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Texas Rangers vs. Houston Astros, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, August 5, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Start Time:
7:05ct (local), 8:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
98° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
109
On This Date:
22-30
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
107
On This Date:
24-29
Season Series
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 HOU  5 @TEX  1     
Sat, Apr 11, 2015 TEX  6  HOU  2     
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 HOU  6 @TEX  4 (14)
Mon, May 04, 2015 TEX  2 @HOU  1     
Tue, May 05, 2015 TEX  7 @HOU  1     
Wed, May 06, 2015 TEX 11 @HOU  3     
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 HOU  3  TEX  2     
Sat, Jul 18, 2015 TEX  7 @HOU  6     
Sun, Jul 19, 2015 HOU 10  TEX  0     
Mon, Aug 03, 2015 TEX 12  HOU  9     
Tue, Aug 04, 2015 TEX  4  HOU  3     

Wed, Aug 05, 2015 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Mon, Sep 14, 2015 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Wed, Sep 16, 2015 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Thu, Sep 17, 2015 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Fri, Sep 25, 2015 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Sep 26, 2015 TEX    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 27, 2015 TEX    @HOU  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
60-48, 1st, 3 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   38-18   Road:   22-30   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  38-28   vsLHP:  22-20   1-Run:  14-16
 vsEast: 14-13   vsCntrl: 9-14   vsWest: 27-19 IL:10-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
108 Tue, Aug  4  @TEX  L   3-4       60-48  1st  3.0 up
107 Mon, Aug  3  @TEX  L   9-12      60-47  1st  3.0 up
106 Sun, Aug  2   ARI  W   4-1       60-46  1st  4.0 up
105 Sat, Aug  1   ARI  W   9-2       59-46  1st  3.0 up
104 Fri, Jul 31   ARI  L   4-6 (10)  58-46  1st  2.0 up
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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Texas Rangers
53-53, 3rd, 6 GB, 3 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-29   Road:   31-24   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  35-30   vsLHP:  18-23   1-Run:  19-16
 vsEast: 16-9    vsCntrl:12-10   vsWest: 16-26 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
106 Tue, Aug  4   HOU  W   4-3       53-53  3rd  6.0 gb
105 Mon, Aug  3   HOU  W  12-9       52-53  3rd  7.0 gb
104 Sun, Aug  2   SFG  W   2-1       51-53  3rd  8.0 gb
103 Sat, Aug  1   SFG  L   7-9 (11)  50-53  3rd  8.0 gb
102 Fri, Jul 31   SFG  W   6-3       50-52  3rd  7.0 gb
101 Thu, Jul 30   NYY  W   7-6       49-52  3rd  8.0 gb
100 Wed, Jul 29   NYY  W   5-2       48-52  3rd  8.0 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 28   NYY  L   5-21      47-52  3rd  8.0 gb
 98 Mon, Jul 27   NYY  L   2-6       47-51  3rd  8.0 gb
 97 Sun, Jul 26  @LAA  L   7-13      47-50  3rd  7.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Aug 04, 2015 TEX  4  HOU  3        W:Yovani Gallardo (8-9), L: Dan Straily (0-1), S: Shawn Tolleson (20)
Mon, Aug 03, 2015 TEX 12  HOU  9        W:Colby Lewis (12-4), L: Lance McCullers (5-4), S: Shawn Tolleson (19)
Sun, Jul 19, 2015 HOU 10  TEX  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (12-4), L: Yovani Gallardo (7-9), S: none
Sat, Jul 18, 2015 TEX  7 @HOU  6        W:Colby Lewis (9-4), L: Scott Feldman (4-5), S: Shawn Tolleson (14)
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 HOU  3  TEX  2        W:Collin McHugh (10-5), L: Martin Perez (0-1), S: Luke Gregerson (19)
Wed, May 06, 2015 TEX 11 @HOU  3        W:Colby Lewis (2-2), L: Sam Deduno (0-1), S: none
Tue, May 05, 2015 TEX  7 @HOU  1        W:Wandy Rodriguez (1-1), L: Scott Feldman (2-3), S: none
Mon, May 04, 2015 TEX  2 @HOU  1        W:Keone Kela (2-1), L: Chad Qualls (0-2), S: Neftali Feliz (3)
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 HOU  6 @TEX  4 (14)   W:Will Harris (1-0), L: Logan Verrett (0-1), S: Sam Deduno (1)
Sat, Apr 11, 2015 TEX  6  HOU  2        W:Yovani Gallardo (1-1), L: Roberto Hernandez (0-1), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - TEX over 7-4; 2014 - HOU won 11-8; 2013 - TEX won 17-2; All-Time - TEX leads 74-47

