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Game Preview: KCR @ ATL, 7:10pm, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 @Turner Field

Royals, 7-5, 7-5 1st, Tied

SP: Jeremy Guthrie (34, RHP, 2-0, 3.55)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-0) 12.2 11 5 5 2 11 3 3.55
2012 (8-12) 181.2 206 109 96 50 101 30 4.76
2011 (9-17) 208.0 213 113 100 66 130 26 4.33
Last 7 GS 3-0 47.2 42 16 14 9 27 6 2.64 58
2013-04-09 MIN W 6.2 6 4 4 1 2 3 110 47
2013-04-04 @CHW W 6.0 5 1 1 1 9 0 94 66
2012-10-02 DET W 6.0 5 2 2 3 3 0 100 54
2012-09-26 @DET ND 7.0 7 4 4 2 3 2 103 48
2012-09-20 CHW ND 6.0 8 3 1 1 4 0 107 51
2012-09-15 LAA ND 8.0 5 2 2 1 2 1 107 65
2012-09-09 @CHW ND 8.0 6 0 0 0 4 0 97 74
Last 5 v.ATL 0-1 7.0 6 4 3 3 6 1 3.86 54
2011-07-01 @ATL L 7.0 6 4 3 3 6 1 94 54
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-2    Road:    3-3    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   6-2    vsLHP:   1-3    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Sun, Apr 14   TOR  W   3-2        7-5   1st    Tied
 11 Sat, Apr 13   TOR  L   2-3        6-5   1st    Tied
 10 Fri, Apr 12   TOR  L   4-8        6-4   1st  1.0 up
  9 Wed, Apr 10   MIN  W   3-0        6-3   1st  1.5 up
  8 Tue, Apr  9   MIN  W   7-4        5-3   1st  0.5 up
  7 Mon, Apr  8   MIN  W   3-1        4-3   2nd  0.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr  7  @PHI  W   9-8        3-3   3rd  1.0 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  6  @PHI  L   3-4        2-3   4th  1.0 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  5  @PHI  W  13-4        2-2   1st    Tied
  3 Thu, Apr  4  @CHW  W   3-1        1-2   4th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20: 7-5    Last 30: 7-5
Braves, 11-1, 11-1 1st, 3½ up

SP: Kris Medlen (27, RHP, 1-1, 1.50)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (1-1) 12.0 9 3 2 6 4 0 1.50
2012 (10-1) 138.0 103 26 24 23 120 6 1.57
2011 (0-0) 2.1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0.00
Last 7 GS 4-1 46.0 30 10 8 11 38 4 1.57 65
2013-04-09 @MIA W 7.0 3 1 0 2 1 0 90 68
2013-04-04 PHI L 5.0 6 2 2 4 3 0 92 46
2012-09-30 NYM W 6.0 3 1 0 1 4 0 79 67
2012-09-25 MIA ND 7.0 5 3 3 0 8 2 92 63
2012-09-19 @MIA W 8.0 4 0 0 1 6 0 99 79
2012-09-14 WSN ND 7.0 5 1 1 1 13 1 96 75
2012-09-08 @NYM W 6.0 4 2 2 2 3 1 80 57
Last 5 v.KCR 0-0 6.1 5 4 3 2 5 0 4.26 52
2010-06-19 KCR ND 6.1 5 4 3 2 5 0 98 52
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-1    Road:    6-0    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   7-0    vsLHP:   4-1    1-Run:   2-0 
 vsEast:  8-1    vsCntrl: 3-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Sun, Apr 14  @WSN  W   9-0       11-1   1st  3.5 up
 11 Sat, Apr 13  @WSN  W   3-1       10-1   1st  3.0 up
 10 Fri, Apr 12  @WSN  W   6-4 (10)   9-1   1st  2.0 up
  9 Wed, Apr 10  @MIA  W   8-0        8-1   1st  1.5 up
  8 Tue, Apr  9  @MIA  W   3-2        7-1   1st  1.5 up
  7 Mon, Apr  8  @MIA  W   2-0        6-1   1st  1.0 up
  6 Sun, Apr  7   CHC  W   5-1        5-1   1st  1.0 up
  5 Sat, Apr  6   CHC  W   6-5        4-1   1st    Tied
  4 Fri, Apr  5   CHC  W   4-1        3-1   1st    Tied
  3 Thu, Apr  4   PHI  L   0-2        2-1   2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 9-1    Last 20:11-1    Last 30:11-1 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 20, 2010 ATL  8  KCR  5        W:Craig Kimbrel (2-0), L: Blake Wood (0-1), S: Billy Wagner (14)
Sat, Jun 19, 2010 ATL  5  KCR  4        W:Billy Wagner (5-0), L: Rob Tejeda (2-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 18, 2010 ATL  6  KCR  4        W:Derek Lowe (9-5), L: Brian Bannister (6-5), S: Billy Wagner (13)
Thu, Jun 17, 2004 KCR 10 @ATL  4        W:Darrell May (4-8), L: John Thomson (5-5), S: none
Wed, Jun 16, 2004 KCR 10 @ATL  4        W:Jaime Cerda (1-1), L: Chris Reitsma (3-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 15, 2004 ATL  3  KCR  2        W:Chris Reitsma (3-1), L: Jason Grimsley (3-3), S: John Smoltz (10)
Season Series: 2013 -  0-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - ATL leads 4-2

