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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Los Angeles Dodgers, at Busch Stadium III, May 30, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Start Time:
6:15ct (local), 7:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
84° (based on last ten years)
Dodgers
Manager:
Don Mattingly
Game #:
49
On This Date:
102-88
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
50
On This Date:
98-91
Season Series
Fri, May 29, 2015 STL  3  LAD  0     

Sat, May 30, 2015 LAD    @STL  7:15pm
Sun, May 31, 2015 LAD    @STL  2:15pm
Thu, Jun 04, 2015 STL    @LAD 10:10pm
Fri, Jun 05, 2015 STL    @LAD 10:10pm
Sat, Jun 06, 2015 STL    @LAD 10:10pm
Sun, Jun 07, 2015 STL    @LAD  8:08pm

                         All times ET
Los Angeles Dodgers
28-19, 2nd, ½ GB, 2 up in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-7    Road:    7-12   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  26-14   vsLHP:   2-5    1-Run:   6-8 
 vsEast:  4-2    vsCntrl: 2-3    vsWest: 19-14 IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 47 Fri, May 29  @STL  L   0-3       28-19  2nd  0.5 gb
 46 Wed, May 27   ATL  L   2-3       28-18  1st  1.0 up
 45 Tue, May 26   ATL  W   8-0       28-17  1st  2.0 up
 44 Mon, May 25   ATL  W   6-3       27-17  1st  2.0 up
 43 Sun, May 24   SDP  L   3-11      26-17  1st  2.0 up
 42 Sat, May 23   SDP  W   2-0       26-16  1st  2.0 up
 41 Fri, May 22   SDP  W   2-1       25-16  1st  1.5 up
 40 Thu, May 21  @SFG  L   0-4       24-16  1st  1.5 up
 39 Wed, May 20  @SFG  L   0-4       24-15  1st  2.5 up
 38 Tue, May 19  @SFG  L   0-2       24-14  1st  3.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13
St. Louis Cardinals
32-16, 1st, 6½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-5    Road:   13-11   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  27-11   vsLHP:   5-5    1-Run:   9-8 
 vsEast:  7-4    vsCntrl:17-7    vsWest:  4-0  IL: 4-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 48 Fri, May 29   LAD  W   3-0       32-16  1st  6.5 up
 47 Wed, May 27   ARI  W   4-3       31-16  1st  5.5 up
 46 Tue, May 26   ARI  W   6-4       30-16  1st  4.5 up
 45 Mon, May 25   ARI  W   3-2 (10)  29-16  1st  4.5 up
 44 Sun, May 24  @KCR  W   6-1       28-16  1st  3.5 up
 43 Sat, May 23  @KCR  L   2-3  (6)  27-16  1st  2.5 up
 42 Fri, May 22  @KCR  L   0-5       27-15  1st  3.5 up
 41 Thu, May 21  @NYM  L   0-5       27-14  1st  3.5 up
 40 Wed, May 20  @NYM  W   9-0       27-13  1st  4.5 up
 39 Tue, May 19  @NYM  W  10-2       26-13  1st  4.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 29, 2015 STL  3  LAD  0        W:John Lackey (3-3), L: Mike Bolsinger (3-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (14)

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 LAD  4 @STL  3        W:J.P. Howell (2-3), L: Trevor Rosenthal (1-5), S: Kenley Jansen (28)
Sat, Jul 19, 2014 STL  4  LAD  2        W:Joe Kelly (2-1), L: Zack Greinke (11-6), S: Trevor Rosenthal (30)
Fri, Jul 18, 2014 STL  3  LAD  2        W:Lance Lynn (11-6), L: Dan Haren (8-7), S: Trevor Rosenthal (29)
Sun, Jun 29, 2014 LAD  6  STL  0        W:Clayton Kershaw (9-2), L: Shelby Miller (7-7), S: none
Sat, Jun 28, 2014 LAD  9  STL  1        W:Zack Greinke (10-4), L: Lance Lynn (8-6), S: none
Fri, Jun 27, 2014 STL  3 @LAD  1        W:Seth Maness (3-2), L: Hyun-jin Ryu (9-4), S: Trevor Rosenthal (24)
Thu, Jun 26, 2014 LAD  1  STL  0        W:Brian Wilson (1-2), L: Adam Wainwright (10-4), S: Kenley Jansen (24)
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
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 1-0; 2014 - LAD won 4-3; 2013 - LAD won 4-3; All-Time - STL leads 1082-1051

SP: Carlos Frias (25, RHP, 3-2, 5.34)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-2) 28.2 37 17 17 8 19 3 5.34
2014 (1-1) 32.1 33 22 22 7 29 4 6.12
Last 7 GS 2-3 33.0 48 25 25 8 21 4 6.82 40
2015-05-24 SDP L 4.0 12 10 10 2 0 2 69 -4
2015-05-19 @SFG L 6.0 7 1 1 2 3 0 88 55
2015-05-13 MIA ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 5 0 97 52
2015-05-07 @MIL W 5.0 6 3 3 1 6 1 84 48
2015-05-01 ARI W 5.1 4 0 0 1 3 0 70 62
2014-09-17 @COL L 0.2 10 8 8 0 0 1 38 0
2014-09-03 WSN ND 6.0 3 0 0 1 4 0 77 69
Has never faced STL as starter.

