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Colorado Rockies vs. Washington Nationals, at Coors Field, August 16, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Start Time:

6:40mt (local), 8:40et

Venue:

Coors Field

Series:

Game #2 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

80° (based on last ten years)

Nationals

Manager:

Dusty Baker

Game #:

119

On This Date:

14-22

Rockies

Manager:

Walt Weiss

Game #:

122

On This Date:

9-10

Season Series
Mon, Aug 15, 2016 WSN  5 @COL  4     

Tue, Aug 16, 2016 WSN    @COL  8:40pm
Wed, Aug 17, 2016 WSN    @COL  3:10pm
Fri, Aug 26, 2016 COL    @WSN  7:05pm
Sat, Aug 27, 2016 COL    @WSN  1:05pm
Sun, Aug 28, 2016 COL    @WSN  1:35pm

                         All times ET

Washington Nationals

70-47, 1st, 8½ up / Schedule

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

 Home:   36-23   Road:   34-24   ExtrInn: 4-4 
 vsRHP:  54-36   vsLHP:  16-11   1-Run:  18-13
 vsEast: 32-15   vsCntrl:15-15   vsWest: 12-12 IL:11-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
117 Mon, Aug 15  @COL  W   5-4       70-47  1st  8.5 up
116 Sun, Aug 14   ATL  W   9-1       69-47  1st  8.5 up
115 Sat, Aug 13   ATL  W   7-6       68-47  1st  8.5 up
114 Fri, Aug 12   ATL  L   5-8       67-47  1st  7.5 up
113 Wed, Aug 10   CLE  W   7-4       67-46  1st  7.5 up
112 Tue, Aug  9   CLE  L   1-3       66-46  1st  6.5 up
111 Sun, Aug  7   SFG  W   1-0       66-45  1st  7.0 up
110 Sat, Aug  6   SFG  L   1-7       65-45  1st  7.0 up
109 Fri, Aug  5   SFG  W   5-1       65-44  1st  7.0 up
108 Wed, Aug  3  @ARI  W   8-3       64-44  1st  7.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-11

Colorado Rockies

56-63, 3rd, 10½ GB, 10 GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:   28-30   Road:   28-33   ExtrInn: 0-3 
 vsRHP:  42-43   vsLHP:  14-20   1-Run:   8-17
 vsEast: 16-13   vsCntrl: 7-13   vsWest: 24-26 IL: 9-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
119 Mon, Aug 15   WSN  L   4-5       56-63  3rd 10.5 gb
118 Sun, Aug 14  @PHI  L   6-7       56-62  3rd 10.5 gb
117 Sat, Aug 13  @PHI  L   3-6       56-61  3rd 10.5 gb
116 Fri, Aug 12  @PHI  L   6-10      56-60  3rd  9.5 gb
115 Thu, Aug 11  @TEX  W  12-9       56-59  3rd  9.5 gb
114 Wed, Aug 10  @TEX  L   4-5       55-59  3rd 10.0 gb
113 Tue, Aug  9   TEX  L   5-7       55-58  3rd  9.0 gb
112 Mon, Aug  8   TEX  L   3-4       55-57  3rd  9.0 gb
111 Sun, Aug  7   MIA  L   7-10      55-56  3rd  8.0 gb
110 Sat, Aug  6   MIA  W  12-6       55-55  3rd  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Aug 15, 2016 WSN  5 @COL  4        W:Sammy Solis (2-3), L: Jordan Lyles (3-4), S: Mark Melancon (34)

