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Game Preview: PIT @ NYM, 1:10pm, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 @Shea Stadium

Pittsburgh Pirates, 10-16, 6th, 6 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Tom Gorzelanny (25, LHP, 1-3, 8.46)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-3)             22.1  24  21  21  22  13  2    8.46      
 2007 (14-10)          201.2 214  90  87  68 135 18    3.88      
 2006 (2-5)             61.2  50  29  26  31  40  3    3.79      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-5  34    47  33  33  27  21  4    8.74   34 
 2008-04-24    STL   L   5     2   3   3   7   4  0      94   48 
 2008-04-19   @CHC   L   2.2   6   7   7   4   3  1      80   17 
 2008-04-13    CIN   W   6.1   4   1   1   4   1  0     102   58 
 2008-04-07    CHC  ND   2.1   6   7   7   4   2  0      70   15 
 2008-04-02   @ATL   L   6     6   3   3   3   3  1      95   48 
 2007-09-29    STL   L   6    11   6   6   3   1  1      90   24 
 2007-09-23   @CHC   L   5.2  12   6   6   2   7  1     117   26 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.NYM      0-2  10.1  15  12  12   9   3  0   10.45   32 
 2007-07-25   @NYM   L   2.1   7   6   6   3   1  0      59   17 
 2006-09-16    NYM  ND   4     4   1   1   2   2  0      71   50 
 2006-07-06   @NYM   L   4     4   5   5   4   0  0      72   30 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    6-7    Road:    4-9    ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:   9-8    vsLHP:   1-8    1-Run:   5-4 
 vsEast:  5-7    vsCntrl: 4-7    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 26 Tue, Apr 29  @NYM  L   4-5 (11)  10-16  6th  6.0 gb
 25 Sun, Apr 27   PHI  W   5-1       10-15  6th  6.0 gb
 24 Sat, Apr 26   PHI  L   4-8        9-15  6th  7.0 gb
 23 Fri, Apr 25   PHI  L   5-6        9-14  5th  6.0 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 24   STL  L   2-6        9-13  5th  6.0 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 23   STL  W   7-4        9-12  5th  6.0 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 22   FLA  W   3-2        8-12  6th  6.0 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 21   FLA  L   4-10       7-12  6th  6.0 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 20  @CHC  L   6-13       7-11  5th  5.0 gb
 17 Sat, Apr 19  @CHC  L   1-13       7-10  4th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-16
New York Mets, 14-11, 2nd, ½ GB, ½ GB in WC

SP: Oliver Perez (26, LHP, 2-1, 3.62)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (2-1)             27.1  26  11  11  16  24  1    3.62      
 2007 (15-10)          177   153  90  70  79 174 22    3.56      
 2006 (3-13)           112.2 129  90  82  68 102 20    6.55      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-2  39    38  19  18  18  36  2    4.15   50 
 2008-04-24   @WSN   L   5.2   6   5   5   4   3  0     100   36 
 2008-04-19   @PHI   W   5.2   4   0   0   5   7  0     108   63 
 2008-04-13    MIL  ND   4.1   8   6   6   3   4  1      99   24 
 2008-04-08    PHI  ND   5.2   3   0   0   3   2  0      94   62 
 2008-04-02   @FLA   W   6     5   0   0   1   8  0      93   69 
 2007-09-28    FLA   L   3.2   6   6   6   2   4  1      78   27 
 2007-09-22   @FLA   W   8     6   2   1   0   8  0     102   72 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.PIT      0-2  14    14  13   8  12  14  3    5.14   43 
 2007-07-26    PIT   L   6     5   5   0   1   9  1     111   60 
 2003-07-29   @PIT  ND   5     2   1   1   7   4  0     108   56 
 2003-04-30    PIT   L   3     7   7   7   4   1  2      85   14 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    9-4    Road:    5-7    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:   6-9    vsLHP:   8-2    1-Run:   4-2 
 vsEast: 12-7    vsCntrl: 2-4    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 25 Tue, Apr 29   PIT  W   5-4 (11)  14-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 24 Sun, Apr 27   ATL  W   6-3       13-11  2nd  1.5 gb
 23 Sat, Apr 26   ATL  W   4-3       12-11  3rd  1.5 gb
 22 Fri, Apr 25   ATL  L   3-6       11-11  4th  2.5 gb
 21 Thu, Apr 24  @WSN  L   5-10      11-10  2nd  1.5 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 23  @WSN  W   7-2       11-9   2nd  1.5 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 22  @CHC  L   1-8       10-9   2nd  1.5 gb
 18 Mon, Apr 21  @CHC  L   1-7       10-8   2nd  1.5 gb
 17 Sun, Apr 20  @PHI  L   4-5       10-7   2nd  0.5 gb
 16 Sat, Apr 19  @PHI  W   4-2       10-6   1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:14-11
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Apr 29, 2008 NYM  5  PIT  4 (11)   W:Jorge Sosa (3-1), L: John Van Benschoten (0-1), S: none

