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Game Preview: TEX @ STL, 8:05pm, Sunday, June 23, 2013 @Busch Stadium III

Rangers, 43-32, 43-32 1st, Tied

SP: Nick Tepesch (24, RHP, 3-6, 4.84)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (3-6) 70.2 75 40 38 18 50 9 4.84
Last 7 GS 1-3 38.2 41 23 22 9 28 5 5.12 48
2013-06-17 OAK ND 3.2 6 6 6 1 0 0 72 24
2013-06-12 CLE L 5.0 8 5 5 1 5 2 93 35
2013-06-07 @TOR L 7.0 5 6 6 2 6 1 88 47
2013-06-01 KCR ND 6.1 7 1 0 0 2 0 84 59
2013-05-26 @SEA ND 5.2 5 2 2 1 6 1 91 56
2013-05-17 DET L 5.0 6 2 2 3 1 0 96 45
2013-05-12 @HOU W 6.0 4 1 1 1 8 1 84 67
Has never faced STL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-15   Road:   21-17   ExtrInn: 1-4 
 vsRHP:  28-23   vsLHP:  15-9    1-Run:  12-7 
 vsEast:  7-9    vsCntrl: 9-8    vsWest: 22-10 IL: 5-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 75 Sat, Jun 22  @STL  W   4-2       43-32  1st    Tied
 74 Fri, Jun 21  @STL  W   6-4       42-32  2nd  1.0 gb
 73 Thu, Jun 20   OAK  W   4-3       41-32  2nd  1.0 gb
 72 Wed, Jun 19   OAK  W   9-4       40-32  2nd  2.0 gb
 71 Tue, Jun 18   OAK  L   2-6       39-32  2nd  3.0 gb
 70 Mon, Jun 17   OAK  W   8-7       39-31  2nd  2.0 gb
 69 Sun, Jun 16   TOR  L   2-7       38-31  2nd  3.0 gb
 68 Sat, Jun 15   TOR  L   1-6       38-30  2nd  2.0 gb
 67 Fri, Jun 14   TOR  L   0-8       38-29  2nd  2.0 gb
 66 Thu, Jun 13   TOR  L   1-3       38-28  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16
Cardinals, 47-28, 47-28 1st, 2 up

SP: Adam Wainwright (31, RHP, 10-4, 2.37)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (10-4) 110.0 102 31 29 9 100 4 2.37
2012 (14-13) 198.2 196 96 87 52 184 15 3.94
2010 (20-11) 230.1 186 68 62 56 213 15 2.42
Last 7 GS 5-2 51.1 48 15 14 5 45 2 2.45 62
2013-06-18 CHC L 7.0 7 4 4 0 3 2 104 50
2013-06-13 @NYM W 7.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 95 73
2013-06-07 @CIN W 7.0 7 2 2 1 7 0 107 61
2013-06-01 SFG W 9.0 8 1 1 0 10 0 106 77
2013-05-27 @KCR W 8.0 12 3 3 0 5 0 104 51
2013-05-21 @SDP W 7.1 4 1 1 1 6 0 100 71
2013-05-16 NYM L 6.0 6 4 3 1 8 0 87 53
Has never faced TEX as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-15   Road:   25-13   ExtrInn: 1-4 
 vsRHP:  39-18   vsLHP:   8-10   1-Run:   8-7 
 vsEast: 11-6    vsCntrl:20-10   vsWest: 13-9  IL: 3-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 75 Sat, Jun 22   TEX  L   2-4       47-28  1st  2.0 up
 74 Fri, Jun 21   TEX  L   4-6       47-27  1st  3.0 up
 73 Thu, Jun 20   CHC  W   6-1       47-26  1st  3.5 up
 72 Wed, Jun 19   CHC  W   4-1       46-26  1st  2.5 up
 71 Tue, Jun 18   CHC  L   2-4       45-26  1st  2.5 up
 70 Mon, Jun 17   CHC  W   5-2       45-25  1st  2.5 up
 69 Sun, Jun 16  @MIA  L   2-7       44-25  1st  2.5 up
 68 Sat, Jun 15  @MIA  W  13-7       44-24  1st  3.5 up
 67 Fri, Jun 14  @MIA  L   4-5       43-24  1st  2.5 up
 66 Thu, Jun 13  @NYM  W   2-1       43-23  1st  3.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jun 22, 2013 TEX  4 @STL  2        W:Martin Perez (1-1), L: Shelby Miller (8-5), S: Joe Nathan (24)
Fri, Jun 21, 2013 TEX  6 @STL  4        W:Neal Cotts (4-1), L: Trevor Rosenthal (1-1), S: Joe Nathan (23)

