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Game Preview: PIT @ ATL, 7:10pm, Wednesday, July 27, 2011 @Turner Field

Pirates, 53-48, 53-48 3rd, 1 GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Paul Maholm (29, LHP, 6-10, 3.26)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (6-10) 132.2 120 53 48 45 80 10 3.26
2010 (9-15) 185.1 228 119 105 62 102 15 5.10
2009 (8-9) 194.2 221 102 96 60 119 14 4.44
Last 7 GS 3-3 43.1 50 19 17 13 22 5 3.53 49
2011-07-22 STL L 6.0 10 5 5 2 2 2 86 32
2011-07-16 @HOU ND 5.0 9 3 3 1 3 1 80 39
2011-07-10 CHC W 7.2 4 1 1 0 8 0 101 75
2011-07-04 HOU W 6.0 5 3 1 3 3 0 92 54
2011-06-29 @TOR L 7.0 9 2 2 2 1 1 98 50
2011-06-24 BOS W 5.1 6 1 1 3 2 0 103 51
2011-06-18 @CLE L 6.1 7 4 4 2 3 1 101 44
Last 5 v.ATL 1-1 33.0 31 8 6 12 21 2 1.64 59
2010-05-30 @ATL ND 6.0 10 2 2 3 5 1 113 46
2009-06-11 @ATL ND 7.0 4 1 0 3 8 0 106 72
2009-04-17 ATL W 7.0 4 0 0 3 2 0 102 68
2007-07-15 @ATL L 6.0 8 3 2 1 2 0 92 47
2006-08-02 ATL ND 7.0 5 2 2 2 4 1 95 61
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-25   Road:   27-23   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  35-37   vsLHP:  18-11   1-Run:  15-11
 vsEast: 11-15   vsCntrl:25-16   vsWest:  9-10 IL: 8-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
101 Tue, Jul 26  @ATL  L   3-4 (19)  53-48  3rd  1.0 gb
100 Mon, Jul 25  @ATL  W   3-1       53-47  1st    Tied
 99 Sun, Jul 24   STL  W   4-3 (10)  52-47  1st    Tied
 98 Sat, Jul 23   STL  L   1-9       51-47  3rd  1.0 gb
 97 Fri, Jul 22   STL  L   4-6       51-46  2nd  1.0 gb
 96 Wed, Jul 20   CIN  L   1-3       51-45  2nd  0.5 gb
 95 Tue, Jul 19   CIN  W   1-0       51-44  1st  0.5 up
 94 Mon, Jul 18   CIN  W   2-0       50-44  1st  0.5 up
 93 Sun, Jul 17  @HOU  W   7-5 (11)  49-44  2nd  0.5 gb
 92 Sat, Jul 16  @HOU  L   4-6       48-44  3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12
Braves, 60-44, 60-44 2nd, 6 GB, 3½ up in WC

SP: Jair Jurrjens (25, RHP, 12-3, 2.44)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (12-3) 121.2 105 35 33 30 80 8 2.44
2010 (7-6) 116.1 120 63 60 42 86 13 4.64
2009 (14-10) 215.0 186 71 62 75 152 15 2.60
Last 7 GS 4-1 42.2 37 17 17 19 34 4 3.59 54
2011-07-22 @CIN ND 6.0 4 4 4 3 9 3 100 54
2011-07-17 WSN ND 5.0 8 6 6 2 6 0 83 31
2011-07-06 COL W 6.0 5 1 1 2 2 0 109 58
2011-07-01 BAL W 9.0 1 0 0 1 8 0 112 92
2011-06-25 @SDP W 6.0 3 1 1 4 2 1 91 60
2011-06-19 TEX W 5.1 8 1 1 2 4 0 116 50
2011-06-14 NYM L 5.1 8 4 4 5 3 0 104 34
Last 5 v.PIT 2-3 30.2 24 8 8 10 28 0 2.35 60
2011-05-24 @PIT W 7.2 6 0 0 1 4 0 97 70
2009-06-10 PIT L 6.0 4 2 2 3 7 0 111 60
2009-04-17 @PIT L 6.2 4 1 1 2 7 0 120 67
2008-05-12 @PIT L 5.0 3 3 3 3 5 0 69 51
2008-04-02 PIT W 5.1 7 2 2 1 5 0 88 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-20   Road:   29-24   ExtrInn:11-8 
 vsRHP:  44-29   vsLHP:  16-15   1-Run:  18-17
 vsEast: 19-17   vsCntrl:17-10   vsWest: 14-12 IL:10-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
104 Tue, Jul 26   PIT  W   4-3 (19)  60-44  2nd  6.0 gb
103 Mon, Jul 25   PIT  L   1-3       59-44  2nd  6.0 gb
102 Sun, Jul 24  @CIN  L   3-4       59-43  2nd  6.0 gb
101 Sat, Jul 23  @CIN  L   2-11      59-42  2nd  5.0 gb
100 Fri, Jul 22  @CIN  W   6-4       59-41  2nd  4.0 gb
 99 Thu, Jul 21  @COL  W   9-6       58-41  2nd  4.0 gb
 98 Wed, Jul 20  @COL  L   2-3       57-41  2nd  4.5 gb
 97 Tue, Jul 19  @COL  L   3-12      57-40  2nd  3.5 gb
 96 Mon, Jul 18  @COL  W   7-4       57-39  2nd  2.5 gb
 95 Sun, Jul 17   WSN  W   9-8       56-39  2nd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jul 26, 2011 ATL  4  PIT  3 (19)   W:Scott Proctor (2-3), L: Daniel McCutchen (3-2), S: none
Mon, Jul 25, 2011 PIT  3 @ATL  1        W:James McDonald (7-4), L: Tim Hudson (9-7), S: Joel Hanrahan (29)
Wed, May 25, 2011 ATL  4 @PIT  2 (11)   W:George Sherrill (1-0), L: Jeff Karstens (3-3), S: Craig Kimbrel (14)
Tue, May 24, 2011 ATL  2 @PIT  0        W:Jair Jurrjens (6-1), L: Charlie Morton (5-2), S: Craig Kimbrel (13)

