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Game Preview: STL @ CHC, 2:20pm, Wednesday, May 8, 2013 @Wrigley Field

Cardinals, 20-12, 20-12 1st, 2 up

SP: Jake Westbrook (35, RHP, 2-1, 1.07)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-1) 33.2 30 5 4 17 18 0 1.07
2012 (13-11) 174.2 191 85 77 52 106 12 3.97
2011 (12-9) 183.1 208 103 95 73 104 16 4.66
Last 7 GS 2-2 44.0 46 10 9 22 26 1 1.84 55
2013-05-02 @MIL W 6.0 6 1 1 3 4 0 96 57
2013-04-27 PIT ND 6.0 6 0 0 0 6 0 91 66
2013-04-21 @PHI ND 6.0 7 3 3 4 4 0 100 46
2013-04-10 CIN W 9.0 5 0 0 4 3 0 111 76
2013-04-05 @SFG L 6.2 6 1 0 6 1 0 116 55
2012-09-08 MIL L 5.0 7 3 3 4 2 0 77 39
2012-09-02 @WSN ND 5.1 9 2 2 1 6 1 97 47
Last 5 v.CHC 3-1 32.0 29 12 11 10 15 1 3.09 54
2012-07-21 CHC W 7.0 3 0 0 2 5 0 100 74
2012-05-14 CHC ND 5.0 12 4 4 2 2 1 107 27
2012-04-15 CHC W 7.0 4 2 1 1 2 0 93 64
2011-08-21 @CHC W 7.0 7 2 2 2 3 0 100 56
2011-07-31 CHC L 6.0 3 4 4 3 3 0 77 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-5    Road:   13-7    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:  16-9    vsLHP:   4-3    1-Run:   5-5 
 vsEast:  5-2    vsCntrl:12-7    vsWest:  3-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 32 Tue, May  7  @CHC  L   1-2       20-12  1st  2.0 up
 31 Sun, May  5  @MIL  W  10-1       20-11  1st  2.5 up
 30 Sat, May  4  @MIL  W   7-6       19-11  1st  2.0 up
 29 Fri, May  3  @MIL  W   6-1       18-11  1st  1.0 up
 28 Thu, May  2  @MIL  W   6-5       17-11  1st  1.0 up
 27 Wed, May  1   CIN  W   4-2       16-11  1st  0.5 up
 26 Tue, Apr 30   CIN  W   2-1       15-11  1st  0.5 up
 25 Mon, Apr 29   CIN  L   1-2       14-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 24 Sun, Apr 28   PIT  L   0-9       14-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 23 Sat, Apr 27   PIT  L   3-5       14-9   1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-11
Cubs, 13-20, 13-20 5th, 7½ GB, 6 GB in WC

SP: Carlos Villanueva (29, RHP, 1-2, 2.85)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (1-2) 41.0 27 13 13 11 33 5 2.85
2012 (7-7) 125.1 113 59 58 46 122 23 4.16
2011 (6-4) 107.0 103 49 48 32 68 11 4.04
Last 7 GS 1-3 45.2 34 19 19 12 40 9 3.74 57
2013-05-03 CIN L 5.2 7 4 4 2 4 0 95 41
2013-04-28 @MIA L 6.0 4 4 4 3 8 1 100 53
2013-04-23 @CIN ND 8.1 3 2 2 2 6 1 99 73
2013-04-18 TEX W 7.0 4 2 2 1 6 2 87 66
2013-04-12 SFG ND 7.1 3 0 0 1 3 0 93 74
2013-04-06 @ATL ND 6.2 6 1 1 2 6 1 92 62
2012-09-26 @BAL L 4.2 7 6 6 1 7 4 86 32
Last 5 v.STL 2-2 28.2 26 16 16 14 11 3 5.02 47
2011-06-25 @STL W 6.0 5 2 2 1 3 0 96 56
2009-10-03 @STL W 5.0 5 4 4 3 4 0 87 42
2008-04-21 STL ND 7.0 3 2 2 4 1 0 98 60
2008-04-16 @STL L 4.2 8 5 5 2 0 2 109 26
2007-09-26 STL L 6.0 5 3 3 4 3 1 85 49
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-10   Road:    6-10   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  10-14   vsLHP:   3-6    1-Run:   5-7 
 vsEast:  3-4    vsCntrl: 5-10   vsWest:  3-5  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 33 Tue, May  7   STL  W   2-1       13-20  5th  7.5 gb
 32 Mon, May  6   TEX  W   9-2       12-20  5th  8.5 gb
 31 Sun, May  5   CIN  L   4-7       11-20  5th  9.0 gb
 30 Sat, May  4   CIN  L   4-6       11-19  5th  8.0 gb
 29 Fri, May  3   CIN  L   5-6       11-18  5th  7.0 gb
 28 Thu, May  2   SDP  L   2-4       11-17  5th  6.0 gb
 27 Wed, May  1   SDP  W   6-2       11-16  5th  5.0 gb
 26 Tue, Apr 30   SDP  L   7-13      10-16  5th  5.0 gb
 25 Mon, Apr 29   SDP  W   5-3       10-15  5th  4.5 gb
 24 Sun, Apr 28  @MIA  L   4-6        9-15  5th  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:11-19

