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Game Preview: PIT @ NYM, 1:10pm, Thursday, June 2, 2011 @Citi Field

Pirates, 26-28, 26-28 4th, 5½ GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Paul Maholm (29, LHP, 2-7, 3.18)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (2-7) 70.2 58 27 25 25 48 4 3.18
2010 (9-15) 185.1 228 119 105 62 102 15 5.10
2009 (8-9) 194.2 221 102 96 60 119 14 4.44
Last 7 GS 2-4 47.2 34 14 14 17 34 3 2.64 61
2011-05-28 @CHC W 9.0 3 0 0 0 4 0 91 85
2011-05-22 DET L 5.1 6 2 2 2 5 1 96 51
2011-05-16 @WSN L 6.1 4 3 3 2 7 1 102 58
2011-05-11 LAD L 6.0 5 2 2 5 3 0 98 52
2011-05-06 HOU ND 7.0 5 1 1 3 4 0 97 64
2011-04-30 @COL L 7.0 7 4 4 3 3 1 101 47
2011-04-25 WSN W 7.0 4 2 2 2 8 0 99 67
Last 5 v.NYM 1-2 26.0 39 25 20 8 11 2 6.92 35
2010-09-15 @NYM L 3.2 7 7 2 2 1 0 69 28
2009-07-02 NYM ND 4.1 11 6 6 1 1 0 81 17
2009-05-09 @NYM L 5.0 10 7 7 1 2 1 93 20
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
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-14   Road:   17-14   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  18-22   vsLHP:   8-6    1-Run:   6-6 
 vsEast:  4-8    vsCntrl:13-10   vsWest:  7-9  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 54 Wed, Jun  1  @NYM  W   9-3       26-28  4th  5.5 gb
 53 Tue, May 31  @NYM  W   5-1       25-28  4th  6.5 gb
 52 Mon, May 30  @NYM  L   3-7       24-28  4th  6.5 gb
 51 Sun, May 29  @CHC  L   2-3       24-27  4th  6.5 gb
 50 Sat, May 28  @CHC  W  10-0       24-26  4th  5.5 gb
 49 Fri, May 27  @CHC  W   4-2       23-26  4th  6.5 gb
 48 Wed, May 25   ATL  L   2-4 (11)  22-26  4th  6.5 gb
 47 Tue, May 24   ATL  L   0-2       22-25  4th  6.5 gb
 46 Sun, May 22   DET  L   0-2       22-24  4th  5.0 gb
 45 Sat, May 21   DET  W   6-2       22-23  4th  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15
Mets, 25-30, 25-30 4th, 8½ GB, 6½ GB in WC

SP: Mike Pelfrey (27, RHP, 3-4, 5.00)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (3-4) 63.0 70 38 35 22 34 9 5.00
2010 (15-9) 204.0 213 88 83 68 113 12 3.66
2009 (10-12) 184.1 213 112 103 66 107 18 5.03
Last 7 GS 3-2 46.1 41 18 17 12 25 7 3.30 55
2011-05-28 PHI ND 7.2 4 2 2 2 6 0 116 67
2011-05-22 @NYY L 6.0 8 5 5 2 4 1 101 38
2011-05-16 FLA ND 7.0 6 1 1 2 1 1 92 60
2011-05-10 @COL W 6.2 6 3 3 1 2 3 86 51
2011-05-05 SFG W 7.2 4 2 1 2 5 1 116 68
2011-04-29 @PHI L 4.1 8 4 4 1 3 1 72 33
2011-04-22 ARI W 7.0 5 1 1 2 4 0 106 65
Last 5 v.PIT 3-1 25.2 28 13 11 10 13 1 3.86 49
2010-09-16 PIT W 7.0 6 2 2 4 4 0 111 57
2010-08-20 @PIT W 8.0 6 2 1 2 5 1 119 67
2009-06-04 @PIT L 3.2 9 9 8 4 3 0 83 8
2008-08-15 @PIT W 7.0 7 0 0 0 1 0 98 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-16   Road:   13-14   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  17-25   vsLHP:   8-5    1-Run:   5-9 
 vsEast: 11-13   vsCntrl: 5-7    vsWest:  8-8  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 55 Wed, Jun  1   PIT  L   3-9       25-30  4th  8.5 gb
 54 Tue, May 31   PIT  L   1-5       25-29  4th  8.5 gb
 53 Mon, May 30   PIT  W   7-3       25-28  4th  8.5 gb
 52 Sun, May 29   PHI  W   9-5       24-28  4th  8.5 gb
 51 Sat, May 28   PHI  L   2-5       23-28  4th  9.5 gb
 50 Fri, May 27   PHI  L   4-6       23-27  4th  8.5 gb
 49 Thu, May 26  @CHC  L   3-9       23-26  4th  7.5 gb
 48 Wed, May 25  @CHC  W   7-4  (7)  23-25  4th  6.5 gb
 47 Tue, May 24  @CHC  L   1-11      22-25  4th  6.5 gb
 46 Sun, May 22  @NYY  L   3-9       22-24  4th  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 01, 2011 PIT  9 @NYM  3        W:Kevin Correia (8-4), L: Chris Capuano (3-6), S: none
Tue, May 31, 2011 PIT  5 @NYM  1        W:Evan Meek (1-1), L: R.A. Dickey (2-6), S: none
Mon, May 30, 2011 NYM  7  PIT  3        W:Dillon Gee (5-0), L: Daniel McCutchen (1-1), S: none