Thu, Aug 20, 2015 COL  3  WSN  2        W:Yohan Flande (3-1), L: Max Scherzer (11-10), S: John Axford (17)
Wed, Aug 19, 2015 WSN  4 @COL  1        W:Stephen Strasburg (7-6), L: Rafael Betancourt (2-4), S: Jonathan Papelbon (20)
Tue, Aug 18, 2015 WSN 15 @COL  6        W:Jordan Zimmermann (9-8), L: Justin Miller (1-2), S: none
Sun, Aug 09, 2015 COL  6 @WSN  4        W:John Axford (4-5), L: Drew Storen (2-2), S: Tommy Kahnle (2)
Sat, Aug 08, 2015 WSN  6  COL  1        W:Stephen Strasburg (6-5), L: Eddie Butler (3-9), S: none
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 COL  5 @WSN  4        W:Scott Oberg (3-2), L: Drew Storen (2-1), S: Tommy Kahnle (1)
Wed, Jul 23, 2014 COL  6  WSN  4        W:Jorge De La Rosa (11-6), L: Stephen Strasburg (7-8), S: none
Tue, Jul 22, 2014 WSN  7 @COL  4        W:Craig Stammen (1-4), L: Brooks Brown (0-1), S: Rafael Soriano (23)
Mon, Jul 21, 2014 WSN  7 @COL  2        W:Doug Fister (9-2), L: Franklin Morales (5-5), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - WSN over 1-0; 2015 - Tied 3-3; 2014 - WSN won 5-1; All-Time - COL leads 100-78

SP: Gio Gonzalez (30, LHP, 8-9, 4.24)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. COL Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (8-9)			133.2	129	70	63	47	127	15	4.24
2015 (11-8)			175.2	181	79	74	69	169	8	3.79
2014 (10-10)			158.2	134	66	63	56	162	10	3.57

Last 7 GS		4-2	42.0	34	16	14	15	30	5	3.00	56
2016-08-10	CLE	W	5.0	7	4	4	1	5	1	103	41
2016-08-05	SFG	W	7.0	2	1	1	1	7	1	104	75
2016-07-31	@SFG	L	6.0	6	2	1	2	1	0	89	53
2016-07-26	@CLE	ND	6.1	5	3	2	2	4	0	105	55
2016-07-20	LAD	W	6.0	3	1	1	2	6	0	97	66
2016-07-10	@NYM	W	5.2	4	2	2	4	3	2	108	52
2016-07-05	MIL	L	6.0	7	3	3	3	4	1	102	47

Last 5 v.COL		2-0	12.0	11	6	5	4	13	2	3.75	55
2012-07-07	COL	W	6.0	3	1	1	3	6	0	102	65
2012-06-26	@COL	W	6.0	8	5	4	1	7	2	102	44

SP: Chad Bettis (27, RHP, 10-6, 5.27)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (10-6)			138.1	163	86	81	41	105	17	5.27
2015 (8-6)			115.0	120	56	54	42	98	11	4.23
2014 (0-2)			24.2	42	26	25	10	13	4	9.12

Last 7 GS		4-0	43.0	42	19	19	17	32	5	3.98	51
2016-08-11	@TEX	ND	5.0	9	5	5	3	2	1	110	28
2016-08-06	MIA	W	6.0	7	3	3	2	3	1	106	47
2016-07-31	@NYM	ND	6.0	5	3	3	2	8	0	101	56
2016-07-26	@BAL	W	6.0	4	2	2	3	3	1	98	56
2016-07-21	ATL	W	6.2	4	1	1	3	4	0	87	63
2016-07-16	@ATL	ND	6.2	6	3	3	3	7	1	104	54
2016-07-07	PHI	W	6.2	7	2	2	1	5	1	90	56

Has never faced WSN as starter.

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

Nationals Batters (4.75 RS/G) vs. Rockies Pitchers (5.13 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 35.Bettis
G/S/vB 61.Carasiti
G/S/vB 54.Estevez
G/S/vB 48.Logan*
G/S/vB 24.Lyles
G/S/vB 51.McGee*
G/S/vB 45.Oberg
G/S/vB Ottavino
G/S/vB 52.Rusin*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Difo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 24/17 .318/.375/.409/.784 .762/.790 1.071 24/.784 1/0 0/1

8.Espinosa# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 8/.714 2/1.500 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB 438/335 .218/.316/.396/.712 .721/.707 .689 87/.466 7/1 18/9

48.Goodwin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 13/11 .154/.154/.154/.308 .000/.364 13/.308 0/0 0/0

