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Game Preview: STL @ CIN, 4:05pm, Saturday, August 25, 2012 @Great American Ball Park

Cardinals, 69-56, 69-56 2nd, 6 GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Jaime Garcia (25, LHP, 3-4, 4.00)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. CIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (3-4) 74.1 83 36 33 19 61 2 4.00
2011 (13-7) 194.2 207 100 77 50 156 15 3.56
2010 (13-8) 163.1 151 64 49 64 132 9 2.70
Last 7 GS 1-3 42.0 45 26 23 11 41 2 4.93 50
2012-08-19 PIT ND 8.0 5 2 0 0 10 0 107 78
2012-06-05 @HOU L 2.0 5 6 6 2 2 1 43 22
2012-05-26 PHI L 6.0 6 4 4 2 6 0 91 48
2012-05-21 SDP ND 7.0 7 2 2 1 7 0 92 61
2012-05-16 @SFG W 7.1 9 1 1 0 9 0 92 65
2012-05-11 ATL ND 5.2 9 5 4 2 5 0 101 36
2012-05-05 @HOU L 6.0 4 6 6 4 2 1 95 38
Last 5 v.CIN 3-1 30.2 33 9 7 8 23 0 2.05 56
2012-04-18 CIN W 7.0 7 1 1 3 3 0 89 59
2012-04-11 @CIN ND 4.2 11 3 3 1 4 0 81 33
2011-09-03 CIN W 6.0 7 2 1 1 6 0 95 57
2011-07-17 @CIN L 7.0 6 2 1 0 6 0 103 65
2011-07-05 CIN W 6.0 2 1 1 3 4 0 95 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-26   Road:   29-30   ExtrInn: 3-9 
 vsRHP:  42-44   vsLHP:  27-12   1-Run:  13-21
 vsEast:  9-15   vsCntrl:33-24   vsWest: 19-10 IL: 8-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
125 Fri, Aug 24  @CIN  W   8-5       69-56  2nd  6.0 gb
124 Thu, Aug 23   HOU  W  13-5       68-56  2nd  7.0 gb
123 Wed, Aug 22   HOU  W   4-2       67-56  2nd  8.0 gb
122 Tue, Aug 21   HOU  W   7-0       66-56  3rd  8.0 gb
121 Sun, Aug 19   PIT  L   3-6 (19)  65-56  3rd  8.5 gb
120 Sat, Aug 18   PIT  W   5-4       65-55  3rd  7.5 gb
119 Fri, Aug 17   PIT  L   1-2       64-55  3rd  8.0 gb
118 Thu, Aug 16   ARI  L   1-2       64-54  3rd  7.0 gb
117 Wed, Aug 15   ARI  W   5-2       64-53  2nd  7.0 gb
116 Tue, Aug 14   ARI  W   8-2       63-53  3rd  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-11
Reds, 76-51, 76-51 1st, 6 up

