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Game Preview: KCR @ LAA, 10:05 pm, Friday, April 6, 2012 @Angel Stadium of Anaheim

NOTE: Some stats are only updated through Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Site will be updated with yesterday's stats by 11:30am ET.

Royals, , 2nd, ½ GB, tied for WC

SP: Bruce Chen (35, LHP, 0-0, undef)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (12-8) 155.0 152 71 65 50 97 18 3.77
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 3-3 48.0 42 17 16 12 27 3 3.00 57
2011-09-28 @MIN ND 8.0 8 0 0 2 4 0 115 68
2011-09-23 @CHW W 8.0 2 1 1 1 4 1 102 77
2011-09-18 CHW L 5.1 9 4 4 2 2 0 98 34
2011-09-13 MIN W 8.0 2 0 0 1 8 0 119 85
2011-09-07 @OAK L 5.1 8 6 5 3 2 0 108 29
2011-09-02 CLE L 6.0 8 5 5 1 3 2 115 38
2011-08-28 @CLE W 7.1 5 1 1 2 4 0 104 66
Last 5 v.LAA 1-1 23.1 22 11 11 5 15 6 4.24 52
2011-04-03 LAA ND 5.0 8 5 5 2 3 3 91 32
2010-07-03 @LAA W 7.1 2 1 1 1 3 1 94 72
2009-07-21 LAA L 5.0 7 3 3 0 3 1 94 44
2006-05-26 @LAA ND 6.0 5 2 2 2 6 1 107 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    0-0    Road:    0-0    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   0-0    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   0-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 Last 10: 0-0    Last 20: 0-0    Last 30: 0-0
Angels, , 1st, Tied

SP: Jered Weaver (29, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2011 (18-8) 235.2 182 65 63 56 198 20 2.41
2010 (13-12) 224.1 187 83 75 54 233 23 3.01
2009 (16-8) 211.0 196 91 88 66 174 26 3.75
Last 7 GS 4-2 47.1 41 20 19 14 40 8 3.61 57
2011-09-23 OAK L 8.1 6 3 2 0 8 2 116 69
2011-09-18 @BAL W 6.0 6 2 2 1 2 1 97 53
2011-09-14 @OAK W 7.0 6 1 1 2 1 1 115 60
2011-09-09 NYY ND 8.0 3 1 1 2 11 1 118 81
2011-09-03 MIN W 5.0 8 6 6 3 8 1 111 32
2011-08-28 @TEX L 6.0 8 7 7 4 2 2 103 26
2011-08-24 CHW W 7.0 4 0 0 2 8 0 96 75
Last 5 v.KCR 3-1 31.2 31 10 10 7 33 3 2.84 59
2011-03-31 @KCR W 6.1 2 0 0 2 6 0 107 73
2010-08-11 KCR ND 8.0 6 1 1 2 11 1 121 75
2010-06-03 @KCR W 7.0 4 0 0 1 9 0 111 77
2009-09-04 @KCR W 7.0 9 1 1 1 6 0 113 60
2008-05-07 @KCR L 3.1 10 8 8 1 1 2 82 8
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    0-0    Road:    0-0    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   0-0    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   0-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 Last 10: 0-0    Last 20: 0-0    Last 30: 0-0 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 12, 2011 KCR  9 @LAA  0        W:Vin Mazzaro (1-1), L: Tyler Chatwood (3-4), S: none
Sat, Jun 11, 2011 LAA  7  KCR  5        W:Scott Downs (4-2), L: Tim Collins (3-3), S: Jordan Walden (14)
Fri, Jun 10, 2011 KCR  4 @LAA  2        W:Jeff Francis (3-6), L: Ervin Santana (3-6), S: Joakim Soria (9)
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)
Season Series: 2012 -  0-0; 2011 - KCR won 7-3; 2010 - LAA won 7-3; All-Time - LAA leads 270-264

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 2012 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 2011 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.40

CLE  4.35

SEA  3.43

 RA/G

PHI  3.27

FLA  4.33

BAL  5.31

 BA

M. Cabrera  .344

A. Ramirez  .269

V. Wells  .218

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .448

J. Bruce  .341

V. Wells  .248

 SLG

J. Bautista  .608

C. Lee  .446

J. Bartlett  .307

 OPS

J. Bautista  1.056

Y. Escobar  .782

A. Rios  .613

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.28

R. Wolf  3.69

B. Penny  5.30

 K/9IP

Z. Greinke  10.54

G. Floyd  7.02

B. Penny  3.67

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2012 season. Player Stats for the 2011 season. We will switch to 2012 stats on May 1st.