SP: Scott Kazmir (31, LHP, 6-5, 2.10)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-5) 124.1 90 35 29 39 109 7 2.10
2014 (15-9) 190.1 171 81 75 50 164 16 3.55
2013 (10-9) 158.0 162 76 71 47 162 19 4.04
Last 7 GS 3-1 48.1 28 6 5 10 36 0 0.93 69
2015-07-30 LAA ND 7.2 3 0 0 3 5 0 111 75
2015-07-24 @KCR W 7.0 3 0 0 1 3 0 91 73
2015-07-18 MIN ND 8.1 5 1 1 1 5 0 112 73
2015-07-08 @NYY ND 3.0 2 1 0 1 4 0 50 56
2015-07-02 SEA W 8.0 2 0 0 0 7 0 105 85
2015-06-27 KCR L 7.0 7 3 3 1 6 0 102 56
2015-06-21 LAA W 7.1 6 1 1 3 6 0 112 65
Last 5 v.TEX 3-1 32.1 21 11 8 6 30 3 2.23 63
2015-06-11 TEX W 8.0 1 0 0 2 6 0 105 84
2015-05-01 @TEX ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 6 2 98 53
2015-04-08 TEX W 7.0 1 0 0 2 10 0 95 83
2014-09-26 @TEX W 7.0 4 2 1 0 5 0 101 68
2014-09-16 TEX L 4.1 9 6 4 1 3 1 82 27

SP: Nick Martinez (24, RHP, 6-6, 4.01)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-6) 112.1 119 58 50 41 68 13 4.01
2014 (5-12) 140.1 150 79 71 55 77 18 4.55
Last 7 GS 1-4 41.0 50 32 29 17 25 8 6.37 40
2015-07-31 SFG W 6.1 7 2 2 2 4 0 99 53
2015-07-26 @LAA L 5.0 6 4 4 3 5 2 98 41
2015-07-20 @COL ND 4.0 7 7 7 2 2 1 84 20
2015-07-01 @BAL L 6.2 7 4 3 1 5 2 97 50
2015-06-26 @TOR L 6.0 9 9 8 4 2 2 107 18
2015-06-20 @CHW L 6.0 6 3 2 3 2 0 102 49
2015-06-14 MIN ND 7.0 8 3 3 2 5 1 102 52
Last 5 v.HOU 2-0 17.0 16 3 3 5 15 0 1.59 58
2014-09-23 HOU W 6.2 5 0 0 0 5 0 101 69
2014-08-31 @HOU ND 5.1 6 1 1 3 4 0 104 53
2014-08-10 @HOU W 5.0 5 2 2 2 6 0 102 53

