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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs, at Busch Stadium III, April 19, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Start Time:

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

Venue:

Busch Stadium

Series:

Game #2 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

69° (based on last ten years)

Cubs

Manager:

Joe Maddon

Game #:

On This Date:

42-46

Cardinals

Manager:

Mike Matheny

Game #:

On This Date:

50-47

Season Series
Mon, Apr 18, 2016 CHC  5 @STL  0     

Tue, Apr 19, 2016 CHC    @STL  8:15pm
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 CHC    @STL  1:45pm
Mon, May 23, 2016 CHC    @STL  8:15pm
Tue, May 24, 2016 CHC    @STL  7:10pm
Wed, May 25, 2016 CHC    @STL  1:45pm
Mon, Jun 20, 2016 STL    @CHC  8:05pm
Tue, Jun 21, 2016 STL    @CHC  8:05pm
Wed, Jun 22, 2016 STL    @CHC  2:20pm
Thu, Aug 11, 2016 STL    @CHC  8:05pm
Fri, Aug 12, 2016 STL    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, Aug 13, 2016 STL    @CHC  2:20pm
Sun, Aug 14, 2016 STL    @CHC  3:33am
Mon, Sep 12, 2016 CHC    @STL  8:15pm
Tue, Sep 13, 2016 CHC    @STL  8:15pm
Wed, Sep 14, 2016 CHC    @STL  1:45pm
Fri, Sep 23, 2016 STL    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, Sep 24, 2016 STL    @CHC  3:33am
Sun, Sep 25, 2016 STL    @CHC  3:33am

                         All times ET

Chicago Cubs

10-3, 1st, 3 up / Schedule

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

 Home:    4-2    Road:    6-1    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   8-2    vsLHP:   2-1    1-Run:   0-1 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 4-0    vsWest:  4-3  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Mon, Apr 18  @STL  W   5-0       10-3   1st  3.0 up
 12 Sun, Apr 17   COL  L   0-2        9-3   1st  2.0 up
 11 Sat, Apr 16   COL  W   6-2        9-2   1st  3.0 up
 10 Fri, Apr 15   COL  L   1-6        8-2   1st  2.0 up
  9 Thu, Apr 14   CIN  W   8-1        8-1   1st  3.0 up
  8 Wed, Apr 13   CIN  W   9-2        7-1   1st  2.0 up
  7 Mon, Apr 11   CIN  W   5-3        6-1   1st  1.0 up
  6 Sun, Apr 10  @ARI  W   7-3        5-1   1st    Tied
  5 Sat, Apr  9  @ARI  W   4-2        4-1   1st    Tied
  4 Fri, Apr  8  @ARI  L   2-3        3-1   2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:10-3    Last 30:10-3

St. Louis Cardinals

7-6, 2nd, 3 GB, 1 GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:    4-3    Road:    3-3    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   7-3    vsLHP:   0-3    1-Run:   1-2 
 vsEast:  3-0    vsCntrl: 4-6    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Mon, Apr 18   CHC  L   0-5        7-6   2nd  3.0 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 17   CIN  W   4-3        7-5   2nd  2.0 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 16   CIN  L   8-9        6-5   2nd  3.0 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 15   CIN  W  14-3        6-4   2nd  2.0 gb
  9 Thu, Apr 14   MIL  W   7-0        5-4   2nd  3.0 gb
  8 Wed, Apr 13   MIL  L   4-6        4-4   4th  3.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr 11   MIL  W  10-1        4-3   4th  2.0 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 10  @ATL  W  12-7        3-3   4th  2.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  9  @ATL  W  12-2        2-3   4th  2.0 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  8  @ATL  W   7-4        1-3   5th  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20: 7-6    Last 30: 7-6

