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Texas Rangers vs. Kansas City Royals, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, August 22, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 22, 2014
Start Time:
7:05ct (local), 8:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
92° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
128
On This Date:
21-21
Rangers
Manager:
Ron Washington
Game #:
127
On This Date:
23-26
Season Series

Fri, Aug 22, 2014 KCR    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Aug 23, 2014 KCR    @TEX  8:05pm
Sun, Aug 24, 2014 KCR    @TEX  3:05pm
Mon, Sep 01, 2014 TEX    @KCR  8:10pm
Tue, Sep 02, 2014 TEX    @KCR  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 03, 2014 TEX    @KCR  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
70-56, 1st, 1½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-28   Road:   37-28   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  50-38   vsLHP:  20-18   1-Run:  17-21
 vsEast: 14-12   vsCntrl:28-26   vsWest: 13-13 IL:15-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Wed, Aug 20  @COL  L   2-5       70-56  1st  1.0 up
125 Tue, Aug 19  @COL  W   7-4       70-55  1st  2.0 up
124 Mon, Aug 18  @MIN  W   6-4       69-55  1st  2.0 up
123 Sun, Aug 17  @MIN  W  12-6       68-55  1st  1.5 up
122 Sat, Aug 16  @MIN  L   1-4       67-55  1st  0.5 up
121 Fri, Aug 15  @MIN  W   6-5       67-54  1st  1.5 up
120 Thu, Aug 14   OAK  W   7-3       66-54  1st  0.5 up
119 Wed, Aug 13   OAK  W   3-0       65-54  1st  0.5 up
118 Tue, Aug 12   OAK  L   3-11      64-54  1st  0.5 up
117 Mon, Aug 11   OAK  W   3-2       64-53  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:16-4    Last 30:22-8
Texas Rangers
49-77, 5th, 27 GB, 25 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-38   Road:   26-39   ExtrInn: 2-5 
 vsRHP:  36-54   vsLHP:  13-23   1-Run:  17-19
 vsEast: 10-23   vsCntrl:13-14   vsWest: 19-30 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
126 Wed, Aug 20  @MIA  W   5-4       49-77  5th 26.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 19  @MIA  L   3-4 (10)  48-77  5th 26.5 gb
124 Sun, Aug 17   LAA  W   3-2       48-76  5th 25.0 gb
123 Sat, Aug 16   LAA  L   4-5       47-76  5th 26.0 gb
122 Fri, Aug 15   LAA  L   4-5       47-75  5th 26.0 gb
121 Thu, Aug 14   TBR  L   3-6       47-74  5th 26.0 gb
120 Wed, Aug 13   TBR  L   1-10      47-73  5th 26.0 gb
119 Tue, Aug 12   TBR  W   3-2 (14)  47-72  5th 26.0 gb
118 Mon, Aug 11   TBR  L   0-7       46-72  5th 26.0 gb
117 Sun, Aug 10  @HOU  W   6-2       46-71  5th 26.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Sep 22, 2013 KCR  4  TEX  0 (10)   W:Tim Collins (3-6), L: Neal Cotts (5-3), S: none
Sat, Sep 21, 2013 TEX  3 @KCR  1        W:Matt Garza (10-6), L: Jeremy Guthrie (14-12), S: Joe Nathan (40)
Fri, Sep 20, 2013 KCR  2  TEX  1        W:Luke Hochevar (5-2), L: Jason Frasor (4-3), S: Greg Holland (44)
Sun, Jun 02, 2013 TEX  3  KCR  1        W:Tanner Scheppers (4-0), L: J.C. Gutierrez (0-1), S: Joe Nathan (17)
Sat, Jun 01, 2013 KCR  4 @TEX  1 (10)   W:Aaron Crow (1-1), L: Robbie Ross (2-1), S: Greg Holland (9)
Fri, May 31, 2013 TEX  7  KCR  2        W:Derek Holland (5-2), L: Wade Davis (3-5), S: none
Thu, Sep 06, 2012 TEX  5 @KCR  4 (10)   W:Mike Adams (4-3), L: Greg Holland (6-4), S: Joe Nathan (30)
Wed, Sep 05, 2012 TEX  7 @KCR  6        W:Ryan Dempster (10-6), L: Everett Teaford (1-4), S: Joe Nathan (29)
Tue, Sep 04, 2012 KCR  6  TEX  3        W:Jeremy Guthrie (7-12), L: Matt Harrison (15-9), S: Greg Holland (11)
Mon, Sep 03, 2012 TEX  8 @KCR  4        W:Yu Darvish (14-9), L: Bruce Chen (10-11), S: none
Season Series: 2014 -  0-0; 2013 - Tied 3-3; 2012 - TEX won 5-4; All-Time - KCR leads 268-256

SP: Yordano Ventura (23, RHP, 9-9, 3.48)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (9-9) 139.2 133 57 54 50 119 13 3.48
2013 (0-1) 15.1 13 6 6 6 11 3 3.52
Last 7 GS 2-2 41.1 39 23 21 23 36 5 4.57 49
2014-08-16 @MIN L 6.2 4 3 3 6 4 0 114 52
2014-08-11 OAK ND 6.0 2 2 2 4 5 0 105 61
2014-08-06 @ARI W 6.0 8 2 2 1 8 0 105 55
2014-07-31 MIN W 7.0 5 2 1 3 7 1 103 65
2014-07-25 CLE ND 6.1 6 4 3 1 7 2 101 53
2014-07-20 @BOS L 4.1 9 6 6 4 0 1 94 17
2014-07-09 @TBR ND 5.0 5 4 4 4 5 1 104 42
Has never faced TEX as starter.

