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Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs, at Dodger Stadium, August 28, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 28, 2015
Start Time:
7:10pt (local), 10:10et
Venue:
Dodger Stadium
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
80° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
132
On This Date:
64-62
Dodgers
Manager:
Don Mattingly
Game #:
128
On This Date:
58-53
Season Series
Mon, Jun 22, 2015 CHC  4  LAD  2     
Tue, Jun 23, 2015 CHC  1  LAD  0 (10)
Wed, Jun 24, 2015 LAD  5 @CHC  2     
Thu, Jun 25, 2015 LAD  4 @CHC  0     

Fri, Aug 28, 2015 CHC    @LAD 10:10pm
Sat, Aug 29, 2015 CHC    @LAD  9:10pm
Sun, Aug 30, 2015 CHC    @LAD  8:08pm

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
73-53, 3rd, 8½ GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   39-26   Road:   34-27   ExtrInn:11-5 
 vsRHP:  58-41   vsLHP:  15-12   1-Run:  28-17
 vsEast: 20-10   vsCntrl:29-22   vsWest: 15-11 IL: 9-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
122 Sun, Aug 23   ATL  W   9-3       71-51  3rd  6.5 gb
121 Sat, Aug 22   ATL  W   9-7       70-51  3rd  6.5 gb
120 Fri, Aug 21   ATL  W   5-3       69-51  3rd  7.5 gb
119 Thu, Aug 20   ATL  W   7-1       68-51  3rd  8.5 gb
118 Wed, Aug 19   DET  L   8-15      67-51  3rd  9.0 gb
117 Tue, Aug 18   DET  L   8-10      67-50  3rd  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:22-8
Los Angeles Dodgers
70-56, 1st, 2½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   42-20   Road:   28-36   ExtrInn: 5-7 
 vsRHP:  55-42   vsLHP:  15-14   1-Run:  17-21
 vsEast: 19-13   vsCntrl:14-14   vsWest: 29-20 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Thu, Aug 27  @CIN  W   1-0       70-56  1st  2.5 up
125 Wed, Aug 26  @CIN  W   7-4       69-56  1st  2.5 up
124 Tue, Aug 25  @CIN  W   5-1       68-56  1st  2.5 up
123 Sun, Aug 23  @HOU  L   2-3 (10)  67-56  1st  1.5 up
122 Sat, Aug 22  @HOU  L   1-3       67-55  1st  1.5 up
121 Fri, Aug 21  @HOU  L   0-3       67-54  1st  1.5 up
120 Wed, Aug 19  @OAK  L   2-5       67-53  1st  2.0 up
119 Tue, Aug 18  @OAK  L   4-5 (10)  67-52  1st  2.0 up
118 Sun, Aug 16   CIN  W   2-1       67-51  1st  2.5 up
117 Sat, Aug 15   CIN  W   8-3       66-51  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 25, 2015 LAD  4 @CHC  0        W:Carlos Frias (5-5), L: Jon Lester (4-6), S: none
Wed, Jun 24, 2015 LAD  5 @CHC  2        W:J.P. Howell (3-1), L: Kyle Hendricks (2-4), S: Kenley Jansen (10)
Tue, Jun 23, 2015 CHC  1  LAD  0 (10)   W:Jason Motte (5-1), L: Joel Peralta (1-1), S: none
Mon, Jun 22, 2015 CHC  4  LAD  2        W:Travis Wood (4-3), L: Clayton Kershaw (5-5), S: Jason Motte (2)

Sun, Sep 21, 2014 LAD  8 @CHC  5        W:Chris Perez (1-3), L: Jacob Turner (5-11), S: Kenley Jansen (43)
Sat, Sep 20, 2014 CHC  8  LAD  7        W:Justin Grimm (5-2), L: Brian Wilson (2-4), S: Hector Rondon (26)
Fri, Sep 19, 2014 LAD 14 @CHC  5        W:Clayton Kershaw (20-3), L: Edwin Jackson (6-15), S: none
Thu, Sep 18, 2014 LAD  8 @CHC  4        W:Paco Rodriguez (1-0), L: Neil Ramirez (2-3), S: none
Sun, Aug 03, 2014 CHC  7 @LAD  3        W:Edwin Jackson (6-11), L: Josh Beckett (6-6), S: none
Sat, Aug 02, 2014 LAD  5  CHC  2 (12)   W:Jamey Wright (4-2), L: Blake Parker (1-1), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - tied 2-2; 2014 - LAD won 4-3; 2013 - LAD won 6-1; All-Time - LAD leads 1040-1029

