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Game Preview: CLE @ KCR, 8:10pm, Friday, September 5, 2008 @Kauffman Stadium

Cleveland Indians, 67-71, 3rd, 10½ GB, 14½ GB in WC

SP: Anthony Reyes (26, RHP, 4-2, 2.93)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (4-2)             46    46  15  15  14  24  4    2.93      
 2007 (2-14)           107.1 108  77  72  43  74 16    6.04      
 2006 (5-8)             85.1  84  48  48  34  72 17    5.06      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-2  35.2  38  14  14  14  17  6    3.53   50 
 2008-08-30    SEA  ND   7     7   1   1   1   3  1     110   61 
 2008-08-24   @TEX  ND   7     4   1   1   4   4  0     107   65 
 2008-08-19    KCR   W   5     6   2   2   3   3  0      84   47 
 2008-08-13    BAL   L   6     6   2   2   2   0  1      96   50 
 2008-08-08   @TOR   W   6.1   7   1   1   1   4  0      88   58 
 2007-09-12   @CIN   L   3.1   4   3   3   2   1  2      68   39 
 2007-08-31    CIN  ND   1     4   4   4   1   2  2      41   30 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR      2-0  10.2  10   2   2   4   4  0    1.69   54 
 2008-08-19    KCR   W   5     6   2   2   3   3  0      84   47 
 2006-05-20   @KCR   W   5.2   4   0   0   1   1  0      81   61 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   38-33   Road:   29-38   ExtrInn: 4-9 
 vsRHP:  50-51   vsLHP:  17-20   1-Run:  12-15
 vsEast: 17-10   vsCntrl:25-31   vsWest: 19-18 IL: 6-12

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
138 Wed, Sep  3   CHW  L   2-4       67-71  3rd 10.5 gb
137 Tue, Sep  2   CHW  W   9-3       67-70  3rd  9.5 gb
136 Mon, Sep  1   CHW  W   5-0       66-70  3rd 10.5 gb
135 Sun, Aug 31   SEA  L   4-6       65-70  4th 11.5 gb
134 Sat, Aug 30   SEA  L   3-4 (10)  65-69  3rd 10.5 gb
133 Fri, Aug 29   SEA  L   2-3       65-68  3rd 10.5 gb
132 Wed, Aug 27  @DET  W   9-7       65-67  3rd 10.5 gb
131 Tue, Aug 26  @DET  W  10-4       64-67  3rd 11.5 gb
130 Mon, Aug 25  @DET  W   4-3 (10)  63-67  4th 11.5 gb
129 Sun, Aug 24  @TEX  W   4-3       62-67  4th 11.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:20-10
Kansas City Royals, 60-79, 5th, 18 GB, 22 GB in WC

