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Chicago Cubs vs. Washington Nationals, at Wrigley Field, May 5, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Start Time:
7:05ct (local), 8:05et
Venue:
Wrigley Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
60° (based on last ten years)
Nationals
Manager:
Dusty Baker
Game #:
29
On This Date:
22-19
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
29
On This Date:
54-52
Season Series

Thu, May 05, 2016 WSN    @CHC  8:05pm
Fri, May 06, 2016 WSN    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, May 07, 2016 WSN    @CHC  4:05pm
Sun, May 08, 2016 WSN    @CHC  2:20pm
Mon, Jun 13, 2016 CHC    @WSN  7:05pm
Tue, Jun 14, 2016 CHC    @WSN  7:05pm
Wed, Jun 15, 2016 CHC    @WSN  4:05pm

                         All times ET
Washington Nationals
19-8, 1st, 1½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-4    Road:   11-4    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  16-7    vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast: 11-7    vsCntrl: 3-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 5-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Wed, May  4  @KCR  W  13-2       19-8   1st  1.5 up
 26 Tue, May  3  @KCR  L   6-7       18-8   1st  1.5 up
 25 Mon, May  2  @KCR  W   2-0       18-7   1st  1.5 up
 24 Sun, May  1  @STL  W   6-1       17-7   1st  1.5 up
 23 Sat, Apr 30  @STL  W   6-1       16-7   1st  0.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-8
Chicago Cubs
20-6, 1st, 6 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-3    Road:   13-3    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  15-5    vsLHP:   5-1    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast:  1-1    vsCntrl:13-2    vsWest:  4-3  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 26 Wed, May  4  @PIT  W   6-2       20-6   1st  6.0 up
 25 Tue, May  3  @PIT  W   7-1       19-6   1st  5.0 up
 24 Mon, May  2  @PIT  W   7-2       18-6   1st  4.0 up
 23 Sun, May  1   ATL  L   3-4 (10)  17-6   1st  3.0 up
 22 Fri, Apr 29   ATL  W   6-1       17-5   1st  3.5 up
 21 Thu, Apr 28   MIL  W   7-2       16-5   1st  3.5 up
 20 Tue, Apr 26   MIL  W   4-3       15-5   1st  3.5 up
 19 Sun, Apr 24  @CIN  W   9-0       14-5   1st  3.5 up
 18 Sat, Apr 23  @CIN  L   5-13      13-5   1st  3.5 up
 17 Fri, Apr 22  @CIN  W   8-1       13-4   1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:20-6 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 07, 2015 CHC  6 @WSN  3        W:Kyle Hendricks (2-2), L: Jordan Zimmermann (5-3), S: Jason Motte (1)
Sat, Jun 06, 2015 CHC  4 @WSN  2        W:Jason Hammel (5-2), L: Joe Ross (0-1), S: Pedro Strop (2)
Fri, Jun 05, 2015 WSN  7  CHC  5        W:Tanner Roark (2-2), L: Tsuyoshi Wada (0-1), S: Drew Storen (18)
Thu, Jun 04, 2015 CHC  2 @WSN  1        W:Jake Arrieta (5-4), L: Gio Gonzalez (4-3), S: Hector Rondon (10)
Wed, May 27, 2015 WSN  3 @CHC  0        W:Max Scherzer (6-3), L: Jon Lester (4-3), S: Drew Storen (16)
Tue, May 26, 2015 CHC  3  WSN  2        W:Hector Rondon (3-0), L: Matt Grace (2-1), S: none
Mon, May 25, 2015 WSN  2 @CHC  1        W:Tanner Roark (1-2), L: Justin Grimm (1-1), S: Drew Storen (15)
Sun, Jul 06, 2014 WSN  2  CHC  1        W:Tyler Clippard (6-2), L: Pedro Strop (1-4), S: Rafael Soriano (21)
Sat, Jul 05, 2014 WSN 13  CHC  0        W:Gio Gonzalez (6-4), L: Carlos Villanueva (4-6), S: none
Fri, Jul 04, 2014 CHC  7 @WSN  2        W:Jason Hammel (8-5), L: Tanner Roark (7-6), S: none
Season Series: 2016 -  0-0; 2015 - CHC won 4-3; 2014 - WSN won 4-3; All-Time - WSN leads 309-283

SP: Joe Ross (23, RHP, 3-0, 0.79)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (3-0) 22.2 15 2 2 7 14 0 0.79
2015 (5-5) 76.2 64 33 31 21 69 7 3.64
Last 7 GS 4-0 35.2 22 10 9 18 24 0 2.27 57
2016-04-30 @STL W 6.0 6 1 1 2 4 0 93 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
Last 5 v.CHC 0-1 5.0 6 3 3 0 4 0 5.40 47
2015-06-06 CHC L 5.0 6 3 3 0 4 0 91 47

