Mobile Site You Are Here > > > Boston Red Sox vs. Kansas City Royals, at Fenway Park, August 21, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Boston Red Sox vs. Kansas City Royals, at Fenway Park, August 21, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, August 21, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Fenway Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
125
On This Date:
21-21
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
124
On This Date:
59-48
Season Series
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 BOS  7 @KCR  3     
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 KCR  7  BOS  4     
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 BOS 13 @KCR  2     
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 BOS  4  KCR  1     

Fri, Aug 21, 2015 KCR    @BOS  7:10pm
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 KCR    @BOS  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 23, 2015 KCR    @BOS  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
73-47, 1st, 13½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   42-20   Road:   31-27   ExtrInn: 8-2 
 vsRHP:  50-27   vsLHP:  23-20   1-Run:  20-11
 vsEast: 10-11   vsCntrl:32-19   vsWest: 18-11 IL:13-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
120 Thu, Aug 20  @BOS  L   1-4       73-47  1st 13.5 up
119 Wed, Aug 19  @CIN  W   4-3       73-46  1st 14.5 up
118 Tue, Aug 18  @CIN  W   3-1 (13)  72-46  1st 13.5 up
117 Sun, Aug 16   LAA  W   4-3 (10)  71-46  1st 12.0 up
116 Sat, Aug 15   LAA  W   9-4       70-46  1st 12.0 up
115 Fri, Aug 14   LAA  W   4-1       69-46  1st 12.0 up
114 Thu, Aug 13   LAA  L   6-7       68-46  1st 11.0 up
113 Wed, Aug 12   DET  L   4-7       68-45  1st 11.0 up
112 Tue, Aug 11   DET  W   6-1       68-44  1st 12.0 up
111 Mon, Aug 10   DET  W   4-0       67-44  1st 12.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12
Boston Red Sox
55-66, 5th, 12½ GB, 11 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-30   Road:   23-36   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  41-45   vsLHP:  14-21   1-Run:  15-16
 vsEast: 20-30   vsCntrl:12-12   vsWest: 15-18 IL: 8-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
121 Thu, Aug 20   KCR  W   4-1       55-66  5th 12.5 gb
120 Wed, Aug 19   CLE  W   6-4       54-66  5th 13.5 gb
119 Tue, Aug 18   CLE  W   9-1       53-66  5th 13.5 gb
118 Mon, Aug 17   CLE  L   2-8       52-66  5th 13.5 gb
117 Sun, Aug 16   SEA  L   8-10(12)  52-65  5th 12.5 gb
116 Sat, Aug 15   SEA  W  22-10      52-64  5th 12.5 gb
115 Fri, Aug 14   SEA  W  15-1       51-64  5th 12.5 gb
114 Wed, Aug 12  @MIA  L   6-14      50-64  5th 12.5 gb
113 Tue, Aug 11  @MIA  L   4-5 (10)  50-63  5th 12.0 gb
112 Sun, Aug  9  @DET  W   7-2       50-62  5th 12.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Aug 20, 2015 BOS  4  KCR  1        W:Wade Miley (10-9), L: Danny Duffy (6-6), S: Junichi Tazawa (2)
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 BOS 13 @KCR  2        W:Wade Miley (7-6), L: Chris Young (6-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 KCR  7  BOS  4        W:Edinson Volquez (7-4), L: Rick Porcello (4-8), S: Greg Holland (13)
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 BOS  7 @KCR  3        W:Eduardo Rodriguez (3-1), L: Yohan Pino (0-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 14, 2014 BOS  8 @KCR  4        W:Joe Kelly (4-4), L: Jason Vargas (11-9), S: none
Sat, Sep 13, 2014 KCR  7  BOS  1        W:Jeremy Guthrie (11-11), L: Rubby De La Rosa (4-7), S: none
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 BOS  4 @KCR  2        W:Allen Webster (4-3), L: Yordano Ventura (12-10), S: Edward Mujica (6)
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 BOS  6 @KCR  3        W:Clay Buchholz (8-8), L: Liam Hendriks (1-2), S: Edward Mujica (5)
Sun, Jul 20, 2014 BOS  6  KCR  0        W:Jon Lester (10-7), L: Yordano Ventura (7-8), S: none
Sat, Jul 19, 2014 BOS  2  KCR  1        W:Rubby De La Rosa (3-2), L: Danny Duffy (5-10), S: Koji Uehara (20)
Season Series: 2015 - BOS over 3-1; 2014 - BOS won 6-1; 2013 - KCR won 5-2; All-Time - BOS leads 230-225

