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Chicago Cubs vs. Kansas City Royals, at Wrigley Field, May 29, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, May 29, 2015
Start Time:
3:05ct (local), 4:05et
Venue:
Wrigley Field
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
69° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
48
On This Date:
18-22
Cubs
Manager:
Joe Maddon
Game #:
49
On This Date:
43-52
Season Series

Fri, May 29, 2015 KCR    @CHC  4:05pm
Sat, May 30, 2015 KCR    @CHC  7:15pm
Sun, May 31, 2015 KCR    @CHC  2:20pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
28-18, 1st, Tied / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-7    Road:   11-11   ExtrInn: 3-0 
 vsRHP:  18-12   vsLHP:  10-6    1-Run:   5-3 
 vsEast:  2-4    vsCntrl:15-10   vsWest:  7-3  IL: 4-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 46 Wed, May 27  @NYY  L   2-4       28-18  1st    Tied
 45 Tue, May 26  @NYY  L   1-5       28-17  1st  1.0 up
 44 Mon, May 25  @NYY  L   1-14      28-16  1st  2.0 up
 43 Sun, May 24   STL  L   1-6       28-15  1st  3.0 up
 42 Sat, May 23   STL  W   3-2  (6)  28-14  1st  3.0 up
 41 Fri, May 22   STL  W   5-0       27-14  1st  2.0 up
 40 Wed, May 20   CIN  W   7-1       26-14  1st  2.5 up
 39 Tue, May 19   CIN  W   3-0       25-14  1st  2.5 up
 38 Sun, May 17   NYY  W   6-0       24-14  1st  1.0 up
 37 Sat, May 16   NYY  L   1-5       23-14  1st    Tied
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14
Chicago Cubs
25-21, 2nd, 5½ GB, 2½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-10   Road:   11-11   ExtrInn: 4-2 
 vsRHP:  21-18   vsLHP:   4-3    1-Run:  13-10
 vsEast:  5-2    vsCntrl:14-13   vsWest:  6-6  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 46 Wed, May 27   WSN  L   0-3       25-21  2nd  5.5 gb
 45 Tue, May 26   WSN  W   3-2       25-20  2nd  4.5 gb
 44 Mon, May 25   WSN  L   1-2       24-20  2nd  4.5 gb
 43 Sun, May 24  @ARI  L   3-4       24-19  2nd  3.5 gb
 42 Sat, May 23  @ARI  W   9-6       24-18  2nd  2.5 gb
 41 Fri, May 22  @ARI  L   4-5 (13)  23-18  2nd  3.5 gb
 40 Thu, May 21  @SDP  W   3-0       23-17  2nd  3.5 gb
 39 Wed, May 20  @SDP  W   3-2       22-17  2nd  4.5 gb
 38 Tue, May 19  @SDP  L   3-4       21-17  2nd  4.5 gb
 37 Sun, May 17   PIT  L   0-3       21-16  2nd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 26, 2011 KCR  6  CHC  3        W:Luke Hochevar (5-8), L: Randy Wells (1-2), S: Joakim Soria (13)
Sat, Jun 25, 2011 KCR  3  CHC  2        W:Greg Holland (2-1), L: Jeff Samardzija (5-4), S: Joakim Soria (12)
Fri, Jun 24, 2011 CHC  6 @KCR  4        W:Sean Marshall (4-2), L: Aaron Crow (2-1), S: Carlos Marmol (16)
Tue, Jul 17, 2001 CHC  7  KCR  4        W:Jason Bere (7-4), L: Tony Cogan (0-4), S: Tom Gordon (17)
Mon, Jul 16, 2001 KCR  4 @CHC  2        W:Dan Reichert (8-7), L: Kevin Tapani (8-7), S: Roberto Hernandez (17)
Sun, Jul 15, 2001 CHC  2  KCR  1        W:Jon Lieber (12-4), L: Paul Byrd (1-4), S: Tom Gordon (16)
Tue, Jul 18, 2000 KCR 12  CHC  4        W:Blake Stein (1-2), L: Ismael Valdez (1-4), S: none
Mon, Jul 17, 2000 CHC  3 @KCR  1        W:Scott Downs (4-3), L: Chad Durbin (2-4), S: Rick Aguilera (19)
Sun, Jul 16, 2000 CHC 10 @KCR  7        W:Kerry Wood (4-6), L: Dan Reichert (3-6), S: Rick Aguilera (18)
Tue, Jul 20, 1999 CHC  8  KCR  7        W:Scott Sanders (4-4), L: Brian Barber (1-2), S: Terry Adams (7)
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - CHC leads 10-8

