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New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs, at Citi Field, August 15, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Friday, August 15, 2014

Start Time:

7:10et (local)

Venue:

Citi Field

Tickets:

Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Citi Field

Series:

Game #1 of a 4-game series

Average Temp:

80° (based on last ten years)

Cubs

Manager:

Rick Renteria

Game #:

121

On This Date:

58-65

Mets

Manager:

Terry Collins

Game #:

124

On This Date:

22-27

Season Series
Tue, Jun 03, 2014 CHC  2  NYM  1     
Wed, Jun 04, 2014 CHC  5  NYM  4     
Thu, Jun 05, 2014 CHC  7  NYM  4     

Fri, Aug 15, 2014 CHC    @NYM  7:10pm
Sat, Aug 16, 2014 CHC    @NYM  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 17, 2014 CHC    @NYM  1:10pm
Mon, Aug 18, 2014 CHC    @NYM 12:10pm

                         All times ET

Chicago Cubs

52-68, 5th, 14 GB, 12 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   28-31   Road:   24-37   ExtrInn: 7-9 
 vsRHP:  37-56   vsLHP:  15-12   1-Run:  13-19
 vsEast: 14-14   vsCntrl:19-32   vsWest: 13-14 IL: 6-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
120 Thu, Aug 14   MIL  L   2-6       52-68  5th 14.0 gb
119 Wed, Aug 13   MIL  W   4-2       52-67  5th 13.0 gb
118 Tue, Aug 12   MIL  W   3-0       51-67  5th 14.0 gb
117 Mon, Aug 11   MIL  L   1-3       50-67  5th 15.0 gb
116 Sun, Aug 10   TBR  W   3-2 (12)  50-66  5th 14.0 gb
115 Sat, Aug  9   TBR  L   0-4       49-66  5th 15.0 gb
114 Fri, Aug  8   TBR  L   3-4 (10)  49-65  5th 14.0 gb
113 Thu, Aug  7  @COL  W   6-2       49-64  5th 13.0 gb
112 Wed, Aug  6  @COL  L   4-13      48-64  5th 13.0 gb
111 Tue, Aug  5  @COL  W   6-5 (12)  48-63  5th 13.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16

New York Mets

57-65, 4th, 10½ GB, 8 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   28-30   Road:   29-35   ExtrInn: 7-8 
 vsRHP:  45-52   vsLHP:  12-13   1-Run:  18-24
 vsEast: 27-27   vsCntrl:12-15   vsWest: 10-16 IL: 8-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
122 Thu, Aug 14   WSN  L   1-4       57-65  4th 10.5 gb
121 Wed, Aug 13   WSN  L   2-3       57-64  4th  9.5 gb
120 Tue, Aug 12   WSN  L   1-7       57-63  4th  8.5 gb
119 Mon, Aug 11  @PHI  W   5-3       57-62  4th  7.5 gb
118 Sun, Aug 10  @PHI  L   6-7       56-62  4th  8.0 gb
117 Sat, Aug  9  @PHI  W   2-1 (11)  56-61  4th  8.0 gb
116 Fri, Aug  8  @PHI  W   5-4       55-61  4th  8.0 gb
115 Thu, Aug  7  @WSN  L   3-5 (13)  54-61  4th  9.0 gb
114 Wed, Aug  6  @WSN  L   1-7       54-60  4th  8.0 gb
113 Tue, Aug  5  @WSN  W   6-1       54-59  4th  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 05, 2014 CHC  7  NYM  4        W:Justin Grimm (2-2), L: Vic Black (1-1), S: Neil Ramirez (1)
Wed, Jun 04, 2014 CHC  5  NYM  4        W:Edwin Jackson (4-5), L: Dana Eveland (0-1), S: Hector Rondon (7)
Tue, Jun 03, 2014 CHC  2  NYM  1        W:Hector Rondon (1-1), L: Scott Rice (1-2), S: none

