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Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Chicago Cubs, at PNC Park, August 3, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Monday, August 3, 2015
Start Time:
7:05et (local)
Venue:
PNC Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
83° (based on last ten years)
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
109
On This Date:
71-55
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
105
On This Date:
66-57
Season Series
Mon, Apr 20, 2015 CHC  5 @PIT  2     
Tue, Apr 21, 2015 CHC  9 @PIT  8     
Wed, Apr 22, 2015 PIT  4  CHC  3     
Thu, Apr 23, 2015 PIT  5  CHC  4     
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 CHC  4  PIT  0     
Tue, Apr 28, 2015 CHC  6  PIT  2     
Wed, Apr 29, 2015 PIT  8 @CHC  1     
Fri, May 15, 2015 CHC 11  PIT 10 (12)
Sat, May 16, 2015 CHC  4  PIT  1     
Sun, May 17, 2015 PIT  3 @CHC  0     

Mon, Aug 03, 2015 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Tue, Aug 04, 2015 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, Aug 05, 2015 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, Sep 16, 2015 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Thu, Sep 17, 2015 CHC    @PIT 12:35pm
Fri, Sep 25, 2015 PIT    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, Sep 26, 2015 PIT    @CHC        
Sun, Sep 27, 2015 PIT    @CHC        

                         All times ET
Chicago Cubs
57-47, 3rd, 9½ GB / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-24   Road:   30-23   ExtrInn:10-5 
 vsRHP:  44-39   vsLHP:  13-8    1-Run:  24-17
 vsEast: 16-10   vsCntrl:25-21   vsWest: 10-9  IL: 6-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
104 Sun, Aug  2  @MIL  W   4-3       57-47  3rd  9.5 gb
103 Sat, Aug  1  @MIL  W   4-2       56-47  3rd  9.5 gb
102 Fri, Jul 31  @MIL  W   4-1       55-47  3rd 10.5 gb
101 Thu, Jul 30  @MIL  W   5-2       54-47  3rd 10.5 gb
100 Wed, Jul 29   COL  W   3-2       53-47  3rd 10.5 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 28   COL  L   2-7       52-47  3rd 11.5 gb
 98 Mon, Jul 27   COL  W   9-8       52-46  3rd 11.5 gb
 97 Sun, Jul 26   PHI  L   5-11      51-46  3rd 11.5 gb
 96 Sat, Jul 25   PHI  L   0-5       51-45  3rd 11.5 gb
 95 Fri, Jul 24   PHI  L   3-5 (10)  51-44  3rd 10.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12
Pittsburgh Pirates
61-43, 2nd, 5½ GB / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-17   Road:   26-26   ExtrInn: 6-7 
 vsRHP:  51-34   vsLHP:  10-9    1-Run:  22-14
 vsEast: 18-8    vsCntrl:19-26   vsWest: 11-2  IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
104 Sun, Aug  2  @CIN  W   3-0       61-43  2nd  5.5 gb
103 Sat, Aug  1  @CIN  L   3-4       60-43  2nd  5.5 gb
102 Fri, Jul 31  @CIN  W   5-4       60-42  2nd  5.5 gb
101 Thu, Jul 30  @CIN  L   5-15      59-42  2nd  5.5 gb
100 Wed, Jul 29  @MIN  W  10-4       59-41  2nd  4.5 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 28  @MIN  W   8-7       58-41  2nd  5.5 gb
 98 Sun, Jul 26   WSN  W   3-1       57-41  2nd  6.0 gb
 97 Sat, Jul 25   WSN  L   3-9       56-41  2nd  7.0 gb
 96 Fri, Jul 24   WSN  W   7-5       56-40  2nd  6.0 gb
 95 Thu, Jul 23   WSN  W   7-3       55-40  2nd  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 17, 2015 PIT  3 @CHC  0        W:A.J. Burnett (3-1), L: Jake Arrieta (4-4), S: Mark Melancon (9)
Sat, May 16, 2015 CHC  4  PIT  1        W:Jon Lester (4-2), L: Gerrit Cole (5-2), S: Travis Wood (1)
Fri, May 15, 2015 CHC 11  PIT 10 (12)   W:Edwin Jackson (2-1), L: Radhames Liz (1-3), S: none
Wed, Apr 29, 2015 PIT  8 @CHC  1        W:Gerrit Cole (4-0), L: Kyle Hendricks (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 28, 2015 CHC  6  PIT  2        W:Travis Wood (2-1), L: Jeff Locke (2-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 27, 2015 CHC  4  PIT  0        W:Jason Hammel (2-1), L: Vance Worley (2-2), S: none
Thu, Apr 23, 2015 PIT  5  CHC  4        W:Radhames Liz (1-1), L: Brian Schlitter (0-2), S: Mark Melancon (3)
Wed, Apr 22, 2015 PIT  4  CHC  3        W:Vance Worley (2-1), L: Jason Hammel (1-1), S: Tony Watson (1)
Tue, Apr 21, 2015 CHC  9 @PIT  8        W:Edwin Jackson (1-0), L: Mark Melancon (0-1), S: Hector Rondon (3)
Mon, Apr 20, 2015 CHC  5 @PIT  2        W:Jake Arrieta (2-1), L: Arquimedes Caminero (0-1), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - CHC over 6-4; 2014 - PIT won 14-5; 2013 - PIT won 12-7; All-Time - PIT leads 1253-1179

