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Cincinnati Reds vs. Kansas City Royals, at Great American Ball Park, August 18, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Great American Ball Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 2-game series
Average Temp:
82° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
122
On This Date:
20-19
Reds
Manager:
Bryan Price
Game #:
121
On This Date:
60-60
Season Series
Tue, May 19, 2015 KCR  3  CIN  0     
Wed, May 20, 2015 KCR  7  CIN  1     

Tue, Aug 18, 2015 KCR    @CIN  7:10pm
Wed, Aug 19, 2015 KCR    @CIN  7:10pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
71-46, 1st, 12½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   42-20   Road:   29-26   ExtrInn: 7-2 
 vsRHP:  48-27   vsLHP:  23-19   1-Run:  19-11
 vsEast: 10-10   vsCntrl:32-19   vsWest: 18-11 IL:11-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
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
110 Sun, Aug  9   CHW  W   5-4       66-44  1st 11.5 up
109 Sat, Aug  8   CHW  W   7-6       65-44  1st 10.5 up
108 Fri, Aug  7   CHW  W   3-2       64-44  1st  9.5 up
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12
Cincinnati Reds
51-65, 4th, 24 GB, 18 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   28-26   Road:   23-39   ExtrInn: 4-10
 vsRHP:  38-48   vsLHP:  13-17   1-Run:  17-23
 vsEast: 16-12   vsCntrl:22-26   vsWest:  7-16 IL: 6-11

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
116 Sun, Aug 16  @LAD  L   1-2       51-65  4th 23.5 gb
115 Sat, Aug 15  @LAD  L   3-8       51-64  4th 23.5 gb
114 Fri, Aug 14  @LAD  L   3-5       51-63  4th 22.5 gb
113 Thu, Aug 13  @LAD  W  10-3       51-62  4th 21.5 gb
112 Wed, Aug 12  @SDP  W   7-3       50-62  4th 22.5 gb
111 Tue, Aug 11  @SDP  L   6-11      49-62  4th 22.5 gb
110 Mon, Aug 10  @SDP  L   1-2       49-61  4th 21.5 gb
109 Sun, Aug  9  @ARI  L   3-4 (10)  49-60  4th 21.0 gb
108 Sat, Aug  8  @ARI  W   4-1       49-59  4th 21.0 gb
107 Fri, Aug  7  @ARI  L   0-2       48-59  4th 21.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, May 20, 2015 KCR  7  CIN  1        W:Jeremy Guthrie (4-2), L: Jason Marquis (3-4), S: none
Tue, May 19, 2015 KCR  3  CIN  0        W:Yordano Ventura (3-3), L: Johnny Cueto (3-4), S: Wade Davis (7)

Sun, Jun 13, 2010 KCR  7 @CIN  3        W:Zack Greinke (2-8), L: Sam LeCure (1-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 12, 2010 CIN 11  KCR  5        W:Johnny Cueto (6-1), L: Brian Bannister (6-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 11, 2010 KCR  6 @CIN  5 (11)   W:Victor Marte (1-0), L: Micah Owings (3-2), S: Joakim Soria (15)
Sun, Jun 14, 2009 KCR  7  CIN  1        W:Brian Bannister (5-3), L: Johnny Cueto (6-4), S: none
Sat, Jun 13, 2009 KCR  7  CIN  4        W:Kyle Davies (3-6), L: Bronson Arroyo (7-5), S: none
Fri, Jun 12, 2009 KCR  4  CIN  1        W:Luke Hochevar (2-2), L: Matt Maloney (0-1), S: none
Thu, Jun 29, 2006 CIN  6  KCR  5        W:David Weathers (3-2), L: Elmer Dessens (4-7), S: Todd Coffey (7)
Wed, Jun 28, 2006 CIN  7  KCR  2        W:Aaron Harang (9-5), L: Scott Elarton (3-9), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - KCR over 2-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - KCR leads 11-8

SP: Edinson Volquez (31, RHP, 11-7, 3.27)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. CIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (11-7) 146.0 130 61 53 54 107 10 3.27
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 45.1 43 19 15 18 29 2 2.98 54
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
2015-07-12 TOR ND 5.1 5 4 1 3 2 0 104 47
Last 5 v.CIN 1-2 28.1 24 18 18 15 19 2 5.72 47
2014-08-29 CIN ND 7.2 3 1 1 3 6 0 114 72
2014-06-18 CIN L 2.1 6 8 8 3 2 0 64 12
2014-04-22 CIN L 7.0 5 2 2 1 3 0 100 61
2013-07-30 CIN ND 6.1 4 2 2 5 3 0 105 55
2012-07-30 @CIN W 5.0 6 5 5 3 5 2 102 37

