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Game Preview: KCR @ BOS, 7:00 pm, Sunday, April 21, 2013 @Fenway Park

NOTE: Some stats are only updated through Friday, April 19, 2013. Site will be updated with yesterday's stats by 11:30am ET.

Royals, 8-7, 8-7 1st, Tied

SP: (2013, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced BOS as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-2    Road:    4-5    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   6-4    vsLHP:   2-3    1-Run:   3-4 
 vsEast:  1-3    vsCntrl: 4-2    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 3-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 15 Sat, Apr 20  @BOS  L   3-4        8-7   1st    Tied
 14 Wed, Apr 17  @ATL  W   1-0        8-6   2nd  1.0 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20: 8-7    Last 30: 8-7
RedSox, 12-4, 12-4 1st, 2 up

SP: (2013, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
Last 7 GS
Has never faced KCR as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    5-2    Road:    7-2    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   9-2    vsLHP:   3-2    1-Run:   3-1 
 vsEast:  8-4    vsCntrl: 4-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 16 Sat, Apr 20   KCR  W   4-3       12-4   1st  2.0 up
 15 Thu, Apr 18  @CLE  W   6-3       11-4   1st  2.5 up
 14 Wed, Apr 17  @CLE  W   6-3       10-4   1st  1.5 up
 13 Tue, Apr 16  @CLE  W   7-2        9-4   1st  1.5 up
 12 Mon, Apr 15   TBR  W   3-2        8-4   1st  1.5 up
 11 Sun, Apr 14   TBR  W   5-0        7-4   1st  1.0 up
 10 Sat, Apr 13   TBR  W   2-1 (10)   6-4   1st  0.5 up
  9 Thu, Apr 11   BAL  L   2-3        5-4   1st    Tied
  8 Wed, Apr 10   BAL  L   5-8        5-3   1st  1.0 up
  7 Mon, Apr  8   BAL  W   3-1        5-2   1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:12-4    Last 30:12-4 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Aug 27, 2012 BOS  5  KCR  1        W:Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-3), L: Luke Hochevar (7-12), S: none
Sun, Aug 26, 2012 BOS  8  KCR  6        W:Pedro Beato (1-0), L: Will Smith (4-6), S: Mark Melancon (1)
Sat, Aug 25, 2012 KCR 10 @BOS  9 (12)   W:Francisley Bueno (1-0), L: Junichi Tazawa (0-1), S: Greg Holland (7)
Fri, Aug 24, 2012 BOS  4  KCR  3        W:Jon Lester (8-10), L: Kelvin Herrera (1-2), S: Andrew Bailey (1)
Wed, May 09, 2012 KCR  4  BOS  3        W:Bruce Chen (1-4), L: Jon Lester (1-3), S: Jonathan Broxton (7)
Tue, May 08, 2012 KCR  6  BOS  4        W:Jose Mijares (2-1), L: Daniel Bard (2-4), S: Jonathan Broxton (6)
Mon, May 07, 2012 BOS 11 @KCR  5        W:Felix Doubront (2-1), L: Jonathan Sanchez (1-2), S: Vicente Padilla (1)
Sun, Aug 21, 2011 BOS  6 @KCR  1        W:Jon Lester (13-6), L: Danny Duffy (3-8), S: none
Sat, Aug 20, 2011 KCR  9  BOS  4        W:Felipe Paulino (2-9), L: Matt Albers (4-4), S: none
Fri, Aug 19, 2011 BOS  7 @KCR  1        W:Andrew Miller (5-1), L: Jeff Francis (4-14), S: Alfredo Aceves (2)
Season Series: 2013 -  0-0; 2012 - BOS won 4-3; 2011 - BOS won 5-3; All-Time - BOS leads 219-218

