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Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros, at Kauffman Stadium, October 14, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Start Time:
7:00ct (local), 8:00et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #5 of a 5-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Season Series
Mon, Jun 29, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  1     
Tue, Jun 30, 2015 HOU  4  KCR  0     
Wed, Jul 01, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  5     
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 HOU  4 @KCR  0     
Sat, Jul 25, 2015 KCR  2  HOU  1 (10)
Sun, Jul 26, 2015 KCR  5  HOU  1     

Wed, Oct 14, 2015 HOU    @KCR  8:00pm

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
86-76,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   54-29   Road:   35-49   ExtrInn: 8-6 
 vsRHP:  59-47   vsLHP:  30-31   1-Run:  21-30
 vsEast: 19-16   vsCntrl:16-20   vsWest: 38-38 IL:16-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  5 Mon, Oct 12   KCR  L   6-9         -               
  4 Sun, Oct 11   KCR  W   4-2         -               
  3 Fri, Oct  9  @KCR  L   4-5         -               
  2 Thu, Oct  8  @KCR  W   5-2         -               
  1 Tue, Oct  6  @NYY  W   3-0         -               
162 Sun, Oct  4  @ARI  L   3-5       86-76  2nd  2.0 gb
161 Sat, Oct  3  @ARI  W   6-2       86-75  2nd  1.0 gb
160 Fri, Oct  2  @ARI  W  21-5       85-75  2nd  2.0 gb
159 Wed, Sep 30  @SEA  W   7-6       84-75  2nd  2.5 gb
158 Tue, Sep 29  @SEA  L   4-6       83-75  3rd  2.5 gb

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:13-17
Kansas City Royals
95-67,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   52-31   Road:   45-38   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  65-41   vsLHP:  32-28   1-Run:  24-17
 vsEast: 18-16   vsCntrl:44-32   vsWest: 22-14 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  4 Mon, Oct 12  @HOU  W   9-6         -               
  3 Sun, Oct 11  @HOU  L   2-4         -               
  2 Fri, Oct  9   HOU  W   5-4         -               
  1 Thu, Oct  8   HOU  L   2-5         -               
162 Sun, Oct  4  @MIN  W   6-1       95-67  1st 12.0 up
161 Sat, Oct  3  @MIN  W   5-1       94-67  1st 11.0 up
160 Fri, Oct  2  @MIN  W   3-1       93-67  1st 10.0 up
159 Thu, Oct  1  @CHW  W   6-4       92-67  1st  9.0 up
158 Wed, Sep 30  @CHW  W   5-3 (10)  91-67  1st  9.0 up
157 Tue, Sep 29  @CHW  L   2-4       90-67  1st  8.5 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Oct 12, 2015 KCR  9 @HOU  6        W:Ryan Madson , L: Tony Sipp , S: Wade Davis 
Sun, Oct 11, 2015 HOU  4  KCR  2        W:Dallas Keuchel , L: Edinson Volquez , S: Luke Gregerson 
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 KCR  5  HOU  4        W:Kelvin Herrera , L: Will Harris , S: Wade Davis 
Thu, Oct 08, 2015 HOU  5 @KCR  2        W:Collin McHugh , L: Yordano Ventura , S: Luke Gregerson 
Sun, Jul 26, 2015 KCR  5  HOU  1        W:Yordano Ventura (5-7), L: Dallas Keuchel (12-5), S: none
Sat, Jul 25, 2015 KCR  2  HOU  1 (10)   W:Kelvin Herrera (2-2), L: Will Harris (4-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 HOU  4 @KCR  0        W:Scott Kazmir (6-5), L: Jeremy Guthrie (7-6), S: Luke Gregerson (21)
Wed, Jul 01, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  5        W:Luke Gregerson (3-1), L: Kelvin Herrera (1-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 30, 2015 HOU  4  KCR  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (10-3), L: Danny Duffy (2-4), S: none
Mon, Jun 29, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  1        W:Lance McCullers (4-2), L: Joe Blanton (2-1), S: none

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2015 - HOU over 6-4; 2014 - Tied 3-3; 2013 - KCR won 4-2; All-Time - HOU leads 28-24

SP: Collin McHugh (28, RHP, 19-7, 3.89)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (19-7) 203.2 207 89 88 53 171 19 3.89
2014 RegS (11-9) 154.2 117 53 47 41 157 13 2.73
2013 RegS (0-4) 26.0 45 29 29 5 11 6 10.04
Last 7 GS 6-0 44.1 43 18 18 11 36 5 3.65 54
2015-10-08 @KCR W 6.0 4 2 2 1 1 2 92 56
2015-10-03 @ARI W 7.0 6 1 1 1 6 0 91 66
2015-09-26 TEX W 6.2 8 4 4 1 6 1 104 47
2015-09-20 OAK W 8.0 4 1 1 2 8 0 113 76
2015-09-15 @TEX ND 3.2 8 5 5 3 4 0 91 26
2015-09-09 @OAK W 5.1 6 5 5 2 5 2 100 39
2015-09-04 MIN W 7.2 7 0 0 1 6 0 106 70
Last 5 v.KCR 2-0 13.0 9 2 2 1 10 2 1.38 66
2015-10-08 @KCR W 6.0 4 2 2 1 1 2 92 56
2014-05-27 @KCR W 7.0 5 0 0 0 9 0 102 76