SP: Kyle Hendricks (26, RHP, 1-2, 3.91)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (1-2) 23.0 21 11 10 4 19 1 3.91
2015 (8-7) 180.0 166 82 79 43 167 17 3.95
2014 (7-2) 80.1 72 24 22 15 47 4 2.46
Last 7 GS 2-3 41.0 28 14 13 6 44 1 2.85 61
2016-04-26 MIL ND 5.0 2 1 1 1 4 0 69 62
2016-04-20 @STL L 5.1 7 4 4 2 5 1 84 41
2016-04-15 COL L 6.0 8 4 3 0 5 0 85 47
2016-04-09 @ARI W 6.2 4 2 2 1 5 0 99 62
2015-10-03 @MIL W 6.0 1 0 0 0 8 0 79 78
2015-09-28 KCR ND 6.0 2 0 0 2 9 0 90 75
2015-09-23 MIL L 6.0 4 3 3 0 8 0 78 60
Last 5 v.WSN 1-0 12.0 10 4 3 2 8 2 2.25 58
2015-06-07 @WSN W 5.0 6 3 2 0 4 1 84 49
2015-05-26 WSN ND 7.0 4 1 1 2 4 1 85 67

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

Nationals Batters (4.44 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (2.54 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Hendricks
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/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
21.den Dekker* G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 34/30 .194/.265/.323/.587 .000/.670 .385 32/.526 1/0 1/0
10.Drew* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· 12/.349 ··· 1/.000 5/1.000 6/1.000 30/29 .103/.133/.207/.340 2.000/.282 .258 28/.365 0/0 1/0
8.Espinosa# G/S/vP 2/.000 10/1.067 1/.000 ··· 9/1.301 4/.000 3/.000 3/.666 5/1.933 97/76 .185/.292/.272/.563 .302/.637 .684 85/.512 1/0 2/3
34.Harper* G/S/vP 6/.834 10/.550 2/.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 5/.200 113/89 .266/.372/.649/1.021 1.015/1.021 .989 99/.973 5/2 10/0
14.Heisey G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 5/2.000 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 9/.819 31/20 .250/.323/.643/.965 1.455/.724 1.113 30/.943 0/0 3/0
59.Lobaton# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 2/1.500 ··· 38/31 .182/.289/.242/.532 .143/.619 .452 38/.532 0/0 0/0
20.Murphy* G/S/vP 6/.500 6/.666 1/.000 ··· 6/.334 5/1.000 1/3.000 2/1.000 7/.286 107/83 .398/.449/.663/1.112 1.196/1.087 1.107 93/1.073 1/1 4/1
40.Ramos G/S/vP 5/.000 8/.500 5/2.200 1/2.000 9/.347 4/.000 3/1.000 3/.000 7/.762 67/52 .364/.373/.545/.919 .800/.953 .881 54/.993 0/0 2/2
6.Rendon G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.666 3/3.000 2/.000 ··· 4/.250 3/.333 ··· 7/.310 118/96 .231/.297/.306/.602 .697/.581 .625 104/.603 1/1 1/3
25.Robinson* G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· ··· 30/27 .154/.233/.269/.503 .667/.483 .675 28/.542 0/0 1/0
3.Taylor G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 104/82 .184/.221/.296/.517 .636/.483 .562 92/.583 4/1 3/0
28.Werth G/S/vP ··· 13/1.601 ··· 1/.000 12/.167 2/no AB 3/1.000 ··· 9/.476 98/81 .221/.296/.453/.749 1.145/.666 .786 85/.838 0/0 5/0
11.Zimmerman G/S/vP 3/.000 5/1.400 5/.900 ··· 10/1.500 4/.500 8/.750 3/.333 7/1.738 97/77 .264/.330/.379/.709 .850/.677 .845 83/.687 0/0 1/0
IP 23.0 9.1 8.1 6.0 2.2 9.0 11.1 10.1 7.1 TOTAL .244/.311/.413/.724 .832/.697 .767 .729 13/5 34/9
ERA-K/9 3.91/7.4 3.86/7.7 2.16/13.0 4.50/10.5 6.75/6.7 1.00/15.0 2.38/11.9 1.74/9.6 2.45/11.1 2.32/8.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lobaton (1-1-2)
 Ramos (6-4-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 92/.244 46/.250 32/.194 25/.200 14/.417 31/.133 40/.135 38/.118 29/.154 .201  Taylor
 Heisey
 den Dekker
 Harper
 Werth
0/24/0/2
7/2/1/0
2/6/4/0
0/0/26/0
24/0/0/0
OPS .612 .773 .574 .770 .917 .262 .389 .446 .588 .571
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 29/.667 17/.602 11/.282 11/1.141 6/.533 11/.382 12/.350 11/.773 11/1.064 .658
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 63/.586 29/.861 21/.714 14/.468 8/1.196 20/.200 28/.401 27/.310 18/.292 .523
Home 43/.524 19/.635 14/.857 14/.558 7/.762 15/.414 14/.381 12/.167 10/.967
Last 28d days 92/.612 43/.832 28/.548 25/.770 14/.917 28/.291 33/.476 38/.446 22/.723
