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New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs, at Citi Field, June 30, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Citi Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
81° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
81
On This Date:
71-57
Mets
Manager:
Terry Collins
Game #:
79
On This Date:
24-27
Season Series

Thu, Jun 30, 2016 CHC    @NYM  7:10pm
Fri, Jul 01, 2016 CHC    @NYM  7:10pm
Sat, Jul 02, 2016 CHC    @NYM  7:15pm
Sun, Jul 03, 2016 CHC    @NYM  1:10pm
Mon, Jul 18, 2016 NYM    @CHC  7:05pm
Tue, Jul 19, 2016 NYM    @CHC  8:05pm
Wed, Jul 20, 2016 NYM    @CHC  2:20pm

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
51-26, 1st, 11 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   25-11   Road:   26-15   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  33-19   vsLHP:  18-7    1-Run:  10-11
 vsEast: 14-8    vsCntrl:24-9    vsWest: 11-9  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 77 Wed, Jun 29  @CIN  W   9-2       51-26  1st 11.0 up
 76 Tue, Jun 28  @CIN  W   7-2 (15)  50-26  1st 10.0 up
 75 Mon, Jun 27  @CIN  W  11-8       49-26  1st 10.0 up
 74 Sun, Jun 26  @MIA  L   1-6       48-26  1st  9.0 up
 73 Sat, Jun 25  @MIA  L   6-9       48-25  1st 10.0 up
 72 Fri, Jun 24  @MIA  W   5-4       48-24  1st 10.0 up
 71 Thu, Jun 23  @MIA  L   2-4       47-24  1st  9.0 up
 70 Wed, Jun 22   STL  L   2-7       47-23  1st  9.5 up
 69 Tue, Jun 21   STL  L   3-4       47-22  1st 10.5 up
 68 Mon, Jun 20   STL  L   2-3       47-21  1st 11.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12
New York Mets
40-37, 3rd, 6 GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-16   Road:   21-21   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  31-30   vsLHP:   9-7    1-Run:  16-10
 vsEast: 16-18   vsCntrl:11-5    vsWest:  7-10 IL: 6-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 77 Wed, Jun 29  @WSN  L   2-4       40-37  3rd  6.0 gb
 76 Tue, Jun 28  @WSN  L   0-5       40-36  3rd  5.0 gb
 75 Mon, Jun 27  @WSN  L   4-11      40-35  3rd  4.0 gb
 74 Sun, Jun 26  @ATL  L   2-5       40-34  2nd  3.0 gb
 73 Sat, Jun 25  @ATL  W   1-0 (11)  40-33  2nd  2.0 gb
 72 Fri, Jun 24  @ATL  W   8-6       39-33  2nd  3.0 gb
 71 Thu, Jun 23  @ATL  L   3-4       38-33  2nd  4.0 gb
 70 Wed, Jun 22   KCR  W   4-3       38-32  2nd  3.5 gb
 69 Tue, Jun 21   KCR  W   2-1       37-32  2nd  4.5 gb
 68 Sun, Jun 19   ATL  L   0-6       36-32  3rd  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jul 02, 2015 CHC  6 @NYM  1        W:Jake Arrieta (8-5), L: Jacob deGrom (8-6), S: none
Wed, Jul 01, 2015 CHC  2 @NYM  0 (11)   W:Jason Motte (6-1), L: Carlos Torres (2-4), S: Justin Grimm (1)
Tue, Jun 30, 2015 CHC  1 @NYM  0        W:Kyle Hendricks (3-4), L: Jon Niese (3-8), S: Jason Motte (3)
Thu, May 14, 2015 CHC  6  NYM  5        W:Pedro Strop (1-2), L: Jon Niese (3-3), S: Hector Rondon (8)
Wed, May 13, 2015 CHC  2  NYM  1        W:Hector Rondon (2-0), L: Carlos Torres (1-2), S: none
Tue, May 12, 2015 CHC  6  NYM  1        W:Jake Arrieta (4-3), L: Noah Syndergaard (0-1), S: none
Mon, May 11, 2015 CHC  4  NYM  3        W:Jon Lester (3-2), L: Jacob deGrom (3-4), S: Hector Rondon (7)
Mon, Aug 18, 2014 CHC  4 @NYM  1        W:Kyle Hendricks (5-1), L: Buddy Carlyle (1-1), S: Hector Rondon (18)
Sun, Aug 17, 2014 CHC  2 @NYM  1        W:Pedro Strop (2-4), L: Jenrry Mejia (5-6), S: Hector Rondon (17)
Sat, Aug 16, 2014 NYM  7  CHC  3        W:Jon Niese (7-8), L: Dan Straily (1-3), S: none
Season Series: 2016 -  0-0; 2015 - CHC won 7-0; 2014 - CHC won 5-2; All-Time - CHC leads 366-352

