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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim vs. Kansas City Royals, at Angel Stadium of Anaheim, May 25, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Start Time:
12:35pt (local), 3:35et
Venue:
Angel Stadium of Anaheim
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Angel Stadium of Anaheim
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
67° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
49
On This Date:
25-19
Angels
Manager:
Mike Scioscia
Game #:
49
On This Date:
26-23
Season Series
Fri, May 23, 2014 LAA  6  KCR  1     
Sat, May 24, 2014 KCR  7 @LAA  4 (13)

Sun, May 25, 2014 KCR    @LAA  3:35pm
Fri, Jun 27, 2014 LAA    @KCR  8:10pm
Sat, Jun 28, 2014 LAA    @KCR  2:10pm
Sun, Jun 29, 2014 LAA    @KCR  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
24-24, 2nd, 5½ GB, 3 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   13-11   Road:   11-13   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  17-17   vsLHP:   7-7    1-Run:   4-11
 vsEast:  8-5    vsCntrl: 6-15   vsWest:  6-3  IL: 4-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 48 Sat, May 24  @LAA  W   7-4 (13)  24-24  2nd  5.5 gb
 47 Fri, May 23  @LAA  L   1-6       23-24  4th  6.5 gb
 46 Wed, May 21   CHW  W   3-1       23-23  3rd  6.0 gb
 45 Tue, May 20   CHW  L   6-7       22-23  3rd  7.0 gb
 44 Mon, May 19   CHW  L   6-7       22-22  2nd  7.0 gb
 43 Sun, May 18   BAL  W   8-6       22-21  2nd  7.0 gb
 42 Sat, May 17   BAL  W   1-0       21-21  3rd  7.0 gb
 41 Fri, May 16   BAL  L   0-4       20-21  3rd  7.0 gb
 40 Thu, May 15   BAL  L   1-2       20-20  2nd  6.0 gb
 39 Wed, May 14   COL  W   3-2       20-19  2nd  5.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
27-21, 2nd, 2½ GB, 2 up in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-13   Road:   13-8    ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  16-13   vsLHP:  11-8    1-Run:   6-8 
 vsEast:  8-6    vsCntrl: 5-3    vsWest:  8-10 IL: 6-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 48 Sat, May 24   KCR  L   4-7 (13)  27-21  2nd  2.5 gb
 47 Fri, May 23   KCR  W   6-1       27-20  2nd  2.5 gb
 46 Wed, May 21   HOU  W   2-1       26-20  2nd  4.0 gb
 45 Tue, May 20   HOU  W   9-3       25-20  2nd  4.0 gb
 44 Mon, May 19   HOU  L   2-5       24-20  2nd  4.0 gb
 43 Sun, May 18   TBR  W   6-2       24-19  2nd  3.5 gb
 42 Sat, May 17   TBR  W   6-0       23-19  2nd  3.5 gb
 41 Fri, May 16   TBR  L   0-3       22-19  2nd  3.5 gb
 40 Thu, May 15   TBR  W   6-5       22-18  2nd  2.5 gb
 39 Wed, May 14  @PHI  W   3-0       21-18  2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, May 24, 2014 KCR  7 @LAA  4 (13)   W:Aaron Crow (2-1), L: Mike Morin (0-1), S: Greg Holland (14)
Fri, May 23, 2014 LAA  6  KCR  1        W:C.J. Wilson (6-3), L: Danny Duffy (2-4), S: none

