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Game Preview: STL @ PIT, 7:05pm, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @PNC Park

Cardinals, 20-13, 1st, 1 up

SP: Joel Pineiro (30, RHP, 4-2, 3.66)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (4-2) 39.1 45 20 16 7 13 2 3.66
2008 (7-7) 148.2 180 89 85 35 81 22 5.15
2007 (7-5) 97.2 110 49 47 26 60 14 4.33
Last 7 GS 5-2 46.1 48 23 19 9 20 3 3.69 51
2009-05-08 @CIN L 6.0 8 5 4 0 3 0 94 41
2009-05-02 @WSN L 7.0 7 4 1 1 4 1 101 56
2009-04-27 @ATL W 6.2 7 2 2 0 1 0 76 53
2009-04-22 NYM W 8.0 6 2 2 2 0 0 91 60
2009-04-15 @ARI W 5.0 9 5 5 3 3 1 104 29
2009-04-10 HOU W 6.2 8 2 2 1 2 0 95 51
2008-09-25 ARI W 7.0 3 3 3 2 7 1 99 64
Last 5 v.PIT 2-1 27.1 36 20 20 8 16 2 6.59 40
2008-09-12 @PIT L 4.0 8 7 7 1 4 1 74 21
2008-07-13 @PIT ND 5.2 10 6 6 3 2 0 108 24
2008-05-15 PIT ND 5.0 6 4 4 1 2 1 70 40
2008-04-24 @PIT W 7.0 4 1 1 1 6 0 94 70
2007-09-04 PIT W 5.2 8 2 2 2 2 0 103 45
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-5    Road:    8-8    ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  13-9    vsLHP:   7-4    1-Run:   5-3 
 vsEast:  7-4    vsCntrl:11-8    vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 33 Tue, May 12  @PIT  L   1-7       20-13  1st  1.0 up
 32 Sun, May 10  @CIN  W   8-7 (10)  20-12  1st  2.0 up
 31 Sat, May  9  @CIN  L   3-8       19-12  1st  1.0 up
 30 Fri, May  8  @CIN  L   4-6       19-11  1st  2.0 up
 29 Thu, May  7   PIT  W   5-2       19-10  1st  2.5 up
 28 Wed, May  6   PIT  W   4-2       18-10  1st  2.0 up
 27 Tue, May  5   PHI  L   7-10      17-10  1st  2.0 up
 26 Mon, May  4   PHI  L   1-6       17-9   1st  2.5 up
 25 Sat, May  2  @WSN  L   1-6       17-8   1st  4.0 up
 24 Fri, May  1  @WSN  W   6-2       17-7   1st  4.0 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11
Pirates, 13-19, 6th, 6½ GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Ross Ohlendorf (26, RHP, 3-3, 4.14)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (3-3) 37.0 35 17 17 9 17 4 4.14
2008 (1-4) 62.2 86 49 45 31 49 10 6.46
2007 (0-0) 6.1 5 2 2 2 9 1 2.84
Last 7 GS 3-3 41.2 40 18 18 13 20 4 3.89 51
2009-05-07 @STL L 6.0 7 5 5 1 5 1 84 42
2009-05-02 CIN W 6.0 6 3 3 2 2 1 86 48
2009-04-26 @SDP W 7.0 5 3 3 3 2 2 95 54
2009-04-20 FLA W 7.0 2 0 0 1 5 0 91 77
2009-04-15 HOU L 5.0 8 4 4 1 2 0 85 36
2009-04-09 @STL L 6.0 7 2 2 1 1 0 94 50
2008-09-28 @SDP ND 4.2 5 1 1 4 3 0 98 49
Last 5 v.STL 0-2 12.0 14 7 7 2 6 1 5.25 46
2009-05-07 @STL L 6.0 7 5 5 1 5 1 84 42
2009-04-09 @STL L 6.0 7 2 2 1 1 0 94 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-7    Road:    5-12   ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  11-17   vsLHP:   2-2    1-Run:   1-4 
 vsEast:  5-4    vsCntrl: 6-14   vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 32 Tue, May 12   STL  W   7-1       13-19  6th  6.5 gb
 31 Sun, May 10  @NYM  L   4-8       12-19  6th  7.5 gb
 30 Sat, May  9  @NYM  L   1-10      12-18  6th  6.5 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
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 12, 2009 PIT  7  STL  1        W:Zach Duke (4-3), L: Todd Wellemeyer (3-3), S: none
Thu, May 07, 2009 STL  5  PIT  2        W:Todd Wellemeyer (3-2), L: Ross Ohlendorf (3-3), S: Ryan Franklin (9)
Wed, May 06, 2009 STL  4  PIT  2        W:Kyle McClellan (2-1), L: Zach Duke (3-3), S: Ryan Franklin (8)
Thu, Apr 09, 2009 STL  2  PIT  1        W:Chris Carpenter (1-0), L: Ross Ohlendorf (0-1), S: Dennys Reyes (1)
Wed, Apr 08, 2009 PIT  7 @STL  4        W:Zach Duke (1-0), L: Todd Wellemeyer (0-1), S: Matt Capps (2)
Tue, Apr 07, 2009 STL  9  PIT  3        W:Kyle Lohse (1-0), L: Ian Snell (0-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 06, 2009 PIT  6 @STL  4        W:John Grabow (1-0), L: Jason Motte (0-1), S: Matt Capps (1)

