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Kansas City Royals vs. San Francisco Giants, at Kauffman Stadium, August 8, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 8, 2014
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
88° (based on last ten years)
Giants
Manager:
Bruce Bochy
Game #:
117
On This Date:
62-60
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
115
On This Date:
16-30
Season Series

Fri, Aug 08, 2014 SFG    @KCR  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 09, 2014 SFG    @KCR  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 10, 2014 SFG    @KCR  2:10pm

                         All times ET
San Francisco Giants
62-53, 2nd, 3½ GB, tied for WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   29-30   Road:   33-23   ExtrInn: 8-2 
 vsRHP:  43-34   vsLHP:  19-19   1-Run:  14-17
 vsEast: 19-9    vsCntrl:11-15   vsWest: 25-24 IL: 7-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
116 Thu, Aug  7  @MIL  L   1-3       62-53  2nd  3.5 gb
115 Wed, Aug  6  @MIL  W   7-4       62-52  2nd  2.5 gb
114 Tue, Aug  5  @MIL  L   3-4       61-52  2nd  2.5 gb
113 Mon, Aug  4  @NYM  W   4-3       61-51  2nd  1.5 gb
112 Sun, Aug  3  @NYM  W   9-0       60-51  2nd  2.5 gb
111 Sat, Aug  2  @NYM  L   2-4       59-51  2nd  3.5 gb
110 Fri, Aug  1  @NYM  W   5-1       59-50  2nd  2.5 gb
109 Wed, Jul 30   PIT  W   7-5       58-50  2nd  3.0 gb
108 Tue, Jul 29   PIT  L   1-3       57-50  2nd  3.0 gb
107 Mon, Jul 28   PIT  L   0-5       57-49  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Kansas City Royals
60-53, 2nd, 2½ GB, 6½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-27   Road:   33-26   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  44-37   vsLHP:  16-16   1-Run:  15-21
 vsEast: 14-12   vsCntrl:25-25   vsWest: 10-12 IL:11-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
113 Thu, Aug  7  @ARI  W   6-2       60-53  2nd  2.5 gb
112 Wed, Aug  6  @ARI  W   4-3       59-53  2nd  3.5 gb
111 Tue, Aug  5  @ARI  W  12-2       58-53  2nd  4.5 gb
110 Sun, Aug  3  @OAK  W   4-2       57-53  2nd  5.0 gb
109 Sat, Aug  2  @OAK  L   3-8       56-53  2nd  5.0 gb
108 Fri, Aug  1  @OAK  W   1-0       56-52  2nd  4.0 gb
107 Thu, Jul 31   MIN  W   6-3       55-52  2nd  4.0 gb
106 Wed, Jul 30   MIN  W   3-2       54-52  2nd  5.0 gb
105 Tue, Jul 29   MIN  L   1-2       53-52  2nd  5.0 gb
104 Sun, Jul 27   CLE  L   3-10      53-51  2nd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 22, 2008 KCR 11  SFG 10        W:Ron Mahay (3-0), L: Alex Hinshaw (1-1), S: Joakim Soria (20)
Sat, Jun 21, 2008 KCR  5  SFG  3        W:Gil Meche (5-8), L: Kevin Correia (1-5), S: Joakim Soria (19)
Fri, Jun 20, 2008 SFG  9 @KCR  4        W:Matt Cain (4-5), L: Yasuhiko Yabuta (1-3), S: none
Thu, Jun 09, 2005 SFG  9  KCR  7        W:Scott Munter (1-0), L: Juan Carlos Oviedo (1-1), S: Tyler Walker (9)
Wed, Jun 08, 2005 KCR  4 @SFG  1        W:Runelvys Hernandez (3-7), L: Jeff Fassero (1-3), S: Mike MacDougal (6)
Tue, Jun 07, 2005 KCR  8 @SFG  1        W:D.J. Carrasco (2-1), L: Kirk Rueter (2-4), S: none
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 KCR  5  SFG  4        W:Mike MacDougal (2-3), L: Tim Worrell (2-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 SFG  7 @KCR  4        W:Damian Moss (7-4), L: Les Walrond (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 KCR  6  SFG  1        W:Chris George (7-4), L: Jason Schmidt (5-3), S: none
Season Series: 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - KCR leads 6-3

SP: Madison Bumgarner (24, LHP, 13-8, 3.21)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (13-8) 154.0 144 63 55 37 153 12 3.21
2013 (13-9) 201.1 146 68 62 62 199 15 2.77
2012 (16-11) 208.1 183 87 78 49 191 23 3.37
Last 7 GS 4-3 45.1 43 21 20 11 39 4 3.97 54
2014-08-03 @NYM W 9.0 2 0 0 1 10 0 94 92
2014-07-28 PIT L 4.0 6 5 5 2 2 1 90 30
2014-07-23 @PHI W 8.0 5 0 0 0 6 0 93 78
2014-07-18 @MIA W 6.0 4 1 1 2 7 1 84 65
2014-07-13 ARI W 6.1 10 4 4 0 5 1 102 42
2014-07-08 @OAK L 7.0 10 6 6 3 3 0 106 33
2014-07-03 STL L 5.0 6 5 4 3 6 1 100 40
Has never faced KCR as starter.

