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Game Preview: ARI @ KCR, 8:10pm, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @Kauffman Stadium

D'backs, 39-34, 39-34 2nd, ½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Joe Saunders (30, LHP, 3-7, 4.50)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (3-7) 86.0 92 45 43 35 49 13 4.50
2010 (9-17) 203.1 232 120 101 64 114 25 4.47
2009 (16-7) 186.0 202 102 95 64 101 29 4.60
Last 7 GS 3-3 46.2 46 19 18 15 26 7 3.47 53
2011-06-15 SFG L 7.0 8 3 3 3 4 0 116 50
2011-06-10 @FLA L 6.0 10 5 5 1 3 3 103 34
2011-06-04 WSN W 7.0 2 0 0 2 5 0 93 76
2011-05-30 FLA W 6.0 7 4 4 2 7 1 93 47
2011-05-24 @COL W 8.0 6 2 2 1 4 2 99 65
2011-05-18 ATL ND 6.0 7 1 1 2 1 0 89 53
2011-05-13 @LAD L 6.2 6 4 3 4 2 1 106 46
Last 5 v.KCR 3-0 35.0 37 10 10 9 22 1 2.57 56
2010-07-02 KCR ND 8.0 6 1 1 2 4 0 111 68
2009-09-06 @KCR W 5.1 10 2 2 1 2 1 103 41
2009-07-22 @KCR ND 5.2 9 6 6 2 2 0 109 27
2009-05-09 KCR W 9.0 5 0 0 1 6 0 101 82
2006-09-19 @KCR W 7.0 7 1 1 3 8 0 115 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-17   Road:   17-17   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  30-23   vsLHP:   9-11   1-Run:  15-9 
 vsEast: 11-8    vsCntrl:12-10   vsWest: 12-14 IL: 4-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 73 Sun, Jun 19   CHW  L   2-8       39-34  2nd  0.5 gb
 72 Sat, Jun 18   CHW  L   2-6       39-33  2nd  0.5 gb
 71 Fri, Jun 17   CHW  W   4-1       39-32  2nd  0.5 gb
 70 Thu, Jun 16   SFG  W   3-2 (10)  38-32  2nd  1.5 gb
 69 Wed, Jun 15   SFG  L   2-5       37-32  2nd  2.5 gb
 68 Tue, Jun 14   SFG  L   5-6       37-31  2nd  1.5 gb
 67 Mon, Jun 13  @FLA  W  12-9       37-30  2nd  0.5 gb
 66 Sun, Jun 12  @FLA  W   5-1       36-30  2nd  1.0 gb
 65 Sat, Jun 11  @FLA  W   9-5       35-30  2nd  1.0 gb
 64 Fri, Jun 10  @FLA  L   4-6       34-30  2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:19-11
Royals, 31-41, 31-41 5th, 8½ GB, 11½ GB in WC

SP: Luke Hochevar (27, RHP, 4-7, 4.87)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. ARI Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (4-7) 98.0 97 57 53 28 42 13 4.87
2010 (6-6) 103.0 110 61 55 37 76 9 4.81
2009 (7-13) 143.0 167 109 104 46 106 23 6.55
Last 7 GS 1-4 46.2 50 26 25 16 15 3 4.82 46
2011-06-15 @OAK L 7.0 5 2 2 2 0 0 91 57
2011-06-09 TOR W 7.0 6 2 2 3 3 0 98 57
2011-06-04 MIN L 6.0 11 6 6 0 2 0 99 28
2011-05-30 LAA ND 5.0 7 4 4 3 2 0 105 36
2011-05-25 @BAL L 7.0 8 8 7 3 1 0 105 29
2011-05-19 TEX ND 8.2 6 1 1 2 4 1 113 70
2011-05-13 @DET L 6.0 7 3 3 3 3 2 102 46
Last 5 v.ARI 1-1 11.0 19 10 8 2 9 0 6.55 36
2009-06-18 ARI L 4.0 9 7 6 2 3 0 95 19
2008-06-14 @ARI W 7.0 10 3 2 0 6 0 111 53
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-20   Road:   10-21   ExtrInn: 7-6 
 vsRHP:  24-29   vsLHP:   7-12   1-Run:  14-13
 vsEast:  6-7    vsCntrl: 9-16   vsWest: 14-14 IL: 2-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 72 Sun, Jun 19  @STL  L   4-5       31-41  5th  9.0 gb
 71 Sat, Jun 18  @STL  L   4-5       31-40  4th  8.0 gb
 70 Fri, Jun 17  @STL  W   5-4       31-39  4th  7.0 gb
 69 Thu, Jun 16  @OAK  L   4-8       30-39  4th  8.0 gb
 68 Wed, Jun 15  @OAK  L   1-2       30-38  4th  7.0 gb
 67 Tue, Jun 14  @OAK  W   7-4       30-37  4th  7.0 gb
 66 Sun, Jun 12  @LAA  W   9-0       29-37  4th  6.5 gb
 65 Sat, Jun 11  @LAA  L   5-7       28-37  4th  7.5 gb
 64 Fri, Jun 10  @LAA  W   4-2       28-36  4th  7.5 gb
 63 Thu, Jun  9   TOR  W   3-2       27-36  4th  8.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:11-19

