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Game Preview: PIT @ TOR, 1:05pm, Wednesday, March 5, 2014 @Rogers Centre

Pirates, 94-68, 94-68

SP: (2013, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced TOR as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   50-31   Road:   44-37   ExtrInn: 9-9 
 vsRHP:  76-55   vsLHP:  18-13   1-Run:  29-23
 vsEast: 20-14   vsCntrl:45-31   vsWest: 14-18 IL:15-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29  @CIN  W   4-2       94-68  2nd  3.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 28  @CIN  W   8-3       93-68  2nd  3.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 27  @CIN  W   4-1       92-68  2nd  3.0 gb
159 Wed, Sep 25  @CHC  L   2-4       91-68  2nd  3.0 gb
158 Tue, Sep 24  @CHC  W   8-2       91-67  2nd  2.0 gb
157 Mon, Sep 23  @CHC  W   2-1       90-67  2nd  2.0 gb
156 Sun, Sep 22   CIN  L   3-11      89-67  2nd  2.0 gb
155 Sat, Sep 21   CIN  W   4-2       89-66  2nd  2.0 gb
154 Fri, Sep 20   CIN  L   5-6 (10)  88-66  2nd  2.0 gb
153 Thu, Sep 19   SDP  W  10-1       88-65  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13
Blue Jays, 74-88, 74-88

SP: Brandon Morrow (28, RHP, 2-3, 5.63)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-3) 54.1 63 39 34 18 42 12 5.63
2012 (10-7) 124.2 98 45 41 41 108 12 2.96
2011 (11-11) 179.1 162 103 94 69 203 21 4.72
Last 7 GS 2-2 38.2 42 31 26 13 31 10 6.05 44
2013-05-28 ATL ND 2.0 4 4 2 0 2 1 47 38
2013-05-23 BAL W 7.0 10 6 6 1 5 3 98 37
2013-05-18 @NYY L 5.0 7 5 5 0 1 2 75 34
2013-05-05 SEA W 8.0 3 2 2 5 8 0 115 71
2013-04-30 BOS ND 5.0 6 3 3 3 7 2 96 47
2013-04-24 @BAL ND 6.1 3 4 3 3 4 0 112 54
2013-04-19 NYY L 5.1 9 7 5 1 4 2 89 29
Last 5 v.PIT 1-0 7.0 4 1 1 3 10 0 1.29 72
2011-06-29 PIT W 7.0 4 1 1 3 10 0 117 72
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   40-41   Road:   34-47   ExtrInn: 8-9 
 vsRHP:  55-64   vsLHP:  19-24   1-Run:  20-29
 vsEast: 30-46   vsCntrl:16-16   vsWest: 17-17 IL:11-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
162 Sun, Sep 29   TBR  L   6-7       74-88  5th 23.0 gb
161 Sat, Sep 28   TBR  W   7-2       74-87  5th 23.0 gb
160 Fri, Sep 27   TBR  W   6-3       73-87  5th 24.0 gb
159 Thu, Sep 26  @BAL  L   2-3       72-87  5th 24.0 gb
158 Wed, Sep 25  @BAL  L   5-9       72-86  5th 23.5 gb
157 Tue, Sep 24  @BAL  W   3-2 (10)  72-85  5th 22.5 gb
156 Mon, Sep 23  @CHW  L   2-3       71-85  5th 23.5 gb
155 Sun, Sep 22  @BOS  L   2-5       71-84  5th 23.0 gb
154 Sat, Sep 21  @BOS  W   4-2       71-83  5th 22.0 gb
153 Fri, Sep 20  @BOS  L   3-6       70-83  5th 23.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 30, 2011 PIT  6 @TOR  2        W:Jeff Karstens (6-4), L: Brett Cecil (1-3), S: none
Wed, Jun 29, 2011 TOR  2  PIT  1        W:Brandon Morrow (4-4), L: Paul Maholm (4-9), S: Frank Francisco (9)
Tue, Jun 28, 2011 PIT  7 @TOR  6        W:Kevin Correia (10-6), L: Jo-Jo Reyes (3-7), S: Joel Hanrahan (23)
Sun, Jun 22, 2008 TOR  8 @PIT  5        W:Dustin McGowan (6-5), L: T.J. Beam (0-1), S: B.J. Ryan (15)
Sat, Jun 21, 2008 PIT  6  TOR  3        W:Paul Maholm (5-5), L: Jesse Litsch (7-4), S: Matt Capps (17)
Fri, Jun 20, 2008 PIT  1  TOR  0 (12)   W:Tyler Yates (3-0), L: Jesse Carlson (1-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 TOR  5  PIT  4        W:Mark Hendrickson (5-5), L: Jeff Suppan (5-6), S: Cliff Politte (10)
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 TOR  8  PIT  5        W:Roy Halladay (9-2), L: Jeff D'Amico (4-7), S: none
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 TOR 13  PIT  8        W:Cory Lidle (9-4), L: Kris Benson (5-7), S: none
Season Series: 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 - PIT won 2-1; All-Time - TOR leads 5-4

