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Game Preview: KCR @ CHW, 7:05pm, Saturday, July 19, 2008 @U.S. Cellular Field

Kansas City Royals, 43-54, 4th, 13 GB, 13½ GB in WC

SP: Gil Meche (29, RHP, 6-9, 4.71)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (6-9)            120.1 126  65  63  42  88 14    4.71      
 2007 (9-13)           216   218  98  88  62 156 22    3.67      
 2006 (11-8)           186.2 183 106  93  84 156 24    4.48      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-1  44    43  18  16  13  29  3    3.27   53 
 2008-07-12    SEA  ND   6.2  10   4   4   1   1  1      98   38 
 2008-07-07   @TBR  ND   5.1   7   2   2   4   5  0     115   47 
 2008-07-02   @BAL   L   6     9   5   4   2   0  1      89   34 
 2008-06-27    STL   W   7     6   1   1   1   2  1     103   62 
 2008-06-21    SFG   W   5.2   3   2   1   2   7  0     101   62 
 2008-06-15   @ARI   W   7.1   4   3   3   1  10  0     115   67 
 2008-06-10    TEX  ND   6     4   1   1   2   4  0     100   62 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CHW      1-1  29.2  32  18  16  11  23  3    4.85   47 
 2008-06-05   @CHW   L   5.2   8   5   5   4   5  0     115   34 
 2007-09-18    CHW   W   7     4   2   1   2   5  0     108   66 
 2007-08-20   @CHW  ND   5.2   6   2   2   2   6  1     104   53 
 2007-04-23    CHW  ND   7     8   3   3   0   3  1     111   52 
 2006-09-22   @CHW  ND   4.1   6   6   5   3   4  1      92   30 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   22-24   Road:   21-30   ExtrInn: 3-5 
 vsRHP:  26-41   vsLHP:  17-13   1-Run:  13-14
 vsEast: 10-20   vsCntrl:13-17   vsWest:  7-12 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 97 Fri, Jul 18  @CHW  L   5-9       43-54  4th 13.0 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
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:17-13
Chicago White Sox, 55-40, 1st, 1½ up

SP: Gavin Floyd (25, RHP, 10-5, 3.63)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (10-5)           111.2  87  59  45  47  75 17    3.63      
 2007 (1-5)             70    85  45  41  19  49 17    5.27      
 2006 (4-3)             54.1  70  48  44  32  34 14    7.29      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         4-2  40.1  37  28  20  20  39  9    4.46   49 
 2008-07-11   @TEX   L   2.2   5   6   6   7   2  2      84   19 
 2008-07-05    OAK   W   7.1   3   0   0   3   6  0     109   75 
 2008-06-30    CLE   W   6     7   4   3   2  10  1     103   52 
 2008-06-25   @LAD   L   5.1   6   5   4   2   2  0      86   38 
 2008-06-19    PIT   W   5.2   6   7   1   2   6  1     101   45 
 2008-06-13    COL  ND   6.1   4   4   4   3   4  4      91   50 
 2008-06-08    MIN   W   7     6   2   2   1   9  1      90   65 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR      1-1  13    15   7   5   1  10  1    3.46   52 
 2008-06-03    KCR   W   7     6   4   2   0   4  1      97   57 
 2007-09-18   @KCR   L   6     9   3   3   1   6  0      98   47 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   33-13   Road:   22-27   ExtrInn: 5-2 
 vsRHP:  35-27   vsLHP:  20-13   1-Run:  13-11
 vsEast:  7-12   vsCntrl:27-12   vsWest:  9-10 IL:12-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 96 Fri, Jul 18   KCR  W   9-5       55-40  1st  1.5 up
 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:18-12
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jul 18, 2008 CHW  9  KCR  5        W:Mark Buehrle (7-8), L: Zack Greinke (7-6), S: none
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
Season Series: 2008 - CHW leads 6-1; 2007 - CHW won 12-6; 2006 - CHW won 11-8; All-Time - CHW leads 310-269

