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Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, at Wrigley Field, June 17, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, June 17, 2016
Start Time:
1:20ct (local), 2:20et
Venue:
Wrigley Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
77° (based on last ten years)
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
71
On This Date:
57-58
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
68
On This Date:
56-62
Season Series
Mon, May 02, 2016 CHC  7 @PIT  2     
Tue, May 03, 2016 CHC  7 @PIT  1     
Wed, May 04, 2016 CHC  6 @PIT  2     
Fri, May 13, 2016 CHC  9  PIT  4     
Sat, May 14, 2016 CHC  8  PIT  2     
Sun, May 15, 2016 PIT  2 @CHC  1     

Fri, Jun 17, 2016 PIT    @CHC  2:20pm
Sat, Jun 18, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:15pm
Sun, Jun 19, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:08pm
Fri, Jul 08, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Sat, Jul 09, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:15pm
Sun, Jul 10, 2016 CHC    @PIT  1:35pm
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:05pm
Tue, Aug 30, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:05pm
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 PIT    @CHC  8:05pm
Mon, Sep 26, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Tue, Sep 27, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, Sep 28, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm
Thu, Sep 29, 2016 CHC    @PIT  7:05pm

                         All times ET
Pittsburgh Pirates
33-33, 3rd, 12 GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-15   Road:   15-18   ExtrInn: 3-4 
 vsRHP:  25-27   vsLHP:   8-6    1-Run:   9-8 
 vsEast:  7-7    vsCntrl:12-14   vsWest: 11-5  IL: 3-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 66 Thu, Jun 16  @NYM  L   4-6       33-33  3rd 12.0 gb
 65 Wed, Jun 15  @NYM  L   2-11      33-32  3rd 11.5 gb
 64 Tue, Jun 14  @NYM  W   4-0       33-31  3rd 11.5 gb
 63 Sun, Jun 12   STL  L   3-8       32-31  3rd 12.0 gb
 62 Sat, Jun 11   STL  L   1-5       32-30  3rd 11.0 gb
 61 Fri, Jun 10   STL  L   3-9 (12)  32-29  3rd 10.0 gb
 60 Thu, Jun  9  @COL  L   5-11      32-28  2nd 10.0 gb
 59 Wed, Jun  8   NYM  L   5-6 (10)  32-27  2nd  9.5 gb
 58 Tue, Jun  7   NYM  W   3-1       32-26  2nd  8.5 gb
 57 Tue, Jun  7   NYM  W   3-1       31-26  2nd  8.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:14-16
Chicago Cubs
44-20, 1st, 9½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-8    Road:   22-12   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  30-15   vsLHP:  14-5    1-Run:   8-9 
 vsEast: 13-5    vsCntrl:18-6    vsWest: 11-9  IL: 2-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 64 Wed, Jun 15  @WSN  L   4-5 (12)  44-20  1st  9.5 up
 63 Tue, Jun 14  @WSN  W   4-3       44-19  1st  9.5 up
 62 Mon, Jun 13  @WSN  L   1-4       43-19  1st  8.5 up
 61 Sun, Jun 12  @ATL  W  13-2       43-18  1st  9.0 up
 60 Sat, Jun 11  @ATL  W   8-2       42-18  1st  9.0 up
 59 Fri, Jun 10  @ATL  L   1-5       41-18  1st  9.0 up
 58 Wed, Jun  8  @PHI  W   8-1       41-17  1st  9.5 up
 57 Tue, Jun  7  @PHI  L   2-3       40-17  1st  8.5 up
 56 Mon, Jun  6  @PHI  W   6-4       40-16  1st 10.0 up
 55 Sun, Jun  5   ARI  L   2-3       39-16  1st  9.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 15, 2016 PIT  2 @CHC  1        W:Gerrit Cole (4-3), L: Jon Lester (4-2), S: Mark Melancon (11)
Sat, May 14, 2016 CHC  8  PIT  2        W:Jake Arrieta (7-0), L: Jeff Locke (1-3), S: none
Fri, May 13, 2016 CHC  9  PIT  4        W:Jason Hammel (5-0), L: Francisco Liriano (3-2), S: none
Wed, May 04, 2016 CHC  6 @PIT  2        W:Jon Lester (3-1), L: Juan Nicasio (3-3), S: none
Tue, May 03, 2016 CHC  7 @PIT  1        W:Jake Arrieta (6-0), L: Jon Niese (3-1), S: none
Mon, May 02, 2016 CHC  7 @PIT  2        W:Jason Hammel (4-0), L: Gerrit Cole (2-3), S: none

