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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Nationals, at Busch Stadium III, September 2, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Start Time:
7:15ct (local), 8:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
80° (based on last ten years)
Nationals
Manager:
Matt Williams
Game #:
135
On This Date:
24-16
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
135
On This Date:
59-65
Season Series
Tue, Apr 21, 2015 WSN  2  STL  1 (10)
Wed, Apr 22, 2015 STL  7 @WSN  5     
Thu, Apr 23, 2015 STL  4 @WSN  1     
Mon, Aug 31, 2015 STL  8  WSN  5     
Tue, Sep 01, 2015 STL  8  WSN  5     

Wed, Sep 02, 2015 WSN    @STL  8:15pm

                         All times ET
Washington Nationals
66-65, 2nd, 6½ GB, 13½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   37-26   Road:   29-39   ExtrInn: 5-2 
 vsRHP:  49-50   vsLHP:  17-15   1-Run:  18-16
 vsEast: 29-21   vsCntrl:12-19   vsWest: 17-16 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
131 Tue, Sep  1  @STL  L   5-8       66-65  2nd  6.5 gb
130 Mon, Aug 31  @STL  L   5-8       66-64  2nd  6.5 gb
129 Sun, Aug 30   MIA  W   7-4       66-63  2nd  5.5 gb
128 Sat, Aug 29   MIA  W   5-1       65-63  2nd  5.5 gb
127 Fri, Aug 28   MIA  L   3-4       64-63  2nd  6.5 gb
126 Thu, Aug 27   SDP  W   4-2       64-62  2nd  6.5 gb
125 Wed, Aug 26   SDP  L   5-6       63-62  2nd  6.5 gb
124 Tue, Aug 25   SDP  W   8-3       63-61  2nd  5.5 gb
123 Sun, Aug 23   MIL  W   9-5       62-61  2nd  5.0 gb
122 Sat, Aug 22   MIL  W   6-1       61-61  2nd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18
St. Louis Cardinals
86-46, 1st, 6 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   48-19   Road:   38-27   ExtrInn: 7-8 
 vsRHP:  66-31   vsLHP:  20-15   1-Run:  28-20
 vsEast: 20-8    vsCntrl:32-18   vsWest: 23-11 IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Tue, Sep  1   WSN  W   8-5       86-46  1st  6.0 up
131 Mon, Aug 31   WSN  W   8-5       85-46  1st  5.0 up
130 Sun, Aug 30  @SFG  W   7-5       84-46  1st  4.5 up
129 Sat, Aug 29  @SFG  W   6-0       83-46  1st  3.5 up
128 Fri, Aug 28  @SFG  L   4-5       82-46  1st  3.5 up
127 Thu, Aug 27  @ARI  W   5-3       82-45  1st  4.5 up
126 Wed, Aug 26  @ARI  W   3-1       81-45  1st  4.5 up
125 Tue, Aug 25  @ARI  W   9-1       80-45  1st  4.5 up
124 Mon, Aug 24  @ARI  W   5-3       79-45  1st  3.5 up
123 Sun, Aug 23  @SDP  W  10-3       78-45  1st  3.5 up
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:21-9 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Sep 01, 2015 STL  8  WSN  5        W:Mitch Harris (2-1), L: Casey Janssen (1-4), S: none
Mon, Aug 31, 2015 STL  8  WSN  5        W:Kevin Siegrist (6-1), L: Casey Janssen (1-3), S: Trevor Rosenthal (42)
Thu, Apr 23, 2015 STL  4 @WSN  1        W:Michael Wacha (3-0), L: Max Scherzer (1-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (6)
Wed, Apr 22, 2015 STL  7 @WSN  5        W:Kevin Siegrist (1-0), L: Blake Treinen (0-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (5)
Tue, Apr 21, 2015 WSN  2  STL  1 (10)   W:Aaron Barrett (2-0), L: Carlos Villanueva (1-1), S: none