SP: Mike Leake (24, RHP, 5-8, 4.59)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (5-8) 145.0 159 80 74 32 99 19 4.59
2011 (12-9) 167.2 159 74 72 38 118 23 3.86
2010 (8-4) 138.1 158 77 65 49 91 19 4.23
Last 7 GS 2-2 40.1 49 28 28 9 29 7 6.25 44
2012-08-20 @PHI L 4.1 10 7 7 1 4 2 94 18
2012-08-15 NYM W 9.0 4 1 1 0 4 0 111 79
2012-08-09 @CHC ND 6.0 6 3 3 2 5 0 97 51
2012-08-04 PIT ND 6.0 6 4 4 1 7 2 102 50
2012-07-30 SDP L 1.2 5 5 5 3 1 0 49 23
2012-07-24 @HOU W 8.0 7 2 2 1 6 1 112 65
2012-07-19 ARI ND 5.1 11 6 6 1 2 2 93 23
Last 5 v.STL 1-2 21.2 27 14 13 5 14 5 5.40 45
2012-07-14 STL ND 6.0 7 2 2 1 3 1 86 52
2012-04-10 STL L 6.0 7 3 3 1 4 2 99 49
2010-08-09 STL L 3.2 9 7 6 0 2 1 52 19
2010-05-15 STL W 6.0 4 2 2 3 5 1 97 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   41-23   Road:   35-28   ExtrInn: 4-6 
 vsRHP:  52-36   vsLHP:  24-15   1-Run:  22-18
 vsEast: 17-11   vsCntrl:34-22   vsWest: 18-10 IL: 7-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
127 Fri, Aug 24   STL  L   5-8       76-51  1st  6.0 up
126 Thu, Aug 23  @PHI  L   3-4 (11)  76-50  1st  7.0 up
125 Wed, Aug 22  @PHI  W   3-2       76-49  1st  8.0 up
124 Tue, Aug 21  @PHI  W   5-4       75-49  1st  7.5 up
123 Mon, Aug 20  @PHI  L   5-12      74-49  1st  6.5 up
122 Sun, Aug 19   CHC  W   5-4       74-48  1st  6.5 up
121 Sat, Aug 18   CHC  L   7-9       73-48  1st  6.5 up
120 Sat, Aug 18   CHC  W   5-3       73-47  1st  6.5 up
119 Fri, Aug 17   CHC  W   7-3       72-47  1st  6.0 up
118 Thu, Aug 16   NYM  L   4-8       71-47  1st  6.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 24, 2012 STL  8 @CIN  5        W:Joe Kelly (4-5), L: Mat Latos (10-4), S: Jason Motte (30)
Sun, Jul 15, 2012 CIN  4  STL  2        W:Homer Bailey (8-6), L: Jake Westbrook (7-8), S: Aroldis Chapman (13)
Sat, Jul 14, 2012 CIN  3  STL  2 (10)   W:Sam LeCure (3-2), L: Victor Marte (2-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 13, 2012 CIN  5  STL  3        W:Alfredo Simon (1-1), L: Adam Wainwright (7-9), S: Aroldis Chapman (12)
Thu, Apr 19, 2012 CIN  6 @STL  3        W:Bronson Arroyo (1-0), L: Adam Wainwright (0-3), S: Sean Marshall (2)
Wed, Apr 18, 2012 STL 11  CIN  1        W:Jaime Garcia (2-0), L: Mat Latos (0-2), S: none
Tue, Apr 17, 2012 STL  2  CIN  1 (10)   W:Jason Motte (1-0), L: Sam LeCure (0-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 CIN  4  STL  3        W:Aroldis Chapman (2-0), L: Marc Rzepczynski (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 10, 2012 STL  3 @CIN  1        W:Kyle Lohse (2-0), L: Mike Leake (0-1), S: Jason Motte (2)
Mon, Apr 09, 2012 STL  7 @CIN  1        W:Jake Westbrook (1-0), L: Homer Bailey (0-1), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - tied 5-5; 2011 - CIN won 9-6; 2010 - STL won 12-6; All-Time - STL leads 1180-1092

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 2012 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