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 STL 13 @TEX  2        W:Woody Williams (4-6), L: R.A. Dickey (4-6), S: none
Sat, Jun 12, 2004 TEX  7  STL  2        W:Ryan Drese (3-3), L: Chris Carpenter (7-2), S: none
Fri, Jun 11, 2004 STL 12 @TEX  7        W:Jeff Suppan (6-5), L: Juan Dominguez (1-2), S: none
Season Series: 2013 - TEX over 2-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - TEX leads 3-2

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 2013 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  5.05

SDP  4.19

MIA  3.08

 RA/G

PIT  3.40

SEA  4.36

HOU  4.97

 BA

M. Cabrera  .368

N. Cruz  .271

B. Upton  .178

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .460

A. LaRoche  .333

Y. Betancourt  .236

 SLG

C. Davis  .723

P. Sandoval  .427

P. Polanco  .271

 OPS

C. Davis  1.135

S. Marte  .761

P. Polanco  .562

 ERA

C. Buchholz  1.71

D. Fister  3.66

D. Haren  6.15

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  12.17

Y. Gallardo  7.13

J. Guthrie  4.29

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

Rangers Batters (4.39 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.52 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 50.Wainwright
G/S/vB		 65.Butler
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 58.Kelly
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 44.Mujica
G/S/vB		 26.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 329/234 .240/.295/.284/.579 .516/.603 .672 108/.430 16/2 0/7
29.Beltre G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/no AB 3/.666 1/.000 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 314/238 .302/.344/.502/.846 .849/.845 .828 101/.866 0/0 14/6
27.Berkman# G/S/vP 34/.931 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 259/188 .260/.363/.395/.758 .874/.712 .734 75/.581 0/0 6/1
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/15 .200/.238/.300/.538 .333/.624 .833 8/.250 0/0 0/0
17.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 298/217 .271/.332/.528/.860 .844/.865 .886 96/.974 5/1 19/2
23.Gentry G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 133/57 .216/.311/.310/.621 .714/.501 .608 39/.438 8/2 1/0
5.Kinsler G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 6/.000 1/2.000 ··· 217/149 .301/.370/.466/.837 .662/.919 .783 37/.669 4/2 7/7
2.Martin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 184/154 .283/.337/.422/.759 .577/.796 .534 73/.750 12/2 3/2
18.Moreland* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 224/143 .283/.335/.551/.886 .788/.943 .820 36/.806 0/0 12/2
7.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 ··· 4/1.250 1/.000 1/.000 270/193 .220/.274/.380/.654 .578/.685 .572 99/.645 0/4 8/2
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 6/1.300 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 208/135 .303/.337/.472/.808 .696/.868 .816 90/.954 0/1 7/0
13.Profar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 106/75 .266/.320/.372/.693 .619/.722 .584 86/.697 0/2 2/3
8.Soto G/S/vP 26/.743 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 88/56 .197/.299/.355/.654 .225/.914 .446 15/.651 0/1 3/2
IP 110.0 10.1 15.1 32.0 23.0 32.0 37.2 8.2 TOTAL .263/.324/.427/.750 .723/.763 .728 .706 46/17 91/38
ERA-K/9 2.37/8.2 2.61/8.7 2.35/4.7 4.22/7.3 3.13/4.3 1.97/7.6 1.91/12.7 0.00/11.4 3.25/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (0-0-0)
 Pierzynski (25-3-3)
 Soto (7-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 429/.248 42/.114 64/.232 141/.308 96/.341 116/.175 154/.229 30/.071 .245  Martin
 Murphy
 Gentry
 Cruz
3/52/7/5
72/0/0/4
0/50/0/3
0/0/70/0
OPS .619 .433 .623 .793 .841 .479 .589 .205 .664
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 218/.605 21/.458 46/.619 64/.711 38/.964 56/.361 75/.471 16/.321 .687
