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Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals, at Comerica Park, August 6, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Start Time:
1:08et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
81° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
111
On This Date:
25-18
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
110
On This Date:
61-50
Season Series
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 KCR  8  DET  1     
Fri, May 01, 2015 KCR  4  DET  1     
Sat, May 02, 2015 DET  2 @KCR  1     
Sun, May 03, 2015 DET  6 @KCR  4     
Fri, May 08, 2015 DET  6  KCR  5     
Sat, May 09, 2015 KCR  6 @DET  2     
Sun, May 10, 2015 KCR  2 @DET  1 (10)
Tue, Aug 04, 2015 KCR  5 @DET  1     
Wed, Aug 05, 2015 DET  2  KCR  1     

Thu, Aug 06, 2015 KCR    @DET  1:08pm
Mon, Aug 10, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Tue, Aug 11, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Wed, Aug 12, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Tue, Sep 01, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 02, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Thu, Sep 03, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 KCR    @DET  7:08pm
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 KCR    @DET  7:08pm
Sun, Sep 20, 2015 KCR    @DET  1:08pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
63-43, 1st, 9½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   34-18   Road:   29-25   ExtrInn: 6-2 
 vsRHP:  44-25   vsLHP:  19-18   1-Run:  15-10
 vsEast: 10-10   vsCntrl:27-17   vsWest: 15-10 IL:11-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
106 Wed, Aug  5  @DET  L   1-2       63-43  1st  9.5 up
105 Tue, Aug  4  @DET  W   5-1       63-42  1st  9.5 up
104 Sun, Aug  2  @TOR  L   2-5       62-42  1st  8.0 up
103 Sat, Aug  1  @TOR  W   7-6       62-41  1st  8.0 up
102 Fri, Jul 31  @TOR  L   6-7 (11)  61-41  1st  8.0 up
101 Thu, Jul 30  @TOR  L   2-5       61-40  1st  8.0 up
100 Wed, Jul 29  @CLE  L   1-12      61-39  1st  9.0 up
 99 Tue, Jul 28  @CLE  W   2-1       61-38  1st  9.0 up
 98 Mon, Jul 27  @CLE  W   9-4       60-38  1st  8.0 up
 97 Sun, Jul 26   HOU  W   5-1       59-38  1st  7.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:19-11
Detroit Tigers
52-55, 3rd, 11½ GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   26-28   Road:   26-27   ExtrInn: 3-8 
 vsRHP:  37-44   vsLHP:  15-11   1-Run:  18-16
 vsEast:  9-14   vsCntrl:28-18   vsWest:  8-13 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
107 Wed, Aug  5   KCR  W   2-1       52-55  3rd 11.5 gb
106 Tue, Aug  4   KCR  L   1-5       51-55  3rd 12.5 gb
105 Sun, Aug  2  @BAL  W   6-1       51-54  3rd 11.5 gb
104 Sat, Aug  1  @BAL  L   2-6       50-54  4th 12.5 gb
103 Fri, Jul 31  @BAL  L   7-8       50-53  3rd 11.5 gb
102 Thu, Jul 30  @BAL  W   9-8       50-52  3rd 11.5 gb
101 Wed, Jul 29  @TBR  W   2-1       49-52  4th 12.5 gb
100 Tue, Jul 28  @TBR  L   2-10      48-52  4th 13.5 gb
 99 Mon, Jul 27  @TBR  L   2-5       48-51  3rd 12.5 gb
 98 Sun, Jul 26  @BOS  L   1-11      48-50  3rd 11.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Aug 05, 2015 DET  2  KCR  1        W:Matt Boyd (1-2), L: Johnny Cueto (7-7), S: Alex Wilson (2)
Tue, Aug 04, 2015 KCR  5 @DET  1        W:Danny Duffy (5-5), L: Justin Verlander (1-4), S: none
Sun, May 10, 2015 KCR  2 @DET  1 (10)   W:Jason Frasor (1-0), L: Angel Nesbitt (0-1), S: Greg Holland (6)
Sat, May 09, 2015 KCR  6 @DET  2        W:Jeremy Guthrie (2-2), L: Anibal Sanchez (2-4), S: none
Fri, May 08, 2015 DET  6  KCR  5        W:Joakim Soria (2-0), L: Yohan Pino (0-1), S: none
Sun, May 03, 2015 DET  6 @KCR  4        W:Anibal Sanchez (2-3), L: Jeremy Guthrie (1-2), S: Joakim Soria (10)
Sat, May 02, 2015 DET  2 @KCR  1        W:David Price (3-1), L: Edinson Volquez (2-3), S: none
Fri, May 01, 2015 KCR  4  DET  1        W:Chris Young (2-0), L: Kyle Lobstein (2-2), S: Wade Davis (5)
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 KCR  8  DET  1        W:Danny Duffy (2-0), L: Alfredo Simon (4-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 21, 2014 KCR  5  DET  2        W:Jeremy Guthrie (12-11), L: Rick Porcello (15-12), S: Greg Holland (43)
Season Series: 2015 - KCR over 5-4; 2014 - DET won 13-6; 2013 - KCR won 10-9; All-Time - DET leads 319-316

