St. Louis Cardinals (48-31) at Oakland Athletics (47-34) Game #80 N O.co Coliseum N June 29, 2013 Adam Wainwright (10-5, 2.31) vs. Jarrod Parker (6-6, 4.27) K REDBIRD RUNDOWN: The 2012 N.L. Wild Card Champion St. Louis Cardinals are in their 122nd season of play TODAY’S GAME : The Cardinals continue an in the National League...the Cardinals snapped their season-high 3-game losing streak with a 13-5 win on Tue. at 8-game (1-1 at HOU, 0-1 at OAK, LAA-3), 10-day HOU, but have lost their last two games and in doing so have fallen from 1st place in the NL Central for the first interleague roadtrip today with the 2nd of three time since April 29...they had held sole possession of 1st place since April 30 and had a season-best 4.0 game lead games here in Oakland...first pitch is set for 1:05 as recently as June 9...St. Louis leads the majors with a +108 run differential. p.m. CT...the Cardinals snapped a season-high 3 K INTERLEAGUE: The Cardinals began a string of 11-straight interleague games last Friday (TEX-3, at HOU-2, at game losing streak on Tuesday, but have lost 5 of OAK-3, at LAA-3) playing their 2nd ever regular season series with Texas...St. Louis is 4-6 (3-2 on road) in interleague their last 6 and are 13-13 in the month of June. play this season, and the Cardinals are 129-116 (.527) all-time in interleague play, the top winning pct. amongst all NL teams... RARE BIRD SIGHTINGS: The Cardinals this weekend are making only their 2nd appearance in Oakland, CARDINALS vs. OAKLAND: having last appeared at the Coliseum in 2007 when they won 2-of-3 games...the Redbirds will make their first ever Season: 3 games visit to Anaheim next week when they will take on the Angels in a 3-game series, completing the circuit of current 2013: 0-1 (0-1 at OAK) MLB cities that they had never visited...the Texas Rangers last weekend became the last team to have visited St. 2012: Teams are meeting for 1st time since 2010 Louis prior to this season, although they did get to the Mound City for the 2011 Fall Classic. All-Time: 7-3 (2-2 at O.co Coliseum) K DESIGNATED TO HIT: Cardinals designated hitters are the all-time leaders amongst N.L. teams in batting (.315; Last Time STL sweep: 6/15-17/04 at STL 151-479), on-base pct. (.391) & slugging pct. (.532)...St. Louis has employed Matt Holliday (twice), Carlos Beltran Last Time OAK sweep: None (twice) & Allen Craig (once) as its designated hitters this season. K NO SWEAT: Edward Mujica on June 19th converted his 21st straight save opportunity to begin the season...it’s RECORD BREAKDOWN the best start to a season for a Redbirds closer since 1995 when Tom Henke was perfect in his first 22 save opps, By Day By Month the club record...”Chief” Mujica has posted 13 saves without allowing a baserunner this season... Lee Smith had 22 Monday 6-4 Spring 16-15-1 “perfect” saves for the Redbirds in 1992 among his league-leading 43 rescues. Tuesday 9-3 April 15-11 K CENTERPIECE: Jon Jay owns the NL’s longest active errorless streak (222 games/522 chances) for centerfielders Wednesday 8-5 May 20-7 dating back to his last error on Aug. 24, 2011...his 222-game errorless streak is 2nd only to Curt Flood (226 games, Thursday 5-2 June 13-13 9/3/65 to 6/2/67) amongst Cardinals outfielders. Friday 7-5 July 24 games K CRAIG’S LIST: Allen Craig, 2nd in the NL with 62 RBI, is batting a league-leading .455 with runners in scoring po - Saturday 8-5 August 29 games sition (tied with Carlos Beltran) and he’s T3rd in the NL with 17 go-ahead RBI...Craig’s 62 RBI with just 8 HR’s are Sunday 5-7 September 27 games the most by a Cardinals batter with less then 10+ HR’s in the team’s first 79 games since 1985 when Tom Herr had By Seriies 63 RBI with just 3 home runs thru the team’s first 79 games...Dwight Evans (BOS), who had 62 RBI and just 7 HR’s 2G 3G 4G in the Red Sox first 79 games in 1988, is the last to have accomplished what Craig has done thus far. Won 1 12 3 BIRD BANTER... OAKLAND