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Kansas City Royals vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, at Kauffman Stadium, July 25, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Monday, July 25, 2016

Start Time:

7:15ct (local), 8:15et

Venue:

Kauffman Stadium

Series:

Game #1 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

88° (based on last ten years)

Angels

Manager:

Mike Scioscia

Game #:

On This Date:

29-22

Royals

Manager:

Ned Yost

Game #:

100

On This Date:

23-20

Season Series
Mon, Apr 25, 2016 LAA  6  KCR  1     
Tue, Apr 26, 2016 LAA  9  KCR  4     
Wed, Apr 27, 2016 LAA  4  KCR  2     

Mon, Jul 25, 2016 LAA    @KCR  8:15pm
Tue, Jul 26, 2016 LAA    @KCR  8:15pm
Wed, Jul 27, 2016 LAA    @KCR  8:15pm

                         All times ET

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

43-55, 5th, 13½ GB, 13 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   22-26   Road:   21-29   ExtrInn: 0-3 
 vsRHP:  31-40   vsLHP:  12-15   1-Run:  10-12
 vsEast:  6-14   vsCntrl:13-9    vsWest: 18-23 IL: 6-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 98 Sun, Jul 24  @HOU  L   3-13      43-55  5th 13.5 gb
 97 Sat, Jul 23  @HOU  L   2-7       43-54  5th 12.5 gb
 96 Fri, Jul 22  @HOU  L   1-2       43-53  4th 11.5 gb
 95 Wed, Jul 20   TEX  W   7-4       43-52  4th 11.5 gb
 94 Tue, Jul 19   TEX  W   8-6       42-52  4th 12.5 gb
 93 Mon, Jul 18   TEX  W   9-5       41-52  4th 13.5 gb
 92 Sun, Jul 17   CHW  W   8-1       40-52  4th 14.5 gb
 91 Sat, Jul 16   CHW  W   1-0       39-52  5th 14.5 gb
 90 Fri, Jul 15   CHW  W   7-0       38-52  5th 15.5 gb
 89 Sun, Jul 10  @BAL  L   2-4       37-52  5th 16.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:13-17

Kansas City Royals

48-49, 3rd, 8 GB, 7½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   31-17   Road:   17-32   ExtrInn: 4-0 
 vsRHP:  37-41   vsLHP:  11-8    1-Run:  14-11
 vsEast:  8-11   vsCntrl:23-15   vsWest:  9-14 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 97 Sun, Jul 24   TEX  L   1-2       48-49  3rd  8.0 gb
 96 Sat, Jul 23   TEX  L   4-7       48-48  3rd  8.0 gb
 95 Fri, Jul 22   TEX  W   3-1       48-47  3rd  8.0 gb
 94 Wed, Jul 20   CLE  L   4-11      47-47  3rd  9.0 gb
 93 Tue, Jul 19   CLE  L   3-7       47-46  3rd  8.0 gb
 92 Mon, Jul 18   CLE  W   7-3       47-45  3rd  7.0 gb
 91 Sun, Jul 17  @DET  L   2-4       46-45  3rd  8.0 gb
 90 Sat, Jul 16  @DET  W   8-4       46-44  3rd  7.0 gb
 89 Fri, Jul 15  @DET  L   2-4       45-44  3rd  8.0 gb
 88 Sun, Jul 10   SEA  L   5-8       45-43  3rd  7.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Apr 27, 2016 LAA  4  KCR  2        W:Fernando Salas (1-1), L: Chris Young (1-4), S: Joe Smith (1)
Tue, Apr 26, 2016 LAA  9  KCR  4        W:Jered Weaver (3-0), L: Edinson Volquez (3-1), S: none
Mon, Apr 25, 2016 LAA  6  KCR  1        W:Garrett Richards (1-3), L: Ian Kennedy (2-2), S: none

