Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Previews > BAL @ KCR, Saturday, May 10, 2008

Game Preview: BAL @ KCR, 7:10pm, Saturday, May 10, 2008 @Kauffman Stadium

Baltimore Orioles, 18-18, 3rd, 4 GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Garrett Olson (24, LHP, 1-0, 2.08)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-0)             13     8   3   3   6  13  0    2.08      
 2007 (1-3)             32.1  42  28  28  28  28  4    7.79      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-3  36    39  27  27  26  33  2    6.75   42 
 2008-05-05   @OAK  ND   6.1   4   1   1   1   7  0      96   67 
 2008-04-29    TBR   W   6.2   4   2   2   5   6  0     104   59 
 2007-09-06    BOS  ND   3.2   5   5   5   2   3  1      64   32 
 2007-09-01   @BOS   L   5.1   7   4   4   5   4  0     104   37 
 2007-08-22    TEX  ND   5     5   6   6   3   6  0     107   36 
 2007-08-17   @TOR   L   2.2   6   5   5   4   1  1      74   23 
 2007-08-11    BOS   L   6.1   8   4   4   6   6  0     115   41 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR    Has never faced KCR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   10-6    Road:    8-12   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:  15-13   vsLHP:   3-5    1-Run:   8-5 
 vsEast:  6-7    vsCntrl: 4-3    vsWest:  8-8  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 37 Fri, May  9  @KCR  W   7-4       18-18  3rd  4.0 gb
 36 Thu, May  8  @KCR  W   4-1       17-18  4th  5.0 gb
 35 Wed, May  7  @OAK  L   5-6 (10)  16-18  5th  5.0 gb
 34 Tue, May  6  @OAK  L   2-4       16-17  4th  5.0 gb
 33 Mon, May  5  @OAK  L   1-2 (10)  16-16  4th  4.0 gb
 32 Sun, May  4  @LAA  L   5-6       16-15  2nd  3.0 gb
 31 Sat, May  3  @LAA  L   1-3       16-14  2nd  2.0 gb
 30 Fri, May  2  @LAA  W   4-3       16-13  2nd  1.0 gb
 29 Thu, May  1   TBR  L   2-4       15-13  3rd  1.0 gb
 28 Wed, Apr 30   TBR  L   1-8       15-12  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-11   Last 30:12-17
Kansas City Royals, 15-20, 4th, 3½ GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Brett Tomko (35, RHP, 1-3, 4.98)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-3)             34.1  39  20  19  11  21  2    4.98      
 2007 (4-12)           131.1 149  89  81  48 105 18    5.55      
 2006 (8-7)            112.1 123  67  59  29  76 17    4.73      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-4  36.2  43  24  23  12  25  2    5.65   44 
 2008-05-05    LAA  ND   7     2   0   0   2   7  0      96   78 
 2008-04-29   @TEX  ND   3.1   7   5   5   3   3  0      89   26 
 2008-04-24    CLE   L   4    11   7   6   2   2  0     108   14 
 2008-04-17   @LAA   L   7     6   5   5   1   3  0     100   47 
 2008-04-12    MIN   L   6     6   2   2   1   1  1      92   52 
 2008-04-06   @MIN   W   5     6   0   0   1   3  0      92   57 
 2007-09-30   @MIL   L   4.1   5   5   5   2   6  1      99   37 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.BAL      0-0   5.1   9   5   5   0   2  0    8.44   32 
 2003-06-06    BAL  ND   5.1   9   5   5   0   2  0      97   32 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    6-11   Road:    9-9    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:  10-15   vsLHP:   5-5    1-Run:   3-3 
 vsEast:  4-4    vsCntrl: 7-7    vsWest:  4-9  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 35 Fri, May  9   BAL  L   4-7       15-20  4th  3.5 gb
 34 Thu, May  8   BAL  L   1-4       15-19  4th  2.5 gb
 33 Wed, May  7   LAA  W   9-4       15-18  4th  2.5 gb
 32 Tue, May  6   LAA  L   3-5       14-18  4th  2.5 gb
 31 Mon, May  5   LAA  L   0-4       14-17  3rd  2.5 gb
 30 Sun, May  4  @CLE  W   2-0       14-16  3rd  2.0 gb
 29 Sat, May  3  @CLE  W   4-2       13-16  4th  2.0 gb
 28 Thu, May  1  @TEX  L   1-2       12-16  5th  3.0 gb
 27 Wed, Apr 30  @TEX  L   9-11      12-15  5th  2.5 gb
 26 Tue, Apr 29  @TEX  W   9-5       12-14  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:12-18
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 09, 2008 BAL  7 @KCR  4        W:Steve Trachsel (2-4), L: Gil Meche (2-5), S: George Sherrill (12)
Thu, May 08, 2008 BAL  4 @KCR  1        W:Daniel Cabrera (3-1), L: Luke Hochevar (2-2), S: none