Wed, Sep 08, 2010 ATL  9 @PIT  3        W:Derek Lowe (12-12), L: Zach Duke (7-13), S: none
Tue, Sep 07, 2010 PIT  5  ATL  0        W:James McDonald (3-5), L: Tim Hudson (15-7), S: none
Mon, Sep 06, 2010 PIT  3  ATL  1        W:Brian Burres (3-3), L: Tommy Hanson (9-11), S: Joel Hanrahan (4)
Sun, May 30, 2010 ATL  5  PIT  2        W:Takashi Saito (1-2), L: Joel Hanrahan (1-1), S: Billy Wagner (7)
Sat, May 29, 2010 ATL  6  PIT  3        W:Kris Medlen (2-1), L: Brian Burres (2-3), S: Billy Wagner (6)
Fri, May 28, 2010 ATL  7  PIT  3        W:Derek Lowe (7-4), L: Zach Duke (3-5), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - ATL over 3-1; 2010 - ATL won 6-3; 2009 - PIT won 4-3; All-Time - PIT leads 1081-1007

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 2011 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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.50

TBR  4.14

SEA  3.26

 RA/G

PHI  3.32

CLE  4.26

BAL  5.23

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .348

E. Andrus  .278

A. Dunn  .161

 OBP

J. Bautista  .466

C. Jones  .341

M. Olivo  .254

 SLG

J. Bautista  .680

K. Johnson  .446

C. Getz  .281

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.146

N. Swisher  .796

A. Rios  .555

 ERA

J. Weaver  1.79

D. Hudson  3.72

J. Happ  6.12

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.46

R. Nolasco  6.80

C. Pavano  3.77

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Pirates Batters (3.84 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Jurrjens
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 19.Linebrink
G/S/vB		 50.Martinez
G/S/vB		 34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 43.Proctor
G/S/vB		 52.Sherrill*
G/S/vB		 39.Venters*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 150/120 .207/.282/.296/.578 .569/.580 .662 12/.473 1/0 2/9
5.Cedeno G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 3/.333 3/.000 1/.000 4/.250 5/.600 1/.000 300/223 .253/.307/.346/.653 .688/.641 .693 32/.657 2/5 2/5
23.Diaz G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.750 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 186/89 .271/.301/.345/.646 .671/.618 .648 42/.744 4/1 0/2
46.Jones* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 8/.536 1/no AB 288/247 .233/.321/.403/.724 .477/.767 .757 61/.600 4/3 9/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 7/.000 ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 5/.650 2/.000 5/1.350 1/no AB 438/327 .276/.381/.474/.855 .980/.812 .916 97/.884 16/6 14/6
55.McKenry G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 117/89 .264/.295/.358/.653 .481/.704 .707 78/.750 0/1 2/4
37.Overbay* G/S/vP 9/.583 1/.000 11/.091 3/.000 1/.000 10/.550 12/.265 2/.500 377/269 .231/.298/.348/.646 .695/.626 .644 84/.583 1/1 7/8
38.Paul* G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 155/131 .252/.285/.329/.613 .212/.690 .793 29/.427 12/3 1/1
51.Pearce G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 3/2.667 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 74/34 .258/.301/.333/.635 .762/.492 .410 12/.182 0/0 1/3
18.Walker# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 2/1.500 2/.500 2/.500 1/.000 419/293 .269/.334/.405/.739 .623/.796 .817 88/.880 7/2 9/4
2.Wood G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 184/125 .216/.280/.347/.628 .737/.576 .622 50/.785 0/0 5/1
IP 121.2 51.0 40.2 43.1 47.2 25.0 29.0 62.1 TOTAL .244/.311/.358/.668 .680/.664 .700 .685 77/34 63/73
ERA-K/9 2.44/5.9 2.12/14.3 3.10/7.1 3.53/6.7 0.94/7.9 6.48/5.4 2.48/9.6 1.30/9.5 3.32/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McKenry (17-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 491/.233 205/.182 174/.258 176/.196 196/.222 118/.280 119/.262 241/.159 .235  McCutchen
 Diaz
 Paul
 Jones
 Pearce
