Mobile Site You Are Here > > > Houston Astros vs. Arizona Diamondbacks, at Minute Maid Park, July 31, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Houston Astros vs. Arizona Diamondbacks, at Minute Maid Park, July 31, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, July 31, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
74° (based on last ten years)
D'backs
Manager:
Chip Hale
Game #:
103
On This Date:
13-2
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
104
On This Date:
20-29
Season Series

Fri, Jul 31, 2015 ARI    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 01, 2015 ARI    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 02, 2015 ARI    @HOU  2:10pm
Fri, Oct 02, 2015 HOU    @ARI  9:40pm
Sat, Oct 03, 2015 HOU    @ARI  8:10pm
Sun, Oct 04, 2015 HOU    @ARI  3:10pm

                         All times ET
Arizona Diamondbacks
49-51, 3rd, 7 GB, 9½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-27   Road:   23-24   ExtrInn: 6-6 
 vsRHP:  38-37   vsLHP:  11-14   1-Run:  16-15
 vsEast: 10-13   vsCntrl: 7-9    vsWest: 24-26 IL: 8-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
100 Wed, Jul 29  @SEA  W   8-2       49-51  3rd  7.0 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 28  @SEA  W   8-4       48-51  3rd  7.0 gb
 98 Mon, Jul 27  @SEA  W   4-3 (10)  47-51  3rd  8.0 gb
 97 Sun, Jul 26   MIL  W   3-0       46-51  3rd  8.5 gb
 96 Sat, Jul 25   MIL  W   2-0       45-51  3rd  9.5 gb
 95 Fri, Jul 24   MIL  L   1-2       44-51  3rd 10.5 gb
 94 Thu, Jul 23   MIL  W   8-3       44-50  3rd  9.5 gb
 93 Wed, Jul 22   MIA  L   3-5       43-50  3rd  9.5 gb
 92 Tue, Jul 21   MIA  L   0-3       43-49  3rd  8.5 gb
 91 Mon, Jul 20   MIA  W   3-1       43-48  3rd  8.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Houston Astros
58-45, 1st, 2 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   36-17   Road:   22-28   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  37-25   vsLHP:  21-20   1-Run:  14-15
 vsEast: 14-13   vsCntrl: 9-14   vsWest: 27-17 IL: 8-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
103 Thu, Jul 30   LAA  W   3-0       58-45  1st  2.0 up
102 Wed, Jul 29   LAA  W   6-3       57-45  1st  1.0 up
101 Tue, Jul 28   LAA  W  10-5       56-45  1st    Tied
100 Sun, Jul 26  @KCR  L   1-5       55-45  2nd  1.0 gb
 99 Sat, Jul 25  @KCR  L   1-2 (10)  55-44  1st    Tied
 98 Fri, Jul 24  @KCR  W   4-0       55-43  1st    Tied
 97 Thu, Jul 23   BOS  W   5-4       54-43  2nd  1.0 gb
 96 Wed, Jul 22   BOS  W   4-2       53-43  2nd  2.0 gb
 95 Tue, Jul 21   BOS  W   8-3       52-43  2nd  2.0 gb
 94 Sun, Jul 19   TEX  W  10-0       51-43  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 12, 2014 HOU  5  ARI  4 (10)   W:Tony Sipp (1-0), L: J.J. Putz (1-1), S: none
Wed, Jun 11, 2014 HOU  5  ARI  1        W:Dallas Keuchel (8-3), L: Brandon McCarthy (1-9), S: none
Tue, Jun 10, 2014 ARI  4  HOU  1        W:Bronson Arroyo (6-4), L: Josh Fields (1-4), S: Addison Reed (16)
Mon, Jun 09, 2014 HOU  4 @ARI  3        W:Jarred Cosart (5-5), L: Josh Collmenter (4-3), S: Chad Qualls (8)
Sun, Aug 19, 2012 ARI  8 @HOU  1        W:Ian Kennedy (11-10), L: Armando Galarraga (0-4), S: none
Sat, Aug 18, 2012 ARI 12 @HOU  4        W:Patrick Corbin (5-4), L: Jordan Lyles (2-10), S: none
Fri, Aug 17, 2012 ARI  3 @HOU  1        W:Wade Miley (13-8), L: Dallas Keuchel (1-5), S: J.J. Putz (24)
Sun, Jul 22, 2012 ARI  8  HOU  2        W:Josh Collmenter (2-2), L: Jordan Lyles (2-7), S: none
Sat, Jul 21, 2012 ARI 12  HOU  3        W:Wade Miley (11-5), L: Dallas Keuchel (1-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 20, 2012 ARI 13  HOU  8        W:Trevor Cahill (8-8), L: Bud Norris (5-8), S: none
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 - HOU won 3-1; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - ARI leads 65-45

