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Game Preview: CLE @ KCR, 8:10pm, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @Kauffman Stadium

Indians, 12-18, 12-184th, 7½ GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Fausto Carmona (26, RHP, 3-1, 3.86)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (3-1) 39.2 34 17 17 18 17 2 3.86
2009 (5-12) 125.1 151 97 88 70 79 16 6.32
2008 (8-7) 120.2 126 80 73 70 58 7 5.44
Last 7 GS 4-1 46.2 39 18 18 20 22 2 3.47 54
2010-05-05 TOR ND 6.1 7 2 2 4 2 0 96 49
2010-04-30 MIN L 6.0 8 6 6 2 2 1 101 32
2010-04-24 @OAK W 7.1 7 1 1 0 4 0 103 64
2010-04-18 CHW W 6.0 6 3 3 2 4 0 96 50
2010-04-12 TEX ND 8.0 5 2 2 4 4 0 111 64
2010-04-07 @CHW W 6.0 1 3 3 6 1 1 109 53
2009-09-30 CHW W 7.0 5 1 1 2 5 0 103 66
Last 5 v.KCR 2-2 30.1 34 19 19 15 18 2 5.64 44
2009-05-20 @KCR ND 6.0 6 4 4 4 3 0 107 43
2009-04-13 @KCR L 5.0 5 4 4 4 3 1 106 40
2008-09-13 KCR L 6.1 11 7 7 3 2 0 96 22
2008-04-24 @KCR W 5.0 9 4 4 4 1 1 98 30
2007-09-15 KCR W 8.0 3 0 0 0 9 0 103 85
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-8    Road:    6-10   ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   8-12   vsLHP:   4-6    1-Run:   3-3 
 vsEast:  0-3    vsCntrl: 9-9    vsWest:  3-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 30 Tue, May 11  @KCR  W   8-2       12-18  4th  7.5 gb
 29 Sun, May  9   DET  W   7-4       11-18  4th  8.5 gb
 28 Sat, May  8   DET  L   4-6       10-18  4th  8.5 gb
 27 Wed, May  5   TOR  L   4-5       10-17  5th  8.5 gb
 26 Tue, May  4   TOR  L   5-8       10-16  5th  7.5 gb
 25 Mon, May  3   TOR  L   1-5       10-15  4th  6.5 gb
 24 Sun, May  2   MIN  L   3-8       10-14  3rd  5.5 gb
 23 Sat, May  1   MIN  W   5-4 (11)  10-13  3rd  4.5 gb
 22 Fri, Apr 30   MIN  L   3-9        9-13  3rd  5.5 gb
 21 Wed, Apr 28  @LAA  L   3-4        9-12  3rd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18
Royals, 11-22, 11-225th, 10 GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Kyle Davies (26, RHP, 2-1, 5.45)

