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Game Preview: MIN @ KCR, 8:10pm, Friday, April 29, 2011 @Kauffman Stadium

Twins, 9-15, 9-15 4th, 7 GB, 4½ GB in WC

SP: Scott Baker (29, RHP, 1-2, 3.24)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (1-2) 25.0 20 9 9 8 24 4 3.24
2010 (12-9) 170.1 186 87 85 43 148 23 4.49
2009 (15-9) 200.0 190 99 97 48 162 28 4.37
Last 7 GS 1-2 37.0 33 15 14 15 43 6 3.41 55
2011-04-21 @BAL W 7.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 106 77
2011-04-16 @TBR ND 7.0 4 1 1 1 6 0 96 70
2011-04-10 OAK L 5.0 7 4 4 2 5 2 99 40
2011-04-04 @NYY L 6.0 5 4 4 4 4 2 96 46
2010-09-29 @KCR ND 5.0 6 2 2 4 9 1 100 52
2010-09-21 CLE ND 5.0 4 2 1 1 7 0 91 59
2010-09-02 DET ND 2.0 3 2 2 2 3 1 46 43
Last 5 v.KCR 3-1 28.1 32 14 14 8 23 6 4.45 49
2010-09-29 @KCR ND 5.0 6 2 2 4 9 1 100 52
2010-06-10 KCR L 5.0 8 5 5 1 2 2 93 32
2010-04-16 KCR W 7.0 7 2 2 0 6 1 92 61
2009-09-26 @KCR W 6.1 6 4 4 1 5 2 91 49
2009-06-30 @KCR W 5.0 5 1 1 2 1 0 111 52
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-6    Road:    5-9    ExtrInn: 2-1 
 vsRHP:   5-12   vsLHP:   4-3    1-Run:   5-6 
 vsEast:  5-12   vsCntrl: 3-1    vsWest:  1-2  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 24 Thu, Apr 28   TBR  L   1-6        9-15  4th  7.0 gb
 23 Thu, Apr 28   TBR  L   3-15       9-14  4th  7.0 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 27   TBR  L   2-8        9-13  4th  5.5 gb
 21 Sun, Apr 24   CLE  W   4-3        9-12  4th  4.0 gb
 20 Sat, Apr 23   CLE  W  10-3        8-12  4th  5.0 gb
 19 Thu, Apr 21  @BAL  W   3-1        7-12  5th  6.0 gb
 18 Wed, Apr 20  @BAL  L   4-5        6-12  5th  7.0 gb
 17 Tue, Apr 19  @BAL  L   0-11       6-11  5th  6.0 gb
 16 Mon, Apr 18  @BAL  W   5-3        6-10  5th  6.0 gb
 15 Sun, Apr 17  @TBR  W   4-2        5-10  5th  6.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30: 9-15
Royals, 12-13, 12-13 2nd, 4½ GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Bruce Chen (34, LHP, 3-1, 3.86)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (3-1) 30.1 30 14 13 10 18 6 3.86
2010 (12-7) 140.1 136 68 65 57 98 17 4.17
2009 (1-6) 62.1 74 42 40 25 45 12 5.78
Last 7 GS 4-1 46.0 36 14 13 15 28 6 2.54 58
2011-04-24 @TEX L 4.1 7 6 6 3 2 3 83 24
2011-04-19 CLE W 7.0 6 2 2 3 5 0 102 59
2011-04-14 SEA W 8.0 6 1 0 1 1 0 101 68
2011-04-09 @DET W 6.0 3 0 0 1 7 0 82 72
2011-04-03 LAA ND 5.0 8 5 5 2 3 3 91 32
2010-10-01 TBR W 9.0 2 0 0 2 7 0 104 88
2010-09-26 @CLE ND 6.2 4 0 0 3 3 0 119 66
Last 5 v.MIN 1-2 18.2 27 15 15 5 15 4 7.23 38
2010-07-27 MIN L 5.1 11 6 6 3 1 0 113 20
2010-06-10 @MIN W 6.1 10 5 5 1 7 1 99 39
2004-09-19 @MIN L 7.0 6 4 4 1 7 3 108 55
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-5    Road:    3-8    ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:   8-9    vsLHP:   4-4    1-Run:   6-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 6-8    vsWest:  6-5  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 25 Thu, Apr 28  @CLE  L   2-8       12-13  2nd  4.5 gb
 24 Wed, Apr 27  @CLE  L   2-7       12-12  2nd  3.5 gb
 23 Tue, Apr 26  @CLE  L   4-9       12-11  2nd  2.5 gb
 22 Sun, Apr 24  @TEX  L   7-8       12-10  2nd  1.5 gb
 21 Sat, Apr 23  @TEX  L   1-3       12-9   2nd  1.5 gb
 20 Fri, Apr 22  @TEX  L   6-11      12-8   2nd  1.5 gb
 19 Thu, Apr 21   CLE  W   3-2       12-7   2nd  1.0 gb
 18 Wed, Apr 20   CLE  L   5-7       11-7   2nd  2.0 gb
 17 Tue, Apr 19   CLE  W   5-4       11-6   2nd  1.0 gb
 16 Mon, Apr 18   CLE  L   3-7 (10)  10-6   2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Apr 13, 2011 KCR 10 @MIN  5        W:Kyle Davies (1-1), L: Francisco Liriano (0-3), S: Jeremy Jeffress (1)
Tue, Apr 12, 2011 MIN  4  KCR  3 (10)   W:Dusty Hughes (1-0), L: Rob Tejeda (0-1), S: none