SP: Rubby De La Rosa (26, RHP, 8-5, 4.52)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (8-5) 125.1 125 65 63 36 106 22 4.52
2014 (4-8) 101.2 116 51 50 35 74 12 4.43
2013 (0-2) 11.1 15 7 7 2 6 2 5.56
Last 7 GS 3-2 43.1 41 16 15 15 29 8 3.12 54
2015-07-25 MIL W 8.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 113 78
2015-07-20 MIA W 7.0 5 1 1 5 1 1 93 59
2015-07-12 @NYM L 3.2 8 4 4 2 2 3 82 29
2015-07-05 COL L 5.0 8 6 6 1 3 2 73 29
2015-06-30 LAD ND 5.2 6 2 2 1 7 1 97 55
2015-06-25 @COL ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 4 1 92 66
2015-06-19 SDP W 7.0 5 2 1 3 6 0 103 64
Last 5 v.HOU 0-1 8.2 15 11 11 7 8 1 11.42 27
2014-08-16 HOU ND 4.0 9 6 6 4 2 1 89 18
2011-06-18 HOU L 4.2 6 5 5 3 6 0 85 35

SP: Scott Feldman (32, RHP, 4-5, 4.54)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. ARI Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-5) 73.1 81 39 37 17 41 9 4.54
2014 (8-12) 180.1 185 86 75 50 107 16 3.74
2013 (12-12) 181.2 159 87 78 56 132 19 3.86
Last 7 GS 2-3 42.0 47 23 22 12 25 4 4.71 47
2015-07-25 @KCR ND 7.2 4 1 1 1 2 0 90 68
2015-07-18 TEX L 5.2 9 4 4 2 2 2 92 35
2015-05-26 @BAL W 6.0 4 1 1 3 2 0 92 59
2015-05-21 @DET ND 6.0 10 5 4 1 2 1 105 35
2015-05-16 TOR W 6.2 5 3 3 3 10 0 112 59
2015-05-10 @LAA L 7.0 6 3 3 1 5 0 96 57
2015-05-05 TEX L 3.0 9 6 6 1 2 1 77 18
Last 5 v.ARI 0-1 22.2 20 14 10 3 21 4 3.97 53
2014-06-12 ARI ND 6.1 4 3 2 0 6 1 94 61
2013-08-12 @ARI ND 5.1 4 2 1 2 8 1 109 60
2012-06-14 ARI L 5.0 8 6 4 0 6 1 100 37
2009-06-25 @ARI ND 6.0 4 3 3 1 1 1 94 52

