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Game Preview: PIT @ HOU, 2:05pm, Sunday, July 17, 2011 @Minute Maid Park

Pirates, 48-44, 48-44 3rd, 1 GB, 6 GB in WC

SP: Kevin Correia (30, RHP, 11-7, 4.01)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (11-7) 116.2 123 59 52 26 59 13 4.01
2010 (10-10) 145.0 152 89 87 64 115 20 5.40
2009 (12-11) 198.0 194 92 86 64 142 17 3.91
Last 7 GS 3-3 40.0 48 25 23 9 25 6 5.18 45
2011-07-09 CHC L 3.2 9 5 5 1 2 0 66 24
2011-07-03 @WSN W 6.0 6 2 2 1 6 1 93 57
2011-06-28 @TOR W 6.0 5 4 4 1 3 2 94 48
2011-06-22 BAL W 6.0 9 4 3 1 5 0 97 44
2011-06-17 @CLE L 5.2 4 2 1 3 2 1 94 54
2011-06-12 NYM L 7.2 7 4 4 0 4 0 96 53
2011-06-07 ARI ND 5.0 8 4 4 2 3 2 85 36
Last 5 v.HOU 0-1 24.2 24 12 11 9 16 1 4.01 51
2010-07-03 HOU ND 7.0 5 0 0 2 4 0 90 69
2009-07-02 HOU L 5.0 8 6 6 3 3 1 106 27
2009-05-09 @HOU ND 6.0 4 2 2 3 4 0 104 57
2008-08-14 @HOU ND 6.2 7 4 3 1 5 0 95 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-22   Road:   25-22   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  32-34   vsLHP:  16-10   1-Run:  13-10
 vsEast: 10-14   vsCntrl:21-13   vsWest:  9-10 IL: 8-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 92 Sat, Jul 16  @HOU  L   4-6       48-44  3rd  1.0 gb
 91 Fri, Jul 15  @HOU  W   4-0       48-43  1st    Tied
 90 Sun, Jul 10   CHC  W   9-1       47-43  3rd  1.0 gb
 89 Sat, Jul  9   CHC  L   3-6       46-43  3rd  1.0 gb
 88 Fri, Jul  8   CHC  W   7-4       46-42  2nd  1.0 gb
 87 Wed, Jul  6   HOU  L   2-8       45-42  3rd  1.5 gb
 86 Tue, Jul  5   HOU  W   5-1       45-41  2nd  1.5 gb
 85 Mon, Jul  4   HOU  W   5-3       44-41  3rd  1.5 gb
 84 Sun, Jul  3  @WSN  W  10-2       43-41  3rd  1.5 gb
 83 Sat, Jul  2  @WSN  L   3-4       42-41  3rd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12
Astros, 31-63, 31-63 6th, 19 GB, 24 GB in WC

SP: Wandy Rodriguez (32, LHP, 6-6, 3.52)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (6-6) 102.1 104 40 40 33 82 13 3.52
2010 (11-12) 195.0 183 95 78 68 178 16 3.60
2009 (14-12) 205.2 192 77 69 63 193 21 3.02
Last 7 GS 4-3 42.1 38 17 17 20 35 6 3.61 54
2011-07-10 @FLA L 5.1 5 5 5 5 3 1 101 36
2011-07-05 @PIT L 6.0 8 5 5 2 6 1 116 40
2011-06-30 TEX W 7.0 4 0 0 3 4 0 106 70
2011-06-24 TBR L 6.0 6 5 5 2 5 2 107 43
2011-06-18 @LAD W 6.0 7 0 0 1 6 0 103 63
2011-06-13 ATL W 6.0 2 0 0 4 5 0 95 69
2011-05-22 @TOR W 6.0 6 2 2 3 6 2 93 55
Last 5 v.PIT 4-1 36.1 27 10 9 8 38 3 2.23 66
2011-07-05 @PIT L 6.0 8 5 5 2 6 1 116 40
2011-05-06 @PIT W 7.0 5 2 2 2 4 1 108 61
2010-07-06 PIT W 7.0 4 1 1 2 10 0 107 73
2010-04-24 PIT W 7.1 5 2 1 1 7 1 96 68
2009-07-08 PIT W 9.0 5 0 0 1 11 0 125 87
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   15-34   Road:   16-29   ExtrInn: 1-3 
 vsRHP:  17-48   vsLHP:  14-15   1-Run:  10-16
 vsEast:  5-17   vsCntrl:15-25   vsWest:  7-10 IL: 4-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 94 Sat, Jul 16   PIT  W   6-4       31-63  6th 19.0 gb
 93 Fri, Jul 15   PIT  L   0-4       30-63  6th 19.0 gb
 92 Sun, Jul 10  @FLA  L   4-5       30-62  6th 19.0 gb
 91 Sat, Jul  9  @FLA  L   1-6       30-61  6th 18.0 gb
 90 Fri, Jul  8  @FLA  L   3-6       30-60  6th 18.0 gb
 89 Thu, Jul  7  @FLA  L   0-5       30-59  6th 17.0 gb
 88 Wed, Jul  6  @PIT  W   8-2       30-58  6th 17.0 gb
 87 Tue, Jul  5  @PIT  L   1-5       29-58  6th 18.0 gb
 86 Mon, Jul  4  @PIT  L   3-5       29-57  6th 17.0 gb
 85 Sun, Jul  3   BOS  L   1-2       29-56  6th 16.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30: 7-23