SP: Jason Hammel (32, RHP, 7-5, 3.35)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. LAD Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-5) 137.0 121 58 51 29 139 19 3.35
2014 (10-11) 176.1 154 70 68 44 158 23 3.47
2013 (7-8) 139.1 155 81 77 48 96 22 4.97
Last 7 GS 2-1 33.1 41 19 18 11 34 8 4.86 47
2015-08-23 ATL W 6.1 6 2 2 1 8 1 104 60
2015-08-18 DET ND 3.0 9 5 5 1 6 3 62 26
2015-08-12 MIL ND 5.2 4 1 1 1 5 1 65 61
2015-08-06 SFG ND 4.0 3 2 2 2 4 1 76 50
2015-07-31 @MIL W 5.2 6 1 1 2 4 1 103 55
2015-07-26 PHI L 3.2 8 6 6 1 3 1 85 23
2015-07-21 @CIN ND 5.0 5 2 1 3 4 0 97 52
Last 5 v.LAD 0-3 26.1 32 20 19 13 15 3 6.49 40
2015-06-23 LAD ND 7.2 2 0 0 2 6 0 107 79
2013-04-20 LAD ND 6.0 7 4 4 3 5 1 113 44
2011-08-19 LAD L 3.0 6 6 6 3 1 1 70 21
2011-06-11 LAD L 5.0 7 3 2 4 1 0 83 40
2011-05-30 @LAD L 4.2 10 7 7 1 2 1 102 17

SP: Clayton Kershaw (27, LHP, 10-6, 2.29)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (10-6) 177.0 131 51 45 32 222 12 2.29
2014 (21-3) 198.1 139 42 39 31 239 9 1.77
2013 (16-9) 236.0 164 55 48 52 232 11 1.83
Last 7 GS 4-0 54.0 32 6 6 5 62 1 1.00 76
2015-08-23 @HOU ND 8.0 7 1 1 0 10 0 111 74
2015-08-18 @OAK ND 7.0 5 1 1 2 7 0 116 68
2015-08-12 WSN W 8.0 3 0 0 0 8 0 101 84
2015-08-07 @PIT ND 6.0 9 4 4 2 5 1 97 41
2015-08-01 LAA W 8.0 2 0 0 1 7 0 115 84
2015-07-23 @NYM W 9.0 3 0 0 0 11 0 104 92
2015-07-18 @WSN W 8.0 3 0 0 0 14 0 101 90
Last 5 v.CHC 3-2 31.2 29 11 10 10 38 3 2.84 59
2015-06-22 @CHC L 7.0 4 3 3 2 9 2 105 64
2014-09-19 @CHC W 5.0 7 3 3 3 9 0 106 47
2013-08-27 CHC L 5.2 7 2 1 3 9 0 107 55
2012-08-04 CHC W 7.0 3 1 1 2 7 0 112 72
2011-05-02 CHC W 7.0 8 2 2 0 4 1 100 57

