DAILY MATCHUPS: Petit enters rotation

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: A light Thursday sees only nine games on the schedule today, with three games taking place in the afternoon. Interleague play takes the day off.

 

Best SP choices

  • Jeremy Hellickson (RHP, TAM) missed the first three months of the season with a right elbow injury. Upon his return, his first three starts were all at home and all resulted in a PQS-0. Since then, he has thrown four consecutive PQS-DOMs, with three of those...

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