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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Oakland Athletics, at Busch Stadium III, August 28, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Start Time:
1:15ct (local), 2:15et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
83° (based on last ten years)
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
131
On This Date:
57-49
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
131
On This Date:
67-52
Season Series
Fri, Aug 26, 2016 STL  3  OAK  1     
Sat, Aug 27, 2016 OAK  3 @STL  2     

Sun, Aug 28, 2016 OAK    @STL  2:15pm

                         All times ET
Oakland Athletics
56-73, 4th, 19½ GB, 16 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-36   Road:   26-37   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  43-52   vsLHP:  13-21   1-Run:  20-20
 vsEast: 15-15   vsCntrl:13-16   vsWest: 22-29 IL: 6-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
129 Sat, Aug 27  @STL  W   3-2       56-73  4th 19.5 gb
128 Fri, Aug 26  @STL  L   1-3       55-73  4th 19.5 gb
127 Wed, Aug 24   CLE  W   5-1       55-72  4th 19.0 gb
126 Tue, Aug 23   CLE  W   9-1       54-72  4th 19.0 gb
125 Mon, Aug 22   CLE  L   0-1       53-72  4th 20.0 gb
124 Sun, Aug 21  @CHW  L   2-4       53-71  4th 19.5 gb
123 Sat, Aug 20  @CHW  L   2-6       53-70  4th 19.5 gb
122 Fri, Aug 19  @CHW  W   9-0       53-69  4th 19.5 gb
121 Wed, Aug 17  @TEX  L   2-6       52-69  4th 19.5 gb
120 Tue, Aug 16  @TEX  L   4-5 (10)  52-68  4th 18.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:11-19
St. Louis Cardinals
68-60, 2nd, 14 GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-36   Road:   38-24   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  50-39   vsLHP:  18-21   1-Run:  18-19
 vsEast: 17-16   vsCntrl:28-22   vsWest: 15-11 IL: 8-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
128 Sat, Aug 27   OAK  L   2-3       68-60  2nd 14.0 gb
127 Fri, Aug 26   OAK  W   3-1       68-59  2nd 14.0 gb
126 Thu, Aug 25   NYM  L   6-10      67-59  2nd 14.0 gb
125 Wed, Aug 24   NYM  W   8-1       67-58  2nd 13.5 gb
124 Tue, Aug 23   NYM  L   4-7       66-58  2nd 13.5 gb
123 Sun, Aug 21  @PHI  W   9-0       66-57  2nd 12.0 gb
122 Sat, Aug 20  @PHI  L   2-4       65-57  2nd 13.0 gb
121 Fri, Aug 19  @PHI  W   4-3 (11)  65-56  2nd 12.0 gb
120 Wed, Aug 17  @HOU  W   8-2       64-56  2nd 12.5 gb
119 Tue, Aug 16  @HOU  W   8-5       63-56  2nd 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 27, 2016 OAK  3 @STL  2        W:Daniel Coulombe (2-1), L: Matthew Bowman (2-5), S: Ryan Madson (26)
Fri, Aug 26, 2016 STL  3  OAK  1        W:Luke Weaver (1-1), L: Ross Detwiler (1-3), S: Seung-hwan Oh (13)

Sun, Jun 30, 2013 OAK  7  STL  5        W:Tommy Milone (7-7), L: Jake Westbrook (4-3), S: Grant Balfour (19)
Sat, Jun 29, 2013 STL  7 @OAK  1        W:Adam Wainwright (11-5), L: Jesse Chavez (1-2), S: none
Fri, Jun 28, 2013 OAK  6  STL  1        W:Bartolo Colon (11-2), L: Shelby Miller (8-6), S: none
Sun, Jun 20, 2010 OAK  3 @STL  2        W:Craig Breslow (2-1), L: Blake Hawksworth (1-4), S: Andrew Bailey (13)
Sat, Jun 19, 2010 STL  4  OAK  3        W:Adam Wainwright (10-4), L: Ben Sheets (2-7), S: Jason Motte (2)
Fri, Jun 18, 2010 STL  6  OAK  4        W:Chris Carpenter (8-1), L: Brad Ziegler (2-4), S: Ryan Franklin (13)
Sun, Jun 17, 2007 STL 10 @OAK  6        W:Russ Springer (3-0), L: Colby Lewis (0-2), S: none
Sat, Jun 16, 2007 STL 15 @OAK  6        W:Russ Springer (2-0), L: Lenny DiNardo (2-3), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - tied 1-1; 2015 -  0-0; 2014 -  0-0; All-Time - STL leads 9-5

SP: Andrew Triggs (27, RHP, 0-1, 4.38)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-1) 49.1 51 26 24 13 46 4 4.38
Last 7 GS 0-1 19.2 15 6 5 1 14 1 2.29 55
2016-08-22 CLE ND 6.0 3 0 0 1 6 0 89 71
2016-08-16 @TEX ND 5.2 2 1 1 0 2 0 75 63
2016-08-11 BAL L 4.0 5 3 3 0 4 0 66 44
2016-07-17 TOR ND 1.0 2 1 0 0 1 0 23 48
2016-06-18 LAA ND 3.0 3 1 1 0 1 1 50 50
Has never faced STL as starter.