Sun, Jun 15, 2014 STL  5  WSN  2        W:Jaime Garcia (3-0), L: Doug Fister (5-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (20)
Sat, Jun 14, 2014 STL  4  WSN  1        W:Randy Choate (1-2), L: Stephen Strasburg (6-5), S: Trevor Rosenthal (19)
Fri, Jun 13, 2014 STL  1  WSN  0        W:Lance Lynn (7-4), L: Jordan Zimmermann (5-3), S: Trevor Rosenthal (18)
Sun, Apr 20, 2014 WSN  3  STL  2        W:Rafael Soriano (1-0), L: Seth Maness (0-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 19, 2014 STL  4 @WSN  3        W:Lance Lynn (4-0), L: Jordan Zimmermann (1-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (5)
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 4-1; 2014 - STL won 5-2; 2013 - STL won 6-0; All-Time - STL leads 310-288

SP: Max Scherzer (30, RHP, 11-11, 2.88)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (11-11) 178.0 139 60 57 26 209 20 2.88
2014 (18-5) 220.1 196 80 77 63 252 18 3.15
2013 (21-3) 214.1 152 73 69 56 240 18 2.90
Last 7 GS 1-3 40.0 43 25 25 11 51 10 5.63 50
2015-08-28 MIA L 7.0 6 4 4 0 8 2 85 57
2015-08-20 @COL L 6.0 8 3 3 3 7 0 103 48
2015-08-14 @SFG L 3.0 7 6 6 0 3 2 58 24
2015-08-09 COL ND 6.0 8 4 4 1 10 3 84 49
2015-08-04 ARI ND 6.0 4 3 3 3 9 0 114 58
2015-07-30 @MIA W 7.0 3 0 0 3 6 0 109 74
2015-07-24 @PIT ND 5.0 7 5 5 1 8 3 98 40
Last 5 v.STL 0-2 17.0 18 9 7 4 9 0 3.71 49
2015-04-23 STL L 7.0 6 2 2 0 4 0 82 61
2009-04-14 STL ND 5.0 5 3 3 2 1 0 83 44
2008-09-24 @STL L 5.0 7 4 2 2 4 0 85 43

SP: Michael Wacha (23, RHP, 15-4, 2.69)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (15-4) 157.1 137 53 47 40 134 12 2.69
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 4-1 45.0 39 11 7 14 40 3 1.40 62
2015-08-28 @SFG ND 6.0 6 4 0 2 6 1 102 56
2015-08-23 @SDP W 6.0 5 1 1 2 3 0 102 59
2015-08-17 SFG ND 7.0 6 1 1 1 6 0 93 66
2015-08-12 PIT W 6.0 9 2 2 3 7 1 110 50
2015-08-06 @CIN W 7.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 102 73
2015-07-31 COL W 7.0 4 0 0 1 7 0 102 75
2015-07-26 ATL L 6.0 5 3 3 3 5 1 99 52
Last 5 v.WSN 2-1 22.2 11 4 2 4 22 1 0.79 74
2015-04-23 @WSN W 7.0 5 1 1 2 6 0 95 67
2014-04-18 @WSN L 7.0 5 3 1 0 7 1 93 66
2013-09-24 WSN W 8.2 1 0 0 2 9 0 112 89

