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St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Mets, at Busch Stadium III, July 19, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Start Time:
1:15ct (local), 2:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
89° (based on last ten years)
Mets
Manager:
Terry Collins
Game #:
92
On This Date:
26-27
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
94
On This Date:
77-52
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 STL 12  NYM  2     

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

                         All times ET
New York Mets
47-44, 2nd, 3 GB, 6½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-14   Road:   15-30   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  38-37   vsLHP:   9-7    1-Run:  16-15
 vsEast: 23-15   vsCntrl: 8-17   vsWest: 11-8  IL: 5-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 91 Sat, Jul 18  @STL  L   2-12      47-44  2nd  3.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15
St. Louis Cardinals
58-33, 1st, 4½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-11   Road:   25-22   ExtrInn: 6-7 
 vsRHP:  49-21   vsLHP:   9-12   1-Run:  19-15
 vsEast: 14-5    vsCntrl:25-13   vsWest: 11-6  IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 91 Sat, Jul 18   NYM  W  12-2       58-33  1st  4.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jul 18, 2015 STL 12  NYM  2        W:John Lackey (8-5), L: Bartolo Colon (9-8), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 4-2; 2014 - NYM won 4-3; 2013 - STL won 5-2; All-Time - STL leads 383-342

SP: Jon Niese (28, LHP, 5-8, 3.61)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (5-8) 104.2 111 53 42 33 70 11 3.61
2014 (9-11) 187.2 193 80 71 45 138 17 3.40
2013 (8-8) 143.0 158 68 59 48 105 10 3.71
Last 7 GS 2-3 47.2 38 16 14 16 33 3 2.64 59
2015-07-12 ARI W 6.2 5 3 3 0 3 1 90 55
2015-07-06 @SFG W 8.0 3 0 0 2 4 0 81 78
2015-06-30 CHC L 7.0 4 1 1 4 5 0 107 66
2015-06-23 @MIL ND 6.0 8 2 2 3 3 0 99 48
2015-06-17 @TOR L 7.0 7 3 3 4 6 1 104 53
2015-06-11 SFG ND 7.0 5 4 2 2 4 1 97 57
2015-06-05 @ARI L 6.0 6 3 3 1 8 0 81 55
Last 5 v.STL 3-2 31.0 37 16 14 7 20 2 4.06 48
2015-05-19 STL L 5.0 11 8 8 1 1 1 92 13
2014-06-17 @STL L 6.0 8 5 3 1 3 1 85 42
2014-04-23 STL W 6.2 6 1 1 2 3 0 95 59
2013-05-16 @STL W 7.1 6 2 2 2 3 0 113 59
2012-06-03 STL W 6.0 6 0 0 1 10 0 96 69

SP: Tim Cooney (24, LHP, 0-0, 4.34)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-0) 18.2 20 10 9 6 17 3 4.34
Last 7 GS 0-0 18.2 20 10 9 6 17 3 4.34 49
2015-07-12 @PIT ND 5.0 6 3 3 2 5 0 80 46
2015-07-07 @CHC ND 5.1 3 1 1 1 3 0 84 60
2015-07-02 SDP ND 6.0 4 3 2 2 6 2 89 58
2015-04-30 PHI ND 2.1 7 3 3 1 3 1 52 33
Has never faced NYM as starter.