SP: Johnny Cueto (29, RHP, 9-7, 2.46)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (9-7) 160.2 117 48 44 33 141 12 2.46
2014 (20-9) 243.2 169 69 61 65 242 22 2.25
2013 (5-2) 60.2 46 20 19 18 51 7 2.82
Last 7 GS 3-2 47.0 39 13 11 12 30 1 2.11 60
2015-08-15 LAA W 8.0 8 1 1 0 4 1 105 66
2015-08-10 DET W 9.0 4 0 0 0 8 0 116 87
2015-08-05 @DET L 7.0 5 2 2 2 2 0 106 59
2015-07-31 @TOR ND 6.0 7 3 3 2 7 0 111 51
2015-07-25 @COL W 8.0 4 0 0 1 5 0 100 78
2015-07-19 CLE ND 4.0 4 2 2 6 2 0 94 42
2015-07-12 @MIA L 5.0 7 5 3 1 2 0 68 38
Has never faced BOS as starter.

SP: Henry Owens (22, LHP, 1-1, 6.19)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (1-1) 16.0 18 11 11 6 17 3 6.19
Last 7 GS 1-1 16.0 18 11 11 6 17 3 6.19 46
2015-08-16 SEA ND 6.0 10 7 7 1 10 3 99 33
2015-08-09 @DET W 5.0 3 1 1 4 2 0 84 55
2015-08-04 @NYY L 5.0 5 3 3 1 5 0 96 49
Has never faced KCR as starter.