Thu, Sep 16, 2010 NYM  6  PIT  2        W:Mike Pelfrey (15-9), L: Wil Ledezma (0-3), S: none
Wed, Sep 15, 2010 NYM  8  PIT  7        W:Raul Valdes (3-3), L: Paul Maholm (7-15), S: Hisanori Takahashi (7)
Tue, Sep 14, 2010 NYM  9  PIT  1        W:R.A. Dickey (11-6), L: Zach Duke (7-14), S: none
Mon, Sep 13, 2010 NYM  1  PIT  0 (10)   W:Hisanori Takahashi (9-6), L: Chan Ho Park (3-3), S: none
Sun, Aug 22, 2010 PIT  2  NYM  1        W:Zach Duke (6-12), L: Johan Santana (10-8), S: Joel Hanrahan (2)
Sat, Aug 21, 2010 NYM  5 @PIT  1  (5)   W:Jonathon Niese (8-5), L: James McDonald (2-3), S: none
Fri, Aug 20, 2010 NYM  7 @PIT  2        W:Mike Pelfrey (12-7), L: Jeff Karstens (2-10), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - PIT over 2-1; 2010 - NYM won 6-1; 2009 - NYM won 4-3; All-Time - PIT leads 360-333

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

NYY  5.24

FLA  4.17

SDP  3.39

 RA/G

ATL  3.30

CLE  4.15

MIN  5.22

 BA

M. Joyce  .361

M. Cuddyer  .262

A. LaRoche  .172

 OBP

J. Bautista  .502

R. Howard  .336

C. Figgins  .232

 SLG

J. Bautista  .773

D. DeJesus  .405

A. Escobar  .249

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.276

A. Pujols  .745

C. Figgins  .488

 ERA

J. Jurrjens  1.51

T. Hudson  3.75

J. Vazquez  6.02

 K/9IP

M. Garza  10.99

T. Cahill  6.69

C. Pavano  3.38

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

Pirates Batters (3.85 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (4.60 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Pelfrey
G/S/vB		 33.Buchholz
G/S/vB		 40.Byrdak*
G/S/vB		 45.Isringhausen
G/S/vB		 50.O'Connor*
G/S/vB		 39.Parnell
G/S/vB		 75.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 46.Thayer
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
26.Brown G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 4/4 .250/.250/.250/.500 /.500 .500 4/.500 1/0 0/0
5.Cedeno G/S/vP 6/1.166 4/1.500 1/.000 4/.250 1/no AB 4/.000 ··· ··· 181/136 .238/.302/.331/.633 .692/.613 .716 85/.745 1/4 2/3
3.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 1/.000 0/0 0/0
23.Diaz G/S/vP 10/.650 2/.500 1/3.000 6/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 4/.000 ··· 93/44 .256/.280/.322/.602 .521/.691 .613 35/.667 2/0 0/0
46.Jones* G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 6/.367 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 158/144 .222/.329/.400/.729 .357/.769 .780 64/.482 2/1 6/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 11/.989 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 236/181 .256/.357/.453/.811 .780/.820 .966 104/.922 10/4 9/2
37.Overbay* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 12/.349 1/2.000 ··· 5/.900 1/.000 205/150 .238/.304/.373/.677 .740/.653 .692 85/.762 1/1 5/5
38.Paul* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 1/3.000 ··· 58/50 .259/.298/.296/.595 .250/.653 .703 27/.478 3/0 0/0
19.Snyder G/S/vP 11/.920 3/1.000 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 104/75 .291/.392/.430/.822 .833/.818 .938 52/.864 0/1 3/0
31.Tabata G/S/vP 8/.125 2/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 208/158 .241/.353/.351/.703 .998/.615 .664 93/.683 14/4 3/1
18.Walker# G/S/vP 8/.375 1/.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 227/163 .270/.335/.417/.751 .592/.818 .791 95/.717 2/1 6/3
2.Wood G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 84/55 .184/.244/.250/.494 .501/.490 .500 48/.474 0/0 0/0
IP 63.0 26.0 12.2 17.2 6.2 8.0 26.0 3.1 TOTAL .236/.312/.355/.667 .665/.668 .720 .683 38/18 41/33
ERA-K/9 5.00/4.9 3.12/9.0 5.68/12.8 3.06/7.1 2.70/10.7 5.63/13.5 1.73/9.0 2.70/0.0 4.25/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Brown (1-0-0)
 Snyder (15-5-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 282/.278 107/.234 58/.280 71/.197 29/.200 43/.306 115/.255 12/.273 .264  McCutchen