Mon, Sep 24, 2007 BAL  3  KCR  2        W:Jamie Walker (3-2), L: Gil Meche (9-13), S: Chad Bradford (2)
Wed, May 30, 2007 BAL  3 @KCR  0        W:Erik Bedard (4-3), L: Gil Meche (3-4), S: Chris Ray (12)
Tue, May 29, 2007 BAL  6 @KCR  2        W:Jeremy Guthrie (3-1), L: Jorge de la Rosa (4-5), S: none
Mon, May 28, 2007 BAL  9 @KCR  1        W:Steve Trachsel (4-3), L: Scott Elarton (1-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 14, 2007 BAL  6  KCR  4        W:Scott Williamson (1-0), L: Joel Peralta (0-1), S: Chris Ray (3)
Fri, Apr 13, 2007 BAL  8  KCR  1        W:Erik Bedard (2-1), L: Brandon Duckworth (0-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 12, 2007 BAL  2  KCR  1 (10)   W:Chris Ray (1-1), L: Jason Standridge (0-1), S: none
Thu, Jul 27, 2006 BAL  6 @KCR  4        W:Rodrigo Lopez (7-11), L: Brandon Duckworth (1-5), S: Chris Ray (26)
Season Series: 2008 - BAL leads 2-0; 2007 - BAL won 7-0; 2006 - BAL won 5-1; All-Time - BAL leads 235-175

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

CHC  5.66

TEX  4.51

SDP  3.31

RA/G

OAK  3.59

SEA  4.46

PIT  5.54

BA

  

  

  

OBP

  

  

  

SLG

  

  

  

OPS

  

  

  

