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Game Preview: KCR @ LAA, 3:35pm, Sunday, May 10, 2009 @Angel Stadium

Royals, 18-13, 1st, 1 up

SP: Kyle Davies (25, RHP, 2-1, 5.88)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. ANA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-1) 33.2 36 22 22 16 25 6 5.88
2008 (9-7) 113.0 121 57 51 43 71 10 4.06
2007 (7-15) 136.0 155 102 92 70 99 22 6.09
Last 7 GS 3-1 39.2 40 23 23 18 33 6 5.22 47
2009-05-05 CHW ND 4.0 8 6 6 3 2 2 95 21
2009-04-30 TOR W 5.2 7 3 3 3 0 1 89 40
2009-04-25 DET L 5.1 8 7 7 2 2 2 86 24
2009-04-19 @TEX ND 6.0 3 3 3 5 8 1 111 57
2009-04-14 CLE W 5.2 7 3 3 1 5 0 98 47
2009-04-09 @CHW ND 7.0 3 0 0 2 8 0 103 77
2008-09-26 @MIN W 6.0 4 1 1 2 8 0 101 66
Has never faced ANA.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-6    Road:    7-7    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:  10-7    vsLHP:   8-6    1-Run:   2-5 
 vsEast:  4-3    vsCntrl:10-7    vsWest:  4-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 31 Sat, May  9  @LAA  L   0-1       18-13  1st  1.0 up
 30 Fri, May  8  @LAA  L   1-4       18-12  1st  2.0 up
 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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12
Angels, 15-14, 2nd, ½ GB, 3 GB in WC

SP: Shane Loux (29, RHP, 2-2, 4.30)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (2-2) 29.1 36 14 14 9 11 1 4.30
2008 (0-0) 16.0 16 6 5 2 4 1 2.81
2003 (1-1) 30.1 37 24 24 12 8 4 7.12
Last 7 GS 3-3 37.2 46 21 21 12 12 2 5.02 44
2009-05-05 @OAK W 7.0 5 1 1 1 3 0 99 65
2009-04-29 @BAL W 6.0 5 1 1 2 3 0 97 59
2009-04-24 SEA L 4.0 11 7 7 3 1 1 84 10
2009-04-19 @MIN L 7.0 10 3 3 0 2 0 95 47
2009-04-14 @SEA ND 5.1 5 2 2 3 2 0 80 49
2003-09-24 @KCR W 5.0 3 1 1 1 1 0 66 57
2003-09-17 TOR L 3.1 7 6 6 2 0 1 63 20
Last 5 v.KCR 1-1 9.0 8 7 6 4 2 2 6.00 43
2003-09-24 @KCR W 5.0 3 1 1 1 1 0 66 57
2002-09-24 @KCR L 4.0 5 6 5 3 1 2 91 28
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-7    Road:    6-7    ExtrInn: 0-1 
 vsRHP:  10-9    vsLHP:   5-5    1-Run:   4-4 
 vsEast:  6-4    vsCntrl: 4-4    vsWest:  5-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Sat, May  9   KCR  W   1-0       15-14  2nd  0.5 gb
 28 Fri, May  8   KCR  W   4-1       14-14  2nd  1.5 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
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:15-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, May 09, 2009 LAA  1  KCR  0        W:Joe Saunders (5-1), L: Zack Greinke (6-1), S: none
Fri, May 08, 2009 LAA  4  KCR  1        W:Matt Palmer (3-0), L: Gil Meche (2-3), S: Brian Fuentes (8)

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)
Season Series: 2009 - LAA leads 2-0; 2008 - LAA won 3-2; 2007 - KCR won 5-2; All-Time - Tied 253-253

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  6.03

WSN  4.90

SFG  3.52

 RA/G

KCR  3.71

TBR  4.69

NYY  6.33

 BA

  

  

  

