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Oakland Athletics vs. Kansas City Royals, at O.co Coliseum, August 1, 2014 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 1, 2014
Start Time:
6:35pt (local), 9:35et
Venue:
O.co Coliseum
Tickets:
Game Tickets / Tickets for games at O.co Coliseum
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
65° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
109
On This Date:
19-21
Athletics
Manager:
Bob Melvin
Game #:
108
On This Date:
47-59
Season Series

Fri, Aug 01, 2014 KCR    @OAK  9:35pm
Sat, Aug 02, 2014 KCR    @OAK  4:05pm
Sun, Aug 03, 2014 KCR    @OAK  4:05pm
Mon, Aug 11, 2014 OAK    @KCR  8:10pm
Tue, Aug 12, 2014 OAK    @KCR  8:10pm
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 OAK    @KCR  8:10pm
Thu, Aug 14, 2014 OAK    @KCR  2:10pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
55-52, 2nd, 4 GB, 9 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   27-27   Road:   28-25   ExtrInn: 5-4 
 vsRHP:  42-37   vsLHP:  13-15   1-Run:  13-21
 vsEast: 14-12   vsCntrl:25-25   vsWest:  8-11 IL: 8-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
107 Thu, Jul 31   MIN  W   6-3       55-52  2nd  4.0 gb
106 Wed, Jul 30   MIN  W   3-2       54-52  2nd  5.0 gb
105 Tue, Jul 29   MIN  L   1-2       53-52  2nd  5.0 gb
104 Sun, Jul 27   CLE  L   3-10      53-51  2nd  5.0 gb
103 Sat, Jul 26   CLE  W   7-5       53-50  2nd  5.0 gb
102 Fri, Jul 25   CLE  W   6-4       52-50  2nd  6.0 gb
101 Thu, Jul 24   CLE  W   2-1 (14)  51-50  2nd  7.0 gb
100 Wed, Jul 23  @CHW  W   2-1       50-50  3rd  7.0 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 22  @CHW  W   7-1       49-50  3rd  7.0 gb
 98 Mon, Jul 21  @CHW  L   1-3       48-50  3rd  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Oakland Athletics
66-41, 1st, 2 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   34-17   Road:   32-24   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  48-29   vsLHP:  18-12   1-Run:  15-13
 vsEast: 18-11   vsCntrl:11-8    vsWest: 27-20 IL:10-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
107 Wed, Jul 30  @HOU  L   1-8       66-41  1st  2.5 up
106 Tue, Jul 29  @HOU  W   7-4       66-40  1st  2.5 up
105 Mon, Jul 28  @HOU  L   3-7       65-40  1st  1.5 up
104 Sun, Jul 27  @TEX  W   9-3       65-39  1st  2.0 up
103 Sat, Jul 26  @TEX  W   5-1       64-39  1st  2.0 up
102 Fri, Jul 25  @TEX  L   1-4       63-39  1st  2.0 up
101 Thu, Jul 24   HOU  W  13-1       63-38  1st  3.0 up
100 Wed, Jul 23   HOU  W   9-7       62-38  1st  2.0 up
 99 Tue, Jul 22   HOU  L   2-3 (12)  61-38  1st  2.0 up
 98 Sun, Jul 20   BAL  W  10-2       61-37  1st  1.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 07, 2013 OAK 10 @KCR  4        W:A.J. Griffin (7-6), L: Luis Mendoza (2-5), S: Jesse Chavez (1)
Sat, Jul 06, 2013 KCR  4  OAK  3        W:Aaron Crow (6-3), L: Ryan Cook (1-2), S: Greg Holland (20)
Fri, Jul 05, 2013 OAK  6 @KCR  3        W:Tommy Milone (8-7), L: Wade Davis (4-7), S: Grant Balfour (22)
Sun, May 19, 2013 OAK  4  KCR  3        W:Jerry Blevins (3-0), L: Kelvin Herrera (2-4), S: Ryan Cook (1)
Sat, May 18, 2013 OAK  2  KCR  1        W:Tommy Milone (4-5), L: Ervin Santana (3-3), S: Grant Balfour (8)
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)
Season Series: 2014 -  0-0; 2013 - OAK won 5-1; 2012 - KCR won 5-4; All-Time - OAK leads 305-249

