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Game Preview: KCR @ DET, 1:05pm, Sunday, August 31, 2008 @Comerica Park

Kansas City Royals, 57-78, 5th, 19 GB, 22 GB in WC

SP: Gil Meche (29, RHP, 10-10, 4.13)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (10-10)          172.1 169  83  79  62 142 17    4.13      
 2007 (9-13)           216   218  98  88  62 156 22    3.67      
 2006 (11-8)           186.2 183 106  93  84 156 24    4.48      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-1  45.2  41  17  15  19  48  3    2.96   58 
 2008-08-25    TEX   L   6.1  14   5   5   1   4  1     104   28 
 2008-08-20   @CLE  ND   7     2   3   1   1   9  2     104   73 
 2008-08-15   @NYY  ND   6     6   1   1   2   8  0     106   62 
 2008-08-10    MIN  ND   6.1   5   4   4   7   6  0     117   46 
 2008-08-04    BOS   W   6     4   2   2   5   9  0     109   60 
 2008-07-29   @OAK   W   7     5   2   2   2   8  0     101   65 
 2008-07-24    TBR   W   7     5   0   0   1   4  0     100   70 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.DET      2-1  35    33  17  14  11  26  6    3.60   54 
 2008-05-15    DET   W   7     6   3   3   2   6  1     109   57 
 2008-03-31   @DET  ND   6     8   3   3   4   5  1      99   45 
 2007-07-20   @DET   W   7     5   2   2   0   5  1     118   64 
 2007-04-18   @DET  ND   8     6   3   0   3   6  0     111   67 
 2007-04-07    DET   L   7     8   6   6   2   4  3     102   39 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   29-39   Road:   28-39   ExtrInn: 5-6 
 vsRHP:  32-58   vsLHP:  25-20   1-Run:  18-18
 vsEast: 14-26   vsCntrl:20-32   vsWest: 10-15 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
135 Sat, Aug 30  @DET  W  13-3       57-78  5th 19.0 gb
134 Fri, Aug 29  @DET  L   3-6       56-78  5th 20.0 gb
133 Wed, Aug 27   TEX  L   2-3       56-77  5th 20.0 gb
132 Tue, Aug 26   TEX  L   1-2       56-76  5th 20.0 gb
131 Mon, Aug 25   TEX  L   4-9       56-75  5th 19.0 gb
130 Sun, Aug 24   DET  W   7-3       56-74  5th 18.0 gb
129 Sat, Aug 23   DET  L   0-4       55-74  5th 19.0 gb
128 Fri, Aug 22   DET  L   3-4       55-73  5th 19.0 gb
127 Thu, Aug 21  @CLE  L   3-10      55-72  5th 18.0 gb
126 Wed, Aug 20  @CLE  L   5-8       55-71  5th 17.5 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 4-16   Last 30:11-19
Detroit Tigers, 65-70, 4th, 11 GB, 14 GB in WC

