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Game Preview: KCR @ ATL, 7:35pm, Friday, June 18, 2010 @Turner Field

Royals, 29-38, 29-384th, 9½ GB, 9½ GB in WC

SP: Brian Bannister (29, RHP, 6-4, 5.40)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2010 (6-4)			75.0	86	47	45	23	45	14	5.40
2009 (7-12)			154.0	161	94	81	50	98	15	4.73
2008 (9-16)			182.2	215	127	117	58	113	29	5.76

Last 7 GS		5-2	41.0	51	28	26	9	26	8	5.71	44
2010-06-12	@CIN	L	3.0	10	11	9	2	2	3	77	-1
2010-06-06	DET	W	7.1	5	2	2	1	5	0	98	64
2010-06-01	LAA	W	5.1	7	3	3	1	3	1	92	44
2010-05-27	@BOS	W	6.0	9	3	3	0	4	1	104	46
2010-05-21	COL	W	7.1	7	2	2	1	4	1	102	59
2010-05-16	CHW	W	6.0	7	3	3	1	2	1	86	47
2010-05-11	CLE	L	6.0	6	4	4	3	6	1	96	47

Has never faced ATL as starter.

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   14-19   Road:   15-19   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  26-29   vsLHP:   3-9    1-Run:   9-13
 vsEast:  7-9    vsCntrl:14-15   vsWest:  3-10 IL: 5-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 67 Thu, Jun 17   HOU  W   5-2       29-38  4th  9.5 gb
 66 Wed, Jun 16   HOU  L   2-4       28-38  4th 10.5 gb
 65 Tue, Jun 15   HOU  W  15-7       28-37  4th  9.5 gb
 64 Sun, Jun 13  @CIN  W   7-3       27-37  4th  9.5 gb
 63 Sat, Jun 12  @CIN  L   5-11      26-37  4th 10.5 gb
 62 Fri, Jun 11  @CIN  W   6-5 (11)  26-36  4th 10.5 gb
 61 Thu, Jun 10  @MIN  W   9-8       25-36  4th 10.5 gb
 60 Wed, Jun  9  @MIN  L   2-6       24-36  4th 11.5 gb
 59 Tue, Jun  8  @MIN  L   3-7       24-35  4th 10.5 gb
 58 Sun, Jun  6   DET  W   7-2       24-34  4th  9.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14

Braves, 39-28, 39-281st, ½ up

SP: Derek Lowe (37, RHP, 8-5, 4.81)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2010 (8-5)			82.1	83	46	44	35	48	6	4.81
2009 (15-10)			194.2	232	109	101	63	111	16	4.67
2008 (14-11)			211.0	194	84	76	45	147	14	3.24

Last 7 GS		4-2	44.1	39	18	18	16	25	1	3.65	53
2010-06-12	@MIN	ND	7.1	6	2	2	3	4	0	97	59
2010-06-07	@ARI	L	4.0	8	7	7	2	2	1	96	18
2010-06-02	PHI	W	8.0	6	1	1	1	7	0	119	72
2010-05-28	PIT	W	7.0	4	1	1	1	2	0	87	66
2010-05-22	@PIT	W	5.0	5	2	2	4	5	0	99	50
2010-05-17	NYM	L	7.0	4	3	3	3	3	0	93	57
2010-05-12	@MIL	W	6.0	6	2	2	2	2	0	87	52

Last 5 v.KCR		1-2	27.0	26	24	15	12	13	3	5.00	43
2005-06-16	@KCR	L	5.2	9	8	3	0	1	0	81	30
2004-06-06	@KCR	W	5.0	3	3	2	1	4	1	84	54
2004-05-09	KCR	L	5.2	5	6	4	5	3	0	103	37
2003-05-05	@KCR	ND	3.2	7	5	4	3	3	2	80	29
2003-04-30	KCR	ND	7.0	2	2	2	3	2	0	96	64

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   21-7    Road:   18-21   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  28-17   vsLHP:  11-11   1-Run:  11-11
 vsEast:  9-11   vsCntrl:15-6    vsWest: 11-9  IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 67 Thu, Jun 17   TBR  W   3-1       39-28  1st  0.5 up
 66 Wed, Jun 16   TBR  W   6-2       38-28  1st  0.5 up
 65 Tue, Jun 15   TBR  L   4-10      37-28  1st  0.5 up
 64 Sun, Jun 13  @MIN  W   7-3       37-27  1st  1.5 up
 63 Sat, Jun 12  @MIN  W   3-2       36-27  1st  1.5 up
 62 Fri, Jun 11  @MIN  L   1-2       35-27  1st  1.5 up
 61 Thu, Jun 10  @ARI  W  11-7       35-26  1st  2.5 up
 60 Wed, Jun  9  @ARI  L   1-2       34-26  1st  1.5 up
 59 Tue, Jun  8  @ARI  W   7-5       34-25  1st  2.0 up
 58 Mon, Jun  7  @ARI  L   4-7       33-25  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:21-9