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jul 16, 2011 HOU  6  PIT  4        W:Sergio Escalona (2-1), L: Jose Veras (2-3), S: Mark Melancon (7)
Fri, Jul 15, 2011 PIT  4 @HOU  0        W:Jeff Karstens (8-4), L: Brett Myers (3-10), S: none
Wed, Jul 06, 2011 HOU  8 @PIT  2        W:Bud Norris (5-6), L: Charlie Morton (7-5), S: none
Tue, Jul 05, 2011 PIT  5  HOU  1        W:Jeff Karstens (7-4), L: Wandy Rodriguez (6-5), S: none
Mon, Jul 04, 2011 PIT  5  HOU  3        W:Paul Maholm (5-9), L: Brett Myers (3-8), S: Joel Hanrahan (25)
Thu, Jun 16, 2011 PIT  5 @HOU  4        W:James McDonald (5-4), L: Jordan Lyles (0-2), S: Jose Veras (1)
Wed, Jun 15, 2011 PIT  7 @HOU  3        W:Charlie Morton (7-3), L: Enerio Del Rosario (0-1), S: Joel Hanrahan (19)
Tue, Jun 14, 2011 PIT  1 @HOU  0        W:Jeff Karstens (4-4), L: Bud Norris (4-5), S: Joel Hanrahan (18)
Sun, May 08, 2011 PIT  5  HOU  4        W:Daniel McCutchen (1-0), L: Fernando Abad (1-3), S: Joel Hanrahan (10)
Sat, May 07, 2011 PIT  6  HOU  1        W:Charlie Morton (4-1), L: Bud Norris (2-2), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - PIT over 8-3; 2010 - HOU won 11-4; 2009 - HOU won 10-5; All-Time - PIT leads 346-330

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 2011 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

