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Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs, at Dodger Stadium, August 29, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Start Time:
6:10pt (local), 9:10et
Venue:
Dodger Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
81° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
133
On This Date:
70-55
Dodgers
Manager:
Don Mattingly
Game #:
129
On This Date:
66-56
Season Series
Mon, Jun 22, 2015 CHC  4  LAD  2     
Tue, Jun 23, 2015 CHC  1  LAD  0 (10)
Wed, Jun 24, 2015 LAD  5 @CHC  2     
Thu, Jun 25, 2015 LAD  4 @CHC  0     
Fri, Aug 28, 2015 LAD  4  CHC  1     

Sat, Aug 29, 2015 CHC    @LAD  9:10pm
Sun, Aug 30, 2015 CHC    @LAD  8:08pm

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
73-54, 3rd, 8½ GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   39-26   Road:   34-28   ExtrInn:11-5 
 vsRHP:  58-41   vsLHP:  15-13   1-Run:  28-17
 vsEast: 20-10   vsCntrl:29-22   vsWest: 15-12 IL: 9-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
127 Fri, Aug 28  @LAD  L   1-4       73-54  3rd  8.5 gb
126 Thu, Aug 27  @SFG  L   1-9       73-53  3rd  8.5 gb
125 Wed, Aug 26  @SFG  L   2-4       73-52  3rd  7.5 gb
124 Tue, Aug 25  @SFG  W   8-5       73-51  3rd  6.5 gb
123 Mon, Aug 24   CLE  W   2-1       72-51  3rd  6.5 gb
122 Sun, Aug 23   ATL  W   9-3       71-51  3rd  6.5 gb
121 Sat, Aug 22   ATL  W   9-7       70-51  3rd  6.5 gb
120 Fri, Aug 21   ATL  W   5-3       69-51  3rd  7.5 gb
119 Thu, Aug 20   ATL  W   7-1       68-51  3rd  8.5 gb
118 Wed, Aug 19   DET  L   8-15      67-51  3rd  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:22-8
Los Angeles Dodgers
71-56, 1st, 2½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   43-20   Road:   28-36   ExtrInn: 5-7 
 vsRHP:  56-42   vsLHP:  15-14   1-Run:  17-21
 vsEast: 19-13   vsCntrl:15-14   vsWest: 29-20 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
127 Fri, Aug 28   CHC  W   4-1       71-56  1st  2.5 up
126 Thu, Aug 27  @CIN  W   1-0       70-56  1st  2.5 up
125 Wed, Aug 26  @CIN  W   7-4       69-56  1st  2.5 up
124 Tue, Aug 25  @CIN  W   5-1       68-56  1st  2.5 up
123 Sun, Aug 23  @HOU  L   2-3 (10)  67-56  1st  1.5 up
122 Sat, Aug 22  @HOU  L   1-3       67-55  1st  1.5 up
121 Fri, Aug 21  @HOU  L   0-3       67-54  1st  1.5 up
120 Wed, Aug 19  @OAK  L   2-5       67-53  1st  2.0 up
119 Tue, Aug 18  @OAK  L   4-5 (10)  67-52  1st  2.0 up
118 Sun, Aug 16   CIN  W   2-1       67-51  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 28, 2015 LAD  4  CHC  1        W:Clayton Kershaw (11-6), L: Jason Hammel (7-6), S: Kenley Jansen (26)
Thu, Jun 25, 2015 LAD  4 @CHC  0        W:Carlos Frias (5-5), L: Jon Lester (4-6), S: none
Wed, Jun 24, 2015 LAD  5 @CHC  2        W:J.P. Howell (3-1), L: Kyle Hendricks (2-4), S: Kenley Jansen (10)
Tue, Jun 23, 2015 CHC  1  LAD  0 (10)   W:Jason Motte (5-1), L: Joel Peralta (1-1), S: none
Mon, Jun 22, 2015 CHC  4  LAD  2        W:Travis Wood (4-3), L: Clayton Kershaw (5-5), S: Jason Motte (2)