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 (3.93 RS/G) vs. RedSox Pitchers (2.81 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 91.Aceves
G/S/vB		 40.Bailey
G/S/vB		 30.Miller*
G/S/vB		 59.Mortensen
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 19.Uehara
G/S/vB		 63.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP 5/1.350 4/.000 9/1.319 6/1.500 1/.000 5/.600 ··· 679/492 .313/.373/.510/.882 1.036/.827 .893 51/.792 2/1 29/3
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 244/163 .266/.316/.419/.734 .844/.681 .588 52/.768 10/0 7/4
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 330/256 .260/.328/.322/.650 .510/.689 .667 14/.857 30/5 0/6
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 5/1.167 5/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 648/458 .293/.331/.390/.721 .676/.739 .659 61/.647 35/5 5/19
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 5/.900 1/.000 14/.619 3/.666 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 603/424 .235/.287/.378/.665 .695/.652 .652 52/.668 4/7 16/4
17.Getz* G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· 4/1.250 2/1.000 2/.000 ··· 210/157 .275/.312/.360/.672 .547/.714 .631 45/.767 9/3 0/4
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 2/1.500 2/1.500 11/1.344 4/1.750 1/.000 ··· ··· 721/467 .294/.368/.455/.822 .668/.908 .798 62/.838 10/5 14/2
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 6/1.167 2/4.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 598/397 .232/.304/.359/.663 .591/.700 .649 39/.632 16/1 14/10
23.Johnson# G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 331/219 .242/.304/.350/.654 .586/.698 .800 11/.400 18/6 6/14
26.Kottaras* G/S/vP 1/3.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.000 ··· 209/173 .211/.351/.415/.766 .736/.770 .740 / 0/0 9/4
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 6/.733 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 614/435 .242/.296/.412/.708 .704/.710 .624 49/.467 5/2 20/15
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 305/218 .301/.328/.471/.798 1.021/.711 .855 59/.599 0/0 11/4
24.Tejada G/S/vP 2/.000 3/.666 3/1.167 7/.429 ··· ··· ··· / /// / 9/.708 / /
IP 84.0 15.1 40.1 42.0 44.0 36.0 TOTAL .265/.313/.371/.684 .744/.647 .667 .684 10/3 5/9
ERA-K/9 5.36/8.0 7.04/8.2 3.35/11.4 3.21/8.8 1.43/9.2 1.75/10.8 /0.0 2.69/10.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 361/.254 74/.318 169/.194 173/.212 172/.227 130/.160 / .209  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 .748 .862 .588 .691 .558 .466 .637
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 190/.814 38/1.084 102/.429 82/.660 67/.519 71/.545 / .614
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 171/.677 36/.636 67/.829 91/.714 105/.583 59/.369 / .655
Home 173/.839 34/.711 80/.555 99/.675 101/.563 73/.294 /
Last 28d days 67/1.015 27/.345 15/.667 29/.563 28/.643 23/.312 10/.425
HR/SB/CS 11/6/1 2/1/1 3/0/0 7/4/2 1/4/1 4/1/0 // 16/10/2
Usage ···X···· ··oX·X·o ··X···o· ····X··· ···X···o ··oo·o·o ····X···

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

RedSox Batters (4.94 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 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
37.Carp* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 1/no AB 189/145 .213/.312/.341/.654 .722/.631 .701 7/1.714 1/0 5/2
23.Ciriaco G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 3/.000 1/.000 272/190 .293/.315/.390/.705 .764/.678 .803 15/.606 16/3 2/9
7.Drew* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 10/.311 ··· 327/231 .223/.309/.348/.657 .563/.697 .638 27/.353 1/2 7/8
2.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 8/1.357 4/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 24/1.144 1/.000 323/213 .271/.313/.370/.682 .648/.701 .801 72/.763 14/3 4/3
5.Gomes G/S/vP 22/.844 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 1/no AB 5/1.600 1/.000 333/137 .262/.377/.491/.868 .974/.715 .764 33/.602 3/1 18/2
16.Middlebrooks G/S/vP 3/.000 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 286/186 .288/.325/.509/.835 .906/.798 .841 59/.657 4/1 15/9
12.Napoli G/S/vP 11/.455 3/.333 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 8/1.214 3/.333 417/285 .227/.343/.469/.812 .706/.861 .785 66/.765 1/0 24/7
29.Nava# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 317/222 .243/.352/.390/.742 .613/.797 .800 46/1.046 3/0 6/2
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 30/.750 2/.500 3/.666 1/2.000 ··· 15/.900 2/.500 383/245 .318/.415/.611/1.026 .985/1.050 1.169 / 0/1 23/0
15.Pedroia G/S/vP 11/1.455 2/.500 4/.250 1/.000 3/.667 19/1.099 2/2.500 623/437 .290/.347/.449/.797 .848/.775 .831 68/.757 20/6 15/5
3.Ross G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 196/108 .256/.321/.449/.770 .712/.818 .779 16/.650 1/0 9/2
39.Saltalamacchia# G/S/vP 6/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 1/.000 448/391 .222/.288/.454/.742 .494/.779 .761 44/.857 0/1 25/7
18.Victorino# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 666/472 .255/.321/.383/.704 .906/.629 .695 68/.727 39/6 11/2
IP 191.2 69.2 64.2 84.1 185.1 67.0 TOTAL .257/.333/.411/.745 .551/.829 .612 .745 15/5 14/2
ERA-K/9 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 3.30/9.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Napoli (42-11-8)
 Ross (19-15-4)
 Saltalamacchia (80-18-6)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 827/.281 295/.216 260/.231 / 344/.250 800/.281 289/.234 .231  Victorino
 Nava
 Ellsbury
 Carp
 Gomes
 Ciriaco
48/109/1/9
76/0/4/5
0/73/0/2
24/0/0/1
39/0/3/1
2/3/2/0
OPS .813 .692 .601 .643 .818 .653 .677
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 210/.852 135/.769 95/.556 / 138/.742 435/.877 125/.577 .683
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 617/.800 160/.626 165/.626 / 206/.580 365/.749 164/.712 .670
Road 416/.853 142/.450 112/.616 / 169/.642 444/.812 134/.703
Last 28d days 15/.400 17/.180 16/.450 13/.808 29/.868 17/.741 23/.831
HR/SB/CS 33/18/8 8/9/0 4/2/2 // 4/12/4 27/15/7 2/2/2 18/9/2
Usage ········ ········ ····X··· ········ ···XX·X· ········ ···o····

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.