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Game Preview: COL @ STL, 8:15pm, Tuesday, July 3, 2012 @Busch Stadium III

Rockies, 30-49, 30-49 4th, 14½ GB, 13 GB in WC

SP: Jeff Francis (31, LHP, 1-1, 5.47)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (1-1) 24.2 32 15 15 5 12 1 5.47
2011 (6-16) 183.0 224 102 98 39 91 19 4.82
2010 (4-6) 104.1 119 61 58 23 67 11 5.00
Last 7 GS 2-2 34.0 49 22 22 7 17 3 5.82 41
2012-06-29 SDP W 6.0 3 0 0 1 1 0 82 66
2012-06-25 WSN ND 5.0 5 2 2 0 5 0 66 54
2012-06-21 @PHI ND 5.0 6 1 1 0 3 1 76 54
2012-06-15 @DET ND 5.1 8 4 4 3 2 0 94 35
2012-06-09 LAA L 3.1 10 8 8 1 1 0 74 8
2011-09-15 CHW W 6.0 8 2 2 2 2 0 102 48
2011-09-09 @SEA L 3.1 9 5 5 0 3 2 69 25
Last 5 v.STL 2-0 31.1 27 12 12 13 17 3 3.45 53
2011-05-20 STL W 7.2 6 0 0 2 6 0 94 71
2010-07-06 STL ND 4.0 6 5 5 2 1 1 67 29
2008-05-07 STL ND 5.0 6 3 3 5 4 1 98 42
2007-05-28 STL W 7.2 5 2 2 1 3 1 99 63
2007-05-07 @STL ND 7.0 4 2 2 3 3 0 106 61
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   18-25   Road:   12-24   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  22-33   vsLHP:   8-16   1-Run:   8-10
 vsEast:  5-11   vsCntrl: 9-8    vsWest: 14-17 IL: 2-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 79 Mon, Jul  2  @STL  L   3-9       30-49  4th 14.5 gb
 78 Sun, Jul  1   SDP  L   0-2       30-48  4th 14.0 gb
 77 Sat, Jun 30   SDP  L   4-8       30-47  4th 13.0 gb
 76 Fri, Jun 29   SDP  W  10-2       30-46  4th 13.0 gb
 75 Thu, Jun 28   WSN  W  11-10(11)  29-46  4th 14.0 gb
 74 Wed, Jun 27   WSN  L   5-11      28-46  4th 14.0 gb
 73 Tue, Jun 26   WSN  L   5-12      28-45  4th 14.0 gb
 72 Mon, Jun 25   WSN  W   4-2       28-44  4th 14.0 gb
 71 Sun, Jun 24  @TEX  L   2-4       27-44  4th 15.0 gb
 70 Sat, Jun 23  @TEX  W  11-7       27-43  4th 15.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:10-20
Cardinals, 42-38, 42-38 3rd, 2½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Joe Kelly (24, RHP, 1-0, 3.38)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. COL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (1-0) 21.1 28 9 8 4 11 2 3.38
Last 7 GS 1-0 21.1 28 9 8 4 11 2 3.38 48
2012-06-27 @MIA ND 6.0 5 2 2 2 3 0 85 55
2012-06-22 @KCR W 6.0 9 3 3 0 1 1 93 43
2012-06-16 KCR ND 4.1 7 3 2 1 3 1 81 41
2012-06-10 CLE ND 5.0 7 1 1 1 4 0 79 52
Has never faced COL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   19-18   Road:   23-20   ExtrInn: 2-5 
 vsRHP:  28-30   vsLHP:  14-8    1-Run:   8-12
 vsEast:  6-12   vsCntrl:20-15   vsWest:  8-4  IL: 8-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 80 Mon, Jul  2   COL  W   9-3       42-38  3rd  2.5 gb
 79 Sun, Jul  1   PIT  W   5-4       41-38  3rd  2.5 gb
 78 Sat, Jun 30   PIT  L   3-7       40-38  3rd  3.5 gb
 77 Fri, Jun 29   PIT  L   5-14      40-37  3rd  2.5 gb
 76 Wed, Jun 27  @MIA  L   3-5       40-36  2nd  2.0 gb
 75 Tue, Jun 26  @MIA  W   5-2       40-35  2nd  2.0 gb
 74 Mon, Jun 25  @MIA  W   8-7 (10)  39-35  2nd  2.0 gb
 73 Sun, Jun 24  @KCR  W  11-8       38-35  3rd  2.0 gb
 72 Sat, Jun 23  @KCR  W   8-2       37-35  3rd  3.0 gb
 71 Fri, Jun 22  @KCR  W  11-4       36-35  3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Jul 02, 2012 STL  9  COL  3        W:Kyle Lohse (8-2), L: Tyler Chatwood (1-1), S: none

Sun, Aug 14, 2011 STL  6  COL  2        W:Edwin Jackson (9-8), L: Esmil Rogers (6-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 13, 2011 COL  6 @STL  1        W:Jason Hammel (7-11), L: Jaime Garcia (10-6), S: none
Fri, Aug 12, 2011 STL  6  COL  1        W:Kyle Lohse (10-7), L: Aaron Cook (2-7), S: none
Sun, May 29, 2011 STL  4 @COL  3        W:Kyle Lohse (7-2), L: Jhoulys Chacin (5-4), S: Fernando Salas (9)