SP: Edinson Volquez (31, RHP, 4-3, 2.77)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CHC Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-3) 55.1 39 21 17 20 39 2 2.77
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 3-2 39.2 30 17 13 18 27 1 2.95 55
2015-05-23 STL W 6.0 4 2 2 3 1 0 84 54
2015-05-17 NYY W 7.0 3 0 0 0 5 0 101 76
2015-05-12 @TEX ND 5.0 6 4 4 3 3 1 82 39
2015-05-07 CLE ND 3.0 2 3 3 6 3 0 78 40
2015-05-02 DET L 6.0 5 2 2 3 4 0 102 55
2015-04-26 @CHW L 5.2 5 5 1 2 6 0 90 51
2015-04-20 MIN W 7.0 5 1 1 1 5 0 99 67
Last 5 v.CHC 4-0 27.1 30 14 11 14 18 3 3.62 49
2014-09-14 CHC W 7.0 4 3 1 5 5 0 98 61
2014-06-12 CHC W 7.0 7 0 0 2 5 0 99 66
2013-08-23 CHC ND 0.2 5 6 5 2 0 1 42 18
2013-04-30 @CHC W 5.2 7 4 4 3 3 2 95 39
2011-06-07 CHC W 7.0 7 1 1 2 5 0 105 62

SP: Jake Arrieta (29, RHP, 4-4, 2.95)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-4) 58.0 49 23 19 14 62 3 2.95
2014 (10-5) 156.2 114 46 44 41 167 5 2.53
2013 (5-4) 75.1 59 41 40 41 60 9 4.78
Last 7 GS 3-3 44.1 39 20 16 10 50 3 3.25 58
2015-05-23 @ARI ND 6.0 7 6 3 2 7 1 92 45
2015-05-17 PIT L 7.0 5 1 1 1 7 0 106 69
2015-05-12 NYM W 8.0 3 1 1 2 10 0 116 80
2015-05-07 @STL L 5.1 9 5 4 1 7 0 106 38
2015-05-02 MIL L 5.0 7 4 4 1 6 1 90 42
2015-04-26 @CIN W 6.0 4 2 2 3 6 1 105 59
2015-04-20 @PIT W 7.0 4 1 1 0 7 0 100 72
Last 5 v.KCR 2-0 17.1 14 6 6 10 19 2 3.12 56
2011-05-25 KCR W 6.0 5 2 2 3 7 1 106 58
2011-05-04 @KCR W 7.0 3 1 1 2 8 1 105 73
2010-07-30 @KCR ND 4.1 6 3 3 5 4 0 102 38

