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Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Chicago Cubs, at PNC Park, May 3, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Start Time:
7:05et (local)
Venue:
PNC Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
71° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
27
On This Date:
53-52
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
28
On This Date:
51-54
Season Series
Mon, May 02, 2016 CHC  7 @PIT  2     

Tue, May 03, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, May 04, 2016 CHC    @PIT 12:35pm
Fri, May 13, 2016 PIT    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, May 14, 2016 PIT    @CHC  2:20pm
Sun, May 15, 2016 PIT    @CHC  2:20pm
Fri, Jun 17, 2016 PIT    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, Jun 18, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:15pm
Sun, Jun 19, 2016 PIT    @CHC        
Fri, Jul 08, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Sat, Jul 09, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:15pm
Sun, Jul 10, 2016 CHC    @PIT  1:35pm
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:05pm
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:05pm
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:05pm
Mon, Sep 26, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Tue, Sep 27, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, Sep 28, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Thu, Sep 29, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
18-6, 1st, 4 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-3    Road:   11-3    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  14-5    vsLHP:   4-1    1-Run:   2-2 
 vsEast:  1-1    vsCntrl:11-2    vsWest:  4-3  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 24 Mon, May  2  @PIT  W   7-2       18-6   1st  4.0 up
 23 Sun, May  1   ATL  L   3-4 (10)  17-6   1st  3.0 up
 22 Fri, Apr 29   ATL  W   6-1       17-5   1st  3.5 up
 21 Thu, Apr 28   MIL  W   7-2       16-5   1st  3.5 up
 20 Tue, Apr 26   MIL  W   4-3       15-5   1st  3.5 up
 19 Sun, Apr 24  @CIN  W   9-0       14-5   1st  3.5 up
 18 Sat, Apr 23  @CIN  L   5-13      13-5   1st  3.5 up
 17 Fri, Apr 22  @CIN  W   8-1       13-4   1st  4.0 up
 16 Thu, Apr 21  @CIN  W  16-0       12-4   1st  3.5 up
 15 Wed, Apr 20  @STL  L   3-5       11-4   1st  3.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:18-6
Pittsburgh Pirates
15-11, 2nd, 4 GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-5    Road:    8-6    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  12-10   vsLHP:   3-1    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 8-5    vsWest:  6-3  IL: 1-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 26 Mon, May  2   CHC  L   2-7       15-11  2nd  4.0 gb
 25 Sun, May  1   CIN  L   5-6 (11)  15-10  2nd  3.0 gb
 24 Sat, Apr 30   CIN  W   5-1       15-9   2nd  3.0 gb
 23 Fri, Apr 29   CIN  W   4-1       14-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 27  @COL  W   9-8 (12)  13-9   2nd  3.0 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 26  @COL  W   9-4       12-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 20 Mon, Apr 25  @COL  W   6-1       11-9   2nd  3.5 gb
 19 Sun, Apr 24  @ARI  W  12-10(13)  10-9   3rd  4.0 gb
 18 Sat, Apr 23  @ARI  L   1-7        9-9   3rd  4.0 gb
 17 Fri, Apr 22  @ARI  W   8-7        9-8   2nd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, May 02, 2016 CHC  7 @PIT  2        W:Jason Hammel (4-0), L: Gerrit Cole (2-3), S: none

Sun, Sep 27, 2015 CHC  4  PIT  0        W:Jake Arrieta (21-6), L: A.J. Burnett (9-6), S: none
Sat, Sep 26, 2015 PIT  4 @CHC  0        W:Francisco Liriano (12-7), L: Jason Hammel (9-7), S: none
Fri, Sep 25, 2015 PIT  3 @CHC  2        W:Gerrit Cole (18-8), L: Jon Lester (10-12), S: Mark Melancon (51)
Thu, Sep 17, 2015 CHC  9 @PIT  6        W:Clayton Richard (4-2), L: Charlie Morton (9-8), S: Travis Wood (2)
Wed, Sep 16, 2015 CHC  3 @PIT  2 (12)   W:Hector Rondon (6-4), L: Vance Worley (4-6), S: none
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 CHC  2 @PIT  1        W:Jon Lester (10-10), L: J.A. Happ (9-8), S: none
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 PIT  5  CHC  4        W:Tony Watson (4-1), L: Justin Grimm (3-5), S: Mark Melancon (46)
Wed, Aug 05, 2015 PIT  7  CHC  5        W:Antonio Bastardo (3-1), L: Travis Wood (5-4), S: Mark Melancon (34)
Tue, Aug 04, 2015 CHC  5 @PIT  0        W:Jake Arrieta (12-6), L: J.A. Happ (4-7), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - CHC over 1-0; 2015 - CHC won 11-8; 2014 - PIT won 14-5; All-Time - PIT leads 1257-1185

