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Game Preview: SEA @ KCR, 8:10pm, Wednesday, May 6, 2009 @Kauffman Stadium

Mariners, 15-12, 1st, ½ up

SP: Carlos Silva (30, RHP, 1-2, 7.36)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-2) 25.2 30 21 21 8 10 4 7.36
2008 (4-15) 153.1 213 114 110 32 69 20 6.46
2007 (13-14) 202.0 229 99 94 36 89 20 4.19
Last 7 GS 1-3 34.1 42 27 26 10 18 4 6.82 41
2009-05-01 OAK ND 3.2 6 6 6 4 3 0 81 24
2009-04-25 @LAA W 5.0 6 3 3 1 1 1 72 43
2009-04-19 DET L 5.0 6 4 4 1 0 0 94 38
2009-04-14 LAA ND 7.0 4 2 2 1 4 1 101 64
2009-04-08 @MIN L 5.0 8 6 6 1 2 2 98 28
2008-09-20 @OAK ND 3.1 4 4 3 2 4 0 59 40
2008-09-15 @KCR L 5.1 8 2 2 0 4 0 95 48
Last 5 v.KCR 2-2 27.1 36 12 12 1 18 3 3.95 49
2008-09-15 @KCR L 5.1 8 2 2 0 4 0 95 48
2008-07-13 @KCR ND 6.0 8 2 2 1 5 0 97 52
2007-09-12 @KCR L 2.0 5 3 3 0 2 0 45 36
2007-09-01 KCR W 6.0 8 3 3 0 4 1 102 48
2007-07-31 KCR W 8.0 7 2 2 0 3 2 99 63
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    7-7    Road:    8-5    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   8-11   vsLHP:   7-1    1-Run:   7-5 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl: 4-6    vsWest:  9-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 27 Tue, May  5   TEX  L   2-7 (10)  15-12  1st  0.5 up
 26 Mon, May  4   TEX  L   5-6       15-11  1st  1.5 up
 25 Sun, May  3   OAK  W   8-7 (15)  15-10  1st  2.5 up
 24 Sat, May  2   OAK  L   2-3       14-10  1st  2.5 up
 23 Fri, May  1   OAK  W   8-7       14-9   1st  3.5 up
 22 Wed, Apr 29  @CHW  L   3-6       13-9   1st  2.0 up
 21 Tue, Apr 28  @CHW  W   9-1       13-8   1st  2.5 up
 20 Tue, Apr 28  @CHW  L   1-2       12-8   1st  2.5 up
 19 Sun, Apr 26  @LAA  L   0-8       12-7   1st  3.5 up
 18 Sat, Apr 25  @LAA  W   9-8       12-6   1st  3.5 up
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-12
Royals, 16-11, 1st, 1½ up

SP: Sidney Ponson (32, RHP, 0-4, 7.16)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (0-4) 27.2 35 22 22 11 18 4 7.16
2008 (8-5) 135.2 170 89 76 48 58 14 5.04
2007 (2-5) 37.2 54 31 29 17 23 7 6.93
Last 7 GS 0-4 37.0 45 27 27 15 25 5 6.57 42
2009-05-01 @MIN L 4.1 9 7 7 1 1 2 76 17
2009-04-26 DET L 8.0 6 3 3 0 7 1 101 65
2009-04-21 @CLE L 3.1 8 6 6 4 2 1 80 18
2009-04-15 CLE ND 6.0 6 2 2 3 3 0 89 52
2009-04-10 NYY L 6.0 6 4 4 3 5 0 104 46
2008-09-28 @BOS ND 6.0 4 1 1 0 5 0 80 65
2008-09-13 TBR ND 3.1 6 4 4 4 2 1 82 30
Last 5 v.SEA 2-1 31.1 36 20 20 10 13 3 5.74 43
2008-09-06 @SEA W 6.0 5 3 3 1 1 1 66 50
2008-05-06 @SEA W 7.0 7 1 1 1 2 0 103 60
2006-07-18 SEA ND 6.2 5 4 4 3 5 1 99 50
2005-07-17 @SEA L 5.2 6 5 5 3 3 0 88 37
2004-08-03 SEA ND 6.0 13 7 7 2 2 1 104 18
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-6    Road:    7-5    ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:   9-6    vsLHP:   7-5    1-Run:   2-4 
 vsEast:  4-3    vsCntrl:10-7    vsWest:  2-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 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
 19 Mon, Apr 27   TOR  W   7-1       10-9   2nd  1.0 gb
 18 Sun, Apr 26   DET  L   2-3        9-9   2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:16-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Sep 18, 2008 KCR 12  SEA  0        W:Zack Greinke (12-10), L: Ryan Feierabend (1-4), S: none
Wed, Sep 17, 2008 KCR  5  SEA  2        W:Gil Meche (12-11), L: Roy Corcoran (5-2), S: Joakim Soria (40)
Tue, Sep 16, 2008 KCR  6  SEA  3        W:Brandon Duckworth (3-1), L: Brandon Morrow (2-4), S: Joakim Soria (39)
Mon, Sep 15, 2008 KCR  3  SEA  0        W:Kyle Davies (7-7), L: Carlos Silva (4-15), S: Joakim Soria (38)
Sun, Jul 13, 2008 SEA  4 @KCR  3        W:Sean Green (2-2), L: Joakim Soria (1-2), S: Brandon Morrow (9)
Sat, Jul 12, 2008 KCR  5  SEA  4        W:Horacio Ramirez (1-1), L: Brandon Morrow (1-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 11, 2008 KCR  3  SEA  1        W:Luke Hochevar (6-7), L: Felix Hernandez (6-6), S: Joakim Soria (25)
Tue, Apr 15, 2008 SEA 11  KCR  6        W:Miguel Batista (1-2), L: John Bale (0-3), S: none
Mon, Apr 14, 2008 KCR  5 @SEA  1        W:Zack Greinke (3-0), L: Jarrod Washburn (1-2), S: none
Wed, Jul 04, 2007 SEA  4 @KCR  0        W:Jarrod Washburn (8-6), L: Brian Bannister (5-5), S: J.J. Putz (24)
Season Series: 2009 -  0-0; 2008 - KCR won 7-2; 2007 - SEA won 6-3; All-Time - KCR leads 195-177

