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Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals, at Comerica Park, May 10, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Start Time:
8:05et (local)
Venue:
Comerica Park
Tickets:
Tickets for games at Comerica Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
67° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
32
On This Date:
16-24
Tigers
Manager:
Brad Ausmus
Game #:
32
On This Date:
50-44
Season Series
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 KCR  8  DET  1     
Fri, May 01, 2015 KCR  4  DET  1     
Sat, May 02, 2015 DET  2 @KCR  1     
Sun, May 03, 2015 DET  6 @KCR  4     
Fri, May 08, 2015 DET  6  KCR  5     
Sat, May 09, 2015 KCR  6 @DET  2     

Sun, May 10, 2015 KCR    @DET  8:05pm
Tue, Aug 04, 2015 KCR    @DET  7:08pm
Wed, Aug 05, 2015 KCR    @DET  7:08pm
Thu, Aug 06, 2015 KCR    @DET  1:08pm
Mon, Aug 10, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Tue, Aug 11, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Wed, Aug 12, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Tue, Sep 01, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 02, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Thu, Sep 03, 2015 DET    @KCR  8:10pm
Fri, Sep 18, 2015 KCR    @DET  7:08pm
Sat, Sep 19, 2015 KCR    @DET  7:08pm
Sun, Sep 20, 2015 KCR    @DET  1:08pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
19-11, 1st, ½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-5    Road:    8-6    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:  11-6    vsLHP:   8-5    1-Run:   2-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl:14-10   vsWest:  5-1  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 30 Sat, May  9  @DET  W   6-2       19-11  1st  0.5 up
 29 Fri, May  8  @DET  L   5-6       18-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 28 Thu, May  7   CLE  W   7-4       18-10  1st  0.5 up
 27 Wed, May  6   CLE  L   3-10      17-10  1st  0.5 up
 26 Tue, May  5   CLE  W   5-3       17-9   1st  0.5 up
 25 Sun, May  3   DET  L   4-6       16-9   2nd  0.5 gb
 24 Sat, May  2   DET  L   1-2       16-8   1st  0.5 up
 23 Fri, May  1   DET  W   4-1       16-7   1st  1.5 up
 22 Thu, Apr 30   DET  W   8-1       15-7   1st  0.5 up
 21 Wed, Apr 29  @CLE  L   5-7       14-7   2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:19-11
Detroit Tigers
19-12, 2nd, ½ GB, 2 up in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-6    Road:   10-6    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:  12-9    vsLHP:   7-3    1-Run:   6-4 
 vsEast:  1-3    vsCntrl:16-8    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 2-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 31 Sat, May  9   KCR  L   2-6       19-12  2nd  0.5 gb
 30 Fri, May  8   KCR  W   6-5       19-11  1st  0.5 up
 29 Thu, May  7  @CHW  W   4-1       18-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 28 Wed, May  6  @CHW  L   6-7       17-11  2nd  0.5 gb
 27 Tue, May  5  @CHW  L   2-5       17-10  2nd  0.5 gb
 26 Sun, May  3  @KCR  W   6-4       17-9   1st  0.5 up
 25 Sat, May  2  @KCR  W   2-1       16-9   2nd  0.5 gb
 24 Fri, May  1  @KCR  L   1-4       15-9   2nd  1.5 gb
 23 Thu, Apr 30  @KCR  L   1-8       15-8   2nd  0.5 gb
 22 Wed, Apr 29  @MIN  W  10-7       15-7   1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sat, May 09, 2015 KCR  6 @DET  2        W:Jeremy Guthrie (2-2), L: Anibal Sanchez (2-4), S: none
Fri, May 08, 2015 DET  6  KCR  5        W:Joakim Soria (2-0), L: Yohan Pino (0-1), S: none
Sun, May 03, 2015 DET  6 @KCR  4        W:Anibal Sanchez (2-3), L: Jeremy Guthrie (1-2), S: Joakim Soria (10)
Sat, May 02, 2015 DET  2 @KCR  1        W:David Price (3-1), L: Edinson Volquez (2-3), S: none
Fri, May 01, 2015 KCR  4  DET  1        W:Chris Young (2-0), L: Kyle Lobstein (2-2), S: Wade Davis (5)
Thu, Apr 30, 2015 KCR  8  DET  1        W:Danny Duffy (2-0), L: Alfredo Simon (4-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 21, 2014 KCR  5  DET  2        W:Jeremy Guthrie (12-11), L: Rick Porcello (15-12), S: Greg Holland (43)
Sat, Sep 20, 2014 DET  3 @KCR  2        W:Max Scherzer (17-5), L: James Shields (14-8), S: Joe Nathan (33)
Fri, Sep 19, 2014 DET 10 @KCR  1        W:Justin Verlander (14-12), L: Jason Vargas (11-10), S: none
Wed, Sep 10, 2014 KCR  3 @DET  0        W:James Shields (14-7), L: Rick Porcello (15-11), S: Wade Davis (3)
Season Series: 2015 - tied 3-3; 2014 - DET won 13-6; 2013 - KCR won 10-9; All-Time - DET leads 318-314

