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Game Preview: NYY @ KCR, 2:10pm, Sunday, May 6, 2012 @Kauffman Stadium

Yankees, 14-13, 14-13 4th, 4½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Phil Hughes (26, RHP, 1-4, 7.48)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (1-4) 21.2 28 22 18 7 23 7 7.48
2011 (5-5) 74.2 84 48 48 27 47 9 5.79
2010 (18-8) 176.1 162 83 82 58 146 25 4.19
Last 7 GS 2-4 33.2 38 25 21 11 31 8 5.61 45
2012-05-01 BAL L 5.2 4 4 4 1 6 2 100 50
2012-04-25 @TEX L 2.2 5 4 4 0 2 1 52 34
2012-04-19 MIN W 5.1 6 6 2 2 4 1 103 42
2012-04-14 LAA L 3.1 8 6 6 2 6 2 84 24
2012-04-08 @TBR L 4.2 5 2 2 2 5 1 99 49
2011-09-12 @SEA W 6.0 5 1 1 3 3 0 99 58
2011-09-06 BAL ND 6.0 5 2 2 1 5 1 106 58
Last 5 v.KCR 2-1 19.0 28 15 15 7 10 4 7.11 38
2010-08-14 @KCR W 6.0 9 3 3 1 0 1 99 41
2010-07-25 KCR W 5.1 6 3 3 0 3 2 95 47
2008-04-08 @KCR L 3.0 6 3 3 4 2 0 87 33
2007-08-04 KCR ND 4.2 7 6 6 2 5 1 92 29
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-6    Road:    7-7    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:   8-8    vsLHP:   6-5    1-Run:   4-3 
 vsEast:  6-5    vsCntrl: 5-5    vsWest:  3-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Sat, May  5  @KCR  L   1-5       14-13  4th  4.5 gb
 26 Fri, May  4  @KCR  W   6-2       14-12  4th  4.5 gb
 25 Thu, May  3  @KCR  L   3-4       13-12  4th  4.5 gb
 24 Wed, May  2   BAL  L   0-5       13-11  4th  3.5 gb
 23 Tue, May  1   BAL  L   1-7       13-10  3rd  2.5 gb
 22 Mon, Apr 30   BAL  W   2-1       13-9   3rd  1.5 gb
 21 Sun, Apr 29   DET  W   6-2       12-9   3rd  1.5 gb
 20 Sat, Apr 28   DET  L   5-7       11-9   3rd  1.5 gb
 19 Fri, Apr 27   DET  W   7-6       11-8   3rd  1.5 gb
 18 Wed, Apr 25  @TEX  L   3-7       10-8   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-13
Royals, 9-17, 9-17 4th, 5½ GB, 8½ GB in WC

SP: Luke Hochevar (28, RHP, 2-2, 7.36)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (2-2) 25.2 32 21 21 11 18 0 7.36
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 3-3 38.1 43 27 26 16 30 2 6.10 44
2012-05-01 @DET L 4.0 12 9 9 3 2 0 75 1
2012-04-25 @CLE W 6.1 4 2 2 3 4 0 97 58
2012-04-20 TOR ND 5.0 2 1 1 2 5 0 84 62
2012-04-13 CLE L 4.0 9 7 7 1 3 0 70 18
2012-04-07 @LAA W 6.1 5 2 2 2 4 0 95 57
2011-09-14 MIN W 6.0 5 2 2 2 3 0 88 55
2011-09-08 @SEA L 6.2 6 4 3 3 9 2 109 54
Last 5 v.NYY 0-1 12.0 16 10 10 2 6 3 7.50 38
2009-09-28 @NYY L 6.0 12 8 8 2 2 2 93 16
2008-06-09 @NYY ND 6.0 4 2 2 0 4 1 87 60
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    2-11   Road:    7-6    ExtrInn: 0-2 
 vsRHP:   9-13   vsLHP:   0-4    1-Run:   3-6 
 vsEast:  2-5    vsCntrl: 4-9    vsWest:  3-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 26 Sat, May  5   NYY  W   5-1        9-17  4th  5.5 gb
 25 Fri, May  4   NYY  L   2-6        8-17  4th  6.5 gb
 24 Thu, May  3   NYY  W   4-3        8-16  4th  5.5 gb
 23 Wed, May  2  @DET  W   3-2        7-16  4th  5.5 gb
 22 Tue, May  1  @DET  L   3-9        6-16  4th  5.5 gb
 21 Sun, Apr 29  @MIN  L   4-7        6-15  4th  5.5 gb
 20 Fri, Apr 27  @MIN  W   7-6        6-14  4th  5.0 gb
 19 Thu, Apr 26  @CLE  W   4-2        5-14  4th  5.0 gb
 18 Wed, Apr 25  @CLE  W   8-2        4-14  5th  6.0 gb
 17 Tue, Apr 24  @CLE  L   3-4        3-14  5th  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30: 9-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, May 05, 2012 KCR  5  NYY  1        W:Felipe Paulino (1-0), L: Hiroki Kuroda (2-4), S: none
Fri, May 04, 2012 NYY  6 @KCR  2        W:CC Sabathia (4-0), L: Bruce Chen (0-4), S: none
Thu, May 03, 2012 KCR  4  NYY  3        W:Danny Duffy (2-2), L: David Phelps (0-1), S: Jonathan Broxton (5)