SP: Armando Galarraga (26, RHP, 12-4, 3.20)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (12-4)           146.1 123  61  52  50 101 18    3.20      
 2007 (0-0)              8.2   8   6   6   7   6  2    6.23      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         5-0  46    40  14  14  13  33  5    2.74   58 
 2008-08-25    CLE  ND   7     8   3   3   3   4  2     100   50 
 2008-08-19   @TEX   W   6     6   3   3   3   5  1      83   50 
 2008-08-14    TOR   W   8     6   1   1   2   6  1     121   70 
 2008-08-09    OAK   W   5.2   8   2   2   2   4  1     104   47 
 2008-08-03   @TBR  ND   7     4   1   1   0   4  0     100   69 
 2008-07-29   @CLE   W   5.1   5   3   3   2   3  0      97   47 
 2008-07-23   @KCR   W   7     3   1   1   1   7  0      87   73 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR      1-0   7     3   1   1   1   7  0    1.29   73 
 2008-07-23   @KCR   W   7     3   1   1   1   7  0      87   73 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   34-32   Road:   31-38   ExtrInn: 3-8 
 vsRHP:  42-54   vsLHP:  23-16   1-Run:  15-20
 vsEast: 12-18   vsCntrl:24-35   vsWest: 16-12 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
135 Sat, Aug 30   KCR  L   3-13      65-70  4th 11.0 gb
134 Fri, Aug 29   KCR  W   6-3       65-69  4th 11.0 gb
133 Wed, Aug 27   CLE  L   7-9       64-69  4th 12.0 gb
132 Tue, Aug 26   CLE  L   4-10      64-68  4th 12.0 gb
131 Mon, Aug 25   CLE  L   3-4 (10)  64-67  3rd 11.0 gb
130 Sun, Aug 24  @KCR  L   3-7       64-66  3rd 10.0 gb
129 Sat, Aug 23  @KCR  W   4-0       64-65  3rd 10.0 gb
128 Fri, Aug 22  @KCR  W   4-3       63-65  3rd 11.0 gb
127 Wed, Aug 20  @TEX  L   1-9       62-65  3rd 11.0 gb
126 Tue, Aug 19  @TEX  W  11-3       62-64  3rd 10.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:12-18
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 30, 2008 KCR 13 @DET  3        W:Brandon Duckworth (2-0), L: Kenny Rogers (9-12), S: none
Fri, Aug 29, 2008 DET  6  KCR  3        W:Zach Miner (8-4), L: Kyle Davies (5-6), S: none
Sun, Aug 24, 2008 KCR  7  DET  3        W:Brandon Duckworth (1-0), L: Kenny Rogers (9-11), S: none
Sat, Aug 23, 2008 DET  4 @KCR  0        W:Zach Miner (7-4), L: Kyle Davies (5-5), S: none
Fri, Aug 22, 2008 DET  4 @KCR  3        W:Justin Verlander (10-13), L: Brian Bannister (7-13), S: Fernando Rodney (6)
Wed, Jul 23, 2008 DET  7 @KCR  1        W:Armando Galarraga (8-4), L: Zack Greinke (7-7), S: none
Tue, Jul 22, 2008 DET  7 @KCR  1        W:Kenny Rogers (8-6), L: Kyle Davies (3-2), S: none
Mon, Jul 21, 2008 DET 19 @KCR  4        W:Zach Miner (4-3), L: Luke Hochevar (6-8), S: none
Thu, May 15, 2008 KCR  8  DET  4        W:Gil Meche (3-5), L: Kenny Rogers (3-4), S: none
Wed, May 14, 2008 KCR  2  DET  0        W:Luke Hochevar (3-2), L: Justin Verlander (1-7), S: Joakim Soria (10)
Season Series: 2008 - KCR leads 8-6; 2007 - DET won 11-7; 2006 - DET won 14-4; All-Time - KCR leads 263-249

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 2008 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