SP: Jon Lester (31, LHP, 6-8, 3.26)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-8) 132.2 123 55 48 32 136 11 3.26
2014 (16-11) 219.2 194 76 60 48 220 16 2.46
2013 (15-8) 213.1 209 94 89 67 177 19 3.75
Last 7 GS 2-3 47.1 32 15 12 9 55 1 2.28 65
2015-07-29 COL W 8.0 5 2 2 1 14 1 117 77
2015-07-24 PHI ND 7.0 7 2 2 0 6 0 95 61
2015-07-18 @ATL W 7.1 2 0 0 1 7 0 110 80
2015-07-11 CHW L 7.0 7 5 4 0 8 0 116 53
2015-07-06 STL L 7.0 2 2 0 2 8 0 95 75
2015-07-01 @NYM ND 7.0 5 0 0 1 7 0 107 73
2015-06-25 LAD L 4.0 4 4 4 4 5 0 75 39
Last 5 v.PIT 1-1 13.0 17 4 3 2 12 1 2.08 56
2015-05-16 PIT W 7.0 9 1 1 1 7 1 110 61
2011-06-24 @PIT L 6.0 8 3 2 1 5 0 107 50

SP: Francisco Liriano (31, LHP, 7-6, 2.92)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-6) 126.1 92 43 41 42 140 10 2.92
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 3-1 43.2 40 15 14 15 41 3 2.89 57
2015-07-29 @MIN W 5.2 10 3 2 0 4 0 106 43
2015-07-23 WSN W 6.0 3 1 1 3 11 0 103 70
2015-07-12 STL ND 6.1 5 2 2 4 6 1 108 57
2015-07-07 SDP ND 6.0 4 2 2 1 6 0 86 61
2015-07-02 @DET W 7.0 5 0 0 3 5 0 104 69
2015-06-26 ATL ND 7.0 6 2 2 3 3 1 97 57
2015-06-20 @WSN L 5.2 7 5 5 1 6 1 93 40
Last 5 v.CHC 1-1 25.0 21 9 9 8 40 2 3.24 58
2015-04-21 CHC ND 5.0 3 3 3 2 9 0 97 56
2014-09-06 @CHC W 6.0 3 0 0 2 9 0 98 73
2014-06-10 CHC ND 3.0 3 2 2 0 4 1 52 49
2014-03-31 CHC ND 6.0 4 0 0 3 10 0 104 71
2013-09-25 @CHC L 5.0 8 4 4 1 8 1 104 42

