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Chicago White Sox vs. Kansas City Royals, at U.S. Cellular Field, July 17, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, July 17, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
U.S. Cellular Field
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
76° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
92
On This Date:
19-20
White Sox
Manager:
Robin Ventura
Game #:
93
On This Date:
50-61
Season Series
Mon, Apr 06, 2015 KCR 10  CHW  1     
Wed, Apr 08, 2015 KCR  7  CHW  5     
Thu, Apr 09, 2015 KCR  4  CHW  1     
Thu, Apr 23, 2015 KCR  3 @CHW  2 (13)
Fri, Apr 24, 2015 CHW  3  KCR  2     
Sun, Apr 26, 2015 CHW  5  KCR  3     

Fri, Jul 17, 2015 KCR    @CHW  2:10pm
Fri, Jul 17, 2015 KCR    @CHW  8:10pm
Sat, Jul 18, 2015 KCR    @CHW  2:10pm
Sun, Jul 19, 2015 KCR    @CHW  2:10pm
Fri, Aug 07, 2015 CHW    @KCR  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 08, 2015 CHW    @KCR  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 09, 2015 CHW    @KCR  2:10pm
Fri, Sep 04, 2015 CHW    @KCR  8:10pm
Sat, Sep 05, 2015 CHW    @KCR  7:10pm
Sun, Sep 06, 2015 CHW    @KCR  2:10pm
Tue, Sep 29, 2015 KCR    @CHW  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 30, 2015 KCR    @CHW  8:10pm
Thu, Oct 01, 2015 KCR    @CHW  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
52-34, / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-16   Road:   22-18   ExtrInn: 4-1 
 vsRHP:  37-19   vsLHP:  15-15   1-Run:  11-7 
 vsEast:  9-7    vsCntrl:21-14   vsWest: 13-9  IL: 9-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 86 Sun, Jul 12   TOR  W  11-10      52-34  1st  4.5 up
 85 Sat, Jul 11   TOR  L   2-6       51-34  1st  4.5 up
 84 Fri, Jul 10   TOR  W   3-0       51-33  1st  5.5 up
 83 Thu, Jul  9   TBR  W   8-3       50-33  1st  5.5 up
 82 Wed, Jul  8   TBR  W   9-7       49-33  1st  4.5 up
 81 Tue, Jul  7   TBR  W   7-1       48-33  1st  4.5 up
 80 Tue, Jul  7   TBR  W   9-5       47-33  1st  4.5 up
 79 Sun, Jul  5   MIN  W   3-2       46-33  1st  4.5 up
 78 Sat, Jul  4   MIN  L   3-5       45-33  1st  3.5 up
 77 Fri, Jul  3   MIN  W   3-2 (10)  45-32  1st  4.5 up
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:19-11
Chicago White Sox
41-45, / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-17   Road:   18-28   ExtrInn: 8-2 
 vsRHP:  35-34   vsLHP:   6-11   1-Run:  19-15
 vsEast:  7-9    vsCntrl:15-25   vsWest: 11-4  IL: 8-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 86 Sun, Jul 12  @CHC  L   1-3       41-45  4th 11.0 gb
 85 Sat, Jul 11  @CHC  W   5-1       41-44  4th 10.0 gb
 84 Fri, Jul 10  @CHC  W   1-0       40-44  5th 11.0 gb
 83 Thu, Jul  9   TOR  W   2-0       39-44  5th 11.0 gb
 82 Wed, Jul  8   TOR  W   7-6 (11)  38-44  5th 11.0 gb
 81 Tue, Jul  7   TOR  L   1-2       37-44  5th 11.0 gb
 80 Mon, Jul  6   TOR  W   4-2       37-43  4th  9.5 gb
 79 Sun, Jul  5   BAL  L   1-9       36-43  5th 10.0 gb
 78 Sat, Jul  4   BAL  W   3-2       36-42  5th  9.0 gb
 77 Fri, Jul  3   BAL  W   1-0       35-42  5th 10.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Apr 26, 2015 CHW  5  KCR  3        W:John Danks (1-2), L: Edinson Volquez (2-2), S: David Robertson (3)
Fri, Apr 24, 2015 CHW  3  KCR  2        W:David Robertson (2-0), L: Kelvin Herrera (0-1), S: none
Thu, Apr 23, 2015 KCR  3 @CHW  2 (13)   W:Franklin Morales (2-0), L: Jake Petricka (0-1), S: Wade Davis (4)
Thu, Apr 09, 2015 KCR  4  CHW  1        W:Edinson Volquez (1-0), L: John Danks (0-1), S: Greg Holland (2)
Wed, Apr 08, 2015 KCR  7  CHW  5        W:Wade Davis (1-0), L: Zach Putnam (0-1), S: Greg Holland (1)
Mon, Apr 06, 2015 KCR 10  CHW  1        W:Yordano Ventura (1-0), L: Jeff Samardzija (0-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 28, 2014 KCR  6 @CHW  4        W:Casey Coleman (1-0), L: Daniel Webb (6-5), S: Louis Coleman (1)
Sat, Sep 27, 2014 CHW  5  KCR  4        W:John Danks (11-11), L: Danny Duffy (9-12), S: Javy Guerra (1)
Fri, Sep 26, 2014 KCR  3 @CHW  1        W:Jeremy Guthrie (13-11), L: Hector Noesi (8-12), S: Greg Holland (46)
Thu, Sep 25, 2014 KCR  6 @CHW  3        W:Kelvin Herrera (4-3), L: Jose Quintana (9-11), S: Greg Holland (45)
Season Series: 2015 - KCR over 4-2; 2014 - KCR won 13-6; 2013 - KCR won 10-9; All-Time - CHW leads 365-341

