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Game Preview: KCR @ CHW, 8:11pm, Friday, July 18, 2008 @U.S. Cellular Field

Kansas City Royals, 43-53, 4th, 12 GB, 13 GB in WC

SP: Zack Greinke (24, RHP, 7-5, 3.48)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (7-5)            124   120  49  48  36 104 17    3.48      
 2007 (7-7)            122   122  52  50  36 106 12    3.69      
 2006 (1-0)              6.1   7   3   3   3   5  1    4.26      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-2  43    40  16  16  15  48  6    3.35   57 
 2008-07-10    CHW  ND   7     6   1   1   1   8  1     109   68 
 2008-07-05   @TBR   L   6     7   2   2   1   7  0     113   56 
 2008-06-30   @BAL  ND   5     7   5   5   1   5  1      86   37 
 2008-06-24    COL   W   6     9   3   3   0  10  1      99   52 
 2008-06-19   @STL   W   7     2   1   1   1   7  1     112   75 
 2008-06-13   @ARI  ND   7     3   0   0   7   5  0     111   69 
 2008-06-08   @NYY   L   5     6   4   4   4   6  2     104   41 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CHW      1-2  32    31  14  14   6  29  8    3.94   55 
 2008-07-10    CHW  ND   7     6   1   1   1   8  1     109   68 
 2008-06-03   @CHW   L   6     9   8   8   2   3  4      83   23 
 2007-09-26   @CHW   L   5     7   3   3   2   6  2      93   45 
 2007-09-20    CHW   W   8     2   0   0   0  10  0     101   88 
 2005-09-15    CHW  ND   6     7   2   2   1   2  1     111   51 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   22-24   Road:   21-29   ExtrInn: 3-5 
 vsRHP:  26-41   vsLHP:  17-12   1-Run:  13-14
 vsEast: 10-20   vsCntrl:13-16   vsWest:  7-12 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 96 Sun, Jul 13   SEA  L   3-4       43-53  4th 12.0 gb
 95 Sat, Jul 12   SEA  W   5-4       43-52  4th 12.0 gb
 94 Fri, Jul 11   SEA  W   3-1       42-52  4th 12.0 gb
 93 Thu, Jul 10   CHW  W   4-1       41-52  4th 13.0 gb
 92 Wed, Jul  9   CHW  L   6-7       40-52  4th 14.0 gb
 91 Tue, Jul  8   CHW  L   7-8 (13)  40-51  4th 13.0 gb
 90 Mon, Jul  7  @TBR  W   7-4 (10)  40-50  4th 12.0 gb
 89 Sun, Jul  6  @TBR  L   2-9       39-50  4th 12.5 gb
 88 Sat, Jul  5  @TBR  L   0-3       39-49  4th 11.5 gb
 87 Fri, Jul  4  @TBR  L   2-11      39-48  4th 10.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:18-12
Chicago White Sox, 54-40, 1st, 1½ up

