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Detroit Tigers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, at Comerica Park, August 14, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Start Time:

1:08et (local)

Venue:

Comerica Park

Tickets:

Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Comerica Park

Series:

Game #4 of a 4-game series

Average Temp:

79° (based on last ten years)

Pirates

Manager:

Clint Hurdle

Game #:

121

On This Date:

63-55

Tigers

Manager:

Brad Ausmus

Game #:

120

On This Date:

57-54

Season Series
Mon, Aug 11, 2014 PIT 11  DET  6     
Tue, Aug 12, 2014 PIT  4  DET  2     
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 DET  8  PIT  4     

Thu, Aug 14, 2014 PIT    @DET  1:08pm

                         All times ET

Pittsburgh Pirates

64-56, 2nd, 1½ GB, 1 up in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   39-24   Road:   25-32   ExtrInn: 7-5 
 vsRHP:  50-45   vsLHP:  14-11   1-Run:  24-19
 vsEast: 14-6    vsCntrl:22-30   vsWest: 20-12 IL: 8-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
120 Wed, Aug 13  @DET  L   4-8       64-56  2nd  1.5 gb
119 Tue, Aug 12   DET  W   4-2       64-55  2nd  1.5 gb
118 Mon, Aug 11   DET  W  11-6       63-55  2nd  2.5 gb
117 Sun, Aug 10   SDP  L   2-8       62-55  3rd  2.5 gb
116 Sat, Aug  9   SDP  L   1-2       62-54  2nd  2.5 gb
115 Fri, Aug  8   SDP  W   2-1       62-53  2nd  1.5 gb
114 Thu, Aug  7   MIA  W   7-2       61-53  3rd  1.5 gb
113 Wed, Aug  6   MIA  W   7-3       60-53  3rd  1.5 gb
112 Tue, Aug  5   MIA  L   3-6       59-53  3rd  2.5 gb
111 Sun, Aug  3  @ARI  L   2-3 (10)  59-52  3rd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-13

Detroit Tigers

64-54, 2nd, ½ GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   31-27   Road:   33-27   ExtrInn: 4-6 
 vsRHP:  40-37   vsLHP:  24-17   1-Run:  19-17
 vsEast: 13-13   vsCntrl:24-21   vsWest: 17-14 IL:10-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
118 Wed, Aug 13   PIT  W   8-4       64-54  2nd  0.5 gb
117 Tue, Aug 12  @PIT  L   2-4       63-54  2nd  0.5 gb
116 Mon, Aug 11  @PIT  L   6-11      63-53  2nd  0.5 gb
115 Sun, Aug 10  @TOR  L   5-6 (19)  63-52  1st  0.5 up
114 Sat, Aug  9  @TOR  L   2-3 (10)  63-51  1st  1.5 up
113 Fri, Aug  8  @TOR  W   5-4       63-50  1st  2.5 up
112 Thu, Aug  7  @NYY  L   0-1       62-50  1st  2.5 up
111 Wed, Aug  6  @NYY  L   1-5       62-49  1st  3.5 up
110 Tue, Aug  5  @NYY  W   4-3 (12)  62-48  1st  4.5 up
109 Mon, Aug  4  @NYY  L   1-2       61-48  1st  4.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 DET  8  PIT  4        W:Blaine Hardy (2-1), L: Vance Worley (5-2), S: none
Tue, Aug 12, 2014 PIT  4  DET  2        W:Edinson Volquez (10-7), L: Robbie Ray (1-2), S: Mark Melancon (22)
Mon, Aug 11, 2014 PIT 11  DET  6        W:Jeff Locke (4-3), L: Justin Verlander (10-11), S: none

