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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Colorado Rockies, at Busch Stadium III, July 31, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, July 31, 2015
Start Time:
7:15ct (local), 8:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
87° (based on last ten years)
Rockies
Manager:
Walt Weiss
Game #:
106
On This Date:
8-14
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
105
On This Date:
54-75
Season Series
Mon, Jun 08, 2015 COL 11  STL  3     
Tue, Jun 09, 2015 COL  4  STL  3     
Wed, Jun 10, 2015 STL  4 @COL  2     
Thu, Jul 30, 2015 STL  9  COL  8     

Fri, Jul 31, 2015 COL    @STL  8:15pm
Sat, Aug 01, 2015 COL    @STL  7:15pm
Sun, Aug 02, 2015 COL    @STL  2:15pm

                         All times ET
Colorado Rockies
43-57, 5th, 13 GB, 15½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-27   Road:   19-30   ExtrInn: 1-4 
 vsRHP:  38-40   vsLHP:   5-17   1-Run:  13-17
 vsEast: 11-7    vsCntrl:13-9    vsWest: 17-29 IL: 2-12

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
100 Thu, Jul 30  @STL  L   8-9       43-57  5th 13.0 gb
 99 Wed, Jul 29  @CHC  L   2-3       43-56  5th 12.5 gb
 98 Tue, Jul 28  @CHC  W   7-2       43-55  5th 11.5 gb
 97 Mon, Jul 27  @CHC  L   8-9       42-55  5th 12.5 gb
 96 Sun, Jul 26   CIN  W  17-7       42-54  5th 12.0 gb
 95 Sat, Jul 25   CIN  L   2-5       41-54  5th 13.0 gb
 94 Fri, Jul 24   CIN  W   6-5       41-53  5th 13.0 gb
 93 Wed, Jul 22   TEX  L   8-10      40-53  5th 12.5 gb
 92 Tue, Jul 21   TEX  L   0-9       40-52  5th 11.5 gb
 91 Mon, Jul 20   TEX  W   8-7       40-51  5th 11.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18
St. Louis Cardinals
65-37, 1st, 5½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   38-15   Road:   27-22   ExtrInn: 6-8 
 vsRHP:  52-24   vsLHP:  13-13   1-Run:  23-17
 vsEast: 16-7    vsCntrl:26-15   vsWest: 12-6  IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
102 Thu, Jul 30   COL  W   9-8       65-37  1st  5.5 up
101 Wed, Jul 29   CIN  L   0-1       64-37  1st  4.5 up
100 Tue, Jul 28   CIN  L   0-4       64-36  1st  5.5 up
 99 Mon, Jul 27   CIN  W   4-1       64-35  1st  6.5 up
 98 Sun, Jul 26   ATL  L   2-3       63-35  1st  6.0 up
 97 Sat, Jul 25   ATL  W   1-0       63-34  1st  7.0 up
 96 Fri, Jul 24   ATL  W   4-2       62-34  1st  6.0 up
 95 Thu, Jul 23   KCR  W   4-3       61-34  1st  6.0 up
 94 Wed, Jul 22  @CHW  W   3-2       60-34  1st  6.0 up
 93 Tue, Jul 21  @CHW  W   8-5       59-34  1st  5.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jul 30, 2015 STL  9  COL  8        W:Carlos Villanueva (4-3), L: John Axford (3-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 10, 2015 STL  4 @COL  2        W:Carlos Martinez (7-2), L: Chad Bettis (2-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (20)
Tue, Jun 09, 2015 COL  4  STL  3        W:Jorge De La Rosa (3-2), L: Michael Wacha (8-2), S: John Axford (11)
Mon, Jun 08, 2015 COL 11  STL  3        W:David Hale (2-0), L: John Lackey (4-4), S: none

