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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs, at Busch Stadium III, October 15, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

NOTE: Some stats are only updated through Tuesday, October 13, 2015. Site will be updated with yesterday's stats by 11:30am ET.

Date:
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Start Time:
3:30ct (local), 4:30et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #5 of a 5-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
162
On This Date:
3-1
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
162
On This Date:
1-5
Season Series
Sun, Apr 05, 2015 STL  3 @CHC  0     
Wed, Apr 08, 2015 CHC  2  STL  0     
Mon, May 04, 2015 STL 10  CHC  9     
Tue, May 05, 2015 STL  7  CHC  4     
Wed, May 06, 2015 CHC  6 @STL  5     
Thu, May 07, 2015 STL  5  CHC  1     
Fri, Jun 26, 2015 STL  3  CHC  2 (10)
Sat, Jun 27, 2015 STL  8  CHC  1     
Sun, Jun 28, 2015 STL  4  CHC  1     
Mon, Jul 06, 2015 STL  6 @CHC  0     
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CHC  7  STL  4     
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CHC  5  STL  3     
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 STL  6 @CHC  5     
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 CHC  9 @STL  0     
Tue, Sep 08, 2015 CHC  8 @STL  5     
Wed, Sep 09, 2015 STL  4  CHC  3     
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 CHC  8  STL  3     
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 CHC  5  STL  4     
Sun, Sep 20, 2015 STL  4 @CHC  3     

Thu, Oct 15, 2015 CHC    @STL  4:30pm

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
97-65, / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   49-32   Road:   48-33   ExtrInn:13-5 
 vsRHP:  77-51   vsLHP:  20-14   1-Run:  34-21
 vsEast: 22-12   vsCntrl:46-30   vsWest: 19-13 IL:10-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Oct  4  @MIL  W   3-1       97-65  3rd  3.0 gb
161 Sat, Oct  3  @MIL  W   1-0       96-65  3rd  4.5 gb
160 Fri, Oct  2  @MIL  W   6-1       95-65  3rd  5.0 gb
159 Thu, Oct  1  @CIN  W   5-3       94-65  3rd  6.0 gb
158 Wed, Sep 30  @CIN  W  10-3       93-65  3rd  6.5 gb
157 Tue, Sep 29  @CIN  W   4-1       92-65  3rd  7.0 gb
156 Mon, Sep 28   KCR  W   1-0 (11)  91-65  3rd  7.5 gb
155 Sun, Sep 27   PIT  W   4-0       90-65  3rd  7.5 gb
154 Sat, Sep 26   PIT  L   0-4       89-65  3rd  8.5 gb
153 Fri, Sep 25   PIT  L   2-3       89-64  3rd  7.5 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:22-8
St. Louis Cardinals
100-62, / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   55-26   Road:   45-36   ExtrInn: 8-8 
 vsRHP:  75-44   vsLHP:  25-18   1-Run:  32-23
 vsEast: 20-12   vsCntrl:46-30   vsWest: 23-11 IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Oct  4  @ATL  L   0-2      100-62  1st  2.0 up
161 Sun, Oct  4  @ATL  L   0-6      100-61  1st  2.0 up
160 Fri, Oct  2  @ATL  L   0-4      100-60  1st  3.0 up
159 Wed, Sep 30  @PIT  W  11-1      100-59  1st  4.0 up
158 Wed, Sep 30  @PIT  L   2-8       99-59  1st  4.0 up
157 Mon, Sep 28  @PIT  W   3-0       99-58  1st  4.0 up
156 Sun, Sep 27   MIL  L   4-8       98-58  1st  3.0 up
155 Sat, Sep 26   MIL  W   5-1       98-57  1st  3.0 up
154 Fri, Sep 25   MIL  L   3-4       97-57  1st  3.0 up
153 Thu, Sep 24   MIL  W   7-3       97-56  1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Sep 20, 2015 STL  4 @CHC  3        W:Carlos Martinez (14-7), L: Jon Lester (10-11), S: Trevor Rosenthal (46)
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 CHC  5  STL  4        W:Trevor Cahill (1-3), L: Michael Wacha (16-6), S: Pedro Strop (3)
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 CHC  8  STL  3        W:Tommy Hunter (4-2), L: Seth Maness (4-2), S: none
Wed, Sep 09, 2015 STL  4  CHC  3        W:Jonathan Broxton (2-4), L: Clayton Richard (3-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (43)
Tue, Sep 08, 2015 CHC  8 @STL  5        W:Jason Hammel (8-6), L: Michael Wacha (15-5), S: Hector Rondon (27)
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 CHC  9 @STL  0        W:Dan Haren (9-9), L: Lance Lynn (11-9), S: none
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 STL  6 @CHC  5        W:Miguel Socolovich (3-1), L: Pedro Strop (1-4), S: Trevor Rosenthal (25)
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CHC  5  STL  3        W:Travis Wood (5-3), L: Seth Maness (3-1), S: Jason Motte (5)
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CHC  7  STL  4        W:Jake Arrieta (9-5), L: Tyler Lyons (2-1), S: none
Mon, Jul 06, 2015 STL  6 @CHC  0        W:John Lackey (7-5), L: Jon Lester (4-7), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 11-8; 2014 - STL won 10-9; 2013 - STL won 12-7; All-Time - CHC leads 1197-1147

