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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Atlanta Braves, at Busch Stadium III, July 25, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Start Time:
6:15ct (local), 7:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
90° (based on last ten years)
Braves
Manager:
Fredi Gonzalez
Game #:
97
On This Date:
51-63
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
99
On This Date:
62-50
Season Series
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 STL  4  ATL  2     

Sat, Jul 25, 2015 ATL    @STL  7:15pm
Sun, Jul 26, 2015 ATL    @STL  2:15pm
Fri, Oct 02, 2015 STL    @ATL  7:35pm
Sat, Oct 03, 2015 STL    @ATL  7:10pm
Sun, Oct 04, 2015 STL    @ATL  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Atlanta Braves
45-51, 3rd, 6½ GB, 11 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-20   Road:   19-31   ExtrInn: 2-6 
 vsRHP:  38-41   vsLHP:   7-10   1-Run:  18-14
 vsEast: 21-21   vsCntrl:11-13   vsWest:  8-13 IL: 5-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 96 Fri, Jul 24  @STL  L   2-4       45-51  3rd  6.5 gb
 95 Wed, Jul 22   LAD  L   1-3       45-50  3rd  7.0 gb
 94 Tue, Jul 21   LAD  W   4-3       45-49  3rd  6.0 gb
 93 Mon, Jul 20   LAD  W   7-5       44-49  3rd  7.0 gb
 92 Sun, Jul 19   CHC  L   1-4       43-49  3rd  7.0 gb
 91 Sat, Jul 18   CHC  L   0-4       43-48  3rd  7.0 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
St. Louis Cardinals
62-34, 1st, 6 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-12   Road:   27-22   ExtrInn: 6-8 
 vsRHP:  50-21   vsLHP:  12-13   1-Run:  21-15
 vsEast: 15-6    vsCntrl:25-13   vsWest: 11-6  IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 96 Fri, Jul 24   ATL  W   4-2       62-34  1st  6.0 up
 95 Thu, Jul 23   KCR  W   4-3       61-34  1st  6.0 up
 94 Wed, Jul 22  @CHW  W   3-2       60-34  1st  6.0 up
 93 Tue, Jul 21  @CHW  W   8-5       59-34  1st  5.0 up
 92 Sun, Jul 19   NYM  L   1-3 (18)  58-34  1st  4.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 STL  4  ATL  2        W:Tim Cooney (1-0), L: Manny Banuelos (1-2), S: Kevin Siegrist (5)

Sun, May 18, 2014 ATL  6 @STL  5        W:David Carpenter (3-0), L: Trevor Rosenthal (0-2), S: Craig Kimbrel (11)
Sat, May 17, 2014 STL  4  ATL  1        W:Shelby Miller (6-2), L: Aaron Harang (4-4), S: Trevor Rosenthal (13)
Fri, May 16, 2014 STL  5  ATL  2        W:Lance Lynn (5-2), L: Ervin Santana (4-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (12)
Wed, May 07, 2014 STL  7 @ATL  1        W:Adam Wainwright (6-2), L: Mike Minor (0-2), S: none
Tue, May 06, 2014 ATL  2  STL  1        W:David Carpenter (2-0), L: Randy Choate (0-1), S: Craig Kimbrel (9)
Mon, May 05, 2014 STL  4 @ATL  3        W:Shelby Miller (4-2), L: Aaron Harang (3-3), S: Trevor Rosenthal (9)
Sun, Aug 25, 2013 ATL  5 @STL  2        W:Mike Minor (13-5), L: Lance Lynn (13-8), S: Craig Kimbrel (41)
Sat, Aug 24, 2013 STL  6  ATL  2        W:Shelby Miller (12-8), L: Julio Teheran (10-7), S: Edward Mujica (34)
Fri, Aug 23, 2013 STL  3  ATL  1        W:Adam Wainwright (15-7), L: Kris Medlen (10-12), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 1-0; 2014 - STL won 4-2; 2013 - ATL won 4-3; All-Time - STL leads 1068-960

SP: Shelby Miller (24, RHP, 5-6, 2.33)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (5-6) 119.2 100 38 31 39 103 7 2.33
2014 (10-9) 183.0 160 78 76 73 127 22 3.74
2013 (15-9) 173.1 152 65 59 57 169 20 3.06
Last 7 GS 0-4 41.1 48 21 15 14 46 3 3.27 52
2015-07-19 CHC L 6.0 4 3 1 4 8 1 104 60
2015-07-10 @COL L 5.0 11 5 5 1 7 1 96 31
2015-07-05 PHI ND 6.1 7 0 0 2 8 0 106 65
2015-06-30 WSN L 5.0 8 5 4 3 10 1 103 40
2015-06-24 @WSN ND 7.0 3 1 1 1 5 0 86 71
2015-06-18 BOS L 5.2 7 4 1 1 4 0 105 48
2015-06-13 @NYM ND 6.1 8 3 3 2 4 0 102 47
Has never faced STL as starter.