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

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

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 (3.91 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Morrow
G/S/vB		 27.Cecil*
G/S/vB		 50.Delabar
G/S/vB		 4.Drabek
G/S/vB		 36.Hutchison
G/S/vB		 44.Janssen
G/S/vB		 33.Jeffress
G/S/vB		 64.Jenkins
G/S/vB		 62.Loup*
G/S/vB		 29.McGowan
G/S/vB		 35.Nolin*
G/S/vB		 47.Perez*
G/S/vB		 32.Rogers
G/S/vB		 21.Santos
G/S/vB		 37.Storey
G/S/vB		 45.Wagner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/1.333 ··· 2/.000 ··· 586/434 .244/.317/.467/.784 .648/.833 .776 / 1/0 30/27
12.Barmes G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 493/383 .229/.272/.321/.593 .741/.551 .561 / 0/2 8/16
14.Decker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
5.Harrison G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 276/182 .233/.279/.345/.624 .580/.647 .695 / 7/3 3/6
57.Lambo* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
6.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 182/132 .257/.300/.437/.737 1.042/.627 .798 / 12/5 5/3
55.Martin G/S/vP 12/.817 4/.833 2/1.000 7/1.171 2/.000 4/1.250 ··· 2/.500 ··· 7/.453 ··· 4/.000 6/.533 ··· ··· ··· 485/336 .211/.311/.403/.713 .880/.643 .728 / 6/1 21/6
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 3/.333 4/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 10/.400 2/2.000 1/3.000 ··· 673/522 .327/.400/.553/.953 1.140/.900 .946 / 20/12 31/1
69.McGuiness* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
10.Mercer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 68/56 .210/.265/.371/.636 .367/.690 .787 / 0/1 1/1
205.Morel G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 125/95 .177/.225/.195/.420 .486/.400 .428 / 4/1 0/3
17.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 326/215 .217/.279/.341/.620 .729/.566 .661 / 1/0 7/3
26.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
23.Snider* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 185/151 .250/.319/.378/.697 1.110/.595 .573 / 2/0 4/1
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/.286 ··· ··· 1/5.000 157/94 .241/.292/.319/.611 .579/.633 .503 / 2/0 1/4
31.Tabata G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/1.000 2/no AB 2/.500 ··· 374/281 .243/.315/.348/.664 .706/.650 .708 / 8/12 3/3
18.Walker# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 9/.730 2/1.000 ··· ··· 530/392 .280/.342/.426/.768 .602/.824 .811 / 7/5 14/9
IP 124.2 61.1 66.0 71.1 58.2 63.2 13.1 32.0 30.2 42.0 78.2 5.0 30.1 TOTAL .245/.313/.396/.709 .735/.703 .717 94/42 161/106
ERA-K/9 2.96/7.8 5.72/7.5 3.82/12.5 4.67/5.9 4.60/7.5 2.54/9.5 6.75/8.8 4.50/4.5 2.64/6.2 /0.0 /0.0 3.43/8.4 4.69/9.5 9.00/7.2 3.86/10.1 /0.0 4.26/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (63-20-9)
 Stewart (27-8-8)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 504/.214 270/.294 274/.193 317/.250 257/.257 242/.195 73/.317 136/.260 117/.232 / / 175/.244 348/.269 24/.316 127/.237 / .259  Tabata
 Marte
 McCutchen
 Harrison
 Snider
32/0/77/6
43/4/0/3
0/156/0/3
1/0/12/1
15/0/33/1
OPS .635 .855 .687 .811 .759 .564 .838 .749 .547 .672 .749 .996 .681 .750
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 277/.561 64/.603 118/.551 169/.652 136/.750 124/.467 33/.594 66/.832 60/.462 / / 71/.586 174/.676 14/.740 41/.453 / .766
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 227/.724 206/.934 156/.795 148/.988 121/.769 118/.666 40/1.029 70/.669 57/.638 / / 104/.729 174/.817 10/1.350 86/.786 / .737
Home 314/.662 159/.815 143/.494 153/.656 113/.584 129/.604 42/.787 85/.741 56/.606 / / 88/.695 194/.699 12/1.000 65/.709 /
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 12/4/1 11/3/2 12/2/2 10/0/3 8/5/1 7/3/2 0/2/0 5/2/0 0/3/3 // // 3/1/1 7/1/1 1/2/0 2/2/0 // 195/87/29
Usage ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········ ········