SP: Jake Arrieta (30, RHP, 5-0, 1.00)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (5-0) 36.0 18 4 4 10 32 2 1.00
2015 (22-6) 229.0 150 52 45 48 236 10 1.77
2014 (10-5) 156.2 114 46 44 41 167 5 2.53
Last 7 GS 7-0 49.0 21 4 4 10 48 2 0.73 74
2016-04-28 MIL W 5.0 3 1 1 4 6 0 92 59
2016-04-21 @CIN W 9.0 0 0 0 4 6 0 119 89
2016-04-16 COL W 8.0 5 0 0 1 8 0 100 79
2016-04-10 @ARI W 7.0 8 3 3 0 6 2 99 55
2016-04-04 @LAA W 7.0 2 0 0 1 6 0 89 78
2015-10-02 @MIL W 6.0 2 0 0 0 7 0 72 75
2015-09-27 PIT W 7.0 1 0 0 0 9 0 84 84
Last 5 v.PIT 3-1 36.0 18 4 3 5 33 0 0.75 74
2015-09-27 PIT W 7.0 1 0 0 0 9 0 84 84
2015-09-16 @PIT ND 8.0 6 2 1 1 5 0 117 68
2015-08-04 @PIT W 7.0 2 0 0 3 5 0 109 75
2015-05-17 PIT L 7.0 5 1 1 1 7 0 106 69
2015-04-20 @PIT W 7.0 4 1 1 0 7 0 100 72

SP: Jon Niese (29, LHP, 3-0, 5.08)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (3-0) 28.1 33 18 16 9 22 7 5.08
2015 (9-10) 176.2 192 93 81 55 113 20 4.13
2014 (9-11) 187.2 193 80 71 45 138 17 3.40
Last 7 GS 4-0 40.1 44 21 18 12 27 7 4.02 49
2016-04-27 @COL ND 5.0 10 5 5 2 5 2 85 30
2016-04-22 @ARI W 5.1 10 4 4 2 2 2 95 32
2016-04-16 MIL W 7.0 3 0 0 3 3 0 96 71
2016-04-11 @DET W 6.0 5 4 3 1 5 2 88 52
2016-04-05 STL ND 5.0 5 5 4 1 7 1 82 45
2015-09-21 ATL W 6.0 3 0 0 2 2 0 88 66
2015-09-13 @ATL ND 6.0 8 3 2 1 3 0 97 48
Last 5 v.CHC 1-4 32.0 32 19 17 11 21 4 4.78 48
2015-06-30 CHC L 7.0 4 1 1 4 5 0 107 66
2015-05-14 @CHC L 6.1 6 6 4 1 2 1 90 42
2014-08-16 CHC W 6.0 7 3 3 2 6 2 96 50
2013-06-15 CHC L 5.2 6 2 2 4 5 0 106 50
2012-07-08 CHC L 7.0 9 7 7 0 3 1 89 34

