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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, at Busch Stadium III, May 6, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, May 6, 2016
Start Time:
7:15ct (local), 8:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
73° (based on last ten years)
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
30
On This Date:
51-58
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
30
On This Date:
52-55
Season Series
Sun, Apr 03, 2016 PIT  4  STL  1     
Tue, Apr 05, 2016 PIT  6  STL  5 (11)
Wed, Apr 06, 2016 PIT  5  STL  1     

Fri, May 06, 2016 PIT    @STL  8:15pm
Sat, May 07, 2016 PIT    @STL  2:15pm
Sun, May 08, 2016 PIT    @STL  2:15pm
Fri, Jun 10, 2016 STL    @PIT  7:05pm
Sat, Jun 11, 2016 STL    @PIT  7:15pm
Sun, Jun 12, 2016 STL    @PIT  5:05pm
Mon, Jul 04, 2016 PIT    @STL  2:15pm
Tue, Jul 05, 2016 PIT    @STL  8:15pm
Wed, Jul 06, 2016 PIT    @STL  8:15pm
Thu, Jul 07, 2016 PIT    @STL  1:45pm
Mon, Sep 05, 2016 STL    @PIT  4:05pm
Tue, Sep 06, 2016 STL    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, Sep 07, 2016 STL    @PIT  7:05pm
Fri, Sep 30, 2016 PIT    @STL  8:15pm
Sat, Oct 01, 2016 PIT    @STL  4:15pm
Sun, Oct 02, 2016 PIT    @STL  3:15pm

                         All times ET
Pittsburgh Pirates
15-13, 2nd, 6½ GB / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-7    Road:    8-6    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  12-11   vsLHP:   3-2    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 8-7    vsWest:  6-3  IL: 1-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 28 Wed, May  4   CHC  L   2-6       15-13  2nd  6.0 gb
 27 Tue, May  3   CHC  L   1-7       15-12  2nd  5.0 gb
 26 Mon, May  2   CHC  L   2-7       15-11  2nd  4.0 gb
 25 Sun, May  1   CIN  L   5-6 (11)  15-10  2nd  3.0 gb
 24 Sat, Apr 30   CIN  W   5-1       15-9   2nd  3.0 gb
 23 Fri, Apr 29   CIN  W   4-1       14-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 27  @COL  W   9-8 (12)  13-9   2nd  3.0 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 26  @COL  W   9-4       12-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 20 Mon, Apr 25  @COL  W   6-1       11-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 24  @ARI  W  12-10(13)  10-9   3rd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-13
St. Louis Cardinals
15-14, 3rd, 7 GB / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-8    Road:    7-6    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  13-11   vsLHP:   2-3    1-Run:   2-5 
 vsEast:  6-4    vsCntrl: 5-7    vsWest:  4-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Thu, May  5   PHI  W   4-0       15-14  3rd  7.0 gb
 28 Wed, May  4   PHI  W   5-4       14-14  3rd  7.0 gb
 27 Tue, May  3   PHI  L   0-1       13-14  3rd  7.0 gb
 26 Mon, May  2   PHI  W  10-3       13-13  3rd  6.0 gb
 25 Sun, May  1   WSN  L   1-6       12-13  3rd  6.0 gb
 24 Sat, Apr 30   WSN  L   1-6       12-12  3rd  6.0 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Apr 06, 2016 PIT  5  STL  1        W:Juan Nicasio (1-0), L: Mike Leake (0-1), S: Mark Melancon (1)
Tue, Apr 05, 2016 PIT  6  STL  5 (11)   W:Kyle Lobstein (1-0), L: Seth Maness (0-1), S: none
Sun, Apr 03, 2016 PIT  4  STL  1        W:Francisco Liriano (1-0), L: Adam Wainwright (0-1), S: none

