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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Cincinnati Reds, at Busch Stadium III, July 29, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Start Time:

7:15ct (local), 8:15et

Venue:

Busch Stadium

Series:

Game #3 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

88° (based on last ten years)

Reds

Manager:

Bryan Price

Game #:

103

On This Date:

58-69

Cardinals

Manager:

Mike Matheny

Game #:

103

On This Date:

53-70

Season Series
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 CIN  5  STL  4     
Sat, Apr 11, 2015 STL  4 @CIN  1     
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 STL  7 @CIN  5 (11)
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 STL  6  CIN  1     
Sat, Apr 18, 2015 STL  5  CIN  2     
Sun, Apr 19, 2015 STL  2  CIN  1     
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 STL  4  CIN  1     
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 CIN  4 @STL  0     

Wed, Jul 29, 2015 CIN    @STL  8:15pm
Tue, Aug 04, 2015 STL    @CIN  7:10pm
Wed, Aug 05, 2015 STL    @CIN  7:10pm
Thu, Aug 06, 2015 STL    @CIN 12:35pm
Thu, Sep 10, 2015 STL    @CIN  7:10pm
Fri, Sep 11, 2015 STL    @CIN  7:10pm
Sat, Sep 12, 2015 STL    @CIN  1:05pm
Sun, Sep 13, 2015 STL    @CIN  1:10pm
Mon, Sep 21, 2015 CIN    @STL  8:15pm
Tue, Sep 22, 2015 CIN    @STL  8:15pm
Wed, Sep 23, 2015 CIN    @STL  8:15pm

                         All times ET

Cincinnati Reds

44-54, 4th, 19 GB, 13½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   25-22   Road:   19-32   ExtrInn: 4-8 
 vsRHP:  32-41   vsLHP:  12-13   1-Run:  14-18
 vsEast: 16-12   vsCntrl:18-22   vsWest:  4-9  IL: 6-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 98 Tue, Jul 28  @STL  W   4-0       44-54  4th 19.0 gb
 97 Mon, Jul 27  @STL  L   1-4       43-54  4th 20.0 gb
 96 Sun, Jul 26  @COL  L   7-17      43-53  4th 19.0 gb
 95 Sat, Jul 25  @COL  W   5-2       43-52  4th 19.0 gb
 94 Fri, Jul 24  @COL  L   5-6       42-52  4th 19.0 gb
 93 Wed, Jul 22   CHC  L   5-6       42-51  4th 17.5 gb
 92 Wed, Jul 22   CHC  W   9-1       42-50  4th 17.5 gb
 91 Tue, Jul 21   CHC  L   4-5 (13)  41-50  4th 17.0 gb
 90 Mon, Jul 20   CHC  W   5-4       41-49  4th 16.0 gb
 89 Sun, Jul 19   CLE  L   3-5 (11)  40-49  4th 16.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

St. Louis Cardinals

64-36, 1st, 5½ up / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   37-14   Road:   27-22   ExtrInn: 6-8 
 vsRHP:  52-23   vsLHP:  12-13   1-Run:  22-16
 vsEast: 16-7    vsCntrl:26-14   vsWest: 11-6  IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
100 Tue, Jul 28   CIN  L   0-4       64-36  1st  5.5 up
 99 Mon, Jul 27   CIN  W   4-1       64-35  1st  6.5 up
 98 Sun, Jul 26   ATL  L   2-3       63-35  1st  6.0 up
 97 Sat, Jul 25   ATL  W   1-0       63-34  1st  7.0 up
 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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 CIN  4 @STL  0        W:Mike Leake (9-5), L: Jaime Garcia (3-4), S: none
Mon, Jul 27, 2015 STL  4  CIN  1        W:Lance Lynn (8-5), L: Raisel Iglesias (1-3), S: Trevor Rosenthal (31)
Sun, Apr 19, 2015 STL  2  CIN  1        W:Adam Wainwright (2-1), L: Mike Leake (0-1), S: Jordan Walden (1)
Sat, Apr 18, 2015 STL  5  CIN  2        W:Carlos Martinez (1-0), L: Homer Bailey (0-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (4)
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 STL  6  CIN  1        W:Michael Wacha (2-0), L: Johnny Cueto (0-2), S: Kevin Siegrist (1)
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 STL  7 @CIN  5 (11)   W:Carlos Villanueva (1-0), L: Kevin Gregg (0-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 11, 2015 STL  4 @CIN  1        W:Michael Wacha (1-0), L: Johnny Cueto (0-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (2)
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 CIN  5  STL  4        W:J.J. Hoover (2-0), L: Jordan Walden (0-1), S: Aroldis Chapman (2)

