Know Your Foe #33: Pirates Pay First Visit To Coors This Season

by Russ Oates on Jul 27, 2010 12:01 PM MDT in Know Your Foe

Pittsburgh Pirates (34-64, 20.5 GB, 6th NL Central)

2009 Record Vs. Rockies: Lost season series 3-6.

The Rockies dropped the middle series to the Pirates, getting swept at home.

Last Two Series Results: 2-2 series split with Milwaukee; 0-3 series loss to Padres

The Pirates could not help the Rockies at all in that series against the Padres. Guess the Rockies will need to do things on their own.

Thursday-Thursday: 3-game series @ Coors Field

Expected Pitching Match-ups

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 @ 6:40 pm MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Zach Duke	4-9	19	16	0	0	0	0	91.1	122	60	53	13	29	58	5.22	1.65

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Jorge De La Rosa	3-2	7	7	0	0	0	0	36.2	33	27	23	6	22	40	5.65	1.50

Wednesday, 28 July 2010 @ 6:40 pm MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Ross Ohlendorf	1-8	15	15	0	0	0	0	82.0	85	43	40	11	34	57	4.39	1.45

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Aaron Cook	4-6	24	19	2	0	0	0	111.0	123	64	59	9	44	51	4.78	1.50

Thursday. 29 July 2010 @ 1:10 pm MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Paul Maholm	6-8	20	20	1	1	0	0	120.0	133	62	55	9	42	59	4.13	1.46

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Ubaldo Jimenez	15-2	20	20	3	2	0	0	134.1	96	43	41	7	55	120	2.75	1.12

The usual after the jump.

Expected Lineup

Player	Pos	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	BABIP	wOBA
Andrew McCutchen	CF	0.288	0.363	0.432	0.795	0.144	0.327	0.356
Jose Tabata	LF	0.281	0.347	0.394	0.740	0.113	0.316	0.334
Neil Walker	2B	0.301	0.338	0.443	0.781	0.142	0.359	0.338
Garrett Jones	1B	0.270	0.333	0.422	0.755	0.153	0.305	0.331
Pedro Alvarez	3B	0.244	0.309	0.463	0.772	0.220	0.311	0.335
Lastings Milledge	RF	0.277	0.341	0.388	0.728	0.111	0.328	0.322
Ronny Cedeno	SS	0.255	0.295	0.381	0.676	0.126	0.317	0.299
Erik Kratz	C	0.105	0.150	0.105	0.255	0.000	0.133	0.125

Bench

Player	Pos	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	BABIP	wOBA
Delwyn Young	OF	0.254	0.308	0.455	0.763	0.201	0.312	0.333
Andy LaRoche	3B	0.232	0.300	0.310	0.611	0.079	0.259	0.278
Bobby Crosby	INF	0.229	0.302	0.301	0.602	0.072	0.283	0.265
Ryan Church	OF	0.187	0.242	0.319	0.561	0.133	0.233	0.251
Jason Jaramillo	C	0.149	0.229	0.216	0.445	0.068	0.159	0.204

Closer

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Octavio Dotel	2-2	39	0	0	0	20	5	38.0	32	21	19	5	17	47	4.50	1.29

Injuries

Pittsburgh Pirates Injuries

15-Day

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Ryan Doumit	concussion	07/22/2010
Steve Pearce	knee	05/25/2010

60 Day DL / Out for the season

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Jose Ascanio	shoulder	03/26/2010
Chris Jakubauskas	concussion	04/25/2010

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Lets steal 3 from some Pirates

arggggggghhhhhhhh

People take many things way too serious.
I can get a rise out of you.

by ndrwbrgr on Jul 27, 2010 12:07 PM MDT reply actions

in normal circumstances

i would say just win the series…but a sweep would be much needed

Get better Tulo....time to rally around each other and hang in there until our Mr. everything returns

Troy Tulowitzki: "When people think of the Rockies, I want them to think of a winning organization."

by TuLoRocks2008 on Jul 27, 2010 12:30 PM MDT reply actions

sweep is needed

to help forget about the road trip from hell

I Hate the Giants

by Rosenort on Jul 27, 2010 12:42 PM MDT up reply actions

Wow that team is weak.

Let’s whoop that ass.

35 days until my first Rockies game!

by CentralCaliRox on Jul 27, 2010 12:37 PM MDT reply actions

I think it would

be cool if DLR has more Ks after tonight than Duke does. Objections and opinions?

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
JFK

by jrockies on Jul 27, 2010 12:45 PM MDT reply actions

I hope because I'll be at the game!

I want nothing short of a no-hitter. If Matt Garza can throw one, so can JDLR

"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" - Rainier Wolfcastle

by BittenAnkles on Jul 27, 2010 12:47 PM MDT up reply actions

He better

My CP was # of DLR K’s > # ER allowed by staff this week

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

by Andrew T. Fisher on Jul 27, 2010 1:04 PM MDT up reply actions

Which would be awesome

19Ks and Duke not getting any would put him past Duke’s season K total in almost 3X as many innings pitched

by jrockies on Jul 27, 2010 1:14 PM MDT up reply actions

I fully expect the Rockies to strike out at least 10 times tonight

you know, just to make Duke feel good about himself before the drop a 10-spot on him in the 6th. That’s my prediction: 10-6 Rox. All six bucco’s runs coming in the first two innings.

"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" - Rainier Wolfcastle

by BittenAnkles on Jul 27, 2010 1:25 PM MDT up reply actions

If we're going on the random predictions bandwagon

Both pitchers will go into the 9th with perfect games and the Rockies will win 1-0 on a walk-off HR from Ian Stewart, making up for the Phillies series.

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by UZ on Jul 27, 2010 2:13 PM MDT up reply actions