Wed, Sep 30, 2015 STL 11 @PIT  1        W:Tyler Lyons (3-1), L: Charlie Morton (9-9), S: none
Wed, Sep 30, 2015 PIT  8  STL  2        W:Gerrit Cole (19-8), L: Michael Wacha (17-7), S: none
Mon, Sep 28, 2015 STL  3 @PIT  0        W:Jonathan Broxton (4-5), L: Mark Melancon (3-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (48)
Sun, Sep 06, 2015 PIT  7 @STL  1        W:Gerrit Cole (16-8), L: John Lackey (11-9), S: none
Sat, Sep 05, 2015 STL  4  PIT  1        W:Jaime Garcia (8-4), L: Charlie Morton (8-7), S: none
Fri, Sep 04, 2015 PIT  9 @STL  3        W:J.A. Happ (8-7), L: Carlos Martinez (13-7), S: none
Thu, Aug 13, 2015 PIT 10 @STL  5        W:Francisco Liriano (8-6), L: Lance Lynn (9-7), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - PIT over 3-0; 2015 - STL won 10-9; 2014 - STL won 11-8; All-Time - PIT leads 1241-1180

SP: Francisco Liriano (32, LHP, 2-1, 3.86)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (2-1) 28.0 24 12 12 17 29 5 3.86
2015 (12-7) 186.2 155 75 70 70 205 15 3.38
2014 (7-10) 162.1 130 68 61 81 175 13 3.38
Last 7 GS 3-1 40.2 35 16 16 20 43 6 3.54 55
2016-04-30 CIN W 6.2 5 1 1 0 6 0 109 66
2016-04-24 @ARI ND 6.0 5 4 4 3 6 2 97 49
2016-04-19 @SDP L 4.1 6 4 4 5 4 2 100 34
2016-04-08 @CIN ND 5.0 5 3 3 4 3 1 90 44
2016-04-03 STL W 6.0 3 0 0 5 10 0 94 71
2015-10-02 CIN ND 5.0 7 4 4 0 5 1 91 42
2015-09-26 @CHC W 7.2 4 0 0 3 9 0 113 77
Last 5 v.STL 2-1 32.2 23 12 11 17 35 3 3.03 60
2016-04-03 STL W 6.0 3 0 0 5 10 0 94 71
2015-08-13 @STL W 6.0 6 3 3 4 5 0 94 49
2015-07-12 STL ND 6.1 5 2 2 4 6 1 108 57
2015-05-08 STL L 6.1 6 6 5 1 10 2 98 48
2015-05-02 @STL ND 8.0 3 1 1 3 4 0 98 73

SP: Carlos Martinez (24, RHP, 4-1, 2.60)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (4-1) 34.2 23 10 10 8 28 4 2.60
2015 (14-7) 179.2 168 65 60 63 184 13 3.01
2014 (2-4) 89.1 90 41 40 36 84 4 4.03
Last 7 GS 5-1 41.2 28 12 12 11 34 4 2.59 61
2016-05-01 WSN L 6.2 7 4 4 0 8 2 87 52
2016-04-26 @ARI W 8.0 3 0 0 1 4 0 105 79
2016-04-20 CHC W 7.0 3 1 1 3 5 1 97 69
2016-04-15 CIN W 7.0 6 3 3 1 6 1 89 58
2016-04-09 @ATL W 6.0 4 2 2 3 5 0 99 58
2015-09-25 MIL ND 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 49
2015-09-20 @CHC W 6.2 4 2 2 3 6 0 104 61
Last 5 v.PIT 2-2 31.2 35 18 18 11 34 4 5.12 50
2015-09-04 PIT L 5.0 7 4 4 3 5 0 100 39
2015-08-11 PIT W 8.0 9 3 3 0 8 1 108 60
2015-07-09 @PIT W 7.1 4 0 0 2 8 0 108 76
2015-05-09 @PIT L 5.1 7 7 7 4 7 1 89 29
2014-07-08 PIT ND 6.0 8 4 4 2 6 2 85 44

