Umpires for the St. Louis Series

Umpiring the three games in St. Louis this weekend will be:

Friday: Mike Winters

Saturday: Mark Wegner*

Sunday: Marty Foster*

This crew last worked the Rockies series a few weeks ago. Tonight's HP umpire Mike Winters was behind the dish on May 15th when Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers beat the Rockies at home, 6-4. His calls of balls and strikes did not favor the Dodgers (Standard and Adjusted Game Scores of -2), but despite a blow up in the seventh inning in which Kershaw gave up two singles and a walk  - and Paco couldn't' help him out - resulting in four runs, the Dodgers won 6-4.

Bolsinger's great game last last weekend benefitted from a few strike calls high in the strike-zone. Mike Winters has a fairly standard strike-zone with a tendency to call low strikes. Kershaw did receive two high strikes in that game so we will see how Bolsinger attacks hitters.

Here are Mike Winter's Scores from May 15th:

Standard Strike-Zone

Dodgers v. LHH (DLSZ): +1

Dodgers v. RHH (DRSZ): +2

Rockies v. LHH (OLSZ): +5

Rockies v. RHH (ORSZ): 0

Adjusted Strike-Zone

Dodgers v. LHH (DLAZ): -1

Dodgers v. RHH (DRAZ): -2

Rockies v. LHH (OLAZ): -1

Rockies v. RHH (ORAZ): 0


GAME SCORE 

Standard Strike-Zone Game Score: -2

Adjusted Strike-Zone Game Score: -2 

As you can see, it was an average performance from Winters, and I expect the same tonight.

* Assuming the regular rotation occurs. (3B->2B->1B->HP)