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Game Preview: KCR @ OAK, 9:05pm, Saturday, May 18, 2013 @O.co Coliseum

Royals, 20-18, 20-18 3rd, 2 GB, 2 GB in WC

SP: Ervin Santana (30, RHP, 3-2, 2.79)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (3-2) 48.1 47 16 15 6 39 6 2.79
2012 (9-13) 178.0 165 109 102 61 133 39 5.16
2011 (11-12) 228.2 207 95 86 72 178 26 3.38
Last 7 GS 3-2 48.1 47 16 15 6 39 6 2.79 59
2013-05-12 NYY L 6.1 8 4 4 0 4 2 102 45
2013-05-07 @BAL ND 6.0 7 3 3 1 4 0 103 49
2013-04-27 CLE W 7.0 6 0 0 0 5 0 97 70
2013-04-21 @BOS W 7.0 6 2 2 0 7 0 105 64
2013-04-14 TOR ND 8.0 7 2 1 3 4 1 109 63
2013-04-08 MIN W 8.0 8 1 1 1 7 0 104 68
2013-04-03 @CHW L 6.0 5 4 4 1 8 3 98 53
Last 5 v.OAK 2-2 33.0 31 10 8 12 32 3 2.18 59
2012-09-12 OAK L 6.0 4 2 1 3 6 1 103 61
2012-05-15 OAK W 7.2 4 0 0 3 9 0 113 77
2012-04-18 OAK L 7.0 7 4 4 2 5 2 104 50
2011-07-16 @OAK ND 6.1 10 3 2 2 6 0 107 47
2011-05-25 OAK W 6.0 6 1 1 2 6 0 117 60
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   10-8    Road:   10-10   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  16-11   vsLHP:   4-7    1-Run:   7-8 
 vsEast:  6-8    vsCntrl: 9-6    vsWest:  2-2  IL: 3-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 38 Fri, May 17  @OAK  L   1-2       20-18  3rd  2.0 gb
 37 Wed, May 15  @LAA  W   9-5       20-17  3rd  1.5 gb
 36 Tue, May 14  @LAA  L   2-6       19-17  3rd  2.5 gb
 35 Mon, May 13  @LAA  W  11-4       19-16  3rd  1.5 gb
 34 Sun, May 12   NYY  L   2-4       18-16  3rd  1.5 gb
 33 Sat, May 11   NYY  L   2-3       18-15  3rd  1.5 gb
 32 Fri, May 10   NYY  L   6-11      18-14  2nd  1.5 gb
 31 Thu, May  9  @BAL  W   6-2       18-13  2nd  0.5 gb
 30 Wed, May  8  @BAL  L   3-5       17-13  2nd  1.5 gb
 29 Tue, May  7  @BAL  L   3-4       17-12  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Athletics, 21-22, 21-22 2nd, 6½ GB, 3½ GB in WC

SP: Tommy Milone (26, LHP, 3-5, 3.71)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (3-5) 51.0 51 25 21 9 45 7 3.71
2012 (13-10) 190.0 207 90 79 36 137 24 3.74
2011 (1-0) 26.0 28 11 11 4 15 2 3.81
Last 7 GS 2-5 44.0 47 23 19 8 41 5 3.89 52
2013-05-12 @SEA L 5.0 6 5 5 3 4 1 90 36
2013-05-07 @CLE L 7.0 5 1 0 0 5 0 109 70
2013-05-01 LAA L 7.0 7 4 4 0 10 3 105 57
2013-04-26 BAL L 6.2 6 1 0 1 5 0 105 64
2013-04-21 @TBR L 6.2 8 6 4 1 6 1 96 43
2013-04-15 HOU W 6.2 8 2 2 0 6 0 101 56
2013-04-10 @LAA W 5.0 7 4 4 3 5 0 106 39
Last 5 v.KCR 1-1 15.0 11 2 2 4 6 1 1.20 66
2012-06-03 @KCR L 7.0 8 2 2 1 6 1 103 58
2012-04-09 KCR W 8.0 3 0 0 3 0 0 93 73
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   11-10   Road:   10-12   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  15-15   vsLHP:   6-7    1-Run:   6-6 
 vsEast:  4-9    vsCntrl: 2-6    vsWest: 15-7  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 43 Fri, May 17   KCR  W   2-1       21-22  2nd  6.5 gb
 42 Wed, May 15   TEX  L   2-6       20-22  2nd  7.0 gb
 41 Tue, May 14   TEX  L   5-6 (10)  20-21  2nd  6.0 gb
 40 Mon, May 13   TEX  W   5-1       20-20  2nd  5.0 gb
 39 Sun, May 12  @SEA  L   1-6       19-20  2nd  6.0 gb
 38 Sat, May 11  @SEA  W   4-3       19-19  2nd  5.0 gb
 37 Fri, May 10  @SEA  L   3-6       18-19  2nd  5.0 gb
 36 Thu, May  9  @CLE  L   2-9       18-18  2nd  4.0 gb
 35 Wed, May  8  @CLE  L   3-4       18-17  2nd  3.5 gb
 34 Tue, May  7  @CLE  L   0-1       18-16  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 17, 2013 OAK  2  KCR  1        W:Sean Doolittle (3-0), L: James Shields (2-4), S: Grant Balfour (7)