0/98/0/8
10/0/38/3
19/4/47/2
0/0/69/2
0/0/3/0
OPS .629 .502 .742 .593 .580 .879 .671 .451 .653
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 218/.670 106/.401 58/.722 82/.607 68/.459 44/.977 66/.667 68/.395 .692
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 273/.596 99/.604 116/.753 94/.581 128/.648 74/.820 53/.672 173/.472 .623
Home 239/.576 117/.553 104/.711 96/.378 91/.545 63/.710 64/.637 110/.452
Last 28d days 104/.642 37/.363 40/.954 32/.534 45/.506 57/1.146 33/.606 43/.316
HR/SB/CS 8/14/6 1/0/3 5/6/2 4/0/0 1/2/2 4/2/0 2/0/2 1/1/2 71/86/27
Usage ····X··· X···oX·· ooo·oo·o X··X···· o·X··oo· X··X···X oX·o···· o·o·oXo·
Braves Batters (4.08 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.79 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Maholm*
G/S/vB		 97.Beimel*
G/S/vB		 39.Grilli
G/S/vB		 52.Hanrahan
G/S/vB		 34.McCutchen
G/S/vB		 30.Resop
G/S/vB		 43.Veras
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
7.Conrad# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 83/70 .224/.346/.448/.793 .708/.809 .737 20/.576 2/0 4/1
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 4/.750 2/1.000 1/.000 409/281 .283/.357/.470/.827 .717/.877 .875 99/1.002 3/3 15/5
2.Gonzalez G/S/vP 12/.639 6/.666 1/.000 1/.000 4/.500 3/.000 5/.250 406/307 .225/.257/.333/.591 .735/.544 .581 90/.430 2/0 8/8
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 4/.500 3/.000 2/.500 3/2.000 5/.000 1/no AB 3/.666 307/213 .222/.311/.404/.715 .565/.783 .713 85/.702 5/2 11/5
20.Hinske* G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 6/.167 201/172 .251/.313/.432/.745 .352/.814 .690 34/.856 0/1 9/0
10.Jones# G/S/vP 6/.000 11/1.122 8/1.071 9/1.810 1/5.000 ··· 3/.333 334/223 .261/.341/.437/.779 .771/.782 .866 35/.977 2/2 9/4
28.Lugo G/S/vP 7/.929 12/1.000 3/1.334 3/.333 3/1.167 1/2.000 1/2.000 35/15 .188/.257/.188/.445 .417/.481 .663 28/.486 0/0 0/0
16.McCann* G/S/vP 3/.667 7/.334 1/.000 9/.222 1/.000 1/.000 7/.629 373/253 .306/.375/.514/.889 .816/.924 .998 74/.788 3/1 18/4
13.McLouth* G/S/vP 7/.143 8/.804 1/2.000 5/.933 ··· 2/1.000 4/1.833 312/216 .228/.344/.336/.680 .539/.741 .756 83/.683 4/2 4/2
14.Prado G/S/vP 7/.858 5/.400 2/.000 9/.111 5/.400 1/.000 6/.833 340/255 .268/.313/.417/.730 .705/.738 .797 61/.590 4/6 10/6
8.Ross G/S/vP 25/.971 1/.000 2/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 88/60 .286/.368/.494/.861 .571/.994 1.032 25/.899 0/1 4/1
1.Schafer* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/2.000 2/.500 2/3.000 4/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 220/157 .240/.307/.316/.623 .495/.677 .680 78/.658 15/4 1/2
26.Uggla G/S/vP 21/.812 8/.393 3/.666 9/1.389 5/.650 3/1.333 1/.000 422/301 .199/.273/.385/.657 .517/.713 .637 90/.924 1/2 18/11
IP 132.2 18.0 5.2 45.2 57.0 47.0 46.0 TOTAL .239/.308/.388/.696 .626/.725 .732 .724 41/28 114/61
ERA-K/9 3.26/5.4 4.00/7.5 0.00/7.9 1.18/7.7 2.21/4.9 3.26/10.9 3.33/9.2 3.38/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (75-20-3)
 Ross (11-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 556/.244 76/.261 28/.238 172/.201 233/.240 198/.233 193/.179 .256  Prado
 Hinske
 Heyward
 Schafer
 McLouth
58/0/0/4
27/0/15/2
0/0/77/1
0/51/0/1
26/54/3/0
OPS .683 .769 .693 .507 .679 .672 .571 .704
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 113/.694 35/.508 13/.684 75/.481 93/.864 68/.643 79/.613 .768
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 443/.680 41/1.001 15/.690 97/.527 140/.560 130/.685 114/.542 .662
Road 243/.767 48/1.047 16/.739 74/.549 101/.643 94/.566 95/.628
Last 28d days 107/.845 17/.471 28/.693 31/.419 70/.573 44/.748 47/.573
HR/SB/CS 10/5/3 3/1/0 0/0/0 1/1/0 5/6/2 5/2/2 3/4/1 87/64/21
Usage ····X··· X·ooo··o X·X·o··· ·oo····o XX·oo·X· ooX·X··o oo·X··o·

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.