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Game Preview: KCR @ BOS, 1:35pm, Monday, August 27, 2012 @Fenway Park

Royals, 56-70, 56-70 3rd, 15 GB, 13½ GB in WC

SP: Luke Hochevar (28, RHP, 7-11, 4.95)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (7-11) 145.1 148 87 80 46 110 18 4.95
2011 (11-11) 198.0 192 110 103 62 128 23 4.68
2010 (6-6) 103.0 110 61 55 37 76 9 4.81
Last 7 GS 1-3 42.1 37 27 21 13 35 7 4.46 51
2012-08-21 @TBR ND 8.0 1 0 0 3 10 0 105 87
2012-08-16 OAK L 7.0 4 3 3 3 5 2 103 59
2012-08-10 @BAL L 5.1 7 7 7 2 2 3 90 26
2012-08-05 TEX ND 6.0 4 5 1 1 4 0 106 55
2012-07-31 CLE W 6.0 7 3 3 3 6 0 101 49
2012-07-25 @LAA L 3.0 9 8 6 1 2 1 63 14
2012-07-20 MIN ND 7.0 5 1 1 0 6 1 109 69
Last 5 v.BOS 2-3 29.2 38 22 22 10 24 2 6.67 41
2011-08-18 BOS L 6.0 8 4 4 2 6 0 114 44
2011-07-28 @BOS W 7.0 6 2 2 1 6 0 103 62
2009-09-23 BOS L 5.0 8 6 6 3 5 0 94 29
2009-07-09 @BOS W 6.0 9 5 5 1 5 2 101 38
2008-08-06 BOS L 5.2 7 5 5 3 2 0 92 34
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-33   Road:   30-37   ExtrInn: 6-5 
 vsRHP:  38-46   vsLHP:  18-24   1-Run:  20-16
 vsEast: 16-20   vsCntrl:20-24   vsWest: 12-16 IL: 8-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Sun, Aug 26  @BOS  L   6-8       56-70  3rd 15.0 gb
125 Sat, Aug 25  @BOS  W  10-9 (12)  56-69  3rd 14.0 gb
124 Fri, Aug 24  @BOS  L   3-4       55-69  3rd 14.0 gb
123 Wed, Aug 22  @TBR  L   3-5       55-68  3rd 13.0 gb
122 Tue, Aug 21  @TBR  W   1-0 (10)  55-67  3rd 12.0 gb
121 Mon, Aug 20  @TBR  L   1-5       54-67  3rd 12.0 gb
120 Sun, Aug 19   CHW  W   5-2       54-66  3rd 11.0 gb
119 Sat, Aug 18   CHW  W   9-4       53-66  4th 12.0 gb
118 Fri, Aug 17   CHW  W   4-2       52-66  4th 13.0 gb
117 Thu, Aug 16   OAK  L   0-3       51-66  4th 14.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:15-15
RedSox, 61-67, 61-67 4th, 13½ GB, 9½ GB in WC