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 07, 2013 CHC  2  STL  1        W:Travis Wood (3-2), L: Lance Lynn (5-1), S: Kevin Gregg (5)

Sun, Sep 23, 2012 STL  6 @CHC  3        W:Kyle Lohse (16-3), L: Justin Germano (2-9), S: Jason Motte (40)
Sat, Sep 22, 2012 STL  5 @CHC  4 (10)   W:Mitchell Boggs (4-1), L: Jaye Chapman (0-1), S: Jason Motte (39)
Fri, Sep 21, 2012 CHC  5  STL  4 (11)   W:Alberto Cabrera (1-1), L: Joe Kelly (5-7), S: none
Sun, Jul 29, 2012 CHC  4  STL  2 (10)   W:James Russell (5-0), L: Trevor Rosenthal (0-1), S: none
Sat, Jul 28, 2012 CHC  3  STL  2        W:James Russell (4-0), L: Joe Kelly (1-4), S: Carlos Marmol (13)
Fri, Jul 27, 2012 STL  9 @CHC  6        W:Lance Lynn (13-4), L: Travis Wood (4-6), S: Jason Motte (23)
Sun, Jul 22, 2012 STL  7  CHC  0        W:Lance Lynn (12-4), L: Travis Wood (4-5), S: none
Sat, Jul 21, 2012 STL 12  CHC  0        W:Jake Westbrook (8-8), L: Justin Germano (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jul 20, 2012 STL  4  CHC  1        W:Kyle Lohse (10-2), L: Ryan Dempster (5-4), S: Jason Motte (21)
Season Series: 2013 - CHC over 1-0; 2012 - STL won 10-7; 2011 - STL won 10-5; All-Time - CHC leads 1174-1114

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 2013 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

