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Game Preview: ATL @ KCR, 8:10pm, Wednesday, June 26, 2013 @Kauffman Stadium

Braves, 45-33, 45-33 1st, 6 up

SP: Mike Minor (25, LHP, 8-3, 2.89)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (8-3) 96.2 79 35 31 20 91 12 2.89
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 3-1 44.1 38 19 15 10 49 5 3.05 59
2013-06-20 NYM L 6.0 9 4 4 2 6 3 107 42
2013-06-15 SFG ND 6.0 7 5 4 1 7 0 92 46
2013-06-09 @LAD W 6.0 6 1 1 3 6 0 100 59
2013-06-04 PIT ND 6.0 4 4 2 0 6 2 94 58
2013-05-30 TOR W 7.0 6 3 2 0 5 0 103 60
2013-05-25 @NYM W 7.1 3 0 0 2 10 0 113 80
2013-05-19 LAD ND 6.0 3 2 2 2 9 0 103 65
Last 5 v.KCR 0-1 6.0 5 1 1 0 5 0 1.50 63
2013-04-17 KCR L 6.0 5 1 1 0 5 0 88 63
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   25-11   Road:   20-22   ExtrInn: 6-3 
 vsRHP:  31-24   vsLHP:  14-9    1-Run:  12-9 
 vsEast: 17-9    vsCntrl:10-6    vsWest: 11-12 IL: 7-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 78 Tue, Jun 25  @KCR  W   4-3       45-33  1st  6.0 up
 77 Sun, Jun 23  @MIL  W   7-4       44-33  1st  6.0 up
 76 Sat, Jun 22  @MIL  L   0-2       43-33  1st  5.0 up
 75 Fri, Jun 21  @MIL  L   0-2       43-32  1st  5.0 up
 74 Thu, Jun 20   NYM  L   3-4       43-31  1st  6.0 up
 73 Wed, Jun 19   NYM  W   5-3       43-30  1st  7.0 up
 72 Tue, Jun 18   NYM  L   1-6       42-30  1st  7.0 up
 71 Tue, Jun 18   NYM  L   3-4       42-29  1st  7.0 up
 70 Mon, Jun 17   NYM  W   2-1       42-28  1st  7.5 up
 69 Sun, Jun 16   SFG  W   3-0       41-28  1st  6.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15
Royals, 35-39, 35-39 3rd, 6½ GB, 6½ GB in WC

SP: Luis Mendoza (29, RHP, 2-4, 4.30)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. ATL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (2-4) 69.0 71 37 33 29 43 8 4.30
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 39.0 43 14 13 16 21 4 3.00 50
2013-06-19 @CLE L 5.0 4 4 4 3 3 1 83 43
2013-06-14 @TBR W 6.0 7 2 2 2 3 1 92 51
2013-06-09 HOU ND 7.0 4 0 0 1 3 0 88 71
2013-06-04 MIN L 4.1 7 3 3 3 1 1 95 35
2013-05-29 @STL ND 5.2 6 1 1 3 5 1 98 55
2013-05-24 LAA ND 5.0 7 1 1 4 2 0 86 47
2013-05-19 @OAK ND 6.0 8 3 2 0 4 0 94 50
Has never faced ATL as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   18-19   Road:   17-20   ExtrInn: 5-1 
 vsRHP:  29-25   vsLHP:   6-14   1-Run:  11-16
 vsEast:  9-9    vsCntrl:15-12   vsWest:  7-12 IL: 4-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 74 Tue, Jun 25   ATL  L   3-4       35-39  3rd  6.5 gb
 73 Sun, Jun 23   CHW  W   7-6       35-38  3rd  6.5 gb
 72 Sat, Jun 22   CHW  L   2-3       34-38  3rd  6.5 gb
 71 Fri, Jun 21   CHW  L   1-9       34-37  3rd  5.5 gb
 70 Wed, Jun 19  @CLE  L   3-6       34-36  3rd  5.0 gb
 69 Tue, Jun 18  @CLE  L   3-4       34-35  3rd  5.0 gb
 68 Mon, Jun 17  @CLE  W   2-1       34-34  2nd  5.0 gb
 67 Sun, Jun 16  @TBR  W   5-3       33-34  3rd  5.0 gb
 66 Sat, Jun 15  @TBR  L   3-5       32-34  3rd  5.0 gb
 65 Fri, Jun 14  @TBR  W   7-2       32-33  3rd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Jun 25, 2013 ATL  4 @KCR  3        W:Kris Medlen (5-7), L: Tim Collins (2-2), S: Craig Kimbrel (22)
Wed, Apr 17, 2013 KCR  1 @ATL  0        W:Wade Davis (2-0), L: Mike Minor (2-1), S: Greg Holland (3)
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 2-1; 2012 -  0-0; 2011 -  0-0; All-Time - ATL leads 6-3