Sun, May 26, 2013 LAA  5 @KCR  2        W:Jerome Williams (4-1), L: Wade Davis (3-4), S: Ernesto Frieri (10)
Sat, May 25, 2013 LAA  7 @KCR  0        W:Billy Buckner (1-0), L: Jeremy Guthrie (5-3), S: none
Fri, May 24, 2013 LAA  5 @KCR  2        W:Jason Vargas (4-3), L: Luke Hochevar (0-1), S: Garrett Richards (1)
Thu, May 23, 2013 LAA  5 @KCR  4        W:Joe Blanton (1-7), L: Ervin Santana (3-4), S: Robert Coello (1)
Wed, May 15, 2013 KCR  9 @LAA  5        W:Wade Davis (3-3), L: Barry Enright (0-2), S: none
Tue, May 14, 2013 LAA  6  KCR  2        W:Jason Vargas (2-3), L: Jeremy Guthrie (5-1), S: none
Mon, May 13, 2013 KCR 11 @LAA  4        W:Luis Mendoza (1-2), L: Joe Blanton (0-7), S: Luke Hochevar (1)
Sun, Sep 16, 2012 LAA  4 @KCR  3        W:Dan Haren (11-11), L: Will Smith (5-8), S: Kevin Jepsen (2)
Season Series: 2014 - tied 1-1; 2013 - LAA won 5-2; 2012 - LAA won 5-4; All-Time - LAA leads 281-271

SP: Jason Vargas (31, LHP, 4-2, 3.76)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. LAA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-2) 64.2 64 28 27 13 46 10 3.76
2013 (9-8) 150.0 162 68 67 46 109 17 4.02
2012 (14-11) 217.1 201 94 93 55 141 35 3.85
Last 7 GS 3-2 42.2 50 24 23 8 34 7 4.85 48
2014-05-19 CHW L 4.2 8 7 7 2 6 3 82 24
2014-05-14 COL W 6.2 5 2 2 1 8 1 103 63
2014-05-09 @SEA W 7.0 3 0 0 0 6 0 98 77
2014-05-04 DET L 5.0 11 7 7 2 3 2 107 18
2014-04-29 TOR ND 6.1 10 5 5 0 5 1 94 38
2014-04-23 @CLE ND 6.0 6 3 2 2 2 0 100 50
2014-04-18 MIN W 7.0 7 0 0 1 4 0 113 66
Last 5 v.LAA 2-2 34.0 36 13 13 6 28 5 3.44 55
2012-08-12 @LAA W 8.1 7 1 1 1 5 0 96 69
2012-06-04 @LAA W 5.2 9 4 4 2 8 2 106 41
2012-05-24 LAA L 7.0 7 3 3 0 6 1 106 57
2011-08-05 @LAA ND 6.0 7 0 0 1 3 0 111 60
2011-06-13 LAA L 7.0 6 5 5 2 6 2 108 49

SP: Garrett Richards (26, RHP, 4-1, 2.90)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (4-1) 59.0 45 19 19 22 55 1 2.90
2013 (7-8) 145.0 151 73 67 44 101 12 4.16
2012 (4-3) 71.0 77 46 37 34 47 7 4.69
Last 7 GS 2-1 47.0 41 18 18 14 42 1 3.45 58
2014-05-19 HOU L 7.0 10 5 5 2 1 0 98 36
2014-05-14 @PHI W 7.0 5 0 0 0 8 0 106 75
2014-05-09 @TOR ND 7.0 5 2 2 2 6 0 95 63
2014-05-03 TEX W 6.0 9 3 3 2 9 0 111 49
2014-04-27 @NYY ND 7.0 3 2 2 2 7 1 112 68
2014-04-21 @WSN ND 6.0 1 1 1 4 6 0 99 68
2014-04-15 OAK ND 7.0 8 5 5 2 5 0 91 44
Last 5 v.KCR 0-1 5.0 5 4 4 3 2 1 7.20 40
2012-07-24 KCR L 5.0 5 4 4 3 2 1 96 40