SP: Carlos Martinez (23, RHP, 10-4, 2.51)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (10-4) 111.1 93 33 31 47 115 10 2.51
2014 (2-4) 89.1 90 41 40 36 84 4 4.03
2013 (2-1) 28.1 31 16 16 9 24 1 5.08
Last 7 GS 5-1 47.0 38 10 9 16 49 3 1.72 63
2015-07-09 @PIT W 7.1 4 0 0 2 8 0 108 76
2015-07-04 SDP ND 6.2 8 1 1 2 5 1 102 57
2015-06-28 CHC W 6.0 2 1 1 3 6 0 84 67
2015-06-23 @MIA W 7.0 8 3 3 1 9 1 102 57
2015-06-17 @MIN L 6.2 5 2 1 3 6 0 101 61
2015-06-10 @COL W 6.1 8 2 2 1 4 1 106 52
2015-06-05 @LAD W 7.0 3 1 1 4 11 0 100 74
Has never faced ATL as starter.

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

Braves Batters (3.81 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.95 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Martinez
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
13.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/.453 92/60 .261/.264/.364/.627 .394/.748 .695 38/.432 1/1 0/0
7.Gomes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.000 184/113 .197/.304/.318/.623 .774/.534 .621 37/.718 1/1 4/0
23.Johnson G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 4/.250 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.600 135/77 .244/.281/.323/.604 .756/.487 .598 41/.618 2/1 1/4
30.Lavarnway G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.600 56/34 .188/.304/.292/.595 .925/.399 .558 15/1.050 0/0 1/1
22.Markakis* G/S/vP ··· 11/.473 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 18/.398 409/292 .288/.372/.363/.735 .647/.771 .781 85/.707 2/0 1/1
25.Maybin G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 342/259 .283/.349/.404/.753 .776/.746 .670 87/.734 16/4 8/2
14.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 79/67 .268/.325/.324/.649 .833/.615 .708 50/.645 0/0 0/0
8.Peterson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 372/300 .246/.324/.345/.669 .525/.705 .643 83/.517 9/9 3/7
15.Pierzynski* G/S/vP ··· 7/1.096 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 11/.573 260/209 .282/.323/.432/.755 .701/.767 .795 66/.864 0/2 6/2
19.Simmons G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.200 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 376/305 .259/.320/.340/.660 .436/.713 .637 76/.517 1/2 3/3
28.Terdoslavich# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 35/29 .147/.171/.265/.436 .000/.528 .399 17/.176 0/0 1/0
IP 111.1 18.2 39.0 46.1 45.1 20.2 9.1 40.2 TOTAL .253/.316/.364/.680 .631/.694 .682 .659 45/23 58/56
ERA-K/9 2.51/9.3 3.86/6.7 3.69/6.7 1.75/9.9 1.39/11.3 1.74/7.8 1.93/8.7 1.77/7.5 2.67/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (4-4-1)
 Pierzynski (48-13-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 462/.231 77/.243 162/.307 193/.239 185/.209 88/.205 38/.152 169/.211 .242  Maybin
 Gomes
 Markakis
 Perez
 Terdoslavich
0/86/0/4
50/0/2/4
0/0/94/4
21/2/0/2
2/0/0/0
OPS .665 .674 .745 .603 .632 .557 .536 .651 .656
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 222/.737 63/.675 52/.661 85/.503 63/.910 37/.499 14/.649 76/.576 .669
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 240/.601 14/.670 110/.787 108/.670 122/.498 51/.594 24/.477 93/.712 .646
Home 221/.676 31/.366 85/.750 110/.693 104/.704 37/.799 15/.651 90/.582
Last 28d days 100/.647 18/.951 45/.707 66/.915 49/.475 46/.667 25/.376 45/.788
HR/SB/CS 10/0/4 2/0/0 3/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/3 1/3/0 1/1/0 4/4/3 66/28/17
Usage ·····X·· ·o···oo· oo·X·o·· ·XoX···X X·oo·o·X ··X··oX· ··XX·Xo· ·····X··
Cardinals Batters (4.06 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (4.27 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 17.Miller
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		 52.McKirahan*
G/S/vB		 38.Vizcaino
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
