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Game Preview: PIT @ LAD, 10:10pm, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @Dodger Stadium

Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-6, 4th, 2 GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Matt Morris (33, RHP, 0-1, 5.25)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. LAD Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-1)             12    19  11   7   4   5  3    5.25      
 2007 (10-11)          198.2 240 123 108  61 102 18    4.89      
 2006 (10-15)          207.2 218 123 115  63 117 22    4.98      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-4  37.1  54  34  30  10  16  6    7.23   36 
 2008-04-10    CHC   L   7    11   7   4   2   3  2     113   34 
 2008-04-04    FLA  ND   5     8   4   3   2   2  1      98   37 
 2007-09-26    ARI   W   7     6   1   1   0   7  0      97   68 
 2007-09-20    SDP   L   4     8   6   6   0   0  0      57   22 
 2007-09-15    HOU   L   3.1   9   7   7   1   0  2      54   13 
 2007-09-09    CHC   W   6     7   4   4   2   2  1      89   42 
 2007-09-04    STL   L   5     5   5   5   3   2  0      89   36 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.LAD      1-2  33.1  40  25  24   8  13  4    6.48   41 
 2007-07-14    LAD  ND   5     8   6   6   0   0  2      71   27 
 2007-04-24    LAD   W   7.1   6   3   3   2   2  0      96   54 
 2006-08-20    LAD   L   8     8   5   5   1   6  2     111   51 
 2006-07-07    LAD  ND   6    10   6   5   3   3  0      97   30 
 2006-05-12    LAD   L   7     8   5   5   2   2  0     105   41 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-3    Road:    4-3    ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:   6-2    vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   4-1 
 vsEast:  3-3    vsCntrl: 3-3    vsWest:  1-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Mon, Apr 14  @LAD  W   6-4        7-6   4th  2.0 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 13   CIN  W   9-1        6-6   4th  2.5 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 12   CIN  W   4-3        5-6   5th  3.5 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 11   CIN  W   1-0        4-6   5th  3.5 gb
  9 Thu, Apr 10   CHC  L   3-7        3-6   5th  3.5 gb
  8 Wed, Apr  9   CHC  L   4-6 (15)   3-5   5th  3.5 gb
  7 Mon, Apr  7   CHC  L   8-10(12)   3-4   5th  2.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr  6  @FLA  W   9-2        3-3   4th  2.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  5  @FLA  L   3-7        2-3   4th  2.0 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  4  @FLA  L   4-5        2-2   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-6    Last 30: 7-6 
Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-8, 5th, 4 GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Hong-Chih Kuo (26, LHP, 0-0, 0.00)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (0-0)              6.2   4   0   0   4   8  0    0.00      
 2007 (1-4)             30.1  35  26  25  14  27  3    7.42      
 2006 (1-5)             59.2  54  30  28  33  71  3    4.22      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-4  31    30  22  21  16  30  3    6.10   46 
 2008-04-02    SFG  ND   3     1   0   0   3   3  0      56   57 
 2007-06-29    SDP   L   3.1   6   7   6   3   3  1      89   22 
 2007-06-24    TBD   L   5.1   4   3   3   1   8  1      95   55 
 2007-06-20    TOR   L   1.2   6   8   8   2   1  1      56   10 
 2007-06-12    NYM   W   7     5   1   1   1   4  0      89   66 
 2007-06-07    SDP  ND   6     3   1   1   4   8  0     104   66 
 2007-06-02    PIT   L   4.2   5   2   2   2   3  0      94   47 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.PIT      0-2  10    11   7   7   4  11  1    6.30   45 
 2007-06-02    PIT   L   4.2   5   2   2   2   3  0      94   47 
 2006-09-19    PIT   L   5.1   6   5   5   2   8  1      96   42 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-4    Road:    2-4    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   4-6    vsLHP:   1-2    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-1    vsWest:  5-7  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Mon, Apr 14   PIT  L   4-6        5-8   5th  4.0 gb
 12 Sun, Apr 13   SDP  L   0-1        5-7   3rd  4.0 gb
 11 Sat, Apr 12   SDP  W  11-1        5-6   3rd  4.0 gb
 10 Fri, Apr 11   SDP  L   5-7        4-6   3rd  4.0 gb
  9 Wed, Apr  9  @ARI  L   3-4        4-5   3rd  3.0 gb
  8 Tue, Apr  8  @ARI  L   5-10       4-4   3rd  2.0 gb
  7 Mon, Apr  7  @ARI  L   3-9        4-3   3rd  1.0 gb
  6 Sun, Apr  6  @SDP  W   3-2        4-2   1st    Tied
  5 Sat, Apr  5  @SDP  L   1-4        3-2   2nd  0.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  4  @SDP  W   7-1        3-1   1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 5-8    Last 30: 5-8 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 PIT  6 @LAD  4        W:Tyler Yates (2-0), L: Takashi Saito (1-1), S: Matt Capps (4)

