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Kansas City Royals vs. Chicago White Sox, at Kauffman Stadium, May 28, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Start Time:
1:15ct (local), 2:15et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
78° (based on last ten years)
White Sox
Manager:
Robin Ventura
Game #:
52
On This Date:
48-59
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
50
On This Date:
18-22
Season Series
Fri, May 20, 2016 KCR  4 @CHW  1     
Sat, May 21, 2016 KCR  2 @CHW  1     
Sun, May 22, 2016 CHW  3  KCR  2     
Fri, May 27, 2016 KCR  7  CHW  5     

Sat, May 28, 2016 CHW    @KCR  2:15pm
Sun, May 29, 2016 CHW    @KCR  2:15pm
Fri, Jun 10, 2016 KCR    @CHW  8:10pm
Sat, Jun 11, 2016 KCR    @CHW  2:10pm
Sun, Jun 12, 2016 KCR    @CHW  2:10pm
Tue, Aug 09, 2016 CHW    @KCR  8:15pm
Wed, Aug 10, 2016 CHW    @KCR  8:15pm
Thu, Aug 11, 2016 CHW    @KCR  8:15pm
Fri, Sep 09, 2016 KCR    @CHW  8:10pm
Sat, Sep 10, 2016 KCR    @CHW  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 11, 2016 KCR    @CHW  2:10pm
Fri, Sep 16, 2016 CHW    @KCR  8:15pm
Sat, Sep 17, 2016 CHW    @KCR  7:15pm
Sun, Sep 18, 2016 CHW    @KCR  2:15pm
Mon, Sep 19, 2016 CHW    @KCR  2:15pm

                         All times ET
Chicago White Sox
27-22, 1st, ½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-12   Road:   14-10   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  24-14   vsLHP:   3-8    1-Run:   9-8 
 vsEast:  8-8    vsCntrl: 9-7    vsWest: 10-7  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 49 Fri, May 27  @KCR  L   5-7       27-22  1st  0.5 up
 48 Wed, May 25   CLE  L   3-4       27-21  1st  0.5 up
 47 Tue, May 24   CLE  L   2-6       27-20  1st  1.5 up
 46 Mon, May 23   CLE  L   1-5       27-19  1st  2.5 up
 45 Mon, May 23   CLE  W   7-6       27-18  1st  2.5 up
 44 Sun, May 22   KCR  W   3-2       26-18  1st  2.5 up
 43 Sat, May 21   KCR  L   1-2       25-18  1st  1.5 up
 42 Fri, May 20   KCR  L   1-4       25-17  1st  1.5 up
 41 Thu, May 19   HOU  W   2-1       25-16  1st  2.5 up
 40 Wed, May 18   HOU  L   3-5       24-16  1st  2.5 up
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:14-16
Kansas City Royals
25-22, 3rd, 1 GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-7    Road:   11-15   ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:  22-18   vsLHP:   3-4    1-Run:   7-5 
 vsEast:  5-5    vsCntrl:11-5    vsWest:  5-8  IL: 4-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 47 Fri, May 27   CHW  W   7-5       25-22  3rd  1.0 gb
 46 Wed, May 25  @MIN  L   5-7       24-22  3rd  2.0 gb
 45 Tue, May 24  @MIN  W   7-4       24-21  3rd  2.0 gb
 44 Mon, May 23  @MIN  W  10-4       23-21  3rd  3.0 gb
 43 Sun, May 22  @CHW  L   2-3       22-21  3rd  3.5 gb
 42 Sat, May 21  @CHW  W   2-1       22-20  3rd  2.5 gb
 41 Fri, May 20  @CHW  W   4-1       21-20  3rd  3.5 gb
 40 Wed, May 18   BOS  L   2-5       20-20  3rd  4.0 gb
 39 Wed, May 18   BOS  W   3-2       20-19  3rd  4.0 gb
 38 Tue, May 17   BOS  W   8-4       19-19  3rd  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 27, 2016 KCR  7  CHW  5        W:Peter Moylan (2-0), L: Matt Albers (1-4), S: Wade Davis (13)
Sun, May 22, 2016 CHW  3  KCR  2        W:Carlos Rodon (2-4), L: Yordano Ventura (4-3), S: David Robertson (11)
Sat, May 21, 2016 KCR  2 @CHW  1        W:Joakim Soria (2-1), L: Miguel Gonzalez (0-1), S: Wade Davis (11)
Fri, May 20, 2016 KCR  4 @CHW  1        W:Dillon Gee (1-1), L: Jose Quintana (5-3), S: Wade Davis (10)

