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Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals, at Wrigley Field, June 20, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Monday, June 20, 2016

Start Time:

7:05ct (local), 8:05et

Venue:

Wrigley Field

Series:

Game #1 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

75° (based on last ten years)

Cardinals

Manager:

Mike Matheny

Game #:

On This Date:

61-52

Cubs

Manager:

Joe Maddon

Game #:

On This Date:

52-66

Season Series
Mon, Apr 18, 2016 CHC  5 @STL  0     
Tue, Apr 19, 2016 CHC  2 @STL  1     
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 STL  5  CHC  3     
Mon, May 23, 2016 STL  4  CHC  3     
Tue, May 24, 2016 CHC 12 @STL  3     
Wed, May 25, 2016 CHC  9 @STL  8     

Mon, Jun 20, 2016 STL    @CHC  8:05pm
Tue, Jun 21, 2016 STL    @CHC  8:05pm
Wed, Jun 22, 2016 STL    @CHC  2:20pm
Thu, Aug 11, 2016 STL    @CHC  8:05pm
Fri, Aug 12, 2016 STL    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, Aug 13, 2016 STL    @CHC  2:20pm
Sun, Aug 14, 2016 STL    @CHC        
Mon, Sep 12, 2016 CHC    @STL  8:15pm
Tue, Sep 13, 2016 CHC    @STL  8:15pm
Wed, Sep 14, 2016 CHC    @STL  1:45pm
Fri, Sep 23, 2016 STL    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, Sep 24, 2016 STL    @CHC        
Sun, Sep 25, 2016 STL    @CHC        

                         All times ET

St. Louis Cardinals

35-33, 2nd, 12½ GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   15-21   Road:   20-12   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  24-24   vsLHP:  11-9    1-Run:   4-11
 vsEast:  8-6    vsCntrl:14-13   vsWest: 10-9  IL: 3-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 68 Sun, Jun 19   TEX  L   4-5       35-33  2nd 12.5 gb
 67 Sat, Jun 18   TEX  L   3-4       35-32  2nd 11.5 gb
 66 Fri, Jun 17   TEX  L   0-1       35-31  2nd 10.5 gb
 65 Wed, Jun 15   HOU  L   1-4       35-30  2nd  9.5 gb
 64 Tue, Jun 14   HOU  L   2-5       35-29  2nd  9.5 gb
 63 Sun, Jun 12  @PIT  W   8-3       35-28  2nd  9.0 gb
 62 Sat, Jun 11  @PIT  W   5-1       34-28  2nd  9.0 gb
 61 Fri, Jun 10  @PIT  W   9-3 (12)  33-28  2nd  9.0 gb
 60 Thu, Jun  9  @CIN  W   3-2       32-28  2nd 10.0 gb
 59 Wed, Jun  8  @CIN  W  12-7       31-28  3rd 10.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15

Chicago Cubs

47-20, 1st, 12½ up / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   25-8    Road:   22-12   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  31-15   vsLHP:  16-5    1-Run:   9-9 
 vsEast: 13-5    vsCntrl:21-6    vsWest: 11-9  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 67 Sun, Jun 19   PIT  W  10-5       47-20  1st 12.5 up
 66 Sat, Jun 18   PIT  W   4-3       46-20  1st 11.5 up
 65 Fri, Jun 17   PIT  W   6-0       45-20  1st 10.5 up
 64 Wed, Jun 15  @WSN  L   4-5 (12)  44-20  1st  9.5 up
 63 Tue, Jun 14  @WSN  W   4-3       44-19  1st  9.5 up
 62 Mon, Jun 13  @WSN  L   1-4       43-19  1st  8.5 up
 61 Sun, Jun 12  @ATL  W  13-2       43-18  1st  9.0 up
 60 Sat, Jun 11  @ATL  W   8-2       42-18  1st  9.0 up
 59 Fri, Jun 10  @ATL  L   1-5       41-18  1st  9.0 up
 58 Wed, Jun  8  @PHI  W   8-1       41-17  1st  9.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, May 25, 2016 CHC  9 @STL  8        W:Jake Arrieta (9-0), L: Carlos Martinez (4-5), S: Hector Rondon (8)
Tue, May 24, 2016 CHC 12 @STL  3        W:Jason Hammel (6-1), L: Michael Wacha (2-5), S: none
Mon, May 23, 2016 STL  4  CHC  3        W:Trevor Rosenthal (2-1), L: Adam Warren (3-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 STL  5  CHC  3        W:Carlos Martinez (3-0), L: Kyle Hendricks (1-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (4)
Tue, Apr 19, 2016 CHC  2 @STL  1        W:Jason Hammel (2-0), L: Jaime Garcia (1-1), S: Hector Rondon (3)
Mon, Apr 18, 2016 CHC  5 @STL  0        W:John Lackey (3-0), L: Mike Leake (0-2), S: none

