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Pittsburgh Pirates vs. San Francisco Giants, at PNC Park, August 23, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Start Time:

8:08et (local)

Venue:

PNC Park

Series:

Game #4 of a 4-game series

Average Temp:

78° (based on last ten years)

Giants

Manager:

Bruce Bochy

Game #:

125

On This Date:

61-54

Pirates

Manager:

Clint Hurdle

Game #:

123

On This Date:

66-67

Season Series
Mon, Jun 01, 2015 PIT  4 @SFG  3     
Tue, Jun 02, 2015 PIT  7 @SFG  4     
Wed, Jun 03, 2015 PIT  5 @SFG  2     
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 PIT  4  SFG  0     
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 SFG  6 @PIT  4     
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 PIT  3  SFG  2     

Sun, Aug 23, 2015 SFG    @PIT  8:08pm

                         All times ET

San Francisco Giants

66-57, 2nd, 1½ GB, 8 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   35-24   Road:   31-33   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  48-46   vsLHP:  18-11   1-Run:  15-18
 vsEast: 18-15   vsCntrl:10-13   vsWest: 27-23 IL:11-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
123 Sat, Aug 22  @PIT  L   2-3       66-57  2nd  1.5 gb
122 Fri, Aug 21  @PIT  W   6-4       66-56  2nd  1.5 gb
121 Thu, Aug 20  @PIT  L   0-4       65-56  2nd  2.5 gb
120 Wed, Aug 19  @STL  L   3-4       65-55  2nd  2.0 gb
119 Tue, Aug 18  @STL  W   2-0       65-54  2nd  2.0 gb
118 Mon, Aug 17  @STL  L   1-2       64-54  2nd  3.0 gb
117 Sun, Aug 16   WSN  W   5-0       64-53  2nd  2.5 gb
116 Sat, Aug 15   WSN  W  12-6       63-53  2nd  2.5 gb
115 Fri, Aug 14   WSN  W   8-5       62-53  2nd  2.5 gb
114 Thu, Aug 13   WSN  W   3-1       61-53  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:17-13

Pittsburgh Pirates

73-48, 2nd, 3½ GB, 8 up in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   43-20   Road:   30-28   ExtrInn:10-7 
 vsRHP:  59-38   vsLHP:  14-10   1-Run:  27-15
 vsEast: 21-8    vsCntrl:21-29   vsWest: 18-4  IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
121 Sat, Aug 22   SFG  W   3-2       73-48  2nd  3.5 gb
120 Fri, Aug 21   SFG  L   4-6       72-48  2nd  4.5 gb
119 Thu, Aug 20   SFG  W   4-0       72-47  2nd  4.5 gb
118 Wed, Aug 19   ARI  W   4-1       71-47  2nd  5.0 gb
117 Tue, Aug 18   ARI  W   9-8 (15)  70-47  2nd  5.0 gb
116 Mon, Aug 17   ARI  L   1-4       69-47  2nd  6.0 gb
115 Sun, Aug 16  @NYM  W   8-1       69-46  2nd  5.0 gb
114 Sat, Aug 15  @NYM  W   5-3 (14)  68-46  2nd  6.0 gb
113 Fri, Aug 14  @NYM  W   3-2 (10)  67-46  2nd  6.0 gb
112 Thu, Aug 13  @STL  W  10-5       66-46  2nd  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 PIT  3  SFG  2        W:Mark Melancon (3-1), L: George Kontos (2-2), S: none
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 SFG  6 @PIT  4        W:Madison Bumgarner (15-6), L: Jeff Locke (6-8), S: Santiago Casilla (30)
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 PIT  4  SFG  0        W:Charlie Morton (8-4), L: Jake Peavy (3-6), S: none
Wed, Jun 03, 2015 PIT  5 @SFG  2        W:Francisco Liriano (3-4), L: Tim Hudson (3-5), S: Mark Melancon (16)
Tue, Jun 02, 2015 PIT  7 @SFG  4        W:A.J. Burnett (6-1), L: Chris Heston (5-4), S: Mark Melancon (15)
Mon, Jun 01, 2015 PIT  4 @SFG  3        W:Gerrit Cole (8-2), L: Ryan Vogelsong (4-3), S: Mark Melancon (14)

