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Kansas City Royals vs. Detroit Tigers, at Kauffman Stadium, June 18, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Start Time:
7:15ct (local), 8:15et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
87° (based on last ten years)
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
69
On This Date:
55-41
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
70
On This Date:
24-23
Season Series
Tue, Apr 19, 2016 KCR  8  DET  6     
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 DET  3 @KCR  2     
Thu, Apr 21, 2016 KCR  4  DET  0     
Thu, Jun 16, 2016 DET 10 @KCR  4     
Fri, Jun 17, 2016 KCR 10  DET  3     

Sat, Jun 18, 2016 DET    @KCR  8:15pm
Sun, Jun 19, 2016 DET    @KCR  2:15pm
Fri, Jul 15, 2016 KCR    @DET  7:10pm
Sat, Jul 16, 2016 KCR    @DET  7:10pm
Sun, Jul 17, 2016 KCR    @DET  1:10pm
Mon, Aug 15, 2016 KCR    @DET  7:10pm
Tue, Aug 16, 2016 KCR    @DET  7:10pm
Wed, Aug 17, 2016 KCR    @DET  7:10pm
Fri, Sep 02, 2016 DET    @KCR  8:15pm
Sat, Sep 03, 2016 DET    @KCR  7:15pm
Sun, Sep 04, 2016 DET    @KCR  2:15pm
Fri, Sep 23, 2016 KCR    @DET  7:10pm
Sat, Sep 24, 2016 KCR    @DET  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 25, 2016 KCR    @DET  1:10pm

                         All times ET
Detroit Tigers
34-33, 3rd, 2½ GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-13   Road:   17-20   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:  26-23   vsLHP:   8-10   1-Run:   8-8 
 vsEast:  8-8    vsCntrl:12-11   vsWest:  6-10 IL: 8-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 67 Fri, Jun 17  @KCR  L   3-10      34-33  3rd  2.5 gb
 66 Thu, Jun 16  @KCR  W  10-4       34-32  3rd  1.5 gb
 65 Wed, Jun 15  @CHW  L   3-5       33-32  3rd  2.0 gb
 64 Tue, Jun 14  @CHW  W  11-8       33-31  3rd  2.0 gb
 63 Mon, Jun 13  @CHW  L   9-10(12)  32-31  3rd  3.0 gb
 62 Sun, Jun 12  @NYY  W   4-1       32-30  2nd  3.0 gb
 61 Sat, Jun 11  @NYY  W   6-1       31-30  2nd  3.0 gb
 60 Fri, Jun 10  @NYY  L   0-4       30-30  3rd  4.0 gb
 59 Wed, Jun  8   TOR  L   2-7       30-29  2nd  2.5 gb
 58 Tue, Jun  7   TOR  W   3-2 (10)  30-28  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:18-12
Kansas City Royals
36-31, 2nd, ½ GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-8    Road:   13-23   ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:  28-26   vsLHP:   8-5    1-Run:  11-6 
 vsEast:  8-8    vsCntrl:19-11   vsWest:  5-8  IL: 4-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 67 Fri, Jun 17   DET  W  10-3       36-31  2nd  0.5 gb
 66 Thu, Jun 16   DET  L   4-10      35-31  2nd  0.5 gb
 65 Wed, Jun 15   CLE  W   9-4       35-30  1st    Tied
 64 Tue, Jun 14   CLE  W   3-2       34-30  2nd  1.0 gb
 63 Mon, Jun 13   CLE  W   2-1       33-30  2nd  2.0 gb
 62 Sun, Jun 12  @CHW  W   3-1       32-30  2nd  3.0 gb
 61 Sat, Jun 11  @CHW  W   4-1       31-30  2nd  3.0 gb
 60 Fri, Jun 10  @CHW  L   5-7       30-30  3rd  4.0 gb
 59 Wed, Jun  8  @BAL  L   0-4       30-29  2nd  2.5 gb
 58 Tue, Jun  7  @BAL  L   1-9       30-28  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jun 17, 2016 KCR 10  DET  3        W:Yordano Ventura (6-4), L: Michael Fulmer (7-2), S: none
Thu, Jun 16, 2016 DET 10 @KCR  4        W:Justin Verlander (7-5), L: Luke Hochevar (1-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 21, 2016 KCR  4  DET  0        W:Edinson Volquez (3-0), L: Mike Pelfrey (0-3), S: none
Wed, Apr 20, 2016 DET  3 @KCR  2        W:Jordan Zimmermann (3-0), L: Ian Kennedy (2-1), S: Francisco Rodriguez (4)
Tue, Apr 19, 2016 KCR  8  DET  6        W:Yordano Ventura (1-0), L: Shane Greene (1-1), S: Wade Davis (6)