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)
Season Series: 2016 - CHC over 4-2; 2015 - STL won 11-8; 2014 - STL won 10-9; All-Time - CHC leads 1201-1149

SP: Jaime Garcia (29, LHP, 4-6, 3.93)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (4-6)			75.2	76	37	33	25	63	6	3.93
2015 (10-6)			129.2	106	37	35	30	97	6	2.43
2014 (3-1)			43.2	39	20	20	7	39	6	4.12

Last 7 GS		2-4	37.1	52	23	20	11	23	5	4.82	43
2016-06-14	HOU	L	6.1	8	4	3	0	2	1	82	45
2016-06-08	@CIN	ND	4.2	13	5	5	1	3	2	79	20
2016-06-01	@MIL	L	5.0	5	2	2	3	3	0	82	49
2016-05-27	@WSN	W	7.0	7	2	2	1	4	1	92	58
2016-05-22	ARI	L	2.1	10	5	5	1	0	0	55	16
2016-05-17	COL	L	5.0	5	3	3	4	3	0	82	44
2016-05-11	@LAA	W	7.0	4	2	0	1	8	1	95	72

Last 5 v.CHC		2-1	34.0	32	8	8	9	24	1	2.12	59
2016-04-19	CHC	L	5.0	4	2	2	4	7	0	98	54
2012-04-23	@CHC	ND	7.2	6	1	1	1	4	0	85	66
2011-08-19	@CHC	ND	6.1	9	3	3	2	1	1	92	42
2011-06-03	CHC	W	8.0	4	1	1	1	8	0	94	77
2011-05-12	@CHC	W	7.0	9	1	1	1	4	0	84	58

SP: John Lackey (37, RHP, 7-2, 2.66)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (7-2)			88.0	61	27	26	21	91	7	2.66
2015 (13-10)			218.0	211	71	67	53	175	21	2.77
2014 (14-10)			198.0	206	94	84	47	164	24	3.82

Last 7 GS		3-1	47.2	27	8	8	11	51	3	1.51	69
2016-06-14	@WSN	ND	6.0	4	2	2	2	7	0	98	61
2016-06-08	@PHI	W	7.0	3	0	0	0	8	0	100	79
2016-06-03	ARI	W	6.2	5	0	0	2	9	0	100	71
2016-05-29	PHI	W	7.0	4	1	1	4	6	1	97	67
2016-05-23	@STL	ND	7.0	4	3	3	1	9	1	87	65
2016-05-18	@MIL	ND	6.0	4	1	1	2	5	0	101	63
2016-05-11	SDP	L	8.0	3	1	1	0	7	1	112	79

Last 5 v.STL		1-0	14.0	8	3	3	2	20	1	1.93	72
2016-05-23	@STL	ND	7.0	4	3	3	1	9	1	87	65
2016-04-18	@STL	W	7.0	4	0	0	1	11	0	91	79

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

Cardinals Batters (5.29 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (2.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 41.Lackey
G/S/vB 53.Cahill
G/S/vB 52.Grimm
G/S/vB 33.Richard*
G/S/vB 56.Rondon
G/S/vB 46.Strop
G/S/vB 43.Warren
G/S/vB 37.Wood*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

32.Adams* G/S/vP 1/5.000 7/.929 6/.533 4/.500 6/.334 9/.111 1/.000 14/.786 170/137 .299/.347/.535/.882 .833/.894 .589 72/.929 0/1 9/5

13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 7/.286 12/1.000 4/.500 12/1.144 8/1.000 7/.971 1/3.000 46/.789 282/191 .301/.419/.559/.978 .850/1.038 1.039 80/1.184 0/0 10/8