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 18, 2009 ARI 12 @KCR  5        W:Dan Haren (6-4), L: Luke Hochevar (2-3), S: none
Wed, Jun 17, 2009 ARI 12 @KCR  5        W:Max Scherzer (4-4), L: Zack Greinke (8-3), S: none
Tue, Jun 16, 2009 KCR  5  ARI  0        W:Gil Meche (4-5), L: Doug Davis (3-8), S: none
Sun, Jun 15, 2008 KCR  8 @ARI  3        W:Gil Meche (4-8), L: Micah Owings (6-5), S: none
Sat, Jun 14, 2008 KCR 12 @ARI  3        W:Luke Hochevar (4-5), L: Randy Johnson (4-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 13, 2008 ARI  1  KCR  0 (10)   W:Billy Buckner (1-0), L: Yasuhiko Yabuta (1-2), S: none
Sun, Jun 12, 2005 KCR  9 @ARI  4 (12)   W:Ryan Jensen (3-1), L: Javier Lopez (1-1), S: none
Sat, Jun 11, 2005 KCR  8 @ARI  5        W:J.P. Howell (1-0), L: Brad Halsey (4-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 10, 2005 ARI 12  KCR 11 (10)   W:Brian Bruney (1-2), L: Mike MacDougal (2-3), S: none
Thu, Sep 04, 2003 ARI  6 @KCR  5 (10)   W:Matt Mantei (5-3), L: Kris Wilson (5-3), S: none
Season Series: 2011 -  0-0; 2010 -  0-0; 2009 - ARI won 2-1; All-Time - ARI leads 8-7