SP: Raisel Iglesias (25, RHP, 3-4, 4.70)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-4) 59.1 57 31 31 17 61 6 4.70
Last 7 GS 2-3 40.1 39 22 22 8 44 6 4.91 52
2015-08-12 @SDP W 6.0 3 3 3 1 8 1 96 61
2015-08-07 @ARI L 6.0 3 1 1 1 6 0 95 67
2015-08-01 PIT W 6.2 4 2 2 2 5 1 108 61
2015-07-27 @STL L 6.0 6 4 4 0 7 1 95 51
2015-07-21 CHC ND 5.2 6 2 2 4 8 1 113 53
2015-07-11 @MIA L 4.1 8 5 5 0 2 1 77 29
2015-05-30 WSN ND 5.2 9 5 5 0 8 1 105 39
Has never faced KCR as starter.

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

Royals Batters (4.38 RS/G) vs. Reds Pitchers (4.35 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 26.Iglesias
G/S/vB		 40.Axelrod
G/S/vB		 25.Badenhop
G/S/vB		 54.Chapman*
G/S/vB		 70.Diaz
G/S/vB		 60.Hoover
G/S/vB		 41.Mattheus
G/S/vB		 43.Parra*
G/S/vB		 62.Villarreal
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 87/61 .198/.235/.247/.482 .497/.475 .556 27/.630 0/1 1/3
6.Cain G/S/vP 1/.000 5/.800 5/.400 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 439/288 .314/.367/.506/.873 1.027/.793 .832 89/.872 22/4 12/7
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 3/3.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 172/139 .257/.327/.395/.722 .689/.730 .709 39/.753 22/2 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 7/.715 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 486/338 .267/.305/.332/.637 .679/.619 .619 113/.406 11/5 2/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 1/.000 8/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 479/289 .319/.381/.493/.874 .760/.950 .781 102/1.171 5/2 14/2
14.Infante G/S/vP 1/.000 3/.666 8/.250 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.650 4/1.000 ··· 407/291 .216/.232/.298/.529 .569/.513 .558 80/.409 2/2 1/9
25.Morales# G/S/vP 1/3.000 6/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 478/287 .289/.349/.457/.807 .756/.842 .817 103/.867 0/0 13/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 1/2.000 8/.393 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 450/280 .274/.342/.415/.757 .657/.817 .755 91/.593 1/2 11/9
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 177/104 .238/.269/.417/.685 .641/.716 .614 31/.516 3/1 4/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 1/no AB 4/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 400/274 .251/.265/.426/.691 .502/.780 .644 73/.648 1/0 17/2
15.Rios G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 4/.000 ··· 282/191 .237/.277/.309/.586 .569/.594 .525 90/.501 8/0 2/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 5/.650 2/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 339/226 .283/.375/.469/.844 .939/.796 .869 89/1.058 1/3 9/4
IP 59.1 11.1 47.2 48.2 37.1 51.2 37.1 24.0 34.1 TOTAL .269/.322/.407/.729 .709/.739 .705 .700 78/25 92/63
ERA-K/9 4.70/9.3 7.94/8.8 3.59/4.0 1.66/16.3 4.34/10.4 1.92/6.6 4.10/6.0 3.38/6.4 3.41/4.2 4.05/7.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (14-8-1)
 Perez (47-24-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 254/.249 55/.234 204/.258 207/.191 157/.239 203/.171 168/.306 97/.236 149/.304 .248  Dyson
 Cain
 Orlando
 Rios
 Zobrist
 Hosmer
20/21/17/6
0/100/0/5
20/1/31/3
0/0/72/3
39/0/3/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .710 .908 .640 .519 .714 .543 .745 .607 .798 .718
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 124/.807 25/.956 95/.625 65/.515 82/.630 99/.612 78/.843 50/.586 59/.822 .750
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 130/.618 30/.865 109/.652 142/.521 75/.801 104/.465 90/.653 47/.630 90/.783 .690
Home 140/.690 19/.436 104/.723 130/.489 93/.659 101/.576 76/.758 46/.519 70/.654
Last 28d days 96/.568 46/1.022 46/.551 36/.583 43/.490 36/.719 46/.894 22/.591 53/.531