Sun, Sep 14, 2008 PIT  7  STL  2        W:T.J. Beam (2-1), L: Brad Thompson (5-3), S: none
Sat, Sep 13, 2008 PIT  7  STL  6 (12)   W:Craig Hansen (2-6), L: Chris Perez (3-3), S: none
Fri, Sep 12, 2008 PIT 10  STL  2        W:Paul Maholm (9-8), L: Joel Pineiro (6-6), S: none
Season Series: 2009 - STL leads 4-3; 2008 - PIT won 10-7; 2007 - STL won 12-6; All-Time - PIT leads 1188-1119

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  5.97

LAA  4.87

ARI  3.71

 RA/G

LAD  3.88

SEA  4.73

WSN  6.22

 BA

  

  

  

 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .51

M. Owings  4.33

G. Floyd  7.32

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  11.78

K. Davies  6.57

M. Pelfrey  2.31

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

Cardinals Batters (5.24 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Ohlendorf
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Barden G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 61/38 .291/.344/.491/.835 .652/.957 1.015 48/.830 0/0 3/1
16.Duncan* G/S/vP 6/.367 2/.000 6/1.633 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/1.167 125/88 .283/.376/.500/.876 .810/.905 1.106 87/.777 0/1 3/3
3.Greene G/S/vP 6/.666 3/.000 5/.000 ··· 5/1.000 1/no AB ··· 8/.929 104/62 .225/.311/.337/.648 .521/.728 .588 61/.728 2/1 2/6
27.Greene G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/20 .227/.261/.409/.670 .667/.671 .600 23/.670 1/0 1/0
21.LaRue G/S/vP 3/1.666 2/1.000 3/.000 1/.000 5/.933 1/3.000 ··· 2/.500 21/17 .368/.429/.579/1.008 1.000/1.012 .586 17/1.012 0/0 1/0
47.Ludwick G/S/vP 6/.533 2/1.000 3/.000 1/.000 8/.375 1/.000 ··· 4/1.250 120/84 .274/.339/.538/.877 .819/.900 .896 89/.738 2/0 8/1
4.Molina G/S/vP 3/1.334 6/1.417 6/.334 ··· 5/.650 ··· 1/5.000 4/.000 119/85 .311/.385/.456/.841 .746/.878 .753 81/.787 1/1 3/0
5.Pujols G/S/vP 6/.583 10/1.214 7/.286 1/2.000 11/1.545 1/.000 1/no AB 5/.400 144/100 .328/.438/.707/1.144 1.126/1.153 .940 99/1.127 5/1 13/5
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 102/76 .261/.347/.352/.699 .408/.786 .670 68/.712 1/0 1/2
33.Robinson G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 9/5 .222/.222/.333/.556 .500/.600 .625 9/.556 0/0 0/0
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 7/1.714 3/.000 6/.500 1/.000 6/.900 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.666 115/94 .298/.357/.394/.751 .496/.808 .612 80/.773 1/1 0/2
22.Thurston* G/S/vP 5/.650 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 98/83 .259/.357/.412/.769 .718/.778 .557 73/.654 1/1 1/3
IP 37.0 14.1 9.1 12.1 14.2 9.2 4.1 10.1 TOTAL .269/.347/.442/.789 .667/.839 .732 .768 16/6 38/26
ERA-K/9 4.14/4.1 3.14/6.9 6.75/8.7 2.19/7.3 6.14/8.6 2.79/5.6 4.15/8.4 8.71/7.9 4.20/5.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 153/.261 58/.176 46/.333 50/.209 75/.365 42/.156 25/.143 49/.289 .256
OPS .728 .609 .823 .599 .919 .654 .909 .931 .751
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 64/.765 25/.493 21/.697 18/.284 20/.871 13/.733 8/.500 19/1.333 .719
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 89/.701 33/.697 25/.940 32/.791 55/.941 29/.618 17/1.071 30/.703 .768
Home 73/.651 17/.673 35/.895 23/.317 31/.919 17/.625 16/.660 22/.745
Last 28d days 105/.694 49/.658 40/.905 35/.576 61/.997 42/.654 18/.644 39/.778
HR/SB/CS 4/0/2 2/2/0 1/2/0 1/1/0 1/1/1 0/1/0 1/0/0 2/0/1 28/19/9