Thu, May 30, 2013 PIT  1  DET  0 (11)   W:Bryan Morris (3-2), L: Luke Putkonen (1-1), S: none
Wed, May 29, 2013 PIT  5  DET  3        W:Bryan Morris (2-2), L: Anibal Sanchez (5-5), S: Jason Grilli (22)
Tue, May 28, 2013 PIT  1 @DET  0 (11)   W:Mark Melancon (1-0), L: Jose Ortega (0-2), S: Jason Grilli (21)
Mon, May 27, 2013 DET  6  PIT  5        W:Justin Verlander (6-4), L: Francisco Liriano (3-1), S: Jose Valverde (6)
Sun, Jun 24, 2012 DET  3 @PIT  2        W:Justin Verlander (8-4), L: Chris Resop (0-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 23, 2012 PIT  4  DET  1        W:Brad Lincoln (4-2), L: Max Scherzer (6-5), S: Joel Hanrahan (19)
Fri, Jun 22, 2012 PIT  4  DET  1        W:A.J. Burnett (8-2), L: Doug Fister (1-4), S: Joel Hanrahan (18)
Season Series: 2014 - PIT over 2-1; 2013 - PIT won 3-1; 2012 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - Tied 20-20

SP: Francisco Liriano (30, LHP, 3-8, 3.82)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (3-8)			108.1	90	50	46	50	114	10	3.82
2013 (16-8)			161.0	134	54	54	63	163	9	3.02
2012 (6-12)			156.2	143	97	93	87	167	19	5.34

Last 7 GS		2-2	39.0	24	12	11	14	41	3	2.54	61
2014-08-09	SDP	L	7.0	3	2	2	1	4	0	91	66
2014-08-03	@ARI	ND	6.0	4	2	2	1	6	0	79	61
2014-07-29	@SFG	W	7.0	4	1	1	1	11	1	110	75
2014-07-23	LAD	W	7.0	4	1	1	2	4	0	96	67
2014-07-18	COL	ND	5.0	3	1	0	3	8	0	95	64
2014-07-13	@CIN	L	4.0	3	3	3	6	4	1	94	42
2014-06-10	CHC	ND	3.0	3	2	2	0	4	1	52	49

Last 5 v.DET		1-4	20.1	30	20	20	17	16	3	8.85	35
2013-05-27	@DET	L	5.0	8	4	4	2	3	0	90	36
2012-09-01	@DET	L	4.0	4	3	3	7	5	0	100	40
2011-08-15	@DET	W	6.0	9	5	5	1	4	2	94	37
2011-07-24	DET	L	2.1	6	4	4	4	3	0	78	28
2011-05-10	DET	L	3.0	3	4	4	3	1	1	59	35

SP: Max Scherzer (29, RHP, 13-4, 3.13)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2014 (13-4)			161.0	143	56	56	44	182	14	3.13
2013 (21-3)			214.1	152	73	69	56	240	18	2.90
2012 (16-7)			187.2	179	82	78	60	231	23	3.74

Last 7 GS		4-1	49.2	36	11	11	12	50	3	1.99	66
2014-08-09	@TOR	ND	8.0	4	1	1	0	11	0	106	81
2014-08-04	@NYY	L	7.0	9	2	2	3	4	0	115	52
2014-07-30	CHW	W	7.0	5	1	1	1	6	0	98	68
2014-07-24	@LAA	W	7.0	6	3	3	1	11	0	103	63
2014-07-19	CLE	ND	5.2	6	2	2	4	4	2	118	49
2014-07-09	LAD	W	7.0	4	1	1	2	7	1	101	70
2014-07-03	TBR	W	8.0	2	1	1	1	7	0	106	80

Last 5 v.PIT		2-2	31.0	26	13	13	6	42	3	3.77	59
2012-06-23	@PIT	L	6.0	3	3	3	1	7	1	100	60
2012-05-20	PIT	W	7.0	4	2	2	1	15	2	115	75
2011-05-21	@PIT	L	5.2	7	3	3	0	7	0	99	50
2009-08-06	@PIT	ND	5.1	7	5	5	4	5	0	100	35
2009-07-26	PIT	W	7.0	5	0	0	0	8	0	109	75

