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St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Mets, at Busch Stadium III, July 18, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Start Time:
6:15ct (local), 7:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
88° (based on last ten years)
Mets
Manager:
Terry Collins
Game #:
91
On This Date:
25-24
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
93
On This Date:
55-64
Season Series
Mon, May 18, 2015 NYM  2  STL  1 (14)
Tue, May 19, 2015 STL 10 @NYM  2     
Wed, May 20, 2015 STL  9 @NYM  0     
Thu, May 21, 2015 NYM  5  STL  0     
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 STL  3  NYM  2     

Sat, Jul 18, 2015 NYM    @STL  7:15pm
Sun, Jul 19, 2015 NYM    @STL  2:15pm

                         All times ET
New York Mets
47-43, 2nd, 3 GB, 6½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-14   Road:   15-29   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  38-36   vsLHP:   9-7    1-Run:  16-15
 vsEast: 23-15   vsCntrl: 8-16   vsWest: 11-8  IL: 5-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 90 Fri, Jul 17  @STL  L   2-3       47-43  2nd  3.0 gb
 89 Sun, Jul 12   ARI  W   5-3       47-42  2nd  2.0 gb
 88 Sat, Jul 11   ARI  W   4-2       46-42  2nd  2.0 gb
 87 Fri, Jul 10   ARI  W   4-2       45-42  2nd  2.0 gb
 86 Wed, Jul  8  @SFG  W   4-1       44-42  2nd  3.0 gb
 85 Tue, Jul  7  @SFG  L   0-3       43-42  2nd  3.5 gb
 84 Mon, Jul  6  @SFG  W   3-0       43-41  2nd  3.5 gb
 83 Sun, Jul  5  @LAD  W   8-0       42-41  2nd  4.5 gb
 82 Sat, Jul  4  @LAD  L   3-4       41-41  2nd  4.5 gb
 81 Fri, Jul  3  @LAD  W   2-1       41-40  2nd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
St. Louis Cardinals
57-33, 1st, 3½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-11   Road:   25-22   ExtrInn: 6-7 
 vsRHP:  48-21   vsLHP:   9-12   1-Run:  19-15
 vsEast: 13-5    vsCntrl:25-13   vsWest: 11-6  IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 90 Fri, Jul 17   NYM  W   3-2       57-33  1st  3.5 up
 89 Sun, Jul 12  @PIT  L   5-6 (10)  56-33  1st  2.5 up
 88 Sat, Jul 11  @PIT  L   5-6 (14)  56-32  1st  3.5 up
 87 Fri, Jul 10  @PIT  L   2-5       56-31  1st  4.5 up
 86 Thu, Jul  9  @PIT  W   4-1       56-30  1st  5.5 up
 85 Wed, Jul  8  @CHC  W   6-5       55-30  1st  4.5 up
 84 Tue, Jul  7  @CHC  L   3-5       54-30  1st  4.5 up
 83 Tue, Jul  7  @CHC  L   4-7       54-29  1st  4.5 up
 82 Mon, Jul  6  @CHC  W   6-0       54-28  1st  6.0 up
 81 Sun, Jul  5   SDP  W   3-1       53-28  1st  6.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 STL  3  NYM  2        W:Lance Lynn (7-5), L: Noah Syndergaard (4-5), S: Trevor Rosenthal (27)
Thu, May 21, 2015 NYM  5  STL  0        W:Jacob deGrom (5-4), L: Jaime Garcia (0-1), S: none
Wed, May 20, 2015 STL  9 @NYM  0        W:Carlos Martinez (4-2), L: Bartolo Colon (6-3), S: none
Tue, May 19, 2015 STL 10 @NYM  2        W:Michael Wacha (6-0), L: Jon Niese (3-4), S: none
Mon, May 18, 2015 NYM  2  STL  1 (14)   W:Carlos Torres (2-2), L: Sam Tuivailala (0-1), S: none

Wed, Jun 18, 2014 NYM  3 @STL  2        W:Bartolo Colon (7-5), L: Lance Lynn (7-5), S: Dana Eveland (1)
Tue, Jun 17, 2014 STL  5  NYM  2        W:Michael Wacha (5-5), L: Jon Niese (3-4), S: Pat Neshek (2)
Mon, Jun 16, 2014 STL  6  NYM  2        W:Nick Greenwood (1-0), L: Jacob deGrom (0-4), S: Seth Maness (1)
Thu, Apr 24, 2014 NYM  4  STL  1        W:Bartolo Colon (2-3), L: Lance Lynn (4-1), S: Daisuke Matsuzaka (1)
Wed, Apr 23, 2014 NYM  3  STL  2        W:Jon Niese (1-2), L: Michael Wacha (2-2), S: Kyle Farnsworth (2)
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 3-2; 2014 - NYM won 4-3; 2013 - STL won 5-2; All-Time - STL leads 382-342