34.Harper* G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 3/.333 1/.000 1/no AB 4/.500 6/.900 458/328 .240/.382/.450/.832 .766/.859 .848 71/.677 15/7 20/2

14.Heisey G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.200 1/.000 2/.500 2/1.000 8/.250 122/77 .206/.295/.421/.716 .798/.668 .687 34/.622 0/1 6/0

20.Murphy* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· ··· 11/.955 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 4/1.250 3/.666 452/311 .347/.387/.612/.999 .921/1.034 1.043 85/.985 3/3 22/8

40.Ramos G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 5/.800 393/298 .331/.379/.546/.925 1.034/.892 .919 85/1.005 0/0 19/3

6.Rendon G/S/vP 2/1.500 ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 5/1.600 475/374 .263/.345/.446/.791 .803/.787 .786 97/.937 12/6 15/5

9.Revere* G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· ··· 5/1.850 10/.733 2/1.500 2/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 320/264 .215/.263/.303/.566 .606/.558 .534 74/.590 11/5 2/2

25.Robinson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 161/133 .227/.288/.362/.649 .481/.687 .731 34/.600 0/0 5/0

29.Severino G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/15 .417/.533/.417/.950 /.950 1.125 12/1.083 0/0 0/1

7.Turner G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 123/87 .314/.341/.525/.867 .621/.970 .877 100/.882 12/1 3/1

28.Werth G/S/vP 2/3.000 ··· ··· 2/no AB 6/.334 ··· 3/.333 5/.000 7/2.024 440/322 .255/.345/.445/.790 1.098/.677 .826 82/.996 4/1 16/1

IP 138.1 2.0 43.0 35.1 42.1 36.1 24.2 14.0 64.2 TOTAL .253/.326/.431/.757 .799/.743 .768 .783 80/29 156/47

ERA-K/9

5.27/6.8

4.50/9.0

5.23/10.3

2.80/10.2

5.74/5.3

4.95/7.7

5.11/6.6

0.00/10.3

4.18/6.4

4.87/7.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Ramos (28-15-7)
Severino (2-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 613/.292 11/.400 186/.224 140/.154 199/.291 164/.293 107/.260 54/.200 274/.268 .272 Harper
Werth
Revere
Goodwin
Turner
Robinson
Heisey 0/0/104/5
95/0/2/3
20/65/0/2
0/0/4/0
0/7/0/0
3/0/0/0
18/3/13/0

OPS .803 .855 .673 .512 .766 .854 .691 .459 .750 .779

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 293/.782 5/1.100 84/.523 90/.493 88/.927 53/.937 41/1.006 22/.725 80/.856 .790

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 320/.823 6/.667 102/.792 50/.544 111/.643 111/.815 66/.503 32/.285 194/.705 .771

Home 254/.819 / 114/.755 74/.625 121/.865 85/.891 44/.836 35/.504 107/.921

Last 28d days 130/.783 11/.855 48/.789 42/.548 42/.639 46/.833 50/.631 42/.487 42/.860

HR/SB/CS 17/4/3 0/0/0 4/6/1 1/1/0 2/6/0 6/1/0 2/1/0 0/1/0 4/4/2 123/71/20

Usage ····X··· ···X···· ·XX··X·o X····o·o oo·X·oX· ·XX·X·o· Xo·oX·X· o···oo·X ··X·X···

Rockies Batters (5.23 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (3.53 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 47.Gonzalez*
G/S/vB 18.Belisle
G/S/vB 27.Kelley
G/S/vB 43.Melancon
G/S/vB 46.Perez*
G/S/vB 52.Petit
G/S/vB 36.Solis*
G/S/vB 45.Treinen
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

18.Adames# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 162/118 .191/.288/.255/.543 .548/.541 .711 47/.397 2/2 1/2

28.Arenado G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/2.000 4/.000 3/.333 21/.536 ··· 2/.000 512/380 .280/.354/.552/.905 .936/.895 1.061 108/.871 2/3 30/8