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

Pirates Batters (4.24 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.26 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB 40.Coke*
G/S/vB 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB 46.Krol*
G/S/vB 36.Nathan
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

24.Alvarez* G/S/vP 5/.200 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 408/325 .231/.316/.394/.710 .529/.757 .694 39/.474 6/2 15/24

15.Davis* G/S/vP 3/2.500 1/3.000 1/no AB 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· 338/307 .239/.352/.377/.729 .265/.779 .607 58/.875 0/4 8/6

5.Harrison G/S/vP 5/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 374/279 .316/.355/.509/.863 .804/.884 .941 109/1.064 17/4 10/4

6.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 385/314 .261/.338/.394/.732 .729/.733 .706 46/.921 23/8 5/3

3.Martinez# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 39/25 .143/.211/.171/.382 .237/.457 .541 32/.394 0/0 0/0

55.Martin G/S/vP 16/.517 2/.500 2/.500 4/1.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 321/246 .288/.409/.404/.813 .695/.845 .721 84/.831 3/4 6/2

10.Mercer G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB 418/319 .265/.314/.386/.700 .831/.658 .712 103/.864 2/1 7/8

27.Nix G/S/vP 11/.000 3/.333 1/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 73/34 .149/.197/.194/.391 .307/.479 .408 30/.315 1/2 1/4

25.Polanco* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 252/174 .265/.333/.381/.714 .461/.830 .671 106/.735 11/4 6/2

17.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 219/108 .222/.292/.384/.676 .740/.612 .749 54/.644 2/0 5/3

23.Snider* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/.250 5/1.400 1/.000 1/3.000 4/1.417 234/209 .257/.330/.433/.764 .940/.742 .651 63/1.037 0/1 10/1

19.Stewart G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 121/93 .282/.370/.311/.680 1.136/.537 .600 23/1.124 0/0 0/3

18.Walker# G/S/vP 8/.917 ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· 407/315 .277/.347/.456/.803 .647/.849 .779 64/.892 2/1 16/3

IP 161.0 44.0 48.0 43.2 26.1 31.0 44.0 TOTAL .259/.333/.396/.730 .671/.746 .705 .768 86/33 107/83

ERA-K/9

3.13/10.2

2.86/10.6

3.19/9.4

4.12/6.6

2.05/7.5

4.65/7.3

5.11/9.6

3.98/7.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Martin (44-27-2)
Stewart (26-7-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 654/.238 182/.232 198/.246 192/.282 109/.237 142/.302 200/.260 .261 Snider
Harrison
Polanco
Marte
Mercer
Sanchez
Nix
Martinez 23/0/42/5
26/0/26/4
0/0/54/4
79/17/0/3
0/0/1/0
0/0/1/0
0/0/1/0
5/2/1/0

OPS .664 .675 .656 .777 .593 .894 .732 .725

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 390/.690 89/.802 104/.631 82/.679 48/.511 71/.710 111/.813 .680

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 264/.627 93/.548 94/.683 110/.852 61/.657 71/1.080 89/.632 .771

Home 293/.656 93/.792 103/.755 83/.810 47/.473 67/.977 101/.634

Last 28d days 137/.607 39/.768 47/.887 43/.677 58/.628 21/.783 48/.638

HR/SB/CS 14/11/7 7/6/3 2/5/2 4/2/1 1/0/0 6/0/0 5/9/0 101/78/39

Usage ····X··· ·X·X·X·· X··Xo··· ·oXo··Xo X··X·X·X ··X····· X··XXX··

Tigers Batters (4.61 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.14 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB 30.Gomez
G/S/vB 48.Hughes
G/S/vB 35.Melancon
G/S/vB 38.Pimentel
G/S/vB 44.Watson*
G/S/vB 37.Wilson*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

13.Avila* G/S/vP 8/1.375 9/1.223 1/.000 3/3.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 345/248 .226/.328/.391/.719 .582/.776 .664 79/.687 0/3 10/4