SP: John Lackey (37, RHP, 7-4, 3.29)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (7-4) 98.1 75 37 36 27 102 10 3.29
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 3-2 44.0 34 16 16 15 50 5 3.27 59
2016-06-25 @MIA L 4.1 7 7 7 3 5 1 95 23
2016-06-20 STL L 6.0 7 3 3 3 6 2 109 49
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
Last 5 v.NYM 2-0 27.1 25 6 6 8 22 1 1.98 61
2015-07-18 NYM W 7.0 10 1 1 1 3 1 100 55
2015-05-18 @NYM ND 7.0 3 1 1 0 6 0 76 73
2008-06-17 NYM W 7.2 6 1 1 1 7 0 106 69
2005-06-12 @NYM ND 5.2 6 3 3 6 6 0 118 45

SP: Steven Matz (25, LHP, 7-3, 3.29)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (7-3) 76.2 76 31 28 15 73 6 3.29
2015 (4-0) 35.2 34 9 9 10 34 4 2.27
Last 7 GS 2-2 42.0 43 20 17 7 38 4 3.64 53
2016-06-24 @ATL ND 4.1 9 6 6 0 0 1 78 21
2016-06-18 ATL ND 6.0 4 2 2 2 7 1 99 61
2016-06-12 @MIL L 6.0 9 5 4 0 5 0 104 41
2016-06-07 @PIT L 5.0 8 2 2 2 8 0 101 49
2016-05-31 CHW ND 5.2 6 3 1 2 3 1 88 50
2016-05-25 @WSN W 8.0 4 0 0 1 7 0 104 80
2016-05-20 MIL W 7.0 3 2 2 0 8 1 88 71
Has never faced CHC as starter.