Thu, Aug 16, 2007 PIT 10  NYM  7        W:Damaso Marte (1-0), L: Aaron Heilman (7-5), S: Matt Capps (11)
Wed, Aug 15, 2007 NYM 10 @PIT  8        W:John Maine (13-7), L: Matt Morris (7-8), S: Billy Wagner (28)
Tue, Aug 14, 2007 NYM  5 @PIT  4        W:Jorge Sosa (9-6), L: Salomon Torres (1-4), S: Billy Wagner (27)
Thu, Jul 26, 2007 PIT  8 @NYM  4        W:Paul Maholm (7-12), L: Oliver Perez (9-7), S: none
Wed, Jul 25, 2007 NYM  6  PIT  3        W:Tom Glavine (9-6), L: Tom Gorzelanny (9-6), S: Billy Wagner (23)
Tue, Jul 24, 2007 NYM  8  PIT  4        W:John Maine (11-5), L: Ian Snell (7-8), S: none
Sun, Sep 17, 2006 PIT  3  NYM  0        W:Zach Duke (10-13), L: John Maine (5-5), S: Salomon Torres (9)
Sat, Sep 16, 2006 PIT  3  NYM  2        W:Matt Capps (8-1), L: Aaron Heilman (4-5), S: none
Fri, Sep 15, 2006 PIT  5  NYM  3        W:Paul Maholm (8-10), L: Pedro Martinez (9-6), S: Salomon Torres (8)
Season Series: 2008 - NYM leads 1-0; 2007 - NYM won 4-2; 2006 - NYM won 5-4; All-Time - PIT leads 351-319

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 2008 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

For the 2007 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY  5.98

BAL  4.67

WSN  4.15

RA/G

BOS  4.06

KCR  4.80

TBD  5.83

BA

M. Ordonez  .363

J. Francoeur  .293

J. LaRue  .148

OBP

B. Bonds  .480

J. Varitek  .367

J. LaRue  .240

SLG

C. Ross  .653

T. Tulowitzki  .479

A. Gonzalez  .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez  1.067

G. Sheffield  .839

J. LaRue  .512

ERA

J. Peavy  2.54

A. Pettitte  4.05

S. Olsen  5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard  10.93

G. Meche  6.50

A. Cook  3.31

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Pittsburgh Pirates Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. New York Mets Pitchers (4.20 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Perez*
G/S/vB
25.Feliciano*
G/S/vB
48.Heilman
G/S/vB
50.Sanchez
G/S/vB
60.Schoeneweis*
G/S/vB
35.Smith
G/S/vB
29.Sosa
G/S/vB
13.Wagner*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Bautista G/S/vP ··· 2/no AB 6/1.267 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 614/470 .254/.339/.414/.753 .788/.742 .747 / 6/3 15/17
38.Bay G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 8/.661 4/2.500 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 5/.200 614/462 .247/.327/.418/.746 .742/.747 .766 / 4/1 21/8
10.Bixler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
41.Doumit# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 279/216 .274/.341/.472/.813 .633/.865 .719 / 1/2 9/3
5.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 5/.400 ··· 5/1.550 9/1.378 240/145 .297/.325/.374/.699 .678/.712 .656 / 1/2 1/3
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 3/.000 8/.250 19/1.035 4/1.250 ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.600 632/473 .272/.345/.458/.803 .808/.802 .721 / 1/1 21/6
13.McLouth* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/5.000 5/.800 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 382/304 .258/.351/.459/.810 .739/.828 .772 / 22/1 13/3
16.Mientkiewicz* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 14/.619 ··· 10/.200 3/.000 192/159 .277/.349/.440/.789 .613/.822 .587 / 0/0 5/2
3.Morgan* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 118/87 .299/.359/.430/.789 .836/.773 .771 / 7/3 1/1
22.Nady G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· 4/.500 4/.833 ··· 1/2.000 6/1.500 2/.000 470/366 .278/.330/.476/.805 .819/.802 .833 / 3/1 20/1
26.Paulino G/S/vP 3/.000 2/2.500 7/.829 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 494/375 .263/.314/.389/.703 1.055/.593 .680 / 2/2 11/7
31.Rivas G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/1.300 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 11/8 .273/.273/.727/1.000 2.333/.500 1.000 / 0/0 1/1
12.Sanchez G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 5/1.000 4/.750 3/.666 ··· 4/.000 6/.334 653/476 .304/.343/.442/.784 .956/.721 .779 / 0/1 11/9
IP 177.0 64.0 86.0 59.0 44.1 112.2 68.1 TOTAL .244/.312/.374/.686 .658/.696 .690 .665 8/6 23/29
ERA-K/9 3.56/8.8 3.09/8.6 3.03/6.6 /0.0 5.03/6.3 3.45/9.1 4.47/5.5 2.63/10.5 3.68/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (21-6-5)
 Paulino (74-27-8)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 765/.229 275/.200 352/.224 / 265/.271 205/.274 481/.255 282/.216 .241  Bay
 Doumit
 Nady
 McLouth
 Morgan
 Bautista
142/0/0/13
0/0/38/5
10/11/94/4
24/66/18/2
0/28/0/2
2/5/16/1
OPS .696 .610 .634 .797 .757 .719 .611 .703
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 158/.625 112/.483 141/.738 / 108/.556 58/.858 214/.938 61/.698 .845
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 607/.715 163/.697 211/.568 / 157/.963 147/.720 267/.549 221/.587 .628
Home 440/.699 140/.595 175/.543 / 134/.892 106/.729 210/.754 151/.527 .650
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 22/13/3 3/3/0 8/8/2 // 8/6/1 3/5/1 10/4/2 6/6/0 28/5/5
Usage ·····X·· o·ooXX·o X··X·X·· X··oX·o· o·ooo··o ··o·o··X o····X·X X·oo··X·

