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Game Preview: LAA @ KCR, 2:10pm, Saturday, May 25, 2013 @Kauffman Stadium

Angels, 21-27, 21-27 3rd, 10 GB, 7½ GB in WC

SP: Billy Buckner (29, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (0-3) 13.0 26 17 16 5 11 4 11.08
2009 (4-6) 77.1 94 57 55 29 64 12 6.40
2008 (1-0) 14.0 16 5 5 4 11 3 3.21
Last 7 GS 2-3 36.2 50 30 27 15 34 5 6.63 40
2010-05-29 @SFG L 4.0 9 7 7 3 5 2 79 18
2010-05-23 TOR L 4.0 11 8 7 1 2 2 79 11
2010-05-18 @FLA L 5.0 6 2 2 1 4 0 90 50
2009-10-02 @CHC W 6.1 6 3 3 4 5 0 108 50
2009-09-27 SDP W 7.0 3 4 4 2 7 1 99 60
2009-09-21 SFG ND 4.1 6 4 3 3 3 0 104 37
2009-09-14 @SDP ND 6.0 9 2 1 1 8 0 102 55
Has never faced KCR as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   12-13   Road:    9-14   ExtrInn: 3-2 
 vsRHP:  17-21   vsLHP:   4-6    1-Run:   7-9 
 vsEast:  1-3    vsCntrl:10-7    vsWest:  9-15 IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 48 Fri, May 24  @KCR  W   5-2       21-27  3rd 10.0 gb
 47 Thu, May 23  @KCR  W   5-4       20-27  3rd 10.0 gb
 46 Wed, May 22   SEA  W   7-1       19-27  4th 10.5 gb
 45 Tue, May 21   SEA  W  12-0       18-27  4th 10.5 gb
 44 Sun, May 19   CHW  W   6-2       17-27  4th 12.0 gb
 43 Sat, May 18   CHW  W  12-9       16-27  4th 12.0 gb
 42 Fri, May 17   CHW  L   0-3       15-27  4th 12.0 gb
 41 Thu, May 16   CHW  L   4-5       15-26  4th 12.0 gb
 40 Wed, May 15   KCR  L   5-9       15-25  4th 11.0 gb
 39 Tue, May 14   KCR  W   6-2       15-24  4th 10.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16
Royals, 21-24, 21-24 4th, 5½ GB, 6 GB in WC

SP: Jeremy Guthrie (34, RHP, 5-2, 3.49)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (5-2) 59.1 61 24 23 20 32 13 3.49
2012 (8-12) 181.2 206 109 96 50 101 30 4.76
2011 (9-17) 208.0 213 113 100 66 130 26 4.33
Last 7 GS 3-2 46.2 50 19 18 18 21 10 3.47 51
2013-05-20 @HOU L 5.0 8 6 6 3 2 2 96 26
2013-05-14 @LAA L 7.0 11 5 5 3 0 4 105 32
2013-05-09 @BAL W 6.0 7 2 1 3 3 1 100 52
2013-05-04 CHW W 9.0 4 0 0 1 3 0 106 81
2013-04-28 CLE W 6.2 6 0 0 3 5 0 112 64
2013-04-21 @BOS ND 6.0 9 4 4 4 2 1 112 36
2013-04-16 @ATL ND 7.0 5 2 2 1 6 2 91 64
Last 5 v.LAA 2-2 37.1 31 13 13 9 10 6 3.13 57
2013-05-14 @LAA L 7.0 11 5 5 3 0 4 105 32
2012-09-15 LAA ND 8.0 5 2 2 1 2 1 107 65
2011-07-24 LAA L 7.0 6 3 3 4 1 0 109 50
2010-08-29 @LAA W 8.1 4 0 0 1 5 0 107 79
2010-08-03 LAA W 7.0 5 3 3 0 2 1 92 57
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   10-10   Road:   11-14   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  17-14   vsLHP:   4-10   1-Run:   7-12
 vsEast:  6-8    vsCntrl: 9-6    vsWest:  3-8  IL: 3-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 45 Fri, May 24   LAA  L   2-5       21-24  4th  5.5 gb
 44 Thu, May 23   LAA  L   4-5       21-23  3rd  5.0 gb
 43 Wed, May 22  @HOU  L   1-3       21-22  3rd  4.0 gb
 42 Tue, May 21  @HOU  W   7-3       21-21  3rd  4.0 gb
 41 Mon, May 20  @HOU  L   5-6       20-21  3rd  5.0 gb
 40 Sun, May 19  @OAK  L   3-4       20-20  3rd  4.0 gb
 39 Sat, May 18  @OAK  L   1-2       20-19  3rd  3.0 gb
 38 Fri, May 17  @OAK  L   1-2       20-18  3rd  2.0 gb
 37 Wed, May 15  @LAA  W   9-5       20-17  3rd  1.5 gb
 36 Tue, May 14  @LAA  L   2-6       19-17  3rd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:13-17
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 24, 2013 LAA  5 @KCR  2        W:Jason Vargas (4-3), L: Luke Hochevar (0-1), S: Garrett Richards (1)
Thu, May 23, 2013 LAA  5 @KCR  4        W:Joe Blanton (1-7), L: Ervin Santana (3-4), S: Robert Coello (1)
Wed, May 15, 2013 KCR  9 @LAA  5        W:Wade Davis (3-3), L: Barry Enright (0-2), S: none
Tue, May 14, 2013 LAA  6  KCR  2        W:Jason Vargas (2-3), L: Jeremy Guthrie (5-1), S: none
Mon, May 13, 2013 KCR 11 @LAA  4        W:Luis Mendoza (1-2), L: Joe Blanton (0-7), S: Luke Hochevar (1)

