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Game Preview: KCR @ TOR, 1:07pm, Sunday, September 1, 2013 @Rogers Centre

Royals, 69-66, 69-66 3rd, 10½ GB, 8 GB in WC

SP: James Shields (31, RHP, 9-8, 3.14)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (9-8) 189.0 178 68 66 60 152 18 3.14
2012 (15-10) 227.2 208 103 89 58 223 25 3.52
2011 (16-12) 249.1 195 83 78 65 225 26 2.82
Last 7 GS 5-1 47.1 44 16 15 20 30 4 2.85 56
2013-08-27 @MIN W 7.1 4 1 1 4 7 0 114 69
2013-08-22 CHW ND 7.0 9 3 3 0 8 0 110 55
2013-08-16 @DET W 7.0 3 0 0 4 1 0 106 68
2013-08-11 BOS W 7.0 7 3 2 3 5 0 114 55
2013-08-06 MIN L 6.0 8 7 7 2 3 3 110 29
2013-08-01 @MIN W 6.0 5 2 2 5 4 1 116 53
2013-07-26 @CHW W 7.0 8 0 0 2 2 0 107 61
Last 5 v.TOR 3-1 40.1 24 8 7 7 43 4 1.56 74
2013-04-13 TOR L 9.0 2 3 3 3 6 1 115 74
2012-09-21 TOR W 7.0 6 0 0 1 9 0 105 73
2012-08-07 TOR W 8.0 2 1 1 1 6 1 116 79
2012-05-23 TOR ND 7.1 7 3 2 1 10 1 110 63
2011-08-26 @TOR W 9.0 7 1 1 1 12 1 125 80
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-33   Road:   34-33   ExtrInn: 8-4 
 vsRHP:  52-43   vsLHP:  17-23   1-Run:  24-22
 vsEast: 18-15   vsCntrl:34-26   vsWest:  8-14 IL: 9-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
135 Sat, Aug 31  @TOR  L   2-4       69-66  3rd 10.5 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15
Blue Jays, 62-74, 62-74 5th, 18½ GB, 15½ GB in WC

SP: J.A. Happ (30, LHP, 3-4, 5.46)

2013 Gamelogs / 2013 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2013 (3-4) 59.1 57 38 36 32 48 7 5.46
2012 (10-11) 144.2 147 79 77 56 144 19 4.79
2011 (6-15) 156.1 157 103 93 83 134 21 5.35
Last 7 GS 1-3 31.1 33 25 24 21 24 4 6.89 42
2013-08-27 NYY L 4.2 7 5 5 2 5 2 89 33
2013-08-22 @NYY L 5.1 3 4 4 5 4 1 97 45
2013-08-17 @TBR W 5.1 5 2 2 1 5 0 89 54
2013-08-12 OAK ND 7.0 3 1 1 2 6 1 116 71
2013-08-07 @SEA ND 4.0 7 7 6 3 2 0 99 21
2013-05-07 @TBR ND 1.1 5 4 4 1 0 0 43 27
2013-05-02 BOS L 3.2 3 2 2 7 2 0 95 42
Last 5 v.KCR 2-0 11.0 9 6 6 4 7 0 4.91 50
2013-04-12 @KCR W 5.0 5 4 4 3 4 0 110 42
2012-06-18 KCR W 6.0 4 2 2 1 3 0 108 58
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   35-33   Road:   27-41   ExtrInn: 7-8 
 vsRHP:  46-55   vsLHP:  16-19   1-Run:  17-22
 vsEast: 23-38   vsCntrl:13-14   vsWest: 17-14 IL: 9-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
136 Sat, Aug 31   KCR  W   4-2       62-74  5th 18.5 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
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 31, 2013 TOR  4  KCR  2        W:R.A. Dickey (11-12), L: Kelvin Herrera (5-7), S: Casey Janssen (26)
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)
Season Series: 2013 - TOR over 4-1; 2012 - TOR won 6-2; 2011 - KCR won 4-3; All-Time - TOR leads 187-177