Sun, Sep 21, 2014 CIN  7 @STL  2        W:Alfredo Simon (15-10), L: Lance Lynn (15-10), S: none
Sat, Sep 20, 2014 STL  8  CIN  4        W:Jason Motte (1-0), L: Mike Leake (11-13), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 6-2; 2014 - STL won 12-7; 2013 - STL won 11-8; All-Time - STL leads 1212-1111

SP: Anthony DeSclafani (25, RHP, 5-7, 3.98)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (5-7)			113.0	112	57	50	43	83	10	3.98
2014 (2-2)			33.0	40	23	23	5	26	4	6.27

Last 7 GS		0-3	41.2	47	25	22	15	35	6	4.75	47
2015-07-24	@COL	ND	7.0	7	3	3	2	5	1	100	54
2015-07-18	CLE	L	5.0	8	6	6	0	4	2	74	31
2015-07-06	@WSN	ND	5.2	5	2	2	4	6	1	102	53
2015-06-30	MIN	L	6.2	11	6	6	2	7	1	122	33
2015-06-25	@PIT	ND	6.0	6	4	1	2	5	0	98	53
2015-06-20	MIA	L	5.0	4	3	3	3	3	1	86	47
2015-06-14	@CHC	ND	6.1	6	1	1	2	5	0	112	60

Has never faced STL as starter.

SP: John Lackey (36, RHP, 9-5, 2.88)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CIN Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (9-5)			131.1	130	44	42	32	94	10	2.88
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		4-1	48.2	47	9	9	13	31	4	1.66	61
2015-07-23	KCR	W	7.0	6	2	2	2	5	0	111	60
2015-07-18	NYM	W	7.0	10	1	1	1	3	1	100	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

Last 5 v.CIN		2-0	27.2	21	14	10	6	18	5	3.25	55
2015-04-10	@CIN	ND	6.0	4	4	4	2	1	2	67	47
2014-09-19	CIN	W	7.2	6	1	1	0	5	0	87	68
2014-09-10	@CIN	ND	2.0	4	2	2	2	1	1	43	39
2014-08-19	CIN	ND	6.0	4	4	2	1	7	1	91	58
2007-06-13	@CIN	W	6.0	3	3	1	1	4	1	97	61

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

Reds Batters (3.97 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.91 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 41.Lackey
G/S/vB 36.Choate*
G/S/vB 28.Cishek
G/S/vB 61.Maness
G/S/vB 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB 63.Socolovich
G/S/vB 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

16.Barnhart# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 131/108 .267/.344/.371/.714 .269/.811 .583 42/.533 0/1 3/1

30.Bourgeois G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 31/23 .194/.194/.194/.387 .000/.522 .429 29/.414 0/0 0/0

32.Bruce* G/S/vP 10/.400 15/.421 5/.600 3/1.666 10/.775 10/.200 1/2.000 18/.690 392/285 .257/.342/.480/.821 .823/.821 .760 86/.995 6/5 16/1

9.Byrd G/S/vP 31/.976 2/3.500 3/2.000 4/1.750 4/.000 4/.000 ··· 6/1.000 309/236 .242/.294/.456/.751 .879/.712 .726 74/.762 1/1 16/0

3.De Jesus G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 89/66 .263/.337/.425/.762 .522/.850 .601 30/.840 0/2 3/1

