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Game Preview: PIT @ NYM, 1:10pm, Saturday, May 9, 2009 @Citi Field

Pirates, 12-17, 5th, 6½ GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Paul Maholm (27, LHP, 3-0, 2.97)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (3-0) 39.1 35 14 13 13 19 1 2.97
2008 (9-9) 206.1 201 89 85 63 139 21 3.71
2007 (10-15) 177.2 204 110 99 49 105 22 5.02
Last 7 GS 3-1 45.1 37 18 16 19 21 1 3.18 54
2009-05-04 MIL ND 7.1 6 2 2 1 7 0 98 64
2009-04-28 @MIL ND 5.1 7 5 5 5 2 1 112 31
2009-04-22 FLA W 6.0 8 4 4 1 4 0 98 43
2009-04-17 ATL W 7.0 4 0 0 3 2 0 102 68
2009-04-11 @CIN W 7.0 3 1 1 2 3 0 101 68
2009-04-06 @STL ND 6.2 7 2 1 1 1 0 89 54
2008-09-24 @MIL L 6.0 2 4 3 6 2 0 96 50
Last 5 v.NYM 3-1 32.0 28 8 8 12 16 1 2.25 57
2008-08-18 NYM ND 7.0 5 2 2 3 4 0 96 60
2007-07-26 @NYM W 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 1 90 50
2006-09-15 NYM W 7.0 2 1 1 3 4 0 106 70
2006-07-03 @NYM W 6.0 7 1 1 3 3 0 116 54
2006-05-04 @NYM L 6.0 8 1 1 2 2 0 102 52
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-7    Road:    5-10   ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  10-15   vsLHP:   2-2    1-Run:   1-4 
 vsEast:  5-2    vsCntrl: 5-14   vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Fri, May  8  @NYM  L   3-7       12-17  5th  6.5 gb
 28 Thu, May  7  @STL  L   2-5       12-16  5th  6.5 gb
 27 Wed, May  6  @STL  L   2-4       12-15  5th  5.5 gb
 26 Tue, May  5   MIL  L   5-8       12-14  5th  4.5 gb
 25 Mon, May  4   MIL  L   4-7       12-13  5th  4.5 gb
 24 Sun, May  3   CIN  L   0-5       12-12  5th  4.5 gb
 23 Sat, May  2   CIN  W   8-6       12-11  2nd  4.0 gb
 22 Fri, May  1   CIN  L   0-4       11-11  4th  5.0 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 29  @MIL  L   0-1       11-10  2nd  3.5 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 28  @MIL  L   5-6       11-9   2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-17
Mets, 15-13, 2nd, ½ GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: John Maine (28, RHP, 2-2, 5.20)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-2) 27.2 20 17 16 18 22 2 5.20
2008 (10-8) 140.0 122 70 65 67 122 16 4.18
2007 (15-10) 191.0 168 90 83 75 180 23 3.91
Last 7 GS 2-3 38.1 32 25 24 24 29 4 5.63 47
2009-05-04 @ATL W 6.0 3 3 3 6 7 0 101 55
2009-04-27 FLA W 6.0 1 1 0 3 4 0 94 69
2009-04-22 @STL L 5.2 7 5 5 5 2 0 111 32
2009-04-16 SDP L 5.0 7 6 6 3 4 0 105 30
2009-04-10 @FLA ND 5.0 2 2 2 1 5 2 83 59
2008-08-23 HOU L 5.2 10 8 8 2 4 2 105 19
2008-08-18 @PIT ND 5.0 2 0 0 4 3 0 96 62
Last 5 v.PIT 2-2 27.2 21 10 9 14 31 3 2.93 57
2008-08-18 @PIT ND 5.0 2 0 0 4 3 0 96 62
2007-08-15 @PIT W 5.0 5 3 3 3 8 2 117 50
2007-07-24 PIT W 7.0 5 2 2 1 7 1 103 65
2006-09-17 @PIT L 6.0 6 2 2 3 6 0 106 55
2006-07-03 PIT L 4.2 3 3 2 3 7 0 107 52
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-6    Road:    6-7    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  13-12   vsLHP:   2-1    1-Run:   6-6 
 vsEast:  9-6    vsCntrl: 5-5    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 28 Fri, May  8   PIT  W   7-3       15-13  2nd  0.5 gb
 27 Thu, May  7   PHI  W   7-5       14-13  2nd  0.5 gb
 26 Wed, May  6   PHI  W   1-0       13-13  3rd  1.5 gb
 25 Tue, May  5  @ATL  W   4-3       12-13  3rd  2.5 gb
 24 Mon, May  4  @ATL  W   6-4       11-13  3rd  3.0 gb
 23 Sat, May  2  @PHI  L   5-6 (10)  10-13  4th  3.5 gb
 22 Fri, May  1  @PHI  W   7-4       10-12  4th  3.5 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 29   FLA  L   3-4        9-12  4th  4.0 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 28   FLA  L   4-7        9-11  4th  3.0 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 27   FLA  W   7-1        9-10  3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 08, 2009 NYM  7  PIT  3        W:Bobby Parnell (1-0), L: Tyler Yates (0-2), S: none

