Pirates Designate John Bowker For Assignment
The Pirates have designated John Bowker for assignment to make way for outfielder Xavier Paul, Rob Biertempfel tweets. If you've paid attention to the chatter over the past couple days here, you...
| Final - 4.27.2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Giants | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 | 8 | 0 |
The Pirates have designated John Bowker for assignment to make way for outfielder Xavier Paul, Rob Biertempfel tweets. If you've paid attention to the chatter over the past couple days here, you...
This one wasn't broadcast in the Pittsburgh area, but here's what happened: James McDonald pitched six shutout innings despite walking four batters (and, to judge from the gamethread, still not...
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Steve Pearce is starting tonight against the Giants, which could be significant because of the impending arrival of Xavier Paul, which would seem likely to cause either Pearce or, more likely, J...
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Pittsburgh | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| San Francisco Giants | |||||||
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Rowand, CF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .278 |
| Freddy Sanchez, 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .283 |
| Aubrey Huff, 1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .218 |
| Buster Posey, C | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .259 |
| Pablo Sandoval, 3B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .329 |
| Pat Burrell, LF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .261 |
| Cody Ross, RF | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .227 |
| Miguel Tejada, SS | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .200 |
| Madison Bumgarner, P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| Nate Schierholtz, PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .242 |
| Dan Runzler, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Guillermo Mota, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Totals | 29 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 4 | |
| Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | ERA | WP | PC-ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Bumgarner (L, 0-4) | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 6.17 | 0 | 97-64 |
| Dan Runzler | 0.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.55 | 0 | 9-7 |
| Guillermo Mota | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2.70 | 0 | 24-17 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | |||||||
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew McCutchen, CF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .212 |
| Jose Tabata, LF | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .267 |
| Matt Diaz, RF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .227 |
| Garrett Jones, ph,9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .241 |
| Neil Walker, 2B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .286 |
| Steve Pearce, 1B | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .292 |
| Mike Crotta, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Joe Beimel, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Chris Resop, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| John Bowker, PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .235 |
| Joel Hanrahan, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Chris Snyder, C | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .323 |
| Pedro Alvarez, 3B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .210 |
| Brandon Wood, SS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 |
| James McDonald, P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .125 |
| Lyle Overbay, 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| Totals | 32 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 10 | |
| Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | ERA | WP | PC-ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James McDonald (W, 1-2) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7.66 | 0 | 98-57 |
| Mike Crotta (, 0-1) | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 0 | 5-3 |
| Joe Beimel (, 0-0) | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.86 | 0 | 6-4 |
| Chris Resop (, 1-0) | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.35 | 0 | 20-14 |
| Joel Hanrahan (S, 0-1; S,7) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2.08 | 0 | 18-9 |