SP: Michael Wacha (23, RHP, 7-0, 1.87)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. LAD Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-0) 57.2 46 14 12 14 35 4 1.87
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 5-0 44.1 36 12 10 12 29 2 2.03 59
2015-05-24 @KCR W 7.0 5 1 0 2 4 0 92 67
2015-05-19 @NYM W 7.0 4 2 2 2 5 1 104 64
2015-05-14 @CLE ND 5.0 5 1 1 2 7 1 105 58
2015-05-08 @PIT W 6.0 6 3 2 0 1 0 104 51
2015-05-03 PIT ND 6.2 5 0 0 2 2 0 100 64
2015-04-28 PHI W 5.2 6 4 4 2 4 0 91 43
2015-04-23 @WSN W 7.0 5 1 1 2 6 0 95 67
Has never faced LAD as starter.

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Dodgers Batters (4.45 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.98 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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
65.Barnes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/3 .333/.333/.333/.667 /.667 3/.667 0/0 0/0
5.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· 4/1.250 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.000 124/105 .204/.290/.250/.540 .161/.613 .529 53/.420 0/0 1/3
17.Ellis G/S/vP ··· 9/.393 1/no AB ··· 5/.400 5/.600 ··· 3/1.334 59/38 .137/.241/.176/.418 .452/.398 .396 37/.411 0/0 0/0
16.Ethier* G/S/vP ··· 22/.808 10/.200 ··· 1/.000 8/.393 2/.000 10/1.375 144/124 .306/.396/.532/.928 .668/.973 .789 81/.855 0/1 6/1
23.Gonzalez* G/S/vP ··· 19/1.464 8/.500 ··· 3/.667 5/.400 2/.000 20/.450 191/150 .339/.414/.619/1.033 .894/1.072 .943 95/.879 0/1 10/3
7.Guerrero G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 96/67 .300/.333/.678/1.011 .794/1.104 1.186 64/.806 0/0 9/2
28.Heisey G/S/vP 2/1.000 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 4/.250 4/.000 2/.000 6/1.500 14/4 .111/.429/.111/.540 .425/.750 .712 11/.597 0/0 0/0
14.Hernandez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/23 .250/.289/.444/.734 .833/.670 .762 29/.792 0/0 1/1
47.Kendrick G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 195/156 .291/.349/.436/.784 .730/.798 .589 102/.715 2/2 4/1
31.Pederson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 191/155 .258/.389/.542/.931 .651/1.001 .923 105/.810 2/4 12/1
11.Rollins# G/S/vP ··· 14/1.500 5/1.100 ··· 1/no AB 5/.400 1/3.000 16/1.152 194/157 .210/.278/.352/.631 .736/.606 .490 95/.651 5/4 5/6
10.Turner G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 1/no AB ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 107/83 .298/.383/.521/.904 .350/1.057 .816 65/.860 1/1 5/3
33.Van Slyke G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 93/67 .274/.323/.417/.739 .756/.728 .459 54/.516 0/1 2/0
IP 57.2 21.0 9.2 12.2 20.0 23.1 20.2 20.0 TOTAL .260/.339/.447/.785 .670/.817 .732 .734 12/15 62/21
ERA-K/9 1.87/5.5 2.57/7.7 3.72/5.6 4.26/4.3 4.05/6.3 0.77/9.7 1.74/11.3 0.45/8.1 2.72/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Barnes (0-0-1)
 Ellis (6-8-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 236/.214 93/.284 39/.229 58/.286 84/.338 92/.179 89/.224 77/.152 .243  Van Slyke
 Pederson
 Ethier
 Hernandez
 Heisey
 Guerrero
24/0/3/3
0/45/0/3
4/1/32/1
4/2/2/1
3/1/1/0
14/0/0/0
OPS .585 .685 .661 .815 .799 .464 .700 .492 .665
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 119/.659 32/.456 32/.715 18/.603 20/.700 40/.452 34/.744 35/.305 .694
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 117/.512 61/.799 7/.429 40/.899 64/.832 52/.466 55/.666 42/.650 .645
Home 81/.596 56/.671 17/.412 32/.795 44/.837 55/.571 51/.785 45/.447
Last 28d days 129/.577 55/.812 23/.577 42/.929 43/.931 46/.556 45/.803 39/.539
HR/SB/CS 4/2/0 0/1/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 1/0/2 1/2/2 32/13/9
Usage ·····X·· ···X···· ··o····· ··X····· ··ooo··· o···XX·· X···Xo·· ·······X