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

BOS  5.13

ATL  4.14

MIA  3.14

 RA/G

ATL  3.42

MIA  4.30

HOU  5.19

 BA

M. Cabrera  .368

E. Encarnacion  .271

B. Upton  .177

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .460

C. Denorfia  .333

Y. Betancourt  .233

 SLG

C. Davis  .716

M. Holliday  .436

P. Polanco  .270

 OPS

C. Davis  1.125

B. Butler  .765

P. Polanco  .560

 ERA

C. Buchholz  1.71

P. Maholm  3.75

D. Haren  6.15

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  12.06

E. Santana  7.20

J. Guthrie  4.29

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

Braves Batters (4.14 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.80 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		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
5.Freeman* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 278/193 .304/.374/.448/.822 .780/.841 .702 110/.842 0/0 7/6
22.Heyward* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 225/153 .216/.318/.356/.674 .572/.724 .652 105/.803 1/3 6/0
4.Janish G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 1/.000 0/0 0/0
23.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 3/1.334 1/.000 218/147 .319/.358/.471/.828 .992/.751 .885 81/.753 0/0 5/6
7.Johnson G/S/vP ··· 18/.230 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 3/1.000 ··· 77/39 .232/.303/.348/.650 .677/.623 .647 16/.697 0/0 1/0
11.Laird G/S/vP 1/.000 20/.974 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 65/38 .291/.381/.400/.781 .561/.943 .488 13/1.338 1/0 1/0
16.McCann* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/106 .240/.342/.448/.790 .416/.942 .810 77/.661 0/1 8/0
1.Pastornicky G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 16/13 .286/.286/.357/.643 .667/.636 .375 7/.857 0/0 0/0
17.Schafer* G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 4/.000 ··· 141/124 .317/.406/.475/.881 .301/.967 .912 45/.864 9/3 3/0
19.Simmons G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 322/233 .247/.282/.333/.615 .583/.628 .640 114/.545 5/4 5/6
26.Uggla G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 286/215 .196/.322/.392/.713 .752/.701 .761 90/.737 0/0 13/10
2.Upton G/S/vP 3/1.334 15/.200 1/.000 3/.333 1/2.000 23/.695 3/.333 266/189 .177/.273/.315/.587 .496/.625 .530 87/.816 6/4 8/4
8.Upton G/S/vP 3/1.167 3/.333 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 8/1.500 2/.000 317/228 .241/.351/.455/.806 1.015/.731 .941 101/.556 6/1 15/4
IP 69.0 28.0 28.0 21.0 23.2 27.0 28.0 TOTAL .243/.320/.403/.722 .687/.736 .712 .694 29/19 97/48
ERA-K/9 4.30/5.6 1.93/6.4 2.57/9.0 4.29/7.3 3.04/5.7 2.67/8.7 1.93/14.1 3.52/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Laird (10-4-0)
 McCann (18-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 301/.267 122/.241 116/.218 94/.272 94/.267 104/.179 110/.184 .253  Upton
 Schafer
 Heyward
 Upton
 Johnson
0/67/0/2
10/14/11/1
0/2/53/1
65/0/10/0
6/2/12/0
OPS .785 .685 .599 .721 .691 .611 .529 .722
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 165/.850 45/.750 58/.530 41/.670 45/.926 53/.689 57/.645 .743
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 136/.707 77/.646 58/.668 53/.760 49/.495 51/.527 53/.410 .701