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  6.07

CHC  4.73

SFG  3.60

 RA/G

LAD  3.68

TOR  4.76

NYY  6.38

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 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

Z. Greinke  .40

A. Wainwright  4.08

S. Ponson  7.16

 K/9IP

J. Santana  12.11

K. Davies  6.68

J. Pineiro  2.70

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

Mariners Batters (4.37 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Ponson
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
25.Balentien G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 42/27 .342/.381/.474/.855 .921/.815 .882 38/.839 1/0 1/0
29.Beltre G/S/vP 15/.277 9/1.301 17/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 4/.750 6/.666 36/1.081 116/85 .209/.241/.282/.523 .540/.516 .687 104/.503 4/1 0/5
7.Betancourt G/S/vP 8/.750 2/1.000 2/2.000 4/.000 3/.666 2/.000 11/1.454 6/1.000 101/78 .286/.290/.378/.668 .870/.606 .819 90/.626 2/0 1/4
30.Branyan* G/S/vP 3/1.666 9/.222 4/1.250 1/no AB ··· ··· 3/.000 6/.333 89/60 .321/.393/.667/1.060 .940/1.120 1.120 77/1.117 1/0 7/0
3.Cedeno G/S/vP 7/1.833 3/.000 ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· ··· 4/.000 29/22 .154/.241/.308/.549 .452/.577 .343 25/.558 0/1 1/0
10.Chavez* G/S/vP 5/.200 7/.453 2/.500 1/.000 7/1.571 ··· 1/.000 11/.844 107/78 .293/.365/.337/.702 .641/.725 .652 93/.692 5/1 1/1
24.Griffey* G/S/vP 12/2.128 12/.533 9/.904 8/1.357 14/1.044 ··· ··· 19/1.726 77/61 .190/.338/.317/.655 .739/.636 .739 64/.611 0/0 2/0
21.Gutierrez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.250 2/1.500 5/1.000 2/.500 3/.666 94/71 .291/.378/.443/.821 1.065/.743 .645 81/.808 0/2 3/0
2.Johjima G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/1.500 2/1.000 ··· 9/.472 8/.500 39/25 .243/.263/.351/.615 .516/.667 .333 28/.795 0/0 1/1
32.Johnson G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/48 .216/.241/.314/.554 .000/.640 .536 55/.554 0/1 0/1
4.Lopez G/S/vP 16/.646 1/.000 4/.000 3/1.334 1/.000 1/.000 11/.899 5/1.400 110/83 .260/.303/.350/.653 .576/.678 .795 98/.621 0/1 2/2
51.Suzuki* G/S/vP 24/1.119 1/no AB 6/.334 16/.771 2/1.000 2/.000 13/1.356 8/.661 90/71 .291/.322/.395/.718 .485/.779 .644 90/.718 4/2 2/1
5.Sweeney G/S/vP 42/1.370 ··· 4/.000 6/.833 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 9/.583 60/32 .268/.317/.393/.710 .706/.713 .593 56/.762 0/0 1/1
IP 27.2 12.1 7.1 8.2 11.0 7.2 10.2 18.2 TOTAL .261/.315/.381/.696 .697/.696 .718 .692 17/9 22/18
ERA-K/9 7.16/5.8 2.19/5.9 8.59/8.6 5.19/11.4 8.18/6.5 1.17/10.5 1.69/13.5 1.45/6.7 3.72/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 127/.313 47/.150 34/.333 41/.316 52/.354 32/.200 49/.194 66/.210 .251
OPS .867 .527 .978 .841 1.029 .483 .638 .596 .698
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 74/1.129 22/.432 16/.813 18/1.039 25/.655 21/.476 25/.511 30/.545 .658
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 53/.528 25/.610 18/1.125 23/.681 27/1.394 11/.495 24/.697 36/.639 .737
Home 83/.634 28/.450 20/.683 23/.776 31/1.234 8/.500 37/.627 43/.656
Last 28d days 127/.867 41/.611 28/.774 41/.841 52/1.029 29/.535 49/.638 66/.596