Thu, Oct 01, 2015 KCR  6 @CHW  4        W:Kris Medlen (6-2), L: John Danks (7-15), S: Ryan Madson (3)
Wed, Sep 30, 2015 KCR  5 @CHW  3 (10)   W:Franklin Morales (4-2), L: David Robertson (6-5), S: Wade Davis (15)
Tue, Sep 29, 2015 CHW  4  KCR  2        W:Jeff Samardzija (11-13), L: Johnny Cueto (10-13), S: David Robertson (33)
Sun, Sep 06, 2015 CHW  7 @KCR  5        W:Erik Johnson (1-0), L: Johnny Cueto (9-11), S: David Robertson (29)
Sat, Sep 05, 2015 CHW  6 @KCR  1        W:Jose Quintana (8-10), L: Danny Duffy (7-7), S: none
Fri, Sep 04, 2015 CHW 12 @KCR  1        W:John Danks (7-12), L: Kris Medlen (3-1), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - KCR over 3-1; 2015 - KCR won 12-7; 2014 - KCR won 13-6; All-Time - CHW leads 371-352

SP: Carlos Rodon (23, LHP, 2-4, 4.47)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (2-4) 52.1 58 29 26 19 51 8 4.47
2015 (9-6) 139.1 130 63 58 71 139 11 3.75
Last 7 GS 1-3 39.1 48 27 24 13 39 7 5.49 46
2016-05-22 KCR W 6.2 8 2 2 2 4 0 102 52
2016-05-17 HOU ND 6.0 6 3 2 1 7 2 108 56
2016-05-10 @TEX ND 6.2 12 6 6 2 7 2 107 31
2016-05-04 BOS L 6.0 6 3 3 3 6 1 110 51
2016-04-29 @BAL L 7.0 8 6 4 1 7 1 102 47
2016-04-23 TEX ND 6.2 2 2 2 2 7 1 98 67
2016-04-18 LAA L 0.1 6 5 5 2 1 0 41 18
Last 5 v.KCR 1-0 6.2 8 2 2 2 4 0 2.70 52
2016-05-22 KCR W 6.2 8 2 2 2 4 0 102 52

SP: Yordano Ventura (25, RHP, 4-3, 4.81)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (4-3) 48.2 43 26 26 33 34 6 4.81
2015 (13-8) 163.1 154 75 74 58 156 14 4.08
2014 (14-10) 183.0 168 70 65 69 159 14 3.20
Last 7 GS 4-3 37.2 37 23 23 24 22 5 5.50 45
2016-05-22 @CHW L 6.0 6 3 3 4 3 1 103 47
2016-05-17 BOS W 5.2 7 4 4 1 5 1 88 43
2016-05-11 @NYY W 6.0 6 3 3 3 1 1 98 46
2016-05-06 @CLE L 4.0 6 5 5 5 3 0 97 28
2016-04-30 @SEA L 4.0 3 5 5 6 1 2 82 31
2016-04-24 BAL W 7.0 3 1 1 2 4 0 96 69
2016-04-19 DET W 5.0 6 2 2 3 5 0 98 49
Last 5 v.CHW 2-1 30.0 26 11 11 9 26 3 3.30 56
2016-05-22 @CHW L 6.0 6 3 3 4 3 1 103 47
2015-04-23 @CHW ND 7.0 5 2 2 1 8 0 95 66
2015-04-06 CHW W 6.0 4 1 1 1 2 1 78 61
2014-09-28 @CHW ND 4.0 8 4 4 1 6 1 73 35
2014-09-17 CHW W 7.0 3 1 1 2 7 0 100 72

