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Houston Astros vs. Oakland Athletics, at Minute Maid Park, April 14, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
9
On This Date:
38-30
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
8
On This Date:
25-18
Season Series
Mon, Apr 13, 2015 OAK  8 @HOU  1     

Tue, Apr 14, 2015 OAK    @HOU  8:10pm
Wed, Apr 15, 2015 OAK    @HOU  8:10pm
Fri, Apr 24, 2015 HOU    @OAK 10:05pm
Sat, Apr 25, 2015 HOU    @OAK  4:05pm
Sun, Apr 26, 2015 HOU    @OAK  4:05pm
Mon, May 18, 2015 OAK    @HOU  8:10pm
Tue, May 19, 2015 OAK    @HOU  8:10pm
Wed, May 20, 2015 OAK    @HOU  2:10pm
Thu, Aug 06, 2015 HOU    @OAK 10:05pm
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 HOU    @OAK 10:05pm
Sat, Aug 08, 2015 HOU    @OAK  4:05pm
Sun, Aug 09, 2015 HOU    @OAK  4:05pm
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 HOU    @OAK  4:05pm
Tue, Sep 08, 2015 HOU    @OAK 10:05pm
Wed, Sep 09, 2015 HOU    @OAK 10:05pm
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 OAK    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 OAK    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 20, 2015 OAK    @HOU  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
4-4, 1st, ½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-4    Road:    1-0    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:   3-3    vsLHP:   1-1    1-Run:   0-2 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  4-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  8 Mon, Apr 13  @HOU  W   8-1        4-4   1st  0.5 up
  7 Sun, Apr 12   SEA  L   7-8 (10)   3-4   3rd  0.5 gb
  6 Sat, Apr 11   SEA  L   4-5 (11)   3-3   1st    Tied
  5 Fri, Apr 10   SEA  W  12-0        3-2   1st  0.5 up
  4 Thu, Apr  9   TEX  L   1-10       2-2   2nd  0.5 gb
  3 Wed, Apr  8   TEX  W  10-0        2-1   1st    Tied
  2 Tue, Apr  7   TEX  L   1-3        1-1   2nd  0.5 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  6   TEX  W   8-0        1-0   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 4-4    Last 20: 4-4    Last 30: 4-4
Houston Astros
3-4, 2nd, ½ GB, 3 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    1-3    Road:    2-1    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   2-3    vsLHP:   1-1    1-Run:   0-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  2-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  7 Mon, Apr 13   OAK  L   1-8        3-4   2nd  0.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 12  @TEX  W   6-4 (14)   3-3   1st    Tied
  5 Sat, Apr 11  @TEX  L   2-6        2-3   3rd  0.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr 10  @TEX  W   5-1        2-2   2nd  0.5 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  9   CLE  L   1-5        1-2   4th  1.0 gb
  2 Wed, Apr  8   CLE  L   0-2        1-1   3rd  0.5 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  6   CLE  W   2-0        1-0   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 3-4    Last 20: 3-4    Last 30: 3-4 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 13, 2015 OAK  8 @HOU  1        W:Scott Kazmir (2-0), L: Scott Feldman (0-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 07, 2014 HOU  4 @OAK  3        W:Jose Veras (4-1), L: Ryan Cook (1-3), S: Josh Fields (3)
Sat, Sep 06, 2014 OAK  4  HOU  3        W:Luke Gregerson (4-3), L: Chad Qualls (1-5), S: none
Fri, Sep 05, 2014 HOU  4 @OAK  3        W:Brett Oberholtzer (5-10), L: Jeff Samardzija (6-12), S: Tony Sipp (3)
Wed, Aug 27, 2014 OAK  5 @HOU  4        W:Dan Otero (8-1), L: Chad Qualls (1-4), S: Eric O'Flaherty (1)
Tue, Aug 26, 2014 HOU  4  OAK  2        W:Josh Fields (4-6), L: Luke Gregerson (3-3), S: Chad Qualls (15)
Mon, Aug 25, 2014 OAK  8 @HOU  2        W:Jeff Samardzija (6-10), L: Scott Feldman (7-10), S: none
Wed, Jul 30, 2014 HOU  8  OAK  1        W:Dallas Keuchel (10-7), L: Jason Hammel (8-9), S: none
Tue, Jul 29, 2014 OAK  7 @HOU  4        W:Evan Scribner (1-0), L: Chad Qualls (1-2), S: Sean Doolittle (16)
Mon, Jul 28, 2014 HOU  7  OAK  3        W:Brett Oberholtzer (3-7), L: Jesse Chavez (8-7), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - OAK over 1-0; 2014 - OAK won 11-8; 2013 - OAK won 15-4; All-Time - OAK leads 32-13

SP: Kendall Graveman (24, RHP, 0-1, 18.90)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-1) 3.1 7 8 7 1 1 2 18.90
2014 (0-0) 4.2 4 2 2 0 4 0 3.86
Last 7 GS 0-1 3.1 7 8 7 1 1 2 18.90 16
2015-04-09 TEX L 3.1 7 8 7 1 1 2 57 16
Has never faced HOU as starter.

