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Kansas City Royals vs. Toronto Blue Jays, at Kauffman Stadium, October 23, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, October 23, 2015
Start Time:
7:00ct (local), 8:00et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #6 of a 7-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Blue Jays
Manager:
John Gibbons
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Season Series
Fri, Jul 10, 2015 KCR  3  TOR  0     
Sat, Jul 11, 2015 TOR  6 @KCR  2     
Sun, Jul 12, 2015 KCR 11  TOR 10     
Thu, Jul 30, 2015 TOR  5  KCR  2     
Fri, Jul 31, 2015 TOR  7  KCR  6 (11)
Sat, Aug 01, 2015 KCR  7 @TOR  6     
Sun, Aug 02, 2015 TOR  5  KCR  2     

Fri, Oct 23, 2015 TOR    @KCR  8:00pm
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 TOR    @KCR  8:00pm

                         All times ET
Toronto Blue Jays
93-69,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   56-31   Road:   42-43   ExtrInn: 8-7 
 vsRHP:  75-58   vsLHP:  23-16   1-Run:  15-28
 vsEast: 42-34   vsCntrl:22-17   vsWest: 22-15 IL:12-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Wed, Oct 21   KCR  W   7-1         -               
  9 Tue, Oct 20   KCR  L   2-14        -               
  8 Mon, Oct 19   KCR  W  11-8         -               
  7 Sat, Oct 17  @KCR  L   3-6         -               
  6 Fri, Oct 16  @KCR  L   0-5         -               
  5 Wed, Oct 14   TEX  W   6-3         -               
  4 Mon, Oct 12  @TEX  W   8-4         -               
  3 Sun, Oct 11  @TEX  W   5-1         -               
  2 Fri, Oct  9   TEX  L   4-6 (14)    -               
  1 Thu, Oct  8   TEX  L   3-5         -               

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12
Kansas City Royals
95-67,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   55-31   Road:   46-40   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  68-43   vsLHP:  33-28   1-Run:  24-17
 vsEast: 21-18   vsCntrl:44-32   vsWest: 23-14 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Wed, Oct 21  @TOR  L   1-7         -               
  9 Tue, Oct 20  @TOR  W  14-2         -               
  8 Mon, Oct 19  @TOR  L   8-11        -               
  7 Sat, Oct 17   TOR  W   6-3         -               
  6 Fri, Oct 16   TOR  W   5-0         -               
  5 Wed, Oct 14   HOU  W   7-2         -               
  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         -               

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

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Oct 21, 2015 TOR  7  KCR  1        W:Marco Estrada , L: Edinson Volquez , S: none
Tue, Oct 20, 2015 KCR 14 @TOR  2        W:Luke Hochevar , L: R.A. Dickey , S: none
Mon, Oct 19, 2015 TOR 11  KCR  8        W:Marcus Stroman , L: Johnny Cueto , S: none
Sat, Oct 17, 2015 KCR  6  TOR  3        W:Danny Duffy , L: David Price , S: Wade Davis 
Fri, Oct 16, 2015 KCR  5  TOR  0        W:Edinson Volquez , L: Marco Estrada , S: none
Sun, Aug 02, 2015 TOR  5  KCR  2        W:R.A. Dickey (6-10), L: Edinson Volquez (10-6), S: Roberto Osuna (7)
Sat, Aug 01, 2015 KCR  7 @TOR  6        W:Yordano Ventura (6-7), L: Mark Lowe (0-2), S: Greg Holland (23)
Fri, Jul 31, 2015 TOR  7  KCR  6 (11)   W:Liam Hendriks (3-0), L: Franklin Morales (3-1), S: none
Thu, Jul 30, 2015 TOR  5  KCR  2        W:Marco Estrada (8-6), L: Danny Duffy (4-5), S: Roberto Osuna (6)
Sun, Jul 12, 2015 KCR 11  TOR 10        W:Wade Davis (5-1), L: Bo Schultz (0-1), S: Greg Holland (19)

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2015 - tied 6-6; 2014 - KCR won 4-3; 2013 - TOR won 4-2; All-Time - TOR leads 199-192

