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Game Preview: STL @ WSN, 1:35pm, Sunday, April 20, 2014 @Nationals Park

Cardinals, 11-7, 11-7 2nd, 2 GB, 1 up in WC

SP: Shelby Miller (23, RHP, 1-2, 4.67)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (1-2) 17.1 16 9 9 9 14 5 4.67
2013 (15-9) 173.1 152 65 59 57 169 20 3.06
2012 (1-0) 13.2 9 2 2 4 16 0 1.32
Last 7 GS 4-2 41.0 35 16 15 18 26 6 3.29 53
2014-04-15 @MIL W 6.0 3 1 1 3 7 1 94 66
2014-04-09 CIN L 6.0 7 3 3 3 5 1 92 48
2014-04-04 @PIT L 5.1 6 5 5 3 2 3 97 35
2013-09-25 WSN W 6.0 4 1 1 3 3 0 90 60
2013-09-20 @MIL ND 6.0 7 4 4 2 4 1 103 44
2013-09-15 SEA W 5.0 3 2 1 2 1 0 95 54
2013-09-10 MIL W 6.2 5 0 0 2 4 0 108 66
Last 5 v.WSN 2-0 12.2 7 3 1 5 11 0 0.71 65
2013-09-25 WSN W 6.0 4 1 1 3 3 0 90 60
2013-04-22 @WSN W 6.2 3 2 0 2 8 0 98 70
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    4-2    Road:    7-5    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   9-5    vsLHP:   2-2    1-Run:   3-2 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl: 9-6    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 18 Sat, Apr 19  @WSN  W   4-3       11-7   2nd  2.0 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 18  @WSN  L   1-3       10-7   2nd  2.0 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 17  @WSN  W   8-0       10-6   2nd  1.0 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 16  @MIL  L   1-5        9-6   2nd  2.0 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 15  @MIL  W   6-1        9-5   2nd  1.0 gb
 13 Mon, Apr 14  @MIL  W   4-0        8-5   2nd  2.0 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 13   CHC  W   6-4        7-5   2nd  3.0 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 12   CHC  W  10-4        6-5   2nd  3.0 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 11   CHC  L   3-6 (11)   5-5   3rd  3.0 gb
  9 Wed, Apr  9   CIN  L   0-4        5-4   3rd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-7    Last 30:11-7 
Nationals, 10-8, 10-8 2nd, 2½ GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Stephen Strasburg (25, RHP, 1-2, 6.00)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (1-2) 21.0 24 17 14 9 33 3 6.00
2013 (8-9) 183.0 136 71 61 56 191 16 3.00
2012 (15-6) 159.1 136 62 56 48 197 15 3.16
Last 7 GS 3-2 40.0 40 26 23 15 50 4 5.18 50
2014-04-15 @MIA L 4.0 8 6 6 3 5 1 81 24
2014-04-10 MIA W 6.2 3 1 1 1 12 1 98 75
2014-04-05 ATL L 4.1 8 6 3 3 6 0 96 32
2014-03-31 @NYM ND 6.0 5 4 4 2 10 1 102 54
2013-09-27 @ARI W 7.0 6 2 2 2 4 0 101 59
2013-09-22 MIA ND 6.0 6 3 3 2 6 1 109 52
2013-09-08 @MIA W 6.0 4 4 4 2 7 0 94 53
Last 5 v.STL 0-1 13.0 7 3 3 2 16 0 2.08 69
2013-04-24 STL L 7.0 5 3 3 1 7 0 110 61
2012-09-02 STL ND 6.0 2 0 0 1 9 0 97 76
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    5-4    Road:    5-4    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   7-7    vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   1-3 
 vsEast:  9-6    vsCntrl: 1-2    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 18 Sat, Apr 19   STL  L   3-4       10-8   2nd  2.5 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 18   STL  W   3-1       10-7   2nd  1.5 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 17   STL  L   0-8        9-7   2nd  1.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 16  @MIA  W   6-3        9-6   2nd  1.5 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 15  @MIA  L   2-11       8-6   2nd  1.5 gb
 13 Mon, Apr 14  @MIA  W   9-2        8-5   2nd  1.0 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 13  @ATL  L   2-10       7-5   2nd  1.0 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 12  @ATL  L   3-6        7-4   1st    Tied
 10 Fri, Apr 11  @ATL  L   6-7 (10)   7-3   1st  1.0 up
  9 Thu, Apr 10   MIA  W   7-1        7-2   1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-8    Last 30:10-8 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Apr 19, 2014 STL  4 @WSN  3        W:Lance Lynn (4-0), L: Jordan Zimmermann (1-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (5)
Fri, Apr 18, 2014 WSN  3  STL  1        W:Gio Gonzalez (3-1), L: Michael Wacha (2-1), S: Rafael Soriano (4)
Thu, Apr 17, 2014 STL  8 @WSN  0        W:Adam Wainwright (3-1), L: Taylor Jordan (0-2), S: none

