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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Philadelphia Phillies, at Busch Stadium III, April 28, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Start Time:
7:15ct (local), 8:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
68° (based on last ten years)
Phillies
Manager:
Ryne Sandberg
Game #:
21
On This Date:
42-55
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
20
On This Date:
54-45
Season Series
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 PHI  4 @STL  1     

Tue, Apr 28, 2015 PHI    @STL  8:15pm
Wed, Apr 29, 2015 PHI    @STL  8:15pm
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 PHI    @STL  1:45pm
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 STL    @PHI  7:05pm
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 STL    @PHI  7:05pm
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 STL    @PHI  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Philadelphia Phillies
8-12, 3rd, 7 GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-6    Road:    2-6    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:   6-11   vsLHP:   2-1    1-Run:   3-2 
 vsEast:  6-10   vsCntrl: 1-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 20 Mon, Apr 27  @STL  W   4-1        8-12  3rd  7.0 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 26   ATL  W   5-4        7-12  4th  7.0 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 25   ATL  L   2-5        6-12  5th  8.0 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 24   ATL  W   1-0        6-11  4th  7.0 gb
 16 Thu, Apr 23   MIA  L   1-9        5-11  4th  8.0 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 22   MIA  L   1-6        5-10  4th  7.0 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 21   MIA  W   7-3        5-9   4th  6.0 gb
 13 Sun, Apr 19  @WSN  L   1-4        4-9   4th  6.0 gb
 12 Sat, Apr 18  @WSN  W   5-3        4-8   4th  5.0 gb
 11 Fri, Apr 17  @WSN  L   2-7        3-8   4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30: 8-12
St. Louis Cardinals
12-6, 1st, 1 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-2    Road:    7-4    ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  11-4    vsLHP:   1-2    1-Run:   1-3 
 vsEast:  2-2    vsCntrl:10-4    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 18 Mon, Apr 27   PHI  L   1-4       12-6   1st  1.0 up
 17 Sun, Apr 26  @MIL  L   3-6       12-5   1st  2.0 up
 16 Sat, Apr 25  @MIL  W   5-3       12-4   1st  3.0 up
 15 Fri, Apr 24  @MIL  W   3-0       11-4   1st  2.5 up
 14 Thu, Apr 23  @WSN  W   4-1       10-4   1st  2.5 up
 13 Wed, Apr 22  @WSN  W   7-5        9-4   1st  1.5 up
 12 Tue, Apr 21  @WSN  L   1-2 (10)   8-4   1st  0.5 up
 11 Sun, Apr 19   CIN  W   2-1        8-3   1st  2.0 up
 10 Sat, Apr 18   CIN  W   5-2        7-3   1st  1.0 up
  9 Fri, Apr 17   CIN  W   6-1        6-3   1st  1.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-6    Last 30:12-6 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 PHI  4 @STL  1        W:Cole Hamels (1-2), L: John Lackey (1-1), S: Jonathan Papelbon (5)

Sun, Aug 24, 2014 PHI  7  STL  1        W:Jerome Williams (4-5), L: Justin Masterson (6-8), S: none
Sat, Aug 23, 2014 STL  6 @PHI  5 (12)   W:Seth Maness (5-2), L: Ken Giles (2-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (38)
Fri, Aug 22, 2014 PHI  5  STL  4        W:Kyle Kendrick (6-11), L: Adam Wainwright (15-8), S: Jonathan Papelbon (31)
Sun, Jun 22, 2014 STL  5  PHI  3        W:Carlos Martinez (1-3), L: Kyle Kendrick (3-7), S: Trevor Rosenthal (22)
Sat, Jun 21, 2014 STL  4  PHI  1        W:Adam Wainwright (10-3), L: Cole Hamels (2-4), S: Trevor Rosenthal (21)
Fri, Jun 20, 2014 PHI  5 @STL  1        W:A.J. Burnett (5-6), L: Jaime Garcia (3-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 19, 2014 PHI  4 @STL  1        W:David Buchanan (3-3), L: Shelby Miller (7-6), S: Jonathan Papelbon (17)
Thu, Jul 25, 2013 STL  3  PHI  1        W:Lance Lynn (12-5), L: Kyle Kendrick (9-7), S: Edward Mujica (30)
Wed, Jul 24, 2013 STL 11  PHI  3        W:Jake Westbrook (7-4), L: John Lannan (2-4), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - PHI over 1-0; 2014 - PHI won 4-3; 2013 - STL won 5-2; All-Time - STL leads 1214-958

SP: (2015, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced STL as starter.

