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Atlanta Braves vs. Chicago Cubs, at Turner Field, July 18, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Turner Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
82° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
93
On This Date:
68-54
Braves
Manager:
Fredi Gonzalez
Game #:
91
On This Date:
63-68
Season Series
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 ATL  4  CHC  2     

Sat, Jul 18, 2015 CHC    @ATL  7:10pm
Sun, Jul 19, 2015 CHC    @ATL  5:05pm
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 ATL    @CHC  8:05pm
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 ATL    @CHC  4:05pm
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 ATL    @CHC  4:05pm
Sun, Aug 23, 2015 ATL    @CHC  2:20pm

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
47-41, 3rd, 9 GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   25-20   Road:   22-21   ExtrInn: 9-4 
 vsRHP:  37-35   vsLHP:  10-6    1-Run:  19-16
 vsEast: 14-7    vsCntrl:19-19   vsWest:  8-8  IL: 6-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 88 Fri, Jul 17  @ATL  L   2-4       47-41  3rd  9.0 gb
 87 Sun, Jul 12   CHW  W   3-1       47-40  3rd  8.0 gb
 86 Sat, Jul 11   CHW  L   1-5       46-40  3rd  9.0 gb
 85 Fri, Jul 10   CHW  L   0-1       46-39  3rd  9.0 gb
 84 Wed, Jul  8   STL  L   5-6       46-38  3rd  8.5 gb
 83 Tue, Jul  7   STL  W   5-3       46-37  3rd  7.5 gb
 82 Tue, Jul  7   STL  W   7-4       45-37  3rd  7.5 gb
 81 Mon, Jul  6   STL  L   0-6       44-37  3rd  9.5 gb
 80 Sun, Jul  5   MIA  W   2-0       44-36  3rd  8.5 gb
 79 Sat, Jul  4   MIA  W   7-2       43-36  3rd  8.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15
Atlanta Braves
43-47, 3rd, 7 GB, 10½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-17   Road:   19-30   ExtrInn: 2-6 
 vsRHP:  37-39   vsLHP:   6-8    1-Run:  17-14
 vsEast: 21-21   vsCntrl:11-10   vsWest:  6-12 IL: 5-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 90 Fri, Jul 17   CHC  W   4-2       43-47  3rd  7.0 gb
 89 Sun, Jul 12  @COL  L   3-11      42-47  3rd  7.0 gb
 88 Sat, Jul 11  @COL  L   2-3       42-46  3rd  6.0 gb
 87 Fri, Jul 10  @COL  L   3-5       42-45  3rd  5.0 gb
 86 Thu, Jul  9  @COL  L   3-5       42-44  3rd  5.0 gb
 85 Wed, Jul  8  @MIL  L   5-6       42-43  3rd  4.5 gb
 84 Tue, Jul  7  @MIL  W   4-3       42-42  3rd  4.0 gb
 83 Mon, Jul  6  @MIL  W   5-3       41-42  3rd  5.0 gb
 82 Sun, Jul  5   PHI  L   0-4 (10)  40-42  3rd  6.0 gb
 81 Sat, Jul  4   PHI  W   9-5       40-41  3rd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 ATL  4  CHC  2        W:Arodys Vizcaino (1-0), L: Pedro Strop (1-5), S: Jim Johnson (6)

Sun, Jul 13, 2014 ATL 10 @CHC  7        W:Julio Teheran (9-6), L: Travis Wood (7-8), S: Craig Kimbrel (29)
Sat, Jul 12, 2014 ATL 11 @CHC  6        W:Mike Minor (3-5), L: Edwin Jackson (5-10), S: David Carpenter (3)
Fri, Jul 11, 2014 CHC  5  ATL  4        W:Hector Rondon (2-3), L: Jordan Walden (0-1), S: none
Sun, May 11, 2014 ATL  5  CHC  2        W:Aaron Harang (4-3), L: Edwin Jackson (2-3), S: David Carpenter (2)
Sat, May 10, 2014 ATL  2  CHC  0        W:Ervin Santana (4-0), L: Brian Schlitter (2-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (10)
Fri, May 09, 2014 ATL  3  CHC  2 (10)   W:Alex Wood (3-5), L: Wesley Wright (0-1), S: none
Sun, Sep 22, 2013 ATL  5 @CHC  2        W:Julio Teheran (13-8), L: Edwin Jackson (8-17), S: Craig Kimbrel (49)
Sat, Sep 21, 2013 CHC  3  ATL  1        W:Carlos Villanueva (7-8), L: Scott Downs (4-4), S: Pedro Strop (1)
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 ATL  9 @CHC  5        W:David Carpenter (4-1), L: Kevin Gregg (2-5), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - ATL over 1-0; 2014 - ATL won 5-1; 2013 - ATL won 5-1; All-Time - CHC leads 1223-1035

