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Game Preview: KCR @ STL, 8:10pm, Wednesday, June 20, 2007 @Busch Stadium III

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Kansas City Royals, 29-43, 5th, 13 GB, 13 GB in WC

SP: Gil Meche (28, RHP, 4-6, 3.00)

   2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (4-6)             99    98  41  33  26  71 11    3.00      
 2006 (11-8)           186.2 183 106  93  84 156 24    4.48      
 2005 (10-8)           143.1 153  92  81  72  83 18    5.09      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-5  44.2  48  21  20  12  29  5    4.03   51 
 2007-06-15    FLA   W   8     6   1   1   1   3  1     115   68 
 2007-06-09    PHI   L   7     8   4   4   1   8  0      95   52 
 2007-06-04    TBD   L   6     4   3   2   1   3  1     103   56 
 2007-05-30    BAL   L   7.1   4   1   1   4   5  0     112   67 
 2007-05-25    SEA   L   4.1  11   7   7   2   2  1      90   13 
 2007-05-19    COL   L   5     8   5   5   1   3  2      97   33 
 2007-05-14    OAK  ND   7     7   0   0   2   5  0     109   66 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.STL    Has never faced STL.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   15-24   Road:   14-19   ExtrInn: 2-4 
 vsRHP:  23-28   vsLHP:   6-15   1-Run:   8-10
 vsEast:  4-12   vsCntrl: 9-16   vsWest:  7-10 IL: 9-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 72 Tue, Jun 19  @STL  L   1-5       29-43  5th 13.0 gb
 71 Mon, Jun 18  @STL  W   5-3       29-42  5th 13.0 gb
 70 Sun, Jun 17   FLA  W   5-4       28-42  5th 13.0 gb
 69 Sat, Jun 16   FLA  L   8-9       27-42  5th 13.0 gb
 68 Fri, Jun 15   FLA  W   6-2       27-41  5th 13.0 gb
 67 Thu, Jun 14   STL  W  17-8       26-41  5th 14.0 gb
 66 Wed, Jun 13   STL  L   3-7       25-41  5th 14.0 gb
 65 Tue, Jun 12   STL  W   8-1       25-40  5th 13.0 gb
 64 Sun, Jun 10   PHI  W  17-5       24-40  5th 14.5 gb
 63 Sat, Jun  9   PHI  L   0-4       23-40  5th 15.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:14-16
St. Louis Cardinals, 31-37, 3rd, 7½ GB, 8 GB in WC

SP: Todd Wellemeyer (28, RHP, 2-1, 7.03)

   2007 Gamelogs / 2007 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (2-1)             39.2  54  35  31  23  31  8    7.03      
 2006 (1-4)             78.1  68  38  36  50  54  6    4.14      
 2005 (2-1)             32.1  32  23  22  22  32  7    6.12      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-0  17.1  22  13  11  11  14  3    5.71   42 
 2007-06-16    OAK  ND   3.1   6   3   2   2   2  1      85   38 
 2007-06-10    LAA   W   5.1   7   5   4   2   5  0      94   39 
 2007-06-05    CIN  ND   3.2   2   2   2   6   4  0      86   47 
 2007-05-30    COL   W   5     7   3   3   1   3  2      78   43 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR    Has never faced KCR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   15-17   Road:   16-20   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  22-25   vsLHP:   9-12   1-Run:   5-7 
 vsEast:  1-5    vsCntrl:19-14   vsWest:  6-9  IL: 5-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 68 Tue, Jun 19   KCR  W   5-1       31-37  3rd  7.5 gb
 67 Mon, Jun 18   KCR  L   3-5       30-37  3rd  7.5 gb
 66 Sun, Jun 17  @OAK  W  10-6       30-36  2nd  6.5 gb
 65 Sat, Jun 16  @OAK  W  15-6       29-36  3rd  7.5 gb
 64 Fri, Jun 15  @OAK  L   3-14      28-36  3rd  7.5 gb
 63 Thu, Jun 14  @KCR  L   8-17      28-35  3rd  6.5 gb
 62 Wed, Jun 13  @KCR  W   7-3       28-34  2nd  5.5 gb
 61 Tue, Jun 12  @KCR  L   1-8       27-34  2nd  5.5 gb
 60 Sun, Jun 10   LAA  W   9-6       27-33  2nd  5.5 gb
 59 Sat, Jun  9   LAA  L   3-9       26-33  3rd  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-15
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jun 19, 2007 STL  5  KCR  1    W:Brad Thompson (5-2), L: Scott Elarton (2-3), S: none
Mon, Jun 18, 2007 KCR  5 @STL  3    W:Odalis Perez (4-7), L: Adam Wainwright (5-6), S: Octavio Dotel (6)
Thu, Jun 14, 2007 KCR 17  STL  8    W:Zack Greinke (4-4), L: Kip Wells (2-11), S: none
Wed, Jun 13, 2007 STL  7 @KCR  3    W:Adam Wainwright (5-5), L: Odalis Perez (3-7), S: none
Tue, Jun 12, 2007 KCR  8  STL  1    W:Brian Bannister (3-3), L: Brad Thompson (4-2), S: none