Sun, Jun 16, 2013 NYM  4  CHC  3        W:Bobby Parnell (5-3), L: Carlos Marmol (2-4), S: none
Sat, Jun 15, 2013 CHC  5 @NYM  2        W:Scott Feldman (6-5), L: Jon Niese (3-6), S: Kevin Gregg (9)
Fri, Jun 14, 2013 CHC  6 @NYM  3        W:Edwin Jackson (3-8), L: Shaun Marcum (0-8), S: Kevin Gregg (8)
Sun, May 19, 2013 NYM  4 @CHC  3        W:Scott Rice (2-3), L: Kyuji Fujikawa (1-1), S: Bobby Parnell (6)
Sat, May 18, 2013 CHC  8  NYM  2        W:Scott Feldman (4-3), L: Jeremy Hefner (0-5), S: none
Fri, May 17, 2013 NYM  3 @CHC  2        W:Matt Harvey (5-0), L: Edwin Jackson (1-6), S: Bobby Parnell (5)
Sun, Jul 08, 2012 CHC  7 @NYM  0        W:Ryan Dempster (4-3), L: Jon Niese (7-4), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - CHC over 3-0; 2013 - Tied 3-3; 2012 - CHC won 4-2; All-Time - CHC leads 357-350

SP: Travis Wood (27, LHP, 7-9, 4.86)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (7-9)			139.0	151	85	75	61	115	13	4.86
2013 (9-12)			200.0	163	73	69	66	144	18	3.11
2012 (6-13)			156.0	133	80	74	54	119	25	4.27

Last 7 GS		0-3	39.2	49	31	24	18	35	4	5.45	43
2014-08-10	TBR	ND	6.0	4	1	0	3	5	0	93	64
2014-08-05	@COL	ND	6.0	7	3	3	3	2	0	74	45
2014-07-30	COL	ND	6.0	8	4	4	2	11	0	119	49
2014-07-25	STL	ND	5.0	7	5	2	1	5	2	113	43
2014-07-19	@ARI	L	5.1	8	7	5	4	3	0	98	27
2014-07-13	ATL	L	6.0	7	7	7	3	4	1	104	31
2014-07-08	@CIN	L	5.1	8	4	3	2	5	1	109	41

Last 5 v.NYM		2-0	29.2	25	13	10	14	20	3	3.03	53
2014-06-05	NYM	ND	5.0	4	2	2	5	3	0	92	49
2013-05-19	NYM	ND	7.0	5	3	3	2	3	1	103	56
2012-07-06	@NYM	W	6.0	5	3	2	4	3	1	100	51
2012-06-25	NYM	W	7.0	5	0	0	1	6	0	93	72
2010-07-05	@NYM	ND	4.2	6	5	3	2	5	1	98	39

SP: Zack Wheeler (24, RHP, 7-8, 3.53)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (7-8)			140.1	129	60	55	58	135	11	3.53
2013 (7-5)			100.0	90	42	38	46	84	10	3.42

Last 7 GS		4-0	45.0	39	11	10	16	40	5	2.00	60
2014-08-10	@PHI	ND	6.0	3	3	3	3	5	1	112	56
2014-08-05	@WSN	W	6.2	7	1	1	4	5	0	109	57
2014-07-30	PHI	W	6.2	7	2	2	2	4	1	112	54
2014-07-25	@MIL	ND	6.2	3	2	1	2	9	1	108	69
2014-07-20	@SDP	ND	6.0	8	1	1	1	7	1	106	58
2014-07-11	MIA	W	6.2	5	1	1	2	6	0	114	64
2014-07-06	TEX	W	6.1	6	1	1	2	4	1	111	59

Last 5 v.CHC		0-0	6.2	2	0	0	2	7	0	0.00	75
2014-06-03	@CHC	ND	6.2	2	0	0	2	7	0	107	75

