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Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals, at PNC Park, May 9, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Start Time:
7:05et (local)
Venue:
PNC Park
Tickets:
Tickets for games at PNC Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
69° (based on last ten years)
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
31
On This Date:
59-44
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
30
On This Date:
49-59
Season Series
Fri, May 01, 2015 STL  2  PIT  1 (10)
Sat, May 02, 2015 STL  2  PIT  1 (11)
Sun, May 03, 2015 STL  3  PIT  2 (14)
Fri, May 08, 2015 STL  8 @PIT  5     

Sat, May 09, 2015 STL    @PIT  7:05pm
Sun, May 10, 2015 STL    @PIT  1:35pm
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 STL    @PIT  7:05pm
Fri, Jul 10, 2015 STL    @PIT  7:05pm
Sat, Jul 11, 2015 STL    @PIT  7:15pm
Sun, Jul 12, 2015 STL    @PIT  8:05pm
Tue, Aug 11, 2015 PIT    @STL  8:15pm
Wed, Aug 12, 2015 PIT    @STL  8:15pm
Thu, Aug 13, 2015 PIT    @STL  7:15pm
Fri, Sep 04, 2015 PIT    @STL  8:15pm
Sat, Sep 05, 2015 PIT    @STL  4:05pm
Sun, Sep 06, 2015 PIT    @STL  2:15pm
Mon, Sep 28, 2015 STL    @PIT  7:05pm
Tue, Sep 29, 2015 STL    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, Sep 30, 2015 STL    @PIT  7:05pm

                         All times ET
St. Louis Cardinals
22-7, 1st, 6½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-3    Road:    8-4    ExtrInn: 4-1 
 vsRHP:  18-4    vsLHP:   4-3    1-Run:   5-4 
 vsEast:  5-2    vsCntrl:17-5    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Fri, May  8  @PIT  W   8-5       22-7   1st  6.5 up
 28 Thu, May  7   CHC  W   5-1       21-7   1st  6.5 up
 27 Wed, May  6   CHC  L   5-6       20-7   1st  5.5 up
 26 Tue, May  5   CHC  W   7-4       20-6   1st  6.5 up
 25 Mon, May  4   CHC  W  10-9       19-6   1st  5.5 up
 24 Sun, May  3   PIT  W   3-2 (14)  18-6   1st  4.5 up
 23 Sat, May  2   PIT  W   2-1 (11)  17-6   1st  3.5 up
 22 Fri, May  1   PIT  W   2-1 (10)  16-6   1st  2.5 up
 21 Thu, Apr 30   PHI  W   9-3       15-6   1st  2.5 up
 20 Wed, Apr 29   PHI  W   5-2       14-6   1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:16-4    Last 30:22-7
Pittsburgh Pirates
13-16, 4th, 9 GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-7    Road:    6-9    ExtrInn: 0-4 
 vsRHP:  13-14   vsLHP:   0-2    1-Run:   4-7 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 9-14   vsWest:  3-0  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Fri, May  8   STL  L   5-8       13-16  4th  9.0 gb
 28 Thu, May  7   CIN  W   7-2       13-15  4th  8.0 gb
 27 Wed, May  6   CIN  L   0-3       12-15  4th  8.0 gb
 26 Tue, May  5   CIN  L   1-7       12-14  4th  8.0 gb
 25 Sun, May  3  @STL  L   2-3 (14)  12-13  3rd  6.5 gb
 24 Sat, May  2  @STL  L   1-2 (11)  12-12  3rd  5.5 gb
 23 Fri, May  1  @STL  L   1-2 (10)  12-11  3rd  4.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 29  @CHC  W   8-1       12-10  3rd  3.0 gb
 21 Tue, Apr 28  @CHC  L   2-6       11-10  3rd  3.0 gb
 20 Mon, Apr 27  @CHC  L   0-4       11-9   3rd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:13-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 08, 2015 STL  8 @PIT  5        W:Michael Wacha (5-0), L: Francisco Liriano (1-2), S: Trevor Rosenthal (11)
Sun, May 03, 2015 STL  3  PIT  2 (14)   W:Miguel Socolovich (1-0), L: Radhames Liz (1-2), S: none
Sat, May 02, 2015 STL  2  PIT  1 (11)   W:Carlos Villanueva (3-1), L: Jared Hughes (0-1), S: none
Fri, May 01, 2015 STL  2  PIT  1 (10)   W:Randy Choate (1-0), L: Rob Scahill (0-2), S: none

