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Game Preview: KCR @ SEA, 10:10pm, Monday, April 14, 2008 @Safeco Field

Kansas City Royals, 7-5, 1st, ½ up

SP: Zack Greinke (24, RHP, 2-0, 0.60)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (2-0)             15    12   1   1   4   5  1    0.60      
 2007 (7-7)            122   122  52  50  36 106 12    3.69      
 2006 (1-0)              6.1   7   3   3   3   5  1    4.26      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         4-2  42    36   9   8  13  29  5    1.71   59 
 2008-04-09    NYY   W   8     6   0   0   2   2  0     107   70 
 2008-04-03    DET   W   7     6   1   1   2   3  1      99   62 
 2007-09-26    CHW   L   5     7   3   3   2   6  2      93   45 
 2007-09-20    CHW   W   8     2   0   0   0  10  0     101   88 
 2007-09-15    CLE   L   5.1   4   2   1   5   3  1     103   52 
 2007-09-09    NYY  ND   3.2   6   3   3   2   1  1      90   36 
 2007-09-03    TEX   W   5     5   0   0   0   4  0      82   61 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.SEA      0-0  18    22   7   7   1  12  4    3.50   52 
 2005-08-16    SEA  ND   6     8   3   3   1   7  0     105   50 
 2005-04-13    SEA  ND   6     4   0   0   0   2  0      84   66 
 2004-08-27    SEA  ND   6    10   4   4   0   3  4     101   39 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    3-3    Road:    4-2    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   5-4    vsLHP:   2-1    1-Run:   1-1 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl: 5-4    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Sun, Apr 13   MIN  W   5-1        7-5   1st  0.5 up
 11 Sat, Apr 12   MIN  L   0-2        6-5   1st  0.5 up
 10 Fri, Apr 11   MIN  L   0-5        6-4   1st  0.5 up
  9 Thu, Apr 10   NYY  L   1-6        6-3   1st  0.5 up
  8 Wed, Apr  9   NYY  W   4-0        6-2   1st  0.5 up
  7 Tue, Apr  8   NYY  W   5-2        5-2   1st    Tied
  6 Sun, Apr  6  @MIN  W   3-1        4-2   1st    Tied
  5 Sat, Apr  5  @MIN  L   4-6        3-2   1st    Tied
  4 Fri, Apr  4  @MIN  L   3-4        3-1   1st    Tied
  3 Thu, Apr  3  @DET  W   4-1        3-0   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-5    Last 30: 7-5 
Seattle Mariners, 6-7, 4th, 3 GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Jarrod Washburn (33, LHP, 1-1, 3.00)