SP: Brandon Duckworth (32, RHP, 2-0, 4.91)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (2-0)             11    14   6   6   6   4  0    4.91      
 2007 (3-5)             46.2  51  30  24  23  21  3    4.63      
 2006 (1-5)             45.2  62  36  31  24  27  3    6.11      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-4  37.2  45  20  17  18  18  0    4.06   45 
 2008-08-30   @DET   W   6     7   3   3   2   4  0     103   48 
 2008-08-24    DET   W   5     7   3   3   4   0  0      88   37 
 2007-09-01   @MIN   L   4.1   8   6   5   2   2  0      70   25 
 2007-04-13   @BAL   L   5     9   4   2   4   4  0      96   37 
 2007-04-08    DET  ND   6.1   4   0   0   1   2  0      90   66 
 2006-07-23    LAA   L   5     5   3   3   4   1  0      86   42 
 2006-07-18   @BOS   L   6     5   1   1   1   5  0     106   62 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.CLE    Has never faced CLE.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   32-39   Road:   28-40   ExtrInn: 6-6 
 vsRHP:  32-59   vsLHP:  28-20   1-Run:  19-18
 vsEast: 14-26   vsCntrl:20-33   vsWest: 13-15 IL:13-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
139 Thu, Sep  4   OAK  W   9-6       60-79  5th 18.0 gb
138 Thu, Sep  4   OAK  W   5-4 (10)  59-79  5th 18.0 gb
137 Tue, Sep  2   OAK  W   5-2       58-79  5th 18.5 gb
136 Sun, Aug 31  @DET  L   2-4       57-79  5th 20.0 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:10-20
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Aug 21, 2008 CLE 10  KCR  3        W:Cliff Lee (18-2), L: Zack Greinke (9-9), S: none
Wed, Aug 20, 2008 CLE  8  KCR  5        W:Juan Rincon (3-3), L: Joakim Soria (1-3), S: Jensen Lewis (4)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 CLE  9  KCR  4        W:Anthony Reyes (4-2), L: Luke Hochevar (6-12), S: none
Sun, Jun 01, 2008 KCR  6  CLE  1        W:Brian Bannister (5-6), L: Paul Byrd (2-5), S: none
Sat, May 31, 2008 KCR  4  CLE  2        W:Kyle Davies (1-0), L: C.C. Sabathia (3-7), S: Joakim Soria (12)
Fri, May 30, 2008 CLE  5 @KCR  4        W:Cliff Lee (8-1), L: Brett Tomko (2-7), S: Joe Borowski (4)
Sun, May 04, 2008 KCR  2 @CLE  0        W:Gil Meche (2-4), L: Aaron Laffey (0-2), S: Joakim Soria (8)
Sat, May 03, 2008 KCR  4 @CLE  2        W:Luke Hochevar (2-1), L: C.C. Sabathia (1-5), S: Joakim Soria (7)
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 CLE  2 @KCR  0        W:Cliff Lee (4-0), L: Brian Bannister (3-2), S: none
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 CLE  9 @KCR  6        W:Fausto Carmona (3-1), L: Brett Tomko (1-3), S: Rafael Betancourt (1)
Season Series: 2008 - CLE leads 7-4; 2007 - CLE won 11-7; 2006 - CLE won 10-8; All-Time - CLE leads 260-252