SP: Daisuke Matsuzaka (31, RHP, 0-3, 6.65)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (0-3) 23.0 23 17 17 8 20 4 6.65
2011 (3-3) 37.1 32 24 22 23 26 4 5.30
2010 (9-6) 153.2 137 84 80 74 133 13 4.69
Last 7 GS 1-3 33.1 33 26 26 17 26 5 7.02 43
2012-07-02 @OAK L 1.0 4 5 5 2 0 2 28 23
2012-06-26 TOR ND 5.2 6 1 1 1 5 0 100 57
2012-06-21 MIA ND 5.1 4 4 4 1 4 1 101 47
2012-06-15 @CHC L 6.0 4 3 3 3 3 0 93 52
2012-06-09 WSN L 5.0 5 4 4 1 8 1 80 48
2011-05-16 BAL ND 4.1 5 5 5 7 2 0 106 28
2011-05-08 MIN W 6.0 5 4 4 2 4 1 102 48
Last 5 v.KCR 2-1 17.1 14 7 7 15 18 1 3.63 52
2010-05-27 KCR L 4.2 2 3 3 8 1 0 112 41
2008-05-22 KCR W 5.2 6 3 3 6 7 0 118 46
2007-04-05 @KCR W 7.0 6 1 1 1 10 1 108 70
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-38   Road:   30-29   ExtrInn: 2-8 
 vsRHP:  36-51   vsLHP:  25-16   1-Run:  13-16
 vsEast: 20-28   vsCntrl:23-16   vsWest:  7-16 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
128 Sun, Aug 26   KCR  W   8-6       61-67  4th 13.5 gb
127 Sat, Aug 25   KCR  L   9-10(12)  60-67  4th 13.5 gb
126 Fri, Aug 24   KCR  W   4-3       60-66  4th 13.5 gb
125 Thu, Aug 23   LAA  L  13-14(10)  59-66  4th 13.5 gb
124 Wed, Aug 22   LAA  L   3-7       59-65  4th 13.0 gb
123 Tue, Aug 21   LAA  L   3-5       59-64  4th 13.0 gb
122 Sun, Aug 19  @NYY  L   1-4       59-63  4th 13.5 gb
121 Sat, Aug 18  @NYY  W   4-1       59-62  4th 12.5 gb
120 Fri, Aug 17  @NYY  L   4-6       58-62  4th 13.5 gb
119 Thu, Aug 16  @BAL  W   6-3       58-61  4th 12.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 26, 2012 BOS  8  KCR  6        W:Pedro Beato (1-0), L: Will Smith (4-6), S: Mark Melancon (1)
Sat, Aug 25, 2012 KCR 10 @BOS  9 (12)   W:Francisley Bueno (1-0), L: Junichi Tazawa (0-1), S: Greg Holland (7)
Fri, Aug 24, 2012 BOS  4  KCR  3        W:Jon Lester (8-10), L: Kelvin Herrera (1-2), S: Andrew Bailey (1)
Wed, May 09, 2012 KCR  4  BOS  3        W:Bruce Chen (1-4), L: Jon Lester (1-3), S: Jonathan Broxton (7)
Tue, May 08, 2012 KCR  6  BOS  4        W:Jose Mijares (2-1), L: Daniel Bard (2-4), S: Jonathan Broxton (6)
Mon, May 07, 2012 BOS 11 @KCR  5        W:Felix Doubront (2-1), L: Jonathan Sanchez (1-2), S: Vicente Padilla (1)

Sun, Aug 21, 2011 BOS  6 @KCR  1        W:Jon Lester (13-6), L: Danny Duffy (3-8), S: none
Sat, Aug 20, 2011 KCR  9  BOS  4        W:Felipe Paulino (2-9), L: Matt Albers (4-4), S: none
Fri, Aug 19, 2011 BOS  7 @KCR  1        W:Andrew Miller (5-1), L: Jeff Francis (4-14), S: Alfredo Aceves (2)
Thu, Aug 18, 2011 BOS  4 @KCR  3        W:Josh Beckett (10-5), L: Luke Hochevar (8-10), S: Jonathan Papelbon (29)
Season Series: 2012 - tied 3-3; 2011 - BOS won 5-3; 2010 - BOS won 4-3; All-Time - Tied 218-218

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 2012 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  5.19