SP: Yordano Ventura (24, RHP, 6-7, 4.98)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-7) 90.1 90 50 50 27 72 9 4.98
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 3-3 36.0 40 22 22 10 29 2 5.50 47
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
2015-06-12 @STL L 3.0 4 2 2 1 2 0 52 44
2015-06-06 TEX L 3.0 6 4 4 2 3 0 78 32
2015-05-31 @CHC ND 7.0 4 1 1 1 6 0 104 70
Last 5 v.DET 1-0 13.0 16 7 7 5 8 0 4.85 46
2015-05-08 @DET ND 6.0 8 4 4 3 4 0 95 41
2014-06-17 @DET W 7.0 8 3 3 2 4 0 102 51

SP: Anibal Sanchez (31, RHP, 10-9, 4.77)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (10-9) 143.1 137 78 76 43 126 24 4.77
2014 (8-5) 126.0 108 55 48 30 102 4 3.43
2013 (14-8) 182.0 156 56 52 54 202 9 2.57
Last 7 GS 4-2 45.1 48 27 26 16 38 9 5.16 48
2015-08-01 @BAL L 6.2 9 6 6 0 5 2 95 37
2015-07-27 @TBR L 5.1 8 3 3 2 6 1 113 44
2015-07-22 SEA W 6.2 9 4 4 2 6 2 103 44
2015-07-17 BAL W 6.0 8 2 2 2 3 0 99 49
2015-07-08 @SEA W 6.1 5 4 3 5 6 1 113 50
2015-07-03 TOR W 7.1 3 4 4 3 5 0 117 58
2015-06-26 CHW ND 7.0 6 4 4 2 7 3 106 54
Last 5 v.KCR 4-1 34.1 33 12 11 6 14 1 2.88 55
2015-05-09 KCR L 6.0 9 6 5 3 2 1 99 31
2015-05-03 @KCR W 7.1 4 3 3 1 4 0 104 61
2014-07-11 @KCR W 7.0 8 1 1 0 3 0 90 60
2014-06-19 KCR W 7.0 5 1 1 1 0 0 107 62
2013-09-06 @KCR W 7.0 7 1 1 1 5 0 98 63