Sun, Jul 02, 2006 STL  9  KCR  7    W:Jason Marquis (10-6), L: Mike Wood (3-3), S: none
Sat, Jul 01, 2006 KCR  8 @STL  7 (11)   W:Luke Hudson (1-3), L: Jason Isringhausen (2-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 30, 2006 KCR  7 @STL  5 (10)   W:Ambiorix Burgos (2-3), L: Braden Looper (3-1), S: none
Sun, May 21, 2006 STL 10 @KCR  3    W:Jeff Suppan (5-3), L: Scott Elarton (0-5), S: none
Sat, May 20, 2006 STL  4 @KCR  2    W:Anthony Reyes (1-0), L: Denny Bautista (0-2), S: Jason Isringhausen (14)
Season Series: 2007 - KCR leads 3-2; 2006 - STL won 4-2; 2005 - STL won 2-1; All-Time - STL leads 25-19

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches from beginning with yesterday to eight days ago:

League Averages
Stat

Best

Avg.

Worst

RS/G

DET  6.16

CIN  4.54

WSN  3.90

RA/G

SDP  3.35

COL  4.67

TBD  6.12

BA

Ordonez  .377

Matthews  .281

Navarro  .170

OBP

Bonds  .492

Ausmus  .351

Navarro  .241

SLG

Rodriguez  .693

Sosa  .448

Navarro  .240

OPS

Ordonez  1.114

Church  .794

Navarro  .481

ERA

Haren  1.64

Rodriguez  4.19

Wells  6.93

K/9IP

Bedard  10.72

Arroyo  6.13

Duke  2.89

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Kansas City Royals Batters (4.33 RS/G) vs. St. Louis Cardinals Pitchers (5.35 RA/G)
PA/OPS 37.Wellemeyer
G/S/vB
46.Cate*
G/S/vB
33.Cavazos
G/S/vB
34.Flores*
G/S/vB
31.Franklin
G/S/vB
44.Isringhausen
G/S/vB
19.Johnson*
G/S/vB
36.Springer
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
35.Brown G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 4/.500 2/.500 2/.500 5/.400 188/115 .250/.309/.337/.646 .734/.591 .704 67/.761 7/0 2/1
14.Buck G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/1.083 ··· ··· 2/.000 180/140 .273/.361/.591/.952 1.056/.922 1.263 62/.886 0/0 13/5
21.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 39/27 .243/.256/.297/.553 .174/.718 .000 / 0/0 0/1
30.Cortez* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/7 .429/.429/.571/1.000 /1.000 .750 7/1.000 0/0 0/0
32.Costa* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 50/46 .188/.200/.229/.429 .500/.423 .399 25/.461 0/0 0/1
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 17/.728 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 328/220 .269/.350/.393/.743 .757/.736 .752 115/.685 3/1 4/3
2.Gathright* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/undef 37/32 .310/.429/.345/.774 .500/.812 1.625 37/.774 2/0 0/1
3.German G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 191/116 .253/.356/.364/.720 .736/.711 .564 72/.546 5/2 2/4
7.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· 263/207 .216/.309/.351/.660 .627/.668 .642 93/.788 6/2 5/9
6.LaRue G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 2/undef 10/.200 1/.000 6/1.917 89/61 .173/.236/.321/.557 .976/.375 .477 37/.806 1/0 2/1
1.Pena G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 260/194 .275/.297/.364/.661 .630/.672 .455 93/.746 3/2 1/10
43.Shealy G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 172/119 .218/.285/.308/.593 .333/.708 .662 90/.569 0/0 3/0
24.Teahen* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.833 3/.333 2/2.500 3/1.333 1/4.000 292/203 .283/.364/.422/.786 .692/.827 .621 105/.652 7/3 5/2
IP 39.2 2.1 7.0 26.0 33.0 27.0 25.0 25.2 TOTAL .256/.323/.391/.714 .700/.721 .684 36/13 52/45
ERA-K/9 7.03/7.0 0.00/3.9 5.14/9.0 5.54/7.3 1.64/3.3 1.67/6.3 4.32/6.5 2.81/10.9 5.09/5.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (16-4-2)
 LaRue (12-5-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 196/.323 8/.125 31/.240 120/.318 128/.225 101/.141 107/.213 107/.196 .273  Teahen
 Brown
 German
 DeJesus
 Butler
 Gathright
 Costa
0/3/67/10
43/0/2/4
3/0/0/2
0/71/0/2
6/0/0/0
10/0/0/0
11/0/3/0
OPS .945 .250 .807 .820 .577 .446 .674 .555 .772