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

Pirates Batters (4.93 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.03 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Martinez
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
29.Cervelli G/S/vP 11/.586 1/.000 6/.167 6/.334 6/1.167 ··· 5/.400 4/.250 107/89 .307/.421/.364/.784 .984/.745 .796 89/.769 1/2 0/4
23.Freese G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 7/.572 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 117/104 .291/.376/.388/.764 1.308/.688 .718 98/.763 0/0 1/3
5.Harrison G/S/vP 6/.334 1/.000 7/.572 17/.882 11/.900 ··· 7/.286 6/.334 112/91 .320/.351/.417/.769 .950/.727 .837 94/.843 5/0 1/5
28.Jaso* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 106/104 .277/.349/.426/.775 .500/.776 .822 89/.803 0/0 2/0
17.Joyce* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 45/39 .371/.511/.771/1.283 1.417/1.261 1.036 41/1.380 0/1 4/0
6.Marte G/S/vP 16/.938 ··· 9/2.492 13/1.112 9/.858 1/.000 9/.666 5/.000 121/102 .315/.372/.486/.858 .610/.904 .943 103/.838 7/2 3/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 22/.808 1/2.000 13/1.218 16/.783 15/.750 1/no AB 16/.976 10/1.025 127/108 .229/.339/.450/.788 1.094/.727 .738 108/.772 1/2 6/1
10.Mercer G/S/vP 14/.643 1/.000 7/.500 13/.641 16/.624 1/.000 7/.572 6/.500 118/93 .313/.391/.394/.785 1.046/.718 .902 100/.774 1/0 1/3
25.Polanco* G/S/vP 17/1.629 1/.000 5/.650 10/.200 7/.629 ··· 6/.666 1/.000 122/97 .300/.405/.510/.915 .688/.970 1.004 104/.894 2/3 3/1
3.Rodriguez G/S/vP 4/.833 1/no AB 4/.500 6/.733 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 2/1.500 48/31 .333/.417/.714/1.131 1.271/1.054 .939 46/1.074 0/0 4/1
19.Stewart G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 1/3.000 27/21 .208/.296/.375/.671 .167/.807 .938 27/.671 0/0 1/1
IP 34.2 12.0 12.0 10.0 9.1 15.2 9.0 11.0 TOTAL .282/.366/.431/.797 .883/.779 .825 .799 17/10 26/23
ERA-K/9 2.60/7.3 2.25/7.5 1.50/9.0 5.40/5.4 5.79/3.9 1.72/11.5 2.00/17.0 2.45/13.9 3.74/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cervelli (15-6-2)
 Stewart (4-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 135/.184 48/.205 54/.163 42/.270 47/.390 61/.148 38/.229 43/.175 .235  Marte
 Polanco
 McCutchen
 Joyce
 Rodriguez
26/3/0/4
2/1/26/3
0/27/0/2
3/0/4/0
1/0/1/0
OPS .543 .566 .617 .928 1.045 .437 .604 .558 .679
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/.750 17/.307 21/1.286 12/.567 12/.633 29/.526 17/.494 11/.697 .684
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 61/.303 31/.690 33/.255 30/1.067 35/1.180 32/.360 21/.686 32/.510 .675
Home 82/.624 28/.494 29/.823 18/.863 11/1.232 35/.619 19/.728 21/.333
Last 28d days 135/.543 40/.599 48/.675 35/.920 35/1.013 49/.438 32/.723 36/.672
HR/SB/CS 4/0/0 1/0/1 1/1/0 3/0/0 0/1/1 0/0/1 1/0/0 1/1/0 25/6/7
Usage ····X··· ·X····X· o·o··X·· ····X··· ···X·o·· ·o·oX·X· X····o·· ·o·oo··X
Cardinals Batters (5.59 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.82 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 37.Caminero
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 53.Lobstein*
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 31.Schugel
G/S/vB		 14.Vogelsong
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Adams* G/S/vP 13/.718 2/.000 ··· 5/.000 1/.000 6/.000 ··· 3/.000 8/.536 62/53 .281/.339/.491/.830 .222/.940 1.224 53/.910 0/1 3/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 34/.574 3/1.666 ··· 10/.829 ··· 11/.364 ··· 18/.944 16/.266 128/94 .240/.370/.423/.793 .702/.823 .764 109/.872 0/0 3/3