Wed, Sep 25, 2013 STL  4  WSN  1        W:Shelby Miller (15-9), L: Jordan Zimmermann (19-9), S: Trevor Rosenthal (3)
Tue, Sep 24, 2013 STL  2  WSN  0        W:Michael Wacha (4-1), L: Gio Gonzalez (11-8), S: Trevor Rosenthal (2)
Mon, Sep 23, 2013 STL  4  WSN  3        W:Adam Wainwright (18-9), L: Tanner Roark (7-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (1)
Wed, Apr 24, 2013 STL  4 @WSN  2        W:Jaime Garcia (2-1), L: Stephen Strasburg (1-4), S: Edward Mujica (4)
Tue, Apr 23, 2013 STL  2 @WSN  0        W:Adam Wainwright (4-1), L: Ross Detwiler (1-1), S: Edward Mujica (3)
Mon, Apr 22, 2013 STL  3 @WSN  2        W:Shelby Miller (3-1), L: Dan Haren (1-3), S: Edward Mujica (2)
Sun, Sep 30, 2012 STL 10  WSN  4        W:Lance Lynn (18-7), L: Ross Detwiler (10-8), S: none
Season Series: 2014 - STL over 2-1; 2013 - STL won 6-0; 2012 - WSN won 4-3; All-Time - STL leads 303-286

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

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

Cardinals Batters (4.00 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (4.39 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Strasburg
G/S/vB
13.Blevins*
G/S/vB
31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB
36.Clippard
G/S/vB
48.Detwiler*
G/S/vB
29.Soriano
G/S/vB
35.Stammen
G/S/vB
22.Storen
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Adams* G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 319/267 .284/.335/.503/.839 .654/.876 .806 69/.862 0/1 17/2
8.Bourjos G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 196/153 .274/.333/.377/.710 .608/.740 .661 43/.581 6/0 3/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 3/2.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 4/.500 717/495 .318/.392/.481/.873 .820/.897 .775 79/.710 3/3 11/12
21.Craig G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 6/.833 ··· 3/1.334 3/.666 563/431 .315/.373/.457/.830 .779/.845 .826 70/.497 2/0 13/1
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 129/95 .203/.240/.293/.533 .235/.643 .626 11/.990 0/0 1/1
33.Descalso* G/S/vP 5/.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 358/292 .238/.290/.366/.656 .529/.684 .702 22/.293 6/3 5/14
3.Ellis G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 8/.625 8/.393 1/.000 2/1.000 480/336 .270/.323/.351/.674 .743/.644 .611 10/.443 4/1 6/6
7.Holliday G/S/vP 6/1.500 1/2.000 ··· 4/1.250 5/1.350 1/.000 10/1.025 7/.453 602/458 .300/.389/.490/.879 .799/.903 .790 77/.724 6/1 22/1
19.Jay* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 5/1.200 4/.750 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 5/.450 628/491 .276/.351/.370/.721 .620/.749 .711 37/.876 10/5 7/1
4.Molina G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 5/.650 5/.600 5/.400 6/.334 6/.834 541/426 .319/.359/.477/.836 .883/.823 .855 67/.920 3/2 12/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP 5/.650 7/.929 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 5/.650 1/.000 2/.000 448/312 .303/.358/.457/.815 .964/.750 .705 66/.691 3/3 11/4
43.Robinson G/S/vP 3/.000 1/no AB 3/2.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 171/77 .250/.345/.319/.664 .598/.746 .686 16/.327 5/1 2/3
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 62/55 .153/.194/.169/.363 .000/.410 .451 64/.585 3/0 0/0
IP 183.0 60.0 12.1 71.0 71.1 66.2 81.2 61.2 TOTAL .247/.316/.367/.683 .494/.742 .642 .683 7/3 12/15
ERA-K/9 3.00/9.4 3.15/7.8 6.57/6.6 2.41/9.3 4.04/4.9 3.11/6.9 2.76/8.7 4.52/8.5 3.75/9.9