SP: Mark Buehrle (29, LHP, 6-8, 3.68)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (6-8)            124.2 132  60  51  32  75 10    3.68      
 2007 (10-9)           201   208  86  81  45 115 22    3.63      
 2006 (12-13)          204   247 124 113  48  98 36    4.99      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         4-2  52    46  12   9   9  33  4    1.56   63 
 2008-07-10   @KCR   L   7.1   6   2   0   0   8  0     107   70 
 2008-07-04    OAK   L   5.2  10   4   4   3   5  1     105   35 
 2008-06-29    CHC   W   7     6   1   0   2   5  0      99   66 
 2008-06-24   @LAD   W   8     6   1   1   0   2  1      96   68 
 2008-06-18    PIT   W   8     4   2   2   2   3  1      96   67 
 2008-06-12   @DET  ND   8     7   1   1   1   6  0     102   69 
 2008-06-07    MIN   W   8     7   1   1   1   4  1     106   67 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR      2-1  31.2  33  15  13   7  26  3    3.69   53 
 2008-07-10   @KCR   L   7.1   6   2   0   0   8  0     107   70 
 2007-08-20    KCR  ND   5.1   6   3   3   2   4  1     101   46 
 2007-05-12    KCR  ND   6     7   4   4   3   7  1     114   46 
 2007-04-23   @KCR   W   7     5   3   3   1   4  1     103   58 
 2006-09-02   @KCR   W   6     9   3   3   1   3  0      93   44 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   32-13   Road:   22-27   ExtrInn: 5-2 
 vsRHP:  34-27   vsLHP:  20-13   1-Run:  13-11
 vsEast:  7-12   vsCntrl:26-12   vsWest:  9-10 IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 95 Sun, Jul 13  @TEX  L  11-12      54-40  1st  1.5 up
 94 Sat, Jul 12  @TEX  W   9-7       54-39  1st  1.5 up
 93 Fri, Jul 11  @TEX  L   2-7       53-39  1st  1.5 up
 92 Thu, Jul 10  @KCR  L   1-4       53-38  1st  2.5 up
 91 Wed, Jul  9  @KCR  W   7-6       53-37  1st  3.5 up
 90 Tue, Jul  8  @KCR  W   8-7 (13)  52-37  1st  2.5 up
 89 Sun, Jul  6   OAK  W   4-3       51-37  1st  1.0 up
 88 Sat, Jul  5   OAK  W   6-1       50-37  1st  1.0 up
 87 Fri, Jul  4   OAK  L   1-7       49-37  1st  1.0 up
 86 Thu, Jul  3   OAK  L   2-3       49-36  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jul 10, 2008 KCR  4  CHW  1        W:Ron Mahay (5-0), L: Mark Buehrle (6-8), S: Joakim Soria (24)
Wed, Jul 09, 2008 CHW  7 @KCR  6        W:Adam Russell (3-0), L: Robinson Tejeda (0-2), S: Octavio Dotel (1)
Tue, Jul 08, 2008 CHW  8 @KCR  7 (13)   W:Nick Masset (1-0), L: Robinson Tejeda (0-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 05, 2008 CHW  6  KCR  2        W:Jose Contreras (6-3), L: Gil Meche (3-8), S: none
Wed, Jun 04, 2008 CHW  6  KCR  4 (15)   W:Octavio Dotel (3-2), L: Jimmy Gobble (0-1), S: none
Tue, Jun 03, 2008 CHW  9  KCR  5        W:Gavin Floyd (6-3), L: Zack Greinke (5-3), S: none

Thu, Sep 27, 2007 CHW 10  KCR  0        W:Lance Broadway (1-1), L: Billy Buckner (1-2), S: none
Wed, Sep 26, 2007 CHW  3  KCR  0        W:Jon Garland (10-13), L: Zack Greinke (7-7), S: none
Tue, Sep 25, 2007 KCR  9 @CHW  5        W:Brandon Duckworth (3-5), L: Ehren Wassermann (0-1), S: none
Thu, Sep 20, 2007 KCR  3  CHW  0        W:Zack Greinke (7-6), L: Jon Garland (9-13), S: Joakim Soria (17)
Season Series: 2008 - CHW leads 5-1; 2007 - CHW won 12-6; 2006 - CHW won 11-8; All-Time - CHW leads 309-269

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 2008 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