DET  5.47

TEX  4.30

MIA  2.91

 RA/G

ATL  3.38

MIN  4.28

HOU  6.18

 BA

M. Cabrera  .385

J. Jaso  .270

A. Hicks  .122

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .465

D. Murphy  .328

J. Keppinger  .188

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .663

D. Brown  .425

A. Hicks  .200

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.098

O. Infante  .760

J. Keppinger  .397

 ERA

J. Westbrook  1.07

J. De La Rosa  3.52

P. Humber  8.82

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  14.18

J. Happ  7.09

J. Saunders  3.07

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

Cardinals Batters (4.72 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (4.21 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 28.Bowden
G/S/vB		 54.Camp
G/S/vB		 48.Dolis
G/S/vB		 63.Gregg
G/S/vB		 49.Marmol
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Adams* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 28/27 .520/.571/1.000/1.571 2.000/1.556 1.115 13/1.189 0/0 3/0
3.Beltran# G/S/vP 4/.250 3/.666 4/1.833 4/.000 14/.857 7/1.262 ··· 9/.619 117/88 .288/.325/.532/.856 .776/.883 .799 86/.940 0/1 8/0
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 5/.650 2/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 5/1.400 131/96 .271/.333/.441/.774 .526/.863 .705 91/.639 0/0 3/2
21.Craig G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 7/.286 ··· 1/3.000 128/101 .289/.320/.438/.758 .967/.703 .831 90/.833 0/0 2/1
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 7/6 .167/.286/.167/.452 .000/.533 .650 5/.400 0/0 0/0
33.Descalso* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 9/.347 ··· 6/1.834 70/54 .172/.243/.266/.508 .625/.468 .578 42/.433 2/0 1/5
23.Freese G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 5/1.200 4/.500 ··· 6/.334 ··· 3/2.667 76/56 .203/.276/.246/.523 .367/.578 .579 69/.517 1/0 0/1
7.Holliday G/S/vP 12/1.317 2/.500 9/.444 3/1.667 8/1.625 14/.857 ··· 9/.611 128/102 .266/.375/.450/.825 1.000/.781 .852 90/.839 0/0 5/0
19.Jay* G/S/vP 5/1.550 1/.000 3/2.667 2/1.500 1/.000 9/.111 ··· 11/.473 128/100 .255/.344/.391/.735 .451/.803 .750 83/.750 1/1 3/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 115/88 .260/.313/.327/.640 .638/.640 .700 79/.574 1/0 1/1
4.Molina G/S/vP 19/.378 2/.000 9/.111 3/.666 6/.334 14/1.393 ··· 5/.650 126/102 .333/.365/.458/.823 .826/.822 .823 87/.908 3/1 2/2
43.Robinson G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.333 38/21 .207/.395/.207/.602 .437/.743 .641 30/.541 3/0 0/0
12.Wigginton G/S/vP 10/.400 5/.400 8/1.875 1/.000 9/.555 5/1.100 ··· 3/2.667 24/18 .136/.208/.136/.345 .000/.465 .343 14/.298 0/0 0/1
IP 41.0 13.2 12.1 1.2 7.1 14.0 10.2 13.0 TOTAL .256/.320/.388/.707 .625/.731 .703 .698 11/3 28/13
ERA-K/9 2.85/7.2 3.95/3.9 8.03/6.6 0.00/0.0 0.00/9.9 5.14/7.7 5.06/6.7 0.00/10.4 3.73/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (0-0-0)
 Molina (11-4-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 155/.191 55/.213 58/.353 8/.250 27/.125 69/.245 51/.256 48/.178 .228  Beltran
 Craig
 Holliday
 Wigginton
 Jay
 Robinson
0/0/29/1
2/0/3/1
30/0/0/1
1/0/0/0
0/30/0/0
4/5/9/0
OPS .588 .578 .926 .625 .347 .854 .828 .474 .673
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 76/.473 30/.595 20/.821 3/.000 15/.421 24/.442 20/.667 26/.385 .655
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 79/.687 25/.554 38/.988 5/1.000 12/.258 45/1.095 31/.929 22/.581 .686
Home 74/.594 30/.441 37/1.280 8/.625 10/.100 36/.644 29/1.022 29/.535
Last 28d days 127/.559 39/.623 45/.914 8/.625 27/.347 47/.533 36/.988 44/.518
HR/SB/CS 5/2/3 0/0/1 2/1/2 0/0/0 0/1/0 2/3/1 1/2/1 0/2/0 29/29/11
Usage ····X··· ··X·X··· ··X··o·X ·X······ o···o··· X·oo·X·· ···X···X ·o·X·o··
Cubs Batters (3.76 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Westbrook
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 58.Kelly
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 62.Martinez
G/S/vB		 44.Mujica
G/S/vB		 26.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 59.Salas
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Barney G/S/vP 17/.485 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 5/1.400 80/58 .147/.275/.250/.525 .880/.401 .456 80/.525 1/0 1/0
20.Borbon* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/20 .250/.348/.300/.648 1.167/.578 .432 22/.679 2/1 0/0
53.Castillo G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 102/69 .305/.347/.400/.747 .603/.814 .919 79/.667 1/0 1/5
13.Castro G/S/vP 23/.712 1/2.000 4/.750 ··· ··· 3/2.000 3/1.667 9/.555 146/102 .277/.301/.397/.699 .488/.788 .900 111/.730 2/1 3/6
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 37/.753 7/.453 4/1.500 ··· ··· 4/2.000 1/.000 4/1.000 113/101 .275/.345/.510/.855 .258/.927 .975 86/.963 2/0 4/0
21.Hairston G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 42/9 .132/.167/.395/.561 .552/.597 .852 33/.548 1/0 3/0
30.Navarro# G/S/vP 11/.546 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 42/35 .205/.262/.462/.723 1.571/.564 1.017 30/.907 0/1 3/2
1.Ransom G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 35/11 .226/.294/.581/.875 1.106/.311 .840 28/1.120 0/0 3/2
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 3/.000 142/93 .254/.338/.540/.878 1.059/.783 .912 110/.911 4/1 9/1
19.Schierholtz* G/S/vP 7/.286 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/2.500 102/91 .290/.337/.538/.874 .325/.928 .957 76/.849 4/1 4/0
12.Soriano G/S/vP 32/.256 ··· 4/1.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 2/.000 7/.453 129/88 .276/.310/.407/.717 1.095/.545 .966 97/.818 4/1 3/1
6.Sweeney* G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/0
24.Valbuena* G/S/vP 2/.500 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 102/91 .264/.373/.483/.855 .489/.893 .956 76/.933 1/0 5/4
IP 33.2 4.0 10.2 1.2 2.0 13.0 18.0 12.1 TOTAL .239/.299/.409/.708 .716/.705 .804 .753 25/6 40/28
ERA-K/9 1.07/4.8 2.25/0.0 8.44/6.7 0.00/0.0 0.00/4.5 2.08/9.0 3.00/12.0 4.38/6.6 3.10/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castillo (18-8-3)
 Navarro (11-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 142/.250 15/.250 51/.404 4/.000 6/.167 48/.170 79/.264 51/.255 .253  Schierholtz
 Hairston
 Borbon
 Sweeney
 DeJesus
 Soriano
0/0/26/1
0/0/12/1
4/0/4/0
2/0/0/0
0/28/0/0
31/0/0/0
OPS .645 .619 1.070 .000 .333 .507 .682 .748 .685
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 60/.842 11/.550 23/.783 / 2/.000 22/.468 38/.518 16/1.171 .724
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 82/.508 4/.750 28/1.333 4/.000 4/.500 26/.538 41/.836 35/.550 .658
Road 84/.743 9/.875 41/.969 4/.000 6/.333 36/.537 51/.723 35/.658
Last 28d days 75/.705 10/.778 32/.973 4/.000 6/.333 31/.419 54/.729 35/.683
HR/SB/CS 0/2/1 0/0/0 3/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/1/0 2/0/0 2/1/0 21/11/4
Usage ·····X·· ···o···· ···X·o·· ···oo··· ··X·o··· ···X·XoX X····Xo· ···oo···

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.