Wed, Sep 29, 2010 MIN  4 @KCR  2        W:Matt Guerrier (5-7), L: Gil Meche (0-5), S: Matt Capps (42)
Tue, Sep 28, 2010 KCR 10  MIN  1        W:Sean O'Sullivan (4-6), L: Nick Blackburn (10-11), S: none
Mon, Sep 27, 2010 KCR 10  MIN  8        W:Philip Humber (2-1), L: Jeff Manship (2-1), S: Joakim Soria (42)
Wed, Sep 08, 2010 MIN  4  KCR  3        W:Brian Duensing (8-2), L: Zack Greinke (8-12), S: Matt Capps (37)
Tue, Sep 07, 2010 MIN 10  KCR  3        W:Francisco Liriano (13-7), L: Brian Bannister (7-12), S: none
Mon, Sep 06, 2010 MIN  5  KCR  4        W:Jeff Manship (2-0), L: Sean O'Sullivan (2-5), S: Matt Capps (36)
Wed, Jul 28, 2010 MIN  6 @KCR  4        W:Brian Duensing (4-1), L: Brian Bannister (7-10), S: Jon Rauch (21)
Tue, Jul 27, 2010 MIN 11 @KCR  2        W:Carl Pavano (13-6), L: Bruce Chen (5-5), S: none
Season Series: 2011 - tied 1-1; 2010 - MIN won 13-5; 2009 - MIN won 12-6; All-Time - MIN leads 341-301

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

For the 2010 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

NYY  5.30

ARI  4.40

SEA  3.17

 RA/G

SDP  3.59

CHW  4.35

PIT  5.35

 BA

J. Hamilton  .359

M. Mora  .285

B. Wood  .146

 OBP

J. Morneau  .437

O. Infante  .359

B. Wood  .174

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .633

C. Granderson  .468

B. Wood  .208

 OPS

J. Morneau  1.055

A. Torres  .823

B. Wood  .382

 ERA

F. Hernandez  2.27

C. Pavano  3.75

J. Bonderman  5.53

 K/9IP

T. Lincecum  9.79

M. Cain  7.13

K. Kendrick  4.18

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2011 season. Player Stats for the 2010 season. We will switch to 2011 stats on May 1st.

Twins Batters (3.21 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (5.16 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Chen*
G/S/vB		 41.Jeffress
G/S/vB		 37.O'Sullivan
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 38.Wood
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
41.Butera G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 155/89 .197/.237/.296/.533 .453/.591 .528 42/.342 0/0 2/5
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 ··· 170/132 .276/.331/.395/.726 .813/.702 .751 59/.413 6/1 1/5
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP 14/.572 1/.000 6/1.000 13/.154 2/.000 675/460 .271/.336/.417/.753 .875/.700 .722 89/.686 7/3 14/6
27.Holm G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 15/.333 / /
38.Hughes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/3 .286/.286/.714/1.000 .500/1.667 1.000 40/.557 0/1 1/0
16.Kubel* G/S/vP 5/1.400 1/.000 6/1.133 11/.000 3/.000 582/399 .249/.323/.427/.750 .655/.792 .753 90/.872 0/1 21/5
33.Morneau* G/S/vP 8/1.089 1/.000 ··· 15/.467 ··· 348/215 .345/.437/.618/1.055 .966/1.113 1.205 71/.648 0/0 18/1
18.Repko G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/89 .228/.324/.346/.671 .523/.767 .842 24/.529 3/2 3/0
2.Span* G/S/vP 10/1.450 1/2.000 7/.286 9/.583 ··· 705/462 .264/.331/.348/.679 .696/.670 .602 99/.731 26/4 3/4
25.Thome* G/S/vP 6/.833 ··· 5/3.300 9/.222 ··· 340/246 .283/.412/.627/1.039 .769/1.154 .958 62/.735 0/0 25/
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 5/.733 1/.000 1/.000 100/79 .230/.293/.379/.672 .198/.797 .401 42/.439 1/1 1/2
19.Valencia G/S/vP 6/1.500 1/.000 3/.666 1/.000 2/.000 322/211 .311/.351/.448/.799 .967/.713 .658 90/.609 2/0 7/6
IP 140.1 10.0 83.2 65.2 49.2 TOTAL .236/.291/.323/.614 .567/.632 .596 .620 10/0 10/13
ERA-K/9 4.17/6.3 2.70/7.2 5.49/4.6 1.78/9.7 5.07/5.6 4.73/6.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (21-16-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 608/.254 42/.229 368/.270 270/.216 220/.286 .286  Kubel
 Span
 Repko
 Cuddyer
 Casilla
 Tolbert
16/0/83/7
0/153/0/5
6/6/39/5
0/2/66/5
0/1/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .735 .676 .794 .568 .798 .815
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 161/.756 14/.792 220/.751 155/.587 111/.827 .832
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 447/.727 28/.619 148/.855 115/.541 109/.767 .801
Home 304/.778 30/.467 161/.757 164/.542 136/.668
Last 28d days 127/.798 41/.663 67/.721 44/.765 34/.822
HR/SB/CS 17/5/7 0/0/0 15/15/1 4/1/1 6/10/3 33/17/10
Usage ····X··· ·o··X·o· ·······X ·o······ o···X·X·