SP: Chris Young (36, RHP, 7-5, 3.00)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHW Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-5) 87.0 65 31 29 24 56 10 3.00
2014 (12-9) 165.0 143 70 67 60 108 26 3.65
2012 (4-9) 115.0 119 58 53 36 80 16 4.15
Last 7 GS 3-3 41.1 33 17 16 11 22 6 3.48 54
2015-07-11 TOR L 6.0 5 3 3 2 4 1 93 52
2015-07-07 TBR ND 6.0 5 4 4 1 5 2 83 50
2015-07-02 MIN L 5.1 6 1 1 1 2 0 90 53
2015-06-27 @OAK W 6.0 4 2 1 1 4 0 96 61
2015-06-21 BOS L 4.2 7 7 7 3 2 3 86 21
2015-06-16 @MIL W 7.0 5 0 0 0 3 0 89 70
2015-06-09 @MIN W 6.1 1 0 0 3 2 0 83 70
Last 5 v.CHW 1-1 12.1 13 7 7 1 9 3 5.11 50
2005-05-27 CHW W 8.0 6 1 1 0 5 1 102 71
2004-09-09 CHW L 4.1 7 6 6 1 4 2 81 28

SP: John Danks (30, LHP, 4-8, 5.30)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-8) 91.2 110 63 54 25 64 14 5.30
2014 (11-11) 193.2 205 106 102 74 129 25 4.74
2013 (4-14) 138.1 151 81 73 27 89 28 4.75
Last 7 GS 2-4 42.2 56 28 23 8 27 5 4.85 44
2015-07-08 TOR ND 4.1 8 6 6 1 4 0 94 26
2015-07-03 BAL W 7.0 5 0 0 2 5 0 96 70
2015-06-22 @MIN L 5.1 9 9 5 1 2 3 97 23
2015-06-17 PIT L 7.0 5 3 3 0 4 1 94 59
2015-06-12 @TBR L 5.1 8 5 4 1 3 0 94 36
2015-06-06 DET L 4.2 11 5 5 2 3 1 91 23
2015-05-31 @HOU W 9.0 10 0 0 1 6 0 118 72
Last 5 v.KCR 2-1 31.2 24 12 12 12 24 3 3.41 57
2015-04-26 KCR W 6.0 5 3 3 1 8 1 100 57
2015-04-09 @KCR L 5.2 7 4 4 1 1 1 75 39
2014-09-27 KCR W 7.0 5 2 2 2 3 1 101 60
2014-09-15 @KCR ND 6.0 2 0 0 4 6 0 103 70
2014-04-05 @KCR ND 7.0 5 3 3 4 6 0 115 57

