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Game Preview: ATL @ STL, 2:15pm, Sunday, May 13, 2012 @Busch Stadium III

Braves, 21-13, 21-13 2nd, ½ GB, 4 up in WC

SP: Tommy Hanson (25, RHP, 3-3, 3.63)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (3-3) 39.2 39 17 16 16 34 4 3.63
2011 (11-7) 130.0 106 55 52 46 142 17 3.60
2010 (10-11) 202.2 182 86 75 56 173 14 3.33
Last 7 GS 3-3 39.2 39 17 16 16 34 4 3.63 52
2012-05-07 @CHC L 6.0 5 2 2 2 3 2 91 55
2012-05-02 PHI ND 3.2 8 4 4 2 3 0 95 30
2012-04-27 PIT W 6.0 6 1 1 3 5 0 102 58
2012-04-21 @ARI W 7.0 5 2 2 1 7 1 104 65
2012-04-16 NYM L 7.0 5 5 4 2 4 1 105 51
2012-04-10 @HOU W 5.0 6 2 2 3 8 0 101 52
2012-04-05 @NYM L 5.0 4 1 1 3 4 0 83 56
Last 5 v.STL 0-0 7.0 5 2 2 0 5 0 2.57 64
2010-09-11 STL ND 7.0 5 2 2 0 5 0 94 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    8-5    Road:   13-8    ExtrInn: 3-0 
 vsRHP:  13-6    vsLHP:   8-7    1-Run:   5-2 
 vsEast:  3-6    vsCntrl:10-5    vsWest:  8-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 34 Sat, May 12  @STL  W   7-2       21-13  2nd  0.5 gb
 33 Fri, May 11  @STL  W   9-7 (12)  20-13  2nd  0.5 gb
 32 Wed, May  9  @CHC  L   0-1       19-13  1st    Tied
 31 Tue, May  8  @CHC  W   3-1       19-12  1st    Tied
 30 Mon, May  7  @CHC  L   1-5       18-12  2nd  1.0 gb
 29 Sun, May  6  @COL  W   7-2       18-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 28 Sat, May  5  @COL  W  13-9       17-11  2nd  1.5 gb
 27 Fri, May  4  @COL  W   9-8 (11)  16-11  2nd  1.5 gb
 26 Thu, May  3   PHI  L   0-4       15-11  2nd  1.5 gb
 25 Wed, May  2   PHI  W  15-13(11)  15-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:21-9 
Cardinals, 20-13, 20-13 1st, 3½ up

SP: Lance Lynn (25, RHP, 6-0, 1.40)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (6-0) 38.2 22 6 6 11 37 3 1.40
2011 (1-1) 34.2 25 12 12 11 40 3 3.12
Last 7 GS 7-0 43.2 28 7 7 14 40 3 1.44 64
2012-05-07 @ARI W 5.0 3 0 0 4 7 0 91 64
2012-05-02 PIT W 6.2 3 2 2 1 6 0 100 65
2012-04-25 @CHC W 8.0 6 1 1 2 7 1 110 71
2012-04-20 @PIT W 7.0 4 1 1 1 4 1 88 68
2012-04-14 CHC W 5.1 4 1 1 2 5 0 88 59
2012-04-08 @MIL W 6.2 2 1 1 1 8 1 100 73
2011-06-09 @HOU W 5.0 6 1 1 3 3 0 94 51
Has never faced ATL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    8-6    Road:   12-7    ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  14-11   vsLHP:   6-2    1-Run:   1-5 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl:16-11   vsWest:  3-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 33 Sat, May 12   ATL  L   2-7       20-13  1st  3.5 up
 32 Fri, May 11   ATL  L   7-9 (12)  20-12  1st  3.5 up
 31 Wed, May  9  @ARI  W   7-2       20-11  1st  3.5 up
 30 Tue, May  8  @ARI  W   6-1       19-11  1st  3.5 up
 29 Mon, May  7  @ARI  W   9-6       18-11  1st  2.5 up
 28 Sun, May  6  @HOU  W   8-1       17-11  1st  2.5 up
 27 Sat, May  5  @HOU  L   2-8       16-11  1st  2.5 up
 26 Fri, May  4  @HOU  L   4-5       16-10  1st  2.5 up
 25 Thu, May  3   PIT  L   3-6       16-9   1st  3.5 up
 24 Wed, May  2   PIT  W  12-3       16-8   1st  4.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, May 12, 2012 ATL  7 @STL  2        W:Brandon Beachy (4-1), L: Adam Wainwright (2-4), S: none
Fri, May 11, 2012 ATL  9 @STL  7 (12)   W:Livan Hernandez (1-0), L: Kyle McClellan (0-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (11)