SP: Bartolo Colon (42, RHP, 9-7, 4.46)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (9-7) 105.0 118 56 52 11 83 14 4.46
2014 (15-13) 202.1 218 97 92 30 151 22 4.09
2013 (18-6) 190.1 193 60 56 29 117 14 2.65
Last 7 GS 2-4 43.1 49 21 19 6 31 4 3.95 51
2015-07-07 @SFG L 6.0 10 3 2 0 4 0 88 46
2015-07-01 CHC ND 7.0 3 0 0 1 8 0 94 78
2015-06-24 @MIL L 6.0 10 4 4 1 3 1 82 38
2015-06-18 @TOR L 4.1 9 7 6 1 4 1 82 22
2015-06-12 ATL W 6.0 6 2 2 2 3 0 100 53
2015-06-06 @ARI L 7.0 5 2 2 1 7 1 93 65
2015-05-31 MIA W 7.0 6 3 3 0 2 1 79 55
Last 5 v.STL 3-1 31.1 32 16 15 4 22 6 4.31 52
2015-05-20 STL L 4.1 11 9 8 2 4 2 86 9
2014-06-18 @STL W 8.0 4 1 1 0 1 1 86 71
2014-04-24 STL W 7.0 4 1 1 0 8 0 104 73
2013-06-28 STL W 8.0 6 1 1 1 5 0 101 70
2007-06-08 @STL ND 4.0 7 4 4 1 4 3 72 35

SP: John Lackey (36, RHP, 7-5, 2.99)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-5) 117.1 114 41 39 29 86 9 2.99
2014 (14-10) 198.0 206 94 84 47 164 24 3.82
2013 (10-13) 189.1 179 80 74 40 161 26 3.52
Last 7 GS 3-2 46.2 48 18 16 11 34 5 3.09 55
2015-07-11 @PIT ND 6.2 5 1 1 2 5 1 106 63
2015-07-06 @CHC W 7.0 6 0 0 1 4 0 107 68
2015-07-01 CHW L 7.0 7 2 2 2 6 1 106 59
2015-06-26 CHC ND 7.0 8 2 2 3 5 0 106 55
2015-06-20 @PHI W 7.0 5 1 1 2 3 1 100 64
2015-06-15 MIN W 8.0 5 2 2 1 6 0 100 69
2015-06-08 @COL L 4.0 12 10 8 0 5 2 82 7
Last 5 v.NYM 1-0 20.1 15 5 5 7 19 0 2.21 62
2015-05-18 @NYM ND 7.0 3 1 1 0 6 0 76 73
2008-06-17 NYM W 7.2 6 1 1 1 7 0 106 69
2005-06-12 @NYM ND 5.2 6 3 3 6 6 0 118 45