Thu, Aug 16, 2012 OAK  3 @KCR  0        W:Dan Straily (1-0), L: Luke Hochevar (7-11), S: Grant Balfour (9)
Wed, Aug 15, 2012 KCR  3  OAK  2        W:Will Smith (4-4), L: Brandon McCarthy (6-4), S: Greg Holland (4)
Tue, Aug 14, 2012 KCR  5  OAK  0        W:Jeremy Guthrie (5-12), L: Jarrod Parker (7-7), S: none
Sun, Jun 03, 2012 KCR  2  OAK  0        W:Vin Mazzaro (2-0), L: Tommy Milone (6-5), S: Jonathan Broxton (13)
Sat, Jun 02, 2012 OAK  9 @KCR  3        W:Brandon McCarthy (4-3), L: Luke Hochevar (3-6), S: none
Fri, Jun 01, 2012 KCR  2  OAK  0        W:Felipe Paulino (3-1), L: Bartolo Colon (4-6), S: Jonathan Broxton (12)
Wed, Apr 11, 2012 OAK  5  KCR  4 (12)   W:Andrew Carignan (1-1), L: Jonathan Broxton (0-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 10, 2012 KCR  3 @OAK  0  (8)   W:Danny Duffy (1-0), L: Graham Godfrey (0-1), S: Aaron Crow (1)
Mon, Apr 09, 2012 OAK  1  KCR  0        W:Tommy Milone (1-0), L: Luis Mendoza (0-1), S: Grant Balfour (2)
Season Series: 2013 - OAK over 1-0; 2012 - KCR won 5-4; 2011 - OAK won 5-4; All-Time - OAK leads 301-248