8.Bourjos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 5/1.850 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 181/119 .236/.328/.363/.691 .663/.705 .868 48/.556 5/6 2/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.750 3/.000 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 388/266 .257/.358/.420/.778 .606/.861 .819 89/.578 3/2 10/9
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 64/47 .200/.238/.233/.471 .732/.387 .297 10/.400 0/0 0/0
15.Grichuk G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/2.000 237/161 .283/.333/.566/.900 .871/.914 .961 89/.935 4/1 11/2
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 9/1.158 2/.500 ··· 25/.678 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 363/260 .283/.337/.428/.765 .757/.766 .832 91/.765 15/2 9/2
7.Holliday G/S/vP ··· 8/.393 2/2.500 6/1.417 6/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 242/175 .301/.421/.434/.855 .879/.846 .858 24/1.014 2/1 4/0
30.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.666 ··· ··· ··· 15/9 .154/.267/.154/.421 .667/.222 .250 15/.421 0/0 0/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/2.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 80/51 .153/.228/.153/.381 .368/.387 .418 16/.481 1/0 0/2
4.Molina G/S/vP ··· 4/1.750 2/.000 5/.600 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 356/263 .290/.327/.366/.692 .589/.727 .672 89/.668 1/1 2/4
27.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 6/.533 3/.666 1/.000 11/1.064 9/.583 1/.000 ··· 404/296 .295/.351/.473/.824 .801/.833 .762 101/.768 1/2 14/3
55.Piscotty G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/5 .222/.222/.333/.556 1.250/.000 .000 9/.556 0/0 0/1
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 5/1.933 3/.333 ··· 3/.000 4/.250 1/2.000 ··· ··· 289/202 .230/.311/.395/.706 .709/.705 .644 79/.784 2/1 9/5
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· 388/277 .271/.332/.419/.751 .596/.816 .721 85/.517 11/5 10/10
IP 119.2 17.0 37.0 45.0 26.1 46.0 5.1 7.0 TOTAL .257/.324/.392/.716 .661/.737 .730 .661 48/23 78/55
ERA-K/9 2.33/7.7 2.12/10.6 3.41/7.5 6.80/5.8 1.37/6.8 2.15/6.3 3.38/6.8 1.29/7.7 3.97/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (6-1-0)
 Molina (22-16-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 492/.225 70/.190 151/.241 215/.337 116/.258 187/.250 22/.300 27/.200 .265  Heyward
 Bourjos
 Grichuk
 Piscotty
 Holliday
 Reynolds
 Kozma
0/0/87/5
0/61/0/1
42/17/11/1
2/0/0/0
54/0/0/0
5/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .626 .649 .646 .973 .726 .631 .668 .579 .744
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 237/.715 24/1.200 70/.672 51/.579 55/.844 84/.546 8/1.071 13/.808 .783
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 255/.538 46/.392 81/.624 164/1.100 61/.601 103/.700 14/.445 14/.368 .718
Road 253/.600 35/.636 70/.752 113/1.032 53/.673 97/.755 6/.333 12/.733
Last 28d days 106/.897 41/.734 29/.768 23/.780 21/.563 35/.492 6/1.000 27/.579
HR/SB/CS 7/12/5 2/3/0 3/3/1 9/4/3 1/1/0 2/6/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 90/59/21
Usage ·····X·· X·o··XX· ···X·X·X o·o···oo X··oo·X· ···oX··o o···o··· ··X·oX·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  5.26

MIL  4.08

NYM  3.41

 RA/G

STL  2.95

SEA  4.08

COL  5.14

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

E. Longoria  .265

M. Zunino  .170

 OBP

B. Harper  .465

B. McCann  .325

M. Zunino  .233

 SLG

B. Harper  .683

Y. Escobar  .420

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.149

K. Wong  .751

M. Zunino  .537

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.30

J. Shields  3.77

K. Lohse  6.29

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.89

M. Wacha  7.53

M. Pelfrey  4.29

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.