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Game Preview: KCR @ TOR, 1:07pm, Saturday, August 31, 2013 @Rogers Centre

Royals, 69-65, 69-65 3rd, 9½ GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Jeremy Guthrie (34, RHP, 13-10, 4.19)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (13-10) 171.2 188 84 80 53 95 25 4.19
2012 (8-12) 181.2 206 109 96 50 101 30 4.76
2011 (9-17) 208.0 213 113 100 66 130 26 4.33
Last 7 GS 4-3 45.0 54 18 18 8 31 3 3.60 52
2013-08-26 TBR W 5.0 6 1 1 3 5 0 108 53
2013-08-21 CHW L 6.0 9 5 5 0 2 1 100 36
2013-08-15 @DET L 7.0 13 4 4 0 2 1 104 37
2013-08-10 BOS L 6.0 10 5 5 1 5 0 123 36
2013-08-05 MIN W 9.0 4 0 0 1 7 0 106 85
2013-07-31 @MIN W 6.0 6 2 2 2 5 1 107 55
2013-07-25 BAL W 6.0 6 1 1 1 5 0 102 60
Last 5 v.TOR 1-1 29.1 26 13 13 9 24 6 3.99 53
2011-09-09 @TOR W 7.0 3 0 0 3 5 0 104 73
2011-08-30 TOR ND 6.0 6 3 3 2 5 1 111 51
2011-06-16 @TOR ND 5.0 1 0 0 1 5 0 64 69
2011-06-05 TOR L 5.0 9 6 6 3 3 2 87 25
2010-09-25 @TOR ND 6.1 7 4 4 0 6 3 101 49
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-33   Road:   34-32   ExtrInn: 8-4 
 vsRHP:  52-42   vsLHP:  17-23   1-Run:  24-22
 vsEast: 18-14   vsCntrl:34-26   vsWest:  8-14 IL: 9-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
134 Fri, Aug 30  @TOR  L   2-3       69-65  3rd  9.5 gb
133 Thu, Aug 29  @MIN  W   3-1       69-64  3rd  8.5 gb
132 Wed, Aug 28  @MIN  W   8-1       68-64  3rd  8.5 gb
131 Tue, Aug 27  @MIN  W   6-1       67-64  3rd  9.5 gb
130 Mon, Aug 26   TBR  W  11-1       66-64  3rd 10.5 gb
129 Sun, Aug 25   WSN  W   6-4       65-64  3rd 11.5 gb
128 Sat, Aug 24   WSN  L   2-7       64-64  3rd 11.5 gb
127 Fri, Aug 23   WSN  L  10-11      64-63  3rd 10.5 gb
126 Thu, Aug 22   CHW  L   3-4 (12)  64-62  3rd  9.5 gb
125 Wed, Aug 21   CHW  L   2-5       64-61  3rd  9.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:16-14
Blue Jays, 61-74, 61-74 5th, 18½ GB, 15½ GB in WC