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Mets Batters (3.47 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Lackey
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 63.Socolovich
G/S/vB		 64.Tuivailala
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
29.Campbell G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 163/137 .174/.288/.283/.571 .608/.564 .684 24/.828 5/1 3/8
23.Cuddyer G/S/vP 30/1.083 4/.250 2/2.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 13/.718 304/236 .243/.293/.366/.659 .607/.672 .550 47/.409 1/0 7/3
21.Duda* G/S/vP 3/.666 7/1.571 2/2.500 2/1.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/no AB 1/no AB 363/274 .241/.344/.428/.772 .921/.719 .584 81/.469 0/0 12/1
4.Flores G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 324/270 .249/.283/.390/.673 .795/.649 .661 79/.624 0/0 10/10
3.Granderson* G/S/vP 43/.819 9/1.292 1/.000 1/no AB 3/2.333 1/.000 ··· 13/1.112 375/312 .247/.344/.429/.773 .375/.859 .769 89/.948 5/2 14/5
12.Lagares G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 334/272 .254/.281/.335/.617 .783/.580 .607 64/.433 6/3 3/1
44.Mayberry G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 4/1.750 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 105/53 .186/.248/.361/.608 .728/.492 .606 24/.513 1/0 3/0
19.Monell* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 44/41 .195/.250/.244/.494 .333/.500 .633 27/.653 0/0 0/0
16.Muno# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/25 .120/.214/.160/.374 .000/.422 .250 1/3.000 1/0 0/3
28.Murphy* G/S/vP 2/.000 8/.536 3/.666 5/.200 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 5/1.600 267/207 .272/.326/.398/.724 .468/.798 .748 52/.622 1/2 5/8
9.Nieuwenhuis* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 81/72 .135/.210/.324/.534 .111/.586 .315 17/1.412 2/1 3/0
22.Plawecki G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 179/147 .238/.285/.323/.608 .542/.622 .651 53/.596 0/0 2/1
11.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 4/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 213/173 .242/.319/.342/.661 .769/.636 .752 80/.539 1/1 2/3
IP 117.1 18.0 35.0 43.1 41.2 18.0 6.0 36.2 TOTAL .233/.297/.362/.659 .671/.656 .622 .601 33/10 76/54
ERA-K/9 2.99/6.6 4.00/6.0 4.11/6.7 1.66/9.8 1.51/11.4 1.50/8.0 3.00/10.5 1.72/7.6 2.70/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Monell (3-0-0)
 Plawecki (27-9-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 491/.255 74/.239 147/.312 179/.233 172/.216 75/.179 22/.100 149/.200 .241  Granderson
 Cuddyer
 Lagares
 Campbell
 Mayberry
 Nieuwenhuis
0/1/86/6
63/0/0/3
0/84/0/2
2/0/0/1
16/0/10/1
26/7/0/0
OPS .673 .675 .768 .586 .646 .505 .482 .630 .655
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 242/.715 60/.675 47/.646 78/.508 59/.914 29/.436 8/.821 67/.520 .671
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 249/.632 14/.670 100/.829 101/.637 113/.516 46/.547 14/.297 82/.718 .644
Home 262/.615 28/.332 75/.797 104/.660 96/.715 28/.721 7/.714 70/.517
Last 28d days 114/.678 22/.864 45/.753 58/.875 46/.568 37/.579 9/.000 41/.704
HR/SB/CS 9/3/1 2/0/0 3/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/2 1/2/0 1/0/0 4/3/3 63/25/16
Usage ······X· ·····oo· ·····oo· X····XX· X····XX· ······oX ·····oX· ·····o·X
Cardinals Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Colon
G/S/vB		 27.Familia
G/S/vB		 36.Gilmartin*
G/S/vB		 58.Mejia
G/S/vB		 39.Parnell
G/S/vB		 47.Robles
G/S/vB		 54.Torres*
G/S/vB		 52.Torres
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
8.Bourjos G/S/vP 7/.762 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 171/115 .240/.324/.373/.697 .651/.719 .902 44/.626 5/6 2/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 13/.968 2/.000 2/.000 4/1.750 ··· 1/.000 4/1.000 1/.000 365/254 .262/.367/.424/.791 .590/.883 .830 88/.497 3/2 9/9
48.Cruz G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 62/46 .207/.246/.241/.487 .785/.396 .348 13/.462 0/0 0/0
15.Grichuk G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 207/147 .275/.319/.528/.847 .842/.850 .782 83/.744 3/1 7/2
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 15/.833 5/.450 ··· 8/1.000 10/.650 ··· 2/.500 12/.583 340/250 .277/.332/.424/.757 .766/.752 .810 94/.846 12/2 9/2
7.Holliday G/S/vP 15/1.071 ··· ··· 4/.000 5/1.100 ··· ··· 5/.650 221/165 .298/.412/.414/.826 .827/.824 .844 3/.000 2/1 3/0
30.Johnson* G/S/vP 7/1.238 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/7 .200/.273/.200/.473 1.000/.143 11/.473 0/0 0/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 71/48 .154/.225/.154/.379 .399/.369 .426 13/.878 1/0 0/2
4.Molina G/S/vP 10/.200 1/2.000 ··· 5/.800 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 4/.750 327/248 .281/.319/.353/.672 .548/.710 .679 80/.539 1/1 2/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP 15/.467 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 13/.725 376/284 .297/.354/.479/.833 .839/.831 .774 95/.731 1/1 14/3
60.Pham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/33 .194/.275/.389/.664 .286/.724 .917 40/.664 1/0 1/0
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 18/.860 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 5/2.300 263/188 .224/.293/.388/.681 .707/.671 .629 74/.580 2/1 8/4
16.Wong* G/S/vP 9/.888 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 357/262 .283/.345/.435/.779 .664/.823 .738 78/.754 11/4 9/10
IP 105.0 43.1 26.2 0.1 10.0 23.0 28.2 33.0 TOTAL .257/.323/.389/.712 .657/.731 .726 .649 44/21 70/52
ERA-K/9 4.46/7.1 1.25/8.9 2.03/7.1 0.00/0.0 0.90/5.4 4.30/7.4 3.14/9.4 4.36/7.1 3.23/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (6-1-0)
 Molina (19-15-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 446/.278 166/.172 107/.211 1/.000 36/.226 96/.221 128/.210 135/.272 .239  Heyward
 Bourjos
 Grichuk
 Pham
 Holliday
 Reynolds
 Kozma
0/0/82/5
0/56/0/1
38/12/9/1
3/7/0/0
51/0/0/0
5/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .737 .501 .595 .000 .531 .629 .704 .705 .659
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 214/.766 76/.440 52/.731 / 12/.533 36/.516 61/.843 49/.741 .693
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 232/.711 90/.547 55/.463 1/.000 24/.530 60/.699 67/.582 86/.685 .634
Road 212/.761 46/.333 55/.636 / 9/.667 51/.559 58/.763 48/.610
Last 28d days 82/.697 41/.456 14/.845 1/.000 23/.504 22/.427 21/.976 18/.627
HR/SB/CS 14/2/1 3/2/1 1/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/1 1/1/0 4/1/0 2/0/0 73/44/14
Usage ········ ·····ooX o······· ·····o·· ·····oo· o······· 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 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.