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2011 season. Player Stats for the 2010 season. We will switch to 2011 stats on May 1st.

Royals Batters (4.80 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (5.17 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Baker
G/S/vB		 31.Burnett
G/S/vB		 55.Capps
G/S/vB		 37.Hoey
G/S/vB		 56.Hughes*
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Aviles G/S/vP 10/.400 3/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/1.667 2/2.000 9/.833 448/325 .304/.335/.413/.748 .642/.787 .777 64/.688 14/5 8/14
24.Betemit# G/S/vP 5/1.000 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 315/227 .297/.378/.511/.889 .930/.873 .947 72/.941 0/0 13/10
16.Butler G/S/vP 28/.291 4/1.750 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 5/.400 6/.666 10/.900 678/543 .318/.388/.469/.857 .727/.888 .870 100/.910 0/0 15/6
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 4/1.000 3/.000 1/2.000 3/1.000 4/1.000 10/1.000 509/346 .255/.317/.354/.671 .642/.685 .681 107/.736 7/1 4/4
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 65/54 .211/.286/.404/.689 .273/.783 .783 18/.307 9/1 1/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.666 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 552/407 .235/.288/.326/.614 .614/.614 .611 95/.530 10/4 4/20
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 2/4.000 2/2.000 9/.111 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 503/368 .249/.300/.383/.683 .805/.639 .628 96/.983 8/3 13/4
17.Getz* G/S/vP 9/.873 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 4/.500 1/.000 248/196 .237/.302/.277/.579 .699/.548 .713 91/.625 15/2 0/4
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 23/.570 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/1.500 5/1.000 7/1.000 8/1.214 281/211 .215/.315/.355/.671 .704/.660 .687 101/.896 1/5 8/7
30.Ka'aihue* G/S/vP 6/1.133 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/2.000 206/159 .217/.307/.394/.702 .754/.684 .800 76/.579 0/1 8/2
12.Maier* G/S/vP 16/.908 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.833 1/.000 5/.650 421/337 .263/.333/.375/.709 .659/.720 .691 7/.629 3/2 5/5
27.Pena# G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/.666 1/5.000 3/.666 174/121 .253/.306/.335/.642 .509/.701 .611 40/.528 2/0 1/3
15.Treanor G/S/vP 3/1.667 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 272/190 .211/.287/.308/.595 .408/.677 .584 54/.547 1/2 5/3
IP 170.1 47.2 73.0 56.1 32.2 21.2 TOTAL .263/.331/.408/.738 .795/.714 .746 .739 32/5 20/18
ERA-K/9 4.49/7.8 5.29/7.0 2.47/7.3 /0.0 3.83/5.4 3.31/7.7 /0.0 5.82/5.8 4.95/6.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (29-12-1)
 Treanor (44-17-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 725/.277 211/.287 305/.265 / 252/.273 139/.268 / 98/.337 .266  Francoeur
 Cabrera
 Maier
 Dyson
 Gordon
 Betemit
 Escobar
2/0/131/11
84/55/25/8
8/65/43/4
0/15/0/2
55/0/3/2
2/0/0/0
2/1/2/0
OPS .793 .847 .688 .730 .768 .938 .763
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 361/.830 76/.946 146/.654 / 115/.674 62/.776 / 32/.657 .752
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 364/.756 135/.794 159/.719 / 137/.775 77/.761 / 66/1.080 .775
Road 359/.839 97/.904 122/.639 / 125/.764 65/.633 / 48/.983
Last 28d days 101/.683 11/.705 49/.599 19/1.000 41/.798 35/.594 39/.890 41/.566
HR/SB/CS 23/3/6 6/2/0 6/3/2 // 3/3/1 4/1/1 // 3/2/1 27/16/5
Usage ·······X ········ o···o··o X···o··o XX···X·· Xo··o··o o····o·· X···o··o

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.