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 17, 2004 KCR 10 @ATL  4        W:Darrell May (4-8), L: John Thomson (5-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 16, 2004 KCR 10 @ATL  4        W:Jaime Cerda (1-1), L: Chris Reitsma (3-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 15, 2004 ATL  3  KCR  2        W:Chris Reitsma (3-1), L: Jason Grimsley (3-3), S: John Smoltz (10)
Season Series: 2010 -  0-0; 2009 -  0-0; 2008 -  0-0; All-Time - KCR leads 2-1

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 2010 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

NYY 5.56

COL 4.55

PIT 3.24

RA/G

SDP 3.30

TEX 4.41

ARI 5.82

R. Cano .372

J. Cantu .276

A. Ramirez .168

OBP

J. Morneau .445

C. Blake .350

A. Ramirez .232

SLG

M. Cabrera .647

B. Hawpe .450

C. Izturis .244

OPS

M. Cabrera 1.058

A. LaRoche .803

A. Ramirez .517

ERA

U. Jimenez 1.15

C. Pavano 3.92

K. Davies 6.01

K/9IP

B. Morrow 10.29

K. Slowey 6.60

N. Blackburn 2.66

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Royals Batters (4.58 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 32.Lowe
G/S/vB 43.Chavez
G/S/vB 11.Kawakami
G/S/vB 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB 50.Martinez
G/S/vB 54.Medlen
G/S/vB 58.Moylan
G/S/vB 34.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB 39.Venters*
G/S/vB 13.Wagner*
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

30.Aviles G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 147/116 .317/.340/.408/.749 .437/.827 .825 78/.619 0/2 2/6

3.Betancourt G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 242/196 .276/.304/.417/.721 .888/.683 .747 84/.802 0/1 5/7

46.Betemit# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 7/.810 16/13 .429/.500/1.071/1.571 4.000/1.135 2.100 16/1.571 0/0 2/0

8.Bloomquist G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 69/41 .194/.250/.355/.605 .875/.432 .402 31/.963 4/2 2/2

16.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 286/237 .339/.392/.494/.886 .796/.904 .894 101/.928 0/0 6/3

13.Callaspo# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 277/214 .268/.296/.433/.729 .677/.754 .725 97/.478 3/0 7/3

9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 6/.900 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 284/215 .324/.397/.480/.877 .738/.921 .833 96/1.073 3/3 5/0

17.Getz* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 98/79 .195/.278/.207/.485 .938/.383 .365 36/.567 6/1 0/2

6.Guillen G/S/vP 17/.423 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/.340 282/227 .266/.335/.480/.815 .700/.842 .852 102/.744 1/0 13/0

18.Kendall G/S/vP 18/.686 7/1.350 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 18/.683 256/212 .266/.329/.319/.648 .857/.604 .587 93/.583 5/6 0/8

12.Maier* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 191/157 .265/.349/.373/.723 .778/.709 .755 76/.803 0/1 2/1

27.Pena# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 23/17 .158/.261/.211/.471 .333/.525 .481 10/1.071 1/0 0/1

22.Podsednik* G/S/vP 7/.971 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 7/.143 283/220 .287/.335/.363/.697 .649/.712 .726 97/.639 19/6 3/2

IP 82.1 23.1 73.1 7.1 4.2 61.1 26.1 25.2 30.0 26.1 TOTAL .279/.335/.412/.748 .744/.749 .739 .756 43/23 51/51

ERA-K/9

4.81/5.2

7.33/8.5

4.42/6.1

1.23/16.0

3.86/9.6

3.23/6.5

3.42/8.9

2.10/7.7

1.50/9.9

1.37/13.3

3.71/7.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Kendall (57-18-2)
Pena (2-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 352/.270 103/.269 323/.276 35/.148 17/.176 242/.267 120/.273 102/.220 126/.183 105/.165 .244 DeJesus
Maier
Bloomquist
Podsednik
Guillen 1/4/59/4
5/48/1/3
4/4/6/1
62/1/0/0
0/0/7/0