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  5.55

CLE  4.51

WSN  3.67

RA/G

OAK  3.67

CLE  4.48

TEX  5.82

BA

C. Jones  .375

A. Jones  .283

T. Pena  .155

OBP

C. Jones  .472

F. Catalanotto  .356

T. Pena  .176

SLG

L. Berkman  .645

J. Damon  .470

O. Vizquel  .175

OPS

C. Jones  1.084

C. Barmes  .820

T. Pena  .381

ERA

J. Duchscherer  1.82

T. Wellemeyer  4.04

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 (4.03 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Floyd
G/S/vB
26.Dotel
G/S/vB
45.Jenks
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 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· 153/113 .310/.340/.490/.830 1.054/.755 .842 94/.752 3/1 4/
14.Buck G/S/vP 3/.000 4/.250 8/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 4/.250 259/190 .247/.317/.377/.693 .901/.618 .723 68/.697 0/3 5/
16.Butler G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 259/187 .253/.313/.346/.659 .958/.548 .714 53/.618 0/1 3/
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 8/1.339 5/.400 7/.715 1/.000 6/.500 3/.666 ··· 9/.472 348/234 .305/.359/.470/.829 .727/.880 .841 94/.832 7/5 10/
2.Gathright* G/S/vP 7/.000 1/no AB 4/.833 ··· 5/.500 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 262/193 .251/.302/.268/.570 .547/.578 .541 52/.607 19/4 0/
3.German G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 7/.800 1/2.000 1/2.000 4/1.000 ··· 4/.000 95/47 .209/.250/.244/.494 .430/.556 .295 24/.766 3/1 0/
7.Gload* G/S/vP 6/.733 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/.400 259/203 .272/.322/.331/.652 .382/.729 .519 92/.870 3/3 1/
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 4/.500 2/1.000 4/.000 2/1.500 8/.000 2/no AB ··· 5/.400 408/283 .251/.333/.404/.737 .486/.850 .672 97/.664 3/2 11/
15.Grudzielanek G/S/vP 11/.664 21/.602 5/.400 4/.750 4/.250 3/.000 1/2.000 6/2.000 318/235 .308/.359/.408/.766 .950/.704 .697 72/.785 2/1 3/
11.Guillen G/S/vP 12/.174 10/.550 1/.000 5/.400 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.000 380/284 .270/.295/.462/.756 .943/.695 .764 83/.595 1/0 13/
21.Olivo G/S/vP 3/1.000 8/.250 3/.000 6/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 206/143 .260/.291/.474/.766 .987/.672 .899 30/.714 2/0 9/
1.Pena G/S/vP 6/.800 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 189/133 .155/.176/.204/.381 .530/.321 .350 21/.516 3/1 1/
24.Teahen* G/S/vP 6/.834 1/.000 6/.000 1/.000 9/.958 4/2.750 ··· 10/1.056 382/276 .252/.322/.406/.728 .647/.760 .740 91/.671 2/2 10/
IP 111.2 43.1 32.1 38.0 33.0 41.1 7.2 39.0 TOTAL .262/.314/.386/.700 .727/.690 .685 .713 49/25 70/54
ERA-K/9 3.63/6.0 2.91/12.9 1.95/5.3 2.37/7.6 3.00/8.7 3.48/6.3 4.70/10.5 2.31/11.1 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 470/.213 190/.204 125/.246 146/.207 137/.250 182/.289 35/.344 155/.183 .250  Guillen
 Gathright
 Teahen
 DeJesus
 Gload
 German
35/0/30/6
0/76/0/5
20/0/59/4
44/35/12/3
1/0/2/0
11/0/0/0
OPS .703 .621 .635 .597 .693 .778 .869 .513 .701
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 217/.814 57/.637 62/.622 67/.573 74/.613 67/.857 16/1.038 75/.434 .739
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 253/.611 133/.614 63/.647 79/.617 63/.788 115/.735 19/.721 80/.586 .676
Home 276/.598 93/.528 68/.668 82/.594 60/.704 96/1.018 18/.745 77/.518 .673
