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Texas Rangers vs. Kansas City Royals, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, July 28, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Start Time:
7:05ct (local), 8:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
95° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
103
On This Date:
21-22
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
104
On This Date:
21-30
Season Series
Fri, Jul 22, 2016 KCR  3  TEX  1     
Sat, Jul 23, 2016 TEX  7 @KCR  4     
Sun, Jul 24, 2016 TEX  2 @KCR  1     

Thu, Jul 28, 2016 KCR    @TEX  8:05pm
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 KCR    @TEX  8:05pm
Sat, Jul 30, 2016 KCR    @TEX  8:05pm
Sun, Jul 31, 2016 KCR    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
49-51, 4th, 8½ GB, 7 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-19   Road:   17-32   ExtrInn: 4-0 
 vsRHP:  38-41   vsLHP:  11-10   1-Run:  14-11
 vsEast:  8-11   vsCntrl:23-15   vsWest: 10-16 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
100 Wed, Jul 27   LAA  W   7-5       49-51  4th  8.5 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 26   LAA  L   0-13      48-51  4th  9.5 gb
 98 Mon, Jul 25   LAA  L   2-6       48-50  4th  8.5 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
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:11-19
Texas Rangers
58-44, 1st, 2½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-17   Road:   28-27   ExtrInn: 3-5 
 vsRHP:  44-30   vsLHP:  14-14   1-Run:  21-7 
 vsEast: 13-11   vsCntrl:11-11   vsWest: 27-18 IL: 7-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
102 Wed, Jul 27   OAK  L   4-6       58-44  1st  2.5 up
101 Tue, Jul 26   OAK  L   3-6       58-43  1st  3.5 up
100 Mon, Jul 25   OAK  W   7-6       58-42  1st  3.5 up
 99 Sun, Jul 24  @KCR  W   2-1       57-42  1st  2.5 up
 98 Sat, Jul 23  @KCR  W   7-4       56-42  1st  2.5 up
 97 Fri, Jul 22  @KCR  L   1-3       55-42  1st  2.5 up
 96 Wed, Jul 20  @LAA  L   4-7       55-41  1st  3.5 up
 95 Tue, Jul 19  @LAA  L   6-8       55-40  1st  4.5 up
 94 Mon, Jul 18  @LAA  L   5-9       55-39  1st  4.5 up
 93 Sun, Jul 17  @CHC  W   4-1       55-38  1st  4.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 24, 2016 TEX  2 @KCR  1        W:Alex Claudio (2-1), L: Luke Hochevar (2-3), S: Sam Dyson (20)
Sat, Jul 23, 2016 TEX  7 @KCR  4        W:Cole Hamels (11-2), L: Yordano Ventura (6-8), S: none
Fri, Jul 22, 2016 KCR  3  TEX  1        W:Danny Duffy (6-1), L: Yu Darvish (2-2), S: Wade Davis (21)

Sun, Jun 07, 2015 KCR  4  TEX  3        W:Wade Davis (3-1), L: Keone Kela (4-2), S: Greg Holland (9)
Sat, Jun 06, 2015 TEX  4 @KCR  2        W:Wandy Rodriguez (3-2), L: Yordano Ventura (3-5), S: Shawn Tolleson (7)
Fri, Jun 05, 2015 TEX  4 @KCR  0        W:Chi Chi Gonzalez (2-0), L: Edinson Volquez (4-4), S: none
Thu, May 14, 2015 KCR  6 @TEX  3        W:Jeremy Guthrie (3-2), L: Ross Detwiler (0-5), S: Greg Holland (7)
Wed, May 13, 2015 TEX  5  KCR  2        W:Yovani Gallardo (3-5), L: Yordano Ventura (2-3), S: Neftali Feliz (6)
Tue, May 12, 2015 KCR  7 @TEX  6 (10)   W:Greg Holland (1-0), L: Stolmy Pimentel (0-1), S: none
Mon, May 11, 2015 TEX  8  KCR  2        W:Colby Lewis (3-2), L: Danny Duffy (2-2), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - TEX over 2-1; 2015 - TEX won 4-3; 2014 - KCR won 5-1; All-Time - KCR leads 277-263

SP: Yordano Ventura (25, RHP, 6-8, 4.99)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (6-8) 106.1 105 61 59 45 80 14 4.99
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 2-4 40.1 39 20 20 10 36 5 4.46 52
2016-07-23 TEX L 5.0 3 3 3 4 5 1 89 50
2016-07-17 @DET ND 7.0 8 2 2 1 6 0 102 58
2016-07-08 SEA L 7.0 6 3 3 1 5 0 93 57
2016-07-03 @PHI L 2.2 4 4 4 0 1 2 36 35
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
Last 5 v.TEX 2-3 27.1 28 16 15 15 27 3 4.94 48
2016-07-23 TEX L 5.0 3 3 3 4 5 1 89 50
2015-06-06 TEX L 3.0 6 4 4 2 3 0 78 32
2015-05-13 @TEX L 7.0 10 5 5 2 6 2 106 41
2014-09-01 TEX W 6.1 5 3 2 4 7 0 99 56
2014-08-22 @TEX W 6.0 4 1 1 3 6 0 107 63