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

Cubs Batters (3.84 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 45.Wheeler
G/S/vB 38.Black
G/S/vB 44.Carlyle
G/S/vB 66.Edgin*
G/S/vB 61.Eveland*
G/S/vB 27.Familia
G/S/vB 58.Mejia
G/S/vB 52.Torres
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

7.Alcantara# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 143/90 .219/.289/.359/.648 .629/.656 .625 114/.550 5/3 3/2

9.Baez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 45/32 .244/.244/.556/.800 .923/.750 1.214 45/.800 0/0 4/2

12.Baker* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 164/134 .200/.282/.241/.524 .472/.535 .501 33/.339 0/0 0/1

5.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 305/227 .235/.297/.375/.672 .746/.646 .665 73/.729 0/0 8/3

13.Castro G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 3/.666 3/.000 516/397 .285/.333/.429/.762 .809/.748 .837 110/.766 4/3 12/12

8.Coghlan* G/S/vP 2/.000 3/1.167 1/2.000 1/5.000 1/no AB ··· 4/.500 3/.000 270/201 .286/.360/.475/.834 .942/.799 .869 95/.855 5/3 6/4

21.Lake G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 ··· 305/214 .216/.243/.364/.608 .671/.581 .592 35/.493 7/3 9/6

44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 523/376 .280/.379/.509/.888 .932/.870 .846 112/.851 3/4 27/8

20.Ruggiano G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 4/.000 235/152 .281/.338/.410/.747 .765/.737 .780 59/.578 2/4 4/1

6.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 199/176 .251/.299/.344/.644 .681/.639 .631 51/.934 0/0 3/1

4.Valaika G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 24/13 .190/.250/.190/.440 .764/.154 .468 24/.440 0/0 0/0

24.Valbuena* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/1.267 389/328 .233/.320/.408/.728 .657/.741 .751 85/.649 0/2 10/6

IP 140.1 29.1 15.1 22.2 23.0 60.1 75.0 70.2 TOTAL .239/.299/.382/.681 .746/.660 .687 .693 49/35 111/67

ERA-K/9

3.53/8.7

2.15/8.9

0.59/7.6

1.59/7.9

2.74/7.8

2.09/7.5

3.84/9.5

3.69/9.5

3.57/7.9

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Baker (37-4-4)
Castillo (51-17-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 595/.247 124/.213 56/.170 83/.179 95/.209 251/.215 338/.268 304/.263 .246 Sweeney
Lake
Alcantara
Coghlan
Ruggiano 12/24/14/5
50/34/0/3
0/16/0/2
60/0/4/2
10/18/31/1

OPS .688 .596 .422 .524 .598 .603 .727 .762 .699

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 287/.799 55/.748 31/.355 58/.516 46/.573 117/.892 165/.606 123/.696 .727

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 308/.587 69/.483 25/.507 25/.541 49/.621 134/.360 173/.837 181/.806 .677

Home 226/.733 59/.542 23/.445 37/.688 46/.741 108/.693 182/.598 168/.812

Last 28d days 137/.681 33/.623 32/.344 29/.683 33/.747 47/.744 47/.823 51/1.070

HR/SB/CS 11/4/3 1/3/1 0/0/0 2/0/0 2/2/0 2/5/0 6/7/0 10/5/0 112/62/18

Usage ····X··· ·X··oo·X ··oo···X X···XX·o ··o··ooo ·X·X·X·X o···X·oX X·X····o

Mets Batters (3.80 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (4.24 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 37.Wood*
G/S/vB 11.Fujikawa
G/S/vB 52.Grimm
G/S/vB 54.Ramirez
G/S/vB 56.Rondon
G/S/vB 46.Strop
G/S/vB 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB 53.Wright*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

29.Campbell G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/75 .298/.340/.382/.722 .720/.723 .751 30/.310 1/0 1/2

15.d'Arnaud G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 299/227 .229/.295/.395/.690 .676/.695 .718 84/.766 1/0 10/4

