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Philadelphia Phillies vs. Kansas City Royals, at Citizens Bank Park, July 3, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Start Time:
1:35et (local)
Venue:
Citizens Bank Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
85° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
83
On This Date:
21-25
Phillies
Manager:
Pete Mackanin
Game #:
83
On This Date:
54-58
Season Series
Fri, Jul 01, 2016 PHI  4  KCR  3     
Sat, Jul 02, 2016 KCR  6 @PHI  2     

Sun, Jul 03, 2016 KCR    @PHI  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
43-37, 2nd, 6 GB, tied for WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-11   Road:   16-26   ExtrInn: 4-0 
 vsRHP:  34-31   vsLHP:   9-6    1-Run:  13-9 
 vsEast:  8-8    vsCntrl:21-11   vsWest:  6-10 IL: 8-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 80 Sat, Jul  2  @PHI  W   6-2       43-37  2nd  6.0 gb
 79 Fri, Jul  1  @PHI  L   3-4       42-37  2nd  7.0 gb
 78 Thu, Jun 30  @STL  W   4-2       42-36  2nd  6.0 gb
 77 Wed, Jun 29  @STL  W   3-2 (12)  41-36  2nd  6.0 gb
 76 Tue, Jun 28   STL  L   4-8       40-36  2nd  6.0 gb
 75 Mon, Jun 27   STL  W   6-2       40-35  2nd  5.0 gb
 74 Sun, Jun 26   HOU  W   6-1       39-35  2nd  5.0 gb
 73 Sat, Jun 25   HOU  L   5-13      38-35  2nd  5.0 gb
 72 Fri, Jun 24   HOU  L   4-13      38-34  2nd  4.0 gb
 71 Wed, Jun 22  @NYM  L   3-4       38-33  2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:15-15
Philadelphia Phillies
36-46, 4th, 13 GB, 9½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-23   Road:   19-23   ExtrInn: 5-0 
 vsRHP:  27-37   vsLHP:   9-9    1-Run:  19-9 
 vsEast: 14-16   vsCntrl: 8-15   vsWest:  7-7  IL: 7-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 82 Sat, Jul  2   KCR  L   2-6       36-46  4th 13.0 gb
 81 Fri, Jul  1   KCR  W   4-3       36-45  4th 13.0 gb
 80 Wed, Jun 29  @ARI  W   9-8 (10)  35-45  4th 12.5 gb
 79 Tue, Jun 28  @ARI  W   4-3       34-45  4th 12.5 gb
 78 Mon, Jun 27  @ARI  W   8-0       33-45  4th 12.5 gb
 77 Sun, Jun 26  @SFG  L   7-8       32-45  4th 12.5 gb
 76 Sat, Jun 25  @SFG  W   3-2       32-44  4th 11.5 gb
 75 Fri, Jun 24  @SFG  L   4-5       31-44  4th 12.5 gb
 74 Thu, Jun 23  @MIN  W   7-3       31-43  4th 12.5 gb
 73 Wed, Jun 22  @MIN  L   5-6       30-43  4th 13.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Jul 02, 2016 KCR  6 @PHI  2        W:Danny Duffy (4-1), L: Aaron Nola (5-8), S: none
Fri, Jul 01, 2016 PHI  4  KCR  3        W:Jeremy Hellickson (6-6), L: Ian Kennedy (6-7), S: Jeanmar Gomez (22)

Sun, Apr 07, 2013 KCR  9 @PHI  8        W:James Shields (1-1), L: Cole Hamels (0-2), S: Kelvin Herrera (1)
Sat, Apr 06, 2013 PHI  4  KCR  3        W:Antonio Bastardo (1-0), L: Greg Holland (0-1), S: none
Fri, Apr 05, 2013 KCR 13 @PHI  4        W:Bruce Chen (1-0), L: Kyle Kendrick (0-1), S: none
Sun, Jun 10, 2007 KCR 17  PHI  5        W:Zack Greinke (3-4), L: Jamie Moyer (5-5), S: none
Sat, Jun 09, 2007 PHI  4 @KCR  0        W:Jon Lieber (3-4), L: Gil Meche (3-6), S: none
Fri, Jun 08, 2007 KCR  8  PHI  4        W:Scott Elarton (2-2), L: Freddy Garcia (1-5), S: Octavio Dotel (3)
Sun, Jun 20, 2004 PHI  8  KCR  2        W:Brian Powell (1-1), L: Dennys Reyes (2-2), S: none
Sat, Jun 19, 2004 PHI  4  KCR  2        W:Eric Milton (9-1), L: Zack Greinke (1-3), S: Billy Wagner (10)
Season Series: 2016 - tied 1-1; 2015 -  0-0; 2014 -  0-0; All-Time - KCR leads 6-5

