Pirates Week in Review: August 29-September 4

This is going to be a weekly post that I thought would be a nice addition to the site. This is going to be a Pirates weekly review where I go over the results for the past seven days and link up the box scores and the recap for each of the games. I also use the lovely FanGraphs and Baseball Reference to give you the box scores and the weekly stats for the team. I will try to have this up either late Sunday night or early Monday mornings, but you know how these things go.

Here is the Bucs weekly recap for this past week:

The Bucs had another bad week which was salvaged by winning a series against the Cubs in Chicago. The worst team in baseball, the Houston Astros, took a three game from the Pirates and then they went back to Pittsburgh and dropped a lone game to the Dodgers before taking two of three games from the Cubs. Before the week started there was a small glimmer of hope they could run off some big wins but that was shot down after dropping three straight to Houston.

Onto the games of last week:

Monday, August 29 - Houston 7, Pittsburgh 4
[Box Score] [TRBB Recap]

Tuesday, August 30 - Houston 8, Pirates 2
[Box Score] [TRBB Recap]

Wednesday, August 31 - Houston 2, Pittsburgh 0
[Box Score] [TRBB Recap]

Thursday, September 1 - Los Angeles 6, Pittsburgh 4
[Box Score] [TRBB Recap]

Friday, September 2 - Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 1
[Box Score] [TRBB Recap]

Saturday, September 3 - Pittsburgh 7, Chicago 5
[Box Score] [TRBB Recap]

Sunday, September 4 - Chicago 6, Pittsburgh 3
[Box Score] [TRBB Recap]


This will be short on analysis, really busy in the office. Here are the stats:

The Hitters:

The Pitchers:

The team hitting stats:

The team pitching stats for the week:

Here are the NL Central standings after the week:

Rk	Tm	W	L	%	GB	Strk	RD	pythWL	vEast	vCent	vWest	Inter	Home	Road	EI	1Run	vRHP	vLHP	≥.500	<500	last10
1	MIL	84	57	.596	---	W 3	0.5	78-63	16-11	44-24	18-13	6-9	50-19	34-38	6-6	28-16	68-41	16-16	21-27	63-30	6-4
2	STL	74	66	.529	9.5	L 1	0.3	75-65	14-11	36-31	16-17	8-7	36-33	38-33	6-12	19-21	56-49	18-17	19-21	55-45	7-3
3	CIN	69	71	.493	14.5	W 1	0.3	74-66	11-19	35-28	17-12	6-12	37-34	32-37	9-5	25-29	54-53	15-18	32-35	37-36	5-5
4	PIT	64	76	.457	19.5	L 1	-0.4	63-77	12-19	33-35	11-15	8-7	31-38	33-38	6-7	16-19	44-58	20-18	21-34	43-42	3-7
5	CHC	60	80	.429	23.5	W 1	-0.8	59-81	13-17	26-38	16-15	5-10	33-39	27-41	7-3	21-23	46-57	14-23	24-37	36-43	3-7
6	HOU	47	93	.336	36.5	L 3	-1.2	53-87	7-18	24-42	12-22	4-11	26-45	21-48	4-10	17-23	30-69	17-24	15-47	32-46	5-5
	Avg	66	73	.473				67-73	12-15	33-33	15-15	6-9	35-34	30-39	6-7	21-21	49-54	16-19	22-33	44-40	4-5

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 9/5/2011.

Next Week's Slate:

Monday, September 5 - Houston (Sosa) at Pittsburgh (McDonald) - 1:35 p.m.
Tuesday, September 6 - Houston (Happ) at Pittsburgh (Lincoln) - 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday, September 7 - Houston (Myers) at Pittsburgh (Burres) - 7:05 p.m.
Friday, September 9 - Florida (Nolasco) at Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf) - 7:05 p.m.
Saturday, September 10 - Florida (Sanchez) at Pittsburgh (Morton) - 7:05 p.m.
Sunday, September 11 - Florida (Vazquez) at Pittsburgh (McDonald) - 1:35 p.m.




Let me know what you think of the new feature and if you would like to see anything else in the weekly features the rest of the season.