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Detroit Tigers vs. Houston Astros, at Comerica Park, July 31, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Start Time:
1:10et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
81° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
105
On This Date:
20-30
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
106
On This Date:
48-65
Season Series
Fri, Apr 15, 2016 HOU  1  DET  0     
Sat, Apr 16, 2016 DET  5 @HOU  3     
Sun, Apr 17, 2016 HOU  5  DET  4     
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 DET 14  HOU  6     
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 DET  3  HOU  2     

Sun, Jul 31, 2016 HOU    @DET  1:10pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
55-48, 2nd, 5 GB, 3 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-21   Road:   23-27   ExtrInn: 8-5 
 vsRHP:  41-29   vsLHP:  14-19   1-Run:  18-19
 vsEast:  8-11   vsCntrl:12-12   vsWest: 27-21 IL: 8-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
103 Sat, Jul 30  @DET  L   2-3       55-48  2nd  5.0 gb
102 Fri, Jul 29  @DET  L   6-14      55-47  2nd  4.0 gb
101 Wed, Jul 27   NYY  W   4-1       55-46  2nd  2.5 gb
100 Tue, Jul 26   NYY  L   3-6       54-46  2nd  3.5 gb
 99 Mon, Jul 25   NYY  L   1-2       54-45  2nd  3.5 gb
 98 Sun, Jul 24   LAA  W  13-3       54-44  2nd  2.5 gb
 97 Sat, Jul 23   LAA  W   7-2       53-44  2nd  2.5 gb
 96 Fri, Jul 22   LAA  W   2-1       52-44  2nd  2.5 gb
 95 Wed, Jul 20  @OAK  W   7-0       51-44  2nd  3.5 gb
 94 Tue, Jul 19  @OAK  L   3-4 (10)  50-44  2nd  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12
Detroit Tigers
56-48, 2nd, 4½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-19   Road:   28-29   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  42-34   vsLHP:  14-14   1-Run:  17-12
 vsEast: 16-11   vsCntrl:18-23   vsWest: 12-10 IL:10-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
104 Sat, Jul 30   HOU  W   3-2       56-48  2nd  4.5 gb
103 Fri, Jul 29   HOU  W  14-6       55-48  2nd  4.5 gb
102 Wed, Jul 27  @BOS  W   4-3       54-48  2nd  4.5 gb
101 Tue, Jul 26  @BOS  W   9-8       53-48  2nd  5.5 gb
100 Mon, Jul 25  @BOS  W   4-2       52-48  2nd  5.5 gb
 99 Sun, Jul 24  @CHW  L   4-5       51-48  2nd  6.0 gb
 98 Sat, Jul 23  @CHW  L   3-4       51-47  2nd  6.0 gb
 97 Fri, Jul 22  @CHW  W   7-5       51-46  2nd  6.0 gb
 96 Thu, Jul 21  @CHW  W   2-1  (7)  50-46  2nd  7.0 gb
 95 Wed, Jul 20   MIN  L   1-4       49-46  2nd  7.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 DET  3  HOU  2        W:Justin Verlander (11-6), L: Will Harris (1-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 DET 14  HOU  6        W:Matt Boyd (2-2), L: Collin McHugh (7-7), S: none
Sun, Apr 17, 2016 HOU  5  DET  4        W:Mike Fiers (1-1), L: Anibal Sanchez (2-1), S: Luke Gregerson (4)
Sat, Apr 16, 2016 DET  5 @HOU  3        W:Justin Verlander (1-1), L: Collin McHugh (1-2), S: Francisco Rodriguez (3)
Fri, Apr 15, 2016 HOU  1  DET  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (2-1), L: Mike Pelfrey (0-2), S: Luke Gregerson (3)