SP: Chris Young (36, RHP, 2-0, 1.06)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (2-0) 17.0 4 2 2 5 16 1 1.06
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 2-3 29.1 31 19 17 17 29 7 5.22 47
2015-05-01 DET W 5.0 0 0 0 3 9 0 81 73
2014-09-20 @HOU L 3.0 8 7 7 1 3 4 68 17
2014-09-14 OAK L 6.0 4 2 2 2 5 2 78 59
2014-09-06 @TEX ND 5.0 4 2 0 3 6 0 95 58
2014-09-01 @OAK L 0.2 4 5 5 2 0 1 36 22
2014-08-23 @BOS ND 3.2 7 3 3 5 2 0 93 32
2014-08-17 @DET W 6.0 4 0 0 1 4 0 99 67
Last 5 v.DET 3-0 32.0 17 5 5 9 32 2 1.41 68
2015-05-01 DET W 5.0 0 0 0 3 9 0 81 73
2014-08-17 @DET W 6.0 4 0 0 1 4 0 99 67
2014-05-31 DET W 6.0 3 2 2 2 6 1 106 62
2005-06-02 @DET ND 7.0 4 3 3 2 8 1 100 63
2005-05-09 DET ND 8.0 6 0 0 1 5 0 96 74

SP: Shane Greene (26, RHP, 3-2, 5.56)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-2) 34.0 35 22 21 11 21 2 5.56
2014 (5-4) 78.2 81 38 33 29 81 8 3.78
Last 7 GS 3-3 37.2 42 28 27 14 26 2 6.45 43
2015-05-05 @CHW L 2.2 5 5 5 4 1 0 57 25
2015-04-29 @MIN ND 4.1 9 7 7 0 8 2 85 25
2015-04-24 CLE L 4.0 9 8 8 2 1 0 72 11
2015-04-19 CHW W 7.0 5 1 1 4 3 0 102 62
2015-04-14 @PIT W 8.0 3 0 0 0 3 0 81 79
2015-04-09 MIN W 8.0 4 1 0 1 5 0 85 76
2014-09-24 BAL L 3.2 7 6 6 3 5 0 73 25
Last 5 v.KCR 0-1 5.0 5 2 0 3 4 0 0.00 54
2014-09-07 KCR L 5.0 5 2 0 3 4 0 90 54

