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Game Preview: PIT @ MIL, 8:10pm, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 @Miller Park

Pirates, 15-11, 15-11 1st, ½ up

SP: James McDonald (28, RHP, 2-2, 4.38)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. MIL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-2) 24.2 21 17 12 15 22 1 4.38
2012 (12-8) 171.0 147 85 80 69 151 21 4.21
2011 (9-9) 171.0 176 86 80 78 142 24 4.21
Last 7 GS 2-3 34.0 33 24 19 21 26 2 5.03 46
2013-04-25 @PHI ND 5.0 5 3 3 3 4 0 87 46
2013-04-20 ATL W 6.0 2 1 1 4 9 0 94 69
2013-04-15 STL L 1.2 8 8 3 2 0 0 46 15
2013-04-09 @ARI W 5.0 4 4 4 4 5 1 87 44
2013-04-04 CHC L 7.0 2 1 1 2 4 0 97 71
2012-09-14 @CHC L 3.2 5 4 4 4 2 0 83 33
2012-09-08 CHC ND 5.2 7 3 3 2 2 1 90 43
Last 5 v.MIL 1-3 23.2 31 27 23 12 30 7 8.75 37
2012-09-02 @MIL L 2.2 6 8 7 1 6 4 63 21
2012-07-13 @MIL ND 4.2 8 5 4 5 2 1 109 27
2012-06-03 @MIL W 6.0 4 3 1 1 8 1 100 63
2011-05-13 @MIL L 4.0 6 5 5 3 7 1 88 34
2010-08-27 @MIL L 6.1 7 6 6 2 7 0 98 40
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-4    Road:    7-7    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:  12-7    vsLHP:   3-4    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  6-2    vsCntrl: 7-5    vsWest:  2-4  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 26 Mon, Apr 29  @MIL  L   4-10      15-11  1st  0.5 up
 25 Sun, Apr 28  @STL  W   9-0       15-10  1st  0.5 up
 24 Sat, Apr 27  @STL  W   5-3       14-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 23 Fri, Apr 26  @STL  L   1-9       13-10  2nd  1.5 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 25  @PHI  W   6-4       13-9   2nd  0.5 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 24  @PHI  W   5-3       12-9   3rd  1.0 gb
 20 Tue, Apr 23  @PHI  W   2-0       11-9   4th  1.0 gb
 19 Mon, Apr 22  @PHI  L   2-3       10-9   4th  1.5 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 21   ATL  W   4-2       10-8   2nd  0.5 gb
 17 Sat, Apr 20   ATL  W   3-1        9-8   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:15-11
Brewers, 13-11, 13-11 4th, 1 GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Marco Estrada (29, RHP, 2-1, 3.86)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-1) 30.1 33 14 13 6 28 7 3.86
2012 (5-7) 138.1 129 62 56 29 143 18 3.64
2011 (4-8) 92.2 83 45 42 29 88 11 4.08
Last 7 GS 3-2 42.1 45 21 19 9 42 8 4.04 53
2013-04-24 @SDP L 6.1 5 2 1 2 3 1 92 58
2013-04-19 CHC W 6.0 7 3 3 2 4 2 104 48
2013-04-14 @STL ND 6.0 7 3 3 1 7 1 94 52
2013-04-08 @CHC W 7.0 5 2 2 1 6 1 100 64
2013-04-02 COL ND 5.0 9 4 4 0 8 2 89 41
2012-09-29 HOU W 8.0 4 0 0 1 11 0 114 84
2012-09-24 @WSN L 4.0 8 7 6 2 3 1 81 21
Last 5 v.PIT 3-0 31.2 21 6 6 3 32 3 1.71 66
2012-09-19 @PIT W 7.0 3 0 0 1 4 0 96 74
2012-09-01 PIT ND 7.0 4 1 1 1 10 1 104 74
2012-07-14 PIT ND 5.2 6 3 3 1 11 1 114 55
2011-08-23 @PIT W 7.0 7 2 2 0 2 1 100 57
2011-08-13 PIT W 5.0 1 0 0 0 5 0 64 70
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-5    Road:    5-6    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   9-6    vsLHP:   4-5    1-Run:   4-2 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 6-3    vsWest:  7-8  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 24 Mon, Apr 29   PIT  W  10-4       13-11  4th  1.0 gb
 23 Sun, Apr 28  @LAD  L   0-2       12-11  4th  2.0 gb
 22 Sat, Apr 27  @LAD  W   6-4       12-10  3rd  1.5 gb
 21 Fri, Apr 26  @LAD  L   5-7       11-10  4th  2.5 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 24  @SDP  L   1-2       11-9   4th  1.5 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 23  @SDP  W   6-3       11-8   2nd  0.5 gb
 18 Mon, Apr 22  @SDP  W   7-1       10-8   3rd  1.0 gb
 17 Sun, Apr 21   CHC  W   4-2        9-8   4th  1.0 gb
 16 Sat, Apr 20   CHC  W   5-1        8-8   4th  1.5 gb
 15 Fri, Apr 19   CHC  W   5-4        7-8   4th  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:13-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 29, 2013 MIL 10  PIT  4        W:Yovani Gallardo (3-1), L: Wandy Rodriguez (2-1), S: none

