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Game Preview: NYM @ STL, 8:15pm, Tuesday, April 21, 2009 @Busch Stadium III

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Mets, 6-6, 2nd, 4½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Oliver Perez (27, LHP, 1-1, 7.84)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-1) 10.1 8 9 9 7 11 1 7.84
2008 (10-7) 194.0 167 100 91 105 180 24 4.22
2007 (15-10) 177.0 153 90 70 79 174 22 3.56
Last 7 GS 1-1 36.1 36 29 28 23 40 3 6.94 44
2009-04-15 SDP W 6.0 3 1 1 2 4 0 90 64
2009-04-09 @CIN L 4.1 5 8 8 5 7 1 100 23
2008-09-28 FLA ND 5.1 4 2 2 3 6 0 85 55
2008-09-24 CHC ND 4.1 6 5 5 5 6 1 105 32
2008-09-19 @ATL ND 6.0 6 4 3 3 6 0 109 49
2008-09-14 ATL ND 7.0 4 2 2 3 8 0 111 66
2008-09-09 WSN ND 3.1 8 7 7 2 3 1 73 17
Last 5 v.STL 1-2 26.2 27 14 12 12 16 2 4.05 49
2007-06-26 STL ND 6.1 5 2 2 3 6 0 113 58
2006-06-13 STL L 7.0 7 2 2 1 4 0 110 58
2006-04-24 @STL L 5.0 10 7 5 2 4 1 85 25
2006-04-18 STL W 6.2 5 3 3 4 2 1 103 50
2005-09-14 @STL ND 1.2 0 0 0 2 0 0 31 53
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    3-3    Road:    3-3    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   6-6    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   3-4 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Sun, Apr 19   MIL  L   2-4        6-6   2nd  5.0 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 18   MIL  W   1-0        6-5   2nd  4.0 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 17   MIL  W   5-4        5-5   2nd  4.0 gb
  9 Thu, Apr 16   SDP  L   5-6        4-5   4th  4.0 gb
  8 Wed, Apr 15   SDP  W   7-2        4-4   4th  3.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 13   SDP  L   5-6        3-4   4th  2.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 12  @FLA  L   1-2        3-3   3rd  2.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr 11  @FLA  W   8-4        3-2   3rd  1.0 gb
  4 Fri, Apr 10  @FLA  L   4-5        2-2   3rd  2.0 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  9  @CIN  L   6-8        2-1   2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 6-6    Last 30: 6-6
Cardinals, 8-5, 1st, Tied

SP: Todd Wellemeyer (30, RHP, 1-1, 4.50)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-1) 12.0 19 6 6 2 7 0 4.50
2008 (13-9) 191.2 178 84 79 62 134 25 3.71
2007 (3-3) 79.1 77 50 40 40 60 11 4.54
Last 7 GS 3-4 43.1 47 20 18 14 32 6 3.74 51
2009-04-13 @ARI W 7.0 7 1 1 0 4 0 87 63
2009-04-08 PIT L 5.0 12 5 5 2 3 0 93 24
2008-09-27 CIN W 6.1 7 3 3 1 3 0 92 49
2008-09-22 ARI L 6.0 9 3 3 4 7 1 117 45
2008-09-17 @CIN L 6.0 4 3 3 2 6 3 99 56
2008-09-11 CHC L 5.0 3 2 0 4 2 0 91 55
2008-09-06 FLA W 8.0 5 3 3 1 7 2 119 66
Last 5 v.NYM 0-1 11.0 15 7 7 5 7 0 5.73 42
2008-07-01 NYM L 5.0 12 6 6 2 2 0 96 19
2007-06-26 @NYM ND 6.0 3 1 1 3 5 0 97 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-2    Road:    3-3    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:   4-3    vsLHP:   4-2    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 6-4    vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Sat, Apr 18  @CHC  L   5-7 (11)   8-5   1st    Tied
 12 Fri, Apr 17  @CHC  L   7-8        8-4   1st  1.0 up
 11 Thu, Apr 16  @CHC  W   7-4        8-3   1st  2.0 up
 10 Wed, Apr 15  @ARI  W  12-7        7-3   1st  1.0 up
  9 Tue, Apr 14  @ARI  L   6-7 (10)   6-3   1st    Tied
  8 Mon, Apr 13  @ARI  W   2-1        6-2   1st  0.5 up
  7 Sun, Apr 12   HOU  W   3-0        5-2   1st  0.5 up
  6 Sat, Apr 11   HOU  W  11-2        4-2   1st  0.5 up
  5 Fri, Apr 10   HOU  W   5-3        3-2   1st  0.5 up
  4 Thu, Apr  9   PIT  W   2-1        2-2   2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20: 8-5    Last 30: 8-5 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 27, 2008 NYM  9  STL  1        W:Johan Santana (9-7), L: Kyle Lohse (12-3), S: none
Sat, Jul 26, 2008 STL 10 @NYM  8 (14)   W:Brad Thompson (3-2), L: Aaron Heilman (1-4), S: none
Fri, Jul 25, 2008 NYM  7  STL  2        W:Mike Pelfrey (9-6), L: Mitchell Boggs (3-2), S: none
Thu, Jul 03, 2008 NYM 11 @STL  1        W:Mike Pelfrey (6-6), L: Mitchell Boggs (3-1), S: none
Wed, Jul 02, 2008 STL  8  NYM  7        W:Ryan Franklin (3-2), L: Carlos Muniz (0-1), S: none
Tue, Jul 01, 2008 NYM  7 @STL  4        W:Tony Armas (1-0), L: Todd Wellemeyer (7-3), S: Billy Wagner (19)
Mon, Jun 30, 2008 STL  7  NYM  1        W:Kyle Lohse (10-2), L: John Maine (8-6), S: none
Thu, Sep 27, 2007 STL  3 @NYM  0        W:Joel Pineiro (7-5), L: Pedro Martinez (3-1), S: Jason Isringhausen (31)
Wed, Jun 27, 2007 NYM  2  STL  0  (6)   W:Tom Glavine (7-5), L: Anthony Reyes (0-10), S: none
Tue, Jun 26, 2007 STL  5 @NYM  3 (11)   W:Brad Thompson (6-3), L: Scott Schoeneweis (0-2), S: Randy Flores (1)
Season Series: 2009 -  0-0; 2008 - NYM won 4-3; 2007 - NYM won 5-2; All-Time - STL leads 357-320