SFG  4.28

HOU  3.66

 RA/G

WSN  3.54

DET  4.31

COL  5.55

 BA

M. Cabrera  .346

K. Morales  .275

C. Pena  .190

 OBP

D. Wright  .410

M. Teixeira  .335

J. Smoak  .264

 SLG

G. Stanton  .601

N. Walker  .435

J. Carroll  .291

 OPS

M. Trout  .986

A. Pagan  .769

J. Smoak  .591

 ERA

D. Price  2.28

T. Milone  3.87

J. Guthrie  5.71

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.34

D. Haren  7.24

H. Alvarez  3.43

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

Royals Batters (4.17 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (4.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 40.Bailey
G/S/vB		 54.Beato
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 37.Melancon
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 46.Morales*
G/S/vB		 59.Mortensen
G/S/vB		 44.Padilla
G/S/vB		 63.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
34.Abreu# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 24/9 .333/.333/.417/.750 .600/1.000 .800 24/.750 0/0 0/0
16.Butler G/S/vP 3/2.000 4/.000 1/2.000 5/1.400 2/1.500 9/1.319 2/.000 5/1.400 9/.444 1/.000 527/373 .304/.370/.506/.876 1.087/.794 .906 108/.838 2/1 25/1
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 177/114 .248/.294/.385/.679 .767/.631 .425 94/.617 5/0 5/3
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 288/216 .272/.331/.342/.673 .525/.720 .699 39/.960 24/3 0/6
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 5/1.167 3/.000 4/.000 1/.000 1/.000 509/353 .304/.345/.408/.753 .669/.789 .646 108/.713 26/4 4/17
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 5/2.300 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.500 2/.000 14/.619 4/.500 3/.666 5/.400 1/no AB 485/338 .235/.285/.363/.647 .727/.614 .654 82/.672 3/6 11/1
9.Giavotella G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 99/50 .211/.242/.242/.485 .484/.485 .551 26/.385 0/0 0/4
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 6/.750 2/1.500 1/2.000 7/.286 1/2.000 11/1.344 1/.000 3/1.667 10/.550 1/.000 570/366 .293/.367/.439/.806 .622/.910 .796 107/.841 8/5 9/1
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/.583 ··· 6/1.167 4/1.500 2/4.000 2/.500 1/3.000 492/323 .241/.311/.374/.685 .603/.728 .665 87/.785 12/1 12/9
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 6/.733 3/.666 2/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 480/337 .248/.306/.440/.746 .698/.767 .662 86/.593 3/2 19/11
27.Pena# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 185/121 .250/.283/.337/.620 .642/.608 .522 29/.447 0/1 2/4
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 185/127 .295/.319/.494/.813 1.053/.704 .862 84/.711 0/0 8/2
IP 23.0 4.1 6.1 54.0 34.1 33.1 76.1 31.2 42.2 28.0 TOTAL .266/.318/.403/.721 .704/.729 .691 .710 97/31 105/86
ERA-K/9 6.65/7.8 2.08/8.4 9.95/10.0 2.50/8.7 6.82/7.1 3.78/10.3 3.77/9.0 2.27/7.1 4.22/10.1 1.61/8.0 4.40/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (49-16-5)
 Perez (17-12-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 100/.253 18/.235 29/.308 222/.227 151/.279 134/.197 325/.224 125/.198 186/.280 119/.292 .258  Francoeur
 Gordon
 Dyson
 Cain
 Hosmer
0/2/115/15
124/0/0/10
0/79/0/6
1/37/7/2
0/0/2/1
OPS .782 .513 .841 .666 .819 .584 .685 .623 .799 .711 .742
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 50/.758 7/1.071 6/1.000 96/.627 63/.891 86/.408 113/.490 60/.543 88/.772 45/.728 .726
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 50/.804 11/.182 23/.798 126/.695 88/.766 48/.899 212/.788 65/.688 98/.823 74/.701 .754
Home 65/.664 12/.500 25/.838 128/.750 95/.858 70/.590 149/.808 81/.628 94/.825 85/.632
Last 28d days / 18/.513 9/.819 42/.636 51/.642 35/.651 88/.794 50/.741 24/.975 59/.847