Sun, Aug 16, 2015 HOU  6  DET  5        W:Will Harris (5-2), L: Tom Gorzelanny (1-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 15, 2015 DET  4 @HOU  2 (11)   W:Al Alburquerque (2-0), L: Pat Neshek (3-3), S: Neftali Feliz (7)
Fri, Aug 14, 2015 HOU  5  DET  1        W:Dallas Keuchel (14-6), L: Alfredo Simon (10-7), S: none
Sun, May 24, 2015 HOU 10 @DET  8        W:Joe Thatcher (1-1), L: Alex Wilson (1-1), S: Luke Gregerson (12)
Sat, May 23, 2015 HOU  3 @DET  2        W:Lance McCullers (1-0), L: Kyle Lobstein (3-5), S: Luke Gregerson (11)
Season Series: 2016 - DET over 3-2; 2015 - HOU won 4-3; 2014 - DET won 4-3; All-Time - DET leads 22-19

SP: Dallas Keuchel (28, LHP, 6-10, 4.57)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (6-10) 134.0 138 71 68 40 115 15 4.57
2015 (20-8) 232.0 185 68 64 51 216 17 2.48
2014 (12-9) 200.0 187 71 65 48 146 11 2.93
Last 7 GS 3-1 46.1 41 16 14 11 34 5 2.72 58
2016-07-25 NYY L 7.2 6 2 2 0 5 0 105 64
2016-07-19 @OAK ND 6.1 5 2 2 3 6 0 116 58
2016-07-10 OAK ND 7.0 4 1 1 2 5 0 99 68
2016-07-05 SEA W 6.0 5 2 2 1 6 1 100 59
2016-06-29 @LAA W 6.0 6 3 2 3 4 1 102 51
2016-06-24 @KCR W 6.1 10 4 3 2 2 2 98 39
2016-06-18 CIN ND 7.0 5 2 2 0 6 1 97 65
Last 5 v.DET 3-0 28.1 24 8 7 4 22 2 2.22 62
2016-04-15 DET W 8.0 5 0 0 1 4 0 108 75
2015-08-14 DET W 7.0 6 1 1 1 8 0 105 68
2014-05-08 @DET W 7.2 6 2 2 0 7 1 106 66
2013-05-15 @DET ND 5.2 7 5 4 2 3 1 88 38

SP: Mike Pelfrey (32, RHP, 3-9, 4.98)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (3-9) 110.1 148 70 61 45 48 14 4.98
2015 (6-11) 164.2 198 86 78 45 86 11 4.26
2014 (0-3) 23.2 29 23 21 18 10 5 7.99
Last 7 GS 2-2 34.2 54 23 23 15 11 4 5.97 38
2016-07-26 @BOS ND 5.0 6 5 5 2 1 1 92 34
2016-07-21 @CHW W 5.1 8 1 1 1 1 0 87 48
2016-07-16 KCR L 1.2 4 5 5 4 0 0 57 23
2016-07-08 @TOR L 6.0 6 1 1 3 2 0 103 55
2016-07-03 @TBR ND 6.1 6 1 1 3 3 0 84 57
2016-06-28 MIA W 5.1 12 4 4 1 1 1 100 28
2016-06-20 SEA ND 5.0 12 6 6 1 3 2 92 21
Last 5 v.HOU 1-3 26.2 33 14 14 13 18 2 4.73 45
2016-04-15 @HOU L 6.0 5 1 1 6 3 0 104 55
2015-09-04 @HOU L 4.0 8 7 7 0 5 2 70 23
2015-08-29 HOU L 3.2 7 4 4 2 2 0 78 31
2013-08-04 HOU ND 5.0 7 2 2 3 4 0 104 46
2010-08-27 HOU W 8.0 6 0 0 2 4 0 124 72

