CLE @ KCR, Saturday, September 29, 2007 Game Preview

Cleveland Indians, 95-65, 1st, 8 up	SP: Jake Westbrook (29, RHP, 6-9, 4.32) 2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (6-9) 145.2 152 75 70 54 88 13 4.32 2006 (15-10) 211.1 247 106 98 55 109 15 4.17 2005 (15-15) 210.2 218 121 105 56 119 19 4.49 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-2 45.1 54 20 17 17 33 3 3.38 50 2007-09-23 OAK W 7 4 2 2 2 9 1 114 68 2007-09-18 DET ND 5 12 4 3 2 4 0 102 31 2007-09-12 CHW L 6 7 5 4 1 5 2 102 44 2007-09-07 LAA ND 7.2 5 2 2 5 2 0 111 58 2007-09-02 CHW L 5 11 4 3 3 6 0 104 34 2007-08-28 MIN W 6.2 10 3 3 2 4 0 104 44 2007-08-23 DET ND 8 5 0 0 2 3 0 104 73 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.KCR 1-1 34.2 38 19 15 8 18 1 3.89 50 2007-07-13 KCR ND 6 5 3 3 5 2 0 94 47 2006-09-13 KCR L 6 11 4 4 1 3 0 94 36 2006-05-17 KCR W 9 6 0 0 0 2 0 112 77 2006-05-10 KCR ND 5.2 9 8 7 1 3 0 90 23 2005-09-25 KCR ND 8 7 4 1 1 8 1 101 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 52-29 Road: 43-36 ExtrInn:11-8 vsRHP: 63-46 vsLHP: 32-19 1-Run: 29-23 vsEast: 18-18 vsCntrl:47-23 vsWest: 21-15 IL: 9-9 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 160 Fri, Sep 28 @KCR W 5-3 95-65 1st 8.0 up 159 Thu, Sep 27 @SEA L 2-4 94-65 1st 7.0 up 158 Wed, Sep 26 @SEA L 2-3 (10) 94-64 1st 7.5 up 157 Wed, Sep 26 SEA W 12-4 94-63 1st 7.5 up 156 Tue, Sep 25 @SEA W 4-3 (12) 93-63 1st 8.0 up 155 Sun, Sep 23 OAK W 6-2 92-63 1st 7.5 up 154 Sat, Sep 22 OAK L 3-9 91-63 1st 7.5 up 153 Fri, Sep 21 OAK W 4-3 91-62 1st 7.5 up 152 Wed, Sep 19 DET W 4-2 90-62 1st 7.5 up 151 Tue, Sep 18 DET W 7-4 89-62 1st 6.5 up Last 10: 7-3 Last 20:14-6 Last 30:22-8
Kansas City Royals, 68-92, 5th, 27 GB, 24 GB in WC	SP: Gil Meche (28, RHP, 9-13, 3.69) 2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup Split Opp Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ 2007 (9-13) 210 211 96 86 60 149 22 3.69 2006 (11-8) 186.2 183 106 93 84 156 24 4.48 2005 (10-8) 143.1 153 92 81 72 83 18 5.09 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 7 GS 2-2 46.1 41 16 15 13 33 4 2.91 57 2007-09-24 BAL L 8 7 3 3 1 5 1 124 60 2007-09-18 CHW W 7 4 2 1 2 5 0 108 66 2007-09-12 MIN W 6.2 5 2 2 1 7 0 101 62 2007-09-07 NYY ND 6 5 2 2 2 3 2 105 55 2007-08-31 MIN L 7 7 3 3 3 3 0 115 51 2007-08-26 CLE ND 6 7 2 2 2 4 0 112 52 2007-08-20 CHW ND 5.2 6 2 2 2 6 1 104 53 +------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+ Last 5 v.CLE 1-1 25 35 18 16 11 18 4 5.76 41 2007-08-26 CLE ND 6 7 2 2 2 4 0 112 52 2007-07-14 CLE W 5 8 4 4 1 5 1 100 39 2006-04-12 CLE ND 4 7 5 5 4 1 0 84 25 2005-07-28 CLE ND 3 4 3 3 3 2 1 66 38 2005-07-23 CLE L 7 9 4 2 1 6 2 116 52
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
Home: 34-45 Road: 34-47 ExtrInn: 5-8 vsRHP: 49-67 vsLHP: 19-25 1-Run: 20-22 vsEast: 11-26 vsCntrl:28-42 vsWest: 19-16 IL:10-8 Last 10 Games Gm# Date & Box Opp W/L Score Record Place/GB 160 Fri, Sep 28 CLE L 3-5 68-92 5th 27.0 gb 159 Thu, Sep 27 @CHW L 0-10 68-91 5th 26.0 gb 158 Wed, Sep 26 @CHW L 0-3 68-90 5th 26.0 gb 157 Tue, Sep 25 @CHW W 9-5 68-89 4th 25.5 gb 156 Mon, Sep 24 @BAL L 2-3 67-89 5th 25.5 gb 155 Sun, Sep 23 @DET L 2-7 67-88 5th 25.0 gb 154 Sat, Sep 22 @DET W 7-4 67-87 5th 24.0 gb 153 Fri, Sep 21 @DET L 4-5 66-87 5th 25.0 gb 152 Thu, Sep 20 CHW W 3-0 66-86 4th 24.0 gb 151 Wed, Sep 19 CHW L 0-7 65-86 5th 24.5 gb Last 10: 3-7 Last 20: 6-14 Last 30:10-20
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head Fri, Sep 28, 2007 CLE 5 @KCR 3 W:C.C. Sabathia (19-7), L: Kyle Davies (7-15), S: Joe Borowski (44) Sun, Sep 16, 2007 KCR 4 @CLE 3 W:Billy Buckner (1-1), L: Aaron Laffey (3-2), S: Joakim Soria (15) Sat, Sep 15, 2007 CLE 6 KCR 0 W:Fausto Carmona (17-8), L: Zack Greinke (6-6), S: none Fri, Sep 14, 2007 CLE 5 KCR 4 W:Joe Borowski (4-5), L: David Riske (1-4), S: none Sun, Aug 26, 2007 CLE 5 @KCR 3 (11) W:Rafael Betancourt (3-0), L: Joel Peralta (1-3), S: Joe Borowski (37) Sat, Aug 25, 2007 CLE 9 @KCR 4 W:Aaron Laffey (2-1), L: Kyle Davies (5-11), S: none Fri, Aug 24, 2007 KCR 2 CLE 1 W:John Bale (1-1), L: C.C. Sabathia (14-7), S: Joakim Soria (14) Sun, Jul 15, 2007 CLE 5 KCR 3 W:Fausto Carmona (11-4), L: Jorge de la Rosa (7-10), S: Joe Borowski (26) Sat, Jul 14, 2007 KCR 6 @CLE 5 W:Gil Meche (6-6), L: C.C. Sabathia (12-4), S: Octavio Dotel (9) Fri, Jul 13, 2007 CLE 5 KCR 4 W:Joe Borowski (2-3), L: Zack Greinke (4-5), S: none Season Series: 2007 - CLE leads 10-6; 2006 - CLE won 10-8; 2005 - CLE won 13-6; All-Time - CLE leads 252-247

