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Game Preview: ARI @ CHC, 3:05pm, Thursday, February 27, 2014 @Wrigley Field

D'backs, 81-81, 81-81

SP: Bronson Arroyo (36, RHP, 14-12, 3.79)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (14-12) 202.0 199 88 85 34 124 32 3.79
2012 (12-10) 202.0 209 86 84 35 129 26 3.74
2011 (9-12) 199.0 227 119 112 45 108 46 5.07
Last 7 GS 2-3 40.1 46 25 24 8 23 12 5.36 46
2013-09-28 PIT L 4.2 8 6 6 1 2 5 74 25
2013-09-22 @PIT W 5.0 5 3 3 2 3 2 92 46
2013-09-15 @MIL ND 6.1 3 2 2 4 1 1 89 56
2013-09-09 CHC L 7.0 7 2 2 0 6 2 89 61
2013-09-04 STL ND 7.0 7 3 2 0 4 0 92 57
2013-08-30 @COL L 3.1 9 6 6 1 1 1 58 18
2013-08-24 MIL W 7.0 7 3 3 0 6 1 90 57
Last 5 v.CHC 4-1 34.1 29 10 10 6 22 4 2.62 60
2013-09-09 CHC L 7.0 7 2 2 0 6 2 89 61
2013-08-14 @CHC W 7.0 2 0 0 0 7 0 92 80
2013-05-24 CHC W 6.0 6 3 3 2 2 1 99 48
2012-08-17 CHC W 6.1 9 3 3 3 3 1 109 43
2012-08-11 @CHC W 8.0 5 2 2 1 4 0 104 67
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   45-36   Road:   36-45   ExtrInn:17-8 
 vsRHP:  56-58   vsLHP:  25-23   1-Run:  34-21
 vsEast: 14-18   vsCntrl:20-14   vsWest: 36-40 IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29   WSN  W   3-2       81-81  2nd 11.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 28   WSN  L   0-2       80-81  2nd 12.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 27   WSN  L   4-8       80-80  2nd 12.0 gb
159 Thu, Sep 26  @SDP  L   2-3 (11)  80-79  2nd 11.0 gb
158 Wed, Sep 25  @SDP  L   2-12      80-78  2nd 11.0 gb
157 Tue, Sep 24  @SDP  W   2-1 (12)  80-77  2nd 11.0 gb
156 Mon, Sep 23  @SDP  L   1-4       79-77  2nd 11.0 gb
155 Sun, Sep 22  @COL  W  13-9       79-76  2nd 10.5 gb
154 Sat, Sep 21  @COL  W   7-2       78-76  2nd 10.5 gb
153 Fri, Sep 20  @COL  L   4-9       77-76  2nd 10.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
Cubs, 66-96, 66-96