Sun, Sep 27, 2015 CHC  4  PIT  0        W:Jake Arrieta (21-6), L: A.J. Burnett (9-6), S: none
Sat, Sep 26, 2015 PIT  4 @CHC  0        W:Francisco Liriano (12-7), L: Jason Hammel (9-7), S: none
Fri, Sep 25, 2015 PIT  3 @CHC  2        W:Gerrit Cole (18-8), L: Jon Lester (10-12), S: Mark Melancon (51)
Thu, Sep 17, 2015 CHC  9 @PIT  6        W:Clayton Richard (4-2), L: Charlie Morton (9-8), S: Travis Wood (2)
Season Series: 2016 - CHC over 5-1; 2015 - CHC won 11-8; 2014 - PIT won 14-5; All-Time - PIT leads 1258-1189

SP: Francisco Liriano (32, LHP, 4-6, 4.92)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (4-6) 67.2 67 41 37 41 68 13 4.92
2015 (12-7) 186.2 155 75 70 70 205 15 3.38
2014 (7-10) 162.1 130 68 61 81 175 13 3.38
Last 7 GS 2-5 39.2 43 29 25 24 39 8 5.67 45
2016-06-11 STL L 6.0 4 4 1 3 8 1 103 59
2016-06-03 LAA L 3.1 10 7 6 4 2 1 76 12
2016-05-29 @TEX L 6.0 6 5 5 4 6 2 100 42
2016-05-24 ARI W 5.2 2 1 1 5 2 0 98 58
2016-05-18 ATL L 7.0 7 2 2 2 4 1 94 57
2016-05-13 @CHC L 4.2 9 8 8 4 7 3 98 17
2016-05-06 @STL W 7.0 5 2 2 2 10 0 98 67
Last 5 v.CHC 2-1 26.1 22 13 13 11 38 4 4.44 54
2016-05-13 @CHC L 4.2 9 8 8 4 7 3 98 17
2015-09-26 @CHC W 7.2 4 0 0 3 9 0 113 77
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

SP: Jake Arrieta (30, RHP, 10-1, 1.86)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (10-1) 87.0 55 19 18 28 90 3 1.86
2015 (22-6) 229.0 150 52 45 48 236 10 1.77
2014 (10-5) 156.2 114 46 44 41 167 5 2.53
Last 7 GS 4-1 44.0 35 15 14 16 53 1 2.86 60
2016-06-11 @ATL W 7.0 4 2 2 2 3 0 105 62
2016-06-05 ARI L 5.0 9 3 3 1 12 0 108 48
2016-05-31 LAD ND 7.0 2 0 0 4 8 0 107 77
2016-05-25 @STL W 5.0 7 4 4 1 4 1 93 40
2016-05-20 @SFG W 7.0 4 1 1 2 8 0 111 71
2016-05-14 PIT W 8.0 3 2 2 2 11 0 108 77
2016-05-08 WSN ND 5.0 6 3 2 4 7 0 100 48
Last 5 v.PIT 4-0 37.0 14 4 3 8 35 0 0.73 76
2016-05-14 PIT W 8.0 3 2 2 2 11 0 108 77
2016-05-03 @PIT W 7.0 2 0 0 2 5 0 99 76
2015-09-27 PIT W 7.0 1 0 0 0 9 0 84 84
2015-09-16 @PIT ND 8.0 6 2 1 1 5 0 117 68
2015-08-04 @PIT W 7.0 2 0 0 3 5 0 109 75

