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Houston Astros vs. Boston Red Sox, at Minute Maid Park, April 22, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, April 22, 2016
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
78° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
18
On This Date:
45-41
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
18
On This Date:
23-24
Season Series

Fri, Apr 22, 2016 BOS    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Apr 23, 2016 BOS    @HOU  4:05pm
Sun, Apr 24, 2016 BOS    @HOU  8:05pm
Thu, May 12, 2016 HOU    @BOS  7:10pm
Fri, May 13, 2016 HOU    @BOS  7:10pm
Sat, May 14, 2016 HOU    @BOS  1:05pm
Sun, May 15, 2016 HOU    @BOS  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
7-8, 2nd, 3½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-6    Road:    3-2    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   7-6    vsLHP:   0-2    1-Run:   1-2 
 vsEast:  6-7    vsCntrl: 1-1    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 15 Thu, Apr 21   TBR  L   8-12       7-8   2nd  3.5 gb
 14 Wed, Apr 20   TBR  W   7-3        7-7   2nd  2.5 gb
 13 Tue, Apr 19   TBR  L   0-3 (10)   6-7   3rd  2.5 gb
 12 Mon, Apr 18   TOR  L   3-4        6-6   2nd  2.5 gb
 11 Sun, Apr 17   TOR  L   3-5        6-5   2nd  2.0 gb
 10 Sat, Apr 16   TOR  W   4-2        6-4   2nd  1.5 gb
  9 Fri, Apr 15   TOR  W   5-3        5-4   2nd  2.5 gb
  8 Wed, Apr 13   BAL  W   4-2        4-4   3rd  3.0 gb
  7 Tue, Apr 12   BAL  L   5-9        3-4   3rd  4.0 gb
  6 Mon, Apr 11   BAL  L   7-9        3-3   3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-8    Last 30: 7-8
Houston Astros
5-11, 5th, 5 GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-4    Road:    2-7    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   5-9    vsLHP:   0-2    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 3-4    vsWest:  0-3  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 16 Thu, Apr 21  @TEX  L   4-7        5-11  5th  5.0 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 20  @TEX  L   1-2        5-10  5th  4.0 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 19  @TEX  L   5-7        5-9   5th  3.0 gb
 13 Sun, Apr 17   DET  W   5-4        5-8   5th  2.0 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 5-11   Last 30: 5-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jul 23, 2015 HOU  5  BOS  4        W:Josh Fields (3-1), L: Craig Breslow (0-1), S: none
Wed, Jul 22, 2015 HOU  4  BOS  2        W:Collin McHugh (11-5), L: Joe Kelly (2-6), S: Luke Gregerson (20)
Tue, Jul 21, 2015 HOU  8  BOS  3        W:Vincent Velasquez (1-1), L: Brian Johnson (0-1), S: none
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
Season Series: 2016 -  0-0; 2015 - HOU won 4-2; 2014 - BOS won 4-3; All-Time - BOS leads 19-10

SP: Steven Wright (31, RHP, 0-2, 2.13)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-2) 12.2 12 4 3 3 11 1 2.13
2015 (5-4) 72.2 67 38 33 27 52 12 4.09
2014 (0-1) 21.0 21 8 6 4 22 2 2.57
Last 7 GS 2-4 42.0 38 19 16 17 39 6 3.43 54
2016-04-17 TOR L 6.0 6 2 2 0 6 1 107 58
2016-04-10 @TOR L 6.2 6 2 1 3 5 0 118 58
2015-08-11 @MIA ND 5.0 5 2 2 5 4 0 106 48
2015-08-05 @NYY W 8.0 4 1 1 2 9 1 108 77
2015-07-30 CHW W 7.0 6 2 2 2 8 1 116 63
2015-07-25 DET L 4.1 5 4 2 2 4 1 74 43
2015-07-20 @LAA L 5.0 6 6 6 3 3 2 98 31
Last 5 v.HOU 0-0 1.0 1 3 3 2 1 0 27.00 38
2013-08-06 @HOU ND 1.0 1 3 3 2 1 0 38 38

