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Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Minnesota Twins, at PNC Park, May 19, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Start Time:
7:05et (local)
Venue:
PNC Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 2-game series
Average Temp:
68° (based on last ten years)
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
39
On This Date:
46-52
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
39
On This Date:
52-56
Season Series

Tue, May 19, 2015 MIN    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, May 20, 2015 MIN    @PIT  7:05pm
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 PIT    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, Jul 29, 2015 PIT    @MIN  1:10pm

                         All times ET
Minnesota Twins
21-17, 3rd, 3 GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-6    Road:    7-11   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  10-12   vsLHP:  11-5    1-Run:   6-5 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl:14-14   vsWest:  5-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 38 Sun, May 17   TBR  L   3-11      21-17  3rd  3.0 gb
 37 Sat, May 16   TBR  W   6-4       21-16  3rd  2.0 gb
 36 Fri, May 15   TBR  W   3-2       20-16  3rd  3.0 gb
 35 Thu, May 14  @DET  L   1-13      19-16  3rd  3.0 gb
 34 Wed, May 13  @DET  W   6-2       19-15  3rd  2.0 gb
 33 Tue, May 12  @DET  L   1-2 (10)  18-15  3rd  3.0 gb
 32 Sun, May 10  @CLE  L   2-8       18-14  3rd  2.5 gb
 31 Sat, May  9  @CLE  W   7-4       18-13  3rd  1.5 gb
 30 Fri, May  8  @CLE  W   9-3       17-13  3rd  2.0 gb
 29 Thu, May  7   OAK  W   6-5       16-13  3rd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-11
Pittsburgh Pirates
18-20, 3rd, 7 GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-7    Road:    9-13   ExtrInn: 0-5 
 vsRHP:  17-16   vsLHP:   1-4    1-Run:   6-9 
 vsEast:  2-2    vsCntrl:12-16   vsWest:  3-0  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 38 Sun, May 17  @CHC  W   3-0       18-20  3rd  7.5 gb
 37 Sat, May 16  @CHC  L   1-4       17-20  4th  7.5 gb
 36 Fri, May 15  @CHC  L  10-11(12)  17-19  4th  7.5 gb
 35 Thu, May 14  @PHI  L   2-4       17-18  4th  7.5 gb
 34 Wed, May 13  @PHI  L   2-3       17-17  3rd  6.5 gb
 33 Tue, May 12  @PHI  W   7-2       17-16  3rd  6.5 gb
 32 Mon, May 11  @PHI  W   4-3       16-16  3rd  6.5 gb
 31 Sun, May 10   STL  W   4-3       15-16  3rd  7.0 gb
 30 Sat, May  9   STL  W   7-5       14-16  4th  8.0 gb
 29 Fri, May  8   STL  L   5-8       13-16  4th  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 21, 2012 PIT  9  MIN  1        W:James McDonald (6-3), L: Liam Hendriks (0-4), S: none
Wed, Jun 20, 2012 MIN  2 @PIT  1        W:Jared Burton (1-0), L: Jason Grilli (1-2), S: Glen Perkins (1)
Tue, Jun 19, 2012 PIT  7  MIN  2        W:Kevin Correia (3-6), L: Scott Diamond (5-3), S: none
Thu, Jun 18, 2009 MIN  5  PIT  1        W:Nick Blackburn (6-2), L: Zach Duke (7-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 17, 2009 PIT  8 @MIN  2        W:Ian Snell (2-7), L: Francisco Liriano (2-8), S: none
Tue, Jun 16, 2009 MIN  8  PIT  2        W:Glen Perkins (2-3), L: Paul Maholm (4-3), S: none
Sun, Jun 18, 2006 MIN  8 @PIT  2        W:Johan Santana (7-4), L: Oliver Perez (2-9), S: none
Sat, Jun 17, 2006 MIN  5 @PIT  3        W:Jesse Crain (1-4), L: Damaso Marte (0-5), S: Joe Nathan (10)
Fri, Jun 16, 2006 MIN  4 @PIT  2        W:Francisco Liriano (6-1), L: Ian Snell (7-4), S: Joe Nathan (9)
Sun, Jun 10, 2001 PIT 11 @MIN  8        W:Scott Sauerbeck (1-2), L: Travis Miller (0-2), S: Mike Williams (11)
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - MIN leads 14-10

