Stats from April 3rd vs Diamondbacks from Professor Trokey. You can follow along with all his baseball notes on Twitter @Tim_Trokey.
- the Cardinals lost 2 of 3 to open the season… they won each of their 1st 5 series last season (and 7 of their 1st 8)
- the Cardinals had gone 4-0-1 in their last 5 series against Arizona
- through 3 innings, 6 of the 9 outs recorded by Lance Lynn were on offspeed/breaking pitches… he finished with 6 outs on fastballs and 6 on breaking balls
- Lance Lynn converted the Cardinals 1st 2 successful sacrifice bunts of the season… Joe Kelly and Matt Carpenter also converted sac bunts… they failed twice in the 1st 2 games
- the last time the Cardinals converted 4 sac bunts in a game was September 14, 2002 (Fernando Vina, JD Drew, Woody Williams, and So Taguchi)
- Allen Craig doubled twice in a game for the 7th time in his career
- Joe Kelly had retired the 1st batter faced in all 9 of his career relief appearances… he gave up a homerun tonight
- Daniel Descalso hit .309 off lefties last season… best in the NL by a lefty against a lefty
HIGHEST BATTING AVG BY LEFTY AGAINST A LEFTHANDER (NL IN 2012)
DANIEL DESCALSO - .309
JOEY VOTTO - .288
DANIEL MURPHY - .283
JON JAY - .281
MICHAEL BOURN - .273
NORICHIKA AOKI - .270
- Joe Kelly allowed 2 homeruns in a game for the 1st time in his career
- Daniel Descalso picked up his 3rd career 4-hit game
- Descalso had 2 doubles in a game for the 2nd time in his career (4/26/11 at Houston)
- the 8 spot in the lineup picked up where it left off last season…
CARDINALS 8 HITTERS LAST SEASON VS THIS SEASON (W/ NL RANKS)
LAST SEASON THIS SEASON
AVG .281 (2ND) 6-FOR-13
HR 11 (8TH) 1
XBH 54 (2ND) 3
RBI 66 (3RD) 3
OBP .343 (2ND) .500 (7/14)
SLG .433 (2ND) .846 (11/13)
- the Cardinals allowed 3 homeruns Wednesday night… they allowed 3 or more homeruns just 4 times all of last season (4/7, 4/19, 6/24, 6/29)
- Joe Kelly almost became the 6th Cardinal reliever since 1954 to win a game after allowing 2 or more homeruns
CARDINALS RELIEVERS TO WIN GAME WHILE ALLOWING 2+ HR (SINCE ’54)
8/15/54 COT DEAL
7/7/57 VINEGAR BEND MIZELL
6/7/87 BILL DAWLEY
5/2/99 JUAN ACEVEDO
5/10/09 RYAN FRANKLIN
- Yadier Molina hit his 78th career homerun tying him with Wally Moon for the 28th most in Cardinals history
- Molina’s homerun was his 264th career extra base-hit breaking a tie with Tim McCarver for the 2nd most extra base-hits all-time by a Cardinals catcher
MOST EXTRA BASE-HITS BY CARDINALS CATCHERS (ALL-TIME)
TED SIMMONS – 541
YADIER MOLINA – 264
TIM McCARVER – 263
DEL RICE – 230
TOM PAGNOZZI – 208
- Cardinals lefthanded hitters hit .261 off lefthanded pitching last season… best in the NL
CARDINALS LH BATTERS VS LH PITCHERS IN 2012 (NL RANKS)
.261 AVG 1ST
6 HR 10TH
29 XBH 8TH
39 RBI 11TH
.326 OBP 3RD
.372 SLG 5TH
- Trevor Rosenthal appeared in a game on 0 days rest twice last season and didn’t allow a run… he allowed a run on 3 hits in the 8th
- Rosenthal’s pitched more than one inning 10 times in 28 career relief appearances including the postseason, and posted a 1.83 ERA
- the Cardinals went 6-12 in extra innings last season… they’re now 0-1 this season
- Jim Edmonds his 8 career extra innings homeruns and 6 career walkoff homeruns in the regular season
- Paul Goldschmidt hit .343 (5th in MLB) off lefties last season with a .645 slugging percentage (2nd in MLB)… Rzepczynski made him look bad in the 11th or 12th?
- Matt Adams picked up his 3rd career 3-hit game
- Pete Kozma hit .480 in the 7th inning or later last season… his homerun came in that situation on Tuesday and his go ahead single came in that situation Wednesday
KOZMA SITUATIONAL AVERAGES LAST 2 SEASONS (W/ MLB RANKS)
.452 7TH INNING OR LATER 1ST
.400 CLOSE AND LATE 6TH
- Mitchell Boggs did not allow a run in 24 outings on 0 days rest last season… he surrendered the game tying run in the 12th Wednesday
- the only other time the Cardinals and Diamondbacks played a game where both teams scored 9 or more runs was 4/6/2001 (Cardinals won 12-9 at Arizona… Albert Pujols hit his 1st MLB homerun that night… Jim Edmonds DNP)
- this is the 1st time the Cardinals and Diamondbacks played a game beyond 10 innings in their series history
- the 16 innings is the longest game the Cardinals have played away from Busch Stadium since 4/27/03 at Florida (7-6 Cardinals win in 20 innings)
- the Cardinals and Diamondbacks played the longest game in Chase Field history at 5 hours and 32 minutes
- there were 514 total pitches thrown
- Cardinals relievers threw more innings than the starters in this 3 game series… the starters went just 15.2 innings in the 3 games, while the relievers pitched 16.2 innings
- the Cardinals took 20 at bats with runners in scoring position… their highest total since 9/17/10 against the Padres (10-for-21 w/ RISP)
- Cliff Pennington started the season 0-for-11… he went 3-for-3 in extras, scored the tying run in the 12th, and won it in the 16th
- Cardinals relievers pitched 11.1 innings… it’s the 18th time since 1921 the Cardinals have had their relievers pitch that many innings
- Lance Lynn lasted just 4 innings… the 2nd shortest start of his career (he had 2 starts of 3.2 innings in the 2012 NLCS)