Mon, Jun 04, 2007 LAD  6 @PIT  5        W:Derek Lowe , L: Paul Maholm , S: Jonathan Broxton 
Sun, Jun 03, 2007 LAD  5 @PIT  4        W:Chad Billingsley , L: Salomon Torres , S: Joe Beimel 
Sat, Jun 02, 2007 PIT  3  LAD  1        W:Ian Snell , L: Hong-Chih Kuo , S: Matt Capps 
Fri, Jun 01, 2007 LAD  5 @PIT  4        W:Randy Wolf , L: Zach Duke , S: Takashi Saito 
Sun, Apr 22, 2007 PIT  7 @LAD  5        W:Tom Gorzelanny , L: Brett Tomko , S: Salomon Torres 
Sat, Apr 21, 2007 LAD  7  PIT  3 (10)   W:Jonathan Broxton , L: Jonah Bayliss , S: none
Fri, Apr 20, 2007 LAD 10  PIT  2        W:Randy Wolf , L: Tony Armas , S: none
Thu, Sep 21, 2006 LAD  5  PIT  2        W:Chad Billingsley (6-4), L: Shane Youman (0-2), S: Takashi Saito (20)
Wed, Sep 20, 2006 PIT  6 @LAD  4        W:Shawn Chacon (7-6), L: Greg Maddux (13-14), S: Salomon Torres (10)
Season Series: 2008 - PIT leads 1-0; 2007 - LAD won 5-2; 2006 - LAD won 6-4; All-Time - LAD leads 1097-977

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 (5.31 RS/G) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers Pitchers (3.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Kuo*
G/S/vB
97.Beimel*
G/S/vB
51.Broxton
G/S/vB
21.Loaiza
G/S/vB
61.Park
G/S/vB
45.Proctor
G/S/vB
44.Saito
G/S/vB
38.Troncoso
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Bautista G/S/vP 5/1.600 4/.833 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 614/470 .254/.339/.414/.753 .788/.742 .747 / 6/3 15/17
38.Bay G/S/vP 6/.733 2/.000 7/.453 2/.000 6/1.700 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 614/462 .247/.327/.418/.746 .742/.747 .766 / 4/1 21/8
10.Bixler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
41.Doumit# G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 5/.400 2/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 279/216 .274/.341/.472/.813 .633/.865 .719 / 1/2 9/3
5.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 24/.581 25/.438 7/.572 ··· ··· 240/145 .297/.325/.374/.699 .678/.712 .656 / 1/2 1/3
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 2/.500 4/.750 4/.750 11/.899 12/.500 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 632/473 .272/.345/.458/.803 .808/.802 .721 / 1/1 21/6
13.McLouth* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 2/.000 1/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· 382/304 .258/.351/.459/.810 .739/.828 .772 / 22/1 13/3
16.Mientkiewicz* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 31/.874 5/.900 1/3.000 1/.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 5/2.467 ··· 5/.650 6/1.867 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 470/366 .278/.330/.476/.805 .819/.802 .833 / 3/1 20/1
26.Paulino G/S/vP 4/.250 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 494/375 .263/.314/.389/.703 1.055/.593 .680 / 2/2 11/7
31.Rivas G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 12/.432 7/.453 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 11/8 .273/.273/.727/1.000 2.333/.500 1.000 / 0/0 1/1
12.Sanchez G/S/vP 7/.762 ··· 6/1.000 3/.000 6/.167 ··· 4/.500 ··· 653/476 .304/.343/.442/.784 .956/.721 .779 / 0/1 11/9
IP 30.1 67.1 82.0 37.1 4.0 86.1 64.1 TOTAL .258/.327/.399/.726 .806/.699 .761 .726 5/4 13/19
ERA-K/9 7.42/8.0 3.88/5.2 2.85/10.9 5.79/4.8 15.75/9.0 3.65/6.7 1.40/10.9 /0.0 3.58/6.9