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 211/.633 21/.401 18/.631 77/.862 58/.762 60/.590 79/.705 14/.071 .646
Home 173/.518 25/.571 32/.692 78/.667 52/.769 52/.351 69/.523 18/.284
Last 28d days 151/.647 42/.433 30/.588 54/.491 50/.829 40/.585 48/.484 30/.205
HR/SB/CS 4/0/2 0/0/0 0/0/0 4/0/1 2/1/0 4/1/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 48/19/13
Usage ····X··· ····X··o ·oX····o ·X··o·o· X·o··oXo ···o·o·· ·X·X·X·X o·X··Xo·
Cardinals Batters (4.95 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.05 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Tepesch
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 44.Frasor
G/S/vB		 37.McClellan
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 46.Ross*
G/S/vB		 52.Scheppers
G/S/vB		 55.Wolf
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Adams* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 89/79 .306/.337/.529/.866 .700/.888 .984 44/.599 0/0 4/0
3.Beltran# G/S/vP ··· 5/1.467 ··· 6/1.166 3/.333 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 280/204 .309/.350/.542/.892 .782/.934 .933 100/1.000 1/1 17/2
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· 323/228 .318/.399/.459/.858 .764/.898 .932 112/.944 1/2 5/6
21.Craig G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 304/241 .312/.352/.450/.802 .826/.795 .813 104/.844 1/0 6/1
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 30/22 .138/.167/.207/.374 .000/.513 .444 17/.353 0/0 0/0
33.Descalso* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 142/112 .279/.338/.442/.780 .590/.831 .765 47/1.030 4/1 3/5
23.Freese G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 223/165 .280/.354/.395/.749 .725/.757 .704 99/.859 1/0 4/3
7.Holliday G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/.000 3/1.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 302/235 .271/.351/.444/.795 .621/.839 .774 103/.880 1/0 11/1
19.Jay* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 298/230 .243/.323/.332/.655 .509/.696 .623 102/.488 2/1 4/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 265/195 .253/.298/.322/.621 .700/.593 .480 88/.492 1/1 1/3
4.Molina G/S/vP ··· 2/3.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 288/228 .358/.403/.509/.912 .802/.941 .875 95/1.100 3/2 5/3
43.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 70/29 .218/.343/.327/.670 .574/.805 .571 23/.915 3/0 2/1
12.Wigginton G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/.708 4/.500 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 57/33 .176/.263/.216/.479 .436/.510 .675 17/.561 0/1 0/1
IP 70.2 17.1 19.2 8.1 31.1 35.1 37.0 18.1 TOTAL .275/.335/.408/.743 .665/.769 .744 .791 18/9 63/29
ERA-K/9 4.84/6.4 0.52/8.8 3.20/10.5 6.48/3.3 1.72/9.2 1.53/9.4 0.97/6.1 1.47/2.5 3.75/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (3-1-0)
 Molina (16-12-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 306/.269 69/.167 86/.240 34/.207 122/.157 149/.226 144/.175 76/.243 .247  Beltran
 Jay
 Holliday
 Carpenter
 Craig
 Robinson
 Wigginton
0/0/65/3
0/72/0/3
68/0/0/1
0/0/2/1
7/0/10/1
13/13/16/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .736 .470 .727 .708 .481 .579 .524 .589 .697
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 181/.848 34/.649 28/.500 16/.750 64/.531 51/.644 66/.579 39/.494 .716
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 125/.573 35/.303 58/.835 18/.667 58/.430 98/.546 78/.477 37/.676 .682
Road 148/.702 29/.595 49/.738 3/1.167 66/.562 63/.616 66/.493 44/.644
Last 28d days 98/.780 48/.508 27/.638 34/.708 40/.322 56/.694 47/.569 53/.602
HR/SB/CS 9/3/0 0/1/0 3/3/0 1/2/0 2/2/0 0/1/0 2/1/2 0/0/0 66/32/8
Usage ·····X·· ·X·X·X·· ··oo···X ···X··X· oXX··Xo· ··X·oo·X o·X··oX· ·······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.