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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Nationals, at Busch Stadium III, April 30, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Start Time:
1:15ct (local), 2:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
70° (based on last ten years)
Nationals
Manager:
Dusty Baker
Game #:
24
On This Date:
22-20
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
24
On This Date:
57-47
Season Series
Fri, Apr 29, 2016 WSN  5 @STL  4     

Sat, Apr 30, 2016 WSN    @STL  2:15pm
Sun, May 01, 2016 WSN    @STL  2:15pm
Thu, May 26, 2016 STL    @WSN  7:05pm
Fri, May 27, 2016 STL    @WSN  7:05pm
Sat, May 28, 2016 STL    @WSN  7:15pm
Sun, May 29, 2016 STL    @WSN  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Washington Nationals
15-7, 1st, ½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-4    Road:    7-3    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  13-6    vsLHP:   2-1    1-Run:   4-2 
 vsEast: 11-7    vsCntrl: 1-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 22 Fri, Apr 29  @STL  W   5-4       15-7   1st  0.5 up
 21 Thu, Apr 28   PHI  L   0-3       14-7   1st  0.5 up
 20 Wed, Apr 27   PHI  L   0-3       14-6   1st  1.0 up
 19 Tue, Apr 26   PHI  L   3-4       14-5   1st  2.0 up
 18 Sun, Apr 24   MIN  W   6-5 (16)  14-4   1st  3.5 up
 17 Sat, Apr 23   MIN  W   2-0       13-4   1st  3.5 up
 16 Fri, Apr 22   MIN  W   8-4       12-4   1st  3.5 up
 15 Thu, Apr 21  @MIA  L   1-5       11-4   1st  3.5 up
 14 Wed, Apr 20  @MIA  W   3-1       11-3   1st  4.0 up
 13 Tue, Apr 19  @MIA  W   7-0       10-3   1st  3.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:15-7
St. Louis Cardinals
12-11, 3rd, 5½ GB / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-5    Road:    7-6    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  11-8    vsLHP:   1-3    1-Run:   1-4 
 vsEast:  3-1    vsCntrl: 5-7    vsWest:  4-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 23 Fri, Apr 29   WSN  L   4-5       12-11  3rd  5.5 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 28  @ARI  L   0-3       12-10  3rd  4.5 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 27  @ARI  W  11-4       12-9   3rd  3.5 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 26  @ARI  W   8-2       11-9   3rd  4.0 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 25  @ARI  L   7-12      10-9   3rd  4.0 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 24  @SDP  W   8-5       10-8   2nd  3.5 gb
 17 Sat, Apr 23  @SDP  W  11-2        9-8   2nd  3.5 gb
 16 Fri, Apr 22  @SDP  L   1-4        8-8   3rd  4.5 gb
 15 Wed, Apr 20   CHC  W   5-3        8-7   2nd  3.0 gb
 14 Tue, Apr 19   CHC  L   1-2        7-7   2nd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:12-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Apr 29, 2016 WSN  5 @STL  4        W:Stephen Strasburg (4-0), L: Mike Leake (0-3), S: Jonathan Papelbon (8)

Wed, Sep 02, 2015 WSN  4 @STL  3        W:Rafael Martin (1-0), L: Jonathan Broxton (1-4), S: Jonathan Papelbon (23)
Tue, Sep 01, 2015 STL  8  WSN  5        W:Mitch Harris (2-1), L: Casey Janssen (1-4), S: none
Mon, Aug 31, 2015 STL  8  WSN  5        W:Kevin Siegrist (6-1), L: Casey Janssen (1-3), S: Trevor Rosenthal (42)
Thu, Apr 23, 2015 STL  4 @WSN  1        W:Michael Wacha (3-0), L: Max Scherzer (1-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (6)
Wed, Apr 22, 2015 STL  7 @WSN  5        W:Kevin Siegrist (1-0), L: Blake Treinen (0-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (5)
Tue, Apr 21, 2015 WSN  2  STL  1 (10)   W:Aaron Barrett (2-0), L: Carlos Villanueva (1-1), S: none
Sun, Jun 15, 2014 STL  5  WSN  2        W:Jaime Garcia (3-0), L: Doug Fister (5-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (20)
Sat, Jun 14, 2014 STL  4  WSN  1        W:Randy Choate (1-2), L: Stephen Strasburg (6-5), S: Trevor Rosenthal (19)
Fri, Jun 13, 2014 STL  1  WSN  0        W:Lance Lynn (7-4), L: Jordan Zimmermann (5-3), S: Trevor Rosenthal (18)
Season Series: 2016 - WSN over 1-0; 2015 - STL won 4-2; 2014 - STL won 5-2; All-Time - STL leads 310-290

