.0 gb
 33 Tue, May 12   MIN  W   2-1 (10)  20-13  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, May 21, 2015 DET  6  HOU  5 (11)   W:Alex Wilson (1-0), L: Tony Sipp (2-1), S: none

Sun, Jun 29, 2014 HOU  6  DET  4        W:Scott Feldman (4-5), L: Drew Smyly (4-7), S: Tony Sipp (1)
Sat, Jun 28, 2014 DET  4 @HOU  3        W:Phil Coke (1-1), L: Jerome Williams (1-4), S: Joe Nathan (17)
Fri, Jun 27, 2014 HOU  4  DET  3 (11)   W:Jake Buchanan (1-1), L: Blaine Hardy (0-1), S: none
Thu, May 08, 2014 HOU  6 @DET  2        W:Dallas Keuchel (3-2), L: Drew Smyly (2-2), S: none
Wed, May 07, 2014 DET  3  HOU  2        W:Rick Porcello (5-1), L: Brad Peacock (0-3), S: Joe Nathan (7)
Tue, May 06, 2014 DET 11  HOU  4        W:Robbie Ray (1-0), L: Brett Oberholtzer (0-6), S: none
Mon, May 05, 2014 DET  2  HOU  0        W:Max Scherzer (4-1), L: Jarred Cosart (1-3), S: Joe Nathan (6)
Wed, May 15, 2013 HOU  7 @DET  5        W:Hector Ambriz (1-2), L: Al Alburquerque (0-1), S: Jose Veras (5)
Tue, May 14, 2013 DET  6  HOU  2        W:Doug Fister (5-1), L: Lucas Harrell (3-4), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - DET over 1-0; 2014 - DET won 4-3; 2013 - DET won 6-1; All-Time - DET leads 17-13

SP: Collin McHugh (28, RHP, 5-1, 4.09)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (5-1) 50.2 50 23 23 10 45 5 4.09
2014 (11-9) 154.2 117 53 47 41 157 13 2.73
2013 (0-4) 26.0 45 29 29 5 11 6 10.04
Last 7 GS 4-1 44.2 45 22 22 8 41 5 4.43 53
2015-05-17 TOR W 7.0 6 2 2 1 9 0 104 65
2015-05-12 SFG L 4.2 8 7 7 2 3 0 91 21
2015-05-07 @LAA ND 7.1 5 2 2 1 7 1 97 66
2015-05-02 SEA W 7.0 6 4 4 2 3 4 106 50
2015-04-27 @SDP ND 6.0 7 3 3 0 5 0 95 51
2015-04-21 @SEA W 7.0 7 3 3 2 3 0 105 52
2015-04-15 OAK W 5.2 6 1 1 0 11 0 102 64
Has never faced DET as starter.

SP: Alfredo Simon (34, RHP, 4-2, 3.04)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-2) 50.1 49 17 17 15 33 4 3.04
2014 (15-10) 196.1 181 80 75 56 127 22 3.44
2013 (6-4) 87.2 68 31 28 26 63 8 2.87
Last 7 GS 3-2 45.0 42 14 14 13 30 4 2.80 56
2015-05-17 @STL L 6.0 7 2 2 4 4 1 95 50
2015-05-12 MIN ND 7.2 6 1 1 1 6 0 106 68
2015-05-06 @CHW ND 5.0 5 3 3 4 2 1 103 43
2015-04-30 @KCR L 4.1 9 6 6 2 6 1 87 25
2015-04-25 CLE W 6.2 6 1 1 2 3 0 111 59
2015-04-20 NYY W 7.1 7 1 1 0 7 1 109 67
2015-04-15 @PIT W 8.0 2 0 0 0 2 0 108 80
Has never faced HOU as starter.