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  5.45

FLA  4.66

WSN  3.86

RA/G

TOR  3.85

CLE  4.59

TEX  5.93

BA

A. Pujols  .360

B. Hawpe  .292

J. Towles  .143

OBP

A. Pujols  .468

S. Schumaker  .365

T. Pena  .184

SLG

A. Pujols  .640

M. DeRosa  .488

T. Pena  .209

OPS

A. Pujols  1.108

C. Delgado  .842

T. Pena  .393

ERA

C. Lee  2.32

G. Meche  4.07

C. Silva  6.53

K/9IP

T. Lincecum  10.22

J. Lester  6.39

L. Hernandez  3.35

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Cleveland Indians Batters (4.86 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (5.01 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Duckworth
G/S/vB
54.Fulchino
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
51.Tejeda
G/S/vB
40.Wells
G/S/vB
27.Yabuta
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Aubrey* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 30/28 .185/.267/.407/.674 .000/.726 .977 / 0/0 2/
29.Barfield G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.500 2/1.500 4/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 6/3 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 / 0/0 0/
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.334 1/no AB 2/.000 1/no AB 3/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 339/258 .228/.326/.323/.649 .824/.606 .554 85/.856 4/3 4/
7.Carroll G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· 2/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 7/1.100 7/.429 1/.000 328/224 .271/.358/.343/.701 .616/.741 .570 52/.842 7/3 1/
17.Choo* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 282/223 .288/.383/.517/.900 .773/.935 .788 88/1.237 4/2 9/
20.Dellucci* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 7/.953 2/.500 2/2.000 3/.333 1/no AB 5/.400 1/.000 346/329 .247/.318/.422/.740 .059/.777 .847 59/.818 3/2 11/
44.Fasano G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 50/33 .286/.367/.381/.748 .732/.752 .639 15/.641 0/0 0/
12.Francisco G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 3/.000 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 431/322 .279/.337/.456/.794 .808/.789 .727 93/.835 3/3 14/
25.Garko G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· 2/.500 3/1.167 1/.000 10/.633 3/.000 9/.222 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 490/369 .253/.329/.364/.693 .757/.672 .672 101/.826 0/0 10/
38.Gutierrez G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 2/3.000 3/.333 5/.400 7/.953 2/.000 5/1.000 1/no AB 1/3.000 1/3.000 376/253 .235/.288/.383/.670 .729/.641 .616 82/.864 5/3 8/
15.Marte G/S/vP 1/3.000 ··· 2/3.000 ··· 4/1.000 4/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 221/162 .208/.256/.312/.568 .834/.472 .607 69/.689 1/2 3/
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 29/.601 9/.873 3/1.666 7/.286 3/.000 3/.666 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 233/179 .272/.326/.343/.669 .953/.577 .537 16/.717 0/0 1/
2.Peralta G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 9/1.083 3/1.666 4/.250 11/.582 2/2.000 10/.733 4/.500 1/2.000 1/5.000 562/429 .278/.327/.485/.811 .771/.824 .898 114/.718 3/1 21/
10.Shoppach G/S/vP 1/2.000 1/no AB 1/3.000 1/no AB 3/1.167 3/.666 2/2.500 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 337/250 .267/.338/.513/.852 .917/.829 .837 94/.779 0/0 17/
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 23/.761 7/1.429 7/1.429 6/1.100 2/.000 5/1.267 5/.400 1/2.000 3/2.334 634/453 .273/.385/.525/.910 .815/.947 .777 123/.866 35/4 31/
IP 11.0 12.0 24.2 59.1 39.0 50.0 65.0 60.0 36.1 35.1 31.1 TOTAL .259/.335/.423/.759 .769/.755 .735 .842 69/26 149/77
ERA-K/9 4.91/3.3 8.25/8.2 11.31/7.3 2.88/6.8 3.00/4.8 5.76/6.5 2.77/9.1 1.80/9.0 4.46/9.9 5.60/7.4 5.46/5.8 4.64/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Fasano (6-4-2)
 Martinez (20-13-2)
 Shoppach (31-7-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 50/.318 60/.314 131/.318 250/.239 172/.260 211/.266 272/.230 234/.182 153/.178 164/.280 147/.297 .269  Francisco
 Gutierrez
 Choo
 Sizemore
 Dellucci
 Carroll
69/2/31/11
9/10/84/3
18/0/40/3
0/129/0/2
51/0/0/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .900 .890 .996 .661 .715 .866 .611 .532 .590 .819 .869 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 15/1.236 33/.889 54/.579 102/.697 81/.828 93/.928 131/.751 121/.560 73/.688 74/.769 65/.638 .778
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 35/.759 27/.892 77/1.330 148/.637 91/.616 118/.821 141/.484 113/.502 80/.491 90/.862 82/1.048 .742
Home 24/.858 25/1.220 58/1.205 124/.664 100/.801 123/.837 156/.538 113/.408 101/.725 55/.955 79/.962 .741