21.Frazier G/S/vP 10/1.025 ··· 4/.750 9/1.556 13/.408 4/.250 1/.000 15/.734 425/321 .274/.329/.566/.895 1.021/.852 .754 88/.685 10/4 27/12

6.Hamilton# G/S/vP 10/.522 4/.500 2/1.000 3/.666 6/.533 2/.000 ··· 8/.750 362/265 .225/.269/.289/.558 .619/.534 .455 72/.479 46/7 3/0

29.Pena# G/S/vP 14/.742 1/.000 1/2.000 3/1.334 4/.500 3/.000 ··· 4/.250 261/181 .277/.340/.311/.650 .551/.693 .551 49/.416 0/0 0/1

4.Phillips G/S/vP 15/.343 3/.000 7/.343 8/1.196 8/.250 6/.167 ··· 32/.446 365/276 .273/.310/.355/.665 .694/.656 .746 92/.536 11/1 5/5

55.Schumaker* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 6/.666 2/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 25/.760 149/136 .218/.302/.301/.603 .916/.574 .499 26/.569 1/2 0/2

37.Skipworth* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

7.Suarez G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 147/113 .312/.345/.471/.816 .787/.824 .731 78/.824 3/1 5/9

19.Votto* G/S/vP 3/3.334 14/.846 6/.500 2/1.000 5/.200 9/.222 ··· 23/.985 425/301 .311/.428/.538/.967 .916/.987 .963 94/1.245 6/2 19/5

IP 131.1 19.2 33.0 39.1 47.1 46.1 22.2 42.2 TOTAL .252/.316/.402/.718 .723/.716 .677 .710 91/29 108/51

ERA-K/9

2.88/6.4

4.12/6.4

4.36/7.6

3.66/6.6

1.71/9.9

1.36/11.3

1.59/7.5

1.69/7.2

2.64/8.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Barnhart (19-9-2)
Pena (42-6-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 550/.258 82/.267 148/.290 163/.305 196/.235 188/.205 96/.209 175/.209 .241 Hamilton
Bruce
Schumaker
Byrd
Bourgeois
Barnhart
De Jesus 0/87/0/6
0/0/91/5
19/0/3/3
73/2/2/2
3/4/3/1
0/0/1/0
6/0/0/0

OPS .675 .721 .774 .741 .594 .621 .552 .640 .653

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 271/.697 68/.732 67/.782 52/.661 87/.491 64/.893 41/.500 78/.559 .672

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 279/.655 14/.670 81/.767 111/.780 109/.664 124/.490 55/.586 97/.702 .639

Home 321/.631 36/.515 87/.777 86/.741 113/.673 107/.683 45/.741 96/.565

Last 28d days 113/.656 18/1.167 24/.477 36/.544 59/.897 41/.387 50/.582 51/.729

HR/SB/CS 10/3/1 2/0/0 2/5/1 3/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/3 1/4/0 4/4/3 68/29/17

Usage ·····X·· o·oo·o·· ··X··o·· ···ooo·X ·o···XoX ·o··X·oo o·X···X· X·······

Cardinals Batters (3.97 RS/G) vs. Reds Pitchers (4.48 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 28.DeSclafani
G/S/vB 58.Adcock
G/S/vB 40.Axelrod
G/S/vB 25.Badenhop
G/S/vB 54.Chapman*
G/S/vB 70.Diaz
G/S/vB 60.Hoover
G/S/vB 41.Mattheus
G/S/vB 62.Villarreal
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

8.Bourjos G/S/vP 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 1/.000 4/1.500 1/.000 ··· 189/127 .227/.324/.350/.674 .663/.679 .819 48/.538 5/6 2/1

13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 8/.393 3/.333 8/1.071 1/.000 3/.333 404/282 .252/.354/.412/.766 .606/.838 .792 96/.569 3/2 10/9

48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.650 1/2.000 4/.000 1/3.000 2/.000 70/53 .182/.217/.212/.430 .732/.343 .205 15/.267 0/0 0/0