6.den Dekker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 68/62 .190/.250/.238/.488 .167/.517 .377 19/.649 2/2 0/0

21.Duda* G/S/vP 9/.778 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 430/349 .257/.349/.484/.833 .481/.916 .809 101/.816 3/2 21/2

4.Flores G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 132/97 .234/.258/.297/.554 .560/.552 .511 49/.557 0/0 1/1

3.Granderson* G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 6/1.167 13/1.112 2/.000 497/363 .224/.328/.382/.710 .765/.688 .662 105/.490 8/2 15/2

12.Lagares G/S/vP 3/2.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 333/261 .277/.318/.378/.696 .837/.656 .740 98/.613 4/3 2/2

28.Murphy* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/5.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 4/2.000 5/.000 533/403 .303/.345/.432/.778 .750/.786 .724 110/.897 13/5 9/13

9.Nieuwenhuis* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 82/76 .239/.317/.451/.768 .533/.785 .839 24/.393 1/0 2/1

20.Recker G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 149/121 .187/.224/.324/.548 .364/.592 .475 20/.250 1/1 4/2

11.Tejada G/S/vP 15/.421 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 351/266 .224/.343/.276/.618 .664/.604 .683 54/.408 1/1 2/5

5.Wright G/S/vP 15/.667 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 12/.917 3/5.000 506/389 .275/.332/.384/.716 .987/.634 .759 109/.565 6/5 8/12

22.Young# G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/2.667 ··· 259/198 .227/.307/.302/.609 .458/.658 .484 27/.458 27/4 1/1

IP 139.0 3.0 52.2 29.2 46.1 44.2 62.2 35.2 TOTAL .238/.308/.358/.666 .657/.668 .662 .591 76/28 89/66

ERA-K/9

4.86/7.4

3.00/6.0

4.27/9.1

1.21/11.2

3.30/9.5

2.62/9.9

5.03/8.0

2.78/7.1

3.82/8.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
d'Arnaud (41-10-11)
Recker (12-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 625/.276 12/.200 229/.235 119/.179 195/.249 176/.183 282/.288 153/.246 .246 Granderson
Nieuwenhuis
Young
Lagares
den Dekker
Campbell
Duda 10/11/106/6
12/9/1/5
58/1/0/5
0/82/0/4
5/13/1/3
14/0/1/2
1/0/0/0

OPS .765 .833 .675 .561 .585 .546 .772 .621 .684

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 160/.619 7/.629 75/.642 42/.590 86/.694 74/.687 108/.812 63/.626 .712

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 465/.816 5/1.000 154/.688 77/.544 109/.500 102/.445 174/.746 90/.617 .666

Road 315/.840 3/.333 114/.653 60/.454 60/.485 81/.489 170/.935 78/.451

Last 28d days 130/.817 12/.833 42/.529 14/.896 47/.430 43/.363 41/.350 42/.810

HR/SB/CS 13/10/2 1/0/0 4/6/0 2/4/0 1/6/0 2/1/1 5/11/0 2/2/0 83/93/21

Usage ····X··· X····o·· ·o·Xo·oo ·o··X··· ·oo·o·X· ··ooX·X· o···o·o· ····o·oo

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

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

OAK 4.87

TEX 3.99

SDP 3.25

RA/G

SEA 3.20

PIT 4.15

COL 5.20

T. Tulowitzki .340

A. Gonzalez .273

C. Davis .196

OBP

T. Tulowitzki .432

D. Wright .332

G. Beckham .264

SLG

T. Tulowitzki .603

B. Holt .411

J. Bradley .290

OPS

T. Tulowitzki 1.035

C. Crisp .753

E. Cabrera .572

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.78

I. Kennedy 3.54

E. Jackson 5.74

K/9IP

Y. Darvish 11.35

A. Wainwright 7.35

K. Correia 4.39

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.