2010 Gamelogs / 2010 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2010 (2-1) 34.2 32 21 21 17 25 4 5.45
2009 (8-9) 123.0 122 76 72 66 86 18 5.27
2008 (9-7) 113.0 121 57 51 43 71 10 4.06
Last 7 GS 3-1 40.2 33 21 21 23 28 4 4.65 50
2010-05-06 @TEX ND 4.0 9 9 9 3 2 1 100 7
2010-05-01 @TBR ND 6.0 3 2 2 5 6 0 110 59
2010-04-26 SEA W 6.0 1 0 0 3 5 0 108 72
2010-04-20 @TOR L 6.0 6 4 4 2 4 1 86 46
2010-04-14 @DET W 6.2 7 3 3 3 5 1 99 50
2010-04-09 BOS ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 1 89 50
2009-09-13 @CLE W 6.0 1 0 0 6 3 0 108 67
Last 5 v.CLE 3-2 22.1 26 16 16 15 13 3 6.45 41
2009-09-13 @CLE W 6.0 1 0 0 6 3 0 108 67
2009-04-14 CLE W 5.2 7 3 3 1 5 0 98 47
2008-05-31 CLE W 5.0 5 1 1 3 2 0 100 52
2007-09-28 CLE L 3.2 5 5 5 4 0 1 80 27
2007-08-25 CLE L 2.0 8 7 7 1 3 2 60 14
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-9    Road:    7-13   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  10-16   vsLHP:   1-6    1-Run:   5-8 
 vsEast:  4-6    vsCntrl: 6-10   vsWest:  1-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 33 Tue, May 11   CLE  L   2-8       11-22  5th 10.0 gb
 32 Sun, May  9  @TEX  L   4-6       11-21  5th 10.0 gb
 31 Sat, May  8  @TEX  L   2-3       11-20  5th  9.0 gb
 30 Fri, May  7  @TEX  L   1-4       11-19  5th  8.5 gb
 29 Thu, May  6  @TEX  L  12-13      11-18  4th  8.0 gb
 28 Wed, May  5  @CHW  L   2-9       11-17  4th  8.0 gb
 27 Tue, May  4  @CHW  W   7-2       11-16  3rd  7.0 gb
 26 Mon, May  3  @CHW  L   1-5       10-16  5th  7.0 gb
 25 Sun, May  2  @TBR  L   0-1       10-15  4th  6.0 gb
 24 Sat, May  1  @TBR  W   4-2 (11)  10-14  4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 11, 2010 CLE  8 @KCR  2        W:Jake Westbrook (1-2), L: Brian Bannister (1-3), S: none

Sun, Sep 13, 2009 KCR  7 @CLE  0        W:Kyle Davies (8-9), L: Carlos Carrasco (0-2), S: none
Sat, Sep 12, 2009 CLE 13  KCR  6        W:David Huff (10-7), L: Luke Hochevar (6-10), S: none
Fri, Sep 11, 2009 KCR  2 @CLE  1 (12)   W:Jamey Wright (2-5), L: Jose Veras (4-3), S: Joakim Soria (25)
Wed, Aug 26, 2009 CLE  4 @KCR  2        W:David Huff (8-7), L: Luke Hochevar (6-7), S: Kerry Wood (16)
Tue, Aug 25, 2009 KCR  6  CLE  2        W:Zack Greinke (12-8), L: Justin Masterson (4-5), S: none
Mon, Aug 24, 2009 CLE 10 @KCR  6        W:Jeremy Sowers (5-9), L: Joakim Soria (3-2), S: none
Thu, Jun 11, 2009 CLE  4  KCR  3 (10)   W:Matt Herges (2-0), L: Kyle Farnsworth (1-4), S: none
Wed, Jun 10, 2009 KCR  9 @CLE  0        W:Gil Meche (3-5), L: Carl Pavano (6-5), S: none
Tue, Jun 09, 2009 CLE  8  KCR  4        W:Rafael Perez (1-1), L: Juan Cruz (3-2), S: none
Season Series: 2010 - CLE leads 1-0; 2009 - CLE won 10-8; 2008 - CLE won 10-8; All-Time - CLE leads 274-264

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  5.87

SFG  4.58

HOU  2.84

 RA/G

TBR  3.06

HOU  4.66

PIT  6.24

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 OBP

  

  

  

 SLG

  

  

  

 OPS

  

  

  