TEX  5.60

CLE  4.53

WSN  3.65

RA/G

OAK  3.63

MIL  4.49

TEX  5.82

BA

C. Jones  .376

M. Kemp  .284

T. Pena  .155

OBP

C. Jones  .472

N. McLouth  .356

T. Pena  .176

SLG

L. Berkman  .653

B. Phillips  .472

O. Vizquel  .179

OPS

L. Berkman  1.096

O. Hudson  .816

T. Pena  .381

ERA

J. Duchscherer  1.82

J. Maine  3.99

M. Hendrickson  6.09

K/9IP

C. Billingsley  9.91

T. Wakefield  6.18

K. Rogers  3.36

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Kansas City Royals Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Chicago White Sox Pitchers (4.02 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Buehrle*
G/S/vB
26.Dotel
G/S/vB
71.Linebrink
G/S/vB
57.Logan*
G/S/vB
46.Masset
G/S/vB
61.Russell
G/S/vB
37.Thornton*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
30.Aviles G/S/vP 4/.750 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 149/112 .310/.336/.486/.821 1.099/.735 .824 94/.723 3/1 4/
14.Buck G/S/vP 41/.576 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 4/.250 255/189 .251/.322/.383/.705 .946/.622 .747 64/.744 0/3 5/
16.Butler G/S/vP 9/.361 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 255/186 .249/.310/.330/.640 .922/.540 .683 49/.522 0/1 2/
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 45/.501 4/.500 1/.000 6/.500 3/.666 ··· 9/.472 343/233 .306/.362/.474/.836 .736/.884 .854 93/.870 7/5 10/
2.Gathright* G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· 5/.500 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 262/193 .251/.302/.268/.570 .547/.578 .541 55/.649 19/4 0/
3.German G/S/vP 17/.651 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 4/1.000 ··· 4/.000 91/46 .217/.250/.253/.503 .433/.569 .296 20/.850 3/1 0/
7.Gload* G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 4/.500 255/203 .277/.327/.336/.663 .412/.729 .536 91/.880 3/3 1/
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 9/.708 2/1.000 2/1.500 8/.000 2/no AB ··· 4/.250 404/283 .253/.334/.407/.741 .493/.850 .679 97/.672 3/2 11/
15.Grudzielanek G/S/vP 34/.618 21/.602 4/.750 4/.250 2/.000 1/2.000 6/2.000 314/234 .309/.360/.410/.770 .961/.707 .701 72/.814 2/1 3/
11.Guillen G/S/vP 9/.666 10/.550 5/.400 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.000 380/284 .270/.295/.462/.756 .943/.695 .764 87/.602 1/0 13/
21.Olivo G/S/vP 3/.000 8/.250 6/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 206/143 .260/.291/.474/.766 .987/.672 .899 33/.648 2/0 9/
1.Pena G/S/vP 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 189/133 .155/.176/.204/.381 .530/.321 .350 21/.516 3/1 1/
24.Teahen* G/S/vP 33/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 9/.958 3/5.000 ··· 10/1.056 378/275 .252/.323/.408/.730 .646/.763 .745 91/.648 2/2 10/
IP 124.2 42.1 38.0 33.0 40.2 7.2 38.2 TOTAL .263/.315/.387/.702 .734/.690 .688 .716 49/25 69/54
ERA-K/9 3.68/5.4 2.98/12.8 2.37/7.6 3.00/8.7 3.32/6.4 4.70/10.5 2.33/11.2 3.60/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (35-6-3)
 Olivo (10-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 517/.277 187/.208 146/.207 137/.250 178/.284 35/.344 153/.184 .251  Guillen
 Gathright
 Teahen
 DeJesus
 Gload
 German
35/0/30/6
0/76/0/5
20/0/58/4
44/34/12/3
1/0/2/0
10/0/0/0
OPS .737 .632 .597 .693 .766 .869 .511 .703
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 116/.723 56/.650 67/.573 74/.613 66/.872 16/1.038 73/.429 .744
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 401/.741 131/.624 79/.617 63/.788 112/.708 19/.721 80/.586 .676
Home 224/.690 90/.547 82/.594 60/.704 92/1.007 18/.745 75/.515 .676
Last 28d days 114/.669 40/.692 36/.821 36/.951 51/.796 27/.944 46/.609