Usage ·····X·· ··X·X·Xo X······· ··oo··oX ··XX···· ···X·X·X ····o··X ····X··X
Pirates Batters (4.28 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (4.61 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Pineiro
G/S/vB		 54.Boyer
G/S/vB		 31.Franklin
G/S/vB		 46.McClellan
G/S/vB		 43.Miller*
G/S/vB		 60.Motte
G/S/vB		 34.Perez
G/S/vB		 36.Reyes*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Diaz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 26/23 .400/.400/.600/1.000 .000/1.136 .750 26/1.000 0/0 1/0
16.Hinske* G/S/vP 19/.737 ··· 22/.980 ··· 9/.708 1/3.000 ··· 7/.453 60/57 .231/.333/.327/.660 .000/.698 .583 48/.626 0/0 0/0
35.Jaramillo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 55/51 .277/.382/.426/.807 .500/.834 .681 55/.807 1/0 0/1
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 11/.455 2/.000 3/no AB 2/1.000 6/.834 1/2.000 2/.500 2/.000 130/104 .224/.308/.448/.756 .629/.790 1.004 99/.708 0/0 6/0
15.LaRoche G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 115/103 .245/.333/.367/.701 .667/.704 .810 98/.820 1/0 1/4
13.McLouth* G/S/vP 13/1.462 1/2.000 8/.500 4/.250 11/.182 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 116/86 .290/.379/.480/.859 .831/.870 .859 80/.875 3/0 5/0
18.Monroe G/S/vP 14/.357 1/.000 12/.583 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 7/.572 38/25 .222/.263/.417/.680 .647/.697 .958 31/.773 0/0 2/0
3.Morgan* G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· 6/1.000 3/.666 3/.666 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 148/125 .305/.377/.367/.744 .451/.800 .633 111/.700 9/5 0/0
44.Moss* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 2/.500 1/no AB 1/3.000 ··· 96/87 .200/.250/.300/.550 .347/.570 .761 71/.509 0/0 1/0
12.Sanchez G/S/vP 10/.425 3/.000 13/.385 6/.000 4/1.000 1/3.000 2/.000 2/.500 133/110 .317/.361/.528/.889 .609/.952 1.020 97/.877 3/0 3/1
5.Vazquez* G/S/vP 6/.334 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 5/.200 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 69/59 .182/.333/.182/.515 .786/.472 .494 50/.495 0/0 0/1
2.Wilson G/S/vP 9/.888 4/.000 9/.583 3/.000 2/1.000 1/3.000 ··· 4/.500 56/51 .235/.291/.294/.585 .933/.552 .546 28/.345 1/1 0/3
48.Young# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 23/18 .350/.435/.500/.935 1.350/.826 1.286 23/.935 0/0 0/0
IP 39.1 8.2 14.2 13.2 9.2 13.1 9.1 10.1 TOTAL .254/.327/.392/.719 .630/.736 .777 .712 18/6 22/14
ERA-K/9 3.66/3.0 8.31/9.3 1.23/8.0 3.29/8.5 3.72/10.2 3.38/6.8 2.89/10.6 4.35/8.7 4.16/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 160/.302 40/.212 55/.137 63/.220 43/.256 55/.260 43/.176 43/.211 .265
OPS .765 .576 .455 .699 .764 .667 .643 .680 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 80/.700 18/.533 24/.258 33/.634 26/.324 28/.641 10/.786 23/.325 .756
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 80/.832 22/.611 31/.605 30/.779 17/1.455 27/.693 33/.599 20/1.106 .737
Road 104/.835 18/.235 33/.736 38/.910 19/.845 29/.507 31/.614 17/1.020
Last 28d days 108/.659 29/.407 46/.503 46/.734 25/.798 30/.489 36/.746 31/.905
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/0 2/0/0 2/0/0 0/0/1 1/0/0 2/1/1 31/8/8
Usage ····X··· o·Xo·o·· ··X··oo· ··o···X· X·o··oo· ··oo··oo ··o·X··o ··Xo··oo

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.