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Houston Astros vs. Detroit Tigers, at Minute Maid Park, April 17, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Start Time:
1:10ct (local), 2:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
12
On This Date:
41-41
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
14
On This Date:
19-27
Season Series
Fri, Apr 15, 2016 HOU  1  DET  0     
Sat, Apr 16, 2016 DET  5 @HOU  3     

Sun, Apr 17, 2016 DET    @HOU  2:10pm
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 HOU    @DET  7:10pm
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 HOU    @DET  7:10pm
Sun, Jul 31, 2016 HOU    @DET  1:10pm

                         All times ET
Detroit Tigers
7-3, 3rd, ½ GB / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-2    Road:    5-1    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   6-0    vsLHP:   1-3    1-Run:   1-1 
 vsEast:  1-1    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  1-1  IL: 5-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Sat, Apr 16  @HOU  W   5-3        7-3   3rd  0.5 gb
  9 Fri, Apr 15  @HOU  L   0-1        6-3   3rd  1.5 gb
  8 Thu, Apr 14  @PIT  W   7-4        6-2   3rd  0.5 gb
  7 Wed, Apr 13  @PIT  W   7-3        5-2   3rd  0.5 gb
  6 Tue, Apr 12   PIT  W   8-2        4-2   3rd  0.5 gb
  5 Mon, Apr 11   PIT  L   4-7        3-2   3rd  1.0 gb
  4 Sat, Apr  9   NYY  L   4-8        3-1   1st    Tied
  3 Fri, Apr  8   NYY  W   4-0        3-0   1st  1.0 up
  2 Wed, Apr  6  @MIA  W   7-3        2-0   1st  0.5 up
  1 Tue, Apr  5  @MIA  W   8-7 (11)   1-0   2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20: 7-3    Last 30: 7-3
Houston Astros
4-8, 5th, 2½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-4    Road:    2-4    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   4-8    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   1-2 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 2-4    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Sat, Apr 16   DET  L   3-5        4-8   5th  2.5 gb
 11 Fri, Apr 15   DET  W   1-0        4-7   4th  1.5 gb
 10 Thu, Apr 14   KCR  L   2-6        3-7   5th  2.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr 13   KCR  L   2-4        3-6   4th  2.0 gb
  8 Tue, Apr 12   KCR  L   2-3        3-5   4th  1.5 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 11   KCR  W   8-2        3-4   3rd  0.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 10  @MIL  L   2-3        2-4   3rd  1.5 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  9  @MIL  W   6-4        2-3   3rd  0.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  8  @MIL  L   4-6        1-3   4th  1.0 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  7  @NYY  L   5-8        1-2   2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 4-8    Last 30: 4-8 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
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)
Fri, May 22, 2015 DET  6  HOU  2        W:Alfredo Simon (5-2), L: Collin McHugh (5-2), S: none
Thu, May 21, 2015 DET  6  HOU  5 (11)   W:Alex Wilson (1-0), L: Tony Sipp (2-1), S: none
Sun, Jun 29, 2014 HOU  6  DET  4        W:Scott Feldman (4-5), L: Drew Smyly (4-7), S: Tony Sipp (1)
Season Series: 2016 - tied 1-1; 2015 - HOU won 4-3; 2014 - DET won 4-3; All-Time - DET leads 20-18

SP: Anibal Sanchez (32, RHP, 2-0, 3.38)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (2-0) 10.2 8 4 4 6 7 1 3.38
2015 (10-10) 157.0 152 89 87 49 138 29 4.99
2014 (8-5) 126.0 108 55 48 30 102 4 3.43
Last 7 GS 2-3 36.1 40 24 24 14 30 9 5.94 45
2016-04-12 PIT W 5.2 4 2 2 3 4 1 107 54
2016-04-06 @MIA W 5.0 4 2 2 3 3 0 89 51
2015-08-18 @CHC ND 2.1 3 2 2 1 2 1 39 44
2015-08-11 @KCR L 5.1 7 5 5 1 4 3 104 37
2015-08-06 KCR ND 6.0 5 4 4 4 6 1 104 48
2015-08-01 @BAL L 6.2 9 6 6 0 5 2 95 37
2015-07-27 @TBR L 5.1 8 3 3 2 6 1 113 44
Last 5 v.HOU 1-1 30.1 37 20 17 8 36 2 5.04 48
2015-05-24 HOU ND 5.2 8 7 7 2 11 2 115 34
2013-05-13 HOU W 7.0 6 2 2 1 8 0 113 64
2012-05-08 @HOU ND 7.0 5 2 0 2 8 0 104 69
2012-04-15 HOU ND 6.0 5 3 2 3 7 0 104 56
2011-04-10 @HOU L 4.2 13 6 6 0 2 0 91 16

