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Game Preview: CHC @ STL, 7:15pm, Saturday, August 10, 2013 @Busch Stadium III

Cubs, 51-64, 51-64 4th, 19 GB, 15 GB in WC

SP: Carlos Villanueva (29, RHP, 2-8, 4.16)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-8) 101.2 94 47 47 34 77 12 4.16
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 0-5 36.1 42 25 25 15 26 6 6.19 43
2013-08-04 LAD L 6.0 2 1 1 3 5 0 101 66
2013-07-30 MIL ND 6.1 6 4 4 2 6 2 102 49
2013-07-25 @ARI L 5.0 6 3 3 3 5 1 103 45
2013-07-20 @COL L 4.0 9 7 7 4 0 1 87 12
2013-07-12 STL L 6.0 4 2 2 2 4 0 90 58
2013-07-07 PIT ND 4.0 3 1 1 1 5 0 69 56
2013-05-14 COL L 5.0 12 7 7 0 1 2 80 16
Last 5 v.STL 2-1 30.2 24 13 13 13 14 0 3.82 53
2013-07-12 STL L 6.0 4 2 2 2 4 0 90 58
2013-05-08 STL ND 6.2 7 3 3 3 2 0 101 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
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-33   Road:   28-31   ExtrInn: 7-3 
 vsRHP:  35-45   vsLHP:  16-19   1-Run:  15-25
 vsEast:  9-10   vsCntrl:17-31   vsWest: 12-16 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
115 Fri, Aug  9  @STL  W   3-0       51-64  4th 19.0 gb
114 Thu, Aug  8  @PHI  L   1-12      50-64  4th 20.0 gb
113 Wed, Aug  7  @PHI  W   5-2       50-63  4th 19.0 gb
112 Tue, Aug  6  @PHI  L   8-9       49-63  4th 19.0 gb
111 Sun, Aug  4   LAD  L   0-1       49-62  4th 18.0 gb
110 Sat, Aug  3   LAD  L   0-3       49-61  4th 17.0 gb
109 Fri, Aug  2   LAD  L   2-6       49-60  4th 16.0 gb
108 Thu, Aug  1   LAD  L   4-6       49-59  4th 16.0 gb
107 Wed, Jul 31   MIL  W   6-1       49-58  4th 16.0 gb
106 Tue, Jul 30   MIL  L   2-3       48-58  4th 16.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:14-16
Cardinals, 66-49, 66-49 2nd, 4 GB, 6½ up in WC

SP: (2013, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced CHC as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-21   Road:   33-28   ExtrInn: 1-5 
 vsRHP:  54-31   vsLHP:  12-18   1-Run:  13-13
 vsEast: 17-9    vsCntrl:25-18   vsWest: 16-13 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
115 Fri, Aug  9   CHC  L   0-3       66-49  2nd  4.0 gb
114 Thu, Aug  8   LAD  L   1-5       66-48  2nd  4.0 gb
113 Wed, Aug  7   LAD  L   4-13      66-47  2nd  3.0 gb
112 Tue, Aug  6   LAD  W   5-1       66-46  2nd  2.0 gb
111 Mon, Aug  5   LAD  L   2-3       65-46  2nd  2.0 gb
110 Sun, Aug  4  @CIN  W  15-2       65-45  2nd  1.5 gb
109 Sat, Aug  3  @CIN  L   3-8       64-45  2nd  1.5 gb
108 Fri, Aug  2  @CIN  W  13-3       64-44  2nd  0.5 gb
107 Thu, Aug  1  @PIT  W  13-0       63-44  2nd  1.5 gb
106 Wed, Jul 31  @PIT  L   4-5       62-44  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 09, 2013 CHC  3 @STL  0        W:Chris Rusin (2-1), L: Lance Lynn (13-6), S: Kevin Gregg (24)
Sun, Jul 14, 2013 STL 10 @CHC  6        W:Edward Mujica (2-1), L: Kevin Gregg (2-2), S: none
Sat, Jul 13, 2013 CHC  6  STL  4        W:Matt Garza (6-1), L: Lance Lynn (11-4), S: Kevin Gregg (17)
Fri, Jul 12, 2013 STL  3 @CHC  2        W:Joe Kelly (1-3), L: Carlos Villanueva (2-5), S: Edward Mujica (26)
Thu, Jul 11, 2013 CHC  3  STL  0        W:Edwin Jackson (6-10), L: Jake Westbrook (5-4), S: Kevin Gregg (16)
Thu, Jun 20, 2013 STL  6  CHC  1        W:Lance Lynn (10-1), L: Scott Feldman (6-6), S: none
Wed, Jun 19, 2013 STL  4  CHC  1        W:Jake Westbrook (3-2), L: Edwin Jackson (3-9), S: Edward Mujica (21)
Tue, Jun 18, 2013 CHC  4 @STL  2        W:Jeff Samardzija (4-7), L: Adam Wainwright (10-4), S: Kevin Gregg (10)
Mon, Jun 17, 2013 STL  5  CHC  2        W:Shelby Miller (8-4), L: Travis Wood (5-6), S: Edward Mujica (20)
Wed, May 08, 2013 STL  5 @CHC  4        W:Seth Maness (2-0), L: Michael Bowden (1-2), S: Edward Mujica (9)
Season Series: 2013 - STL over 6-5; 2012 - STL won 10-7; 2011 - STL won 10-5; All-Time - CHC leads 1178-1120