SP: Yordano Ventura (25, RHP, 6-5, 5.00)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. PHI Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (6-5) 84.2 84 49 47 39 63 11 5.00
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 2-3 42.0 47 26 24 10 32 6 5.14 47
2016-06-28 STL L 5.1 7 7 7 3 4 1 98 27
2016-06-17 DET W 6.1 6 0 0 0 5 0 101 66
2016-06-12 @CHW W 7.0 5 1 1 1 10 1 91 72
2016-06-07 @BAL L 4.1 7 6 6 0 3 1 59 28
2016-06-02 @CLE ND 6.0 7 2 1 2 3 0 99 53
2016-05-28 CHW ND 7.0 9 7 6 0 4 2 107 37
2016-05-22 @CHW L 6.0 6 3 3 4 3 1 103 47
Has never faced PHI as starter.

SP: Vincent Velasquez (24, RHP, 6-2, 3.38)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (6-2) 66.2 61 28 25 22 80 8 3.38
2015 (1-1) 55.2 50 28 27 21 58 5 4.37
Last 7 GS 2-1 29.1 36 16 16 11 36 5 4.91 48
2016-06-27 @ARI W 5.0 5 0 0 0 7 0 84 64
2016-06-08 CHC ND 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 51
2016-06-03 MIL ND 4.1 4 2 2 3 6 0 94 50
2016-05-29 @CHC L 4.2 9 7 7 2 6 2 82 22
2016-05-23 @DET ND 4.0 9 3 3 2 2 3 95 32
2016-05-17 MIA W 5.0 3 0 0 2 10 0 103 69
2016-05-12 @ATL ND 6.0 6 4 4 2 5 0 88 47
Last 5 v.KCR 0-0 6.1 5 4 4 1 7 1 5.68 53
2015-07-01 KCR ND 6.1 5 4 4 1 7 1 88 53