Sat, May 28, 2011 COL 15  STL  4        W:Juan Nicasio (1-0), L: Jaime Garcia (5-1), S: none
Fri, May 27, 2011 STL 10 @COL  3        W:Jake Westbrook (5-3), L: Ubaldo Jimenez (0-5), S: none
Sun, Oct 03, 2010 STL  6  COL  1        W:Jeff Suppan (3-8), L: Esmil Rogers (2-3), S: none
Sat, Oct 02, 2010 STL  1  COL  0 (11)   W:Jason Motte (4-2), L: Franklin Morales (0-4), S: none
Fri, Oct 01, 2010 STL  3  COL  0        W:Jake Westbrook (10-11), L: Jorge De La Rosa (8-7), S: Ryan Franklin (27)
Season Series: 2012 - STL over 1-0; 2011 - STL won 4-2; 2010 - STL won 4-3; All-Time - STL leads 83-81

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
Rockies Batters (5.03 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.26 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Kelly
G/S/vB
41.Boggs
G/S/vB
62.Browning*
G/S/vB
63.Cleto
G/S/vB
66.Marte
G/S/vB
30.Motte
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
21.Colvin* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 5/1.100 176/130 .303/.329/.588/.917 .970/.898 .703 69/1.213 1/2 9/2
3.Cuddyer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/1.667 1/.000 6/.333 ··· 3/1.334 303/216 .260/.314/.484/.797 .879/.766 .707 92/.666 8/1 12/4
24.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.850 1/.000 3/2.334 7/.714 269/178 .288/.381/.541/.923 .820/.974 .654 92/.850 7/1 10/3
23.Giambi* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 93/67 .250/.398/.347/.745 .988/.633 .697 42/.663 0/0 1/0
5.Gonzalez* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 4/.500 322/206 .339/.398/.603/1.000 .844/1.091 .816 90/.995 10/1 17/2
17.Helton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/no AB ··· 13/.923 244/156 .246/.340/.417/.757 .623/.836 .742 62/.789 1/0 7/2
18.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 111/86 .240/.290/.380/.670 .583/.693 .557 36/.699 2/0 3/0
10.Nelson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 169/117 .266/.331/.435/.766 .998/.664 .626 79/.888 1/1 5/6
41.Nieves G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 2/.000 40/35 .342/.375/.447/.822 1.850/.696 1.000 27/.964 0/0 1/0
22.Pacheco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 198/138 .297/.335/.389/.724 .735/.720 .653 87/.685 4/0 1/6
20.Rosario G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 189/132 .251/.280/.542/.822 .971/.757 .965 72/.778 3/3 14/8
19.Scutaro G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 331/239 .286/.338/.389/.727 .691/.741 .616 102/.858 6/2 4/8
1.Young# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 92/67 .244/.344/.282/.626 .840/.549 .476 35/.614 10/1 0/0
IP 21.1 35.2 2.0 7.0 35.1 36.0 27.2 25.1 96.2 TOTAL .270/.333/.452/.785 .781/.787 .692 .810 56/15 97/61
ERA-K/9 3.38/4.6 2.02/6.8 0.00/4.5 5.14/14.1 3.82/7.9 3.25/9.0 5.86/5.8 6.04/9.6 4.75/8.5 4.06/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Nieves (9-1-0)
 Rosario (25-11-10)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 96/.318 144/.227 6/.000 32/.367 156/.270 139/.187 121/.304 122/.305 413/.272 .264  Cuddyer
 Gonzalez
 Fowler
 Colvin
 Young
0/0/68/6
72/0/0/3
0/68/0/2
9/17/22/1
5/10/1/0
OPS .790 .585 .000 1.140 .747 .588 .855 .830 .753 .723
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 49/.803 58/.835 1/.000 21/.952 66/.726 78/.405 67/.757 53/.932 217/.749 .746
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 47/.774 86/.415 5/.000 11/1.525 90/.760 61/.824 54/.981 69/.747 196/.756 .701
Home 45/.866 70/.613 6/.000 15/1.186 79/.783 73/.599 54/.910 64/.642 232/.806
Last 28d days 96/.790 41/.575 6/.000 15/1.186 46/.839 50/.649 33/1.279 43/.774 136/.684
HR/SB/CS 2/2/0 2/3/0 0/0/0 3/0/1 3/3/0 5/1/1 6/2/1 2/3/1 10/1/0 71/28/16
