gistfile1.txt

R. Oswalt (Houston Astros) vs. S. Olsen (Washington Nationals)
A. Reyes (Cleveland Indians) vs. B. Cecil (Toronto Blue Jays)
T. Lincecum (San Francisco Giants) vs. S. Marshall (Chicago Cubs)
K. Uehara (Baltimore Orioles) vs. M. Garza (Tampa Bay Rays)
V. Padilla (Texas Rangers) vs. E. Bedard (Seattle Mariners)
L. Hernandez (New York Mets) vs. K. Kawakami (Atlanta Braves)
N. Blackburn (Minnesota Twins) vs. R. Porcello (Detroit Tigers)
J. Beckett (Boston Red Sox) vs. J. Chamberlain (New York Yankees)
J. Suppan (Milwaukee Brewers) vs. I. Snell (Pittsburgh Pirates)
E. Volquez (Cincinnati Reds) vs. C. Volstad (Florida Marlins)
G. Floyd (Chicago White Sox) vs. K. Davies (Kansas City Royals)
B. Myers (Philadelphia Phillies) vs. A. Wainwright (St. Louis Cardinals)
S. Loux (Los Angeles Angels) vs. D. Braden (Oakland Athletics)
A. Cook (Colorado Rockies) vs. J. Geer (San Diego Padres)
M. Scherzer (Arizona Diamondbacks) vs. J. Weaver (Los Angeles Dodgers)

pitching_probables.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
require 'pp'

class Probable
  def initialize(url)
    @doc = Hpricot(open(url))
  end
  
  def get_match_up(row)
    if row
      cells = row.search("td")
      away, home = cells.first.search("a")
      [away.inner_html,home.inner_html]
    end
  end

  def get_pitcher_stats(row)
    if row
      row.at("td").at("a").inner_html
    end
  end  
  
  def print_matchups
    probables = @doc.search("/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/table")
    probables.search("tr.colhead").remove
    probables.search("tr").each_slice(3) do |rows|
      away,home = get_match_up(rows[0]) # rows.at(".stathead"))
      away_pitcher = get_pitcher_stats(rows[1]) # rows.at(".oddrow"))
      home_pitcher = get_pitcher_stats(rows[2]) # rows.at(".evenrow"))
      puts "#{away_pitcher} (#{away}) vs. #{home_pitcher} (#{home})"
    end
  end
end

@probable = Probable.new("http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/probables")
@probable.print_matchups