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Game Preview: PIT @ WSN, 7:05pm, Monday, May 16, 2011 @Nationals Park

Pirates, 18-22, 18-22 4th, 5 GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Paul Maholm (29, LHP, 1-5, 3.60)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. WSN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (1-5) 50.0 45 22 20 21 32 2 3.60
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 1-5 43.1 40 22 20 19 29 2 4.15 51
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
2011-04-19 @FLA L 3.2 7 6 6 3 4 0 76 24
2011-04-14 MIL L 7.0 4 2 2 3 6 0 98 64
2011-04-07 COL L 5.2 8 5 3 0 1 1 78 38
Last 5 v.WSN 1-2 30.1 34 18 18 9 26 6 5.34 47
2011-04-25 WSN W 7.0 4 2 2 2 8 0 99 67
2010-09-04 WSN L 4.1 9 7 7 2 4 1 85 19
2009-08-02 WSN L 6.1 7 4 4 2 3 1 98 44
2009-05-20 @WSN ND 6.0 4 1 1 3 7 0 114 64
2008-06-10 WSN ND 6.2 10 4 4 0 4 4 88 42
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-11   Road:   11-11   ExtrInn: 1-1 
 vsRHP:  12-18   vsLHP:   6-4    1-Run:   6-5 
 vsEast:  2-4    vsCntrl: 9-9    vsWest:  7-9  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Sun, May 15  @MIL  L   6-9       18-22  4th  5.0 gb
 39 Sat, May 14  @MIL  L   2-8       18-21  3rd  4.0 gb
 38 Fri, May 13  @MIL  L   2-5       18-20  3rd  3.5 gb
 37 Wed, May 11   LAD  L   0-2       18-19  3rd  3.0 gb
 36 Tue, May 10   LAD  L   3-10      18-18  3rd  3.0 gb
 35 Mon, May  9   LAD  W   4-1       18-17  3rd  2.0 gb
 34 Sun, May  8   HOU  W   5-4       17-17  3rd  2.5 gb
 33 Sat, May  7   HOU  W   6-1       16-17  3rd  2.5 gb
 32 Fri, May  6   HOU  L   2-3       15-17  3rd  3.5 gb
 31 Wed, May  4  @SDP  W   7-4       15-16  3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17
Nationals, 19-21, 19-21 4th, 6½ GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: John Lannan (26, LHP, 2-4, 4.79)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (2-4) 41.1 48 23 22 18 22 4 4.79
2010 (8-8) 143.1 175 82 74 49 71 14 4.65
2009 (9-13) 206.1 210 100 89 68 89 22 3.88
Last 7 GS 1-4 36.1 43 22 21 17 19 4 5.20 44
2011-05-11 @ATL ND 6.0 5 2 2 3 3 0 81 54
2011-05-05 @PHI L 2.0 7 6 6 1 1 1 54 18
2011-04-30 SFG L 6.2 6 2 2 3 3 1 93 54
2011-04-25 @PIT L 5.2 5 4 4 2 3 0 99 44
2011-04-20 @STL W 5.0 7 2 2 3 2 2 101 44
2011-04-13 PHI L 6.0 6 3 2 3 3 0 100 50
2011-04-07 @FLA ND 5.0 7 3 3 2 4 0 90 43
Last 5 v.PIT 1-2 31.1 36 16 15 9 20 2 4.31 48
2011-04-25 @PIT L 5.2 5 4 4 2 3 0 99 44
2010-09-04 @PIT W 7.0 5 1 1 1 7 1 109 69
2010-06-09 PIT ND 4.2 10 5 4 3 2 0 92 25
2009-07-31 @PIT L 7.0 9 5 5 1 3 1 115 41
2009-05-20 PIT ND 7.0 7 1 1 2 5 0 104 62
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-9    Road:    9-12   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  16-15   vsLHP:   3-6    1-Run:   4-6 
 vsEast: 11-16   vsCntrl: 5-4    vsWest:  3-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Sun, May 15   FLA  W   8-4       19-21  4th  6.5 gb
 39 Sat, May 14   FLA  L   0-1       18-21  4th  7.5 gb
 38 Fri, May 13   FLA  L   5-6 (11)  18-20  4th  7.5 gb
 37 Thu, May 12  @ATL  L   5-6 (10)  18-19  4th  6.5 gb
 36 Wed, May 11  @ATL  W   7-3 (11)  18-18  4th  6.0 gb
 35 Tue, May 10  @ATL  W   7-6       17-18  4th  6.0 gb
 34 Sun, May  8  @FLA  L   0-8       16-18  4th  6.5 gb
 33 Sat, May  7  @FLA  W   5-2       16-17  4th  6.5 gb
 32 Fri, May  6  @FLA  W   3-2 (10)  15-17  4th  6.5 gb
 31 Thu, May  5  @PHI  L   3-7       14-17  4th  7.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 25, 2011 PIT  4  WSN  2        W:Paul Maholm (1-3), L: John Lannan (2-2), S: Joel Hanrahan (6)
Sun, Apr 24, 2011 WSN  6 @PIT  3        W:Jason Marquis (2-0), L: Kevin Correia (3-2), S: Drew Storen (3)
Sat, Apr 23, 2011 PIT  7  WSN  2        W:Jeff Karstens (2-0), L: Livan Hernandez (2-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 05, 2010 WSN  8 @PIT  1        W:Jason Marquis (2-7), L: Charlie Morton (1-11), S: none
Sat, Sep 04, 2010 WSN  9 @PIT  2        W:John Lannan (7-6), L: Paul Maholm (7-14), S: none
Fri, Sep 03, 2010 PIT  8  WSN  5        W:Zach Duke (7-12), L: Livan Hernandez (9-10), S: Joel Hanrahan (3)
Thu, Jun 10, 2010 WSN  4  PIT  2        W:Livan Hernandez (5-3), L: Zach Duke (3-7), S: Tyler Clippard (1)
Wed, Jun 09, 2010 WSN  7  PIT  5        W:Drew Storen (2-0), L: D. J. Carrasco (1-2), S: Matt Capps (20)
Tue, Jun 08, 2010 WSN  5  PIT  2        W:Stephen Strasburg (1-0), L: Jeff Karstens (1-2), S: Matt Capps (19)
Mon, Aug 03, 2009 WSN  8 @PIT  4        W:Tyler Clippard (2-1), L: Charlie Morton (2-4), S: Mike MacDougal (8)
Season Series: 2011 - PIT over 2-1; 2010 - WSN won 5-1; 2009 - PIT won 5-3; All-Time - PIT leads 299-272