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid. OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2007 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed

MLB Best, Middle, Worst

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY 5.90

TOR 4.64

SFG 4.18

RA/G

SDP 4.02

MIL 4.79

TBD 5.84

M. Ordonez .360

H. Blalock .293

J. LaRue .148

OBP

B. Bonds .480

H. Matsui .367

J. LaRue .240

SLG

C. Ross .655

F. Gutierrez .475

A. Gonzalez .250

OPS

D. Ortiz 1.069

T. Glaus .839

J. LaRue .512

ERA

J. Peavy 2.36

C. Zambrano 4.08

A. Eaton 6.33

K/9IP

E. Bedard 10.93

D. Bush 6.56

A. Cook 3.31

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Cleveland Indians Batters (5.03 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (4.82 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 55.Meche
G/S/vB 49.Bale*
G/S/vB 47.Braun
G/S/vB 31.Duckworth
G/S/vB 41.Gobble*
G/S/vB 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB 58.Musser*
G/S/vB 46.Nunez
G/S/vB 57.Peralta
G/S/vB 54.Riske
G/S/vB 48.Soria
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

29.Barfield G/S/vP 7/.572 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 4/.000 1/.000 442/321 .242/.269/.321/.589 .549/.605 .580 13/.308 14/5 3/15

1.Blake G/S/vP 23/1.028 3/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 17/.891 ··· ··· 5/1.267 8/.857 6/1.750 2/.000 657/468 .269/.337/.437/.774 .827/.753 .835 90/.805 4/4 18/14

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 3/.000 3/1.167 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 1/2.000 179/130 .279/.345/.422/.767 .927/.698 .817 110/.771 0/0 3/1

