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Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Colorado Rockies, at PNC Park, August 28, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 28, 2015
Start Time:
7:05et (local)
Venue:
PNC Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
80° (based on last ten years)
Rockies
Manager:
Walt Weiss
Game #:
131
On This Date:
12-8
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
128
On This Date:
64-62
Season Series

Fri, Aug 28, 2015 COL    @PIT  7:05pm
Sat, Aug 29, 2015 COL    @PIT  7:05pm
Sun, Aug 30, 2015 COL    @PIT  1:35pm
Mon, Sep 21, 2015 PIT    @COL  8:40pm
Tue, Sep 22, 2015 PIT    @COL  8:40pm
Wed, Sep 23, 2015 PIT    @COL  8:40pm
Thu, Sep 24, 2015 PIT    @COL  3:10pm

                         All times ET
Colorado Rockies
51-74, 5th, 18½ GB, 25½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-36   Road:   24-38   ExtrInn: 2-4 
 vsRHP:  46-53   vsLHP:   5-21   1-Run:  15-19
 vsEast: 16-18   vsCntrl:14-11   vsWest: 18-31 IL: 3-14

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
125 Wed, Aug 26  @ATL  W   6-3       51-74  5th 18.0 gb
124 Tue, Aug 25  @ATL  W   5-1       50-74  5th 18.0 gb
123 Mon, Aug 24  @ATL  L   3-5       49-74  5th 18.0 gb
122 Sun, Aug 23   NYM  L   1-5       49-73  5th 17.5 gb
121 Sat, Aug 22   NYM  L   9-14      49-72  5th 17.5 gb
120 Fri, Aug 21   NYM  L   9-14      49-71  5th 17.5 gb
119 Thu, Aug 20   WSN  W   3-2       49-70  5th 17.5 gb
118 Wed, Aug 19   WSN  L   1-4       48-70  5th 18.0 gb
117 Tue, Aug 18   WSN  L   6-15      48-69  5th 18.0 gb
116 Sun, Aug 16   SDP  W   5-0       48-68  5th 18.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-20
Pittsburgh Pirates
77-49, 2nd, 4½ GB, 9½ up in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   44-20   Road:   33-29   ExtrInn:10-7 
 vsRHP:  61-38   vsLHP:  16-11   1-Run:  28-15
 vsEast: 24-9    vsCntrl:21-29   vsWest: 19-4  IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Thu, Aug 27  @MIA  W   2-1       77-49  2nd  4.5 gb
125 Wed, Aug 26  @MIA  W   7-2       76-49  2nd  4.5 gb
124 Tue, Aug 25  @MIA  L   2-5       75-49  2nd  4.5 gb
123 Mon, Aug 24  @MIA  W   5-2       75-48  2nd  3.5 gb
122 Sun, Aug 23   SFG  W   5-2       74-48  2nd  3.5 gb
121 Sat, Aug 22   SFG  W   3-2       73-48  2nd  3.5 gb
120 Fri, Aug 21   SFG  L   4-6       72-48  2nd  4.5 gb
119 Thu, Aug 20   SFG  W   4-0       72-47  2nd  4.5 gb
118 Wed, Aug 19   ARI  W   4-1       71-47  2nd  5.0 gb
117 Tue, Aug 18   ARI  W   9-8 (15)  70-47  2nd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:15-5    Last 30:21-9 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 27, 2014 PIT  7 @COL  5        W:Tony Watson (7-1), L: Rex Brothers (3-5), S: Mark Melancon (19)
Sat, Jul 26, 2014 COL  8  PIT  1        W:Tyler Matzek (2-4), L: Jeff Locke (2-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 25, 2014 COL  8  PIT  1        W:Brett Anderson (1-3), L: Charlie Morton (5-10), S: none
Sun, Jul 20, 2014 PIT  5  COL  3        W:Jeanmar Gomez (2-2), L: Matt Belisle (2-6), S: Mark Melancon (18)
Sat, Jul 19, 2014 PIT  3  COL  2 (11)   W:Jared Hughes (5-2), L: Chad Bettis (0-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 18, 2014 PIT  4  COL  2        W:Tony Watson (6-1), L: Matt Belisle (2-5), S: Mark Melancon (17)
Sun, Aug 11, 2013 COL  3  PIT  2        W:Manny Corpas (1-2), L: Bryan Morris (5-5), S: Rex Brothers (10)
Sat, Aug 10, 2013 COL  6  PIT  4        W:Wilton Lopez (2-4), L: A.J. Burnett (5-8), S: Rex Brothers (9)
Fri, Aug 09, 2013 COL 10  PIT  1        W:Jorge De La Rosa (11-6), L: Francisco Liriano (12-5), S: none
Sun, Aug 04, 2013 PIT  5  COL  1        W:A.J. Burnett (5-7), L: Juan Nicasio (6-6), S: none
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 - PIT won 4-2; 2013 - COL won 4-2; All-Time - COL leads 90-87