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 731/.207 245/.218 60/.306 275/.152 316/.315 277/.251 339/.262 267/.267 .252  Jay
 Bourjos
 Holliday
 Carpenter
 Craig
 Peralta
 Robinson
0/152/0/4
0/53/0/2
136/0/0/2
0/0/2/1
25/0/22/1
3/0/0/0
26/27/34/0
OPS .588 .651 .811 .517 .811 .668 .682 .729 .719
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 347/.629 107/.741 31/.603 141/.507 83/.705 118/.785 133/.756 113/.816 .744
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 384/.552 138/.581 29/1.039 134/.527 233/.849 159/.584 206/.634 154/.668 .705
Home 379/.510 114/.665 31/.781 139/.539 151/.868 150/.637 166/.874 140/.796
Last 28d days 99/.769 31/.661 / 36/.711 44/.629 27/.528 37/.804 22/.318
HR/SB/CS 16/13/5 7/2/2 0/0/0 9/2/0 5/2/0 7/3/0 4/9/3 7/4/1 17/5/4
Usage ····X··· ··X·o·o· ·X·oo··· X·····X· ·X·oo··· ····X··X ·o·o····

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

Nationals Batters (4.61 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.33 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Miller
G/S/vB
36.Choate*
G/S/vB
61.Maness
G/S/vB
44.Martinez
G/S/vB
41.Neshek
G/S/vB
26.Rosenthal
G/S/vB
46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
20.Desmond G/S/vP 6/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 5/.000 ··· 655/507 .280/.331/.453/.784 .766/.789 .871 73/.671 21/6 20/20
8.Espinosa# G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 167/130 .158/.193/.272/.465 .529/.448 .482 47/.819 1/0 3/2
19.Frandsen G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 278/190 .234/.296/.341/.637 .869/.536 .621 26/.732 1/0 5/4
34.Harper* G/S/vP 6/.334 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 497/339 .274/.368/.486/.854 .648/.947 .910 66/.775 11/4 20/6
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 6/.533 4/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 590/448 .237/.332/.403/.735 .566/.791 .720 72/.917 4/1 20/11
41.Leon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 28/.484 0/0 0/0
59.Lobaton# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 311/205 .249/.320/.394/.714 .653/.745 .760 39/.514 0/1 7/3
15.McLouth* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/2.667 1/.000 ··· 593/463 .258/.329/.399/.729 .640/.753 .705 33/.330 30/7 12/1
12.Moore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 178/98 .222/.260/.347/.607 .508/.687 .584 14/.714 0/0 4/1
6.Rendon G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 394/277 .265/.329/.396/.725 .830/.682 .694 75/.952 1/1 7/16
2.Span* G/S/vP 6/.167 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 2/2.000 662/490 .279/.327/.380/.707 .539/.765 .749 46/.677 20/6 4/0
4.Walters# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 9/6 .375/.444/.625/1.069 1.333/.900 .500 6/2.100 0/0 0/0
28.Werth G/S/vP 6/.533 4/.833 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 6/1.133 ··· 532/408 .318/.398/.532/.931 1.092/.884 .896 74/.798 10/1 25/2
IP 173.1 35.1 62.0 28.1 40.1 75.1 39.2 TOTAL .252/.318/.426/.744 .939/.695 .630 .744 4/3 21/20
ERA-K/9 3.06/8.8 2.29/7.1 2.32/5.1 5.08/7.6 3.35/6.5 2.63/12.9 0.45/11.3 3.16/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Leon (0-0-0)
 Lobaton (63-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 722/.234 141/.208 249/.281 124/.282 177/.252 311/.223 152/.128 .225  Harper
 Werth
 Span
 McLouth
 Moore
97/9/16/13
0/0/126/7
0/153/0/5
136/3/0/4
29/0/6/0
OPS .670 .537 .725 .704 .738 .608 .432 .640
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 342/.761 99/.492 79/.726 51/.764 60/.922 137/.586 79/.388 .698
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 380/.588 42/.635 170/.724 73/.661 117/.644 174/.626 73/.479 .596
Road 358/.782 70/.523 119/.754 45/.611 95/.853 146/.664 73/.436
Last 28d days 73/.898 18/.284 28/.904 42/.525 30/.563 41/.682 27/.389
HR/SB/CS 20/9/4 0/1/0 4/2/0 1/1/1 6/2/1 4/0/2 1/0/1 13/6/5
Usage ····X··· ···o···o ···Xo··o X····X·· ···oo··· Xo····X· o···o·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.