SP: Cole Hamels (32, LHP, 11-2, 2.87)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (11-2) 125.1 111 47 40 50 120 16 2.87
2015 (13-8) 212.1 190 88 86 62 215 22 3.65
2014 (9-9) 204.2 176 60 56 59 198 14 2.46
Last 7 GS 5-1 42.1 38 13 11 18 39 1 2.34 57
2016-07-23 @KCR W 5.1 5 1 0 3 4 0 105 57
2016-07-17 @CHC W 8.0 4 1 0 0 7 0 91 79
2016-07-08 MIN ND 4.1 5 5 5 6 4 1 109 31
2016-07-03 @MIN L 4.0 10 5 5 3 3 0 90 22
2016-06-28 @NYY W 7.0 6 0 0 1 7 0 86 71
2016-06-22 CIN W 6.0 5 1 1 2 8 0 95 64
2016-06-17 @STL W 7.2 3 0 0 3 6 0 96 76
Last 5 v.KCR 1-1 11.0 14 9 8 7 6 1 6.55 37
2016-07-23 @KCR W 5.1 5 1 0 3 4 0 105 57
2013-04-07 KCR L 5.2 9 8 8 4 2 1 106 17

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Royals Batters (3.95 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 35.Hamels*
G/S/vB		 43.Barnette
G/S/vB		 51.Bush
G/S/vB		 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 41.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 47.Dyson
G/S/vB		 50.Kela
G/S/vB		 37.Tolleson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 72/59 .308/.366/.538/.905 .641/.964 .545 13/.885 0/0 2/2
24.Colon G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 112/85 .245/.313/.284/.597 .459/.641 .649 34/.461 0/1 0/0
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP 3/2.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 267/209 .295/.327/.454/.781 .845/.763 .780 86/.885 1/0 9/6
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 1/2.000 204/187 .250/.320/.356/.676 .769/.667 .647 52/.698 13/5 1/1
12.Eibner G/S/vP 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 81/49 .230/.288/.432/.720 .978/.556 .436 38/.608 0/0 3/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 13/.749 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/3.000 4/.500 441/350 .258/.286/.314/.600 .492/.629 .528 83/.602 14/4 1/12
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 7/1.171 ··· 1/.000 5/.200 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 273/199 .209/.315/.345/.660 .520/.710 .671 82/.692 5/0 7/1
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 415/297 .286/.345/.444/.789 .748/.805 .777 85/.534 4/1 13/5
27.Mondesi# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/4 .286/.286/.286/.571 .667/.500 7/.571 0/0 0/2
25.Morales# G/S/vP 6/1.667 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 2/.500 2/2.000 ··· 2/2.500 374/274 .249/.316/.435/.750 .873/.705 .719 84/.712 0/0 16/0
16.Orlando G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 261/191 .324/.346/.408/.754 .816/.732 .609 69/.643 6/1 1/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 6/.167 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/5.000 3/3.000 352/267 .271/.307/.479/.786 .756/.795 .672 81/.654 0/0 15/3
IP 125.1 46.2 31.2 26.1 36.2 46.1 12.1 36.1 TOTAL .267/.317/.402/.718 .757/.707 .675 .652 56/20 85/53
ERA-K/9 2.87/8.6 2.12/6.6 3.13/8.5 3.08/5.8 2.45/9.6 2.53/6.6 6.57/15.4 7.68/7.2 4.47/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (7-2-0)
 Perez (23-27-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 533/.234 188/.243 131/.231 113/.288 145/.157 185/.243 54/.213 168/.338 .265  Dyson
 Orlando
 Gordon
 Morales
 Eibner
18/26/21/8
0/8/62/4
67/0/0/4
0/0/5/0
9/0/8/0
OPS .693 .607 .613 .741 .507 .657 .804 .904 .769
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 110/.542 86/.788 47/.652 31/.613 48/.440 79/.791 23/.462 74/.954 .761
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 423/.733 102/.459 84/.591 82/.791 97/.540 106/.559 31/1.037 94/.867 .773
Home 235/.834 94/.610 72/.774 67/.665 74/.620 81/.447 25/.905 91/.948
Last 28d days 101/.750 42/.246 45/.721 33/.563 22/.333 33/.697 24/.583 46/1.047
HR/SB/CS 16/14/2 2/2/1 3/0/0 1/0/0 3/0/0 3/1/1 4/0/0 8/1/3 133/53/17
Usage ····X··· ·o··X··· X·X·o··X ·X·o···· o·oo·o·· ·X·XX··o oo·X·o·· o···o···
