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Game Preview: KCR @ LAA, 10:05pm, Friday, June 10, 2011 @Angel Stadium

Royals, 27-36, 27-36 4th, 8½ GB, 7½ GB in WC

SP: Jeff Francis (30, LHP, 2-6, 4.52)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (2-6) 81.2 96 44 41 17 40 8 4.52
2010 (4-6) 104.1 119 61 58 23 67 11 5.00
2008 (4-10) 143.2 164 84 80 49 94 21 5.01
Last 7 GS 2-3 47.2 50 23 22 13 23 4 4.15 50
2011-06-05 MIN L 7.0 6 4 4 2 1 0 102 48
2011-05-31 LAA W 7.0 8 3 3 2 2 0 114 49
2011-05-26 @BAL ND 6.0 9 5 5 1 4 2 97 37
2011-05-20 STL W 7.2 6 0 0 2 6 0 94 71
2011-05-14 @DET L 8.0 7 3 3 1 4 0 112 59
2011-05-08 OAK L 6.1 8 3 2 1 2 1 106 48
2011-05-03 BAL ND 5.2 6 5 5 4 4 1 110 37
Last 5 v.LAA 1-0 27.0 29 9 9 6 13 1 3.00 54
2011-05-31 LAA W 7.0 8 3 3 2 2 0 114 49
2011-04-01 LAA ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 4 1 99 66
2010-06-25 @LAA ND 6.1 7 3 3 1 3 0 95 49
2006-06-28 @LAA ND 6.2 9 2 2 2 4 0 112 50
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-20   Road:    6-16   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  20-27   vsLHP:   7-9    1-Run:  13-10
 vsEast:  6-7    vsCntrl: 9-16   vsWest: 11-11 IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 63 Thu, Jun  9   TOR  W   3-2       27-36  4th  8.5 gb
 62 Wed, Jun  8   TOR  L   8-9       26-36  4th  9.0 gb
 61 Tue, Jun  7   TOR  L   5-8       26-35  4th  9.0 gb
 60 Mon, Jun  6   TOR  W   3-2 (11)  26-34  4th  8.0 gb
 59 Sun, Jun  5   MIN  L   0-6       25-34  4th  9.0 gb
 58 Sat, Jun  4   MIN  L   2-7       25-33  4th  9.0 gb
 57 Fri, Jun  3   MIN  L   2-5       25-32  4th  9.0 gb
 56 Thu, Jun  2   MIN  L   2-8       25-31  4th  9.0 gb
 55 Wed, Jun  1   LAA  W   2-0       25-30  4th  9.0 gb
 54 Tue, May 31   LAA  W   7-3       24-30  4th  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30: 9-21
Angels, 30-34, 30-34 3rd, 5 GB, 5 GB in WC

SP: Ervin Santana (28, RHP, 3-5, 4.30)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (3-5) 83.2 82 43 40 24 69 12 4.30
2010 (17-10) 222.2 221 104 97 73 169 27 3.92
2009 (8-8) 139.2 159 83 78 47 107 24 5.03
Last 7 GS 2-2 45.0 40 19 19 14 36 8 3.80 55
2011-06-04 NYY L 7.0 7 3 3 3 3 2 112 51
2011-05-30 @KCR ND 6.0 7 6 6 4 5 2 114 35
2011-05-25 OAK W 6.0 6 1 1 2 6 0 117 60
2011-05-20 ATL W 9.0 4 0 0 0 7 0 103 86
2011-05-15 @TEX ND 7.0 8 4 4 1 3 2 110 47
2011-05-09 CHW L 6.0 8 5 5 3 5 2 103 38
2011-05-04 @BOS ND 4.0 0 0 0 1 7 0 61 68
Last 5 v.KCR 2-1 34.1 34 17 17 9 24 3 4.46 52
2011-05-30 @KCR ND 6.0 7 6 6 4 5 2 114 35
2011-04-02 @KCR ND 6.2 7 3 3 2 6 0 94 52
2010-08-09 KCR W 6.1 6 3 3 1 3 1 95 51
2010-07-03 KCR L 8.1 7 4 4 2 4 0 114 55
2010-05-31 @KCR W 7.0 7 1 1 0 6 0 101 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-18   Road:   16-16   ExtrInn: 4-9 
 vsRHP:  21-21   vsLHP:   9-13   1-Run:  10-15
 vsEast:  9-13   vsCntrl:12-10   vsWest:  7-10 IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 64 Wed, Jun  8   TBR  L   3-4 (10)  30-34  3rd  5.5 gb
 63 Tue, Jun  7   TBR  L   1-4       30-33  3rd  4.5 gb
 62 Mon, Jun  6   TBR  L   1-5       30-32  3rd  4.5 gb
 61 Sun, Jun  5   NYY  L   3-5       30-31  3rd  4.5 gb
 60 Sat, Jun  4   NYY  L   2-3       30-30  3rd  3.5 gb
 59 Fri, Jun  3   NYY  W   3-2       30-29  3rd  2.5 gb
 58 Wed, Jun  1  @KCR  L   0-2       29-29  3rd  2.0 gb
 57 Tue, May 31  @KCR  L   3-7       29-28  3rd  1.0 gb
 56 Mon, May 30  @KCR  W  10-8       29-27  2nd  1.0 gb
 55 Sun, May 29  @MIN  W   6-5       28-27  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:11-19