SP: David Price (29, LHP, 18-5, 2.45)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (18-5) 220.1 190 70 60 47 225 17 2.45
2014 RegS (15-12) 248.1 230 100 90 38 271 25 3.26
2013 RegS (10-8) 186.2 178 78 69 27 151 16 3.33
Last 7 GS 5-2 44.2 34 19 18 12 50 3 3.63 59
2015-10-17 @KCR L 6.2 6 5 5 0 8 0 96 50
2015-10-08 TEX L 7.0 5 5 5 2 5 2 90 50
2015-09-26 TBR W 5.0 6 5 4 1 6 1 95 42
2015-09-21 NYY W 7.0 2 0 0 1 7 0 114 79
2015-09-16 @ATL W 7.0 6 1 1 3 9 0 105 67
2015-09-11 @NYY W 5.0 6 2 2 1 7 0 96 53
2015-09-05 BAL W 7.0 3 1 1 4 8 0 103 71
Last 5 v.KCR 1-1 36.0 31 13 12 1 21 2 3.00 59
2015-10-17 @KCR L 6.2 6 5 5 0 8 0 96 50
2015-05-08 KCR ND 6.1 13 5 4 0 1 1 103 30
2015-05-02 @KCR W 9.0 5 1 1 0 3 1 106 76
2012-08-21 KCR ND 8.0 3 0 0 0 8 0 114 84
2010-05-01 KCR ND 6.0 4 2 2 1 1 0 107 56

SP: Yordano Ventura (24, RHP, 13-8, 4.08)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (13-8) 163.1 154 75 74 58 156 14 4.08
2014 RegS (14-10) 183.0 168 70 65 69 159 14 3.20
2013 RegS (0-1) 15.1 13 6 6 6 11 3 3.52
Last 7 GS 2-1 37.1 36 16 15 13 41 2 3.62 54
2015-10-17 TOR ND 5.1 8 3 3 2 6 0 97 44
2015-10-12 @HOU ND 5.0 4 3 3 3 8 2 94 52
2015-10-08 HOU L 2.0 4 3 3 1 2 0 42 37
2015-10-03 @MIN W 7.0 4 1 1 3 11 0 97 73
2015-09-28 @CHC ND 7.0 2 0 0 1 6 0 94 78
2015-09-23 SEA ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 4 0 103 51
2015-09-17 @CLE W 5.0 8 3 2 2 4 0 95 43
Last 5 v.TOR 1-0 17.1 16 8 8 6 12 2 4.15 51
2015-10-17 TOR ND 5.1 8 3 3 2 6 0 97 44
2015-08-01 @TOR W 7.0 6 5 5 2 2 2 101 45
2014-04-30 TOR ND 5.0 2 0 0 2 4 0 92 65