20.Dellucci* G/S/vP 16/.688 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· 197/171 .233/.299/.386/.686 .481/.718 .767 1/.000 2/1 4/0

12.Francisco G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 63/56 .271/.302/.492/.793 .714/.804 .596 15/.600 0/2 3/0

25.Garko G/S/vP 6/1.500 2/.000 3/.666 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.350 6/1.000 5/.000 535/372 .291/.361/.485/.846 .914/.817 .822 98/.828 0/1 21/8

27.Gomez G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/3.500 3/.000 ··· 236/141 .303/.330/.381/.711 .678/.734 .675 26/.450 1/2 1/3

38.Gutierrez G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 5/1.400 4/1.167 2/.000 295/193 .264/.317/.475/.793 .908/.731 .623 91/.734 8/3 13/1

48.Hafner* G/S/vP 19/.787 4/1.000 2/.000 2/.500 27/.825 ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 655/415 .263/.384/.449/.833 .832/.834 .876 110/.953 1/1 23/0

7.Lofton* G/S/vP 16/.760 3/.000 2/.500 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 4/.000 1/.000 557/448 .297/.368/.416/.784 .545/.842 .770 84/.758 23/7 7/3

30.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 2/1.500 ··· 57/38 .185/.228/.296/.524 .594/.490 .412 5/.650 0/0 1/4

41.Martinez# G/S/vP 21/.810 3/1.334 3/2.667 2/.000 27/.446 ··· ··· 3/1.666 3/.666 1/5.000 1/.000 641/411 .297/.371/.504/.875 .819/.905 .883 96/.811 0/0 25/5

8.Michaels G/S/vP 3/.667 2/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 8/.375 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 4/.500 1/no AB 289/134 .271/.324/.401/.725 .806/.635 .666 32/.790 3/4 7/1

33.Nixon* G/S/vP 16/1.167 2/.500 1/.000 4/.833 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 2/.000 352/296 .252/.344/.338/.681 .571/.702 .662 15/.500 0/0 3/4

2.Peralta G/S/vP 15/1.369 3/1.167 3/1.667 2/.500 9/1.083 ··· ··· 3/.333 8/.125 5/.400 4/1.000 643/478 .270/.341/.432/.773 .820/.756 .661 93/.803 4/4 21/19

11.Rivas G/S/vP 8/.875 ··· ··· ··· 10/1.200 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 6/.666 ··· 8/5 .375/.375/1.000/1.375 2.333/.800 .000 8/1.375 0/0 1/0

10.Shoppach G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 173/132 .253/.304/.468/.772 1.126/.672 .720 29/.696 0/0 7/4

24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 17/.639 4/.500 2/.500 2/.000 21/.836 ··· ··· 4/1.250 5/.900 3/.333 2/3.000 741/497 .280/.393/.466/.859 .815/.881 .806 114/.845 33/10 24/2

IP 210.0 37.0 39.1 45.2 52.2 9.2 24.2 39.2 84.2 69.1 67.0 TOTAL .268/.343/.429/.772 .796/.762 .745 72/40 178/91

ERA-K/9

3.69/6.4

4.38/9.0

6.64/5.5

4.53/4.1

2.91/8.2

0.93/3.7

4.38/6.9

4.31/7.3

3.83/7.0

2.47/6.8

2.55/9.7

4.51/6.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Martinez (69-32-6)
Shoppach (23-13-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 882/.261 167/.299 183/.299 204/.268 227/.270 41/.222 116/.314 169/.274 355/.277 288/.241 263/.192 .277 Lofton
Sizemore
Michaels
Nixon
Gutierrez
Dellucci
Blake
Francisco 49/83/0/8
0/158/0/4
72/1/27/4
0/0/86/4
9/7/86/3
51/0/0/3
0/0/7/2
14/0/4/0

OPS .710 .734 .843 .741 .804 .678 .936 .798 .770 .709 .524 .786

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 444/.687 73/.713 89/.937 91/.757 124/.725 20/.739 41/1.150 75/.945 133/.766 113/.613 104/.455 .785

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 438/.733 94/.750 94/.758 113/.728 103/.896 21/.619 75/.811 94/.687 222/.773 175/.770 159/.569 .787

Home 460/.696 68/.731 87/1.112 94/.790 108/.708 28/.690 73/1.073 81/.731 195/.701 144/.641 123/.509 .797

Last 28d days 142/.594 61/.633 46/1.000 56/.828 31/.519 41/.678 24/1.079 28/.714 35/.749 36/.697 33/.381