SP: Jon Lester (31, LHP, 4-8, 3.59)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-8) 110.1 109 51 44 30 109 10 3.59
2014 (16-11) 219.2 194 76 60 48 220 16 2.46
2013 (15-8) 213.1 209 94 89 67 177 19 3.75
Last 7 GS 0-4 42.2 35 18 15 12 44 1 3.16 57
2015-07-11 CHW L 7.0 7 5 4 0 8 0 116 53
2015-07-06 STL L 7.0 2 2 0 2 8 0 95 75
2015-07-01 @NYM ND 7.0 5 0 0 1 7 0 107 73
2015-06-25 LAD L 4.0 4 4 4 4 5 0 75 39
2015-06-20 @MIN ND 6.1 3 1 1 3 7 1 102 67
2015-06-14 CIN ND 7.0 5 1 1 0 4 0 96 67
2015-06-09 @DET L 4.1 9 5 5 2 5 0 93 28
Last 5 v.ATL 2-2 25.0 29 11 10 8 22 3 3.60 52
2014-08-17 @ATL L 6.0 6 4 3 1 5 2 96 50
2014-05-27 @ATL W 6.0 8 3 3 3 7 1 111 48
2012-06-22 ATL L 7.0 10 3 3 1 5 0 118 49
2006-06-16 @ATL W 6.0 5 1 1 3 5 0 93 60

SP: Manny Banuelos (24, LHP, 1-0, 0.75)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-0) 12.0 7 1 1 4 9 1 0.75
Last 7 GS 1-0 11.0 7 1 1 3 8 1 0.82 62
2015-07-07 @MIL W 5.1 5 1 1 3 1 1 92 52
2015-07-02 WSN ND 5.2 2 0 0 0 7 0 75 72
Has never faced CHC as starter.

