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Game Preview: KCR @ SEA, 9:10pm, Saturday, May 10, 2014 @Safeco Field

Royals, 17-18, 17-18 3rd, 5 GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Yordano Ventura (23, RHP, 2-1, 2.00)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. SEA Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-1) 36.0 26 9 8 11 41 2 2.00
2013 (0-1) 15.1 13 6 6 6 11 3 3.52
Last 7 GS 2-2 40.0 32 13 12 12 43 5 2.70 59
2014-05-05 @SDP ND 6.0 5 3 3 0 10 1 101 60
2014-04-30 TOR ND 5.0 2 0 0 2 4 0 92 65
2014-04-25 @BAL W 8.0 7 0 0 2 8 0 113 74
2014-04-20 MIN L 4.0 6 4 4 4 6 0 94 36
2014-04-15 @HOU W 7.0 4 2 1 3 7 1 101 67
2014-04-08 TBR ND 6.0 2 0 0 0 6 0 95 74
2013-09-28 @CHW L 4.0 6 4 4 1 2 3 76 35
Last 5 v.SEA 0-0 5.2 2 1 1 3 6 0 1.59 64
2013-09-23 @SEA ND 5.2 2 1 1 3 6 0 81 64
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    8-7    Road:    9-11   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  13-13   vsLHP:   4-5    1-Run:   2-8 
 vsEast:  6-3    vsCntrl: 5-13   vsWest:  4-1  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 35 Fri, May  9  @SEA  W   6-1       17-18  3rd  5.0 gb
 34 Thu, May  8  @SEA  L   0-1       16-18  3rd  6.0 gb
 33 Wed, May  7  @SDP  W   8-0       16-17  3rd  6.0 gb
 32 Tue, May  6  @SDP  W   3-1 (11)  15-17  4th  6.0 gb
 31 Mon, May  5  @SDP  L   5-6 (12)  14-17  4th  6.0 gb
 30 Sun, May  4   DET  L   4-9       14-16  3rd  5.0 gb
 29 Sat, May  3   DET  L   2-9       14-15  2nd  4.0 gb
 28 Fri, May  2   DET  L   2-8       14-14  2nd  3.0 gb
 27 Thu, May  1   TOR  L   3-7       14-13  2nd  2.0 gb
 26 Wed, Apr 30   TOR  W   4-2       14-12  2nd  1.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:15-15
Mariners, 18-17, 18-17 3rd, 2½ GB, 1½ GB in WC

SP: Chris Young (35, RHP, 2-0, 3.03)

2014 Gamelogs / 2014 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2014 (2-0) 29.2 21 11 10 16 15 4 3.03
2012 (4-9) 115.0 119 58 53 36 80 16 4.15
2011 (1-0) 24.0 12 5 5 11 22 3 1.88
Last 7 GS 2-1 39.2 33 15 13 19 24 4 2.95 54
2014-05-05 @OAK W 6.0 3 2 2 2 2 1 82 58
2014-04-29 @NYY W 5.2 3 2 1 3 3 1 105 57
2014-04-23 HOU ND 7.0 4 3 3 5 6 1 113 58
2014-04-18 @MIA ND 3.0 7 4 4 3 0 1 73 26
2014-04-13 OAK ND 6.0 4 0 0 3 2 0 97 63
2012-09-29 @ATL L 6.0 7 2 2 1 6 0 104 55
2012-09-23 MIA ND 6.0 5 2 1 2 5 0 90 59
Last 5 v.KCR 0-0 5.1 8 3 1 1 4 0 1.69 47
2005-09-02 @KCR ND 5.1 8 3 1 1 4 0 105 47
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:    6-7    Road:   12-10   ExtrInn: 1-2 
 vsRHP:   8-12   vsLHP:  10-5    1-Run:   5-4 
 vsEast:  2-0    vsCntrl: 1-1    vsWest: 15-13 IL: 0-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 35 Fri, May  9   KCR  L   1-6       18-17  3rd  2.5 gb
 34 Thu, May  8   KCR  W   1-0       18-16  2nd  1.5 gb
 33 Wed, May  7  @OAK  L   0-2       17-16  2nd  2.0 gb
 32 Wed, May  7  @OAK  W   6-4 (10)  17-15  2nd  2.0 gb
 31 Tue, May  6  @OAK  W   8-3       16-15  2nd  2.0 gb
 30 Mon, May  5  @OAK  W   4-2       15-15  4th  3.0 gb
 29 Sun, May  4  @HOU  W   8-7       14-15  4th  4.0 gb
 28 Sat, May  3  @HOU  W   9-8       13-15  4th  4.0 gb
 27 Fri, May  2  @HOU  L   4-5 (11)  12-15  4th  5.0 gb
 26 Thu, May  1  @NYY  W   4-2       12-14  4th  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, May 09, 2014 KCR  6 @SEA  1        W:Jason Vargas (3-1), L: Brandon Maurer (1-1), S: none
Thu, May 08, 2014 SEA  1  KCR  0        W:Hisashi Iwakuma (2-0), L: Danny Duffy (1-3), S: Fernando Rodney (10)