SP: Ricky Nolasco (32, RHP, 3-1, 6.38)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-1) 18.1 24 15 13 9 14 0 6.38
2014 (6-12) 159.0 203 96 95 38 115 22 5.38
2013 (13-11) 199.1 195 90 82 46 165 17 3.70
Last 7 GS 4-2 37.0 43 22 20 13 30 2 4.86 47
2015-05-13 @DET W 5.1 4 2 0 3 7 0 106 60
2015-05-07 OAK W 5.0 6 4 4 1 1 0 94 39
2015-05-02 CHW W 5.0 8 3 3 1 4 0 76 42
2015-04-08 @DET L 3.0 6 6 6 4 2 0 78 21
2014-09-27 @DET W 6.0 5 2 2 2 6 1 91 58
2014-09-22 ARI L 4.2 9 5 5 1 5 1 94 30
2014-09-16 DET ND 8.0 5 0 0 1 5 0 109 76
Last 5 v.PIT 4-1 33.0 29 7 7 5 41 2 1.91 65
2012-07-20 @PIT L 6.0 8 4 4 1 7 2 86 46
2011-09-09 @PIT W 6.0 9 3 3 0 5 0 103 47
2011-04-20 PIT W 7.0 4 0 0 1 8 0 96 76
2010-08-17 @PIT W 6.0 5 0 0 1 9 0 108 70
2009-07-05 PIT W 8.0 3 0 0 2 12 0 112 86

SP: Francisco Liriano (31, LHP, 1-3, 2.96)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-3) 45.2 27 16 15 19 50 4 2.96
2014 (7-10) 162.1 130 68 61 81 175 13 3.38
2013 (16-8) 161.0 134 54 54 63 163 9 3.02
Last 7 GS 1-3 45.2 27 16 15 19 50 4 2.96 62
2015-05-13 @PHI L 7.0 7 3 3 3 6 0 105 54
2015-05-08 STL L 6.1 6 6 5 1 10 2 98 48
2015-05-02 @STL ND 8.0 3 1 1 3 4 0 98 73
2015-04-26 @ARI W 6.1 2 0 0 6 7 0 108 70
2015-04-21 CHC ND 5.0 3 3 3 2 9 0 97 56
2015-04-15 DET L 6.0 4 1 1 1 7 1 85 66
2015-04-06 @CIN ND 7.0 2 2 2 3 7 1 92 69
Last 5 v.MIN 1-0 13.0 5 4 4 6 17 1 2.77 67
2012-09-15 @MIN W 7.0 1 2 2 2 9 1 100 74
2012-07-31 @MIN ND 6.0 4 2 2 4 8 0 113 60