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White Sox Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ventura
G/S/vB		 54.Alexander*
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 33.Flynn*
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 47.Moylan
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 67.Wang
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
79.Abreu G/S/vP 9/1.301 1/.000 9/.222 ··· 9/.476 4/1.750 1/.000 9/.904 ··· 213/171 .253/.319/.405/.725 .647/.743 .640 104/.794 0/1 6/3
31.Avila* G/S/vP 12/.250 ··· 19/1.188 ··· 13/.231 28/.971 ··· 6/.167 1/3.000 68/62 .182/.324/.218/.542 .167/.579 .457 35/.499 0/0 0/2
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 11/.909 1/2.000 13/.595 ··· 6/.750 12/.750 1/no AB 7/.572 ··· 204/167 .293/.360/.429/.789 .839/.777 .730 102/.820 0/0 4/0
1.Eaton* G/S/vP 19/.616 1/2.000 10/.744 1/no AB 11/1.101 4/1.750 2/1.000 5/.800 ··· 219/161 .286/.367/.413/.780 .929/.726 .906 112/.799 5/1 3/0
21.Frazier G/S/vP 6/1.867 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 7/1.429 6/.000 206/173 .235/.330/.514/.844 .902/.834 .868 99/.918 5/1 15/2
26.Garcia G/S/vP 13/.077 ··· 6/.666 ··· 9/.222 5/.000 1/.000 7/.429 ··· 148/120 .252/.311/.400/.711 .646/.726 .767 69/.733 1/0 4/0
10.Jackson G/S/vP 7/.762 ··· 17/.185 ··· 13/.308 31/1.052 1/.000 5/.200 2/.000 180/136 .247/.309/.340/.648 .433/.719 .656 95/.716 2/1 0/2
15.Lawrie G/S/vP 5/.900 ··· 9/1.381 ··· 5/.650 9/.444 2/1.000 4/.000 3/2.000 200/162 .246/.340/.429/.769 .870/.742 .883 99/.745 3/2 6/4
27.Navarro# G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 4/.500 3/2.667 3/.333 4/.500 1/.000 3/.000 16/.708 111/77 .225/.270/.363/.633 .687/.611 .476 57/.681 0/0 2/2
7.Rollins# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 4/.500 3/1.334 1/.000 1/.000 11/1.155 2/1.500 3/.666 146/120 .231/.288/.343/.631 1.311/.492 .678 66/.605 4/2 2/2
18.Saladino G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 4/.250 1/2.000 1/2.000 4/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 63/38 .250/.254/.317/.571 .520/.606 .623 36/.686 0/2 1/2
41.Sands G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 54/35 .235/.278/.294/.572 .551/.581 .629 28/.399 0/0 1/0
IP 48.2 10.0 17.2 7.1 24.0 20.1 7.1 23.1 16.2 TOTAL .248/.319/.389/.708 .747/.698 .724 .729 20/10 44/21
ERA-K/9 4.81/6.3 1.80/9.0 1.02/9.7 4.91/7.4 0.75/11.2 2.66/11.1 2.45/8.6 3.47/7.7 2.70/7.0 3.81/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (8-1-1)
 Navarro (18-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 221/.234 38/.243 71/.167 30/.208 94/.213 77/.181 33/.300 99/.244 72/.281 .248  Eaton
 Jackson
 Cabrera
 Garcia
 Sands
1/2/46/7
0/49/0/2
47/0/0/1
0/0/3/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .731 .533 .479 .613 .547 .581 .664 .734 .736 .715
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 117/.748 15/.400 47/.536 12/.422 48/.756 28/.458 12/.717 51/.583 34/.710 .724
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 104/.713 23/.623 24/.347 18/.722 46/.333 49/.641 21/.633 48/.898 38/.757 .706
Home 98/.599 20/.400 36/.499 4/.000 49/.526 45/.593 10/.400 40/.861 44/.836
Last 28d days 101/.843 38/.533 39/.598 30/.613 49/.606 38/.481 33/.664 46/.495 41/.675
HR/SB/CS 6/0/0 0/0/0 0/1/1 0/0/0 0/0/1 2/1/2 0/0/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 49/13/16
Usage ·····X·· ··X·X··· X··X··oo ······o· X···oo·o o··o·X·X X·X·X·X· ···o··Xo ··o·X···
Royals Batters (3.85 RS/G) vs. White Sox Pitchers (3.63 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Rodon*
G/S/vB		 34.Albers
G/S/vB		 33.Duke*
G/S/vB		 43.Jennings*
G/S/vB		 65.Jones
G/S/vB		 48.Kahnle
G/S/vB		 64.Purke*
