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Game Preview: BOS @ STL, 1:05pm, Wednesday, March 5, 2014 @Busch Stadium III

RedSox, 97-65, 97-65

SP: Chris Capuano (34, LHP, 4-7, 4.26)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (4-7) 105.2 125 57 50 24 81 11 4.26
2012 (12-12) 198.1 188 91 82 54 162 25 3.72
2011 (11-12) 186.0 198 99 94 53 168 27 4.55
Last 7 GS 1-1 34.1 46 17 15 8 24 2 3.93 47
2013-09-06 @CIN ND 1.2 0 0 0 1 2 0 30 56
2013-08-31 SDP ND 7.0 8 1 1 1 7 1 104 63
2013-08-25 BOS L 5.0 6 3 2 1 3 0 84 47
2013-08-20 @MIA ND 5.0 6 3 3 1 1 0 81 43
2013-08-14 NYM ND 5.0 10 4 4 2 3 1 86 32
2013-08-09 TBR ND 4.1 10 6 5 1 3 0 86 23
2013-08-03 @CHC W 6.1 6 0 0 1 5 0 88 65
Last 5 v.STL 1-2 25.1 36 21 20 6 13 8 7.11 37
2013-05-24 STL L 5.0 6 6 5 3 4 2 104 34
2012-09-14 STL ND 4.1 7 4 4 0 2 3 82 35
2012-07-26 @STL L 4.1 11 6 6 1 1 0 79 17
2011-09-22 @STL ND 4.2 8 4 4 2 4 2 103 34
2010-09-08 STL W 7.0 4 1 1 0 2 1 83 67
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   53-28   Road:   44-37   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  65-43   vsLHP:  32-22   1-Run:  21-21
 vsEast: 44-32   vsCntrl:19-15   vsWest: 20-12 IL:14-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29  @BAL  L   6-7       97-65  1st  6.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28  @BAL  L   5-6       97-64  1st  7.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27  @BAL  W  12-3       97-63  1st  7.0 up
159 Wed, Sep 25  @COL  W  15-5       96-63  1st  6.5 up
158 Tue, Sep 24  @COL  L   3-8       95-63  1st  6.5 up
157 Sun, Sep 22   TOR  W   5-2       95-62  1st  8.0 up
156 Sat, Sep 21   TOR  L   2-4       94-62  1st  8.0 up
155 Fri, Sep 20   TOR  W   6-3       94-61  1st  9.0 up
154 Thu, Sep 19   BAL  W   3-1       93-61  1st  9.0 up
153 Wed, Sep 18   BAL  L   3-5 (12)  92-61  1st  8.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:20-10
Cardinals, 97-65, 97-65