Usage ·····X·· oo····o· ··X····· X·o····· ··X··X·o ·o····oX ·o·X···o ···X·o·o ···X····
Cardinals Batters (5.05 RS/G) vs. Rockies Pitchers (5.81 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 26.Francis*
G/S/vB
34.Belisle
G/S/vB
63.Betancourt
G/S/vB
49.Brothers*
G/S/vB
32.Chatwood
G/S/vB
53.Friedrich*
G/S/vB
37.Ottavino
G/S/vB
88.Outman*
G/S/vB
51.Reynolds*
G/S/vB
30.Roenicke
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Beltran# G/S/vP 15/.508 12/1.084 3/1.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 1/no AB 5/.400 3/.000 ··· 318/238 .308/.396/.571/.968 .880/.997 1.151 101/1.074 7/4 20/2
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/97 .291/.354/.504/.858 .786/.893 1.134 26/.781 0/0 3/5
21.Craig G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 1/5.000 ··· 175/127 .322/.394/.651/1.046 1.272/.957 1.169 98/.978 1/0 13/2
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 56/37 .196/.196/.304/.500 .316/.595 .448 17/.765 0/1 1/1
33.Descalso* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 201/163 .223/.312/.337/.649 .819/.609 .586 78/.590 2/2 3/5
23.Freese G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 298/238 .286/.336/.482/.817 .957/.783 .739 99/.837 1/2 13/4
15.Furcal# G/S/vP 29/.774 10/1.600 6/.833 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 346/239 .276/.343/.370/.713 .790/.679 .592 101/.470 9/3 5/7
27.Greene G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 169/90 .226/.286/.381/.666 .777/.566 .756 39/.605 8/2 4/4
7.Holliday G/S/vP 5/.933 8/.750 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/5.000 1/.000 ··· 343/250 .311/.394/.514/.907 1.093/.840 .930 95/1.161 3/2 13/2
19.Jay* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/3.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 153/121 .321/.380/.409/.789 .608/.835 .881 36/.646 7/1 2/0
4.Molina G/S/vP 20/.329 9/.666 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 290/227 .309/.361/.513/.874 1.146/.803 .951 87/.814 7/1 13/2
43.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 132/69 .252/.295/.341/.637 .582/.684 .474 46/.638 1/0 2/2
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 1/.000 3/1.334 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 119/104 .286/.356/.400/.756 .497/.793 .723 29/.577 0/1 0/1
IP 24.2 43.0 28.2 30.0 11.1 60.1 26.1 31.0 34.1 48.0 TOTAL .275/.341/.439/.780 .809/.769 .809 .766 48/20 95/46
ERA-K/9 5.47/4.4 1.88/7.5 3.14/9.4 3.60/12.9 8.74/6.4 5.52/8.5 4.44/11.0 9.00/9.3 3.67/8.4 2.63/6.0 5.39/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (6-2-1)
 Molina (22-14-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 112/.320 184/.257 117/.222 134/.270 57/.385 270/.313 114/.270 145/.310 145/.282 204/.250 .299  Holliday
 Robinson
 Beltran
 Craig
 Schumaker
 Jay
 Greene
 Carpenter
74/0/0/5
4/34/6/3
0/3/65/2
6/0/11/1
0/14/6/0
0/36/0/0
1/0/1/0
3/0/5/0
OPS .821 .638 .647 .705 1.121 .886 .815 .908 .864 .708 .863
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 20/.474 73/.628 52/.842 55/.588 31/.974 55/.969 38/.549 44/.631 70/.835 86/.776 .875
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 92/.899 111/.643 65/.495 79/.784 26/1.292 215/.865 76/.956 101/1.033 75/.890 118/.658 .856
Road 49/.887 82/.620 50/.475 52/.759 24/1.186 148/.729 56/.932 85/1.046 43/.793 75/.627
Last 28d days 112/.821 58/.704 40/.833 47/.468 22/1.440 113/1.064 65/1.002 112/1.007 45/.797 71/.852
HR/SB/CS 1/2/0 1/0/0 3/4/0 1/2/0 3/0/0 10/0/1 5/6/0 6/2/1 7/0/1 3/1/2 107/56/20
Usage ···X···X ·X·oX··o ····o··X ·X·ooo·· X··X···· ··X···X· X·X·Xo·· X···X··· Xo···XX· ·o··X··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.