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Cubs Batters (3.83 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (4.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Banuelos*
G/S/vB		 32.Aardsma
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 56.Detwiler*
G/S/vB		 51.Frasor
G/S/vB		 53.Johnson
G/S/vB		 64.Kelly
G/S/vB		 38.Vizcaino
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
17.Bryant G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 344/278 .266/.375/.467/.842 .917/.824 .681 85/.813 8/3 12/11
13.Castro G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 11/1.454 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 365/301 .244/.279/.317/.596 .580/.600 .685 85/.427 4/3 5/15
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 291/263 .245/.341/.407/.748 .433/.780 .879 69/.680 7/1 8/0
15.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 2/.000 4/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 123/86 .301/.339/.381/.719 .627/.758 .755 61/.609 0/1 1/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.334 12/1.056 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 373/296 .233/.310/.369/.679 .779/.653 .729 78/.592 12/5 8/1
19.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 88/66 .256/.274/.341/.615 .810/.549 .760 28/.866 3/0 1/2
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.666 9/.222 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 384/287 .295/.411/.537/.948 .954/.944 .976 89/.779 12/5 16/2
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 1/no AB 11/.788 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 87/63 .189/.302/.284/.586 .440/.643 .577 12/.533 1/0 0/1
22.Russell G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 270/210 .228/.296/.354/.650 .471/.701 .600 71/.414 1/3 5/10
12.Schwarber* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 27/22 .423/.444/.654/1.098 .800/1.169 1.142 9/1.181 0/0 1/2
68.Soler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 243/194 .260/.313/.386/.698 .640/.711 .694 35/.551 1/1 4/1
27.Teagarden G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 11/2 .182/.182/.182/.364 .444/.000 11/.364 0/0 0/0
IP 12.0 12.2 35.0 43.1 23.1 44.0 2.0 4.0 TOTAL .239/.315/.373/.688 .715/.681 .716 .612 57/22 77/62
ERA-K/9 0.75/6.8 2.84/9.2 3.60/7.5 7.06/5.8 1.54/7.0 2.05/6.5 4.50/4.5 0.00/9.0 4.02/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ross (23-8-2)
 Schwarber (1-0-0)
 Teagarden (2-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 47/.171 52/.190 142/.246 209/.341 104/.276 179/.244 7/.429 15/.154 .266  Coghlan
 Soler
 Fowler
 Denorfia
 Bryant
76/0/0/7
0/0/57/4
0/83/0/3
15/3/16/2
3/2/0/0
OPS .569 .718 .654 .986 .769 .626 .857 .574 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 9/.889 18/1.452 67/.703 47/.586 51/.914 78/.536 3/1.333 7/.786 .796
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 38/.496 34/.378 75/.611 162/1.104 53/.609 101/.694 4/.500 8/.393 .715
Home 20/.311 21/.800 72/.560 97/.920 55/.896 82/.485 7/.857 3/.000
Last 28d days 47/.569 35/.763 28/.766 34/1.063 16/1.080 43/.546 7/.857 15/.574
HR/SB/CS 1/3/1 2/2/0 3/2/1 9/4/3 1/1/0 2/6/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 85/55/20
Usage ·······X ······o· X·····o· o······· ········ o·····o· o······· o·····XX
Braves Batters (3.90 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Lester*
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 36.Jackson
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 54.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 33.Richard*
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Ciriaco G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 82/56 .282/.284/.385/.669 .490/.748 .546 34/.606 1/1 0/0
7.Gomes G/S/vP 16/.908 1/.000 ··· 4/1.750 ··· 15/1.523 ··· 6/.750 1/.000 3/.833 171/109 .205/.310/.336/.646 .845/.542 .642 33/.794 1/1 4/0
23.Johnson G/S/vP 6/.967 3/.000 11/1.364 7/.286 2/.000 13/.693 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 19/.979 119/70 .252/.294/.333/.627 .856/.463 .623 35/.725 2/1 1/3
24.Johnson* G/S/vP 17/.243 ··· 6/.000 1/.000 ··· 9/.819 1/.000 3/2.333 5/2.550 9/.000 188/163 .282/.326/.466/.792 .737/.800 .746 66/.893 0/1 9/6
30.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 52/32 .178/.288/.289/.577 .950/.360 .610 18/1.044 0/0 1/1
22.Markakis* G/S/vP 77/.588 1/.000 21/.857 ··· 1/.000 4/1.500 ··· ··· 6/.733 ··· 385/278 .293/.379/.355/.734 .621/.779 .668 86/.679 2/0 0/1
25.Maybin G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/1.223 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/3.000 ··· 9/.472 317/242 .290/.358/.417/.775 .793/.769 .904 85/.822 15/4 8/2
14.Perez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 67/58 .283/.338/.317/.655 .984/.605 .598 56/.665 0/0 0/0
8.Peterson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB ··· 349/283 .252/.330/.351/.681 .556/.712 .724 88/.495 8/9 3/5
15.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 21/.774 3/1.334 28/1.022 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 4/.750 2/.500 5/.400 242/200 .283/.318/.438/.756 .643/.780 .731 65/.807 0/1 6/2
19.Simmons G/S/vP 8/.946 2/no AB 11/1.091 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/.500 7/.143 355/291 .252/.314/.335/.649 .388/.707 .677 75/.379 1/2 3/3
28.Terdoslavich# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 26/24 .160/.192/.280/.472 .000/.513 .455 22/.325 0/0 1/0
2.Uribe G/S/vP 9/.500 ··· 16/.780 3/1.167 1/.000 33/1.255 1/.000 6/.500 3/.000 10/.650 242/190 .269/.322/.408/.730 .942/.674 .616 68/.764 2/0 8/6
IP 110.1 23.0 31.0 33.1 6.1 9.1 38.1 21.0 39.2 61.1 TOTAL .256/.319/.368/.687 .641/.700 .687 .663 42/22 57/49
ERA-K/9 3.59/8.9 1.17/14.1 3.19/6.7 2.97/5.9 4.26/11.4 5.79/4.8 2.11/8.0 1.71/6.0 3.40/10.0 4.40/9.8 3.31/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (4-4-1)
 Pierzynski (44-12-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 464/.255 96/.190 134/.254 137/.218 28/.217 49/.333 148/.201 85/.266 158/.156 259/.233 .234  Gomes
 Maybin
 Markakis
 Johnson
 Perez
 Terdoslavich
47/0/2/4
0/80/0/4
0/0/88/4
27/0/4/2
17/2/0/1
2/0/0/0
OPS .712 .554 .637 .597 .748 .854 .561 .659 .575 .711 .663
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 100/.735 26/.364 48/.563 44/.687 13/.408 16/.579 63/.478 51/.590 65/.749 78/.617 .644
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 364/.705 70/.617 86/.676 93/.555 15/1.015 33/.991 85/.619 34/.761 93/.462 181/.751 .674
Road 181/.747 50/.690 71/.651 64/.574 10/.200 / 65/.693 38/.614 74/.612 136/.826
Last 28d days 101/.551 31/.550 29/.810 30/.500 15/1.015 49/.854 31/.100 19/.474 40/.788 46/.598
HR/SB/CS 10/24/4 1/2/0 0/4/1 3/1/1 1/1/0 0/1/0 2/6/1 1/3/2 4/1/1 10/0/2 72/67/21
Usage ······X· o······o ······o· ········ ······o· ········ o······o ········ X······· ········

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 2015 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

TOR  5.35

LAD  4.15

CHW  3.36

 RA/G

STL  2.96

SEA  4.04

PHI  5.12

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

A. Pagan  .269

M. Zunino  .162

 OBP

B. Harper  .465

B. McCann  .330

M. Zunino  .225

 SLG

B. Harper  .701

B. Moss  .421

B. Hamilton  .287

 OPS

B. Harper  1.167

T. Hunter  .757

M. Zunino  .517

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.39

C. Hamels  3.63

K. Lohse  6.17

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.84

J. Nelson  7.35

M. Pelfrey  4.45

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.