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Game Preview: KCR @ MIN, 8:10pm, Friday, April 4, 2008 @Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome

Kansas City Royals, 3-0, 1st, 1½ up

SP: John Bale (34, LHP, 0-0, undef)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (1-1)             40    45  18  18  17  42  1    4.05      
 2003 (1-2)             46.1  50  24  23  12  37  7    4.47      
 2001 (1-0)             26.2  18  14   9  17  21  2    3.04      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         1-2  33.2  40  23  22   8  24  7    5.88   44 
 2003-09-18    PIT  ND   2     0   0   0   1   1  0      36   56 
 2003-09-13    CHC  ND   4     8   5   4   2   2  0      76   28 
 2003-09-08    PIT   L   6     6   5   5   1   3  3      97   42 
 2003-09-03    MIL  ND   5     6   5   5   1   5  1      84   39 
 2003-08-29    STL   W   6     7   2   2   2   4  0     105   52 
 2003-08-24    HOU  ND   4.2   6   2   2   1   3  1      76   46 
 2003-08-19    ARI   L   6     7   4   4   0   6  2      87   48 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.MIN    Has never faced MIN.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    0-0    Road:    3-0    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   2-0    vsLHP:   1-0    1-Run:   1-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 3-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  3 Thu, Apr  3  @DET  W   4-1        3-0   1st  1.5 up
  2 Wed, Apr  2  @DET  W   4-0        2-0   1st  1.0 up
  1 Mon, Mar 31  @DET  W   5-4 (11)   1-0   1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 3-0    Last 20: 3-0    Last 30: 3-0 
Minnesota Twins, 1-3, 2nd, 1½ GB, tied for WC

SP: Scott Baker (26, RHP, 0-0, undef)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2007 (9-9)            143.2 162  70  68  29 102 15    4.26      
 2006 (5-8)             83.1 114  63  59  16  62 17    6.37      
 2005 (3-3)             53.2  48  21  20  14  32  5    3.35      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         3-4  41.1  56  19  17   7  25  3    3.70   48 
 2007-09-22    CHW   L   2     5   3   3   1   1  0      40   34 
 2007-09-16    DET   L   7     8   4   3   0   3  1      94   50 
 2007-09-11    KCR   W   5.2  10   3   3   1   4  0      85   40 
 2007-09-05    CLE   L   5    11   3   3   2   6  0      97   37 
 2007-08-31    KCR   W   9     1   0   0   1   9  0     111   93 
 2007-08-26    BAL   W   6     7   3   2   1   0  0      92   47 
 2007-08-21    SEA   L   6.2  14   3   3   1   2  2     101   35 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR      3-2  34.2  26  12  12   4  29  1    3.12   61 
 2007-09-11    KCR   W   5.2  10   3   3   1   4  0      85   40 
 2007-08-31    KCR   W   9     1   0   0   1   9  0     111   93 
 2007-07-30    KCR   W   8     2   1   1   0   7  0      99   81 
 2006-04-26    KCR   L   7     7   3   3   0   6  0      95   57 
 2005-09-26    KCR   L   5     6   5   5   2   3  1      80   36 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    1-3    Road:    0-0    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   1-2    vsLHP:   0-1    1-Run:   1-2 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  1-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  4 Thu, Apr  3   LAA  L   4-5        1-3   2nd  1.5 gb
  3 Wed, Apr  2   LAA  L   0-1        1-2   2nd  1.0 gb
  2 Tue, Apr  1   LAA  L   1-9        1-1   2nd  0.5 gb
  1 Mon, Mar 31   LAA  W   3-2        1-0   2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 1-3    Last 20: 1-3    Last 30: 1-3 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Sep 12, 2007 KCR  6  MIN  3        W:Gil Meche , L: Carlos Silva , S: none
Tue, Sep 11, 2007 MIN  6 @KCR  3        W:Scott Baker , L: Kyle Davies , S: Joe Nathan 
Mon, Sep 10, 2007 MIN  4 @KCR  2        W:Boof Bonser , L: Billy Buckner , S: Joe Nathan 
Sun, Sep 02, 2007 KCR  8 @MIN  1        W:Brian Bannister , L: Boof Bonser , S: none
Sat, Sep 01, 2007 MIN  6  KCR  4        W:Carlos Silva , L: Brandon Duckworth , S: Joe Nathan 
Fri, Aug 31, 2007 MIN  5  KCR  0        W:Scott Baker , L: Gil Meche , S: none
Fri, Aug 31, 2007 KCR  9 @MIN  4        W:Kyle Davies , L: Matt Garza , S: none
Thu, Aug 09, 2007 KCR  1  MIN  0        W:Kyle Davies , L: Matt Garza , S: Joakim Soria 
Wed, Aug 08, 2007 MIN 11 @KCR  4        W:Johan Santana , L: Odalis Perez , S: none
Tue, Aug 07, 2007 KCR  5  MIN  1        W:Brian Bannister , L: Boof Bonser , S: none
Season Series: 2008 -  0-0; 2007 - Tied 9-9; 2006 - MIN won 12-7; All-Time - MIN leads 303-283

