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Houston Astros vs. Boston Red Sox, at Minute Maid Park, July 21, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
73° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
96
On This Date:
56-53
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
95
On This Date:
22-30
Season Series
Fri, Jul 03, 2015 HOU 12 @BOS  8 (10)
Sat, Jul 04, 2015 BOS  6  HOU  1     
Sun, Jul 05, 2015 BOS  5  HOU  4     

Tue, Jul 21, 2015 BOS    @HOU  8:10pm
Wed, Jul 22, 2015 BOS    @HOU  8:10pm
Thu, Jul 23, 2015 BOS    @HOU  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
42-51, 5th, 9 GB, 8½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-23   Road:   20-28   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  33-36   vsLHP:   9-15   1-Run:  13-11
 vsEast: 17-27   vsCntrl: 4-6    vsWest: 13-14 IL: 8-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 93 Mon, Jul 20  @LAA  L   3-7       42-51  5th  9.0 gb
 92 Mon, Jul 20  @LAA  L   1-11      42-50  5th  9.0 gb
 91 Sat, Jul 18  @LAA  L   0-3       42-49  5th  7.5 gb
 90 Fri, Jul 17  @LAA  L   0-1       42-48  5th  7.5 gb
 89 Sun, Jul 12   NYY  L   6-8       42-47  5th  6.5 gb
 88 Sat, Jul 11   NYY  W   5-3       42-46  5th  5.5 gb
 87 Fri, Jul 10   NYY  L   1-5       41-46  5th  6.5 gb
 86 Wed, Jul  8   MIA  W   6-3       41-45  5th  5.0 gb
 85 Tue, Jul  7   MIA  W   4-3       40-45  5th  5.0 gb
 84 Sun, Jul  5   HOU  W   5-4       39-45  5th  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Houston Astros
51-43, 2nd, 2 GB, tied for WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-17   Road:   21-26   ExtrInn: 4-3 
 vsRHP:  33-24   vsLHP:  18-19   1-Run:  13-14
 vsEast: 11-13   vsCntrl: 8-12   vsWest: 24-17 IL: 8-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 94 Sun, Jul 19   TEX  W  10-0       51-43  2nd  1.0 gb
 93 Sat, Jul 18   TEX  L   6-7       50-43  2nd  1.5 gb
 92 Fri, Jul 17   TEX  W   3-2       50-42  2nd  0.5 gb
 91 Sun, Jul 12  @TBR  L   3-4       49-42  2nd  0.5 gb
 90 Sat, Jul 11  @TBR  L   0-3       49-41  1st  0.5 up
 89 Fri, Jul 10  @TBR  L   1-3       49-40  1st  0.5 up
 88 Thu, Jul  9  @CLE  L   1-3       49-39  1st  1.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 05, 2015 BOS  5  HOU  4        W:Matt Barnes (3-2), L: Tony Sipp (2-4), S: Koji Uehara (19)
Sat, Jul 04, 2015 BOS  6  HOU  1        W:Clay Buchholz (7-6), L: Collin McHugh (9-4), S: none
Fri, Jul 03, 2015 HOU 12 @BOS  8 (10)   W:Roberto Hernandez (3-5), L: Noe Ramirez (0-1), S: none

Sun, Aug 17, 2014 HOU  8 @BOS  1        W:Collin McHugh (6-9), L: Joe Kelly (2-3), S: none
Sat, Aug 16, 2014 BOS 10  HOU  7        W:Alex Wilson (1-0), L: Josh Fields (2-6), S: none
Fri, Aug 15, 2014 HOU  5 @BOS  3 (10)   W:Tony Sipp (3-2), L: Craig Breslow (2-4), S: none
Thu, Aug 14, 2014 BOS  9  HOU  4        W:Allen Webster (3-1), L: Scott Feldman (6-9), S: none
Sun, Jul 13, 2014 BOS 11 @HOU  0        W:Clay Buchholz (4-5), L: Brad Peacock (3-6), S: none
Sat, Jul 12, 2014 HOU  3  BOS  2        W:Josh Fields (2-4), L: Jake Peavy (1-8), S: Chad Qualls (10)
Fri, Jul 11, 2014 BOS  8 @HOU  3        W:John Lackey (10-6), L: Scott Feldman (4-6), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - BOS over 2-1; 2014 - BOS won 4-3; 2013 - BOS won 6-1; All-Time - BOS leads 19-7

SP: (2015, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced HOU as starter.