36.Diaz G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 90/68 .381/.422/.679/1.101 1.076/1.109 .827 86/1.069 1/0 5/5
59.Fryer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/10 .583/.643/.750/1.393 .833/1.589 1.616 14/1.393 0/0 0/0
15.Grichuk G/S/vP 9/.888 4/.750 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 4/.833 99/74 .182/.263/.375/.638 .478/.688 .722 85/.727 2/0 4/0
3.Gyorko G/S/vP 14/.368 1/.000 1/.000 5/.400 1/2.000 3/.666 1/.000 15/.933 1/.000 68/48 .226/.294/.468/.762 .689/.792 .644 53/.781 0/0 4/3
41.Hazelbaker* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 77/66 .309/.355/.647/1.002 1.091/.985 .804 71/.891 2/2 5/2
7.Holliday G/S/vP 31/.990 2/.000 1/.000 10/1.300 1/no AB 9/.347 ··· 16/.661 15/.557 102/79 .253/.333/.473/.806 .611/.857 .849 84/.833 0/0 3/0
4.Molina G/S/vP 28/.671 4/.000 1/no AB 11/.364 1/.000 8/1.071 ··· 25/.497 11/.191 113/90 .323/.407/.424/.831 .648/.878 .995 96/.891 1/0 0/0
37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 3/.666 2/1.000 7/1.238 3/.000 ··· 7/1.029 1/.000 88/71 .234/.318/.545/.864 .899/.853 .823 79/.909 0/0 7/1
55.Piscotty G/S/vP 6/.167 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/1.267 4/1.167 123/96 .301/.358/.496/.853 1.328/.731 .675 105/.852 1/1 4/0
19.Tejada G/S/vP 6/1.000 2/.000 2/1.000 4/1.417 ··· 2/.000 ··· 9/.708 2/.000 23/13 .190/.217/.286/.503 .856/.237 .439 23/.503 0/0 0/3
16.Wong* G/S/vP 22/.409 4/3.500 ··· 5/.000 1/.000 7/.143 ··· 7/.453 9/.833 75/65 .219/.307/.266/.572 .700/.545 .565 60/.553 2/0 1/4
IP 28.0 13.2 11.0 2.2 20.0 11.1 14.0 15.0 13.2 TOTAL .270/.344/.473/.816 .771/.829 .805 .839 9/4 41/25
ERA-K/9 3.86/9.3 5.27/8.5 4.91/12.3 3.38/3.3 3.60/6.3 3.18/8.0 3.21/9.0 3.60/6.0 3.29/7.2 4.23/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Fryer (1-2-0)
 Molina (5-5-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 126/.233 66/.278 45/.220 14/.333 84/.257 47/.250 58/.218 62/.200 57/.213 .259  Grichuk
 Piscotty
 Moss
 Hazelbaker
 Holliday
0/24/0/1
0/2/25/1
9/0/3/0
11/8/2/0
21/0/0/0
OPS .738 .909 .728 .906 .756 .639 .604 .745 .798 .776
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 26/.451 30/.944 16/.388 6/1.600 20/.150 18/.528 25/.598 22/.837 15/1.051 .727
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 100/.812 36/.873 29/.922 8/.661 64/.941 29/.703 33/.606 40/.694 42/.714 .798
Road 73/.968 23/.990 30/.744 / 55/.748 26/.683 28/.714 29/.693 26/.869
Last 28d days 77/.773 56/1.002 36/.879 14/.906 77/.783 33/.658 58/.604 52/.799 48/.869
HR/SB/CS 5/2/0 2/0/2 2/2/0 0/0/1 2/0/0 1/1/0 1/0/1 3/2/0 3/2/0 34/19/8
Usage ·····X·· ···XX·X· ·····o·· ·oX·X··· ···X···· ·o···oo· ··Xo·o·· ·X··X··· ·X···XX·

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

CHC  6.07

TOR  4.17

ATL  3.07

 RA/G

CHC  2.52

OAK  4.17

MIL  5.96

 BA

N. Castellanos  .383

G. Springer  .265

R. Goins  .153

 OBP

D. Fowler  .462

M. Holliday  .333

R. Goins  .191

 SLG

C. Carter  .695

A. Beltre  .435

E. Aybar  .208

 OPS

J. Altuve  1.104

J. Werth  .772

E. Aybar  .408

 ERA

J. Zimmermann  .55

D. Straily  3.56

J. Peavy  9.00

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.55

J. Lackey  7.84

J. Weaver  4.45

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.