SP: Michael Wacha (23, RHP, 3-0, 1.33)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. PHI Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-0) 20.1 15 3 3 4 12 2 1.33
2014 (5-6) 107.0 95 41 38 33 94 6 3.20
2013 (4-1) 64.2 52 20 20 19 65 5 2.78
Last 7 GS 3-1 37.0 35 14 13 11 23 3 3.16 52
2015-04-23 @WSN W 7.0 5 1 1 2 6 0 95 67
2015-04-17 CIN W 7.0 5 1 1 1 4 1 103 66
2015-04-11 @CIN W 6.1 5 1 1 1 2 1 76 60
2014-09-26 @ARI ND 5.0 5 2 2 3 4 0 98 50
2014-09-20 CIN ND 4.2 6 2 2 0 1 0 78 45
2014-09-09 @CIN L 4.0 6 6 5 3 3 1 70 28
2014-09-04 @MIL ND 3.0 3 1 1 1 3 0 50 51
Has never faced PHI as starter.

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2015 season. Player Stats for the 2014 season. We will switch to 2015 stats on May 1st.

Phillies Batters (2.65 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Wacha
G/S/vB		 37.Belisle
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 40.Harris
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 53.Walden
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Asche* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 434/345 .252/.309/.390/.699 .733/.690 .693 67/.794 0/1 10/16
4.Blanco# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/25 .277/.306/.447/.753 .731/.781 .900 16/.552 0/0 1/1
3.Francoeur G/S/vP ··· 9/1.069 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 11/.955 2/.000 28/12 .083/.179/.083/.262 .393/.083 .237 60/.630 0/0 0/1
13.Galvis# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 128/83 .176/.227/.319/.546 .496/.573 .460 70/.829 1/0 4/1
16.Hernandez# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 125/92 .237/.290/.281/.571 .626/.551 .706 32/.550 1/1 1/3
37.Herrera* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 75/.775 / /
6.Howard* G/S/vP ··· 12/.250 11/.182 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 13/.462 5/.600 648/459 .223/.310/.380/.690 .770/.658 .668 66/.640 0/0 23/9
2.Revere* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/.400 3/.000 626/441 .306/.325/.361/.686 .763/.653 .685 74/.558 49/8 2/4
18.Ruf G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 117/42 .235/.310/.402/.712 .916/.386 .784 39/.519 0/0 3/0
51.Ruiz G/S/vP ··· 12/.833 ··· ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 ··· 11/.844 2/.500 445/335 .252/.347/.370/.717 .832/.681 .759 56/.619 4/2 6/5
29.Rupp G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 64/57 .183/.234/.250/.484 .000/.546 .377 24/.345 0/0 0/2
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP ··· 7/1.429 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 2/1.500 381/278 .233/.299/.354/.654 .491/.715 .682 31/.328 6/1 5/2
26.Utley* G/S/vP ··· 10/1.833 11/.364 ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.500 14/.143 7/.453 664/456 .270/.339/.407/.746 .682/.775 .735 72/.404 10/1 11/11
IP 107.0 64.2 36.0 80.1 70.1 30.1 77.2 50.0 TOTAL .220/.275/.326/.601 .701/.574 .615 .601 10/3 11/17
ERA-K/9 3.20/7.9 4.87/6.0 4.50/8.0 /0.0 2.91/6.2 3.20/11.1 6.82/11.0 4.64/8.3 2.88/11.2 2.34/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ruiz (74-28-4)
 Rupp (11-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 447/.234 282/.292 148/.213 / 317/.261 308/.223 140/.267 343/.282 205/.186 .221  Sizemore
 Revere
 Francoeur
 Ruf
52/25/26/3
0/141/0/2
0/0/7/0
15/0/0/0
OPS .636 .757 .590 .668 .641 .818 .754 .541 .601
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 217/.581 126/.813 88/.351 / 115/.852 139/.523 48/.827 133/.758 99/.599 .620
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 230/.687 156/.711 60/.938 / 202/.565 169/.738 92/.811 210/.751 106/.488 .590
Home 222/.607 159/.819 86/.554 / 149/.565 202/.701 59/.892 144/.550 121/.479
Last 28d days 81/.561 29/.481 7/1.071 11/.586 30/.610 32/.259 32/.521 20/.649 39/.547
HR/SB/CS 6/0/2 5/4/1 2/3/1 // 7/1/3 2/2/0 5/6/1 6/12/1 2/8/1 9/5/3
Usage ····X··· o·X···X· ··o···o· ·oX····· ··o··oo· ···ooX·· o·X··oo· ·X····o· ···oX·X·

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2015 season. Player Stats for the 2014 season. We will switch to 2015 stats on May 1st.