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

For the 2007 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

NYY  5.98

BAL  4.67

WSN  4.15

RA/G

BOS  4.06

KCR  4.80

TBD  5.83

BA

M. Ordonez  .363

J. Pierre  .293

J. LaRue  .148

OBP

B. Bonds  .480

G. Atkins  .367

J. LaRue  .240

SLG

C. Ross  .653

R. Ludwick  .479

A. Gonzalez  .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez  1.067

T. Glaus  .839

J. LaRue  .512

ERA

J. Peavy  2.54

A. Pettitte  4.05

S. Olsen  5.81

K/9IP

E. Bedard  10.93

G. Meche  6.50

A. Cook  3.31

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Kansas City Royals Batters (4.33 RS/G) vs. Minnesota Twins Pitchers (4.25 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Baker
G/S/vB
60.Bass
G/S/vB
28.Crain
G/S/vB
54.Guerrier
G/S/vB
36.Nathan
G/S/vB
17.Neshek
G/S/vB
37.Reyes*
G/S/vB
39.Rincon
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
14.Buck G/S/vP 9/.873 ··· 6/.533 13/.808 5/.200 4/1.833 ··· 11/.300 399/311 .222/.308/.429/.738 .739/.737 .878 / 0/1 18/8
16.Butler G/S/vP 9/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/2.500 ··· 1/no AB 360/251 .292/.347/.447/.794 .981/.715 .823 / 0/0 8/3
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 156/120 .215/.265/.271/.535 .629/.508 .551 / 1/1 0/3
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 11/.455 ··· 9/.944 13/1.000 13/.398 4/.000 4/.000 9/.000 703/502 .260/.351/.372/.722 .657/.749 .685 / 10/4 7/4
2.Gathright* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 2/2.000 3/1.167 4/.000 3/.333 1/.000 4/.000 261/217 .307/.371/.342/.713 .625/.730 .851 / 9/8 0/4
3.German G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 4/1.000 3/.000 3/.000 1/2.000 4/1.250 405/234 .264/.351/.376/.727 .793/.678 .620 / 11/7 4/9
7.Gload* G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· 5/.800 5/1.000 3/.333 4/.500 6/1.267 6/.334 346/294 .288/.318/.441/.759 .854/.742 .756 / 2/2 7/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 9/.708 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 2/2.500 3/.000 3/.000 4/2.417 601/446 .247/.314/.411/.725 .686/.738 .670 / 14/4 15/15
15.Grudzielanek G/S/vP 14/1.072 ··· 4/.000 6/.900 16/.474 3/.333 10/.500 6/.167 486/333 .302/.346/.426/.772 .844/.739 .785 / 1/2 6/6
11.Guillen G/S/vP 7/.929 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 4/1.500 10/1.171 4/.250 659/501 .290/.353/.460/.813 1.049/.741 .838 / 5/1 23/8
21.Olivo G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 7/.429 469/367 .237/.262/.405/.667 .806/.629 .574 / 3/2 16/12
1.Pena G/S/vP 7/.286 ··· 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 536/396 .267/.284/.356/.640 .638/.640 .505 / 5/6 2/23
24.Teahen* G/S/vP 14/.643 ··· 3/.000 7/.429 7/.143 3/1.000 8/.708 8/.536 608/432 .285/.353/.410/.763 .672/.799 .699 / 13/5 7/6
IP 143.2 16.1 88.0 71.2 70.1 29.1 59.2 TOTAL /// / / /0
ERA-K/9 4.26/6.4 /0.0 5.51/5.5 2.35/7.0 1.88/9.7 2.94/9.5 3.99/6.5 5.13/7.4 0.00/0.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (44-12-3)
 Olivo (51-25-16)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 606/.287 / 71/.292 351/.220 282/.209 278/.183 139/.309 272/.273  Teahen
 Guillen
 DeJesus
 Gathright
 German
 Gload
 Callaspo
 Butler
0/5/137/17
0/0/150/9
0/156/0/5
64/10/0/3
8/0/0/2
8/0/0/1
3/0/7/1
6/0/0/0
OPS .763 .876 .618 .574 .591 .810 .793
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 284/.848 / 30/.872 153/.742 138/.620 113/.618 82/.673 132/.915
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 322/.689 / 41/.880 198/.523 144/.532 165/.573 57/1.009 140/.677
Home 327/.745 / 38/.636 194/.634 162/.549 155/.560 76/.764 138/.764
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 15/11/4 // 4/0/1 9/6/2 4/7/0 7/1/2 1/1/3 9/3/1 //
Usage X·X····· ··o····· Xo······ ···X···· ·o·X···· ooo····· o·X·····