Sun, Sep 14, 2014 STL  4  COL  1        W:Marco Gonzales (3-2), L: Jordan Lyles (6-3), S: Trevor Rosenthal (44)
Sat, Sep 13, 2014 STL  5  COL  4        W:Shelby Miller (10-9), L: Franklin Morales (6-8), S: Pat Neshek (6)
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 STL  5  COL  1        W:Adam Wainwright (18-9), L: Jorge De La Rosa (13-11), S: none
Wed, Jun 25, 2014 STL  9 @COL  6        W:Pat Neshek (2-0), L: Adam Ottavino (0-3), S: Trevor Rosenthal (23)
Tue, Jun 24, 2014 COL 10  STL  5        W:Jorge De La Rosa (7-6), L: Nick Greenwood (1-1), S: none
Mon, Jun 23, 2014 STL  8 @COL  0        W:Lance Lynn (8-5), L: Jhoulys Chacin (1-6), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - tied 2-2; 2014 - STL won 5-1; 2013 - STL won 4-3; All-Time - STL leads 98-89

SP: Kyle Kendrick (30, RHP, 4-11, 6.33)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-11) 112.1 137 81 79 34 59 25 6.33
2014 (10-13) 199.0 214 108 102 57 121 25 4.61
2013 (10-13) 182.0 207 104 95 47 110 18 4.70
Last 7 GS 2-3 32.2 50 28 27 9 19 9 7.44 37
2015-07-26 CIN W 5.0 7 6 6 3 3 1 102 29
2015-07-21 TEX L 4.1 10 6 5 2 2 1 80 21
2015-07-09 ATL ND 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 51
2015-07-03 @ARI ND 5.2 9 3 3 0 6 0 91 45
2015-06-28 @SFG L 5.2 8 5 5 0 4 2 99 37
2015-06-23 ARI W 6.0 8 4 4 1 3 3 82 42
2015-06-17 HOU L 5.0 7 4 4 3 1 2 102 35
Last 5 v.STL 2-2 33.1 36 14 14 5 17 2 3.78 52
2014-08-22 STL W 6.1 8 4 4 1 4 1 96 44
2014-06-22 @STL L 6.0 8 5 5 1 2 0 96 37
2013-07-25 @STL L 6.0 5 3 3 2 1 0 98 49
2013-04-21 STL ND 6.0 8 2 2 1 6 1 113 53
2012-05-26 @STL W 9.0 7 0 0 0 4 0 94 77

SP: Michael Wacha (23, RHP, 11-4, 3.27)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. COL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (11-4) 118.1 103 45 43 29 99 10 3.27
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 3-2 41.1 38 22 22 11 42 4 4.79 52
2015-07-26 ATL L 6.0 5 3 3 3 5 1 99 52
2015-07-21 @CHW W 5.0 4 5 5 2 8 2 100 45
2015-07-08 @CHC ND 6.0 7 5 5 1 6 0 109 43
2015-07-03 SDP ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 6 1 95 68
2015-06-27 CHC W 6.0 6 1 1 2 5 0 92 59
2015-06-21 @PHI L 5.0 8 5 5 1 7 0 81 37
2015-06-16 MIN W 6.1 3 2 2 1 5 0 85 63
Last 5 v.COL 0-1 11.1 21 8 8 1 17 2 6.35 40
2015-06-09 @COL L 6.2 9 4 4 1 10 1 108 49
2013-09-19 @COL ND 4.2 12 4 4 0 7 1 88 31