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  5.13

KCR  4.08

MIA  3.18

 RA/G

PIT  3.43

CHC  4.23

HOU  5.35

 BA

M. Cabrera  .360

D. Brown  .271

D. Uggla  .189

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .454

N. Markakis  .333

J. Arencibia  .247

 SLG

C. Davis  .676

I. Kinsler  .420

J. Keppinger  .280

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.124

A. Ethier  .753

J. Keppinger  .545

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.91

R. Nolasco  3.65

J. Blanton  5.52

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.86

J. Blanton  7.26

B. Colon  4.79

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

Cubs Batters (3.92 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 67.Blazek
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 71.Freeman*
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		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Barney G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 5/1.000 3/1.167 ··· 391/280 .212/.263/.321/.584 .648/.558 .527 81/.547 3/1 6/4
7.Boscan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
53.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 3/1.334 ··· 2/.000 2/.500 1/.000 325/237 .276/.352/.369/.721 .628/.755 .652 62/.917 2/0 3/9
13.Castro G/S/vP ··· 3/1.334 ··· 7/.929 ··· 1/.000 4/1.500 8/1.125 2/2.500 501/356 .246/.282/.351/.633 .594/.648 .580 99/.630 8/3 7/15
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· 8/.393 1/2.000 4/1.500 1/.000 ··· 5/1.600 1/.000 ··· 282/239 .262/.330/.430/.759 .433/.820 .639 65/.744 3/0 6/1
2.Gillespie G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 50/18 .186/.300/.233/.533 .531/.533 .290 40/.644 0/0 0/0
21.Lake G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 97/63 .326/.354/.489/.843 1.137/.680 .858 97/.843 1/3 4/2
8.Murphy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 19/15 .294/.368/.941/1.310 3.667/.771 1.442 19/1.310 0/0 3/0
30.Navarro# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 5/.400 1/.000 ··· 174/123 .284/.356/.490/.847 1.231/.694 .747 37/.745 0/1 9/3
1.Ransom G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.833 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.667 1/no AB 1/.000 172/66 .201/.304/.450/.754 .843/.601 .739 51/.422 0/0 9/7
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP ··· 5/1.267 2/.000 6/.500 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 4/1.833 3/.666 492/318 .238/.329/.447/.776 .684/.826 .687 101/.775 5/5 18/4
19.Schierholtz* G/S/vP ··· 5/.200 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 1/no AB 346/296 .273/.330/.511/.842 .532/.885 .810 67/.908 5/2 15/2
22.Watkins* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/7 .250/.333/.250/.583 .000/.762 .650 9/.583 0/0 0/0
IP 7.2 25.0 1.1 66.1 41.0 16.0 47.2 54.0 19.1 TOTAL .241/.303/.402/.704 .694/.708 .657 .684 54/25 125/74
ERA-K/9 8.22/10.5 2.52/6.8 0.00/13.8 2.98/6.2 2.41/4.4 6.19/7.3 1.89/7.5 2.17/12.8 0.93/11.7 3.51/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castillo (52-20-7)
 Navarro (28-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 39/.258 103/.220 4/.000 283/.263 165/.292 73/.302 179/.199 225/.234 73/.095 .248  Schierholtz
 Gillespie
 DeJesus
 Lake
0/0/88/4
6/1/9/2
0/68/0/1
15/9/0/0
OPS .862 .580 .000 .716 .717 .765 .519 .608 .394 .674
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 17/.686 73/.562 2/.000 129/.706 59/.750 33/.873 81/.473 102/.488 39/.348 .697
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 22/.981 30/.621 2/.000 154/.725 106/.698 40/.674 98/.558 123/.710 34/.447 .655
