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Boston Red Sox vs. Kansas City Royals, at Fenway Park, August 23, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Start Time:
1:35et (local)
Venue:
Fenway Park
Series:
Game #4 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
127
On This Date:
13-26
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
126
On This Date:
54-46
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 BOS  7  KCR  2     
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 KCR  6 @BOS  3     

Sun, Aug 23, 2015 KCR    @BOS  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
74-48, 1st, 12½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   42-20   Road:   32-28   ExtrInn: 8-2 
 vsRHP:  51-27   vsLHP:  23-21   1-Run:  20-11
 vsEast: 11-12   vsCntrl:32-19   vsWest: 18-11 IL:13-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
122 Sat, Aug 22  @BOS  W   6-3       74-48  1st 12.5 up
121 Fri, Aug 21  @BOS  L   2-7       73-48  1st 12.5 up
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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12
Boston Red Sox
56-67, 5th, 12½ GB, 12 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   33-31   Road:   23-36   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  42-46   vsLHP:  14-21   1-Run:  15-16
 vsEast: 20-30   vsCntrl:13-13   vsWest: 15-18 IL: 8-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
123 Sat, Aug 22   KCR  L   3-6       56-67  5th 12.5 gb
122 Fri, Aug 21   KCR  W   7-2       56-66  5th 11.5 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
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 KCR  6 @BOS  3        W:Yordano Ventura (8-7), L: Matt Barnes (3-4), S: Greg Holland (28)
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 BOS  7  KCR  2        W:Henry Owens (2-1), L: Johnny Cueto (9-8), S: none
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)
Season Series: 2015 - BOS over 4-2; 2014 - BOS won 6-1; 2013 - KCR won 5-2; All-Time - BOS leads 231-226

SP: Edinson Volquez (31, RHP, 11-7, 3.20)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (11-7) 152.0 134 62 54 57 114 11 3.20
2014 (13-7) 192.2 166 75 65 71 140 17 3.04
2013 (9-12) 170.1 193 114 108 77 142 19 5.71
Last 7 GS 3-3 46.0 42 16 15 18 34 3 2.93 56
2015-08-18 @CIN ND 6.0 4 1 1 3 7 1 112 64
2015-08-12 DET L 7.0 8 6 5 2 5 0 96 42
2015-08-07 CHW W 7.0 4 1 1 2 3 0 101 66
2015-08-02 @TOR L 6.0 4 2 2 3 4 1 105 57
2015-07-27 @CLE W 6.0 6 3 3 5 4 1 111 47
2015-07-22 PIT W 7.2 8 1 1 1 8 0 97 66
2015-07-17 @CHW L 6.1 8 2 2 2 3 0 105 50
Last 5 v.BOS 1-0 18.1 22 8 7 4 15 1 3.44 51
2015-06-20 BOS W 5.1 8 4 4 2 0 1 88 34
2013-07-03 @BOS ND 6.0 7 1 1 1 6 0 104 59
2008-06-14 BOS ND 7.0 7 3 2 1 9 0 112 61

SP: Eduardo Rodriguez (22, LHP, 7-5, 4.48)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-5) 86.1 80 43 43 27 68 11 4.48
Last 7 GS 3-3 40.0 41 24 24 12 24 8 5.40 47
2015-08-18 CLE W 8.0 6 1 1 0 5 1 114 71
2015-08-12 @MIA L 5.0 9 8 8 1 2 1 92 18
2015-08-06 @NYY L 7.0 6 2 2 2 5 1 103 60
2015-07-31 TBR ND 5.0 6 3 3 4 4 0 110 43
2015-07-26 DET W 7.0 3 1 1 1 6 1 95 72
2015-07-20 @LAA L 1.2 6 7 7 3 0 2 36 12
2015-07-11 NYY W 6.1 5 2 2 1 2 2 95 56
Last 5 v.KCR 1-0 6.1 6 1 1 1 5 0 1.42 61
2015-06-19 @KCR W 6.1 6 1 1 1 5 0 104 61