SP: Joe Ross (23, RHP, 2-0, 0.54)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (2-0) 16.2 9 1 1 5 10 0 0.54
2015 (5-5) 76.2 64 33 31 21 69 7 3.64
Last 7 GS 4-0 36.2 22 10 9 16 24 1 2.21 58
2016-04-20 @MIA ND 2.0 1 0 0 1 0 0 33 53
2016-04-15 @PHI W 7.2 3 0 0 2 5 0 107 76
2016-04-10 MIA W 7.0 5 1 1 2 5 0 97 66
2015-09-06 ATL ND 4.1 5 4 4 3 0 0 76 34
2015-09-01 @STL ND 2.2 1 3 3 6 3 0 68 41
2015-08-27 SDP W 6.0 1 1 0 2 7 0 77 73
2015-08-22 MIL W 7.0 6 1 1 0 4 1 82 65
Last 5 v.STL 0-0 2.2 1 3 3 6 3 0 10.13 41
2015-09-01 @STL ND 2.2 1 3 3 6 3 0 68 41

SP: Jaime Garcia (29, LHP, 1-1, 3.24)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (1-1) 25.0 18 10 9 11 29 0 3.24
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 2-2 44.0 36 14 13 15 47 1 2.66 60
2016-04-25 @ARI ND 5.0 8 4 3 3 3 0 92 37
2016-04-19 CHC L 5.0 4 2 2 4 7 0 98 54
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
Last 5 v.WSN 3-1 29.0 30 13 11 8 22 2 3.41 52
2014-06-15 WSN W 7.0 5 1 1 2 6 0 100 67
2013-04-24 @WSN W 5.2 4 1 1 1 3 0 89 59
2012-08-30 @WSN L 5.1 9 6 6 2 2 2 85 26
2011-06-14 @WSN ND 6.0 8 2 2 1 7 0 107 54
2011-04-20 WSN W 5.0 4 3 1 2 4 0 102 53

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

Nationals Batters (3.95 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.22 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/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
21.den Dekker* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 110/96 .253/.315/.485/.800 .522/.841 .564 30/.600 0/1 5/1
10.Drew* G/S/vP ··· ··· 17/.941 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 428/334 .201/.271/.381/.652 .690/.642 .693 25/.410 0/2 17/9
8.Espinosa# G/S/vP 14/.962 ··· 2/1.000 2/.500 1/2.000 1/2.000 5/.000 2/.500 412/313 .240/.311/.409/.719 .753/.709 .774 76/.578 5/2 13/3
34.Harper* G/S/vP 6/.834 1/no AB 1/no AB 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/.600 4/1.250 654/465 .330/.460/.649/1.109 .986/1.160 1.049 91/1.171 6/4 42/7
14.Heisey G/S/vP 21/.905 ··· ··· 2/1.000 4/.250 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 72/19 .182/.347/.327/.674 .570/.974 .477 24/.857 0/1 2/0
59.Lobaton# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 155/133 .199/.279/.294/.573 .403/.598 .595 26/.530 0/0 3/2
20.Murphy* G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 3/.666 1/.000 5/.200 1/2.000 538/404 .281/.322/.449/.770 .633/.817 .832 86/1.015 2/2 14/13
6.Rendon G/S/vP 6/.167 1/.000 2/no AB 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 355/288 .264/.344/.363/.707 .750/.697 .718 95/.571 1/2 5/4
25.Robinson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 352/314 .272/.358/.424/.782 .985/.757 .897 20/.206 0/0 10/5
29.Severino G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/4 .250/.250/.500/.750 /.750 .000 3/.333 0/0 0/0
3.Taylor G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 511/398 .229/.282/.358/.640 .667/.633 .636 82/.569 16/3 14/3
28.Werth G/S/vP 20/.821 ··· 12/.350 3/1.666 2/2.000 1/2.000 8/1.089 3/.000 378/293 .221/.302/.384/.685 .771/.658 .618 78/.664 0/1 12/2
11.Zimmerman G/S/vP 12/.334 ··· 9/.889 3/3.334 2/.000 1/.000 3/.333 1/5.000 390/289 .249/.308/.465/.773 1.058/.672 .723 79/.601 1/0 16/4
IP 129.2 60.1 60.0 63.1 68.2 74.2 TOTAL .232/.306/.388/.694 .847/.659 .726 .694 12/4 25/7
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 3.90/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lobaton (23-8-4)
 Severino (0-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 510/.225 / 257/.266 255/.252 270/.307 / 287/.238 312/.198 .241  Harper
 Taylor
 Werth
 Heisey
 den Dekker
 Zimmerman
 Espinosa
 Robinson
0/13/140/9
38/96/3/6
76/0/14/3
12/10/12/1
27/2/10/0
1/0/0/0
5/0/0/0
27/0/11/0
OPS .574 .766 .751 .788 .619 .605 .696
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 113/.630 / 103/.833 63/.746 90/.845 / 125/.526 104/.811 .666
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 397/.557 / 154/.721 192/.752 180/.759 / 162/.686 208/.511 .711
Home 263/.501 / 109/.589 138/.791 140/.841 / 161/.723 166/.624
Last 28d days 103/.534 42/.652 39/.589 36/.882 41/1.079 50/.364 30/.563 34/.590
HR/SB/CS 6/3/2 // 7/2/1 12/4/0 7/1/0 // 3/2/1 4/5/4 18/6/6
Usage ····X··· X·o·o·o· ··X··Xo· ···XX··· ····X··X X·X··oo· ·····X·· ·X··XX··

