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Chicago Cubs vs. San Francisco Giants, at Wrigley Field, August 21, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Start Time:

7:05ct (local), 8:05et

Venue:

Wrigley Field

Tickets:

Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Wrigley Field

Series:

Game #3 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

77° (based on last ten years)

Giants

Manager:

Bruce Bochy

Game #:

127

On This Date:

66-56

Cubs

Manager:

Rick Renteria

Game #:

127

On This Date:

58-71

Season Series
Mon, May 26, 2014 CHC  8 @SFG  4     
Tue, May 27, 2014 SFG  4  CHC  0     
Wed, May 28, 2014 SFG  5  CHC  0     
Tue, Aug 19, 2014 CHC  2  SFG  0  (5)
Wed, Aug 20, 2014 SFG  8 @CHC  3     

Thu, Aug 21, 2014 SFG    @CHC  8:05pm

                         All times ET

San Francisco Giants

66-59, 2nd, 3½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   32-32   Road:   34-27   ExtrInn: 8-4 
 vsRHP:  46-35   vsLHP:  20-24   1-Run:  15-18
 vsEast: 21-10   vsCntrl:12-16   vsWest: 25-24 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Wed, Aug 20  @CHC  W   8-3       66-59  2nd  3.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 19  @CHC  L   0-2  (5)  65-59  2nd  4.5 gb
124 Sun, Aug 17   PHI  W   5-2       65-58  2nd  3.5 gb
123 Sat, Aug 16   PHI  W   6-5       64-58  2nd  4.5 gb
122 Fri, Aug 15   PHI  L   3-5 (10)  63-58  2nd  5.5 gb
121 Wed, Aug 13   CHW  W   7-1       63-57  2nd  5.0 gb
120 Tue, Aug 12   CHW  L   2-3 (10)  62-57  2nd  6.0 gb
119 Sun, Aug 10  @KCR  L   4-7       62-56  2nd  4.5 gb
118 Sat, Aug  9  @KCR  L   0-5       62-55  2nd  3.5 gb
117 Fri, Aug  8  @KCR  L   2-4       62-54  2nd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16

Chicago Cubs

55-71, 5th, 15½ GB, 14 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   29-32   Road:   26-39   ExtrInn: 7-9 
 vsRHP:  40-58   vsLHP:  15-13   1-Run:  14-20
 vsEast: 16-16   vsCntrl:19-32   vsWest: 14-15 IL: 6-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Wed, Aug 20   SFG  L   3-8       55-71  5th 15.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 19   SFG  W   2-0  (5)  55-70  5th 15.5 gb
124 Mon, Aug 18  @NYM  W   4-1       54-70  5th 15.5 gb
123 Sun, Aug 17  @NYM  W   2-1       53-70  5th 16.0 gb
122 Sat, Aug 16  @NYM  L   3-7       52-70  5th 16.0 gb
121 Fri, Aug 15  @NYM  L   2-3       52-69  5th 15.0 gb
120 Thu, Aug 14   MIL  L   2-6       52-68  5th 14.0 gb
119 Wed, Aug 13   MIL  W   4-2       52-67  5th 13.0 gb
118 Tue, Aug 12   MIL  W   3-0       51-67  5th 14.0 gb
117 Mon, Aug 11   MIL  L   1-3       50-67  5th 15.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Aug 20, 2014 SFG  8 @CHC  3        W:Jake Peavy (3-12), L: Edwin Jackson (6-14), S: none
Tue, Aug 19, 2014 CHC  2  SFG  0  (5)   W:Tsuyoshi Wada (3-1), L: Ryan Vogelsong (7-9), S: none
Wed, May 28, 2014 SFG  5  CHC  0        W:George Kontos (1-0), L: Edwin Jackson (3-5), S: none
Tue, May 27, 2014 SFG  4  CHC  0        W:Tim Hudson (5-2), L: Jake Arrieta (1-1), S: none
Mon, May 26, 2014 CHC  8 @SFG  4        W:Jeff Samardzija (1-4), L: Yusmeiro Petit (3-2), S: none

