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Game Preview: KCR @ CLE, 7:05pm, Saturday, September 25, 2010 @Jacobs Field

Royals, 63-90, 63-90 4th, 29 GB, 28½ GB in WC

SP: Zack Greinke (26, RHP, 9-13, 4.00)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2010 (9-13)			209.1	204	105	93	53	167	17	4.00
2009 (16-8)			229.1	195	64	55	51	242	11	2.16
2008 (13-10)			202.1	202	87	78	56	183	21	3.47

Last 7 GS		2-2	49.1	47	23	22	19	32	2	4.01	53
2010-09-20	@DET	L	6.0	8	6	5	2	3	1	112	35
2010-09-14	OAK	W	7.0	6	3	3	4	5	0	106	54
2010-09-08	@MIN	L	8.0	5	4	4	3	4	1	115	57
2010-09-03	DET	ND	6.1	6	4	4	2	3	0	105	46
2010-08-28	@CLE	ND	8.0	8	3	3	4	4	0	111	54
2010-08-22	CHW	ND	8.0	9	2	2	1	9	0	120	64
2010-08-17	CLE	W	6.0	5	1	1	3	4	0	105	59

Last 5 v.CLE		3-0	35.0	30	10	10	10	37	1	2.57	62
2010-08-28	@CLE	ND	8.0	8	3	3	4	4	0	111	54
2010-08-17	CLE	W	6.0	5	1	1	3	4	0	105	59
2010-05-13	CLE	W	6.0	8	3	3	2	8	0	112	50
2009-09-11	@CLE	ND	7.0	4	1	1	0	6	0	102	71
2009-08-25	CLE	W	8.0	5	2	2	1	15	1	117	78

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

 Home:   34-40   Road:   29-50   ExtrInn:10-7 
 vsRHP:  51-66   vsLHP:  12-24   1-Run:  26-29
 vsEast: 15-16   vsCntrl:27-40   vsWest: 13-24 IL: 8-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
153 Fri, Sep 24  @CLE  L   3-7       63-90  4th 29.0 gb
152 Thu, Sep 23  @CLE  W   4-2       63-89  4th 29.0 gb
151 Wed, Sep 22  @DET  L   2-4       62-89  4th 29.5 gb
150 Tue, Sep 21  @DET  W   9-6       62-88  4th 28.5 gb
149 Mon, Sep 20  @DET  L   5-7       61-88  5th 28.5 gb
148 Sun, Sep 19   CLE  W   6-4       61-87  5th 27.5 gb
147 Sat, Sep 18   CLE  L   4-6       60-87  5th 28.5 gb
146 Fri, Sep 17   CLE  L   4-11      60-86  5th 27.5 gb
145 Wed, Sep 15   OAK  W   6-3       60-85  4th 27.0 gb
144 Tue, Sep 14   OAK  W  11-3       59-85  4th 27.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19

Indians, 63-91, 63-91 5th, 29½ GB, 29 GB in WC

SP: Jeanmar Gomez (22, RHP, 3-5, 4.96)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2010 (3-5)			52.2	67	35	29	18	29	7	4.96

Last 7 GS		1-5	35.1	53	30	26	13	20	6	6.62	37
2010-09-20	@MIN	L	5.2	10	8	8	3	5	2	102	19
2010-09-15	LAA	L	3.0	7	7	6	3	1	0	58	17
2010-09-05	@SEA	L	6.0	7	2	2	0	3	1	102	53
2010-08-28	KCR	ND	5.2	6	2	2	2	4	1	95	51
2010-08-22	@DET	L	3.0	10	8	5	3	1	0	83	11
2010-08-17	@KCR	L	6.0	7	2	2	2	3	2	106	51
2010-08-12	BAL	W	6.0	6	1	1	0	3	0	88	59

Last 5 v.KCR		0-1	11.2	13	4	4	4	7	3	3.09	51
2010-08-28	KCR	ND	5.2	6	2	2	2	4	1	95	51
2010-08-17	@KCR	L	6.0	7	2	2	2	3	2	106	51

