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Game Preview: LAD @ STL, 8:30pm, Friday, October 18, 2013 @Busch Stadium III

Dodgers, 92-70, 5-4 in postseason

SP: Clayton Kershaw (25, LHP, 16-9, 1.83)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 RegS (16-9) 236.0 164 55 48 52 232 11 1.83
2012 RegS (14-9) 227.2 170 70 64 63 229 16 2.53
2011 RegS (21-5) 233.1 174 66 59 54 248 15 2.28
Last 7 GS 3-2 46.0 27 9 5 10 54 2 0.98 69
2013-10-12 @STL L 6.0 2 1 0 1 5 0 72 70
2013-10-07 ATL ND 6.0 3 2 0 1 6 0 91 67
2013-10-03 @ATL W 7.0 3 1 1 3 12 0 124 76
2013-09-27 COL W 6.0 4 0 0 0 8 0 82 72
2013-09-21 @SDP W 7.0 3 0 0 2 10 0 99 79
2013-09-13 SFG L 7.0 8 3 2 0 6 0 106 57
2013-09-08 @CIN ND 7.0 4 2 2 3 7 2 104 65
Last 5 v.STL 1-4 33.2 28 15 14 9 23 0 3.74 55
2013-10-12 @STL L 6.0 2 1 0 1 5 0 72 70
2013-08-06 @STL L 6.0 6 2 2 2 5 0 90 55
2013-05-26 STL L 7.0 7 4 4 3 5 0 104 49
2012-07-24 @STL L 5.2 7 8 8 3 4 0 105 24
2012-05-19 STL W 9.0 6 0 0 0 4 0 117 79
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   51-35   Road:   46-39   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  71-46   vsLHP:  26-28   1-Run:  26-24
 vsEast: 25-12   vsCntrl:23-15   vsWest: 37-39 IL:12-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Wed, Oct 16   STL  W   6-4         -               
  8 Tue, Oct 15   STL  L   2-4         -               
  7 Mon, Oct 14   STL  W   3-0         -               
  6 Sat, Oct 12  @STL  L   0-1         -               
  5 Fri, Oct 11  @STL  L   2-3 (13)    -               
  4 Mon, Oct  7   ATL  W   4-3         -               
  3 Sun, Oct  6   ATL  W  13-6         -               
  2 Fri, Oct  4  @ATL  L   3-4         -               
  1 Thu, Oct  3  @ATL  W   6-1         -               
162 Sun, Sep 29   COL  L   1-2       92-70  1st 11.0 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15
Cardinals, 97-65, 6-4 in postseason

SP: (2013, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. LAD Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced LAD as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   58-28   Road:   45-41   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  83-44   vsLHP:  20-25   1-Run:  23-16
 vsEast: 23-10   vsCntrl:49-32   vsWest: 21-17 IL:10-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Wed, Oct 16  @LAD  L   4-6         -               
  9 Tue, Oct 15  @LAD  W   4-2         -               
  8 Mon, Oct 14  @LAD  L   0-3         -               
  7 Sat, Oct 12   LAD  W   1-0         -               
  6 Fri, Oct 11   LAD  W   3-2 (13)    -               
  5 Wed, Oct  9   PIT  W   6-1         -               
  4 Mon, Oct  7  @PIT  W   2-1         -               
  3 Sun, Oct  6  @PIT  L   3-5         -               
  2 Fri, Oct  4   PIT  L   1-7         -               
  1 Thu, Oct  3   PIT  W   9-1         -               

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:19-11
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Oct 16, 2013 LAD  6  STL  4        W:Zack Greinke , L: Joe Kelly , S: none
Tue, Oct 15, 2013 STL  4 @LAD  2        W:Lance Lynn , L: Ricky Nolasco , S: Trevor Rosenthal 
Mon, Oct 14, 2013 LAD  3  STL  0        W:Hyun-jin Ryu , L: Adam Wainwright , S: Kenley Jansen 
Sat, Oct 12, 2013 STL  1  LAD  0        W:Michael Wacha , L: Clayton Kershaw , S: Trevor Rosenthal 
Fri, Oct 11, 2013 STL  3  LAD  2 (13)   W:Lance Lynn , L: Chris Withrow , S: none
Thu, Aug 08, 2013 LAD  5 @STL  1        W:Hyun-jin Ryu (11-3), L: Carlos Martinez (0-1), S: none
Wed, Aug 07, 2013 LAD 13 @STL  4        W:Ricky Nolasco (8-9), L: Jake Westbrook (7-7), S: none
Tue, Aug 06, 2013 STL  5  LAD  1        W:Joe Kelly (3-3), L: Clayton Kershaw (10-7), S: none
Mon, Aug 05, 2013 LAD  3 @STL  2        W:Zack Greinke (9-3), L: Adam Wainwright (13-7), S: Paco Rodriguez (2)
Sun, May 26, 2013 STL  5 @LAD  3        W:Seth Maness (4-1), L: Clayton Kershaw (5-3), S: Edward Mujica (14)