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
Royals Batters (4.39 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.65 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 57.Milone*
G/S/vB
50.Balfour
G/S/vB
13.Blevins*
G/S/vB
60.Chavez
G/S/vB
48.Cook
G/S/vB
62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB
47.Neshek
G/S/vB
39.Okajima*
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Butler G/S/vP 6/.666 11/.191 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 5/1.000 1/.000 155/114 .260/.368/.435/.803 .848/.784 .778 100/.826 0/0 5/0
6.Cain G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 144/102 .320/.389/.440/.829 .738/.865 .895 88/.742 6/3 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP 6/.500 2/2.500 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· 169/117 .258/.287/.358/.646 .955/.508 .699 104/.625 8/0 3/6
21.Francoeur G/S/vP 6/.167 4/.500 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 128/91 .221/.258/.311/.569 .640/.541 .523 72/.472 2/0 1/1
17.Getz* G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.500 5/.400 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/.500 89/62 .193/.221/.301/.522 .532/.518 .486 41/.283 0/0 1/1
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 4/1.167 11/.091 5/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 2/.500 171/110 .329/.351/.518/.869 1.087/.748 1.035 104/.902 1/0 6/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 6/1.917 4/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· ··· 143/105 .250/.322/.320/.642 .602/.657 .728 100/.672 2/1 1/2
23.Johnson# G/S/vP 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· ··· 49/30 .283/.313/.370/.682 .627/.714 .768 38/.759 4/0 1/0
26.Kottaras* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/15 .154/.389/.462/.850 .333/.945 .864 17/.814 0/0 1/1
7.Lough* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 4/3 .500/.500/.750/1.250 2.000/1.000 1.250 4/1.250 0/0 0/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB ··· 142/101 .189/.261/.331/.591 .514/.623 .563 89/.691 1/0 4/7
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 140/98 .304/.321/.407/.729 .636/.768 .590 77/.816 0/0 1/4
24.Tejada G/S/vP ··· 9/.583 2/1.500 6/.666 ··· ··· 4/.250 8/2.054 24/5 .348/.375/.391/.766 .757/.800 1.045 15/.800 0/0 0/1
IP 51.0 16.1 19.2 10.0 18.2 18.0 16.0 TOTAL .265/.315/.393/.708 .745/.691 .720 .716 30/5 26/27
ERA-K/9 3.71/7.9 1.65/10.5 2.29/9.1 3.60/7.2 1.93/11.1 1.00/9.5 2.81/6.2 /0.0 4.27/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kottaras (5-1-2)
 Perez (15-7-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 213/.256 69/.213 73/.186 44/.268 78/.206 64/.131 73/.274 / .254  Cain
 Francoeur
 Gordon
 Lough
0/30/5/3
0/0/33/3
38/0/0/2
0/0/1/1
OPS .714 .655 .549 .708 .547 .401 .778 .729
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 36/.720 27/.671 29/.553 19/.579 35/.556 24/.705 23/.707 / .761
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 177/.711 42/.644 44/.545 25/.815 43/.538 40/.228 50/.808 / .706
Home 108/.656 45/.725 36/.691 25/.778 51/.576 43/.496 38/.753 /
Last 28d days 135/.726 42/.574 37/.606 44/.708 39/.627 40/.386 36/.665 /
HR/SB/CS 7/2/1 2/0/0 2/0/0 1/0/0 0/4/0 2/1/0 1/0/1 // 51/28/7
Usage ·····X·· X··X··X· ···o·o·· ··X··X·o ···oo·X· o··Xo·o· ··o··o··
Athletics Batters (4.67 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.97 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Santana
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
10.Barton* G/S/vP 38/.609 9/1.069 2/.500 2/.500 ··· ··· 15/.481 2/.500 23/22 .143/.217/.286/.503 .000/.527 .282 23/.503 0/0 1/0
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 6/1.666 2/3.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 6/1.667 3/.000 126/90 .196/.262/.420/.682 .913/.596 .798 79/.643 0/3 7/0
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 17/.650 16/.713 7/.572 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 11/.637 2/1.000 125/81 .264/.363/.519/.882 .786/.927 .618 53/.538 8/1 5/0
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 6/.000 2/.000 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.000 2/.000 175/123 .323/.394/.542/.936 1.222/.815 .967 101/1.117 2/1 6/4
7.Freiman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 55/16 .229/.309/.354/.663 .925/.063 .885 36/.716 0/0 1/1
5.Jaso* G/S/vP 17/1.374 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 2/no AB 1/.000 125/111 .257/.347/.321/.668 .558/.681 .680 66/.682 0/0 1/2
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 8/.750 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/1.071 1/.000 180/118 .297/.380/.443/.823 .790/.837 .787 106/.617 0/0 3/7
22.Montz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 23/3 .182/.174/.455/.628 .726/.000 .476 23/.628 0/0 1/0
37.Moss* G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 150/114 .254/.353/.431/.784 .574/.855 .667 91/.727 1/0 6/4
36.Norris G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 1/.000 110/57 .218/.364/.322/.685 .786/.583 .685 72/.529 3/0 1/0
17.Rosales G/S/vP 3/.000 6/.733 ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 3/.000 ··· 67/32 .298/.385/.474/.858 .973/.723 .823 67/.858 0/0 2/3
15.Smith* G/S/vP 12/.533 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 3/1.666 1/.000 2/.000 2/.000 149/110 .272/.336/.419/.755 .925/.692 .741 97/.601 0/0 3/0
28.Sogard* G/S/vP 6/.733 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 101/86 .239/.307/.293/.600 .564/.606 .676 49/.445 2/1 0/2
IP 48.1 13.1 13.0 10.2 9.2 18.1 15.1 14.0 TOTAL .241/.327/.395/.722 .793/.689 .702 .671 26/6 42/27
ERA-K/9 2.79/7.3 2.03/8.1 4.15/9.0 1.69/5.9 5.59/6.5 4.42/11.3 1.17/10.0 3.21/13.5 3.57/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (15-3-0)
 Norris (13-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 195/.250 58/.245 51/.234 43/.184 41/.316 77/.243 58/.185 60/.245 .254  Cespedes
 Moss
 Rosales
 Crisp
 Smith
13/16/0/3
1/2/11/1
1/0/0/0
0/21/0/0
23/0/1/0
OPS .649 .620 .592 .542 .789 .912 .524 .635 .721
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 111/.637 22/.718 25/.572 18/.289 20/1.265 40/.972 29/.729 29/.590 .749
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 84/.664 36/.560 26/.612 25/.711 21/.381 37/.846 29/.323 31/.676 .694
Road 77/.660 13/.308 29/.327 28/.530 17/.694 47/.999 30/.683 29/.476
Last 28d days 107/.611 43/.702 29/.787 24/.536 28/.780 45/.848 41/.445 37/.521
HR/SB/CS 6/3/1 0/2/0 0/1/0 1/2/0 1/1/0 7/2/1 1/2/0 0/0/0 44/20/8
Usage ·····X·· ·······X ··o··X·· ··oX···· ·······X ··X···o· ····X··· ··o··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.