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Houston Astros vs. Texas Rangers, at Minute Maid Park, May 21, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Start Time:
6:15ct (local), 7:15et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
83° (based on last ten years)
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
44
On This Date:
25-25
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
45
On This Date:
22-30
Season Series
Tue, Apr 19, 2016 TEX  7  HOU  5     
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 TEX  2  HOU  1     
Thu, Apr 21, 2016 TEX  7  HOU  4     
Fri, May 20, 2016 TEX  2 @HOU  1     

Sat, May 21, 2016 TEX    @HOU  7:15pm
Sun, May 22, 2016 TEX    @HOU  2:10pm
Mon, Jun 06, 2016 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Tue, Jun 07, 2016 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Wed, Jun 08, 2016 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Thu, Jun 09, 2016 HOU    @TEX  2:05pm
Fri, Aug 05, 2016 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 06, 2016 TEX    @HOU  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 07, 2016 TEX    @HOU  2:10pm
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 HOU    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Sep 03, 2016 HOU    @TEX  4:05pm
Sun, Sep 04, 2016 HOU    @TEX  3:05pm
Mon, Sep 12, 2016 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm
Tue, Sep 13, 2016 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 14, 2016 TEX    @HOU  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Texas Rangers
23-19, 2nd, 1½ GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-7    Road:    9-12   ExtrInn: 1-4 
 vsRHP:  18-12   vsLHP:   5-7    1-Run:   8-3 
 vsEast:  7-6    vsCntrl: 5-4    vsWest: 11-9  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 42 Fri, May 20  @HOU  W   2-1       23-19  2nd  1.5 gb
 41 Wed, May 18  @OAK  L   1-8       22-19  2nd  1.0 gb
 40 Tue, May 17  @OAK  L   5-8       22-18  2nd  1.0 gb
 39 Mon, May 16  @OAK  L   1-3       22-17  1st    Tied
 38 Sun, May 15   TOR  W   7-6       22-16  1st  0.5 up
 37 Sat, May 14   TOR  W   6-5 (10)  21-16  2nd  0.5 gb
 36 Fri, May 13   TOR  L   0-5       20-16  2nd  1.5 gb
 35 Wed, May 11   CHW  W   6-5       20-15  2nd  1.5 gb
 34 Tue, May 10   CHW  W  13-11      19-15  2nd  1.5 gb
 33 Mon, May  9   CHW  L   4-8 (12)  18-15  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
Houston Astros
17-26, 5th, 8 GB, 8½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-11   Road:    7-15   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  15-19   vsLHP:   2-7    1-Run:   5-9 
 vsEast:  3-7    vsCntrl: 9-7    vsWest:  4-10 IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 43 Fri, May 20   TEX  L   1-2       17-26  5th  8.0 gb
 42 Thu, May 19  @CHW  L   1-2       17-25  5th  7.0 gb
 41 Wed, May 18  @CHW  W   5-3       17-24  5th  6.0 gb
 40 Tue, May 17  @CHW  W   6-5 (11)  16-24  5th  7.0 gb
 39 Sun, May 15  @BOS  L   9-10      15-24  5th  7.5 gb
 38 Sat, May 14  @BOS  L   5-6 (11)  15-23  5th  7.0 gb
 37 Fri, May 13  @BOS  W   7-6       15-22  4th  7.0 gb
 36 Thu, May 12  @BOS  L   1-11      14-22  4th  8.0 gb
 35 Wed, May 11   CLE  W   5-3 (16)  14-21  3rd  7.5 gb
 34 Tue, May 10   CLE  L   0-4       13-21  5th  7.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 20, 2016 TEX  2 @HOU  1        W:Colby Lewis (3-0), L: Lance McCullers (0-1), S: Sam Dyson (3)
Thu, Apr 21, 2016 TEX  7  HOU  4        W:A.J. Griffin (2-0), L: Dallas Keuchel (2-2), S: Shawn Tolleson (6)
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 TEX  2  HOU  1        W:Cole Hamels (3-0), L: Doug Fister (1-2), S: Shawn Tolleson (5)
Tue, Apr 19, 2016 TEX  7  HOU  5        W:Derek Holland (2-0), L: Scott Feldman (0-2), S: Shawn Tolleson (4)

Sun, Sep 27, 2015 HOU  4  TEX  2        W:Dallas Keuchel (19-8), L: Martin Perez (3-6), S: Luke Gregerson (29)
Sat, Sep 26, 2015 HOU  9  TEX  7        W:Collin McHugh (18-7), L: Chi Chi Gonzalez (4-6), S: Will Harris (2)
Fri, Sep 25, 2015 TEX  6 @HOU  2        W:Ross Ohlendorf (3-0), L: Scott Kazmir (7-11), S: none
Thu, Sep 17, 2015 TEX  8  HOU  2        W:Colby Lewis (16-8), L: Lance McCullers (5-6), S: none
Wed, Sep 16, 2015 TEX 14  HOU  3        W:Martin Perez (3-5), L: Dallas Keuchel (17-8), S: none
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 TEX  6  HOU  5        W:Shawn Tolleson (6-3), L: Oliver Perez (2-3), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - TEX over 4-0; 2015 - TEX won 13-6; 2014 - HOU won 11-8; All-Time - TEX leads 84-49