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Astros Batters (4.45 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Simon
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 32.Gorzelanny*
G/S/vB		 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB		 60.Nesbitt
G/S/vB		 38.Soria
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 4/1.750 2/1.500 2/.500 3/1.000 2/1.000 1/.000 2/2.500 5/.000 190/133 .306/.360/.445/.805 1.012/.719 .868 115/.842 14/5 5/0
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/1.167 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 159/105 .161/.270/.328/.599 .480/.659 .703 99/.710 0/0 7/3
15.Castro* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/2.000 2/.500 3/1.334 1/5.000 ··· 4/1.000 ··· 118/87 .217/.288/.406/.694 .637/.714 .551 71/.708 0/0 5/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/.200 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 45/19 .167/.318/.333/.652 .566/.768 .782 28/.577 0/0 2/1
11.Gattis G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 150/103 .196/.220/.413/.633 .534/.677 .465 88/.798 0/0 8/0
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.600 86/64 .238/.247/.405/.652 .762/.616 .573 68/.572 0/1 2/3
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 132/90 .289/.328/.438/.766 .614/.839 1.063 86/.686 9/3 3/2
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 4/.750 2/1.000 3/.000 7/.286 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 2/1.500 135/96 .244/.304/.528/.832 .874/.815 .902 90/.842 1/1 8/1
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 156/107 .205/.340/.409/.749 .908/.679 .729 85/.911 10/1 6/3
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 34/26 .310/.412/.552/.963 1.071/.930 .855 34/.963 0/0 1/0
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 16/.913 1/2.000 1/.000 3/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 6/1.133 1/.000 162/118 .211/.278/.449/.727 .475/.823 .667 100/.719 1/0 10/1
2.Villar# G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 57/30 .235/.304/.294/.598 .603/.593 .527 42/.710 3/0 0/5
IP 50.1 14.2 12.0 13.1 15.2 17.1 19.0 18.0 TOTAL .230/.303/.419/.722 .714/.725 .749 .756 39/11 62/22
ERA-K/9 3.04/5.9 4.91/4.9 1.50/6.0 3.38/6.8 3.45/6.9 3.12/6.8 1.42/7.1 1.50/5.5 3.66/6.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (16-10-2)
 Conger (5-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 209/.261 69/.283 53/.340 56/.314 68/.259 70/.222 68/.156 62/.167 .253  Springer
 Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Conger
 Tucker
 Gattis
 Villar
0/0/36/2
0/38/0/1
25/9/6/1
1/0/0/0
7/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
2/2/0/0
OPS .720 .827 .897 .854 .703 .593 .460 .444 .704
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 137/.831 31/.984 20/1.000 27/.968 33/.579 32/.820 35/.570 34/.599 .750
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 72/.505 38/.698 33/.830 29/.752 35/.826 38/.397 33/.343 28/.254 .664
Home 84/.627 47/.931 27/.758 32/.799 36/.905 46/.731 32/.554 38/.428
Last 28d days 133/.825 37/.589 38/1.021 29/1.057 33/.542 44/.645 45/.616 52/.392
HR/SB/CS 4/5/4 3/3/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 1/0/1 2/0/0 1/1/0 36/20/11
Usage ····X··· ··X···Xo ooX··Xo· ····X·o· ooX··XX· oo·X·oX· oX···X·· X·ooo···
Tigers Batters (4.38 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.79 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.McHugh
G/S/vB		 58.Buchanan
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
24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 4/2.417 9/.361 6/4.333 ··· 182/143 .336/.440/.592/1.032 1.154/1.000 .858 110/1.082 1/1 10/0
9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 163/134 .240/.288/.400/.688 .774/.669 .781 97/.627 0/1 4/3
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.667 6/.500 ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 171/136 .300/.327/.500/.827 .655/.872 .832 103/.813 3/2 5/2
18.Collins* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/9 .286/.444/.286/.730 /.730 .730 9/.730 0/0 0/
20.Davis G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 4/.250 4/.000 3/1.000 1/2.000 97/61 .271/.354/.435/.789 .983/.673 .837 58/.795 10/1 1/1
12.Gose* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 128/114 .325/.362/.458/.821 .690/.835 .893 82/.797 7/2 1/2
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/10 .300/.300/.700/1.000 /1.000 1.111 10/1.000 0/0 1/0
1.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 130/96 .325/.383/.419/.802 1.083/.700 .751 72/.703 6/1 1/3
3.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/1.000 2/.500 1/.000 8/.393 2/.500 4/1.417 1/2.000 188/145 .309/.383/.400/.783 .627/.831 .781 114/.841 6/0 0/1
28.Martinez G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 3/.000 4/1.750 1/.000 1/.000 171/134 .258/.327/.465/.792 .712/.809 .883 100/.731 1/1 8/1
34.McCann G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 88/62 .289/.322/.434/.756 1.012/.656 .537 63/.865 0/0 2/0
26.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/13 .087/.087/.087/.174 .200/.154 .182 13/.154 1/0 0/0
27.Romine# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 32/29 .310/.375/.310/.685 1.167/.641 .353 24/.583 4/3 0/1
IP 50.2 3.2 9.1 17.2 21.2 16.0 15.1 17.0 8.1 TOTAL .279/.345/.426/.771 .823/.756 .769 .765 39/12 36/17
ERA-K/9 4.09/8.0 0.00/7.3 0.96/15.5 4.08/7.1 0.42/11.2 2.81/8.4 2.93/10.6 1.06/9.5 3.24/11.9 3.50/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Holaday (2-0-0)
 McCann (10-7-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 209/.262 14/.154 35/.161 70/.231 77/.086 57/.196 60/.170 65/.169 36/.281 .237  Cespedes
 Martinez
 Gose
 Davis
 Romine
40/0/0/4
0/0/39/4
0/30/0/1
3/16/5/1
2/0/0/0
OPS .719 .522 .422 .716 .297 .589 .497 .493 .677 .672
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 102/.594 5/.000 17/.548 39/.845 37/.339 20/.421 26/.374 32/.508 23/.598 .654
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 107/.843 9/.833 18/.289 31/.560 40/.258 37/.676 34/.579 33/.478 13/.808 .686
Road 104/.631 7/.619 14/.845 26/.432 42/.221 21/.619 20/.500 30/.596 16/.732
Last 28d days 134/.771 14/.522 35/.422 41/.909 48/.344 26/.269 31/.435 35/.539 19/.669
HR/SB/CS 5/0/2 0/0/0 0/1/1 3/0/0 1/1/0 3/0/0 1/2/1 1/1/1 0/1/0 35/21/10
Usage ····X··· X··X···· o··o·ooo ··X·XX·· XX·X··o· ·oo·o··o ··o···oo ooo··o·· o··X····

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  5.19

CHC  4.23

PHI  3.16

 RA/G

STL  3.05

WSN  4.32

MIL  5.14

 BA

D. Gordon  .386

D. Fowler  .267

C. Carter  .161

 OBP

B. Harper  .472

R. Braun  .329

E. Gattis  .220

 SLG

B. Harper  .732

K. Kiermaier  .419

J. Ramirez  .261

 OPS

B. Harper  1.203

C. Granderson  .750

J. Ramirez  .526

 ERA

S. Miller  1.33

A. DeSclafani  3.80

J. Marquis  6.91

 K/9IP

D. Salazar  12.36

J. Marquis  7.12

J. Guthrie  3.42

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.