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Royals Batters (4.09 RS/G) vs. Phillies Pitchers (4.66 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Velasquez
G/S/vB		 46.Gomez
G/S/vB		 52.Gonzalez
G/S/vB		 30.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 50.Neris
G/S/vB		 34.Oberholtzer*
G/S/vB		 61.Ramos
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· 8/.946 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 59/49 .302/.362/.547/.909 .633/.966 .583 15/.819 0/0 2/2
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 79/61 .278/.342/.306/.647 .627/.653 .731 31/.709 0/1 0/0
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 189/150 .274/.309/.425/.733 .808/.713 .772 94/.828 1/0 7/3
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 2/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 156/142 .259/.336/.333/.669 .792/.657 .671 37/.658 12/3 0/1
12.Eibner G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 44/29 .275/.326/.475/.801 1.082/.657 .250 29/.612 0/0 1/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.000 5/1.200 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 366/295 .264/.284/.325/.609 .471/.642 .527 109/.648 11/4 1/10
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/.666 20/.703 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 1/.000 200/146 .208/.310/.329/.639 .532/.678 .689 34/.587 3/0 5/1
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 7/1.171 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 338/243 .304/.364/.487/.851 .800/.871 .763 106/.733 4/1 12/5
15.Merrifield G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 170/131 .315/.335/.436/.772 .885/.738 .717 108/.776 5/1 2/3
25.Morales# G/S/vP 4/1.750 5/.650 ··· 8/2.625 ··· 4/.500 ··· 298/223 .267/.329/.470/.799 1.019/.725 .734 84/1.367 0/0 14/0
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 196/144 .328/.354/.425/.779 .770/.782 .657 83/.764 5/1 1/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 4/.250 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 279/219 .281/.315/.490/.806 .687/.839 .691 97/.803 0/0 12/2
IP 66.2 38.1 9.2 39.2 43.0 39.2 4.2 TOTAL .276/.323/.414/.737 .779/.725 .692 .775 49/18 72/43
ERA-K/9 3.38/10.8 2.82/5.6 4.66/12.1 4.76/11.3 2.72/10.7 5.22/7.3 1.93/11.5 4.38/8.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (6-2-0)
 Perez (20-22-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 276/.244 154/.241 39/.289 175/.268 173/.203 183/.299 17/.188 .263  Dyson
 Orlando
 Merrifield
 Gordon
 Eibner
 Morales
18/12/21/7
0/2/51/4
10/0/1/2
49/0/0/2
8/0/0/0
0/0/4/0
OPS .691 .655 .755 .786 .622 .905 .548 .764
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 135/.683 70/.804 13/1.154 74/.847 83/.647 65/.935 7/.143 .774
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 141/.697 84/.538 26/.549 101/.742 90/.600 118/.886 10/.800 .757
Home 113/.523 76/.649 16/.750 90/.891 77/.647 77/1.007 4/.750
Last 28d days 20/.500 39/.679 39/.755 61/1.058 52/.839 67/.684 17/.548
HR/SB/CS 8/1/1 3/1/0 1/0/0 7/2/0 5/3/0 10/2/1 0/0/1 106/38/13
Usage ·····X·· ·o·Xo··o X··o·XX· ·o··X·oo ···XoX·· ···o··X· ·X·o·X·o
Phillies Batters (3.46 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.20 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ventura
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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Asche* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 14/.214 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 95/82 .287/.337/.483/.820 .968/.796 .718 82/.874 3/1 2/0
4.Blanco# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 143/113 .265/.315/.439/.754 .563/.804 .744 62/.670 1/3 3/5
17.Bourjos G/S/vP 5/1.150 5/.400 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 9/.444 ··· 3/.000 ··· 226/165 .267/.303/.400/.703 .801/.666 .527 71/1.133 4/4 3/1
7.Franco G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 313/240 .251/.310/.438/.748 .703/.762 .547 89/.767 0/1 13/6
13.Galvis# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 4/1.750 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 318/239 .222/.253/.357/.610 .366/.693 .547 99/.544 4/2 7/4
2.Goeddel G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 157/103 .226/.269/.349/.619 .472/.698 .702 41/.409 1/0 3/3
16.Hernandez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.500 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 278/209 .279/.320/.368/.688 .593/.721 .563 77/.796 4/5 2/7
37.Herrera* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 345/251 .302/.391/.433/.824 .607/.907 .779 103/.738 12/6 9/7
6.Howard* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· 27/1.752 ··· ··· 5/.933 ··· 5/.400 208/188 .148/.212/.344/.555 .363/.576 .505 47/.585 0/0 11/6
19.Joseph G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 140/100 .216/.229/.433/.661 .864/.582 .635 80/.526 1/1 8/3
41.Paredes# G/S/vP 3/.666 3/3.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 68/54 .246/.279/.415/.695 .452/.749 .653 38/.534 0/0 2/3
51.Ruiz G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 19/.632 ··· ··· 15/.715 2/.000 3/1.666 129/97 .223/.326/.330/.656 .916/.581 .627 36/.603 1/1 3/3
29.Rupp G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 197/160 .283/.320/.492/.812 .852/.802 .943 65/.864 1/0 7/4
IP 84.2 29.1 18.0 51.0 38.2 31.0 18.2 37.1 33.0 TOTAL .239/.292/.380/.672 .614/.690 .614 .707 34/27 73/58
ERA-K/9 5.00/6.7 1.23/8.6 2.50/8.0 4.06/7.9 1.40/11.4 2.90/10.2 3.38/8.2 3.13/8.0 3.82/5.7 4.06/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Ruiz (14-6-1)
 Rupp (24-7-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 376/.255 116/.176 74/.200 228/.294 148/.187 122/.198 80/.296 154/.231 136/.270 .249  Herrera
 Goeddel
 Asche
 Paredes
 Bourjos
 Blanco
0/80/0/7
43/0/11/4
25/0/0/3
5/0/11/1
0/6/69/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .737 .462 .601 .849 .517 .641 .702 .720 .768 .735
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 188/.778 63/.447 29/.556 122/.858 74/.665 50/.446 28/.970 77/.528 65/.744 .745
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 188/.696 53/.480 45/.628 106/.836 74/.373 72/.764 52/.563 77/.916 71/.788 .726
Road 196/.789 56/.490 39/.751 106/.754 76/.533 59/.562 39/.645 84/.723 54/.784
Last 28d days 97/.742 35/.469 44/.591 49/.836 40/.393 36/.774 38/.748 43/.615 47/.941
HR/SB/CS 11/1/0 0/1/1 1/0/0 11/0/4 2/0/1 4/3/2 1/0/0 4/1/2 4/2/1 104/26/24
Usage ····X··· ··oX··o· ·X··X··· ··X····· ··oo··o· ··Xo···· ····o··X o··X·o·· ·X·X···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 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  5.51

LAA  4.42

ATL  3.43

 RA/G

CHC  3.25

BAL  4.59

CIN  5.93

 BA

J. Altuve  .355

J. Mercer  .272

T. Frazier  .204

 OBP

D. Ortiz  .431

C. Beltran  .340

F. Galvis  .253

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .677

D. Dietrich  .451

B. Burns  .313

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.108

B. Crawford  .786

B. Burns  .589

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.79

K. Gausman  3.97

C. Bettis  5.85

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.10

T. Roark  7.80

M. Pelfrey  4.29

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.