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

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

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

Cubs Batters (4.25 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.24 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Broxton
G/S/vB		 70.Lyons*
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 50.Wainwright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Baez G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 3/.000 80/60 .289/.325/.408/.733 1.082/.617 .824 61/.735 1/2 1/2
17.Bryant G/S/vP 4/.500 7/.286 ··· 2/.000 5/.600 4/1.250 ··· 650/505 .275/.369/.488/.858 .797/.875 .693 105/.886 13/4 26/17
13.Castro G/S/vP 8/1.000 11/.728 10/1.200 18/1.089 10/1.100 6/.567 44/.620 578/453 .265/.296/.375/.671 .643/.679 .715 82/1.075 5/5 11/24
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP 10/.200 2/.000 3/.000 5/.800 4/.666 11/1.233 21/.701 503/454 .250/.341/.443/.784 .348/.831 .897 66/.855 11/2 16/1
15.Denorfia G/S/vP 7/.453 6/.750 1/2.000 5/.400 3/2.334 3/.000 6/.334 231/146 .269/.319/.373/.691 .597/.745 .660 25/1.009 0/1 3/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 11/.664 7/.533 6/.167 4/.000 2/.000 10/1.158 17/.588 690/536 .250/.346/.411/.757 .865/.726 .744 105/.594 20/7 17/4
27.Jackson G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 7/1.143 ··· 527/347 .267/.311/.385/.696 .770/.657 .685 59/.659 17/10 9/4
11.La Stella* G/S/vP 3/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 75/71 .269/.324/.403/.727 .000/.771 .949 41/.939 2/0 1/1
47.Montero* G/S/vP 17/.912 4/.833 4/.833 3/.000 3/.333 11/.182 20/.794 403/347 .248/.345/.409/.754 .786/.749 .686 67/.663 1/1 15/12
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 9/.555 14/1.071 1/no AB 7/.953 22/.507 4/.500 32/.777 701/503 .278/.387/.512/.899 .881/.905 .929 113/.784 17/6 31/9
3.Ross G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 14/.901 182/132 .176/.267/.252/.518 .440/.549 .525 34/.343 1/0 1/1
22.Russell G/S/vP 2/.000 3/1.667 7/1.715 2/1.500 2/.000 5/.200 ··· 523/403 .242/.307/.389/.696 .527/.746 .635 85/.636 4/3 13/13
12.Schwarber* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 273/212 .246/.355/.487/.842 .481/.953 .881 84/.667 3/3 16/5
68.Soler G/S/vP 2/1.000 7/.310 5/.400 2/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 6/.000 404/312 .262/.324/.399/.723 .730/.720 .714 26/.916 3/1 10/1
IP 60.1 60.0 63.1 68.2 74.2 61.0 28.0 TOTAL .244/.321/.398/.719 .691/.728 .721 .732 95/37 171/111
ERA-K/9 4.62/9.4 3.75/9.0 4.26/6.5 2.10/10.9 2.17/10.8 2.95/8.1 1.61/6.4 2.94/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Montero (71-18-3)
 Ross (49-17-4)
 Schwarber (14-3-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 257/.266 255/.252 270/.307 287/.238 312/.198 250/.223 111/.238 .246  Coghlan
 Fowler
 Denorfia
 Soler
 Jackson
 Bryant
 Schwarber
99/0/21/9
0/152/0/5
43/6/28/5
0/0/95/4
4/115/22/3
8/7/7/1
41/0/4/1
OPS .766 .751 .788 .619 .605 .677 .590 .676
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 103/.833 63/.746 90/.845 125/.526 104/.811 106/.661 46/.661 .709
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 154/.721 192/.752 180/.759 162/.686 208/.511 144/.689 65/.540 .654
Home 109/.589 138/.791 140/.841 161/.723 166/.624 144/.638 63/.623
Last 28d days 41/.757 55/.614 30/.845 33/.927 57/.575 27/.696 13/.481
HR/SB/CS 7/2/1 12/4/0 7/1/0 3/2/1 4/5/4 6/4/3 0/1/0 123/54/29
Usage ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········
Cardinals Batters (3.99 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.75 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.Cahill
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 33.Richard*
G/S/vB		 57.Rodney
