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New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs, at Citi Field, July 3, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Start Time:
1:10et (local)
Venue:
Citi Field
Series:
Game #4 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
82° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
84
On This Date:
59-55
Mets
Manager:
Terry Collins
Game #:
82
On This Date:
22-26
Season Series
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 NYM  4  CHC  3     
Fri, Jul 01, 2016 NYM 10  CHC  2     
Sat, Jul 02, 2016 NYM  4  CHC  3     

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
51-29, 1st, 9 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   25-11   Road:   26-18   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  33-21   vsLHP:  18-8    1-Run:  10-13
 vsEast: 14-11   vsCntrl:24-9    vsWest: 11-9  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 80 Sat, Jul  2  @NYM  L   3-4       51-29  1st  9.0 up
 79 Fri, Jul  1  @NYM  L   2-10      51-28  1st 10.0 up
 78 Thu, Jun 30  @NYM  L   3-4       51-27  1st 11.0 up
 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:16-14
New York Mets
43-37, 2nd, 5 GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-16   Road:   21-21   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  34-30   vsLHP:   9-7    1-Run:  18-10
 vsEast: 16-18   vsCntrl:14-5    vsWest:  7-10 IL: 6-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 80 Sat, Jul  2   CHC  W   4-3       43-37  2nd  5.0 gb
 79 Fri, Jul  1   CHC  W  10-2       42-37  2nd  6.0 gb
 78 Thu, Jun 30   CHC  W   4-3       41-37  2nd  6.0 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jul 02, 2016 NYM  4  CHC  3        W:Bartolo Colon (7-4), L: Jake Arrieta (12-3), S: Jeurys Familia (28)
Fri, Jul 01, 2016 NYM 10  CHC  2        W:Jacob deGrom (4-4), L: Jason Hammel (7-5), S: none
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 NYM  4  CHC  3        W:Erik Goeddel (1-0), L: Joel Peralta (1-1), S: Jeurys Familia (27)

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)
Season Series: 2016 - NYM over 3-0; 2015 - CHC won 7-0; 2014 - CHC won 5-2; All-Time - CHC leads 366-355

SP: Jon Lester (32, LHP, 9-3, 2.03)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (9-3) 106.1 79 26 24 24 103 11 2.03
2015 (11-12) 205.0 183 83 76 47 207 16 3.34
2014 (16-11) 219.2 194 76 60 48 220 16 2.46
Last 7 GS 5-0 51.0 34 10 8 9 51 5 1.41 69
2016-06-28 @CIN ND 7.2 3 1 1 1 4 1 103 72
2016-06-23 @MIA ND 7.0 5 2 2 3 7 2 100 63
2016-06-18 PIT W 6.0 7 3 3 3 7 1 104 50
2016-06-12 @ATL W 7.0 5 1 0 0 7 0 109 72
2016-06-06 @PHI W 8.0 4 0 0 0 9 0 95 83
2016-06-01 LAD W 9.0 4 1 1 0 10 1 113 85
2016-05-27 PHI W 6.1 6 2 1 2 7 0 105 60
Last 5 v.NYM 2-0 18.0 14 5 5 10 18 3 2.50 59
2015-07-01 @NYM ND 7.0 5 0 0 1 7 0 107 73
2015-05-11 NYM W 6.0 5 3 3 4 6 2 110 52
2006-06-27 NYM W 5.0 4 2 2 5 5 1 116 51

SP: Noah Syndergaard (23, RHP, 8-3, 2.49)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (8-3) 94.0 85 29 26 15 115 5 2.49
2015 (9-7) 150.0 126 60 54 31 166 19 3.24
Last 7 GS 4-1 39.2 41 16 13 6 48 2 2.95 57
2016-06-27 @WSN L 3.0 7 5 5 3 5 0 71 27
2016-06-22 KCR W 6.0 8 3 3 0 4 1 91 48
2016-06-15 PIT W 8.1 5 2 1 0 11 0 115 78
2016-06-08 @PIT ND 6.0 7 3 2 2 5 0 102 51
2016-06-03 @MIA W 7.0 6 2 2 1 9 1 106 65
2016-05-28 LAD ND 2.1 2 0 0 0 3 0 33 56
2016-05-22 MIL W 7.0 6 1 0 0 11 0 109 74
Last 5 v.CHC 0-1 5.1 6 3 3 4 6 1 5.06 46
2015-05-12 @CHC L 5.1 6 3 3 4 6 1 103 46