HR/SB/CS 4/6/0 0/0/0 1/0/1 5/2/2 7/0/1 3/0/0 11/8/2 4/3/2 5/3/1 1/3/1 142/92/27
Usage ·ooX···· X······· XX·X···· Xo·Xo··· ·Xo····X ···X···· ·o·X·X·· ·XoX·X·· ·X·oX··o
RedSox Batters (4.94 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.56 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 67.Bueno*
G/S/vB		 31.Coleman
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 41.Jeffress
G/S/vB		 53.Smith*
G/S/vB		 61.Teaford*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Aviles G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 4/.500 2/.000 1/.000 3/1.667 4/.750 474/333 .256/.287/.404/.691 .749/.667 .704 75/.803 11/5 13/13
77.Ciriaco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 1/2.000 3/2.334 2/2.000 141/95 .360/.374/.500/.874 .924/.850 .965 72/.945 9/0 2/3
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 20/.956 2/.000 2/.500 4/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/2.000 212/130 .269/.316/.365/.682 .667/.691 .759 111/.672 9/1 1/0
50.Gomez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 3/.333 1/2.000 50/34 .304/.360/.457/.817 .598/.914 .928 19/.984 0/0 1/4
58.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ .000 1/.000 0/0 0/
60.Lavarnway G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 4/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 2/.000 54/32 .180/.241/.220/.461 .325/.557 .528 54/.461 0/0 0/1
22.Loney* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 364/281 .254/.300/.342/.642 .575/.662 .653 55/.625 0/3 4/6
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 15/.900 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 3/.666 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 383/245 .318/.415/.611/1.026 .985/1.050 1.169 4/1.250 0/1 23/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 15/1.283 ··· 4/1.250 2/.500 4/.250 3/.667 2/2.500 ··· 3/1.000 3/.000 495/338 .282/.338/.442/.780 .839/.753 .781 112/.942 12/4 12/3
26.Podsednik* G/S/vP 7/.453 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 120/98 .370/.395/.444/.839 .879/.830 .934 50/.766 7/2 1/0
7.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/3.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/1.167 1/2.000 393/276 .278/.342/.520/.862 1.130/.750 .983 102/.883 1/1 19/1
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 360/314 .230/.286/.464/.750 .610/.771 .759 68/.523 0/1 21/6
IP 145.1 8.1 41.0 61.2 52.1 66.0 52.0 6.2 61.2 47.0 TOTAL .270/.326/.437/.763 .793/.750 .811 .767 71/21 143/73
ERA-K/9 4.95/6.8 2.16/3.3 3.95/10.1 3.06/12.3 3.44/9.1 2.59/8.5 2.94/11.4 0.00/10.7 5.55/5.7 4.79/5.4 4.29/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lavarnway (8-1-0)
 Saltalamacchia (65-16-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 616/.267 32/.241 172/.211 251/.201 208/.229 265/.247 224/.242 35/.276 272/.291 201/.280 .266  Ross
 Podsednik
 Ciriaco
 Ellsbury
21/7/66/7
14/17/4/1
0/1/2/0
0/47/0/0
OPS .779 .557 .763 .653 .598 .652 .651 .710 .835 .827 .757
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 339/.816 15/.829 64/.688 114/.758 73/.477 99/.721 88/.592 12/.250 80/.766 72/.883 .740
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 277/.735 17/.310 108/.806 137/.566 135/.664 166/.613 136/.690 23/.928 192/.864 129/.796 .769
Road 327/.786 14/.536 82/1.064 125/.434 91/.590 140/.623 108/.646 16/.745 165/.812 110/.964
Last 28d days 132/.710 14/.536 31/.670 44/.496 34/.542 53/.621 46/.445 26/.490 127/.853 39/.807
HR/SB/CS 18/14/7 0/0/0 8/0/2 7/9/0 3/2/2 4/9/4 1/2/2 0/2/0 10/6/1 9/2/1 124/98/45
Usage ·····X·· oX····X· XX··X··· ooo·o··o ooo·X··· ·Xo·Xo·· ·o···o·o X·····X· X·····X· ·X····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.