Wed, Aug 17, 2011 KCR  5  NYY  4        W:Bruce Chen (8-5), L: Bartolo Colon (8-7), S: Joakim Soria (22)
Tue, Aug 16, 2011 NYY  9 @KCR  7        W:Ivan Nova (12-4), L: Danny Duffy (3-7), S: Mariano Rivera (32)
Mon, Aug 15, 2011 NYY  7 @KCR  4        W:A.J. Burnett (9-9), L: Felipe Paulino (1-9), S: Mariano Rivera (31)
Thu, May 12, 2011 KCR 11 @NYY  5        W:Sean O'Sullivan (2-2), L: Ivan Nova (3-3), S: none
Wed, May 11, 2011 KCR  4 @NYY  3 (11)   W:Joakim Soria (3-0), L: Buddy Carlyle (0-1), S: Louis Coleman (1)
Tue, May 10, 2011 NYY  3  KCR  1        W:Freddy Garcia (2-2), L: Kyle Davies (1-5), S: Mariano Rivera (13)
Sun, Aug 15, 2010 KCR  1  NYY  0        W:Bryan Bullington (1-2), L: A.J. Burnett (9-10), S: Joakim Soria (33)
Season Series: 2012 - KCR over 2-1; 2011 - Tied 3-3; 2010 - NYY won 5-3; All-Time - NYY leads 265-182

