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Kansas City Royals vs. San Francisco Giants, at Kauffman Stadium, August 9, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Start Time:
6:10ct (local), 7:10et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
88° (based on last ten years)
Giants
Manager:
Bruce Bochy
Game #:
118
On This Date:
63-52
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
116
On This Date:
30-12
Season Series
Fri, Aug 08, 2014 KCR  4  SFG  2     

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

                         All times ET
San Francisco Giants
62-54, 2nd, 3½ GB, ½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   29-30   Road:   33-24   ExtrInn: 8-2 
 vsRHP:  43-34   vsLHP:  19-20   1-Run:  14-17
 vsEast: 19-9    vsCntrl:11-15   vsWest: 25-24 IL: 7-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
117 Fri, Aug  8  @KCR  L   2-4       62-54  2nd  3.5 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15
Kansas City Royals
61-53, 2nd, 2½ GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-27   Road:   33-26   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  44-37   vsLHP:  17-16   1-Run:  15-21
 vsEast: 14-12   vsCntrl:25-25   vsWest: 10-12 IL:12-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
114 Fri, Aug  8   SFG  W   4-2       61-53  2nd  2.5 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
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 08, 2014 KCR  4  SFG  2        W:Jason Frasor (3-1), L: Madison Bumgarner (13-9), S: Greg Holland (33)

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 - KCR over 1-0; 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; All-Time - KCR leads 7-3

SP: Tim Hudson (38, RHP, 8-8, 2.74)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (8-8) 144.1 141 52 44 24 91 10 2.74
2013 (8-7) 131.1 120 60 58 36 95 10 3.97
2012 (16-7) 179.0 168 77 72 48 102 12 3.62
Last 7 GS 1-4 44.2 46 18 15 8 27 4 3.02 54
2014-08-04 @NYM ND 5.0 7 3 2 2 2 1 89 43
2014-07-29 PIT L 7.0 6 3 3 1 2 2 114 54
2014-07-24 @PHI L 6.0 8 2 0 2 6 0 114 56
2014-07-19 @MIA W 7.1 8 1 1 0 3 0 81 61
2014-07-10 OAK L 5.1 9 6 6 3 4 1 79 27
2014-07-05 @SDP ND 6.0 3 1 1 0 4 0 90 66
2014-06-29 CIN L 8.0 5 2 2 0 6 0 106 70
Last 5 v.KCR 2-1 32.1 32 19 12 5 21 2 3.34 52
2004-05-14 @KCR W 8.0 5 2 2 2 2 0 105 64
2003-07-22 @KCR W 7.0 1 0 0 1 8 0 101 82
2003-05-30 @KCR L 3.2 10 9 6 1 1 2 83 11
2003-05-25 KCR ND 7.0 5 3 2 1 4 0 108 60
2002-09-04 KCR ND 6.2 11 5 2 0 6 0 104 44

SP: James Shields (32, RHP, 10-6, 3.43)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. SFG Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (10-6) 157.1 163 74 60 33 127 18 3.43
2013 (13-9) 228.2 215 82 80 68 196 20 3.15
2012 (15-10) 227.2 208 103 89 58 223 25 3.52
Last 7 GS 2-3 45.2 43 16 13 9 40 3 2.56 58
2014-08-03 @OAK W 8.0 4 2 2 0 2 2 102 68
2014-07-29 MIN L 6.0 6 2 1 4 5 0 124 55
2014-07-23 @CHW ND 7.0 6 1 1 1 7 0 105 67
2014-07-18 @BOS ND 5.2 8 4 3 1 3 1 112 41
2014-07-12 DET L 7.0 7 2 2 0 8 0 121 63
2014-07-07 @TBR W 7.0 3 0 0 1 10 0 103 80
2014-07-01 @MIN L 5.0 9 5 4 2 5 0 113 34
Has never faced SFG as starter.