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

For the 2008 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  5.56

ATL  4.65

SDP  3.93

 RA/G

TOR  3.77

HOU  4.61

TEX  5.97

 BA

C. Jones  .364

R. Ibanez  .293

J. Towles  .137

 OBP

C. Jones  .470

C. Lee  .368

T. Pena  .189

 SLG

A. Pujols  .653

G. Dobbs  .491

T. Pena  .209

 OPS

A. Pujols  1.114

J. Cust  .851

T. Pena  .398

 ERA

J. Santana  2.53

A. Cook  3.96

N. Robertson  6.35

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  10.51

V. Padilla  6.68

L. Hernandez  3.35

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2009 season. Player Stats for the 2008 season. We will switch to 2009 stats on May 1st.

Mets Batters (4.58 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.31 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Wellemeyer
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		 62.Walters
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Beltran# G/S/vP 9/.472 22/.641 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 706/498 .284/.376/.500/.876 1.015/.818 .845 53/.856 25/3 27/3
1.Castillo# G/S/vP 4/1.000 3/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 4/1.250 ··· 359/265 .245/.355/.305/.660 .679/.654 .652 41/.880 17/2 3/6
11.Castro G/S/vP 4/1.250 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/88 .245/.312/.441/.753 .780/.730 .712 18/.653 0/0 7/4
19.Church* G/S/vP 6/1.100 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 359/242 .276/.346/.439/.785 .725/.815 .756 44/1.018 2/3 12/1
3.Cora* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· 5/.650 ··· 179/149 .270/.371/.349/.719 .619/.741 .658 7/.000 1/1 0/6
21.Delgado* G/S/vP 8/1.911 19/.883 1/.000 9/.944 ··· ··· 7/.143 ··· 686/465 .271/.353/.518/.871 .789/.912 .863 54/.957 1/1 38/8
28.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 151/138 .313/.397/.473/.871 1.162/.846 .901 52/.791 0/2 2/2
18.Reed* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 312/286 .269/.314/.360/.674 .231/.717 .634 8/.661 2/3 2/4
7.Reyes# G/S/vP 9/.444 9/1.194 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 763/536 .297/.358/.475/.833 .816/.840 .847 57/.854 56/15 16/17
9.Santos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/10 .100/.100/.100/.200 /.200 .000 5/1.400 0/0 0/0
10.Sheffield G/S/vP 5/1.000 10/.800 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 4/1.750 ··· 482/361 .225/.326/.400/.725 .754/.715 .691 16/.983 9/2 19/0
17.Tatis G/S/vP ··· 4/1.250 ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 7/.858 ··· 306/184 .297/.369/.484/.853 .809/.880 .742 8/.000 3/0 11/4
5.Wright G/S/vP 9/1.778 6/1.300 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/4.000 1/3.000 ··· 736/536 .302/.390/.534/.924 1.179/.835 .800 55/.818 15/5 33/16
IP 191.2 78.2 75.2 43.1 11.0 41.2 46.1 TOTAL .283/.366/.412/.778 1.151/.747 .779 .778 5/4 9/8
ERA-K/9 3.71/6.3 3.55/5.8 4.04/7.0 4.15/9.1 0.82/13.1 3.46/9.1 2.33/7.6 /0.0 3.95/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (18-5-1)
 Santos (1-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 807/.245 346/.278 327/.269 187/.242 40/.139 177/.227 188/.235 / .249  Beltran
 Church
 Tatis
 Reed
 Murphy
 Sheffield
0/158/0/8
0/0/83/7
51/0/39/2
6/58/14/2
32/0/0/1
6/0/0/0
OPS .724 .805 .727 .687 .344 .751 .658 .697
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 336/.766 140/.764 137/.706 106/.612 19/.347 72/.805 101/.537 / .663
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 471/.694 206/.833 190/.741 81/.783 21/.340 105/.714 87/.802 / .734
Home 456/.780 181/.828 158/.633 100/.612 24/.504 85/.718 90/.624 /
Last 28d days 54/.884 21/.340 30/.519 24/.833 28/.780 18/.563 16/.521 19/.859
HR/SB/CS 25/7/6 10/2/1 7/2/1 2/0/2 0/0/0 5/3/1 4/6/2 // 10/2/3
Usage ·······X ··X·o··o ··X·X·Xo ···X·oo· ··o··oX· ··XX·X·· ··o···oo ···X····