Sun, Sep 20, 2015 KCR 10 @DET  3        W:Kris Medlen (5-1), L: Alfredo Simon (13-10), S: Danny Duffy (1)
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 DET  6  KCR  5 (11)   W:Tom Gorzelanny (2-2), L: Miguel Almonte (0-1), S: none
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 DET  5  KCR  4 (12)   W:Drew VerHagen (2-0), L: Greg Holland (3-2), S: none
Thu, Sep 03, 2015 KCR 15  DET  7        W:Chris Young (10-6), L: Kyle Ryan (1-3), S: none
Wed, Sep 02, 2015 KCR 12  DET  1        W:Yordano Ventura (10-7), L: Randy Wolf (0-3), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - KCR over 3-2; 2015 - KCR won 10-9; 2014 - DET won 13-6; All-Time - DET leads 326-324

SP: Matt Boyd (25, LHP, 0-1, 4.91)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-1) 25.2 24 14 14 11 20 5 4.91
2015 (1-6) 57.1 71 50 48 20 43 17 7.53
Last 7 GS 0-2 35.2 33 26 24 14 30 10 6.06 46
2016-06-13 @CHW ND 4.1 7 6 6 2 3 2 86 26
2016-06-07 TOR ND 5.1 3 1 1 5 5 1 101 58
2016-06-02 NYY L 6.1 6 4 4 1 3 0 79 47
2016-05-28 @OAK ND 5.0 6 3 3 0 7 2 94 50
2015-09-30 @TEX L 2.2 7 6 6 1 2 3 69 21
2015-09-25 MIN ND 6.0 1 4 2 4 4 0 81 58
2015-09-19 KCR ND 6.0 3 2 2 1 6 2 89 63
Last 5 v.KCR 1-1 19.1 26 12 12 4 14 3 5.59 45
2015-09-19 KCR ND 6.0 3 2 2 1 6 2 89 63
2015-09-03 @KCR ND 1.0 7 6 6 2 0 1 50 13
2015-08-10 @KCR L 5.1 9 3 3 1 6 0 98 43
2015-08-05 KCR W 7.0 7 1 1 0 2 0 106 61

SP: Edinson Volquez (32, RHP, 6-6, 3.90)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (6-6) 85.1 83 40 37 33 67 8 3.90
2015 (13-9) 200.1 190 89 79 72 155 16 3.55
2014 (13-7) 192.2 166 75 65 71 140 17 3.04
Last 7 GS 3-3 43.2 39 21 19 18 31 4 3.92 52
2016-06-13 CLE W 7.0 2 0 0 4 3 0 95 72
2016-06-08 @BAL L 4.2 4 4 4 2 5 0 86 43
2016-06-03 @CLE L 6.1 7 5 5 4 5 2 115 40
2016-05-29 CHW ND 6.0 7 3 3 1 5 0 102 50
2016-05-24 @MIN W 6.2 6 4 2 3 6 0 103 53
2016-05-18 BOS L 6.0 7 4 4 4 5 2 97 43
2016-05-13 ATL W 7.0 6 1 1 0 2 0 83 63
Last 5 v.DET 1-2 29.0 33 17 16 11 23 1 4.97 47
2016-04-21 DET W 7.0 5 0 0 1 5 0 112 71
2015-09-19 @DET ND 6.0 7 3 3 4 6 0 112 48
2015-09-03 DET ND 3.0 8 6 6 1 3 1 78 21
2015-08-12 DET L 7.0 8 6 5 2 5 0 96 42
2015-05-02 DET L 6.0 5 2 2 3 4 0 102 55

