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Game 60 Preview: Tampa Bay Rays vs Hoston Astros

The Rays go for their their straight series victory

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports

TODAY'S STARTING PITCHERS:

2016 W L ERA FIP K% BB% AVG BABIP HR GS IP fWAR
Mike Fiers 3 3 5.00 4.49 16.6% 4.2% .289 .316 11 11 66.2 0.9
Chris Archer 4 7 4.73 4.62 27.2% 10.5% .259 .324 14 13 72.1 0.4

Chris Archer's strikeouts returned in his last start against the Diamondbacks as he racked up 12 K's in just six innings of work, however, his home run problems remained as he gave up two more to total 14 on the year. He only gave up three runs though on five hits, while he walked three to go with his impressive strikeout total as he picked up his 4th victory of the season, snapping three game losing skid.

Mike Fiers Scouting Report:

The Astros never know what they're going to get when Fiers takes the mound this year as he has one outing where he allowed seven runs and was out of the game before recording four innings pitched and then following that start, he gave up a lone run in six innings. His last time out was on the sixth against the Rangers where he allowed four runs on eight hits -- one home run -- while he walked a batter and struck out two, pitching two outs into the fifth inning.

His Arsenal:

PITCH AVG. VELO. FREQUENCY vs LHB vs RHB
Fastball 90.1 MPH

40.5% vs LHB

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48.3% vs RHB

High and away from the hitter Tends to pitch anywhere up in the zone
Cutter 87.0 MPH

15.8% vs LHB

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9.1% vs RHB

High and inside on the batter High and away from the batter
Change-up 83.5 MPH

24.4% vs LHB

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16.9% vs RHB

Low and away from the zone Anywhere below the zone
Slider 82.4 MPH

0.2% vs LHB

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14.0% vs RHB

Sporadic Low and away from the zone
Curveball 74.5 MPH

18.7% vs LHB

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11.5% vs RHB

Low and inside, off the plate Low and away from the zone

His Splits:

2016 TBF wOBA AVG OBP SLG HR K% BB%
vs LHB 135 .327 .292 .319 .442 4 16.3% 2.2%
vs RHB 149 .362 .286 .329 .521 7 16.8% 6.0%
HOME 168 .305 .252 .292 .415 6 20.8% 4.8%
AWAY 116 .403 .342 .371 .582 5 10.3% 3.5%

Today's Lineups

HOUSTON ASTROS TAMPA BAY RAYS
George Springer - RF Logan Forsythe - 2B
Marwin Gonzalez - SS Brad Miller - SS
Jose Altuve - 2B Evan Longoria - 3B
Colby Rasmus - LF Logan Morrison - 1B
Evan Gattis - DH Steve Pearce - DH
Luis Valbuena - 3B Corey Dickerson - LF
Carlos Gomez - CF Steven Souza - RF
Tyler White - 1B Desmond Jennings - CF
Jason Castro - C Curt Casali - C
Mike Fiers - RHP Chris Archer - RHP