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2013 - tied 6-6; 2012 - LAD won 6-5; 2011 - LAD won 4-3; All-Time - STL leads 1088-1055

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

Batter vs. Pitcher Include Regular and Postseason Totals, All Others Just Regular Season

Dodgers Batters (4.01 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.68 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Axford
G/S/vB
36.Choate*
G/S/vB
58.Kelly
G/S/vB
31.Lynn
G/S/vB
61.Maness
G/S/vB
62.Martinez
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
25.Crawford* G/S/vP 1/.000 6/.000 9/1.444 7/.858 3/1.000 4/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.167 469/354 .283/.329/.407/.736 .551/.796 .714 62/.565 15/4 6/4
17.Ellis G/S/vP 3/.666 1/no AB 13/.154 9/.583 3/.000 5/1.400 5/1.000 3/.000 ··· 448/345 .238/.318/.364/.682 .671/.684 .768 66/.646 0/2 10/3
14.Ellis G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 14/.368 13/.334 4/1.667 5/.400 2/.000 3/1.333 2/.000 480/336 .270/.323/.351/.674 .743/.644 .611 73/.591 4/1 6/6
16.Ethier* G/S/vP 7/1.571 12/.166 13/.769 12/.639 ··· 4/.250 9/1.569 8/.661 2/.000 553/393 .272/.360/.423/.783 .613/.854 .884 31/.547 4/3 12/2
18.Federowicz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 173/121 .231/.275/.356/.631 .650/.623 .798 27/.568 0/0 4/5
23.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 2/2.500 9/.444 12/1.940 8/.946 2/no AB 6/.333 3/.333 2/.000 2/.000 641/441 .293/.342/.461/.803 .747/.829 .772 81/.883 1/0 22/11
9.Gordon* G/S/vP 2/.500 1/.000 2/1.000 5/.000 3/.333 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 106/82 .234/.314/.298/.612 .577/.623 .644 18/.801 10/2 1/7
66.Puig G/S/vP 1/.000 1/no AB 8/.661 4/1.417 ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 2/2.000 432/315 .319/.391/.534/.925 1.001/.897 .855 91/.734 11/8 19/5
7.Punto# G/S/vP 6/.167 1/.000 6/1.833 2/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 6/.666 1/.000 ··· 335/227 .255/.328/.327/.655 .723/.622 .653 39/.556 3/3 2/8
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· 14/.630 7/.143 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 2/no AB ··· 336/243 .345/.402/.638/1.040 1.142/1.001 1.061 60/1.228 10/2 20/13
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 9/.222 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 6/.500 2/.000 1/.000 356/296 .263/.332/.332/.665 .632/.671 .646 51/.515 2/2 2/7
5.Uribe G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB 7/.858 5/.900 6/1.000 3/.000 7/.714 2/.000 ··· 426/322 .278/.331/.438/.769 .781/.765 .756 73/.980 5/0 12/6
33.Van Slyke G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 152/76 .240/.342/.465/.807 .764/.850 .799 34/.729 1/1 7/2
10.Young G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 11/.091 ··· 1/.000 6/1.333 4/.500 2/.000 565/411 .279/.335/.395/.730 .730/.729 .714 47/.763 1/0 8/10
IP 65.0 35.1 124.0 201.2 62.0 28.1 64.2 75.1 39.2 TOTAL .264/.326/.396/.722 .706/.729 .742 .699 78/28 138/109
ERA-K/9 4.02/9.0 2.29/7.1 2.69/5.7 3.97/8.8 2.32/5.1 5.08/7.6 2.78/6.4 2.63/12.9 0.45/11.3 3.43/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ellis (35-28-6)
 Federowicz (24-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 289/.285 141/.208 532/.259 856/.252 249/.281 124/.282 255/.245 311/.223 152/.128 .249  Ethier
 Puig
 Crawford
 Schumaker
 Van Slyke
8/74/54/8
2/10/93/8
107/0/0/3
35/29/18/1
30/0/13/1
OPS .796 .537 .694 .701 .725 .704 .674 .608 .432 .680
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 131/.838 99/.492 235/.691 380/.765 79/.726 51/.764 114/.659 137/.586 79/.388 .696
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 158/.761 42/.635 297/.696 476/.652 170/.724 73/.661 141/.687 174/.626 73/.479 .667
