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Boston Red Sox vs. Kansas City Royals, at Fenway Park, August 22, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Fenway Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
76° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
126
On This Date:
22-21
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
125
On This Date:
64-48
Season Series
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 BOS  7 @KCR  3     
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 KCR  7  BOS  4     
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 BOS 13 @KCR  2     
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 BOS  4  KCR  1     
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 BOS  7  KCR  2     

Sat, Aug 22, 2015 KCR    @BOS  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 23, 2015 KCR    @BOS  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
73-48, 1st, 12½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   42-20   Road:   31-28   ExtrInn: 8-2 
 vsRHP:  50-27   vsLHP:  23-21   1-Run:  20-11
 vsEast: 10-12   vsCntrl:32-19   vsWest: 18-11 IL:13-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
121 Fri, Aug 21  @BOS  L   2-7       73-48  1st 12.5 up
120 Thu, Aug 20  @BOS  L   1-4       73-47  1st 13.5 up
119 Wed, Aug 19  @CIN  W   4-3       73-46  1st 14.5 up
118 Tue, Aug 18  @CIN  W   3-1 (13)  72-46  1st 13.5 up
117 Sun, Aug 16   LAA  W   4-3 (10)  71-46  1st 12.0 up
116 Sat, Aug 15   LAA  W   9-4       70-46  1st 12.0 up
115 Fri, Aug 14   LAA  W   4-1       69-46  1st 12.0 up
114 Thu, Aug 13   LAA  L   6-7       68-46  1st 11.0 up
113 Wed, Aug 12   DET  L   4-7       68-45  1st 11.0 up
112 Tue, Aug 11   DET  W   6-1       68-44  1st 12.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12
Boston Red Sox
56-66, 5th, 11½ GB, 11 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-30   Road:   23-36   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  42-45   vsLHP:  14-21   1-Run:  15-16
 vsEast: 20-30   vsCntrl:13-12   vsWest: 15-18 IL: 8-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
122 Fri, Aug 21   KCR  W   7-2       56-66  5th 11.5 gb
121 Thu, Aug 20   KCR  W   4-1       55-66  5th 12.5 gb
120 Wed, Aug 19   CLE  W   6-4       54-66  5th 13.5 gb
119 Tue, Aug 18   CLE  W   9-1       53-66  5th 13.5 gb
118 Mon, Aug 17   CLE  L   2-8       52-66  5th 13.5 gb
117 Sun, Aug 16   SEA  L   8-10(12)  52-65  5th 12.5 gb
116 Sat, Aug 15   SEA  W  22-10      52-64  5th 12.5 gb
115 Fri, Aug 14   SEA  W  15-1       51-64  5th 12.5 gb
114 Wed, Aug 12  @MIA  L   6-14      50-64  5th 12.5 gb
113 Tue, Aug 11  @MIA  L   4-5 (10)  50-63  5th 12.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 BOS  7  KCR  2        W:Henry Owens (2-1), L: Johnny Cueto (9-8), S: none
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 BOS  4  KCR  1        W:Wade Miley (10-9), L: Danny Duffy (6-6), S: Junichi Tazawa (2)
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 BOS 13 @KCR  2        W:Wade Miley (7-6), L: Chris Young (6-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 KCR  7  BOS  4        W:Edinson Volquez (7-4), L: Rick Porcello (4-8), S: Greg Holland (13)
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 BOS  7 @KCR  3        W:Eduardo Rodriguez (3-1), L: Yohan Pino (0-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 14, 2014 BOS  8 @KCR  4        W:Joe Kelly (4-4), L: Jason Vargas (11-9), S: none
Sat, Sep 13, 2014 KCR  7  BOS  1        W:Jeremy Guthrie (11-11), L: Rubby De La Rosa (4-7), S: none
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 BOS  4 @KCR  2        W:Allen Webster (4-3), L: Yordano Ventura (12-10), S: Edward Mujica (6)
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 BOS  6 @KCR  3        W:Clay Buchholz (8-8), L: Liam Hendriks (1-2), S: Edward Mujica (5)
Sun, Jul 20, 2014 BOS  6  KCR  0        W:Jon Lester (10-7), L: Yordano Ventura (7-8), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - BOS over 4-1; 2014 - BOS won 6-1; 2013 - KCR won 5-2; All-Time - BOS leads 231-225

