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Game Preview: KCR @ BAL, 7:05pm, Wednesday, May 8, 2013 @Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Royals, 17-12, 17-12 2nd, 1½ GB, 1 GB in WC

SP: Luis Mendoza (29, RHP, 0-1, 7.00)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (0-1) 18.0 17 15 14 10 14 3 7.00
2012 (8-10) 166.0 176 84 78 59 104 15 4.23
2011 (2-0) 14.2 11 3 2 5 7 0 1.23
Last 7 GS 1-2 41.2 39 23 20 15 33 4 4.32 51
2013-05-01 TBR ND 4.0 7 6 6 1 3 3 68 26
2013-04-12 TOR L 5.2 7 8 7 3 2 0 89 24
2013-04-06 @PHI ND 6.0 2 1 1 3 7 0 92 68
2012-10-03 DET L 7.0 6 1 1 3 6 0 109 64
2012-09-27 @DET ND 7.0 7 4 2 1 6 0 86 56
2012-09-21 CLE W 6.0 8 2 2 2 3 0 90 49
2012-09-13 @MIN ND 6.0 2 1 1 2 6 1 96 68
Last 5 v.BAL 2-1 14.0 17 9 9 4 7 2 5.79 44
2012-08-11 @BAL W 6.0 7 3 3 2 4 0 93 48
2008-08-08 @BAL L 3.0 6 5 5 1 1 1 69 27
2007-09-21 BAL W 5.0 4 1 1 1 2 1 71 56
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   10-5    Road:    7-7    ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  13-7    vsLHP:   4-5    1-Run:   7-6 
 vsEast:  5-4    vsCntrl: 9-6    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 3-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 29 Tue, May  7  @BAL  L   3-4       17-12  2nd  1.5 gb
 28 Mon, May  6   CHW  L   1-2 (11)  17-11  2nd  1.0 gb
 27 Sun, May  5   CHW  W   6-5 (10)  17-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 26 Sat, May  4   CHW  W   2-0       16-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 25 Wed, May  1   TBR  W   9-8       15-10  1st  0.5 up
 24 Tue, Apr 30   TBR  W   8-2       14-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 23 Mon, Apr 29   CLE  L   0-9       13-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 22 Sun, Apr 28   CLE  L   3-10      13-9   1st  0.5 up
 21 Sun, Apr 28   CLE  W   9-0       13-8   1st  0.5 up
 20 Sat, Apr 27   CLE  W   3-2       12-8   1st  1.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:17-12
Orioles, 20-13, 20-13 2nd, 1 GB, 1 up in WC

SP: Chris Tillman (25, RHP, 2-1, 3.63)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-1) 34.2 33 14 14 15 28 3 3.63
2012 (9-3) 86.0 66 38 28 24 66 12 2.93
2011 (3-5) 62.0 77 41 38 25 46 5 5.52
Last 7 GS 2-2 39.2 37 17 17 15 33 6 3.86 52
2013-05-02 @LAA W 8.0 3 0 0 2 3 0 114 77
2013-04-27 @OAK W 6.0 7 2 2 2 7 0 103 55
2013-04-22 TOR ND 6.2 4 1 1 3 3 0 103 62
2013-04-17 TBR L 5.0 6 4 4 2 6 2 93 43
2013-04-11 @BOS ND 5.1 6 2 2 2 5 0 101 51
2013-04-06 MIN ND 3.2 7 5 5 4 4 1 93 27
2012-10-03 @TBR L 5.0 4 3 3 0 5 3 83 52
Last 5 v.KCR 0-2 14.0 23 17 17 4 10 6 10.93 29
2012-08-11 KCR L 5.2 6 6 6 2 5 3 109 36
2011-05-05 @KCR L 3.2 10 8 8 1 3 0 79 11
2009-07-29 KCR ND 4.2 7 3 3 1 2 3 93 39
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    8-5    Road:   12-8    ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  15-8    vsLHP:   5-5    1-Run:   6-5 
 vsEast:  9-6    vsCntrl: 2-2    vsWest:  7-4  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 33 Tue, May  7   KCR  W   4-3       20-13  2nd  1.0 gb
 32 Sun, May  5  @LAA  W   8-4       19-13  2nd  1.5 gb
 31 Sat, May  4  @LAA  W   5-4 (10)  18-13  3rd  2.5 gb
 30 Fri, May  3  @LAA  L   0-4       17-13  3rd  3.5 gb
 29 Thu, May  2  @LAA  W   5-1       17-12  3rd  3.5 gb
 28 Wed, May  1  @SEA  L   3-8       16-12  3rd  3.5 gb
 27 Tue, Apr 30  @SEA  W   7-2       16-11  3rd  2.5 gb
 26 Mon, Apr 29  @SEA  L   2-6       15-11  3rd  3.5 gb
 25 Sun, Apr 28  @OAK  L   8-9 (10)  15-10  3rd  3.0 gb
 24 Sat, Apr 27  @OAK  W   7-3       15-9   2nd  2.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, May 07, 2013 BAL  4  KCR  3        W:Tommy Hunter (2-1), L: Tim Collins (1-1), S: Jim Johnson (12)