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Rockies Batters (4.61 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Wacha
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 28.Cishek
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 63.Socolovich
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
28.Arenado G/S/vP 3/2.334 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 7/.929 406/319 .279/.318/.569/.887 .741/.923 .862 85/.764 0/3 25/11
1.Barnes G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.500 1/2.000 1/.000 2/1.500 188/147 .281/.358/.371/.730 .509/.792 .577 50/.776 1/2 1/2
19.Blackmon* G/S/vP 7/1.142 3/.000 2/.000 2/3.000 5/1.200 4/.666 ··· 2/.000 432/324 .293/.361/.461/.822 .619/.891 .793 90/.958 27/10 12/2
3.Descalso* G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 10/.900 130/112 .210/.266/.336/.602 .528/.613 .633 23/.852 1/2 3/6
6.Dickerson* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 3/1.666 1/.000 2/2.000 3/.667 ··· 1/.000 153/122 .315/.346/.507/.853 .734/.883 .732 20/.924 0/1 5/0
5.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.666 4/.250 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 ··· 9/1.931 373/284 .278/.336/.521/.857 .449/.985 .783 80/1.420 2/0 21/4
4.Hundley G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/.200 2/2.500 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 4/1.000 292/224 .304/.346/.473/.818 .617/.881 .692 64/.900 4/5 8/3
9.LeMahieu G/S/vP 7/1.000 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 4/.000 3/.000 ··· 7/1.071 398/305 .325/.383/.421/.804 .716/.830 .734 90/1.050 13/3 4/3
8.McKenry G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 128/101 .211/.320/.394/.715 1.008/.644 .609 21/.349 2/1 3/5
10.Paulsen* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/3.000 197/180 .287/.347/.489/.836 .646/.853 .673 63/.809 0/2 7/1
7.Reyes# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 4/.750 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 7/.143 320/235 .285/.323/.383/.706 .628/.733 .700 88/.772 17/3 4/13
13.Stubbs G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.200 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 5/.000 98/52 .207/.281/.437/.718 .623/.799 .338 39/1.205 2/1 5/0
IP 118.1 19.2 34.0 40.1 47.1 47.2 23.1 43.2 TOTAL .274/.325/.443/.768 .658/.801 .688 .877 56/32 115/60
ERA-K/9 3.27/7.5 4.12/6.4 4.24/7.7 3.79/6.7 1.71/9.9 1.51/10.9 1.54/7.3 1.65/7.0 2.67/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hundley (34-20-5)
 McKenry (28-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 487/.230 82/.267 152/.291 169/.308 196/.235 196/.211 98/.205 179/.212 .241  Blackmon
 Gonzalez
 Barnes
 Stubbs
 Dickerson
 Descalso
 Paulsen
14/90/7/8
0/0/93/5
47/3/12/2
10/24/2/2
37/0/0/1
0/0/1/0
13/0/0/0
OPS .630 .721 .776 .772 .594 .628 .540 .644 .655
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 237/.590 68/.732 68/.791 55/.705 87/.491 68/.906 42/.487 79/.569 .677
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 250/.666 14/.670 84/.763 114/.805 109/.664 128/.492 56/.576 100/.701 .639
Home 204/.592 36/.515 91/.781 92/.796 113/.673 115/.692 47/.707 100/.575
Last 28d days 72/.752 17/1.235 25/.593 42/.696 49/.844 46/.429 44/.559 46/.664
HR/SB/CS 10/5/0 2/0/0 2/5/1 4/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/4 1/4/0 4/4/3 71/31/19
Usage ····X··· ··o·oo·o X···X··o X····ooo ···o···X oX·o··X· o·o·X··· o·X·····
Cardinals Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Rockies Pitchers (5.18 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 38.Kendrick
G/S/vB		 66.Axford
G/S/vB		 63.Betancourt
G/S/vB		 58.Flande*
G/S/vB		 53.Friedrich*
G/S/vB		 62.Germen
G/S/vB		 54.Kahnle
G/S/vB		 34.Laffey*
G/S/vB		 48.Logan*
G/S/vB		 60.Miller
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