TEX  5.49

LAA  4.63

WSN  3.82

RA/G

TOR  3.88

CLE  4.63

TEX  5.96

BA

A. Pujols  .362

M. Fontenot  .292

J. Towles  .143

OBP

A. Pujols  .468

C. Pena  .365

T. Pena  .188

SLG

A. Pujols  .644

R. Howard  .487

T. Pena  .213

OPS

A. Pujols  1.113

B. Abreu  .837

T. Pena  .400

ERA

T. Lincecum  2.43

G. Smith  3.90

N. Robertson  6.36

K/9IP

T. Lincecum  10.20

J. Jurrjens  6.38

L. Hernandez  3.47

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Kansas City Royals Batters (4.11 RS/G) vs. Detroit Tigers Pitchers (5.06 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 58.Galarraga
G/S/vB
48.Farnsworth
G/S/vB
49.Fossum*
G/S/vB
41.Glover
G/S/vB
45.Lopez
G/S/vB
56.Rodney
G/S/vB
44.Seay*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
30.Aviles G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 1/no AB 3/1.667 1/2.000 323/222 .331/.359/.490/.849 1.074/.750 .931 108/.788 5/2 7/
14.Buck G/S/vP ··· 5/1.000 4/.000 2/4.500 3/.666 9/1.158 2/.000 367/261 .220/.297/.364/.661 .774/.616 .677 72/.407 0/3 8/
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 5/.800 1/2.000 3/.000 408/286 .273/.324/.395/.719 .983/.609 .716 93/.734 0/1 9/
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 2/2.000 139/106 .296/.362/.336/.698 .952/.619 .810 30/.774 1/1 0/
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.667 12/1.084 2/1.000 ··· 11/.472 7/.143 475/310 .291/.350/.426/.775 .666/.834 .774 76/.557 10/7 10/
2.Gathright* G/S/vP 2/.000 3/2.000 ··· 3/1.334 3/.000 3/.000 3/1.000 293/219 .248/.302/.267/.569 .581/.565 .565 18/.561 21/4 0/
3.German G/S/vP 1/no AB 4/1.250 1/.000 1/.000 4/.250 5/1.350 2/.000 195/104 .237/.297/.329/.626 .571/.673 .568 67/.577 6/2 0/
7.Gload* G/S/vP 2/.000 5/.000 4/.750 1/2.000 4/.000 3/.666 2/1.000 396/294 .275/.319/.346/.665 .586/.693 .545 82/.681 3/4 3/
11.Guillen G/S/vP 3/.666 8/.750 10/1.000 5/.000 7/.762 1/.000 2/1.000 521/377 .249/.284/.424/.708 .973/.612 .716 100/.589 2/1 17/
21.Olivo G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 4/.500 3/.000 3/.333 ··· ··· 261/174 .264/.291/.472/.763 .932/.681 .859 35/.785 5/0 11/
1.Pena G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/2.500 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 3/.000 210/144 .168/.188/.213/.400 .605/.310 .373 15/.800 3/1 1/
26.Smith* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 19/15 .211/.211/.316/.526 .500/.533 .364 19/.526 0/1 0/
24.Teahen* G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.933 2/1.000 3/.000 3/2.000 6/.500 8/.250 519/361 .246/.310/.388/.698 .704/.695 .722 101/.701 3/3 12/
IP 146.1 55.2 32.0 40.0 63.0 30.1 45.1 TOTAL .263/.316/.386/.702 .768/.674 .692 .680 68/34 95/83
ERA-K/9 3.20/6.2 3.88/8.7 5.34/6.8 5.85/5.8 3.86/6.0 4.75/11.0 3.18/8.5 4.63/5.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (49-8-3)
 Olivo (18-11-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 611/.222 236/.283 140/.294 184/.294 277/.285 133/.191 192/.263 .271  Guillen
 Gathright
 Teahen
 DeJesus
 Smith
 Gload
 Callaspo
 German
45/0/50/9
0/87/0/5
24/1/83/4
61/53/15/3
1/0/0/0
6/0/2/0
3/0/0/0
26/0/0/0
OPS .675 .872 .833 .850 .810 .671 .714 .784
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 326/.804 112/.962 62/.624 82/.855 99/.890 63/.688 99/.761 .792
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 285/.526 124/.796 78/1.003 102/.846 178/.765 70/.652 93/.665 .778
Home 263/.767 126/.842 70/.757 109/.891 143/.732 52/.405 103/.750 .776
Last 28d days 138/.718 48/1.026 43/.761 24/.900 75/1.088 53/.580 41/.840