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Royals Batters (4.67 RS/G) vs. Cubs Pitchers (4.09 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 49.Arrieta
G/S/vB		 52.Grimm
G/S/vB		 36.Jackson
G/S/vB		 30.Motte
G/S/vB		 56.Rondon
G/S/vB		 59.Rosscup*
G/S/vB		 40.Russell*
G/S/vB		 46.Strop
G/S/vB		 37.Wood*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 4/1.000 2/.000 5/.600 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 35/31 .182/.182/.212/.394 .667/.367 .500 17/.333 0/1 0/1
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 180/117 .293/.344/.409/.753 1.016/.615 .742 82/.602 8/2 3/3
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 67/45 .283/.348/.333/.682 1.000/.523 .633 31/.700 2/1 0/2
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 69/57 .206/.242/.286/.528 .586/.514 .572 40/.516 5/1 0/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 4/.250 ··· 6/.533 6/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.000 168/120 .281/.317/.366/.683 .630/.704 .746 80/.669 3/2 1/5
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 8/.625 ··· 18/.572 1/no AB ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.667 ··· 172/112 .260/.366/.432/.798 .682/.861 .905 88/.724 0/2 5/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 3/2.334 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· 201/121 .303/.375/.506/.881 .748/.966 .782 97/.830 3/2 7/1
14.Infante G/S/vP 2/2.000 3/.000 15/1.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.666 5/1.200 153/113 .238/.248/.340/.589 .685/.554 .596 84/.560 0/0 0/3
25.Morales# G/S/vP 5/.800 12/1.326 13/.558 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.750 1/.000 3/.666 198/122 .306/.364/.489/.853 .799/.888 .849 95/.834 0/0 6/
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 5/.400 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 188/114 .329/.382/.494/.876 .782/.936 .962 82/.841 1/2 5/3
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 113/70 .250/.283/.398/.681 .677/.683 .660 56/.577 2/1 1/2
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 166/116 .290/.301/.438/.739 .860/.686 .617 73/.649 1/0 5/1
IP 58.0 7.1 11.2 19.0 21.0 17.2 9.0 21.2 40.0 TOTAL .281/.330/.422/.752 .773/.741 .750 .690 27/13 34/27
ERA-K/9 2.95/9.6 1.23/16.0 3.86/6.9 4.26/5.7 3.43/8.6 4.08/8.6 2.00/5.0 3.74/10.0 5.40/9.7 3.71/8.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (8-3-0)
 Perez (13-12-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 230/.229 30/.167 54/.234 82/.225 88/.272 73/.231 37/.265 84/.160 175/.256 .243  Gordon
 Cain
 Dyson
 Orlando
 Hosmer
42/0/0/2
0/42/0/2
3/6/13/1
5/0/27/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .598 .625 .591 .652 .758 .788 .648 .543 .792 .689
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 92/.514 7/.286 23/.372 22/.754 37/.558 24/.317 17/.620 27/.742 46/.624 .658
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 138/.649 23/.716 31/.734 60/.615 51/.911 49/1.000 20/.668 57/.456 129/.850 .705
Home 127/.535 13/.930 27/.305 36/.553 47/.624 37/.500 17/.769 45/.594 82/.674
Last 28d days 125/.677 30/.625 25/.768 40/.661 44/.907 42/1.082 37/.648 49/.799 81/1.001
HR/SB/CS 3/7/3 1/1/0 0/2/0 2/0/0 2/3/1 3/0/0 0/1/1 2/0/0 10/0/0 46/35/9
Usage ·····X·· ···oo·X· ·····o·· ·o·o·oo· ··Xo··X· ···X··X· ·o···o·· ··o··oo· ·X····X·
Cubs Batters (4.11 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Volquez
G/S/vB		 49.Blanton
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
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
29.Baxter* G/S/vP 7/1.429 3/1.667 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/7 .000/.143/.000/.143 /.143 .000 7/.143 0/0 0/0
17.Bryant G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 168/142 .275/.393/.478/.871 .755/.893 1.032 109/.880 5/1 7/7
13.Castro G/S/vP 21/.667 15/.971 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 5/2.000 198/172 .270/.298/.339/.637 .863/.602 .605 108/.525 4/3 3/11
8.Coghlan* G/S/vP 9/.844 20/1.079 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 149/138 .209/.284/.425/.709 .425/.727 .562 82/.691 4/1 7/0
24.Fowler# G/S/vP 29/.974 4/1.833 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 ··· 201/167 .247/.337/.425/.762 .792/.756 .714 111/.731 11/4 6/0
19.Herrera# G/S/vP 9/1.314 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 48/37 .217/.234/.261/.495 .909/.366 .357 12/.333 3/0 0/1
21.Lake G/S/vP 5/.800 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 28/20 .259/.286/.333/.619 .875/.513 .727 23/.534 2/0 0/0
47.Montero* G/S/vP 29/.637 6/.500 4/1.000 2/1.500 1/.000 9/1.000 1/.000 3/.000 9/.411 131/117 .262/.382/.439/.821 .903/.812 .844 77/.825 0/0 5/3
44.Rizzo* G/S/vP 8/1.214 6/1.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 205/162 .315/.439/.570/1.009 1.238/.950 1.045 111/1.054 9/4 9/2
3.Ross G/S/vP 2/.500 8/.661 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.000 46/37 .162/.311/.270/.581 .347/.644 .549 25/.440 0/0 0/1
22.Russell G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 127/103 .252/.299/.420/.719 .813/.697 .801 95/.758 1/2 3/7
68.Soler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 196/161 .277/.337/.407/.744 .799/.730 .751 101/.760 0/1 3/1
IP 55.1 7.0 20.0 15.0 16.0 5.0 10.1 21.2 20.1 TOTAL .241/.319/.386/.705 .773/.691 .691 .698 43/17 46/39
ERA-K/9 2.77/6.3 3.86/6.4 0.00/8.6 0.60/6.6 1.69/9.6 7.20/10.8 2.61/6.1 1.66/9.1 3.54/5.3 3.52/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Montero (18-7-1)
 Ross (16-2-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 225/.195 31/.321 72/.119 65/.286 65/.164 25/.417 42/.152 83/.176 78/.192 .234  Coghlan
 Soler
 Fowler
 Lake
 Baxter
 Bryant
40/0/0/5
0/0/45/4
0/44/0/1
5/1/2/1
1/0/0/0
1/2/0/0
OPS .541 .905 .315 .762 .495 .940 .559 .538 .573 .668
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 125/.513 19/.845 41/.252 30/.918 38/.361 12/.833 23/.744 40/.387 35/.786 .689
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 100/.574 12/1.000 31/.394 35/.594 27/.693 13/1.038 19/.347 43/.687 43/.391 .648
Road 77/.619 9/.833 31/.233 35/.610 27/.478 11/1.045 29/.810 48/.491 39/.541
Last 28d days 116/.615 31/.905 37/.337 31/1.007 24/.405 25/.940 29/.810 37/.641 45/.648
HR/SB/CS 2/4/2 1/0/0 0/1/1 1/1/0 1/2/1 0/0/0 1/0/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 39/15/12
Usage ·····X·· ··X·X··· ··o····· ···X··X· ··X····· ····X··· ···X···· ·X····X· ·o·X··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  5.20

DET  4.20

PHI  3.12

 RA/G

STL  3.04

BAL  4.24

COL  5.13

 BA

D. Gordon  .376

T. Tulowitzki  .266

S. Drew  .162

 OBP

B. Harper  .470

B. Dozier  .328

S. Drew  .232

 SLG

B. Harper  .745

D. Fowler  .425

J. Ramirez  .252

 OPS

B. Harper  1.215

C. Santana  .756

J. Ramirez  .517

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.48

J. Happ  3.71

J. Guthrie  6.70

 K/9IP

D. Salazar  12.05

J. Odorizzi  7.19

J. Guthrie  3.54

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.