19.Blackmon* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 4/.750 22/.686 1/.000 ··· 480/346 .323/.382/.541/.922 .857/.947 .895 121/1.123 15/6 21/3

26.Dahl* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 89/70 .337/.382/.566/.948 .947/.950 .978 89/.948 0/0 3/1

3.Descalso* G/S/vP 2/1.000 2/1.500 2/1.000 15/.742 1/.000 5/1.400 ··· 1/.000 165/144 .300/.394/.429/.823 .563/.861 .861 73/.708 1/0 3/4

5.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 6/.833 ··· 2/.000 4/.000 2/.500 14/.702 1/2.000 ··· 459/336 .323/.373/.566/.939 .855/.969 1.113 80/1.053 2/2 23/3

4.Hundley G/S/vP 6/.000 14/.000 4/.000 5/2.000 4/.250 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 236/164 .242/.315/.389/.704 .803/.658 .609 68/.563 0/0 5/4

9.LeMahieu G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 5/.733 3/.333 17/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 481/352 .337/.410/.482/.892 .933/.877 1.066 122/.947 9/6 8/5

8.Parra* G/S/vP 3/.000 14/1.012 ··· 12/.334 9/1.056 9/.778 ··· 2/1.500 282/204 .254/.263/.395/.658 .725/.633 .809 33/.364 6/4 5/5

10.Paulsen* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/2.000 82/77 .231/.268/.333/.602 1.400/.548 .636 12/.167 0/0 1/0

6.Raburn G/S/vP 14/1.879 ··· 4/.500 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 213/117 .223/.315/.413/.728 .785/.683 .750 38/.549 0/0 8/1

14.Wolters* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 177/145 .253/.339/.377/.716 .620/.738 .848 37/1.021 4/0 2/7

IP 133.2 32.1 43.0 48.2 32.1 49.2 38.1 48.0 TOTAL .273/.338/.456/.794 .779/.799 .890 .812 51/32 151/80

ERA-K/9

4.24/8.5

1.95/6.4

2.72/13.8

1.48/8.3

4.45/10.3

3.26/6.7

2.35/10.3

1.88/8.2

3.27/9.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Hundley (40-6-5)
Wolters (21-8-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 575/.253 128/.250 170/.219 186/.195 145/.244 203/.249 161/.219 185/.222 .231 Parra
Gonzalez
Blackmon
Raburn
Paulsen
Dahl
Descalso 54/11/13/9
0/0/108/6
0/104/0/3
40/0/2/1
7/0/0/0
20/1/3/0
7/0/0/0

OPS .720 .650 .709 .495 .721 .705 .622 .633 .664

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 113/.587 55/.550 62/.877 87/.552 75/.610 88/.922 61/.551 64/.673 .683

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 462/.753 73/.725 108/.614 99/.446 70/.841 115/.546 100/.668 121/.613 .648

Road 277/.737 59/.588 71/.839 81/.554 59/.830 124/.755 69/.584 90/.743

Last 28d days 120/.610 39/.660 30/.818 32/.250 32/.742 22/.981 36/.804 32/.464

HR/SB/CS 15/8/4 2/1/2 7/1/0 2/2/0 3/2/0 7/2/0 1/0/1 4/1/1 109/41/20

Usage ·····X·· Xo·o·o·· X·o··X·· o·o··o·· ·o·X·o·· ··o····· X·oo··X· o··o·oo·

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 2016 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

BOS 5.50

SFG 4.45

ATL 3.58

RA/G

CHC 3.41

TBR 4.42

ARI 5.53

J. Altuve .362

B. Zobrist .275

T. Frazier .210

OBP

J. Votto .428

B. Dozier .341

F. Galvis .264

SLG

D. Ortiz .621

M. Semien .452

E. Aybar .313

OPS

D. Ortiz 1.026

J. Schoop .793

A. Ramirez .605

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.79

H. Iwakuma 3.84

J. Shields 5.78

K/9IP

J. Fernandez 12.94

D. Keuchel 7.66

M. Perez 4.50

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.