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

Nationals Batters (4.27 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.01 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Wacha
G/S/vB		 30.Broxton
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 28.Cishek
G/S/vB		 56.Gonzales*
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
21.den Dekker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 58/51 .212/.281/.385/.665 .000/.764 .631 3/1.667 0/0 2/1
20.Desmond G/S/vP 9/.222 5/1.000 ··· 14/1.072 2/.000 1/.000 3/.000 6/.000 1/.000 5/.400 520/405 .234/.285/.395/.679 .774/.652 .606 102/.948 12/4 17/23
5.Escobar G/S/vP 5/.650 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 3/.000 2/.500 1/.000 7/1.262 481/368 .309/.367/.421/.788 .665/.827 .736 81/.757 2/2 9/5
8.Espinosa# G/S/vP 6/.833 2/1.000 ··· 10/.200 ··· ··· 1/2.000 5/.000 2/.500 1/.000 393/297 .246/.315/.414/.730 .705/.738 .796 56/.778 5/2 12/3
34.Harper* G/S/vP 9/.444 1/no AB 5/.400 3/1.167 2/no AB 1/no AB 1/2.000 5/.600 4/1.250 5/.750 531/369 .333/.461/.630/1.091 .976/1.143 1.055 109/.974 6/4 31/6
59.Lobaton# G/S/vP 6/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 130/111 .200/.287/.304/.591 .349/.625 .591 20/.528 0/0 3/1
40.Ramos G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 11/.364 2/2.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 406/300 .245/.276/.375/.651 .590/.672 .583 79/.735 0/0 12/5
6.Rendon G/S/vP 6/.834 1/no AB ··· 4/.500 2/1.500 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.000 1/.000 4/1.167 221/174 .268/.348/.366/.714 .762/.701 .664 96/.694 1/2 3/2
25.Robinson* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 253/227 .266/.356/.428/.784 1.062/.753 .893 38/.975 0/0 7/5
3.Taylor G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 417/320 .238/.286/.382/.668 .649/.674 .693 88/.659 15/3 13/3
7.Turner G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/6 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 9/.000 1/0 0/0
26.Uggla G/S/vP ··· 6/.733 1/.000 12/.606 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 16/.563 127/88 .189/.291/.288/.580 .705/.523 .655 2/.000 0/1 1/2
28.Werth G/S/vP 6/.000 12/.350 4/.833 6/.666 2/1.000 1/.000 2/2.000 8/1.089 3/.000 9/.333 254/192 .218/.299/.345/.645 .690/.626 .546 104/.781 0/1 5/2
11.Zimmerman G/S/vP 7/.762 8/.625 1/no AB 9/.472 2/2.500 1/.000 2/.000 3/.333 1/5.000 14/.714 368/275 .231/.296/.434/.730 .934/.660 .667 97/1.017 1/0 14/4
IP 157.1 48.2 24.2 45.0 2.2 22.1 53.2 60.1 60.2 53.1 TOTAL .251/.320/.401/.720 .712/.723 .711 .783 54/19 138/77
ERA-K/9 2.69/7.7 4.81/9.6 4.01/6.2 3.40/7.2 13.50/3.3 2.82/4.8 3.69/6.0 1.49/10.3 2.23/11.0 2.19/7.9 2.66/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lobaton (21-6-4)
 Ramos (26-20-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 650/.230 207/.263 103/.269 195/.267 16/.500 99/.276 229/.313 248/.222 251/.206 215/.204 .243  Harper
 Taylor
 Werth
 den Dekker
 Robinson
 Espinosa
 Zimmerman
0/4/120/7
38/73/3/6
56/0/5/3
19/0/4/0
24/0/10/0
3/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .626 .759 .710 .712 1.286 .713 .780 .571 .616 .647 .659
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 303/.597 86/.888 87/.709 82/.766 2/ 38/.618 74/.855 107/.499 85/.873 93/.631 .708
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 347/.651 121/.666 16/.713 113/.674 14/1.286 61/.768 155/.743 141/.619 166/.497 122/.659 .624
Home 286/.615 84/.583 48/.537 116/.727 16/1.286 53/.847 119/.834 138/.634 137/.644 117/.563
Last 28d days 137/.653 42/.778 11/.920 27/.470 16/1.286 9/.583 42/.866 43/.490 46/.649 33/.712
HR/SB/CS 12/5/1 6/2/0 2/0/1 2/5/2 1/0/0 2/2/0 4/1/0 1/2/0 4/2/4 6/4/3 88/41/25
Usage ····X··· ··X·Xo·· ···ooo·· ·oo··X·o X······· X······· X··ooo·X ·X···XX· ·Xo·X·o· X·······
Cardinals Batters (4.09 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (4.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Scherzer
G/S/vB		 33.Fister
G/S/vB		 44.Janssen
G/S/vB		 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB		 73.Rivero*
G/S/vB		 36.Solis*
G/S/vB		 22.Storen
