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Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Boston Red Sox, at PNC Park, September 16, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Start Time:
7:05et (local)
Venue:
PNC Park
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at PNC Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
72° (based on last ten years)
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
152
On This Date:
49-53
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
150
On This Date:
54-74
Season Series

Tue, Sep 16, 2014 BOS    @PIT  7:05pm
Wed, Sep 17, 2014 BOS    @PIT  7:05pm
Thu, Sep 18, 2014 BOS    @PIT  7:05pm

                         All times ET
Boston Red Sox
66-84, 5th, 24 GB, 17½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-44   Road:   35-40   ExtrInn: 9-11
 vsRHP:  44-59   vsLHP:  22-25   1-Run:  27-26
 vsEast: 26-41   vsCntrl:17-16   vsWest: 14-19 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
150 Sun, Sep 14  @KCR  W   8-4       66-84  5th 23.5 gb
149 Sat, Sep 13  @KCR  L   1-7       65-84  5th 23.5 gb
148 Fri, Sep 12  @KCR  W   4-2       65-83  5th 23.5 gb
147 Thu, Sep 11  @KCR  W   6-3       64-83  5th 23.0 gb
146 Wed, Sep 10   BAL  L   6-10      63-83  5th 23.5 gb
145 Tue, Sep  9   BAL  L   1-4       63-82  5th 22.5 gb
144 Mon, Sep  8   BAL  L   0-4       63-81  5th 21.5 gb
143 Sun, Sep  7   TOR  L   1-3       63-80  5th 20.5 gb
142 Sat, Sep  6   TOR  W   4-3       63-79  5th 19.5 gb
141 Fri, Sep  5   TOR  W   9-8 (10)  62-79  5th 20.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:11-19
Pittsburgh Pirates
79-70, 2nd, 3½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   46-29   Road:   33-41   ExtrInn: 8-6 
 vsRHP:  60-57   vsLHP:  19-13   1-Run:  27-28
 vsEast: 18-12   vsCntrl:33-37   vsWest: 20-12 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
149 Sun, Sep 14   CHC  W   7-3       79-70  2nd  3.5 gb
148 Sat, Sep 13   CHC  L   4-6       78-70  2nd  3.5 gb
147 Fri, Sep 12   CHC  W   7-3       78-69  2nd  2.5 gb
146 Thu, Sep 11  @PHI  W   4-1       77-69  2nd  2.5 gb
145 Wed, Sep 10  @PHI  W   6-3       76-69  2nd  3.5 gb
144 Tue, Sep  9  @PHI  L   3-4       75-69  2nd  4.5 gb
143 Mon, Sep  8  @PHI  W   6-4       75-68  2nd  4.5 gb
142 Sun, Sep  7  @CHC  W  10-4       74-68  2nd  4.5 gb
141 Sat, Sep  6  @CHC  W   5-0       73-68  3rd  4.5 gb
140 Fri, Sep  5  @CHC  W   5-3 (11)  72-68  3rd  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 26, 2011 BOS  4 @PIT  2        W:Andrew Miller (1-0), L: Tim Wood (0-2), S: Jonathan Papelbon (14)
Sat, Jun 25, 2011 PIT  6  BOS  4        W:Jeff Karstens (5-4), L: Tim Wakefield (4-3), S: Joel Hanrahan (22)
Fri, Jun 24, 2011 PIT  3  BOS  1        W:Paul Maholm (4-8), L: Jon Lester (9-4), S: Joel Hanrahan (21)
Sun, Jun 19, 2005 BOS  8  PIT  0        W:Matt Clement (8-1), L: Kip Wells (5-6), S: none
Sat, Jun 18, 2005 PIT  2 @BOS  0        W:Rick White (3-3), L: Alan Embree (1-4), S: Jose Mesa (18)
Fri, Jun 17, 2005 BOS  6  PIT  5        W:Keith Foulke (4-3), L: Rick White (2-3), S: none
Thu, Jun 05, 2003 PIT  5  BOS  4        W:Brian Boehringer (3-1), L: Ramiro Mendoza (1-2), S: Mike Williams (16)
Wed, Jun 04, 2003 BOS  8 @PIT  3        W:Derek Lowe (5-3), L: Jeff D'Amico (4-6), S: none
Wed, Jun 04, 2003 BOS 11 @PIT  4        W:Byung-Hyun Kim (2-5), L: Kris Benson (5-6), S: none
Season Series: 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - BOS leads 5-4