TEX  5.16

SFG  4.32

HOU  3.70

 RA/G

WSN  3.54

DET  4.34

COL  5.57

 BA

A. McCutchen  .349

N. Swisher  .273

J. Smoak  .188

 OBP

A. McCutchen  .415

A. Callaspo  .335

J. Smoak  .254

 SLG

R. Braun  .600

D. Pedroia  .434

J. Carroll  .286

 OPS

M. Trout  1.000

M. Bourn  .772

J. Smoak  .576

 ERA

D. Price  2.28

T. Milone  3.87

R. Wolf  5.69

 K/9IP

S. Strasburg  11.34

V. Worley  7.20

D. Lowe  3.42

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

Cardinals Batters (4.94 RS/G) vs. Reds Pitchers (3.80 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Leake
G/S/vB		 33.Arredondo
G/S/vB		 50.Broxton
G/S/vB		 54.Chapman*
G/S/vB		 60.Hoover
G/S/vB		 63.LeCure
G/S/vB		 51.Marshall*
G/S/vB		 31.Simon
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Beltran# G/S/vP 12/.416 4/1.417 7/.953 3/.000 ··· 3/.667 10/.000 4/.250 494/364 .276/.348/.524/.872 .846/.881 .798 100/.838 13/5 28/2
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 231/152 .302/.372/.490/.862 .756/.920 .734 39/1.024 1/0 4/5
21.Craig G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 3/.333 ··· 2/1.000 5/.000 2/.000 356/249 .318/.379/.582/.961 1.141/.879 .896 101/1.030 1/0 19/4
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 99/67 .232/.242/.358/.600 .406/.697 .657 23/.748 0/1 1/2
33.Descalso* G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.666 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.500 319/239 .224/.299/.320/.620 .798/.561 .658 76/.431 4/3 3/8
23.Freese G/S/vP 9/1.556 4/1.750 3/1.334 3/.000 ··· 8/.250 3/.000 6/.733 465/354 .299/.370/.477/.847 .974/.807 .901 96/.704 2/2 17/12
15.Furcal# G/S/vP 11/.546 2/.000 2/.500 4/.833 ··· 2/1.000 15/.696 4/.833 511/345 .269/.332/.354/.687 .756/.652 .748 75/.645 12/4 5/14
7.Holliday G/S/vP 12/.955 4/.500 22/.623 4/.833 ··· 8/.542 10/1.056 7/.453 538/387 .302/.379/.516/.895 1.062/.831 .887 107/.697 4/3 23/2
8.Jackson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 8/2 .143/.250/.143/.393 .533/.000 .000 8/.393 0/0 0/1
19.Jay* G/S/vP 8/.375 2/.500 1/no AB 4/.250 ··· 4/1.167 10/.543 4/1.417 333/238 .314/.390/.414/.803 .739/.828 .616 100/.945 15/2 4/0
4.Molina G/S/vP 12/1.000 4/1.750 7/1.000 4/.500 ··· 7/.533 26/.840 3/.000 437/334 .328/.379/.518/.897 1.082/.840 .904 80/1.063 11/2 17/3
43.Robinson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 153/76 .262/.314/.362/.675 .676/.673 .775 18/.889 1/0 2/2
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 8/1.667 2/.000 6/.333 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 11/.364 4/1.500 219/187 .309/.378/.407/.785 .638/.810 .879 46/.623 0/1 0/2
IP 145.0 51.0 41.2 62.0 20.0 45.0 48.0 50.0 TOTAL .276/.342/.432/.774 .813/.758 .756 .761 76/26 131/82
ERA-K/9 4.59/6.1 2.65/9.4 3.02/6.0 1.31/16.3 2.70/8.6 3.40/8.8 2.81/11.1 2.52/8.3 3.47/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (14-6-3)
 Molina (28-24-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 612/.281 217/.202 179/.291 236/.139 83/.200 191/.256 202/.243 222/.273 .252  Beltran
 Holliday
 Robinson
 Schumaker
 Craig
 Carpenter
 Jay
0/9/105/7
118/0/0/5
9/36/7/3
1/15/9/1
7/0/18/1
6/0/9/0
0/80/0/0
OPS .786 .650 .754 .430 .627 .714 .620 .726 .708
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 339/.790 106/.533 89/.782 72/.301 43/.510 91/.668 77/.520 112/.696 .722
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 273/.780 111/.753 90/.726 164/.487 40/.754 100/.755 125/.683 110/.756 .694
Home 309/.857 135/.610 79/.732 127/.504 45/.522 101/.591 93/.464 145/.724
Last 28d days 118/.826 43/.672 28/1.044 46/.445 10/.944 43/.805 37/.368 58/.879
HR/SB/CS 19/8/5 6/5/2 1/4/2 3/5/1 2/1/0 3/2/3 3/1/2 1/6/2 121/71/34