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 18, 2016 CHC  5 @STL  0        W:John Lackey (3-0), L: Mike Leake (0-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 20, 2015 STL  4 @CHC  3        W:Carlos Martinez (14-7), L: Jon Lester (10-11), S: Trevor Rosenthal (46)
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 CHC  5  STL  4        W:Trevor Cahill (1-3), L: Michael Wacha (16-6), S: Pedro Strop (3)
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 CHC  8  STL  3        W:Tommy Hunter (4-2), L: Seth Maness (4-2), S: none
Wed, Sep 09, 2015 STL  4  CHC  3        W:Jonathan Broxton (2-4), L: Clayton Richard (3-1), S: Trevor Rosenthal (43)
Tue, Sep 08, 2015 CHC  8 @STL  5        W:Jason Hammel (8-6), L: Michael Wacha (15-5), S: Hector Rondon (27)
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 CHC  9 @STL  0        W:Dan Haren (9-9), L: Lance Lynn (11-9), S: none
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 STL  6 @CHC  5        W:Miguel Socolovich (3-1), L: Pedro Strop (1-4), S: Trevor Rosenthal (25)
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CHC  5  STL  3        W:Travis Wood (5-3), L: Seth Maness (3-1), S: Jason Motte (5)
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 CHC  7  STL  4        W:Jake Arrieta (9-5), L: Tyler Lyons (2-1), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - CHC over 1-0; 2015 - STL won 11-8; 2014 - STL won 10-9; All-Time - CHC leads 1198-1147

SP: Jason Hammel (33, RHP, 1-0, 0.75)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (1-0)			12.0	8	1	1	7	9	0	0.75
2015 (10-7)			170.2	158	79	71	40	172	23	3.74
2014 (10-11)			176.1	154	70	68	44	158	23	3.47

Last 7 GS		4-1	35.2	34	15	14	15	33	3	3.53	52
2016-04-14	CIN	W	6.0	4	0	0	4	3	0	88	63
2016-04-08	@ARI	ND	6.0	4	1	1	3	6	0	89	63
2015-10-01	@CIN	W	5.0	5	0	0	0	5	0	86	62
2015-09-26	PIT	L	4.0	7	3	3	0	2	1	62	38
2015-09-21	MIL	W	5.0	5	4	3	1	6	1	104	48
2015-09-15	@PIT	ND	3.2	5	4	4	3	5	0	72	37
2015-09-08	@STL	W	6.0	4	3	3	4	6	1	101	54

Last 5 v.STL		1-2	22.1	22	15	15	9	25	1	6.04	48
2015-09-08	@STL	W	6.0	4	3	3	4	6	1	101	54
2015-07-08	STL	ND	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	12	54
2015-06-28	@STL	L	4.0	6	4	4	1	7	0	69	40
2014-05-15	@STL	L	5.1	5	5	5	2	6	0	106	42
2014-05-04	STL	ND	6.0	7	3	3	2	5	0	101	49

SP: Jaime Garcia (29, LHP, 1-0, 2.40)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (1-0)			15.0	6	4	4	4	19	0	2.40
2015 (10-6)			129.2	106	37	35	30	97	6	2.43
2014 (3-1)			43.2	39	20	20	7	39	6	4.12

Last 7 GS		3-2	44.2	38	18	18	13	43	2	3.63	57
2016-04-14	MIL	W	9.0	1	0	0	1	13	0	104	97
2016-04-08	@ATL	ND	6.0	5	4	4	3	6	0	94	49
2015-10-02	@ATL	L	4.0	6	2	2	2	5	1	72	45
2015-09-26	MIL	W	8.0	7	1	1	0	8	0	99	72
2015-09-21	CIN	ND	7.0	5	1	1	2	5	0	88	66
2015-09-16	@MIL	W	6.1	8	4	4	1	4	1	99	44
2015-09-10	@CIN	L	4.1	6	6	6	4	2	0	94	25

Last 5 v.CHC		2-1	35.0	35	10	8	6	21	1	2.06	58
2012-04-23	@CHC	ND	7.2	6	1	1	1	4	0	85	66
2011-08-19	@CHC	ND	6.1	9	3	3	2	1	1	92	42
2011-06-03	CHC	W	8.0	4	1	1	1	8	0	94	77
2011-05-12	@CHC	W	7.0	9	1	1	1	4	0	84	58
2010-09-13	CHC	L	6.0	7	4	2	1	4	0	87	49

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Cubs Batters (5.85 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 54.Garcia*
G/S/vB 67.Bowman
G/S/vB 30.Broxton
G/S/vB 70.Lyons*
G/S/vB 43.Maness
G/S/vB 26.Oh
G/S/vB 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