SP: Jeff Samardzija (28, RHP, 8-13, 4.34)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. ARI Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (8-13) 213.2 210 109 103 78 214 25 4.34
2012 (9-13) 174.2 157 79 74 56 180 20 3.81
2011 (8-4) 88.0 64 35 29 50 87 5 2.97
Last 7 GS 1-2 45.1 50 26 26 15 46 8 5.16 49
2013-09-29 @STL L 6.0 8 3 3 0 4 0 95 48
2013-09-23 PIT ND 6.0 5 1 1 4 7 1 94 61
2013-09-17 @MIL ND 7.0 5 3 3 2 8 1 106 61
2013-09-11 @CIN L 5.2 8 6 6 3 5 2 114 31
2013-09-04 MIA ND 6.0 9 6 6 2 9 2 110 37
2013-08-30 PHI ND 6.2 8 5 5 2 6 1 103 42
2013-08-24 @SDP W 8.0 7 2 2 2 7 1 106 65
Last 5 v.ARI 0-1 17.0 20 12 11 11 22 2 5.82 45
2013-07-24 @ARI ND 5.2 6 4 3 5 5 0 118 43
2013-06-01 ARI ND 6.1 7 3 3 4 11 1 115 54
2012-06-22 @ARI L 5.0 7 5 5 2 6 1 88 37
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-50   Road:   35-46   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  44-74   vsLHP:  22-22   1-Run:  20-33
 vsEast: 14-18   vsCntrl:25-51   vsWest: 14-20 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29  @STL  L   0-4       66-96  5th 31.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 28  @STL  L   2-6       66-95  5th 30.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 27  @STL  L   0-7       66-94  5th 29.0 gb
159 Wed, Sep 25   PIT  W   4-2       66-93  5th 28.0 gb
158 Tue, Sep 24   PIT  L   2-8       65-93  5th 28.0 gb
157 Mon, Sep 23   PIT  L   1-2       65-92  5th 27.0 gb
156 Sun, Sep 22   ATL  L   2-5       65-91  5th 26.0 gb
155 Sat, Sep 21   ATL  W   3-1       65-90  5th 26.0 gb
154 Fri, Sep 20   ATL  L   5-9       64-90  5th 26.0 gb
153 Thu, Sep 19  @MIL  W   5-1       64-89  5th 25.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jul 25, 2013 ARI  3  CHC  1        W:Wade Miley (7-8), L: Carlos Villanueva (2-7), S: Brad Ziegler (5)
Wed, Jul 24, 2013 CHC  7 @ARI  6 (12)   W:Hector Rondon (2-0), L: David Hernandez (4-6), S: none
Tue, Jul 23, 2013 ARI 10  CHC  4        W:Patrick Corbin (12-1), L: Travis Wood (6-7), S: none
Mon, Jul 22, 2013 CHC  4 @ARI  2        W:Chris Rusin (1-0), L: Tyler Skaggs (2-2), S: Kevin Gregg (19)
Sun, Jun 02, 2013 ARI  8 @CHC  4        W:Patrick Corbin (9-0), L: Edwin Jackson (1-8), S: none
Sat, Jun 01, 2013 ARI 12 @CHC  4        W:Ian Kennedy (3-3), L: Carlos Marmol (2-3), S: none
Fri, May 31, 2013 CHC  7  ARI  2        W:Matt Garza (1-0), L: Wade Miley (3-5), S: none

Sun, Sep 30, 2012 CHC  7 @ARI  2        W:Chris Rusin (2-3), L: Bryan Shaw (1-6), S: none
Sat, Sep 29, 2012 ARI  8  CHC  2        W:Trevor Cahill (13-12), L: Justin Germano (2-10), S: none
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 ARI  8  CHC  3        W:Ian Kennedy (15-11), L: Travis Wood (6-13), S: none
Season Series: 2013 - ARI over 4-3; 2012 - ARI won 5-4; 2011 - CHC won 4-3; All-Time - ARI leads 65-53