SP: Jason Vargas (31, LHP, 8-5, 3.69)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (8-5) 129.1 132 54 53 29 87 14 3.69
2013 (9-8) 150.0 162 68 67 46 109 17 4.02
2012 (14-11) 217.1 201 94 93 55 141 35 3.85
Last 7 GS 3-3 44.1 49 22 22 6 25 3 4.47 49
2014-08-02 @OAK L 4.1 7 7 7 0 5 0 75 26
2014-07-08 @TBR L 5.2 6 2 2 2 3 0 109 50
2014-07-02 @MIN W 7.0 4 0 0 2 5 0 111 72
2014-06-27 LAA ND 4.0 9 6 6 0 1 3 63 21
2014-06-21 SEA L 8.2 10 2 2 0 2 0 115 58
2014-06-16 @DET W 7.0 7 2 2 2 4 0 95 57
2014-06-10 CLE W 7.2 6 3 3 0 5 0 116 60
Last 5 v.SFG 0-1 15.0 12 5 5 3 8 3 3.00 60
2012-06-15 SFG L 8.0 10 4 4 2 1 2 106 45
2009-05-22 SFG ND 7.0 2 1 1 1 7 1 106 75

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

Giants Batters (3.90 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Vargas*
G/S/vB		 67.Bueno*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 37.Downs*
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Arias G/S/vP 5/.900 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 141/70 .187/.214/.201/.416 .446/.385 .398 25/.490 1/0 0/2
9.Belt* G/S/vP 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 203/138 .237/.296/.446/.742 .681/.770 .816 32/.661 3/1 11/4
7.Blanco* G/S/vP 7/.572 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 293/207 .238/.317/.304/.621 .668/.600 .569 79/.681 11/4 1/0
35.Crawford* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 416/287 .232/.320/.388/.709 .917/.616 .707 78/.602 3/3 8/16
45.Ishikawa* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/43 .205/.256/.359/.615 /.615 .484 5/.400 0/0 1/1
38.Morse G/S/vP 10/.700 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 3/.000 ··· ··· 410/284 .273/.327/.467/.794 .797/.792 .778 78/.685 0/0 15/3
16.Pagan# G/S/vP 7/1.571 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 267/183 .309/.357/.411/.768 .766/.769 .736 5/.800 11/3 3/1
12.Panik* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 100/89 .261/.310/.293/.603 1.182/.528 .706 44/.674 0/0 0/3
8.Pence G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/.600 ··· ··· ··· ··· 512/376 .291/.346/.473/.819 .824/.818 .898 104/.778 10/5 15/4
2.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 68/32 .167/.242/.283/.526 .562/.480 .558 18/.667 0/1 1/0
28.Posey G/S/vP 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 425/312 .288/.351/.441/.791 .876/.760 .920 93/.910 0/1 13/6
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP 7/.762 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 450/308 .283/.331/.442/.773 .582/.861 .742 94/.861 0/0 14/6
34.Susac G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 17/12 .125/.176/.125/.301 .200/.333 .250 17/.301 0/0 0/0
IP 129.1 24.1 47.0 48.1 34.0 34.1 48.0 43.2 TOTAL .244/.305/.379/.684 .702/.676 .701 .664 41/21 99/73
ERA-K/9 3.69/6.1 2.59/6.7 3.06/5.2 0.93/13.8 5.29/6.6 2.88/9.4 1.69/7.5 1.85/13.4 3.62/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Posey (42-18-4)
 Susac (2-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 540/.262 104/.253 192/.229 190/.133 149/.238 145/.224 201/.223 170/.192 .253  Pence
 Blanco
 Pagan
 Morse
 Perez
 Belt
0/1/116/7
30/57/0/5
0/59/0/3
71/0/0/2
34/8/2/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .707 .615 .717 .375 .697 .646 .599 .518 .699
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 140/.698 49/.484 84/.785 95/.503 78/.620 57/.566 96/.666 97/.555 .695
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 400/.710 55/.735 108/.664 95/.251 71/.784 88/.696 105/.538 73/.469 .702
Home 284/.800 48/.729 92/.851 92/.451 60/.722 73/.423 98/.643 98/.541
Last 28d days 20/.750 31/.508 41/1.263 39/.511 27/.644 18/.289 41/.506 38/.422
HR/SB/CS 14/10/2 0/0/0 7/2/1 0/0/0 2/2/1 2/4/1 0/4/2 3/1/1 99/43/19