G/S/vB		 46.Thornton*
G/S/vB		 64.Treinen
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
8.Bourjos G/S/vP 3/.000 10/1.181 4/.666 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 210/141 .211/.306/.339/.645 .703/.616 .740 18/.333 5/7 3/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 3/1.667 7/.953 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.900 3/.000 3/2.000 545/372 .260/.361/.462/.824 .721/.873 .837 109/.822 3/3 20/13
48.Cruz G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.167 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 88/68 .181/.209/.241/.450 .610/.406 .178 15/.643 0/0 1/0
35.Garcia* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 39/35 .265/.342/.412/.754 1.250/.690 1.375 20/.328 0/0 1/2
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 3/1.334 10/.311 1/.000 11/.909 2/1.500 ··· 10/.311 2/.000 3/.000 498/349 .290/.349/.441/.790 .729/.815 .856 92/.856 20/2 11/3
38.Kozma G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 95/64 .153/.234/.153/.387 .343/.408 .414 10/.311 2/0 0/4
4.Molina G/S/vP 2/1.500 4/.500 1/.000 5/.400 2/.500 ··· 7/.714 2/.000 3/1.667 483/352 .281/.320/.366/.686 .601/.715 .688 90/.736 3/1 4/5
21.Moss* G/S/vP 16/.742 7/1.714 6/2.067 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 4/1.750 1/2.000 455/302 .220/.301/.413/.714 .756/.694 .602 61/.989 0/0 18/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP 3/.000 16/.580 7/1.381 13/.385 ··· ··· 4/.000 25/.675 4/.500 544/394 .278/.336/.428/.764 .805/.749 .742 97/.585 1/3 16/5
60.Pham G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 103/79 .247/.350/.382/.732 .794/.707 .620 54/.848 1/0 1/0
55.Piscotty G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 150/111 .338/.373/.547/.920 .940/.913 .972 101/.987 1/0 4/2
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 15/.204 14/.748 14/.972 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 1/.000 381/271 .238/.315/.409/.724 .782/.700 .659 73/.900 2/3 12/7
43.Stanley* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/4 .500/.500/.750/1.250 /1.250 1.000 1/3.000 0/0 0/
16.Wong* G/S/vP 3/.000 7/2.000 ··· 2/3.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 3/1.667 529/372 .261/.321/.392/.713 .541/.788 .691 93/.593 14/8 11/14
IP 178.0 97.0 33.0 50.2 34.1 13.0 51.0 33.0 54.0 TOTAL .255/.323/.395/.717 .679/.732 .727 .737 61/32 111/78
ERA-K/9 2.88/10.6 4.45/5.3 4.91/5.5 1.78/8.3 2.88/7.6 5.54/6.2 3.53/10.8 2.73/5.7 3.33/9.3 3.80/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (9-2-1)
 Molina (32-23-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 703/.209 428/.302 138/.258 203/.209 140/.242 57/.294 208/.218 140/.209 222/.256 .257  Heyward
 Moss
 Bourjos
 Kozma
 Piscotty
 Reynolds
 Pham
0/4/119/7
9/0/79/6
0/79/0/1
1/0/0/0
31/1/11/0
5/0/1/0
11/20/0/0
OPS .597 .816 .731 .580 .650 .790 .574 .592 .683 .699
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 367/.666 222/.741 54/.588 96/.709 63/.549 18/.607 113/.701 66/.550 103/.907 .731
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 336/.522 206/.897 84/.815 107/.463 77/.735 39/.873 95/.427 74/.629 119/.485 .672
Road 375/.595 193/.839 68/.798 75/.650 68/.588 32/1.155 88/.569 69/.582 122/.619
Last 28d days 100/.971 50/.845 46/1.152 29/.429 44/.590 / 52/.880 32/.568 42/.443
HR/SB/CS 20/6/2 14/1/3 4/0/0 4/2/0 2/4/1 2/0/0 3/0/1 2/2/0 2/4/1 115/47/26
Usage ····X··· X·X···X· XX···X·X ··oX·Xo· oXX·o··· ········ X·o··oo· o··X···o oo··o··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  5.49

CHC  4.11

ATL  3.61

 RA/G

STL  3.01

LAA  4.14

COL  5.29

 BA

M. Cabrera  .359

C. Gonzalez  .268

C. Carter  .182

 OBP

B. Harper  .461

E. Longoria  .328

O. Infante  .232

 SLG

B. Harper  .630

N. Walker  .427

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.091

M. Byrd  .754

O. Infante  .540

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.59

J. Nelson  3.70

K. Lohse  6.27

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.10

S. Miller  7.69

M. Buehrle  4.21

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.