9.Baez G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 80/60 .289/.325/.408/.733 1.082/.617 .824 8/1.125 1/2 1/2

17.Bryant G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.500 8/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.600 650/505 .275/.369/.488/.858 .797/.875 .693 58/.751 13/4 26/17

24.Fowler# G/S/vP 12/.250 ··· 11/.664 8/.453 6/.167 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 690/536 .250/.346/.411/.757 .865/.726 .744 56/1.211 20/7 17/4

22.Heyward* G/S/vP 12/.334 ··· 5/.800 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/1.667 610/429 .293/.359/.439/.797 .709/.835 .773 55/.520 23/3 13/3

2.La Stella* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 75/71 .269/.324/.403/.727 .000/.771 .949 13/.692 2/0 1/1

47.Montero* G/S/vP 3/3.500 ··· 17/.912 5/.650 4/.833 ··· 3/.000 3/.333 403/347 .248/.345/.409/.754 .786/.749 .686 39/.853 1/1 15/12

44.Rizzo* G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/.555 15/.988 1/no AB ··· 7/.953 22/.507 701/503 .278/.387/.512/.899 .881/.905 .929 58/.758 17/6 31/9

3.Ross G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 182/132 .176/.267/.252/.518 .440/.549 .525 18/.619 1/0 1/1

27.Russell G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 4/1.167 7/1.715 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 523/403 .242/.307/.389/.696 .527/.746 .635 49/.688 4/3 13/13

68.Soler G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 7/.310 5/.400 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 404/312 .262/.324/.399/.723 .730/.720 .714 45/.689 3/1 10/1

20.Szczur G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 80/39 .222/.278/.333/.612 .725/.492 .626 17/1.113 2/0 1/0

18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 535/364 .276/.359/.450/.809 .926/.753 .767 55/.610 3/4 13/7

IP 129.2 60.1 60.0 63.1 68.2 74.2 TOTAL .248/.352/.406/.758 .640/.794 .829 .758 6/2 14/7

ERA-K/9

2.43/6.7

/0.0

4.62/9.4

3.75/9.0

4.26/6.5

/0.0

2.10/10.9

2.17/10.8

3.87/8.6

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Montero (71-18-3)
Ross (49-17-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 510/.225 / 257/.266 255/.252 270/.307 / 287/.238 312/.198 .241 Heyward
Fowler
Soler
Bryant
Zobrist
Szczur 0/10/144/10
0/152/0/5
0/0/95/4
8/7/7/1
45/0/5/1
26/6/4/0

OPS .574 .766 .751 .788 .619 .605 .675

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 113/.630 / 103/.833 63/.746 90/.845 / 125/.526 104/.811 .676

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 397/.557 / 154/.721 192/.752 180/.759 / 162/.686 208/.511 .675

Home 263/.501 / 109/.589 138/.791 140/.841 / 161/.723 166/.624

Last 28d days 56/.296 24/.673 20/.821 25/.566 23/1.086 25/.355 22/.589 19/.216

HR/SB/CS 6/3/2 // 7/2/1 12/4/0 7/1/0 // 3/2/1 4/5/4 6/2/4

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Cardinals Batters (6.54 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (2.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 39.Hammel
G/S/vB 53.Cahill
G/S/vB 52.Grimm
G/S/vB 54.Ramirez
G/S/vB 33.Richard*
G/S/vB 56.Rondon
G/S/vB 46.Strop
G/S/vB 43.Warren
G/S/vB 37.Wood*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

32.Adams* G/S/vP 6/.833 7/.929 6/.533 4/.500 3/.000 5/.000 8/.000 ··· 13/.462 186/159 .240/.280/.377/.657 .499/.683 .805 21/.588 1/0 5/3

13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 12/.417 11/1.091 4/.500 6/.333 12/1.144 8/1.000 7/.971 1/3.000 45/.761 665/454 .272/.365/.505/.871 .752/.926 .866 61/.927 4/3 28/14

36.Diaz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 37/1.232 / /

59.Fryer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/21 .227/.370/.318/.689 .167/.840 1.071 7/2.333 0/0 0/1