Thu, Sep 20, 2012 MIL  9 @PIT  7        W:Manny Parra (2-3), L: Chris Resop (1-4), S: John Axford (31)
Wed, Sep 19, 2012 MIL  3 @PIT  1        W:Marco Estrada (4-6), L: Kyle McPherson (0-1), S: John Axford (30)
Tue, Sep 18, 2012 MIL  6 @PIT  0        W:Yovani Gallardo (16-8), L: A.J. Burnett (15-8), S: none
Sun, Sep 02, 2012 MIL 12  PIT  8        W:Kameron Loe (5-4), L: James McDonald (12-7), S: John Axford (23)
Sat, Sep 01, 2012 MIL  3  PIT  2        W:John Axford (5-7), L: Joel Hanrahan (4-1), S: none
Fri, Aug 31, 2012 MIL  9  PIT  3        W:Mark Rogers (3-1), L: Jeff Karstens (5-4), S: none
Sun, Aug 26, 2012 MIL  7 @PIT  0        W:Mark Rogers (2-1), L: Erik Bedard (7-14), S: none
Sat, Aug 25, 2012 PIT  4  MIL  0        W:Jeff Karstens (5-3), L: Shaun Marcum (5-4), S: none
Fri, Aug 24, 2012 MIL  6 @PIT  5        W:Mike Fiers (7-6), L: Wandy Rodriguez (8-13), S: Kameron Loe (2)
Season Series: 2013 - MIL over 1-0; 2012 - MIL won 11-4; 2011 - MIL won 12-3; All-Time - MIL leads 135-100

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 2013 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

For the 2012 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  4.99

MIN  4.33

HOU  3.60

 RA/G

TBR  3.56

LAA  4.31

COL  5.49

 BA

B. Posey  .336

A. Rodriguez  .272

C. Pena  .197

 OBP

J. Mauer  .416

A. Jones  .334

D. Stubbs  .277

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .606

H. Ramirez  .437

J. Weeks  .304

 OPS

M. Cabrera  .999

A. Pagan  .778

J. Weeks  .609

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.53

T. Cahill  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

U. Jimenez  7.28

H. Alvarez  3.80

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Pirates Batters (3.92 RS/G) vs. Brewers Pitchers (4.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Estrada
G/S/vB		 59.Axford
G/S/vB		 31.Badenhop
G/S/vB		 46.Burgos
G/S/vB		 45.Figaro
G/S/vB		 51.Gonzalez*
G/S/vB		 32.Gorzelanny*
G/S/vB		 29.Henderson
G/S/vB		 53.Kintzler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP 13/.693 11/.586 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 1/2.000 2/1.000 586/434 .244/.317/.467/.784 .648/.833 .776 90/.589 1/0 30/27
12.Barmes G/S/vP 7/.000 4/4.333 4/.250 ··· ··· 4/.500 8/1.125 1/.000 3/.666 493/383 .229/.272/.321/.593 .741/.551 .561 75/.422 0/2 8/16
2.Inge G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 331/204 .218/.275/.383/.658 .693/.636 .572 21/.683 0/1 12/8
46.Jones* G/S/vP 16/.376 12/.533 ··· ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 10/.686 2/.000 1/.000 515/434 .274/.317/.516/.832 .532/.888 .882 76/.968 2/0 27/9
6.Marte G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 182/132 .257/.300/.437/.737 1.042/.627 .798 110/.835 12/5 5/3
55.Martin G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· 7/.572 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 12/.833 ··· ··· 485/336 .211/.311/.403/.713 .880/.643 .728 84/.917 6/1 21/6
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 16/.750 12/1.625 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 13/1.007 1/2.000 1/.000 673/522 .327/.400/.553/.953 1.140/.900 .946 98/.635 20/12 31/1
17.McDonald G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 213/141 .249/.295/.386/.681 .897/.572 .686 22/.385 0/1 6/1
19.McKenry G/S/vP 6/.500 5/.650 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 2/.000 ··· 275/212 .233/.320/.442/.762 .815/.746 .842 21/1.118 0/0 12/3
14.Sanchez G/S/vP 3/.000 8/1.089 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/1.500 ··· 1/no AB 326/215 .217/.279/.341/.620 .729/.566 .661 51/.881 1/0 7/3
23.Snider* G/S/vP 5/.200 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 3/1.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 185/151 .250/.319/.378/.697 1.110/.595 .573 66/.825 2/0 4/1
31.Tabata G/S/vP 5/.400 5/.900 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.650 1/.000 ··· 374/281 .243/.315/.348/.664 .706/.650 .708 49/.573 8/12 3/3
18.Walker# G/S/vP 11/.673 8/.500 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/.000 530/392 .280/.342/.426/.768 .602/.824 .811 88/.703 7/5 14/9
IP 138.1 69.1 62.1 35.2 72.0 30.2 16.2 TOTAL .237/.309/.377/.686 .605/.715 .625 .700 15/5 22/15
ERA-K/9 3.64/9.3 4.67/12.1 3.03/6.1 /0.0 /0.0 3.03/9.8 2.88/7.8 3.52/13.2 3.78/7.5 4.00/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (63-20-9)
 McKenry (61-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 562/.247 310/.229 262/.259 / / 151/.237 306/.242 131/.230 72/.277 .261  Tabata
 Jones
 Marte
 McCutchen
 Snider
32/0/77/6
0/0/66/3
43/4/0/3
0/156/0/3
15/0/33/1
OPS .703 .717 .687 .692 .718 .609 .732 .715
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 268/.725 164/.671 88/.844 / / 75/.525 129/.687 64/.734 36/.744 .761
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 294/.683 146/.767 174/.610 / / 76/.863 177/.740 67/.497 36/.717 .671
Home 303/.617 172/.730 124/.591 / / 90/.617 163/.725 68/.534 26/.826
Last 28d days 103/.788 39/1.066 24/.747 44/.614 42/.894 38/.762 35/.367 39/.425 34/.563
HR/SB/CS 18/15/5 10/4/2 6/1/0 // // 2/4/0 7/5/1 1/5/0 1/0/1 28/9/3
Usage ·····X·· ··o···o· ···o·o·· ···X···· X······X ·o·X·o·o ··o··oo· ··X···X· o··X···o

