Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Game Previews > HOU @ OAK, Saturday, April 19, 2014

Game Preview: HOU @ OAK, 4:05pm, Saturday, April 19, 2014 @O.co Coliseum

Astros, 5-12, 5-12 5th, 6½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Brett Oberholtzer (24, LHP, 0-3, 3.50)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (0-3) 18.0 13 7 7 4 15 1 3.50
2013 (4-5) 71.2 66 26 22 13 45 7 2.76
Last 7 GS 0-7 41.1 35 17 14 10 30 3 3.05 55
2014-04-13 @TEX L 7.0 5 1 1 0 7 0 89 70
2014-04-08 @TOR L 5.1 3 3 3 3 3 1 92 50
2014-04-03 NYY L 5.2 5 3 3 1 5 0 91 51
2013-09-27 NYY L 5.1 5 3 2 1 4 0 81 51
2013-09-20 @CLE L 6.0 4 2 0 3 2 0 107 59
2013-09-14 LAA L 6.0 6 4 4 2 4 1 93 46
2013-09-07 @OAK L 6.0 7 1 1 0 5 1 100 59
Last 5 v.OAK 0-1 6.0 7 1 1 0 5 1 1.50 59
2013-09-07 @OAK L 6.0 7 1 1 0 5 1 100 59
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-7    Road:    2-5    ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:   4-8    vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   1-2 
 vsEast:  3-3    vsCntrl: 0-3    vsWest:  2-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 17 Fri, Apr 18  @OAK  L   3-11       5-12  5th  6.5 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 17   KCR  L   1-5        5-11  5th  5.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 16   KCR  L   4-6 (11)   5-10  5th  5.0 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 15   KCR  L   2-4        5-9   5th  5.0 gb
 13 Sun, Apr 13  @TEX  L   0-1        5-8   5th  3.5 gb
 12 Sat, Apr 12  @TEX  W   6-5 (10)   5-7   5th  2.5 gb
 11 Fri, Apr 11  @TEX  L   0-1 (12)   4-7   5th  3.0 gb
 10 Thu, Apr 10  @TOR  W   6-4        4-6   5th  2.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr  9  @TOR  L   3-7        3-6   5th  2.5 gb
  8 Tue, Apr  8  @TOR  L   2-5        3-5   4th  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 5-12   Last 30: 5-12
Athletics, 11-5, 11-5 1st, 1½ up

SP: Scott Kazmir (30, LHP, 2-0, 1.40)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-0) 19.1 11 3 3 4 19 0 1.40
2013 (10-9) 158.0 162 76 71 47 162 19 4.04
2011 (0-0) 1.2 5 5 5 2 0 1 27.00
Last 7 GS 4-2 41.1 37 12 11 8 50 1 2.40 60
2014-04-13 @SEA ND 6.0 2 0 0 0 9 0 82 77
2014-04-07 @MIN W 6.0 6 3 3 4 5 0 101 49
2014-04-02 CLE W 7.1 3 0 0 0 5 0 94 77
2013-09-28 @MIN W 6.0 6 1 1 2 11 0 104 65
2013-09-21 HOU W 7.0 4 0 0 1 10 0 97 78
2013-09-16 @KCR L 5.0 7 4 4 1 6 0 98 42
2013-09-11 KCR L 4.0 9 4 3 0 4 1 87 34
Last 5 v.HOU 1-1 16.0 16 9 9 6 21 4 5.06 51
2013-09-21 HOU W 7.0 4 0 0 1 10 0 97 78
2013-04-20 @HOU ND 3.1 8 6 6 3 4 2 89 21
2008-06-22 HOU L 5.2 4 3 3 2 7 2 106 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-3    Road:    7-2    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:   9-4    vsLHP:   2-1    1-Run:   3-1 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  7-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 16 Fri, Apr 18   HOU  W  11-3       11-5   1st  1.5 up
 15 Wed, Apr 16  @LAA  L   4-5 (12)  10-5   1st  2.0 up
 14 Tue, Apr 15  @LAA  W  10-9 (11)  10-4   1st  2.5 up
 13 Mon, Apr 14  @LAA  W   3-2        9-4   1st  1.5 up
 12 Sun, Apr 13  @SEA  W   3-0        8-4   1st  1.5 up
 11 Sat, Apr 12  @SEA  W   3-1        7-4   1st  0.5 up
 10 Fri, Apr 11  @SEA  L   4-6        6-4   2nd  0.5 gb
  9 Thu, Apr 10  @MIN  W   6-1        6-3   1st  0.5 up
  8 Wed, Apr  9  @MIN  W   7-4 (11)   5-3   1st    Tied
  7 Mon, Apr  7  @MIN  W   8-3        4-3   2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:11-5    Last 30:11-5 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Apr 18, 2014 OAK 11  HOU  3        W:Sonny Gray (3-0), L: Jarred Cosart (1-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 08, 2013 OAK  7  HOU  2        W:Bartolo Colon (15-6), L: Lucas Harrell (6-16), S: Brett Anderson (3)
Sat, Sep 07, 2013 OAK  2  HOU  1        W:Dan Straily (9-7), L: Brett Oberholtzer (4-2), S: Sean Doolittle (1)
Fri, Sep 06, 2013 OAK  7  HOU  5        W:A.J. Griffin (13-9), L: Dallas Keuchel (5-9), S: Grant Balfour (37)
Thu, Sep 05, 2013 HOU  3 @OAK  2        W:Brad Peacock (4-5), L: Sonny Gray (2-3), S: Josh Fields (3)
Thu, Aug 15, 2013 OAK  5  HOU  0        W:Sonny Gray (1-1), L: Erik Bedard (3-9), S: none
Wed, Aug 14, 2013 HOU  2 @OAK  1 (11)   W:Lucas Harrell (6-13), L: Sean Doolittle (3-4), S: Josh Fields (2)
Tue, Aug 13, 2013 HOU  5 @OAK  4        W:Jordan Lyles (5-6), L: Bartolo Colon (14-5), S: Chia-Jen Lo (1)
Wed, Jul 24, 2013 OAK  4 @HOU  3        W:A.J. Griffin (9-7), L: Travis Blackley (1-1), S: Ryan Cook (2)
Tue, Jul 23, 2013 HOU  5  OAK  4        W:Josh Fields (1-1), L: Grant Balfour (0-2), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - OAK over 1-0; 2013 - OAK won 15-4; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - OAK leads 21-5