HR/SB/CS 18/6/1 14/6/7 3/0/1 5/0/0 9/3/0 3/3/0 3/0/1 143/54/28
Usage ·····X·· ·o·o·X·o X···Xo·· ·o·X·X·· ····X·o· ·X···o·· ·o·o···o
Detroit Tigers Batters (5.02 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (5.04 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Meche
G/S/vB
54.Fulchino
G/S/vB
46.Nunez
G/S/vB
57.Peralta
G/S/vB
56.Ramirez
G/S/vB
48.Soria
G/S/vB
51.Tejeda
G/S/vB
40.Wells
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 12/.933 ··· 4/.750 6/1.166 2/.500 ··· 6/.833 24/.619 572/435 .287/.346/.516/.862 .894/.852 .866 108/.832 1/0 28/
28.Granderson* G/S/vP 25/.922 ··· 8/1.958 4/.500 1/.000 8/.625 6/.000 4/.833 506/387 .303/.382/.511/.893 .743/.941 .893 118/1.013 9/4 16/
9.Guillen# G/S/vP 34/.679 ··· 12/.606 12/1.250 3/1.667 4/.250 5/1.350 4/1.750 489/385 .286/.376/.436/.811 .818/.813 .887 63/.860 9/3 10/
15.Inge G/S/vP 32/.931 ··· 10/.200 9/.000 1/.000 9/.821 2/.000 3/.333 317/247 .218/.316/.395/.711 .733/.703 .818 95/.594 1/2 10/
20.Joyce* G/S/vP 3/2.333 1/no AB 3/.666 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 211/191 .275/.341/.571/.913 .775/.925 .984 61/.835 0/0 12/
3.Larish* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 67/66 .230/.299/.361/.659 2.000/.638 .660 12/.333 2/0 2/
30.Ordonez G/S/vP 41/.933 ··· 14/.928 15/.733 2/.000 6/1.467 2/2.000 3/1.334 512/391 .310/.369/.474/.843 .859/.838 .983 108/.718 1/5 16/
14.Polanco G/S/vP 31/.531 ··· 10/.800 8/1.750 1/.000 11/.546 3/.000 9/1.492 537/389 .311/.356/.427/.783 .861/.754 .722 101/.906 7/1 7/
25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 157/84 .250/.308/.403/.710 .780/.647 .754 41/.650 2/1 4/
8.Renteria G/S/vP 7/.453 ··· 5/1.400 3/.666 3/.666 5/.400 2/1.000 27/.773 485/366 .266/.317/.367/.684 .901/.616 .830 87/.929 4/3 9/
39.Santiago# G/S/vP 8/1.214 1/.000 4/.500 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 105/85 .325/.446/.458/.903 .874/.910 .924 30/.674 0/0 1/
57.Sardinha G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 39/31 .108/.132/.162/.294 .125/.333 .368 17/.192 0/0 0/
3.Sheffield G/S/vP 29/.921 ··· 5/.200 9/.944 3/1.167 6/.533 3/.333 11/1.727 387/293 .226/.323/.383/.706 .709/.705 .675 96/.736 7/1 13/
33.Thames G/S/vP 7/.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.333 3/.666 3/1.666 288/174 .240/.292/.524/.816 .857/.790 .874 44/.545 0/3 22/
IP 172.1 12.0 38.0 50.0 61.1 57.0 36.0 35.0 TOTAL .274/.342/.442/.783 .807/.776 .837 .783 51/25 158/98
ERA-K/9 4.13/7.4 8.25/8.2 3.08/4.7 5.76/6.5 2.93/9.0 1.89/9.2 3.75/9.8 4.63/7.5 4.68/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Inge (19-9-6)
 Sardinha (3-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 732/.256 60/.314 168/.260 211/.266 257/.233 223/.182 148/.160 157/.277 .270  Ordonez
 Granderson
 Inge
 Thames
 Raburn
 Joyce
 Guillen
 Sheffield
0/0/111/6
0/113/0/4
2/11/0/2
59/0/7/2
25/5/20/2
42/0/20/1
2/0/0/0
6/0/0/0
OPS .718 .890 .721 .866 .615 .541 .542 .790 .762
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 381/.667 33/.889 78/.834 93/.928 122/.804 114/.560 70/.626 71/.716 .781
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 351/.775 27/.892 90/.623 118/.821 135/.448 109/.522 78/.460 86/.852 .745
Road 367/.641 35/.669 72/.593 88/.904 112/.694 121/.650 52/.329 105/.736 .782
Last 28d days 139/.721 28/.837 61/.930 54/.896 47/.805 34/1.000 58/.464 37/.540
HR/SB/CS 17/7/0 1/1/0 2/1/0 15/3/1 2/3/1 5/2/1 3/6/0 3/1/2 142/67/19
Usage ·····X·· X····X·· Xo··o··o ·····X·X ···oX·X· X·····X· ·o···X·X ·X·X··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.

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