36.Diaz G/S/vP 6/.567 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.167 ··· 255/177 .299/.346/.481/.827 .660/.904 .948 98/.601 2/1 8/14

59.Fryer G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 35/27 .406/.457/.469/.926 .661/1.001 .429 15/.619 0/1 0/0

35.Garcia* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/.500 3/3.000 ··· 2/.500 50/43 .436/.560/.641/1.201 1.000/1.238 1.509 35/1.003 0/1 2/1

3.Gyorko G/S/vP 6/.334 9/.708 1/no AB 1/2.000 6/.167 3/.666 ··· 7/.000 135/73 .228/.296/.398/.695 .612/.764 .714 37/.621 0/0 6/4

7.Holliday G/S/vP 14/.368 17/1.471 5/.650 15/.421 6/1.167 10/.929 2/2.500 46/1.180 253/179 .257/.332/.478/.810 .759/.831 1.011 84/.910 0/0 12/0

4.Molina G/S/vP 6/.666 13/1.238 7/.762 15/.421 9/1.223 7/.679 4/.833 43/1.016 257/183 .274/.346/.361/.707 .653/.729 .713 80/.509 2/1 1/0

37.Moss* G/S/vP 15/.690 4/.833 6/1.700 4/.500 ··· 5/.600 8/1.089 1/.000 193/143 .247/.332/.565/.896 .550/1.017 .953 62/1.155 0/0 15/3

27.Peralta G/S/vP 33/.751 15/.467 14/1.357 12/.717 9/.444 16/1.105 ··· 25/.861 47/27 .273/.319/.432/.751 .472/.947 .949 47/.751 0/0 1/0

28.Pham G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 3/1.167 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 4/.250 5/ .200/.200/.200/.400 .400/ .000 4/.500 0/0 0/0

55.Piscotty G/S/vP 6/.167 4/.833 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 3/.000 1/2.000 276/200 .300/.384/.477/.861 1.226/.734 .866 82/.741 3/5 8/1

16.Wong* G/S/vP 6/.533 5/.200 4/.500 2/.000 6/.000 7/.453 3/.333 8/1.375 150/127 .220/.300/.280/.580 .654/.567 .603 35/.293 3/0 1/6

IP 88.0 30.0 24.1 12.0 24.1 26.2 25.2 26.1 TOTAL .265/.336/.448/.785 .715/.813 .810 .746 17/13 89/53

ERA-K/9

2.66/9.3

2.70/9.6

4.81/9.6

7.50/4.5

1.48/12.2

2.70/13.1

4.56/6.3

2.39/6.8

2.66/9.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Fryer (2-4-0)
Molina (21-9-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 336/.202 134/.186 107/.250 62/.377 89/.155 103/.172 111/.232 103/.157 .205 Piscotty
Holliday
Moss
Pham
Wong 0/5/60/2
53/0/0/1
20/0/11/1
2/1/0/0
0/2/0/0

OPS .589 .623 .744 .832 .406 .533 .727 .591 .592

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 148/.639 52/.688 39/.712 36/.924 35/.390 34/.640 37/.812 53/.653 .648

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 188/.551 82/.584 68/.760 26/.703 54/.412 69/.486 74/.686 50/.524 .556

Home 163/.551 69/.675 55/.789 24/.976 44/.373 51/.650 53/.733 49/.622

Last 28d days 101/.491 39/.580 41/.852 26/1.038 37/.502 33/.537 43/.945 42/.444

HR/SB/CS 7/2/2 4/6/0 4/2/1 0/3/0 2/1/0 3/0/0 4/1/1 3/0/0 51/54/12

Usage ·····X·· ··X·X··· o·X·o·X· o·····o· ·o··XX·o oX··Xo·· X···o··X ·oo·Xo··

Cubs Batters (5.43 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.34 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 54.Garcia*
G/S/vB 67.Bowman
G/S/vB 30.Broxton
G/S/vB 70.Lyons*
G/S/vB 43.Maness
G/S/vB 26.Oh
G/S/vB 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

5.Almora G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/17 .346/.370/.500/.870 .956/.824 .844 27/.870 0/0 0/0

9.Baez G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.750 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 154/109 .267/.305/.445/.750 .997/.653 .948 66/.913 4/1 6/5