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

Cubs Batters (3.85 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.63 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 59.Bastardo*
G/S/vB		 55.Blanton
G/S/vB		 37.Caminero
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 38.Soria
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
17.Bryant G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.167 5/1.100 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 412/327 .246/.354/.436/.791 .807/.786 .652 97/.556 10/3 14/12
13.Castro G/S/vP 25/.467 5/1.000 15/.971 4/.000 11/1.455 11/.819 ··· 9/.111 422/346 .236/.270/.301/.571 .581/.569 .634 84/.378 4/4 5/18
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP ··· 7/.000 20/1.079 ··· 3/1.667 4/.500 ··· 5/.000 343/311 .249/.339/.425/.764 .412/.798 .864 66/.723 10/2 11/0
15.Denorfia G/S/vP 13/.718 6/.666 5/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 3/.000 154/104 .280/.316/.357/.672 .653/.681 .711 50/.474 0/1 1/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 9/.756 5/1.100 4/1.833 3/.333 4/1.250 2/.000 3/.333 6/.666 445/349 .243/.334/.382/.717 .810/.691 .732 102/.831 16/6 10/2
19.Herrera# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 3/.333 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 4/.500 111/85 .248/.262/.324/.585 .800/.519 .714 32/.645 3/0 1/2
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 23/.654 ··· 6/1.500 3/.333 9/1.413 11/.664 ··· 14/.517 454/336 .286/.396/.525/.922 .968/.905 .966 99/.849 14/5 20/3
3.Ross G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 8/.661 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 5/.200 115/83 .184/.298/.286/.584 .429/.646 .547 28/.577 1/0 1/1
22.Russell G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/no AB 4/.500 ··· 4/.750 327/254 .237/.303/.368/.671 .473/.728 .645 76/.748 2/3 7/11
12.Schwarber* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 83/65 .333/.422/.556/.977 .411/1.128 1.066 60/.973 1/1 4/3
68.Soler G/S/vP 6/.334 1/no AB ··· 3/1.000 3/1.334 4/1.167 ··· 4/.000 308/244 .261/.315/.382/.697 .696/.695 .684 94/.627 2/1 5/1
IP 126.1 31.2 43.2 46.2 46.1 49.0 42.2 47.2 TOTAL .237/.314/.372/.686 .704/.681 .710 .663 71/26 95/70
ERA-K/9 2.92/10.0 3.98/8.5 3.92/8.6 4.24/9.3 2.14/5.8 1.29/6.1 2.74/7.8 2.64/9.1 3.17/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ross (34-12-3)
 Schwarber (8-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 503/.201 143/.230 181/.266 201/.230 191/.260 189/.217 173/.210 189/.210 .250  Coghlan
 Soler
 Denorfia
 Fowler
 Bryant
 Schwarber
87/0/1/8
0/0/72/4
24/5/16/3
0/98/0/3
3/2/0/0
3/0/0/0
OPS .572 .723 .756 .690 .656 .546 .661 .554 .675
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 114/.545 38/.679 98/.827 77/.663 75/.666 88/.417 81/.697 49/.633 .667
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 389/.580 105/.739 83/.674 124/.705 116/.651 101/.654 92/.627 140/.527 .679
Home 266/.606 73/.749 100/.783 105/.828 98/.505 101/.564 78/.604 95/.360
Last 28d days 98/.658 35/.800 40/.749 47/.765 38/.710 34/.609 46/.647 41/.666
HR/SB/CS 10/5/2 4/7/0 6/1/1 6/7/0 2/4/3 2/0/2 8/1/0 3/1/0 74/94/31
Usage ····X··· ···XX··· ·X····X· ·o·oo··· ··o·oX·· o·X··o·o o·X·X··· o·o··o·o
Pirates Batters (4.13 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (3.78 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Lester*
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 21.Hunter
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 7/.572 4/.500 7/.572 18/.733 3/.666 5/1.400 18/.167 340/301 .233/.303/.430/.732 .581/.753 .730 72/.618 2/0 15/16