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

Royals Batters (4.34 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.88 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Rodriguez*
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 25/.598 0/1 1/3
6.Cain G/S/vP 3/.000 4/.833 2/.000 2/.000 2/2.000 ··· 5/.200 3/.000 ··· 463/304 .307/.361/.489/.850 .998/.773 .792 97/.785 24/4 12/8
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 181/148 .261/.328/.391/.719 .689/.726 .704 37/.793 23/2 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/1.667 3/.000 4/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 12/.473 2/2.000 3/.000 510/353 .268/.309/.336/.645 .695/.623 .635 115/.496 12/5 3/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.666 4/1.000 8/.536 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 11/.473 4/1.750 3/1.667 503/302 .316/.378/.481/.860 .726/.950 .761 110/.999 5/2 14/3
14.Infante G/S/vP 2/1.500 3/.666 3/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 3/.000 414/294 .215/.230/.295/.525 .550/.515 .549 68/.393 2/2 1/9
25.Morales# G/S/vP 3/.666 3/1.667 7/1.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 5/.000 7/2.047 6/.334 491/292 .286/.348/.453/.801 .735/.848 .805 99/.837 0/0 13/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 3/.000 4/1.000 3/2.167 ··· 3/1.167 ··· 4/.500 3/.666 5/.000 469/293 .270/.339/.412/.751 .672/.798 .744 93/.556 1/2 12/9
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 185/106 .233/.262/.403/.666 .590/.722 .576 28/.500 3/2 4/3
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.000 4/1.833 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.000 417/282 .253/.269/.432/.700 .513/.792 .665 74/.699 1/0 18/2
15.Rios G/S/vP 3/.666 2/1.000 6/1.633 1/2.000 ··· ··· 9/.555 4/.000 7/.572 301/202 .242/.279/.310/.589 .584/.591 .538 90/.488 8/0 2/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 11/.573 2/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 13/.762 7/.453 11/.864 363/242 .287/.372/.478/.850 .945/.802 .877 92/.994 1/3 10/4
IP 86.1 32.2 48.1 10.2 38.1 43.0 52.0 47.2 52.0 TOTAL .268/.320/.404/.725 .702/.737 .698 .691 82/26 96/66
ERA-K/9 4.48/7.1 6.89/8.5 4.28/6.5 5.91/5.0 4.46/9.2 5.23/6.1 3.81/7.8 3.97/7.7 3.12/8.5 4.59/7.6