15.Grichuk G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 243/167 .281/.333/.558/.891 .871/.901 .941 82/.934 4/1 11/2

22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 11/.398 7/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/.500 1/2.000 375/272 .280/.334/.426/.760 .757/.759 .818 90/.727 15/2 9/2

7.Holliday G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 10/.200 11/.489 4/1.000 9/.956 3/.000 2/1.000 253/185 .291/.411/.422/.833 .864/.822 .817 35/.800 2/1 4/0

30.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 21/15 .158/.238/.158/.396 .667/.277 .311 21/.396 0/0 0/0

38.Kozma G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 1/3.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 83/54 .149/.232/.149/.380 .368/.387 .415 16/.421 1/0 0/3

4.Molina G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 ··· 6/1.000 8/.250 3/.000 8/.804 2/.000 1/.000 366/272 .287/.323/.364/.687 .582/.721 .663 88/.617 1/1 2/4

27.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 5/.400 9/.583 4/1.167 3/.000 5/2.100 7/.286 1/no AB 1/.000 416/307 .286/.341/.458/.799 .793/.801 .716 100/.670 1/2 14/3

55.Piscotty G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 21/16 .333/.381/.389/.770 1.150/.661 .862 21/.770 0/0 0/1

12.Reynolds G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 8/.700 9/.333 3/.333 3/2.667 5/1.400 1/.000 ··· 295/208 .230/.312/.395/.707 .709/.706 .648 76/.794 2/1 9/5

16.Wong* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/1.334 6/.500 ··· 1/.000 405/293 .275/.336/.431/.766 .590/.836 .753 92/.630 11/5 11/10

IP 113.0 18.0 3.2 39.1 42.2 29.0 43.1 29.1 25.0 TOTAL .254/.322/.387/.709 .658/.728 .715 .647 48/23 79/57

ERA-K/9

3.98/6.6

6.00/6.5

19.64/12.2

4.35/3.9

1.69/15.8

5.59/10.2

2.08/6.7

3.99/6.5

4.32/4.0

4.15/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Cruz (7-1-1)
Molina (22-16-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 487/.258 83/.221 23/.333 172/.258 182/.187 126/.259 173/.182 129/.272 111/.330 .249 Heyward
Bourjos
Grichuk
Piscotty
Holliday
Reynolds
Kozma 0/0/91/5
0/64/0/1
42/19/11/1
4/0/1/0
57/0/0/0
5/0/1/0
1/0/0/0

OPS .731 .797 1.343 .664 .523 .766 .558 .682 .862 .721

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 261/.791 35/.790 10/2.000 79/.672 59/.551 66/.638 86/.570 62/.804 43/.866 .754

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 226/.666 48/.800 13/.817 93/.657 123/.509 60/.909 87/.540 67/.555 68/.858 .691

Road 261/.607 44/.864 14/2.115 84/.530 66/.609 45/.876 87/.532 66/.637 61/.972

Last 28d days 78/.861 35/.895 23/1.343 43/.552 34/.494 25/.520 33/.903 46/.759 47/.844

HR/SB/CS 10/12/1 3/5/1 3/1/0 2/3/0 1/6/0 5/1/0 2/0/0 1/3/0 3/2/2 98/64/15

Usage ····X··· ··X····X ··X····X ·Xo···X· o··o··X· ·X·o··XX ····X··X ··X·o··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 5.25

LAD 4.09

NYM 3.53

RA/G

STL 2.91

MIN 4.17

COL 5.16

M. Cabrera .350

E. Longoria .268

M. Zunino .181

OBP

P. Goldschmidt .465

N. Walker .328

M. Zunino .240

SLG

B. Harper .670

Y. Escobar .421

B. Hamilton .289

OPS

B. Harper 1.130

T. Hunter .747

B. Hamilton .558

ERA

Z. Greinke 1.37

D. Salazar 3.72

K. Kendrick 6.33

K/9IP

C. Kershaw 11.89

K. Hendricks 7.55

M. Pelfrey 4.32

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.