Wed, Jul 30, 2014 SFG  7  PIT  5        W:Jean Machi (6-0), L: Justin Wilson (3-2), S: Santiago Casilla (9)
Tue, Jul 29, 2014 PIT  3 @SFG  1        W:Francisco Liriano (3-7), L: Tim Hudson (8-8), S: Mark Melancon (20)
Mon, Jul 28, 2014 PIT  5 @SFG  0        W:Vance Worley (4-1), L: Madison Bumgarner (12-8), S: none
Wed, May 07, 2014 PIT  4  SFG  3        W:Gerrit Cole (3-2), L: Tim Lincecum (2-2), S: Mark Melancon (2)
Season Series: 2015 - PIT over 5-1; 2014 - PIT won 4-2; 2013 - PIT won 4-3; All-Time - SFG leads 1130-993

SP: Ryan Vogelsong (37, RHP, 9-8, 3.93)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (9-8)			116.2	108	56	51	49	94	16	3.93
2014 (8-13)			184.2	178	86	82	58	151	18	4.00
2013 (4-6)			103.2	124	73	66	38	67	15	5.73

Last 7 GS		3-2	36.2	31	13	13	17	34	5	3.19	54
2015-08-18	@STL	W	6.0	2	0	0	1	5	0	101	72
2015-08-13	WSN	W	5.0	3	1	1	4	8	1	94	61
2015-08-07	@CHC	L	4.0	6	3	3	1	6	0	82	43
2015-07-11	PHI	ND	5.2	5	4	4	3	5	2	95	45
2015-07-05	@WSN	ND	4.0	3	1	1	3	2	0	67	51
2015-06-30	@MIA	L	6.0	7	4	4	3	4	2	88	43
2015-06-24	SDP	W	6.0	5	0	0	2	4	0	88	64

Last 5 v.PIT		1-4	32.1	28	14	13	9	30	2	3.62	56
2015-06-01	PIT	L	6.0	5	4	3	2	5	0	103	51
2013-08-25	PIT	W	8.0	2	0	0	1	5	0	98	82
2012-07-07	@PIT	L	7.0	8	3	3	1	5	1	98	53
2012-04-15	PIT	L	6.1	4	2	2	3	7	1	102	61
2011-08-08	PIT	L	5.0	9	5	5	2	8	0	90	35

SP: Francisco Liriano (31, LHP, 8-6, 3.35)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2015 (8-6)			142.1	111	55	53	51	154	11	3.35
2014 (7-10)			162.1	130	68	61	81	175	13	3.38
2013 (16-8)			161.0	134	54	54	63	163	9	3.02

Last 7 GS		3-0	40.0	41	20	19	17	41	2	4.28	51
2015-08-18	ARI	ND	7.0	6	5	5	3	5	0	102	47
2015-08-13	@STL	W	6.0	6	3	3	4	5	0	94	49
2015-08-08	LAD	ND	3.0	7	4	4	2	4	1	79	31
2015-07-29	@MIN	W	5.2	10	3	2	0	4	0	106	43
2015-07-23	WSN	W	6.0	3	1	1	3	11	0	103	70
2015-07-12	STL	ND	6.1	5	2	2	4	6	1	108	57
2015-07-07	SDP	ND	6.0	4	2	2	1	6	0	86	61

Last 5 v.SFG		3-1	24.0	25	10	10	7	22	1	3.75	53
2015-06-03	@SFG	W	7.0	4	1	1	1	6	0	102	70
2014-07-29	@SFG	W	7.0	4	1	1	1	11	1	110	75
2013-08-24	@SFG	L	4.0	9	4	4	2	3	0	102	29
2013-06-12	SFG	W	6.0	8	4	4	3	2	0	91	39

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

Giants Batters (4.31 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.65 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB 59.Bastardo*
G/S/vB 55.Blanton
G/S/vB 37.Caminero
G/S/vB 48.Hughes
G/S/vB 35.Melancon
G/S/vB 38.Soria
G/S/vB 44.Watson*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Adrianza# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 70/50 .200/.304/.267/.571 .683/.524 .718 53/.642 2/1 0/2

23.Aoki* G/S/vP 11/.473 4/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 4/1.000 6/.334 ··· 8/1.071 351/258 .303/.369/.388/.757 .802/.740 .906 60/.700 13/5 4/0