Cardinals Batters (4.27 RS/G) vs. Dodgers Pitchers (3.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 77.Frias
G/S/vB		 63.Garcia
G/S/vB		 41.Hatcher
G/S/vB		 56.Howell*
G/S/vB		 74.Jansen
G/S/vB		 36.Liberatore*
G/S/vB		 12.Nicasio
G/S/vB		 75.Rodriguez*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
8.Bourjos G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 95/66 .259/.326/.400/.726 .646/.762 .967 73/.700 4/4 1/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 2/.000 ··· 3/1.334 6/.666 198/145 .314/.394/.564/.958 .811/1.014 1.043 92/.829 1/1 8/3
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 3/.000 32/25 .200/.250/.267/.517 .929/.408 .472 16/.517 0/0 0/0
15.Grichuk G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 58/42 .309/.345/.618/.963 .846/1.007 1.300 48/.997 1/0 2/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 7/.572 ··· 18/1.033 2/no AB 180/134 .241/.294/.392/.686 .901/.614 .783 87/.748 5/0 5/2
7.Holliday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 5/.400 ··· 3/3.000 2/.000 187/139 .320/.433/.444/.878 .875/.877 .907 94/.844 2/1 3/0
19.Jay* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 5/.650 4/.500 116/89 .255/.336/.275/.611 .536/.634 .605 28/.539 0/2 0/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 44/32 .119/.159/.119/.278 .333/.256 .417 33/.121 1/0 0/1
4.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· 5/1.000 ··· 176/137 .284/.331/.340/.671 .657/.675 .645 95/.750 0/1 0/3
27.Peralta G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 11/1.273 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 201/159 .311/.373/.511/.884 .810/.904 .856 106/.971 1/0 7/3
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 6/.167 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 113/78 .252/.319/.398/.717 .766/.696 .610 74/.758 1/1 3/1
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 198/147 .318/.374/.486/.860 .729/.907 .851 108/.988 4/4 6/6
IP 28.2 20.0 14.1 12.0 5.0 13.0 21.0 10.1 TOTAL .269/.333/.408/.740 .711/.750 .779 .752 21/14 39/29
ERA-K/9 5.34/6.0 3.15/14.8 6.91/10.7 0.75/5.2 0.00/16.2 1.38/7.6 1.29/12.0 2.61/7.0 3.23/9.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (2-1-0)
 Molina (11-8-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 129/.308 81/.176 69/.295 54/.265 16/.000 47/.136 86/.173 42/.263 .234  Heyward
 Jay
 Bourjos
 Grichuk
 Kozma
 Holliday
 Reynolds
0/0/42/2
8/23/4/2
0/31/0/1
4/8/4/1
1/0/0/0
41/0/0/0
5/0/1/0
OPS .790 .544 .745 .601 .000 .351 .492 .625 .650
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 48/.983 24/.679 24/.366 24/.739 5/.000 27/.499 22/1.101 27/.667 .725
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 81/.677 57/.491 45/.922 30/.489 11/.000 20/.153 64/.293 15/.552 .608
Road 52/.715 22/.432 26/.901 15/.673 / 13/.237 32/.466 12/.667
Last 28d days 99/.884 34/.934 27/.847 23/.360 16/.000 28/.526 35/.544 21/.783
HR/SB/CS 3/2/0 3/0/0 0/1/0 0/2/0 0/1/0 0/1/0 0/4/0 0/0/1 41/23/14
Usage ·····X·· ··o··X·· ··o·o··o o··X·o·· ····o·oo ··X·o··· X·o··X·· X····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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TOR  5.22

PIT  4.21

PHI  3.08

 RA/G

STL  2.98

MIA  4.20

COL  5.04

 BA

D. Gordon  .374

B. Lawrie  .265

S. Drew  .158

 OBP

B. Harper  .468

B. Dozier  .327

S. Drew  .226

 SLG

B. Harper  .733

D. LeMahieu  .421

J. Ramirez  .246

 OPS

B. Harper  1.201

C. Santana  .756

J. Ramirez  .506

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.48

J. Hahn  3.69

K. Kendrick  6.38

 K/9IP

D. Salazar  12.05

M. Gonzalez  7.26

M. Buehrle  4.27

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.