SP: Yordano Ventura (24, RHP, 7-7, 4.82)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-7) 108.1 105 58 58 37 90 12 4.82
2014 (14-10) 183.0 168 70 65 69 159 14 3.20
2013 (0-1) 15.1 13 6 6 6 11 3 3.52
Last 7 GS 4-1 41.0 41 23 23 16 36 5 5.05 49
2015-08-16 LAA ND 7.0 5 2 2 1 7 1 105 65
2015-08-11 DET W 6.0 2 0 0 6 8 0 104 70
2015-08-06 @DET ND 5.0 8 6 6 3 3 2 97 27
2015-08-01 @TOR W 7.0 6 5 5 2 2 2 101 45
2015-07-26 HOU W 7.0 6 1 1 0 5 0 97 66
2015-07-20 PIT L 4.0 10 6 6 1 7 0 92 24
2015-07-09 TBR W 5.0 4 3 3 3 4 0 88 48
Last 5 v.BOS 0-2 11.1 17 10 9 5 6 1 7.15 35
2014-09-12 BOS L 7.0 8 4 3 1 6 0 112 52
2014-07-20 @BOS L 4.1 9 6 6 4 0 1 94 17

SP: Matt Barnes (25, RHP, 3-3, 6.59)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-3) 27.1 40 22 20 11 29 7 6.59
2014 (0-0) 9.0 11 4 4 2 8 1 4.00
Last 7 GS 0-1 5.0 6 6 6 3 7 1 10.80 35
2015-08-17 CLE L 5.0 6 6 6 3 7 1 102 35
Has never faced KCR as starter.