SP: Anthony Ranaudo (24, RHP, 3-2, 5.40)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (3-2) 26.2 29 16 16 12 10 8 5.40
Last 7 GS 3-2 26.2 29 16 16 12 10 8 5.40 44
2014-09-09 BAL L 3.1 6 4 4 2 2 3 67 32
2014-09-03 @NYY L 5.1 6 3 3 2 1 1 90 43
2014-08-29 @TBR W 6.0 5 3 3 3 4 1 99 51
2014-08-13 @CIN W 6.0 8 4 4 1 1 2 91 40
2014-08-01 NYY W 6.0 4 2 2 4 2 1 91 54
Has never faced PIT as starter.

SP: Charlie Morton (30, RHP, 5-12, 3.84)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (5-12) 152.1 139 76 65 55 120 9 3.84
2013 (7-4) 116.0 113 51 42 36 85 6 3.26
2012 (2-6) 50.1 62 30 26 11 25 5 4.65
Last 7 GS 0-3 39.0 45 26 26 15 26 3 6.00 44
2014-08-15 @WSN L 3.0 7 5 5 3 3 0 64 25
2014-08-10 SDP L 5.0 5 5 5 1 5 0 87 41
2014-08-05 MIA ND 7.0 6 1 1 4 4 0 107 61
2014-07-30 @SFG ND 5.0 9 4 4 3 2 0 95 32
2014-07-25 @COL L 6.0 7 4 4 1 3 0 91 44
2014-07-19 COL ND 7.0 5 2 2 1 3 1 91 61
2014-07-12 @CIN ND 6.0 6 5 5 2 6 2 92 44
Has never faced BOS as starter.