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Astros Batters (4.54 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.66 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Pelfrey
G/S/vB		 61.Greene
G/S/vB		 21.Lowe
G/S/vB		 50.Molleken
G/S/vB		 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 43.Rondon
G/S/vB		 56.Ryan*
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 38.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 11/.586 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 9/.222 3/.000 465/345 .358/.424/.570/.995 1.074/.968 1.121 91/1.005 25/4 18/4
2.Bregman G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/13 .000/.105/.000/.105 .000/.154 .000 19/.105 0/0 0/1
15.Castro* G/S/vP 8/.833 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 263/191 .213/.327/.378/.705 .467/.799 .731 50/.606 2/1 6/4
1.Correa G/S/vP 5/.200 ··· 5/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 435/321 .270/.368/.471/.838 .644/.906 .860 90/.876 10/3 15/8
11.Gattis G/S/vP 7/.572 ··· 3/2.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 1/3.000 291/180 .218/.285/.458/.743 .851/.676 .677 58/.861 1/1 17/1
30.Gomez G/S/vP 11/.364 3/1.167 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 7/.953 310/214 .216/.280/.330/.610 .640/.596 .620 68/.571 12/2 5/0
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/.715 2/1.000 332/205 .256/.295/.426/.721 .759/.698 .655 80/.769 9/4 10/5
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 163/92 .219/.265/.325/.590 .655/.543 .617 42/.869 6/4 2/0
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 12/1.200 4/1.167 6/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 348/270 .224/.300/.373/.673 .536/.712 .739 49/.298 4/1 12/0
4.Springer G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 471/347 .258/.352/.470/.822 .949/.778 .746 89/.801 6/7 22/1
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· 116/106 .176/.233/.380/.612 .800/.593 .559 27/.775 0/0 4/1
13.White G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 196/132 .203/.291/.372/.663 .625/.681 .810 7/.143 1/0 7/4
IP 110.1 37.0 32.2 8.1 37.2 14.0 35.2 43.0 39.0 TOTAL .245/.323/.421/.743 .728/.749 .741 .748 78/29 133/46
ERA-K/9 4.98/3.9 4.14/8.5 8.82/7.2 4.32/8.7 2.63/8.8 5.14/10.9 3.53/5.8 3.14/6.5 3.46/10.8 4.39/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (26-6-10)
 Gattis (10-9-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 502/.332 149/.206 153/.316 42/.333 147/.201 54/.191 154/.295 178/.261 159/.252 .267  Springer
 Rasmus
 Gomez
 Marisnick
 Bregman
 Tucker
 Gonzalez
0/0/95/10
72/11/10/10
0/75/0/7
23/28/5/2
1/0/0/0
13/0/1/0
6/0/0/0
OPS .880 .547 1.004 .821 .624 .716 .763 .694 .603 .753
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 259/.926 64/.619 62/.897 17/.694 64/.730 28/.495 69/.870 69/.692 63/.608 .743
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 243/.830 85/.489 91/1.077 25/.909 83/.544 26/.917 85/.674 109/.695 96/.599 .761
Home 226/.984 48/.527 65/.774 20/.862 66/.535 26/.758 90/.676 79/.675 75/.559
Last 28d days 84/.873 32/.496 33/.618 42/.821 28/.549 28/1.080 37/.916 32/.362 36/.648
HR/SB/CS 14/8/1 0/2/1 10/0/2 0/0/0 4/2/1 4/1/1 2/2/2 2/0/0 1/2/1 108/43/24
Usage ····X··· ····oX·X ·X····X· ·X······ ····oX·· ···oo·oX ····X·X· ·o··X··X ···X·X·X
Tigers Batters (4.73 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Keuchel*
G/S/vB		 47.Devenski
G/S/vB		 46.Feldman
G/S/vB		 45.Feliz
G/S/vB		 53.Giles
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
14.Aviles G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· 14/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 5/.800 165/104 .209/.253/.261/.515 .434/.561 .638 55/.472 2/2 1/5