Cardinals Batters (3.72 RS/G) vs. Phillies Pitchers (4.20 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.De Fratus
G/S/vB		 63.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 57.Garcia
G/S/vB		 53.Giles
G/S/vB		 46.Gomez
G/S/vB		 40.McGowan
G/S/vB		 50.Neris
G/S/vB		 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Adams* G/S/vP 1/.000 5/1.150 ··· 2/.000 6/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 563/433 .288/.321/.457/.779 .528/.854 .833 60/.640 3/2 15/9
8.Bourjos G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 6/.000 2/4.500 ··· 3/.666 294/181 .231/.294/.348/.643 .582/.680 .716 12/.350 9/3 4/2
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 1/no AB 3/.000 1/no AB 1/no AB 14/.829 ··· ··· 1/.000 709/491 .272/.375/.375/.750 .725/.761 .705 82/1.067 5/3 8/16
48.Cruz G/S/vP 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 150/106 .200/.270/.259/.530 .422/.572 .533 16/.517 0/3 1/1
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 5/.800 9/.333 4/1.167 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 10/.500 649/490 .271/.351/.384/.735 .477/.820 .681 75/.583 20/4 11/1
7.Holliday G/S/vP 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 11/.741 4/.000 ··· 5/.200 667/501 .272/.370/.441/.811 1.004/.751 .889 71/.929 4/1 20/7
19.Jay* G/S/vP 4/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 9/.583 1/.000 ··· 4/.250 468/374 .303/.372/.378/.750 .859/.721 .759 68/.590 6/3 3/2
38.Kozma G/S/vP 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 7/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 26/16 .304/.385/.435/.819 .775/.842 .792 6/.533 0/0 0/0
4.Molina G/S/vP 4/.500 2/3.000 ··· ··· 6/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 445/337 .282/.333/.386/.719 .795/.695 .786 60/.667 1/1 7/2
27.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 4/.500 17/.923 7/.143 ··· 13/.385 628/486 .263/.336/.443/.779 .879/.751 .785 77/.884 3/2 21/12
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 3/2.667 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.833 2/.000 ··· 4/.000 433/321 .196/.287/.394/.681 .573/.719 .591 32/.674 5/1 22/6
43.Stanley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / 2/1.000 / /
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/3.000 433/357 .249/.292/.388/.680 .790/.656 .762 69/.760 20/4 12/12
IP 52.2 71.0 14.0 45.2 62.0 82.0 1.0 66.1 TOTAL .260/.322/.390/.712 .661/.724 .666 .712 9/3 13/14
ERA-K/9 2.39/8.4 3.80/12.7 6.43/7.7 1.18/12.6 3.19/5.5 4.17/6.7 0.00/9.0 2.04/8.6 3.68/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (18-6-4)
 Molina (23-21-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 219/.223 313/.248 69/.255 166/.164 270/.292 354/.253 3/.000 259/.191 .245  Heyward
 Holliday
 Jay
 Bourjos
 Reynolds
 Carpenter
0/0/149/9
150/0/0/5
27/98/33/2
0/104/0/0
0/0/3/0
0/0/2/0
OPS .632 .692 .815 .450 .810 .768 .000 .500 .709
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 73/.578 100/.577 37/.628 74/.436 109/1.065 167/.772 1/.000 130/.462 .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 146/.658 213/.748 32/1.042 92/.461 161/.646 187/.763 2/.000 129/.539 .726
Road 93/.631 158/.772 43/.837 85/.392 127/.735 184/.563 / 107/.474
Last 28d days 44/.882 39/.993 37/.567 45/.615 35/.759 52/.745 12/.717 32/.469
HR/SB/CS 4/6/0 4/5/3 2/0/0 1/0/3 6/6/4 13/6/2 0/0/0 2/4/2 20/7/5
Usage ····Xo·· ··X·oX·· ·oo··XX· oX·o·Xo· ····o··· ····X··· ··o·X··· XX····o·

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

For the 2014 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

LAA  4.77

MIA  3.98

SDP  3.30

 RA/G

SEA  3.42

CLE  4.03

COL  5.05

 BA

J. Altuve  .341

J. Upton  .270

C. Davis  .196

 OBP

A. McCutchen  .410

C. Headley  .328

M. Dominguez  .256

 SLG

J. Abreu  .581

C. Utley  .407

Z. Cozart  .300

 OPS

V. Martinez  .974

H. Kendrick  .744

Z. Cozart  .568

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.77

W. Chen  3.54

C. Buchholz  5.34

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  10.85

T. Koehler  7.20

M. Buehrle  5.30

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.