Home 20/.833 48/.610 4/.000 125/.702 88/.659 49/.924 89/.373 112/.547 37/.405
Last 28d days 25/1.040 20/.522 4/.000 74/.630 41/.597 32/.956 32/.563 44/.618 28/.595
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 7/0/1 2/1/0 1/1/0 5/1/0 3/0/2 1/0/0 74/26/16
Usage ·XX···X· o·Xo··o· ·X······ ···X···· oo·oo·X· ·X······ o··o···· X··X·o·· ·o·oX··X
Cardinals Batters (4.88 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (4.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 28.Bowden
G/S/vB		 63.Gregg
G/S/vB		 50.Parker
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 52.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Adams* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 4/.250 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 200/166 .283/.340/.489/.829 .676/.861 .950 62/.625 0/0 9/1
3.Beltran# G/S/vP 10/1.167 3/.666 18/.922 ··· 1/.000 11/.697 ··· 2/1.500 423/302 .303/.339/.518/.857 .772/.891 .859 79/.752 2/1 20/5
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 7/.971 2/.000 4/.250 ··· 1/2.000 11/1.164 ··· ··· 504/349 .302/.375/.458/.833 .795/.850 .954 102/.607 1/3 9/11
56.Chambers* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 8/7 .143/.250/.286/.536 .000/.619 .333 8/.536 0/0 0/0
21.Craig G/S/vP 7/.971 3/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/3.000 ··· 2/.000 466/360 .317/.365/.462/.827 .772/.843 .801 91/.702 2/0 11/1
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 95/69 .213/.263/.303/.567 .308/.668 .468 44/.654 0/0 1/0
33.Descalso* G/S/vP 4/.500 1/no AB 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 8/1.375 ··· ··· 234/185 .262/.313/.416/.729 .589/.766 .631 49/.625 5/2 5/10
23.Freese G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· 4/1.250 3/.000 ··· 3/2.667 ··· 2/.000 376/276 .275/.354/.394/.748 .773/.738 .696 87/.817 1/1 6/7
7.Holliday G/S/vP 15/1.169 2/.500 8/1.625 ··· ··· 10/.543 ··· 1/no AB 416/320 .284/.365/.448/.813 .751/.831 .836 63/.891 5/1 13/1
19.Jay* G/S/vP 11/.697 2/1.000 4/.500 4/1.750 1/2.000 11/.473 ··· ··· 450/345 .267/.343/.364/.707 .564/.749 .679 87/.872 3/1 5/1
32.Johnson G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 16/10 .214/.313/.429/.741 .167/1.067 .000 14/.536 0/0 0/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP 6/.900 2/.000 4/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 369/257 .232/.282/.293/.575 .617/.557 .503 66/.635 2/1 1/6
IP 101.2 28.1 44.1 26.2 39.1 41.0 5.1 38.1 TOTAL .273/.334/.407/.741 .679/.764 .740 .714 28/13 91/52
ERA-K/9 4.16/6.8 4.45/5.7 2.84/7.9 2.36/9.4 5.72/6.6 2.85/7.0 3.38/6.8 5.40/10.3 3.96/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (7-3-2)
 Johnson (1-0-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 419/.251 120/.255 191/.233 112/.210 180/.270 167/.240 22/.222 177/.214 .246  Beltran
 Jay
 Craig
 Carpenter
 Holliday
 Chambers
0/0/96/3
0/110/0/3
24/0/18/1
0/0/2/1
93/0/0/1
2/0/3/0
OPS .735 .716 .676 .596 .812 .707 .730 .702 .712
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 186/.745 57/.578 98/.548 55/.711 82/.672 91/.493 8/.917 70/.708 .676
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 233/.726 63/.828 93/.807 57/.488 98/.935 76/.976 14/.641 107/.698 .739
Road 176/.774 58/.825 107/.605 42/.691 92/.734 81/.749 10/.800 88/.566
Last 28d days 97/.890 52/.896 59/.920 41/.838 41/.689 25/.836 22/.730 46/.457
HR/SB/CS 12/6/5 2/0/1 4/3/1 2/3/0 6/4/1 3/5/2 1/1/0 4/1/0 108/80/30
Usage ·····X·· ·X·X···X X·o···o· o······o ·X·X··o· o·o··o·o ·X·····X o·X··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.