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2009 season. Player Stats for the 2008 season. We will switch to 2009 stats on May 1st.

Cardinals Batters (5.92 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (4.08 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Perez*
G/S/vB		 25.Feliciano*
G/S/vB		 27.Figueroa
G/S/vB		 50.Green
G/S/vB		 39.Parnell
G/S/vB		 22.Putz
G/S/vB		 75.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 43.Stokes
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Ankiel* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 463/340 .264/.337/.506/.843 .717/.890 .801 44/.503 2/1 25/8
23.Barden G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/5 .222/.222/.222/.444 .400/.500 .000 24/1.322 0/0 0/1
16.Duncan* G/S/vP 4/.250 4/1.833 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 257/221 .248/.346/.365/.711 .489/.749 .663 51/1.185 2/1 6/2
12.Freese G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 22/.490 / /
3.Greene G/S/vP 12/.639 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 6/.334 2/3.000 1/.000 423/312 .213/.260/.339/.599 .529/.624 .651 53/.691 5/1 10/8
21.LaRue G/S/vP 23/.832 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 189/136 .213/.296/.348/.643 .549/.680 .543 4/1.000 0/0 4/2
47.Ludwick G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 617/409 .299/.375/.591/.966 .929/.985 1.013 46/1.278 4/4 37/3
4.Molina G/S/vP 17/.916 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 485/336 .304/.349/.392/.740 .860/.690 .767 52/.876 0/2 7/10
5.Pujols G/S/vP 30/1.390 ··· 10/.200 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 641/446 .357/.462/.653/1.114 1.233/1.063 1.175 60/1.050 7/3 37/6
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 41/.631 / /
13.Ryan G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 218/116 .244/.307/.289/.596 .620/.575 .521 19/.667 7/2 0/3
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 594/461 .302/.359/.406/.765 .423/.861 .711 47/.657 8/2 8/3
22.Thurston* G/S/vP 4/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/8 .000/.111/.000/.111 .000/.125 .111 33/.907 0/0 0/0
IP 194.0 53.1 45.1 79.0 5.0 46.1 68.1 33.1 TOTAL .288/.372/.477/.850 .724/.935 .840 .850 7/1 17/12
ERA-K/9 4.22/8.4 4.05/8.4 4.57/7.2 4.67/7.1 5.40/5.4 3.88/10.9 2.24/10.1 3.51/7.0 3.75/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 LaRue (13-8-2)
 Molina (34-18-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 847/.234 237/.281 211/.267 358/.261 19/.176 211/.256 288/.216 138/.280 .233  Ludwick
 Schumaker
 Ankiel
 Duncan
 Thurston
 Ryan
29/14/124/12
56/79/33/10
17/89/1/4
43/0/2/1
4/0/0/0
1/0/3/0
OPS .725 .790 .741 .690 .440 .749 .630 .748 .633
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 201/.521 119/.575 83/.980 157/.827 7/.143 114/.803 154/.682 66/.899 .771
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 646/.791 118/1.014 128/.589 201/.583 12/.606 97/.686 134/.571 72/.618 .568
Road 427/.746 116/.820 77/.880 147/.809 5/.000 74/.884 150/.626 71/.693
Last 28d days 46/.646 20/.616 26/.749 32/.713 30/.541 27/.440 21/.296 14/.571
HR/SB/CS 24/8/1 7/0/0 3/3/0 3/3/1 0/0/0 4/1/2 4/8/0 5/3/0 9/4/3
Usage ·····X·· ·o·oo··o ·X·X·X·X ·X·o·o·· ··oo·o·X ··X·o··o ····o··o

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.