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 2013 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 2012 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

TEX  4.99

MIN  4.33

HOU  3.60

 RA/G

TBR  3.56

LAA  4.31

COL  5.49

 BA

B. Posey  .336

A. Rodriguez  .272

C. Pena  .197

 OBP

J. Mauer  .416

A. Jones  .334

D. Stubbs  .277

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .606

H. Ramirez  .437

J. Weeks  .304

 OPS

M. Cabrera  .999

A. Pagan  .778

J. Weeks  .609

 ERA

C. Kershaw  2.53

L. Lynn  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

M. Minor  7.28

H. Alvarez  3.80

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Royals Batters (4.33 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (1.92 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 42.Medlen
G/S/vB		 42.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 42.Ayala
G/S/vB		 42.Gearrin
G/S/vB		 42.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 42.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 42.Varvaro
G/S/vB		 42.Walden
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
42.Butler G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 679/492 .313/.373/.510/.882 1.036/.827 .893 46/.892 2/1 29/3
42.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 244/163 .266/.316/.419/.734 .844/.681 .588 44/.674 10/0 7/4
42.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 330/256 .260/.328/.322/.650 .510/.689 .667 13/.923 30/5 0/6
42.Escobar G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 648/458 .293/.331/.390/.721 .676/.739 .659 52/.684 35/5 5/19
42.Francoeur G/S/vP 7/1.571 ··· 9/.222 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 603/424 .235/.287/.378/.665 .695/.652 .652 44/.654 4/7 16/4
42.Getz* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 210/157 .275/.312/.360/.672 .547/.714 .631 38/.778 9/3 0/4
42.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 721/467 .294/.368/.455/.822 .668/.908 .798 53/.906 10/5 14/2
42.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.833 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 598/397 .232/.304/.359/.663 .591/.700 .649 35/.710 16/1 14/10
42.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 331/219 .242/.304/.350/.654 .586/.698 .800 11/.400 18/6 6/14
42.Kottaras* G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 209/173 .211/.351/.415/.766 .736/.770 .740 / 0/0 9/4
42.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 614/435 .242/.296/.412/.708 .704/.710 .624 42/.449 5/2 20/15
42.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 305/218 .301/.328/.471/.798 1.021/.711 .855 51/.654 0/0 11/4
42.Tejada G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.200 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· / /// / 9/.708 / /
IP 138.0 36.0 75.0 20.0 62.2 57.1 16.2 39.0 TOTAL .269/.324/.385/.709 .788/.663 .712 .709 9/2 4/7
ERA-K/9 1.57/7.8 2.00/8.2 2.64/6.1 1.80/9.0 1.01/16.7 1.73/7.2 5.40/11.3 3.46/11.1 1.82/6.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kottaras (38-8-3)
 Perez (25-18-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 520/.208 142/.211 320/.272 80/.233 231/.126 230/.229 76/.250 172/.229 .200  Francoeur
 Gordon
 Dyson
 Cain
 Hosmer
 Johnson
0/3/145/19
160/0/0/17
0/88/0/8
1/50/9/3
0/0/3/1
3/0/0/0
OPS .529 .547 .717 .642 .358 .602 .766 .674 .541
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 263/.519 58/.528 144/.759 32/.992 122/.331 78/.305 39/.869 87/.606 .591
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 257/.539 84/.559 176/.683 48/.411 109/.387 152/.759 37/.656 85/.743 .475
Home 293/.555 68/.434 167/.698 50/.648 126/.379 95/.607 53/.682 90/.635
Last 28d days 51/.573 17/.494 13/.923 14/.143 20/.206 25/.467 24/.467 16/.688
HR/SB/CS 6/5/2 1/2/0 7/5/0 1/1/0 3/8/1 3/1/2 2/0/0 3/5/2 6/10/1
Usage ······X· ·o······ ···o···· ·o···X·· ··oo··oX ··oo··Xo ·····X·· ···o····

