Time: 7:05 PM
Location: PNC Park - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Game-Time Weather: Partly Cloudy, 84
TV/Radio: ROOT Sports/KDKA-FM 93.7
Tonight's Starting Pitchers:
Luke Weaver (RHP) (1-2, 3.86) vs. Ryan Vogelsong (RHP) (3-4, 3.56)
Cardinals Lineup:
1. Kolten Wong (L) 2B
2. Jedd Gyorko (R) SS
3. Brandon Moss (L) RF
4. Matt Adams (L) 1B
5. Yadier Molina (R) C
6. Randal Grichuk (R) CF
7. Jhonny Peralta (R) 3B
8. Jeremy Hazelbaker (L) LF
9. Luke Weaver (R) P
1. Josh Harrison (R) 2B
2. John Jaso (L) 1B
3. Andrew McCutchen (R) CF
4. Gregory Polanco (L) LF
5. Jung Ho Kang (R) 3B
6. Matt Joyce (L) RF
7. Jordy Mercer (R) SS
8. Chris Stewart (R) C
9. Ryan Vogelsong (R) P
*BFFL's Spreadsheet that includes JAL's Prediction Contest is right here.
*Pirates Radio Pre-Game begins at 5:40 PM, click here to listen.
*Las Vegas Odds can be found here.
*Game notes from JAL are here (when a different color other than in bold black).
*Game Threads will auto-post at 7:00 PM, 8:00 PM & 9:00 PM
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*Something I am interested in tracking is September/October regular season attendance. Since I am doing it, thought I would give you a daily update and compare it to 2014 & 2015. I am using those years, because 2014 was when I started tracking attendance on the spreadsheet. I really wish MLB would go back to tracking fans in the stands rather than tickets sold. Does not account for no-shows and skews numbers. The 2016 numbers will be updated daily and the total and average is only based on the number of home games played up to date.
- 2014: 9 Home Games / 333,313 = Total Home Attendance / Average = 37,035 per game.
- 2015: 15 Home Games / 434,032 = Total Home Attendance / Average = 28,935 per game.
- 2016: 17 Home Games / 100,024 = Total Home Attendance / Average = 25,006
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*For those not aware, Macchamp74 will hopefully be making his ESPN Baseball Tonight debut tonight. The story is about Roberto Clemente, not Jordy Mercer, and is from G4's favorite Pittsburgh restaurant, Primanti Brothers. It's scheduled to air at midnight eastern time on ESPN 2, soon after WNBA Basketball.
Mac - If you have any updates I have not provided regarding time or ESPN Network, please let us know.
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*I will mostly be AWOL on Tuesday afternoon's from here on out. If JAL is not able, I will provide lineups when I return. Any help JAL provides to me is always appreciated and I hope he knows that fact.