Sun, Sep 11, 2011 STL  6  ATL  3        W:Jake Westbrook (12-8), L: Tim Hudson (14-10), S: Jason Motte (5)
Sat, Sep 10, 2011 STL  4  ATL  3        W:Jaime Garcia (12-7), L: Derek Lowe (9-14), S: Jason Motte (4)
Fri, Sep 09, 2011 STL  4  ATL  3 (10)   W:Jason Motte (4-2), L: Scott Linebrink (4-3), S: none
Sun, May 01, 2011 ATL  6  STL  5        W:Jonny Venters (1-0), L: Ryan Franklin (0-3), S: none
Sat, Apr 30, 2011 STL  3 @ATL  2        W:Miguel Batista (2-1), L: Craig Kimbrel (0-1), S: Fernando Salas (2)
Fri, Apr 29, 2011 STL  5 @ATL  3 (11)   W:Eduardo Sanchez (1-0), L: Cory Gearrin (0-1), S: Trever Miller (1)
Sun, Sep 12, 2010 STL  7 @ATL  3        W:Kyle Lohse (3-7), L: Tim Hudson (15-8), S: none
Sat, Sep 11, 2010 ATL  6  STL  3 (12)   W:Craig Kimbrel (3-0), L: Mitchell Boggs (2-3), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - ATL over 2-0; 2011 - STL won 5-1; 2010 - STL won 6-2; All-Time - STL leads 1059-951