Usage ····X··· ·X··X··o ···X···X ··Xo·oXo ·X······ oX··X·X· ·o·X··X· XX····X·
Reds Batters (4.35 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Garcia*
G/S/vB		 41.Boggs
G/S/vB		 65.Dickson
G/S/vB		 58.Kelly
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 44.Mujica
G/S/vB		 34.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB		 59.Salas
G/S/vB		 50.Wainwright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Bruce* G/S/vP 23/.407 8/.250 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 2/2.500 7/.715 5/.200 18/.889 500/347 .259/.334/.520/.854 .733/.908 .949 102/1.049 7/2 26/5
43.Cairo G/S/vP 10/.600 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/1.334 ··· 3/.000 5/.400 130/94 .169/.200/.266/.466 .509/.449 .503 51/.569 3/0 1/4
2.Cozart G/S/vP 9/.819 4/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 3/1.167 6/.000 524/403 .252/.295/.414/.709 .704/.711 .773 112/.831 3/0 14/13
21.Frazier G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 1/2.000 2/2.500 ··· 1/.000 5/1.400 359/256 .298/.357/.560/.917 .949/.903 .875 106/1.017 3/2 18/6
29.Hanigan G/S/vP 14/.665 9/.111 2/1.000 2/.500 7/.143 3/1.667 ··· 7/.453 10/.200 297/225 .290/.382/.361/.743 .879/.701 .627 68/.882 0/0 2/4
28.Heisey G/S/vP 11/.637 5/1.000 1/no AB ··· 5/.400 2/4.000 ··· 7/.453 2/1.000 289/219 .277/.317/.406/.723 .770/.708 .680 34/.899 5/3 4/3
48.Ludwick G/S/vP 8/.125 6/1.417 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 4/.500 4/2.000 4/1.000 9/1.232 381/274 .272/.342/.564/.906 1.019/.864 .927 98/1.068 0/1 25/1
30.Navarro# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 5/1.000 ··· 3/.666 11/7 .100/.091/.400/.491 1.250/.000 .000 11/.491 0/0 1/1
26.Paul* G/S/vP 2/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 50/46 .302/.388/.465/.853 .250/.900 .874 38/.789 3/1 1/0
4.Phillips G/S/vP 26/.538 16/.467 1/.000 1/.000 5/.000 8/.375 2/.000 6/1.400 33/.668 482/344 .290/.329/.438/.767 .749/.774 .858 93/.654 10/1 13/4
27.Rolen G/S/vP 18/.466 6/.666 1/.000 2/1.500 3/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/.000 12/.633 253/188 .249/.324/.409/.733 .614/.775 .886 62/.990 1/1 6/9
6.Stubbs G/S/vP 27/.885 10/.425 ··· 1/.000 9/.666 5/.900 2/3.000 10/.733 17/.548 446/325 .227/.293/.374/.667 .851/.596 .681 107/.620 28/6 14/4
15.Valdez G/S/vP 6/1.500 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 147/108 .197/.224/.219/.443 .575/.396 .564 46/.266 2/1 0/2
IP 74.1 58.0 2.1 77.1 54.2 50.1 39.2 47.0 160.1 TOTAL .256/.319/.428/.747 .785/.733 .788 .789 72/23 147/74
ERA-K/9 4.00/7.4 2.02/7.1 0.00/3.9 3.26/6.4 2.63/10.4 3.40/6.3 4.76/6.1 4.02/10.0 3.65/8.6 3.65/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (31-24-2)
 Navarro (2-0-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 313/.294 235/.210 11/.273 333/.277 214/.191 200/.225 169/.266 203/.247 661/.250 .253  Bruce
 Stubbs
 Heisey
 Paul
 Ludwick
 Frazier
 Valdez
0/0/122/6
0/107/0/4
47/25/11/4
7/0/1/2
86/0/0/0
5/0/0/0
0/5/0/0
OPS .727 .569 .636 .733 .579 .646 .766 .701 .679 .698
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/.672 93/.651 4/1.250 145/.850 105/.378 94/.699 93/.665 78/.713 319/.667 .718
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 239/.745 142/.514 7/.286 188/.643 109/.774 106/.597 76/.891 125/.693 342/.689 .681
Road 146/.765 103/.554 4/.750 115/.677 89/.572 84/.539 83/.783 88/.993 258/.653
Last 28d days 28/.392 64/.513 / 114/.804 41/.674 43/.628 28/.696 34/.649 138/.513
HR/SB/CS 2/2/2 4/4/0 0/0/0 6/6/4 7/1/1 6/1/0 7/2/2 3/3/3 12/2/1 101/42/30
Usage ·····X·· o·o··XX· ········ X····X·· o·o··oX· oX···oo· ·X···o·o oo···o·o ···X····

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.