Sun, Jul 28, 2013 CHC  2 @SFG  1        W:Travis Wood (7-7), L: Tim Lincecum (5-11), S: Kevin Gregg (22)
Sat, Jul 27, 2013 CHC  1 @SFG  0        W:Pedro Strop (1-3), L: Sergio Romo (3-6), S: Kevin Gregg (21)
Fri, Jul 26, 2013 CHC  3 @SFG  2        W:Matt Guerrier (4-4), L: Sergio Romo (3-5), S: Kevin Gregg (20)
Sun, Apr 14, 2013 SFG 10 @CHC  7 (10)   W:George Kontos (1-1), L: Shawn Camp (0-1), S: Sergio Romo (7)
Sat, Apr 13, 2013 SFG  3 @CHC  2        W:Madison Bumgarner (3-0), L: Jeff Samardzija (1-2), S: Santiago Casilla (1)
Season Series: 2014 - SFG over 3-2; 2013 - CHC won 4-3; 2012 - SFG won 6-1; All-Time - SFG leads 1133-1059

SP: Madison Bumgarner (24, LHP, 13-9, 3.14)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (13-9)			169.0	155	68	59	37	167	14	3.14
2013 (13-9)			201.1	146	68	62	62	199	15	2.77
2012 (16-11)			208.1	183	87	78	49	191	23	3.37

Last 7 GS		4-2	48.1	38	15	14	5	44	5	2.61	63
2014-08-15	PHI	ND	7.0	4	1	1	0	9	1	110	74
2014-08-08	@KCR	L	8.0	7	4	3	0	5	1	123	59
2014-08-03	@NYM	W	9.0	2	0	0	1	10	0	94	92
2014-07-28	PIT	L	4.0	6	5	5	2	2	1	90	30
2014-07-23	@PHI	W	8.0	5	0	0	0	6	0	93	78
2014-07-18	@MIA	W	6.0	4	1	1	2	7	1	84	65
2014-07-13	ARI	W	6.1	10	4	4	0	5	1	102	42

Last 5 v.CHC		3-1	34.2	26	9	8	8	38	2	2.08	65
2013-07-27	CHC	ND	8.0	4	0	0	2	7	0	116	79
2013-04-13	@CHC	W	6.2	6	2	2	2	6	1	110	58
2012-08-31	@CHC	L	4.0	6	5	4	2	3	1	85	33
2012-06-01	CHC	W	8.0	8	2	2	0	11	0	102	69
2011-08-31	CHC	W	8.0	2	0	0	2	11	0	119	87

SP: Travis Wood (27, LHP, 7-10, 4.86)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (7-10)			144.1	155	88	78	65	120	14	4.86
2013 (9-12)			200.0	163	73	69	66	144	18	3.11
2012 (6-13)			156.0	133	80	74	54	119	25	4.27

Last 7 GS		0-3	39.2	45	30	24	20	35	4	5.45	44
2014-08-15	@NYM	L	5.1	4	3	3	4	5	1	101	49
2014-08-10	TBR	ND	6.0	4	1	0	3	5	0	93	64
2014-08-05	@COL	ND	6.0	7	3	3	3	2	0	74	45
2014-07-30	COL	ND	6.0	8	4	4	2	11	0	119	49
2014-07-25	STL	ND	5.0	7	5	2	1	5	2	113	43
2014-07-19	@ARI	L	5.1	8	7	5	4	3	0	98	27
2014-07-13	ATL	L	6.0	7	7	7	3	4	1	104	31

Last 5 v.SFG		1-2	31.2	32	15	12	12	23	1	3.41	52
2013-07-28	@SFG	W	7.0	4	1	0	4	7	0	107	70
2012-09-02	SFG	ND	5.2	7	4	2	1	2	0	103	44
2012-06-03	@SFG	L	7.0	3	1	1	2	7	0	101	72
2011-06-10	@SFG	ND	8.0	11	2	2	3	4	0	109	53
2010-08-24	@SFG	L	4.0	7	7	7	2	3	1	84	21