24.Cabrera G/S/vP 38/1.068 18/1.264 2/.000 3/.666 1/no AB 3/.666 1/.000 505/357 .307/.368/.507/.875 .878/.874 .940 118/.799 1/1 17/5

61.Carrera* G/S/vP 6/.900 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/4.000 1/.000 2/.000 24/17 .273/.333/.455/.788 .971/.706 .800 24/.788 1/1 0/0

9.Castellanos G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 404/274 .262/.312/.419/.731 .775/.710 .818 75/.863 2/2 9/9

20.Davis G/S/vP 18/.745 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 361/232 .291/.328/.412/.740 .937/.629 .757 82/.643 27/8 6/4

50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 116/51 .248/.296/.276/.572 .419/.770 .621 29/.361 1/1 0/5

48.Hunter G/S/vP 18/.977 9/1.000 1/3.000 4/.000 ··· 1/3.000 2/.000 410/288 .276/.312/.456/.768 .822/.745 .799 93/.852 4/3 15/5

32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· 10/.900 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 138/117 .250/.321/.290/.611 .550/.621 .667 30/.498 5/1 0/1

3.Kinsler G/S/vP 18/.866 10/.533 1/.000 6/1.167 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 528/382 .289/.320/.428/.748 .715/.762 .782 123/.558 11/3 11/4

28.Martinez G/S/vP ··· 4/1.250 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 295/200 .299/.342/.554/.896 .902/.893 .942 90/.581 4/2 15/2

41.Martinez# G/S/vP 29/1.332 6/.733 1/2.000 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 3/.000 456/329 .323/.386/.551/.937 1.076/.880 .902 116/.778 3/2 23/5

27.Romine# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 196/154 .214/.263/.275/.538 .757/.476 .631 39/.538 6/2 2/8

30.Suarez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 189/117 .238/.319/.372/.691 .727/.670 .682 75/.568 2/2 4/6

IP 108.1 53.1 50.0 50.1 31.2 56.2 46.1 TOTAL .274/.329/.429/.758 .791/.744 .801 .692 76/36 116/74

ERA-K/9

3.82/9.5

3.54/5.4

1.80/5.2

2.15/8.4

5.40/10.5

1.43/9.5

4.66/9.3

3.73/7.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Avila (57-30-3)
Holaday (18-8-3)
Martinez (3-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 462/.224 232/.286 199/.237 198/.202 144/.264 224/.222 198/.222 .252 Davis
Hunter
Martinez
Carrera
Kelly 82/14/0/6
0/0/89/3
42/0/29/1
0/12/0/0
6/3/10/0

OPS .670 .815 .627 .489 .794 .594 .638 .706

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 94/.776 94/1.083 89/.608 92/.412 67/.792 65/.484 69/.755 .709

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 368/.641 138/.645 110/.643 106/.556 77/.791 159/.636 129/.569 .704

Road 203/.613 101/.742 77/.565 82/.541 51/1.116 112/.648 83/.618

Last 28d days 119/.471 46/.858 50/.664 33/.431 37/.824 44/.574 46/.531

HR/SB/CS 10/14/3 6/6/4 3/4/6 2/0/1 5/4/1 4/4/1 2/5/1 105/88/37

Usage ····X··· X··X···· o·X·X··· ·o···X·o o··X··X· ·oo··X·o ·Xo·o·o·

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 2014 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

OAK 4.88

TEX 4.00

SDP 3.25

RA/G

SEA 3.20

PIT 4.14

COL 5.22

T. Tulowitzki .340

A. Pujols .273

C. Davis .196

OBP

T. Tulowitzki .432

A. Rendon .331

G. Beckham .264

SLG

T. Tulowitzki .603

S. Perez .413

Z. Cozart .300

OPS

T. Tulowitzki 1.035

M. Montero .753

E. Cabrera .572

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.78

M. Garza 3.58

E. Jackson 5.61

K/9IP

Y. Darvish 11.35

A. Wainwright 7.35

K. Correia 4.39

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.