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Giants Batters (3.88 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.89 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Shields
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 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 2/.000 ··· ··· 144/71 .197/.224/.226/.450 .518/.379 .454 25/.655 1/0 0/2
7.Blanco* G/S/vP 4/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 294/208 .238/.316/.303/.619 .668/.596 .565 77/.672 11/4 1/0
35.Crawford* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 420/289 .229/.317/.384/.701 .901/.612 .692 82/.570 3/3 8/17
50.Duffy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 15/8 .214/.267/.214/.481 1.071/.000 .481 15/.481 0/0 0/1
45.Ishikawa* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 43/43 .205/.256/.359/.615 /.615 .484 5/.400 0/0 1/1
38.Morse G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/.666 3/.000 ··· ··· 414/285 .276/.329/.467/.796 .794/.797 .783 78/.712 0/0 15/4
16.Pagan# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 272/185 .307/.354/.406/.761 .738/.771 .724 10/.600 11/3 3/1
12.Panik* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 101/90 .258/.307/.290/.597 1.182/.522 .693 45/.659 0/0 0/3
8.Pence G/S/vP 7/.000 ··· ··· 5/.600 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 516/377 .291/.345/.472/.817 .820/.815 .891 104/.797 10/5 15/4
2.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 71/33 .175/.246/.286/.532 .586/.464 .565 21/.667 0/1 1/0
28.Posey G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 429/313 .287/.350/.439/.788 .870/.757 .911 93/.933 0/1 13/6
48.Sandoval# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 454/309 .285/.333/.443/.775 .584/.865 .746 94/.905 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 157.1 24.1 47.0 49.1 34.0 35.1 49.0 44.2 TOTAL .244/.305/.379/.684 .705/.675 .701 .678 41/21 99/76
ERA-K/9 3.43/7.3 2.59/6.7 3.06/5.2 0.91/13.7 5.29/6.6 2.80/9.7 1.65/7.5 1.81/13.5 3.61/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Posey (42-19-4)
 Susac (2-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 661/.267 104/.253 192/.229 194/.141 149/.238 148/.219 205/.223 173/.189 .253  Pence
 Blanco
 Pagan
 Morse
 Perez
0/1/117/7
30/57/0/5
0/60/0/3
71/0/0/2
35/8/2/2
OPS .739 .615 .717 .389 .697 .632 .597 .508 .699
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 349/.755 49/.484 84/.785 97/.515 78/.620 57/.566 98/.673 100/.537 .694
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 312/.720 55/.735 108/.664 97/.267 71/.784 91/.672 107/.528 73/.469 .703
Home 254/.755 48/.729 92/.851 96/.477 60/.722 76/.406 102/.637 101/.524
Last 28d days 107/.674 31/.508 35/1.041 43/.559 27/.644 19/.217 41/.475 41/.389
HR/SB/CS 18/5/4 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· X·X····X ······o· o··X···· o·X····X o·X··o·X
Royals Batters (4.04 RS/G) vs. Giants Pitchers (3.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 17.Hudson
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 8/.900 1/.000 6/.650 ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 381/281 .262/.332/.332/.664 .809/.613 .686 80/.690 10/4 1/2
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.800 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 451/333 .279/.328/.389/.717 .867/.665 .790 76/.905 0/0 7/0
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 343/241 .302/.338/.414/.753 .820/.724 .782 66/.679 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 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 209/167 .271/.324/.324/.648 .537/.677 .531 45/.536 22/4 1/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP 6/1.167 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 430/319 .278/.314/.373/.686 .771/.656 .723 76/.613 23/3 2/10
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 5/.200 ··· ··· ··· 450/316 .274/.351/.420/.771 .780/.767 .738 82/.763 7/3 10/2
18.Ibanez* G/S/vP 71/.798 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 23/.522 11/1.091 6/.367 4/.000 6/1.000 ··· 2/.000 5/.600 398/286 .266/.305/.364/.669 .596/.697 .631 91/.560 6/2 5/6
19.Kratz G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 91/43 .205/.231/.341/.572 .655/.476 .561 14/.500 0/0 3/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 335/272 .201/.263/.395/.658 .556/.682 .545 73/.758 0/0 14/11
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 426/316 .270/.308/.412/.719 .646/.743 .686 81/.526 1/0 13/4
IP 144.1 40.0 41.2 50.1 25.2 49.1 73.0 43.0 TOTAL .263/.312/.376/.688 .700/.683 .664 .676 94/23 68/65
ERA-K/9 2.74/5.7 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 588/.256 156/.203 152/.173 203/.233 110/.206 183/.206 296/.236 173/.204 .241  Cain
 Gordon
 Aoki
 Dyson
 Ibanez
0/61/47/7
108/0/0/6
4/0/81/5
3/72/0/3
21/0/5/0
OPS .679 .510 .464 .634 .613 .596 .654 .668 .672
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 317/.750 75/.591 58/.475 66/.618 66/.537 63/.631 138/.859 66/.860 .697
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 271/.599 81/.436 94/.456 137/.641 44/.729 120/.576 158/.480 107/.558 .653
Road 280/.690 72/.446 94/.395 92/.767 51/.324 77/.572 134/.717 85/.885
Last 28d days 106/.756 25/.330 29/.620 43/.645 29/.395 38/.546 43/.525 27/.542
HR/SB/CS 10/8/1 0/3/0 2/0/0 3/4/1 2/1/0 2/1/3 7/14/3 8/1/1 87/75/36
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  4.90

KCR  4.04

SDP  3.19

 RA/G

SEA  3.27

PIT  4.10

COL  5.19

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .340

M. Napoli  .272

C. Davis  .198

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .432

J. Peralta  .331

G. Beckham  .267

 SLG

J. Abreu  .612

D. Viciedo  .412

J. Bradley  .296

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.035

J. Heyward  .755

E. Cabrera  .569

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.82

A. Sanchez  3.53

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.