Home 150/.751 71/.548 274/.723 414/.641 130/.700 79/.758 129/.509 165/.559 79/.429
Last 28d days 37/.704 18/.353 123/.666 124/.666 30/.695 42/.600 34/1.513 46/.484 37/.500
HR/SB/CS 10/3/2 0/1/0 10/2/1 14/7/7 4/2/0 1/1/1 9/2/2 4/0/2 1/0/1 112/39/26
Usage ·o····X· ·o·o·oo· ·X····X· ··X···X· ··oo··o· ··X··oo· ·o······ ··o··oX· ·o·o·o··
Cardinals Batters (4.83 RS/G) vs. Dodgers Pitchers (3.59 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Kershaw*
G/S/vB
54.Belisario
G/S/vB
56.Howell*
G/S/vB
74.Jansen
G/S/vB
49.Marmol
G/S/vB
30.Volquez
G/S/vB
Wilson
G/S/vB
44.Withrow
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Adams* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 5/.400 1/no AB 2/1.000 319/267 .284/.335/.503/.839 .654/.876 .870 93/.984 0/1 17/2
3.Beltran# G/S/vP 28/.578 5/2.800 4/1.417 7/.286 8/1.089 17/.706 5/.600 2/.500 600/429 .296/.339/.491/.830 .729/.871 .834 96/.648 2/1 24/5
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 15/.533 ··· 4/.500 2/.000 5/.400 7/1.096 2/.000 3/1.167 717/495 .318/.392/.481/.873 .820/.897 .972 114/.968 3/3 11/12
56.Chambers* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 29/24 .154/.241/.192/.434 .000/.530 .437 14/.368 0/1 0/1
48.Cruz G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 129/95 .203/.240/.293/.533 .235/.643 .466 24/.417 0/0 1/1
33.Descalso* G/S/vP 6/1.167 3/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 10/.311 10/1.000 3/1.334 3/1.334 358/292 .238/.290/.366/.656 .529/.684 .597 69/.628 6/3 5/14
23.Freese G/S/vP 20/.653 6/.733 2/no AB 5/.400 7/.286 8/.833 1/.000 2/.000 521/385 .262/.340/.381/.721 .811/.689 .652 80/.791 1/2 9/11
7.Holliday G/S/vP 45/.844 8/.125 6/.666 6/.833 14/.857 21/1.179 11/.819 2/.000 602/458 .300/.389/.490/.879 .799/.903 .978 90/1.179 6/1 22/1
19.Jay* G/S/vP 9/.508 3/1.167 3/.000 3/1.334 12/.083 12/.500 3/1.167 3/.000 628/491 .276/.351/.370/.721 .620/.749 .732 97/.774 10/5 7/1
38.Kozma G/S/vP 7/1.571 5/.650 3/.333 2/1.000 3/1.167 6/.666 ··· 2/.000 448/305 .217/.275/.273/.548 .536/.554 .502 38/.685 3/1 1/9
4.Molina G/S/vP 27/.666 9/.555 ··· 5/.800 14/1.393 23/.503 7/.629 2/.500 541/426 .319/.359/.477/.836 .883/.823 .813 87/.783 3/2 12/4
43.Robinson G/S/vP 3/.666 1/2.000 3/1.666 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 171/77 .250/.345/.319/.664 .598/.746 .639 42/.390 5/1 2/3
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 62/55 .153/.194/.169/.363 .000/.410 .237 25/.330 3/0 0/0
IP 236.0 68.0 62.0 76.2 49.0 170.1 13.2 34.2 TOTAL .269/.332/.401/.733 .672/.755 .739 .753 45/22 125/75
ERA-K/9 1.83/8.8 3.97/6.5 2.03/7.8 1.88/13.0 4.41/10.8 5.71/7.5 0.66/8.5 2.60/11.2 3.25/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (12-6-2)
 Molina (26-20-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 908/.195 300/.274 246/.193 292/.177 225/.225 777/.282 49/.178 134/.165 .243  Beltran
 Jay
 Holliday
 Carpenter
 Kozma
 Robinson
 Chambers
0/0/137/4
0/152/0/4
136/0/0/2
0/0/2/1
1/0/0/0
26/27/34/0
11/0/6/0
OPS .521 .725 .531 .509 .763 .804 .467 .536 .670
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 171/.477 98/.811 121/.452 121/.531 87/.574 394/.836 13/.413 48/.533 .692
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 737/.532 202/.684 125/.608 171/.494 138/.883 383/.771 36/.485 86/.538 .657
Road 436/.517 156/.759 127/.475 140/.568 103/.941 388/.832 24/.341 87/.409
Last 28d days 103/.539 37/.685 36/.454 33/.583 40/.457 114/.713 30/.311 38/.336
HR/SB/CS 11/5/4 3/4/2 2/3/2 6/7/2 7/10/4 19/24/2 0/1/0 5/3/1 127/63/40
Usage ·····X·· ··o··oo· ··X··Xo· ·X·X··o· ··X····· ········ ·o·o··X· ··X···X·

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.