 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .51

R. Ohlendorf  4.14

J. Moyer  7.26

 K/9IP

J. Santana  12.24

S. Richmond  6.81

J. Pineiro  2.98

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Royals Batters (4.61 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (5.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 68.Loux
G/S/vB		 66.Arredondo
G/S/vB		 52.Bulger
G/S/vB		 40.Fuentes*
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 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 105/61 .202/.223/.283/.506 .544/.480 .430 83/.517 1/0 1/4
8.Bloomquist G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 5/1.100 6/.000 68/27 .368/.439/.509/.948 1.130/.680 1.114 58/1.096 4/1 1/1
14.Buck G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 2/.500 67/46 .233/.299/.500/.799 .778/.806 .457 59/.694 0/0 3/3
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB 112/59 .286/.375/.429/.804 .790/.816 .510 93/.913 0/0 2/0
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/.650 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 110/70 .343/.400/.535/.935 1.000/.894 1.028 97/.971 0/0 2/1
2.Crisp# G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.900 ··· ··· 12/.432 5/.400 138/82 .232/.360/.429/.789 .777/.797 .788 112/.783 7/2 2/2
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/.858 3/.666 123/69 .234/.289/.378/.668 .454/.850 .643 97/.715 0/1 3/0
11.Guillen G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/1.600 12/.818 ··· ··· 10/1.278 6/.533 74/42 .274/.392/.452/.844 .827/.853 .823 60/.937 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 ··· ··· ··· 6/.167 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 109/66 .245/.321/.469/.790 .535/.959 .633 90/.840 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 70/33 .227/.261/.364/.625 .875/.345 .779 56/.657 0/1 2/0
24.Teahen* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 3/1.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 3/.000 128/70 .295/.383/.455/.838 .751/.912 .874 104/.842 1/0 4/0
IP 29.1 13.2 10.0 10.2 10.1 12.2 11.0 9.2 11.0 TOTAL .258/.337/.420/.758 .761/.755 .716 .796 17/5 29/17
ERA-K/9 4.30/3.4 5.27/12.5 9.00/8.1 5.91/12.6 1.74/6.1 9.24/5.0 4.91/2.5 9.31/3.7 8.18/9.0 4.69/5.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 126/.313 56/.288 47/.300 50/.295 42/.256 62/.345 54/.360 47/.229 51/.273 .274
OPS .765 .635 .858 .744 .626 1.046 .909 .784 .827 .742
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 68/.787 30/.678 19/1.286 17/.494 14/.857 38/.867 27/1.004 22/.641 23/1.128 .779
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 58/.739 26/.588 28/.571 33/.873 28/.499 24/1.318 27/.813 25/.929 28/.577 .710
Home 25/1.242 28/.679 32/.665 30/.753 12/1.053 34/1.248 28/.786 28/.583 33/.894
Last 28d days 126/.765 43/.585 41/.876 33/.678 37/.507 62/1.046 54/.909 29/1.071 47/.783
HR/SB/CS 1/2/3 0/1/1 2/0/0 1/0/1 0/0/1 4/1/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 2/1/0 28/20/10
Usage ····X··· ·X···o·o ···X···o ·o··oo·· ·X··o··· ···X···· ···X···· ····o··o ···X····
Angels Batters (4.97 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 28.Davies
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 8/1.089 3/.666 8/1.232 10/.900 30/.724 3/.333 7/.715 40/1.259 122/88 .309/.369/.355/.723 .627/.761 .651 95/.751 12/0 0/2
2.Aybar# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.667 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· 4/1.417 74/51 .292/.314/.385/.699 .668/.713 .601 59/.791 0/1 0/3
9.Figgins# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 5/.400 13/.398 6/.500 4/.000 11/.473 12/.667 128/91 .262/.362/.318/.680 .528/.742 .596 100/.630 12/2 0/4
48.Hunter G/S/vP 11/1.273 ··· 12/.614 7/.453 7/.858 6/.666 2/1.000 10/1.000 119/88 .302/.361/.594/.956 .904/.976 .877 98/1.003 2/1 8/0
13.Izturis# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/.000 5/1.200 2/1.000 ··· 9/.777 4/1.417 77/62 .278/.303/.319/.622 .664/.645 .832 70/.627 3/0 0/2
47.Kendrick G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.500 2/1.000 ··· ··· 6/.334 7/.572 112/80 .255/.282/.434/.716 .688/.727 .970 84/.686 4/0 4/2
5.Mathis G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 48/30 .238/.304/.262/.566 .399/.677 .755 37/.445 0/0 0/1
24.Matthews# G/S/vP 3/1.334 5/1.600 3/2.000 5/.650 5/.800 1/.000 3/2.500 14/.453 73/53 .273/.315/.364/.679 .578/.717 .685 65/.691 0/0 0/1
19.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 5/.650 111/89 .279/.324/.529/.853 .273/1.005 .930 87/.877 0/1 5/1
44.Napoli G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.833 2/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 3/.000 3/2.500 88/68 .329/.443/.616/1.060 1.475/.941 1.197 76/.937 2/3 5/1
39.Quinlan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 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 ··· 5/.650 4/.250 7/.953 6/1.333 ··· 6/.666 4/.500 94/70 .281/.319/.371/.690 1.154/.529 .696 75/.747 0/0 1/0
77.Willits# G/S/vP ··· ··· 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 33.2 13.1 10.1 10.0 11.2 8.2 10.2 18.2 TOTAL .280/.337/.416/.753 .704/.772 .794 .751 35/8 24/20
ERA-K/9 5.88/6.7 2.03/6.8 6.10/8.7 4.50/11.7 7.71/6.9 2.08/10.3 1.69/13.5 1.45/6.7 3.49/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 148/.279 51/.159 46/.286 47/.326 54/.340 39/.229 49/.194 66/.210 .251
OPS .814 .525 .800 .873 .989 .565 .638 .596 .692
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 57/.534 23/.503 20/.639 20/.932 26/.629 24/.500 25/.511 30/.545 .654
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 91/.984 28/.539 26/.923 27/.824 28/1.340 15/.673 24/.697 36/.639 .727
Road 51/.464 19/.649 21/1.013 20/.929 21/.736 24/.477 12/.643 23/.488
Last 28d days 123/.917 42/.648 37/.688 43/.922 32/.810 27/.662 38/.742 60/.624
HR/SB/CS 6/6/0 1/0/1 2/1/1 1/0/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 0/2/0 2/0/0 22/21/4
Usage ····X··· ··X·X··X ·X·X···· ·oo·X··X ···o··X· ··X···XX ····X··· ····X·oX

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.