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Game Preview: KCR @ ATL, 12:10pm, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 @Turner Field

Royals, 7-6, 7-6 2nd, 1 GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Wade Davis (27, RHP, 1-0, 4.00)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (1-0) 9.0 13 4 4 3 8 2 4.00
2012 (3-0) 70.1 48 20 19 29 87 5 2.43
2011 (11-10) 184.0 190 96 91 63 105 23 4.45
Last 7 GS 4-2 43.2 42 20 20 16 32 6 4.12 52
2013-04-10 MIN W 5.0 4 0 0 3 6 0 96 62
2013-04-05 @PHI ND 4.0 9 4 4 0 2 2 76 30
2011-09-25 TOR W 8.0 3 2 2 2 6 1 107 72
2011-09-20 @NYY L 4.2 8 5 5 5 2 0 109 25
2011-09-14 @BAL L 6.1 7 4 4 2 3 2 102 44
2011-09-09 BOS W 9.0 6 2 2 0 8 0 114 75
2011-09-03 BAL W 6.2 5 3 3 4 5 1 112 53
Last 5 v.ATL 0-1 5.0 7 3 3 0 5 0 5.40 46
2010-06-16 @ATL L 5.0 7 3 3 0 5 0 81 46
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-2    Road:    3-4    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   6-3    vsLHP:   1-3    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 2-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Tue, Apr 16  @ATL  L   3-6        7-6   2nd  1.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 7-6    Last 30: 7-6
Braves, 12-1, 12-1 1st, 4½ up

SP: Mike Minor (25, LHP, 2-0, 0.69)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-0) 13.0 10 1 1 1 11 1 0.69
2012 (11-10) 179.1 151 88 82 56 145 26 4.12
2011 (5-3) 82.2 93 39 38 30 77 7 4.14
Last 7 GS 6-0 44.0 23 4 4 10 39 2 0.82 68
2013-04-10 @MIA W 5.2 5 0 0 1 4 0 101 62
2013-04-05 CHC W 7.1 5 1 1 0 7 1 84 71
2012-09-29 NYM W 6.1 3 0 0 0 4 0 88 71
2012-09-22 @PHI W 6.0 2 2 2 1 6 1 91 65
2012-09-16 WSN W 6.0 5 1 1 2 3 0 86 59
2012-09-10 @MIL ND 5.2 2 0 0 2 8 0 115 71
2012-09-05 COL W 7.0 1 0 0 4 7 0 108 78
Has never faced KCR as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    6-1    Road:    6-0    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   8-0    vsLHP:   4-1    1-Run:   2-0 
 vsEast:  8-1    vsCntrl: 3-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 1-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 13 Tue, Apr 16   KCR  W   6-3       12-1   1st  4.5 up
 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
 Last 10:10-0    Last 20:12-1    Last 30:12-1 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Apr 16, 2013 ATL  6  KCR  3        W:Eric O'Flaherty (3-0), L: Kelvin Herrera (1-1), S: none

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 - ATL over 1-0; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - ATL leads 5-2

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

T. Cahill  3.78

R. Romero  5.77

 K/9IP

M. Scherzer  11.08

U. Jimenez  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 (4.23 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (2.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 42.Minor*
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/.666 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 679/492 .313/.373/.510/.882 1.036/.827 .893 47/.870 2/1 29/3
42.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 244/163 .266/.316/.419/.734 .844/.681 .588 48/.703 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 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 648/458 .293/.331/.390/.721 .676/.739 .659 57/.622 35/5 5/19
42.Francoeur G/S/vP 3/.833 1/2.000 9/.222 ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 2/.000 603/424 .235/.287/.378/.665 .695/.652 .652 48/.683 4/7 16/4
42.Getz* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 210/157 .275/.312/.360/.672 .547/.714 .631 42/.825 9/3 0/4
42.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· 3/.666 721/467 .294/.368/.455/.822 .668/.908 .798 58/.897 10/5 14/2
42.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.833 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 598/397 .232/.304/.359/.663 .591/.700 .649 39/.632 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 ··· ··· 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 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 614/435 .242/.296/.412/.708 .704/.710 .624 46/.453 5/2 20/15
42.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 305/218 .301/.328/.471/.798 1.021/.711 .855 55/.606 0/0 11/4
42.Tejada G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 5/1.200 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· / /// / 9/.708 / /
IP 179.1 36.0 75.0 20.0 62.2 57.1 16.2 39.0 TOTAL .267/.318/.380/.698 .783/.651 .691 .698 9/2 5/8
ERA-K/9 4.12/7.3 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 1.83/6.5

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 728/.232 142/.211 320/.272 80/.233 231/.126 230/.229 76/.250 172/.229 .204  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 .702 .547 .717 .642 .358 .602 .766 .674 .544
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 179/.724 58/.528 144/.759 32/.992 122/.331 78/.305 39/.869 87/.606 .596
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 549/.694 84/.559 176/.683 48/.411 109/.387 152/.759 37/.656 85/.743 .478
Home 383/.612 68/.434 167/.698 50/.648 126/.379 95/.607 53/.682 90/.635
Last 28d days 48/.570 19/.551 13/.923 14/.143 23/.269 29/.472 24/.467 16/.688
HR/SB/CS 26/10/2 1/2/0 7/5/0 1/1/0 3/8/1 3/1/2 2/0/0 3/5/2 7/10/1
Usage ······X· o·o····· ····o··· ··o···X· o··oo··o X··oo··X ······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 (5.23 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 42.Davis
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 3/1.500 0/0 0/0
42.Francisco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 205/165 .234/.278/.432/.710 .468/.768 .876 38/.898 1/1 9/6
42.Gattis G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· / /// / 43/1.007 / /
42.Heyward* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 1/5.000 ··· ··· 651/394 .269/.335/.479/.814 .635/.934 .750 53/.562 21/8 27/5
42.Johnson G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 1/.000 528/377 .281/.326/.451/.777 .672/.819 .810 43/.978 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 2/.000 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 ··· 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 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 182/117 .289/.335/.416/.751 .796/.726 .828 46/.570 1/0 3/3
42.Uggla G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/5.000 ··· ··· 630/420 .220/.348/.384/.732 .776/.710 .656 54/.693 4/3 19/12
42.Upton G/S/vP ··· 15/.200 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 2/.000 23/.695 3/.333 633/454 .246/.298/.454/.752 .792/.737 .814 52/.511 31/6 28/3
42.Upton G/S/vP 3/1.667 3/.333 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/3.500 8/1.500 1/no AB 628/439 .280/.355/.430/.785 .830/.766 .924 57/1.304 18/8 17/5
IP 70.1 191.2 69.2 64.2 84.1 185.1 67.0 TOTAL .259/.333/.473/.805 .707/.858 .824 .805 9/2 25/11
ERA-K/9 2.43/11.1 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 3.56/8.8

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 284/.189 827/.281 295/.216 260/.231 / 344/.250 800/.281 289/.234 .235  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 .570 .813 .692 .601 .643 .818 .653 .694
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 130/.464 210/.852 135/.769 95/.556 / 138/.742 435/.877 125/.577 .706
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 154/.654 617/.800 160/.626 165/.626 / 206/.580 365/.749 164/.712 .743
Road 131/.524 416/.853 142/.450 112/.616 / 169/.642 444/.812 134/.703
Last 28d days 42/.931 15/.400 17/.180 16/.450 13/.808 25/.932 17/.741 20/.979
HR/SB/CS 5/4/2 33/18/8 8/9/0 4/2/2 // 4/12/4 27/15/7 2/2/2 18/9/2
Usage ······X· ······X· ·······X X······· ····o··· X·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.