SP: Cesar Ramos (32, LHP, 0-2, 4.32)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-2) 16.2 22 8 8 8 11 3 4.32
2015 (2-1) 52.1 55 17 16 15 43 2 2.75
2014 (2-6) 82.2 73 39 34 39 66 8 3.70
Last 7 GS 1-3 33.2 40 20 16 17 26 5 4.28 46
2016-05-15 TOR ND 4.1 7 1 1 2 4 0 94 47
2016-04-25 NYY L 6.0 9 3 3 2 5 2 96 45
2014-05-17 @LAA L 1.1 4 4 4 1 1 0 35 30
2014-05-12 @SEA L 6.2 11 9 5 2 6 1 114 28
2014-05-07 BAL ND 5.2 3 2 2 2 4 2 72 57
2014-05-01 @BOS ND 4.2 1 1 1 6 6 0 95 58
2014-04-26 @CHW W 5.0 5 0 0 2 0 0 65 55
Has never faced HOU as starter.

SP: Mike Fiers (31, RHP, 3-1, 4.63)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (3-1) 44.2 52 23 23 7 31 8 4.63
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 3-1 40.2 46 21 21 6 30 8 4.65 49
2016-05-09 CLE W 7.0 3 1 1 2 4 0 102 69
2016-05-04 MIN ND 4.2 9 4 4 1 4 1 95 33
2016-04-29 @OAK ND 7.0 7 2 2 0 5 1 104 60
2016-04-23 BOS W 5.1 5 2 2 2 6 0 89 54
2016-04-17 DET W 5.2 7 4 4 0 5 3 92 44
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
Has never faced TEX as starter.

