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Game Preview: PIT @ SFG, 3:45pm, Wednesday, August 10, 2011 @AT&T Park

Pirates, 55-60, 55-60 3rd, 10½ GB, 12 GB in WC

SP: Jeff Karstens (28, RHP, 8-6, 3.05)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (8-6) 130.0 122 52 44 25 71 19 3.05
2010 (3-10) 122.2 146 72 67 27 72 21 4.92
2009 (4-6) 108.0 115 66 65 45 52 12 5.42
Last 7 GS 3-2 45.1 46 21 19 8 18 5 3.77 51
2011-08-05 SDP L 3.1 9 9 9 1 2 1 66 7
2011-07-31 @PHI ND 7.0 7 3 3 2 5 1 98 54
2011-07-26 @ATL ND 5.0 6 3 3 3 3 0 96 43
2011-07-20 CIN L 7.0 7 3 1 1 1 0 77 55
2011-07-15 @HOU W 9.0 5 0 0 0 2 0 83 79
2011-07-05 HOU W 7.0 7 1 1 0 3 1 95 62
2011-06-30 @TOR W 7.0 5 2 2 1 2 2 88 60
Last 5 v.SFG 0-2 9.2 13 13 7 2 7 0 6.52 36
2011-04-28 SFG L 6.2 7 5 2 1 4 0 93 49
2008-09-07 @SFG L 3.0 6 8 5 1 3 0 64 23
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-32   Road:   29-28   ExtrInn: 5-6 
 vsRHP:  37-46   vsLHP:  18-14   1-Run:  15-15
 vsEast: 12-19   vsCntrl:25-20   vsWest: 10-14 IL: 8-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
115 Tue, Aug  9  @SFG  L   0-6       55-60  3rd 10.5 gb
114 Mon, Aug  8  @SFG  W   5-0       55-59  3rd  9.5 gb
113 Sun, Aug  7   SDP  L   3-7       54-59  4th 10.0 gb
112 Sat, Aug  6   SDP  L   2-13      54-58  3rd  9.0 gb
111 Fri, Aug  5   SDP  L   5-15      54-57  3rd  8.0 gb
110 Thu, Aug  4   CHC  L   6-7       54-56  3rd  7.0 gb
109 Wed, Aug  3   CHC  L   0-1       54-55  3rd  6.5 gb
108 Tue, Aug  2   CHC  L   6-11      54-54  3rd  5.5 gb
107 Mon, Aug  1   CHC  L   3-5       54-53  3rd  5.5 gb
106 Sun, Jul 31  @PHI  L   5-6 (10)  54-52  3rd  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30:11-19
Giants, 64-53, 64-53 1st, ½ up

