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Game Preview: KCR @ LAA, 10:05pm, Friday, May 8, 2009 @Angel Stadium

Royals, 18-11, 1st, 3 up

SP: Gil Meche (30, RHP, 2-2, 4.14)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-2) 37.0 38 18 17 11 30 0 4.14
2008 (14-11) 210.1 204 98 93 73 183 19 3.98
2007 (9-13) 216.0 218 98 88 62 156 22 3.67
Last 7 GS 3-2 43.0 45 20 18 14 37 0 3.77 52
2009-05-03 @MIN W 6.0 7 4 4 2 3 0 116 43
2009-04-28 TOR L 3.2 7 5 5 5 2 0 84 24
2009-04-23 @CLE L 7.1 5 4 3 0 7 0 113 61
2009-04-17 @TEX W 6.0 6 0 0 2 6 0 92 64
2009-04-12 NYY ND 7.0 6 4 4 2 6 0 100 53
2009-04-07 @CHW ND 7.0 7 1 1 0 6 0 91 65
2008-09-27 @MIN W 6.0 7 2 1 3 7 0 99 56
Has never faced ANA.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-6    Road:    7-5    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:  10-6    vsLHP:   8-5    1-Run:   2-4 
 vsEast:  4-3    vsCntrl:10-7    vsWest:  4-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Thu, May  7   SEA  W   3-1       18-11  1st  3.0 up
 28 Wed, May  6   SEA  W   9-1       17-11  1st  2.0 up
 27 Tue, May  5   CHW  W   8-7 (11)  16-11  1st  1.5 up
 26 Mon, May  4   CHW  W   3-0       15-11  1st  1.5 up
 25 Sun, May  3  @MIN  W   7-5       14-11  1st  0.5 up
 24 Sat, May  2  @MIN  W  10-7 (11)  13-11  1st  0.5 up
 23 Fri, May  1  @MIN  L   5-7       12-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 22 Thu, Apr 30   TOR  W   8-6       12-10  1st  0.5 up
 21 Wed, Apr 29   TOR  W  11-3       11-10  1st    Tied
 20 Tue, Apr 28   TOR  L   1-8       10-10  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-11
Angels, 13-14, 3rd, 1½ GB, 4 GB in WC

SP: Matt Palmer (30, RHP, 2-0, 3.65)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-0) 12.1 9 6 5 5 3 1 3.65
2008 (0-2) 12.2 17 13 12 13 3 1 8.53
Last 7 GS 2-2 25.0 26 19 17 18 6 2 6.12 40
2009-05-02 @NYY W 6.1 3 1 1 2 2 0 101 63
2009-04-23 DET W 6.0 6 5 4 3 1 1 100 40
2008-08-26 COL L 4.1 4 5 4 6 1 0 86 32
2008-08-21 FLA ND 6.0 6 2 2 3 2 1 100 51
2008-08-16 @ATL L 2.1 7 6 6 4 0 0 66 15
Has never faced KCR.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-7    Road:    6-7    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:   8-9    vsLHP:   5-5    1-Run:   3-4 
 vsEast:  6-4    vsCntrl: 2-4    vsWest:  5-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Thu, May  7   TOR  W   6-1       13-14  3rd  1.5 gb
 26 Wed, May  6   TOR  L   1-13      12-14  3rd  2.5 gb
 25 Tue, May  5  @OAK  W   5-3       12-13  3rd  2.0 gb
 24 Mon, May  4  @OAK  W   5-2       11-13  3rd  3.0 gb
 23 Sat, May  2  @NYY  W   8-4       10-13  3rd  3.5 gb
 22 Fri, May  1  @NYY  L   9-10       9-13  3rd  4.5 gb
 21 Thu, Apr 30  @NYY  L   4-7        9-12  3rd  3.5 gb
 20 Wed, Apr 29  @BAL  W   3-2        9-11  3rd  3.0 gb
 19 Tue, Apr 28  @BAL  W   7-5        8-11  3rd  4.0 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 26   SEA  W   8-0        7-11  4th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:13-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, May 07, 2008 KCR  9  LAA  4        W:Zack Greinke (4-1), L: Jered Weaver (2-5), S: none
Tue, May 06, 2008 LAA  5 @KCR  3        W:Darren Oliver (2-1), L: Brian Bannister (3-4), S: Francisco Rodriguez (14)
Mon, May 05, 2008 LAA  4 @KCR  0        W:Ervin Santana (6-0), L: Ramon Ramirez (0-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 17, 2008 LAA  5  KCR  3        W:Jon Garland (2-2), L: Brett Tomko (1-2), S: Francisco Rodriguez (6)
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 KCR  3 @LAA  2        W:Gil Meche (1-2), L: Jered Weaver (1-3), S: Joakim Soria (5)
Wed, Jun 27, 2007 KCR  1 @LAA  0        W:Jorge de la Rosa (5-9), L: Jered Weaver (6-4), S: Octavio Dotel (8)
Tue, Jun 26, 2007 KCR 12 @LAA  4        W:Gil Meche (5-6), L: Ervin Santana (5-8), S: none
Mon, Jun 25, 2007 KCR  5 @LAA  3        W:John Thomson (1-0), L: John Lackey (10-5), S: Octavio Dotel (7)
Thu, May 03, 2007 KCR  5  LAA  2        W:Gil Meche (3-1), L: Jered Weaver (1-3), S: Joakim Soria (5)
Wed, May 02, 2007 KCR  3  LAA  1        W:Jorge de la Rosa (3-2), L: Ervin Santana (2-4), S: Joakim Soria (4)
Season Series: 2009 -  0-0; 2008 - LAA won 3-2; 2007 - KCR won 5-2; All-Time - KCR leads 253-251