SP: Vincent Velasquez (23, RHP, 0-1, 3.94)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-1) 32.0 28 14 14 14 31 3 3.94
Last 7 GS 0-1 32.0 28 14 14 14 31 3 3.94 53
2015-07-07 @CLE L 6.1 6 2 2 2 5 1 104 56
2015-07-01 KCR ND 6.1 5 4 4 1 7 1 88 53
2015-06-26 NYY ND 6.1 5 2 2 1 2 0 89 56
2015-06-21 @SEA ND 3.1 2 1 1 4 5 0 93 53
2015-06-16 COL ND 4.2 7 5 5 2 7 1 102 35
2015-06-10 @CHW ND 5.0 3 0 0 4 5 0 89 62
Has never faced BOS as starter.

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Red Sox Batters (4.09 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
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		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 54.Thatcher*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 395/302 .265/.316/.443/.759 .629/.799 .687 95/.668 13/4 10/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 3/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 351/260 .309/.341/.415/.756 .901/.706 .694 90/.854 4/1 3/5
31.De Aza* G/S/vP ··· 17/1.000 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/1.500 6/.666 2/.000 220/184 .261/.314/.453/.767 .444/.828 .803 64/1.029 5/3 6/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB 3/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 1/5.000 105/83 .214/.359/.274/.633 .703/.614 .423 38/.568 0/0 1/0
26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 5/.400 1/no AB 284/225 .286/.372/.403/.776 .778/.775 .886 79/.520 5/1 2/6
16.Marrero G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/4 .143/.143/.143/.286 .000/.500 .286 7/.286 0/0 0/0
12.Napoli G/S/vP ··· 29/.717 3/.333 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/2.500 2/.000 1/.000 320/228 .197/.297/.355/.652 .822/.585 .588 62/.552 3/1 10/6
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· 29/1.137 3/2.000 4/.500 ··· 4/.750 1/.000 10/.300 4/.000 355/253 .236/.327/.440/.767 .424/.916 .706 83/.891 0/0 16/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· 22/.406 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 4/.000 3/.666 4/3.500 1/no AB 329/243 .292/.354/.431/.784 .797/.780 .653 18/.170 1/1 9/5
13.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 1/no AB 5/.600 6/1.333 4/.000 10/.200 4/1.833 5/.000 330/239 .261/.306/.474/.780 .866/.748 .781 59/.676 3/3 19/3
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP ··· 12/.833 ··· 18/.411 7/.829 ··· 11/1.233 4/.833 8/.250 328/234 .266/.308/.383/.691 .411/.807 .623 85/.540 0/0 7/12
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/100 .237/.280/.319/.598 .581/.606 .624 19/.541 1/2 1/0
18.Victorino G/S/vP ··· 11/.700 ··· 7/.829 4/.000 1/no AB 10/1.000 2/.500 3/.000 97/56 .247/.333/.306/.639 .896/.455 .687 31/.467 5/0 1/0
IP 32.0 84.2 30.0 34.1 42.1 34.1 27.0 33.2 19.0 TOTAL .253/.318/.390/.707 .667/.722 .663 .670 39/14 85/53
ERA-K/9 3.94/8.7 4.36/4.5 3.00/12.3 3.15/8.7 0.85/8.9 2.88/7.9 4.67/8.0 2.94/9.1 3.79/10.4 3.57/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (15-6-2)
 Swihart (23-9-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 132/.237 357/.275 122/.189 133/.205 159/.120 129/.192 114/.243 133/.205 87/.292 .239  Betts
 De Aza
 Ramirez
 Victorino
 Holt
0/89/0/6
40/0/29/4
70/0/0/2
0/0/29/1
12/2/17/1
OPS .716 .774 .592 .579 .436 .578 .706 .629 .765 .677
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 87/.730 175/.732 55/.765 73/.594 73/.434 49/.579 43/.572 67/.526 55/.744 .661
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 45/.692 182/.813 67/.449 60/.561 86/.438 80/.577 71/.785 66/.729 32/.799 .691
Home 70/.755 164/.729 53/.574 76/.602 70/.507 66/.549 62/.572 58/.532 42/.741
Last 28d days 74/.642 46/.502 43/.802 21/.190 39/.710 33/.638 9/.708 30/.695 25/1.386
HR/SB/CS 3/2/2 9/10/3 1/2/2 4/3/0 4/3/0 4/0/1 4/6/1 5/1/2 1/2/0 79/50/20
Usage ·o······ ··X····· ···o···· ···X···· ···X···· ·oo····· ··X····· ··o·····
Astros Batters (4.40 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.74 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 63.Masterson