SP: Jon Gray (23, RHP, 0-0, 5.94)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-0) 16.2 18 12 11 5 14 2 5.94
Last 7 GS 0-0 16.2 18 12 11 5 14 2 5.94 46
2015-08-21 NYM ND 1.2 8 7 7 1 0 1 45 10
2015-08-15 SDP ND 5.0 4 1 1 0 5 0 69 60
2015-08-10 @NYM ND 6.0 1 1 1 2 5 1 75 69
2015-08-04 SEA ND 4.0 5 3 2 2 4 0 77 44
Has never faced PIT as starter.

SP: Francisco Liriano (31, LHP, 9-6, 3.23)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. COL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (9-6) 147.2 118 57 53 54 159 11 3.23
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 4-0 39.1 44 20 17 19 40 2 3.89 50
2015-08-23 SFG W 5.1 7 2 0 3 5 0 105 52
2015-08-18 ARI ND 7.0 6 5 5 3 5 0 102 47
2015-08-13 @STL W 6.0 6 3 3 4 5 0 94 49
2015-08-08 LAD ND 3.0 7 4 4 2 4 1 79 31
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
Last 5 v.COL 1-2 21.1 22 14 13 13 21 1 5.48 47
2014-07-18 COL ND 5.0 3 1 0 3 8 0 95 64
2013-08-09 @COL L 2.1 12 10 10 2 1 1 73 -8
2013-08-03 COL W 7.0 2 0 0 5 6 0 102 74
2010-06-17 COL L 7.0 5 3 3 3 6 0 97 58