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 11/1.091 4/.500 12/1.144 ··· 8/1.000 7/.971 44/.705 665/454 .272/.365/.505/.871 .752/.926 .866 100/1.136 4/3 28/14
48.Cruz G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.667 8/.804 151/121 .204/.235/.310/.545 .580/.536 .507 56/.702 0/0 2/0
35.Garcia* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 3/3.000 2/.500 87/80 .240/.337/.387/.724 1.171/.688 .855 43/.643 0/0 2/4
15.Grichuk G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/.000 3/1.333 1/.000 4/.250 4/.000 12/.788 350/232 .276/.329/.548/.877 .819/.907 .925 38/.731 4/2 17/3
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 11/1.345 ··· 11/.182 5/.933 6/.733 3/.667 11/.920 610/429 .293/.359/.439/.797 .709/.835 .824 93/.875 23/3 13/3
7.Holliday G/S/vP 16/1.583 5/.650 15/.421 1/.000 6/1.167 7/1.464 46/1.180 277/200 .279/.394/.410/.804 .796/.807 .807 23/.536 2/1 4/0
19.Jay* G/S/vP 12/.350 6/.900 3/.666 2/.000 7/.486 4/1.167 39/.918 245/201 .210/.306/.257/.563 .414/.596 .540 42/.542 0/2 1/0
4.Molina G/S/vP 12/1.200 6/.900 15/.421 4/.833 7/1.285 7/.679 43/1.016 530/386 .270/.310/.350/.660 .577/.689 .678 35/.390 3/1 4/7
21.Moss* G/S/vP 3/1.167 6/1.700 3/.333 9/1.069 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 526/357 .226/.304/.407/.711 .721/.707 .597 50/.681 0/1 19/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP 15/.467 14/1.357 12/.717 26/.119 9/.444 16/1.105 25/.861 640/462 .275/.334/.411/.745 .737/.748 .746 78/.649 1/4 17/8
60.Pham G/S/vP 1/.000 2/1.000 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 4/.250 173/128 .268/.347/.477/.824 .783/.833 .623 62/1.050 2/0 5/0
55.Piscotty G/S/vP 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 256/190 .305/.359/.494/.853 .887/.841 .929 86/.806 2/1 7/2
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 5/.650 3/.666 8/1.375 7/.429 6/.000 5/.400 19/1.224 432/311 .230/.315/.398/.713 .753/.697 .678 45/.605 2/3 13/9
16.Wong* G/S/vP 5/.200 4/.500 ··· 1/no AB 5/.000 6/.533 8/1.375 613/435 .262/.321/.386/.707 .552/.772 .686 68/.638 15/8 11/17
IP 43.1 49.2 42.1 62.2 70.0 68.0 100.2 TOTAL .253/.321/.394/.716 .662/.736 .730 .728 69/38 137/96
ERA-K/9 5.40/7.5 1.99/12.1 3.83/4.7 4.74/8.3 1.67/8.9 2.91/10.7 3.84/10.5 3.36/8.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (17-3-1)
 Molina (37-26-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 187/.267 204/.178 181/.272 277/.248 281/.212 270/.167 419/.229 .233  Heyward
 Moss
 Grichuk
 Pham
 Jay
 Piscotty
 Reynolds
 Holliday
0/10/144/10
10/0/82/6
49/37/13/2
18/33/3/2
17/54/7/2
55/1/15/1
5/0/1/0
64/0/0/0
OPS .725 .572 .714 .776 .568 .538 .663 .662
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 72/.684 67/.497 67/.534 126/.845 134/.640 105/.641 145/.597 .668
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 115/.751 137/.608 114/.820 151/.721 147/.503 165/.475 274/.698 .659
Road 83/.597 108/.672 87/.653 153/.805 131/.608 129/.544 203/.706
Last 28d days 50/.459 38/.702 44/.598 34/.565 36/.574 40/.444 51/.306
HR/SB/CS 4/5/2 4/7/0 3/1/0 9/3/2 4/8/1 5/3/1 11/0/3 134/137/38
Usage ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········

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  5.50

CHC  4.25

ATL  3.54

 RA/G

STL  3.24

NYY  4.31

COL  5.21

 BA

M. Cabrera  .338

E. Longoria  .270

J. Pederson  .210

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

M. Duffy  .334

W. Ramos  .258

 SLG

B. Harper  .649

E. Longoria  .435

A. Escobar  .320

 OPS

B. Harper  1.109

J. Pederson  .763

C. Owings  .587

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.66

J. Zimmermann  3.66

A. Simon  5.05

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.82

J. Teheran  7.67

M. Buehrle  4.12

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.