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2013 season. Player Stats for the 2012 season. We will switch to 2013 stats on May 1st.

Braves Batters (5.17 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 42.Guthrie
G/S/vB		 42.Chen*
G/S/vB		 42.Collins*
G/S/vB		 42.Crow
G/S/vB		 42.Gutierrez
G/S/vB		 42.Herrera
G/S/vB		 42.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 42.Holland
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
42.DeWitt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 3/1.334 ··· 30/30 .138/.133/.172/.306 /.306 .210 2/.000 0/0 0/0
42.Francisco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 205/165 .234/.278/.432/.710 .468/.768 .876 34/.658 1/1 9/6
42.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 39/1.120 / /
42.Heyward* G/S/vP 4/1.750 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 651/394 .269/.335/.479/.814 .635/.934 .750 49/.491 21/8 27/5
42.Johnson G/S/vP 7/.000 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 1/.000 528/377 .281/.326/.451/.777 .672/.819 .810 39/.949 5/1 15/19
42.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 18/.230 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 3/1.000 ··· 288/127 .290/.337/.398/.735 .798/.654 .612 11/.382 2/2 3/2
42.Laird G/S/vP 12/.917 20/.974 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.666 191/82 .282/.337/.374/.710 .622/.828 .695 14/.929 0/0 2/4
42.Pena# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2.334 1/.000 4/3 .250/.250/.250/.500 .000/.667 .500 23/.915 0/0 0/0
42.Schafer* G/S/vP 11/.664 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 360/303 .211/.297/.294/.591 .356/.636 .649 7/1.286 27/9 4/2
42.Simmons G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 182/117 .289/.335/.416/.751 .796/.726 .828 42/.578 1/0 3/3
42.Uggla G/S/vP 6/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 630/420 .220/.348/.384/.732 .776/.710 .656 50/.637 4/3 19/12
42.Upton G/S/vP 48/.842 15/.200 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 23/.695 3/.333 633/454 .246/.298/.454/.752 .792/.737 .814 48/.529 31/6 28/3
42.Upton G/S/vP ··· 3/.333 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 8/1.500 1/no AB 628/439 .280/.355/.430/.785 .830/.766 .924 53/1.306 18/8 17/5
IP 181.2 191.2 69.2 64.2 84.1 185.1 67.0 TOTAL .258/.334/.447/.781 .707/.825 .775 .781 8/2 20/8
ERA-K/9 4.76/5.0 5.07/6.6 3.36/12.0 3.48/9.0 /0.0 2.35/8.2 5.73/7.0 2.96/12.2 3.32/8.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Laird (42-10-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 788/.288 827/.281 295/.216 260/.231 / 344/.250 800/.281 289/.234 .232  Heyward
 Upton
 Upton
 Schafer
 Johnson
 DeWitt
 Johnson
0/2/154/11
0/142/0/10
0/0/149/6
0/87/0/4
37/32/29/3
1/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .822 .813 .692 .601 .643 .818 .653 .660
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 397/.868 210/.852 135/.769 95/.556 / 138/.742 435/.877 125/.577 .643
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 391/.775 617/.800 160/.626 165/.626 / 206/.580 365/.749 164/.712 .739
Road 346/.827 416/.853 142/.450 112/.616 / 169/.642 444/.812 134/.703
Last 28d days 52/.698 15/.400 17/.180 14/.368 13/.808 19/.325 17/.741 20/.979
HR/SB/CS 30/8/4 33/18/8 8/9/0 4/2/2 // 4/12/4 27/15/7 2/2/2 13/8/2
Usage ······X· ·····X·· ······X· ·······X ···o···· ·X···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.