SP: Collin McHugh (29, RHP, 1-2, 6.39)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (1-2) 12.2 21 10 9 3 11 1 6.39
2015 (19-7) 203.2 207 89 88 53 171 19 3.89
2014 (11-9) 154.2 117 53 47 41 157 13 2.73
Last 7 GS 4-2 38.0 47 21 20 10 35 2 4.74 48
2016-04-16 DET L 5.1 10 4 4 0 7 1 98 39
2016-04-11 KCR W 7.0 8 0 0 1 4 0 102 64
2016-04-06 @NYY L 0.1 3 6 5 2 0 0 43 21
2015-10-03 @ARI W 7.0 6 1 1 1 6 0 91 66
2015-09-26 TEX W 6.2 8 4 4 1 6 1 104 47
2015-09-20 OAK W 8.0 4 1 1 2 8 0 113 76
2015-09-15 @TEX ND 3.2 8 5 5 3 4 0 91 26
Last 5 v.BOS 2-1 18.1 21 7 6 8 11 0 2.95 51
2015-07-22 BOS W 7.0 7 2 2 1 4 0 98 58
2015-07-04 @BOS L 5.1 7 4 3 3 1 0 104 38
2014-08-17 @BOS W 6.0 7 1 1 4 6 0 109 56

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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.