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

 Home:   33-43   Road:   30-48   ExtrInn: 6-6 
 vsRHP:  46-64   vsLHP:  17-27   1-Run:  22-20
 vsEast: 17-24   vsCntrl:28-36   vsWest: 13-18 IL: 5-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
154 Fri, Sep 24   KCR  W   7-3       63-91  5th 29.5 gb
153 Thu, Sep 23   KCR  L   2-4       62-91  5th 30.5 gb
152 Wed, Sep 22  @MIN  L   1-5       62-90  5th 30.0 gb
151 Tue, Sep 21  @MIN  L   4-6       62-89  5th 29.0 gb
150 Mon, Sep 20  @MIN  L   3-9       62-88  4th 28.0 gb
149 Sun, Sep 19  @KCR  L   4-6       62-87  4th 27.0 gb
148 Sat, Sep 18  @KCR  W   6-4       62-86  4th 27.0 gb
147 Fri, Sep 17  @KCR  W  11-4       61-86  4th 27.0 gb
146 Thu, Sep 16   LAA  W   3-2 (11)  60-86  5th 28.0 gb
145 Wed, Sep 15   LAA  L   0-7       59-86  5th 28.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 CLE  7  KCR  3        W:Josh Tomlin (5-4), L: Luke Hochevar (6-6), S: none
Thu, Sep 23, 2010 KCR  4 @CLE  2        W:Sean O'Sullivan (3-6), L: Mitch Talbot (9-13), S: Joakim Soria (41)
Sun, Sep 19, 2010 KCR  6  CLE  4        W:Luke Hochevar (6-5), L: Josh Tomlin (4-4), S: Joakim Soria (39)
Sat, Sep 18, 2010 CLE  6 @KCR  4        W:Joe Smith (2-2), L: Sean O'Sullivan (2-6), S: Chris Perez (21)
Fri, Sep 17, 2010 CLE 11 @KCR  4        W:Carlos Carrasco (1-0), L: Kyle Davies (8-10), S: none
Sun, Aug 29, 2010 KCR  6 @CLE  2        W:Bruce Chen (9-7), L: Fausto Carmona (11-13), S: none
Sat, Aug 28, 2010 CLE  4  KCR  3 (10)   W:Chris Perez (2-2), L: Jesse Chavez (5-4), S: none
Fri, Aug 27, 2010 CLE 15  KCR  4        W:Josh Tomlin (2-3), L: Bryan Bullington (1-3), S: none
Thu, Aug 19, 2010 CLE  7 @KCR  3        W:Rafael Perez (4-0), L: Blake Wood (1-3), S: Chris Perez (15)
Wed, Aug 18, 2010 KCR  9  CLE  7        W:Bruce Chen (8-6), L: Fausto Carmona (11-11), S: Joakim Soria (35)
Season Series: 2010 - tied 8-8; 2009 - CLE won 10-8; 2008 - CLE won 10-8; All-Time - CLE leads 281-272

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 5.33

ARI 4.47

SEA 3.16

RA/G

SDP 3.59

COL 4.37

PIT 5.41

J. Hamilton .361

A. Huff .285

B. Wood .152

OBP

J. Morneau .437

G. Blanco .360

B. Wood .181

SLG

J. Bautista .635

T. Hunter .467

B. Wood .217

OPS

J. Morneau 1.055

P. Burrell .819

B. Wood .398

ERA

J. Johnson 2.30

S. Marcum 3.77

K. Millwood 5.29

K/9IP

Y. Gallardo 9.71

M. Cain 7.06

K. Kendrick 4.15

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Royals Batters (4.17 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.72 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 58.Gomez
G/S/vB 39.Germano
G/S/vB 56.Herrmann
G/S/vB 50.Lewis
G/S/vB 54.Perez
G/S/vB 53.Perez*
G/S/vB 52.Pestano
G/S/vB 46.Sipp*
G/S/vB 38.Smith
G/S/vB 51.Talbot
G/S/vB 43.Tomlin
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

30.Aviles G/S/vP 3/.000 2/2.500 1/2.000 4/.500 3/.000 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 6/.834 7/.429 406/285 .304/.333/.403/.735 .653/.769 .689 89/.930 8/4 7/14

3.Betancourt G/S/vP 4/1.750 9/.444 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 5/.400 ··· 7/.429 2/.000 8/.500 7/.762 552/418 .261/.286/.410/.697 .769/.674 .717 98/.620 2/2 16/17

46.Betemit# G/S/vP 6/1.666 4/.000 3/.000 2/1.000 2/.500 5/1.000 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· 6/1.167 10/1.929 298/212 .314/.393/.540/.933 .954/.924 .837 103/.800 0/0 13/8

7.Blanco* G/S/vP 6/.334 3/1.667 4/2.500 1/.000 1/2.000 2/2.000 ··· 2/.500 2/1.000 3/1.167 10/.888 249/187 .276/.360/.355/.715 .456/.803 .694 86/.712 11/4 1/1