SP: Mike Fiers (31, RHP, 0-1, 6.55)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-1) 11.0 15 8 8 1 6 3 6.55
2015 (7-10) 180.1 162 83 74 64 180 24 3.69
2014 (6-5) 71.2 46 19 17 17 76 7 2.13
Last 7 GS 0-2 41.1 40 24 23 10 35 11 5.01 50
2016-04-12 KCR L 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 1 101 50
2016-04-07 @NYY ND 5.0 9 5 5 0 3 2 82 32
2015-09-29 @SEA ND 5.2 5 4 3 1 7 1 103 51
2015-09-23 LAA ND 6.2 4 3 3 3 3 1 107 54
2015-09-18 OAK ND 6.0 5 2 2 1 6 2 99 59
2015-09-13 @LAA ND 7.0 6 3 3 0 8 3 104 61
2015-09-07 @OAK L 5.0 5 4 4 4 5 1 99 42
Last 5 v.DET 0-0 11.0 11 4 2 3 8 0 1.64 54
2015-08-16 DET ND 5.1 5 2 0 2 5 0 96 57
2015-05-18 @DET ND 5.2 6 2 2 1 3 0 104 51

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Tigers Batters (5.40 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Fiers
G/S/vB		 47.Devenski
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
14.Aviles G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 4/1.000 317/146 .231/.282/.317/.599 .650/.542 .633 6/.650 3/1 5/10
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 6/1.500 ··· 4/1.750 1/.000 3/1.666 2/.500 7/1.571 6/4.333 511/408 .338/.440/.534/.974 1.016/.964 .948 45/.821 1/1 18/4
9.Castellanos G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 595/470 .255/.303/.419/.721 .970/.656 .688 39/.964 0/3 15/12
18.Collins* G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 207/193 .266/.316/.417/.732 .643/.739 .959 8/.625 2/1 4/4
12.Gose* G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 535/454 .254/.321/.367/.688 .546/.713 .667 32/.657 23/11 5/4
1.Iglesias G/S/vP 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 2/2.000 ··· 454/341 .300/.347/.370/.717 .889/.661 .727 36/.811 11/8 2/11
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· 6/.666 ··· 4/.250 2/1.000 11/.282 4/1.417 675/534 .296/.342/.428/.770 .798/.763 .757 48/.910 10/6 11/13
28.Martinez G/S/vP 6/1.167 ··· 3/1.667 1/2.000 6/.533 2/1.000 4/.500 1/.000 657/519 .282/.344/.535/.879 .915/.870 .867 45/.983 3/2 38/2
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/.833 3/1.666 485/387 .245/.301/.366/.667 .870/.616 .659 30/.982 0/0 11/1
17.Romine# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 203/166 .255/.307/.315/.622 .640/.617 .710 6/.533 10/5 2/7
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 4/.000 227/181 .225/.310/.435/.745 .979/.684 .597 24/1.019 0/0 9/3
8.Upton G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· ··· 2/.000 7/.572 4/.833 4/.250 1/.000 620/499 .251/.336/.454/.790 .558/.848 .714 47/.668 19/5 26/3
46.Wilson G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 147/104 .189/.255/.250/.505 .296/.590 .445 4/.000 0/1 1/2
IP 180.1 50.2 70.0 61.0 71.0 54.2 54.1 TOTAL .291/.345/.461/.806 .775/.827 .817 .806 2/2 14/5
ERA-K/9 3.69/9.0 /0.0 3.55/11.9 1.80/11.2 3.10/8.7 1.90/8.6 3.62/8.4 1.99/10.3 4.93/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Saltalamacchia (22-5-0)
 Wilson (28-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 761/.238 / 209/.210 298/.219 239/.213 276/.168 223/.240 216/.208 .273  Martinez
 Upton
 Gose
 Collins
 Aviles
 Romine
0/0/148/15
146/0/0/9
0/137/0/4
37/0/7/3
34/5/1/1
2/0/0/0
OPS .713 .602 .569 .573 .525 .709 .606 .790
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 347/.664 / 86/.705 130/.574 127/.606 127/.455 86/.768 108/.599 .925
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 414/.756 / 123/.530 168/.565 112/.537 149/.586 137/.673 108/.613 .696
Home 380/.691 / 100/.574 182/.603 150/.600 130/.496 120/.757 93/.526
Last 28d days 47/.940 19/.325 28/.913 20/1.037 15/.277 25/.448 12/.530 22/1.109
HR/SB/CS 24/12/5 // 2/3/2 2/2/0 5/3/0 8/7/0 8/0/1 5/2/3 17/7/2
Usage ····X··· ··Xo···· X·o··oo· o··X···o ·o··X··X X···X·oo o··o··oX ··Xo·X··