Sun, Sep 21, 2014 LAD  8 @CHC  5        W:Chris Perez (1-3), L: Jacob Turner (5-11), S: Kenley Jansen (43)
Sat, Sep 20, 2014 CHC  8  LAD  7        W:Justin Grimm (5-2), L: Brian Wilson (2-4), S: Hector Rondon (26)
Fri, Sep 19, 2014 LAD 14 @CHC  5        W:Clayton Kershaw (20-3), L: Edwin Jackson (6-15), S: none
Thu, Sep 18, 2014 LAD  8 @CHC  4        W:Paco Rodriguez (1-0), L: Neil Ramirez (2-3), S: none
Sun, Aug 03, 2014 CHC  7 @LAD  3        W:Edwin Jackson (6-11), L: Josh Beckett (6-6), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - LAD over 3-2; 2014 - LAD won 4-3; 2013 - LAD won 6-1; All-Time - LAD leads 1041-1029

SP: Jon Lester (31, LHP, 8-9, 3.44)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. LAD Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (8-9) 157.0 149 67 60 40 159 14 3.44
2014 (16-11) 219.2 194 76 60 48 220 16 2.46
2013 (15-8) 213.1 209 94 89 67 177 19 3.75
Last 7 GS 4-1 46.2 40 16 16 10 50 4 3.09 61
2015-08-24 CLE ND 8.2 6 1 1 1 6 0 97 73
2015-08-19 DET L 2.2 7 7 7 3 4 3 62 17
2015-08-13 MIL W 6.0 7 2 2 2 10 0 105 58
2015-08-07 SFG W 7.0 6 2 2 2 3 0 100 58
2015-07-29 COL W 8.0 5 2 2 1 14 1 117 77
2015-07-24 PHI ND 7.0 7 2 2 0 6 0 95 61
2015-07-18 @ATL W 7.1 2 0 0 1 7 0 110 80
Last 5 v.LAD 1-1 11.1 7 5 5 8 11 0 3.97 55
2015-06-25 LAD L 4.0 4 4 4 4 5 0 75 39
2013-08-24 @LAD W 7.1 3 1 1 4 6 0 101 70

SP: Mat Latos (27, RHP, 4-9, 4.81)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-9) 103.0 103 58 55 28 87 10 4.81
2014 (5-5) 102.1 92 42 37 26 74 9 3.25
2013 (14-7) 210.2 197 82 74 58 187 14 3.16
Last 7 GS 2-4 40.2 35 19 17 6 31 4 3.76 54
2015-08-13 CIN L 4.2 7 5 4 1 7 0 85 38
2015-08-08 @PIT L 4.0 7 6 6 1 0 2 78 23
2015-08-02 LAA ND 6.0 4 1 1 1 1 0 80 60
2015-07-26 @SDP L 6.0 6 3 3 0 5 1 87 53
2015-07-21 @ARI W 7.0 4 0 0 1 7 0 84 75
2015-07-05 @CHC L 7.0 1 1 1 2 7 0 87 76
2015-06-30 SFG W 6.0 6 3 2 0 4 1 90 54
Last 5 v.CHC 3-1 35.0 27 10 10 4 35 3 2.57 64
2015-07-05 @CHC L 7.0 1 1 1 2 7 0 87 76
2014-08-27 CHC W 7.0 7 4 4 1 10 2 102 56
2014-06-25 @CHC W 7.0 5 1 1 0 5 0 106 68
2013-08-12 @CHC W 8.0 6 0 0 0 9 0 94 79
2013-06-13 @CHC ND 6.0 8 4 4 1 4 1 98 43