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

Pirates Batters (4.70 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (2.89 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Arrieta
G/S/vB		 53.Cahill
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 33.Richard*
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 43.Warren
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Freese G/S/vP 3/.000 7/1.071 ··· 6/.334 2/.500 3/.000 5/.600 20/.763 208/162 .292/.370/.438/.808 .973/.759 .812 64/.952 0/0 5/5
5.Harrison G/S/vP 13/.231 6/.334 4/1.750 2/1.500 5/1.000 5/.200 2/.500 24/.750 244/192 .307/.333/.404/.737 .894/.694 .769 85/.734 12/1 2/6
28.Jaso* G/S/vP 14/.297 9/.944 4/1.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 9/.444 ··· 229/215 .288/.355/.410/.765 .237/.797 .746 76/.629 0/1 3/3
17.Joyce* G/S/vP 20/1.156 10/.425 ··· ··· ··· 8/.750 10/1.500 1/.000 108/87 .295/.426/.614/1.040 1.039/1.039 .940 44/.854 0/1 7/0
27.Kang G/S/vP 15/.421 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/1.666 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 124/91 .282/.347/.600/.947 1.052/.903 .891 82/.887 1/0 9/2
38.Kratz G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.667 ··· ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 41/32 .050/.073/.075/.148 .472/.063 .279 11/.000 0/0 0/1
6.Marte G/S/vP 21/.438 10/1.500 7/.476 1/.000 5/.400 14/.453 2/1.500 29/1.157 257/203 .332/.374/.498/.871 .611/.941 .888 94/.900 19/5 6/3
22.McCutchen G/S/vP 34/.826 17/1.588 9/.222 6/.666 9/.333 13/.631 4/1.250 41/.859 285/227 .242/.319/.418/.737 .694/.748 .791 98/.615 1/3 10/1
10.Mercer G/S/vP 9/.000 8/.625 10/.522 2/.000 8/.000 6/.334 1/.000 18/1.311 254/196 .263/.352/.336/.688 .822/.650 .594 85/.559 1/0 2/4
25.Polanco* G/S/vP 22/.364 6/.900 5/.650 3/1.667 3/.333 4/.833 2/.500 11/.473 274/213 .291/.374/.515/.888 .774/.922 .843 96/.816 8/4 9/1
3.Rodriguez G/S/vP 3/.666 12/.639 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 8/.000 5/1.000 9/.444 128/84 .254/.331/.500/.831 .886/.801 .742 65/.671 1/0 6/1
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 4/1.250 3/.333 3/.000 3/1.000 ··· 5/.400 83/68 .197/.313/.282/.595 .564/.602 .710 47/.524 0/0 1/2
IP 87.0 28.2 23.0 12.0 23.0 24.2 23.2 25.1 TOTAL .270/.343/.416/.760 .776/.755 .741 .711 47/17 61/37
ERA-K/9 1.86/9.3 2.83/10.0 5.09/9.4 6.00/4.5 1.57/12.5 2.92/13.5 4.18/6.5 2.49/6.8 2.66/8.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kratz (4-5-2)
 Stewart (10-3-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 340/.178 129/.193 101/.253 60/.365 85/.163 96/.174 100/.202 101/.161 .203  Marte
 Polanco
 McCutchen
 Harrison
 Rodriguez
 Joyce
56/7/0/8
10/1/55/4
0/63/0/3
0/0/1/0
5/2/3/0
5/0/15/0
OPS .499 .639 .755 .801 .426 .552 .670 .603 .589
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 154/.583 51/.675 39/.712 34/.875 34/.402 34/.640 36/.837 52/.666 .652
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 186/.430 78/.617 62/.780 26/.703 51/.437 62/.509 64/.579 49/.536 .547
Home 154/.540 64/.712 49/.817 22/.905 40/.412 44/.713 42/.590 47/.651
Last 28d days 104/.627 43/.573 40/.875 27/.854 33/.565 30/.593 38/.853 50/.435
HR/SB/CS 3/11/2 4/6/0 4/2/1 0/3/0 2/1/0 3/0/0 4/1/1 3/0/0 49/51/11
Usage ·····X·· ·X···o·· ·o·X··o· ···o··o· ·XX·o··· ·Xo····· ·o··X·o· ·Xo··oX·
Cubs Batters (5.38 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Liriano*
G/S/vB		 37.Caminero
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 26.Luebke*
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 52.Scahill
G/S/vB		 31.Schugel
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
5.Almora G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/13 .353/.353/.529/.882 .750/.923 17/.882 0/0 0/0