HR/SB/CS 4/1/0 1/0/1 2/1/1 1/0/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 0/2/0 2/0/0 21/20/4
Usage ····X··· X··X·oX· ····X··X X··X·X·o ··X·o··X ··XX···· X···X··X X·oX·Xo·
Royals Batters (4.81 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (4.22 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Silva
G/S/vB		 53.Aardsma
G/S/vB		 43.Batista
G/S/vB		 41.Jakubauskas
G/S/vB		 23.Kelley
G/S/vB		 57.Lowe
G/S/vB		 46.White
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
30.Aviles G/S/vP 6/1.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 97/59 .207/.229/.293/.523 .564/.496 .566 90/.493 1/0 1/3
8.Bloomquist G/S/vP 12/.750 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 56/25 .378/.463/.556/1.019 1.340/.652 .816 56/1.019 4/1 1/1
14.Buck G/S/vP 15/1.186 2/1.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 2/no AB 63/44 .250/.317/.536/.853 .868/.845 1.117 63/.853 0/0 3/3
16.Butler G/S/vP 9/.555 2/1.500 4/.250 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 95/53 .253/.347/.398/.745 .762/.733 1.035 87/.819 0/0 2/0
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 98/66 .379/.439/.598/1.036 1.188/.955 .946 98/1.036 0/0 2/1
2.Crisp# G/S/vP 22/.619 ··· 13/1.007 ··· ··· 4/.833 ··· 126/78 .235/.363/.441/.804 .804/.804 .766 117/.817 4/2 2/2
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 34/.704 1/2.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 106/63 .237/.286/.381/.667 .453/.821 .615 97/.711 0/1 3/0
11.Guillen G/S/vP 22/.909 1/2.000 12/.417 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 58/35 .306/.414/.531/.944 1.085/.848 .939 49/1.059 1/0 3/0
46.Hernandez# G/S/vP 5/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· / /// / / / /
17.Jacobs* G/S/vP 5/.800 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 97/62 .241/.320/.483/.802 .536/.957 .887 89/.844 0/0 5/2
35.Maier* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 29/27 .174/.345/.217/.562 1.500/.476 .830 29/.562 2/0 0/0
21.Olivo G/S/vP 5/1.200 2/2.500 6/.400 ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/31 .211/.250/.368/.618 .881/.368 .460 52/.617 0/1 2/0
24.Teahen* G/S/vP 23/.739 2/.000 5/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 111/63 .292/.387/.448/.835 .786/.873 .751 102/.811 1/0 3/0
IP 25.2 12.1 14.0 25.0 11.2 11.2 11.1 TOTAL .257/.339/.433/.772 .807/.749 .776 .788 14/5 28/15
ERA-K/9 7.36/3.5 2.19/8.0 2.57/7.1 5.76/4.0 1.54/8.5 3.86/8.5 0.79/1.6 3.79/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 115/.288 52/.163 66/.263 106/.268 45/.262 53/.306 46/.175 .249
OPS .889 .550 .687 .703 .725 .746 .558 .685
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 65/1.061 26/.487 32/.665 46/.827 19/.632 21/1.026 20/.483 .732
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 50/.671 26/.620 34/.708 60/.612 26/.802 32/.557 26/.591 .654
Road 46/1.021 21/.607 22/.652 44/.380 19/.930 18/.789 8/.661
Last 28d days 91/.826 49/.588 60/.653 99/.709 45/.725 50/.793 46/.558
HR/SB/CS 4/1/1 1/1/0 0/3/0 1/0/1 2/0/0 0/2/0 1/1/2 19/14/8
Usage ····X··· X·oX··X· ··X·X··· ··X····X ··X·X·X· o·oX··X· ·XX·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.