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Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks, at Wrigley Field, September 4, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, September 4, 2015
Start Time:
1:20ct (local), 2:20et
Venue:
Wrigley Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
D'backs
Manager:
Chip Hale
Game #:
137
On This Date:
9-6
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
138
On This Date:
63-68
Season Series
Fri, May 22, 2015 ARI  5  CHC  4 (13)
Sat, May 23, 2015 CHC  9 @ARI  6     
Sun, May 24, 2015 ARI  4  CHC  3     

Fri, Sep 04, 2015 ARI    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, Sep 05, 2015 ARI    @CHC  2:20pm
Sun, Sep 06, 2015 ARI    @CHC  2:20pm

                         All times ET
Arizona Diamondbacks
65-69, 3rd, 10½ GB, 15 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-35   Road:   34-34   ExtrInn: 8-9 
 vsRHP:  50-51   vsLHP:  15-18   1-Run:  18-22
 vsEast: 15-18   vsCntrl:14-16   vsWest: 26-28 IL:10-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
134 Wed, Sep  2  @COL  L   4-9       65-69  3rd 11.0 gb
133 Tue, Sep  1  @COL  W   5-3       65-68  3rd 10.0 gb
132 Tue, Sep  1  @COL  W   6-4       64-68  3rd 10.0 gb
131 Mon, Aug 31  @COL  L   4-5       63-68  4th 10.5 gb
130 Sun, Aug 30   OAK  L   4-7 (11)  63-67  3rd  9.5 gb
129 Sat, Aug 29   OAK  L   2-3       63-66  3rd  9.5 gb
128 Fri, Aug 28   OAK  W   6-4       63-65  3rd  8.5 gb
127 Thu, Aug 27   STL  L   3-5       62-65  3rd  8.5 gb
126 Wed, Aug 26   STL  L   1-3       62-64  3rd  7.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 25   STL  L   1-9       62-63  3rd  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16
Chicago Cubs
75-57, 3rd, 10½ GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-28   Road:   35-29   ExtrInn:11-5 
 vsRHP:  59-44   vsLHP:  16-13   1-Run:  29-17
 vsEast: 20-10   vsCntrl:30-24   vsWest: 16-13 IL: 9-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
132 Wed, Sep  2   CIN  L   4-7       75-57  3rd 10.5 gb
131 Tue, Sep  1   CIN  W   5-4       75-56  3rd 10.5 gb
130 Mon, Aug 31   CIN  L   6-13      74-56  3rd 10.5 gb
129 Sun, Aug 30  @LAD  W   2-0       74-55  3rd  9.5 gb
128 Sat, Aug 29  @LAD  L   2-5       73-55  3rd  9.5 gb
127 Fri, Aug 28  @LAD  L   1-4       73-54  3rd  8.5 gb
126 Thu, Aug 27  @SFG  L   1-9       73-53  3rd  8.5 gb
125 Wed, Aug 26  @SFG  L   2-4       73-52  3rd  7.5 gb
124 Tue, Aug 25  @SFG  W   8-5       73-51  3rd  6.5 gb
123 Mon, Aug 24   CLE  W   2-1       72-51  3rd  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 24, 2015 ARI  4  CHC  3        W:Jeremy Hellickson (2-3), L: Jason Hammel (3-2), S: Brad Ziegler (2)
Sat, May 23, 2015 CHC  9 @ARI  6        W:Jason Motte (2-1), L: Enrique Burgos (0-2), S: Pedro Strop (1)
Fri, May 22, 2015 ARI  5  CHC  4 (13)   W:Randall Delgado (2-2), L: Zac Rosscup (1-1), S: none