Sun, Aug 12, 2012 BAL  5  KCR  3        W:Luis Ayala (4-3), L: Bruce Chen (8-10), S: Jim Johnson (34)
Sat, Aug 11, 2012 KCR  7 @BAL  3        W:Luis Mendoza (6-8), L: Chris Tillman (5-2), S: none
Fri, Aug 10, 2012 BAL  7  KCR  1        W:Miguel Gonzalez (4-2), L: Luke Hochevar (7-10), S: none
Thu, Aug 09, 2012 KCR  8 @BAL  2        W:Will Smith (3-4), L: Wei-Yin Chen (10-7), S: none
Sun, May 27, 2012 KCR  4 @BAL  2        W:Tim Collins (2-0), L: Brian Matusz (4-5), S: Jonathan Broxton (10)
Sat, May 26, 2012 KCR  4 @BAL  3        W:Greg Holland (1-2), L: Pedro Strop (3-2), S: Jonathan Broxton (9)
Fri, May 25, 2012 BAL  8  KCR  2        W:Jason Hammel (6-1), L: Bruce Chen (3-5), S: none
Thu, May 17, 2012 BAL  5 @KCR  3        W:Brian Matusz (3-4), L: Luke Hochevar (3-4), S: Jim Johnson (14)
Wed, May 16, 2012 BAL  4 @KCR  3 (15)   W:Kevin Gregg (1-1), L: Nathan Adcock (0-1), S: Jim Johnson (13)
Season Series: 2013 - BAL over 1-0; 2012 - BAL won 5-4; 2011 - BAL won 5-4; All-Time - BAL leads 255-194

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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