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 2009 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

TOR  6.13

CHC  4.89

ARI  3.62

 RA/G

KCR  3.79

CHC  4.68

NYY  6.36

 BA

  

  

  

 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .40

J. Peavy  4.27

C. Silva  8.48

 K/9IP

J. Santana  12.24

K. Davies  6.68

J. Pineiro  2.70

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

Royals Batters (4.90 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (5.41 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Palmer
G/S/vB		 66.Arredondo
G/S/vB		 52.Bulger
G/S/vB		 40.Fuentes*
G/S/vB		 68.Loux
G/S/vB		 38.Oliver*
G/S/vB		 49.Ortega
G/S/vB		 59.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 62.Shields
G/S/vB		 33.Speier
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
30.Aviles G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 100/59 .211/.232/.295/.527 .572/.496 .471 85/.522 1/0 1/4
8.Bloomquist G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/1.100 6/.000 64/27 .377/.452/.528/.980 1.210/.680 1.214 62/.979 4/1 1/1
14.Buck G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 2/.500 63/44 .250/.317/.536/.853 .868/.845 .526 59/.880 0/0 3/3
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB 104/56 .286/.375/.429/.804 .779/.824 .461 90/.885 0/0 2/0
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/.833 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 103/68 .359/.417/.565/.983 1.086/.923 1.167 98/.982 0/0 2/1
2.Crisp# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 5/1.100 ··· ··· 12/.432 5/.400 130/79 .238/.367/.448/.815 .818/.812 .845 112/.792 5/2 2/2
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/.858 3/.666 115/66 .250/.301/.404/.705 .501/.868 .716 97/.768 0/1 3/0
11.Guillen G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/1.600 1/.000 12/.818 ··· ··· 10/1.278 6/.533 66/38 .291/.409/.491/.900 .877/.914 .949 52/1.024 1/0 3/0
46.Hernandez# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/ .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/ 1/.000 0/0 0/0
17.Jacobs* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· 5/.200 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 105/64 .255/.333/.489/.823 .563/.991 .696 93/.868 0/0 5/2
35.Maier* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 33/28 .231/.394/.269/.663 1.800/.458 .298 33/.663 2/0 0/0
21.Olivo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 11/.282 4/.000 67/33 .222/.258/.365/.623 .895/.345 .792 56/.657 0/1 2/0
24.Teahen* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 3/.000 120/66 .298/.392/.471/.863 .771/.939 .940 102/.902 1/0 4/0
IP 12.1 12.2 10.0 9.2 29.1 8.2 12.2 11.0 9.2 11.0 TOTAL .265/.346/.437/.782 .796/.773 .767 .816 15/5 29/17
ERA-K/9 3.65/2.2 5.68/12.8 9.00/8.1 6.52/12.1 4.30/3.4 2.08/5.2 9.24/5.0 4.91/2.5 9.31/3.7 8.18/9.0 5.01/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 52/.196 53/.306 47/.300 47/.317 126/.313 35/.250 62/.345 54/.360 47/.229 51/.273 .282
OPS .571 .673 .858 .794 .765 .607 1.046 .909 .784 .827 .767
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 29/.498 29/.703 19/1.286 16/.527 68/.787 12/1.000 38/.867 27/1.004 22/.641 23/1.128 .807
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 23/.673 24/.638 28/.571 31/.933 58/.739 23/.377 24/1.318 27/.813 25/.929 28/.577 .732
Home 27/.708 25/.766 32/.665 27/.845 25/1.242 5/1.600 34/1.248 28/.786 28/.583 33/.894
Last 28d days 52/.571 45/.658 41/.876 36/.776 126/.765 30/.456 62/1.046 54/.909 35/1.000 51/.827