Sun, Jul 20, 2014 ARI  3  CHC  2        W:Josh Collmenter (8-5), L: Jake Arrieta (5-2), S: Addison Reed (23)
Sat, Jul 19, 2014 ARI  9  CHC  3        W:Wade Miley (6-6), L: Travis Wood (7-9), S: none
Fri, Jul 18, 2014 ARI  5  CHC  4        W:Eury De La Rosa (1-0), L: Brian Schlitter (2-3), S: Addison Reed (22)
Thu, Apr 24, 2014 ARI  5 @CHC  2        W:Mike Bolsinger (1-1), L: Edwin Jackson (1-2), S: Addison Reed (5)
Wed, Apr 23, 2014 ARI  7 @CHC  5        W:Trevor Cahill (1-4), L: Pedro Strop (0-2), S: Addison Reed (4)
Tue, Apr 22, 2014 CHC  9  ARI  2        W:Jason Hammel (3-1), L: Brandon McCarthy (0-4), S: none
Mon, Apr 21, 2014 CHC  5  ARI  1        W:Travis Wood (1-2), L: Bronson Arroyo (1-2), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - ARI over 2-1; 2014 - ARI won 5-2; 2013 - ARI won 4-3; All-Time - ARI leads 72-56

SP: Zack Godley (25, RHP, 4-0, 1.90)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-0) 23.2 18 5 5 8 22 2 1.90
Last 7 GS 3-0 18.0 14 3 3 5 17 2 1.50 63
2015-08-03 @WSN W 6.0 3 0 0 2 6 0 83 70
2015-07-28 @SEA W 6.0 7 3 3 3 4 2 94 47
2015-07-23 MIL W 6.0 4 0 0 0 7 0 88 71
Has never faced CHC as starter.

SP: Jon Lester (31, LHP, 8-10, 3.59)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. ARI Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (8-10) 163.0 157 72 65 40 166 14 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 3-2 45.1 46 21 21 9 50 4 4.17 55
2015-08-29 @LAD L 6.0 8 5 5 0 7 0 95 43
2015-08-24 CLE ND 8.2 6 1 1 1 6 0 97 73
2015-08-19 DET L 2.2 7 7 7 3 4 3 62 17
2015-08-13 MIL W 6.0 7 2 2 2 10 0 105 58
2015-08-07 SFG W 7.0 6 2 2 2 3 0 100 58
2015-07-29 COL W 8.0 5 2 2 1 14 1 117 77
2015-07-24 PHI ND 7.0 7 2 2 0 6 0 95 61
Last 5 v.ARI 1-0 18.1 20 10 10 5 17 3 4.91 50
2015-05-22 @ARI ND 7.0 5 2 2 2 4 1 96 61
2013-08-02 ARI ND 4.1 11 6 6 0 6 1 102 23
2010-06-16 ARI W 7.0 4 2 2 3 7 1 103 65

