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Game Preview: STL @ CIN, 7:10pm, Friday, May 8, 2009 @Great American Ball Park

Cardinals, 19-10, 1st, 2½ up

SP: Joel Pineiro (30, RHP, 4-1, 3.24)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. CIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (4-1) 33.1 37 15 12 7 10 2 3.24
2008 (7-7) 148.2 180 89 85 35 81 22 5.15
2007 (7-5) 97.2 110 49 47 26 60 14 4.33
Last 7 GS 5-2 46.1 46 23 18 11 20 3 3.50 51
2009-05-02 @WSN L 7.0 7 4 1 1 4 1 101 56
2009-04-27 @ATL W 6.2 7 2 2 0 1 0 76 53
2009-04-22 NYM W 8.0 6 2 2 2 0 0 91 60
2009-04-15 @ARI W 5.0 9 5 5 3 3 1 104 29
2009-04-10 HOU W 6.2 8 2 2 1 2 0 95 51
2008-09-25 ARI W 7.0 3 3 3 2 7 1 99 64
2008-09-20 @CHC L 6.0 6 5 3 2 3 0 87 45
Last 5 v.CIN 3-0 24.1 19 6 6 7 19 3 2.22 60
2008-08-16 @CIN W 6.0 7 3 3 0 6 2 81 52
2008-06-12 @CIN ND 5.0 3 2 2 1 6 1 70 58
2008-04-29 CIN W 7.0 1 0 0 4 3 0 98 74
2002-06-18 @CIN W 6.1 8 1 1 2 4 0 105 55
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-5    Road:    7-5    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:  12-7    vsLHP:   7-3    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  7-4    vsCntrl:10-5    vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Thu, May  7   PIT  W   5-2       19-10  1st  2.5 up
 28 Wed, May  6   PIT  W   4-2       18-10  1st  2.0 up
 27 Tue, May  5   PHI  L   7-10      17-10  1st  2.0 up
 26 Mon, May  4   PHI  L   1-6       17-9   1st  2.5 up
 25 Sat, May  2  @WSN  L   1-6       17-8   1st  4.0 up
 24 Fri, May  1  @WSN  W   6-2       17-7   1st  4.0 up
 23 Thu, Apr 30  @WSN  W   9-4       16-7   1st  3.5 up
 22 Wed, Apr 29  @ATL  W   5-3       15-7   1st  3.5 up
 21 Tue, Apr 28  @ATL  L   1-2       14-7   1st  2.5 up
 20 Mon, Apr 27  @ATL  W   3-2       14-6   1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-10
Reds, 15-13, 4th, 3½ GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Johnny Cueto (23, RHP, 2-1, 1.65)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-1) 32.2 25 6 6 9 29 2 1.65
2008 (9-14) 174.0 178 101 93 68 158 29 4.81
Last 7 GS 3-2 41.1 38 13 13 12 34 2 2.83 57
2009-05-03 @PIT W 8.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 109 82
2009-04-27 HOU ND 7.0 7 1 1 1 5 1 98 63
2009-04-22 @CHC W 7.0 4 0 0 0 3 0 108 72
2009-04-17 @HOU ND 4.2 2 1 1 6 3 0 88 53
2009-04-11 PIT L 6.0 8 4 4 1 9 1 109 48
2008-09-25 @HOU L 2.2 7 5 5 3 1 0 75 22
2008-09-20 MIL W 6.0 6 2 2 0 4 0 102 56
Last 5 v.STL 0-2 6.2 13 13 12 9 4 2 16.20 21
2008-06-11 STL L 5.0 5 6 6 8 2 2 101 27
2008-04-29 @STL L 1.2 8 7 6 1 2 0 55 14
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-8    Road:   10-5    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  10-8    vsLHP:   5-5    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  3-5    vsCntrl:12-8    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 28 Thu, May  7   MIL  W   6-5       15-13  4th  3.5 gb
 27 Wed, May  6   MIL  L   3-15      14-13  4th  3.5 gb
 26 Tue, May  5  @FLA  W   7-0       14-12  3rd  2.5 gb
 25 Mon, May  4  @FLA  L   2-3 (14)  13-12  4th  3.5 gb
 24 Sun, May  3  @PIT  W   5-0       13-11  2nd  3.5 gb
 23 Sat, May  2  @PIT  L   6-8       12-11  2nd  4.0 gb
 22 Fri, May  1  @PIT  W   4-0       12-10  2nd  4.0 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 29   HOU  W   3-0       11-10  2nd  3.5 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 28   HOU  L   3-8       10-10  4th  3.5 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 27   HOU  L   1-4       10-9   3rd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Sep 28, 2008 STL 11  CIN  4        W:Brad Thompson (6-3), L: Adam Pettyjohn (0-1), S: none
Sat, Sep 27, 2008 STL  8  CIN  5        W:Todd Wellemeyer (13-9), L: Aaron Harang (6-17), S: none
Fri, Sep 26, 2008 STL  7  CIN  6        W:Ryan Franklin (6-6), L: Bill Bray (2-2), S: none
Thu, Sep 18, 2008 STL  5 @CIN  4        W:Kyle Lohse (14-6), L: Edinson Volquez (16-6), S: Jason Motte (1)
Wed, Sep 17, 2008 CIN  3  STL  0        W:Aaron Harang (5-16), L: Todd Wellemeyer (12-8), S: none
Tue, Sep 16, 2008 CIN  7  STL  2        W:Bronson Arroyo (15-10), L: Braden Looper (12-13), S: none
Sun, Aug 17, 2008 CIN  7  STL  3        W:Edinson Volquez (15-5), L: Kyle Lohse (13-6), S: none
Sat, Aug 16, 2008 STL  9 @CIN  3        W:Joel Pineiro (6-5), L: Aaron Harang (3-13), S: none
Fri, Aug 15, 2008 STL  5 @CIN  3        W:Brad Thompson (5-2), L: Bronson Arroyo (10-10), S: Chris Perez (4)
Thu, Jun 12, 2008 CIN  6  STL  2        W:Jared Burton (3-1), L: Mark Worrell (0-1), S: none
Season Series: 2009 -  0-0; 2008 - STL won 10-5; 2007 - STL won 9-6; All-Time - STL leads 1149-1064