OPS .742 .843 .816 .565 .529 .716 .743 .605 .541 .537 .699

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 170/.743 37/.997 149/.853 16/.517 5/.400 113/.704 38/1.041 49/.512 47/.456 23/.224 .717

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 182/.741 66/.758 174/.785 19/.588 12/.583 129/.727 82/.622 53/.692 79/.592 82/.626 .684

Home 175/.668 43/.685 121/.751 17/.371 / 86/.761 34/.720 44/.578 68/.561 46/.496

Last 28d days 130/.683 24/.725 132/.792 17/.435 17/.529 125/.775 51/.859 35/.863 58/.519 43/.367

HR/SB/CS 6/3/7 5/0/0 9/5/2 0/3/0 1/0/0 8/2/0 1/7/1 1/0/0 0/1/0 2/0/0 51/38/17

Usage ·····X·· ········ ··X····· ··X····· ·······X ····X··· ·o···o·o ·····o·· XX··Xo·X o····X·X

Braves Batters (4.85 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (5.07 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 19.Bannister
G/S/vB 52.Chen*
G/S/vB 40.Farnsworth
G/S/vB 31.Hughes*
G/S/vB 47.Marte
G/S/vB 48.Soria
G/S/vB 53.Texeira
G/S/vB 38.Wood
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

1.Blanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/13 .467/.556/.533/1.089 1.100/1.084 1.548 18/1.089 1/0 0/0

53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 6/.533 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 5/.800 ··· ··· 219/147 .249/.308/.325/.633 .624/.638 .565 86/.792 3/1 2/2

26.Conrad# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 60/50 .259/.310/.519/.829 .311/.933 .571 28/.615 3/0 3/1

19.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 225/166 .250/.354/.302/.656 .712/.637 .558 107/.795 5/0 0/7

25.Glaus G/S/vP 6/.334 5/.000 7/.453 ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· 274/191 .286/.380/.496/.875 1.009/.820 .925 107/1.016 0/0 13/5

22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 274/189 .266/.383/.489/.872 .735/.936 .870 121/.718 4/4 11/4

18.Hicks G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/4 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 4/.000 0/0 0/0

20.Hinske* G/S/vP 5/.650 6/.666 5/1.400 ··· ··· 5/1.400 ··· ··· 139/129 .315/.381/.565/.946 .633/.970 .998 67/.867 0/0 5/1

4.Infante G/S/vP 3/.333 9/.333 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 148/103 .314/.351/.387/.738 .542/.821 .936 56/.748 3/1 1/7

10.Jones# G/S/vP ··· 7/.858 15/1.534 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 217/146 .234/.378/.366/.744 .780/.726 .878 72/.738 3/0 4/6

16.McCann* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 227/165 .263/.388/.414/.802 .643/.863 .767 79/.753 3/1 6/6

14.Prado G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 313/223 .337/.377/.467/.844 .777/.872 .948 120/.859 1/3 6/2

8.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 72/30 .293/.414/.379/.794 .817/.756 .969 35/1.056 0/1 0/1

IP 75.0 30.1 26.2 24.0 14.2 25.2 26.1 17.1 TOTAL .263/.352/.397/.749 .681/.778 .801 .781 32/13 54/57

ERA-K/9

5.40/5.4

4.15/9.2

2.36/7.4

3.38/6.0

3.68/4.3

2.81/11.6

4.10/6.8

3.12/2.6

4.82/6.7

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
McCann (31-12-2)
Ross (7-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 328/.284 135/.243 110/.242 107/.272 62/.228 107/.247 121/.267 65/.211 .270 Cabrera
Infante
Heyward
Blanco
Hinske 40/18/8/4
3/0/0/0
0/0/61/0
7/7/0/0
22/0/0/0

OPS .822 .684 .645 .781 .711 .711 .698 .577 .770

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 150/.720 46/.743 48/.824 51/.725 24/.619 54/.840 57/.718 29/.736 .789

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 178/.905 89/.654 62/.509 56/.829 38/.763 53/.576 64/.679 36/.459 .753

Road 147/.908 61/.762 59/.555 51/.801 31/.619 50/.830 65/.787 22/.673

Last 28d days 99/.901 102/.716 30/.563 35/.903 49/.712 38/.568 52/.780 43/.585

HR/SB/CS 14/8/4 1/2/0 2/2/2 3/1/1 3/0/0 4/0/0 0/1/0 1/1/1 72/59/18

Usage ·····X·· ·X·····X ·X····X· ·····Xo· o·X···X· XX····oX ··X··Xo· oo····Xo

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.