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 140/.285 281/.253 334/.225 164/.259 20/.333 382/.242 234/.151 / .265  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 .791 .648 .617 .872 1.122 .738 .448 .688
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 28/.601 108/.490 167/.589 64/.997 8/1.250 163/.766 121/.558 / .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 112/.839 173/.745 167/.640 100/.795 12/1.017 219/.717 113/.329 / .675
Home 51/.889 150/.702 175/.481 87/.951 20/1.122 194/.752 130/.366 / .603
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 3/3/0 1/2/3 6/6/3 10/1/0 2/0/0 12/9/4 5/2/0 // 8/5/3
Usage ······X· oo·o···o Xo···oX· ·······X ·X·o·X·X o··o···X X·X····· ···X··Xo

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

Los Angeles Dodgers Batters (3.92 RS/G) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Pitchers (5.31 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Morris
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
30.Yates
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
26.Bennett G/S/vP 6/.167 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.333 170/123 .252/.286/.335/.621 .484/.675 .412 / 1/1 2/1
33.DeWitt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 / /// / / / /
16.Ethier* G/S/vP 14/.858 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 507/388 .284/.350/.452/.802 .716/.830 .786 / 0/4 13/5
15.Furcal# G/S/vP 35/.653 3/.000 3/.333 5/1.400 7/1.404 ··· ··· 3/.000 643/468 .270/.333/.355/.687 .744/.666 .765 / 25/6 6/19
14.Hu G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/21 .241/.241/.517/.759 .600/.842 .870 / 0/0 2/1
25.Jones G/S/vP 21/.883 2/1.500 2/.500 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB 4/.917 659/441 .222/.311/.413/.724 .785/.694 .701 / 5/2 26/2
27.Kemp G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 311/200 .342/.373/.521/.894 1.002/.835 .936 / 10/5 10/4
12.Kent G/S/vP 66/.912 4/.500 3/.000 7/.143 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 562/437 .302/.375/.500/.875 .950/.855 .936 / 1/3 20/14
7.Loney* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 375/269 .331/.381/.538/.919 .866/.939 .775 / 0/1 15/9
55.Martin G/S/vP 15/1.043 4/.250 3/1.334 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.200 620/467 .293/.374/.469/.843 1.062/.773 .749 / 21/9 19/14
9.Pierre* G/S/vP 25/.584 1/no AB 3/1.000 9/.819 10/.733 ··· 1/.000 3/2.500 729/519 .293/.331/.353/.685 .621/.710 .704 / 64/15 0/5
22.Sweeney* G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 141/129 .260/.350/.382/.732 .500/.756 .856 / 2/0 2/0
3.Young# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 36/20 .382/.417/.647/1.064 .908/1.187 .929 / 1/0 2/0
IP 198.2 79.0 18.0 51.2 45.1 28.1 66.0 TOTAL .253/.327/.389/.715 .813/.676 .784 .715 8/2 8/7
ERA-K/9 4.89/4.6 2.28/7.3 15.00/4.5 4.53/7.3 2.38/10.1 /0.0 4.76/4.1 5.18/9.4 4.32/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Bennett (24-4-2)
 Martin (82-41-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 884/.302 315/.220 104/.448 228/.277 182/.200 / 126/.289 294/.251 .274  Ethier
 Pierre
 Jones
 Kemp
 Sweeney
 Loney
 Young
60/0/102/10
0/162/0/4
0/154/0/3
0/6/88/2
7/0/3/0
0/0/1/0
6/0/0/0
OPS .812 .582 1.291 .740 .598 .743 .738 .754
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 398/.785 131/.743 17/1.353 87/.604 75/.352 / 39/.995 116/.960 .680
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 486/.833 184/.473 87/1.275 141/.828 107/.765 / 87/.634 178/.594 .792
Road 424/.829 150/.567 58/1.175 108/.782 99/.708 / 77/.701 150/.779 .782
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 18/15/2 5/1/0 6/0/0 6/10/0 2/0/1 // 3/1/0 6/7/1 12/10/2
Usage ····X··· o·oo·o·X ·o···X·X o·XX·o·X ··oX·o·o ····X··X ·X···o·X X·o··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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