DET  5.47

TEX  4.30

MIA  2.91

 RA/G

ATL  3.38

MIN  4.28

HOU  6.18

 BA

M. Cabrera  .385

J. Jaso  .270

A. Hicks  .122

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .465

D. Murphy  .328

J. Keppinger  .188

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .663

D. Brown  .425

A. Hicks  .200

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.098

O. Infante  .760

J. Keppinger  .397

 ERA

J. Westbrook  1.07

J. De La Rosa  3.52

P. Humber  8.82

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  14.18

J. Happ  7.09

J. Saunders  3.07

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

Royals Batters (4.31 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (4.12 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Tillman
G/S/vB		 29.Hunter
G/S/vB		 43.Johnson
G/S/vB		 17.Matusz*
G/S/vB		 66.McFarland*
G/S/vB		 56.O'Day
G/S/vB		 40.Patton*
G/S/vB		 47.Strop
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP 8/1.000 11/.830 7/.286 8/2.250 ··· 10/.422 1/2.000 3/1.167 117/84 .253/.385/.400/.785 .528/.888 .642 83/.734 0/0 3/0
6.Cain G/S/vP 3/.666 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 111/79 .333/.378/.465/.843 .830/.847 .918 79/.880 4/3 1/1
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.167 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 20/13 .300/.300/.550/.850 .714/.923 .375 15/.933 5/1 0/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP 5/1.400 8/.762 4/1.000 6/1.633 ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· 130/88 .281/.318/.405/.723 .969/.605 .831 91/.676 7/0 3/3
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 5/.200 5/1.350 4/1.000 9/1.333 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 4/.250 113/84 .234/.274/.336/.611 .752/.563 .562 77/.538 2/0 1/1
17.Getz* G/S/vP 5/1.750 4/.500 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 80/56 .216/.247/.338/.585 .606/.576 .595 50/.561 0/0 1/1
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 6/1.166 10/.600 3/.000 9/1.083 ··· 3/.000 3/1.000 3/.667 133/83 .313/.338/.484/.823 1.148/.628 1.008 94/.759 1/0 4/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 2/.500 7/.143 4/.500 3/.000 ··· 1/3.000 3/.000 1/2.000 105/76 .269/.343/.333/.676 .725/.657 .825 74/.668 2/0 0/2
23.Johnson# G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 4/.500 9/.347 ··· 5/1.000 1/5.000 1/.000 29/14 .259/.286/.370/.656 .665/.643 .667 25/.655 2/0 1/0
26.Kottaras* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 13/11 .222/.462/.667/1.128 .500/1.205 1.500 13/1.128 0/0 1/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 3/.000 6/1.166 1/.000 6/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/.500 105/76 .196/.276/.283/.559 .550/.562 .476 71/.577 1/0 1/5
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/2.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 109/76 .279/.303/.375/.678 .628/.699 .445 70/.708 0/0 1/3
24.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.250 ··· 2/1.000 20/5 .368/.400/.421/.821 .829/.800 1.181 15/.667 0/0 0/1
IP 34.2 16.0 17.0 13.0 12.2 16.1 13.0 11.0 TOTAL .269/.322/.390/.712 .774/.683 .711 .697 24/4 17/20
ERA-K/9 3.63/7.3 1.69/6.2 1.06/7.9 3.46/9.0 2.13/12.0 1.65/8.8 2.77/3.5 5.73/9.0 3.86/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kottaras (3-1-2)
 Perez (10-5-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 146/.256 59/.196 64/.186 48/.159 54/.240 67/.179 58/.255 56/.214 .242  Francoeur
 Cain
 Gordon
 Dyson
0/0/28/3
0/25/1/2
29/0/0/2
0/5/0/0
OPS .693 .612 .504 .525 .576 .556 .730 .746 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 87/.717 25/1.120 34/.454 24/.428 20/.668 27/.801 18/.915 26/.900 .706
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 59/.658 34/.212 30/.563 24/.625 34/.520 40/.397 40/.633 30/.583 .713
Home 68/.891 27/.382 33/.445 19/.393 37/.648 24/.555 24/.477 24/.818
Last 28d days 125/.612 45/.459 48/.496 39/.529 43/.682 53/.653 48/.810 42/.764
HR/SB/CS 3/0/3 3/1/1 1/0/1 2/0/1 0/2/0 1/1/1 1/0/0 2/0/0 36/8/10
Usage ·····X·· o··X···o X··o·X·· o·o····X ······o· ··XX···X ··X·X··X ··o·X·X·
Orioles Batters (4.94 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.76 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Mendoza
G/S/vB		 52.Chen*
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 27.Gutierrez
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
12.Casilla# G/S/vP 8/.833 9/.444 5/.650 3/.000 ··· 4/.500 28/.950 4/.000 36/9 .200/.222/.257/.479 .567/.222 .616 31/.452 2/0 0/0
19.Davis* G/S/vP 3/.666 5/.400 3/.333 ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 16/.908 1/.000 131/82 .318/.420/.654/1.074 .850/1.214 .870 97/.921 0/0 9/1
36.Dickerson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 14/13 .308/.357/.308/.665 .000/.718 .000 14/.665 1/1 0/0
3.Flaherty* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 85/80 .118/.202/.197/.400 .250/.405 .278 67/.484 1/0 1/0
2.Hardy G/S/vP 3/.000 12/.872 1/2.000 2/1.000 1/2.000 4/.750 24/.255 2/.000 136/98 .211/.244/.359/.604 .915/.490 .586 102/.557 0/1 5/3
10.Jones G/S/vP 3/2.000 18/1.044 3/.333 4/.500 ··· 3/.000 26/1.227 3/.000 143/100 .331/.364/.515/.878 .713/.947 .931 108/.785 4/0 4/1
13.Machado G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/2.500 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/3.334 ··· 152/108 .314/.356/.521/.877 .654/.972 .838 114/.983 3/0 5/3
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 7/.000 18/1.544 4/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.750 27/.828 2/.000 150/99 .270/.320/.365/.685 .500/.785 .810 112/.630 0/1 3/0
9.McLouth* G/S/vP 3/.666 3/.666 1/no AB ··· 2/3.500 1/3.000 3/1.000 ··· 117/104 .313/.414/.485/.899 .647/.931 .847 87/.972 10/1 3/0
28.Pearce G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/3.000 ··· ··· ··· 40/13 .235/.350/.382/.732 .644/.916 .900 29/.990 0/0 1/0
14.Reimold G/S/vP ··· 5/1.100 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/no AB 105/71 .194/.267/.344/.611 .689/.568 .594 81/.630 0/1 4/0
48.Snyder G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/4 .000/.200/.000/.200 .000/.250 5/.200 0/0 0/0
32.Wieters# G/S/vP 3/.333 8/.393 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 4/.000 17/.841 1/.000 121/85 .234/.300/.402/.702 .892/.620 .833 90/.665 0/0 4/2
IP 18.0 9.2 11.0 8.1 7.1 14.1 11.1 12.0 TOTAL .259/.321/.422/.743 .693/.765 .729 .731 22/5 39/11
ERA-K/9 7.00/7.0 0.00/10.2 4.91/9.0 1.08/5.4 6.14/4.9 5.02/12.0 0.79/9.6 3.75/14.2 3.33/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Snyder (1-1-0)
 Wieters (6-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 80/.254 42/.237 44/.225 33/.200 29/.269 60/.255 43/.179 54/.277 .248  Reimold
 Markakis
 Dickerson
 McLouth
 Jones
9/0/0/1
0/0/31/1
2/1/2/0
25/0/0/0
0/32/0/0
OPS .879 .558 .595 .573 .772 .935 .546 .711 .698
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 48/.996 13/.490 20/.513 14/.298 14/1.409 32/1.075 24/.579 26/.664 .736
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 32/.697 29/.583 24/.667 19/.760 15/.267 28/.770 19/.505 28/.753 .661
Road 34/.458 7/.571 27/.272 18/.583 17/.694 33/.989 15/.940 26/.535
Last 28d days 57/1.094 27/.651 27/.866 19/.728 19/.616 44/1.139 35/.412 34/.568
HR/SB/CS 3/2/0 0/1/0 0/1/0 1/1/0 1/0/0 6/2/1 1/2/0 0/0/0 30/13/6
Usage ······X· ······X· X·o···X· ··o···X· ········ ·X·····X o·o····· ·Xo···oo

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.