Sun, Sep 16, 2012 LAA  4 @KCR  3        W:Dan Haren (11-11), L: Will Smith (5-8), S: Kevin Jepsen (2)
Sat, Sep 15, 2012 KCR  3  LAA  2        W:Kelvin Herrera (4-2), L: Ernesto Frieri (4-1), S: none
Fri, Sep 14, 2012 LAA  9 @KCR  7        W:Jordan Walden (3-2), L: Tim Collins (5-3), S: Ernesto Frieri (19)
Wed, Jul 25, 2012 LAA 11  KCR  6        W:Jered Weaver (13-1), L: Luke Hochevar (6-9), S: none
Tue, Jul 24, 2012 KCR  4 @LAA  1        W:Will Smith (2-3), L: Garrett Richards (3-2), S: Jonathan Broxton (23)
Season Series: 2013 - LAA over 3-2; 2012 - LAA won 5-4; 2011 - KCR won 7-3; All-Time - LAA leads 278-270

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 2013 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
Angels Batters (4.54 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.98 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Guthrie
G/S/vB
52.Chen*
G/S/vB
31.Coleman
G/S/vB
55.Collins*
G/S/vB
43.Crow
G/S/vB
27.Gutierrez
G/S/vB
44.Hochevar
G/S/vB
56.Holland
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Aybar# G/S/vP 26/.392 12/.917 1/3.000 3/.666 4/1.250 2/.000 17/1.089 4/1.500 112/82 .257/.279/.343/.622 .352/.719 .568 81/.584 1/2 0/6
6.Callaspo# G/S/vP 17/.423 9/.555 3/.666 3/.666 5/2.133 1/no AB 10/1.225 4/.500 118/83 .284/.333/.441/.775 .886/.728 .801 80/.789 0/1 3/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 2/1.500 59/47 .241/.305/.352/.657 .258/.759 .775 36/.646 0/1 1/4
32.Hamilton* G/S/vP 29/1.174 7/1.262 3/.000 4/.250 5/.000 1/.000 14/.714 3/.000 206/151 .222/.286/.373/.659 .393/.761 .481 105/.704 1/0 6/2
20.Harris G/S/vP 13/.685 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 13/.404 ··· 87/62 .241/.291/.405/.696 .251/.871 .855 38/.663 0/1 3/3
17.Iannetta G/S/vP 9/.111 5/.400 2/.500 1/3.000 3/.666 5/.650 6/1.333 1/2.000 145/106 .205/.366/.375/.741 .798/.720 .830 71/.654 0/0 5/0
47.Kendrick G/S/vP 25/.920 16/1.538 3/.000 2/.000 6/1.100 ··· 14/1.115 5/.400 200/156 .293/.322/.447/.768 1.034/.695 .580 105/.770 4/1 7/6
8.Nelson G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 109/82 .233/.266/.301/.567 .679/.530 .517 38/.507 0/0 0/3
5.Pujols G/S/vP 8/.875 19/1.056 4/1.833 2/2.000 7/.821 4/.500 7/.929 4/.250 211/166 .254/.327/.432/.759 .761/.759 .724 107/.774 0/1 8/3
39.Shuck* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 2/3.500 ··· 92/74 .284/.337/.370/.707 1.134/.616 .785 79/.649 0/2 0/0
27.Trout G/S/vP 11/.989 7/.572 1/5.000 1/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 5/1.267 2/2.000 222/175 .306/.383/.580/.963 1.014/.950 .923 114/1.135 11/3 10/2
44.Trumbo G/S/vP 7/.000 10/.744 3/2.667 2/.000 3/2.000 1/.000 8/.500 4/.500 214/168 .282/.346/.523/.869 .900/.860 .884 113/.901 1/2 11/1
IP 59.1 15.1 1.0 14.1 13.2 13.2 17.1 15.0 TOTAL .262/.325/.427/.752 .698/.769 .715 .763 19/15 56/32
ERA-K/9 3.49/4.9 1.76/7.1 0.00/0.0 3.77/9.4 2.63/5.3 3.95/4.6 2.08/9.4 3.00/14.4 3.65/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Conger (5-3-0)
 Iannetta (34-4-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 248/.272 66/.237 4/.000 56/.231 54/.191 56/.280 66/.197 64/.232 .256  Hamilton
 Shuck
 Trout
 Harris
 Trumbo
0/0/42/3
24/0/3/3
22/28/0/0
1/0/0/0
6/0/8/0
OPS .832 .599 .250 .574 .554 .719 .623 .614 .735
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 117/1.006 24/.655 2/.000 27/.528 23/.367 28/1.136 34/.741 32/.572 .760
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 131/.678 42/.566 2/.500 29/.618 31/.693 28/.357 32/.498 32/.654 .709
Home 87/.583 45/.718 4/.250 23/.870 21/.730 30/.726 33/.630 31/.780