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

Royals Batters (3.94 RS/G) vs. Angels Pitchers (3.98 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Richards
G/S/vB		 24.Burnett*
G/S/vB		 49.Frieri
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 58.Kohn
G/S/vB		 64.Morin
G/S/vB		 59.Salas
G/S/vB		 38.Smith
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Aoki* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 208/155 .282/.337/.340/.677 .881/.607 .528 106/.676 6/3 0/2
16.Butler G/S/vP 7/.143 2/.000 3/2.334 6/1.417 2/.000 2/.000 4/1.250 15/.343 195/143 .250/.308/.314/.622 .695/.596 .446 93/.739 0/0 1/
6.Cain G/S/vP 6/2.267 ··· 4/1.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 6/.334 109/79 .313/.367/.394/.761 .751/.764 .719 65/.773 5/0 1/0
37.Ciriaco G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· 3/.666 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB 3/1.667 2/.000 22/16 .190/.190/.190/.381 .333/.400 .222 22/.381 3/0 0/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 7/1.285 59/51 .283/.321/.321/.642 .250/.710 .844 28/.539 6/2 0/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 6/.334 1/.000 4/.500 7/.453 3/.000 1/no AB 8/.625 15/.277 187/144 .271/.317/.376/.693 .896/.628 .672 98/.621 14/1 2/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 4/2.333 ··· 5/.400 6/.900 2/.000 2/.000 5/.650 8/.708 202/140 .271/.342/.392/.734 .668/.763 .690 101/.746 2/2 3/0
12.Hayes G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 26/14 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 22/.000 0/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 7/.143 2/1.000 4/.750 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 5/.800 4/2.000 214/144 .289/.332/.391/.723 .654/.756 .859 110/.721 0/1 1/3
32.Paredes# G/S/vP 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 1/.000 2/0 0/0
26.Pena G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 0/ /// / 0/ 0/0 0/0
13.Perez G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 3/2.334 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 172/131 .264/.320/.415/.735 .770/.724 .765 75/.812 1/0 4/3
19.Valencia G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.334 1/.000 2/1.500 ··· 5/.000 68/30 .279/.338/.393/.732 .799/.641 .816 54/.714 0/0 1/1
IP 59.0 0.1 20.1 16.0 20.1 11.2 21.0 20.0 TOTAL .255/.310/.354/.664 .661/.665 .653 .653 40/11 20/31
ERA-K/9 2.90/8.4 27.00/0.0 4.43/11.5 4.50/12.9 2.21/10.2 1.54/6.9 2.57/9.4 2.25/8.6 3.63/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hayes (2-0-1)
 Pena (0-1-0)
 Perez (17-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 238/.209 2/.500 80/.227 68/.172 86/.145 43/.231 91/.222 79/.219 .226  Gordon
 Dyson
 Aoki
 Cain
48/0/0/4
0/23/0/2
0/0/46/1
0/28/6/1
OPS .555 1.000 .755 .604 .534 .603 .667 .539 .648
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 156/.518 2/1.000 54/.661 34/.703 45/.546 21/.762 49/.524 44/.643 .641
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 82/.627 / 26/.946 34/.506 41/.521 22/.422 42/.822 35/.410 .654
Home 86/.796 2/1.000 43/.791 46/.726 49/.606 39/.670 64/.521 45/.583
Last 28d days 112/.643 2/1.000 31/.329 31/.489 31/.572 43/.603 49/.581 36/.564
HR/SB/CS 1/2/0 0/0/0 6/0/0 2/1/0 1/1/0 1/0/1 2/1/0 1/1/0 41/28/11
Usage ·····X·· oo······ X·····o· oo··o··· ····X··· Xo····o· Xo··o··· X·····o·
Angels Batters (4.94 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.92 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Vargas*
G/S/vB		 25.Coleman
G/S/vB		 31.Coleman