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 2009 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  6.13

CHC  4.89

ARI  3.62

 RA/G

KCR  3.79

CHC  4.68

NYY  6.36

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 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .40

J. Peavy  4.27

C. Silva  8.48

 K/9IP

J. Santana  12.24

K. Davies  6.68

J. Pineiro  2.70

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

Cardinals Batters (5.41 RS/G) vs. Reds Pitchers (4.39 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Cueto
G/S/vB		 51.Burton
G/S/vB		 48.Cordero
G/S/vB		 52.Herrera*
G/S/vB		 57.Lincoln
G/S/vB		 40.Masset
G/S/vB		 33.Owings
G/S/vB		 53.Rhodes*
G/S/vB		 25.Weathers
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Barden G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 54/32 .306/.352/.510/.862 .682/.999 1.101 49/.913 0/0 3/1
16.Duncan* G/S/vP 4/.833 1/2.000 4/.750 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 3/1.667 108/75 .275/.370/.505/.876 .803/.908 1.187 90/.832 0/1 3/3
3.Greene G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/2.000 6/.000 ··· 3/1.666 ··· 13/.763 2/1.500 9/.472 87/49 .222/.326/.347/.673 .582/.738 .626 64/.718 1/1 2/6
27.Greene G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/17 .188/.235/.250/.485 /.485 .222 17/.485 1/0 0/0
21.LaRue G/S/vP 3/2.667 2/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 7/.453 ··· ··· ··· 7/.619 18/15 .438/.500/.688/1.188 1.333/1.159 .833 18/1.188 0/0 1/0
47.Ludwick G/S/vP 3/1.667 3/.666 4/1.250 1/5.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 106/71 .284/.337/.547/.884 .782/.930 .916 89/.806 1/0 7/1
4.Molina G/S/vP 1/3.000 2/1.000 4/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 9/.472 103/72 .315/.386/.483/.869 .778/.908 .789 83/.861 1/1 3/0
5.Pujols G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.666 7/.858 ··· 5/1.550 ··· 2/3.500 4/1.000 18/1.736 126/86 .356/.460/.733/1.193 1.106/1.233 .985 104/1.192 4/1 11/4
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 86/62 .257/.349/.351/.700 .397/.807 .660 71/.739 1/0 1/2
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 5/1.550 3/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.000 101/83 .289/.356/.367/.723 .583/.753 .509 87/.695 1/1 0/2
22.Thurston* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 87/72 .278/.345/.443/.788 .718/.802 .562 77/.725 1/0 1/2
IP 32.2 13.0 12.0 11.2 12.1 12.1 28.1 10.2 9.0 TOTAL .275/.353/.451/.804 .681/.857 .747 .804 13/5 34/23
ERA-K/9 1.65/8.0 6.23/6.2 2.25/9.8 2.31/8.5 10.22/2.9 1.46/7.3 5.08/4.8 0.00/7.6 0.00/8.0 3.99/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 127/.214 58/.288 50/.273 54/.261 65/.365 48/.100 126/.288 41/.194 34/.133 .252
OPS .592 .787 .638 .634 1.108 .375 .799 .472 .412 .713
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 68/.640 28/.742 27/.431 22/.377 29/1.484 18/.543 54/.996 12/.267 15/.143 .694
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 59/.539 30/.833 23/.885 32/.822 36/.822 30/.278 72/.657 29/.555 19/.596 .731
Home 53/.850 22/.558 24/.655 35/.619 41/1.264 27/.476 54/.675 19/.164 8/.250
Last 28d days 127/.592 51/.790 43/.668 49/.582 55/1.073 43/.370 126/.799 32/.608 29/.490