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

For the 2012 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  4.99

MIN  4.33

HOU  3.60

 RA/G

TBR  3.56

LAA  4.31

COL  5.49

 BA

B. Posey  .336

A. Rodriguez  .272

C. Pena  .197

 OBP

J. Mauer  .416

A. Jones  .334

D. Stubbs  .277

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .606

H. Ramirez  .437

J. Weeks  .304

 OPS

M. Cabrera  .999

A. Pagan  .778

J. Weeks  .609

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.53

T. Cahill  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

U. Jimenez  7.28

H. Alvarez  3.80

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

D'backs Batters (4.23 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (4.25 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 29.Samardzija
G/S/vB		 62.Cabrera
G/S/vB		 11.Fujikawa
G/S/vB		 50.Parker
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 59.Rosscup*
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 41.Veras
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 47.Vizcaino
G/S/vB		 53.Wright*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Campana* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1.250 ··· ··· 1/.000 192/152 .264/.308/.299/.607 .554/.620 .575 8/.250 30/3 0/0
12.Chavez* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· ··· 313/274 .281/.348/.496/.845 .382/.908 .884 25/.636 0/0 16/6
44.Goldschmidt G/S/vP 10/.400 ··· ··· 2/3.500 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.333 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 587/386 .286/.359/.490/.850 1.068/.739 .894 109/1.042 18/3 20/7
9.Gosewisch G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 18/.444 / /
1.Gregorius* G/S/vP 7/.619 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 21/19 .300/.300/.300/.600 1.000/.556 .889 38/.671 0/0 0/0
2.Hill G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 7/.857 3/2.667 ··· 3/.333 668/453 .302/.360/.522/.882 .839/.901 .833 85/.632 14/5 26/6
17.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
26.Montero* G/S/vP 8/1.458 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.666 573/391 .286/.391/.438/.829 .767/.859 .844 74/.592 0/0 15/9
16.Owings G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 60/.756 / /
8.Parra* G/S/vP 9/1.413 ··· ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 5/.200 1/.000 2/1.000 4/.250 ··· 3/.666 430/335 .273/.335/.392/.727 .631/.754 .630 92/.700 15/9 7/4
4.Pennington# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 2/2.500 ··· ··· 462/349 .215/.278/.311/.589 .420/.646 .628 9/1.111 15/6 6/11
11.Pollock G/S/vP 4/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 93/34 .247/.315/.395/.710 .808/.535 .484 72/.937 1/2 2/0
14.Prado G/S/vP 14/.368 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 7/.929 2/.000 8/.625 10/.900 ··· 5/.650 690/447 .301/.359/.438/.796 .864/.760 .776 90/.650 17/4 10/4
7.Ross G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/3.000 3/.000 1/.000 11/1.977 1/.000 1/.000 528/378 .267/.326/.481/.807 1.010/.729 .684 / 2/3 22/1
15.Trumbo G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 6/.733 2/.000 4/.500 ··· 1/2.000 586/420 .268/.317/.491/.808 .808/.808 .823 102/.762 4/5 32/7
27.Tuiasosopo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· / /// / 19/.105 / /
IP 174.2 21.2 6.0 69.1 66.1 67.0 125.1 52.1 TOTAL .259/.323/.391/.715 .697/.722 .696 .706 62/41 130/75
ERA-K/9 3.81/9.3 5.40/11.2 /0.0 6.00/9.0 /0.0 /0.0 3.25/7.1 2.44/7.9 3.63/10.6 4.16/8.8 /0.0 3.27/9.3 4.00/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Montero (44-32-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 723/.240 99/.205 / 32/.370 / / 292/.255 283/.217 300/.239 521/.242 / 223/.226 .244  Ross
 Prado
 Parra
 Trumbo
 Campana
 Pollock
22/7/96/9
119/0/0/9
47/48/17/8
66/0/35/4
11/55/4/1
7/14/4/0
OPS .698 .678 1.172 .732 .613 .694 .758 .638 .718
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 371/.755 35/.524 / 12/1.071 / / 111/.727 139/.674 146/.724 262/.816 / 133/.538 .679
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 352/.640 64/.767 / 20/1.200 / / 181/.735 144/.556 154/.665 259/.703 / 90/.790 .746
Home 320/.703 54/.753 / 12/1.017 / / 163/.667 147/.635 152/.666 275/.667 / 123/.726
Last 28d days 135/.848 28/.929 / 29/.792 26/.117 27/.667 11/1.121 42/.645 23/.698 35/.442 / 24/.469