 ERA

U. Jimenez  .93

K. Correia  3.97

D. Davis  7.56

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  11.93

R. Nolasco  6.75

N. Blackburn  2.04

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

Indians Batters (3.80 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (5.52 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Davies
G/S/vB		 56.Colon
G/S/vB		 37.Cruz
G/S/vB		 40.Farnsworth
G/S/vB		 31.Hughes*
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Brantley* G/S/vP 3/.667 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 36/28 .156/.229/.188/.416 .000/.546 .485 7/.143 0/0 0/0
33.Branyan* G/S/vP 8/1.071 4/1.833 10/.200 4/1.250 ··· 2/2.500 46/33 .250/.333/.475/.808 .385/.999 1.050 46/.808 0/0 2/0
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 10/.733 1/no AB 2/1.500 6/1.100 1/.000 2/1.000 125/80 .283/.325/.363/.688 .707/.677 .671 87/.790 1/2 1/4
17.Choo* G/S/vP 8/.393 2/.000 2/.500 3/1.167 1/.000 5/1.100 135/79 .310/.422/.469/.891 .780/.977 .658 99/.846 6/2 4/1
48.Hafner* G/S/vP 7/1.229 5/1.850 2/.000 5/.200 ··· 10/.600 111/67 .233/.360/.378/.738 .408/.971 .592 76/.762 0/0 3/0
35.Hernandez# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
7.LaPorta G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· 1/.000 80/51 .203/.263/.230/.492 .249/.626 .599 52/.397 0/0 0/0
30.Marson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 75/51 .191/.247/.250/.497 .668/.416 .453 56/.580 2/0 0/1
25.Marte G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 4/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 32/19 .208/.375/.417/.792 .585/.940 .768 28/.869 0/1 1/1
2.Peralta G/S/vP 15/1.223 5/.650 4/.250 7/.762 ··· 16/.867 114/73 .208/.316/.365/.680 .614/.714 .781 80/.702 1/0 2/2
52.Redmond G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/2.000 1/.000 3/.667 ··· 3/.333 36/28 .250/.314/.344/.658 .625/.667 .753 24/.729 0/0 0/0
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 14/.676 6/.933 5/.200 5/1.000 1/.000 6/1.417 124/73 .223/.290/.313/.603 .305/.811 .573 96/.535 4/1 0/0
1.Valbuena* G/S/vP 5/.000 ··· 1/3.000 4/.000 ··· 4/1.833 80/62 .167/.313/.303/.616 .889/.540 .713 53/.623 0/2 2/5
IP 34.2 2.0 5.1 13.1 12.1 13.0 TOTAL .245/.331/.358/.689 .570/.757 .693 .709 17/8 17/21
ERA-K/9 5.45/6.5 18.00/4.5 3.38/11.9 3.38/7.4 4.38/4.4 4.15/15.2 5.21/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Marson (12-6-1)
 Redmond (12-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 148/.250 14/.455 28/.391 60/.278 55/.244 56/.255 .275  Choo
 LaPorta
 Brantley
 Sizemore
0/0/30/3
4/0/0/0
7/2/0/0
0/28/0/0
OPS .768 1.208 .960 .739 .749 .820 .809
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 64/.780 5/.650 11/.899 30/.737 29/.814 27/.970 .811
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 84/.751 9/1.524 17/1.000 30/.741 26/.678 29/.676 .808
Home 46/.525 11/.920 18/.686 23/.848 36/.665 26/.840
Last 28d days 95/.712 / 4/1.417 44/.751 39/.646 41/.845
HR/SB/CS 4/4/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 1/2/1 2/0/0 4/0/0 36/36/10
Usage ·····X·· ········ ········ ····o··· X······X X····o··
Royals Batters (4.06 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.87 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Carmona
G/S/vB		 50.Lewis
G/S/vB		 54.Perez
G/S/vB		 53.Perez*
G/S/vB		 33.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 51.Talbot
G/S/vB		 37.Westbrook
G/S/vB		 34.Wood
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Anderson G/S/vP 1/.000 1/5.000 3/.333 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 3/1.000 / /// / / / /