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

Tigers Batters (4.79 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.13 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Volquez
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
14.Aviles G/S/vP ··· 8/.125 ··· 8/.536 6/.334 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 82/56 .224/.263/.250/.513 .414/.556 .389 45/.667 0/1 0/4
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 14/1.116 25/1.137 ··· 15/.414 44/1.280 10/.900 9/1.000 6/1.133 290/212 .306/.379/.539/.918 .571/1.035 .750 111/.973 0/0 14/2
9.Castellanos G/S/vP 14/.955 7/.286 ··· 6/1.500 3/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 262/191 .299/.332/.529/.861 .738/.906 .873 103/.740 1/1 13/4
1.Iglesias G/S/vP 14/.517 5/.800 ··· 5/.800 2/1.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 227/161 .249/.309/.322/.631 .631/.632 .730 90/.778 5/1 2/2
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 21/.929 9/.347 ··· 14/.517 22/.332 1/2.000 4/1.250 11/.282 296/216 .307/.361/.530/.891 1.000/.850 .889 107/.866 7/3 14/3
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 22/.404 24/.578 ··· 8/.393 23/.741 1/.000 12/.166 20/.826 246/179 .338/.386/.556/.942 .970/.931 1.088 87/1.033 0/0 12/0
4.Maybin G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 5/.200 ··· 3/.000 110/65 .364/.422/.414/.836 1.052/.698 .472 90/.696 6/3 1/1
34.McCann G/S/vP 5/.800 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 5/1.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 128/76 .197/.244/.333/.577 .838/.401 .452 66/.735 0/0 4/2
33.Moya* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 37/36 .278/.297/.444/.742 2.000/.706 .947 18/.516 0/0 0/1
17.Romine# G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 5/.400 4/.000 1/2.000 3/1.167 1/.000 52/44 .200/.294/.244/.539 .393/.565 .505 32/.667 2/0 0/2
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 8/.536 7/.715 ··· 2/.000 4/.000 ··· 5/.000 3/1.667 128/104 .191/.305/.436/.741 .428/.819 .963 33/.453 0/0 7/3
8.Upton G/S/vP 21/1.029 6/1.100 3/no AB 3/2.334 10/1.400 6/.666 3/.333 2/1.000 263/186 .230/.281/.357/.638 .688/.617 .610 86/.750 3/0 5/1
IP 85.1 24.1 7.1 32.2 28.0 12.2 31.2 25.1 TOTAL .272/.331/.444/.775 .758/.781 .758 .815 25/11 86/33
ERA-K/9 3.90/7.1 1.11/9.3 4.91/7.4 1.65/10.2 3.21/10.3 3.55/9.2 3.13/8.5 3.20/6.0 4.03/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (11-13-1)
 Saltalamacchia (21-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 367/.252 95/.169 30/.208 128/.208 110/.208 57/.314 132/.237 106/.268 .251  Upton
 Moya
 Aviles
 Romine
 Maybin
57/6/0/3
8/0/1/1
7/0/3/1
0/10/1/0
0/27/0/0
OPS .690 .454 .613 .574 .670 .682 .701 .794 .739
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 190/.661 55/.493 12/.422 64/.742 43/.417 21/.762 67/.593 48/.821 .759
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 177/.721 40/.396 18/.722 64/.413 67/.823 36/.636 65/.816 58/.774 .722
Home 210/.583 49/.472 4/.000 66/.548 61/.735 18/.764 59/.743 62/.736
Last 28d days 130/.668 34/.491 / 44/.575 40/.772 43/.737 36/.547 41/.782
HR/SB/CS 8/5/3 0/1/1 0/0/0 2/0/1 4/3/2 0/0/0 2/1/2 4/1/0 86/21/20
Usage ····X··· ····ooX· ········ X···Xoo· ·Xo····X ·X······ ·o·X··oo ·oo·····
Royals Batters (3.94 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Boyd*
G/S/vB		 45.Farmer
G/S/vB		 61.Greene
G/S/vB		 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB		 21.Lowe
G/S/vB		 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 19.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 38.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 6/1.000 ··· ··· 52/42 .298/.353/.553/.906 .633/.971 1.137 38/.910 0/0 2/2