SP: Jaime Garcia (29, LHP, 10-9, 4.37)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (10-9) 146.1 149 76 71 47 122 18 4.37
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 4-3 39.0 41 23 22 9 33 8 5.08 49
2016-08-23 NYM L 4.0 7 6 6 1 6 2 64 29
2016-08-16 @HOU W 5.0 7 5 5 3 2 3 97 32
2016-08-10 CIN W 8.0 6 2 2 1 4 1 85 65
2016-08-05 ATL W 8.0 3 0 0 1 11 0 89 86
2016-07-30 @MIA L 3.1 7 6 6 1 2 1 59 23
2016-07-26 @NYM L 5.0 5 3 2 0 4 0 77 51
2016-07-20 SDP W 5.2 6 1 1 2 4 1 94 55
Has never faced OAK as starter.

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

Athletics Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.34 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		 29.Duke*
G/S/vB		 26.Oh
G/S/vB		 61.Reyes
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 63.Socolovich
G/S/vB		 38.Williams
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
30.Alcantara# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 14/10 .214/.214/.214/.429 .500/.400 .444 1/.000 2/2 0/0
17.Alonso* G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 424/364 .251/.311/.368/.679 .509/.707 .784 81/.768 2/1 7/5
4.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 24/.440 430/339 .237/.301/.404/.705 .592/.735 .794 79/.612 7/5 11/3
2.Davis G/S/vP 10/.311 1/2.000 5/1.000 2/5.000 ··· 2/.000 3/1.000 ··· 6/.833 486/367 .257/.300/.528/.828 .856/.819 .814 97/.942 1/2 33/1
39.Eibner G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 123/67 .216/.279/.405/.684 .761/.619 .507 38/.627 0/0 5/0
48.Healy G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 145/108 .281/.306/.468/.773 .577/.841 .705 88/.835 0/0 6/5
63.Maxwell* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 31/20 .138/.194/.207/.400 .273/.472 .490 22/.477 0/0 0/0
12.Muncy* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 108/105 .194/.306/.280/.585 .000/.603 .516 63/.509 0/0 2/1
18.Pinder G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 19/13 .167/.158/.167/.325 .333/.321 .250 19/.325 0/0 0/1
10.Semien G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 486/363 .238/.300/.443/.743 .928/.678 .732 87/.681 9/1 23/16
5.Smolinski G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· 226/142 .272/.341/.411/.752 1.017/.595 .611 81/.589 1/2 7/1
26.Valencia G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.900 403/289 .298/.350/.470/.820 .972/.762 1.029 83/.766 0/0 15/13
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 7/.429 398/337 .259/.304/.414/.718 .523/.753 .704 74/.594 0/0 10/6
IP 146.1 55.2 49.0 49.0 67.0 14.0 48.2 3.2 12.1 TOTAL .249/.303/.399/.702 .699/.703 .730 .682 44/18 139/76
ERA-K/9 4.37/7.5 3.56/6.6 4.41/7.7 2.20/10.3 1.75/11.6 0.64/10.9 2.96/9.1 2.45/12.2 4.38/5.1 3.99/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Maxwell (5-0-0)
 Vogt (40-17-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 629/.263 226/.220 214/.228 206/.215 258/.169 55/.149 194/.193 14/.083 56/.288 .253  Crisp
 Valencia
 Davis
 Smolinski
 Muncy
 Alcantara
 Eibner
57/36/0/4
0/0/15/3
70/0/0/2
9/32/24/1
0/0/12/1
0/0/1/0
10/0/20/0
OPS .741 .604 .675 .619 .463 .443 .642 .548 .935 .709
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 124/.694 84/.546 84/.747 92/.597 122/.442 18/.572 61/.745 6/1.500 21/.293 .709
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 505/.753 142/.637 130/.629 114/.636 136/.480 37/.370 133/.595 8/.000 35/1.332 .709
Home 351/.635 139/.604 109/.826 118/.599 136/.513 33/.451 104/.561 14/.548 14/.714
Last 28d days 104/.778 45/.762 39/1.067 47/.499 50/.485 55/.443 36/.802 / 38/1.118
HR/SB/CS 18/8/3 3/2/1 5/6/1 2/0/0 3/1/1 0/0/1 8/5/0 1/1/0 4/0/0 120/60/19
Usage ····X··· Xo····o· o·X····o X···X··o oo·o···· X···X··· ·XX····· ········ ··o···o·