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

Cubs Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Dodgers Pitchers (3.64 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 22.Kershaw*
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 52.Baez
G/S/vB		 41.Hatcher
G/S/vB		 56.Howell*
G/S/vB		 74.Jansen
G/S/vB		 54.Johnson
G/S/vB		 12.Nicasio
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
17.Bryant G/S/vP 3/2.667 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 504/387 .265/.367/.480/.847 .824/.854 .677 99/1.081 12/3 20/15
13.Castro G/S/vP 20/.200 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 5/.000 1/.000 7/.929 474/379 .242/.274/.318/.592 .570/.598 .664 60/.714 4/5 6/19
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP 8/.250 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 6/1.000 5/.600 2/.000 3/2.000 407/364 .248/.335/.443/.778 .349/.827 .879 72/.827 11/2 15/1
15.Denorfia G/S/vP 41/.937 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 14/.381 1/2.000 13/.814 194/124 .261/.302/.344/.647 .583/.682 .658 41/.533 0/1 2/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 44/1.002 4/1.500 ··· ··· 5/.400 7/.453 1/2.000 ··· 541/420 .252/.349/.419/.768 .867/.740 .714 106/.948 17/7 14/2
19.Herrera# G/S/vP 15/.445 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 9/.583 1/.000 ··· 127/91 .231/.244/.314/.558 .743/.483 .663 17/.353 3/0 1/2
11.La Stella* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/1.000 15/15 .214/.267/.286/.552 /.552 1.100 9/.708 1/0 0/0
47.Montero* G/S/vP 29/.517 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 7/.000 13/.398 ··· 17/1.126 309/266 .235/.340/.428/.768 .777/.766 .685 54/.948 0/0 14/8
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 9/.708 4/.500 ··· 1/3.000 4/.833 5/1.000 ··· 8/.125 547/391 .287/.395/.531/.926 .940/.920 .972 101/.939 15/5 25/4
22.Russell G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 402/308 .245/.304/.386/.690 .536/.737 .617 83/.760 2/3 9/12
12.Schwarber* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 174/122 .273/.368/.560/.928 .569/1.088 .999 100/.928 3/2 12/5
41.Szczur G/S/vP 4/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 67/36 .213/.258/.328/.585 .687/.500 .560 5/.900 2/0 1/0
IP 177.0 43.1 37.2 23.0 36.2 35.2 55.2 48.0 TOTAL .241/.318/.393/.711 .690/.717 .713 .818 79/29 132/84
ERA-K/9 2.29/11.3 3.95/8.1 3.11/10.7 5.48/9.4 1.47/7.8 2.52/15.9 4.37/6.9 3.00/9.9 3.46/8.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Montero (52-14-3)
 Schwarber (12-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 685/.203 180/.239 150/.234 103/.264 163/.270 135/.173 238/.288 206/.228 .243  Coghlan
 Denorfia
 Fowler
 Bryant
 Schwarber
 Szczur
89/0/5/8
29/6/23/5
0/118/0/3
3/4/1/1
21/0/0/1
21/6/2/0
OPS .546 .656 .664 .729 .662 .538 .722 .644 .668
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 160/.568 79/.624 38/.714 38/.751 80/.541 62/.565 102/.660 70/.918 .709
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 525/.540 101/.683 112/.648 65/.717 83/.772 73/.515 136/.769 136/.511 .644
Home 297/.488 89/.563 77/.475 46/.604 82/.677 73/.383 100/.549 103/.693
Last 28d days 139/.489 26/.546 35/.657 17/.551 32/1.071 38/.459 42/1.139 24/.817
HR/SB/CS 12/6/7 4/4/1 3/1/1 2/1/0 2/7/0 5/3/0 4/6/0 1/7/0 107/70/34
Usage ····X··· ·oo····· ········ o·o·o·X· ·oX··o·· ·Xo·X··· oX······ ·oo·····
Dodgers Batters (4.11 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Hammel
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 21.Hunter
G/S/vB		 33.Richard*
G/S/vB		 245.Rodney
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
3.Crawford* G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 19/1.088 5/.650 11/.989 1/.000 5/.400 5/1.600 4/.000 104/89 .253/.282/.384/.665 .564/.680 1.042 43/.793 3/1 2/0
