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Game Preview: KCR @ NYY, 7:05pm, Monday, May 21, 2012 @Yankee Stadium III

NOTE: Some stats are only updated through Saturday, May 19, 2012. Site will be updated with yesterday's stats by 11:30am ET.

Royals, 16-24, 16-24 4th, 6½ GB, 8 GB in WC

SP: Felipe Paulino (28, RHP, 1-1, 1.93)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (1-1) 18.2 16 4 4 5 21 1 1.93
2011 (4-10) 139.1 146 74 69 55 133 13 4.46
2010 (1-9) 91.2 95 63 52 46 83 4 5.11
Last 7 GS 3-1 42.2 37 14 14 12 52 4 2.95 59
2012-05-16 BAL ND 7.0 5 0 0 2 9 0 103 74
2012-05-11 @CHW L 5.2 7 4 4 1 6 1 113 44
2012-05-05 NYY W 6.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 96 68
2011-09-26 @MIN W 6.0 6 3 3 2 9 1 104 55
2011-09-21 DET ND 5.0 6 2 2 2 8 0 103 53
2011-09-16 CHW ND 6.0 7 3 3 3 3 0 112 46
2011-09-10 @SEA W 7.0 2 2 2 0 11 2 108 76
Last 5 v.NYY 1-1 11.1 12 5 5 7 10 0 3.97 50
2012-05-05 NYY W 6.0 4 0 0 2 6 0 96 68
2011-08-15 NYY L 5.1 8 5 5 5 4 0 107 31
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-17   Road:   11-7    ExtrInn: 0-3 
 vsRHP:  14-16   vsLHP:   2-8    1-Run:   4-7 
 vsEast:  4-9    vsCntrl: 6-10   vsWest:  5-3  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 40 Sun, May 20   ARI  L   0-2       16-24  4th  6.5 gb
 39 Sat, May 19   ARI  W   7-3       16-23  4th  6.5 gb
 38 Fri, May 18   ARI  L   4-6       15-23  4th  6.5 gb
 37 Thu, May 17   BAL  L   3-5       15-22  4th  6.5 gb
 36 Wed, May 16   BAL  L   3-4 (15)  15-21  4th  5.5 gb
 35 Tue, May 15  @TEX  W   7-4       15-20  4th  4.5 gb
 34 Mon, May 14  @TEX  W   3-1       14-20  4th  4.5 gb
 33 Sun, May 13  @CHW  W   9-1       13-20  4th  4.5 gb
 32 Sat, May 12  @CHW  W   5-0       12-20  4th  5.5 gb
 31 Fri, May 11  @CHW  L   0-5       11-20  4th  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:13-17
Yankees, 21-20, 21-20 4th, 5½ GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Hiroki Kuroda (37, RHP, 3-5, 4.50)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (3-5) 48.0 52 27 24 17 30 9 4.50
2011 (13-16) 202.0 196 77 69 49 161 24 3.07
2010 (11-13) 196.1 180 87 74 48 159 15 3.39
Last 7 GS 3-4 42.1 44 21 20 13 28 8 4.25 50
2012-05-16 @TOR L 5.0 8 7 7 2 6 3 101 27
2012-05-11 SEA W 7.0 6 2 2 3 2 2 105 56
2012-05-05 @KCR L 4.1 6 3 2 3 2 0 91 40
2012-04-30 BAL W 7.0 4 1 1 1 3 0 87 67
2012-04-24 @TEX L 6.2 5 2 2 2 5 1 107 59
2012-04-18 MIN L 4.1 10 6 6 0 4 2 81 23
2012-04-13 LAA W 8.0 5 0 0 2 6 0 109 76
Last 5 v.KCR 0-1 4.1 6 3 2 3 2 0 4.15 40
2012-05-05 @KCR L 4.1 6 3 2 3 2 0 91 40
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   12-10   Road:    9-10   ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:  14-14   vsLHP:   7-6    1-Run:   4-4 
 vsEast:  9-9    vsCntrl: 6-5    vsWest:  5-4  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 41 Sun, May 20   CIN  L   2-5       21-20  4th  5.5 gb
 40 Sat, May 19   CIN  L   5-6       21-19  4th  5.5 gb
 39 Fri, May 18   CIN  W   4-0       21-18  4th  4.5 gb
 38 Thu, May 17  @TOR  L   1-4       20-18  4th  4.5 gb
 37 Wed, May 16  @TOR  L   1-8       20-17  3rd  3.5 gb
 36 Tue, May 15  @BAL  L   2-5       20-16  3rd  2.5 gb
 35 Mon, May 14  @BAL  W   8-5       20-15  3rd  1.5 gb
 34 Sun, May 13   SEA  L   2-6       19-15  3rd  2.5 gb
 33 Sat, May 12   SEA  W   6-2       19-14  3rd  2.5 gb
 32 Fri, May 11   SEA  W   6-2       18-14  3rd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 06, 2012 NYY 10 @KCR  4        W:Phil Hughes (2-4), L: Luke Hochevar (2-3), S: none
Sat, May 05, 2012 KCR  5  NYY  1        W:Felipe Paulino (1-0), L: Hiroki Kuroda (2-4), S: none
Fri, May 04, 2012 NYY  6 @KCR  2        W:CC Sabathia (4-0), L: Bruce Chen (0-4), S: none
Thu, May 03, 2012 KCR  4  NYY  3        W:Danny Duffy (2-2), L: David Phelps (0-1), S: Jonathan Broxton (5)