9.Baez G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.666 4/.250 141/103 .252/.284/.407/.691 .938/.603 .852 62/.740 3/1 5/4
17.Bryant G/S/vP 10/1.500 6/1.100 1/4.000 9/.956 ··· 5/.650 3/1.667 3/1.334 5/.800 283/196 .273/.360/.514/.874 .879/.872 .797 104/.921 2/2 15/6
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 1/no AB 5/.000 183/164 .149/.219/.274/.492 .161/.532 .343 57/.345 1/1 5/1
15.Federowicz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 27/17 .192/.222/.269/.491 1.056/.176 .263 5/.400 0/0 0/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 16/.542 6/1.000 1/3.000 7/1.000 17/.720 5/.200 2/1.000 3/.666 8/.500 278/196 .291/.396/.487/.883 .897/.876 .780 101/.745 6/3 7/3
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 19/.760 7/.929 1/.000 4/.833 3/.000 5/.400 2/.500 1/2.000 9/.222 253/176 .234/.325/.338/.663 .753/.625 .568 88/.756 7/3 4/0
47.Montero* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· 8/1.100 12/.083 7/.762 4/1.167 1/.000 4/.250 126/106 .210/.333/.343/.676 .417/.728 .614 50/.669 1/0 3/3
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 29/.622 5/.733 1/.000 13/1.189 ··· 13/.749 4/1.250 3/2.334 18/.466 273/183 .260/.381/.529/.910 .714/1.009 .901 92/.840 2/3 15/3
3.Ross G/S/vP 9/.778 5/.650 ··· 2/no AB 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/2.500 6/.333 115/74 .237/.339/.409/.748 1.042/.597 .701 41/.668 0/1 4/4
27.Russell G/S/vP 8/1.333 7/.143 ··· 4/.833 ··· 6/.334 2/.000 3/.333 4/.750 236/170 .237/.326/.367/.693 .561/.742 .841 83/.563 2/0 5/7
20.Szczur G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 1/2.000 ··· 3/.666 60/37 .327/.373/.491/.864 .818/.891 .819 26/.640 1/1 2/0
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 19/.691 1/.000 11/.586 2/.000 ··· 9/1.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 262/190 .316/.425/.502/.928 .875/.948 .857 92/.866 3/2 9/1
IP 67.2 20.1 24.1 17.1 8.2 26.1 15.1 31.1 28.0 TOTAL .255/.347/.424/.771 .784/.765 .744 .738 28/16 77/40
ERA-K/9 4.92/9.0 4.43/7.5 3.70/10.4 3.12/4.2 8.31/9.3 1.71/7.2 4.70/7.6 3.73/8.6 3.86/8.4 4.34/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Federowicz (3-0-0)
 Montero (28-2-3)
 Ross (20-9-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 307/.263 104/.329 95/.202 80/.284 49/.368 108/.224 68/.300 125/.222 113/.186 .264  Fowler
 Bryant
 Almora
 Heyward
 Zobrist
 Coghlan
 Baez
 Szczur
0/61/0/3
34/0/6/2
5/2/0/1
0/5/54/1
0/0/4/0
7/0/12/0
2/0/0/0
21/2/5/0
OPS .805 .976 .657 .872 1.084 .563 .751 .597 .661 .775
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 69/.740 42/1.053 41/.604 37/.982 13/1.144 49/.588 25/.777 60/.640 34/.626 .784
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 238/.824 62/.913 54/.698 43/.790 36/1.056 59/.541 43/.733 65/.559 79/.676 .770
Road 154/.942 35/1.009 48/.606 32/.798 19/.898 44/.629 36/.843 68/.704 49/.680
Last 28d days 98/.877 26/.795 41/.654 40/.839 26/.869 34/.435 42/.767 54/.422 38/.672
HR/SB/CS 13/3/0 3/0/2 4/2/0 2/2/2 2/0/0 1/2/0 1/2/0 2/0/1 4/2/0 79/31/13
Usage ·····X·· ·X··Xo·· X·····X· o···o·X· ·o··X··X ······X· ·X···X·· 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 2016 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

BOS  5.82

LAA  4.33

PHI  3.22

 RA/G

CHC  2.89

HOU  4.36

CIN  5.90

 BA

D. Murphy  .359

J. Schoop  .268

G. Stanton  .193

 OBP

B. Zobrist  .425

B. Posey  .335

F. Galvis  .249

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .715

J. Villar  .442

A. Escobar  .289

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.138

M. Napoli  .773

A. Escobar  .556

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.58

E. Volquez  3.90

J. Locke  5.92

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.16

M. Estrada  7.84

M. Pelfrey  4.42

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.