HR/SB/CS 22/4/4 1/0/0 4/3/1 3/1/0 6/2/1 1/0/0 5/3/1 8/5/0 9/8/0 8/4/1 3/0/0 168/70/25

Usage ····X··· ···o··Xo ···X···· ··XX···· ···o··o· ·····X·· ········ ·····X·o ···o··oo ·X·····o ···o··X·

Kansas City Royals Batters (4.38 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.37 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS

37.Westbrook
G/S/vB

63.Betancourt
G/S/vB

47.Borowski
G/S/vB

46.Fultz*
G/S/vB

44.Koplove
G/S/vB

58.Lara*
G/S/vB

31.Lee*
G/S/vB

50.Lewis
G/S/vB

40.Mastny
G/S/vB

49.Mujica
G/S/vB

53.Perez*
G/S/vB

PA/vRH

BA/OBP/SLG/OPS

vLH/RH

Last 28d

SB/CS

HR/E

39.Brazell* G/S/vP

···

4/3

.333/.500/.333/.833

2.000/.333

2.000

4/.833

0/0

35.Brown G/S/vP

···

···

393/235

.260/.303/.351/.654

.834/.534

.656

45/.787

12/2

6/6

14.Buck G/S/vP

···

···

···

···

396/308

.224/.311/.433/.744

.739/.745

.616

64/.626

0/1

18/8

21.Butler G/S/vP

···

···

···

356/250

.286/.343/.437/.780

.960/.705

.739

86/.694

0/0

8/3

32.Costa* G/S/vP

···

···

···

108/99

.225/.259/.304/.563

.347/.582

.521

28/.873

0/1

9.DeJesus* G/S/vP

···

···

699/499

.261/.351/.374/.725

.661/.751

.768

98/.658

9/4

7/4

2.Gathright* G/S/vP

···

···

···

253/213

.305/.370/.341/.711

.639/.725

.567

72/.603

9/8

0/4

3.German G/S/vP

···

···

400/234

.268/.355/.382/.737

.820/.678

.876

38/.828

11/7

3/9

11.Gload* G/S/vP

···

···

···

341/289

.285/.314/.434/.747

.854/.728

.740

76/.626

2/2

7/3

7.Gordon* G/S/vP

···

···

···

594/442

.248/.316/.413/.729

.686/.744

.799

90/.776

14/4

15/14

15.Grudzielanek G/S/vP

···

···

···

482/330

.300/.342/.424/.767

.840/.734

.746

89/.649

1/2

6/6

30.Huber G/S/vP

···

···

.000/.000/.000/.000

.000/

.000

8/.000

0/0

6.LaRue G/S/vP

···

···

···

195/138

.148/.240/.272/.512

.610/.471

.663

25/.610

1/0

4/5

1.Pena G/S/vP

···

···

···

529/391

.265/.282/.351/.633

.633/.633

.766

66/.780

4/5

2/22

12.Phillips G/S/vP

3/1.334

···

2/.000

···

12/8

.182/.250/.273/.523

.250/.625

.000

1/.000

0/0

26.Smith* G/S/vP

···

148/133

.200/.236/.379/.615

.205/.661

.497

41/.681

0/0

6/6

29.Sweeney G/S/vP

···

···

···

282/194

.260/.316/.407/.723

.827/.675

.692

56/.736

0/0

7/1

24.Teahen* G/S/vP

···

···

603/428

.286/.354/.410/.764

.676/.800

.838

92/.796

13/5

7/6

145.2

78.1

63.2

35.2

6.0

1.1

97.1

28.2

56.0

13.0

59.2

TOTAL

.261/.322/.388/.710

.734/.701

.733

77/43

102/104

ERA-K/9

4.32/5.4

1.49/9.0

5.23/8.1

3.03/6.8

6.00/6.0

13.50

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Game Preview: CLE @ KCR, 7:10pm, Saturday, September 29, 2007 @Kauffman Stadium

NOTE: These are still in beta-development. Please report any errors or suggested changes.

SP: Jake Westbrook (29, RHP, 6-9, 4.32)

SP: Gil Meche (28, RHP, 9-13, 3.69)

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now


Quick Index: Play Index \| Players \| Teams \| Leagues \| Managers \| Leaders \| Awards \| Postseason \| Box Scores \| Minors \| Draft SportingNews.com \| Stat of the Day \| SR Blog \| Tutorial Videos \| All-Star \| Travel \| Bullpen Wiki \| Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Previews > CLE @ KCR, Saturday, September 29, 2007