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

Giants Batters (3.88 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (4.20 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 37.Wood*
G/S/vB 11.Fujikawa
G/S/vB 52.Grimm
G/S/vB 54.Ramirez
G/S/vB 56.Rondon
G/S/vB 46.Strop
G/S/vB 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB 53.Wright*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

13.Arias G/S/vP 9/.347 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 149/71 .207/.236/.243/.479 .571/.379 .501 16/1.192 1/0 0/2

7.Blanco* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/no AB 3/.666 6/.167 308/217 .245/.319/.310/.629 .686/.603 .561 60/.631 13/4 1/0

35.Crawford* G/S/vP 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 3/.666 444/300 .228/.316/.377/.693 .853/.617 .703 79/.510 3/3 8/17

50.Duffy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 26/15 .208/.269/.208/.478 .990/.133 .473 26/.478 0/0 0/1

37.Duvall G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 58/24 .185/.241/.315/.556 .657/.417 .689 26/.361 0/0 2/1

45.Ishikawa* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 4/1.417 57/56 .245/.281/.396/.677 2.000/.652 .592 19/.737 0/0 1/1

38.Morse G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/1.000 1/no AB ··· 2/.500 3/.000 1/.000 440/298 .285/.341/.486/.827 .814/.834 .770 71/.946 0/0 16/4

16.Pagan# G/S/vP 9/1.111 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 6/.666 2/1.500 313/207 .300/.343/.393/.736 .732/.738 .737 51/.581 12/4 3/1

12.Panik* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 133/106 .295/.346/.344/.690 1.134/.573 .745 65/.881 0/0 0/3

8.Pence G/S/vP 18/.944 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/1.334 26/.961 ··· 556/399 .284/.336/.469/.805 .782/.814 .880 103/.707 11/5 17/4

28.Posey G/S/vP 12/.417 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 464/329 .278/.338/.422/.760 .789/.748 .865 90/.673 0/1 13/6

48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 8/1.583 2/2.000 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 6/.500 3/1.666 492/332 .281/.325/.431/.756 .573/.845 .736 94/.741 0/0 14/6

34.Susac G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 31/20 .241/.290/.379/.670 .697/.650 .706 31/.670 0/0 1/0

IP 144.1 5.1 53.1 30.2 48.1 46.2 68.0 38.0 TOTAL .246/.305/.380/.685 .700/.677 .700 .655 45/22 103/76

ERA-K/9

4.86/7.5

1.69/8.5

4.22/8.9

1.17/11.4

2.98/9.7

2.51/10.0

4.76/7.8

2.61/7.1

3.77/8.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Posey (45-20-4)
Susac (10-4-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 649/.273 23/.211 230/.234 122/.174 202/.239 185/.186 301/.277 163/.247 .244 Pence
Blanco
Pagan
Morse
Ishikawa 0/1/126/7
38/58/0/5
0/69/0/3
78/0/0/2
1/0/0/0

OPS .762 .673 .671 .547 .569 .547 .754 .623 .680

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 171/.606 13/.657 75/.642 44/.561 90/.674 77/.686 118/.780 69/.630 .707

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 478/.819 10/.700 155/.684 78/.536 112/.486 108/.450 183/.737 94/.618 .662

Home 310/.690 17/.732 115/.695 59/.673 135/.629 95/.596 124/.547 80/.793

Last 28d days 126/.764 23/.673 35/.406 16/.779 50/.420 42/.472 45/.343 42/.742

HR/SB/CS 14/10/2 1/0/0 4/6/0 2/4/0 1/6/0 2/1/1 6/11/0 2/2/0 87/95/22

Usage ·····X·· X···o·X· ·····o·o ··o····o ··Xo···o ···X·X·· X···X·o· X···oX··

Cubs Batters (3.79 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (3.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 40.Bumgarner*
G/S/vB 41.Affeldt*
G/S/vB 46.Casilla
G/S/vB 57.Gutierrez
G/S/vB 49.Lopez*
G/S/vB 63.Machi
G/S/vB 52.Petit
G/S/vB 54.Romo
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