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

Cubs Batters (5.25 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Syndergaard
G/S/vB		 59.Bastardo*
G/S/vB		 39.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 27.Familia
G/S/vB		 62.Goeddel
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 47.Robles
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
5.Almora G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 59/39 .286/.322/.446/.768 .879/.712 .833 59/.768 0/0 1/0
9.Baez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 200/140 .265/.305/.444/.749 1.009/.642 .633 87/.810 5/1 8/6
17.Bryant G/S/vP 3/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 3/2.667 352/244 .279/.369/.567/.937 .953/.930 1.022 109/1.106 3/2 23/7
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP 3/2.667 8/.000 1/.000 2/no AB 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 217/195 .155/.244/.278/.523 .332/.544 .565 52/.589 1/1 5/1
40.Contreras G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/3.000 55/39 .292/.382/.542/.923 .775/.991 .766 55/.923 0/1 3/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 3/2.000 20/.308 8/.393 5/.450 ··· 3/1.666 ··· 314/218 .232/.323/.319/.642 .666/.631 .696 104/.695 7/3 4/0
47.Montero* G/S/vP 3/.333 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 158/135 .197/.316/.326/.642 .360/.694 .713 51/.566 1/0 4/3
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 3/.667 2/.000 4/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 2/2.000 1/3.000 335/224 .283/.403/.576/.979 .815/1.061 .955 99/1.128 2/3 20/4
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 130/80 .233/.349/.447/.796 1.174/.583 .784 31/.858 0/1 6/6
27.Russell G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 3/.333 299/214 .230/.331/.377/.709 .569/.761 .596 91/.754 2/0 8/9
20.Szczur G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 91/55 .282/.322/.435/.758 .801/.730 .724 38/.522 1/2 3/0
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 3/2.334 7/1.429 2/1.500 2/2.500 4/.000 ··· 331/233 .298/.406/.476/.882 .900/.875 .950 104/.765 3/2 11/2
IP 94.0 32.2 23.0 39.1 9.0 38.0 39.1 TOTAL .253/.347/.432/.779 .806/.767 .792 .790 31/18 107/50
ERA-K/9 2.49/11.0 4.96/9.4 2.35/8.6 2.75/8.7 2.00/7.0 2.37/11.4 3.20/11.0 3.31/8.6