   2008 Gamelogs / 2008 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
 Split         Opp Dec   IP   H   R   ER  BB  SO HR ERA/Pit GmSc
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 2008 (1-1)             12    12   4   4   2   6  1    3.00      
 2007 (10-15)          193.2 201 102  93  67 114 23    4.32      
 2006 (8-14)           187   198 103  97  55 103 25    4.67      
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 7 GS         2-4  41    36  18  17  14  27  6    3.73   53 
 2008-04-09    TBR   W   7     6   1   1   1   2  0     105   62 
 2008-04-04    BAL   L   5     6   3   3   1   4  1     103   46 
 2007-09-26    CLE  ND   6     2   2   2   3   5  2      96   62 
 2007-09-21    LAA   W   7     5   0   0   0   4  0      95   71 
 2007-09-16    TBD   L   4.1   6   3   3   3   6  1     103   42 
 2007-09-11    OAK   L   5.2   8   6   6   5   2  0     122   26 
 2007-09-05    NYY   L   6     3   3   2   1   4  2      94   59 
+------------+----+---+-----+---+---+---+---+---+--+-------+----+
 Last 5 v.KCR      3-2  28.2  31  16  16   6  18  3    5.02   48 
 2007-07-04    KCR   W   8     5   0   0   1   5  0     115   76 
 2007-05-27    KCR   W   7     4   3   3   1   4  0     100   60 
 2006-09-14    KCR   L   4.1  10   6   6   1   1  1      79   19 
 2006-06-04    KCR   L   4.1   8   7   7   2   5  2     100   22 
 2005-07-03    KCR   W   5     4   0   0   1   3  0      78   61 
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    4-2    Road:    2-5    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   6-5    vsLHP:   0-2    1-Run:   1-3 
 vsEast:  2-5    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  4-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Sun, Apr 13   LAA  L   5-10       6-7   4th  3.0 gb
 12 Sat, Apr 12   LAA  W   8-3        6-6   4th  3.5 gb
 11 Fri, Apr 11   LAA  W   8-5        5-6   4th  3.0 gb
 10 Thu, Apr 10  @TBR  L   0-7        4-6   4th  1.5 gb
  9 Wed, Apr  9  @TBR  W   7-1        4-5   4th  1.5 gb
  8 Tue, Apr  8  @TBR  W   6-5        3-5   4th  1.5 gb
  7 Mon, Apr  7  @BAL  L   4-5        2-5   4th  1.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr  6  @BAL  L   2-3        2-4   4th  1.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  5  @BAL  L   4-6        2-3   3rd  0.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  4  @BAL  L   4-7        2-2   1st    Tied
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 6-7    Last 30: 6-7 
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 04, 2007 SEA  4 @KCR  0        W:Jarrod Washburn , L: Brian Bannister , S: J.J. Putz 
Tue, Jul 03, 2007 KCR 17  SEA  3        W:Jorge de la Rosa , L: Ryan Feierabend , S: none
Mon, Jul 02, 2007 KCR  3  SEA  2 (11)   W:Octavio Dotel , L: Brandon Morrow , S: none
Sun, May 27, 2007 SEA  7 @KCR  4        W:Jarrod Washburn , L: Odalis Perez , S: J.J. Putz 
Sat, May 26, 2007 SEA  9 @KCR  1        W:Cha Seung Baek , L: Brian Bannister , S: none
Fri, May 25, 2007 SEA 10 @KCR  2        W:Felix Hernandez , L: Gil Meche , S: none
Sun, Apr 29, 2007 SEA  5  KCR  1        W:Brandon Morrow , L: Brian Bannister , S: none
Sat, Apr 28, 2007 KCR  8 @SEA  3        W:Gil Meche , L: Jeff Weaver , S: Brandon Duckworth 
Fri, Apr 27, 2007 SEA  7  KCR  4        W:Horacio Ramirez , L: Jorge de la Rosa , S: J.J. Putz 
Sun, Sep 17, 2006 SEA 10 @KCR  5        W:Gil Meche (11-8), L: Jimmy Gobble (3-6), S: none
Season Series: 2008 -  0-0; 2007 - SEA won 6-3; 2006 - SEA won 5-3; All-Time - KCR leads 188-175

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

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. Francoeur  .293

J. LaRue  .148

OBP

B. Bonds  .480

J. Varitek  .367

J. LaRue  .240

SLG

C. Ross  .653

T. Tulowitzki  .479

A. Gonzalez  .249

OPS

A. Rodriguez  1.067

G. Sheffield  .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 (3.17 RS/G) vs. Seattle Mariners Pitchers (4.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 56.Washburn*
G/S/vB
58.Baek
G/S/vB
48.Corcoran
G/S/vB
54.Green
G/S/vB
57.Lowe
G/S/vB
59.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB
18.Rowland-Smith*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
14.Buck G/S/vP 12/.584 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 399/311 .222/.308/.429/.738 .739/.737 .878 / 0/1 18/8
16.Butler G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 360/251 .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 16/1.000 6/.167 ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 703/502 .260/.351/.372/.722 .657/.749 .685 / 10/4 7/4
2.Gathright* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 261/217 .307/.371/.342/.713 .625/.730 .851 / 9/8 0/4
3.German G/S/vP 14/.857 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 405/234 .264/.351/.376/.727 .793/.678 .620 / 11/7 4/9
7.Gload* G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 346/294 .288/.318/.441/.759 .854/.742 .756 / 2/2 7/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 6/.500 6/.733 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 601/446 .247/.314/.411/.725 .686/.738 .670 / 14/4 15/15
15.Grudzielanek G/S/vP 18/.402 6/1.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 486/333 .302/.346/.426/.772 .844/.739 .785 / 1/2 6/6
11.Guillen G/S/vP 9/.619 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 659/501 .290/.353/.460/.813 1.049/.741 .838 / 5/1 23/8
21.Olivo G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 469/367 .237/.262/.405/.667 .806/.629 .574 / 3/2 16/12
1.Pena G/S/vP 5/1.000 5/1.200 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 536/396 .267/.284/.356/.640 .638/.640 .505 / 5/6 2/23
24.Teahen* G/S/vP 9/.536 6/.000 ··· 2/2.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 608/432 .285/.353/.410/.763 .672/.799 .699 / 13/5 7/6
IP 193.2 73.1 68.0 2.2 52.1 38.2 TOTAL .257/.309/.353/.662 .638/.668 .647 .662 11/5 5/3
ERA-K/9 4.32/5.3 5.15/6.0 /0.0 3.84/7.0 6.75/10.0 4.47/6.2 3.96/9.8 4.39/6.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 839/.268 321/.288 / 304/.298 13/.200 221/.232 168/.269 .276  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 .758 .769 .787 .985 .611 .772 .800
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 219/.592 147/.764 / 97/.918 5/2.800 108/.482 59/.734 .779
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 620/.817 174/.773 / 207/.730 8/.125 113/.730 109/.793 .824
Home 481/.785 129/.680 / 138/.763 13/.985 114/.625 81/.871 .806
Last 28d days / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 23/6/5 6/1/2 // 2/0/4 1/1/0 1/2/2 4/0/2 15/12/5
Usage ····X··· X······· o··o·X·· ·XX·o·o· ··oo···o X··o··oo ····oX··