7.Alcantara# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 166/110 .207/.273/.333/.606 .631/.591 .651 114/.491 5/3 3/3

9.Baez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 68/52 .231/.265/.492/.757 .875/.718 .604 68/.757 0/0 5/3

12.Baker* G/S/vP 2/.000 5/.400 1/no AB 2/no AB 2/.000 2/.000 4/.500 1/.000 172/142 .203/.281/.242/.523 .472/.533 .576 33/.369 0/0 0/1

5.Castillo G/S/vP 5/.600 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 319/238 .236/.303/.382/.685 .808/.641 .670 75/.677 0/0 9/3

13.Castro G/S/vP 24/.875 4/1.000 5/.650 4/.250 4/1.250 1/.000 2/.000 8/.804 535/412 .284/.333/.429/.762 .781/.756 .678 108/.773 4/3 13/13

8.Coghlan* G/S/vP 7/.929 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 3/.500 ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 289/216 .273/.346/.449/.795 .884/.767 .780 100/.751 5/4 6/4

44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 9/.347 7/.619 3/2.000 3/.666 4/.250 ··· 2/.000 5/.000 546/395 .279/.377/.515/.892 .938/.875 .949 114/.773 3/4 29/9

20.Ruggiano G/S/vP 3/no AB 3/.333 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· 245/159 .279/.336/.416/.752 .800/.725 .713 60/.605 2/4 5/1

6.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 214/190 .260/.311/.347/.658 .739/.648 .652 57/1.005 0/0 3/1

41.Szczur G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/5 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 5/.000 0/0 0/0

4.Valaika G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 36/22 .182/.222/.273/.495 .742/.336 .643 36/.495 0/0 1/0

24.Valbuena* G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 4/1.250 2/2.500 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 405/343 .242/.324/.423/.748 .680/.760 .741 89/.763 0/2 11/6

IP 169.0 45.1 44.1 54.2 30.2 53.0 74.0 46.2 TOTAL .239/.299/.382/.681 .750/.659 .679 .687 49/36 119/71

ERA-K/9

3.14/8.9

1.99/6.0

1.62/7.3

3.13/5.9

2.05/5.0

1.53/6.6

3.89/9.4

4.24/9.3

3.40/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Baker (39-4-5)
Castillo (51-18-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 686/.245 178/.220 165/.180 221/.233 134/.204 194/.193 299/.233 187/.205 .242 Sweeney
Coghlan
Alcantara
Ruggiano
Szczur 12/24/18/6
66/0/4/3
0/22/0/2
10/18/33/1
2/0/1/0

OPS .659 .558 .485 .663 .615 .560 .647 .655 .677

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 163/.556 90/.645 64/.498 74/.684 82/.570 68/.583 138/.859 74/.862 .717

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 523/.691 88/.470 101/.477 147/.652 52/.688 126/.547 161/.471 113/.528 .647

Road 382/.555 79/.497 94/.395 102/.792 57/.365 81/.542 137/.700 89/.878

Last 28d days 104/.537 33/.753 24/.701 49/.776 37/.499 41/.503 18/.000 31/.433

HR/SB/CS 14/6/9 1/3/0 2/1/0 5/5/1 2/1/0 2/2/3 7/14/3 8/2/1 97/86/38

Usage ·····X·· ····XX·X ···o·X·· o···Xo·· ···Xoo·· o··oo··· ········ ···Xo··o

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 2014 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

OAK 4.83

MIA 4.02

SDP 3.34

RA/G

SEA 3.18

CHC 4.20

COL 5.20

J. Altuve .338

A. LaRoche .271

C. Davis .192

OBP

J. Bautista .406

A. Gonzalez .333

G. Beckham .263

SLG

J. Abreu .594

A. Ramirez .413

Z. Cozart .297

OPS

G. Stanton .961

T. Hunter .749

Z. Cozart .569

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.86

C. Tillman 3.55

E. Jackson 6.09

K/9IP

Y. Darvish 11.35

H. Iwakuma 7.35

K. Correia 4.62

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.