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 2014 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 2013 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.27

NYY  4.01

MIA  3.17

 RA/G

ATL  3.38

NYM  4.22

HOU  5.23

 BA

M. Cabrera  .348

A. Pierzynski  .272

D. Uggla  .179

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .442

C. Crisp  .335

A. Escobar  .259

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .636

J. Loney  .430

A. Hechavarria  .298

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.078

P. Sandoval  .758

A. Escobar  .559

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.83

J. De La Rosa  3.49

E. Volquez  5.71

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.89

Z. Greinke  7.50

J. Guthrie  4.72

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2014 season. Player Stats for the 2013 season. We will switch to 2014 stats on May 1st.

Astros Batters (2.82 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.19 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 26.Kazmir*
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 45.Johnson
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 13.Pomeranz*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 6/1.167 1/.000 2/1.500 6/.900 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 672/480 .283/.316/.363/.678 .733/.656 .630 74/.681 35/13 5/9
23.Carter G/S/vP 5/1.100 1/.000 7/.476 5/.200 ··· 5/.650 2/.000 ··· 585/410 .223/.320/.451/.770 .782/.765 .925 60/.429 2/0 29/5
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.667 5/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 491/380 .276/.350/.485/.835 .738/.864 .769 60/.784 2/1 18/5
22.Corporan# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/3.000 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 210/123 .225/.287/.361/.648 .660/.640 .641 23/.694 0/0 7/6
30.Dominguez G/S/vP 5/.200 1/.000 6/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 589/424 .241/.286/.403/.690 .627/.714 .694 63/.566 0/1 21/16
21.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 1/no AB ··· 17/1.059 ··· ··· ··· 492/346 .263/.369/.407/.776 .860/.741 .678 55/.620 19/9 12/3
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 222/183 .221/.252/.319/.571 .575/.570 .575 13/.558 6/2 4/10
14.Guzman G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/1.571 318/166 .226/.297/.378/.675 .691/.661 .865 33/.724 3/0 9/6
28.Hoes G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 184/122 .282/.332/.365/.696 .669/.710 .735 28/.655 7/1 1/4
18.Krauss* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 2/2.500 ··· 146/131 .209/.267/.366/.633 .333/.669 .813 39/.488 2/0 4/2
8.Presley* G/S/vP 3/.666 4/1.500 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 195/144 .276/.313/.373/.686 .634/.705 .689 43/.455 1/4 3/1
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 15/.619 / /
6.Villar# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 241/176 .243/.321/.319/.640 .673/.627 .512 55/.620 18/8 1/16
IP 158.0 37.2 67.1 69.0 66.1 70.1 39.0 21.2 TOTAL .193/.266/.336/.602 .620/.595 .585 .602 10/3 18/6
ERA-K/9 4.04/9.2 3.35/7.6 2.54/9.0 3.13/7.8 2.71/8.7 2.94/7.2 1.38/6.2 6.23/7.9 2.59/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (58-19-9)
 Corporan (31-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 672/.262 166/.271 294/.238 266/.214 268/.203 291/.273 159/.276 105/.301 .215  Fowler
 Krauss
 Presley
 Carter
 Hoes
 Guzman
0/110/0/3
18/0/9/3
12/28/12/2
49/0/2/0
3/2/44/0
35/0/5/0
OPS .735 .687 .616 .573 .572 .699 .613 .951 .587
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 175/.573 65/.790 132/.730 92/.516 132/.624 155/.740 83/.613 26/.405 .634
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 497/.794 101/.619 162/.526 174/.603 136/.521 136/.653 76/.613 79/1.150 .530
Home 315/.754 75/.475 165/.562 155/.587 149/.523 166/.657 110/.586 62/.851
Last 28d days 73/.408 25/.163 21/.286 34/.618 37/.438 44/.785 35/.567 32/.564
HR/SB/CS 19/6/2 3/2/0 2/16/1 4/6/3 3/10/0 5/1/1 0/1/0 4/3/0 12/10/0
Usage ·····X·· X·o··o·· X·oX···· ···X·Xo· ··X·ooo· ···Xo··X ··XX·o·· ··XX···X