9.Belt* G/S/vP 3/1.167 3/.666 6/.167 1/.000 4/.833 5/.400 1/2.000 3/.666 464/354 .275/.351/.484/.835 .760/.859 .828 106/.856 8/2 17/4

7.Blanco* G/S/vP 10/.500 ··· 12/.614 2/.000 4/.833 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 320/263 .291/.375/.414/.789 .735/.801 .701 86/.798 12/4 3/2

6.Byrd G/S/vP 14/.814 4/.750 11/.773 3/.000 8/1.125 7/.714 6/.167 8/.875 397/304 .239/.287/.457/.744 .930/.687 .706 92/.687 2/1 20/0

35.Crawford* G/S/vP 7/.000 4/.250 12/.334 2/.000 4/1.500 5/.000 ··· 6/1.000 471/356 .267/.327/.485/.812 .784/.821 .805 96/.836 4/4 19/11

5.Duffy G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 437/333 .304/.343/.458/.801 .643/.850 .779 110/.782 6/0 10/11

43.Maxwell G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 1/5.000 1/.000 267/175 .211/.278/.347/.625 .630/.623 .697 42/.539 2/1 7/2

2.Perez G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 8/3 .286/.375/.286/.661 .650/.667 .833 8/.661 1/0 0/0

28.Posey G/S/vP 12/.955 2/1.000 17/1.096 2/.500 4/.000 4/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 475/373 .318/.375/.478/.852 .751/.881 .886 98/.705 2/0 16/1

34.Susac G/S/vP 6/.167 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 132/87 .235/.311/.395/.706 .875/.619 .607 9/.476 0/0 3/4

37.Tomlinson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 41/28 .325/.341/.450/.791 .769/.802 .623 41/.791 0/1 0/0

IP 142.1 41.0 57.0 58.2 53.2 58.0 51.1 56.1 TOTAL .269/.326/.409/.735 .707/.745 .747 .714 65/24 105/58

ERA-K/9

3.35/9.7

3.29/9.0

3.00/9.5

3.38/9.5

2.35/5.4

1.55/6.7

2.81/8.1

2.24/8.5

3.18/8.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Posey (27-22-3)
Susac (27-6-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 576/.213 177/.203 234/.249 249/.222 228/.276 227/.218 207/.213 219/.203 .250 Aoki
Maxwell
Byrd
Blanco
Perez
Belt 78/0/2/4
17/2/57/3
88/4/6/2
34/37/21/1
3/1/0/0
13/0/0/0

OPS .598 .640 .702 .645 .706 .550 .640 .528 .675

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 130/.569 51/.538 118/.816 95/.624 86/.615 104/.394 99/.687 58/.565 .672

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 446/.606 126/.683 116/.589 154/.656 142/.760 123/.676 108/.592 161/.514 .677

Home 313/.641 91/.697 138/.724 139/.748 121/.634 128/.565 99/.564 117/.383

Last 28d days 99/.821 46/.369 73/.592 55/.396 49/.940 51/.656 46/.514 43/.569

HR/SB/CS 11/6/2 4/7/0 6/2/1 6/8/0 3/5/3 2/0/2 8/2/0 3/1/0 85/109/33

Usage ····X··· ·X·o··X· ·X··Xo·X ·o··X·oX ··X·o··o o··oX··o X··o·ooo ··Xoo··o

Pirates Batters (4.26 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (3.78 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 32.Vogelsong
G/S/vB 41.Affeldt*
G/S/vB 46.Casilla
G/S/vB 70.Kontos
G/S/vB 49.Lopez*
G/S/vB 61.Osich*
G/S/vB 52.Petit
G/S/vB 54.Romo
G/S/vB 60.Strickland
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

24.Alvarez* G/S/vP 17/.364 5/.650 2/.000 3/2.667 3/2.667 1/.000 5/1.400 1/.000 ··· 388/341 .250/.312/.460/.772 .697/.783 .722 72/.949 2/0 19/16

29.Cervelli G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 373/298 .303/.370/.423/.794 1.001/.742 .844 81/.881 1/1 6/4

5.Harrison G/S/vP 3/.667 2/2.000 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.417 2/.000 ··· 332/263 .274/.310/.377/.687 .787/.662 .690 6/.167 9/4 4/12