SP: R.A. Dickey (38, RHP, 10-12, 4.39)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (10-12) 182.2 171 97 89 62 143 29 4.39
2012 (20-6) 233.2 192 78 71 54 230 24 2.73
2011 (8-13) 208.2 202 85 76 54 134 18 3.28
Last 7 GS 2-1 48.0 45 21 18 14 43 6 3.38 56
2013-08-26 NYY W 6.1 6 2 1 3 6 1 95 58
2013-08-21 @NYY L 8.0 6 4 4 2 9 1 122 61
2013-08-16 @TBR ND 7.0 6 4 4 2 6 1 102 53
2013-08-11 OAK ND 7.0 6 3 3 2 6 1 109 57
2013-08-05 @SEA W 7.2 8 1 1 2 5 1 104 62
2013-07-31 @OAK ND 6.0 6 2 0 1 3 0 95 58
2013-07-26 HOU ND 6.0 7 5 5 2 8 1 104 44
Last 5 v.KCR 2-3 28.1 31 19 16 11 13 4 5.08 44
2013-04-13 @KCR W 6.1 5 1 1 2 4 0 100 61
2004-05-18 KCR L 5.1 10 6 3 2 2 2 95 30
2004-04-27 @KCR W 6.1 4 2 2 3 1 0 95 55
2003-08-26 @KCR L 5.1 6 6 6 3 5 1 96 34
2003-07-11 KCR L 5.0 6 4 4 1 1 1 73 39
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   34-33   Road:   27-41   ExtrInn: 7-8 
 vsRHP:  45-55   vsLHP:  16-19   1-Run:  17-22
 vsEast: 23-38   vsCntrl:12-14   vsWest: 17-14 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
135 Fri, Aug 30   KCR  W   3-2       61-74  5th 18.5 gb
134 Wed, Aug 28   NYY  W   7-2       60-74  5th 19.0 gb
133 Tue, Aug 27   NYY  L   1-7       59-74  5th 19.0 gb
132 Mon, Aug 26   NYY  W   5-2       59-73  5th 18.0 gb
131 Sun, Aug 25  @HOU  W   2-1       58-73  5th 18.5 gb
130 Sat, Aug 24  @HOU  L   5-8       57-73  5th 18.5 gb
129 Fri, Aug 23  @HOU  L   4-12      57-72  5th 17.5 gb
128 Thu, Aug 22  @NYY  L   3-5       57-71  5th 17.5 gb
127 Wed, Aug 21  @NYY  L   2-4       57-70  5th 17.0 gb
126 Tue, Aug 20  @NYY  L   2-3       57-69  5th 16.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Aug 30, 2013 TOR  3  KCR  2        W:Mark Buehrle (11-7), L: Ervin Santana (8-8), S: Casey Janssen (25)
Sun, Apr 14, 2013 KCR  3  TOR  2        W:Kelvin Herrera (1-0), L: Darren Oliver (0-1), S: none
Sat, Apr 13, 2013 TOR  3 @KCR  2        W:R.A. Dickey (1-2), L: James Shields (1-2), S: Casey Janssen (3)
Fri, Apr 12, 2013 TOR  8 @KCR  4        W:J.A. Happ (2-0), L: Luis Mendoza (0-1), S: Aaron Loup (1)

Thu, Jul 05, 2012 KCR  9 @TOR  6        W:Luke Hochevar (6-8), L: Henderson Alvarez (5-7), S: Jonathan Broxton (21)
Wed, Jul 04, 2012 TOR  4  KCR  1        W:Carlos Villanueva (3-0), L: Luis Mendoza (3-5), S: Casey Janssen (11)
Tue, Jul 03, 2012 TOR  6  KCR  3        W:Brett Cecil (2-1), L: Vin Mazzaro (3-3), S: Casey Janssen (10)
Mon, Jul 02, 2012 KCR 11 @TOR  3        W:Everett Teaford (1-1), L: Ricky Romero (8-3), S: none
Mon, Apr 23, 2012 TOR  4 @KCR  1        W:Brandon Morrow (1-1), L: Bruce Chen (0-2), S: Francisco Cordero (2)
Sun, Apr 22, 2012 TOR  5 @KCR  3        W:Ricky Romero (3-0), L: Danny Duffy (1-2), S: Francisco Cordero (1)
Season Series: 2013 - TOR over 3-1; 2012 - TOR won 6-2; 2011 - KCR won 4-3; All-Time - TOR leads 186-177