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

D'backs Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.95 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Lester*
G/S/vB		 53.Cahill
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 21.Hunter
G/S/vB		 33.Richard*
G/S/vB		 57.Rodney
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Ahmed G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 414/307 .215/.266/.325/.591 .752/.536 .658 70/.439 4/5 7/11
7.Castillo G/S/vP 3/1.167 5/.000 ··· 1/.000 10/.633 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 309/229 .243/.307/.478/.786 .830/.770 .824 78/.624 0/0 17/5
62.Drury G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/5 .143/.250/.143/.393 .000/.650 .393 8/.393 0/0 0/0
44.Goldschmidt G/S/vP 6/1.500 ··· 4/1.250 2/.000 19/.921 1/.000 4/2.417 3/.666 10/1.467 587/464 .322/.437/.563/1.000 1.066/.981 .939 113/.891 21/5 27/3
15.Gosselin G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 59/37 .302/.373/.453/.826 .854/.808 .932 17/.950 2/1 1/2
23.Hernandez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 30/29 .120/.241/.160/.401 /.401 .250 5/.200 0/0 0/0
2.Hill G/S/vP 40/.396 16/.563 1/4.000 11/.964 18/.869 10/1.067 2/.000 4/.833 9/.708 311/210 .234/.299/.339/.638 .557/.680 .534 66/.787 7/2 5/3
5.Inciarte* G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 5/1.167 467/341 .298/.335/.393/.728 .543/.797 .690 112/.764 15/7 4/5
19.Lamb* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 308/269 .273/.331/.404/.735 .611/.752 .792 95/.661 3/1 5/6
16.Owings G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 3/.666 459/350 .244/.274/.346/.619 .465/.668 .580 92/.780 16/4 4/5
6.Peralta* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 434/362 .307/.366/.521/.887 .698/.924 .832 94/1.030 5/3 14/1
11.Pollock G/S/vP 6/1.333 ··· 3/1.334 2/.000 8/1.000 ··· 3/1.667 2/.000 7/1.333 554/435 .321/.372/.498/.870 .914/.858 .898 108/1.076 33/6 15/2
8.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 7/.000 7/.286 2/1.500 12/.969 2/.000 9/.958 ··· 7/.000 ··· 175/139 .197/.293/.362/.655 .924/.584 .591 51/.787 0/0 5/2
24.Tomas G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 384/284 .287/.318/.413/.730 .803/.705 .710 55/.588 5/2 8/8
IP 163.0 28.0 39.2 56.0 31.1 53.2 60.0 57.2 85.0 TOTAL .266/.325/.409/.734 .726/.736 .722 .767 115/38 122/65
ERA-K/9 3.59/9.2 7.07/4.5 2.04/12.5 3.86/6.9 4.02/4.9 5.53/7.7 1.50/8.8 2.81/10.3 4.45/10.2 3.59/8.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castillo (23-6-5)
 Hernandez (1-1-2)
 Saltalamacchia (17-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 674/.253 130/.319 159/.182 229/.257 137/.277 238/.254 241/.208 228/.159 363/.246 .241  Inciarte
 Pollock
 Tomas
 Peralta
46/19/56/9
0/123/0/4
1/0/51/3
101/1/9/3
OPS .695 .819 .552 .679 .752 .809 .559 .535 .714 .686
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 157/.709 54/.821 50/.378 105/.717 44/.541 110/.891 115/.610 91/.637 126/.645 .676
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 517/.691 76/.817 109/.631 124/.645 93/.850 128/.740 126/.514 137/.471 237/.751 .692
Home 440/.700 70/.956 78/.470 118/.788 81/.832 106/.794 135/.507 123/.523 188/.650
Last 28d days 103/.817 6/.200 40/.576 36/.609 45/.753 38/.706 41/.610 38/.570 56/.768
HR/SB/CS 14/39/8 2/5/1 4/4/0 5/10/2 3/1/0 9/3/2 3/8/1 4/3/1 11/0/3 117/117/31
Usage ·····X·· ·X······ ··oX·X·· ···o·X·· ·ooo··o· ··Xo··o· ·Xo····· ·Xo····· ·o·X··o·
Cubs Batters (4.11 RS/G) vs. D'backs Pitchers (4.34 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 61.Bracho
G/S/vB		 36.Burgos
G/S/vB		 55.Collmenter
G/S/vB		 48.Delgado
G/S/vB		 30.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 56.Hessler*
G/S/vB		 41.Hudson
G/S/vB		 45.Reynolds*
G/S/vB		 35.Schugel
G/S/vB		 37.Stites
G/S/vB		 29.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Baez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/4 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 5/.000 0/0 0/0
5.Berry* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
17.Bryant G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 529/405 .269/.369/.487/.855 .819/.867 1.040 100/1.099 12/4 22/16