Wed, Sep 03, 2014 STL  1  PIT  0        W:Trevor Rosenthal (2-6), L: Mark Melancon (2-4), S: none
Tue, Sep 02, 2014 STL  6  PIT  4        W:Adam Wainwright (16-9), L: Jeff Locke (6-4), S: Pat Neshek (5)
Mon, Sep 01, 2014 STL  5  PIT  4        W:Seth Maness (6-3), L: Gerrit Cole (7-5), S: Trevor Rosenthal (41)
Wed, Aug 27, 2014 PIT  3  STL  1        W:Jeff Locke (6-3), L: Adam Wainwright (15-9), S: Mark Melancon (24)
Tue, Aug 26, 2014 PIT  5  STL  2        W:Tony Watson (9-1), L: Seth Maness (5-3), S: Mark Melancon (23)
Mon, Aug 25, 2014 STL  3 @PIT  2        W:John Lackey (13-8), L: Jared Hughes (6-4), S: Trevor Rosenthal (39)
Season Series: 2015 - STL over 4-0; 2014 - STL won 11-8; 2013 - PIT won 10-9; All-Time - PIT leads 1229-1174

SP: Carlos Martinez (23, RHP, 3-0, 3.64)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-0) 29.2 26 12 12 14 28 5 3.64
2014 (2-4) 89.1 90 41 40 36 84 4 4.03
2013 (2-1) 28.1 31 16 16 9 24 1 5.08
Last 7 GS 3-1 36.2 39 19 19 18 37 5 4.66 49
2015-05-04 CHC ND 3.2 9 7 7 4 4 1 102 15
2015-04-29 PHI W 6.0 6 2 2 3 3 1 88 52
2015-04-24 @MIL W 7.0 4 0 0 2 8 0 98 75
2015-04-18 CIN W 6.0 3 1 1 2 4 1 86 64
2015-04-12 @CIN ND 6.0 4 2 2 2 8 2 100 62
2014-07-20 LAD ND 4.0 6 3 3 2 5 0 74 41
2014-07-13 @MIL L 4.0 7 4 4 3 5 0 69 34
Last 5 v.PIT 0-0 6.0 8 4 4 2 6 2 6.00 44
2014-07-08 PIT ND 6.0 8 4 4 2 6 2 85 44

SP: Vance Worley (27, RHP, 2-2, 3.90)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-2) 30.0 32 14 13 10 23 2 3.90
2014 (8-4) 110.2 112 43 35 22 79 9 2.85
2013 (1-5) 48.2 82 43 39 15 25 9 7.21
Last 7 GS 3-2 44.1 45 15 14 10 32 2 2.84 55
2015-05-03 @STL ND 6.0 4 1 1 1 5 1 89 64
2015-04-27 @CHC L 6.0 9 4 4 1 3 0 97 40
2015-04-22 CHC W 5.2 6 1 0 2 5 0 106 58
2015-04-17 MIL W 6.0 6 2 2 4 6 0 93 54
2015-04-11 @MIL L 6.1 7 6 6 2 4 1 89 37
2014-09-26 @CIN ND 6.1 9 1 1 0 4 0 74 55
2014-09-21 MIL W 8.0 4 0 0 0 5 0 82 79
Last 5 v.STL 0-0 22.1 28 10 10 6 17 1 4.03 49
2015-05-03 @STL ND 6.0 4 1 1 1 5 1 89 64
2014-07-08 @STL ND 5.0 9 4 4 0 3 0 75 36
2012-08-12 STL ND 5.1 9 4 4 2 4 0 91 36
2011-09-16 STL ND 6.0 6 1 1 3 5 0 106 58