16.Butler G/S/vP 3/1.167 3/1.667 2/1.500 6/.733 6/2.000 5/.200 1/.000 2/.000 4/.250 9/1.778 7/.453 637/504 .318/.386/.473/.859 .739/.890 .834 100/1.020 0/0 15/6

1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 30/22 .296/.345/.444/.789 .375/.955 .670 30/.789 5/1 0/1

11.Fields G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 4/.250 1/.000 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 30/13 .276/.300/.379/.679 .882/.397 .846 30/.679 0/0 1/4

17.Getz* G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 1/3.000 4/1.000 ··· 5/.650 ··· 2/2.500 2/.500 248/196 .237/.302/.277/.579 .699/.548 .489 20/.649 15/2 0/4

4.Gordon* G/S/vP 6/.533 4/.500 2/.000 3/.333 4/.333 10/1.100 ··· 4/.333 ··· 5/1.800 8/.661 248/185 .224/.321/.364/.686 .767/.658 .687 84/.711 1/5 7/7

25.Ka'aihue* G/S/vP 6/1.100 1/2.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· 6/.167 9/.111 168/128 .193/.280/.320/.600 .645/.584 .592 82/.666 0/1 5/2

12.Maier* G/S/vP 5/1.600 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/.500 2/2.500 ··· 7/.953 ··· 7/.453 8/.250 408/327 .255/.327/.368/.695 .659/.704 .715 66/.657 2/2 5/5

22.May G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 27/19 .115/.148/.115/.264 .250/.269 .333 27/.264 0/0 0/0

26.Miller G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 45/20 .244/.311/.366/.677 .751/.583 .596 33/.812 1/0 1/1

27.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/1.500 ··· 5/.400 150/99 .267/.322/.356/.678 .530/.756 .719 75/.913 2/0 1/3

IP 52.2 31.1 43.0 33.1 60.2 58.2 1.0 61.0 36.1 152.1 68.0 TOTAL .275/.331/.398/.729 .700/.739 .712 .765 104/47 113/132

ERA-K/9

4.96/5.0

2.30/7.8

3.98/4.4

3.24/7.0

1.78/8.7

3.38/5.5

0.00/9.0

4.28/9.9

4.21/6.9

4.61/4.9

4.50/5.2

4.35/6.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
May (6-2-4)
Pena (23-11-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 241/.307 127/.170 182/.275 143/.225 252/.188 262/.299 4/.000 260/.224 156/.200 670/.279 276/.253 .269 Blanco
Maier
Gordon
Dyson
Betemit
Miller 8/65/0/4
7/65/41/4
47/0/3/2
0/7/0/1
2/0/0/0
3/0/12/0

OPS .843 .601 .784 .643 .598 .749 .250 .790 .667 .773 .749 .761

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 135/.754 61/.585 94/.941 55/.759 113/.784 116/.743 2/.500 117/.821 45/.952 327/.745 155/.675 .775

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 106/.958 66/.615 88/.619 88/.566 139/.452 146/.753 2/.000 143/.765 111/.557 343/.796 121/.846 .749

Home 115/.697 70/.646 88/.727 53/.409 137/.538 118/.723 4/.250 134/.807 61/.573 382/.864 130/.763

Last 28d days 73/.978 60/.767 35/.680 28/.396 30/.349 36/1.111 4/.250 50/.741 30/.533 81/.804 129/.709

HR/SB/CS 7/6/4 5/1/1 6/2/2 1/0/0 4/7/0 3/5/1 0/0/0 12/8/6 4/6/1 13/4/10 9/2/3 142/116/54

Usage ····X··· ·X····X· ····o·oX ··o··o·o ······X· ···X··X· ·X······ ·X·oo··X ····o·X· ·X······ X····X··

Indians Batters (3.94 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (5.30 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 23.Greinke
G/S/vB 41.Bullington
G/S/vB 57.Chavez
G/S/vB 52.Chen*
G/S/vB 56.Holland
G/S/vB 31.Hughes*
G/S/vB 59.Humber
G/S/vB 37.O'Sullivan
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

23.Brantley* G/S/vP 10/.500 4/.500 3/.000 4/1.500 3/.000 4/1.167 ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 2/.500 2/.500 299/236 .236/.284/.302/.586 .428/.628 .641 110/.577 10/2 3/2

35.Brown* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 80/72 .224/.263/.276/.539 .625/.529 .523 47/.478 0/0 0/0

13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 34/1.188 4/.250 3/5.000 8/1.000 3/1.000 3/1.000 ··· 2/1.000 4/.500 3/1.334 4/1.167 399/276 .268/.317/.338/.655 .642/.661 .677 95/.510 5/4 3/11