8.Bourjos G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 190/128 .226/.323/.348/.670 .663/.674 .809 44/.561 5/6 2/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 12/.916 8/1.025 ··· 4/.000 4/.833 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 413/286 .261/.363/.440/.804 .708/.847 .862 95/.703 3/2 12/10
48.Cruz G/S/vP 8/.250 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 70/53 .182/.217/.212/.430 .732/.343 .205 15/.267 0/0 0/0
35.Garcia* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 15/12 .385/.467/.692/1.159 1.667/1.017 1.229 2/.500 0/0 1/0
15.Grichuk G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 251/171 .281/.335/.554/.889 .864/.900 .932 82/.979 4/1 11/2
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 37/.600 6/.500 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/3.000 2/1.500 3/1.666 ··· 384/276 .283/.339/.431/.771 .781/.766 .837 89/.748 15/2 9/2
38.Kozma G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 83/54 .149/.232/.149/.380 .368/.387 .415 16/.421 1/0 0/3
4.Molina G/S/vP 22/.523 18/.398 3/.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 4/.833 ··· ··· ··· 375/278 .284/.321/.358/.679 .585/.710 .650 89/.625 1/1 2/4
21.Moss* G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 377/245 .215/.286/.404/.691 .782/.641 .564 74/.431 0/0 15/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP 11/.546 2/2.500 1/.000 3/1.000 4/.500 2/.500 1/.000 5/.400 4/.000 ··· 425/311 .286/.344/.455/.798 .788/.802 .717 99/.685 1/2 14/3
55.Piscotty G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 28/21 .360/.393/.440/.833 1.095/.749 .921 28/.833 0/0 0/1
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 13/1.218 3/.667 4/1.250 ··· 5/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 5/1.400 ··· 301/212 .225/.306/.386/.691 .691/.691 .619 77/.782 2/1 9/5
16.Wong* G/S/vP 3/1.334 2/2.500 ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 414/298 .275/.336/.427/.762 .599/.828 .746 91/.660 11/6 11/10
IP 112.1 30.1 31.1 22.0 43.1 14.2 24.1 4.1 28.0 9.0 TOTAL .255/.323/.389/.711 .671/.727 .720 .674 48/24 81/60
ERA-K/9 6.33/4.7 4.45/8.6 4.88/8.9 3.68/5.7 4.36/7.3 4.91/8.6 2.96/11.1 6.23/2.1 5.14/11.6 1.00/9.0 4.95/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (7-1-1)
 Molina (24-18-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 500/.302 141/.250 137/.271 93/.262 188/.296 65/.278 104/.230 20/.313 133/.272 32/.161 .280  Moss
 Heyward
 Bourjos
 Grichuk
 Piscotty
 Kozma
 Reynolds
0/0/79/6
0/0/93/5
0/64/0/1
42/21/11/1
6/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
5/0/1/0
OPS .914 .706 .725 .708 .741 .872 .683 .921 .746 .446 .805
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 234/.984 72/.659 46/.616 32/.715 84/.592 26/1.040 42/.783 9/1.333 63/.549 11/.636 .817
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 266/.854 69/.755 91/.778 61/.704 104/.861 39/.771 62/.611 11/.664 70/.908 21/.343 .797
Road 262/.838 52/.590 73/.697 39/.826 77/.631 28/.606 58/.702 7/.533 49/.624 14/.071
Last 28d days 52/1.104 47/1.021 39/.739 55/.511 40/.708 36/.720 40/.779 20/.921 25/.735 6/.000
HR/SB/CS 25/5/4 3/3/0 3/4/0 1/1/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 1/0/1 3/0/0 0/1/0 114/62/22
Usage ····X··· X··o··X· o··XXo·· ··X··X·· X··ooo·· ··X·XX·· oX·X··X· ·X······ o·o·X·o· ··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  5.27

PIT  4.14

PHI  3.54

 RA/G

STL  2.94

ATL  4.20

COL  5.18

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

C. Yelich  .267

M. Zunino  .182

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .464

K. Seager  .327

M. Zunino  .240

 SLG

B. Harper  .690

N. Walker  .419

B. Hamilton  .291

 OPS

B. Harper  1.153

E. Longoria  .752

M. Zunino  .562

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.37

J. Niese  3.63

K. Kendrick  6.33

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.89

A. Burnett  7.58

M. Pelfrey  4.32

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.