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

New York Mets Batters (4.72 RS/G) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Pitchers (6.12 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 24.Gorzelanny*
G/S/vB
55.Capps
G/S/vB
32.Dumatrait*
G/S/vB
34.Grabow*
G/S/vB
43.Marte*
G/S/vB
44.Meek
G/S/vB
52.Osoria
G/S/vB
47.Van Benschoten
G/S/vB
30.Yates
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Anderson* G/S/vP 2/1.500 3/1.666 ··· 1/no AB 4/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/no AB ··· 106/98 .295/.343/.463/.806 .268/.849 .778 / 4/1 3/1
15.Beltran# G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· ··· 7/.572 7/1.714 ··· 3/1.000 5/1.267 7/1.429 636/456 .276/.353/.525/.878 .940/.853 .822 / 23/2 33/5
30.Casanova# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 89/66 .253/.315/.519/.834 .811/.842 .400 / 0/0 6/3
1.Castillo# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 1/no AB 4/.250 615/459 .301/.362/.359/.721 .778/.701 .749 / 19/6 1/5
10.Chavez* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 165/134 .287/.325/.380/.705 .724/.700 .784 / 5/2 1/0
19.Church* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/3.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 530/394 .272/.349/.464/.813 .655/.866 .775 / 3/2 15/3
21.Delgado* G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· ··· 7/.286 11/.717 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 607/412 .258/.333/.448/.781 .704/.818 .680 / 4/0 24/8
3.Easley G/S/vP 2/1.000 4/.500 ··· 1/2.000 6/.833 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/3.000 218/117 .280/.358/.466/.824 1.041/.638 .779 / 0/1 10/5
6.Molina G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 30/18 .111/.138/.148/.286 .091/.402 .348 / 0/0 0/0
16.Pagan# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.666 ··· 4/.833 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 161/83 .264/.306/.439/.745 .755/.736 .893 / 4/1 4/0
7.Reyes# G/S/vP 7/.762 5/.200 ··· 3/1.333 2/1.000 ··· 2/2.000 1/no AB 8/1.625 765/554 .280/.354/.421/.775 .795/.768 .787 / 78/21 12/12
23.Schneider* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.800 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 8/.929 477/337 .235/.326/.336/.661 .636/.671 .642 / 0/0 6/6
5.Wright G/S/vP 6/1.300 1/.000 ··· 5/1.100 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/2.000 7/1.429 711/513 .325/.416/.546/.963 1.106/.908 1.021 / 34/5 30/21
IP 201.2 79.0 18.0 51.2 45.1 28.1 39.0 66.0 TOTAL .256/.343/.380/.723 .815/.676 .728 .723 23/9 16/14
ERA-K/9 3.88/6.0 2.28/7.3 15.00/4.5 4.53/7.3 2.38/10.1 /0.0 4.76/4.1 10.15/6.0 5.18/9.4 5.39/5.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Casanova (9-5-4)
 Molina (3-0-1)
 Schneider (53-24-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 874/.273 315/.220 104/.448 228/.277 182/.200 / 126/.289 203/.335 294/.251 .294  Beltran
 Church
 Anderson
 Chavez
 Pagan
 Easley
0/141/0/6
91/41/0/4
12/3/1/2
37/10/24/1
2/34/29/0
3/0/6/0
OPS .748 .582 1.291 .740 .598 .743 .921 .738 .822
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 140/.578 131/.743 17/1.353 87/.604 75/.352 / 39/.995 84/.853 116/.960 .745
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 734/.781 184/.473 87/1.275 141/.828 107/.765 / 87/.634 119/.958 178/.594 .861
Road 458/.764 150/.567 58/1.175 108/.782 99/.708 / 77/.701 107/.940 150/.779 .888
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 18/17/5 5/1/0 6/0/0 6/10/0 2/0/1 // 3/1/0 4/6/1 6/7/1 25/17/8
Usage ·····X·· ····o·oo ···X·X·· o···o··o X···o·Xo ···X···· X··o·X·· X······· X···X··X

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.

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