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

Cubs Batters (4.12 RS/G) vs. Dodgers Pitchers (3.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Latos
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 52.Baez
G/S/vB		 41.Hatcher
G/S/vB		 56.Howell*
G/S/vB		 74.Jansen
G/S/vB		 54.Johnson
G/S/vB		 12.Nicasio
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
17.Bryant G/S/vP 3/.666 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 508/388 .262/.364/.476/.840 .802/.852 .666 99/1.046 12/3 20/15
13.Castro G/S/vP 34/.507 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 5/.000 1/.000 7/.929 477/379 .241/.273/.316/.588 .553/.598 .656 59/.726 4/5 6/19
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP 17/.494 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 6/1.000 5/.600 2/.000 3/2.000 407/364 .248/.335/.443/.778 .349/.827 .879 68/.856 11/2 15/1
15.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 15/.354 1/2.000 13/.814 198/125 .255/.296/.337/.633 .558/.676 .634 44/.496 0/1 2/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 21/.738 4/1.500 ··· ··· 5/.400 7/.453 1/2.000 ··· 545/420 .252/.348/.418/.766 .854/.740 .710 105/.963 17/7 14/2
19.Herrera# G/S/vP 3/.666 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 9/.583 1/.000 ··· 127/91 .231/.244/.314/.558 .743/.483 .663 17/.353 3/0 1/2
11.La Stella* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/1.000 16/15 .200/.250/.267/.517 .000/.552 .929 10/.633 1/0 0/0
47.Montero* G/S/vP 21/.438 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 7/.000 13/.398 ··· 17/1.126 312/266 .232/.337/.423/.760 .721/.766 .670 57/.893 0/0 14/9
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 17/.368 4/.500 ··· 1/3.000 4/.833 6/.834 ··· 8/.125 551/392 .287/.394/.535/.929 .957/.917 .977 101/.918 15/5 26/4
22.Russell G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 405/308 .243/.302/.383/.685 .519/.737 .608 82/.770 2/3 9/12
12.Schwarber* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 174/122 .273/.368/.560/.928 .569/1.088 .999 96/.872 3/2 12/5
41.Szczur G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 70/36 .222/.275/.349/.625 .761/.500 .641 8/1.167 2/0 1/0
IP 103.0 43.1 37.2 23.0 36.2 36.2 55.2 48.0 TOTAL .240/.317/.392/.708 .682/.716 .708 .808 79/29 133/85
ERA-K/9 4.81/7.6 3.95/8.1 3.11/10.7 5.48/9.4 1.47/7.8 2.45/15.7 4.37/6.9 3.00/9.9 3.44/8.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Montero (52-14-3)
 Schwarber (12-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 436/.259 180/.239 150/.234 103/.264 163/.270 138/.169 238/.288 206/.228 .242  Coghlan
 Denorfia
 Fowler
 Bryant
 Schwarber
 Szczur
89/0/5/8
29/6/24/5
0/119/0/3
3/4/1/1
21/0/0/1
22/6/2/0
OPS .716 .656 .664 .729 .662 .526 .722 .644 .666
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 199/.792 79/.624 38/.714 38/.751 80/.541 63/.556 102/.660 70/.918 .708
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 237/.651 101/.683 112/.648 65/.717 83/.772 75/.501 136/.769 136/.511 .641
Home 222/.762 89/.563 77/.475 46/.604 82/.677 76/.368 100/.549 103/.693
Last 28d days 64/.842 26/.546 35/.657 17/.551 32/1.071 35/.348 42/1.139 24/.817
HR/SB/CS 10/15/4 4/4/1 3/1/1 2/1/0 2/7/0 5/3/0 4/6/0 1/7/0 108/70/34
Usage ········ ··oo···· ········ ·o·o·o·X ··oX··o· o·Xo·X·· ·oX····· ··oo····
Dodgers Batters (4.11 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Lester*
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 21.Hunter
G/S/vB		 33.Richard*
G/S/vB		 57.Rodney
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Crawford* G/S/vP 40/.653 ··· 19/1.088 5/.650 12/.900 1/.000 5/.400 5/1.600 5/.400 108/92 .255/.290/.382/.672 .661/.672 1.028 47/.798 3/1 2/0