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 86/1.176 2/.000 16/.938 52/.881 47/.625 33/.385 53/.781 28/.837 .813
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 110/.769 6/.334 15/.671 68/.772 81/.549 68/.472 54/.563 79/.450 .744
Home 126/.860 5/.400 11/.900 63/.789 52/.490 46/.270 54/.700 52/.558 .749
Last 28d days 93/.885 8/.250 31/.807 53/1.083 57/.716 41/.465 43/.922 49/.655
HR/SB/CS 8/1/1 0/0/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 2/1/0 2/0/0 2/0/0 0/2/1 67/27/9
Usage ···X···· ········ ····X··X o··X·X·· o·XX·o·· ··o··o·· ·oo··XX· ·oXX·XX·
St. Louis Cardinals Batters (4.32 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (5.13 RA/G)
PA/OPS 55.Meche
G/S/vB
28.Dotel
G/S/vB
41.Gobble*
G/S/vB
23.Greinke
G/S/vB
58.Musser*
G/S/vB
57.Peralta
G/S/vB
54.Riske
G/S/vB
48.Soria
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
28.Bennett G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 93/69 .244/.261/.326/.587 .349/.669 .333 54/.639 0/0 1/0
16.Duncan* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 214/164 .263/.332/.521/.853 .573/.942 .830 55/.718 2/0 13/1
43.Encarnacion G/S/vP 6/1.000 2/.000 2/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 8/.857 4/1.000 2/1.000 129/87 .261/.295/.429/.724 .393/.883 .778 103/.759 0/0 4/4
7.Kennedy* G/S/vP 28/.822 3/.000 6/.000 5/1.200 ··· 1/.000 7/.533 1/.000 192/157 .211/.281/.263/.544 .394/.577 .624 66/.413 3/1 0/4
47.Ludwick G/S/vP 2/undef 3/.333 4/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 83/46 .241/.268/.405/.673 .306/.975 .703 46/.790 3/0 3/0
12.Miles# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 2/3.000 ··· 3/.000 4/1.750 1/.000 160/101 .282/.308/.336/.644 .775/.569 .745 78/.691 0/1 0/4
5.Pujols G/S/vP ··· 14/.702 5/1.400 7/1.238 2/1.000 6/.833 1/undef 2/.000 296/216 .303/.392/.543/.935 .991/.913 .933 111/1.137 0/3 16/2
27.Rolen G/S/vP ··· 15/1.533 4/1.417 5/1.150 1/2.000 7/1.029 2/.000 1/.000 233/174 .265/.348/.390/.738 .577/.787 .696 82/.942 3/2 4/1
13.Ryan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 17/8 .188/.235/.188/.423 .583/.250 .000 17/.423 0/0 0/0
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 49/40 .222/.265/.267/.532 .889/.456 .668 2/.000 0/0 0/1
26.Spiezio# G/S/vP 9/.889 2/.000 5/1.350 3/.666 1/.000 4/1.750 7/.453 ··· 161/112 .283/.354/.428/.782 .964/.703 .803 75/.854 0/0 3/3
35.Stinnett G/S/vP 5/1.400 6/.733 1/undef 5/1.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 26/20 .231/.231/.385/.616 .334/.700 .647 26/.616 0/0 1/1
99.Taguchi G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.833 4/.500 2/.000 4/.333 2/1.000 1/.000 145/69 .310/.378/.411/.789 .784/.794 .776 72/.965 4/2 2/1
IP 99.0 10.2 24.1 58.1 13.1 46.0 30.1 27.2 TOTAL .263/.323/.393/.716 .684/.729 .717 19/12 59/44
ERA-K/9 3.00/6.5 2.53/7.6 2.59/7.0 5.09/7.3 5.40/4.7 3.72/7.8 2.97/6.5 2.93/10.1 4.66/5.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Bennett (18-1-2)
 Stinnett (3-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 408/.260 46/.250 110/.305 256/.312 61/.327 188/.249 131/.261 116/.218 .281  Duncan
 Taguchi
 Encarnacion
 Schumaker
 Spiezio
 Ludwick
48/0/0/2
19/23/6/1
0/1/31/1
5/1/11/0
2/0/12/0
11/0/7/0
OPS .711 .683 .847 .885 1.011 .710 .753 .550 .800
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 194/.697 23/.685 59/.775 126/.883 19/1.365 71/.746 46/.604 44/.411 .804
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 214/.722 23/.680 51/.931 130/.885 42/.840 117/.689 85/.827 72/.633 .797
Road 160/.723 16/.740 56/1.063 99/.716 11/.546 73/.725 55/.638 61/.592 .746
Last 28d days 138/.743 46/.683 33/.946 59/.857 24/.553 68/.563 43/.604 18/.343
HR/SB/CS 11/1/2 1/1/0 2/0/0 8/2/1 4/1/0 4/7/0 4/1/0 0/0/0 79/28/9
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