SP: Jeremy Guthrie (35, RHP, 6-9, 4.70)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (6-9) 132.0 145 70 69 37 84 19 4.70
2013 (15-12) 211.2 236 99 95 59 111 30 4.04
2012 (8-12) 181.2 206 109 96 50 101 30 4.76
Last 7 GS 3-3 40.2 54 29 28 13 34 6 6.20 42
2014-07-26 CLE W 5.2 10 5 5 2 4 1 105 31
2014-07-21 @CHW L 6.0 5 3 3 3 5 0 101 52
2014-07-10 DET L 4.0 8 8 8 3 2 1 91 13
2014-07-05 @CLE L 4.0 11 6 6 2 5 1 99 19
2014-06-29 LAA ND 6.2 9 4 3 2 4 2 106 44
2014-06-23 LAD W 7.2 7 2 2 0 5 0 95 62
2014-06-18 @DET W 6.2 4 1 1 1 9 1 105 70
Last 5 v.OAK 2-2 29.1 34 15 14 9 20 3 4.30 48
2012-08-14 OAK W 7.0 3 0 0 2 8 0 102 77
2012-06-12 OAK L 5.0 8 7 7 2 5 3 102 26
2010-05-25 OAK W 6.0 6 1 1 3 2 0 114 55
2010-04-17 @OAK ND 6.2 6 2 1 1 3 0 99 58
2009-08-10 OAK L 4.2 11 5 5 1 2 0 107 23

SP: Sonny Gray (24, RHP, 12-3, 2.65)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (12-3) 139.0 115 45 41 49 121 7 2.65
2013 (5-3) 64.0 51 22 19 20 67 4 2.67
Last 7 GS 6-0 47.0 38 13 11 17 42 1 2.11 61
2014-07-26 @TEX W 6.2 7 1 1 4 5 0 106 57
2014-07-20 BAL W 6.2 2 2 1 2 8 0 106 70
2014-07-13 @SEA W 7.2 6 1 0 2 5 0 108 68
2014-07-08 SFG W 7.0 6 1 1 1 8 1 98 68
2014-07-03 TOR W 7.0 4 1 1 3 5 0 95 67
2014-06-28 @MIA ND 5.0 7 5 5 3 4 0 93 34
2014-06-18 TEX W 7.0 6 2 2 2 7 0 100 62
Has never faced KCR as starter.