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

Cubs Batters (5.35 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.53 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Matz*
G/S/vB		 59.Bastardo*
G/S/vB		 39.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 27.Familia
G/S/vB		 36.Gilmartin*
G/S/vB		 62.Goeddel
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 47.Robles
G/S/vB		 35.Verrett
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
5.Almora G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 52/34 .286/.327/.449/.776 .807/.759 .860 52/.776 0/0 1/0
9.Baez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 188/131 .266/.309/.441/.749 .933/.672 .619 83/.838 5/1 7/5
17.Bryant G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/2.667 ··· 339/235 .280/.372/.560/.931 .938/.928 1.019 108/1.041 2/2 21/7
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP ··· 8/.000 1/.000 2/no AB 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 215/193 .156/.247/.281/.528 .332/.550 .574 62/.540 1/1 5/1
40.Contreras G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/29 .333/.429/.639/1.067 .846/1.187 .888 42/1.067 0/1 3/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· 20/.308 5/.400 5/.450 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 ··· ··· 305/212 .235/.326/.325/.650 .674/.640 .716 104/.682 7/3 4/0
47.Montero* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 153/130 .192/.301/.323/.624 .360/.673 .686 54/.508 1/0 4/3
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/3.000 1/.000 322/215 .284/.407/.576/.983 .818/1.066 .959 95/1.224 2/3 19/4
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 129/79 .235/.352/.451/.803 1.174/.591 .798 35/.787 0/1 6/6
27.Russell G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 287/205 .236/.331/.388/.719 .560/.780 .608 88/.771 2/0 8/9
20.Szczur G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 86/53 .275/.318/.438/.755 .815/.720 .717 36/.494 1/1 3/0
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 3/2.334 7/1.429 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 319/224 .299/.409/.470/.879 .909/.865 .948 104/.714 3/2 10/2
IP 76.2 32.2 21.2 37.1 9.0 6.2 36.0 38.1 46.1 TOTAL .255/.349/.433/.782 .802/.773 .798 .789 30/17 102/49
ERA-K/9 3.29/8.6 4.96/9.4 2.49/8.7 2.89/8.4 7.00/6.0 1.35/5.4 2.50/10.5 3.29/10.8 4.08/6.2 3.35/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Contreras (0-2-0)
 Montero (35-2-3)
 Ross (24-11-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 316/.259 148/.240 86/.205 152/.237 39/.314 29/.200 144/.201 164/.238 199/.267 .252  Bryant
 Almora
 Heyward
 Zobrist
 Wood
 Strop
 Coghlan
 Baez
 Szczur
 Patton
 Contreras
40/1/8/3
5/13/1/1
0/9/64/1
0/0/5/1
1/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
12/0/15/0
2/0/0/0
24/5/5/0
1/0/0/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .659 .755 .567 .579 .826 .516 .536 .723 .862 .683
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 77/.671 64/.814 56/.625 71/.633 19/.771 10/.733 63/.587 67/.547 96/.762 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 239/.654 84/.709 30/.447 81/.529 20/.874 19/.398 81/.497 97/.843 103/.964 .656
Home 137/.617 69/.842 45/.513 86/.563 / 15/.343 70/.443 83/.849 88/.711
Last 28d days 96/.869 47/.909 33/.615 42/.463 22/1.349 29/.516 49/.691 68/.707 53/1.099
HR/SB/CS 6/11/4 5/6/1 2/1/0 0/1/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 3/0/1 5/4/3 8/1/2 63/69/24
Usage ·····X·· X·oo·o·· ·X··o·oo ····oo·X X·X···o· ·oX····· ·o··X·oX ·X···X·· X··o····
Mets Batters (3.58 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.14 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Lackey
G/S/vB		 53.Cahill
G/S/vB		 6.Edwards
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 45.Patton
G/S/vB		 62.Peralta
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.Cabrera# G/S/vP 33/.660 16/.713 ··· ··· 1/5.000 10/.956 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 307/229 .262/.322/.404/.727 .827/.693 .729 101/.727 0/1 8/3
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 4/.500 3/.000 287/226 .289/.359/.555/.914 1.196/.843 .862 94/.859 1/1 18/2
7.d'Arnaud G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 5/.400 75/66 .203/.267/.246/.513 .583/.503 .396 23/.435 0/0 0/0
16.De Aza* G/S/vP 2/1.500 4/.500 ··· 8/.542 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 9/.476 102/88 .158/.208/.232/.439 .357/.453 .467 47/.334 2/1 1/1
4.Flores G/S/vP 5/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/.500 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 1/.000 7/1.429 146/103 .242/.308/.364/.672 .633/.688 .599 80/.807 1/0 3/5
3.Granderson* G/S/vP 47/.789 22/.506 ··· ··· ··· 10/.200 3/1.167 8/1.125 12/.350 322/240 .228/.323/.438/.761 .637/.804 .667 103/.841 2/2 13/0
55.Johnson* G/S/vP 26/.539 ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/.875 2/.000 6/2.067 10/.000 175/140 .239/.303/.352/.655 .845/.603 .611 59/.819 2/0 3/7
28.Loney* G/S/vP 26/.654 10/.100 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/1.500 12/.350 111/93 .284/.336/.451/.787 .853/.775 .763 101/.834 0/0 3/4
9.Nimmo* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 16/14 .250/.250/.250/.500 .000/.571 16/.500 0/0 0/0
15.Reynolds G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/26 .243/.282/.432/.714 .786/.671 1.067 28/.877 0/0 1/0
44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 75/56 .182/.257/.288/.545 .610/.522 .626 37/.489 0/0 2/0
20.Walker# G/S/vP 12/.606 9/.347 ··· 7/1.171 ··· 3/.000 5/.900 7/.453 28/.783 283/226 .258/.322/.445/.767 1.010/.704 .711 86/.531 1/1 14/4
IP 98.1 34.0 5.2 28.0 4.2 24.2 27.1 30.1 32.1 TOTAL .233/.305/.399/.704 .697/.707 .675 .682 15/9 97/41
ERA-K/9 3.29/9.3 2.65/10.1 1.59/12.6 5.79/10.0 5.79/5.7 5.47/10.6 1.65/11.5 2.97/12.5 2.23/7.0 2.85/8.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 d'Arnaud (22-6-1)
 Rivera (16-8-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 387/.218 152/.200 20/.105 127/.259 21/.211 104/.260 101/.158 118/.170 127/.161 .207  Cespedes
 Granderson
 Reynolds
 Johnson
 De Aza
 Nimmo
26/57/0/4
0/0/69/3
1/0/0/0
9/0/0/0
13/9/7/0
3/0/1/0
OPS .640 .631 .413 .775 .602 .891 .409 .529 .558 .607
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 171/.701 58/.707 9/.347 49/.905 7/.714 50/.686 38/.413 36/.639 65/.556 .674
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 216/.592 94/.587 11/.455 78/.695 14/.536 54/1.087 63/.405 82/.485 62/.559 .564
Road 195/.672 80/.619 12/.083 64/.683 12/.583 51/.659 57/.437 63/.448 72/.563
Last 28d days 125/.654 45/.522 20/.413 49/1.006 19/.433 4/1.250 38/.468 40/.603 47/.436
HR/SB/CS 10/3/2 4/7/0 1/0/1 4/2/2 0/1/0 8/2/1 2/2/0 3/0/0 3/0/0 64/62/15
Usage ····X··· ·XX··X·· Xo··X··X oo·Xo··o ·o·oX··X ·oo····· ·Xo··X·· ··X···X· ·XoX·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 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  5.56

SDP  4.29

ATL  3.28

 RA/G

CHC  3.14

TBR  4.53

CIN  5.90

 BA

J. Altuve  .357

B. Crawford  .269

B. Park  .191

 OBP

J. Altuve  .432

D. Espinosa  .336

F. Galvis  .257

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .672

D. Freese  .448

B. Burns  .307

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.103

J. Ramirez  .777

B. Burns  .580

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.79

I. Kennedy  3.96

J. Shields  5.85

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.12

H. Santiago  7.70

M. Pelfrey  4.29

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.