15.Grichuk G/S/vP 6/1.500 2/2.000 1/.000 3/.666 3/1.333 4/.250 4/.000 ··· 12/.788 350/232 .276/.329/.548/.877 .819/.907 .925 44/.758 4/2 17/3

3.Gyorko G/S/vP 8/.250 9/.708 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.250 3/.666 ··· 7/.000 458/335 .247/.297/.397/.694 .803/.654 .659 29/.699 0/1 16/3

41.Hazelbaker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / 43/1.111 / /

7.Holliday G/S/vP 14/1.136 16/1.583 5/.650 5/.000 15/.421 6/1.167 8/1.225 ··· 46/1.180 277/200 .279/.394/.410/.804 .796/.807 .807 50/.797 2/1 4/0

4.Molina G/S/vP 14/1.192 13/1.238 6/.900 2/.500 15/.421 7/1.285 7/.679 1/no AB 43/1.016 530/386 .270/.310/.350/.660 .577/.689 .678 52/.761 3/1 4/7

37.Moss* G/S/vP 11/.637 4/.833 6/1.700 1/2.000 3/.333 ··· 4/.500 6/1.500 1/.000 526/357 .226/.304/.407/.711 .721/.707 .597 40/.918 0/1 19/4

55.Piscotty G/S/vP 3/2.167 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 256/190 .305/.359/.494/.853 .887/.841 .929 57/.762 2/1 7/2

19.Tejada G/S/vP 3/.333 2/2.000 2/.000 ··· 8/.500 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 17/.437 407/310 .261/.338/.350/.688 .731/.675 .617 / 2/1 3/7

16.Wong* G/S/vP 3/1.000 5/.200 4/.500 5/.800 ··· 5/.000 6/.533 ··· 8/1.375 613/435 .262/.321/.386/.707 .552/.772 .686 43/.466 15/8 11/17

IP 170.2 43.1 49.2 14.0 42.1 70.0 68.0 131.1 100.2 TOTAL .268/.352/.490/.842 .733/.878 .910 .842 4/2 21/15

ERA-K/9

3.74/9.1

5.40/7.5

1.99/12.1

3.21/9.6

3.83/4.7

1.67/8.9

2.91/10.7

3.29/7.1

3.84/10.5

2.24/8.8

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Fryer (2-0-0)
Molina (37-26-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 710/.242 187/.267 204/.178 60/.231 181/.272 281/.212 270/.167 534/.236 419/.229 .197 Moss
Grichuk
Piscotty
Holliday 10/0/82/6
49/37/13/2
55/1/15/1
64/0/0/0

OPS .714 .725 .572 .685 .714 .568 .538 .648 .663 .549

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 324/.696 72/.684 67/.497 25/.606 67/.534 134/.640 105/.641 219/.603 145/.597 .678

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 386/.728 115/.751 137/.608 35/.737 114/.820 147/.503 165/.475 315/.680 274/.698 .480

Road 353/.674 83/.597 108/.672 26/.689 87/.653 131/.608 129/.544 288/.722 203/.706

Last 28d days 48/.581 20/.578 19/.684 13/.322 7/.762 9/.000 17/.294 10/.200 17/.735

HR/SB/CS 23/15/3 4/5/2 4/7/0 1/1/0 3/1/0 4/8/1 5/3/1 10/6/4 11/0/3 8/11/3

Usage ····X··· X··X·o·X ·X··X··· ···X·o·· ···X·o·· ·······o o·o·o··· ·o·····o X·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 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

For the 2015 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

TOR 5.50

CHC 4.25

ATL 3.54

RA/G

STL 3.24

NYY 4.31

COL 5.21

M. Cabrera .338

E. Longoria .270

J. Pederson .210

OBP

B. Harper .460

M. Duffy .334

W. Ramos .258

SLG

B. Harper .649

E. Longoria .435

A. Escobar .320

OPS

B. Harper 1.109

J. Pederson .763

C. Owings .587

ERA

Z. Greinke 1.66

J. Zimmermann 3.66

A. Simon 5.05

K/9IP

C. Sale 11.82

J. Teheran 7.67

M. Buehrle 4.12

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.