SP: Shelby Miller (22, RHP, 15-9, 3.06)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (15-9) 173.1 152 65 59 57 169 20 3.06
2012 (1-0) 13.2 9 2 2 4 16 0 1.32
Last 7 GS 4-1 40.2 36 16 15 16 24 5 3.32 53
2013-09-25 WSN W 6.0 4 1 1 3 3 0 90 60
2013-09-20 @MIL ND 6.0 7 4 4 2 4 1 103 44
2013-09-15 SEA W 5.0 3 2 1 2 1 0 95 54
2013-09-10 MIL W 6.2 5 0 0 2 4 0 108 66
2013-09-04 @CIN ND 5.2 6 3 3 4 3 1 95 44
2013-08-30 @PIT L 4.1 8 5 5 3 3 2 99 27
2013-08-24 ATL W 7.0 3 1 1 0 6 1 101 73
Has never faced BOS as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   54-27   Road:   43-38   ExtrInn: 6-6 
 vsRHP:  78-42   vsLHP:  19-23   1-Run:  20-16
 vsEast: 23-10   vsCntrl:46-30   vsWest: 18-15 IL:10-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29   CHC  W   4-0       97-65  1st  3.0 up
161 Sat, Sep 28   CHC  W   6-2       96-65  1st  3.0 up
160 Fri, Sep 27   CHC  W   7-0       95-65  1st  3.0 up
159 Wed, Sep 25   WSN  W   4-1       94-65  1st  3.0 up
158 Tue, Sep 24   WSN  W   2-0       93-65  1st  2.0 up
157 Mon, Sep 23   WSN  W   4-3       92-65  1st  2.0 up
156 Sun, Sep 22  @MIL  L   4-6       91-65  1st  2.0 up
155 Sat, Sep 21  @MIL  W   7-2       91-64  1st  2.0 up
154 Fri, Sep 20  @MIL  W   7-6 (10)  90-64  1st  2.0 up
153 Thu, Sep 19  @COL  L   6-7 (15)  89-64  1st  1.0 up
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 22, 2008 BOS  5  STL  3 (13)   W:Javier Lopez (2-0), L: Mike Parisi (0-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 21, 2008 STL  9 @BOS  3        W:Mitchell Boggs (2-0), L: Daisuke Matsuzaka (8-1), S: none
Fri, Jun 20, 2008 STL  5 @BOS  4        W:Kyle Lohse (9-2), L: Tim Wakefield (4-5), S: Ryan Franklin (10)
Wed, Jun 08, 2005 BOS  4 @STL  0        W:David Wells (4-4), L: Chris Carpenter (8-4), S: none
Tue, Jun 07, 2005 STL  9  BOS  2        W:Jeff Suppan (5-5), L: Matt Clement (6-1), S: none
Mon, Jun 06, 2005 STL  7  BOS  1        W:Matt Morris (7-0), L: Tim Wakefield (4-6), S: none
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 STL  8 @BOS  7 (13)   W:Esteban Yan (2-1), L: Ramiro Mendoza (1-3), S: none
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 BOS 13  STL  1        W:John Burkett (4-3), L: Brett Tomko (2-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 STL  9 @BOS  7        W:Steve Kline (3-4), L: Brandon Lyon (2-3), S: Cal Eldred (8)
Season Series: 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - STL leads 6-3

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.

RedSox Batters (5.27 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.68 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Miller
G/S/vB		 65.Butler
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 71.Freeman*
G/S/vB		 58.Kelly
G/S/vB		 70.Lyons*
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 62.Martinez
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 26.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 52.Wacha
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
37.Carp* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 189/145 .213/.312/.341/.654 .722/.631 .614 / 1/0 5/2
5.Gomes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1.750 ··· ··· ··· 333/137 .262/.377/.491/.868 .974/.715 .987 / 3/1 18/2
10.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 251/193 .262/.317/.351/.668 .638/.677 .582 / 4/1 3/3
26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 72/56 .292/.329/.354/.682 .517/.732 .602 / 0/0 0/4
20.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 166/113 .157/.211/.248/.459 .506/.437 .485 / 0/0 2/2
16.Middlebrooks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 286/186 .288/.325/.509/.835 .906/.798 .826 / 4/1 15/9
12.Napoli G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 417/285 .227/.343/.469/.812 .706/.861 .839 / 1/0 24/7
29.Nava# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 317/222 .243/.352/.390/.742 .613/.797 .667 / 3/0 6/2
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· ··· 10/.844 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 383/245 .318/.415/.611/1.026 .985/1.050 .868 / 0/1 23/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 623/437 .290/.347/.449/.797 .848/.775 .764 / 20/6 15/5
40.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· 7/1.096 ··· 2/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 520/399 .278/.326/.501/.827 .673/.874 .708 / 0/0 27/6
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 196/108 .256/.321/.449/.770 .712/.818 .762 / 1/0 9/2
38.Sizemore* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
18.Victorino# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 7/.714 1/.000 ··· ··· 666/480 .255/.321/.383/.704 .906/.627 .714 / 39/6 11/2
IP 13.2 38.2 20.0 107.0 72.0 22.2 TOTAL .277/.349/.446/.795 .751/.818 .773 123/19 178/80
ERA-K/9 1.32/10.5 /0.0 3.03/8.8 5.40/8.1 3.53/6.3 /0.0 /0.0 /0.0 2.75/10.8 2.78/9.9 /0.0 /0.0 3.43/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (28-3-0)
 Napoli (42-11-8)
 Pierzynski (76-27-8)
 Ross (19-15-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 54/.184 / 168/.206 86/.230 457/.271 / / / 279/.191 89/.175 / / .249  Victorino
 Nava
 Carp
 Gomes
48/109/1/9
76/0/4/5
24/0/0/1
39/0/3/1
OPS .463 .569 .654 .740 .576 .513 .680
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 22/.485 / 116/.461 39/.808 200/.917 / / / 134/.381 36/.395 / / .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 32/.445 / 52/.821 47/.534 257/.607 / / / 145/.756 53/.597 / / .667
Home 28/.259 / 84/.517 30/.553 288/.736 / / / 160/.556 36/.473 / /
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 // 1/2/0 2/1/0 10/8/5 // // // 9/3/2 2/1/1 // // 112/39/26
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.