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

Seattle Mariners Batters (4.69 RS/G) vs. Kansas City Royals Pitchers (2.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Greinke
G/S/vB
41.Gobble*
G/S/vB
32.Mahay*
G/S/vB
91.Nomo
G/S/vB
46.Nunez
G/S/vB
56.Ramirez
G/S/vB
48.Soria
G/S/vB
27.Yabuta
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
29.Beltre G/S/vP 7/.829 1/2.000 2/1.000 7/.286 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 639/500 .276/.319/.482/.802 .882/.780 .745 / 14/2 26/18
5.Betancourt G/S/vP 4/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 559/438 .289/.308/.418/.725 .916/.673 .754 / 5/4 9/23
16.Bloomquist G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 188/140 .277/.321/.329/.650 .700/.634 .693 / 7/5 2/5
15.Burke G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 129/98 .301/.363/.398/.761 .797/.751 .864 / 0/1 1/1
13.Cairo G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 2/1.000 8/.393 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 193/127 .253/.303/.328/.631 .624/.634 .694 / 10/2 0/6
28.Ibanez* G/S/vP 10/1.400 11/.955 16/.321 9/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 636/466 .291/.351/.480/.831 .650/.899 .748 / 0/0 21/6
2.Johjima G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 513/404 .287/.322/.433/.755 .877/.721 .740 / 0/2 14/2
4.Lopez G/S/vP 4/1.250 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 561/429 .252/.284/.355/.639 .629/.642 .610 / 2/3 11/9
12.Morse G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/13 .444/.500/.556/1.056 1.429/.825 1.003 / 0/0 0/0
10.Norton# G/S/vP 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 6/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 240/214 .243/.358/.347/.705 .530/.727 .669 / 1/1 4/0
44.Sexson G/S/vP 8/.500 4/.500 3/3.500 25/.950 ··· ··· ··· ··· 491/371 .205/.295/.399/.694 .752/.675 .681 / 1/0 21/2
51.Suzuki* G/S/vP 10/.600 8/1.625 13/.795 13/.917 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 736/548 .351/.396/.431/.827 .787/.841 .855 / 37/8 6/1
3.Vidro# G/S/vP 5/1.000 5/.400 3/1.667 16/.971 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 625/473 .314/.381/.394/.775 .761/.779 .800 / 0/0 6/1
6.Wilkerson* G/S/vP 6/.500 5/.400 ··· 7/.750 4/.250 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 389/280 .234/.319/.467/.786 .859/.757 .887 / 4/1 20/5
IP 122.0 53.2 67.0 43.2 17.1 69.0 TOTAL .255/.336/.414/.750 .755/.749 .825 .750 6/4 15/12
ERA-K/9 3.69/7.8 3.02/8.4 2.55/7.4 /0.0 3.92/7.6 8.31/7.8 2.48/9.8 /0.0 2.58/6.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Burke (23-5-3)
 Johjima (46-40-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 507/.265 233/.277 281/.218 / 182/.259 78/.313 270/.187 / .234  Ibanez
 Suzuki
 Wilkerson
 Norton
 Bloomquist
 Morse
 Cairo
131/0/0/10
0/155/0/8
36/1/19/2
3/0/6/1
13/7/4/0
0/0/1/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .747 .810 .664 .756 .891 .510 .651
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 258/.752 127/.724 117/.542 / 77/.919 32/.624 106/.446 / .681
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 249/.741 106/.909 164/.755 / 105/.643 46/1.053 164/.550 / .623
Road 226/.721 119/.892 133/.677 / 88/.860 33/.429 140/.537 / .661
Last 28d days / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 12/7/3 6/2/1 4/1/3 // 8/5/0 2/3/0 3/0/0 // 10/4/1
Usage ····X··· ····o··o ·X···X·X ···X···· ·o···o·o ·oo··o·· ·····o·o ··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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