DAILY MATCHUPS: Lohse a solid Sunday play

As a way to preview the day's games, the 2014 Daily Matchups column seeks to highlight the outliers or notable matchups on BaseballHQ.com's HQ Pitcher Matchups tool (also available as an 8-day scan). For more information on how to leverage the report, see our research article from 2012.

 

Today’s schedule overview:  Sunday’s slate calls for the big STL-CHC rivalry as the night game. The interleague contest is TOR-PIT. Rotations have tumbled such that there aren’t many big guns going on this first Sunday in May.

 

Best SP choices

  • Gio González (SP, WAS) is tabbed with a 4.00 Matchup Rating for his Sunday turn at Philadelphia. Gonzalez is coming off a PQS-5 (and two 5s in his last three games started), and he averaged a 4.5 against...

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