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

D'backs Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Feldman
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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Ahmed G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 315/234 .225/.285/.337/.622 .858/.541 .655 66/.474 4/5 6/8
7.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 5/.400 2/2.000 ··· 203/145 .235/.315/.453/.768 .815/.749 .846 58/1.006 0/0 10/4
44.Goldschmidt G/S/vP 6/.500 1/3.000 6/.900 1/2.000 1/.000 3/1.666 1/no AB 445/351 .347/.464/.605/1.069 1.162/1.042 1.064 91/.932 17/4 22/2
23.Hernandez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 22/21 .158/.238/.211/.449 /.449 .000 22/.449 0/0 0/0
2.Hill G/S/vP 26/.564 1/no AB 7/.619 ··· 6/.334 8/.393 5/.000 223/147 .217/.291/.323/.615 .585/.631 .548 35/.556 5/1 4/3
5.Inciarte* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/3.000 1/.000 319/228 .298/.324/.397/.721 .476/.818 .674 52/.895 10/6 3/5
19.Lamb* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 187/162 .278/.342/.402/.745 .821/.733 .807 72/.668 3/1 2/4
16.Owings G/S/vP 3/1.666 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 346/266 .232/.262/.328/.590 .426/.640 .490 71/.595 13/3 3/2
4.Pennington# G/S/vP 20/1.015 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.400 141/127 .238/.312/.279/.590 .833/.565 .593 31/.657 3/0 1/6
6.Peralta* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 315/258 .277/.349/.496/.846 .713/.875 .841 70/.999 5/2 9/0
11.Pollock G/S/vP 3/1.333 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 423/330 .305/.362/.465/.826 .849/.820 .828 89/.889 23/6 11/2
8.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 10/1.300 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 4/.000 110/90 .158/.264/.284/.548 .528/.552 .338 15/.552 0/0 2/2
24.Tomas G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 307/234 .299/.332/.433/.765 .800/.755 .779 68/.704 5/2 6/7
IP 73.1 33.1 38.1 46.0 38.2 30.0 36.0 TOTAL .262/.324/.403/.728 .726/.728 .717 .738 91/32 88/47
ERA-K/9 4.54/5.0 2.70/11.9 3.29/8.2 1.37/8.6 2.56/8.1 4.20/8.1 2.75/9.0 3.49/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castillo (14-2-5)
 Hernandez (1-1-1)
 Saltalamacchia (15-4-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 305/.287 133/.179 149/.217 176/.146 144/.179 124/.230 142/.200 .238  Pollock
 Peralta
 Inciarte
 Tomas
 Pennington
0/95/0/4
77/1/2/3
36/11/39/2
1/0/36/2
3/0/0/1
OPS .766 .556 .612 .490 .554 .663 .612 .671
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 148/.734 60/.696 79/.599 81/.507 56/.604 44/.558 72/.535 .655
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 157/.796 73/.439 70/.626 95/.475 88/.523 80/.719 70/.686 .683
Home 173/.895 63/.510 91/.659 81/.577 77/.486 69/.541 64/.481
Last 28d days 55/.745 32/.552 24/.750 38/.766 26/.446 17/.294 23/.412
HR/SB/CS 9/7/2 1/2/2 5/3/0 5/5/0 4/0/1 4/6/1 5/1/2 84/56/20
Usage ·····X·· ··o·o··o oX····oo ··o··X·X oo···X·· ··o···oo ··o···oo
Astros Batters (4.43 RS/G) vs. D'backs Pitchers (4.31 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 12.De La Rosa
G/S/vB		 40.Chafin*
G/S/vB		 55.Collmenter
G/S/vB		 30.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 41.Hudson
G/S/vB		 59.Perez*
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 29.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 4/1.000 ··· 10/1.167 1/.000 3/1.667 5/1.150 2/.000 3/.000 417/282 .302/.347/.427/.774 .926/.703 .872 93/.781 28/9 9/3
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/3.167 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/5.000 2/2.500 ··· 359/222 .184/.295/.387/.682 .695/.675 .795 41/.421 1/1 17/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 2/.000 ··· 258/184 .216/.283/.371/.654 .567/.691 .713 39/.615 0/0 8/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 139/64 .237/.341/.449/.790 .556/1.058 .874 38/.885 0/0 6/3
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 191/121 .297/.346/.531/.877 1.017/.800 .941 88/.855 5/1 9/5
11.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 384/247 .246/.273/.451/.724 .635/.773 .804 79/.733 0/1 16/1
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 233/143 .266/.304/.431/.736 .865/.657 .736 54/.987 3/2 7/6
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 6/.333 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 78/56 .286/.423/.540/.963 1.598/.693 .772 4/.250 1/0 4/0
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 258/164 .235/.272/.370/.641 .517/.715 .503 58/.528 14/5 5/2
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 3/2.334 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.666 3/.333 3/.666 ··· 293/210 .236/.304/.456/.760 .726/.770 .829 75/.630 1/1 13/2
21.Singleton* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 53/43 .205/.321/.318/.639 .844/.588 .924 35/.700 1/0 1/0
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 236/169 .266/.322/.477/.799 .443/.945 .902 76/.918 0/1 10/1
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/.000 7/1.286 ··· 1/3.000 5/.000 2/1.500 358/246 .198/.282/.412/.694 .615/.730 .770 56/.589 1/0 19/5
IP 125.1 53.2 83.2 13.2 42.0 26.2 26.1 44.2 TOTAL .244/.311/.426/.737 .725/.743 .779 .729 75/27 141/51
ERA-K/9 4.52/7.6 2.68/6.4 4.63/4.3 3.29/7.9 3.43/9.2 3.38/10.4 5.81/7.9 1.21/5.4 4.03/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (33-19-5)
 Conger (23-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 527/.259 215/.216 356/.303 56/.269 179/.231 121/.238 122/.306 168/.164 .257  Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Tucker
 Conger
 Gattis
0/79/0/6
44/32/20/5
52/0/10/1
1/0/0/0
7/0/0/0
OPS .757 .571 .869 .783 .674 .667 .864 .485 .735
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 264/.932 92/.534 176/.838 21/.563 82/.659 62/.518 52/.737 83/.623 .748
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 263/.583 123/.597 180/.902 35/.902 97/.687 59/.835 70/.955 85/.355 .726
Road 234/.815 93/.498 136/.820 18/.977 75/.758 44/.697 58/.639 62/.451
Last 28d days 102/.830 47/.461 32/.791 23/.304 29/.830 23/.488 9/.889 37/.378
HR/SB/CS 22/6/2 1/1/0 14/3/4 2/1/0 4/4/1 2/2/0 2/2/1 2/0/1 109/47/18
Usage ·····X·· ··oXo··X ·Xo····· ··o·o··· ···o··X· ···o··o· ·X······ ····XXo·

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  5.27

PIT  4.14

PHI  3.54

 RA/G

STL  2.94

ATL  4.20

COL  5.18

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

C. Yelich  .267

M. Zunino  .182

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .464

K. Seager  .327

M. Zunino  .240

 SLG

B. Harper  .690

N. Walker  .419

B. Hamilton  .291

 OPS

B. Harper  1.153

E. Longoria  .752

M. Zunino  .562

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.37

J. Niese  3.63

K. Kendrick  6.33

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.89

A. Burnett  7.58

M. Pelfrey  4.32

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.