Red Sox Batters (4.93 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.McHugh
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
50.Betts G/S/vP 4/1.500 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 2/2.000 654/493 .291/.341/.479/.820 .843/.813 .756 70/.719 21/6 18/5
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 9/.944 ··· 4/.833 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 654/482 .320/.355/.421/.776 .892/.735 .702 65/.718 10/2 7/11
25.Bradley* G/S/vP 3/2.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 255/172 .249/.335/.498/.832 .918/.791 .678 51/.620 3/0 10/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP 4/.333 ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB 4/.000 3/.666 1/.000 2/.000 201/151 .247/.337/.328/.664 .895/.587 .470 14/.377 0/0 2/3
12.Holt* G/S/vP 10/.875 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 3/.000 5/.400 509/381 .280/.349/.379/.727 .807/.701 .729 45/.900 8/1 2/9
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 9/.222 ··· 5/.933 2/.000 4/.500 1/5.000 5/.900 10/.300 614/430 .273/.360/.553/.913 .703/1.008 .873 58/1.060 0/1 37/1
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 4/.750 ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 5/.000 4/3.500 425/319 .291/.356/.441/.797 .834/.785 .722 66/.720 2/2 12/6
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· 2/.500 ··· 5/.600 7/1.428 5/.000 4/1.833 430/307 .249/.291/.426/.717 .710/.720 .727 65/.664 6/3 19/4
32.Rutledge G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 3/.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 85/59 .284/.333/.338/.671 .748/.637 .528 4/1.500 0/0 1/4
47.Shaw* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 248/163 .270/.327/.487/.813 .975/.723 .660 56/.951 0/1 13/3
7.Vazquez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / 19/.498 / /
30.Young G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 14/1.429 2/2.500 5/.650 ··· 356/181 .252/.320/.453/.773 .972/.585 .794 20/.528 3/1 14/1
IP 203.2 50.2 70.0 61.0 71.0 54.2 54.1 TOTAL .265/.332/.424/.756 .623/.784 .802 .756 13/1 13/6
ERA-K/9 3.89/7.6 /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 4.99/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (24-12-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 859/.263 / 209/.210 298/.219 239/.213 276/.168 223/.240 216/.208 .279  Betts
 Young
 Bradley
 Ramirez
 Holt
 Shaw
0/133/11/10
55/15/76/4
17/27/32/4
92/0/0/3
14/2/21/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .705 .602 .569 .573 .525 .709 .606 .813
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 405/.648 / 86/.705 130/.574 127/.606 127/.455 86/.768 108/.599 .936
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 454/.755 / 123/.530 168/.565 112/.537 149/.586 137/.673 108/.613 .730
Home 432/.690 / 100/.574 182/.603 150/.600 130/.496 120/.757 93/.526
Last 28d days 63/.913 28/.475 36/1.034 31/.877 18/.229 28/.399 19/.602 25/1.036
HR/SB/CS 19/10/4 // 2/3/2 2/2/0 5/3/0 8/7/0 8/0/1 5/2/3 25/8/2
Usage ·····X·· ··X····X o·o··X·o ·X··Xo·· ····o·o· ·o···X·· o···oo·· ·o··X··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 (3.81 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (5.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Wright
G/S/vB		 68.Barnes
G/S/vB		 37.Hembree
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 66.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 3/.666 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 4/.250 5/.450 1/.000 689/479 .313/.353/.459/.812 .973/.743 .905 72/1.056 38/13 15/5
15.Castro* G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 5/1.400 3/1.167 4/1.250 375/264 .211/.283/.365/.648 .512/.707 .678 42/.451 0/0 11/1
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 432/292 .279/.345/.512/.857 .899/.836 .949 62/.821 14/4 22/13
11.Gattis G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 604/391 .246/.285/.463/.748 .719/.763 .818 21/.429 0/1 27/1
30.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 477/370 .255/.314/.409/.724 .646/.745 .680 55/.482 17/9 12/7
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 2/.000 370/217 .279/.317/.442/.759 .843/.701 .738 27/.491 4/5 12/8
23.Kratz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 28/13 .192/.214/.269/.484 .600/.336 .267 11/.000 0/0 0/0
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 3/2.334 1/no AB 372/217 .236/.281/.383/.665 .669/.662 .604 10/.200 24/9 9/3
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 2/1.000 ··· 6/.200 6/.334 5/.000 485/345 .238/.314/.475/.789 .835/.770 .770 60/1.156 2/1 25/5
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 451/291 .276/.367/.459/.826 .936/.767 .766 69/.834 16/4 16/3
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 323/255 .243/.297/.437/.734 .466/.807 .779 35/.831 0/2 13/1
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.667 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 493/361 .224/.310/.438/.748 .581/.808 .737 46/.545 1/0 25/7
13.White G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 61/1.044 / /
IP 72.2 43.0 25.1 59.1 47.2 13.0 60.2 58.2 40.1 TOTAL .238/.310/.443/.753 .773/.749 .731 .753 15/6 24/10
ERA-K/9 4.09/6.4 5.44/8.2 3.55/5.3 2.58/13.2 3.97/8.5 4.15/9.0 3.86/7.9 4.14/8.6 2.23/10.5 4.84/10.3

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 310/.239 199/.311 106/.258 239/.185 207/.234 61/.250 259/.254 247/.280 160/.188 .249  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 .722 .887 .795 .569 .684 .803 .729 .751 .562 .762
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 154/.667 92/.800 46/.862 122/.629 102/.418 12/.533 97/.649 102/.808 79/.507 .685
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 156/.775 107/.959 60/.741 117/.508 105/.950 49/.867 162/.775 145/.710 81/.614 .793
Road 189/.776 100/.810 53/1.035 106/.560 104/.531 32/.837 121/.813 105/.752 65/.657
Last 28d days 53/.654 39/.969 12/.417 32/.512 10/.633 42/.897 34/.628 26/.410 28/.390
HR/SB/CS 12/3/2 9/7/1 5/2/2 6/8/1 3/4/2 3/2/1 7/0/0 5/7/1 3/0/0 19/6/2
Usage ····X··· X·X·X··· ··X····· ··oX·XX· ··X·o··· oo·XX··· ··X·o··· ·oXo··o· ···X·oX·

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.