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

Royals Batters (4.34 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.89 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Owens*
G/S/vB		 68.Barnes
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 37.Hembree
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 64.Machi
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 91/65 .188/.225/.235/.460 .497/.445 .500 28/.606 0/1 1/3
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 5/.200 3/.000 ··· 454/299 .309/.363/.495/.859 1.012/.780 .806 92/.865 24/4 12/7
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 181/148 .261/.328/.391/.719 .689/.726 .704 41/.712 23/2 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 12/.473 2/2.000 3/.000 501/349 .271/.310/.333/.644 .674/.631 .632 115/.493 12/5 2/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 7/.619 ··· 1/.000 ··· 11/.473 4/1.750 3/1.667 494/298 .315/.379/.484/.864 .735/.949 .765 105/1.047 5/2 14/3
14.Infante G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 3/.000 407/291 .216/.232/.298/.529 .569/.513 .558 69/.387 2/2 1/9
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/1.167 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 5/.000 7/2.047 6/.334 483/289 .288/.350/.455/.805 .754/.841 .814 99/.887 0/0 13/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/2.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· 4/.500 3/.666 5/.000 465/290 .269/.338/.413/.750 .668/.800 .742 93/.542 1/2 12/9
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 182/106 .237/.267/.410/.677 .614/.722 .600 32/.563 3/2 4/2
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 410/279 .254/.268/.428/.697 .529/.777 .656 75/.625 1/0 17/2
15.Rios G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.550 ··· ··· ··· 9/.555 4/.000 7/.572 294/199 .234/.272/.303/.575 .566/.579 .509 91/.437 8/0 2/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· ··· 10/.633 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 13/.762 7/.453 11/.864 354/237 .289/.376/.482/.858 .952/.811 .897 91/1.122 1/3 10/4
IP 16.0 27.1 46.2 8.2 37.1 43.0 52.0 47.2 52.0 TOTAL .269/.321/.405/.726 .707/.736 .701 .693 82/26 94/64
ERA-K/9 6.19/9.6 6.59/9.6 4.44/6.6 7.27/5.2 4.58/9.4 5.23/6.1 3.81/7.8 3.97/7.7 3.12/8.5 4.62/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (14-8-1)
 Perez (48-24-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 71/.277 133/.336 206/.287 36/.294 167/.259 194/.257 215/.232 207/.261 210/.245 .267  Dyson
 Cain
 Orlando
 Rios
 Zobrist
 Hosmer
22/21/17/6
0/103/0/5
21/1/31/3
0/0/75/3
39/0/3/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .830 .977 .843 .922 .736 .773 .777 .734 .661 .764
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 16/.779 62/.893 78/.826 13/1.615 80/.442 76/.365 79/.627 78/.692 86/.719 .729
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 55/.845 71/1.045 128/.854 23/.499 87/1.004 118/1.030 136/.865 129/.759 124/.620 .789
Home 29/1.129 61/1.115 111/.684 22/.500 83/.929 102/.763 113/.835 117/.660 120/.682
Last 28d days 71/.830 24/.941 56/.890 9/.778 36/1.024 35/.770 44/.800 54/.769 43/.815
HR/SB/CS 3/1/1 7/7/1 8/1/2 2/0/0 3/3/1 5/2/1 12/2/2 5/0/0 4/4/1 140/57/32
Usage ····X··· ···X···· ····X·X· ···X···· ·o·X·X·· ·Xo·o·X· oX··X··· o···oo·· oo··X···
Red Sox Batters (4.53 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Cueto
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 46.Madson
G/S/vB		 39.Medlen
G/S/vB		 45.Morales*
G/S/vB		 32.Young
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 5/2.100 468/350 .272/.320/.438/.758 .715/.773 .813 59/.750 16/4 10/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.000 476/346 .313/.342/.411/.753 .943/.682 .824 107/.748 7/1 4/8
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 110/72 .247/.345/.527/.872 1.344/.617 1.106 75/1.067 1/0 5/1
38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 151/96 .280/.313/.399/.712 1.014/.538 .801 74/.892 3/0 4/4
31.De Aza* G/S/vP ··· 15/.564 8/.661 19/.980 10/.322 1/3.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 281/238 .268/.323/.447/.770 .458/.824 .761 46/.886 5/3 7/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 1/no AB 8/1.458 156/115 .248/.351/.331/.681 .883/.607 .819 40/.797 0/0 2/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 6/.833 396/298 .287/.359/.398/.757 .806/.741 .739 95/.735 6/1 2/8
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP ··· 14/.599 2/2.500 17/.912 2/.500 5/.900 2/.000 1/.000 14/1.389 475/329 .266/.354/.515/.868 .652/.972 .928 107/1.233 0/0 26/0
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 10/.775 4/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 26/.776 10/1.300 8/.542 9/1.301 410/295 .257/.298/.437/.735 .762/.724 .721 64/.525 6/3 19/3
30.Rutledge G/S/vP 3/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 29/18 .208/.310/.208/.519 .740/.399 .569 29/.519 0/0 0/2
48.Sandoval* G/S/vP 12/.583 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 9/2.056 22/.641 12/.606 416/286 .258/.308/.390/.698 .472/.803 .803 76/.827 0/0 10/13
47.Shaw* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 75/50 .382/.427/.691/1.118 1.437/.956 1.538 59/1.305 0/0 6/0
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 210/143 .259/.301/.345/.647 .599/.668 .714 62/.769 1/2 1/2
IP 160.2 49.2 55.1 34.1 37.2 50.1 14.1 47.1 101.2 TOTAL .264/.326/.410/.736 .766/.724 .800 .855 52/14 117/72
ERA-K/9 2.46/7.9 1.09/10.1 1.95/8.1 3.41/9.7 3.58/10.5 2.32/8.2 2.51/8.8 2.47/5.7 3.28/5.9 3.53/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (21-11-3)
 Swihart (29-12-14)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 630/.201 189/.160 219/.181 143/.250 161/.221 199/.207 55/.200 189/.221 415/.213 .244  Betts
 De Aza
 Ramirez
 Bradley
 Holt
 Castillo
 Shaw
0/104/0/7
50/1/37/4
88/0/0/3
6/14/15/1
12/2/17/1
0/6/39/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .579 .479 .506 .717 .667 .582 .553 .604 .671 .695
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 297/.495 107/.468 107/.416 59/.741 76/.835 89/.557 26/.839 88/.646 218/.740 .714
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 333/.654 82/.493 112/.589 84/.700 85/.517 110/.603 29/.315 101/.567 197/.596 .679
Road 363/.633 92/.366 108/.536 70/.738 75/.682 108/.645 30/.564 99/.623 210/.613
Last 28d days 142/.547 31/.659 56/.464 49/.733 36/.805 46/.768 33/.409 33/.804 30/.674
HR/SB/CS 12/2/1 2/4/1 3/5/2 4/1/0 2/0/2 4/1/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 14/17/6 104/56/29
Usage ·····X·· ·Xo·X··X ·oX·o·o· ·X···X·· ··X·o·XX ·oo···XX X·X····· ··o····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 2015 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

TOR  5.24

CHC  4.08

ATL  3.65

 RA/G

STL  2.91

CLE  4.20

COL  5.27

 BA

D. Gordon  .336

M. Carpenter  .267

C. Carter  .180

 OBP

B. Harper  .456

E. Inciarte  .327

O. Infante  .232

 SLG

B. Harper  .637

B. Gardner  .424

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.093

O. Herrera  .757

O. Infante  .529

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.58

C. Carrasco  3.63

K. Lohse  6.11

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.90

A. Burnett  7.58

M. Buehrle  4.25

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.