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  5.10

KCR  4.05

MIA  3.16

 RA/G

ATL  3.37

NYM  4.23

HOU  5.30

 BA

M. Cabrera  .358

J. Jay  .271

D. Uggla  .187

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .449

J. Segura  .335

J. Arencibia  .247

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .681

A. Gordon  .427

A. Hechavarria  .299

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.130

C. Carter  .769

A. Escobar  .562

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.72

K. Medlen  3.58

E. Volquez  5.97

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  12.16

R. Nolasco  7.31

B. Colon  4.75

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Royals Batters (4.05 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.84 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Dickey
G/S/vB		 27.Cecil*
G/S/vB		 44.Janssen
G/S/vB		 62.Loup*
G/S/vB		 38.Oliver*
G/S/vB		 32.Rogers
G/S/vB		 21.Santos
G/S/vB		 45.Wagner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
64.Bonifacio# G/S/vP 17/.368 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 347/253 .230/.280/.327/.607 .440/.665 .619 89/.686 21/6 3/8
16.Butler G/S/vP 4/1.750 9/.873 5/.000 1/.000 8/.536 3/.666 8/.375 1/no AB 551/404 .293/.385/.432/.816 .819/.816 .757 116/.970 0/0 14/0
21.Carroll G/S/vP 12/.750 4/1.417 2/.000 ··· 4/1.000 10/.800 1/2.000 ··· 237/172 .208/.264/.241/.505 .633/.456 .478 52/.458 2/0 0/2
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 3/1.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 169/122 .253/.315/.370/.686 .515/.750 .498 59/.583 27/4 2/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP 9/.666 7/.286 4/.250 1/.000 8/.286 4/.500 3/1.000 ··· 549/377 .236/.262/.300/.562 .640/.527 .581 105/.569 16/0 3/12
17.Getz* G/S/vP 5/1.350 4/.666 2/1.000 ··· 6/1.800 2/2.000 2/1.000 ··· 230/170 .227/.293/.281/.574 .617/.559 .583 54/.613 13/2 1/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 4/.500 5/.450 7/1.428 1/.000 13/.693 1/no AB 3/1.000 ··· 577/384 .271/.333/.427/.760 .913/.683 .793 117/.812 9/3 15/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 7/.286 ··· ··· 4/.500 2/2.000 3/2.334 1/3.000 562/376 .295/.346/.443/.789 .818/.774 .800 120/.905 10/4 15/6
26.Kottaras* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 4/.750 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 113/94 .170/.354/.386/.740 .522/.778 .599 31/.563 1/0 5/4
7.Lough* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 286/226 .287/.306/.404/.711 .763/.697 .806 63/.550 5/2 4/2
27.Maxwell G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 220/142 .263/.336/.449/.786 .743/.810 .725 63/.901 5/1 6/4
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 3/.000 7/.715 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 1/2.000 417/313 .244/.300/.375/.675 .585/.705 .627 62/.919 1/4 10/13
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/1.667 5/1.400 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 425/302 .281/.313/.408/.721 .770/.701 .669 72/.871 0/0 9/7
IP 182.2 59.2 44.0 64.2 43.1 111.0 15.2 31.2 TOTAL .260/.316/.379/.695 .693/.695 .696 .740 122/23 94/65
ERA-K/9 4.39/7.0 3.02/10.4 2.86/7.8 2.37/6.8 4.15/7.5 5.03/6.2 2.30/8.6 3.13/7.9 4.41/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kottaras (25-8-3)
 Perez (39-20-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 775/.245 246/.205 178/.202 260/.250 184/.262 490/.295 58/.167 129/.239 .261  Gordon
 Maxwell
 Lough
 Dyson
 Bonifacio
 Hosmer
128/0/0/12
0/26/34/5
13/7/60/5
0/50/0/3
20/14/5/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .742 .604 .559 .654 .777 .830 .503 .676 .760