SP: Johnny Cueto (29, RHP, 11-13, 3.44)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (11-13) 212.0 194 87 81 46 176 21 3.44
2014 RegS (20-9) 243.2 169 69 61 65 242 22 2.25
2013 RegS (5-2) 60.2 46 20 19 18 51 7 2.82
Last 7 GS 2-3 40.1 54 26 25 15 27 6 5.58 43
2015-10-09 HOU ND 6.0 7 4 4 3 5 1 103 44
2015-10-04 @MIN W 5.0 6 1 1 4 4 0 100 51
2015-09-29 @CHW L 6.0 8 3 3 2 2 1 110 44
2015-09-24 SEA W 7.0 7 3 3 2 5 0 104 54
2015-09-18 @DET ND 7.0 8 2 2 1 4 0 105 56
2015-09-13 @BAL L 6.1 11 8 7 1 3 4 113 23
2015-09-06 CHW L 3.0 7 5 5 2 4 0 77 27
Last 5 v.HOU 2-2 29.0 34 10 9 6 23 2 2.79 53
2015-10-09 HOU ND 6.0 7 4 4 3 5 1 103 44
2013-09-16 @HOU W 5.0 5 0 0 1 5 0 82 61
2012-09-09 HOU L 4.0 9 4 4 1 6 1 84 33
2012-04-28 HOU W 7.0 5 0 0 1 3 0 120 69
2010-09-29 HOU L 7.0 8 2 1 0 4 0 100 59

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

Batter vs. Pitcher Include Regular and Postseason Totals, All Others Just Regular Season