SP: Jonathan Sanchez (28, LHP, 4-6, 4.10)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (4-6) 94.1 75 48 43 61 96 8 4.10
2010 (13-9) 193.1 142 74 66 96 205 21 3.07
2009 (8-12) 163.1 135 82 77 88 177 19 4.24
Last 7 GS 1-3 37.1 30 21 21 31 33 3 5.06 48
2011-08-05 PHI L 4.2 7 5 5 2 4 2 85 32
2011-06-24 CLE ND 4.2 2 3 3 6 6 0 94 48
2011-06-18 @OAK L 4.2 6 4 4 3 3 0 91 36
2011-06-12 CIN ND 6.0 5 2 2 5 5 0 103 54
2011-06-07 WSN L 5.0 4 2 2 5 6 0 97 52
2011-06-02 @STL W 5.1 4 3 3 6 1 0 103 43
2011-05-28 @MIL ND 7.0 2 2 2 4 8 1 104 69
Last 5 v.PIT 2-1 21.2 19 14 9 10 25 2 3.74 52
2010-06-04 @PIT W 6.1 5 4 0 2 5 0 103 58
2010-04-14 PIT W 8.0 3 0 0 3 11 0 109 84
2008-09-07 PIT ND 3.0 5 3 2 2 5 0 78 42
2008-05-06 @PIT L 4.1 6 7 7 3 4 2 91 24
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-24   Road:   29-29   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  44-42   vsLHP:  20-11   1-Run:  28-15
 vsEast: 10-16   vsCntrl:16-15   vsWest: 28-17 IL:10-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
117 Tue, Aug  9   PIT  W   6-0       64-53  1st  0.5 up
116 Mon, Aug  8   PIT  L   0-5       63-53  1st  0.5 up
115 Sun, Aug  7   PHI  W   3-1       63-52  1st  0.5 up
114 Sat, Aug  6   PHI  L   1-2       62-52  1st  0.5 up
113 Fri, Aug  5   PHI  L   2-9       62-51  1st  0.5 up
112 Thu, Aug  4   PHI  L   0-3       62-50  1st  0.5 up
111 Wed, Aug  3   ARI  W   8-1       62-49  1st  1.0 up
110 Tue, Aug  2   ARI  L   1-6       61-49  1st    Tied
109 Mon, Aug  1   ARI  L   2-5       61-48  1st  1.0 up
108 Sun, Jul 31  @CIN  L   0-9       61-47  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Aug 09, 2011 SFG  6  PIT  0        W:Madison Bumgarner (7-11), L: James McDonald (7-6), S: none
Mon, Aug 08, 2011 PIT  5 @SFG  0        W:Charlie Morton (9-6), L: Ryan Vogelsong (9-2), S: none
Thu, Apr 28, 2011 SFG  5 @PIT  2        W:Ryan Vogelsong (1-0), L: Jeff Karstens (2-1), S: Brian Wilson (7)
Wed, Apr 27, 2011 PIT  2  SFG  0        W:James McDonald (1-2), L: Madison Bumgarner (0-4), S: Joel Hanrahan (7)
Tue, Apr 26, 2011 SFG  3 @PIT  2 (10)   W:Sergio Romo (1-0), L: Joel Hanrahan (0-1), S: Brian Wilson (6)

Sun, Jun 06, 2010 SFG  6 @PIT  5 (10)   W:Brian Wilson (2-0), L: Octavio Dotel (2-1), S: Santiago Casilla (1)
Sat, Jun 05, 2010 PIT  6  SFG  3        W:Paul Maholm (4-4), L: Todd Wellemeyer (3-5), S: none
Fri, Jun 04, 2010 SFG  6 @PIT  4        W:Jonathan Sanchez (4-4), L: Zach Duke (3-6), S: Brian Wilson (14)
Wed, Apr 14, 2010 SFG  6  PIT  0        W:Jonathan Sanchez (1-0), L: Charlie Morton (0-2), S: none
Tue, Apr 13, 2010 PIT  6 @SFG  5        W:Evan Meek (1-0), L: Jeremy Affeldt (2-1), S: Octavio Dotel (2)
Season Series: 2011 - SFG over 3-2; 2010 - SFG won 4-2; 2009 - SFG won 4-2; All-Time - SFG leads 1121-976