ERA

C. Lee  .81

T. Redding  3.83

N. Robertson  6.64

K/9IP

E. Volquez  11.06

T. Redding  6.04

J. Garland  2.07

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Baltimore Orioles Batters (4.05 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (4.49 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 25.Tomko
G/S/vB
41.Gobble*
G/S/vB
32.Mahay*
G/S/vB
46.Nunez
G/S/vB
57.Peralta
G/S/vB
56.Ramirez
G/S/vB
48.Soria
G/S/vB
27.Yabuta
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
3.Bynum* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 8/7 .500/.500/.625/1.125 .000/1.286 1.125 8/1.125 0/0 0/
2.Hernandez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 82/63 .243/.304/.257/.561 .463/.589 .498 57/.516 2/0 0/
55.Hernandez G/S/vP 11/.546 1/2.000 3/.666 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 115/97 .215/.243/.364/.608 .801/.572 .608 80/.688 0/0 3/
17.Huff* G/S/vP 3/.666 16/.938 7/.715 2/1.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 147/108 .271/.340/.474/.814 .667/.870 .798 105/.792 2/0 6/
10.Jones G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 133/108 .228/.278/.358/.636 .809/.597 .542 101/.621 3/1 2/
21.Markakis* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 3/.666 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 156/114 .279/.404/.473/.877 .667/.957 .953 113/.872 6/2 7/
15.Millar G/S/vP 5/2.000 10/.956 3/.333 2/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 2/.000 1/2.000 152/114 .224/.309/.336/.645 .797/.595 .478 110/.607 0/1 4/
6.Mora G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.667 7/1.738 3/.666 3/1.167 ··· ··· 1/.000 158/123 .252/.308/.420/.727 .824/.702 .842 119/.712 2/3 5/
16.Payton G/S/vP 13/1.000 5/.400 5/1.400 ··· 6/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 73/49 .232/.264/.333/.597 .792/.493 .631 54/.603 3/0 2/
24.Quiroz G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/23 .192/.323/.346/.669 1.089/.515 .782 26/.727 0/0 1/
1.Roberts# G/S/vP 3/1.000 7/.715 5/.650 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 163/120 .252/.337/.399/.736 .744/.733 .693 120/.690 11/4 3/
30.Scott* G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· 120/99 .267/.350/.390/.740 .510/.785 .599 87/.560 1/1 1/
IP 34.1 6.2 17.0 13.1 10.1 15.2 13.1 16.0 TOTAL .246/.318/.387/.705 .736/.695 .686 .684 30/12 35/23
ERA-K/9 4.98/5.5 5.40/13.4 2.65/7.9 2.03/7.4 6.97/9.6 1.15/10.9 0.00/10.2 7.31/6.8 4.44/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hernandez (24-9-1)
 Quiroz (8-3-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 150/.285 31/.231 75/.273 53/.174 44/.262 62/.237 48/.091 80/.338 .265  Markakis
 Jones
 Scott
 Payton
0/0/36/4
0/35/0/1
26/0/0/1
21/3/1/1
OPS .730 .707 .712 .472 .867 .562 .263 1.004 .734
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 87/.817 18/.402 33/.846 23/.499 21/.812 32/.873 21/.248 38/.596 .755
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 63/.612 13/1.205 42/.607 30/.450 23/.913 30/.237 27/.274 42/1.363 .715
Home 75/.663 17/.878 29/.691 25/.652 29/.903 31/.427 17/.369 44/1.077 .744
Last 28d days 124/.714 25/.900 56/.771 37/.536 44/.867 50/.557 31/.233 65/1.036
HR/SB/CS 2/1/0 0/1/0 1/1/1 0/0/0 3/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 4/3/0 34/16/4
Usage ····X··· ···Xo··· X··X··X· ·o···o·· ·oo·o··· o···X·o· ·X···oo· X·X·····
Kansas City Royals Batters (3.54 RS/G) vs. Baltimore Orioles Pitchers (4.27 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Olson*
G/S/vB
34.Albers
G/S/vB
53.Bradford
G/S/vB
54.Cormier
G/S/vB
43.Johnson
G/S/vB
31.McCrory
G/S/vB
45.Sarfate
G/S/vB
52.Sherrill*
G/S/vB
32.Walker*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
14.Buck G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.933 104/77 .258/.346/.382/.728 .884/.678 .667 70/.782 0/1 2/
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 139/107 .272/.338/.352/.690 .956/.615 .601 98/.597 0/0 1/
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 54/47 .298/.389/.362/.751 1.429/.640 .618 40/.673 0/1 0/
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/1.100 7/.286 88/59 .304/.364/.430/.794 .738/.824 .713 87/.804 1/2 3/
2.Gathright* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.500 87/70 .244/.267/.280/.548 .353/.598 .627 44/.636 8/2 0/
3.German G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 22/9 .053/.143/.053/.195 .258/.111 .298 17/.192 1/1 0/
7.Gload* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 4/.750 101/86 .266/.310/.298/.608 .400/.646 .624 61/.542 1/2 0/
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 3/.666 147/109 .286/.354/.459/.812 .469/.931 .949 105/.786 2/2 5/
15.Grudzielanek G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 112/88 .301/.351/.359/.711 .590/.742 .753 77/.636 1/1 0/
11.Guillen G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 10/.786 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 133/102 .189/.226/.339/.564 .773/.502 .497 90/.651 0/0 3/
21.Olivo G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/.000 8/.250 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 62/41 .250/.274/.533/.808 1.183/.619 .683 57/.826 0/0 4/
1.Pena G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 100/74 .167/.182/.208/.390 .401/.386 .396 72/.501 2/0 0/
24.Teahen* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 144/103 .264/.340/.364/.705 .479/.798 .644 102/.581 0/1 1/
IP 13.0 26.1 13.0 3.2 19.1 0.2 15.2 15.1 11.0 TOTAL .253/.309/.356/.665 .660/.666 .647 .660 16/13 19/16
ERA-K/9 2.08/9.0 2.39/4.4 1.38/5.5 2.45/7.3 0.93/3.3 54.00/0.0 4.02/9.7 4.11/6.5 4.09/5.7 4.09/5.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (15-2-0)
 Olivo (1-2-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 52/.174 105/.204 54/.260 14/.091 72/.152 8/.667 71/.232 66/.182 47/.326 .240  Guillen
 DeJesus
 Teahen
 Callaspo
 Gathright
10/0/20/2
6/17/0/2
20/0/15/1
2/0/0/0
0/25/0/0
OPS .465 .515 .622 .649 .378 1.524 .707 .617 .906 .704
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 16/.625 52/.424 18/.918 6/.333 32/.301 6/1.333 32/.991 21/.396 32/1.021 .690
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 36/.399 53/.607 36/.469 8/.821 40/.436 2/2.000 39/.494 45/.730 15/.607 .715
Road 24/.382 42/.623 31/.663 14/.649 40/.511 / 34/.561 34/.613 21/1.574 .676
Last 28d days 52/.465 83/.569 41/.676 14/.649 72/.378 8/1.524 51/.805 53/.733 29/.846
HR/SB/CS 0/1/0 1/1/1 1/0/1 1/0/0 0/1/1 0/0/0 1/3/1 2/0/0 3/1/0 39/32/12
Usage ····X··· X··Xo··· ··o·o··o ··o··X·· o···Xoo· ········ ··o··X·· X·X····X o·o·o··o

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.

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Previews > BAL @ KCR, Saturday, May 10, 2008
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page