 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 375/.241 148/.240 91/.195 161/.233 37/.182 153/.204 169/.240 .250  Bryant
 Almora
 Heyward
 Zobrist
 Wood
 Strop
 Coghlan
 Baez
 Szczur
 Patton
 Contreras
41/1/8/3
5/15/1/1
0/10/66/1
1/0/7/1
1/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
12/0/16/0
2/0/0/0
26/5/5/0
1/0/0/0
5/0/0/0
OPS .603 .755 .548 .581 .546 .539 .730 .684
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 169/.709 64/.814 60/.605 75/.677 13/.968 66/.591 67/.547 .718
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 206/.515 84/.709 31/.431 86/.497 24/.310 87/.501 102/.851 .656
Home 197/.546 69/.842 50/.484 95/.568 23/.447 79/.459 88/.859
Last 28d days 101/.727 44/.928 34/.595 46/.451 37/.546 50/.706 68/.692
HR/SB/CS 5/28/3 5/6/1 2/1/0 0/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/1 5/4/3 68/70/25
Usage ·····X·· ···X·oo· ooo·X··o o·X····o o·X·oX·· X·X·o··X ·X··X···
Mets Batters (3.68 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.25 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Lester*
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 29/.656 18/.631 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 10/.956 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 319/241 .262/.320/.418/.738 .827/.709 .753 100/.788 0/1 10/3
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 15/.421 2/1.000 1/.000 5/1.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 5/.400 3/.000 300/239 .291/.360/.571/.931 1.196/.868 .905 102/.910 1/1 20/2
7.d'Arnaud G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 5/.400 85/76 .244/.306/.282/.588 .583/.588 .641 33/.646 0/0 0/0
16.De Aza* G/S/vP 15/.904 5/.650 ··· 8/.542 ··· 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 9/.476 107/93 .165/.236/.237/.473 .357/.491 .553 46/.350 2/1 1/1
4.Flores G/S/vP 6/1.133 5/.400 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 1/.000 7/1.429 158/115 .224/.291/.336/.627 .633/.624 .515 80/.644 1/0 3/5
3.Granderson* G/S/vP 48/.833 22/.506 ··· ··· ··· 10/.200 3/1.167 8/1.125 12/.350 322/240 .228/.323/.438/.761 .637/.804 .667 88/.881 2/2 13/0
55.Johnson* G/S/vP 17/.243 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 8/.875 2/.000 6/2.067 10/.000 183/148 .236/.306/.345/.651 .845/.601 .606 59/.798 2/0 3/7
12.Lagares G/S/vP 6/1.000 4/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 6/1.667 97/46 .286/.323/.429/.751 .714/.797 .693 4/1.500 1/0 2/1
28.Loney* G/S/vP 15/.785 12/.083 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/1.000 12/.350 124/106 .287/.333/.478/.812 .853/.805 .824 102/.795 0/0 4/4
9.Nimmo* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 29/26 .286/.310/.393/.703 .000/.786 .968 29/.703 0/0 1/0
15.Reynolds G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/26 .243/.282/.432/.714 .786/.671 1.067 27/.835 0/0 1/0
44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 75/56 .182/.257/.288/.545 .610/.522 .626 30/.429 0/0 2/0
20.Walker# G/S/vP 8/.500 11/.282 ··· 7/1.171 ··· 3/.000 5/.900 8/.393 29/.754 296/238 .260/.321/.450/.771 .992/.716 .724 86/.572 1/1 15/5
IP 106.1 38.0 7.0 28.0 5.2 24.2 27.1 31.0 33.2 TOTAL .234/.306/.404/.710 .693/.715 .689 .692 15/9 104/42
ERA-K/9 2.03/8.7 2.37/9.7 1.29/12.9 5.79/10.0 4.76/6.3 5.84/10.6 1.65/11.5 2.90/12.5 2.14/6.9 2.97/8.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 d'Arnaud (23-7-2)
 Rivera (16-8-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 412/.206 168/.200 24/.087 127/.259 25/.182 106/.268 101/.158 121/.165 130/.157 .209  Cespedes
 Granderson
 Nimmo
 Johnson
 De Aza
 Reynolds
 Lagares
27/60/0/4
0/0/69/3
4/0/4/0
11/0/0/0
14/9/8/0
1/0/0/0
1/39/2/0
OPS .582 .613 .342 .775 .553 .908 .409 .515 .544 .616
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 94/.517 69/.667 11/.282 49/.905 9/.708 52/.726 38/.413 38/.600 66/.548 .688
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 318/.601 99/.577 13/.385 78/.695 16/.464 54/1.087 63/.405 83/.479 64/.540 .568
Road 200/.575 96/.591 16/.063 64/.683 16/.517 53/.700 57/.437 66/.426 75/.539
Last 28d days 135/.562 53/.512 24/.342 44/1.056 23/.408 6/1.500 35/.510 35/.421 43/.390
HR/SB/CS 11/10/6 4/7/0 1/0/1 4/2/2 0/1/0 8/2/1 2/2/0 3/0/0 3/0/0 71/62/15
Usage ····X··· ·Xo·XX·· X··Xo··X ···oo·Xo ·X··o·oX ··X·oo·· ····Xo·· ··o··X·· o···XoX·

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  5.51

LAA  4.42

ATL  3.43

 RA/G

CHC  3.25

BAL  4.59

CIN  5.93

 BA

J. Altuve  .355

J. Mercer  .272

T. Frazier  .204

 OBP

D. Ortiz  .431

C. Beltran  .340

F. Galvis  .253

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .677

D. Dietrich  .451

B. Burns  .313

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.108

B. Crawford  .786

B. Burns  .589

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.79

K. Gausman  3.97

C. Bettis  5.85

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.10

T. Roark  7.80

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.