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Aybar# G/S/vP 37/.576 ··· 1/3.000 4/.500 6/1.100 11/.700 4/1.250 6/1.000 197/141 .269/.306/.412/.718 .576/.775 .615 103/.750 2/3 3/3
56.Calhoun* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 73/52 .217/.260/.435/.695 .762/.667 .678 9/.000 2/0 3/0
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/1.000 76/70 .299/.373/.522/.896 1.000/.879 .850 46/.926 0/0 3/2
7.Cowgill G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 126/71 .278/.371/.370/.741 .817/.681 .641 86/.664 1/0 2/3
20.Cron G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 52/25 .294/.308/.490/.798 .889/.697 .700 52/.798 0/0 2/0
6.Freese G/S/vP 3/2.000 ··· 3/.000 4/1.500 5/.400 3/.666 4/1.000 3/.666 112/83 .216/.268/.294/.562 .720/.510 .500 33/.781 0/0 2/0
10.Green G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 49/23 .391/.408/.522/.930 1.022/.824 1.035 49/.930 1/2 1/0
17.Iannetta G/S/vP 3/1.000 3/.333 3/.333 1/3.000 4/1.000 7/.629 2/1.500 2/1.000 118/66 .237/.364/.423/.787 .934/.666 .812 47/.769 2/0 4/0
28.Ibanez* G/S/vP 6/.334 ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 2/1.500 1/.000 1/5.000 139/112 .153/.273/.280/.553 .235/.630 .576 61/.583 2/0 3/0
47.Kendrick G/S/vP 39/.713 ··· 5/.800 2/.000 8/.804 15/1.225 4/.500 5/.400 212/149 .309/.384/.426/.809 .786/.819 .645 101/.820 9/2 2/3
8.McDonald G/S/vP 5/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 5/1.150 1/.000 1/.000 35/16 .233/.324/.267/.590 .722/.450 .778 20/.388 1/0 0/2
5.Pujols G/S/vP 17/1.166 6/.733 5/1.400 2/2.000 8/.700 9/.444 4/1.167 4/.250 214/149 .272/.332/.538/.870 .872/.870 .855 104/.760 2/0 13/2
27.Trout G/S/vP 11/.819 ··· 2/3.500 1/2.000 3/1.167 7/.929 3/1.666 3/1.167 215/148 .277/.363/.538/.901 1.022/.847 1.037 104/.813 5/0 10/2
IP 64.2 2.2 13.2 8.2 20.2 22.1 22.1 18.2 TOTAL .256/.325/.423/.748 .770/.738 .718 .729 32/7 54/28
ERA-K/9 3.76/6.4 0.00/0.0 5.27/7.9 5.19/4.1 2.61/5.2 1.61/16.1 1.21/7.7 1.93/13.0 3.57/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Conger (14-5-0)
 Iannetta (14-6-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 265/.257 9/.222 62/.309 37/.310 84/.208 89/.130 90/.210 75/.217 .244  Calhoun
 Trout
 Cowgill
 Ibanez
 Green
0/0/17/3
0/45/0/2
7/6/29/1
10/0/0/0
11/0/0/0
OPS .729 .444 .878 .757 .598 .366 .590 .570 .685
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 66/.584 4/.000 20/.426 16/.786 44/.620 43/.441 44/.587 39/.514 .659
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 199/.777 5/.800 42/1.084 21/.717 40/.574 46/.296 46/.592 36/.621 .704
Road 103/.557 / 27/.782 18/1.183 44/.529 51/.346 46/.460 30/.578
Last 28d days 130/.878 9/.444 47/.868 28/.628 53/.690 38/.269 52/.541 38/.613
HR/SB/CS 10/7/2 0/0/1 2/0/1 0/1/0 2/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/1 1/1/1 45/19/9
Usage ·····X·· ····X··· ·X···o·· X···Xo·· Xo··X·o· X··o·X·o o····oo· o··X··oX

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 2014 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

COL  5.24

NYM  3.98

SDP  3.12

 RA/G

OAK  3.16

COL  4.26

ARI  5.14

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .382

S. Marte  .264

B. Miller  .156

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .485

M. Adams  .332

J. Gyorko  .216

 SLG

T. Tulowitzki  .739

A. Simmons  .410

B. Miller  .255

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.223

D. Fowler  .737

B. Miller  .483

 ERA

J. Samardzija  1.46

J. Lyles  3.45

R. Nolasco  5.50

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  12.19

R. Vogelsong  7.35

C. Young  3.35

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.