Home 119/.917 90/.754 57/.791 40/.744 55/.618 52/.507 62/.542
Last 28d days 96/.760 45/.761 53/.630 28/.661 32/.713 32/.619 42/.404
HR/SB/CS 8/4/0 2/3/2 1/2/0 2/4/0 2/2/2 4/3/2 1/0/0 82/41/18
Usage ······X· ····X··· X·oo··oo ···o···· X·X·o··· ··o···X· ··oX····
Royals Batters (3.89 RS/G) vs. Braves Pitchers (3.42 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Minor*
G/S/vB		 43.Avilan*
G/S/vB		 48.Carpenter
G/S/vB		 53.Gearrin
G/S/vB		 46.Kimbrel
G/S/vB		 38.Varvaro
G/S/vB		 52.Walden
G/S/vB		 58.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 5/.000 ··· 297/223 .268/.377/.388/.765 .780/.761 .818 95/.744 0/0 5/0
6.Cain G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 265/190 .262/.325/.380/.704 .566/.757 .710 80/.640 9/4 3/1
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 50/40 .292/.320/.604/.924 .500/1.034 1.215 8/1.357 9/1 2/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 310/219 .251/.280/.337/.616 .796/.542 .531 89/.628 11/0 3/9
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 5/.900 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 189/127 .212/.254/.330/.584 .634/.559 .539 30/.711 2/0 3/1
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 321/225 .288/.346/.411/.757 .980/.664 .569 97/.449 3/1 6/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 295/212 .275/.330/.387/.717 .834/.669 .676 105/.827 7/3 4/5
23.Johnson# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 128/90 .231/.262/.314/.576 .556/.584 .375 52/.588 11/0 2/2
26.Kottaras* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 59/51 .143/.288/.327/.615 .536/.627 .733 14/.571 1/0 2/4
7.Lough* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 113/101 .300/.319/.418/.737 .606/.751 .741 83/.672 1/1 1/1
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 237/182 .208/.270/.310/.580 .458/.617 .632 70/.603 1/2 4/8
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 235/169 .292/.315/.398/.713 .601/.757 .824 79/.664 0/0 3/5
24.Tejada G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 70/25 .288/.329/.409/.738 .844/.541 .710 30/.610 0/0 2/2
IP 96.2 30.1 16.2 30.0 29.1 38.0 24.1 12.2 TOTAL .257/.311/.369/.679 .716/.665 .661 .659 60/13 41/44
ERA-K/9 2.89/8.5 1.78/5.0 2.16/8.1 3.30/6.9 1.53/13.2 3.08/5.7 2.59/10.0 2.84/12.8 3.21/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kottaras (15-6-2)
 Perez (23-11-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 383/.221 118/.163 71/.214 126/.262 116/.200 155/.234 97/.198 52/.178 .240  Gordon
 Cain
 Lough
 Francoeur
 Dyson
72/0/0/7
0/61/5/4
4/5/22/3
0/0/53/3
0/12/0/1
OPS .652 .439 .651 .732 .609 .622 .500 .555 .673
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 92/.490 54/.364 33/.799 46/.643 66/.659 79/.469 53/.389 18/.411 .632
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 291/.702 64/.505 38/.528 80/.786 50/.539 76/.784 44/.635 34/.627 .704
Road 185/.641 61/.500 37/.727 83/.796 61/.735 83/.760 45/.760 19/.316
Last 28d days 131/.764 33/.153 30/.433 31/.984 37/.570 38/.740 34/.119 52/.555
HR/SB/CS 12/1/3 0/1/1 1/1/1 2/2/2 3/2/2 2/1/0 0/3/0 0/0/0 66/38/16
Usage ·····X·· ··o··oo· ···X···X ··o·o··X X·o···o· ··o····X X·o··X·o ···Xo··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.