17.Ellis G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/2.000 13/.539 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 8/.375 142/88 .224/.357/.379/.736 .902/.638 .694 36/.983 0/0 4/0
16.Ethier* G/S/vP 32/1.031 3/.333 1/.000 34/.461 1/.000 1/2.000 8/1.000 6/.533 14/1.056 363/326 .296/.372/.483/.855 .473/.900 1.009 59/1.024 2/3 12/3
23.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 39/.570 1/.000 15/1.005 13/1.359 4/1.750 2/.000 7/.572 8/.833 10/.500 510/387 .286/.360/.509/.868 .831/.881 .874 95/.692 0/1 24/4
9.Grandal# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/no AB 3/.333 350/298 .271/.378/.464/.843 .752/.860 .866 57/.584 0/1 15/2
7.Guerrero G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 199/131 .232/.256/.453/.709 .629/.751 .593 26/.352 0/0 11/2
14.Hernandez G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 191/114 .309/.353/.503/.855 1.203/.629 .801 64/.982 0/2 6/3
31.Pederson* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 487/391 .213/.356/.438/.794 .647/.832 .730 67/.676 3/6 23/4
66.Puig G/S/vP 3/1.333 1/.000 ··· 3/2.667 1/no AB 3/1.666 ··· 1/2.000 8/1.417 306/230 .256/.324/.440/.764 .935/.710 .821 78/.793 3/3 11/1
11.Rollins# G/S/vP 20/.653 1/.000 3/1.666 11/.473 4/2.500 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 14/.428 488/390 .222/.277/.366/.643 .801/.603 .695 102/.693 9/7 13/9
10.Turner G/S/vP 2/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 4/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/.800 3/.333 8/.875 331/244 .302/.363/.527/.889 .726/.947 .957 49/.543 1/1 15/10
26.Utley* G/S/vP 8/1.025 ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 6/.833 ··· 7/.714 307/223 .215/.287/.330/.616 .576/.630 .523 58/.971 3/0 5/7
33.Van Slyke G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.667 189/108 .241/.330/.401/.731 .852/.645 .872 41/.607 2/1 5/1
IP 137.0 37.1 54.1 29.1 50.2 58.0 33.1 56.0 83.0 TOTAL .254/.328/.422/.751 .761/.747 .777 .739 31/28 153/55
ERA-K/9 3.35/9.1 1.21/12.8 3.98/7.0 3.99/5.2 5.68/7.6 1.55/8.8 5.40/5.4 2.89/10.3 4.45/10.2 3.57/8.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ellis (18-16-1)
 Grandal (49-18-8)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 560/.234 146/.160 221/.256 129/.279 227/.262 231/.204 142/.305 221/.154 352/.245 .242  Van Slyke
 Puig
 Ethier
 Pederson
 Hernandez
 Guerrero
 Crawford
51/1/10/7
0/0/76/6
51/1/52/6
0/118/0/5
16/12/2/2
29/0/0/1
27/0/0/0
OPS .692 .476 .679 .752 .820 .543 .836 .534 .710 .686
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 249/.675 46/.320 101/.712 37/.476 106/.928 112/.578 69/.719 88/.662 121/.633 .682
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 311/.704 100/.548 120/.650 92/.860 121/.728 119/.510 73/.944 133/.454 231/.750 .688
Road 267/.650 76/.619 107/.549 53/.676 128/.836 106/.626 59/.687 105/.550 170/.776
Last 28d days 84/.909 35/.235 41/.804 60/.663 42/.695 47/.488 40/1.211 41/.487 51/.777
HR/SB/CS 19/11/3 2/2/0 5/9/2 3/1/0 8/3/2 2/8/1 3/5/3 4/2/1 11/0/3 111/109/31
Usage ····X··· ··X···oo ·oX··o·o ··o·oo·· ······X· ··Xo·oX· X···o··· ··o··Xo· ·X···X·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  5.43

LAD  4.11

ATL  3.65

 RA/G

STL  2.97

CLE  4.17

COL  5.35

 BA

B. Harper  .334

Y. Solarte  .266

C. Carter  .179

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

R. Martin  .329

O. Infante  .231

 SLG

B. Harper  .639

L. Valbuena  .423

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.099

N. Walker  .752

O. Infante  .539

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.61

A. Wood  3.70

K. Lohse  6.27

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.03

J. Quintana  7.59

M. Buehrle  4.25

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.