Mon, Aug 18, 2008 PIT  5  NYM  2        W:Sean Burnett (1-1), L: Pedro Feliciano (2-3), S: John Grabow (4)
Sun, Aug 17, 2008 NYM  4 @PIT  0        W:Johan Santana (11-7), L: Jeff Karstens (2-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 16, 2008 NYM  7 @PIT  4        W:Pedro Martinez (4-3), L: Zach Duke (4-11), S: Pedro Feliciano (2)
Fri, Aug 15, 2008 NYM  2 @PIT  1        W:Mike Pelfrey (11-8), L: Jason Davis (1-2), S: Aaron Heilman (3)
Mon, Aug 11, 2008 PIT  7 @NYM  5        W:Denny Bautista (4-2), L: Aaron Heilman (2-7), S: John Grabow (2)
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 PIT 13 @NYM  1        W:Tom Gorzelanny (2-3), L: Oliver Perez (2-2), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2009 - NYM leads 1-0; 2008 - NYM won 4-3; 2007 - NYM won 4-2; All-Time - PIT leads 354-323

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 2009 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  6.03

CHC  4.79

ARI  3.63

 RA/G

KCR  3.80

TOR  4.69

NYY  6.14

 BA

  

  

  

 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .40

R. Oswalt  4.26

J. Contreras  8.19

 K/9IP

J. Santana  12.24

M. Cain  6.63

J. Pineiro  2.98

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

Pirates Batters (4.31 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (4.36 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Maine
G/S/vB		 25.Feliciano*
G/S/vB		 50.Green
G/S/vB		 39.Parnell
G/S/vB		 22.Putz
G/S/vB		 75.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 43.Stokes
G/S/vB		 36.Takahashi*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
10.Bixler G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 23/21 .227/.261/.364/.625 1.000/.588 .760 23/.625 0/0 0/1
23.Diaz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 18/15 .294/.294/.529/.824 .000/1.000 .923 18/.824 0/0 1/0
16.Hinske* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 3/1.334 ··· 7/.143 7/.453 1/no AB ··· 55/53 .229/.327/.333/.661 .000/.687 .682 45/.641 0/0 0/0
35.Jaramillo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 51/48 .295/.392/.455/.847 .667/.859 1.088 51/.847 1/0 0/1
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 8/.833 12/.334 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 2/2.500 ··· 117/94 .240/.325/.462/.786 .713/.805 .588 98/.851 0/0 5/0
15.LaRoche G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 102/90 .250/.333/.364/.697 .667/.700 .557 89/.792 1/0 1/4
13.McLouth* G/S/vP 7/1.229 3/2.500 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 102/75 .295/.392/.466/.858 .927/.831 .835 79/.843 3/0 4/0
18.Monroe G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.750 ··· 5/.200 7/.453 ··· ··· 36/24 .235/.278/.441/.719 .705/.726 .474 33/.787 0/0 2/0
3.Morgan* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 134/113 .308/.376/.359/.735 .496/.781 .884 110/.697 8/4 0/0
44.Moss* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 87/78 .185/.241/.259/.501 .347/.518 .426 70/.442 0/0 0/0
12.Sanchez G/S/vP 14/.572 2/2.500 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 124/103 .316/.347/.538/.885 .571/.952 .752 101/.847 1/0 3/1
5.Vazquez* G/S/vP 3/3.500 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 5/1.600 3/.333 ··· ··· 64/55 .160/.328/.160/.488 .611/.468 .476 54/.458 0/0 0/1
48.Young# G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/14 .313/.389/.500/.889 1.167/.819 .586 18/.889 0/0 0/0
IP 27.2 12.0 13.0 14.0 17.0 13.2 11.0 3.0 TOTAL .253/.325/.386/.711 .651/.723 .663 .706 15/5 18/13
ERA-K/9 5.20/7.1 3.75/10.5 8.31/8.3 1.29/6.4 3.71/4.8 1.32/10.5 0.00/4.9 0.00/3.0 4.08/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 120/.206 49/.234 67/.345 58/.269 70/.186 56/.143 44/.220 10/.111 .248