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

Blue Jays Batters (5.50 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ventura
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
19.Bautista G/S/vP 8/1.357 30/.762 15/1.200 9/.347 17/.610 5/1.350 4/1.417 666/535 .250/.377/.536/.913 .834/.932 .842 104/.969 8/2 40/3
3.Carrera* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 6/.334 1/2.000 4/.750 192/162 .273/.321/.372/.693 .782/.675 .733 21/.654 2/1 3/2
15.Colabello G/S/vP 9/.444 ··· 11/.473 6/.733 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 360/261 .321/.367/.520/.886 .935/.868 .876 52/.857 2/0 15/4
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 10/.856 7/.286 10/1.289 6/.000 6/.000 3/1.667 2/2.000 711/573 .297/.371/.568/.939 1.024/.919 .830 107/.798 6/0 41/18
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 8/1.125 25/.200 7/.286 10/.800 14/.286 4/1.250 2/.000 624/506 .277/.372/.557/.929 .836/.950 .927 93/1.142 3/2 39/3
17.Goins* G/S/vP 5/.900 ··· 4/.000 3/.333 2/.000 2/1.000 3/.666 428/331 .250/.318/.354/.672 .586/.697 .693 89/.660 2/1 5/8
55.Martin G/S/vP 3/.333 5/.650 10/1.475 4/1.167 6/.750 13/.398 10/1.250 507/396 .240/.329/.458/.787 .937/.747 .768 66/.991 4/5 23/4
30.Navarro# G/S/vP 5/.400 2/1.000 6/1.500 5/.200 5/.400 8/.875 ··· 192/151 .246/.307/.374/.682 .894/.625 .715 30/.993 0/0 5/4
9.Pennington# G/S/vP 3/.666 11/1.323 8/.804 1/.000 16/.204 ··· ··· 249/195 .210/.298/.281/.578 .427/.618 .600 63/.630 3/0 3/9
11.Pillar G/S/vP 5/.600 2/3.000 6/.833 5/.000 4/.250 2/1.500 1/.000 628/472 .278/.314/.399/.713 .684/.723 .701 91/.908 25/4 12/2
45.Pompey# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 103/81 .223/.291/.372/.664 .859/.611 .558 12/1.136 5/1 2/2
7.Revere* G/S/vP 7/.000 7/.000 4/.500 7/1.571 21/.636 1/.000 8/.619 634/463 .306/.342/.377/.719 .638/.747 .761 108/.776 31/7 2/0
13.Smoak# G/S/vP 8/.875 11/.818 5/.000 4/.500 9/.958 1/.000 5/.650 328/288 .226/.299/.470/.768 .839/.757 .712 62/.815 0/0 18/4
2.Tulowitzki G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 7/1.262 5/1.000 3/.666 9/.619 1/2.000 534/424 .280/.337/.440/.777 .940/.735 .736 22/.792 1/0 17/8
IP 163.1 67.1 136.2 69.2 50.2 63.1 62.1 TOTAL .269/.340/.457/.797 .818/.790 .760 .843 88/23 232/88
ERA-K/9 4.08/8.6 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)
 Martin (40-32-19)
 Navarro (14-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 693/.248 251/.144 588/.264 286/.206 214/.250 248/.205 258/.246 .249  Pillar
 Revere
 Bautista
 Pompey
 Carrera
 Pennington
 Goins
 Colabello
14/142/3/10
112/43/12/5
0/0/118/4
6/21/0/3
46/5/35/1
8/0/0/1
2/0/2/0
33/0/13/0
OPS .698 .451 .746 .578 .737 .573 .687 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 362/.734 143/.456 118/.593 139/.470 87/.748 119/.547 107/.558 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 331/.658 108/.444 470/.785 147/.677 127/.730 129/.597 151/.779 .706
Home 336/.683 124/.542 277/.712 135/.501 105/.630 112/.532 119/.678
Last 28d days 132/.607 41/.401 67/.632 48/.884 44/.873 39/.367 36/1.521
HR/SB/CS 14/2/4 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/7/2 7/3/1 5/1/1 4/0/0 155/75/35
Usage ·····X·· ·····X·· ·X···X·· ·oo··oo· ··o··oo· ··o···X· ··oX····
Royals Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.14 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 14.Price*
G/S/vB		 32.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 31.Hendriks
G/S/vB		 62.Loup*
G/S/vB		 57.Lowe
G/S/vB		 54.Osuna
G/S/vB		 41.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 52.Tepera
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 5/.800 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .404 18/.479 0/1 1/4
6.Cain G/S/vP 14/.928 1/.000 9/.597 3/.666 2/3.000 2/.000 3/.333 2/2.000 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .909 86/.706 28/6 16/10
24.Colon G/S/vP 6/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .698 25/.996 3/2 0/5
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 225/184 .250/.311/.380/.691 .578/.715 .696 26/.481 26/3 2/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 10/.600 4/.250 14/.286 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 4/.250 2/no AB 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .647 91/.561 17/5 3/13
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 17/.588 3/.666 13/.398 3/.000 5/.200 ··· ··· 1/no AB 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 14/.428 1/3.000 13/.558 5/1.100 3/1.167 4/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .894 109/.744 7/3 18/4
25.Morales# G/S/vP 25/.448 3/.833 5/1.600 6/1.000 8/1.125 3/2.334 2/.000 1/.000 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .847 84/.970 0/0 22/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 10/.400 3/.000 11/1.145 4/.833 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .827 101/.906 1/2 22/12
16.Orlando G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .809 26/.654 3/3 7/4
13.Perez G/S/vP 12/.750 4/1.417 10/1.400 3/.000 6/.000 3/.000 ··· 2/4.000 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .701 87/.762 1/0 21/4
15.Rios G/S/vP 35/1.179 10/.944 11/1.645 3/.666 9/1.000 2/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 411/295 .255/.287/.353/.640 .570/.668 .673 91/.709 9/0 4/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 9/.777 5/.800 5/.900 11/.282 9/1.569 5/1.000 4/.000 3/2.000 535/364 .276/.359/.450/.809 .926/.753 .852 111/.719 3/4 13/7
IP 220.1 38.2 64.2 42.1 55.0 69.2 92.1 33.0 TOTAL .269/.322/.412/.734 .728/.737 .760 .726 104/34 139/88
ERA-K/9 2.45/9.2 3.26/7.9 2.92/9.9 4.46/9.8 1.96/10.0 2.58/9.7 3.22/5.9 3.27/6.0 3.81/7.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 888/.230 162/.286 261/.240 186/.275 215/.231 271/.191 380/.224 128/.193 .248  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 .621 .732 .605 .776 .612 .591 .666 .670 .707
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 226/.658 81/.795 112/.746 77/.704 97/.724 145/.638 202/.878 59/.568 .716
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 662/.609 81/.671 149/.499 109/.825 118/.523 126/.537 178/.435 69/.746 .700
Road 447/.610 79/.664 116/.684 98/.847 106/.547 122/.461 168/.721 80/.638
Last 28d days 98/.569 17/.941 31/.856 24/.697 33/.588 42/.733 38/.641 26/.853
HR/SB/CS 17/0/2 4/2/2 3/6/2 6/1/0 4/1/3 7/2/2 9/4/7 8/0/0 173/60/41
Usage ·····X·· ··o···o· ··Xo···· ·····oo· ··Xo·oo· ·o·o···· ·o·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  5.50

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.