Rangers Batters (4.77 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.45 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		 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/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Alberto G/S/vP 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 39/16 .162/.162/.162/.324 .286/.375 .286 / 1/0 0/1
1.Andrus G/S/vP 14/.762 12/.667 ··· 8/1.171 17/.669 ··· 4/1.500 7/.000 7/.714 367/280 .293/.352/.412/.763 .934/.708 .810 77/.884 13/6 4/9
29.Beltre G/S/vP 12/1.000 16/1.063 ··· 6/1.267 18/1.388 ··· 7/1.143 26/.523 23/.542 400/299 .282/.338/.466/.803 .929/.761 .855 93/.820 0/0 16/6
61.Chirinos G/S/vP 8/.125 2/.000 1/.000 3/.000 6/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 107/87 .200/.280/.505/.786 .800/.782 .401 47/.858 0/0 8/1
3.DeShields G/S/vP 7/1.571 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 2/5.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 141/103 .220/.297/.325/.622 .363/.720 .436 20/.786 5/3 3/3
20.Desmond G/S/vP 3/.000 4/1.250 2/.500 2/.000 2/.000 5/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 5/.000 437/327 .308/.359/.527/.887 1.058/.828 1.009 96/.862 16/3 20/8
13.Gallo* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/5 .167/.167/.667/.833 .000/1.000 .833 5/1.000 0/0 1/1
30.Mazara* G/S/vP 3/2.667 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 385/281 .282/.335/.417/.752 .577/.818 .764 83/.681 0/2 12/1
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 7/.971 10/.522 1/.000 3/.666 12/.350 ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/.333 311/243 .232/.299/.430/.729 .695/.738 .784 47/.831 0/0 14/1
12.Odor* G/S/vP 5/.400 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 398/281 .277/.296/.480/.777 .777/.777 .781 93/.806 10/4 18/14
19.Profar# G/S/vP 3/.333 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 176/122 .296/.349/.414/.762 .580/.842 .983 72/.607 0/1 4/5
16.Rua G/S/vP 3/.333 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 219/130 .273/.347/.428/.775 .929/.673 .845 55/.629 7/0 7/2
6.Wilson G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/2.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· 153/113 .230/.255/.324/.579 .816/.493 .619 30/.408 0/0 3/2
IP 106.1 33.2 31.2 45.2 37.1 24.1 43.0 41.1 67.1 TOTAL .265/.322/.430/.752 .773/.744 .789 .753 59/23 130/65
ERA-K/9 4.99/6.8 1.60/8.5 3.13/7.7 1.58/11.2 3.86/9.7 4.07/7.0 4.19/8.6 4.57/5.4 6.82/9.6 4.36/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (15-5-1)
 Wilson (26-6-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 466/.254 135/.186 127/.212 176/.199 151/.226 104/.289 185/.266 178/.294 310/.289 .257  Desmond
 Mazara
 Rua
 DeShields
29/75/0/6
25/0/71/6
49/4/2/4
5/29/0/1
OPS .739 .484 .610 .535 .703 .726 .829 .814 .995 .753
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 232/.756 68/.444 47/.473 86/.617 64/.524 38/1.087 91/.646 87/.768 148/1.287 .762
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 234/.722 67/.525 80/.688 90/.458 87/.823 66/.530 94/1.019 91/.856 162/.748 .745
Road 237/.800 59/.463 54/.709 86/.601 75/.676 50/.564 90/.799 65/.781 135/1.243
Last 28d days 90/.746 19/.618 62/.681 28/.630 29/.970 24/.812 32/1.373 46/.969 51/1.165
HR/SB/CS 14/2/0 0/1/1 3/0/0 2/0/1 6/3/2 2/0/0 7/1/2 5/2/2 26/9/2 133/30/29
Usage ····X··· X··o·o·· ··X·o··· o··X·o·o ···o·o·· ··o····X X···X··· ·XX·X··o ·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  5.66

SDP  4.44

ATL  3.43

 RA/G

NYM  3.53

TBR  4.52

CIN  5.74

 BA

J. Altuve  .357

D. Dietrich  .272

D. Norris  .199

 OBP

M. Trout  .427

J. Werth  .339

D. Norris  .259

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .658

D. Freese  .453

A. Escobar  .314

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.071

K. Calhoun  .785

A. Ramirez  .598

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.79

C. Sabathia  3.95

S. Gray  5.43

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.05

J. Hellickson  7.66

M. Pelfrey  3.92

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.