Cardinals Batters (4.98 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.68 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Triggs
G/S/vB		 61.Axford
G/S/vB		 57.Coulombe*
G/S/vB		 66.Dull
G/S/vB		 31.Hendriks
G/S/vB		 44.Madson
G/S/vB		 56.Smith
G/S/vB		 64.Wendelken
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP ··· 10/.786 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 433/290 .281/.395/.524/.919 .823/.967 .878 82/.644 0/2 16/12
35.Garcia* G/S/vP ··· 2/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 211/169 .256/.374/.352/.727 .537/.777 .709 69/.472 1/1 3/6
15.Grichuk G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 344/237 .236/.291/.487/.778 .712/.807 .893 51/1.233 3/1 18/1
3.Gyorko G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 320/196 .249/.309/.502/.811 .669/.900 .811 93/.861 0/0 22/6
41.Hazelbaker* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 196/157 .251/.311/.509/.819 .615/.874 .686 28/1.101 5/2 11/4
4.Molina G/S/vP ··· 18/.398 1/no AB ··· ··· 11/.311 1/3.000 1/.000 462/335 .286/.344/.388/.732 .732/.732 .726 88/.814 3/2 4/1
37.Moss* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/1.232 4/1.250 ··· 1/.000 350/250 .267/.340/.579/.919 .770/.980 .823 100/.939 1/0 25/3
27.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 1/no AB 5/.650 2/2.000 ··· ··· 202/141 .251/.282/.419/.701 .544/.768 .729 82/.740 0/0 6/3
28.Pham G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 158/98 .244/.350/.496/.847 .833/.855 .770 46/.971 1/2 9/0
55.Piscotty G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 520/373 .276/.349/.475/.824 .992/.760 .855 103/.799 6/5 20/4
68.Rosario G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/22 .214/.267/.250/.517 .250/.591 .277 9/.444 0/0 0/0
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.667 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 290/234 .236/.324/.319/.643 .604/.653 .632 39/.576 5/0 2/6
IP 49.1 52.0 36.1 63.1 49.2 53.2 7.0 6.1 TOTAL .258/.329/.449/.778 .731/.796 .760 .797 29/20 183/88
ERA-K/9 4.38/8.4 4.50/8.7 4.21/8.7 2.27/8.5 3.99/9.6 3.19/7.4 2.57/10.3 7.11/7.1 4.52/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Molina (44-13-7)
 Rosario (10-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 211/.263 234/.261 148/.209 244/.176 210/.281 217/.241 27/.167 29/.240 .264  Grichuk
 Piscotty
 Pham
 Moss
 Wong
 Hazelbaker
4/81/3/6
0/10/113/4
15/33/1/2
33/0/19/2
5/8/2/0
45/21/4/0
OPS .716 .737 .644 .557 .707 .683 .551 .705 .751
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 100/.704 105/.692 58/.633 82/.614 80/.588 100/.679 13/.585 14/.368 .728
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 111/.727 129/.774 90/.652 162/.527 130/.783 117/.687 14/.500 15/1.050 .766
Road 109/.758 109/.696 61/.580 119/.576 97/.851 107/.756 3/.000 29/.705
Last 28d days 77/.483 48/.491 48/.506 41/.896 49/.627 32/.349 27/.551 4/.250
HR/SB/CS 4/1/1 6/2/0 5/2/1 9/2/1 5/8/0 7/7/1 1/0/0 1/1/0 153/60/19
Usage ·····X·· ·X··X··o o·····XX ·o·X·Xo· o····XX· X··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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.43

ARI  4.53

ATL  3.70

 RA/G

CHC  3.41

PIT  4.46

ARI  5.64

 BA

J. Altuve  .356

D. Freese  .273

T. Frazier  .217

 OBP

J. Votto  .435

M. Napoli  .340

F. Galvis  .266

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .629

A. Jones  .456

E. Aybar  .319

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.037

S. Marte  .801

E. Aybar  .611

 ERA

K. Hendricks  2.19

T. Bauer  3.88

J. Shields  5.98

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.89

H. Santiago  7.67

M. Perez  4.56

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.