BOS  5.40

BAL  4.07

SEA  3.21

 RA/G

PHI  3.31

NYM  4.27

BAL  5.20

 BA

J. Reyes  .354

M. Izturis  .272

A. Dunn  .159

 OBP

J. Bautista  .470

B. Phillips  .335

A. Rios  .256

 SLG

J. Bautista  .701

B. Phillips  .422

C. Getz  .285

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.171

B. Phillips  .757

A. Rios  .557

 ERA

J. Jurrjens  1.87

M. Bumgarner  3.74

F. Carmona  5.78

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.45

R. Nolasco  6.68

B. Penny  3.85

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

Pirates Batters (3.93 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (5.02 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Rodriguez*
G/S/vB		 66.Del Rosario
G/S/vB		 52.Escalona*
G/S/vB		 59.Lopez
G/S/vB		 54.Melancon
G/S/vB		 43.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/6 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 2/.000 0/0 0/0
23.Diaz G/S/vP 25/.878 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 167/79 .281/.311/.356/.668 .656/.680 .672 43/.883 4/1 0/2
46.Jones* G/S/vP 10/.200 1/2.000 4/.250 3/.000 ··· ··· 265/226 .240/.328/.421/.749 .502/.793 .775 66/.673 4/3 9/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 16/.393 4/.250 1/.000 7/.533 3/1.167 2/.500 397/296 .286/.385/.500/.885 1.020/.837 .940 90/1.044 15/5 14/6
55.McKenry G/S/vP 3/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 86/63 .263/.296/.355/.652 .501/.703 .639 68/.735 0/0 1/1
37.Overbay* G/S/vP 15/1.067 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 341/242 .241/.312/.365/.677 .729/.655 .667 70/.738 1/1 7/8
38.Paul* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 3/1.167 1/2.000 2/5.000 136/117 .262/.288/.349/.637 .269/.699 .869 22/.513 9/2 1/1
44.Presley* G/S/vP 4/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 70/47 .328/.391/.508/.900 .727/.980 .747 70/.900 3/1 1/0
18.Walker# G/S/vP 9/1.319 3/.000 2/1.000 6/1.167 2/.000 2/.000 378/263 .271/.333/.410/.743 .569/.825 .813 81/.778 5/2 9/4
2.Wood G/S/vP 6/2.433 2/3.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 165/114 .207/.270/.340/.610 .685/.576 .534 37/.766 0/0 5/1
IP 102.1 41.0 17.1 43.0 42.0 19.1 TOTAL .247/.314/.365/.680 .684/.678 .710 .745 67/29 62/65
ERA-K/9 3.52/7.2 4.39/5.0 2.60/8.3 2.72/7.3 3.00/7.3 2.79/11.7 4.65/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McKenry (12-4-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 435/.265 190/.282 74/.226 176/.245 177/.244 81/.250 .268  McCutchen
 Diaz
 Paul
 Jones
 Presley
0/89/0/8
8/0/36/3
16/4/44/2
0/0/63/2
15/0/0/1
OPS .749 .755 .633 .644 .656 .728 .776
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 101/.584 71/.894 43/.536 69/.852 74/.664 36/.632 .810
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 334/.799 119/.674 31/.766 107/.507 103/.651 45/.807 .755
Home 188/.720 97/.770 45/.570 104/.752 84/.684 52/.773
Last 28d days 104/.790 48/.793 28/.784 45/.533 43/.895 27/.662
HR/SB/CS 13/12/1 3/7/1 1/5/0 2/1/1 3/3/1 3/3/1 110/88/19
Usage ······X· ·o·····X oo······ X·····oo o·····o· ·o····o·
Astros Batters (3.87 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.83 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 29.Correia
G/S/vB		 97.Beimel*
G/S/vB		 52.Hanrahan
G/S/vB		 63.Leroux
G/S/vB		 34.McCutchen
G/S/vB		 30.Resop
G/S/vB		 43.Veras
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Barmes G/S/vP 19/.796 6/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 6/.334 3/.333 4/.500 258/190 .247/.319/.372/.691 .658/.702 .573 74/.781 1/0 4/5
19.Bogusevic* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 38/36 .206/.289/.235/.525 .500/.520 .476 7/.429 1/0 0/0
21.Bourn* G/S/vP 9/.583 10/.300 6/.167 2/1.000 6/1.100 3/.333 2/.000 410/297 .291/.353/.396/.749 .712/.763 .794 94/.797 35/5 1/2
22.Corporan# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 74/53 .188/.208/.261/.469 .900/.311 .454 48/.572 0/0 0/4
16.Downs G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 123/101 .255/.350/.509/.859 .377/.969 .952 31/.706 0/0 6/4
23.Johnson G/S/vP 3/2.667 ··· 4/.250 ··· 4/.500 3/1.666 1/.000 312/233 .246/.285/.389/.674 .576/.708 .602 57/.600 2/2 6/8
8.Keppinger G/S/vP 11/.830 3/.333 5/.900 2/2.000 8/1.232 3/.000 2/1.000 161/121 .305/.319/.416/.734 1.137/.602 .782 70/.771 0/1 3/3
45.Lee G/S/vP 11/1.091 2/.000 8/.393 5/.400 8/1.232 4/.000 6/.334 377/283 .272/.318/.428/.746 .960/.677 .782 83/.833 3/2 7/4
4.Michaels G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 3/1.667 2/2.000 2/1.000 104/50 .212/.250/.313/.563 .605/.517 .634 42/.628 0/0 2/0
9.Pence G/S/vP 13/.481 3/.333 9/.777 4/.750 8/1.482 1/3.000 5/1.400 386/287 .320/.363/.490/.853 .767/.882 .899 76/.832 7/0 11/4
55.Quintero G/S/vP 7/.453 ··· 4/1.000 1/no AB 5/.000 1/3.000 1/2.000 129/108 .240/.273/.306/.579 .824/.534 .631 12/.333 1/0 0/4
36.Sanchez G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.666 8/.625 1/.000 3/.000 228/167 .252/.308/.312/.620 .616/.619 .601 42/.600 3/0 1/6
29.Wallace* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 4/.583 2/.500 3/.000 324/264 .281/.359/.400/.759 .521/.815 .877 62/.439 1/1 4/6
IP 116.2 13.1 40.1 4.2 47.2 41.1 41.2 TOTAL .260/.312/.379/.691 .701/.687 .717 .668 72/16 51/70
ERA-K/9 4.01/4.6 5.40/6.8 1.34/7.8 0.00/11.5 2.27/4.9 3.27/11.1 3.02/9.5 3.45/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Corporan (22-3-1)
 Quintero (31-11-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 489/.270 59/.269 152/.201 20/.316 193/.251 176/.221 175/.184 .256  Pence
 Lee
 Bourn
 Michaels
 Bogusevic
0/0/88/9
69/0/0/7
0/90/0/3
23/0/3/1
12/0/0/0
OPS .725 .864 .514 .684 .698 .631 .581 .704
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 219/.717 27/.511 69/.494 8/1.375 77/.849 62/.641 72/.640 .767
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 270/.732 32/1.178 83/.531 12/.182 116/.600 114/.626 103/.538 .663
Road 283/.633 37/1.159 66/.570 8/.875 71/.659 85/.539 86/.675
Last 28d days 98/.876 / 29/.351 20/.684 53/.546 38/.539 45/.500
HR/SB/CS 13/4/5 3/1/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 4/5/2 3/2/2 3/4/1 78/59/19
Usage ·······X ········ ········ o······X o······X o·····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.