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  5.14

KCR  4.04

MIA  3.16

 RA/G

ATL  3.37

NYM  4.22

HOU  5.28

 BA

M. Cabrera  .358

M. Brantley  .273

D. Uggla  .185

 OBP

M. Cabrera  .449

A. Callaspo  .336

J. Arencibia  .246

 SLG

M. Cabrera  .681

B. Butler  .428

A. Escobar  .300

 OPS

M. Cabrera  1.130

B. Zobrist  .768

A. Escobar  .563

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.72

C. Hamels  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 (4.04 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.82 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.Happ*
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/.782 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 351/257 .230/.280/.332/.612 .440/.671 .628 92/.710 21/6 3/8
16.Butler G/S/vP 6/.333 9/.873 5/.000 1/.000 8/.536 3/.666 8/.375 1/no AB 555/408 .290/.382/.428/.810 .819/.807 .745 119/.944 0/0 14/0
21.Carroll G/S/vP 6/1.100 4/1.417 2/.000 ··· 4/1.000 10/.800 1/2.000 ··· 237/172 .208/.264/.241/.505 .633/.456 .478 49/.488 2/0 0/2
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/2.000 3/.666 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 173/126 .253/.314/.367/.681 .515/.742 .498 61/.545 27/4 2/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP 11/.382 7/.286 4/.250 1/.000 8/.286 4/.500 3/1.000 ··· 552/380 .237/.263/.300/.563 .640/.528 .582 103/.580 16/0 3/13
17.Getz* G/S/vP ··· 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 13/3 1/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 6/1.167 5/.450 8/1.250 1/.000 13/.693 1/no AB 3/1.000 ··· 582/389 .270/.332/.425/.756 .913/.679 .787 117/.786 9/3 15/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 7/.286 ··· ··· 4/.500 2/2.000 3/2.334 1/3.000 566/380 .297/.349/.444/.793 .818/.780 .808 119/.913 10/4 15/6
26.Kottaras* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 5/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 114/95 .180/.360/.393/.753 .522/.792 .626 27/.546 1/0 5/4
7.Lough* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 290/230 .287/.309/.404/.713 .763/.700 .808 64/.544 5/2 4/2
27.Maxwell G/S/vP 6/.333 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 220/142 .263/.336/.449/.786 .743/.810 .725 63/.901 5/1 6/4
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 6/.333 7/.715 4/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 1/2.000 421/317 .242/.297/.371/.668 .585/.696 .615 61/.788 1/4 10/13
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.666 5/1.400 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 429/306 .279/.312/.405/.717 .770/.696 .663 76/.843 0/0 9/7
IP 59.1 59.2 45.0 64.2 43.1 111.0 15.2 31.2 TOTAL .260/.316/.378/.694 .693/.694 .694 .725 122/24 94/66
ERA-K/9 5.46/7.3 3.02/10.4 2.80/8.0 2.37/6.8 4.15/7.5 5.03/6.2 2.30/8.6 3.13/7.9 4.39/7.5

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 269/.247 246/.205 182/.205 260/.250 184/.262 490/.295 58/.167 129/.239 .261  Gordon
 Lough
 Maxwell
 Dyson
 Bonifacio
 Hosmer
129/0/0/14
13/7/61/6
0/26/34/5
0/51/0/3
20/14/5/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .755 .604 .565 .654 .777 .830 .503 .676 .759
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 83/.752 120/.452 114/.637 103/.472 71/1.013 270/.920 20/.422 54/.650 .772
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 186/.757 126/.760 68/.445 157/.769 113/.621 220/.724 38/.544 75/.694 .748
Home 114/.767 131/.661 110/.687 137/.675 83/.767 241/.817 28/.657 64/.859
Last 28d days 119/.758 36/.884 45/.853 39/.724 38/.878 78/1.035 34/.393 41/.689
HR/SB/CS 7/5/0 4/6/2 2/0/1 5/3/6 6/3/1 18/1/1 1/4/0 4/0/1 168/76/25
Usage ····X··· ·o·····o XX···oX· ···X·X·· ···o···· ····X··· ·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 33.Shields
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 14/.928 3/.666 3/3.334 2/.000 2/.000 10/1.289 2/1.500 ··· 431/309 .212/.246/.399/.645 .619/.656 .810 59/.658 0/2 20/9
11.Davis G/S/vP 11/.182 10/.425 2/.000 3/.333 1/.000 14/.517 1/.000 ··· 289/186 .264/.316/.347/.663 .908/.528 .708 77/.580 40/4 2/1
16.DeRosa G/S/vP 9/.583 13/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 199/72 .215/.307/.413/.719 .783/.609 .732 36/.544 0/0 7/4
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 28/.596 6/.000 4/.500 4/1.250 3/1.666 11/.364 2/3.000 1/no AB 582/456 .275/.371/.535/.906 .825/.929 .864 108/.851 7/1 34/7
17.Goins* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 31/21 .400/.419/.467/.886 .400/1.124 .974 31/.886 0/0 0/0
8.Gose* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 68/50 .250/.294/.313/.607 .686/.578 .633 42/.506 3/1 0/2
66.Kawasaki* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 239/191 .221/.319/.307/.625 .405/.681 .573 23/.699 7/1 1/6
13.Lawrie G/S/vP 10/.900 6/.334 ··· 3/.333 1/.000 8/.500 3/1.333 ··· 330/255 .258/.319/.426/.745 .597/.790 .752 102/.863 6/4 10/9
26.Lind* G/S/vP 50/.872 6/.334 5/.000 3/.666 2/.500 16/.376 2/.500 ··· 447/365 .282/.353/.469/.822 .535/.891 .735 85/.827 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 7/.572 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 304/236 .296/.352/.430/.782 .762/.787 .873 101/.658 12/5 9/4
14.Sierra G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/21 .200/.323/.240/.563 .633/.521 .804 31/.563 0/0 0/1
30.Thole* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 102/90 .148/.250/.227/.477 .311/.496 .492 38/.653 0/0 1/3
IP 189.0 87.0 46.2 43.2 52.2 58.0 52.0 23.2 TOTAL .252/.320/.410/.731 .673/.752 .762 .696 98/35 158/92
ERA-K/9 3.14/7.2 2.79/6.1 3.86/8.5 3.09/8.4 3.42/11.1 1.86/9.5 1.38/14.4 3.42/10.3 3.49/7.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Arencibia (53-18-13)
 Thole (20-7-7)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 784/.253 357/.230 204/.241 194/.271 220/.209 219/.170 200/.179 92/.217 .253  Davis
 Gose
 Pillar
 Sierra
49/13/25/3
10/14/0/1
15/0/0/1
0/0/10/0
OPS .687 .652 .664 .764 .689 .520 .492 .648 .704
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 422/.623 117/.786 103/.566 91/.812 108/.692 110/.621 106/.545 38/.490 .746
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 362/.763 240/.587 101/.761 103/.722 112/.686 109/.420 94/.432 54/.764 .660
Road 407/.628 147/.611 107/.640 101/.838 116/.801 99/.532 89/.510 39/.440
Last 28d days 144/.702 121/.694 33/.553 35/.923 54/.424 53/.496 33/.385 28/.379
HR/SB/CS 18/5/3 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····· oo···X·· o··X·X·· X·X·o·X· ·o·X···X ··o···X· o·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.