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

Royals Batters (4.32 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.87 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 68.Barnes
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 37.Hembree
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 64.Machi
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 91/65 .188/.225/.235/.460 .497/.445 .500 28/.606 0/1 1/3
6.Cain G/S/vP 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 5/.200 3/.000 ··· 458/300 .306/.360/.490/.851 .992/.777 .792 96/.827 24/4 12/8
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 181/148 .261/.328/.391/.719 .689/.726 .704 37/.793 23/2 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 12/.473 2/2.000 3/.000 505/349 .271/.312/.340/.652 .700/.631 .647 114/.519 12/5 3/10
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 1/.000 7/.619 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 11/.473 4/1.750 3/1.667 498/299 .315/.378/.482/.860 .734/.946 .761 105/1.009 5/2 14/3
14.Infante G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 3/.000 410/291 .215/.230/.295/.525 .554/.513 .550 68/.393 2/2 1/9
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 6/1.167 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 5/.000 7/2.047 6/.334 486/289 .286/.348/.452/.800 .742/.841 .803 98/.863 0/0 13/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 1/2.000 2/2.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· 4/.500 3/.666 5/.000 465/290 .269/.338/.413/.750 .668/.800 .742 89/.544 1/2 12/9
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 185/106 .233/.262/.403/.666 .590/.722 .576 31/.452 3/2 4/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 413/279 .253/.266/.425/.691 .517/.777 .647 74/.609 1/0 17/2
15.Rios G/S/vP ··· 5/1.550 ··· ··· ··· 9/.555 4/.000 7/.572 297/199 .235/.273/.303/.576 .569/.579 .512 90/.465 8/0 2/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 10/.633 1/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 13/.762 7/.453 11/.864 358/238 .288/.374/.482/.857 .954/.807 .893 91/1.029 1/3 10/4
IP 27.1 46.2 9.2 37.1 43.0 52.0 47.2 52.0 TOTAL .268/.320/.404/.724 .703/.735 .697 .691 82/26 95/66
ERA-K/9 6.59/9.6 4.44/6.6 6.52/5.6 4.58/9.4 5.23/6.1 3.81/7.8 3.97/7.7 3.12/8.5 4.59/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (14-8-1)
 Perez (48-24-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 133/.336 206/.287 39/.270 167/.259 194/.257 215/.232 207/.261 210/.245 .266  Dyson
 Cain
 Orlando
 Rios
 Zobrist
 Hosmer
22/21/17/6
0/104/0/5
22/1/31/3
0/0/76/3
39/0/3/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .977 .843 .848 .736 .773 .777 .734 .661 .762
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 62/.893 78/.826 15/1.400 80/.442 76/.365 79/.627 78/.692 86/.719 .728
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 71/1.045 128/.854 24/.477 87/1.004 118/1.030 136/.865 129/.759 124/.620 .786
Home 61/1.115 111/.684 25/.440 83/.929 102/.763 113/.835 117/.660 120/.682
Last 28d days 24/.941 53/.904 12/.583 36/1.024 35/.770 44/.800 54/.769 43/.815
HR/SB/CS 7/7/1 8/1/2 2/0/0 3/3/1 5/2/1 12/2/2 5/0/0 4/4/1 141/57/32
Usage ····X··· ·····X·X X···X··· ··o·X·X· ··Xo·o·X ·oX··X·· ·o···oo· ·oo··X··
Red Sox Batters (4.55 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ventura
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 46.Madson
G/S/vB		 39.Medlen
G/S/vB		 45.Morales*
G/S/vB		 32.Young
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP 4/1.750 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 5/2.100 473/354 .275/.323/.442/.766 .709/.785 .826 60/.823 16/4 10/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.000 480/350 .313/.341/.410/.751 .943/.680 .819 107/.748 7/1 4/8
25.Bradley* G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 110/72 .247/.345/.527/.872 1.344/.617 1.106 75/1.067 1/0 5/1
38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 155/99 .286/.318/.415/.733 .996/.584 .831 78/.925 3/0 4/4
31.De Aza* G/S/vP 2/.000 15/.564 8/.661 19/.980 10/.322 1/3.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 281/238 .268/.323/.447/.770 .458/.824 .761 44/.931 5/3 7/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 1/no AB 8/1.458 156/115 .248/.351/.331/.681 .883/.607 .819 40/.797 0/0 2/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 6/.833 396/298 .287/.359/.398/.757 .806/.741 .739 91/.768 6/1 2/8
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 3/.000 14/.599 2/2.500 17/.912 2/.500 5/.900 2/.000 2/.000 14/1.389 479/332 .263/.351/.510/.860 .647/.962 .911 107/1.184 0/0 26/0
13.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 26/.776 10/1.300 9/.476 9/1.301 414/298 .254/.295/.433/.727 .755/.717 .706 64/.461 6/3 19/4
30.Rutledge G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 1/.000 1/.000 33/21 .250/.333/.357/.690 .667/.686 .789 33/.690 0/0 1/2
48.Sandoval* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 9/2.056 23/.611 12/.606 421/290 .258/.306/.390/.697 .469/.802 .798 77/.838 0/0 10/13
47.Shaw* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 79/53 .375/.418/.681/1.098 1.378/.959 1.477 63/1.267 0/0 6/0
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 214/146 .274/.315/.368/.683 .637/.703 .785 63/.854 1/2 1/2
IP 108.1 49.2 55.1 34.1 37.2 50.1 14.1 49.1 101.2 TOTAL .265/.326/.412/.738 .763/.728 .803 .871 52/14 118/73
ERA-K/9 4.82/7.5 1.09/10.1 1.95/8.1 3.41/9.7 3.58/10.5 2.32/8.2 2.51/8.8 2.37/6.0 3.28/5.9 3.55/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (21-11-3)
 Swihart (29-12-14)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 455/.257 189/.160 219/.181 143/.250 161/.221 199/.207 55/.200 197/.217 415/.213 .246  Betts
 De Aza
 Ramirez
 Castillo
 Bradley
 Holt
 Shaw
0/105/0/7
50/1/37/4
89/0/0/3
0/6/40/1
7/14/15/1
12/2/17/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .742 .479 .506 .717 .667 .582 .553 .594 .671 .698
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 238/.795 107/.468 107/.416 59/.741 76/.835 89/.557 26/.839 91/.624 218/.740 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 217/.684 82/.493 112/.589 84/.700 85/.517 110/.603 29/.315 106/.569 197/.596 .684
Road 225/.777 92/.366 108/.536 70/.738 75/.682 108/.645 30/.564 107/.604 210/.613
Last 28d days 133/.717 28/.731 53/.451 49/.733 33/.819 43/.824 33/.409 41/.714 30/.674
HR/SB/CS 12/1/4 2/4/1 3/5/2 4/1/0 2/0/2 4/1/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 14/17/6 105/56/29
Usage ·····X·· ··Xo·X·· ··oX·o·o ··X···X· ···X·o·X ··oo···X ·X·X···· X··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 2015 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

TOR  5.27

CHC  4.09

ATL  3.65

 RA/G

STL  2.96

MIA  4.19

COL  5.34

 BA

D. Gordon  .338

B. Lawrie  .266

C. Carter  .182

 OBP

B. Harper  .457

O. Herrera  .329

O. Infante  .230

 SLG

B. Harper  .642

S. Perez  .425

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.099

Y. Solarte  .756

O. Infante  .525

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.58

M. Pelfrey  3.62

K. Lohse  6.04

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.16

S. Gray  7.59

M. Buehrle  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.