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Game Preview: KCR @ SEA, 10:10pm, Saturday, September 10, 2011 @Safeco Field

Royals, 60-86, 60-86 4th, 23 GB, 26 GB in WC

SP: Felipe Paulino (27, RHP, 2-10, 4.60)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (2-10) 115.1 125 64 59 48 102 10 4.60
2010 (1-9) 91.2 95 63 52 46 83 4 5.11
2009 (3-11) 97.2 126 73 68 37 93 20 6.27
Last 7 GS 1-2 40.0 39 21 21 26 29 3 4.73 47
2011-09-05 @OAK ND 4.1 4 6 6 6 4 1 96 29
2011-08-26 @CLE L 6.2 6 2 2 4 6 0 120 56
2011-08-20 BOS W 6.0 8 4 4 3 3 0 101 40
2011-08-15 NYY L 5.1 8 5 5 5 4 0 107 31
2011-08-10 @TBR ND 5.0 3 1 1 4 1 1 84 54
2011-08-05 DET ND 6.2 6 3 3 2 7 1 114 55
2011-07-30 @CLE ND 6.0 4 0 0 2 4 0 104 66
Has never faced SEA as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   34-39   Road:   26-47   ExtrInn:10-8 
 vsRHP:  46-62   vsLHP:  14-24   1-Run:  22-31
 vsEast: 16-21   vsCntrl:23-35   vsWest: 16-17 IL: 5-13

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
146 Fri, Sep  9  @SEA  L   3-7       60-86  4th 23.0 gb
145 Thu, Sep  8  @SEA  L   1-4       60-85  4th 22.0 gb
144 Wed, Sep  7  @OAK  L   0-7       60-84  4th 21.5 gb
143 Tue, Sep  6  @OAK  W   7-4       60-83  4th 20.5 gb
142 Mon, Sep  5  @OAK  W  11-6       59-83  4th 20.5 gb
141 Sun, Sep  4   CLE  L   6-9       58-83  5th 20.5 gb
140 Sat, Sep  3   CLE  W   5-1       58-82  5th 19.5 gb
139 Fri, Sep  2   CLE  L   4-5       57-82  5th 19.5 gb
138 Thu, Sep  1  @DET  W  11-8       57-81  5th 18.5 gb
137 Wed, Aug 31  @DET  L   4-5       56-81  5th 19.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:11-19
Mariners, 61-83, 61-83 4th, 20½ GB, 24 GB in WC

SP: Michael Pineda (22, RHP, 9-9, 3.74)