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 66.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 35.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/2.000 3/.666 10/.800 1/no AB 4/.250 4/.000 1/.000 3/.666 377/257 .293/.336/.417/.753 .862/.703 .817 94/.849 26/8 8/3
23.Carter G/S/vP 2/2.500 1/.000 5/.400 12/.643 1/.000 3/.000 4/.500 4/.750 2/.000 340/215 .185/.300/.380/.680 .693/.672 .777 55/.464 1/1 15/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP 2/.500 3/.666 2/3.000 7/.000 1/.000 5/1.400 3/1.167 4/1.250 1/2.000 244/171 .206/.279/.353/.632 .575/.658 .693 54/.396 0/0 7/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 13/.697 9/.444 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 120/58 .233/.336/.456/.792 .577/1.026 .856 25/.931 0/0 6/3
1.Correa G/S/vP 1/5.000 ··· 3/.666 1/5.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 154/97 .290/.331/.531/.862 1.017/.771 .894 86/.826 5/0 8/3
11.Gattis G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 353/228 .245/.275/.448/.723 .666/.753 .806 80/.824 0/0 15/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 209/132 .255/.280/.410/.690 .793/.632 .616 41/.841 3/2 6/6
Hoes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 8/3 .375/.375/.375/.750 .800/.667 .667 7/.857 0/0 0/0
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/1.500 1/no AB ··· 228/146 .234/.272/.368/.641 .579/.676 .483 28/.392 11/4 5/2
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 6/.834 1/2.000 14/.522 4/.250 ··· 5/.250 5/.400 5/.000 1/.000 262/189 .234/.305/.464/.769 .766/.768 .825 57/.566 1/1 12/2
21.Singleton* G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.333 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/2.500 42/35 .171/.286/.200/.486 .452/.493 .660 42/.486 1/0 0/0
20.Tucker* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 3/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 206/148 .259/.320/.434/.754 .513/.852 .835 79/.754 0/1 6/0
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 5/1.200 2/no AB 4/.500 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 331/228 .207/.290/.435/.725 .639/.764 .815 63/.721 1/0 19/5
IP 33.2 28.0 48.0 41.1 3.1 35.0 39.1 33.2 48.1 TOTAL .241/.308/.420/.729 .730/.728 .756 .692 70/23 128/48
ERA-K/9 3.74/6.4 3.21/9.0 5.63/6.8 3.70/7.4 5.40/5.5 3.34/6.7 2.52/9.2 2.67/10.1 4.84/5.0 4.45/7.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 145/.274 124/.245 219/.284 164/.220 20/.294 150/.256 155/.211 133/.192 207/.250 .264  Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Conger
 Tucker
 Gattis
 Hoes
0/70/0/6
44/31/12/3
1/0/0/0
44/0/10/0
5/0/0/0
2/0/3/0
OPS .818 .700 .811 .747 .871 .716 .551 .579 .757 .745
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 53/.768 63/.470 131/.897 59/.528 7/.762 60/.561 64/.620 66/.429 102/.737 .699
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 92/.847 61/.946 88/.683 105/.872 13/.930 90/.812 91/.501 67/.725 105/.777 .781
Road 79/.882 71/.602 97/.715 80/.635 12/.833 65/.823 69/.456 58/.680 135/.856
Last 28d days 28/1.014 30/1.025 54/.653 44/.820 20/.871 51/.501 34/.393 36/.306 25/1.019
HR/SB/CS 6/1/2 2/2/0 4/2/3 9/1/2 1/2/0 4/0/0 3/3/1 3/0/0 9/2/2 100/45/24
Usage X······· o······· ··X····· X······· X······· X······· ···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  5.30

BOS  4.09

CHW  3.37

 RA/G

STL  2.95

MIN  4.10

PHI  5.07

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

P. Sandoval  .266

M. Zunino  .163

 OBP

B. Harper  .465

D. Espinosa  .328

M. Zunino  .226

 SLG

B. Harper  .697

M. Trumbo  .419

B. Hamilton  .279

 OPS

B. Harper  1.162

H. Kendrick  .756

M. Zunino  .519

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.30

D. Salazar  3.74

K. Lohse  6.17

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.95

A. Burnett  7.33

M. Pelfrey  4.45

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.