G/S/vB		 57.Putnam
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 3/.000 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 20/16 .211/.250/.368/.618 .000/.779 .900 12/.250 0/0 0/0
6.Cain G/S/vP 3/1.334 8/.250 7/.762 5/1.400 5/1.800 1/.000 1/.000 7/.953 2/.000 192/155 .284/.339/.415/.753 .951/.707 .509 101/.898 6/3 6/1
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 64/50 .254/.266/.349/.615 .143/.749 .642 64/.615 0/0 1/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 6/.666 1/.000 6/.333 5/.733 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 98/89 .264/.316/.345/.661 .730/.652 .762 61/.621 8/2 0/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP 4/.000 15/.553 16/1.000 2/.000 10/.800 1/.000 1/.000 9/1.000 4/.000 216/176 .270/.299/.319/.618 .384/.671 .723 111/.713 10/2 0/7
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.666 5/.400 8/.661 9/.333 6/.000 1/.000 ··· 7/.453 9/.778 195/138 .307/.359/.520/.879 .605/.992 .948 100/.883 3/1 9/2
14.Infante G/S/vP 3/1.667 6/.334 17/.706 3/.666 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 8/.625 137/105 .248/.281/.336/.617 .612/.619 .434 61/.541 0/0 0/3
15.Merrifield G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/22 .370/.370/.481/.852 .400/.955 .857 27/.852 0/0 0/0
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 6/1.167 7/.286 7/.971 5/1.400 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 11/.091 182/134 .187/.247/.313/.561 .863/.454 .571 89/.482 0/0 5/
16.Orlando G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/1.334 6/.334 80/55 .390/.400/.519/.919 1.063/.854 .945 50/1.161 2/0 1/1
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.666 8/1.292 2/.000 4/.750 9/.222 1/.000 1/2.000 4/.250 8/.125 172/136 .282/.314/.503/.817 .690/.851 .891 92/.848 0/0 7/0
IP 52.1 20.1 16.2 21.1 19.1 3.1 5.2 19.1 18.2 TOTAL .264/.312/.399/.710 .658/.725 .703 .723 34/10 40/22
ERA-K/9 4.47/8.8 4.43/6.2 3.78/8.1 2.53/5.5 2.33/8.9 0.00/2.7 0.00/1.6 2.79/9.3 0.96/10.6 3.43/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (1-1-0)
 Perez (12-15-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 232/.279 84/.263 71/.270 89/.247 76/.149 11/.000 21/.190 79/.239 69/.133 .241  Dyson
 Orlando
 Cain
 Merrifield
3/3/21/5
0/1/21/2
0/45/0/1
3/0/0/0
OPS .748 .800 .746 .662 .451 .182 .381 .601 .387 .677
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 60/.540 28/.995 40/.685 30/.733 28/.677 5/.200 3/.667 28/.417 31/.229 .645
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 172/.822 56/.709 31/.838 59/.626 48/.328 6/.167 18/.333 51/.697 38/.531 .693
Road 117/.758 49/.830 30/.783 35/.596 40/.545 4/.500 / 25/.778 36/.483
Last 28d days 114/.831 43/1.125 37/.806 55/.659 32/.767 7/.000 21/.381 42/.639 32/.374
HR/SB/CS 8/3/0 4/1/1 1/0/0 0/1/1 1/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 1/3/0 0/3/0 45/26/6
Usage ·····X·· o···ooo· o···Xo·· o·oX··X· X···ooo· ··Xo···· ···XX··X ··oX···X ····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 2016 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

BOS  5.85

WSN  4.14

ATL  3.11

 RA/G

CHC  3.02

SDP  4.27

CIN  5.92

 BA

D. Murphy  .393

L. Martin  .262

R. Martin  .179

 OBP

B. Zobrist  .454

J. Turner  .333

E. Aybar  .225

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .706

M. Sano  .431

E. Aybar  .209

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.126

M. Prado  .776

E. Aybar  .434

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.48

C. Kluber  3.78

J. Peavy  7.26

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.34

G. Gonzalez  7.94

M. Latos  4.59

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.