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Game Preview: MIN @ STL, 1:05pm, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 @Busch Stadium III

Twins, 66-96, 66-96

SP: Kyle Gibson (25, RHP, 2-4, 6.53)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-4) 51.0 69 38 37 20 29 7 6.53
Last 7 GS 1-2 33.2 46 24 23 15 19 7 6.15 40
2013-08-19 NYM L 3.2 10 4 4 2 2 0 72 25
2013-08-14 CLE ND 5.1 6 3 3 2 3 0 88 45
2013-08-09 @CHW ND 5.2 4 3 3 4 4 2 105 49
2013-08-03 HOU ND 3.0 9 4 4 1 2 1 81 26
2013-07-28 @SEA L 5.0 7 5 5 1 3 2 95 35
2013-07-23 @LAA ND 6.0 5 2 2 1 4 2 94 57
2013-07-14 @NYY W 5.0 5 3 2 4 1 0 93 44
Has never faced STL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-49   Road:   34-47   ExtrInn: 9-7 
 vsRHP:  50-75   vsLHP:  16-21   1-Run:  24-25
 vsEast: 10-23   vsCntrl:29-47   vsWest: 19-14 IL: 8-12

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29   CLE  L   1-5       66-96  4th 27.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 28   CLE  L   1-5       66-95  4th 27.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 27   CLE  L   6-12      66-94  4th 27.0 gb
159 Thu, Sep 26   CLE  L   5-6       66-93  4th 27.0 gb
158 Wed, Sep 25   DET  L   0-1       66-92  4th 26.5 gb
157 Tue, Sep 24   DET  L   2-4       66-91  4th 25.5 gb
156 Mon, Sep 23   DET  W   4-3 (11)  66-90  4th 24.5 gb
155 Sun, Sep 22  @OAK  L   7-11      65-90  4th 25.5 gb
154 Sat, Sep 21  @OAK  L   1-9       65-89  4th 25.5 gb
153 Fri, Sep 20  @OAK  L   0-11      65-88  4th 24.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 9-21
Cardinals, 97-65, 97-65

SP: Carlos Martinez (21, RHP, 2-1, 5.08)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-1) 28.1 31 16 16 9 24 1 5.08
Last 7 GS 0-1 4.2 7 4 4 3 2 1 7.71 33
2013-08-08 LAD L 4.2 7 4 4 3 2 1 97 33
Has never faced MIN 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 28, 2009 MIN  6 @STL  2        W:Francisco Liriano (4-8), L: Joel Pineiro (6-9), S: Joe Nathan (19)
Sat, Jun 27, 2009 STL  5  MIN  3        W:Josh Kinney (1-0), L: Kevin Slowey (10-3), S: Ryan Franklin (18)
Fri, Jun 26, 2009 MIN  3 @STL  1        W:Glen Perkins (3-4), L: Adam Wainwright (8-5), S: Joe Nathan (18)
Tue, Jul 17, 2001 STL  4  MIN  2        W:Darryl Kile (10-7), L: Kyle Lohse (3-1), S: Jason Christiansen (3)
Mon, Jul 16, 2001 STL  4  MIN  3        W:Steve Kline (2-3), L: Travis Miller (1-3), S: Jason Christiansen (2)
Sun, Jul 15, 2001 STL  5  MIN  1        W:Dustin Hermanson (7-7), L: Joe Mays (11-6), S: none
Tue, Jul 18, 2000 MIN  3  STL  2        W:Brad Radke (7-10), L: Andy Benes (10-4), S: LaTroy Hawkins (6)
Mon, Jul 17, 2000 STL  8 @MIN  3        W:Pat Hentgen (9-6), L: Mike Lincoln (0-3), S: none
Sun, Jul 16, 2000 MIN  5  STL  2        W:Mark Redman (7-4), L: Rick Ankiel (6-5), S: Eddie Guardado (5)
Tue, Jul 20, 1999 MIN  4 @STL  2        W:Brad Radke (7-8), L: Larry Luebbers (0-1), S: Mike Trombley (14)
Season Series: 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - STL leads 10-8

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.