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Astros Batters (4.49 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.82 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Martinez
G/S/vB		 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 41.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 47.Dyson
G/S/vB		 71.Freeman*
G/S/vB		 43.Klein
G/S/vB		 44.Patton
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 11/1.155 1/2.000 3/1.334 1/.000 1/3.000 3/1.000 2/.000 9/.347 442/302 .297/.341/.414/.755 .933/.675 .665 96/.744 28/9 9/4
23.Carter G/S/vP 10/.100 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/5.000 6/.750 368/227 .181/.296/.381/.677 .697/.665 .572 37/.507 1/1 17/6
15.Castro* G/S/vP 8/.804 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 2/.000 274/195 .222/.285/.399/.684 .595/.723 .627 43/.911 0/0 10/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP 5/1.600 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 143/68 .254/.352/.508/.860 .556/1.187 .686 35/1.193 0/0 8/3
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 213/138 .292/.343/.564/.907 .995/.861 .818 88/1.000 6/1 13/6
11.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.167 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 405/263 .244/.274/.449/.723 .649/.763 .619 80/.657 0/1 17/1
30.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 337/265 .269/.329/.434/.763 .639/.795 .773 83/.724 8/6 9/6
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 6/1.667 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 5/.000 245/151 .263/.303/.421/.724 .835/.657 .713 50/.880 3/3 7/6
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 9/.333 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.167 7/.286 91/66 .293/.418/.520/.938 1.520/.700 1.115 17/.686 1/0 4/0
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 4/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 3/.666 262/164 .231/.267/.364/.631 .496/.715 .800 51/.471 14/5 5/2
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 3/1.000 3/1.667 309/225 .236/.311/.451/.762 .734/.769 .720 74/.717 2/1 13/2
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 252/184 .266/.321/.468/.789 .466/.913 .725 70/.860 0/1 10/1
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 370/256 .210/.292/.426/.717 .603/.768 .660 59/.681 1/0 20/5
IP 112.1 15.2 39.2 46.2 27.0 17.0 18.0 48.1 TOTAL .246/.312/.430/.742 .725/.751 .701 .780 78/28 152/53
ERA-K/9 4.01/5.4 2.87/7.5 4.76/11.3 3.66/8.1 3.00/8.3 5.82/6.4 8.00/10.0 2.98/9.5 4.55/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (37-19-5)
 Conger (23-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 498/.272 66/.211 185/.253 202/.258 118/.222 82/.297 78/.239 195/.232 .266  Marisnick
 Rasmus
 Gomez
 Tucker
 Conger
 Gattis
1/79/2/6
46/32/24/5
0/77/0/2
56/0/10/1
1/0/0/0
8/0/0/0
OPS .791 .762 .736 .686 .652 .879 .839 .655 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 232/.654 34/.716 74/.755 85/.591 65/.862 44/1.135 31/.867 115/.740 .763
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 266/.911 32/.813 111/.721 117/.755 53/.414 38/.598 47/.819 80/.531 .758
Home 216/.855 34/.687 98/.669 127/.657 69/.773 34/.620 39/.956 101/.735
Last 28d days 74/.915 / 29/.528 40/1.115 43/.645 23/.691 42/.722 51/.727
HR/SB/CS 13/6/2 4/0/0 3/3/1 4/7/1 2/3/1 4/2/0 4/0/1 6/1/0 120/55/17
Usage ····X··· ········ o·ooX··· ·ooX··X· Xo·o·X·X ·······X oX·····X Xo·oXXo·
Rangers Batters (4.46 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 26.Kazmir*
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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP 43/.610 7/.000 4/.000 4/.500 6/.500 8/.750 7/1.143 440/285 .258/.307/.343/.651 .703/.621 .733 89/.821 11/5 4/18
29.Beltre G/S/vP 47/.647 9/1.223 7/1.000 3/.666 13/.975 3/1.000 7/.429 376/251 .266/.309/.413/.721 .753/.706 .749 91/.909 1/0 9/8
17.Choo* G/S/vP 28/.964 1/no AB 3/.000 3/.000 2/.000 5/1.300 5/.200 406/260 .239/.323/.425/.749 .575/.847 .840 71/.945 2/1 14/3
7.DeShields G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 267/176 .270/.369/.394/.763 .759/.764 .821 85/.802 18/3 0/3
84.Fielder* G/S/vP 18/.535 3/.000 8/1.750 2/.000 3/1.167 14/.214 7/.286 455/278 .329/.398/.502/.900 .797/.966 .861 90/.762 0/0 16/4
38.Gimenez G/S/vP 4/.833 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 10/6 .333/.333/.444/.778 .000/1.167 .778 10/.778 2/0 0/0
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 19/1.105 7/1.429 3/.000 1/.000 6/.666 5/.200 8/2.425 127/82 .244/.291/.429/.720 .671/.746 .844 81/.644 0/0 5/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.000 3/1.000 4/.250 1/3.000 3/.333 5/.000 328/228 .284/.338/.505/.843 .652/.927 .776 67/.797 1/0 16/3
12.Odor* G/S/vP 9/.222 2/2.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 1/.000 5/.650 8/1.000 274/177 .268/.330/.459/.789 .765/.802 .706 92/.968 5/3 8/12
9.Rosales G/S/vP 23/.803 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/3.000 2/.000 120/48 .220/.292/.339/.631 .585/.699 .627 15/.400 3/4 3/3
16.Rua G/S/vP 9/.555 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 79/32 .208/.228/.429/.656 .712/.574 .659 23/.850 0/0 4/0
8.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 67/47 .190/.239/.206/.445 .311/.500 .393 8/1.125 0/0 0/1
IP 124.1 36.0 40.1 48.1 40.0 32.1 38.1 TOTAL .254/.319/.410/.728 .686/.752 .751 .795 65/21 111/82
ERA-K/9 2.10/7.9 2.50/11.5 3.12/7.8 1.30/8.6 2.93/8.6 4.18/7.8 2.58/9.2 3.56/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Gimenez (4-0-0)
 Wilson (15-6-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 494/.203 142/.175 157/.221 186/.155 150/.186 134/.230 152/.207 .240  DeShields
 Choo
 Hamilton
 Rosales
 Rua
35/36/0/4
0/0/93/2
24/0/10/1
1/0/0/0
20/0/4/0
OPS .564 .541 .626 .496 .602 .652 .610 .676
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 125/.583 65/.639 84/.632 84/.488 58/.678 48/.536 78/.573 .662
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 369/.558 77/.457 73/.619 102/.503 92/.556 86/.715 74/.647 .687
Road 212/.740 76/.590 58/.540 102/.422 67/.635 59/.785 85/.711
Last 28d days 82/.355 31/.626 32/.789 37/.753 28/.770 27/.377 27/.339
HR/SB/CS 7/6/0 1/2/2 5/3/0 5/6/0 6/0/1 4/6/1 5/1/2 89/60/20
Usage ·····X·· ·X·oo··o ··o·ooX· X···o··o ··o·ooo· ·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  5.27

WSN  4.12

MIA  3.52

 RA/G

STL  2.93

SEA  4.20

COL  5.22

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

A. Garcia  .267

M. Zunino  .178

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .456

A. Jones  .327

M. Zunino  .234

 SLG

B. Harper  .667

A. Eaton  .424

B. Hamilton  .285

 OPS

B. Harper  1.121

D. Gordon  .753

M. Zunino  .547

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.41

C. Kluber  3.60

K. Kendrick  6.43

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.71

A. Burnett  7.58

M. Pelfrey  4.26

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.