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

Royals Batters (5.13 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 61.Greene
G/S/vB		 62.Alburquerque
G/S/vB		 44.Chamberlain
G/S/vB		 32.Gorzelanny*
G/S/vB		 65.Hardy*
G/S/vB		 60.Nesbitt
G/S/vB		 38.Soria
G/S/vB		 30.Wilson
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 25/24 .167/.167/.167/.333 .000/.348 .400 22/.286 0/1 0/1
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 8/.661 4/.500 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 2/3.000 1/.000 121/67 .339/.397/.495/.892 1.088/.737 .913 92/.818 6/2 3/1
12.Calixte G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 3/.000 0/0 0/0
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 61/40 .286/.333/.339/.673 .976/.506 .666 61/.673 2/1 0/2
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 2/.500 4/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 46/37 .214/.250/.286/.536 .661/.508 .499 46/.536 5/0 0/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 2/1.000 10/.200 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 98/63 .303/.337/.404/.741 .636/.796 .695 69/.678 2/1 1/3
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/.333 4/.000 7/.762 1/3.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 114/66 .284/.404/.442/.846 .793/.884 .998 96/.917 0/2 3/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 2/1.000 5/.400 6/1.000 1/.000 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 135/71 .322/.396/.551/.946 .749/1.119 .707 106/1.023 2/1 5/1
14.Infante G/S/vP 3/.000 5/1.200 7/1.404 14/.891 2/1.500 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 95/66 .250/.263/.370/.633 .704/.601 .760 72/.712 0/0 0/0
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/1.889 7/.715 ··· ··· 3/2.000 4/.000 132/73 .306/.364/.479/.843 .795/.885 .880 103/.768 0/0 4/
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 71/39 .239/.282/.403/.685 .726/.651 .724 62/.563 2/1 0/1
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.000 10/.522 5/.400 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/.000 114/73 .306/.316/.459/.775 .805/.758 .794 89/.637 1/0 4/1
IP 34.0 9.2 7.2 10.2 11.1 11.1 14.0 9.1 TOTAL .295/.347/.440/.787 .803/.777 .808 .749 23/10 24/17
ERA-K/9 5.56/5.6 7.45/4.6 5.87/5.8 2.53/7.6 4.76/4.0 2.38/8.0 1.29/7.1 2.89/3.9 4.02/6.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (8-3-0)
 Perez (6-10-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 139/.280 49/.317 35/.382 43/.282 52/.295 44/.171 50/.128 32/.194 .257  Cain
 Gordon
 Orlando
 Dyson
0/27/0/2
27/0/0/1
4/0/15/1
1/4/9/1
OPS .749 .990 .988 .718 .755 .429 .355 .509 .691
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 84/.880 25/1.162 16/1.125 23/.814 27/.638 22/.558 25/.513 19/.652 .757
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 55/.545 24/.808 19/.868 20/.616 25/.884 22/.293 25/.203 13/.308 .624
Home 76/.692 31/1.182 15/.600 27/.737 28/.950 26/.695 18/.461 11/.636
Last 28d days 111/.851 43/1.053 31/.987 34/.797 39/.771 36/.493 39/.352 32/.509
HR/SB/CS 2/1/2 3/3/0 1/0/0 0/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 1/0/0 1/1/0 22/15/8
Usage ····X··· o··X···· X··X···· ···o··o· o··oo··· ·o·oo··· ·oX···o· ·o··X···
Tigers Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.60 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Young
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 54.Frasor
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 46.Madson
G/S/vB		 47.Morales*
G/S/vB		 63.Pino
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Cabrera G/S/vP 17/.489 24/1.154 17/1.100 41/1.206 13/.462 29/.355 6/.666 4/.500 133/98 .333/.436/.550/.986 .947/.995 .744 104/.859 1/1 6/0
9.Castellanos G/S/vP 6/.000 6/.334 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/.000 3/1.667 118/93 .222/.271/.361/.632 .646/.627 .656 90/.608 0/1 2/2
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 12/.472 6/1.167 3/.333 7/1.429 3/.000 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 125/95 .286/.312/.496/.808 .683/.847 .871 97/.804 0/0 4/2
20.Davis G/S/vP 5/.800 11/.489 2/1.000 14/.517 4/.000 1/.000 13/1.083 1/.000 74/41 .270/.370/.413/.783 .946/.644 .873 63/.801 8/1 1/0
12.Gose* G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 2/1.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/3.000 80/69 .329/.363/.474/.836 .573/.877 .957 60/.690 6/2 1/2
50.Holaday G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· / /// / / / /
1.Iglesias G/S/vP 2/.000 4/1.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 92/62 .349/.400/.482/.882 1.167/.743 .842 71/.810 5/1 1/2
3.Kinsler G/S/vP 10/.100 7/.143 15/.267 16/.125 1/4.000 3/1.667 6/1.167 4/1.000 137/99 .306/.380/.380/.760 .492/.866 .783 107/.679 3/0 0/1
28.Martinez G/S/vP 5/.600 7/.929 4/.500 2/.000 3/.333 1/.000 3/.667 3/.000 125/91 .219/.288/.430/.718 .634/.745 .826 97/.649 1/1 6/1
41.Martinez# G/S/vP 11/.282 23/.590 17/.745 19/.721 8/.625 3/.000 6/1.000 4/.500 112/81 .245/.339/.309/.648 1.170/.448 .631 85/.621 0/0 1/
34.McCann G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 50/29 .313/.327/.438/.764 .929/.655 .640 41/.800 0/0 1/0
26.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 18/10 .111/.111/.111/.222 .250/.200 .250 17/.235 1/0 0/0
27.Romine# G/S/vP 4/1.250 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 24/21 .381/.458/.381/.839 1.167/.797 .400 19/.737 3/3 0/0
IP 17.0 13.0 10.1 1.2 6.0 15.2 13.0 10.2 TOTAL .276/.344/.417/.761 .773/.756 .770 .700 28/10 25/13
ERA-K/9 1.06/8.5 0.00/9.0 0.87/7.9 0.00/10.6 0.00/4.5 1.72/9.7 4.15/5.5 0.00/6.7 3.35/6.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (7-4-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 60/.073 46/.114 42/.250 5/.000 20/.053 55/.137 51/.229 41/.220 .226  Martinez
 Cespedes
 Gose
 Davis
 Romine
0/0/30/4
30/0/0/1
0/20/0/0
2/15/2/0
2/0/0/0
OPS .277 .289 .694 .000 .153 .476 .609 .463 .638
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 24/.258 26/.195 16/.750 2/.000 10/.100 28/.439 21/1.000 25/.440 .641
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 36/.290 20/.411 26/.635 3/.000 10/.200 27/.514 30/.315 16/.500 .636
Road 29/.466 18/.229 22/.483 2/.000 7/.286 31/.479 24/.485 5/1.000
Last 28d days 53/.276 32/.318 31/.795 5/.000 11/.282 51/.449 51/.609 41/.463
HR/SB/CS 1/0/0 0/1/0 1/1/0 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 22/8/10
Usage ···X···· ·Xo·X··· ·X·X···· o·o····· o·o····· ·oX·X··· ··XX···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  5.45

MIA  4.32

PHI  2.81

 RA/G

STL  3.03

CIN  4.27

COL  5.59

 BA

D. Gordon  .437

D. Fowler  .268

C. Utley  .109

 OBP

M. Holliday  .472

N. Arenado  .330

C. Utley  .183

 SLG

N. Cruz  .754

B. McCann  .413

C. Utley  .207

 OPS

A. Gonzalez  1.166

P. Alvarez  .753

C. Utley  .389

 ERA

D. Keuchel  1.39

E. Butler  3.73

K. Kendrick  8.73

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.86

J. Hellickson  6.97

K. Gibson  2.73

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.