Wed, Sep 25, 2013 SEA  6  KCR  0        W:Hisashi Iwakuma (14-6), L: Ervin Santana (9-10), S: none
Tue, Sep 24, 2013 SEA  4  KCR  0        W:James Paxton (3-0), L: Bruce Chen (8-4), S: none
Mon, Sep 23, 2013 KCR  6 @SEA  5 (12)   W:Wade Davis (8-11), L: Lucas Luetge (1-3), S: Greg Holland (45)
Thu, Sep 05, 2013 KCR  7  SEA  6 (13)   W:Louis Coleman (3-0), L: Chance Ruffin (0-1), S: none
Wed, Sep 04, 2013 SEA  6 @KCR  4        W:Lucas Luetge (1-2), L: Aaron Crow (7-5), S: Danny Farquhar (12)
Tue, Sep 03, 2013 KCR  4  SEA  3        W:Luke Hochevar (4-2), L: Yoervis Medina (4-4), S: Greg Holland (38)
Mon, Sep 02, 2013 KCR  3  SEA  1        W:Will Smith (2-1), L: Felix Hernandez (12-9), S: Greg Holland (37)
Sun, Jul 29, 2012 SEA  7  KCR  6        W:Oliver Perez (1-2), L: Jose Mijares (2-2), S: Tom Wilhelmsen (14)
Season Series: 2014 - tied 1-1; 2013 - KCR won 4-3; 2012 - SEA won 7-1; All-Time - KCR leads 216-199

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
Royals Batters (3.94 RS/G) vs. Mariners Pitchers (4.03 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 53.Young
G/S/vB
97.Beimel*
G/S/vB
40.Farquhar
G/S/vB
41.Furbush*
G/S/vB
52.Leone
G/S/vB
31.Medina
G/S/vB
56.Rodney
G/S/vB
54.Wilhelmsen
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
23.Aoki* G/S/vP 3/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 149/115 .284/.336/.351/.686 .891/.627 .490 109/.659 4/3 0/2
16.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 11/.637 5/1.350 137/102 .236/.292/.309/.601 .722/.562 .421 96/.666 0/0 1/
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 3/1.333 61/45 .351/.393/.404/.797 .661/.842 .820 28/.964 2/0 0/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 55/47 .286/.327/.327/.653 .250/.729 .844 51/.710 5/1 0/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.200 ··· 1/.000 4/.250 2/.000 133/104 .273/.333/.372/.705 .667/.716 .697 99/.776 11/1 1/2
9.Giavotella G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 9/9 .250/.222/.250/.472 /.472 .400 5/.400 0/0 0/0
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 7/2.047 ··· ··· 10/1.000 4/1.000 147/103 .257/.306/.375/.681 .471/.771 .640 107/.620 0/2 1/0
12.Hayes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 9/6 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 8/.000 0/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 6/.167 ··· ··· 3/.667 3/1.334 155/110 .326/.368/.440/.807 .738/.836 .895 114/.876 0/1 1/2
14.Infante G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 1/.000 134/93 .267/.326/.392/.717 .518/.806 .639 100/.728 1/0 2/1
27.Maxwell G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/1.000 3/1.333 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 32/13 .138/.219/.172/.391 .217/.641 .311 28/.450 0/1 0/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 3/.000 118/103 .142/.212/.302/.514 .350/.534 .584 81/.606 0/0 4/3
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 4/.750 3/.666 138/104 .260/.319/.425/.744 .604/.786 .785 98/.634 1/0 3/3
19.Valencia G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 9/.583 1/no AB 37/14 .250/.270/.361/.631 .759/.429 .931 29/.739 0/0 1/1
IP 29.2 12.0 18.2 11.0 14.0 15.0 14.2 18.1 TOTAL .258/.311/.362/.673 .606/.697 .661 .690 27/9 14/26
ERA-K/9 3.03/4.5 3.00/6.0 1.45/10.1 6.55/7.4 1.93/9.0 4.20/7.8 2.45/12.9 2.45/7.4 3.55/7.7