Usage ·····X·· ··X····· ··o··o·o ·X····XX ·····o·· ··X····· ·X····X· ·X··o·Xo
Royals Batters (4.04 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (3.61 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 40.Bumgarner*
G/S/vB		 41.Affeldt*
G/S/vB		 46.Casilla
G/S/vB		 57.Gutierrez
G/S/vB		 49.Lopez*
G/S/vB		 63.Machi
G/S/vB		 52.Petit
G/S/vB		 54.Romo
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Aoki* G/S/vP 11/.000 1/.000 6/.650 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 378/281 .263/.332/.334/.666 .820/.613 .691 81/.698 10/4 1/2
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.800 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 448/333 .276/.326/.379/.705 .825/.665 .767 77/.872 0/0 6/0
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 340/241 .305/.341/.418/.759 .846/.724 .798 67/.668 16/3 3/1
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/12 .333/.333/.611/.944 1.167/.833 1.000 6/.833 0/0 0/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 208/167 .273/.325/.326/.651 .550/.677 .536 47/.512 22/4 1/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 427/319 .280/.316/.375/.691 .793/.656 .735 76/.613 23/3 2/10
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 5/.200 ··· ··· ··· 447/316 .273/.351/.420/.771 .783/.767 .739 79/.767 7/2 10/2
18.Ibanez* G/S/vP ··· 9/.833 3/.333 4/1.250 4/.250 ··· 3/1.667 3/.666 243/200 .171/.255/.304/.559 .169/.643 .653 22/1.255 3/2 5/1
14.Infante G/S/vP 6/.666 11/1.091 6/.367 4/.000 6/1.000 ··· 2/.000 5/.600 394/286 .263/.303/.360/.663 .570/.697 .616 91/.548 6/2 5/5
19.Kratz G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 88/43 .200/.227/.341/.568 .654/.476 .553 12/.417 0/0 3/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 332/272 .199/.263/.395/.658 .550/.682 .542 74/.740 0/0 14/11
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 422/316 .273/.310/.416/.726 .672/.743 .702 81/.551 1/0 13/4
IP 154.0 40.0 41.2 50.1 25.2 49.1 73.0 43.0 TOTAL .263/.312/.376/.688 .702/.683 .664 .669 94/22 67/64
ERA-K/9 3.21/8.9 1.35/6.1 1.30/6.9 3.04/6.3 2.10/4.2 1.64/6.2 3.95/9.4 4.60/8.8 3.37/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kratz (13-5-1)
 Perez (36-16-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 632/.249 156/.203 152/.173 203/.233 110/.206 183/.206 296/.236 173/.204 .241  Cain
 Gordon
 Aoki
 Dyson
 Ibanez
0/60/46/7
107/0/0/6
4/0/80/3
3/71/0/3
21/0/5/0
OPS .666 .510 .464 .634 .613 .596 .654 .668 .672
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 140/.598 75/.591 58/.475 66/.618 66/.537 63/.631 138/.859 66/.860 .698
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 492/.686 81/.436 94/.456 137/.641 44/.729 120/.576 158/.480 107/.558 .652
Road 352/.547 72/.446 94/.395 92/.767 51/.324 77/.572 134/.717 85/.885
Last 28d days 127/.595 28/.382 29/.620 43/.645 30/.381 41/.618 43/.525 32/.552
HR/SB/CS 12/6/7 0/3/0 2/0/0 3/4/1 2/1/0 2/1/3 7/14/3 8/1/1 86/75/35
Usage ····X··· ·X······ ·o·o···· oo·o···· ···X·o·· o·X····· o······· ·o·X····

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 2014 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

OAK  4.89

MIA  4.04

SDP  3.21

 RA/G

SEA  3.29

PIT  4.12

COL  5.19

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .340

B. Phillips  .272

C. Davis  .198

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .432

P. Sandoval  .331

E. Cabrera  .267

 SLG

J. Abreu  .616

B. Holt  .414

E. Cabrera  .294

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.035

J. Heyward  .752

E. Cabrera  .562

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.82

J. Niese  3.51

E. Jackson  5.66

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.23

T. Wood  7.44

K. Correia  4.25

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.