HR/SB/CS 20/15/5 1/4/1 // 3/1/0 // // 5/7/2 2/1/1 5/10/2 23/6/5 // 4/3/1 160/107/42
Usage ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Cubs Batters (3.72 RS/G) vs. D'backs Pitchers (4.29 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 61.Arroyo
G/S/vB		 77.Brewer
G/S/vB		 55.Collmenter
G/S/vB		 56.De La Rosa*
G/S/vB		 38.Harris
G/S/vB		 30.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 81.Mateo
G/S/vB		 47.Paterson*
G/S/vB		 40.Putz
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 45.Reynolds*
G/S/vB		 28.Sanabia
G/S/vB		 52.Spruill
G/S/vB		 54.Thatcher*
G/S/vB		 29.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Barney G/S/vP 22/.293 ··· 6/.167 ··· 3/1.167 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/1.667 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 588/436 .254/.299/.354/.653 .636/.659 .799 77/.444 6/1 7/3
5.Castillo G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 190/143 .265/.337/.418/.754 1.199/.609 .791 41/1.008 0/0 5/7
13.Castro G/S/vP 27/.592 ··· 6/.666 ··· 2/1.000 5/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 6/.334 ··· ··· 5/.400 691/525 .283/.323/.430/.753 .775/.746 .764 103/.659 25/13 14/27
7.Jackson* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 142/123 .175/.303/.342/.644 .488/.670 .713 / 0/3 4/2
9.Kottaras* G/S/vP 13/.891 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 209/173 .211/.351/.415/.766 .736/.770 .795 12/.432 0/0 9/4
21.Lake G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / 65/.741 / /
8.Murphy G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 129/78 .216/.281/.379/.661 .430/.816 .780 58/.652 1/1 3/1
30.Olt G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/21 .152/.250/.182/.432 .387/.473 .481 / 1/1 0/3
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 17/.352 ··· 8/.946 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 4/.000 3/.667 ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 368/261 .285/.342/.463/.805 .599/.892 .789 100/.698 3/2 15/4
20.Ruggiano G/S/vP 6/1.100 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 320/213 .313/.374/.535/.909 1.129/.806 .867 89/.686 14/8 13/3
19.Schierholtz* G/S/vP 18/.722 ··· 6/.000 ··· 3/2.000 6/1.333 3/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 3/.000 3/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 4/.750 269/201 .257/.321/.407/.728 .444/.826 .630 73/.585 3/2 6/1
6.Sweeney* G/S/vP 9/.555 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 6/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 219/196 .260/.303/.373/.675 .332/.713 .660 79/.611 0/0 0/2
24.Valbuena* G/S/vP 15/1.764 ··· 5/.000 ··· 2/.000 7/1.286 ··· ··· 4/.500 2/.000 ··· 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 303/237 .219/.310/.340/.650 .624/.657 .666 50/.729 0/2 4/7
27.Vitters G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 109/61 .121/.193/.202/.395 .346/.433 .274 / 2/0 2/4
22.Watkins* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 17/.728 / /
IP 202.0 90.1 17.2 68.1 2.2 54.1 55.0 57.1 31.2 68.2 TOTAL .238/.300/.392/.693 .693/.693 .739 .671 63/32 172/100
ERA-K/9 3.74/5.7 /0.0 3.69/8.0 /0.0 8.15/9.7 2.50/12.9 /0.0 37.13/0.0 2.82/10.8 4.75/8.8 4.40/8.0 /0.0 /0.0 3.41/11.1 2.49/5.5 3.92/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castillo (33-11-4)
 Kottaras (38-8-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 835/.267 / 375/.264 / 89/.342 278/.190 / 26/.652 218/.223 238/.266 249/.291 / / 141/.250 263/.228 .257  Sweeney
 Ruggiano
 Jackson
 Wright
 Schierholtz
 Olt
0/19/49/3
31/52/15/3
0/39/0/0
0/0/1/0
0/7/80/0
0/0/2/0
OPS .721 .742 .922 .544 1.779 .600 .753 .853 .680 .578 .731
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 437/.794 / 189/.806 / 39/.724 135/.683 / 12/1.383 113/.592 109/.773 121/.757 / / 72/.509 85/.749 .737
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 398/.642 / 186/.677 / 50/1.073 143/.415 / 14/2.093 105/.609 129/.737 128/.937 / / 69/.862 178/.501 .726
Road 466/.679 / 144/.659 / 44/1.008 138/.622 / 3/1.167 99/.586 101/.603 90/.793 / / 67/.729 139/.627
Last 28d days 123/.897 / 41/.916 17/1.729 46/.743 49/.372 / / 19/.610 38/.850 / / / 10/.667 38/.427
HR/SB/CS 26/7/5 // 13/3/4 // 3/0/0 4/2/0 // 2/0/0 4/0/0 6/7/1 11/2/3 // // 2/2/2 2/1/0 176/48/22
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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.