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 01, 2011 KCR  2  LAA  0        W:Tim Collins (3-2), L: Scott Downs (3-2), S: none
Tue, May 31, 2011 KCR  7  LAA  3        W:Jeff Francis (2-5), L: Joel Pineiro (2-2), S: none
Mon, May 30, 2011 LAA 10 @KCR  8        W:Kevin Jepsen (1-2), L: Joakim Soria (3-3), S: Fernando Rodney (3)
Sun, Apr 03, 2011 KCR 12  LAA  9 (13)   W:Tim Collins (1-0), L: Jason Bulger (0-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 02, 2011 KCR  5  LAA  4        W:Aaron Crow (1-0), L: Kevin Jepsen (0-1), S: Joakim Soria (1)
Fri, Apr 01, 2011 KCR  2  LAA  1        W:Joakim Soria (1-0), L: Michael Kohn (0-1), S: none
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 LAA  4 @KCR  2        W:Jered Weaver (1-0), L: Luke Hochevar (0-1), S: Fernando Rodney (1)

Wed, Aug 11, 2010 LAA  2  KCR  1 (10)   W:Brian Fuentes (4-1), L: Jesse Chavez (4-3), S: none
Tue, Aug 10, 2010 LAA  3  KCR  1        W:Dan Haren (8-10), L: Bryan Bullington (0-2), S: Brian Fuentes (23)
Mon, Aug 09, 2010 LAA  6  KCR  4        W:Ervin Santana (11-8), L: Sean O'Sullivan (1-3), S: Brian Fuentes (22)
Season Series: 2011 - KCR over 5-2; 2010 - LAA won 7-3; 2009 - LAA won 9-1; All-Time - LAA leads 269-262

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 2011 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  5.10

