St. Louis Cardinals (7-6-1) Vs. New York Mets (9-8) Spring Training Game #15 N Roger Dean Stadium N March 19, 2015 Michael Wacha (0-0, 0.00) Vs
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St. Louis Cardinals (7-6-1) vs. New York Mets (9-8) Spring Training Game #15 N Roger Dean Stadium N March 19, 2015 Michael Wacha (0-0, 0.00) vs. Bartolo Colon (0-2, 10.29) K GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE ACTION: The 2014 National League Central Division Champion St. Louis Car - TODAY’S GAME : The Cardinals travel north to dinals are entering their 124th season of play in the National League and are in their 18th spring Port St. Lucie to play the New York Mets at 1:10 training in Jupiter...the Cardinals lost to the New York Mets 7-2 yesterday at Roger Dean p.m., today at Tradition Field...Redbird pitchers Stadium...Jaime Garcia pitched 4.0 innings tossing 72 pitches in his third start of the Spring and took and catchers reported on Feb. 19 with the first the loss despite a Cardinals’ Spring high seven strikeouts...Peter Bourjos recorded his second hit of full-squad workout on Feb. 24. the Spring in a big way with a solo home run in the 8th inning...Kolten Wong doubled, walked and stole a base. CARDINALS 2015 SPRING COMING UP: St. Louis returns home to host the K MEET THE METS: The Cardinals play the New York Atlanta Braves at 1:05 p.m., tomorrow at Roger Mets in back-to-back, home-and-home games after not Record Attendance Dean Stadium...tomorrow’s game will be broad - playing them for the first 13 games of the Spring Training vs. NL ..................4-3 Home (8) .......56,682 schedule...the two teams will face each other six times vs. AL ...............3-3-1 Home Avg ....7,085^ casted on KMOX and televised on FOX Sports over 15 days...last season, the Cardinals lost the Spring at Home ..............5-3 Road (6) ........39,965 Midwest Plus...on Sunday, the Cardinals travel to series to the Mets 2-3-1...during the 2015 regular sea - on Road ...........2-3-1 Road Avg ....... 6,661 the Gulf Coast to play the Baltimore Orioles on son, the Cardinals will travel to the Big Apple for a four- at RDS* ...............6-4 Total ..............96,647 the road for the first time since 2009. This will game series May 18-21 with the Mets coming to Busch *Includes road Home High ......7,662 be the Cardinals first trip to Sarasota and Ed Stadium immediately following the All-Star Break, July games at Roger Dean 3/9 vs. Boston Smith Stadium since the Cardinals left St. Peters - 17-19 in a three-game series. Stadium. ^Averaging a sellout. burg. Following the game, the Cardinals travel to K TODAY’S HURLERS: Michael Wacha will make his Fort Myers and will play the Boston Red Sox at third start of Spring Training today at Tradition Field against the New York Mets...scheduled relief pitchers available out of the bullpen are RHP’s Carlos Villanueva, Mitch Harris, Matt Belisle, Sam Tu - JetBlue Park on Monday. ivailala, Trevor Rosenthal and Jordan Walden; and LHP Tim Cooney. K TOMORROW’S PITCHERS: Adam Wainwright will make his Spring Training debut tomorrow after - ON THE AIR: The Cardinals will broadcast 17 noon against his original drafting team, the Atlanta Braves, at Roger Dean Stadium...scheduled to Spring Training games, and the exhibition versus follow Wainwright are RHP’s Carlos Martinez, Zach Petrick, Marcus Hatley and LHP’s Randy Choate, the Memphis Redbirds on Apr. 3, on their radio Kevin Siegrist and Dean Kiekhefer. flagship station KMOX 1120 AM...Mike Shannon K JAY JUMPS BACK IN: Jon Jay will make his Spring Training debut today against the New York Mets. and John Rooney will be on the call working to - Jay underwent arthroscopic surgery in October to repair an injured left wrist. Jay batted .483 (14- gether for their 10th consecutive season...the 29) during the 2014 postseason, despite the injury, the second highest qualifying average in a single 50,000-watt station can sometimes be heard as MLB postseason. far south as Jupiter on a clear day. K WESTWARD, HO!: On Sunday afternoon, the Cardinals will travel to Sarasota to play the Baltimore Orioles. It will be the Cardinals first visit to Sarasota since they left St. Petersburg following the 1997 ON THE TUBE: FOX Sports Midwest will televise Spring Training season. After Sunday, the Toronto Blue Jays (Dunedin) are the only team the Cardinals 15 Spring Training games in 2015 beginning on will have not