SP: Colby Lewis (34, RHP, 8-10, 5.52)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (8-10) 122.1 164 82 75 39 103 15 5.52
2012 (6-6) 105.0 99 48 40 14 93 16 3.43
2011 (14-10) 200.1 187 103 98 56 169 35 4.40
Last 7 GS 2-5 40.2 50 30 25 13 31 5 5.53 44
2014-08-16 LAA L 6.0 10 5 5 0 10 2 105 42
2014-08-11 TBR L 5.0 5 5 2 4 2 0 101 41
2014-08-05 @CHW W 9.0 6 0 0 1 7 0 110 81
2014-07-30 NYY W 7.0 4 2 2 2 4 2 106 63
2014-07-24 @NYY L 6.1 4 3 3 3 2 0 87 52
2014-07-19 @TOR L 5.0 8 2 2 3 5 0 106 45
2014-07-10 LAA L 2.1 13 13 11 0 1 1 61 -16
Last 5 v.KCR 1-2 20.0 24 23 16 7 10 3 7.20 37
2012-05-15 KCR L 5.2 8 7 2 2 4 1 114 37
2011-05-27 KCR ND 6.0 7 6 4 2 3 0 107 39
2003-09-01 KCR W 7.0 4 3 3 0 2 2 90 59
2003-08-27 @KCR L 1.1 5 7 7 3 1 0 55 14