17.Ellis G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 2/2.000 13/.539 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 8/.375 142/88 .224/.357/.379/.736 .902/.638 .694 36/.983 0/0 4/0
16.Ethier* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.333 1/.000 34/.461 1/.000 1/2.000 8/1.000 6/.533 14/1.056 365/328 .297/.373/.486/.859 .473/.904 1.016 61/1.040 2/3 12/3
23.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 15/1.005 14/1.258 4/1.750 2/.000 7/.572 8/.833 10/.500 514/390 .286/.359/.507/.865 .824/.879 .867 95/.692 0/1 24/4
9.Grandal# G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/no AB 4/.500 354/301 .268/.377/.460/.837 .763/.850 .853 57/.430 0/1 15/2
7.Guerrero G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 199/131 .232/.256/.453/.709 .629/.751 .593 23/.399 0/0 11/2
14.Hernandez G/S/vP 3/1.333 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 194/116 .309/.352/.500/.852 1.213/.618 .796 64/.989 0/2 6/3
31.Pederson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 487/391 .213/.356/.438/.794 .647/.832 .730 67/.676 3/6 23/4
18.Peraza G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/3 .167/.286/.500/.786 1.500/.000 .786 7/.786 0/0 0/0
11.Rollins# G/S/vP 14/.517 1/.000 3/1.666 12/.432 4/2.500 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 14/.428 492/393 .222/.277/.365/.642 .793/.604 .691 102/.693 9/7 13/9
10.Turner G/S/vP 2/.500 1/2.000 ··· 4/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 5/.800 3/.333 8/.875 335/248 .299/.361/.522/.883 .726/.937 .940 53/.524 1/1 15/10
26.Utley* G/S/vP 12/.334 ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 6/.833 ··· 7/.714 311/226 .216/.289/.337/.626 .568/.647 .551 62/1.001 3/0 5/7
33.Van Slyke G/S/vP 2/no AB 1/3.000 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.500 191/109 .239/.332/.399/.730 .840/.652 .869 39/.576 2/1 5/1
IP 157.0 37.1 54.1 30.1 51.2 58.0 33.1 56.0 84.0 TOTAL .253/.328/.421/.750 .761/.746 .775 .739 31/28 153/55
ERA-K/9 3.44/9.1 1.21/12.8 3.98/7.0 3.86/5.0 5.57/7.5 1.55/8.8 5.40/5.4 2.89/10.3 4.50/10.1 3.57/8.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ellis (18-16-1)
 Grandal (49-18-8)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 647/.250 146/.160 221/.256 132/.272 231/.258 231/.204 142/.305 221/.154 357/.248 .242  Van Slyke
 Ethier
 Pederson
 Hernandez
 Guerrero
 Crawford
51/1/11/7
51/1/53/6
0/118/0/5
16/13/2/2
29/0/0/1
28/0/0/0
OPS .694 .476 .679 .735 .811 .543 .836 .534 .715 .686
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 149/.716 46/.320 101/.712 39/.451 108/.909 112/.578 69/.719 88/.662 123/.639 .682
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 498/.688 100/.548 120/.650 93/.850 123/.727 119/.510 73/.944 133/.454 234/.755 .688
Road 207/.683 76/.619 107/.549 56/.639 132/.820 106/.626 59/.687 105/.550 175/.785
Last 28d days 102/.796 34/.243 39/.847 63/.630 43/.710 47/.488 40/1.211 41/.487 54/.836
HR/SB/CS 14/36/8 2/2/0 5/9/2 3/1/0 8/3/2 2/8/1 3/5/3 4/2/1 11/0/3 111/109/31
Usage ····X··· ···X···o ··oX··o· o··o·oo· o······X ···Xo·oX ·X···o·· ···o··Xo o·X···X·

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 2015 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

TOR  5.42

LAD  4.11

ATL  3.66

 RA/G

STL  2.98

MIA  4.16

COL  5.35

 BA

B. Harper  .334

E. Encarnacion  .265

C. Carter  .182

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

J. Reddick  .329

O. Infante  .231

 SLG

B. Harper  .637

S. Perez  .423

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.097

M. Byrd  .749

O. Infante  .539

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.61

N. Karns  3.69

K. Lohse  6.27

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.03

J. Quintana  7.59

M. Buehrle  4.25

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.