played on the road in the Grapefruit League since moving to Jupiter. March 12 vs. Baltimore, with Ricky Horton, Al K PUNCHING TICKETS: Cardinals pitcher Jaime Garcia struck out seven batters versus the New York Hrabosky, Dan McLaughlin and Tim McCarver Mets yesterday, the highest strikeout total by a Cardinals pitcher this Spring. The seven punchouts vaulted him into the National League lead with 13 strikeouts, tied with Philadelphia’s Andy Oliver. calling the action. Games include 3/12 vs. BAL, K 3/13 at MIA, 3/14 vs. MIN, 3/15 vs. MIN, 3/16 GONZALES SHINES IN SPRING: Cardinals pitcher Marco Gonzales won his third start on Tuesday afternoon against the Miami Marlins and leads all Major League Baseball pitchers with the three vs. DET, 3/17 at MIA, 3/19 vs. NYM, 3/21 vs. ATL, wins. Among National League pitchers, Gonzales ranks third with an 0.84 ERA over 10.2 innings 3/25 vs. WAS, 3/26 vs. MIA, 3/27 vs. NYM, 3/29 pitched. vs. NYM, 3/30 vs. WAS, 3/31 vs. MIA and 4/2 vs. K ... AND THREE REMAIN: Infielder Jacob Wilson and outfielders Rafael Ortega and Stephen Piscotty NYM. are the remaining players for St. Louis that have appeared in all 14 games the club has played. K SETTING UP CAMP: The Cardinals opened camp 57 players on the roster with 18 invitees...the LAST SEASON: The Cardinals posted a 90-72 youngest player invited to camp is 20-year old catcher Carson Kelly as well as four first round picks: record and won their second consecutive Na - INF Pete Kozma (2007), INF Kolten Wong (2011), RHP Michael Wacha (2012) and LHP Marco Gonzales tional League Central Division title. The Cardi - (2013). nals defeated the N.L. West Champion Los K NEW FACES: Players acquired during the 2014-15 off-season and appearing in their first Cardinals Angeles Dodgers 3-1 in the NLDS and lost to the spring camp include catchers Michael Ohlman and Alberto Rosario; infielders Dean Anna, Ty Kelly eventual World Series Champion San Francisco and Mark Reynolds; outfielder Jason Heyward and pitchers Matt Belisle, Marcus Hatley, Miguel So - Giants in the NLCS, 4-1. Manager Mike Matheny colovich, Carlos Villanueva and Jordan Walden. Assistant hitting coach Bill Mueller was added to the has led the Cardinals to the playoffs in each of staff after serving as the Chicago Cubs hitting coach in 2014. his first three seasons as a manager. K THE KIDS CAN PLAY: The Cardinals opened Spring Training with nine players on the 40-man roster under the age of 25...pitchers Marco Gonzales (23), Carlos Martinez (23), Trevor Rosenthal (24), Sam Tuivailala (22) and Michael Wacha (23) join catcher Michael Ohlman (24), infielders Aledmys Diaz LAST SPRING: The Cardinals posted an 11-13-2 (24) and Kolten Wong (24) and outfielder Randal Grichuk (23)...these youngsters have already served spring record (7-6-1 at home, 7-10-1 at RDS), in the Major Leagues combining for 493.1 innings pitched, 41 games started pitching, 50 saves, 571 finishing 10th in the Grapefruit League and T8th at- bats and 15 home runs including an NLCS MVP and four postseason home runs. among National League teams...they drew 96,795 fans to RDS during 14 home games, aver - aging over a sellout at 6,914 fans per game. CARDINALS SPRING SCHEDULE & RESULTS Time/ Probable Starters/ Cardinals Recent Date/Opp. Result Winner-Loser-Save Record Att. Highlights Spring Training Records 3/5 at MIA^+ W, 4-1 Martinez-Haren-Socolovich 1-0 5,204 Martinez 2.0IP, 3k; Adams 2RBI Team Team 3/6 vs. HOU W, 5-2 Gonzales-Oberholtzer-Siegrist 2-0 5,473 Tommy Pham 4-4, R, RBI Year W-L-T Batting Avg. ERA 3/7 at WAS+ L, 6-5 Villanueva-Jansen-McGregor 2-1 7,197 Grichuk BB & HR, 2R; Ortega 2H 3/8 vs. MIA W, 5-2 Mayers-Conley-Socolovich 3-1 7,438 Grichuk & Pham 2R-HRs each 2014* 11-13-1 .260 5.27 3/9 vs. BOS+ L, 3-0 Mujica-Lyons-Barnes 3-2 7,662 Wacha 2.0 scoreless, 4K 2013* 16-14-1 .280 4.20 3/10 at HOU L, 7-6 Deduno-Rosenthal-Fields 3-3 4,135 Wilson 3-4 (2B, HR), 2R, RBI 2012* 16-9-2 .276 3.05 3/11 at ATL W, 6-2 Gonzales-Wood-Kiekhefer 4-3 7,913 Gonzales 4.0IP, 0R; Piscotty 2-3, SB 2011* 14-16-1 .261 3.79 3/12 vs. BAL+* W, 8-2 Garcia-Norris 5-3 7,068 Reynolds 3R-HR; Garcia 4IP 0R 2010 15-14-0 .280 4.95 3/13 at MIA^* L, 6-3 Latos-Petrick 5-4 6,565 Piscotty 2-3; Kozma 2-3 2009* 19-12-2 .290 4.35 3/14 vs. MIN+* L, 6-3 Meyer-Lyons 5-5 7,099 Grichuk, Reynolds HR;Wacha 3.0,0R 3/15 at MIN+* T, 6-6 NONE 5-5-1 8,951 Kozma 3-4, run; Stanley 1-1, HR, BB 2008 17-10-2 .286 4.01 3/16 vs.