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

ATL  5.54

CHW  3.96

PIT  2.89

 RA/G

WSN  2.70

HOU  4.07

BOS  5.65

 BA

J. Jay  .405

T. Hafner  .263

B. Ryan  .145

 OBP

D. Wright  .486

C. Johnson  .333

M. Byrd  .207

 SLG

M. Kemp  .825

V. Wells  .409

M. Byrd  .174

 OPS

M. Kemp  1.299

B. McCann  .751

M. Byrd  .381

 ERA

R. Dempster  .95

I. Kennedy  3.23

C. Buchholz  8.69

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  10.35

M. Cain  7.05

D. Lowe  2.39

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

Yankees Batters (4.85 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 47.Adcock
G/S/vB		 51.Broxton
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 46.Hottovy*
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 59.Paulino
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cano* G/S/vP 8/1.500 2/.500 2/1.500 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 6/.000 6/.833 119/75 .255/.303/.355/.657 .442/.788 .684 105/.666 1/0 1/0
14.Granderson* G/S/vP 9/.985 1/.000 2/no AB 4/.500 2/1.000 1/3.000 1/.000 10/1.300 9/.619 123/76 .279/.385/.596/.981 .814/1.094 .702 110/1.034 0/2 9/0
27.Ibanez* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 8/.500 73/65 .239/.288/.418/.706 .500/.733 .705 63/.731 2/0 3/0
2.Jeter G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.666 3/1.167 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 6/.167 7/1.000 128/86 .390/.425/.585/1.010 1.471/.776 1.097 114/1.071 1/1 5/2
22.Jones G/S/vP 9/.111 3/.666 3/.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 5/.800 3/.666 52/18 .222/.308/.422/.730 .502/1.178 .699 49/.735 0/0 3/0
55.Martin G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 ··· 3/1.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/5.000 5/.800 83/56 .206/.349/.368/.717 .968/.601 .985 74/.735 1/0 3/1
17.Nix G/S/vP 5/1.400 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1.167 3/1.167 6/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 6/.000 0/0 0/0
26.Nunez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· 2/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· 3/1.000 2/.500 53/21 .261/.321/.348/.669 .692/.627 .892 50/.669 4/1 0/2
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 4/1.833 1/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 3/.333 117/78 .260/.368/.400/.768 .649/.821 .644 103/.738 2/0 4/1
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 22/11 .238/.273/.286/.558 .764/.364 .573 20/.616 0/0 0/0
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 9/.444 3/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 5/.400 3/.666 93/65 .284/.355/.617/.972 .702/1.086 1.003 79/.956 0/0 6/0
25.Teixeira# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 5/1.733 6/.333 113/76 .229/.265/.390/.656 .688/.639 .706 100/.656 1/1 4/0
45.Wise* G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.200 2/.000 4/3 .250/.250/.500/.750 .000/1.000 .750 4/.750 0/0 0/0
IP 25.2 6.1 9.2 15.2 13.0 13.1 3.1 12.1 6.0 TOTAL .270/.340/.456/.796 .782/.804 .803 .810 14/5 41/9
ERA-K/9 7.36/6.3 2.84/4.3 1.86/6.5 2.30/12.0 3.46/7.6 3.38/8.1 2.70/8.2 2.92/7.3 0.00/9.0 4.53/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (14-4-1)
 Stewart (1-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 115/.311 28/.292 40/.250 63/.203 51/.196 53/.255 14/.250 54/.277 23/.190 .270  Ibanez
 Jones
 Granderson
 Swisher
 Nix
 Wise
 Nunez
9/0/5/1
9/0/5/1
0/27/0/0
0/0/18/0
2/0/0/0
1/0/1/0
2/0/1/0
OPS .781 .732 .703 .594 .535 .852 .774 .738 .499 .766
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 75/.818 13/.724 20/.617 28/.806 21/.454 22/.937 8/.250 28/.450 13/.538 .751
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 40/.711 15/.733 20/.780 35/.435 30/.593 31/.791 6/1.333 26/1.059 10/.425 .778
Home 41/.771 5/.900 15/.819 26/.846 24/.345 27/.815 1/.000 27/1.044 23/.499
Last 28d days 92/.829 28/.732 33/.683 60/.573 40/.447 45/.664 14/.774 50/.759 23/.499
HR/SB/CS 0/4/0 0/0/1 0/0/1 2/4/0 1/0/1 4/1/0 0/0/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 21/20/10
Usage ····X··· ··X···X· ··Xo···· oo·oX··· ··oo···· X··oo··· ·o··o··· X·oo···· X·······
Royals Batters (3.85 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.63 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 65.Hughes
G/S/vB		 38.Eppley
G/S/vB		 48.Logan*
G/S/vB		 41.Phelps
G/S/vB		 39.Rapada*
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 53.Wade
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP 8/1.214 1/.000 4/1.750 2/1.000 ··· 2/.500 4/1.000 ··· 111/87 .298/.342/.519/.862 .596/.937 .713 99/.849 0/1 5/
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 40/31 .278/.300/.361/.661 .472/.715 .561 40/.661 2/1 0/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 100/83 .274/.303/.421/.724 .588/.753 .931 88/.731 7/1 1/3
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 7/.000 2/2.500 5/.600 2/.000 ··· 6/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 108/90 .248/.296/.337/.633 .771/.607 .598 97/.611 0/2 0/0
17.Getz* G/S/vP 6/.334 2/.500 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 57/43 .314/.364/.471/.834 .593/.917 .864 52/.775 5/1 0/0
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 9/.666 1/.000 16/.188 2/.000 5/.400 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 116/86 .265/.353/.451/.804 .756/.821 .760 102/.909 1/1 4/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 115/85 .192/.270/.385/.654 .493/.711 .711 101/.601 1/1 5/2
12.Maier* G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 ··· 43/39 .222/.349/.389/.738 1.250/.671 .633 43/.738 1/0 1/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 100/84 .304/.360/.533/.893 1.038/.865 1.000 89/.949 1/0 4/2
27.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 48/38 .239/.271/.348/.619 .300/.705 .783 45/.616 0/0 0/1
33.Quintero G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 52/46 .217/.288/.326/.615 .333/.640 .419 44/.432 0/0 0/1
IP 21.2 5.2 11.1 21.2 8.0 12.0 9.0 12.1 TOTAL .259/.317/.417/.734 .611/.767 .745 .735 19/10 21/15
ERA-K/9 7.48/9.5 4.76/6.3 2.38/10.4 3.74/7.9 4.50/6.8 0.00/15.8 2.00/8.0 1.46/11.0 4.38/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (7-6-1)
 Quintero (13-4-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 104/.298 22/.263 50/.238 89/.231 33/.222 45/.167 42/.306 49/.196 .269  Francoeur
 Gordon
 Dyson
 Maier
0/0/26/5
25/0/0/1
0/9/0/0
0/11/0/0
OPS .982 .785 .745 .748 .603 .413 .877 .506 .789
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 51/.867 11/.586 29/.720 42/.793 23/.529 24/.467 19/.888 21/.438 .843
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 53/1.090 11/.964 21/.778 47/.706 10/.775 21/.348 23/.867 28/.558 .743
Road 36/1.076 11/.788 25/.548 61/.958 16/.830 21/.496 21/.722 25/.330
Last 28d days 83/.987 22/.785 45/.707 87/.766 26/.397 40/.384 39/.910 40/.572
HR/SB/CS 7/0/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 5/0/0 0/0/0 0/2/0 0/1/1 0/1/0 32/15/4
Usage ····X··· o······X o·o·o··· ··X····X o·oo···o ·o···Xo· ··o·o··· ···oX···

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.