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

Cubs Batters (6.08 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Niese*
G/S/vB		 37.Caminero
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 53.Lobstein*
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 31.Schugel
G/S/vB		 14.Vogelsong
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Baez G/S/vP 3/.666 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 4/.250 33/26 .355/.394/.516/.910 1.548/.748 .722 33/.910 2/0 1/0
17.Bryant G/S/vP 6/.900 6/1.100 1/4.000 7/.904 2/1.500 3/.333 1/2.000 2/.000 5/.800 104/78 .289/.385/.500/.885 .631/.974 .873 95/.942 0/2 4/3
15.Federowicz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 5/5 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 5/.000 0/0 0/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 19/.760 5/.400 1/3.000 6/.833 2/1.500 4/.000 1/.000 15/.904 7/.572 105/82 .357/.476/.619/1.095 .985/1.128 1.379 96/1.024 5/0 3/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 31/.994 6/1.100 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 4/.000 ··· 16/1.192 9/.222 104/79 .211/.317/.256/.573 .507/.594 .771 95/.596 4/1 0/0
2.La Stella* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/34 .303/.395/.545/.940 .500/.963 1.028 38/.940 0/0 1/0
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 21/.462 5/.733 1/.000 10/1.250 2/.000 11/.664 1/5.000 7/1.858 18/.466 109/81 .230/.385/.575/.960 .423/1.159 1.145 100/.943 2/1 8/2
3.Ross G/S/vP 24/.878 4/.250 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/2.000 2/2.500 5/.600 5/.200 44/31 .265/.357/.471/.828 1.240/.664 .910 40/.775 0/0 2/1
27.Russell G/S/vP 6/.000 6/.167 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 5/.400 1/no AB 2/1.000 4/.750 94/76 .218/.340/.333/.674 .278/.755 .543 86/.727 1/0 2/3
68.Soler G/S/vP 3/.666 5/.600 1/no AB 5/1.600 1/.000 5/.900 ··· 2/2.000 5/.000 70/52 .186/.286/.305/.591 .289/.694 .397 61/.628 0/0 2/1
20.Szczur G/S/vP 6/1.333 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 3/.666 34/26 .367/.441/.600/1.041 1.042/1.045 .931 29/.854 1/1 2/0
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 11/.586 ··· 1/no AB 7/1.286 ··· ··· ··· 100/77 .253/.390/.342/.732 .891/.678 .975 91/.713 1/1 1/0
IP 28.1 13.2 11.0 1.0 20.0 10.1 11.0 13.0 12.2 TOTAL .253/.361/.420/.781 .683/.808 .843 .776 17/6 28/14
ERA-K/9 5.08/7.0 5.27/8.5 4.91/12.3 0.00/0.0 3.60/6.3 2.61/8.7 4.09/9.0 3.46/6.2 3.55/7.8 4.17/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Federowicz (1-0-0)
 Ross (11-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 125/.292 66/.278 45/.220 6/.000 84/.257 42/.231 49/.261 55/.208 53/.222 .254  Fowler
 Heyward
 Bryant
 Baez
 Szczur
 Zobrist
 Soler
0/23/0/2
0/2/22/1
11/0/1/1
1/0/0/0
14/1/2/0
0/0/1/0
14/0/2/0
OPS .925 .909 .728 .400 .756 .619 .719 .747 .819 .767
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 24/.857 30/.944 16/.388 3/ 20/.150 16/.464 21/.722 18/.722 14/1.051 .705
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 101/.940 36/.873 29/.922 3/.000 64/.941 26/.708 28/.714 37/.755 39/.737 .796
Home 49/.620 43/.868 15/.695 6/.400 29/.772 16/.517 21/.714 26/.789 27/.746
Last 28d days 102/.937 63/.958 39/.808 6/.400 77/.783 32/.550 49/.719 55/.747 45/.875
HR/SB/CS 7/0/0 2/0/2 2/2/0 0/0/1 2/0/0 1/1/0 1/0/1 2/2/0 3/2/0 32/19/7
Usage ·····X·· XX·X··o· ··o··oX· ·X······ X····X·· ··oo·X·· o·o····X ·X···o·· ··XX·X··
Pirates Batters (5.19 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (2.63 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Arrieta
G/S/vB		 53.Cahill
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 54.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 33.Richard*
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 43.Warren