Last 28d days 98/.788 37/.398 16/.779 35/.698 36/.951 55/.831 27/.944 44/.622
HR/SB/CS 17/19/3 4/12/1 1/4/0 5/2/0 3/3/1 2/2/0 0/0/0 3/2/0 83/88/18
Usage ·······X X·····o· ········ ········ ·····Xo· o····X·· ·····X·· o····XX·
Chicago White Sox Batters (4.94 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (4.81 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Meche
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 2/.000 3/.333 1/.000 4/1.750 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 139/85 .229/.263/.412/.675 .698/.660 .815 29/.684 2/1 5/
18.Cabrera G/S/vP 30/1.005 7/.143 3/.666 5/.000 23/.554 2/.000 3/.000 15/.583 433/313 .269/.327/.362/.689 .729/.674 .731 101/.651 15/2 6/
24.Crede G/S/vP 13/.385 11/.764 4/.000 9/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.500 5/.000 336/254 .258/.327/.472/.799 .346/.943 .899 74/.501 0/3 16/
23.Dye G/S/vP 38/.649 9/1.056 13/.385 14/.643 4/.833 2/.000 3/.000 5/.000 382/272 .311/.366/.565/.931 .873/.953 1.066 98/1.094 3/2 21/
44.Hall G/S/vP 8/.393 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 29/.914 9/3.722 8/.661 13/.763 ··· 3/.333 4/.250 4/.250 299/219 .219/.324/.367/.692 .621/.717 .843 32/.701 1/0 9/
12.Pierzynski* G/S/vP 20/.411 8/1.714 7/.714 11/.091 4/.000 2/.000 6/.334 6/.666 337/254 .286/.324/.425/.750 .691/.769 .743 76/.593 1/0 7/
20.Quentin G/S/vP 3/.333 1/no AB 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 6/.000 2/1.000 3/.333 400/291 .279/.378/.534/.911 .802/.951 .898 100/.883 5/3 23/
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 3/.666 1/2.000 1/.000 4/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 249/173 .308/.327/.453/.780 .783/.778 .769 81/.844 7/4 7/
30.Swisher# G/S/vP 25/.734 12/.973 9/1.056 6/.500 7/.453 ··· 2/1.000 9/.333 383/271 .237/.353/.402/.755 .755/.754 .869 91/.782 2/2 12/
25.Thome* G/S/vP 30/.862 8/.393 8/1.300 7/2.071 11/.382 3/1.334 2/1.000 5/2.467 349/252 .253/.378/.510/.889 .984/.848 .785 79/1.135 1/0 18/
5.Uribe G/S/vP 15/.805 7/1.286 3/.000 5/.600 ··· ··· 5/1.200 ··· 159/127 .219/.269/.349/.619 .746/.586 .542 18/.765 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 120.1 23.2 49.0 31.0 12.0 44.2 43.0 17.0 TOTAL .266/.339/.444/.782 .746/.797 .826 .803 42/19 130/66
ERA-K/9 4.71/6.6 7.99/7.6 1.84/7.2 5.52/7.0 1.50/3.8 2.82/9.7 1.47/9.6 4.76/7.9 4.57/6.6

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 517/.269 117/.278 200/.220 127/.269 46/.200 183/.221 163/.149 71/.167 .266  Dye
 Swisher
 Quentin
 Ramirez
 Anderson
 Wise
0/0/88/3
5/49/10/3
92/0/0/3
0/11/0/1
1/51/2/0
2/13/1/0
OPS .756 .898 .573 .865 .485 .548 .474 .534 .749
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 259/.796 51/.492 79/.629 57/.989 16/.129 86/.712 85/.542 36/.693 .773
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 258/.714 66/1.250 121/.538 70/.767 30/.667 97/.400 78/.402 35/.367 .726
Road 267/.691 73/.827 108/.640 67/.784 20/.650 87/.608 92/.594 27/.114 .767
Last 28d days 133/.756 32/.927 51/.343 35/.815 46/.485 40/.481 39/.447 42/.376
HR/SB/CS 14/4/0 4/2/0 2/2/2 9/2/1 1/1/0 0/1/0 4/1/1 1/5/0 101/45/15
Usage ······X· o······· ·····o·· X······· ······X· ·······o ·····o·o X·······

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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