Wed, Aug 17, 2011 KCR  5  NYY  4        W:Bruce Chen (8-5), L: Bartolo Colon (8-7), S: Joakim Soria (22)
Tue, Aug 16, 2011 NYY  9 @KCR  7        W:Ivan Nova (12-4), L: Danny Duffy (3-7), S: Mariano Rivera (32)
Mon, Aug 15, 2011 NYY  7 @KCR  4        W:A.J. Burnett (9-9), L: Felipe Paulino (1-9), S: Mariano Rivera (31)
Thu, May 12, 2011 KCR 11 @NYY  5        W:Sean O'Sullivan (2-2), L: Ivan Nova (3-3), S: none
Wed, May 11, 2011 KCR  4 @NYY  3 (11)   W:Joakim Soria (3-0), L: Buddy Carlyle (0-1), S: Louis Coleman (1)
Tue, May 10, 2011 NYY  3  KCR  1        W:Freddy Garcia (2-2), L: Kyle Davies (1-5), S: Mariano Rivera (13)
Season Series: 2012 - tied 2-2; 2011 - Tied 3-3; 2010 - NYY won 5-3; All-Time - NYY leads 266-182

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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  5.60

HOU  4.07

PIT  2.88

 RA/G

WSN  3.34

TBR  4.00

MIN  5.49

 BA

D. Wright  .409

K. Johnson  .263

R. Weeks  .154

 OBP

D. Wright  .510

C. Hart  .329

C. Barmes  .190

 SLG

J. Hamilton  .785

T. Hunter  .413

M. Byrd  .238

 OPS

J. Hamilton  1.227

S. Castro  .746

C. Barmes  .471

 ERA

B. Beachy  1.33

B. Norris  3.58

C. Buchholz  7.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.64

J. Johnson  7.23

D. Lowe  2.30

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

Royals Batters (4.00 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.44 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 18.Kuroda
G/S/vB		 38.Eppley
G/S/vB		 36.Garcia
G/S/vB		 48.Logan*
G/S/vB		 46.Pettitte*
G/S/vB		 41.Phelps
G/S/vB		 39.Rapada*
G/S/vB		 29.Soriano
G/S/vB		 53.Wade
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP 3/2.000 1/.000 18/.977 4/1.750 12/.917 2/1.000 ··· 5/.800 ··· 171/126 .297/.357/.523/.879 .897/.872 .884 105/.920 0/1 8/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 101/70 .276/.347/.322/.668 .550/.721 .913 91/.668 4/3 0/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP 5/.400 2/2.000 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 152/115 .296/.338/.415/.753 .780/.745 .658 89/.695 7/1 1/3
19.Falu# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 30/17 .429/.429/.571/1.000 1.083/.938 .667 30/1.000 0/0 0/1
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 9/1.181 2/2.500 6/.666 5/.600 8/1.750 2/.000 ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 164/122 .255/.305/.366/.671 .739/.649 .678 99/.704 0/3 1/0
17.Getz* G/S/vP 5/.000 2/.500 7/.971 ··· 2/1.000 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 92/71 .272/.318/.383/.701 .528/.751 .683 63/.680 6/1 0/1
9.Giavotella G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 26/7 .208/.269/.250/.519 .610/.286 .619 26/.519 0/0 0/0
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/2.000 1/.000 11/.582 17/.177 9/.555 2/.000 5/.400 1/no AB 1/.000 181/125 .231/.320/.363/.683 .681/.684 .689 110/.743 1/1 4/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 3/.333 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 164/117 .172/.238/.311/.549 .378/.618 .564 93/.434 1/1 5/2
12.Maier* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.650 2/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· 51/43 .182/.294/.318/.612 .625/.603 .868 20/.472 1/0 1/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/2.500 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 146/110 .296/.349/.511/.860 .762/.895 .820 86/.867 1/0 6/3
27.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 74/53 .264/.284/.347/.631 .571/.655 .448 45/.562 0/0 0/1
33.Quintero G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 4/.500 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 82/66 .250/.293/.395/.687 .536/.722 .775 49/.592 0/1 1/3
IP 48.0 7.2 20.2 17.0 14.1 29.1 12.0 14.1 20.0 TOTAL .258/.315/.394/.710 .651/.732 .700 .698 22/14 28/22
ERA-K/9 4.50/5.6 3.52/5.8 8.27/6.5 3.18/13.8 2.51/6.9 2.76/8.0 3.75/6.0 2.51/8.8 2.25/10.3 4.14/8.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Pena (14-8-1)
 Quintero (17-10-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 207/.277 31/.259 95/.329 71/.238 55/.220 124/.234 49/.225 64/.250 74/.211 .263  Francoeur
 Dyson
 Gordon