Royals Batters ( RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers ( RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Weaver
G/S/vB		 37.Downs*
G/S/vB		 24.Haren
G/S/vB		 32.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 55.Isringhausen
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 54.Santana
G/S/vB		 21.Takahashi*
G/S/vB		 63.Thompson
G/S/vB		 51.Walden
G/S/vB		 33.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
11.Betancourt G/S/vP 45/.785 7/.857 26/.840 2/.000 2/.000 6/.666 52/.628 ··· 2/.000 ··· 15/.467 584/462 .252/.271/.381/.652 .576/.672 .624 / 4/4 13/21
30.Bourgeois G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 10/1.200 252/143 .294/.323/.357/.680 .925/.497 .708 / 31/6 1/1
16.Butler G/S/vP 24/.511 1/5.000 12/.750 ··· ··· 5/.933 36/1.079 3/.333 2/3.500 2/.000 14/.690 673/501 .291/.361/.461/.822 .917/.790 .782 / 2/1 19/0
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 23/17 .273/.304/.318/.623 .167/.765 .623 / 0/0 0/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.333 13/.962 2/1.000 3/.333 1/.000 3/1.000 598/447 .254/.290/.343/.633 .576/.651 .708 / 26/9 4/15
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 2/.000 2/1.000 13/.154 6/.666 5/1.000 3/1.334 13/.160 2/4.500 4/.000 2/.000 5/1.850 656/488 .285/.329/.476/.805 .934/.762 .788 / 22/10 20/5
17.Getz* G/S/vP 7/.629 2/.000 6/.000 ··· ··· 6/.533 22/.884 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 4/.500 429/319 .255/.313/.287/.600 .636/.588 .561 / 21/7 0/7
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 19/.944 4/1.833 12/.666 ··· 4/.500 5/.800 27/.750 4/1.000 2/.000 2/1.000 7/.286 690/478 .303/.376/.502/.879 .829/.901 .817 / 17/8 23/4
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 7/1.429 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 563/400 .293/.334/.465/.799 .585/.886 .793 / 11/5 19/8
12.Maier* G/S/vP 11/.364 ··· 6/.733 ··· ··· 1/.000 10/.400 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 113/72 .232/.345/.337/.682 .627/.714 .619 / 1/0 0/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.167 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 365/267 .263/.309/.367/.675 .494/.741 .715 / 2/0 5/11
27.Pena# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 6/.833 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 6/.333 2/1.500 1/2.000 1/2.000 6/.334 240/168 .248/.288/.338/.625 .600/.636 .770 / 0/0 3/2
33.Quintero G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 8/.250 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 272/213 .240/.258/.317/.575 .650/.555 .547 / 1/0 2/5
IP 235.2 53.2 238.1 48.1 46.2 13.0 228.2 68.0 54.0 60.1 223.1 TOTAL /// / / /
ERA-K/9 2.41/7.6 1.34/5.9 3.17/7.3 2.42/5.2 4.05/8.5 7.62/4.2 3.38/7.0 3.44/6.9 3.00/9.3 2.98/10.0 2.94/8.3 0.00/0.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (48-27-4)
 Quintero (48-14-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 926/.212 218/.199 953/.235 204/.260 200/.211 68/.375 949/.241 281/.232 228/.224 253/.223 915/.232  Gordon
 Francoeur
 Maier
 Bourgeois
 Cain
148/0/0/20
0/0/153/16
11/9/10/2
34/34/13/1
0/2/4/0
OPS .598 .539 .630 .624 .653 .981 .693 .663 .637 .642 .651
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 502/.578 92/.483 559/.617 90/.584 88/.869 33/.894 515/.703 129/.733 110/.621 139/.650 198/.658
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 424/.621 126/.581 394/.648 114/.655 112/.498 35/1.068 434/.681 152/.599 118/.651 114/.631 717/.650
Home 438/.563 97/.365 431/.566 116/.559 103/.577 28/1.016 516/.697 139/.647 116/.548 129/.641 425/.681
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 20/10/7 3/0/0 20/21/5 1/2/1 6/10/2 2/1/0 26/28/5 7/7/2 5/6/1 3/13/2 16/24/7 //
Usage

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2012 season. Player Stats for the 2011 season. We will switch to 2012 stats on May 1st.