Sun, Aug 16, 2015 KCR  4  LAA  3 (10)   W:Kelvin Herrera (4-2), L: Trevor Gott (2-1), S: none
Sat, Aug 15, 2015 KCR  9  LAA  4        W:Johnny Cueto (9-7), L: Matt Shoemaker (5-9), S: none
Fri, Aug 14, 2015 KCR  4  LAA  1        W:Danny Duffy (6-5), L: Jered Weaver (4-9), S: Greg Holland (26)
Thu, Aug 13, 2015 LAA  7 @KCR  6        W:Jose Alvarez (3-3), L: Greg Holland (3-1), S: Huston Street (27)
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 KCR  9 @LAA  2        W:Yordano Ventura (2-0), L: C.J. Wilson (1-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 11, 2015 KCR  6 @LAA  4        W:Jeremy Guthrie (1-0), L: Jered Weaver (0-2), S: Greg Holland (3)
Fri, Apr 10, 2015 KCR  4 @LAA  2        W:Jason Vargas (1-0), L: Hector Santiago (0-1), S: Wade Davis (1)
Season Series: 2016 - LAA over 3-0; 2015 - KCR won 6-1; 2014 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - LAA leads 287-279

SP: Hector Santiago (28, LHP, 8-4, 4.32)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (8-4)			110.1	95	57	53	47	96	18	4.32
2015 (9-9)			180.2	156	80	72	71	162	29	3.59
2014 (6-9)			127.1	120	63	53	53	108	15	3.75

Last 7 GS		5-0	43.1	29	12	11	19	38	4	2.28	61
2016-07-20	TEX	W	5.0	5	3	3	3	3	1	100	45
2016-07-15	CHW	W	7.0	5	0	0	0	7	0	94	74
2016-07-07	@TBR	W	7.0	3	0	0	4	9	0	111	76
2016-07-02	@BOS	W	6.0	4	1	0	4	4	0	112	62
2016-06-26	OAK	ND	6.0	7	6	6	4	6	2	116	36
2016-06-21	@HOU	ND	6.1	3	1	1	2	4	1	80	65
2016-06-15	MIN	W	6.0	2	1	1	2	5	0	99	67

Last 5 v.KCR		1-1	31.0	21	8	8	9	25	2	2.32	61
2015-08-16	@KCR	ND	7.0	3	2	2	3	5	0	100	65
2015-04-10	KCR	L	5.1	6	3	3	1	4	1	100	47
2014-06-28	@KCR	ND	4.0	4	0	0	0	4	0	67	58
2013-07-28	KCR	ND	6.2	5	2	2	4	7	0	105	59
2013-06-21	@KCR	W	8.0	3	1	1	1	5	1	106	76

SP: Ian Kennedy (31, RHP, 6-8, 4.28)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (6-8)			109.1	96	53	52	36	114	26	4.28
2015 (9-15)			168.1	166	95	80	52	174	31	4.28
2014 (13-13)			201.0	189	85	81	70	207	16	3.63

Last 7 GS		2-3	38.1	32	20	20	11	48	12	4.70	54
2016-07-20	CLE	L	4.1	6	7	7	1	8	4	104	30
2016-07-15	@DET	ND	5.1	4	1	1	2	3	1	100	57
2016-07-06	@TOR	ND	6.0	4	2	2	1	10	1	101	65
2016-07-01	@PHI	L	5.0	6	3	3	3	8	1	97	48
2016-06-26	HOU	W	7.0	3	1	1	1	11	1	105	77
2016-06-21	@NYM	L	4.0	4	2	2	1	2	2	72	47
2016-06-15	CLE	W	6.2	5	4	4	2	6	2	113	52

Last 5 v.LAA		0-3	16.0	22	12	12	5	9	3	6.75	41
2016-04-25	@LAA	L	6.0	7	5	5	4	2	2	108	36
2012-06-17	@LAA	L	8.0	6	2	2	0	6	1	112	68
2008-08-08	@LAA	L	2.0	9	5	5	1	1	0	61	18

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Angels Batters (4.58 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.34 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 31.Kennedy
G/S/vB 17.Davis
G/S/vB 33.Flynn*
G/S/vB 53.Gee
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 32.Young
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

47.Bandy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 102/78 .284/.333/.466/.799 1.278/.657 .969 52/.918 0/0 4/1

56.Calhoun* G/S/vP 3/.333 4/1.750 ··· 3/.333 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 7/2.257 415/311 .284/.364/.433/.796 .870/.771 .918 88/.731 2/3 10/4