13.Castro G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 12/.697 8/.804 5/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 11/.364 488/386 .246/.277/.323/.600 .601/.600 .508 53/.792 4/5 6/23
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 9/.819 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.667 423/379 .247/.334/.440/.774 .341/.823 .684 73/.838 11/2 15/1
15.Denorfia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 12/.697 5/1.400 8/1.375 ··· 5/1.800 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 6/.334 203/126 .258/.308/.339/.647 .589/.682 .647 37/.462 0/1 2/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 26/.850 1/2.000 8/.821 ··· 17/1.079 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 569/439 .255/.351/.427/.778 .835/.760 .822 103/1.072 17/7 15/2
19.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 6/.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 128/92 .230/.242/.311/.553 .743/.478 .463 15/.400 3/0 1/2
27.Jackson G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· 4/1.000 2/1.500 4/2.083 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 454/303 .273/.313/.388/.701 .776/.663 .734 89/.882 15/9 8/3
11.La Stella* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 30/28 .179/.233/.321/.555 .000/.596 .368 24/.614 2/0 1/0
47.Montero* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/.453 ··· ··· 4/1.417 328/277 .235/.338/.420/.758 .729/.764 .840 73/.858 0/0 14/10
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.500 14/1.275 4/.500 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 572/409 .282/.390/.527/.917 .931/.911 .871 101/.819 15/5 27/4
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 139/100 .190/.290/.273/.563 .402/.627 .573 15/.400 1/0 1/1
22.Russell G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 423/320 .240/.299/.385/.684 .539/.730 .775 79/.795 2/3 10/12
12.Schwarber* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 189/136 .270/.365/.552/.917 .558/1.064 .887 93/.769 3/2 13/5
41.Szczur G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 75/37 .221/.270/.338/.609 .731/.485 .590 10/.775 2/0 1/0
IP 23.2 2.1 22.0 107.1 59.0 25.1 5.1 56.1 6.1 3.1 3.1 58.0 TOTAL .241/.318/.393/.711 .685/.719 .714 .801 80/30 140/91
ERA-K/9 1.90/8.4 0.00/7.8 4.91/14.3 3.94/4.5 3.36/8.1 4.62/8.2 16.88/8.5 3.99/9.1 2.84/10.0 5.40/2.7 8.10/2.7 2.48/4.8 4.07/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Montero (59-14-3)
 Ross (42-14-3)
 Schwarber (13-3-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 93/.220 12/.300 97/.259 444/.284 255/.251 107/.290 30/.448 243/.249 27/.250 18/.375 15/.400 226/.204 .261  Coghlan
 Denorfia
 Fowler
 Jackson
 Bryant
 Schwarber
 Szczur
91/0/7/8
30/6/25/5
0/124/0/3
0/107/2/2
3/4/2/1
24/0/0/1
24/6/3/0
OPS .646 .817 .705 .803 .706 .836 1.398 .715 .833 1.069 1.000 .554 .746
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 39/.502 3/1.167 42/.894 214/.759 98/.786 38/.695 12/1.152 110/.642 10/.522 10/1.475 7/1.000 110/.654 .757
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 54/.743 9/.708 55/.568 230/.846 157/.657 69/.909 18/1.556 133/.773 17/1.020 8/.625 8/1.000 116/.460 .737
Road 72/.679 7/.929 53/.603 194/.749 135/.839 50/.838 21/1.671 116/.857 8/1.125 / 7/1.571 92/.530
Last 28d days 23/.554 12/.817 4/.000 57/.483 49/.838 38/.937 30/1.398 44/.708 27/.833 2/1.000 7/1.571 43/.754
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 0/0/0 2/1/2 16/3/4 6/2/1 5/1/0 3/0/0 7/6/3 2/0/0 1/1/0 1/1/0 3/0/1 148/58/23
Usage ·Xo·X··· ··o····· ··X·X··· ·X·X·Xo· ···oo·o· ·o······ ··o····o ··ooo··X ····o··· ·X······ ···XX·oo

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  5.49

NYM  4.14

ATL  3.58

 RA/G

STL  3.02

LAA  4.14

COL  5.26

 BA

M. Cabrera  .361

E. Longoria  .268

L. Valbuena  .209

 OBP

B. Harper  .464

Y. Cespedes  .329

O. Infante  .231

 SLG

B. Harper  .627

Y. Solarte  .428

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.090

E. Longoria  .755

O. Infante  .537

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.59

C. Hamels  3.70

K. Lohse  6.27

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.10

S. Miller  7.69

M. Buehrle  4.21

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.