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
Braves Batters (5.35 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.48 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Lynn
G/S/vB
41.Boggs
G/S/vB
66.Marte
G/S/vB
46.McClellan
G/S/vB
30.Motte
G/S/vB
16.Romero*
G/S/vB
34.Rzepczynski*
G/S/vB
59.Salas
G/S/vB
50.Wainwright
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Bourn* G/S/vP 3/.666 11/1.250 1/.000 18/.343 7/.453 8/1.625 3/.000 5/.650 30/.831 163/99 .333/.399/.422/.821 .685/.909 .823 123/.876 11/4 1/0
23.Diaz G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 4/.500 8/.125 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 6/.900 40/15 .303/.400/.515/.915 1.194/.433 .798 23/1.057 0/0 2/0
25.Francisco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/1.000 3/.666 ··· 53/40 .224/.264/.469/.734 .724/.736 .646 40/.816 0/1 3/3
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 4/.250 2/.000 3/.666 2/.000 3/.333 4/.250 148/88 .277/.331/.492/.823 .778/.856 .900 109/.989 0/0 6/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/5.000 4/.250 5/.400 1/.000 2/.500 8/.500 129/81 .252/.352/.468/.820 .701/.895 .828 96/.729 9/2 5/0
20.Hinske* G/S/vP ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.667 8/.250 ··· 3/.000 6/.666 40/37 .368/.400/.500/.900 1.000/.891 .818 32/.891 0/0 1/0
10.Jones# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 5/2.800 3/.333 19/.850 2/1.000 1/.000 12/.900 96/65 .302/.365/.512/.876 1.086/.779 .939 82/.787 0/0 5/4
16.McCann* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 22/.287 3/.000 1/.000 18/.572 119/78 .236/.311/.406/.717 .730/.706 .592 86/.666 1/0 5/1
1.Pastornicky G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 106/74 .268/.308/.371/.679 .540/.742 .710 81/.711 0/0 1/2
14.Prado G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 2/.000 7/.286 3/.666 10/.633 ··· 3/.666 11/.664 142/91 .274/.355/.411/.766 .942/.665 .770 102/.757 3/1 2/2
8.Ross G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 12/.795 29/17 .308/.379/.500/.879 1.278/.647 1.043 25/.815 0/0 1/0
26.Uggla G/S/vP ··· 4/.750 ··· 5/.200 3/1.167 6/1.833 2/2.500 2/.000 25/.604 148/96 .282/.365/.450/.815 1.014/.713 .877 110/.906 0/1 5/6
2.Wilson G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.000 1/3.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 25/.800 43/27 .154/.171/.154/.325 .205/.392 .310 34/.400 0/0 0/0
IP 38.2 14.0 14.0 17.0 13.2 8.0 11.0 14.0 38.0 TOTAL .267/.335/.418/.753 .776/.739 .753 .775 24/9 37/19
ERA-K/9 1.40/8.6 2.57/10.3 2.57/5.8 4.24/5.3 1.98/10.5 10.13/5.6 2.45/6.5 5.14/12.2 6.16/9.2 3.31/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (16-6-2)
 Ross (4-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 142/.168 59/.250 52/.146 71/.203 50/.170 41/.368 43/.171 66/.305 167/.300 .242  Diaz
 Prado
 Bourn
 Heyward
 Hinske
7/0/3/2
29/0/0/2
0/34/0/1
0/0/31/1
1/0/3/0
OPS .507 .604 .524 .641 .454 1.073 .551 .810 .867 .662
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 71/.563 20/.862 19/.276 28/.650 20/.255 19/.950 20/.466 24/.826 72/.803 .652
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 71/.454 39/.472 33/.662 43/.636 26/.603 22/1.171 22/.654 40/.762 95/.913 .666
Home 46/.403 23/.659 30/.660 41/.671 20/.300 27/.656 14/.643 32/.588 94/1.035
Last 28d days 98/.545 38/.772 31/.504 43/.558 36/.432 33/1.221 35/.553 48/.654 127/.826
HR/SB/CS 3/1/1 0/2/0 2/0/0 2/1/0 1/0/1 3/1/0 2/1/0 1/2/1 7/1/0 26/14/6
Usage ·····X·· ·X·oX··o ·o·o·o·· ·X·Xo··· ·X·o·Xo· X····X·X ·X·o·oo· X····X·· X·····X·
Cardinals Batters (5.55 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (4.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Hanson
G/S/vB
32.Durbin
G/S/vB
61.Hernandez
G/S/vB
46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB
50.Martinez
G/S/vB
54.Medlen
G/S/vB
34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB
39.Venters*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Beltran# G/S/vP 12/.167 20/.538 44/.939 2/.500 1/.000 4/.000 2/1.000 9/1.000 138/104 .299/.406/.641/1.047 1.183/1.020 1.309 98/1.061 5/1 12/0
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 94/72 .268/.340/.488/.828 .723/.861 1.129 70/.681 0/0 2/2
21.Craig G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 41/27 .324/.390/.765/1.155 1.429/.989 1.109 41/1.155 1/0 4/1
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/11 .143/.143/.190/.333 .200/.455 .273 16/.250 0/0 0/0
33.Descalso* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/no AB ··· 2/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 72/58 .210/.310/.371/.681 .550/.690 .821 37/.762 0/1 1/2
23.Freese G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 3/1.334 125/101 .301/.368/.531/.899 .974/.869 .817 92/.817 0/0 7/0
15.Furcal# G/S/vP 6/.666 2/.000 85/1.105 2/2.000 ··· 9/.347 2/2.000 2/1.000 148/106 .369/.432/.508/.939 1.278/.799 .859 104/1.010 6/1 2/3
27.Greene G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 67/35 .200/.284/.383/.667 .783/.548 .438 45/.739 3/1 3/1
7.Holliday G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 38/.668 2/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 5/1.100 152/113 .257/.336/.449/.784 .893/.789 .725 105/.875 2/1 6/1
19.Jay* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 7/1.429 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 108/83 .361/.410/.464/.873 .733/.926 .974 74/.823 3/1 2/0
4.Molina G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 17/.376 3/1.334 6/.750 2/1.000 2/.000 3/.333 127/104 .296/.344/.504/.848 1.199/.764 .947 89/.718 4/0 4/1
43.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 48/27 .311/.354/.422/.776 .879/.696 .357 35/.687 1/0 1/1
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 15/.900 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 3/.666 1/no AB 40/37 .314/.400/.429/.829 .667/.843 .825 40/.829 0/1 0/0
IP 39.2 12.1 21.1 13.0 17.0 21.2 12.1 12.1 TOTAL .284/.355/.468/.823 .918/.794 .861 .805 27/7 44/15
ERA-K/9 3.63/7.7 8.03/6.6 3.38/5.1 2.77/15.9 2.65/6.4 2.49/4.1 5.84/7.3 2.19/14.6 4.22/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (1-0-0)
 Molina (13-6-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 170/.264 60/.321 89/.308 56/.208 66/.250 82/.211 59/.320 57/.286 .267  Beltran
 Robinson
 Holliday
 Schumaker
 Jay
 Carpenter
0/0/30/1
3/8/2/1
33/0/0/1
0/2/0/0
0/24/0/0
1/0/3/0
OPS .729 1.042 .772 .551 .632 .518 .864 .763 .736
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 84/.880 22/.718 45/.834 24/.303 32/.413 39/.485 22/.377 17/.646 .740
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 86/.574 38/1.235 44/.710 32/.720 34/.838 43/.547 37/1.181 40/.812 .732
Road 97/.696 37/1.093 51/.852 37/.485 40/.591 44/.541 40/.676 35/.653
Last 28d days 125/.752 42/.757 71/.764 37/.482 54/.586 57/.454 39/.695 35/.805
HR/SB/CS 4/5/1 5/0/0 2/0/1 0/1/0 0/1/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 1/1/0 32/20/9
Usage ·····X·· ·o···X·X ·X·····X ·o··o··· Xo····Xo XX·oo··· ·o··oX·o ·X··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.