CHC  4.08

SDP  3.47

 RA/G

ATL  3.27

LAD  4.13

KCR  5.11

 BA

J. Bautista  .345

C. Lee  .262

D. Uggla  .170

 OBP

J. Bautista  .498

E. Aybar  .335

C. Figgins  .232

 SLG

J. Bautista  .711

F. Freeman  .411

A. Escobar  .243

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.209

C. Santana  .748

C. Figgins  .478

 ERA

J. Jurrjens  1.82

J. Guthrie  3.71

R. Dempster  5.96

 K/9IP

C. Lee  10.34

A. Burnett  6.72

C. Pavano  3.48

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

Royals Batters (4.43 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (3.84 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Santana
G/S/vB		 22.Bell
G/S/vB		 37.Downs*
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 56.Rodney
G/S/vB		 21.Takahashi*
G/S/vB		 63.Thompson
G/S/vB		 51.Walden
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Aviles G/S/vP 7/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.750 6/1.667 1/3.000 1/.000 2/.500 184/129 .213/.257/.391/.647 .899/.543 .690 67/.419 10/2 5/8
24.Betemit# G/S/vP 19/.422 ··· 4/.833 1/.000 6/.500 1/.000 3/1.333 1/.000 201/155 .289/.348/.411/.759 .590/.811 .859 84/.639 3/1 2/5
16.Butler G/S/vP 32/.990 ··· 1/5.000 4/.833 8/.625 2/.500 2/3.500 1/.000 266/205 .301/.402/.429/.831 1.054/.769 .739 106/.816 1/1 5/0
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 16/.393 ··· 10/.944 4/1.417 5/1.200 8/.000 1/.000 2/.000 282/195 .269/.312/.435/.746 .617/.801 .824 111/.669 7/1 8/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 10/.733 3/.666 ··· 3/.333 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 1/.000 241/183 .212/.244/.243/.487 .593/.454 .469 91/.411 7/4 0/5
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 9/.236 ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 3/.333 2/4.500 4/.000 1/.000 266/203 .281/.323/.475/.799 1.053/.718 .773 105/.660 7/0 9/2
17.Getz* G/S/vP 19/.918 1/2.000 1/.000 6/.533 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 201/158 .241/.318/.294/.612 .623/.609 .638 65/.706 8/2 0/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 23/.824 ··· 4/1.833 5/.800 7/.619 3/1.334 1/.000 1/.000 280/191 .284/.351/.468/.819 .787/.834 .670 115/.811 5/2 7/1
12.Maier* G/S/vP 10/.400 ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.200 ··· ··· ··· 34/21 .321/.441/.464/.905 .748/1.006 .762 18/.764 0/0 0/0
27.Pena# G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 105/76 .237/.295/.376/.672 .656/.678 .734 43/.752 0/0 3/2
15.Treanor G/S/vP 9/.347 1/.000 1/.000 3/.666 2/no AB 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· 140/113 .216/.370/.297/.667 .844/.626 .536 52/.572 1/1 2/3
IP 83.2 15.0 18.1 12.1 22.0 24.2 27.0 27.1 TOTAL .260/.326/.394/.719 .745/.710 .696 .674 60/15 48/38
ERA-K/9 4.30/7.4 3.00/4.2 1.47/4.4 8.03/4.4 4.09/7.4 4.38/7.3 3.00/10.0 2.96/9.6 3.44/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (22-13-1)
 Treanor (24-12-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 352/.254 63/.276 73/.212 64/.358 100/.200 108/.284 112/.223 116/.218 .245  Cabrera
 Francoeur
 Gordon
 Maier
7/55/2/6
0/0/61/6
58/0/0/6
3/3/4/0
OPS .735 .816 .525 .954 .634 .815 .607 .601 .688
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 187/.729 32/.692 40/.518 31/.887 54/.745 52/.865 57/.636 70/.641 .709
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 165/.741 31/.941 33/.533 33/1.020 46/.505 56/.768 55/.576 46/.545 .661
Home 202/.689 32/.946 37/.388 24/.947 51/.515 39/.462 55/.463 59/.582
Last 28d days 145/.710 29/.881 41/.676 33/1.004 22/.367 40/.532 37/.753 41/.509
HR/SB/CS 12/10/1 1/0/2 1/0/0 2/1/0 1/3/0 4/3/0 2/3/1 0/6/0 52/55/16
Usage ·····X·· ····o··· ·o····X· ··X·o··· ·X······ ···Xo··· ··X··X·· ·o····X·
Angels Batters (3.73 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (5.11 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 26.Francis*
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 59.Paulino
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 38.Wood
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Abreu* G/S/vP 12/.000 1/.000 2/.000 12/.872 2/.000 272/180 .289/.402/.390/.793 .690/.847 .847 100/.895 10/2 2/0
2.Aybar# G/S/vP 7/1.000 2/1.000 2/2.000 6/.334 2/1.000 219/145 .296/.335/.412/.747 .586/.827 .664 108/.672 14/2 3/4
25.Bourjos G/S/vP 5/.400 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 238/164 .245/.302/.384/.686 .652/.702 .704 90/.528 8/4 3/2
39.Branyan* G/S/vP 3/1.334 1/.000 2/.000 6/1.166 2/1.500 95/87 .184/.242/.276/.518 .393/.529 .740 32/.254 1/0 1/0
6.Callaspo# G/S/vP 12/.334 1/.000 5/.400 1/2.000 ··· 249/168 .290/.361/.379/.741 .680/.771 .690 104/.696 1/0 3/7
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 124/113 .228/.290/.360/.650 .473/.667 .458 47/.422 0/0 3/3
48.Hunter G/S/vP 10/.550 1/.000 2/.000 14/.748 3/1.000 275/191 .238/.316/.385/.702 .603/.742 .751 106/.746 2/1 8/0
13.Izturis# G/S/vP 8/.500 1/.000 ··· 3/.833 3/.666 231/153 .292/.355/.411/.766 .919/.688 .682 96/.635 6/4 3/1
47.Kendrick G/S/vP 6/1.133 ··· ··· 4/.250 1/no AB 217/144 .301/.366/.490/.856 1.086/.748 .662 44/.751 4/2 7/2
5.Mathis G/S/vP 9/.679 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 123/65 .204/.233/.274/.508 .419/.588 .341 48/.532 1/1 1/1
44.Trumbo G/S/vP 6/1.000 2/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/no AB 223/153 .257/.305/.476/.781 .821/.762 .671 97/.804 6/3 11/4
10.Wells G/S/vP 9/.222 ··· ··· 5/.400 1/.000 159/114 .176/.220/.291/.511 .589/.480 .315 7/.143 1/1 4/2
46.Wilson G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 21/10 .211/.286/.316/.602 .864/.311 .619 10/.633 0/0 0/0
IP 81.2 11.0 30.2 28.0 26.2 TOTAL .254/.319/.384/.702 .696/.705 .639 .654 54/20 48/34
ERA-K/9 4.52/4.4 0.00/13.1 3.82/7.3 5.14/6.8 2.70/7.8 4.71/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Conger (27-8-1)
 Mathis (26-8-4)
 Wilson (2-0-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 353/.293 43/.132 127/.270 125/.264 108/.222 .272  Hunter
 Bourjos
 Wells
 Abreu
 Kendrick
 Trumbo
0/1/58/7
0/62/0/3
35/5/1/2
10/0/6/1
12/0/0/1
0/0/5/0
OPS .747 .390 .713 .754 .631 .785
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 75/.577 16/.543 47/.623 59/.616 49/.554 .814
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 278/.794 27/.305 80/.767 66/.874 59/.696 .763
Road 131/.897 10/.311 53/.737 28/1.247 37/.897
Last 28d days 147/.654 43/.390 73/.497 62/.851 43/.572
HR/SB/CS 8/7/2 0/0/0 3/4/0 4/0/1 3/3/3 76/46/25
Usage ····X··· ·X·X···· ···X···· X··X·X·X ··o·o·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.