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

Royals Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. White Sox Pitchers (4.24 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 50.Danks*
G/S/vB		 33.Duke*
G/S/vB		 43.Jennings*
G/S/vB		 52.Petricka
G/S/vB		 57.Putnam
G/S/vB		 30.Robertson
G/S/vB		 40.Webb
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 11/.282 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 56/40 .189/.204/.208/.411 .481/.385 .520 17/.544 0/1 0/1
6.Cain G/S/vP 19/.387 5/.800 1/.000 4/.500 5/1.400 2/.000 2/.000 322/214 .316/.373/.491/.864 1.002/.796 .823 69/1.224 17/3 8/5
43.Coleman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 2/.000 0/0 0/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.333 121/96 .266/.316/.413/.729 .667/.744 .791 42/.838 11/1 1/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 26/.336 15/1.067 ··· 7/.715 6/.400 2/.000 2/.000 344/243 .290/.327/.372/.700 .657/.717 .672 96/.776 5/3 2/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 27/.690 2/.000 4/.750 4/1.250 4/.250 8/.250 3/1.667 350/213 .291/.352/.434/.786 .692/.847 .680 80/.603 4/2 8/2
14.Infante G/S/vP 28/.696 17/.706 ··· 7/.286 2/.500 5/1.000 5/.450 301/221 .236/.247/.308/.555 .667/.513 .544 85/.566 1/1 0/8
25.Morales# G/S/vP 24/.541 1/.000 2/no AB 3/.333 1/.000 9/.111 3/.000 348/212 .281/.339/.457/.796 .762/.820 .807 91/.789 0/0 11/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 24/.511 2/1.000 2/.500 4/1.750 6/.900 1/.000 2/.000 334/207 .297/.353/.427/.780 .639/.866 .838 72/.569 1/2 7/8
16.Orlando G/S/vP 4/1.500 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 ··· 133/83 .248/.282/.424/.706 .676/.724 .608 16/1.126 2/1 3/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 20/.776 1/.000 ··· 7/.762 3/.333 5/.200 3/.000 304/215 .262/.273/.453/.726 .584/.786 .690 71/.654 1/0 15/1
15.Rios G/S/vP 17/.411 10/1.500 ··· 1/2.000 2/.000 8/1.214 ··· 169/118 .238/.266/.288/.554 .545/.557 .412 79/.575 6/0 1/1
IP 91.2 35.0 24.0 32.2 28.1 36.2 12.0 TOTAL .274/.324/.408/.732 .708/.744 .713 .731 51/18 67/50
ERA-K/9 5.30/6.3 3.09/8.7 7.50/8.2 2.76/5.8 3.81/13.4 2.45/13.0 1.50/7.5 3.90/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (12-5-0)
 Perez (35-19-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 404/.300 143/.234 113/.266 131/.286 121/.218 145/.190 53/.306 .263  Dyson
 Cain
 Rios
 Orlando
 Hosmer
7/16/16/4
0/73/0/3
0/0/43/3
8/1/29/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .852 .742 .736 .728 .698 .519 .705 .729
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 88/.650 45/.719 50/.745 38/.817 50/.655 62/.469 13/1.122 .691
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 316/.908 98/.752 63/.725 93/.692 71/.730 83/.554 40/.570 .745
Home 204/.792 64/.518 60/.636 62/.644 68/.558 88/.323 13/.962
Last 28d days 74/.881 31/.448 5/.000 41/.661 27/.832 32/.450 16/.904
HR/SB/CS 14/3/1 6/2/1 2/0/0 2/0/0 5/4/1 3/2/0 0/2/0 79/50/16
Usage ········ ·····oX· ········ ·····Xo· ····o··· ······o· ········
White Sox Batters (3.40 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.69 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Young
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 27.Finnegan*
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 46.Madson
G/S/vB		 47.Morales*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
79.Abreu G/S/vP 1/.000 8/.250 1/no AB 5/.933 ··· 5/.200 2/no AB 4/.250 344/271 .296/.343/.492/.835 .775/.851 .866 83/.837 0/0 14/6