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  5.47

BAL  4.12

SEA  3.32

 RA/G

PHI  3.24

TEX  4.24

BAL  5.33

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .351

M. Moreland  .272

A. Dunn  .165

 OBP

J. Bautista  .446

H. Matsui  .335

V. Wells  .243

 SLG

J. Bautista  .639

I. Kinsler  .427

C. Getz  .285

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.085

D. Fowler  .770

A. Rios  .573

 ERA

J. Weaver  1.78

C. Carpenter  3.75

J. Happ  6.26

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.45

E. Jackson  6.92

B. Penny  3.57

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

Pirates Batters (3.79 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (3.51 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 57.Sanchez*
G/S/vB		 41.Affeldt*
G/S/vB		 46.Casilla
G/S/vB		 49.Lopez*
G/S/vB		 59.Mota
G/S/vB		 52.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 54.Romo
G/S/vB		 32.Vogelsong
G/S/vB		 38.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 2/.000 203/163 .207/.277/.299/.576 .589/.573 .641 65/.554 1/0 3/12
5.Cedeno G/S/vP 6/.500 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.333 4/1.000 4/.000 2/.500 3/.666 327/244 .247/.300/.336/.636 .674/.623 .681 51/.526 2/5 2/9
23.Diaz G/S/vP 10/.425 4/.500 ··· 2/.500 3/.000 3/.666 1/4.000 ··· 4/.000 207/100 .262/.300/.333/.633 .668/.596 .622 41/.466 4/1 0/2
41.Doumit# G/S/vP 9/.347 9/.730 1/no AB ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 8/.417 121/88 .287/.358/.463/.821 1.091/.732 .851 18/1.100 0/1 5/4
46.Jones* G/S/vP 6/.167 4/.500 ··· ··· 4/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 6/1.833 4/.500 342/294 .249/.331/.452/.783 .476/.835 .774 85/.828 5/3 13/1
25.Lee G/S/vP 3/no AB 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 20/.633 ··· 3/.000 16/1.000 5/1.150 383/290 .247/.303/.420/.723 .728/.721 .707 80/.938 2/1 14/7
36.Ludwick G/S/vP 14/.554 8/.750 5/.200 3/1.000 9/.111 8/.536 5/.000 3/2.000 7/.453 460/351 .238/.305/.364/.668 .683/.664 .688 93/.542 1/1 11/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 7/.619 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 3/.666 3/1.000 6/.833 6/.334 3/.000 496/372 .273/.372/.464/.837 .944/.801 .903 109/.638 17/7 15/6
55.McKenry G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 146/111 .246/.277/.351/.627 .565/.646 .638 68/.649 0/1 2/4
38.Paul* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 190/164 .267/.301/.335/.636 .195/.709 .770 55/.621 13/6 1/1
51.Pearce G/S/vP 2/1.500 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 96/46 .221/.274/.279/.553 .626/.477 .405 34/.248 0/0 1/4
18.Walker# G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 6/1.667 1/.000 479/337 .275/.334/.397/.731 .639/.777 .807 111/.746 7/4 9/6
2.Wood G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 5/.400 ··· 220/151 .225/.289/.365/.654 .685/.640 .567 59/.846 0/0 7/3
IP 94.1 50.1 30.2 43.1 57.1 47.1 37.2 120.0 52.0 TOTAL .244/.310/.360/.670 .664/.672 .691 .638 81/40 75/87
ERA-K/9 4.10/9.2 2.86/7.9 1.76/7.0 2.49/7.1 3.92/8.6 2.85/8.0 1.67/12.7 2.48/7.0 2.77/8.5 3.17/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (20-5-1)
 McKenry (21-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 414/.221 209/.214 126/.183 181/.209 232/.233 196/.220 135/.154 507/.247 226/.231 .230  Ludwick
 McCutchen
 Paul
 Diaz
 Jones
 Pearce
104/0/1/10
0/111/0/8
23/7/52/3
15/0/41/3
0/0/80/2
0/0/5/0
OPS .704 .632 .569 .569 .701 .609 .425 .664 .645 .643
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 102/.510 82/.443 49/.687 86/.399 83/.763 59/.608 39/.651 244/.674 115/.551 .580
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 312/.771 127/.759 77/.495 95/.725 149/.668 137/.609 96/.332 263/.655 111/.736 .686