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

Cardinals Batters (4.62 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 46.Worley
G/S/vB		 59.Bastardo*
G/S/vB		 37.Caminero
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 58.Liz
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 52.Scahill
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Adams* G/S/vP 6/.666 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 4/.000 4/1.417 7/.619 96/79 .278/.313/.422/.735 .301/.828 .699 81/.750 0/0 3/3
8.Bourjos G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/3.000 3/1.667 1/2.000 1/2.000 3/.000 3/.000 39/25 .353/.410/.559/.969 .500/1.270 .724 38/.997 4/3 0/0
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 9/1.778 3/.000 ··· 9/.762 ··· 6/.000 2/3.000 11/.364 124/87 .333/.403/.620/1.024 .793/1.128 .896 106/1.083 0/1 5/3
48.Cruz G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.666 21/17 .211/.286/.316/.602 1.167/.485 .552 21/.602 0/0 0/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 16/1.143 17/.364 3/.333 2/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 5/.400 117/82 .241/.299/.343/.642 .829/.564 .587 99/.636 4/0 2/0
7.Holliday G/S/vP 9/.333 3/.667 1/.000 9/1.222 1/.000 8/.393 6/3.333 13/.648 118/84 .340/.466/.468/.934 1.089/.875 .903 100/.964 2/1 2/0
19.Jay* G/S/vP 12/.606 4/.000 ··· 10/1.200 2/.500 5/.800 5/.800 13/.968 111/85 .255/.342/.276/.618 .478/.662 .671 98/.593 0/2 0/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/2.000 3/.000 3/.000 2/.000 2/.000 25/18 .174/.240/.174/.414 .286/.465 .333 25/.414 1/0 0/1
4.Molina G/S/vP 8/.393 2/4.000 2/.000 10/.400 3/1.334 5/.900 5/.900 8/.250 103/79 .269/.324/.333/.657 .714/.640 .697 87/.704 0/1 0/1
27.Peralta G/S/vP 9/.888 2/.000 3/1.334 2/2.500 4/1.000 7/.858 3/.333 6/.167 124/95 .292/.339/.469/.808 .757/.823 1.027 107/.825 1/0 4/3
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.667 ··· 5/1.650 1/2.000 7/.953 1/.000 3/.000 59/36 .212/.305/.404/.709 .467/.861 .717 57/.736 1/0 2/0
16.Wong* G/S/vP 2/1.500 3/1.334 1/5.000 2/.000 2/3.500 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 112/84 .340/.375/.505/.880 .777/.915 .988 97/.925 3/1 3/4
IP 30.0 7.0 14.0 14.0 11.0 12.1 12.1 17.0 TOTAL .273/.339/.410/.749 .670/.776 .754 .769 16/9 22/20
ERA-K/9 3.90/6.9 6.43/11.6 4.50/10.3 2.57/9.6 3.27/9.0 4.38/5.9 0.73/8.0 2.12/9.0 3.06/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (2-0-0)
 Molina (7-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 128/.274 37/.375 57/.231 59/.327 52/.295 48/.273 54/.250 61/.183 .244  Heyward
 Jay
 Holliday
 Bourjos
 Reynolds
0/0/27/2
8/22/4/1
27/0/0/0
0/16/0/0
1/0/1/0
OPS .758 .882 .664 .756 .858 .742 .625 .480 .662
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 46/.788 9/.819 16/.741 19/.721 16/.976 17/.494 22/.905 13/.615 .679
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 82/.741 28/.903 41/.635 40/.771 36/.808 31/.872 32/.429 48/.443 .655
Home 52/.694 20/1.029 32/.795 30/.757 16/.875 27/1.069 15/.619 28/.250
Last 28d days 100/.710 31/.878 52/.731 47/.755 47/.846 41/.825 41/.671 48/.379
HR/SB/CS 2/1/0 0/7/0 1/2/0 0/1/2 2/1/1 1/0/1 0/2/0 2/1/0 19/34/13
Usage ·····X·· X··X·X·o o·o··X·o ·X·X··Xo o····X·· ·o···o·· ··X··X·X ·oo···oX
Pirates Batters (3.66 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Martinez
G/S/vB		 37.Belisle
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 40.Harris
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 63.Socolovich