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

Royals Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (5.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Lewis
G/S/vB		 25.Baker
G/S/vB		 65.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 56.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 62.Edwards
G/S/vB		 30.Feliz
G/S/vB		 64.Klein
G/S/vB		 55.Mendez
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Aoki* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 422/305 .266/.336/.338/.673 .819/.619 .624 88/.791 15/5 1/2
16.Butler G/S/vP 6/.833 31/.299 ··· ··· ··· 6/.533 ··· ··· ··· 503/371 .280/.330/.385/.715 .865/.663 .666 97/.882 0/0 7/0
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 372/256 .293/.331/.402/.733 .789/.708 .703 67/.699 18/3 3/2
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/16 .379/.419/.586/1.006 .928/1.063 .960 19/1.003 1/0 0/1
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 4/1.750 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 235/185 .287/.341/.349/.690 .624/.708 .786 46/.746 27/4 1/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP 7/.334 6/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/1.100 ··· ··· ··· 473/344 .280/.317/.371/.688 .775/.655 .679 85/.696 24/3 2/12
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 7/.619 26/.814 ··· 4/1.167 ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 497/343 .284/.360/.450/.810 .800/.815 .846 94/.937 8/3 14/2
18.Ibanez* G/S/vP 12/.444 19/1.408 ··· 11/.637 ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 257/211 .170/.257/.297/.554 .157/.640 .498 22/.673 3/2 5/1
14.Infante G/S/vP ··· 9/1.334 ··· 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 446/319 .255/.294/.358/.652 .622/.664 .678 98/.559 6/2 6/6
19.Kratz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 100/49 .229/.250/.417/.667 .624/.711 .725 16/1.175 0/0 5/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 3/5.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 375/296 .202/.262/.377/.639 .574/.657 .726 82/.555 0/0 14/12
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 467/345 .268/.304/.417/.721 .637/.749 .748 90/.560 1/0 15/5
7.Willingham G/S/vP 22/1.182 5/1.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 9/.730 ··· ··· 1/.000 309/211 .225/.350/.423/.772 .865/.728 .805 86/.764 2/0 13/0
IP 122.1 61.0 2.1 54.1 1.2 20.1 7.2 21.1 60.0 TOTAL .265/.314/.381/.695 .710/.689 .718 .721 110/24 78/72
ERA-K/9 5.52/7.6 5.75/6.3 0.00/11.7 3.48/9.6 0.00/5.3 3.10/5.8 2.35/11.7 1.27/5.9 3.00/9.0 4.77/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kratz (14-5-1)
 Perez (39-16-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 563/.323 255/.264 8/.125 232/.250 8/.286 78/.174 31/.148 84/.141 248/.216 .280  Cain
 Gordon
 Aoki
 Dyson
 Willingham
 Ibanez
0/67/55/8
120/0/0/6
4/0/91/5
3/81/0/3
53/0/1/3
22/0/5/0
OPS .870 .783 .250 .687 .804 .638 .703 .461 .683 .784
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 311/.952 127/.783 2/.000 83/.721 3/1.667 41/.536 14/1.429 44/.517 98/.690 .794
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 252/.768 128/.783 6/.333 149/.668 5/.200 37/.749 17/.118 40/.393 150/.678 .774
Home 296/.946 134/.833 8/.250 111/.638 4/.833 39/.446 15/.267 43/.418 126/.706
Last 28d days 114/.698 27/.568 8/.250 45/.694 8/.804 36/.726 31/.703 46/.590 47/.668
HR/SB/CS 15/15/7 9/3/0 0/0/0 4/1/1 0/0/0 5/1/0 2/0/0 1/2/0 9/4/2 130/61/30
Usage ·····X·· ········ ······oX ··X·ooX· ·o····X· ·Xo·o·o· ··X··o·X ·oo··o·X ··X·o·o·
Rangers Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ventura
G/S/vB		 67.Bueno*
G/S/vB		 52.Chen*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
35.Adduci* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 99/90 .170/.235/.239/.473 .000/.518 .581 65/.379 2/1 1/0
1.Andrus G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 8/.125 3/1.334 10/.800 8/.250 3/1.334 4/.000 546/405 .271/.323/.342/.665 .814/.616 .659 105/.748 22/13 2/14
7.Arencibia G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 2/.000 15/.904 ··· 2/.000 2/1.500 168/120 .178/.244/.382/.626 .842/.542 .500 72/.774 0/0 8/4
29.Beltre G/S/vP ··· ··· 32/.944 5/.000 13/1.328 14/.445 3/2.000 4/.833 468/357 .322/.376/.500/.876 .930/.860 .970 97/.854 1/1 17/9
28.Carp* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· 3/1.167 2/2.500 1/.000 2/.000 135/110 .184/.304/.246/.549 .376/.590 .565 40/.339 0/1 0/1
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 274/196 .232/.274/.416/.690 .757/.664 .587 48/.786 0/1 11/2
17.Choo* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 20/.628 4/.000 4/.500 7/.929 4/1.000 7/1.429 520/360 .244/.342/.371/.714 .678/.730 .636 104/.670 3/4 12/4
2.Martin* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 445/337 .268/.322/.362/.684 .465/.754 .771 84/.621 22/9 5/6
12.Odor* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 294/212 .255/.291/.380/.671 .621/.689 .559 82/.560 2/5 5/9
51.Rios G/S/vP ··· ··· 53/.605 11/.818 23/.266 6/.167 6/1.267 14/.428 474/363 .286/.314/.402/.716 .963/.643 .717 73/.486 16/9 4/6
19.Robertson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 123/58 .283/.336/.327/.663 .746/.567 .597 39/.738 3/3 0/2
9.Rosales G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.619 2/1.000 5/.800 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 61/21 .333/.433/.549/.982 .894/1.126 .741 38/1.210 1/0 3/1
8.Soto G/S/vP ··· 3/1.666 5/1.400 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 38/26 .237/.237/.368/.605 .333/.731 .750 27/.519 0/0 1/0
IP 139.2 26.1 46.2 49.1 55.1 38.0 53.0 49.1 TOTAL .256/.315/.378/.692 .735/.677 .676 .667 76/49 91/86
ERA-K/9 3.48/7.7 3.08/6.2 6.56/6.6 3.65/5.3 0.81/13.8 3.08/9.2 1.53/7.8 1.82/12.8 3.56/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (9-2-2)
 Chirinos (36-25-5)
 Soto (5-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 599/.246 113/.252 211/.335 205/.246 216/.146 163/.245 218/.211 194/.193 .252  Martin
 Rios
 Choo
 Robertson
 Adduci
 Carp
0/118/0/7
0/0/104/5
64/0/11/4
23/16/9/4
18/0/5/1
13/0/1/0
OPS .687 .642 .881 .763 .392 .690 .571 .526 .695
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 361/.681 54/.461 58/.692 91/.791 111/.515 66/.717 109/.612 112/.555 .691
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 238/.697 59/.811 153/.955 114/.741 105/.266 97/.671 109/.529 82/.487 .698
Road 281/.716 63/.597 71/.857 111/.699 108/.306 81/.904 113/.528 80/.492
Last 28d days 112/.579 24/.897 52/1.086 31/1.344 46/.534 30/.762 38/.368 46/.486
HR/SB/CS 13/0/0 1/0/0 7/6/1 9/2/1 0/0/0 3/4/1 0/4/2 3/3/1 110/47/19
Usage ·····X·· ··X··ooo ········ ···X·Xoo ··Xo··XX ·o··X··o ··X·o·o· ··oo··Xo

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  4.83

HOU  4.01

SDP  3.32

 RA/G

SEA  3.18

CHC  4.21

COL  5.20

 BA

J. Altuve  .336

B. Gardner  .271

C. Davis  .192

 OBP

J. Bautista  .406

B. Dozier  .332

G. Beckham  .263

 SLG

J. Abreu  .594

G. Jones  .413

Z. Cozart  .297

 OPS

G. Stanton  .961

T. Hunter  .749

Z. Cozart  .569

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.82

C. Tillman  3.55

E. Jackson  6.09

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.35

H. Iwakuma  7.35

K. Correia  4.62

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.