Home 213/.727 100/.660 62/.364 105/.499 104/.559 106/.665 72/.466 304/.627 130/.597
Last 28d days 21/1.113 42/.451 48/.382 36/.882 52/.469 53/.661 26/.115 127/.794 38/.606
HR/SB/CS 8/11/4 5/3/1 1/2/0 0/3/2 9/2/2 3/8/2 2/2/1 9/5/2 2/1/1 71/84/41
Usage ····X··· ····X··· Xo···X·· ··oo··oX ·X··o·X· ·o··X··X X··o··o· ·X····X· ··o·X···
Giants Batters (3.46 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.13 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 27.Karstens
G/S/vB		 97.Beimel*
G/S/vB		 39.Grilli
G/S/vB		 52.Hanrahan
G/S/vB		 32.Lincoln
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
15.Beltran# G/S/vP 8/.875 4/1.833 2/.000 10/.425 ··· 4/1.167 4/.500 6/.900 465/343 .284/.378/.495/.873 .811/.900 .970 88/.845 3/0 15/1
43.Cabrera G/S/vP 6/.334 10/.550 14/.630 3/1.000 ··· 2/2.500 2/1.000 5/.900 383/268 .244/.275/.319/.593 .720/.539 .560 74/.528 7/3 4/6
7.DeRosa G/S/vP 2/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 3/.667 42/26 .154/.214/.179/.394 .661/.235 .321 2/.000 0/0 0/1
14.Fontenot* G/S/vP 12/.781 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 172/123 .215/.300/.349/.649 .823/.586 .585 59/.476 5/1 2/5
17.Huff* G/S/vP 5/1.933 10/1.278 1/2.000 5/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 3/2.667 457/331 .249/.304/.380/.684 .713/.673 .636 88/.825 5/2 11/4
8.Keppinger G/S/vP 24/.541 3/.333 7/.858 5/.900 3/1.667 8/1.232 3/.000 3/1.334 247/186 .302/.321/.409/.730 .964/.653 .753 94/.768 0/1 4/4
13.Ross G/S/vP 6/.500 4/1.417 4/1.000 8/2.196 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 327/241 .246/.336/.393/.729 .749/.722 .707 75/.523 4/1 8/1
33.Rowand G/S/vP 5/1.000 5/1.250 5/.000 11/.899 ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 318/216 .245/.289/.372/.662 .777/.607 .579 50/.760 2/3 4/1
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 6/.833 8/1.375 6/.533 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 310/238 .310/.348/.505/.854 .826/.862 .846 102/.874 2/1 12/7
12.Schierholtz* G/S/vP 3/1.334 6/.666 2/1.000 5/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 327/270 .277/.324/.422/.747 .601/.777 .781 85/.579 7/4 7/2
37.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 107/79 .223/.298/.309/.607 .677/.581 .553 40/.759 0/0 1/4
56.Torres# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 320/276 .230/.318/.348/.665 .474/.694 .704 81/.619 13/4 3/3
22.Whiteside G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 177/143 .210/.290/.357/.646 .983/.571 .690 53/.522 1/0 4/5
IP 130.0 23.1 12.0 50.0 8.0 61.2 51.2 53.2 TOTAL .241/.304/.359/.662 .663/.662 .654 .627 67/32 74/79
ERA-K/9 3.05/4.9 4.24/6.6 5.25/11.2 1.08/7.6 5.63/7.9 2.92/5.0 4.01/10.6 3.19/9.2 3.73/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Stewart (19-13-2)
 Whiteside (38-13-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 523/.251 104/.305 60/.271 188/.206 36/.258 257/.246 223/.249 226/.188 .264  Schierholtz
 Beltran
 Ross
 Torres
 Rowand
 Huff
8/0/88/7
0/0/102/6
66/5/31/5
0/79/1/5
42/55/3/3
8/0/13/1
OPS .699 .833 .886 .512 .730 .705 .733 .598 .730
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 243/.817 42/.652 25/1.204 80/.501 14/.967 101/.859 81/.625 93/.661 .810
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 280/.597 62/.957 35/.668 108/.519 22/.563 156/.608 142/.790 133/.554 .679
Road 250/.717 57/1.038 29/.964 79/.552 25/.553 106/.642 107/.588 113/.701
Last 28d days 131/.684 45/.796 60/.886 36/.500 11/1.167 67/.690 50/1.032 56/.658
HR/SB/CS 19/11/2 3/1/0 2/0/0 1/1/0 0/1/0 6/6/2 7/4/2 4/4/1 110/74/25
Usage ····X··· X··XXo·X o···Xo·X ··o··o·X ··X····· o·o·Xo·· X··X··Xo ·o·X·ooo

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.