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 15/.500 1/.000 20/1.600 1/.000 3/.000 3/1.666 2/.500 7/1.571 6/4.333 442/327 .298/.378/.516/.893 .654/.971 .994 88/.830 0/0 21/3
9.Castellanos G/S/vP 9/.777 1/.000 6/1.166 1/no AB 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 415/300 .294/.335/.513/.848 .682/.912 .838 86/.826 1/1 18/9
18.Collins* G/S/vP ··· 2/4.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 1/2.000 ··· 55/40 .231/.273/.462/.734 .277/.890 .784 35/1.028 1/0 3/0
1.Iglesias G/S/vP 6/.733 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 4/.833 ··· 361/255 .260/.312/.347/.659 .749/.623 .620 76/.646 5/2 4/4
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 28/.780 2/.000 9/.444 ··· 1/.000 5/.200 2/1.000 12/.258 4/1.417 457/331 .288/.341/.490/.832 .887/.811 .836 93/.751 10/3 20/6
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 12/.916 1/2.000 7/1.881 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 6/.833 3/1.666 398/291 .298/.352/.477/.828 .830/.828 .708 89/.587 0/0 17/0
4.Maybin G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 5/.400 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 247/168 .330/.394/.398/.792 .931/.729 .940 76/.680 12/4 2/2
34.McCann G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 3/5.000 221/136 .202/.250/.330/.580 .863/.406 .666 51/.569 0/0 7/2
17.Romine# G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 5/.650 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 84/70 .230/.313/.311/.624 .368/.678 .519 18/1.069 5/0 1/2
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 8/.625 2/.000 10/1.300 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 5/.000 197/157 .201/.320/.427/.747 .503/.813 .616 40/.664 0/0 10/3
8.Upton G/S/vP 12/.350 1/.000 11/1.677 1/5.000 2/.000 7/.572 5/.933 5/.200 1/.000 408/290 .237/.292/.396/.688 .692/.686 .726 80/.806 7/2 12/2
IP 134.0 69.0 60.0 45.1 41.2 43.2 42.2 31.1 27.2 TOTAL .267/.327/.435/.762 .738/.772 .786 .716 44/17 135/53
ERA-K/9 4.57/7.7 2.35/7.4 2.40/6.3 4.37/13.1 3.89/12.9 3.09/10.5 1.90/9.5 2.59/8.1 4.88/8.8 3.80/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (15-16-2)
 Saltalamacchia (27-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 565/.265 265/.230 255/.261 184/.210 180/.245 171/.168 170/.231 118/.170 127/.316 .257  Upton
 Aviles
 Collins
 Romine
 Maybin
92/6/0/4
8/0/30/2
5/8/6/2
0/15/1/0
0/58/0/0
OPS .747 .616 .717 .631 .690 .543 .535 .594 .968 .727
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 121/.624 133/.627 109/.872 87/.721 90/.646 86/.756 79/.586 35/1.197 66/.936 .779
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 444/.781 132/.605 146/.602 97/.552 90/.734 85/.339 91/.491 83/.355 61/.999 .687
Road 327/.814 126/.654 140/.762 92/.930 80/.835 71/.493 82/.592 52/.632 57/1.070
Last 28d days 103/.557 50/.588 43/.667 34/.963 28/.332 32/.330 32/.956 21/.296 22/.988
HR/SB/CS 15/2/1 3/6/4 6/5/2 7/2/1 5/1/0 2/4/0 1/5/0 4/1/1 7/2/0 101/40/19
Usage ·····X·· ·X··X··· ······X· ·X··o··o o··o···X ···o·o·· X··X···· o······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 2016 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

BOS  5.58

ARI  4.45

ATL  3.44

 RA/G

CHC  3.49

BAL  4.50

CIN  5.65

 BA

J. Altuve  .358

M. Trumbo  .270

D. Norris  .193

 OBP

J. Altuve  .424

A. Hill  .339

D. Norris  .253

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .652

M. Franco  .452

A. Escobar  .310

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.067

B. Miller  .780

A. Ramirez  .591

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.79

J. Gray  3.94

J. Peavy  5.47

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.17

C. Tillman  7.62

M. Pelfrey  3.92

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.