2011 Gamelogs / 2011 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (9-9) 159.0 122 71 66 52 163 17 3.74
Last 7 GS 1-3 39.2 34 25 23 14 44 6 5.22 51
2011-09-03 @OAK L 6.0 5 3 3 2 7 1 105 55
2011-08-27 CHW L 6.0 3 2 2 1 8 0 101 65
2011-08-21 @TBR ND 6.0 6 3 2 0 5 0 94 55
2011-08-15 TOR ND 5.0 6 5 5 4 6 3 94 37
2011-08-09 @TEX ND 6.0 5 3 3 2 4 1 95 52
2011-07-30 TBR W 6.1 1 2 1 4 10 0 110 71
2011-07-24 @BOS L 4.1 8 7 7 1 4 1 85 22
Last 5 v.KCR 1-0 6.0 3 1 1 4 5 0 1.50 63
2011-04-17 @KCR W 6.0 3 1 1 4 5 0 94 63
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   36-37   Road:   25-46   ExtrInn: 5-5 
 vsRHP:  50-60   vsLHP:  11-23   1-Run:  23-24
 vsEast: 16-24   vsCntrl:17-21   vsWest: 19-29 IL: 9-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
144 Fri, Sep  9   KCR  W   7-3       61-83  4th 20.5 gb
143 Thu, Sep  8   KCR  W   4-1       60-83  4th 20.5 gb
142 Wed, Sep  7  @LAA  L   1-3       59-83  4th 21.0 gb
141 Tue, Sep  6  @LAA  W   2-1       59-82  4th 21.0 gb
140 Mon, Sep  5  @LAA  L   3-7       58-82  4th 21.0 gb
139 Sun, Sep  4  @OAK  L   5-8       58-81  4th 21.0 gb
138 Sat, Sep  3  @OAK  L   0-3       58-80  4th 20.0 gb
137 Fri, Sep  2  @OAK  L   2-9       58-79  4th 20.0 gb
136 Thu, Sep  1   LAA  L   3-4       58-78  4th 19.0 gb
135 Wed, Aug 31   LAA  W   2-1       58-77  4th 18.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Sep 09, 2011 SEA  7  KCR  3        W:Blake Beavan (4-5), L: Jeff Francis (5-16), S: none
Thu, Sep 08, 2011 SEA  4  KCR  1        W:Jason Vargas (8-13), L: Luke Hochevar (10-11), S: Brandon League (34)
Sun, Apr 17, 2011 SEA  3 @KCR  2        W:Michael Pineda (2-1), L: Jeff Francis (0-1), S: Brandon League (3)
Sat, Apr 16, 2011 KCR  7  SEA  0        W:Sean O'Sullivan (1-1), L: Felix Hernandez (1-2), S: none
Fri, Apr 15, 2011 KCR  6  SEA  5        W:Luke Hochevar (2-1), L: Erik Bedard (0-3), S: Joakim Soria (4)
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 KCR  5  SEA  1  (8)   W:Bruce Chen (2-0), L: Doug Fister (0-3), S: none

Sun, Aug 08, 2010 SEA  3  KCR  2        W:Jason Vargas (8-5), L: Kyle Davies (5-7), S: David Aardsma (20)
Sat, Aug 07, 2010 KCR  2 @SEA  1        W:Bruce Chen (7-5), L: David Pauley (0-4), S: Joakim Soria (31)
Fri, Aug 06, 2010 SEA  7  KCR  1        W:Luke French (1-2), L: Zack Greinke (7-11), S: none
Wed, Jul 07, 2010 KCR  7 @SEA  3        W:Victor Marte (3-0), L: Brandon League (5-6), S: Joakim Soria (25)
Season Series: 2011 - tied 3-3; 2010 - KCR won 5-4; 2009 - KCR won 5-4; All-Time - KCR leads 208-188