15.Beckham G/S/vP 1/no AB 23/.043 ··· 13/.385 28/.935 13/.693 1/no AB ··· 178/115 .195/.260/.314/.574 .450/.643 .524 38/.454 0/1 4/4
64.Bonifacio# G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 7/.000 4/.500 78/45 .149/.182/.162/.344 .344/.343 .437 9/.111 1/4 0/3
53.Cabrera# G/S/vP 6/2.000 12/.531 ··· 3/.667 9/1.056 ··· 3/.000 4/.583 363/273 .261/.304/.339/.643 .548/.675 .660 83/.979 1/0 4/4
1.Eaton* G/S/vP ··· 7/1.096 1/2.000 7/1.071 ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 7/1.714 359/266 .245/.309/.383/.692 .539/.749 .653 91/.782 5/3 6/4
21.Flowers G/S/vP ··· 7/.929 ··· 4/1.000 8/1.125 3/.333 1/.000 4/1.250 197/160 .232/.279/.384/.663 .718/.650 .561 52/.876 0/1 7/0
26.Garcia G/S/vP 1/.000 3/1.334 1/2.000 6/.334 2/.000 6/.666 2/.000 3/2.334 311/245 .272/.318/.379/.698 .778/.676 .692 82/.600 4/5 7/1
12.Gillaspie* G/S/vP ··· 12/.917 1/.000 3/1.666 3/2.667 10/.100 ··· 4/.000 185/178 .237/.276/.364/.640 .619/.641 .702 41/.533 0/1 3/12
25.LaRoche* G/S/vP 34/.602 7/.286 ··· 3/.000 1/.000 2/.000 11/.818 9/.111 315/242 .222/.327/.374/.701 .468/.776 .588 69/.629 0/0 9/0
10.Ramirez G/S/vP 1/.000 28/.606 1/.000 17/.563 34/.993 16/.500 2/.000 5/1.200 330/263 .224/.249/.292/.541 .652/.513 .638 74/.549 10/3 2/10
18.Saladino G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/7 .200/.200/.400/.600 1.333/.286 10/.600 0/0 0/0
5.Sanchez# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 174/137 .184/.221/.245/.466 .274/.520 .334 69/.585 0/1 0/2
20.Shuck* G/S/vP ··· 5/.650 ··· 1/.000 2/3.500 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 87/78 .280/.341/.320/.661 .333/.690 .830 9/1.016 4/2 0/0
58.Soto G/S/vP 7/1.286 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/2.200 1/.000 5/1.000 4/2.500 121/91 .229/.306/.385/.691 .798/.655 .818 20/.825 0/0 4/4
IP 87.0 39.0 22.1 37.0 18.0 26.2 35.2 35.2 TOTAL .241/.294/.355/.649 .580/.669 .654 .694 28/23 60/58
ERA-K/9 3.00/5.8 0.46/10.2 3.22/7.7 1.95/9.0 4.00/9.0 2.70/10.4 2.02/8.1 2.52/5.3 3.52/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Flowers (34-11-7)
 Soto (16-5-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 350/.203 149/.161 92/.197 145/.185 75/.254 108/.165 139/.181 139/.217 .242  Garcia
 Eaton
 Cabrera
 Shuck
 Bonifacio
0/0/77/10
0/81/0/7
85/0/0/4
5/6/14/3
2/3/0/0
OPS .632 .462 .661 .502 .738 .547 .529 .602 .686
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 184/.696 87/.432 36/.683 77/.366 31/.804 53/.646 64/.519 67/.650 .710
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 166/.562 62/.502 56/.645 68/.659 44/.693 55/.454 75/.537 72/.557 .665
Road 150/.513 66/.334 33/.630 65/.545 35/.876 53/.699 74/.491 66/.570
Last 28d days 120/.829 40/.670 40/.836 45/.444 25/.200 41/.561 30/.441 32/.679
HR/SB/CS 10/10/3 0/3/1 3/2/0 2/4/2 2/1/0 1/0/1 3/1/1 1/0/0 70/41/21
Usage ·····X·· ····X·X· ·····X·X ····X·Xo ·····X·X ····X·o· ····Xo·o ·····o··

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  5.34

LAD  4.18

PHI  3.38

 RA/G

STL  2.97

MIN  4.04

PHI  5.14

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

O. Herrera  .268

M. Zunino  .160

 OBP

B. Harper  .464

S. Marte  .328

M. Zunino  .223

 SLG

B. Harper  .704

S. Souza  .417

B. Hamilton  .287

 OPS

B. Harper  1.168

J. Upton  .753

M. Zunino  .515

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.39

M. Pineda  3.64

K. Lohse  6.17

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.84

J. Nelson  7.35

M. Pelfrey  4.45

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.