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 363/.242 158/.338 214/.281 44/.286 170/.260 194/.257 215/.232 207/.261 210/.245 .267  Dyson
 Cain
 Orlando
 Rios
 Zobrist
 Hosmer
22/21/17/6
0/105/0/5
22/1/31/3
0/0/77/3
40/0/3/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .699 .968 .826 .842 .735 .773 .777 .734 .661 .762
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 80/.862 74/.918 80/.823 16/1.313 81/.436 76/.365 79/.627 78/.692 86/.719 .729
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 283/.651 84/1.008 134/.829 28/.555 89/1.003 118/1.030 136/.865 129/.759 124/.620 .785
Home 193/.676 86/1.057 119/.665 30/.500 86/.919 102/.763 113/.835 117/.660 120/.682
Last 28d days 111/.747 49/.931 61/.836 17/.647 39/.993 35/.770 39/.833 51/.817 43/.815
HR/SB/CS 11/2/2 8/7/1 8/1/2 2/0/0 3/3/1 5/2/1 12/2/2 5/0/0 4/4/1 142/57/32
Usage ····X··· X····X·· X·····X· XX···X·· o··o·X·X ···Xo·o· ··oX··X· ··o···oo ··oo··X·
Red Sox Batters (4.54 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.72 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Volquez
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 3/3.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 2/2.500 1/2.000 1/.000 5/2.100 478/359 .275/.322/.446/.768 .709/.788 .830 59/.891 16/4 11/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.000 485/355 .314/.342/.410/.751 .943/.682 .818 107/.709 7/1 4/8
25.Bradley* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 114/76 .237/.333/.505/.838 1.344/.581 1.016 79/1.007 1/0 5/1
38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 155/99 .286/.318/.415/.733 .996/.584 .831 78/.925 3/0 4/4
31.De Aza* G/S/vP 3/1.333 15/.564 8/.661 19/.980 10/.322 1/3.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 281/238 .268/.323/.447/.770 .458/.824 .761 39/.980 5/3 7/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP 7/.143 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 3/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 6/.833 396/298 .287/.359/.398/.757 .806/.741 .739 88/.748 6/1 2/8
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 6/.333 15/.652 2/2.500 17/.912 3/.667 5/.900 2/.000 2/.000 14/1.389 484/337 .267/.357/.512/.869 .647/.974 .928 107/1.127 0/0 26/0
13.Ramirez G/S/vP 26/.530 5/.600 1/.000 ··· ··· 26/.776 10/1.300 9/.476 9/1.301 418/302 .254/.294/.433/.728 .755/.717 .707 64/.429 6/3 19/4
30.Rutledge G/S/vP 11/1.055 1/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 1/.000 1/.000 37/25 .258/.351/.355/.706 .667/.711 .796 37/.706 0/0 1/2
48.Sandoval* G/S/vP 16/.938 2/1.000 1/no AB ··· 1/.000 2/.500 9/2.056 23/.611 12/.606 426/295 .258/.308/.391/.699 .469/.804 .800 77/.825 0/0 10/14
47.Shaw* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 84/58 .351/.393/.636/1.029 1.378/.872 1.346 68/1.168 0/0 6/0
23.Swihart# G/S/vP 2/2.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 218/150 .273/.313/.366/.679 .637/.698 .774 62/.852 1/2 1/2
IP 152.0 50.2 56.0 34.1 38.0 51.1 14.1 49.1 101.2 TOTAL .265/.326/.412/.738 .763/.728 .802 .851 52/14 119/74
ERA-K/9 3.20/6.8 1.07/10.1 2.09/8.0 3.41/9.7 3.55/10.4 2.45/8.2 2.51/8.8 2.37/6.0 3.28/5.9 3.55/6.9

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 638/.236 194/.162 223/.179 143/.250 164/.225 203/.207 55/.200 197/.217 415/.213 .246  Betts
 De Aza
 Ramirez
 Castillo
 Bradley
 Holt
 Shaw
0/106/0/7
50/1/37/4
90/0/0/3
0/6/40/1
7/14/16/1
12/2/17/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .657 .489 .507 .717 .676 .597 .553 .594 .671 .698
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 319/.625 110/.466 109/.419 59/.741 78/.831 91/.545 26/.839 91/.624 218/.740 .714
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 319/.690 84/.518 114/.590 84/.700 86/.536 112/.640 29/.315 106/.569 197/.596 .685
Road 305/.687 97/.391 112/.538 70/.738 78/.699 112/.669 30/.564 107/.604 210/.613
Last 28d days 133/.652 33/.757 57/.460 46/.782 36/.848 47/.863 33/.409 38/.776 30/.674
HR/SB/CS 11/13/4 2/4/1 3/5/2 4/1/0 2/0/2 5/1/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 14/17/6 106/56/29
Usage ····X··· X··Xo·X· X··oX·o· ···X···X o···X·o· X··oo··· ··X·X··· ·X··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  5.35

LAD  4.12

ATL  3.67

 RA/G

STL  3.00

CLE  4.20

COL  5.41

 BA

D. Gordon  .336

A. Beltre  .267

C. Carter  .182

 OBP

B. Harper  .455

R. Martin  .327

O. Infante  .230

 SLG

B. Harper  .638

D. Murphy  .425

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.093

E. Longoria  .752

O. Infante  .525

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.67

M. Fiers  3.63

K. Lohse  6.04

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.16

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.