OPS .643 .733 .992 .641 .597 .474 .500 .422 .706
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 64/.613 28/.571 27/1.240 19/.911 35/.636 27/.310 13/1.161 4/.750 .744
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 56/.676 21/.960 40/.841 39/.513 35/.558 29/.630 31/.233 6/.167 .683
Home 48/.557 24/.708 34/.824 29/.516 34/.487 30/.530 24/.477 1/.000
Last 28d days 102/.639 38/.750 54/1.066 45/.588 58/.587 44/.506 35/.454 10/.422
HR/SB/CS 2/0/3 3/0/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 1/1/1 1/0/1 0/1/0 0/0/0 24/11/8
Usage ····X··· ·XX···oX o·····X· X··oo·o· X··XX·Xo ·XoXo··X ········ o·····X·
Mets Batters (4.75 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.17 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Maholm*
G/S/vB		 17.Burnett*
G/S/vB		 55.Capps
G/S/vB		 43.Chavez
G/S/vB		 34.Grabow*
G/S/vB		 47.Meek
G/S/vB		 56.Veal*
G/S/vB		 30.Yates
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
15.Beltran# G/S/vP 12/.708 ··· ··· ··· 9/.666 1/.000 ··· 10/1.375 125/100 .377/.472/.585/1.057 1.087/1.048 .772 101/1.063 3/1 5/1
1.Castillo# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 5/.400 84/68 .319/.402/.375/.777 .866/.756 .797 67/.756 2/0 0/3
11.Castro G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 50/41 .304/.360/.500/.860 1.319/.763 1.078 46/.939 0/0 2/2
19.Church* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 100/84 .264/.343/.368/.711 .574/.736 .557 78/.523 1/0 1/1
3.Cora* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 42/35 .313/.410/.438/.848 1.143/.766 .722 36/1.003 1/1 0/0
21.Delgado* G/S/vP 12/.250 2/2.500 ··· ··· 9/.619 1/no AB ··· 4/.250 102/86 .294/.392/.518/.910 1.250/.852 1.002 78/.844 0/0 4/2
28.Murphy* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 103/87 .311/.373/.478/.850 1.092/.809 .861 78/.826 1/0 3/2
18.Reed* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 14/14 .231/.286/.385/.670 /.670 .667 11/.673 0/0 0/0
7.Reyes# G/S/vP 13/.770 ··· 5/.200 ··· 3/1.333 1/.000 1/no AB 9/1.667 134/110 .254/.336/.356/.692 .762/.677 .770 109/.651 8/2 2/4
9.Santos G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 37/33 .257/.270/.457/.727 .500/.757 .714 37/.727 0/0 1/0
10.Sheffield G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/36 .158/.360/.342/.702 1.200/.520 .852 48/.706 0/1 1/1
17.Tatis G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 42/30 .324/.381/.514/.894 .879/.900 1.069 39/.953 2/0 1/0
5.Wright G/S/vP 15/.486 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/.900 1/no AB ··· 9/1.301 124/108 .302/.395/.472/.867 1.563/.775 .796 100/.874 4/5 3/3
IP 39.1 13.2 8.1 11.0 12.2 8.2 4.1 10.1 TOTAL .281/.365/.426/.791 .981/.753 .774 .781 22/10 23/20
ERA-K/9 2.97/4.4 3.29/7.2 7.56/7.6 2.45/6.5 2.84/8.5 2.08/6.2 4.15/8.4 8.71/7.9 3.97/5.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 165/.240 52/.152 40/.343 46/.231 59/.300 37/.111 25/.143 49/.289 .250
OPS .637 .576 .829 .656 .793 .519 .909 .931 .744
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 38/.464 23/.538 18/.556 16/.321 15/.757 10/.619 8/.500 19/1.333 .730
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 127/.682 29/.602 22/1.088 30/.850 44/.808 27/.483 17/1.071 30/.703 .751
Road 82/.668 35/.524 11/.586 23/1.005 28/.640 20/.433 9/1.356 27/1.081
Last 28d days 110/.697 45/.594 34/.924 41/.603 45/.862 37/.519 18/.644 39/.778
HR/SB/CS 1/3/0 2/0/0 1/2/0 1/1/0 1/1/1 0/1/0 1/0/0 2/0/1 26/14/9
Usage ····X··· X·Xo··oo ····X·X· ··oX·X·· ····X·XX ·X·X·X·· o··X···· X··Xo··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.