HR/SB/CS 6/1/1 5/1/0 2/4/1 1/6/0 5/1/0 3/0/0 1/7/0 2/2/0 4/2/2 117/74/21
Usage ·····X·· ······X· ···Xo·o· ·····X·· ··oX·o·· ·o···o·· ··X·X··X ·o··o·o· ··X·X··o
Reds Batters (3.94 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.73 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		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
16.Barnhart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 166/134 .260/.343/.363/.706 .357/.792 .749 52/.780 0/1 3/2
30.Bourgeois G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 46/30 .209/.244/.279/.524 .650/.456 .368 28/.656 1/0 1/0
32.Bruce* G/S/vP 17/1.374 1/.000 1/.000 5/1.600 ··· 5/1.000 8/.375 1/.000 463/337 .242/.320/.460/.779 .719/.802 .857 98/.630 7/5 18/1
9.Byrd G/S/vP 20/.563 5/.400 3/.333 4/.500 ··· 5/1.000 10/.522 1/.000 382/292 .241/.291/.456/.747 .844/.717 .809 93/.726 2/1 19/0
3.De Jesus G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 123/90 .259/.325/.411/.736 .711/.743 .916 44/.756 0/2 4/2
21.Frazier G/S/vP 15/.481 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 495/374 .260/.311/.529/.840 .973/.795 .955 101/.586 11/4 29/14
6.Hamilton# G/S/vP 9/.583 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 424/308 .228/.272/.293/.565 .651/.531 .632 91/.618 53/7 4/0
29.Pena# G/S/vP 3/.666 6/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 300/211 .275/.342/.316/.658 .530/.711 .791 54/.660 1/0 0/1
4.Phillips G/S/vP 18/.478 ··· ··· 7/.334 ··· 12/.878 9/.583 2/1.000 443/334 .285/.324/.376/.700 .744/.686 .653 106/.750 17/2 8/6
55.Schumaker* G/S/vP 26/.906 3/.666 ··· 4/2.000 ··· 2/.000 9/1.000 1/2.000 173/156 .208/.289/.279/.568 .769/.547 .721 33/.514 1/2 0/2
7.Suarez G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 216/165 .296/.333/.472/.806 .916/.773 .854 96/.775 3/1 7/11
19.Votto* G/S/vP 11/.598 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 6/.167 9/1.431 1/.000 501/354 .310/.437/.538/.975 .982/.972 .985 107/1.284 7/2 21/6
IP 146.0 47.2 53.1 32.2 36.2 48.1 10.1 46.1 TOTAL .249/.314/.399/.713 .735/.705 .757 .714 110/30 125/59
ERA-K/9 3.27/6.6 1.13/10.0 2.03/8.1 3.58/9.6 3.93/10.3 2.42/8.0 3.48/8.7 2.53/5.8 3.57/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Barnhart (25-12-2)
 Pena (46-9-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 614/.238 181/.161 210/.183 139/.258 157/.231 193/.213 40/.171 186/.225 .245  Bruce
 Hamilton
 Schumaker
 Byrd
 Bourgeois
 Barnhart
 De Jesus
0/0/107/6
0/103/0/6
21/0/3/3
87/3/4/2
4/6/3/2
0/0/1/0
8/0/0/0
OPS .658 .483 .506 .739 .686 .601 .561 .614 .697
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 309/.626 103/.467 103/.422 56/.783 75/.826 86/.578 18/1.016 86/.662 .717
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 305/.691 78/.502 107/.586 83/.709 82/.557 107/.621 22/.232 100/.573 .680
Road 281/.692 84/.363 99/.541 66/.785 71/.705 102/.685 15/.582 96/.644
Last 28d days 140/.645 24/.708 50/.431 50/.788 32/.906 43/.824 26/.364 39/.669
HR/SB/CS 10/13/4 2/4/1 3/4/2 4/1/0 2/0/2 4/1/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 101/55/29
Usage ·····X·· ·X··X··· ·o·o·X·· ··X···X· ·o·XX··· ···XX··· ········ ····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  5.23

LAA  4.08

PHI  3.67

 RA/G

STL  2.92

CLE  4.16

COL  5.22

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .334

A. Escobar  .267

M. Zunino  .177

 OBP

B. Harper  .452

A. Simmons  .326

O. Infante  .232

 SLG

B. Harper  .638

M. Trumbo  .424

B. Hamilton  .293

 OPS

B. Harper  1.089

K. Seager  .752

O. Infante  .529

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.58

F. Hernandez  3.65

K. Lohse  6.11

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.90

S. Miller  7.58

M. Buehrle  4.24

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.