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Astros Batters (3.83 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (3.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 19.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 61.Greene
G/S/vB		 67.Kensing
G/S/vB		 21.Lowe
G/S/vB		 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 56.Ryan*
G/S/vB		 54.VerHagen
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 38.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 8/.500 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 7/.286 3/.000 689/479 .313/.353/.459/.812 .973/.743 .905 54/.963 38/13 15/5
15.Castro* G/S/vP 14/.429 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 375/264 .211/.283/.365/.648 .512/.707 .678 33/.542 0/0 11/1
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 432/292 .279/.345/.512/.857 .899/.836 .949 50/.851 14/4 22/13
11.Gattis G/S/vP 6/2.000 ··· 2/.000 3/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/3.000 604/391 .246/.285/.463/.748 .719/.763 .818 8/.250 0/1 27/1
30.Gomez G/S/vP 6/1.500 3/1.167 1/2.000 3/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 7/.953 477/370 .255/.314/.409/.724 .646/.745 .680 43/.471 17/9 12/7
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 7/.858 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/.715 2/1.000 370/217 .279/.317/.442/.759 .843/.701 .738 16/.321 4/5 12/8
23.Kratz G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 4/.750 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 28/13 .192/.214/.269/.484 .600/.336 .267 7/.000 0/0 0/0
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 1/.000 372/217 .236/.281/.383/.665 .669/.662 .604 5/.000 24/9 9/3
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 25/.613 4/1.167 ··· 6/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 485/345 .238/.314/.475/.789 .835/.770 .770 47/1.020 2/1 25/5
4.Springer G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 451/291 .276/.367/.459/.826 .936/.767 .766 52/.724 16/4 16/3
20.Tucker* G/S/vP 1/5.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 323/255 .243/.297/.437/.734 .466/.807 .779 28/.937 0/2 13/1
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· ··· 2/.000 9/.222 ··· ··· 2/.000 4/1.167 493/361 .224/.310/.438/.748 .581/.808 .737 37/.513 1/0 25/7
13.White G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 45/1.256 / /
IP 157.0 83.2 15.1 55.0 57.0 56.1 26.1 70.0 61.0 TOTAL .240/.313/.436/.748 .918/.732 .719 .748 11/5 17/5
ERA-K/9 4.99/7.9 6.88/5.4 5.87/7.6 1.96/10.0 2.21/9.8 4.47/4.8 2.05/4.4 2.19/4.9 3.10/9.7 3.76/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (42-24-7)
 Kratz (2-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 660/.252 373/.308 64/.214 215/.231 216/.189 237/.282 106/.200 273/.238 244/.223 .270  Rasmus
 Marisnick
 Springer
 Gomez
 Tucker
 Gonzalez
 Gattis
72/43/43/9
16/99/13/8
0/10/93/6
0/111/0/5
79/0/14/2
15/0/0/1
11/0/0/0
OPS .768 .897 .672 .612 .547 .795 .559 .609 .602 .736
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 351/.681 199/1.017 18/.762 97/.724 109/.538 61/.817 39/.691 124/.566 83/.629 .787
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 309/.866 174/.757 46/.640 118/.523 107/.558 176/.788 67/.487 149/.645 161/.588 .702
Road 258/.828 180/1.054 39/.679 106/.547 81/.566 134/.836 52/.612 130/.611 103/.602
Last 28d days 44/.710 26/.361 21/.950 25/.758 22/.792 9/.667 26/1.007 / 19/.377
HR/SB/CS 29/15/4 13/3/4 2/0/0 4/1/3 6/2/2 9/2/2 1/2/0 5/3/4 3/6/1 6/4/6
Usage ····X··· ···X···· ·····X·X o·XX·o·· o·Xoo··· ·····X·· ··X·oo·o o··oo···

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

For the 2015 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TOR  5.50

CHC  4.25

ATL  3.54

 RA/G

STL  3.24

NYY  4.31

COL  5.21

 BA

M. Cabrera  .338

E. Longoria  .270

J. Pederson  .210

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

M. Duffy  .334

W. Ramos  .258

 SLG

B. Harper  .649

E. Longoria  .435

A. Escobar  .320

 OPS

B. Harper  1.109

J. Pederson  .763

C. Owings  .587

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.66

J. Zimmermann  3.66

A. Simon  5.05

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.82

J. Teheran  7.67

M. Buehrle  4.12

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.