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Twins Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
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
17.Bernier G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/6 .200/.333/.400/.733 /.733 .000 6/.733 0/0 0/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 167/112 .264/.347/.486/.833 .874/.813 .775 108/.965 3/1 6/1
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 108/66 .252/.278/.379/.656 .613/.684 .512 76/.755 1/0 2/2
12.Herrmann* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 34/20 .156/.206/.250/.456 .298/.550 .550 25/.290 0/0 0/0
32.Hicks# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/18 .238/.238/.286/.524 .667/.500 .818 21/.524 0/1 0/0
48.Hunter G/S/vP 21/.825 ··· ··· 1/3.000 6/2.467 4/.000 ··· 1/3.000 145/94 .278/.324/.466/.790 .801/.784 .825 94/.886 1/2 6/1
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/2.000 ··· ··· 9/.708 ··· ··· ··· 160/97 .283/.344/.366/.709 .846/.618 .753 101/.744 0/0 0/1
9.Nunez G/S/vP 4/1.750 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 24/10 .409/.458/.591/1.049 .593/1.700 1.288 18/.826 0/1 0/1
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 146/91 .254/.336/.423/.759 .783/.744 .589 95/.780 0/0 5/3
21.Robinson G/S/vP 6/.333 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.833 59/24 .315/.373/.333/.706 .624/.826 .596 37/.660 3/1 0/0
20.Rosario* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 35/22 .242/.257/.364/.621 .891/.465 .316 35/.621 2/0 1/2
39.Santana# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 140/93 .254/.270/.343/.613 .735/.553 .477 89/.727 4/2 0/10
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 23/.427 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 117/79 .235/.310/.333/.644 .695/.616 .655 74/.609 0/0 2/1
IP 45.2 8.1 16.2 18.1 14.1 18.1 15.2 22.0 TOTAL .260/.313/.384/.698 .747/.670 .620 .755 14/11 27/25
ERA-K/9 2.96/9.8 5.40/11.9 4.86/9.7 3.44/8.9 3.77/9.4 3.44/5.4 1.15/9.2 1.64/8.2 3.16/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Herrmann (3-3-0)
 Suzuki (21-6-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 181/.168 43/.351 69/.217 81/.333 69/.298 75/.286 70/.226 79/.160 .250  Escobar
 Robinson
 Rosario
 Nunez
 Hicks
 Hunter
 Herrmann
19/0/0/4
12/13/3/3
5/0/5/1
2/0/0/1
0/6/0/0
0/0/29/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .533 .834 .654 .772 .912 .748 .572 .456 .673
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 44/.652 10/.733 22/.763 30/.700 27/1.016 28/.632 29/.750 17/.620 .686
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 137/.495 33/.866 47/.607 51/.814 42/.840 47/.816 41/.440 62/.411 .666
Home 71/.647 20/1.029 32/.795 36/.742 16/.875 35/.931 18/.513 35/.266
Last 28d days 111/.565 28/.755 40/.671 47/.951 55/.875 47/.588 50/.527 47/.420
HR/SB/CS 4/3/1 0/7/0 1/3/0 0/1/2 3/1/1 2/0/1 0/3/0 2/1/0 24/40/18
Usage ·····X·· ··Xo···· ··Xo··o· ···X···o ···XX··· ·X·X···X ···X·Xo· ·X·X····
Pirates Batters (3.84 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.45 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Nolasco
G/S/vB		 36.Boyer
G/S/vB		 52.Duensing*
G/S/vB		 62.Graham
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 64.Thompson*
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP 10/1.289 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 131/117 .219/.313/.421/.734 .297/.789 .578 84/.690 0/0 6/5
29.Cervelli G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 5/.400 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 109/91 .290/.343/.360/.703 .701/.702 .573 68/.683 0/1 0/1
5.Harrison G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/121 .230/.268/.385/.653 .733/.638 .578 88/.665 1/2 4/7
12.Hart G/S/vP 19/.868 3/.000 3/.333 ··· 7/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 36/19 .206/.222/.324/.546 .243/.816 .510 23/.455 0/0 1/3
27.Kang G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 79/60 .300/.367/.457/.824 1.068/.746 .942 61/.938 2/0 2/2
6.Marte G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 149/126 .296/.345/.526/.871 1.569/.736 1.037 96/.913 6/2 8/0
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 13/.962 2/.000 1/3.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 157/132 .233/.331/.383/.715 .558/.744 .732 102/.699 2/1 4/0
10.Mercer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 118/99 .176/.231/.204/.434 .541/.413 .404 76/.403 0/0 0/2
25.Polanco* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 150/130 .243/.307/.338/.645 .358/.691 .733 96/.668 11/2 1/3
3.Rodriguez G/S/vP 5/1.250 ··· 13/1.447 ··· 6/1.750 ··· ··· ··· 47/27 .318/.333/.477/.811 .599/.962 1.092 36/.814 1/0 2/0
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 42/36 .256/.268/.308/.576 .533/.581 .615 37/.601 0/0 0/2
18.Walker# G/S/vP 12/.750 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 151/124 .274/.344/.400/.744 .546/.787 .727 97/.793 2/0 2/1
IP 18.1 19.0 7.2 14.1 17.1 9.2 21.2 5.2 TOTAL .241/.300/.366/.666 .647/.670 .670 .681 25/8 30/27
ERA-K/9 6.38/6.9 2.37/3.8 10.57/4.7 4.40/6.9 1.56/8.3 2.79/10.2 3.32/5.8 6.35/9.5 4.25/5.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cervelli (30-12-1)
 Stewart (8-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 85/.329 77/.268 42/.429 65/.276 67/.224 40/.243 86/.221 26/.292 .278  McCutchen
 Marte
 Polanco
 Harrison
 Rodriguez
 Hart
0/35/0/3
34/4/0/2
2/1/34/2
2/0/0/0
3/0/6/0
0/0/3/0
OPS .838 .725 1.181 .888 .522 .599 .579 .888 .765
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 40/.762 27/.359 19/1.089 29/.845 17/1.000 21/.686 34/.349 14/1.143 .739
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 45/.906 50/.913 23/1.259 36/.924 50/.360 19/.498 52/.716 12/.533 .789
Road 42/.805 40/1.077 20/1.075 31/1.010 23/.348 16/1.192 40/.599 12/.750
Last 28d days 66/.743 37/.515 26/1.377 40/.879 48/.542 40/.599 47/.793 26/.888
HR/SB/CS 0/1/2 1/2/2 1/2/0 3/1/0 1/0/0 0/0/1 2/2/0 2/0/0 38/24/9
Usage ·····X·· ··oo·oX· ·oo·Xo·· ·X··X··· ··oo·o·· ·X··X·o· ·X···X·· ·X···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 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  5.25

STL  4.26

PHI  3.10

 RA/G

STL  3.11

ATL  4.38

COL  5.23

 BA

D. Gordon  .406

J. Lagares  .269

C. Utley  .143

 OBP

B. Harper  .476

B. Miller  .328

E. Gattis  .204

 SLG

B. Harper  .729

D. LeMahieu  .417

J. Mercer  .204

 OPS

B. Harper  1.206

J. Soler  .744

J. Mercer  .434

 ERA

S. Miller  1.33

T. Ross  3.94

K. Kendrick  6.70

 K/9IP

J. Shields  11.93

D. Price  7.13

J. Guthrie  3.27

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.