HR/SB/CS 1/3/0 2/1/0 1/0/0 1/2/0 0/1/0 0/1/0 0/0/0 1/0/1 1/0/0 17/20/6
Usage ········ ·X····X· ··Xo··X· ······X· ········ X··o·o·· o·o··oo· X·o····· ··oo····
Cubs Batters (6.12 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (2.59 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
9.Baez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 43/33 .341/.372/.488/.860 1.056/.802 1.149 43/.860 2/1 1/0
17.Bryant G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 114/85 .303/.395/.495/.890 .704/.956 .905 99/.927 0/2 4/3
15.Federowicz G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 9/6 .250/.333/.375/.708 2.500/.000 .000 9/.708 0/0 0/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 3/1.334 3/.000 4/1.250 3/1.000 7/.453 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 115/87 .348/.470/.587/1.057 .929/1.100 .717 100/.953 5/0 3/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 2/.500 2/1.000 12/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 ··· 3/.000 104/79 .211/.317/.256/.573 .507/.594 .279 89/.561 4/1 0/0
51.Kalish* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 2/.000 0/0 0/0
2.La Stella* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 42/38 .297/.381/.514/.894 .500/.911 .764 39/.969 0/0 1/0
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 3/1.667 2/1.000 3/.000 4/1.250 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/1.200 119/88 .260/.403/.635/1.039 .527/1.226 .672 104/.940 2/1 9/2
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.500 24/.212 3/2.334 ··· ··· 1/.000 48/34 .250/.370/.444/.814 1.268/.643 .745 44/.763 0/0 2/1
27.Russell G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 104/83 .224/.356/.329/.685 .333/.756 .883 91/.700 1/0 2/4
68.Soler G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 1/2.000 1/3.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 76/53 .185/.276/.292/.569 .317/.680 .914 66/.609 0/0 2/1
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 12/.334 10/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 110/84 .250/.373/.375/.748 .906/.692 .353 95/.703 1/1 2/0
IP 22.2 8.1 12.0 6.2 15.0 14.1 3.2 11.0 TOTAL .258/.364/.425/.789 .722/.809 .681 .770 17/7 30/14
ERA-K/9 0.79/5.6 0.00/13.0 4.50/6.8 2.70/16.1 2.40/7.8 3.14/9.4 2.45/4.9 3.27/9.8 2.35/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Federowicz (1-0-0)
 Ross (11-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 87/.195 33/.219 51/.320 28/.167 56/.157 54/.160 13/.083 43/.216 .213  Fowler
 Heyward
 Bryant
 Baez
 Soler
 Zobrist
 Kalish
0/25/0/2
0/2/22/1
12/0/2/1
1/0/0/0
15/0/2/0
0/0/2/0
1/0/1/0
OPS .527 .524 .773 .536 .512 .522 .487 .704 .580
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 48/.725 9/.444 30/.782 17/.307 26/.747 22/.606 2/.000 16/1.067 .607
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 39/.308 24/.554 21/.762 11/.864 30/.315 32/.463 11/.582 27/.505 .556
Road 62/.466 17/.728 30/.848 9/.347 29/.530 27/.345 7/.000 22/.868
Last 28d days 87/.527 27/.593 43/.825 24/.577 48/.492 44/.538 13/.487 40/.725
HR/SB/CS 0/0/1 0/0/0 1/2/0 0/0/0 2/1/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 15/8/6
Usage ····X··· ··o·X·o· ·XX··oX· ··o····· X······· ·o·oo·X· ··o·X··X X··X·X·X

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  6.12

TEX  4.21

ATL  3.07

 RA/G

CHC  2.54

STL  4.18

MIL  5.85

 BA

D. Murphy  .398

F. Freeman  .263

D. Norris  .138

 OBP

D. Fowler  .470

R. Cano  .333

D. Norris  .176

 SLG

C. Carter  .681

C. Granderson  .430

E. Aybar  .208

 OPS

D. Murphy  1.112

J. Abreu  .761

D. Norris  .394

 ERA

J. Zimmermann  .55

M. Perez  3.60

J. Peavy  9.00

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.55

K. Maeda  7.88

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.