SP: Brad Peacock (27, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-9) 131.2 136 80 69 70 119 20 4.72
2013 (5-6) 83.1 78 51 48 37 77 15 5.18
2011 (2-0) 12.0 7 1 1 6 4 0 0.75
Last 7 GS 1-1 34.0 31 19 12 17 33 6 3.18 51
2014-09-26 @NYM ND 4.2 4 1 1 2 7 1 96 57
2014-09-19 SEA L 3.1 6 7 2 4 2 2 81 28
2014-09-08 @SEA ND 5.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 92 63
2014-09-02 LAA W 6.1 4 3 2 2 5 0 98 58
2014-08-27 OAK ND 5.1 4 1 1 5 6 0 108 57
2014-08-22 @CLE ND 5.0 2 1 1 0 4 1 62 63
2014-08-16 @BOS ND 4.1 7 6 5 2 3 2 94 28
Last 5 v.OAK 1-2 26.0 26 17 15 20 24 4 5.19 46
2014-08-27 OAK ND 5.1 4 1 1 5 6 0 108 57
2014-07-23 @OAK L 3.2 7 7 7 5 2 3 89 16
2014-04-25 OAK ND 5.0 5 5 3 6 3 0 92 38
2014-04-20 @OAK L 5.0 5 2 2 3 4 1 83 50
2013-09-05 @OAK W 7.0 5 2 2 1 9 0 97 67

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2015 season. Player Stats for the 2014 season. We will switch to 2015 stats on May 1st.

Athletics Batters (6.38 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 45.Deduno
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Burns# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/ .167/.167/.167/.333 .333/ .333 / 3/1 0/1
16.Butler G/S/vP 1/2.000 15/.929 1/2.000 ··· 6/1.167 3/.000 8/.804 ··· 603/448 .271/.323/.379/.702 .847/.653 .680 34/.990 0/0 9/2
17.Davis* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.833 ··· 4/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB 427/392 .233/.344/.378/.722 .265/.765 .597 27/.899 0/4 11/9
23.Fuld* G/S/vP 3/1.000 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 2/.000 3/.666 402/291 .239/.321/.342/.663 .683/.655 .763 31/.991 21/4 4/2
3.Gentry G/S/vP 2/1.000 4/1.167 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 4/.250 ··· 258/120 .254/.319/.289/.608 .645/.564 .487 17/.176 20/2 0/1
15.Lawrie G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 282/218 .247/.301/.421/.722 .595/.760 .638 35/.761 0/0 12/4
19.Phegley G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/28 .216/.211/.514/.724 1.000/.622 .258 9/.889 0/0 3/1
10.Semien G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 255/165 .234/.300/.372/.673 .735/.637 .642 33/.848 3/0 6/14
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 15/1.253 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.500 ··· 329/281 .223/.298/.268/.567 .478/.581 .462 19/.583 11/4 1/10
21.Vogt* G/S/vP 8/.375 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 287/245 .279/.321/.431/.752 .647/.770 .754 26/1.032 1/0 9/2
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 2/1.000 5/.900 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 3/1.167 8/.393 1/2.000 654/480 .272/.354/.395/.749 .873/.703 .747 35/.888 10/5 10/8
IP 131.2 100.2 72.1 29.0 67.1 51.1 50.2 30.1 TOTAL .306/.364/.465/.829 .769/.844 .981 .829 0/0 6/9
ERA-K/9 4.72/8.1 4.47/7.4 2.12/7.3 4.34/10.9 1.87/9.1 3.33/7.5 3.38/11.2 3.86/8.0 2.82/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Phegley (6-2-2)
 Vogt (0-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 589/.267 443/.255 284/.220 120/.252 255/.183 213/.265 198/.157 135/.293 .229  Gentry
 Fuld
 Zobrist
 Burns
 Vogt
17/50/29/8
36/62/17/7
38/7/19/2
0/1/0/0
1/0/17/0
OPS .801 .729 .604 .740 .480 .667 .517 .754 .681
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 352/.793 233/.742 122/.521 56/.721 99/.541 107/.828 98/.503 83/.764 .635
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 237/.811 210/.715 162/.667 64/.757 156/.442 106/.512 100/.531 52/.736 .752
Home 353/.779 221/.706 148/.553 58/.765 140/.455 115/.753 81/.430 76/.721
Last 28d days / 20/.535 10/.300 17/.180 10/1.000 12/.458 17/.598 5/.650
HR/SB/CS 20/10/1 9/13/1 6/10/0 3/0/1 4/2/1 5/9/2 5/2/2 3/2/1 7/3/1
Usage ·X··X··· ·o·o···o ·XX··o·· ·o·o·o·· ·X·oX··· ·XX····o ·oo··o··

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2015 season. Player Stats for the 2014 season. We will switch to 2015 stats on May 1st.