24.Ankiel* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 69/50 .210/.275/.419/.695 .217/.876 .961 34/.539 1/0 3/2
30.Aviles G/S/vP 10/.600 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 28/22 .429/.429/.679/1.107 .000/1.409 1.000 27/1.148 0/1 2/0
3.Betancourt G/S/vP 4/.000 2/.000 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 11/.819 1/2.000 119/92 .283/.308/.372/.679 .798/.646 .661 84/.667 0/1 2/3
8.Bloomquist G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/1.000 4/.250 37/22 .114/.162/.143/.305 .343/.279 .000 29/.392 3/0 0/2
16.Butler G/S/vP 20/.739 5/.200 3/2.334 3/.333 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 6/.900 4/.000 142/113 .331/.366/.454/.820 .936/.793 .842 102/.821 0/0 3/2
13.Callaspo# G/S/vP 10/1.029 6/.367 3/.333 4/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.334 4/.250 139/107 .300/.338/.477/.815 .607/.876 .804 102/.869 2/0 5/3
9.DeJesus* G/S/vP 31/.972 5/.200 2/.000 8/1.000 1/2.000 3/1.667 ··· 30/.800 7/1.572 143/104 .258/.331/.461/.792 .664/.839 .915 103/.764 2/1 4/0
11.Fields G/S/vP 13/.321 4/.250 1/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 6/.167 2/.000 / /// / / / /
17.Getz* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/3.000 2/2.000 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 58/44 .189/.246/.189/.434 .993/.278 .511 25/.367 5/1 0/1
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 18/1.306 3/.333 2/.500 6/1.500 1/no AB ··· ··· 6/.583 ··· 38/35 .194/.342/.323/.665 2.333/.493 .611 38/.665 0/1 1/4
6.Guillen G/S/vP 9/1.444 3/.000 4/.500 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 17/.489 138/105 .260/.312/.512/.823 .670/.871 .673 99/.646 1/0 8/0
18.Kendall G/S/vP 6/.334 2/1.000 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 19/.369 45/.402 128/99 .281/.354/.342/.696 .923/.631 .615 91/.610 2/1 0/4
12.Maier* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 4/.000 74/63 .246/.356/.377/.733 .717/.736 .846 64/.801 0/0 0/0
27.Pena# G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 9/9 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 8/.000 0/0 0/1
22.Podsednik* G/S/vP 12/.500 2/.500 ··· 3/.666 3/.333 1/no AB ··· 40/.398 21/.929 140/105 .314/.368/.413/.782 .726/.802 .679 97/.685 11/2 2/1
IP 39.2 10.1 10.1 7.1 13.0 7.0 39.1 37.1 1.0 TOTAL .271/.327/.410/.737 .703/.747 .732 .708 27/8 30/28
ERA-K/9 3.86/3.9 2.61/7.9 2.61/5.2 7.36/6.2 2.08/10.4 7.71/6.4 3.43/3.7 5.06/5.5 18.00/9.0 4.22/5.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kendall (34-10-0)
 Pena (2-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 165/.234 47/.211 50/.220 40/.469 52/.163 33/.269 160/.246 170/.283 7/.400 .267  DeJesus
 Maier
 Ankiel
 Podsednik
 Guillen
 Bloomquist
1/0/31/2
5/18/1/1
0/17/0/1
31/1/0/0
0/0/2/0
0/2/2/0
OPS .638 .625 .692 1.146 .564 1.099 .725 .799 1.171 .761
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 82/.510 17/.437 17/1.279 15/1.005 23/.685 11/.739 72/.542 73/.579 2/.500 .720
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 83/.776 30/.733 33/.426 25/1.240 29/.466 22/1.262 88/.852 97/.960 5/1.350 .791
Road 53/.503 31/.582 25/.700 29/.869 24/.514 26/1.240 71/.657 122/.795 /
Last 28d days 108/.683 28/.747 31/.547 29/1.144 34/.465 20/1.274 136/.686 118/.737 7/1.171
HR/SB/CS 2/9/1 0/0/0 1/2/0 0/0/0 1/1/1 2/0/0 5/1/3 4/4/1 0/0/0 27/24/7
Usage ······X· ·······X ··X···X· ·······o ··XX··o· ········ ··X····· 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.