On Sunday, August 27 at 1:35 PM ET, Ian Happ and the Chicago Cubs will match up with starter Bailey Falter and the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park, airing on SNPT.
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Player Prop Odds for Happ
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 1.5 | -102 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -129 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -130 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | -104 |
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Stats and Trends for the Pittsburgh Pirates
- Falter (1-7) will take to the mound for the Pirates and make his 11th start of the season.
- The left-hander last pitched on Monday against the St. Louis Cardinals, throwing six innings of relief while giving up one earned run and allowing three hits.
- The 26-year-old has an ERA of 4.53, 6.9 strikeouts per nine innings and a batting average against of .292 in 12 games this season.
- The Pirates strike out 8.7 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 17th in MLB.
- Pirates pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.59 this year, which ranks 21st in MLB.
- The Pirates have a combined WHIP of 1.399 as a pitching staff, which ranks 22nd in MLB.
- The Pirates have allowed the seventh-fewest home runs this season at just 141, or 1.1 per game.
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Ian Happ Stats vs. the Pirates
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/26/2023 | Colin Selby | 1-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 8/25/2023 | Mitch Keller | 2-for-4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 8/24/2023 | Rob Zastryzny | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 6/21/2023 | Rich Hill | 2-for-5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 6/20/2023 | Juan Carlos Oviedo | 2-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 6/19/2023 | Osvaldo Bido | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3/1 | 1 |
| 6/15/2023 | Juan Carlos Oviedo | 3-for-5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 6/14/2023 | Osvaldo Bido | 1-for-5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4/0 | 0 |
| 6/13/2023 | Luis Ortiz | 1-for-2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 9/25/2022 | Luis Ortiz | 2-for-5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2/0 | 1 |
Happ Stats and Trends
- Happ has collected a hit in 79 of 126 games this year (62.7%), with multiple base hits in 26 of them (20.6%).
- He has homered in 13 games this season, going deep in 2.7% of his trips to home plate.
- In 51 of 126 contests this season (40.5%), he has touched home plate, and 13 of those games (10.3%) included a performance that produced more than one run scored.
- Happ has driven in at least one run 39 times this season in 126 tries (31.0%), including plating more than one run in 14.3% of games (18 times) and producing three or more of his team’s runs on five occasions.
- In 67.5% of his contests this year (85 of 126), he has struck out one or more times. In 33 of those games (26.2%), he registered more than one strikeout.
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 63 | GP | 63 |
| 41 (65.1%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 38 (60.3%) |
| 11 (17.5%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 15 (23.8%) |
| 25 (39.7%) | Games w/1+ Run | 26 (41.3%) |
| 7 (11.1%) | Games w/1+ HR | 6 (9.5%) |
| 23 (36.5%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 16 (25.4%) |
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