Astros Batters (2.43 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Graveman
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 37.Alvarez
G/S/vB		 30.Chavez
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 32.Hahn
G/S/vB		 39.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 16/.751 5/1.600 ··· 3/1.334 9/1.667 3/.000 707/546 .341/.377/.453/.830 1.013/.775 .897 32/.679 56/9 7/10
23.Carter G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 16/.698 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 7/.453 4/.000 572/412 .227/.308/.491/.799 .869/.772 .826 24/.170 5/2 37/3
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 ··· 15/.833 4/.833 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 512/386 .222/.286/.366/.651 .619/.662 .699 21/.782 1/0 14/4
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 9/.583 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 260/236 .221/.293/.325/.618 .622/.614 .686 9/.905 0/2 4/7
11.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 6/1.500 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 401/328 .263/.317/.493/.810 .970/.773 .863 25/.122 0/0 22/5
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 8/.875 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 3/.000 2/1.000 310/269 .277/.327/.400/.727 .776/.719 .714 10/1.000 2/4 6/8
19.Grossman# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 6/.333 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 4/.583 ··· 422/320 .233/.337/.333/.670 .566/.703 .610 11/.697 9/3 6/3
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 566/405 .249/.321/.355/.676 .598/.706 .686 25/.820 0/0 6/13
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· 237/182 .249/.281/.326/.607 .738/.568 .727 21/.906 11/3 3/2
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 3/1.334 1/2.000 1/.000 376/277 .225/.287/.448/.735 .684/.752 .641 19/.927 4/0 18/1
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 6/.533 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 345/249 .231/.336/.468/.804 .774/.811 .648 30/.459 5/2 20/7
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 547/453 .249/.341/.435/.776 .610/.811 .792 26/.512 1/2 16/9
2.Villar# G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· 6/.600 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 289/194 .209/.267/.354/.620 .644/.608 .747 10/.200 17/4 7/18
IP 4.2 57.1 8.0 146.0 70.1 73.1 20.0 86.2 11.2 TOTAL .191/.267/.331/.598 .782/.564 .406 .598 8/0 8/6
ERA-K/9 3.86/7.7 1.57/8.0 1.13/10.1 3.45/8.4 2.18/10.5 3.07/8.6 2.25/6.8 2.28/4.7 4.63/8.5 2.52/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (81-23-11)
 Conger (57-18-1)
 Gattis (53-13-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 18/.222 216/.175 33/.115 621/.253 278/.188 306/.214 80/.205 349/.247 47/.239 .182  Grossman
 Marisnick
 Springer
 Rasmus
 Carter
 Sipp
 Gonzalez
67/6/32/6
2/30/31/6
0/8/71/6
0/87/0/3
6/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
4/0/1/0
OPS .556 .499 .388 .692 .541 .623 .608 .609 .777 .550
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 8/.625 100/.527 12/.542 350/.663 149/.642 153/.656 33/.536 151/.703 19/.316 .564
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 10/.500 116/.475 21/.302 271/.728 129/.423 153/.583 47/.658 198/.539 28/1.099 .535
Road 3/.667 94/.402 14/.143 339/.748 123/.383 154/.594 44/.887 181/.558 23/.739
Last 28d days 20/1.313 18/.686 16/.679 11/.282 14/.903 49/.558 13/.846 10/.900 20/.450
HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 4/2/4 0/1/0 17/4/3 5/4/2 4/3/1 3/3/1 4/3/3 4/0/0 9/1/0
Usage ····X··· X·Xo··o· ·X·XoX·· X·o···X· ·oX·X··· ·X····X· ·Xo···o· o·o··o·· ·o··X··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

For the 2014 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

LAA  4.77

MIA  3.98

SDP  3.30

 RA/G

SEA  3.42

CLE  4.03

COL  5.05

 BA

J. Altuve  .341

J. Upton  .270

C. Davis  .196

 OBP

A. McCutchen  .410

C. Headley  .328

M. Dominguez  .256

 SLG

J. Abreu  .581

C. Utley  .407

Z. Cozart  .300

 OPS

V. Martinez  .974

H. Kendrick  .744

Z. Cozart  .568

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.77

W. Chen  3.54

C. Buchholz  5.34

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  10.85

T. Koehler  7.20

M. Buehrle  5.30

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.