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP 7/.714 7/.971 8/.500 1/no AB 3/2.500 9/.476 7/.453 ··· 9/.873 103/93 .211/.301/.433/.734 .422/.769 .531 86/.656 0/0 5/5
29.Cervelli G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/3.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 82/73 .263/.309/.316/.624 .730/.611 .607 65/.551 0/1 0/1
5.Harrison G/S/vP 3/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 2/.000 8/.875 6/.167 4/.500 1/.000 3/1.000 113/103 .178/.214/.290/.504 .644/.491 .611 90/.498 0/1 2/5
12.Hart G/S/vP ··· 11/.191 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 25/16 .208/.240/.375/.615 .472/.688 .599 21/.638 0/0 1/2
27.Kang G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 45/35 .300/.356/.450/.806 .956/.762 .775 41/.890 1/0 1/1
23.Lombardozzi# G/S/vP ··· 3/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/
6.Marte G/S/vP 7/.286 2/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 8/1.000 6/.334 ··· ··· 11/.956 114/101 .275/.327/.510/.837 2.038/.678 1.091 93/.891 5/1 7/0
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 9/1.389 8/.625 ··· 1/.000 11/.384 13/.968 4/1.833 2/.500 18/.745 121/109 .219/.306/.333/.639 .432/.663 .700 102/.651 1/1 2/0
10.Mercer G/S/vP 7/1.285 6/.367 ··· 1/2.000 10/.111 4/.500 3/1.000 ··· 9/.555 96/85 .186/.253/.209/.462 .573/.447 .335 79/.436 0/0 0/1
25.Polanco* G/S/vP 4/2.000 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 117/103 .264/.308/.373/.680 .286/.736 .724 98/.719 9/1 1/2
3.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.650 28/18 .370/.370/.481/.852 .200/1.235 .917 25/.875 1/0 1/0
19.Stewart G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 30/28 .286/.276/.321/.597 1.000/.567 .615 30/.597 0/0 0/0
18.Walker# G/S/vP 7/1.286 6/1.867 3/.666 ··· 10/.200 10/1.200 2/.500 ··· 7/1.000 116/100 .288/.353/.394/.748 .321/.818 .683 95/.757 2/0 1/0
IP 29.2 13.0 4.2 6.2 12.2 15.2 12.2 2.2 13.2 TOTAL .233/.288/.347/.636 .613/.639 .642 .641 19/5 21/18
ERA-K/9 3.64/8.5 2.08/6.9 3.86/7.7 0.00/5.4 3.55/5.7 1.15/10.9 1.42/10.6 0.00/10.0 0.66/8.5 2.58/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cervelli (28-9-1)
 Stewart (4-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 125/.234 56/.260 20/.263 29/.231 52/.314 61/.164 55/.217 10/.111 52/.093 .236  McCutchen
 Marte
 Polanco
 Hart
 Rodriguez
0/27/0/2
26/3/0/2
2/1/25/1
0/0/2/0
1/0/4/0
OPS .716 .627 .616 .580 .739 .464 .641 .311 .448 .634
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 68/.790 20/.217 17/.544 12/.533 14/.643 27/.433 22/.631 4/.250 26/.290 .659
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 57/.630 36/.841 3/1.000 17/.607 38/.775 34/.479 33/.639 6/.333 26/.613 .614
Road 53/.579 22/.664 4/1.417 11/.586 23/.623 25/.163 15/.558 / 20/.649
Last 28d days 121/.730 53/.665 19/.541 29/.580 48/.801 53/.538 51/.674 10/.311 52/.448
HR/SB/CS 5/0/2 0/0/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 0/0/1 0/1/0 1/1/1 16/9/4
Usage ····X··· X·o·Xo·o ··o··ooo ···X·Xo· Xo·oo·Xo oo·o·ooX ·o·X·oX· ···ooo·· ··X·X·X·

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 2015 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

TOR  5.40

CHC  4.32

PHI  2.83

 RA/G

STL  2.90

DET  4.17

COL  5.59

 BA

D. Gordon  .437

Y. Molina  .269

C. Utley  .099

 OBP

M. Holliday  .466

K. Davis  .327

C. Utley  .175

 SLG

N. Cruz  .748

E. Gattis  .410

C. Utley  .198

 OPS

A. Gonzalez  1.166

M. Prado  .742

C. Utley  .373

 ERA

D. Keuchel  .80

C. Kershaw  3.72

K. Kendrick  8.73

 K/9IP

M. Fiers  12.73

J. Hellickson  6.97

K. Gibson  2.73

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.