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

BOS  5.49

CHC  4.13

SDP  3.34

 RA/G

PHI  3.26

CLE  4.27

CHC  5.07

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .353

A. Beltre  .267

D. Uggla  .178

 OBP

J. Bautista  .476

A. Cabrera  .339

C. Figgins  .241

 SLG

J. Bautista  .657

J. Werth  .409

C. Figgins  .258

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.133

D. Span  .746

C. Figgins  .500

 ERA

J. Beckett  1.86

A. Harang  3.71

F. Carmona  6.17

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  9.78

C. Sabathia  6.63

C. Pavano  3.63

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

D'backs Batters (4.58 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.99 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 44.Hochevar
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Blanco G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/21 .229/.302/.521/.823 1.168/.296 .502 21/.508 0/1 4/0
18.Bloomquist G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 125/78 .250/.290/.345/.635 .743/.571 .570 45/.500 7/3 2/1
6.Drew* G/S/vP 7/.453 ··· 5/.800 ··· ··· 268/195 .278/.351/.427/.778 .695/.809 .918 103/.747 4/3 4/6
2.Johnson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.900 ··· ··· 293/231 .215/.293/.421/.715 .602/.746 .700 97/.910 8/2 12/4
46.Miranda* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 163/125 .223/.329/.417/.746 .883/.706 .713 65/.545 0/1 6/3
26.Montero* G/S/vP 6/1.167 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 247/192 .279/.358/.479/.837 .664/.887 .894 84/.923 0/0 8/9
4.Mora G/S/vP 8/.250 ··· 7/.429 2/.000 ··· 133/92 .232/.248/.280/.528 .661/.470 .431 39/.316 0/1 0/3
22.Nady G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 139/71 .258/.302/.375/.677 .620/.732 .676 56/.664 2/0 2/2
8.Parra* G/S/vP 3/1.333 ··· 6/.334 1/.000 ··· 223/172 .275/.345/.390/.735 .618/.770 .674 72/.803 6/0 4/1
14.Roberts G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 247/181 .262/.350/.472/.822 .866/.805 .885 94/.731 9/4 10/5
10.Upton G/S/vP 5/1.200 ··· 6/1.133 1/.000 ··· 315/239 .302/.384/.524/.908 .977/.887 .707 109/1.121 13/5 12/7
24.Young G/S/vP 7/1.238 ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· 320/247 .254/.320/.486/.806 .937/.768 .652 107/.967 8/6 14/1
IP 98.0 15.1 41.2 31.0 31.2 TOTAL .252/.322/.422/.744 .736/.747 .696 .781 57/26 82/46
ERA-K/9 4.87/3.9 1.17/11.8 4.10/7.6 4.65/7.5 2.56/7.4 4.60/5.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Blanco (6-5-1)
 Montero (21-8-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 412/.257 60/.164 179/.270 136/.250 125/.219 .271  Parra
 Young
 Upton
 Nady
 Bloomquist
 Roberts
57/2/3/5
0/72/0/2
0/0/72/2
5/0/0/1
16/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .768 .470 .712 .715 .608 .775
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 222/.843 23/.461 73/.659 67/.588 57/.580 .801
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 190/.681 37/.473 106/.748 69/.833 68/.630 .757
Home 273/.722 33/.415 74/.696 97/.610 71/.497
Last 28d days 138/.742 48/.512 111/.512 51/.622 43/.449
HR/SB/CS 13/5/1 1/0/0 3/5/0 4/0/1 3/3/3 81/52/26
Usage ·····X·· ··o···X· ···X···· ···X··X· ·X·X····
Royals Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. D'backs Pitchers (4.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 34.Saunders*
G/S/vB		 44.Heilman
G/S/vB		 30.Hernandez
G/S/vB		 15.Owings
G/S/vB		 40.Putz
G/S/vB		 32.Vasquez
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Betemit# G/S/vP 3/.666 8/.000 1/.000 3/.000 5/.800 ··· 209/157 .287/.344/.410/.754 .559/.820 .691 60/.555 3/1 2/5
16.Butler G/S/vP 14/.457 ··· 2/2.500 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 300/229 .302/.403/.443/.846 1.015/.797 .886 104/.895 1/1 6/0
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 9/.333 4/1.417 4/.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 326/224 .275/.316/.434/.750 .631/.804 .699 121/.753 9/2 9/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 277/209 .255/.289/.322/.610 .630/.604 .496 96/.754 12/5 1/6
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 3/.000 16/.533 ··· 12/.750 2/.000 2/.000 301/228 .263/.306/.438/.744 .974/.668 .813 103/.527 10/0 9/2
17.Getz* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 237/182 .250/.317/.294/.611 .633/.605 .596 88/.646 10/2 0/4
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 2/.500 3/.333 6/.167 ··· 319/219 .281/.349/.456/.805 .773/.820 .905 113/.776 5/4 8/1
12.Maier* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 47/30 .316/.447/.447/.894 .769/.967 .944 22/.899 1/0 0/0
27.Pena# G/S/vP 6/.800 ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/.000 ··· 113/80 .250/.310/.400/.710 .733/.700 .629 35/.947 0/0 3/2
15.Treanor G/S/vP 3/.000 10/.555 ··· 7/1.142 1/.000 ··· 169/134 .216/.360/.313/.673 .690/.669 .740 65/.602 1/1 3/3
IP 86.0 25.2 33.0 21.2 30.0 27.1 TOTAL .262/.328/.394/.723 .718/.725 .732 .701 73/19 54/42
ERA-K/9 4.50/5.1 7.01/8.8 2.73/9.8 2.91/6.6 2.70/8.7 4.61/6.6 3.97/7.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (23-14-2)
 Treanor (29-12-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 365/.288 119/.327 145/.198 89/.225 119/.202 122/.240 .254  Francoeur
 Gordon
 Cabrera
 Maier
0/0/69/8
66/0/0/8
7/64/2/7
4/3/5/0
OPS .839 .964 .574 .658 .585 .701 .728
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 81/.653 48/1.108 64/.549 34/.634 57/.520 50/.749 .723
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 284/.893 71/.864 81/.595 55/.670 62/.649 72/.670 .732
Road 160/.790 47/.764 70/.724 42/.539 43/.348 56/.683
Last 28d days 110/.806 46/.752 53/.538 65/.544 40/.724 48/.767
HR/SB/CS 13/5/4 6/1/0 1/2/0 3/0/0 2/3/0 2/1/0 74/27/13
Usage ·····X·· ··X···X· ····ooo· ··X····X ····XX·X ·X····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.