Cardinals Batters (4.83 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.05 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Capuano*
G/S/vB		 35.Badenhop
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 66.Britton*
G/S/vB		 62.De La Rosa
G/S/vB		 41.Lackey
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 54.Mujica
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 64.Webster
G/S/vB		 63.Wilson
G/S/vB		 67.Workman
G/S/vB		 65.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Adams* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 91/70 .244/.286/.384/.669 .440/.739 .759 / 0/0 2/3
8.Bourjos G/S/vP 3/1.000 3/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.550 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 195/117 .220/.291/.315/.606 .606/.607 .613 / 3/1 3/1
56.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 8/1.375 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 340/235 .294/.365/.463/.828 .784/.846 .890 / 1/1 6/9
21.Craig G/S/vP 11/2.091 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 514/380 .307/.354/.522/.876 1.011/.827 .933 / 2/1 22/4
48.Cruz G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 131/90 .254/.267/.365/.632 .439/.724 .563 / 0/1 1/2
33.Descalso* G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 426/318 .227/.303/.324/.627 .812/.564 .620 / 6/3 4/15
3.Ellis G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 5/.650 ··· 3/.000 76/.716 3/1.667 2/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 464/317 .258/.333/.364/.697 .877/.612 .770 / 5/0 7/3
7.Holliday G/S/vP 34/.979 7/.286 2/1.000 ··· ··· 8/.125 3/.000 8/.542 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 688/509 .295/.379/.497/.877 1.021/.827 .884 / 4/4 27/3
19.Jay* G/S/vP 10/.522 5/.200 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 502/354 .305/.373/.400/.773 .697/.804 .948 / 19/7 4/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP 4/.833 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 82/62 .333/.383/.569/.952 1.011/.933 1.009 / 2/0 2/3
4.Molina G/S/vP 24/.704 5/.800 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 563/438 .315/.373/.501/.874 1.021/.833 .881 / 12/3 22/3
60.Ortega* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/4 .500/.667/.500/1.167 .000/2.000 / 1/0 0/0
27.Peralta G/S/vP 5/1.000 2/1.500 8/.000 ··· ··· 33/.751 2/.500 ··· 2/.500 5/.600 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 585/410 .239/.305/.384/.689 .692/.688 .729 / 1/2 13/7
63.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
43.Robinson G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 181/87 .253/.309/.355/.665 .694/.633 .597 / 1/0 3/2
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
IP 198.1 62.1 63.1 0.2 40.1 65.1 44.0 36.0 TOTAL .269/.332/.401/.733 .672/.755 .739 45/22 125/75
ERA-K/9 3.72/7.4 3.03/6.1 2.70/8.7 /0.0 27.00/0.0 /0.0 3.35/11.4 3.03/6.5 1.43/9.2 1.75/10.8 /0.0 /0.0 /0.0 /0.0 3.79/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (18-8-3)
 Molina (38-35-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 817/.254 262/.259 261/.225 / 4/.000 / 169/.194 258/.230 172/.227 130/.160 / / / / .248  Holliday
 Robinson
 Bourjos
 Carpenter
 Jay
 Craig
 Ortega
152/0/0/6
15/37/11/3
0/90/0/2
7/0/15/1
0/116/0/1
8/0/23/1
0/1/0/0
OPS .715 .687 .645 .500 .588 .643 .558 .466 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 174/.599 88/.844 116/.597 / 2/.500 / 102/.429 119/.669 67/.519 71/.545 / / / / .678
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 643/.746 174/.610 145/.683 / 2/.500 / 67/.829 139/.620 105/.583 59/.369 / / / / .736
Road 427/.727 138/.773 118/.585 / / / 89/.618 117/.561 71/.551 57/.690 / / / /
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 25/6/3 6/1/0 5/2/3 // 0/1/0 // 3/0/0 7/1/1 1/4/1 4/1/0 // // // // 156/133/43
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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.