SERIES: .219 (7-32, 0 HR) ROADTRIP: .278 (30-108, 5 HR) Lost --- 4 --- Split 4 --- 2 K #53 MATT ADAMS: Streak: 3G (3-9, .333) Series: 1-4, .250 Roadtrip: 2-8, .250 Sweeps 1 1 1 [ Leads STL w/7 PH (7-21,.333, 3rd ML) ... hit in 13 of 18 starts, 7 multi-hit...HRed in 3-str. games 4/9-14...hit all 4 HR at home Opp. Sweeps --- 1 --- K #3 CARLOS BELTRAN: Streak: 0-6 Series: 0-4, .000 Roadtrip: 3-11, .273, HR By DIIVIISIION [ Hit 18th HR (T5th NL) on Tue....had 14G hit streak (5/28-6/15) w/6 HR...48 RBI, T9th; 7th NL slug (.538)...T1st (A. Craig) in Home Road Total NL w/.445 BA w/RISP...352 career HR is 5th all-time, switch-hitters NL Central 12-7 8-3 20-10 K NL East 3-1 8-5 11-6 #13 MATT CARPENTER: Streak: 8G (13-34, .382) Series: 2-4, .500 Roadtrip: 4-15, .267 NL West 6-4 7-5 13-9 [ Leads NL with 32 multi-hit games; 5 in last 8 G...had career-best 18G hit streak (5/21-6/9)... .319 BA (7th NL); 96 H (T3rd); AL Central 1-1 2-0 3-1 .397 OBP (5th) ...21 2B (8th); 58 runs (T2nd); 34 BB (T10th)...hit leadoff in 56 G, reached in 51...played in 75 of 79 G AL West 0-3 1-2 1-5 K #21 ALLEN CRAIG: Streak: 0-6 Series: 0-4, .000 Roadtrip: 5-13, .385, 2 HR TOTALS 22-16 26-15 48-31 [ Had 4-hit G on Tue. (3-1Bs, HR)...ranks 9th in NL BA (.315), 6th in hits (94), 2nd in RBI (62)...25 RBI in June, 2nd to ARI’s Goldschimdt (26)... .455 BA w/RISP is T1st in NL (Beltran) & RBI (53) w/RISP is 1st...28 multi-hit G-T6th, 17 GA-RBI T3rd MIKE MATHENY: Mike Matheny last season be - K #48 TONY CRUZ: Streak: 0-3 Series: DNP Roadtrip: 1-4, .250 came the 49th manager in St. Louis Cardinals his - tory... in his first year at the helm in 2012, Mike [ Started 7 games (last; Wed. at HOU), appeared in 18...had PH-1B, scored on Tue...has AB/RBI ratio of 8.25 guided the Cardinals to the N.L. Championship K #33 DANIEL DESCALSO: Streak: 0-4 Series: DNP Roadtrip: 0-2, .000 round of the playoffs, having captured the 2nd [ Has 5, 3-hit games...hit 1st career slam 5/21 at SD (5 RBI)...batted .368 in May; .339 in June...batting .292 when starting Wild Card berth on the next-to-last day of the reg - K #23 DAVID FREESE: Streak: 1G (2-3, .667) Series: 2-3, .667 Roadtrip: 3-10, .300, HR ular season...he became the first rookie manager [ Had 2H & RBI last night...had career best 20G hit strk (5/17-6/11)...hits in 28 of last 33 G... .348 OBP w/2 strike (3rd in NL) to lead the Cardinals to the postseason since K Eddie Dyer in 1946...he won his 100th career #7 MATT HOLLIDAY: Streak: 3G (4-11, .364) Series: 2-3, .667 Roadtrip: 4-11, .364 game on Apr. 23, 2013, at Washington in his [ T2nd in NL runs (58)...hit GS in 10th inn at CIN (6/9)...reached by H/BB in 35 of last 39 G...34 BB (T10th)...7 GWRBI (T9th) 182nd game...Matheny had a 13-year Major K #19 JON JAY: Streak: 0-3 Series: 0-3, .000 Roadtrip: 1-8, .125 League career playing with MIL, TOR, STL and SF, [ T3rd in NL int. BB (6)...33 RBI ranks 3rd as NL CFer...leads team w/77 G...T10th in NL HBP (6)...no errors since 8/24/11 winning four Rawlings Gold Gloves (‘00, ‘03-’05), K #38 PETE KOZMA: Streak: 0-5 Series: 0-3, .000 Roadtrip: 2-10, .200 and retiring from the game in 2006 due to concus - [ Leads all MLB rookies in games (76), 2nd with 64 hits and 27 RBI...57 H from #8 spot leads MLB...started 72/79 gms sion symptoms...he holds the M.L. catching record K #4 YADIER MOLINA: Streak: 0-5 Series: 0-4, .000 Roadtrip: 4-12, .333, HR for consecutive errorless games (252) and for con - secutive errorless chances (1,565). [ Leads NL in batting at .353 and doubles with (26)...2nd in NL w/99 hits...HRed on Wed. while making 2nd career start at 1B ... 31 multi-hit gms 2nd NL ...played in 74/79 G’s ...tops MLB in innings caught (633.1) & 2nd in catchers ERA (3.11). Cardinals Disabled List K #43 SHANE ROBINSON: Streak: 1G (1-3, .333) Series: DNP Roadtrip: 1-3, .333 Date Games [ Batting .316 in June (6-19) w/7 RBI (season, 8 RBI)...HRed (6/4 & 11)...3 BB, career-high 5/5 at MIL...T2nd STL w/3 SB.