Last 28d days 141/.838 47/.629 4/.250 31/.801 33/.553 36/.795 45/.609 26/.558
HR/SB/CS 13/1/3 0/2/1 0/0/0 0/1/0 1/3/0 1/1/1 2/2/1 0/0/0 54/23/11
Usage ····X··· ···X·o·· ·X······ ·o····X· X··oo··· X··oX··· X···o··· ···X····
Royals Batters (4.22 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (4.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Buckner
G/S/vB
24.Burnett*
G/S/vB
59.Coello
G/S/vB
65.De La Rosa
G/S/vB
37.Downs*
G/S/vB
49.Frieri
G/S/vB
58.Kohn
G/S/vB
38.Lowe
G/S/vB
43.Richards
G/S/vB
57.Williams
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 3/2.667 2/3.500 1/.000 5/.400 7/.143 1/.000 184/132 .256/.364/.404/.768 .858/.734 .775 107/.717 0/0 5/0
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/3.000 5/2.800 2/1.000 170/116 .309/.376/.423/.799 .668/.860 .809 92/.741 7/4 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/.000 2/.000 6/.334 2/.000 198/133 .246/.276/.332/.607 .813/.506 .561 109/.468 9/0 3/7
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/2.334 1/.000 3/1.000 2/2.000 5/1.000 14/.226 151/104 .222/.258/.319/.578 .660/.541 .585 74/.567 2/0 1/1
17.Getz* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.500 1/no AB 3/.333 2/1.000 2/.000 108/75 .214/.267/.316/.583 .601/.576 .628 47/.517 1/0 1/1
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 7/1.229 3/.666 1/.000 2/.000 4/2.333 2/1.500 202/127 .344/.381/.519/.900 1.104/.781 .660 111/.897 1/1 6/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.167 2/1.500 ··· 1/no AB 6/.167 2/2.000 173/122 .263/.329/.333/.663 .667/.661 .541 108/.642 3/2 1/3
23.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 62/38 .271/.295/.339/.634 .577/.668 .599 45/.774 6/0 1/1
26.Kottaras* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/5.000 1/no AB 2/1.000 30/24 .182/.400/.409/.809 .167/.988 1.000 24/.653 0/0 1/1
7.Lough* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 13/12 .231/.231/.308/.538 2.000/.417 13/.538 0/0 0/1
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 5/.450 1/2.000 160/113 .174/.244/.299/.542 .472/.571 .605 88/.646 1/0 4/7
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 2/3.500 ··· 2/.000 5/.400 2/.000 156/104 .311/.327/.411/.738 .648/.782 .871 77/.809 0/0 1/4
24.Tejada G/S/vP 3/2.000 6/.167 ··· ··· 10/1.700 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 11/.404 33/7 .323/.364/.548/.912 1.010/.571 .732 20/1.084 0/0 2/1
IP 9.1 7.1 23.0 14.0 20.2 11.2 11.2 40.1 46.1 TOTAL .264/.317/.384/.701 .741/.682 .688 .694 36/8 28/32
ERA-K/9 /0.0 0.96/6.8 0.00/14.8 4.70/7.8 2.57/6.4 3.05/12.6 2.31/10.8 9.26/5.4 5.36/6.3 2.53/5.6 4.52/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kottaras (6-2-2)
 Perez (17-9-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA / 38/.250 24/.083 97/.256 63/.278 91/.167 49/.150 56/.256 170/.256 188/.217 .266  Gordon
 Cain
 Francoeur
 Lough
45/0/0/5
0/37/5/3
0/0/39/3
0/1/2/1
OPS .677 .167 .637 .675 .628 .631 .849 .701 .597 .749
vs LHB (BF-OPS) / 14/.607 9/.000 43/.552 26/.397 46/.511 19/.797 26/1.026 80/.642 95/.541 .719
vs RHB (BF-OPS) / 24/.718 15/.267 54/.709 37/.890 45/.747 30/.536 30/.696 90/.752 93/.651 .770
Road / 15/.377 5/.400 31/.387 25/1.115 46/.569 23/.471 33/.669 88/.751 76/.571
Last 28d days / 1/.000 24/.167 50/.719 17/.904 49/.563 39/.476 24/.893 74/.877 125/.640
HR/SB/CS // 1/0/0 0/0/0 1/1/1 0/1/0 3/2/1 1/0/1 1/5/0 4/2/2 3/2/0 49/39/7
Usage ·o······ ·o····X· ··X··oo· ·o···o·· ·X···XX· ·o······ ···o···· Xo····XX ···X····

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.