 Diaz
 Paul
 Jones
 Tabata
0/52/0/6
5/0/22/2
15/0/16/2
0/0/42/2
47/2/0/2
OPS .794 .701 .797 .618 .550 .877 .621 .705 .744
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 162/.800 45/1.085 34/.772 35/.687 15/.785 20/.688 68/.658 4/1.500 .736
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 120/.786 62/.442 24/.824 36/.556 14/.298 23/1.010 47/.564 8/.375 .751
Home 141/.601 41/.839 25/.756 36/.314 15/.481 27/1.182 65/.727 12/.705
Last 28d days 112/.703 41/.841 22/.825 40/.679 29/.550 6/.900 52/.514 12/.705
HR/SB/CS 9/7/1 5/4/1 1/0/0 2/6/2 0/1/0 2/3/0 0/4/1 0/0/0 56/42/13
Usage ····X··· ···X··o· ····ooX· ·oX·oXo· o···o··· ·X······ ··X··Xo· oo··X···
Mets Batters (4.05 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.87 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Maholm*
G/S/vB		 45.Ascanio
G/S/vB		 52.Hanrahan
G/S/vB		 34.McCutchen
G/S/vB		 47.Meek
G/S/vB		 30.Resop
G/S/vB		 43.Veras
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
44.Bay G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 4/1.167 1/.000 ··· 2/no AB 7/.786 143/112 .234/.317/.315/.631 .715/.609 .743 95/.580 4/1 2/1
15.Beltran# G/S/vP 18/1.158 2/1.000 9/.476 3/1.667 3/.333 2/.000 5/.800 214/165 .283/.369/.513/.883 .980/.849 .997 94/.843 0/0 8/0
6.Evans G/S/vP 8/1.482 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 10/6 .000/.300/.000/.300 .250/.333 .333 10/.300 0/0 0/0
12.Hairston G/S/vP 8/.542 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 58/22 .231/.310/.346/.656 .677/.623 .724 16/.875 1/0 1/1
22.Harris* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 4/1.250 ··· 3/.000 3/.333 5/.400 109/95 .216/.303/.299/.602 1.071/.539 .348 35/.540 1/3 1/1
28.Murphy* G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 181/155 .289/.344/.422/.766 .669/.783 .715 96/.789 2/1 4/3
16.Pagan# G/S/vP 14/1.250 2/.000 2/.500 4/.000 2/.500 2/.000 2/.000 108/80 .223/.299/.298/.597 .380/.669 .595 26/.863 6/2 1/3
9.Paulino G/S/vP 6/1.000 1/3.000 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 57/37 .333/.404/.353/.756 .733/.769 .753 41/.644 0/0 0/3
20.Pridie* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 106/89 .237/.317/.409/.726 .388/.790 .719 69/.690 4/0 3/1
11.Tejada G/S/vP 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 48/34 .311/.354/.333/.687 .607/.717 .784 48/.687 0/0 0/1
30.Thole* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.667 148/130 .223/.297/.269/.567 .292/.605 .552 57/.515 0/1 0/2
2.Turner G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 107/76 .320/.364/.470/.834 .712/.882 .968 89/.888 2/2 2/1
IP 70.2 6.0 24.2 23.1 11.0 25.0 22.1 TOTAL .255/.328/.385/.713 .664/.729 .760 .714 50/15 38/32
ERA-K/9 3.18/6.1 6.00/7.5 1.46/7.7 1.54/4.6 4.09/9.8 3.96/11.2 2.42/12.5 3.49/6.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Paulino (7-5-3)
 Thole (30-7-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 289/.225 27/.280 95/.244 89/.241 51/.283 108/.216 92/.179 .252  Pagan
 Pridie
 Beltran
 Bay
 Evans
 Murphy
 Hairston
 Harris
0/25/0/3
1/28/1/2
0/0/48/2
34/0/0/1
1/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
8/7/4/0
17/4/1/0
OPS .614 .893 .618 .630 .657 .616 .614 .697
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 62/.563 14/.643 42/.670 37/.803 20/.733 39/.683 34/.857 .763
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 227/.629 13/1.189 53/.577 52/.512 31/.608 69/.578 58/.463 .658
Road 132/.612 21/.983 52/.609 46/.778 36/.792 54/.525 48/.752
Last 28d days 133/.530 27/.893 31/.395 48/.811 9/.222 43/.836 38/.509
HR/SB/CS 4/3/1 2/0/0 1/1/0 1/1/1 0/0/0 2/2/0 3/2/1 48/34/11
Usage ····X··· o·X····· ·o···o·o o·Xo···o ·o·o···· o··o···· ·o···o·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.