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  5.45

CLE  4.21

SFG  3.36

 RA/G

PHI  3.26

TEX  4.30

BAL  5.27

 BA

A. Gonzalez  .340

D. Fowler  .271

K. Johnson  .213

 OBP

J. Bautista  .444

N. Walker  .338

V. Wells  .252

 SLG

J. Bautista  .623

R. Roberts  .440

O. Cabrera  .303

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.067

C. Santana  .776

O. Cabrera  .569

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.36

E. Jackson  3.75

J. Lackey  6.30

 K/9IP

B. Morrow  10.41

J. Zimmermann  6.92

B. Penny  3.68

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

Royals Batters (4.41 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (4.13 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS Pineda
G/S/vB		 49.Beavan
G/S/vB		 57.Cortes
G/S/vB		 41.Furbush*
G/S/vB		 60.Gray
G/S/vB		 37.Jimenez*
G/S/vB		 23.Kelley
G/S/vB		 43.League
G/S/vB		 31.Lueke
G/S/vB		 52.Ruffin
G/S/vB		 59.Vasquez*
G/S/vB		 54.Wilhelmsen
G/S/vB		 50.Wright
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP 3/.333 3/.000 ··· 2/2.000 2/no AB ··· 4/.250 6/.167 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 5/1.000 606/452 .295/.368/.467/.835 .927/.805 .808 114/.939 1/1 18/0
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP ··· 3/1.333 ··· 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 13/.641 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 643/443 .299/.333/.466/.799 .739/.825 .883 114/.682 18/8 17/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP 2/1.000 3/1.333 ··· 2/.000 1/4.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.667 543/406 .246/.283/.329/.612 .527/.640 .692 87/.555 23/7 3/15
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 2/1.500 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/.762 603/451 .282/.330/.470/.800 1.015/.730 .785 106/.873 20/10 17/5
17.Getz* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 6/.400 415/308 .257/.313/.284/.596 .636/.582 .564 19/.526 20/7 0/6
9.Giavotella G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 137/106 .221/.255/.336/.591 .615/.585 .458 102/.514 4/2 2/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/.666 4/1.750 ··· 3/3.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.334 642/447 .299/.372/.497/.869 .831/.886 .811 113/.923 16/7 21/4
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.334 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 492/351 .287/.335/.457/.792 .576/.879 .818 108/.931 10/5 16/7
12.Maier* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 100/62 .250/.360/.369/.729 .645/.783 .704 16/.792 1/0 0/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 307/224 .230/.282/.284/.566 .457/.605 .642 102/.742 0/0 1/8
24.Navarro G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/33 .250/.321/.375/.696 .774/.644 .650 4/.500 0/0 1/2
27.Pena# G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 230/165 .250/.291/.344/.636 .604/.649 .780 22/.418 0/0 3/2
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 100/78 .298/.330/.415/.745 1.124/.643 .879 84/.776 0/0 1/2
IP 159.0 77.0 10.1 70.2 42.2 1.1 4.0 54.1 25.0 11.0 15.0 24.2 63.0 TOTAL .269/.326/.405/.731 .723/.734 .745 .764 137/52 112/85
ERA-K/9 3.74/9.2 4.32/3.6 3.48/1.7 4.84/6.2 4.43/4.6 20.25/13.8 0.00/2.2 2.82/6.3 7.92/7.6 4.09/8.2 9.00/3.6 3.65/9.1 3.43/6.6 3.87/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (47-26-4)
 Perez (18-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 646/.210 327/.288 45/.237 304/.279 189/.271 8/.429 15/.071 217/.227 116/.297 51/.273 75/.318 109/.228 264/.248 .247  Gordon
 Francoeur
 Cabrera
 Maier
 Navarro
138/0/0/20
0/0/141/15
8/134/2/12
8/9/10/1
3/0/0/0
OPS .619 .806 .671 .807 .773 .929 .205 .582 .804 .918 1.068 .613 .721 .688
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 330/.639 175/.926 20/.544 86/.774 88/.699 2/1.000 6/.167 111/.628 56/.758 21/1.619 12/1.833 51/.583 131/.699 .686
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 316/.598 152/.661 25/.773 218/.819 101/.840 6/.900 9/.222 106/.535 60/.844 30/.459 63/.905 58/.639 133/.743 .689
Home 278/.555 192/.833 31/.437 163/.626 91/.713 / 6/.333 115/.436 72/.727 24/.746 22/1.191 67/.675 127/.629
Last 28d days 95/.680 127/.922 26/.626 121/.743 40/1.023 8/.929 15/.205 34/.618 52/.648 35/.793 75/1.068 46/.371 45/.638