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 414/.772 120/.452 110/.630 103/.472 71/1.013 270/.920 20/.422 54/.650 .772
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 361/.707 126/.760 68/.445 157/.769 113/.621 220/.724 38/.544 75/.694 .750
Home 383/.819 131/.661 106/.681 137/.675 83/.767 241/.817 28/.657 64/.859
Last 28d days 147/.690 38/.833 44/.791 39/.724 38/.878 78/1.035 34/.393 47/.708
HR/SB/CS 29/8/3 4/6/2 2/0/0 5/3/6 6/3/1 18/1/1 1/4/0 4/0/1 168/76/24
Usage ····X··· o·····o· X···oX·o ··X·X··· ··o····X ···X···· o·o·o··o ···X····
Blue Jays Batters (4.44 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.77 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Guthrie
G/S/vB		 52.Chen*
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 53.Smith*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Arencibia G/S/vP 5/.400 3/.666 2/5.000 2/.000 2/.000 10/1.289 2/1.500 ··· 430/309 .212/.247/.400/.647 .624/.656 .814 62/.649 0/2 20/9
11.Davis G/S/vP 13/.462 10/.425 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 14/.517 1/.000 ··· 285/182 .263/.313/.344/.657 .908/.516 .696 78/.595 40/4 2/1
16.DeRosa G/S/vP 5/.900 13/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 198/71 .216/.308/.415/.723 .783/.619 .740 38/.513 0/0 7/4
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 31/1.091 6/.000 4/.500 4/1.250 3/1.666 11/.364 2/3.000 ··· 578/453 .272/.369/.534/.903 .820/.926 .857 109/.828 7/1 34/7
17.Goins* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 27/18 .423/.444/.500/.944 .444/1.203 1.105 27/.944 0/0 0/0
8.Gose* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 65/47 .262/.308/.328/.636 .686/.616 .708 39/.546 3/1 0/2
66.Kawasaki* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 238/190 .217/.316/.303/.619 .405/.673 .561 22/.636 7/1 1/6
13.Lawrie G/S/vP 6/1.933 6/.334 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 8/.500 3/1.333 ··· 326/251 .261/.320/.431/.751 .597/.797 .762 102/.869 6/4 10/9
26.Lind* G/S/vP 44/.970 6/.334 5/.000 3/.666 2/.500 16/.376 2/.500 ··· 444/362 .282/.354/.470/.823 .535/.893 .736 86/.791 1/0 16/5
22.Pillar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/34 .163/.250/.256/.506 .277/.606 .364 49/.506 0/1 1/0
7.Reyes# G/S/vP 4/.750 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 300/232 .289/.347/.425/.772 .762/.774 .856 102/.631 12/5 9/4
14.Sierra G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 29/19 .217/.345/.261/.606 .633/.583 .929 29/.606 0/0 0/1
30.Thole* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 99/87 .141/.247/.224/.471 .311/.490 .478 35/.652 0/0 1/3
IP 171.2 87.0 46.1 43.1 52.1 58.0 52.0 23.2 TOTAL .252/.320/.411/.731 .674/.752 .762 .691 98/35 158/92
ERA-K/9 4.19/5.0 2.79/6.1 3.88/8.6 3.12/8.3 3.44/11.2 1.86/9.5 1.38/14.4 3.04/10.3 3.49/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (53-17-13)
 Thole (20-7-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 738/.281 357/.230 203/.243 191/.273 217/.202 219/.170 200/.179 90/.220 .253  Davis
 Gose
 Pillar
 Sierra
48/13/24/3
10/13/0/1
14/0/0/1
0/0/9/0
OPS .782 .652 .668 .761 .680 .520 .492 .647 .704
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 412/.907 117/.786 103/.566 91/.812 105/.673 110/.621 106/.545 37/.503 .746
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 326/.623 240/.587 100/.769 100/.717 112/.686 109/.420 94/.432 53/.751 .660
Road 361/.876 147/.611 106/.647 98/.834 113/.786 99/.532 89/.510 37/.432
Last 28d days 140/.773 121/.694 38/.655 32/.915 51/.368 53/.496 36/.352 26/.362
HR/SB/CS 25/8/3 8/4/6 2/2/0 5/8/1 9/8/2 5/4/2 2/0/0 4/1/1 128/70/30
Usage ····X··· ·X·····X o···X··X ··X·X··· ·X·o·X·X o·X···X· ·o···X·· ·o·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.