6.Cain G/S/vP 11/1.064 1/2.000 7/.143 2/2.000 3/2.000 ··· 26/.692 3/1.334 2/1.000 273/214 .286/.337/.417/.754 1.109/.659 .678 103/.783 6/4 8/3
24.Colon G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 6/.666 1/2.000 ··· 64/47 .288/.344/.322/.666 .665/.666 .507 16/.838 0/1 0/0
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/no AB 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 136/105 .281/.319/.406/.725 .691/.734 .666 84/.778 1/0 4/2
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 7/1.096 2/.000 3/1.333 1/no AB 27/.302 2/1.000 ··· 133/123 .250/.318/.310/.628 .650/.626 .678 49/.629 11/2 0/1
12.Eibner G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 23/16 .381/.409/.667/1.076 1.000/1.114 1.076 23/1.076 0/0 1/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 6/.666 1/.000 10/.522 3/.000 4/.000 1/no AB 31/.613 2/.000 ··· 307/244 .240/.267/.286/.552 .417/.587 .658 115/.443 10/3 0/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 9/.944 1/.000 9/1.000 7/1.171 2/2.000 3/.000 35/.785 2/.500 3/.333 279/195 .317/.376/.520/.896 .742/.964 .980 106/.892 4/1 12/4
15.Merrifield G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 112/85 .327/.339/.482/.821 .889/.799 .925 105/.838 3/1 2/1
25.Morales# G/S/vP 9/2.000 1/.000 7/1.514 7/1.143 8/1.071 2/2.500 20/.812 5/.200 3/1.334 251/186 .212/.283/.354/.637 .912/.540 .718 80/.783 0/0 8/0
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/1.000 ··· ··· 149/104 .340/.369/.440/.809 .737/.840 .921 90/.748 4/1 1/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 8/.250 2/.500 9/.333 5/1.400 4/.917 2/2.500 21/.396 5/1.400 ··· 227/176 .296/.326/.546/.872 .691/.924 .999 76/1.161 0/0 12/0
IP 25.2 13.1 22.1 12.1 20.2 23.2 63.0 26.1 25.1 TOTAL .272/.321/.410/.731 .740/.728 .770 .790 44/16 61/36
ERA-K/9 4.91/7.0 2.70/8.8 5.64/9.7 5.11/5.9 8.71/7.8 3.80/9.1 6.14/7.6 4.10/6.5 3.55/12.1 4.46/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (5-2-0)
 Perez (16-18-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 110/.245 54/.191 92/.213 56/.275 97/.321 98/.230 282/.285 111/.280 103/.237 .266  Dyson
 Orlando
 Cain
 Merrifield
 Eibner
16/6/21/7
0/1/39/3
0/64/0/2
9/0/1/2
4/0/0/0
OPS .757 .594 .565 .829 1.071 .710 .874 .754 .604 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 13/.580 29/.733 37/.722 21/.807 37/.735 42/.793 132/.805 44/.692 42/.595 .729
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 97/.779 25/.423 55/.460 35/.843 60/1.287 56/.648 150/.932 67/.790 61/.611 .782
Road 43/1.032 32/.531 67/.604 29/.952 55/1.166 62/.864 155/.909 68/.774 48/.565
Last 28d days 93/.811 21/.563 31/.465 26/1.032 35/1.252 34/.627 67/.970 52/.909 31/.331
HR/SB/CS 5/0/1 1/1/0 0/1/1 2/0/0 6/0/2 2/2/0 14/11/4 2/0/0 1/1/0 72/33/20
Usage ····X··· ··o····· Xo··ooo· X·o····X X··X···· ····Xoo· ··o·X··· ·o·XX·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  5.79

LAA  4.30

PHI  3.21

 RA/G

CHC  2.85

HOU  4.35

CIN  5.84

 BA

D. Murphy  .361

R. Odor  .268

P. Fielder  .199

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .426

N. Markakis  .334

F. Galvis  .249

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .723

J. Werth  .438

A. Escobar  .286

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.147

J. Segura  .772

A. Escobar  .552

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.58

E. Volquez  3.90

J. Locke  5.92

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.16

M. Wacha  7.78

M. Pelfrey  4.42

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.