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 123/.200 50/.286 79/.200 51/.341 61/.231 68/.236 67/.259 79/.194 .243  Gordon
 Dyson
 Maxwell
 Aoki
 Cain
35/0/0/3
0/17/0/2
1/6/3/1
0/0/33/0
0/16/1/0
OPS .653 .719 .505 .855 .718 .768 .690 .617 .701
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 83/.676 22/.578 40/.594 21/.781 28/.870 30/.800 39/.772 37/.637 .736
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 40/.603 28/.824 39/.416 30/.914 33/.589 38/.720 28/.561 42/.600 .668
Home 54/.579 16/.967 20/.628 25/.741 22/.527 24/.492 29/.708 23/.685
Last 28d days 117/.686 32/.928 61/.579 38/.905 44/.832 49/.844 53/.733 65/.578
HR/SB/CS 4/2/2 0/0/1 0/0/0 1/1/0 2/3/1 2/0/0 0/1/0 1/5/0 33/24/8
Usage ····X··· ····o·oo ··X··X·X X··ooo·o ···Xo·oo ··o·o·XX ·Xo·o·X· o·XX·X·X
Mariners Batters (4.06 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.94 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ventura
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
13.Ackley* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 4/1.500 1/no AB 3/.333 4/.500 2/.500 111/78 .240/.306/.330/.636 .606/.647 .515 70/.499 1/1 1/0
8.Bloomquist G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 41/18 .200/.220/.225/.445 .488/.389 .375 36/.361 0/0 0/0
4.Buck G/S/vP ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 12/.878 1/.000 1/.000 26/18 .261/.346/.348/.694 .393/.826 .250 18/.826 0/0 0/1
22.Cano* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 6/.900 1/.000 22/.983 2/.000 3/.000 152/90 .288/.342/.367/.709 .648/.749 .679 108/.700 2/1 1/3
16.Gillespie G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/ .167/.250/.222/.472 .472/ .393 20/.472 1/1 0/0
27.Hart G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 126/76 .216/.310/.387/.697 .677/.705 .683 96/.660 1/0 5/0
99.Jones* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 13/12 .455/.500/.545/1.045 .000/1.145 3.000 13/1.045 1/0 0/0
5.Miller* G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 2/.500 2/.500 2/.000 2/.000 3/.666 122/77 .170/.231/.286/.517 .632/.454 .392 76/.391 2/0 3/6
7.Romero G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 69/24 .215/.250/.354/.604 .631/.547 .441 55/.644 0/0 1/1
55.Saunders* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/1.000 3/.000 6/.900 4/.000 4/.000 91/65 .225/.292/.325/.617 .598/.622 .516 72/.663 2/3 1/0
15.Seager* G/S/vP 3/.333 2/.000 8/.250 3/1.000 5/1.800 1/3.000 4/.250 135/89 .239/.341/.444/.785 .477/.953 1.084 97/.868 1/2 5/4
17.Smoak# G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 6/1.100 2/.000 7/1.286 ··· 1/.000 140/80 .246/.307/.413/.720 .704/.731 .556 97/.685 0/1 4/1
3.Zunino G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 107/68 .250/.280/.470/.750 .729/.765 .580 75/.706 0/1 5/1
IP 36.0 10.0 4.1 14.0 15.1 16.0 13.0 TOTAL .228/.292/.357/.649 .625/.664 .576 .626 15/11 27/23
ERA-K/9 2.00/10.2 6.30/9.0 10.38/2.1 0.00/5.1 2.35/16.5 1.69/7.3 2.77/13.8 3.49/7.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Buck (6-0-1)
 Zunino (18-8-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 146/.194 45/.263 23/.375 54/.160 66/.148 67/.217 52/.240 .240  Ackley
 Saunders
 Romero
 Hart
 Bloomquist
 Jones
 Gillespie
30/0/0/2
1/9/24/1
3/0/19/0
0/0/3/0
2/0/1/0
0/6/1/0
7/0/0/0
OPS .566 .904 .961 .442 .436 .621 .609 .676
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 85/.585 18/.478 8/1.167 32/.457 35/.487 33/.550 27/.536 .647
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 61/.538 27/1.184 15/.833 22/.420 31/.378 34/.690 25/.680 .698
Road 85/.601 18/.722 12/1.414 29/.556 41/.383 36/.412 24/.726
Last 28d days 126/.619 39/.930 14/.801 41/.433 40/.393 46/.584 34/.599
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 2/0/1 0/1/0 0/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/1 1/1/1 27/18/8
Usage ····X··· ··X·X·X· X···oX·· X·o·o·o· ···Xo··· ·X··o·oX ···ooo··

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.