Astros Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Cueto
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 41.Duffy*
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 46.Madson
G/S/vB		 45.Morales*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 9/.222 9/.000 10/1.100 8/.375 7/.000 ··· 1/.000 689/479 .313/.353/.459/.812 .973/.743 .724 110/.977 38/13 15/5
23.Carter G/S/vP 5/1.000 5/.200 10/1.643 5/.000 5/.200 3/.000 1/.000 460/270 .199/.307/.427/.734 .736/.733 .630 47/1.252 1/2 24/8
15.Castro* G/S/vP 11/.091 6/1.100 2/.000 3/1.667 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 375/264 .211/.283/.365/.648 .512/.707 .621 48/.417 0/0 11/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 5/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 229/116 .229/.311/.448/.759 .618/.892 .634 34/.792 0/1 11/4
1.Correa G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 6/.000 2/1.000 4/.500 1/5.000 1/.000 432/292 .279/.345/.512/.857 .899/.836 .773 108/.848 14/4 22/13
11.Gattis G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.000 6/1.000 2/.000 3/.000 3/1.334 2/5.000 604/392 .246/.285/.463/.748 .698/.775 .674 85/.899 0/1 27/1
30.Gomez G/S/vP 12/1.250 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 9/1.181 3/.666 1/3.000 477/370 .255/.314/.409/.724 .646/.745 .761 22/1.118 17/9 12/7
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 8/.875 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 370/217 .279/.317/.442/.759 .843/.701 .775 39/.968 4/5 12/8
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 3/.666 8/.000 3/.666 2/.000 11/.955 ··· ··· 263/191 .222/.312/.400/.712 .908/.641 .693 72/.408 1/0 9/3
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.500 2/.000 3/1.167 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 372/217 .236/.281/.383/.665 .669/.662 .730 54/.600 24/9 9/3
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 33/1.179 13/.321 7/.143 6/1.166 11/.697 4/2.500 3/.333 485/345 .238/.314/.475/.789 .835/.770 .803 80/1.047 2/1 25/5
4.Springer G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 7/2.714 3/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· 451/291 .276/.367/.459/.826 .936/.767 .880 113/.874 16/4 16/3
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 5/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 323/255 .243/.297/.437/.734 .466/.807 .695 26/.564 0/2 13/1
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 25/.638 ··· ··· 2/no AB 9/.222 3/.000 5/.000 493/361 .224/.310/.438/.748 .581/.808 .758 49/1.116 1/0 25/7
IP 212.0 67.1 136.2 69.2 50.2 63.1 62.1 TOTAL .250/.315/.437/.752 .753/.751 .723 .853 121/48 230/85
ERA-K/9 3.44/7.5 0.94/10.4 4.08/6.7 2.71/8.3 3.73/8.7 2.13/8.2 3.18/5.9 3.74/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (42-24-7)
 Conger (42-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 866/.242 251/.144 588/.264 286/.206 214/.250 248/.205 258/.246 .249  Rasmus
 Marisnick
 Springer
 Gomez
 Tucker
 Gonzalez
 Conger
 Gattis
72/43/43/9
16/99/13/8
0/10/93/6
0/111/0/5
79/0/14/2
15/0/0/1
1/0/0/0
11/0/0/0
OPS .675 .451 .746 .578 .737 .573 .687 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 406/.598 143/.456 118/.593 139/.470 87/.748 119/.547 107/.558 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 460/.743 108/.444 470/.785 147/.677 127/.730 129/.597 151/.779 .706
Home 365/.611 124/.542 277/.712 135/.501 105/.630 112/.532 119/.678
Last 28d days 137/.845 41/.401 67/.632 48/.884 44/.873 39/.367 36/1.521
HR/SB/CS 21/3/2 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/7/2 7/3/1 5/1/1 4/0/0 155/75/35
Usage ····X··· ·X··o··· ··o····· ·X··Xo·· ··X··o·· ·X··oX·· ········
Royals Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.81 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.McHugh
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 38.Perez*
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .404 18/.479 0/1 1/4
6.Cain G/S/vP 6/.334 5/.000 1/.000 4/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .909 86/.706 28/6 16/10
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .698 25/.996 3/2 0/5
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 5/.000 225/184 .250/.311/.380/.691 .578/.715 .696 26/.481 26/3 2/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 6/.000 3/.000 3/.666 4/2.000 4/1.250 2/.500 3/.666 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .647 91/.561 17/5 3/13
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 5/.800 2/.000 5/1.400 2/.500 6/.334 2/1.500 18/.651 422/276 .271/.377/.432/.809 .817/.805 .794 93/.641 2/5 13/0
Gore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .000/.250/.000/.250 .000/.333 .250 1/ 3/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 6/.000 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 1/4.000 7/.858 14/.500 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .894 109/.744 7/3 18/4
25.Morales# G/S/vP 8/1.250 1/.000 5/.000 1/.000 3/.333 2/1.000 8/.250 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .847 84/.970 0/0 22/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.333 3/1.167 10/.111 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .827 101/.906 1/2 22/12
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .809 26/.654 3/3 7/4
13.Perez G/S/vP 5/.400 3/.333 3/.000 2/.500 5/1.200 ··· 1/.000 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .701 87/.762 1/0 21/4
15.Rios G/S/vP 2/.500 6/.334 6/.167 4/1.000 6/1.133 2/1.000 6/2.100 411/295 .255/.287/.353/.640 .570/.668 .673 91/.709 9/0 4/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 9/1.194 2/.500 2/.000 4/2.000 3/.000 3/.333 8/.393 535/364 .276/.359/.450/.809 .926/.753 .852 111/.719 3/4 13/7
IP 203.2 50.2 61.0 71.0 54.2 41.0 54.1 TOTAL .269/.322/.412/.734 .728/.737 .760 .726 104/34 139/88
ERA-K/9 3.89/7.6 3.55/11.9 3.10/8.7 1.90/8.6 3.62/8.4 4.17/11.2 1.99/10.3 3.57/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (15-9-1)
 Perez (66-29-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 859/.263 209/.210 239/.213 276/.168 223/.240 183/.239 216/.208 .241  Dyson
 Cain
 Orlando
 Rios
 Gordon
 Zobrist
 Gore
 Hosmer
27/37/17/8
0/136/5/6
37/5/45/5
0/0/105/4
101/0/0/4
45/0/5/1
4/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .705 .602 .573 .525 .709 .681 .606 .681
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 405/.648 86/.705 127/.606 127/.455 86/.768 98/.517 108/.599 .656
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 454/.755 123/.530 112/.537 149/.586 137/.673 85/.881 108/.613 .700
Road 427/.719 109/.628 89/.530 146/.552 103/.653 79/.630 123/.669
Last 28d days 131/.709 36/.627 28/.399 46/.783 32/1.091 24/.469 31/.670
HR/SB/CS 19/10/4 2/3/2 5/3/0 8/7/0 8/0/1 4/2/0 5/2/3 148/87/27
Usage ·····X·· ·X··o··· ·XX··o·o ·X··oX·o ····o··· ····oo·· ·XX·oX·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  5.50

CHC  4.25

ATL  3.54

 RA/G

STL  3.24

NYY  4.31

COL  5.21

 BA

M. Cabrera  .338

E. Longoria  .270

J. Pederson  .210

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

M. Duffy  .334

W. Ramos  .258

 SLG

B. Harper  .649

E. Longoria  .435

A. Escobar  .320

 OPS

B. Harper  1.109

J. Pederson  .763

C. Owings  .587

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.66

J. Zimmermann  3.66

A. Simon  5.05

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.82

J. Teheran  7.67

M. Buehrle  4.12

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.