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

Blue Jays Batters (4.40 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.56 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Cole
G/S/vB		 58.Cumpton
G/S/vB		 30.Gomez
G/S/vB		 39.Grilli
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 46.Irwin
G/S/vB		 32.Mazzaro
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 29.Morris
G/S/vB		 52.Oliver*
G/S/vB		 38.Pimentel
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 53.Welker
G/S/vB		 37.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Bautista G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.333 3/1.167 ··· ··· 10/.875 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 399/301 .241/.358/.527/.886 .718/.942 .837 / 5/2 27/2
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.500 5/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 501/357 .346/.390/.516/.906 1.111/.826 .790 / 13/5 11/4
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 8/.875 5/.733 ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 644/476 .280/.384/.557/.941 1.086/.892 1.006 / 13/3 42/4
17.Goins* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
8.Gose* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 189/154 .223/.303/.319/.622 .710/.601 .678 / 15/3 1/1
3.Izturis# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.833 ··· ··· 12/1.492 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 319/236 .256/.320/.315/.634 .503/.682 .510 / 17/2 2/10
31.Kratz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 157/110 .248/.306/.504/.809 .877/.780 .856 / 0/0 9/1
13.Lawrie G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 536/392 .273/.324/.405/.729 .813/.697 .811 / 13/8 11/17
26.Lind* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.333 2/2.500 ··· ··· 9/2.417 5/.933 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 353/257 .255/.314/.414/.729 .553/.795 .782 / 0/0 11/5
30.Navarro# G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· ··· 5/1.550 4/1.250 ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 2/no AB ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 73/53 .290/.306/.449/.755 .750/.754 .631 / 0/0 2/1
11.Pillar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 9/.365 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 625/452 .223/.289/.400/.689 .554/.740 .633 / 4/3 23/6
7.Reyes# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 4/1.167 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 716/507 .287/.347/.433/.780 .753/.792 .852 / 40/11 11/18
14.Sierra G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/97 .224/.274/.374/.648 .815/.545 .560 / 1/0 6/0
11.Thole* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 354/273 .234/.294/.290/.584 .562/.591 .623 / 0/0 1/6
IP 90.2 58.2 75.2 44.0 45.0 5.0 53.1 4.2 TOTAL .252/.318/.411/.729 .676/.748 .759 112/41 185/111
ERA-K/9 /0.0 /0.0 5.96/4.7 2.91/13.8 2.85/5.9 /0.0 5.73/5.3 6.20/8.2 1.80/10.8 /0.0 /0.0 3.38/8.9 /0.0 1.93/13.4 3.27/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kratz (18-15-3)
 Navarro (5-1-1)
 Thole (57-17-18)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / / 395/.273 244/.207 316/.226 / 198/.318 194/.256 20/.125 / / 215/.198 / 26/.455 .238  Bautista
 Cabrera
 Rasmus
 Sierra
 Gose
 Encarnacion
0/0/90/11
106/0/11/7
0/145/0/7
0/0/39/3
15/22/24/2
3/0/0/0
OPS .810 .635 .677 .795 .754 .375 .623 1.111 .650
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / / 179/.822 117/.485 145/.734 / 88/.908 87/.875 8/.125 / / 103/.554 / 12/1.053 .661
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / / 216/.800 127/.767 171/.629 / 110/.714 107/.655 12/.533 / / 112/.691 / 14/1.161 .643
Road / / 188/.792 117/.593 159/.642 / 117/.744 75/.783 11/.182 / / 123/.697 / 23/.905
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS // // 15/5/2 7/3/0 7/17/0 // 3/12/2 8/0/1 0/2/0 // // 5/9/1 // 0/2/0 101/95/43
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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.