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

Royals Batters (3.98 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.49 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Gray
G/S/vB		 56.Abad*
G/S/vB		 48.Cook
G/S/vB		 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 39.O'Flaherty*
G/S/vB		 61.Otero
G/S/vB		 58.Scribner
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Aoki* G/S/vP ··· 3/1.334 ··· 1/2.000 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 350/268 .261/.327/.325/.651 .796/.607 .614 58/.655 9/4 0/2
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 424/320 .269/.321/.363/.684 .751/.662 .600 78/.792 0/0 5/0
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 319/232 .297/.332/.410/.742 .806/.719 .693 79/.607 15/3 3/1
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 12/10 .333/.333/.667/1.000 1.000/1.000 1.000 6/.333 0/0 0/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 200/164 .274/.328/.330/.658 .572/.678 .789 60/.544 21/4 1/3
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 403/309 .277/.312/.379/.691 .774/.665 .652 78/.484 23/2 2/10
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 423/303 .276/.355/.421/.776 .769/.778 .808 69/.816 7/2 9/1
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 445/310 .267/.312/.377/.689 .661/.701 .809 66/.912 3/2 6/6
18.Ibanez* G/S/vP 8/.375 4/.500 6/.167 6/.000 6/.000 8/.500 4/.500 1/3.000 238/196 .170/.256/.292/.549 .173/.629 .454 36/.603 3/2 4/1
14.Infante G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.750 2/.000 3/1.000 368/272 .265/.307/.366/.673 .539/.720 .725 90/.703 4/2 5/5
19.Kratz G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· 84/42 .198/.226/.346/.572 .653/.488 .588 13/.231 0/0 3/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 4/.250 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 311/261 .196/.265/.393/.657 .604/.668 .765 70/.775 0/0 13/10
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 397/302 .275/.315/.419/.734 .580/.778 .761 86/.538 1/0 12/4
IP 139.0 43.1 34.0 48.2 51.1 9.0 61.0 5.1 TOTAL .262/.312/.374/.686 .677/.689 .706 .669 89/21 61/62
ERA-K/9 2.65/7.8 1.87/8.1 2.65/8.2 2.59/12.8 1.93/7.7 2.00/7.0 2.36/4.1 1.69/5.1 3.19/7.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Kratz (13-5-1)
 Perez (36-16-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 574/.224 162/.164 141/.190 178/.157 201/.219 38/.194 245/.247 19/.158 .232  Cain
 Gordon
 Dyson
 Aoki
 Ibanez
0/56/42/7
101/0/0/6
3/67/0/3
3/0/75/3
21/0/5/0
OPS .599 .496 .615 .431 .591 .431 .605 .474 .645
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 334/.582 70/.562 56/.849 61/.267 79/.572 13/.615 108/.628 9/.444 .662
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 240/.622 92/.446 85/.466 117/.518 122/.604 25/.330 137/.586 10/.500 .632
Home 328/.638 85/.609 75/.653 90/.251 99/.525 17/.235 116/.620 8/.250
Last 28d days 111/.525 31/.484 32/.256 25/.294 28/.566 34/.423 35/.826 15/.600
HR/SB/CS 7/3/0 4/1/1 3/2/0 4/5/1 3/8/0 0/1/0 3/2/3 1/0/0 96/57/13
Usage ·····X·· ·o·oo··· ·o··o·o· ··o··X·· ·X···o·· ·X··X·X· ··oo·o·· ··ooX··X
Athletics Batters (5.00 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Guthrie
G/S/vB		 67.Bueno*
G/S/vB		 43.Crow
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 37.Downs*
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
7.Callaspo# G/S/vP 20/.358 ··· 6/1.667 17/.710 2/2.000 7/.453 1/no AB 4/.500 326/213 .234/.307/.307/.614 .487/.681 .715 33/.586 0/1 3/7
4.Crisp# G/S/vP 30/.793 ··· 3/1.667 4/.000 19/.787 15/.729 1/.000 2/1.000 334/248 .274/.372/.416/.789 .695/.823 .821 51/.485 16/4 7/2
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 2/2.000 ··· 2/.000 3/.666 2/.000 7/.762 3/.000 2/.000 464/351 .247/.330/.467/.797 1.098/.704 .779 90/.862 4/0 23/18
5.Jaso* G/S/vP 23/.904 1/.000 1/.000 3/.333 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 293/267 .285/.358/.465/.824 .487/.856 .975 60/.982 2/0 8/1
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP 9/1.000 ··· ··· 6/.000 8/1.482 7/.143 ··· 2/.000 433/315 .241/.323/.358/.681 .665/.687 .692 84/.867 0/0 5/10
37.Moss* G/S/vP 6/1.666 ··· 1/.000 5/.650 2/1.000 2/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 418/333 .259/.340/.503/.842 .813/.850 .817 78/.645 1/0 23/3
36.Norris G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 4/.750 ··· 1/.000 268/160 .300/.401/.476/.877 1.031/.771 .926 56/.763 2/1 9/3
1.Punto# G/S/vP 13/.154 ··· ··· 1/.000 7/.762 7/.000 ··· 1/.000 202/102 .203/.299/.277/.575 .629/.520 .594 37/.459 3/1 2/6
16.Reddick* G/S/vP 20/.876 ··· 3/.000 8/1.625 9/.333 5/.650 ··· 3/.666 229/156 .243/.301/.400/.701 .398/.843 .743 33/.978 1/0 6/2
28.Sogard* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 199/175 .201/.273/.240/.513 .258/.549 .642 30/.667 8/2 0/2
21.Vogt* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 160/134 .351/.381/.530/.911 .868/.919 .923 76/1.014 1/0 5/0
IP 132.0 22.1 45.2 46.1 32.2 33.1 46.0 40.2 TOTAL .253/.329/.405/.733 .714/.741 .780 .738 60/12 112/70
ERA-K/9 4.70/5.7 2.42/6.9 3.15/4.9 0.97/13.8 5.51/6.9 2.97/9.5 1.76/7.2 1.77/13.5 3.67/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Jaso (25-3-1)
 Norris (32-7-3)
 Vogt (0-3-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 572/.281 95/.256 186/.230 182/.127 145/.246 141/.230 192/.226 158/.186 .255  Moss
 Reddick
 Punto
 Crisp
 Vogt
28/0/31/5
0/1/61/2
0/0/1/0
0/73/0/0
1/0/16/0
OPS .775 .620 .723 .369 .718 .656 .604 .510 .708
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 326/.859 46/.472 83/.796 89/.490 75/.646 56/.577 89/.682 89/.548 .706
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 246/.659 49/.766 103/.664 93/.257 70/.797 85/.706 103/.537 69/.464 .710
Road 267/.801 47/.511 94/.583 90/.288 85/.714 68/.906 94/.564 60/.462
Last 28d days 103/1.036 53/.609 48/1.088 37/.425 37/.691 24/.673 41/.576 29/.294
HR/SB/CS 19/7/3 0/0/0 7/2/1 0/0/0 2/2/1 2/4/1 0/4/2 3/1/1 97/43/19
Usage ·····X·· ····X·oX o·o·X·Xo Xo···X·X ·o··oo·X ·oX·X·oo ·oX··oX· oX···o·X

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

OAK  5.00

ARI  4.01

SDP  3.15

 RA/G

SEA  3.34

PIT  4.16

COL  5.16

 BA

T. Tulowitzki  .340

J. Hardy  .272

C. Davis  .198

 OBP

T. Tulowitzki  .432

D. Jeter  .331

E. Cabrera  .258

 SLG

J. Abreu  .636

C. Yelich  .412

E. Cabrera  .287

 OPS

T. Tulowitzki  1.035

P. Sandoval  .751

E. Cabrera  .544

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.71

A. Sanchez  3.57

E. Jackson  5.79

 K/9IP

Y. Darvish  11.28

M. Estrada  7.42

K. Correia  4.23

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.