HR/SB/CS 10/3/4 4/12/1 5/2/0 3/3/1 2/2/0 0/0/0 3/2/0 82/88/18
Usage ·······X ·····o·o ········ ····Xo·o ····X··· ····X··· ····XX··
Chicago White Sox Batters (4.89 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (4.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Greinke
G/S/vB
41.Gobble*
G/S/vB
32.Mahay*
G/S/vB
57.Peralta
G/S/vB
52.Ramirez*
G/S/vB
56.Ramirez
G/S/vB
48.Soria
G/S/vB
51.Tejeda
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Anderson G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 1/.000 4/1.750 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 139/85 .229/.263/.412/.675 .698/.660 .815 33/.692 2/1 5/
18.Cabrera G/S/vP 14/.643 7/.143 3/.666 4/.000 23/.554 2/.000 3/.000 14/.630 428/308 .270/.329/.364/.692 .729/.678 .740 101/.651 15/2 6/
24.Crede G/S/vP 27/.870 11/.764 4/.000 8/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 4/.000 332/250 .253/.325/.466/.792 .346/.935 .887 74/.425 0/3 16/
23.Dye G/S/vP 30/1.126 9/1.056 13/.385 13/.539 4/.833 2/.000 3/.000 4/.000 377/267 .306/.361/.563/.923 .873/.942 1.052 97/1.079 3/2 21/
44.Hall G/S/vP 7/.715 11/.728 ··· 3/1.667 3/1.667 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 83/48 .289/.341/.368/.710 .988/.505 .564 23/.529 0/0 1/
14.Konerko G/S/vP 39/.468 8/3.708 8/.661 12/.833 ··· 3/.333 4/.250 3/.333 294/215 .217/.320/.368/.687 .613/.715 .838 27/.656 1/0 9/
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 21/.931 8/1.714 7/.714 10/.100 4/.000 2/.000 6/.334 5/.800 332/249 .287/.326/.429/.755 .691/.776 .754 76/.636 1/0 7/
20.Quentin G/S/vP 6/1.133 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 6/.000 2/1.000 2/.500 395/286 .276/.375/.525/.900 .802/.936 .874 99/.865 5/3 22/
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 6/1.333 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 245/169 .312/.332/.459/.791 .783/.794 .791 81/.876 7/4 7/
30.Swisher# G/S/vP 11/1.000 11/.920 9/1.056 5/.600 7/.453 ··· 2/1.000 9/.333 379/268 .236/.352/.403/.754 .750/.755 .869 91/.820 2/2 12/
25.Thome* G/S/vP 17/1.020 7/.286 8/1.300 7/2.071 11/.382 3/1.334 2/1.000 4/3.500 344/248 .253/.375/.512/.887 .978/.848 .780 75/1.125 1/0 18/
5.Uribe G/S/vP 18/.916 7/1.286 3/.000 5/.600 ··· ··· 5/1.200 ··· 159/127 .219/.269/.349/.619 .746/.586 .542 19/.833 0/0 3/
31.Wise* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 43/38 .350/.372/.600/.972 .400/1.052 .788 31/1.237 5/0 2/
IP 124.0 23.2 49.0 28.2 12.0 44.2 43.0 14.1 TOTAL .265/.337/.443/.781 .744/.795 .823 .799 42/19 129/64
ERA-K/9 3.48/7.5 7.61/7.6 1.84/7.2 5.65/6.9 1.50/3.8 2.82/9.7 1.47/9.6 5.65/7.6 4.52/6.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hall (25-5-1)
 Pierzynski (63-13-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 515/.252 114/.278 200/.220 119/.279 46/.200 183/.221 163/.149 63/.189 .265  Swisher
 Quentin
 Dye
 Ramirez
 Anderson
 Wise
5/48/10/3
91/0/0/3
0/0/87/2
0/11/0/1
1/50/2/0
2/13/1/0
OPS .726 .882 .573 .908 .485 .548 .474 .603 .747
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 236/.786 50/.477 79/.629 55/1.027 16/.129 86/.712 85/.542 34/.737 .774
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 279/.675 64/1.236 121/.538 64/.810 30/.667 97/.400 78/.402 29/.443 .721
Road 321/.758 70/.800 108/.640 59/.859 20/.650 87/.608 92/.594 19/.161 .763
Last 28d days 102/.809 34/.876 51/.343 27/.987 46/.485 40/.481 39/.447 34/.465
HR/SB/CS 17/1/2 4/2/0 2/2/2 9/2/1 1/1/0 0/1/0 4/1/1 1/5/0 100/45/15
Usage ·······X ········ ····o··o ········ ·····X·· ······o· ····o·oo ········

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.

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