Twins Batters (3.79 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (3.68 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 62.Martinez
G/S/vB		 65.Butler
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 71.Freeman*
G/S/vB		 54.Garcia*
G/S/vB		 58.Kelly
G/S/vB		 31.Lynn
G/S/vB		 70.Lyons*
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 40.Miller
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 26.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 52.Wacha
G/S/vB		 50.Wainwright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
31.Arcia* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
55.Colabello G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
2.Dozier G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 340/260 .234/.271/.332/.603 .775/.547 .568 / 9/2 6/15
5.Escobar# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/107 .214/.278/.260/.537 .844/.419 .490 / 3/0 0/2
25.Florimon# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 150/98 .219/.272/.307/.579 .619/.558 .600 / 3/1 1/7
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/13 .056/.105/.056/.161 .000/.237 .063 / 0/0 0/0
32.Hicks# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.733 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1.250 641/419 .319/.416/.446/.861 .754/.918 .844 / 8/4 10/5
27.Parmelee* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 210/151 .229/.290/.380/.671 .681/.667 .772 / 0/0 5/2
43.Pinto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
24.Plouffe G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 465/323 .235/.301/.455/.756 .911/.691 .655 / 1/3 24/19
1.Presley* G/S/vP ··· 1/4.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 11/.582 ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 2/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 7/.714 370/306 .237/.279/.405/.683 .690/.682 .748 / 9/7 10/3
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 3/.667 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 10/.600 442/341 .235/.276/.328/.605 .628/.598 .662 / 2/0 6/5
16.Willingham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 13/.490 615/427 .260/.366/.524/.890 .920/.877 .770 / 3/2 35/4
IP 38.2 20.0 121.2 107.0 176.0 13.2 72.0 22.2 198.2 TOTAL .242/.312/.380/.692 .697/.691 .689 52/33 151/81
ERA-K/9 /0.0 /0.0 3.03/8.8 5.40/8.1 3.92/7.2 3.53/6.3 3.78/9.2 /0.0 /0.0 1.32/10.5 2.75/10.8 2.78/9.9 /0.0 /0.0 3.94/8.3 3.43/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (1-0-1)
 Mauer (56-9-1)
 Suzuki (65-28-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / / 168/.206 86/.230 515/.289 457/.271 744/.253 / / 54/.184 279/.191 89/.175 / / 831/.259 .249  Willingham
 Plouffe
 Presley
 Parmelee
 Escobar
 Herrmann
119/0/0/6
2/0/15/2
81/4/8/2
1/0/18/1
1/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .569 .654 .730 .740 .728 .463 .576 .513 .701 .680
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / / 116/.461 39/.808 102/.649 200/.917 370/.841 / / 22/.485 134/.381 36/.395 / / 390/.724 .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / / 52/.821 47/.534 413/.750 257/.607 374/.624 / / 32/.445 145/.756 53/.597 / / 441/.681 .667
Home / / 84/.517 30/.553 248/.668 288/.736 314/.655 / / 28/.259 160/.556 36/.473 / / 452/.705
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS // // 1/2/0 2/1/0 7/4/5 10/8/5 16/9/9 // // 0/0/0 9/3/2 2/1/1 // // 15/2/3 112/39/26
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. Twins Pitchers (4.86 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Gibson
G/S/vB		 61.Burton
G/S/vB		 30.Correia
G/S/vB		 21.Deduno
G/S/vB		 58.Diamond*
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 45.Hughes
G/S/vB		 47.Nolasco
G/S/vB		 37.Pelfrey
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 56.Thielbar*