51.Choi* G/S/vP 3/.667 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 62/61 .170/.274/.340/.614 .000/.625 .579 38/.749 1/1 2/1

37.Cunningham# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/25 .154/.185/.269/.454 1.500/.368 .000 15/.571 0/1 0/1

6.Escobar G/S/vP 12/1.297 28/.846 ··· 7/.453 6/.334 8/.804 ··· 4/.500 6/.666 9/1.431 382/292 .318/.364/.410/.774 .984/.710 .751 81/.796 0/3 3/14

12.Giavotella G/S/vP ··· 4/1.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 4/.000 324/238 .258/.283/.379/.663 .536/.710 .642 65/.489 3/3 6/5

19.Marte G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 121/89 .223/.273/.429/.701 .710/.698 .656 41/.525 0/1 6/2

25.Nava# G/S/vP 4/.250 4/.250 ··· ··· 3/1.666 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.333 122/121 .231/.303/.296/.600 2.000/.587 .585 48/.704 0/0 1/0

58.Perez G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 207/169 .204/.234/.325/.558 .621/.545 .656 28/.852 1/0 4/3

8.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 145/117 .276/.319/.418/.737 .646/.759 .766 30/.611 0/0 2/4

5.Pujols G/S/vP 12/1.817 12/.334 ··· 6/.167 8/.708 9/.708 6/.533 5/.000 4/1.250 21/.606 412/317 .249/.325/.436/.761 .877/.725 .707 91/.888 4/0 19/2

2.Simmons G/S/vP 15/.481 2/.000 2/.500 22/.545 1/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 5/.800 246/181 .286/.314/.372/.687 .777/.655 .666 83/.979 3/1 1/8

27.Trout G/S/vP 7/.619 10/.956 ··· 3/1.666 7/1.429 6/1.000 ··· 5/1.850 ··· 9/1.111 420/323 .314/.421/.557/.979 .871/1.011 .920 85/.939 17/1 19/4

IP 109.1 32.2 29.2 62.1 44.2 37.1 23.1 42.0 40.0 64.0 TOTAL .266/.327/.411/.738 .779/.726 .745 .800 38/20 94/63

ERA-K/9

4.28/9.4

1.10/8.5

3.03/7.9

4.19/7.8

1.61/11.3

3.86/9.7

4.24/7.0

4.29/8.4

3.60/5.6

6.61/9.7

4.25/8.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Bandy (14-10-1)
Perez (23-15-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 459/.232 127/.177 120/.215 280/.298 172/.198 151/.226 101/.295 180/.265 164/.275 292/.277 .253 Calhoun
Trout
Nava
Cunningham
Marte
Choi 0/0/96/5
0/93/0/5
34/0/2/3
16/1/1/2
11/0/0/1
7/0/0/0

OPS .760 .454 .619 .820 .536 .703 .741 .829 .768 .992 .747

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 227/.787 67/.450 45/.496 151/.854 85/.624 64/.524 38/1.087 90/.653 82/.755 142/1.311 .767

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 232/.734 60/.456 75/.689 129/.781 87/.451 87/.823 63/.547 90/1.013 82/.779 150/.713 .730

Home 176/.680 68/.445 66/.545 163/.860 86/.470 76/.727 51/.923 90/.858 99/.759 157/.772

Last 28d days 91/.880 21/.536 66/.654 59/.703 31/.544 35/.898 25/.890 32/1.439 38/.668 51/1.087

HR/SB/CS 26/4/6 0/1/1 3/0/0 11/1/4 2/0/1 6/3/2 2/0/0 7/1/2 5/2/2 26/8/2 132/29/29

Usage ····X··· o·o···o· ·o···X·· ·····X·· X·o·o··X o·o···o· ····X··· ·X·····o ·X··oo·· ····X·X·

Royals Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (4.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 53.Santiago*
G/S/vB 48.Alvarez*
G/S/vB 68.Bedrosian
G/S/vB 49.Chacin
G/S/vB 54.Guerra
G/S/vB 66.Ramirez
G/S/vB 59.Salas
G/S/vB 38.Smith
G/S/vB 16.Street
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