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Brewers Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.McDonald
G/S/vB		 30.Gomez
G/S/vB		 39.Grilli
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 32.Mazzaro
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 37.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
7.Aoki* G/S/vP 8/.700 ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 588/386 .288/.355/.433/.787 .711/.828 .790 96/.706 30/8 10/3
3.Betancourt G/S/vP 4/1.250 7/1.262 14/.445 2/1.000 8/.750 3/1.667 2/1.500 ··· 228/141 .228/.256/.400/.656 .653/.658 .719 81/.848 0/1 7/6
8.Braun G/S/vP 14/1.500 ··· 8/.500 3/.667 1/.000 3/1.167 3/.666 1/2.000 677/509 .319/.391/.595/.987 1.208/.915 1.023 83/.951 30/7 41/6
18.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 14/.670 / /
27.Gomez G/S/vP 5/1.000 ··· 3/2.334 3/2.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 452/288 .260/.305/.463/.768 .778/.762 .793 81/1.060 37/6 19/5
11.Gonzalez G/S/vP 8/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 89/69 .259/.326/.457/.783 .671/.816 .694 60/.480 1/1 4/3
50.Lalli* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 16/12 .133/.188/.133/.321 .000/.432 .000 14/.143 0/0 0/0
20.Lucroy G/S/vP 5/2.300 ··· 4/.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/3.000 ··· 346/255 .320/.368/.513/.881 1.169/.782 .866 75/.727 4/1 12/7
12.Maldonado G/S/vP 7/.858 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 256/191 .266/.321/.408/.729 .612/.766 .859 45/.671 1/1 8/6
25.Prince G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 5/.600 / /
22.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 25/21 .304/.320/.522/.842 .250/.933 .800 27/.382 0/1 0/0
9.Segura G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 166/123 .258/.315/.325/.640 .290/.756 .461 85/.907 7/1 0/10
23.Weeks G/S/vP 14/1.318 ··· 5/.200 3/.333 ··· 1/no AB 3/2.000 1/2.000 677/514 .230/.328/.400/.728 .740/.723 .736 93/.478 16/3 21/16
IP 171.0 90.2 58.2 75.2 44.0 45.0 53.1 4.2 TOTAL .250/.309/.421/.729 .841/.685 .804 .729 18/8 29/18
ERA-K/9 4.21/7.9 5.96/4.7 2.91/13.8 2.85/5.9 5.73/5.3 6.20/8.2 3.38/8.9 1.93/13.4 3.61/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lalli (4-0-0)
 Lucroy (70-19-2)
 Maldonado (32-15-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 713/.233 395/.273 244/.207 316/.226 198/.318 194/.256 215/.198 26/.455 .226  Gomez
 Aoki
 Braun
 Schafer
0/128/0/9
13/19/107/8
151/0/0/6
2/5/2/0
OPS .715 .810 .635 .677 .795 .754 .623 1.111 .695
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 368/.653 179/.822 117/.485 145/.734 88/.908 87/.875 103/.554 12/1.053 .722
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 345/.780 216/.800 127/.767 171/.629 110/.714 107/.655 112/.691 14/1.161 .678
Road 356/.850 188/.792 117/.593 159/.642 117/.744 75/.783 123/.697 23/.905
Last 28d days 110/.700 58/.663 43/.390 55/.900 29/.724 45/.444 48/.547 54/.450
HR/SB/CS 21/12/4 15/5/2 7/3/0 7/17/0 3/12/2 8/0/1 5/9/1 0/2/0 25/16/7
Usage ····X··· ···X···· ··X··oo· o··X···X X··X·o·X ··X··oX· ··X·X·X· ·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.