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 49.Worley
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Adams* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 91/70 .244/.286/.384/.669 .440/.739 .759 / 0/0 2/3
8.Bourjos G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· ··· 8/1.250 ··· 5/.400 ··· 3/.000 4/.500 ··· 7/.500 ··· ··· ··· 195/117 .220/.291/.315/.606 .606/.607 .613 / 3/1 3/1
56.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.533 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2.333 340/235 .294/.365/.463/.828 .784/.846 .890 / 1/1 6/9
21.Craig G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/1.714 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/.222 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.334 514/380 .307/.354/.522/.876 1.011/.827 .933 / 2/1 22/4
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 131/90 .254/.267/.365/.632 .439/.724 .563 / 0/1 1/2
33.Descalso* G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/1.171 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/.742 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 426/318 .227/.303/.324/.627 .812/.564 .620 / 6/3 4/15
3.Ellis G/S/vP ··· ··· 11/.282 ··· ··· 10/.200 ··· 5/.400 10/.650 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 464/317 .258/.333/.364/.697 .877/.612 .770 / 5/0 7/3
7.Holliday G/S/vP ··· 2/3.500 36/.906 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 27/1.366 8/.750 1/2.000 ··· 5/.200 ··· ··· 3/.000 688/509 .295/.379/.497/.877 1.021/.827 .884 / 4/4 27/3
19.Jay* G/S/vP ··· ··· 10/.600 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/1.186 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.533 502/354 .305/.373/.400/.773 .697/.804 .948 / 19/7 4/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 82/62 .333/.383/.569/.952 1.011/.933 1.009 / 2/0 2/3
4.Molina G/S/vP ··· 6/.800 21/.689 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/.606 9/1.334 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 563/438 .315/.373/.501/.874 1.021/.833 .881 / 12/3 22/3
27.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 9/.555 10/.644 11/1.261 23/.729 34/1.092 5/.900 20/1.184 ··· 8/.804 16/.521 2/.000 15/.800 1/no AB ··· 5/1.200 585/410 .239/.305/.384/.689 .692/.688 .729 / 1/2 13/7
43.Robinson G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 181/87 .253/.309/.355/.665 .694/.633 .597 / 1/0 3/2
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
IP 62.0 171.0 79.0 173.0 109.0 35.0 191.1 191.0 19.2 70.1 96.2 133.0 TOTAL .269/.332/.401/.733 .672/.755 .739 45/22 125/75
ERA-K/9 /0.0 2.18/8.0 4.21/4.7 4.44/6.5 3.54/4.7 5.12/5.7 2.06/8.2 4.23/7.8 4.48/5.9 2.29/5.9 2.56/10.0 /0.0 5.03/5.8 /0.0 /0.0 4.20/7.2 4.55/6.1

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 245/.186 728/.267 347/.241 714/.274 472/.288 141/.195 815/.259 832/.285 85/.300 281/.222 / 413/.284 / / 590/.296 .280  Holliday
 Robinson
 Bourjos
 Craig
 Carpenter
 Jay
152/0/0/6
15/37/11/3
0/90/0/2
8/0/23/1
7/0/15/1
0/116/0/1
OPS .549 .733 .759 .731 .759 .578 .765 .755 .683 .631 .798 .806 .770
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 99/.748 349/.735 201/.723 191/.792 178/.678 59/.491 422/.610 436/.809 52/.672 106/.488 / 190/.771 / / 298/.847 .779
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 146/.421 379/.731 146/.805 523/.709 294/.808 82/.638 393/.928 396/.696 33/.697 175/.721 / 223/.821 / / 292/.764 .762
Road / 112/.484 391/.756 192/.934 329/.758 254/.780 79/.452 403/.781 406/.784 28/.690 127/.585 / 220/.851 / / 261/.739
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS // 5/6/0 20/7/4 10/8/1 17/15/4 10/5/1 3/3/0 35/4/3 18/14/4 0/2/1 8/2/3 // 15/1/1 // // 12/5/6 168/73/38
Usage ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········

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.