29.Cervelli G/S/vP 10/.522 ··· 6/1.500 3/.666 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 6/.533 314/258 .296/.367/.404/.770 1.008/.720 .804 62/.753 1/1 5/3
14.Decker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/15 .077/.368/.231/.599 .200/.762 .500 20/.599 0/0 0/1
23.Florimon# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 11/10 .091/.091/.091/.182 .000/.200 .400 11/.182 0/0 0/1
30.Ishikawa* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 46/44 .200/.304/.350/.654 .000/.687 .448 39/.745 0/0 1/1
27.Kang G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 316/253 .294/.367/.454/.821 .881/.807 .827 90/1.143 5/3 8/9
6.Marte G/S/vP 3/1.667 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 4/.500 4/.000 3/2.000 9/.111 28/1.201 405/332 .288/.335/.449/.784 .927/.751 .846 75/.766 20/8 13/2
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 7/.143 5/.200 6/.334 11/.739 7/.429 4/2.417 3/.666 8/1.042 41/.859 437/364 .289/.384/.489/.874 .830/.883 .975 93/.808 5/2 15/0
25.Polanco* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 1/3.000 2/.500 7/.453 406/341 .245/.320/.358/.678 .501/.712 .650 99/.837 18/7 4/5
17.Ramirez G/S/vP 7/1.000 7/1.096 ··· 12/.334 5/.400 1/no AB 3/.000 2/2.000 18/.402 332/266 .236/.280/.408/.688 .581/.713 .651 69/.573 1/0 11/6
3.Rodriguez G/S/vP 40/.774 1/.000 5/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 7/.000 8/.500 165/98 .212/.236/.314/.550 .576/.532 .539 46/.400 2/0 3/0
19.Stewart G/S/vP 12/1.402 3/1.667 3/1.334 2/1.000 1/.000 4/1.000 2/1.000 3/1.000 4/.500 120/103 .284/.322/.349/.671 .561/.688 .660 30/.550 0/0 0/5
18.Walker# G/S/vP 7/.572 6/.750 6/.500 6/.666 5/.900 9/.666 1/no AB 6/.533 26/.846 406/340 .272/.328/.422/.750 .615/.776 .681 95/.746 3/0 10/5
IP 132.2 27.1 45.1 41.0 48.0 25.2 5.2 47.0 72.1 TOTAL .255/.316/.385/.700 .693/.702 .708 .714 69/27 83/77
ERA-K/9 3.26/9.2 1.65/13.8 3.57/6.4 3.51/6.1 1.88/8.1 2.81/5.6 6.35/6.3 2.87/10.0 4.35/10.1 3.43/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cervelli (65-21-6)
 Stewart (27-9-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 545/.244 112/.182 182/.247 174/.245 191/.217 105/.268 25/.333 183/.146 303/.231 .238  Marte
 Polanco
 McCutchen
 Decker
 Rodriguez
 Ishikawa
88/14/0/9
8/2/92/6
0/96/0/4
3/0/1/1
10/0/10/0
3/0/0/0
OPS .676 .550 .642 .680 .569 .668 1.068 .534 .693 .673
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 126/.721 31/.489 86/.657 62/.896 87/.601 59/.607 12/1.674 76/.692 98/.593 .685
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 419/.662 81/.572 96/.628 112/.562 104/.541 46/.745 13/.538 107/.430 205/.741 .666
Road 207/.683 58/.709 93/.518 89/.602 95/.666 47/.522 12/.697 96/.546 156/.790
Last 28d days 109/.518 25/.544 35/.414 45/.936 56/.513 22/.636 25/1.068 40/.536 59/.513
HR/SB/CS 11/30/6 2/2/0 3/7/2 4/1/1 2/7/1 1/3/2 2/1/1 4/2/1 10/0/2 85/85/27
Usage ····X··· ·oo··Xo· ·o·X···o ·oX··XX· X·ooo·X· o····o·· ···X·XX· X·Xo··X· ·o···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  5.29

PIT  4.13

NYM  3.55

 RA/G

STL  2.93

CLE  4.22

COL  5.15

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

H. Ramirez  .266

M. Zunino  .180

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .458

C. Davis  .327

M. Zunino  .237

 SLG

B. Harper  .672

M. Moustakas  .420

B. Hamilton  .288

 OPS

B. Harper  1.128

K. Wong  .751

M. Zunino  .554

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.41

J. Zimmermann  3.54

K. Kendrick  6.43

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.68

K. Hendricks  7.56

M. Pelfrey  4.26

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.