Angels Batters ( RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers ( RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Chen*
G/S/vB		 51.Broxton
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 23.Duffy*
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 39.Mendoza
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 57.Sanchez*
G/S/vB		 61.Teaford*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
53.Abreu* G/S/vP 25/1.025 4/1.000 3/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 16/1.233 2/.000 3/.000 5/.650 6/.666 2/1.500 585/418 .253/.353/.365/.717 .598/.766 .727 / 21/5 8/1
19.Amarista* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 56/49 .154/.182/.250/.432 .000/.491 .313 / 0/0 0/2
2.Aybar# G/S/vP 6/1.167 8/.000 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· 13/1.500 2/1.000 3/1.667 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 605/405 .279/.322/.421/.743 .607/.807 .690 / 30/6 10/13
25.Bourjos G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 5/.400 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 552/362 .271/.327/.438/.765 .840/.725 .824 / 22/9 12/4
6.Callaspo# G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/.000 2/1.000 2/3.000 ··· ··· 3/2.000 1/.000 ··· 6/.666 1/no AB 1/.000 536/376 .288/.366/.375/.740 .730/.745 .674 / 8/1 6/15
48.Hunter G/S/vP 11/.773 6/.500 3/.333 2/.000 ··· ··· 12/.916 2/.000 3/2.334 3/.666 ··· 1/5.000 649/451 .262/.336/.429/.765 .886/.715 .844 / 5/7 23/3
17.Iannetta G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 1/3.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/1.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 26/1.079 ··· 426/314 .238/.370/.414/.785 .990/.718 .975 / 6/3 14/2
13.Izturis# G/S/vP 3/1.666 3/.000 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 11/.920 2/.000 5/1.600 1/no AB 4/2.750 1/.000 494/315 .276/.334/.388/.722 .780/.687 .610 / 9/6 5/8
47.Kendrick G/S/vP 8/1.715 2/2.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 8/1.500 1/.000 2/1.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 583/384 .285/.338/.464/.802 .840/.782 .731 / 14/6 18/5
8.Morales# G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 5/2.400 2/1.500 ··· / /// / / / /
5.Pujols G/S/vP 11/1.795 17/.368 1/2.000 2/2.000 2/2.000 ··· 3/1.167 2/.000 ··· ··· 11/1.145 ··· 651/527 .299/.366/.541/.906 .946/.897 .948 / 9/1 37/14
44.Trumbo G/S/vP 2/3.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 573/385 .254/.291/.477/.768 .748/.778 .766 / 9/4 29/10
10.Wells G/S/vP 21/1.328 ··· 3/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 9/.619 1/.000 4/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· 529/357 .218/.248/.412/.660 .851/.569 .564 / 9/4 25/3
46.Wilson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 127/62 .189/.252/.288/.540 .730/.345 .549 / 0/2 1/1
IP 155.0 12.2 67.0 62.0 105.1 2.0 198.0 60.0 14.2 49.0 101.1 44.0 TOTAL /// / / /
ERA-K/9 3.77/5.6 5.68/7.1 3.63/8.1 2.76/9.4 5.64/7.4 13.50/0.0 4.68/5.8 1.80/11.1 1.23/4.3 4.59/5.5 4.26/9.1 3.27/5.7 0.00/0.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Iannetta (70-30-8)
 Wilson (25-10-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 654/.258 62/.283 295/.216 266/.237 474/.287 9/.286 835/.252 233/.175 60/.212 228/.275 444/.220 175/.231  Hunter
 Bourjos
 Wells
 Abreu
 Amarista
 Kendrick
 Trumbo
0/1/136/15
0/147/0/7
111/12/10/4
18/0/10/2
8/0/0/1
23/0/0/1
1/0/10/0
OPS .727 .840 .681 .711 .864 1.232 .742 .521 .550 .797 .703 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 195/.678 26/.670 135/.683 120/.919 126/.811 2/2.500 456/.766 106/.522 29/.550 97/.698 109/.526 73/.570
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 459/.747 36/.951 160/.678 146/.537 348/.882 7/.733 379/.714 127/.519 31/.550 131/.874 335/.763 102/.799
Road 312/.693 17/.721 146/.597 126/.747 260/.863 3/.000 355/.748 129/.676 29/.468 114/.854 210/.668 70/.578
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 18/12/6 2/0/0 5/7/1 8/6/1 15/11/9 1/0/0 23/20/3 3/1/0 0/0/2 4/2/3 9/12/5 8/3/1 //
Usage

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.