HR/SB/CS 17/8/9 11/5/3 1/2/1 11/9/5 4/3/3 0/0/0 0/0/0 3/3/1 2/1/0 3/1/0 6/0/1 1/3/1 6/8/3 123/97/42
Usage ······X· X····X·· ········ ··X····· ·······X ····o··X X···o··X ·X·o·X·· ·····X·· ······X· ····X··· ·oo···o· oo······
Mariners Batters (3.45 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.85 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 59.Paulino
G/S/vB		 47.Adcock
G/S/vB		 57.Chavez
G/S/vB		 46.Coleman
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 23.Duffy*
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 61.Teaford*
G/S/vB		 38.Wood
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Ackley* G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 306/237 .294/.373/.461/.834 .747/.859 .878 112/.756 4/0 6/6
3.Bard# G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 80/65 .213/.263/.347/.609 .414/.654 .621 25/.628 0/0 2/2
20.Carp* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 239/190 .279/.339/.461/.800 1.077/.729 .859 103/.692 0/2 8/4
9.Figgins# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 8/.625 ··· 3/.833 313/212 .188/.241/.243/.484 .446/.508 .501 / 11/6 1/11
5.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 2/.000 ··· ··· 53/46 .159/.283/.182/.465 .762/.419 .528 3/.000 0/0 0/0
4.Kennedy* G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 382/311 .233/.274/.362/.637 .444/.680 .653 36/.472 8/2 7/5
16.Liddi G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/4 .167/.167/.333/.500 1.500/.000 .750 6/.500 0/0 0/0
30.Olivo G/S/vP 3/.333 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 451/332 .225/.258/.385/.643 .672/.633 .637 77/.764 6/5 17/11
29.Pena G/S/vP 3/.666 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 90/67 .218/.244/.494/.739 .696/.754 .709 40/.839 0/0 7/0
12.Robinson# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 99/82 .253/.296/.429/.724 .548/.762 .445 75/.780 1/0 2/4
1.Rodriguez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/3.000 108/81 .169/.283/.281/.564 .342/.624 .364 9/.476 1/2 1/3
26.Ryan G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 475/356 .246/.313/.325/.639 .704/.617 .574 69/.511 11/3 3/15
55.Saunders* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 156/101 .164/.224/.243/.467 .362/.526 .526 4/.250 4/2 2/0
15.Seager* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 141/118 .273/.321/.375/.696 .889/.661 .506 95/.845 1/0 2/4
17.Smoak# G/S/vP 3/1.667 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 442/312 .231/.319/.391/.710 .771/.682 .758 32/.781 0/0 13/7
51.Suzuki* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 4/1.000 642/468 .277/.315/.340/.655 .665/.652 .656 119/.769 39/6 5/4
33.Wells G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/1.334 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 2/1.000 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 232/127 .240/.316/.438/.754 .799/.717 .744 70/.628 3/2 10/2
IP 115.1 57.1 6.2 54.0 62.0 59.1 105.1 54.0 58.1 28.0 60.1 TOTAL .235/.295/.348/.643 .635/.646 .635 .699 115/37 94/96
ERA-K/9 4.60/8.0 4.55/5.5 6.75/6.7 2.67/9.5 3.63/8.0 2.88/9.4 5.64/7.4 1.83/10.3 4.17/8.8 3.21/4.8 3.88/8.1 4.57/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Bard (15-9-0)
 Gimenez (9-5-0)
 Olivo (71-28-11)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 501/.287 253/.276 31/.321 220/.204 273/.216 252/.232 474/.287 208/.176 249/.262 109/.235 261/.251 .271  Suzuki
 Wells
 Robinson
 Saunders
 Gimenez
 Carp
 Pena
 Figgins
0/0/133/7
21/6/58/6
20/6/0/1
12/35/0/1
1/0/0/0
16/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .785 .781 .994 .668 .681 .708 .864 .518 .722 .722 .713 .773
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 270/.796 113/.753 14/.619 81/.722 127/.680 115/.911 126/.811 92/.498 132/.641 52/.591 127/.740 .776
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 231/.772 140/.804 17/1.283 139/.636 146/.680 137/.534 348/.882 116/.532 117/.807 57/.826 134/.687 .771
Road 283/.765 157/.862 8/.661 103/.661 143/.611 122/.762 260/.863 115/.677 107/.931 28/.374 140/.929
Last 28d days 106/.837 58/.618 24/.879 33/1.231 41/.546 31/1.193 117/.871 44/.420 39/.679 42/.477 45/.868
HR/SB/CS 10/10/2 5/5/1 2/1/0 7/2/4 4/6/1 8/6/1 15/11/9 3/1/0 7/0/1 5/2/1 5/4/3 149/106/45
Usage ····X··· X······· X····X·· ········ ·XX··X·· ··X····· ···X···· ····X·o· ···XX··· ····X··X ···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.