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2008 season. Player Stats for the 2007 season. We will switch to 2008 stats on May 1st.

Minnesota Twins Batters (2.00 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (1.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Bale*
G/S/vB
41.Gobble*
G/S/vB
32.Mahay*
G/S/vB
46.Nunez
G/S/vB
56.Ramirez
G/S/vB
48.Soria
G/S/vB
25.Tomko
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 3/.000 21/.818 6/.750 3/.333 ··· 4/.000 2/2.500 623/442 .276/.356/.433/.790 .865/.759 .861 / 5/0 16/4
12.Everett G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 14/.824 236/173 .232/.281/.318/.599 .558/.613 .574 / 4/2 2/8
22.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 139/77 .232/.288/.304/.592 .614/.569 .641 / 12/3 2/3
23.Harris G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 576/414 .286/.343/.434/.777 .897/.731 .755 / 4/1 12/13
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 2/.500 5/1.350 ··· 2/.500 ··· 3/.000 ··· 466/382 .273/.335/.450/.785 .667/.810 .771 / 5/0 13/2
24.Lamb* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 9/1.306 ··· 2/.000 ··· 16/.842 353/296 .289/.366/.453/.820 1.056/.777 .888 / 0/0 11/11
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 3/.833 20/.821 6/.334 3/2.000 ··· ··· 3/1.666 471/312 .293/.382/.426/.808 .673/.877 .666 / 7/1 7/1
27.Monroe G/S/vP ··· 19/.269 3/.333 2/.500 ··· 3/1.334 ··· 427/287 .219/.268/.370/.638 .805/.555 .592 / 0/4 12/3
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 4/.000 22/.923 6/.834 4/.750 ··· 4/.000 2/1.000 668/445 .271/.343/.492/.834 .693/.907 .815 / 1/1 31/5
8.Punto# G/S/vP 1/no AB 12/.606 4/1.500 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 536/364 .210/.291/.271/.562 .483/.599 .544 / 16/6 1/13
55.Redmond G/S/vP 2/1.000 5/.400 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· 298/198 .294/.346/.353/.699 .853/.623 .715 / 0/0 1/0
20.Tolbert G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
21.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/1.000 681/509 .288/.316/.408/.723 .752/.714 .714 / 10/3 13/7
IP 40.0 53.2 67.0 43.2 17.1 69.0 131.1 TOTAL /// / / /2
ERA-K/9 4.05/9.4 3.02/8.4 2.55/7.4 3.92/7.6 8.31/7.8 2.48/9.8 5.55/7.2 0.00/0.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Mauer (21-24-4)
 Redmond (23-16-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 179/.290 233/.277 281/.218 182/.259 78/.313 270/.187 588/.284  Cuddyer
 Young
 Monroe
 Gomez
 Kubel
 Lamb
0/0/140/19
0/29/133/16
102/7/9/6
27/4/22/3
84/0/0/2
0/0/1/0
OPS .719 .810 .664 .756 .891 .510 .809
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 77/.735 127/.724 117/.542 77/.919 32/.624 106/.446 276/.817
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 102/.708 106/.909 164/.755 105/.643 46/1.053 164/.550 312/.801
Road 99/.735 119/.892 133/.677 88/.860 33/.429 140/.537 330/.810
Last 28d days / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 1/0/0 6/2/1 4/1/3 8/5/0 2/3/0 3/0/0 18/8/5 //
Usage ·o·X···· o······· oX·o···· ···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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