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

Rockies Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.60 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
28.Arenado G/S/vP 7/1.238 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 3/.000 1/.000 3/1.666 508/407 .278/.315/.551/.866 .706/.902 .832 98/.816 1/3 30/13
1.Barnes G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 7/.310 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 234/183 .261/.326/.360/.686 .470/.747 .574 42/.515 2/2 2/2
19.Blackmon* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/5.000 6/.833 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 538/408 .290/.353/.463/.816 .650/.869 .752 102/.823 33/13 15/2
3.Descalso* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 5/1.000 ··· 8/1.143 12/.637 1/no AB 7/.858 162/140 .217/.296/.350/.645 .581/.655 .758 31/.791 1/2 4/6
50.Garneau G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/8 .222/.300/.444/.744 1.500/.536 10/.744 0/0 0/0
5.Gonzalez* G/S/vP 7/.000 4/.500 13/1.288 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 6/1.166 468/357 .272/.332/.539/.871 .508/.986 .792 91/.917 2/0 30/5
4.Hundley G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 14/1.434 ··· 2/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· 358/278 .297/.335/.463/.798 .772/.806 .606 62/.756 5/6 9/5
9.LeMahieu G/S/vP 8/.661 2/.000 5/.800 ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 494/385 .311/.369/.402/.771 .751/.776 .728 93/.633 18/3 5/6
12.McBride G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 29/26 .214/.241/.214/.456 .667/.431 .473 29/.456 0/0 0/0
16.Parker G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 63/49 .203/.254/.356/.610 .464/.648 .274 62/.587 0/0 2/1
10.Paulsen* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 289/264 .273/.323/.473/.796 .436/.829 .710 88/.724 0/2 10/2
7.Reyes# G/S/vP 3/1.667 3/.667 35/.562 ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 417/309 .278/.313/.387/.700 .681/.706 .654 93/.711 20/6 6/14
IP 147.2 42.0 59.0 59.1 56.1 61.0 52.1 59.0 TOTAL .268/.319/.437/.755 .669/.779 .670 .714 73/40 144/72
ERA-K/9 3.23/9.7 3.43/9.2 2.90/9.6 3.34/9.4 2.40/5.1 1.48/6.5 2.75/7.9 2.14/8.2 3.13/7.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Garneau (1-0-0)
 Hundley (44-23-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 604/.216 182/.209 240/.242 250/.221 240/.276 235/.215 212/.214 229/.203 .249  Blackmon
 Gonzalez
 Barnes
 Parker
 Paulsen
 McBride
 Descalso
14/115/7/9
0/0/117/6
60/5/15/2
15/0/0/0
13/0/0/0
2/0/2/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .600 .645 .684 .642 .719 .539 .646 .522 .672
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 140/.566 53/.516 119/.808 95/.624 90/.637 105/.390 101/.704 65/.501 .664
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 464/.610 129/.700 121/.564 155/.651 150/.768 130/.654 111/.587 164/.530 .676
Home 341/.641 91/.697 138/.724 140/.742 121/.634 131/.552 104/.579 120/.373
Last 28d days 101/.738 39/.372 68/.496 52/.420 49/.974 49/.571 41/.545 44/.358
HR/SB/CS 11/6/2 4/7/0 6/2/1 6/8/0 3/8/3 2/0/2 8/2/0 3/1/0 86/114/33
Usage ····X··· ··oo··X· ·X····X· ····o·o· ··Xo···X X··ooo·· ····XX·· o··oo··X
Pirates Batters (4.26 RS/G) vs. Rockies Pitchers (5.35 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Gray
G/S/vB		 66.Axford
G/S/vB		 36.Bergman
G/S/vB		 64.Castro
G/S/vB		 47.Diaz
G/S/vB		 53.Friedrich*
G/S/vB		 62.Germen
G/S/vB		 45.Oberg
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· 14/.846 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 400/349 .249/.310/.470/.780 .844/.770 .737 67/.947 2/0 21/18
29.Cervelli G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 388/306 .306/.374/.428/.802 1.014/.744 .847 80/.888 1/1 6/4
5.Harrison G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 342/266 .274/.313/.374/.687 .776/.662 .690 16/.466 9/4 4/12
27.Kang G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 401/314 .289/.364/.457/.821 .770/.834 .868 93/.803 5/4 12/11
6.Marte G/S/vP ··· 2/3.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 494/394 .285/.337/.447/.784 .791/.783 .864 98/.742 25/9 15/2
22.McCutchen G/S/vP ··· 14/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 3/2.334 3/2.167 ··· 534/429 .301/.403/.521/.924 1.016/.901 1.017 105/1.096 6/4 20/2
10.Mercer G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 311/247 .242/.290/.312/.602 .673/.584 .628 13/.558 3/1 2/7
31.Morse G/S/vP ··· 3/1.666 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 208/161 .226/.293/.321/.614 .542/.634 .428 34/.749 0/0 4/0
25.Polanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 505/411 .266/.335/.396/.730 .613/.757 .665 108/.923 21/10 7/5
17.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 8/.500 3/2.667 ··· ··· 5/2.800 1/.000 1/.000 416/321 .248/.296/.405/.700 .616/.725 .655 88/.713 1/0 12/9
3.Rodriguez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 206/121 .232/.262/.325/.587 .624/.561 .612 45/.783 2/2 3/1
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 144/118 .282/.319/.336/.655 .651/.656 .638 26/.530 0/0 0/7
18.Walker# G/S/vP ··· 11/.546 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 1/no AB ··· 490/402 .265/.324/.428/.752 .569/.793 .709 92/.802 3/0 13/7
IP 16.2 42.2 46.2 3.0 2.2 51.1 23.1 45.0 TOTAL .261/.323/.397/.720 .720/.720 .733 .788 78/36 109/92
ERA-K/9 5.94/7.5 4.43/9.5 4.44/5.6 0.00/6.0 0.00/10.0 5.44/6.7 6.56/8.9 5.40/6.0 5.15/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cervelli (80-23-8)
 Stewart (32-9-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 74/.269 194/.268 194/.290 13/.222 11/.111 235/.330 107/.289 199/.279 .283  Marte
 Polanco
 McCutchen
 Morse
 Harrison
 Rodriguez
110/15/0/12
8/2/113/7
0/118/0/7
6/0/0/1
3/0/11/0
14/0/11/0
OPS .727 .731 .811 .750 .384 .828 .930 .874 .817
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 38/.636 87/.674 83/.547 5/1.350 6/.533 107/.643 47/.992 73/.838 .824
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 36/.821 107/.778 111/1.007 8/.286 5/.200 128/.982 60/.883 126/.896 .812
Road 22/.336 83/.587 83/.694 5/.500 7/.452 96/.771 40/.696 109/1.033
Last 28d days 74/.727 48/.784 31/.651 13/.750 11/.384 42/1.076 33/1.001 60/.748
HR/SB/CS 2/1/0 4/8/2 6/1/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 4/0/0 3/1/0 10/2/0 146/75/26
Usage ······X· ·Xo····X ······X· ·X··X··· ·Xo·X··· ·ooo·oo· ···o··X· ·oo··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  5.43

LAD  4.11

ATL  3.65

 RA/G

STL  2.97

CLE  4.17

COL  5.35

 BA

B. Harper  .334

Y. Solarte  .266

C. Carter  .179

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

R. Martin  .329

O. Infante  .231

 SLG

B. Harper  .639

L. Valbuena  .423

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.099

N. Walker  .752

O. Infante  .539

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.61

A. Wood  3.70

K. Lohse  6.27

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.03

J. Quintana  7.59

M. Buehrle  4.25

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.