HR/SB/CS 2/1/1 1/0/0 0/0/1 0/1/0 2/0/2 0/1/1 4/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 24/13/11
Usage ····X··· ···X·o·· oX····X· ·X·o·X·· ·X·X···· X·oo···· X····X·· o··Xoo·· ·o·o·o··
Reds Batters (3.96 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.28 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Pineiro
G/S/vB		 54.Boyer
G/S/vB		 31.Franklin
G/S/vB		 46.McClellan
G/S/vB		 43.Miller*
G/S/vB		 60.Motte
G/S/vB		 34.Perez
G/S/vB		 36.Reyes*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Bruce* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/2.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 106/73 .269/.358/.559/.918 .517/1.091 .986 93/.981 1/0 8/1
21.Dickerson* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 74/68 .213/.338/.311/.649 .750/.639 .551 67/.644 0/2 1/3
2.Gonzalez G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 11/.600 ··· 4/2.083 ··· ··· 3/.667 80/61 .176/.215/.284/.499 .211/.595 .542 72/.520 0/0 2/2
15.Hairston G/S/vP 11/.664 2/.000 9/.730 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/3.500 6/.533 64/31 .190/.254/.276/.530 .519/.540 .355 57/.562 1/0 1/2
29.Hanigan G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 29/16 .320/.379/.360/.739 .825/.670 .760 25/.724 0/0 0/0
55.Hernandez G/S/vP 25/.985 ··· 21/.413 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 3/.000 91/74 .280/.337/.366/.703 .180/.828 .631 82/.742 0/0 1/0
7.Janish G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/18 .375/.444/.458/.903 .700/1.029 .686 24/.978 0/0 0/1
16.McDonald G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/13 .241/.290/.310/.601 .819/.308 .536 23/.579 0/0 0/2
17.Nix* G/S/vP 20/.300 2/.000 14/.671 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/3.000 41/34 .351/.390/.676/1.066 .429/1.208 1.042 36/1.174 0/0 1/0
4.Phillips G/S/vP 11/1.031 2/.000 9/.583 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 111/72 .237/.306/.423/.729 .867/.655 .975 98/.723 4/1 5/3
23.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 34/27 .214/.303/.214/.517 .629/.487 .365 34/.517 0/1 0/0
3.Taveras G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 113/80 .263/.333/.358/.691 .540/.746 .801 107/.657 6/1 1/1
19.Votto* G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 3/1.167 2/.000 ··· 118/73 .370/.466/.560/1.026 .925/1.090 .923 104/.946 2/1 3/3
IP 33.1 6.1 13.1 13.1 8.1 12.2 8.0 9.0 TOTAL .248/.325/.383/.708 .623/.744 .726 .711 15/7 24/23
ERA-K/9 3.24/2.7 11.37/10.0 0.00/7.4 2.70/8.8 4.32/10.8 3.55/7.1 2.25/12.4 4.00/8.0 3.77/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 135/.296 30/.269 46/.091 60/.204 38/.265 52/.255 35/.143 36/.188 .257
OPS .776 .674 .221 .602 .816 .667 .564 .570 .717
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/.759 14/.607 21/.243 32/.476 22/.386 28/.641 8/.700 20/.377 .736
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 61/.798 16/.732 25/.203 28/.755 16/1.420 24/.697 27/.520 16/.813 .697
Road 79/.876 8/.250 24/.382 35/.740 14/1.024 26/.487 23/.483 10/.856
Last 28d days 109/.784 28/.629 41/.249 53/.650 27/.942 41/.433 35/.564 30/.695
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 0/0/1 1/0/0 1/0/0 22/6/6
Usage ·····X·· o··o··oo oo·o···· ·X·o···· oo·o···o ·oo···X· ··o····o ·ooo····

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.