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 (6.13 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (2.68 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Ross
G/S/vB		 27.Kelley
G/S/vB		 58.Papelbon
G/S/vB		 46.Perez*
G/S/vB		 52.Petit
G/S/vB		 73.Rivero*
G/S/vB		 36.Solis*
G/S/vB		 45.Treinen
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Adams* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.500 2/3.000 ··· ··· 2/3.500 186/159 .240/.280/.377/.657 .499/.683 .805 45/.717 1/0 5/3
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 2/.500 1/2.000 2/.000 5/.200 6/.833 ··· ··· 3/2.000 665/454 .272/.365/.505/.871 .752/.926 .866 105/.825 4/3 28/14
36.Diaz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / 73/1.191 / /
59.Fryer G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/21 .227/.370/.318/.689 .167/.840 1.071 12/1.485 0/0 0/1
15.Grichuk G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 350/232 .276/.329/.548/.877 .819/.907 .925 83/.661 4/2 17/3
3.Gyorko G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 9/.000 ··· 1/5.000 3/.000 458/335 .247/.297/.397/.694 .803/.654 .659 61/.795 0/1 16/3
41.Hazelbaker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 66/1.049 / /
7.Holliday G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 5/.200 23/.620 6/.167 ··· ··· 2/2.000 277/200 .279/.394/.410/.804 .796/.807 .807 81/.893 2/1 4/0
4.Molina G/S/vP 2/no AB 1/.000 5/.400 23/.962 13/.930 2/.500 ··· 3/1.667 530/386 .270/.310/.350/.660 .577/.689 .678 90/.858 3/1 4/7
37.Moss* G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 5/.200 ··· ··· 2/2.000 526/357 .226/.304/.407/.711 .721/.707 .597 69/.868 0/1 19/4
55.Piscotty G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 256/190 .305/.359/.494/.853 .887/.841 .929 100/.892 2/1 7/2
19.Tejada G/S/vP 5/.000 3/.666 5/1.550 2/.000 3/1.000 4/.000 1/.000 5/.800 407/310 .261/.338/.350/.688 .731/.675 .617 13/.481 2/1 3/7
16.Wong* G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 4/2.083 4/1.000 4/1.500 2/1.000 ··· 3/1.667 613/435 .262/.321/.386/.707 .552/.772 .686 60/.516 15/8 11/17
IP 76.2 51.1 63.1 41.0 76.0 48.1 21.1 67.2 TOTAL .276/.354/.488/.842 .744/.869 .861 .842 9/4 34/21
ERA-K/9 3.64/8.1 2.45/11.1 2.13/8.0 4.17/11.2 3.67/7.0 2.79/8.0 3.38/7.2 3.86/8.6 2.42/8.6

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 314/.223 205/.220 260/.225 183/.239 316/.256 189/.199 94/.291 280/.254 .213  Moss
 Grichuk
 Piscotty
 Holliday
10/0/82/6
49/37/13/2
55/1/15/1
64/0/0/0
OPS .628 .596 .640 .681 .743 .544 .718 .692 .595
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 154/.809 90/.667 129/.786 98/.517 137/.828 91/.486 34/.718 127/.934 .611
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 160/.461 115/.536 131/.495 85/.881 179/.680 98/.600 60/.718 153/.493 .581
Road 142/.777 106/.677 86/.691 79/.630 185/.858 89/.461 45/.925 147/.630
Last 28d days 62/.474 27/.453 41/.718 26/.580 50/.578 45/.562 6/1.133 34/.634
HR/SB/CS 7/1/1 4/1/3 7/4/0 4/2/0 11/4/0 2/4/1 2/0/0 4/4/2 14/6/5
Usage ········ ·o·o···o oX···oo· ···o·Xo· ·····X·· ·X·X·X·X ··X····· X·X···oX

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

 BA

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.