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

Red Sox Batters (3.87 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (4.03 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 53.Axford
G/S/vB		 58.Cumpton
G/S/vB		 30.Gomez
G/S/vB		 43.Holdzkom
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 60.LaFromboise*
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 38.Pimentel
G/S/vB		 65.Sadler
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 37.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 160/110 .289/.365/.444/.808 .901/.762 .866 108/.877 5/2 4/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 553/392 .240/.303/.371/.674 .794/.624 .626 77/.946 2/3 12/19
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 406/258 .207/.277/.278/.554 .640/.505 .510 19/.105 8/0 1/1
61.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 16/11 .200/.250/.333/.583 .900/.455 .125 4/2.000 0/0 0/1
52.Cespedes G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 603/457 .258/.302/.453/.755 .701/.772 .752 105/.770 6/2 21/6
5.Craig G/S/vP 28/1.078 7/.971 5/.000 10/.543 ··· 5/.400 ··· 4/1.750 1/.000 ··· 8/.250 5/.000 467/346 .221/.285/.326/.611 .692/.582 .505 65/.428 1/1 8/0
26.Holt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 492/312 .281/.331/.381/.711 .763/.682 .681 74/.479 12/2 4/7
16.Middlebrooks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 213/160 .185/.254/.262/.515 .490/.523 .424 82/.450 1/0 2/3
12.Napoli G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.500 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 493/356 .250/.367/.422/.789 .911/.744 .776 70/.533 3/2 17/7
29.Nava# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 366/304 .263/.339/.355/.694 .380/.760 .699 89/.737 4/2 4/4
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 585/392 .263/.357/.508/.865 .903/.846 .873 79/.890 0/0 32/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 609/440 .278/.337/.376/.712 .727/.707 .754 63/.632 6/6 7/2
72.Rivero G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/3 .500/.571/1.167/1.738 2.000/1.167 7/1.738 0/0 1/1
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· 165/98 .185/.264/.356/.620 .809/.496 .726 26/.498 0/1 6/7
55.Vazquez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 167/127 .207/.274/.255/.530 .501/.537 .516 69/.401 0/0 0/5
7.Weeks# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 7/.572 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/28 .286/.333/.464/.798 .000/.890 1.323 19/.839 2/0 0/0
IP 152.1 52.1 70.0 60.1 5.0 60.0 1.2 65.0 31.2 9.1 70.0 56.1 TOTAL .243/.315/.367/.682 .701/.674 .660 .667 56/23 113/85
ERA-K/9 3.84/7.1 3.61/10.5 4.89/5.9 3.28/5.4 0.00/16.2 2.10/5.1 0.00/15.9 1.94/9.0 5.40/10.5 7.71/5.8 1.54/9.5 4.31/9.1 3.60/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butler (2-0-0)
 Ross (31-9-3)
 Vazquez (14-11-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 646/.248 231/.217 309/.295 263/.295 16/.067 242/.233 5/.000 252/.192 144/.264 44/.289 275/.222 240/.220 .249  Cespedes
 Bradley
 Nava
 Betts
 Craig
 Holt
120/9/0/15
1/111/6/13
35/0/62/9
0/28/12/3
11/0/77/3
8/10/35/1
OPS .682 .688 .731 .819 .192 .624 .000 .461 .794 .785 .596 .637 .696
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 329/.663 111/.637 129/.783 106/1.082 11/.182 109/.610 3/.000 120/.392 67/.792 19/.526 87/.551 84/.698 .698
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 317/.700 120/.733 180/.694 157/.650 5/.200 133/.635 2/.000 132/.525 77/.791 25/1.006 188/.616 156/.601 .695
Home 286/.626 108/.666 157/.665 140/.900 3/.000 134/.720 / 136/.408 93/.619 44/.785 137/.516 132/.638
Last 28d days / 27/.745 23/.648 15/.641 16/.192 36/.698 5/.000 48/.297 / / 42/.481 31/.512
HR/SB/CS 9/14/4 6/6/1 2/6/2 6/6/4 0/0/1 4/4/6 0/0/0 2/1/1 5/4/1 0/0/0 5/4/2 3/7/1 123/101/44
Usage ··XX···· ··X····· ··o····· ···o·o·· ····o·oo ·····o·· ·o··oo·X ········ ········ ·o·X·o·o ··o···X·
Pirates Batters (4.26 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 63.Ranaudo
G/S/vB		 35.Badenhop
G/S/vB		 68.Barnes
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 66.Britton*
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 54.Mujica
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 65.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 445/358 .231/.312/.405/.717 .504/.770 .717 17/1.220 8/3 18/25