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

Royals Batters (4.29 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.76 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 19.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 39.Feliz
G/S/vB		 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB		 46.Krol*
G/S/vB		 43.Rondon
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 69/48 .182/.194/.197/.391 .461/.362 .469 16/.375 0/1 0/2
6.Cain G/S/vP 20/.400 9/.583 3/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 400/263 .306/.363/.490/.853 1.005/.775 .843 87/.827 19/4 11/7
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 26/17 .240/.269/.360/.629 .556/.669 .000 10/.300 0/0 0/1
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 25/.327 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 157/130 .239/.314/.370/.683 .612/.698 .709 43/.450 19/2 1/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 25/.760 11/.182 6/1.334 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 435/307 .276/.315/.343/.658 .675/.651 .624 104/.527 8/5 2/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 29/.655 5/.400 4/1.833 2/.500 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 431/266 .319/.374/.477/.851 .730/.928 .770 93/1.121 4/2 11/2
14.Infante G/S/vP 31/.426 6/1.334 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 377/273 .230/.242/.317/.559 .619/.536 .559 88/.599 1/2 1/9
25.Morales# G/S/vP 14/.774 ··· 8/.250 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 430/264 .286/.342/.454/.796 .753/.824 .796 94/.767 0/0 12/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 21/.564 10/.200 1/2.000 3/.333 1/.000 2/1.500 2/1.000 407/257 .282/.342/.419/.761 .665/.816 .767 86/.638 1/2 10/9
13.Perez G/S/vP 19/.329 10/.522 ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 3/.666 3/.666 374/263 .249/.262/.423/.685 .507/.761 .644 78/.537 1/0 16/2
15.Rios G/S/vP 12/.523 9/1.056 3/1.334 ··· 2/.000 4/.750 2/1.500 241/168 .246/.278/.316/.594 .567/.605 .522 84/.726 7/0 2/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 22/.431 3/1.167 7/.762 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 3/.000 296/201 .271/.351/.473/.824 .922/.777 .891 74/1.013 1/3 9/3
IP 143.1 45.0 27.0 47.2 19.2 14.2 56.2 TOTAL .270/.319/.405/.724 .707/.732 .704 .700 66/25 84/59
ERA-K/9 4.77/7.9 3.20/9.0 7.67/7.7 2.45/7.2 5.49/9.1 6.75/12.9 1.75/5.2 4.43/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (13-7-0)
 Perez (47-23-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 599/.250 195/.256 128/.333 196/.224 94/.313 66/.293 216/.228 .269  Cain
 Dyson
 Rios
 Zobrist
 Hosmer
0/91/0/5
15/19/17/4
0/0/62/3
33/0/3/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .752 .708 .919 .615 .909 .790 .564 .765
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 319/.658 76/.800 65/.924 90/.475 38/.827 24/.652 94/.643 .793
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 280/.858 119/.653 63/.913 106/.731 56/.963 42/.875 122/.500 .743
Home 375/.732 116/.754 63/.999 106/.693 34/.772 38/.892 111/.605
Last 28d days 109/.940 35/.795 37/1.281 35/.617 38/.702 41/.824 36/.352
HR/SB/CS 24/15/4 4/6/0 5/0/2 0/0/0 4/0/0 1/2/0 2/2/2 123/45/26
Usage ····X··· ·o····X· ·····X·· oo··o·o· ····XXo· o··o·o·· o··o··X·
Tigers Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.71 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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP 4/.250 16/1.318 13/.231 27/.949 11/.273 ··· 6/.733 2/1.000 153/125 .173/.309/.260/.569 .269/.637 .697 54/.350 0/1 3/0
9.Castellanos G/S/vP 7/.286 6/.334 5/1.400 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 397/314 .242/.295/.398/.693 .922/.634 .780 81/.854 0/1 11/6
18.Collins* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/57 .263/.300/.474/.774 .000/.816 .586 6/.500 1/0 2/0
20.Davis G/S/vP 5/.800 11/.489 5/.200 14/.517 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 13/1.083 249/148 .258/.310/.410/.721 .736/.711 .736 47/.539 15/5 2/1
12.Gose* G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 3/.333 1/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 323/287 .262/.305/.368/.673 .314/.718 .786 58/.492 16/6 2/3
1.Iglesias G/S/vP ··· 4/1.000 4/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 355/268 .313/.355/.396/.751 .925/.695 .776 83/.716 10/6 2/10
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 6/1.500 8/.125 10/.522 16/.125 2/4.000 4/1.250 ··· 6/1.167 465/365 .295/.353/.415/.768 .759/.770 .773 95/1.032 8/5 5/5
55.Marte G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 35/11 .233/.324/.500/.824 .970/.425 .425 30/.670 0/0 2/2
28.Martinez G/S/vP 6/1.100 7/.929 4/.750 3/.000 3/.333 2/.500 1/2.000 3/.667 436/339 .286/.346/.555/.902 .847/.915 .939 89/.867 2/1 29/2
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 6/.900 23/.590 5/.400 19/.721 9/.708 4/.000 3/.666 6/1.000 311/239 .243/.309/.354/.662 .901/.591 .618 93/.561 0/0 6/
34.McCann G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 264/199 .278/.310/.419/.730 1.024/.637 .737 59/.702 0/0 5/0
27.Romine# G/S/vP 3/.666 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 105/84 .284/.330/.379/.709 .783/.689 .536 18/.494 6/5 2/4
IP 90.1 44.2 47.1 28.0 32.2 44.1 6.1 44.0 TOTAL .274/.330/.429/.759 .779/.753 .776 .709 63/35 106/53
ERA-K/9 4.98/7.2 0.60/10.1 2.09/7.6 3.86/9.0 3.03/9.6 2.23/8.1 5.68/10.0 2.45/5.7 3.56/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (13-6-1)
 McCann (22-18-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 379/.262 168/.148 185/.185 117/.259 136/.209 174/.205 28/.250 174/.219 .246  Martinez
 Gose
 Davis
 Collins
 Romine
0/0/99/12
0/88/0/2
15/38/8/2
3/0/4/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .740 .447 .520 .724 .625 .570 .774 .592 .698
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 199/.750 96/.403 94/.394 49/.858 64/.737 79/.548 15/1.133 82/.640 .714
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 180/.729 72/.502 91/.650 68/.629 72/.528 95/.588 13/.397 92/.549 .683
Road 201/.737 80/.356 95/.566 66/.785 71/.705 100/.624 14/.629 92/.623
Last 28d days 80/.799 28/.549 49/.609 47/.684 34/.791 43/.825 28/.774 38/.618
HR/SB/CS 9/1/3 1/3/1 3/4/2 3/1/0 1/0/2 3/1/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 91/54/27
Usage ····X··· ····o··· o··X·Xo· ·o·o·X·X ····X··· ·o·X·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 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  5.30

WSN  4.12

MIA  3.55

 RA/G

STL  2.93

SEA  4.23

COL  5.22

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

A. Beltre  .267

M. Zunino  .175

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .456

C. Gomez  .327

M. Zunino  .234

 SLG

B. Harper  .664

S. Perez  .423

B. Hamilton  .281

 OPS

B. Harper  1.119

H. Kendrick  .748

M. Zunino  .542

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.41

A. Wood  3.65

K. Kendrick  6.43

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.71

A. Burnett  7.58

M. Pelfrey  4.26

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.