26.Carlin# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/0

17.Choo* G/S/vP 34/.761 4/2.500 3/.333 9/.730 3/2.667 4/.250 ··· 5/.400 7/.762 3/2.500 3/2.000 617/410 .294/.397/.473/.870 .680/.971 .939 115/.923 21/6 20/4

4.Crowe# G/S/vP 12/.455 4/.833 1/.000 4/.000 3/.666 2/1.500 1/3.000 3/1.334 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 446/342 .255/.308/.341/.648 .486/.698 .667 64/.700 18/6 2/5

16.Donald G/S/vP 6/.334 3/.666 1/.000 4/2.250 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 2/.000 325/243 .253/.312/.378/.690 .833/.643 .662 39/.542 5/1 4/12

47.Duncan G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 6/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/.650 2/.000 1/.000 4/.500 244/154 .230/.311/.410/.722 .911/.609 .864 58/.779 0/0 10/0

8.Gimenez G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.500 ··· 6/.500 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/2.500 ··· 64/44 .182/.286/.327/.613 .703/.572 .906 25/.422 0/0 1/1

48.Hafner* G/S/vP 44/.921 4/2.500 1/no AB 10/1.000 2/3.000 4/1.500 ··· 5/.400 13/.558 1/.000 ··· 441/333 .277/.372/.441/.813 .714/.846 .929 81/.829 2/1 11/0

7.LaPorta G/S/vP 15/.696 2/2.500 1/.000 5/.400 3/.666 ··· 1/no AB 4/1.833 3/.000 2/.500 2/2.000 401/288 .220/.307/.356/.663 .664/.661 .637 65/.538 0/0 11/3

30.Marson G/S/vP 10/.311 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 284/208 .197/.273/.291/.564 .772/.489 .534 67/.697 8/1 3/4

25.Marte G/S/vP 8/.875 ··· ··· 6/1.167 1/no AB 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 2/1.500 175/115 .229/.303/.389/.691 .772/.649 .677 40/.811 0/3 5/11

12.Nix G/S/vP 17/.294 4/1.500 2/.000 9/1.125 3/1.666 4/.500 ··· 7/.715 1/2.000 2/.000 2/2.500 336/244 .229/.288/.412/.700 .714/.695 .812 85/.564 1/2 14/15

33.Sutton# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 36/31 .273/.333/.394/.727 1.400/.608 .616 33/.570 0/0 1/0

1.Valbuena* G/S/vP 17/.791 1/2.000 2/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/1.167 6/1.133 ··· 2/.000 282/238 .181/.268/.246/.514 .891/.446 .361 64/.626 1/2 2/10

IP 209.1 40.1 59.1 124.2 16.2 51.0 19.0 71.2 62.2 61.1 46.2 TOTAL .247/.320/.374/.695 .679/.700 .700 .656 86/31 119/124

ERA-K/9

4.00/7.2

6.47/5.8

6.07/6.5

4.69/6.4

7.56/9.2

4.24/4.8

4.26/7.1

6.28/4.9

1.58/9.9

4.84/4.8

5.40/5.0

5.06/6.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Carlin (1-0-0)
Gimenez (21-10-1)
Marson (47-30-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 871/.256 185/.307 266/.281 550/.270 80/.324 231/.283 84/.276 317/.285 257/.211 277/.304 211/.300 .279 Choo
Crowe
Duncan
Nix
Brown
Brantley
Gimenez
Valbuena
LaPorta 0/0/136/13
43/66/2/9
38/0/8/7
2/0/1/1
6/0/0/1
7/58/0/0
1/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
7/0/0/0

OPS .685 .872 .847 .776 .914 .750 .636 .836 .561 .777 .835 .784

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 473/.765 99/.959 110/.896 148/.804 38/.910 102/.700 38/.630 181/.814 145/.565 130/.797 107/.862 .792

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 398/.593 86/.772 156/.813 402/.765 42/.917 129/.787 46/.641 136/.865 112/.557 147/.759 104/.806 .778

Road 432/.636 64/.890 149/.822 277/.709 40/.950 115/.763 39/.785 207/.822 106/.609 141/.782 84/1.004

Last 28d days 115/.640 48/.966 42/.870 124/.722 21/.857 25/.633 37/.606 110/1.026 32/.192 / 42/.986

HR/SB/CS 17/9/10 6/7/4 11/1/1 17/5/7 3/1/0 3/2/1 0/2/0 15/14/1 4/0/1 3/4/3 6/10/3 171/130/54

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

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.