12.Barmes G/S/vP ··· 5/.200 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 16/.800 ··· ··· ··· ··· 105/84 .228/.314/.272/.586 .586/.585 .662 5/.200 1/1 0/2
39.d'Arnaud G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 0/ /// / 0/ 0/0 0/0
15.Davis* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 398/363 .231/.344/.365/.709 .265/.755 .824 46/.616 0/4 10/9
5.Harrison G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 492/379 .317/.351/.508/.859 .867/.856 .841 92/.998 17/6 13/6
57.Lambo* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/32 .250/.250/.375/.625 /.625 .500 32/.625 0/0 0/0
6.Marte G/S/vP ··· 6/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 491/402 .285/.356/.446/.802 .740/.816 .755 81/.928 26/10 11/5
55.Martin G/S/vP ··· 10/.600 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· 8/.393 4/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 424/329 .295/.410/.428/.838 .718/.868 .932 82/.970 4/4 9/4
22.McCutchen G/S/vP ··· 6/1.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 594/480 .310/.399/.533/.932 .888/.943 .979 101/.899 17/2 23/6
10.Mercer G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 513/391 .264/.311/.397/.708 .817/.673 .697 88/.779 3/1 11/11
59.Morel G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 39/15 .162/.205/.216/.421 .390/.467 .222 17/.485 0/0 0/0
25.Polanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 301/212 .241/.315/.342/.658 .477/.734 .722 26/.537 13/4 6/2
17.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· 266/128 .238/.301/.396/.697 .778/.610 .632 37/.699 2/0 6/3
26.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 79/66 .270/.304/.365/.669 .160/.768 .690 3/.000 0/0 2/5
23.Snider* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 312/271 .261/.334/.425/.759 .953/.731 .894 54/.630 1/1 11/1
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 139/103 .289/.365/.314/.679 1.045/.544 .697 14/.571 0/1 0/3
31.Tabata G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· ··· 179/134 .287/.320/.341/.662 .787/.617 .607 25/.680 1/2 0/0
18.Walker# G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 522/407 .279/.351/.468/.819 .761/.835 .827 97/.899 2/2 20/5
IP 26.2 68.0 4.0 54.1 3.2 18.0 58.0 60.2 62.1 23.1 12.0 TOTAL .260/.331/.403/.734 .691/.746 .752 .783 96/41 141/104
ERA-K/9 5.40/3.4 2.38/4.9 4.50/11.2 4.97/6.1 0.00/7.3 1.00/6.5 4.03/6.4 2.97/9.2 2.60/11.0 2.31/5.8 0.75/9.0 4.00/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (54-34-3)
 Sanchez (18-3-1)
 Stewart (29-7-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 118/.282 279/.271 19/.333 253/.297 14/.083 70/.183 246/.294 254/.247 242/.218 91/.217 43/.214 .258  Snider
 Polanco
 Harrison
 Marte
 Tabata
 McCutchen
 Lambo
 Sanchez
 Mercer
35/0/52/7
0/0/71/5
26/0/26/4
101/26/0/4
17/1/37/3
0/133/0/1
0/0/6/0
0/0/1/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .901 .682 .868 .836 .298 .536 .797 .679 .636 .708 .518 .729
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 69/.927 114/.721 9/1.111 117/.817 6/.333 43/.289 110/.920 120/.631 137/.604 47/.875 26/.577 .747
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 49/.864 165/.657 10/.633 136/.852 8/.250 27/.968 136/.694 134/.724 105/.676 44/.530 17/.423 .713
Road 75/.848 115/.771 7/1.238 111/.751 / 37/.464 110/.637 120/.675 108/.656 29/1.022 12/.500
Last 28d days 66/.933 43/.607 19/.868 44/.889 14/.298 41/.603 56/.714 35/.518 22/1.500 52/.774 28/.399
HR/SB/CS 8/3/1 1/5/1 0/1/0 8/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 6/4/2 5/0/0 10/1/1 3/0/1 1/0/0 144/85/29
Usage ······X· ·o·o··X· ··X···X· ·o···X·· ······X· ·o·ooX·o ·X·ooX·· ····oo·· ···o···· ·····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 2014 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

LAA  4.91

KCR  3.99

SDP  3.23

 RA/G

SEA  3.28

NYY  4.07

COL  5.13

 BA

J. Altuve  .342

N. Markakis  .272

C. Davis  .196

 OBP

V. Martinez  .400

B. Holt  .331

M. Dominguez  .260

 SLG

J. Abreu  .602

D. Murphy  .414

Z. Cozart  .298

 OPS

J. Abreu  .986

T. Plouffe  .748

Z. Cozart  .570

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.70

J. Hammel  3.60

C. Buchholz  5.19

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  10.64

J. Peavy  7.23

K. Correia  4.68

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.