 Maier
0/0/39/5
0/22/0/1
39/0/0/1
0/12/1/0
OPS .812 .725 .936 .691 .618 .723 .704 .737 .567 .777
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 116/.901 14/.607 55/.914 44/.629 18/.222 61/.812 36/.648 35/.722 32/.508 .770
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 91/.699 17/.820 40/.966 27/.792 37/.830 63/.637 13/.862 29/.752 42/.613 .783
Home 105/.717 13/.762 45/1.041 41/.819 55/.618 57/.436 27/.546 35/.884 36/.621
Last 28d days 127/.770 27/.681 37/.688 36/.758 55/.618 77/.822 27/.644 34/.640 40/.610
HR/SB/CS 9/6/2 1/0/0 3/4/2 1/2/0 2/0/2 5/0/0 1/0/0 0/2/1 1/1/0 50/21/8
Usage ····X··· ·o··X··· ···o·X·· ··o···o· ··X····X ·X····X· ·o··o·oX ······o· ···X··oX
Yankees Batters (4.61 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.55 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 59.Paulino
G/S/vB		 47.Adcock
G/S/vB		 51.Broxton
G/S/vB		 31.Coleman
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cano* G/S/vP 6/.833 2/.500 2/1.500 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 6/.000 173/114 .302/.353/.472/.824 .645/.920 .860 98/.889 1/0 4/2
12.Chavez* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 56/52 .288/.304/.500/.804 .750/.808 .756 46/.664 0/0 3/2
14.Granderson* G/S/vP 9/.619 1/.000 2/no AB 1/no AB 4/.500 2/1.000 1/3.000 2/.500 10/1.300 179/120 .256/.348/.551/.900 .848/.926 1.018 104/.831 1/2 13/0
27.Ibanez* G/S/vP 8/.500 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 118/104 .264/.331/.557/.887 .593/.928 1.037 75/.968 2/0 9/0
2.Jeter G/S/vP 7/1.000 3/.666 3/1.167 2/1.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 6/.167 181/131 .355/.400/.500/.900 1.307/.740 .769 102/.760 3/1 5/3
22.Jones G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.666 3/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.800 66/24 .224/.303/.448/.751 .559/1.089 .951 36/.861 0/0 4/0
55.Martin G/S/vP 5/.800 3/1.167 ··· ··· 3/1.000 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 1/5.000 122/92 .170/.320/.320/.640 .912/.555 .477 70/.616 1/0 4/1
17.Nix G/S/vP 3/1.167 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.666 4/1.167 20/11 .263/.300/.579/.879 .444/1.264 1.750 20/.879 0/1 2/0
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 3/1.167 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/5.000 4/1.000 167/116 .278/.377/.410/.787 .807/.778 .852 96/.778 4/0 5/2
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/15 .200/.226/.233/.459 .646/.267 .444 20/.300 0/0 0/1
33.Swisher# G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 3/.000 5/.400 146/107 .260/.322/.504/.826 .690/.873 .787 71/.758 0/0 7/0
25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 6/.333 2/.000 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 5/1.733 159/109 .228/.283/.386/.669 .623/.691 .598 90/.562 1/1 5/0
45.Wise* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.200 18/17 .118/.167/.176/.343 .000/.364 .000 18/.343 1/0 0/0
IP 18.2 19.1 15.2 12.1 20.1 19.1 22.2 9.2 17.1 TOTAL .267/.338/.454/.793 .800/.789 .799 .747 22/6 60/19
ERA-K/9 1.93/10.1 2.33/4.7 2.30/5.7 2.92/6.6 3.10/13.3 3.26/8.4 3.97/7.9 8.38/13.0 2.60/7.8 4.33/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (18-7-3)
 Stewart (3-1-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 75/.232 83/.289 66/.268 50/.209 83/.197 78/.191 87/.229 50/.341 73/.266 .265  Swisher
 Ibanez
 Jones
 Granderson
 Wise
 Nix
0/0/27/2
17/0/7/1
10/0/7/1
0/40/0/0
9/0/2/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .646 .785 .737 .701 .635 .530 .710 .868 .721 .752
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 43/.686 36/.581 32/.906 21/.829 37/.808 29/.407 31/.874 19/1.099 38/.419 .771
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 32/.592 47/.941 34/.581 29/.595 46/.507 49/.603 56/.621 31/.720 35/1.045 .738
Road 24/.942 23/.698 33/.630 6/1.800 46/.342 37/.579 35/.812 24/.667 32/.550
Last 28d days 75/.646 83/.785 41/.703 25/.667 48/.560 44/.638 53/.486 14/.419 41/.752
HR/SB/CS 1/1/1 2/2/2 1/0/1 2/0/2 3/5/0 1/0/1 4/2/2 0/0/0 2/1/1 34/31/18
Usage ····X··· X···X··· ·o··X·XX X·Xo···· ··o·oX·o ·o·X·oo· X·X·o·oo Xo···o·o ·o·o·ooo

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.