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

Mets Batters (3.45 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.95 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 66.Cooney*
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 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/no AB 1/.000 164/138 .174/.293/.283/.575 .608/.570 .695 22/.812 5/1 3/8
23.Cuddyer G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 2/2.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 13/.718 309/241 .249/.298/.381/.678 .607/.697 .592 48/.591 1/0 8/3
21.Duda* G/S/vP ··· 7/1.571 2/2.500 2/1.000 2/.500 1/.000 2/.500 1/no AB 368/279 .241/.342/.424/.766 .921/.713 .578 82/.488 0/0 12/1
4.Flores G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 328/274 .246/.279/.385/.664 .795/.639 .644 80/.590 0/0 10/10
3.Granderson* G/S/vP ··· 10/1.156 1/.000 1/no AB 3/2.333 1/.000 ··· 13/1.112 380/316 .246/.342/.426/.768 .369/.854 .758 90/.900 5/2 14/5
12.Lagares G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 334/272 .254/.281/.335/.617 .783/.580 .607 60/.428 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 23/.536 1/0 3/0
19.Monell* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 48/45 .182/.250/.227/.477 .333/.483 .577 31/.608 0/0 0/0
16.Muno# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 30/27 .154/.267/.192/.459 .000/.514 .522 3/2.500 1/0 0/3
28.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· 8/.536 3/.666 5/.200 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 5/1.600 271/211 .272/.325/.396/.721 .468/.792 .740 56/.613 1/2 5/8
9.Nieuwenhuis* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 85/76 .154/.224/.333/.557 .111/.608 .371 21/1.317 2/1 3/0
22.Plawecki G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 179/147 .238/.285/.323/.608 .542/.622 .651 50/.633 0/0 2/1
11.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 4/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/.500 217/177 .247/.323/.351/.673 .769/.651 .770 84/.575 1/1 2/4
IP 18.2 18.1 35.0 43.1 41.2 18.2 7.0 36.2 TOTAL .234/.298/.363/.661 .670/.658 .627 .622 33/10 77/56
ERA-K/9 4.34/8.2 3.93/6.4 4.11/6.7 1.66/9.8 1.51/11.4 1.93/7.7 2.57/9.0 1.72/7.6 2.69/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Monell (4-0-0)
 Plawecki (27-9-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 81/.270 75/.235 147/.312 179/.233 172/.216 80/.197 25/.091 149/.200 .242  Granderson
 Cuddyer
 Lagares
 Campbell
 Mayberry
 Nieuwenhuis
0/1/87/6
64/0/0/3
0/84/0/2
2/0/0/1
16/0/10/1
26/8/0/0
OPS .806 .665 .768 .586 .646 .555 .473 .630 .657
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 12/1.183 61/.664 47/.646 78/.508 59/.914 32/.498 9/.722 67/.520 .670
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 69/.743 14/.670 100/.829 101/.637 113/.516 48/.589 16/.330 82/.718 .648
Home 38/.968 29/.321 75/.797 104/.660 96/.715 33/.812 10/.644 70/.517
Last 28d days 66/.688 23/.824 40/.747 58/.875 46/.568 38/.686 12/.083 41/.704
HR/SB/CS 3/0/3 2/0/0 3/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/2 1/2/0 1/0/0 4/3/3 64/25/16
Usage ······X· o·····oo ······oo ·X····XX ·X····XX X······o o·····oX ······o·
Cardinals Batters (4.07 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.59 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Niese*
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 12/.666 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 2/.000 1/.000 173/116 .237/.320/.368/.688 .639/.712 .877 46/.597 5/6 2/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 8/1.482 2/.000 2/.000 5/1.400 ··· 1/.000 4/1.000 2/.000 370/259 .258/.362/.417/.779 .590/.864 .806 90/.486 3/2 9/9
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 64/47 .200/.238/.233/.471 .732/.387 .297 11/.364 0/0 0/0
15.Grichuk G/S/vP 3/2.334 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/2.500 3/3.000 212/151 .286/.335/.566/.901 .913/.896 .907 84/.929 3/1 9/2
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 31/.994 5/.450 ··· 8/1.000 10/.650 ··· 3/1.167 13/.693 345/254 .288/.342/.437/.779 .780/.777 .855 95/.858 13/2 9/2
7.Holliday G/S/vP 19/.498 ··· ··· 4/.000 5/1.100 ··· ··· 5/.650 224/168 .299/.411/.418/.829 .827/.828 .850 6/.500 2/1 3/0
30.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/7 .200/.273/.200/.473 1.000/.143 11/.473 0/0 0/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP 5/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 73/49 .167/.247/.167/.413 .432/.404 .510 14/1.071 1/0 0/2
4.Molina G/S/vP 22/1.034 1/2.000 ··· 5/.800 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 5/.600 331/252 .280/.318/.355/.673 .548/.711 .681 84/.550 1/1 2/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP 12/1.045 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 13/.725 379/287 .300/.356/.484/.840 .839/.840 .790 94/.738 1/1 14/3
60.Pham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 41/33 .189/.268/.378/.647 .250/.724 .846 41/.647 1/0 1/0
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 13/1.538 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 2/.000 6/1.867 268/192 .224/.295/.386/.681 .697/.675 .630 75/.575 2/1 8/4
16.Wong* G/S/vP 5/1.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 362/267 .279/.343/.429/.772 .664/.812 .724 83/.723 11/4 9/10
IP 104.2 43.1 26.2 1.1 10.0 23.0 29.2 34.2 TOTAL .258/.324/.392/.716 .662/.735 .735 .668 45/21 72/52
ERA-K/9 3.61/6.0 1.25/8.9 2.03/7.1 0.00/0.0 0.90/5.4 4.30/7.4 3.03/9.4 4.41/6.7 3.29/8.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 458/.271 166/.172 107/.211 5/.200 36/.226 96/.221 135/.216 144/.284 .241  Heyward
 Bourjos
 Grichuk
 Pham
 Holliday
 Reynolds
 Kozma
0/0/83/5
0/57/0/1
39/13/10/1
4/7/0/0
52/0/0/0
5/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .751 .501 .595 .400 .531 .629 .734 .739 .664
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 99/.662 76/.440 52/.731 2/.000 12/.533 36/.516 62/.864 52/.736 .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 359/.776 90/.547 55/.463 3/.667 24/.530 60/.699 73/.626 92/.741 .643
Road 241/.737 46/.333 55/.636 4/.500 9/.667 51/.559 65/.824 57/.712
Last 28d days 112/.551 41/.456 14/.845 5/.400 23/.504 22/.427 25/1.072 24/.938
HR/SB/CS 11/5/1 3/2/1 1/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/1 1/1/0 5/1/0 3/0/0 75/45/14
Usage ······X· ······oo ·o······ o·····o· ······oo ·o······ Xo······ 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  5.31

BOS  4.13

CHW  3.39

 RA/G

STL  2.95

SEA  4.03

PHI  5.08

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

K. Seager  .271

M. Zunino  .160

 OBP

B. Harper  .464

D. Espinosa  .330

M. Zunino  .221

 SLG

B. Harper  .706

L. Duda  .424

B. Hamilton  .283

 OPS

B. Harper  1.170

J. Upton  .757

M. Zunino  .509

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.39

C. Hamels  3.63

K. Lohse  6.17

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.95

W. Chen  7.36

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.