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

STL  5.29

MIL  4.23

MIN  3.13

 RA/G

ATL  3.24

TEX  4.33

MIN  5.50

 BA

J. Reyes  .310

  

M. Prado  .296

 OBP

J. Reyes  .360

  

M. Prado  .340

 SLG

J. Reyes  .471

  

M. Prado  .458

 OPS

J. Reyes  .831

  

M. Prado  .798

 ERA

J. Johnson  1.63

N. Blackburn  3.70

K. Davies  7.08

 K/9IP

M. Garza  11.77

H. Kuroda  6.92

C. Pavano  3.42

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

Pirates Batters (3.63 RS/G) vs. Nationals Pitchers (4.15 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Lannan*
G/S/vB		 17.Burnett*
G/S/vB		 36.Clippard
G/S/vB		 60.Coffey
G/S/vB		 63.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 45.Slaten*
G/S/vB		 22.Storen
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 130/103 .210/.277/.286/.563 .638/.543 .655 68/.633 1/0 1/7
5.Cedeno G/S/vP 17/.470 4/1.750 4/1.000 10/.000 ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 127/96 .232/.294/.313/.606 .651/.591 .732 73/.718 0/3 1/3
23.Diaz G/S/vP 28/1.100 4/.000 6/.167 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.000 73/40 .239/.260/.310/.570 .338/.761 .621 44/.599 1/0 0/0
41.Doumit# G/S/vP 9/1.000 3/.666 5/1.000 8/.661 ··· 1/.000 ··· 81/59 .268/.350/.451/.801 1.359/.620 .730 45/.825 0/1 3/2
46.Jones* G/S/vP 10/.200 1/2.000 5/.000 4/.750 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 117/106 .242/.359/.455/.814 .182/.887 .926 70/.745 2/0 6/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 14/1.227 2/.000 5/1.400 7/.143 ··· ··· 2/2.000 171/135 .235/.329/.436/.766 .649/.797 .920 102/.721 5/4 7/1
37.Overbay* G/S/vP ··· 7/.857 4/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 149/112 .224/.297/.343/.641 .531/.678 .641 78/.571 1/1 3/4
38.Paul* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 40/34 .263/.300/.316/.616 .000/.728 .718 29/.644 3/0 0/0
51.Pearce G/S/vP 6/1.700 ··· ··· 4/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 44/20 .282/.341/.333/.674 .633/.718 .472 26/.710 0/0 0/2
19.Snyder G/S/vP 11/.455 ··· 2/1.000 5/1.467 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 70/54 .271/.362/.373/.735 .625/.773 .840 53/.669 0/0 1/0
31.Tabata G/S/vP 10/.522 1/.000 4/.000 5/.200 ··· ··· 2/1.000 149/116 .226/.338/.355/.693 .944/.626 .696 73/.427 11/2 3/1
18.Walker# G/S/vP 10/1.100 2/.000 4/1.000 4/1.250 ··· ··· 1/.000 165/126 .286/.358/.442/.800 .826/.792 .803 94/.729 2/0 5/3
2.Wood G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 56/34 .216/.259/.294/.553 .606/.517 .607 42/.608 0/0 0/0
IP 41.1 15.1 25.0 14.2 5.2 9.1 22.2 TOTAL .233/.310/.353/.663 .622/.676 .724 .637 27/12 30/30
ERA-K/9 4.79/4.8 6.46/4.1 1.80/10.8 2.45/9.8 1.59/14.2 1.93/6.8 0.40/7.1 3.69/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Doumit (17-4-0)
 Snyder (14-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 186/.296 64/.281 93/.202 61/.208 24/.167 43/.306 85/.139 .256  McCutchen
 Jones
 Diaz
 Tabata
 Paul
 Pearce
0/38/0/4
0/0/32/2
5/0/16/2
33/2/0/2
12/0/7/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .809 .702 .614 .623 .542 .905 .415 .707
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 49/.639 27/.468 49/.623 24/1.053 12/.958 24/1.028 31/.433 .742
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 137/.870 37/.874 44/.603 37/.323 12/.167 19/.707 54/.405 .680