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
29.Cervelli G/S/vP 13/.308 8/1.196 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 3/.333 1/no AB 8/.661 100/85 .309/.430/.370/.800 1.055/.757 .805 91/.771 1/2 0/4
23.Freese G/S/vP ··· 6/1.267 ··· ··· 6/.334 2/.500 2/.000 5/.600 20/.763 110/100 .292/.382/.396/.778 1.300/.717 .849 101/.767 0/0 1/3
5.Harrison G/S/vP 10/.300 5/.400 4/1.750 3/.000 2/1.500 4/.750 4/.250 1/.000 24/.750 108/90 .313/.346/.414/.760 .882/.735 .671 99/.777 5/0 1/5
28.Jaso* G/S/vP 7/.453 7/1.238 4/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 8/.500 ··· 100/98 .292/.360/.449/.809 .500/.812 .798 91/.849 0/0 2/0
17.Joyce* G/S/vP 17/1.386 9/.347 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 8/.750 9/.844 ··· 40/34 .387/.525/.742/1.267 1.417/1.241 1.600 38/1.293 0/1 3/0
6.Marte G/S/vP 18/.513 7/1.857 6/.567 2/.000 1/.000 5/.400 13/.490 1/3.000 29/1.157 116/100 .327/.379/.505/.884 .646/.923 .789 107/.947 7/2 3/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 27/.879 15/1.400 8/.250 5/.000 6/.666 8/.375 12/.694 2/1.000 41/.859 118/102 .228/.339/.455/.794 1.179/.727 .857 109/.768 1/2 6/0
10.Mercer G/S/vP 4/.000 8/.625 9/.444 3/.667 2/.000 7/.000 5/.000 ··· 18/1.311 111/89 .326/.407/.413/.820 1.108/.754 .721 102/.809 1/0 1/3
25.Polanco* G/S/vP 16/.376 4/1.000 4/.833 3/.667 2/1.000 2/.000 3/.333 1/.000 11/.473 114/92 .312/.416/.538/.954 .730/1.005 .887 105/.910 2/3 3/1
3.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 10/.425 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 7/.000 5/1.000 9/.444 41/27 .314/.415/.771/1.186 1.417/1.066 1.800 41/1.186 0/0 4/1
15.Rogers G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 15/6 .100/.400/.300/.700 .944/.333 .250 15/.700 0/0 0/0
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· 3/.333 2/.000 3/1.000 ··· 5/.400 25/19 .227/.320/.409/.729 .167/.898 .422 25/.729 0/0 1/1
IP 36.0 7.1 8.1 6.0 2.2 8.0 10.1 9.0 7.1 TOTAL .287/.373/.443/.816 .911/.798 .803 .819 17/10 25/22
ERA-K/9 1.00/8.0 4.91/7.4 2.16/13.0 4.50/10.5 6.75/6.7 1.13/15.8 2.61/12.2 0.00/10.0 2.45/11.1 2.39/8.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cervelli (15-5-2)
 Stewart (4-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 129/.151 37/.281 32/.194 25/.200 14/.417 28/.148 36/.121 32/.071 29/.154 .199  Marte
 Polanco
 McCutchen
 Joyce
 Rodriguez
25/3/0/4
1/1/25/3
0/25/0/2
3/0/3/0
1/0/1/0
OPS .452 .878 .574 .770 .917 .291 .376 .259 .588 .572
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 48/.720 14/.649 11/.282 11/1.141 6/.533 11/.382 10/.200 9/.347 11/1.064 .665
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 81/.295 23/1.006 21/.714 14/.468 8/1.196 17/.235 26/.432 23/.224 18/.292 .519
Road 81/.422 18/1.095 18/.343 11/1.030 7/1.071 13/.154 22/.372 20/.313 19/.387
Last 28d days 106/.504 34/.963 28/.548 25/.770 14/.917 28/.291 33/.412 32/.259 25/.689
HR/SB/CS 2/5/1 2/1/0 1/0/0 1/2/0 0/1/0 0/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/1 1/0/0 16/20/6
Usage ····X··· ····X··· Xo··X··· ····X··· ········ ·o·o··X· o··oo·X· o·····X· oo····o·

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 2016 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

CHC  6.08

WSN  4.04

ATL  3.20

 RA/G

WSN  2.44

PHI  4.15

CIN  5.92

 BA

M. Prado  .410

A. Ramirez  .260

D. Norris  .145

 OBP

D. Fowler  .476

J. Bradley  .333

D. Norris  .184

 SLG

A. Diaz  .727

C. Beltran  .429

E. Aybar  .211

 OPS

A. Diaz  1.166

J. Harrison  .760

E. Aybar  .405

 ERA

J. Zimmermann  .55

J. Garcia  3.73

W. Peralta  7.50

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.54

K. Graveman  7.84

M. Perez  4.20

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.