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Rangers Batters (4.48 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (4.74 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Fiers
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Alberto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/14 .167/.167/.167/.333 .250/.429 .333 17/.353 1/0 0/0
1.Andrus G/S/vP 3/.666 29/.740 3/.000 1/.000 5/.000 5/.400 8/.375 8/1.000 148/118 .291/.340/.388/.728 .884/.686 .664 85/.676 4/3 0/4
29.Beltre G/S/vP 3/2.334 44/.606 3/1.167 1/3.000 9/.958 5/1.200 15/1.329 8/.750 174/124 .264/.310/.453/.763 .847/.730 .732 99/.640 0/0 7/1
17.Choo* G/S/vP 4/.250 31/.715 2/2.000 ··· 4/.500 4/.000 2/.000 8/.542 24/17 .188/.458/.188/.646 .571/.641 .831 2/ 1/0 0/1
20.Desmond G/S/vP 5/.400 9/1.127 1/.000 8/.833 4/.500 2/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 173/126 .274/.335/.465/.800 1.032/.713 .666 103/.952 8/1 6/4
84.Fielder* G/S/vP 3/.666 20/1.087 3/1.666 1/.000 10/1.589 3/1.666 4/.833 10/.200 170/124 .197/.265/.289/.554 .503/.573 .482 92/.572 0/0 2/0
8.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 62/37 .218/.295/.364/.659 .711/.622 .579 29/.841 0/0 1/0
30.Mazara* G/S/vP ··· 3/.667 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 147/102 .305/.354/.443/.796 .575/.899 .883 99/.760 0/0 5/0
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 2/1.000 18/.600 3/.000 1/no AB 3/1.000 6/.167 2/1.500 7/.429 146/114 .242/.315/.394/.709 .605/.739 .510 84/.693 0/0 4/0
12.Odor* G/S/vP 3/1.333 17/1.037 3/1.167 1/.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 1/.000 8/1.000 177/121 .275/.299/.474/.773 .729/.794 .702 110/.823 5/1 7/4
16.Rua G/S/vP ··· 6/.533 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 79/49 .260/.316/.397/.714 .900/.599 .550 52/.762 2/0 2/1
15.Stubbs G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 56/25 .250/.339/.375/.714 .553/.905 .411 27/.779 7/0 2/0
6.Wilson G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 3/1.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 54/47 .234/.288/.362/.650 .571/.664 .804 48/.731 0/0 2/0
IP 44.2 30.1 17.0 16.1 18.2 19.2 12.2 15.1 TOTAL .255/.314/.405/.719 .714/.720 .669 .732 28/8 42/20
ERA-K/9 4.63/6.2 3.86/6.8 5.29/13.8 6.61/11.6 3.86/6.7 0.46/9.1 2.84/8.5 4.11/8.8 4.50/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Holaday (8-4-1)
 Wilson (3-2-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 188/.289 136/.281 70/.212 79/.286 74/.209 74/.157 47/.116 64/.254 .270  Desmond
 Mazara
 Rua
 Choo
 Stubbs
29/15/0/3
1/0/34/2
14/0/2/2
0/0/6/0
6/13/3/0
OPS .797 .815 .621 .846 .614 .335 .546 .821 .761
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 99/.730 62/.915 42/.696 41/.797 41/.730 39/.425 17/1.027 38/.940 .803
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 89/.873 74/.733 28/.511 38/.898 33/.472 35/.235 30/.282 26/.654 .722
Home 120/.747 68/.733 34/.059 42/.736 41/.637 32/.318 22/.382 37/.670
Last 28d days 94/.731 66/.729 46/.391 42/.766 52/.684 41/.329 24/.507 36/.748
HR/SB/CS 8/3/3 4/2/2 3/2/0 4/1/0 0/1/0 0/0/0 3/1/0 4/1/0 48/21/7
Usage ·····X·· ·o···X·X X·····o· ··Xo··oo ··oo··Xo ··oo··oX ···X·oo· ···X···o
Astros Batters (4.16 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.48 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Ramos*
G/S/vB		 43.Barnette
G/S/vB		 51.Bush
G/S/vB		 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 41.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 47.Dyson
G/S/vB		 77.Jackson
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/1.334 3/1.667 1/5.000 12/.258 198/160 .343/.429/.609/1.039 1.236/.993 1.109 116/1.036 15/1 9/2
15.Castro* G/S/vP 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 118/87 .227/.364/.412/.777 .338/.930 .915 72/1.036 1/0 3/3
1.Correa G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.500 1/.000 3/1.334 187/153 .265/.364/.438/.802 .538/.855 .819 115/.771 8/2 7/5
11.Gattis G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 8/.125 7/.286 ··· 4/.000 88/55 .238/.295/.400/.695 1.024/.498 .386 61/.844 0/0 3/0
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 4/.833 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· 5/.000 112/69 .231/.279/.394/.674 .787/.604 .920 80/.716 4/2 3/3
16.Kemp* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/5 .250/.333/.375/.708 .250/1.000 .000 9/.708 0/0 0/0
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.333 ··· 2/.000 4/.500 39/23 .105/.128/.132/.260 .063/.391 .220 28/.250 1/0 0/0
8.Moran* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/7 .000/.143/.000/.143 /.143 .000 7/.143 0/0 0/0
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 9/.985 1/5.000 ··· ··· 6/.666 3/.666 ··· 6/1.000 171/142 .234/.333/.441/.775 .618/.803 .696 102/.548 2/1 8/0
4.Springer G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 5/.000 195/161 .259/.354/.465/.819 .916/.798 .942 116/.795 3/5 9/0
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/3.000 ··· 4/1.500 134/108 .198/.290/.319/.609 .579/.615 .731 80/.561 0/0 2/2
13.White G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 131/93 .241/.313/.491/.804 .780/.813 .577 66/.614 0/0 7/3
IP 16.2 16.1 3.2 12.0 15.1 20.0 2.0 14.2 TOTAL .233/.316/.408/.724 .711/.728 .732 .702 39/13 54/23
ERA-K/9 4.32/5.9 2.76/6.1 0.00/9.7 3.00/4.5 2.35/12.4 2.25/6.3 18.00/4.5 9.20/6.7 4.23/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (15-3-3)
 Gattis (2-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 77/.319 71/.318 12/.000 54/.313 62/.193 78/.243 11/.444 72/.343 .262  Rasmus
 Springer
 Kemp
 Marisnick
 Gonzalez
34/7/3/5
0/0/42/3
3/0/0/2
6/8/1/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .926 .761 .083 .789 .556 .663 1.323 1.031 .769
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 20/.838 33/.861 2/.000 10/.400 15/.564 25/.510 3/1.167 34/1.306 .751
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 57/.952 38/.677 10/.100 44/.886 47/.552 53/.729 8/1.357 38/.789 .777
Road 15/.624 33/.674 4/.000 25/.829 24/.394 43/.942 11/1.323 23/1.328
Last 28d days 77/.926 37/.884 12/.083 43/.859 43/.659 42/.593 11/1.323 40/1.203
HR/SB/CS 3/3/0 1/0/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 1/1/1 1/0/1 5/1/0 56/13/7
Usage ·····X·· ······o· ···X·X·X ··X····· o····oo· X····ooo ··o·X··· ···X··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  5.76

CHW  4.26

PHI  3.26

 RA/G

CHC  2.90

STL  4.38

CIN  6.05

 BA

D. Murphy  .387

C. Hernandez  .262

R. Howard  .164

 OBP

B. Harper  .451

Z. Cozart  .336

E. Aybar  .215

 SLG

Y. Cespedes  .642

D. Peralta  .439

E. Aybar  .207

 OPS

J. Altuve  1.039

R. Odor  .773

E. Aybar  .423

 ERA

J. Arrieta  1.29

H. Santiago  3.93

J. Peavy  8.21

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.02

R. Nolasco  7.85

M. Latos  4.40

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.