Home 75/.716 31/.823 46/.811 21/.501 5/.000 15/1.005 40/.516
Last 28d days 113/.879 36/.848 53/.752 42/.610 24/.542 25/.967 43/.309
HR/SB/CS 4/0/1 1/0/0 3/0/2 1/0/0 0/2/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 30/14/11
Usage ····X··· ···Xoo·· X·X·oX·· o·X·X··X ·o·····X ·o·Xo··· ··X·oo··
Nationals Batters (3.83 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Maholm*
G/S/vB		 45.Ascanio
G/S/vB		 97.Beimel*
G/S/vB		 52.Hanrahan
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
2.Bernadina* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 4/.000 38/38 .344/.447/.406/.854 /.854 1.278 38/.854 4/0 0/0
43.Bixler G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 15/2 .077/.143/.077/.220 .258/.000 .200 15/.220 0/0 0/0
13.Cora* G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 5/.200 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.250 74/68 .221/.274/.250/.524 .667/.511 .644 56/.519 1/0 0/0
6.Desmond G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 1/3.000 1/.000 3/2.334 147/114 .221/.248/.368/.616 .781/.569 .700 83/.590 13/1 3/8
18.Espinosa# G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 160/118 .193/.296/.356/.651 .707/.629 .537 104/.542 3/1 4/3
15.Hairston G/S/vP 15/.948 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 4/.666 ··· 115/84 .231/.298/.317/.616 .483/.660 .695 84/.630 1/2 1/5
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 5/1.350 2/.000 12/.878 7/.429 3/.333 ··· 2/1.000 157/117 .188/.306/.286/.591 .494/.623 .442 101/.525 1/0 3/0
38.Morse G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 94/60 .244/.277/.337/.614 .526/.664 .496 48/.696 1/1 2/0
19.Nix* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 86/77 .310/.326/.548/.873 .667/.898 .962 61/.961 2/1 5/1
3.Ramos G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 96/68 .267/.333/.419/.752 .792/.732 1.001 62/.628 0/2 2/2
7.Rodriguez G/S/vP 9/1.222 1/.000 3/.666 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 68/57 .238/.284/.397/.680 .636/.690 .644 40/.809 0/0 2/1
12.Stairs* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.900 5/.600 ··· 1/.000 6/.000 27/27 .095/.296/.095/.392 /.392 .322 15/.421 0/0 0/0
28.Werth G/S/vP 22/1.076 1/.000 8/.125 17/.520 3/.000 ··· 3/.666 167/128 .231/.329/.413/.742 .480/.810 .835 104/.778 5/1 6/3
IP 50.0 2.0 10.1 19.2 17.0 21.1 17.2 TOTAL .225/.298/.346/.644 .582/.662 .674 .630 35/10 30/24
ERA-K/9 3.60/5.8 4.50/9.0 4.35/7.9 1.37/6.9 0.53/3.2 4.64/11.0 3.06/13.2 3.93/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ramos (7-6-0)
 Rodriguez (7-5-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 211/.245 7/.143 43/.211 79/.270 63/.207 95/.238 73/.206 .258  Werth
 Morse
 Nix
 Bernadina
 Bixler
 Hairston
0/0/38/2
24/0/0/2
23/3/2/1
2/8/1/1
2/0/0/0
8/6/0/0
OPS .658 .714 .733 .654 .530 .683 .682 .723
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 46/.775 2/.000 19/.444 35/.658 25/.638 34/.727 25/.972 .788
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 165/.625 5/1.000 24/.975 44/.652 38/.461 61/.659 48/.517 .687
Road 78/.786 7/.714 28/1.037 42/.635 34/.555 48/.594 39/.863
Last 28d days 133/.671 7/.714 38/.573 43/.529 55/.549 60/.706 44/.641
HR/SB/CS 2/3/1 1/0/0 2/0/0 0/1/0 0/1/0 2/2/0 3/2/1 37/32/8
Usage ····X··· ·oo····· ·o··o·oo o·····oo oX··o··o X·X··X·o ·X··X·o·

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.