9.Butera G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/1.000 1/no AB 72/59 .308/.366/.538/.905 .641/.964 1.127 18/.826 0/0 2/2

24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 109/84 .250/.312/.290/.602 .448/.649 .539 42/.549 0/1 0/0

19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 255/203 .297/.331/.464/.795 .867/.776 .809 85/.902 1/0 9/5

1.Dyson* G/S/vP 4/.250 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 9/1.000 2/.000 200/184 .250/.321/.347/.668 .822/.655 .700 58/.744 13/5 1/1

12.Eibner G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 74/46 .254/.315/.478/.793 1.131/.594 .921 33/.706 0/0 3/0

2.Escobar G/S/vP 16/.708 4/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 1/2.000 13/.416 18/.347 4/.833 429/344 .259/.287/.317/.604 .464/.639 .684 87/.643 14/4 1/12

4.Gordon* G/S/vP 15/.414 6/.167 ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/2.000 6/.533 8/.708 4/.250 262/195 .204/.309/.345/.654 .509/.703 .634 83/.639 5/0 7/1

35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 20/.850 7/1.262 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 7/.572 4/2.000 2/5.000 403/291 .291/.347/.454/.801 .757/.818 .827 89/.567 4/1 13/5

15.Merrifield G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 220/169 .271/.305/.381/.685 .862/.632 .757 70/.475 5/1 2/3

25.Morales# G/S/vP 8/1.333 4/.250 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB 3/1.667 7/.714 4/1.750 363/270 .257/.325/.450/.775 .942/.716 .828 85/.969 0/0 16/0

16.Orlando G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 250/185 .318/.341/.397/.739 .769/.728 .845 66/.519 5/1 1/2

13.Perez G/S/vP 14/.220 5/.400 ··· 3/1.167 1/3.000 ··· 3/3.000 4/.000 ··· 341/263 .274/.311/.477/.787 .759/.796 .923 80/.583 0/0 14/3

IP 110.1 39.0 36.0 90.1 30.0 46.1 43.1 34.1 19.2 TOTAL .269/.319/.405/.724 .767/.711 .773 .668 55/20 84/50

ERA-K/9

4.32/7.8

4.38/8.5

1.00/10.0

5.38/6.7

3.00/6.3

5.24/7.8

4.98/6.4

4.19/6.3

5.03/5.0

4.47/7.3

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Butera (7-2-0)
Perez (22-27-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 466/.233 176/.321 144/.208 403/.284 115/.207 201/.268 178/.259 150/.269 92/.338 .272 Dyson
Orlando
Gordon
Merrifield
Eibner
Morales 18/25/21/8
0/6/61/4
64/0/0/4
11/0/1/2
9/0/6/0
0/0/5/0

OPS .732 .823 .532 .795 .552 .746 .790 .733 .938 .787

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 116/.678 82/.711 63/.577 202/.806 59/.301 99/.714 81/.898 72/.760 47/.708 .741

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 350/.750 94/.922 81/.495 201/.784 56/.804 102/.777 97/.696 78/.707 45/1.169 .826

Road 245/.649 84/1.091 68/.403 262/.862 56/.589 109/.692 83/.810 89/.901 38/1.200

Last 28d days 102/.575 21/1.126 33/.380 67/.873 43/.647 61/.660 34/1.028 41/.876 28/1.376

HR/SB/CS 18/6/5 4/0/2 1/1/2 10/3/1 3/0/0 8/4/3 8/2/2 4/1/2 3/2/0 133/52/31

Usage ····X··· X···o··· X····oo· ·X····X· X····X·o X·X·X·X· X·····X· o·o·oo·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 5.70

MIN 4.44

ATL 3.38

RA/G

NYM 3.55

PHI 4.54

CIN 5.77

J. Altuve .360

S. Perez .274

D. Norris .204

OBP

J. Altuve .428

N. Mazara .339

F. Galvis .260

SLG

D. Ortiz .671

M. Holliday .455

N. Ahmed .299

OPS

D. Ortiz 1.094

R. Odor .786

N. Ahmed .564

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.79

J. Garcia 3.98

J. Locke 5.54

K/9IP

J. Fernandez 13.05

R. Porcello 7.71

M. Pelfrey 4.02

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.