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2014 season. Player Stats for the 2013 season. We will switch to 2014 stats on May 1st.

Athletics Batters (4.94 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Oberholtzer*
G/S/vB		 37.Albers
G/S/vB		 45.Bass
G/S/vB		 56.Clemens
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 41.Peacock
G/S/vB		 50.Qualls
G/S/vB		 44.Valdes*
G/S/vB		 36.Williams
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Barton* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.667 120/91 .269/.350/.375/.725 .653/.749 .846 30/.277 0/0 3/1
18.Callaspo# G/S/vP 3/.666 7/.143 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· 3/1.667 516/348 .258/.333/.369/.702 .763/.672 .673 52/.957 0/2 10/16
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 3/2.334 2/1.000 ··· 3/2.667 3/1.000 5/.400 ··· ··· 9/.778 574/390 .240/.294/.442/.737 .880/.672 .787 73/.838 7/7 26/4
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 3/1.167 6/1.667 1/no AB 9/2.238 ··· ··· 20/.522 584/373 .261/.335/.444/.779 .645/.857 .705 38/1.116 21/5 22/0
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.500 ··· 5/.000 1/no AB 7/.286 ··· ··· 16/.842 668/464 .301/.384/.499/.883 1.042/.813 .888 76/.701 5/2 24/16
3.Gentry G/S/vP 3/.000 6/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 10/1.200 287/126 .280/.373/.386/.759 .801/.709 .786 17/.828 24/3 2/2
5.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 2/no AB 12/.872 249/220 .271/.387/.372/.759 .442/.802 .696 40/.750 2/1 3/3
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.334 ··· 4/.250 1/.000 7/.000 ··· 1/.000 9/1.319 662/431 .290/.344/.446/.791 .772/.800 .767 71/.866 1/0 15/18
37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB 3/1.666 5/.000 1/.000 3/.333 2/1.000 ··· 12/1.383 505/417 .256/.337/.522/.859 .649/.904 .796 65/.782 4/2 30/8
36.Norris G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 308/135 .246/.345/.409/.754 .990/.445 .851 34/.792 5/0 9/3
1.Punto# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 335/227 .255/.328/.327/.655 .723/.622 .656 31/.555 3/3 2/8
16.Reddick* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 3/1.333 2/1.000 1/.000 4/.500 2/.000 1/2.000 11/1.434 441/296 .226/.307/.379/.686 .667/.695 .586 50/.462 9/2 12/5
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 4/.250 3/1.000 7/1.857 ··· 1/.000 7/1.857 410/338 .266/.322/.364/.686 .640/.695 .701 44/.478 10/5 2/9
IP 71.2 63.0 42.0 73.1 38.0 83.1 62.0 35.0 169.1 TOTAL .244/.337/.399/.737 .632/.764 .764 .737 10/1 19/16
ERA-K/9 2.76/5.6 3.14/5.0 5.36/6.6 5.40/6.0 4.97/9.5 5.18/8.3 2.61/7.1 7.46/9.5 4.57/5.7 4.77/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (28-4-0)
 Norris (35-12-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 293/.237 262/.242 193/.297 323/.283 160/.220 365/.241 252/.251 152/.300 728/.272 .254  Cespedes
 Reddick
 Gentry
 Crisp
 Moss
94/18/0/10
0/0/113/9
34/71/0/7
0/110/0/2
8/2/27/1
OPS .654 .621 .829 .865 .783 .779 .658 .894 .772 .736
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 85/.745 114/.683 90/.881 161/.871 71/.884 211/.919 103/.600 51/.650 402/.818 .816
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 208/.617 148/.573 103/.785 162/.859 89/.706 154/.594 149/.698 101/1.021 326/.716 .662
Road 139/.660 121/.696 124/.965 165/.878 54/.893 222/.726 121/.689 78/1.070 367/.781
Last 28d days 70/.559 33/.678 33/.431 31/.773 29/.476 49/.750 22/.933 5/.933 44/.985
HR/SB/CS 7/1/4 2/2/3 4/2/2 16/7/2 8/2/2 15/12/1 4/5/1 7/0/1 23/9/7 17/14/4
Usage ·····X·· X·X···X· ·X····Xo X··X···· X·oX···· ··X····X ·······X X······· ··X··o··

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.