30.Ishikawa* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 67/61 .203/.299/.305/.604 .533/.610 .450 33/.575 0/0 1/1

27.Kang G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 1/5.000 386/303 .290/.363/.464/.826 .758/.844 .869 94/.978 5/4 12/11

6.Marte G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/1.250 1/.000 ··· 6/1.467 1/.000 1/3.000 471/382 .290/.341/.459/.801 .871/.784 .866 90/.818 24/9 15/2

22.McCutchen G/S/vP 18/.545 5/1.600 2/.000 3/3.500 ··· ··· 13/.885 10/.800 2/.000 511/417 .293/.395/.502/.898 .857/.907 1.002 101/.988 6/4 18/1

31.Morse G/S/vP 5/1.000 3/1.167 4/.000 6/1.167 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 3/.666 ··· 199/158 .227/.296/.320/.617 .493/.647 .428 26/.787 0/0 4/0

25.Polanco* G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 1/.000 487/401 .260/.329/.385/.714 .632/.731 .653 107/.853 20/9 7/5

17.Ramirez G/S/vP 29/.935 2/1.000 8/.393 ··· 3/.000 ··· 8/.125 10/.944 ··· 399/315 .249/.291/.411/.702 .618/.723 .662 90/.681 1/0 12/9

3.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 202/117 .234/.258/.328/.586 .624/.558 .612 46/.748 2/2 3/1

19.Stewart G/S/vP 5/1.600 ··· 2/2.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 138/115 .288/.326/.344/.670 .648/.674 .638 22/.549 0/0 0/7

18.Walker# G/S/vP 19/1.105 3/.666 5/.200 4/.833 2/.000 ··· 7/.858 5/.200 2/.000 472/391 .266/.324/.431/.755 .577/.793 .707 90/.792 3/0 13/6

IP 116.2 30.1 42.1 59.1 31.2 12.1 65.0 41.1 38.0 TOTAL .260/.321/.397/.718 .703/.722 .730 .796 76/35 105/88

ERA-K/9

3.93/7.2

5.34/5.6

3.61/9.1

1.97/5.5

1.42/5.4

1.46/8.8

3.88/6.6

3.48/12.6

2.13/9.7

3.66/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Cervelli (75-23-7)
Stewart (32-9-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 505/.242 140/.282 184/.261 227/.209 114/.126 53/.191 267/.247 166/.242 144/.200 .247 Marte
McCutchen
Polanco
Morse
Harrison
Ishikawa
Rodriguez 105/15/0/11
0/113/0/7
8/2/109/6
6/0/0/1
3/0/10/0
6/0/0/0
14/0/11/0

OPS .735 .816 .760 .565 .395 .548 .732 .653 .569 .699

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 218/.850 59/.773 82/1.028 76/.582 71/.335 25/.457 108/.869 52/1.119 51/.448 .739

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 287/.647 81/.848 102/.556 151/.556 43/.499 28/.634 159/.643 114/.452 93/.633 .674

Road 292/.796 78/.816 79/.656 130/.696 51/.428 37/.712 173/.884 79/.561 90/.544

Last 28d days 71/.686 30/.419 27/.912 39/.752 21/.403 23/.701 48/.549 38/.526 49/.575

HR/SB/CS 16/9/0 5/4/0 5/3/2 6/5/2 0/0/0 1/0/0 10/3/0 2/4/3 3/2/3 115/60/29

Usage ····X··· ·····o·· ·o··X··· X··o···o ···oo··· ·o·oo··· ··X··X·X ·X··o··· X··o·X··

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 2015 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

TOR 5.35

LAD 4.12

ATL 3.67

RA/G

STL 3.00

CLE 4.20

COL 5.41

D. Gordon .336

A. Beltre .267

C. Carter .182

OBP

B. Harper .455

R. Martin .327

O. Infante .230

SLG

B. Harper .638

D. Murphy .425

B. Hamilton .290

OPS

B. Harper 1.093

E. Longoria .752

O. Infante .525

ERA

Z. Greinke 1.67

M. Fiers 3.63

K. Lohse 6.04

K/9IP

C. Sale 12.16

A. Burnett 7.58

M. Buehrle 4.25

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.