17.Bryant G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 4/.500 9/.444 ··· 2/2.500 3/.000 7/.619 292/202 .273/.363/.531/.894 .927/.880 .845 99/.990 2/2 17/6

8.Coghlan* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 10/.200 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 5/.800 4/.666 189/169 .156/.228/.283/.511 .308/.535 .405 53/.495 1/1 5/1

40.Contreras G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 1.000/1.000/4.000/5.000 /5.000 5.000 1/5.000 0/0 1/0

24.Fowler# G/S/vP 15/.333 1/.000 11/.664 10/.583 6/.167 2/1.000 5/.400 4/1.167 284/197 .290/.398/.483/.881 .884/.879 .780 93/.725 6/3 7/3

22.Heyward* G/S/vP 15/.266 1/.000 5/.800 4/.250 ··· 2/.500 1/no AB 5/1.000 262/182 .239/.330/.339/.669 .722/.646 .585 97/.762 7/3 4/0

47.Montero* G/S/vP 5/2.300 ··· 19/.888 5/.650 4/.833 1/.000 5/.000 4/.500 135/112 .202/.319/.325/.643 .360/.705 .538 55/.540 1/0 3/3

44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 10/.633 16/1.018 1/no AB 3/.666 8/.821 23/.481 286/189 .272/.399/.562/.960 .797/1.045 1.016 91/1.108 2/3 17/3

3.Ross G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 119/75 .245/.357/.447/.803 1.177/.607 .808 39/.845 0/1 5/4

27.Russell G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 4/.000 6/1.100 7/1.715 2/1.000 2/1.500 3/.000 249/176 .231/.329/.370/.700 .556/.755 .840 84/.643 2/0 6/7

20.Szczur G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 65/38 .333/.375/.533/.908 .891/.921 .923 27/.808 1/1 3/0

18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 3/1.167 2/1.500 ··· 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· 275/196 .310/.420/.487/.906 .865/.923 .818 91/.799 3/2 9/1

IP 75.2 27.2 27.2 28.2 12.2 35.2 22.0 28.0 TOTAL .257/.351/.433/.784 .808/.774 .775 .799 29/16 86/41

ERA-K/9

3.93/7.5

3.90/6.8

3.90/7.8

4.40/8.8

6.39/4.3

1.77/12.4

4.91/13.5

2.89/10.3

4.03/7.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Contreras (0-0-0)
Montero (30-2-3)
Ross (21-10-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 322/.260 114/.226 118/.192 115/.236 62/.375 139/.162 106/.267 109/.184 .247 Fowler
Bryant
Almora
Heyward
Zobrist
Coghlan
Baez
Szczur 0/63/0/3
36/0/7/2
5/4/1/1
0/6/56/1
0/0/4/0
8/0/12/0
2/0/0/0
22/2/5/0

OPS .688 .612 .595 .768 1.017 .433 .778 .625 .692

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 67/.703 39/.661 42/.877 35/.365 14/.690 70/.372 44/.674 34/.761 .688

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 255/.684 75/.587 76/.451 80/.938 48/1.107 69/.494 62/.840 75/.565 .694

Road 156/.803 41/.643 59/.409 49/.963 40/1.156 58/.217 46/.570 48/.727

Last 28d days 103/.903 27/.568 39/.494 33/.767 / 51/.555 36/.802 40/.724

HR/SB/CS 6/5/3 3/1/1 2/5/1 7/1/0 1/1/1 1/0/1 2/0/0 5/1/0 65/23/13

Usage ·····X·· X····o·· o···o··o ·····o·· ········ ·Xo··o·· ·o··X··· ·Xo·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 2016 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

BOS 5.74

LAA 4.30

PHI 3.14

RA/G

CHC 2.88

NYY 4.38

CIN 5.83

D. Murphy .358

T. Shaw .271

T. Frazier .197

OBP

P. Goldschmidt .425

N. Walker .335

F. Galvis .247

SLG

D. Ortiz .710

A. Jones .439

A. Escobar .290

OPS

D. Ortiz 1.133

A. Eaton .774

A. Escobar .557

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.58

J. Verlander 3.87

J. Shields 6.28

K/9IP

J. Fernandez 13.16

M. Estrada 7.84

M. Pelfrey 4.42

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.