Last 28d days 50/.900 28/.837 / 6/.500 54/.777 44/1.022 54/.782 38/.789 49/.652 38/.792 /
HR/SB/CS 0/0/0 1/1/0 5/2/0 5/2/2 2/1/0 15/3/1 2/3/1 5/2/1 3/6/0 3/1/2 5/4/0 145/68/19
Usage ·····X·· ·····X·· ········ o······· o····Xo· ········ X·o·X··· X·o··X·· X·····o· o···o·X· ········
Kansas City Royals Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Cleveland Indians Pitchers (4.59 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 27.Reyes
G/S/vB
63.Betancourt
G/S/vB
58.Donnelly
G/S/vB
30.Kobayashi
G/S/vB
50.Lewis
G/S/vB
40.Mastny
G/S/vB
59.Meloan
G/S/vB
49.Mujica
G/S/vB
53.Perez*
G/S/vB
34.Rincon
G/S/vB
56.Rundles*
G/S/vB
54.Slocum
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
30.Aviles G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 340/229 .334/.365/.492/.857 1.082/.750 .808 109/.797 5/2 7/
14.Buck G/S/vP 2/.000 7/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 12/.273 ··· ··· 372/264 .221/.298/.364/.662 .777/.616 .651 63/.454 0/3 8/
16.Butler G/S/vP 2/1.000 3/.000 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.500 2/2.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 424/293 .282/.330/.415/.745 1.042/.615 .768 93/.828 0/1 10/
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 155/113 .302/.364/.345/.709 .876/.646 .612 46/.785 1/1 0/
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 3/1.667 9/.236 2/no AB 2/1.000 1/.000 8/1.225 ··· ··· 6/.334 10/.000 ··· ··· 493/318 .296/.354/.433/.787 .704/.833 .789 94/.656 10/7 10/
2.Gathright* G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 6/1.000 1/.000 3/1.334 5/1.100 ··· ··· 2/1.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 301/225 .251/.306/.270/.576 .582/.573 .590 26/.648 21/4 0/
3.German G/S/vP 3/1.667 3/1.334 2/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 7/.333 ··· ··· 3/.000 5/.933 ··· 1/.000 207/106 .245/.304/.342/.646 .610/.680 .698 62/.770 6/3 0/
7.Gload* G/S/vP 2/.000 13/.237 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 4/1.500 6/.334 ··· ··· 400/298 .272/.316/.342/.658 .586/.683 .765 70/.648 3/4 3/
11.Guillen G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.700 1/.000 4/.500 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 6/.167 ··· ··· 537/384 .250/.285/.425/.710 .939/.623 .696 99/.559 2/1 18/
21.Olivo G/S/vP 2/2.500 5/1.600 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/5.000 9/.555 ··· ··· 273/181 .260/.286/.458/.744 .924/.654 .656 44/.614 6/0 11/
1.Pena G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 4/.750 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 214/146 .165/.184/.209/.393 .586/.306 .421 17/.706 3/1 1/
43.Shealy G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 8/2 .250/.250/.625/.875 1.167/.000 .875 8/.875 0/0 1/
26.Smith* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/2.500 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 20/15 .200/.200/.300/.500 .400/.533 .667 19/.526 0/1 0/
24.Teahen* G/S/vP 3/.000 4/.000 2/2.000 2/.000 2/2.000 3/.333 ··· ··· 8/.393 9/.472 ··· ··· 531/367 .240/.305/.379/.684 .685/.683 .658 96/.634 3/3 12/
IP 46.0 60.2 7.2 52.2 54.2 13.1 28.2 70.2 48.1 0.0 2.0 TOTAL .264/.317/.388/.705 .776/.673 .717 .687 69/35 98/84
ERA-K/9 2.93/4.7 5.04/8.6 5.87/3.5 4.27/6.0 4.28/6.9 10.80/9.5 /0.0 7.22/6.0 3.31/9.8 5.59/6.3 /0.0 27.00/4.5 4.33/6.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (50-8-3)
 Olivo (18-11-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 192/.261 261/.266 37/.333 228/.275 246/.279 70/.305 / 125/.295 284/.217 219/.281 1/ 15/.615 .270  Guillen
 Gathright
 Teahen
 DeJesus
 Gload
 Callaspo
 German
 Smith
45/0/53/9
0/91/0/5
24/1/84/4
63/55/17/3
6/0/2/0
3/0/0/0
29/0/0/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .711 .783 .769 .743 .793 .991 .889 .609 .802 1.754 .745
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 97/.636 117/.756 16/.732 106/.844 130/.773 38/1.207 / 56/.868 115/.514 97/.927 1/ 8/1.214 .777
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 95/.792 144/.802 21/.797 122/.657 116/.816 32/.758 / 69/.903 169/.672 122/.703 / 7/2.381 .724
Road 76/.611 106/.863 3/.000 87/.906 117/.819 42/1.329 / 56/.878 154/.622 93/.977 / 15/1.754 .793
Last 28d days 131/.671 50/.386 37/.769 17/1.059 42/.779 / / 27/1.081 57/.571 39/.425 1/ /
HR/SB/CS 4/3/1 11/8/1 0/1/0 8/2/0 6/1/1 4/1/0 // 5/0/0 7/2/3 7/4/1 0/0/0 2/0/0 143/57/24
Usage ·····X·· ·oo··X·· ··o··oo· ····o··· ·····X·· ········ ······o· ··X·o··· ·X··X·X· ·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.

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