HR/SB/CS 1/3/0 0/1/1 2/0/0 1/0/1 1/2/3 0/0/1 4/1/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 2/1/0 28/18/10
Usage ·····X·· ···o·oX· ·X···o·o ··oo··X· ··X····· ··o····· ·X·····X ·X····X· ··o··o·o ·X·····o
Angels Batters (5.15 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.79 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Meche
G/S/vB		 37.Cruz
G/S/vB		 40.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 32.Mahay*
G/S/vB		 52.Ramirez*
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 51.Tejeda
G/S/vB		 34.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Abreu* G/S/vP 19/.688 3/.666 8/1.232 9/1.000 30/.724 3/.333 7/.715 40/1.259 115/82 .330/.391/.379/.770 .647/.821 .728 96/.780 12/0 0/2
2.Aybar# G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· 4/1.417 71/48 .286/.309/.365/.674 .668/.676 .542 60/.709 0/1 0/2
9.Figgins# G/S/vP 34/.715 1/.000 4/.500 13/.398 6/.500 4/.000 11/.473 12/.667 119/82 .280/.381/.340/.721 .528/.809 .668 100/.723 12/2 0/3
48.Hunter G/S/vP 27/.713 ··· 11/.673 7/.453 7/.858 6/.666 2/1.000 10/1.000 112/81 .313/.375/.626/1.001 .904/1.042 .957 95/1.072 2/1 8/0
13.Izturis# G/S/vP 8/.661 1/.000 4/.000 4/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 9/.777 4/1.417 70/56 .277/.304/.323/.627 .522/.680 .891 66/.667 3/0 0/2
47.Kendrick G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 2/no AB 2/1.000 ··· ··· 6/.334 7/.572 108/76 .245/.274/.392/.666 .688/.655 .893 89/.669 4/0 3/2
5.Mathis G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 44/26 .237/.310/.263/.573 .399/.708 .803 33/.437 0/0 0/1
24.Matthews# G/S/vP 15/.708 5/1.600 3/2.000 5/.650 5/.800 1/.000 3/2.500 14/.453 70/50 .270/.314/.349/.663 .578/.698 .657 66/.664 0/0 0/1
19.Morales# G/S/vP 7/.453 ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 5/.650 104/82 .276/.317/.531/.848 .273/1.011 .929 88/.849 0/1 5/1
44.Napoli G/S/vP 8/1.000 ··· 3/.333 2/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 3/.000 3/2.500 81/61 .328/.444/.642/1.086 1.475/.962 1.287 77/1.082 2/3 5/1
39.Quinlan G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· 3/.666 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 5/.000 17/3 .176/.176/.235/.412 .143/1.667 .875 17/.412 0/0 0/0
20.Rivera G/S/vP 13/1.238 5/.650 3/.333 7/.953 6/1.333 ··· 6/.666 4/.500 87/63 .280/.322/.366/.688 1.154/.507 .693 75/.677 0/0 1/0
77.Willits# G/S/vP 6/.200 ··· 2/1.000 4/.500 ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 7/.333 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/0
IP 37.0 13.1 8.1 9.2 11.2 8.2 10.2 18.2 TOTAL .283/.341/.420/.761 .702/.785 .814 .771 35/8 23/18
ERA-K/9 4.14/7.3 2.03/6.8 7.56/8.7 4.66/11.1 7.71/6.9 2.08/10.3 1.69/13.5 1.45/6.7 3.53/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 153/.270 51/.159 39/.314 45/.317 54/.340 39/.229 49/.194 66/.210 .252
OPS .668 .525 .899 .868 .989 .565 .638 .596 .695
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 76/.569 23/.503 18/.715 19/.982 26/.629 24/.500 25/.511 30/.545 .666
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 77/.768 28/.539 21/1.055 26/.776 28/1.340 15/.673 24/.697 36/.639 .722
Road 104/.599 19/.649 14/1.417 18/.922 21/.736 24/.477 12/.643 23/.488
Last 28d days 127/.687 45/.601 30/.790 41/.918 54/.989 30/.593 49/.638 60/.624
HR/SB/CS 0/7/0 1/0/1 2/1/1 1/0/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 0/2/0 2/0/0 21/21/4
Usage ····X··· X·X··X·o ·X····X· o·X··X·X ·o··X·o· X···XX·· ··X···X· ··X·oX·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.