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Houston Astros vs. Kansas City Royals, at Minute Maid Park, October 11, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Start Time:
3:00ct (local), 4:00et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #3 of a 5-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Season Series
Mon, Jun 29, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  1     
Tue, Jun 30, 2015 HOU  4  KCR  0     
Wed, Jul 01, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  5     
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 HOU  4 @KCR  0     
Sat, Jul 25, 2015 KCR  2  HOU  1 (10)
Sun, Jul 26, 2015 KCR  5  HOU  1     

Sun, Oct 11, 2015 KCR    @HOU  4:00pm
Mon, Oct 12, 2015 KCR    @HOU  1:00pm
Wed, Oct 14, 2015 HOU    @KCR  8:00pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
95-67,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   52-31   Road:   44-37   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  64-41   vsLHP:  32-27   1-Run:  24-17
 vsEast: 18-16   vsCntrl:44-32   vsWest: 21-13 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  2 Fri, Oct  9   HOU  W   5-4         -               
  1 Thu, Oct  8   HOU  L   2-5         -               
162 Sun, Oct  4  @MIN  W   6-1       95-67  1st 12.0 up
161 Sat, Oct  3  @MIN  W   5-1       94-67  1st 11.0 up
160 Fri, Oct  2  @MIN  W   3-1       93-67  1st 10.0 up
159 Thu, Oct  1  @CHW  W   6-4       92-67  1st  9.0 up
158 Wed, Sep 30  @CHW  W   5-3 (10)  91-67  1st  9.0 up
157 Tue, Sep 29  @CHW  L   2-4       90-67  1st  8.5 up
156 Mon, Sep 28  @CHC  L   0-1 (11)  90-66  1st  9.0 up
155 Sun, Sep 27   CLE  W   3-0       90-65  1st 10.0 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16
Houston Astros
86-76,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   53-28   Road:   35-49   ExtrInn: 8-6 
 vsRHP:  58-46   vsLHP:  30-31   1-Run:  21-30
 vsEast: 19-16   vsCntrl:15-19   vsWest: 38-38 IL:16-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  3 Fri, Oct  9  @KCR  L   4-5         -               
  2 Thu, Oct  8  @KCR  W   5-2         -               
  1 Tue, Oct  6  @NYY  W   3-0         -               
162 Sun, Oct  4  @ARI  L   3-5       86-76  2nd  2.0 gb
161 Sat, Oct  3  @ARI  W   6-2       86-75  2nd  1.0 gb
160 Fri, Oct  2  @ARI  W  21-5       85-75  2nd  2.0 gb
159 Wed, Sep 30  @SEA  W   7-6       84-75  2nd  2.5 gb
158 Tue, Sep 29  @SEA  L   4-6       83-75  3rd  2.5 gb
157 Mon, Sep 28  @SEA  W   3-2       83-74  2nd  1.5 gb
156 Sun, Sep 27   TEX  W   4-2       82-74  2nd  2.5 gb

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Oct 09, 2015 KCR  5  HOU  4        W:Kelvin Herrera , L: Will Harris , S: Wade Davis 
Thu, Oct 08, 2015 HOU  5 @KCR  2        W:Collin McHugh , L: Yordano Ventura , S: Luke Gregerson 
Sun, Jul 26, 2015 KCR  5  HOU  1        W:Yordano Ventura (5-7), L: Dallas Keuchel (12-5), S: none
Sat, Jul 25, 2015 KCR  2  HOU  1 (10)   W:Kelvin Herrera (2-2), L: Will Harris (4-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 HOU  4 @KCR  0        W:Scott Kazmir (6-5), L: Jeremy Guthrie (7-6), S: Luke Gregerson (21)
Wed, Jul 01, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  5        W:Luke Gregerson (3-1), L: Kelvin Herrera (1-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 30, 2015 HOU  4  KCR  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (10-3), L: Danny Duffy (2-4), S: none
Mon, Jun 29, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  1        W:Lance McCullers (4-2), L: Joe Blanton (2-1), S: none

Wed, May 28, 2014 HOU  9 @KCR  3        W:Jarred Cosart (4-4), L: Danny Duffy (2-5), S: none
Tue, May 27, 2014 HOU  3 @KCR  0        W:Collin McHugh (3-3), L: Jeremy Guthrie (2-4), S: none

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2015 - HOU over 5-3; 2014 - Tied 3-3; 2013 - KCR won 4-2; All-Time - HOU leads 27-23

SP: Edinson Volquez (31, RHP, 13-9, 3.55)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (13-9) 200.1 190 89 79 72 155 16 3.55
2014 RegS (13-7) 192.2 166 75 65 71 140 17 3.04
2013 RegS (9-12) 170.1 193 114 108 77 142 19 5.71
Last 7 GS 2-2 39.2 47 21 20 13 33 5 4.54 48
2015-09-30 @CHW ND 6.0 9 1 1 1 5 0 117 54
2015-09-25 CLE L 6.0 4 3 3 2 7 2 101 57
2015-09-19 @DET ND 6.0 7 3 3 4 6 0 112 48
2015-09-14 @CLE L 5.0 7 4 4 3 4 2 100 38
2015-09-08 MIN W 7.0 6 2 2 0 3 0 91 60
2015-09-03 DET ND 3.0 8 6 6 1 3 1 78 21
2015-08-28 @TBR W 6.2 6 2 1 2 5 0 106 59
Last 5 v.HOU 2-0 29.0 24 14 14 15 32 2 4.34 54
2015-07-01 @HOU ND 5.0 8 5 5 1 8 2 91 38
2012-07-19 HOU W 9.0 1 0 0 3 5 0 117 87
2011-05-11 @HOU ND 4.0 3 3 3 5 3 0 88 42
2011-04-06 HOU W 5.0 5 4 4 5 8 0 99 44
2010-09-28 HOU ND 6.0 7 2 2 1 8 0 104 57

SP: Dallas Keuchel (27, LHP, 20-8, 2.48)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (20-8) 232.0 185 68 64 51 216 17 2.48
2014 RegS (12-9) 200.0 187 71 65 48 146 11 2.93
2013 RegS (6-10) 153.2 184 96 88 52 123 20 5.15
Last 7 GS 5-2 45.1 38 19 16 10 50 7 3.18 59
2015-10-06 @NYY W 6.0 3 0 0 1 7 0 87 72
2015-10-02 @ARI W 6.0 6 2 2 2 3 1 99 53
2015-09-27 TEX W 7.0 2 1 1 2 10 0 122 77
2015-09-21 LAA W 7.2 6 1 1 1 6 0 116 68
2015-09-16 @TEX L 4.2 11 9 9 0 5 3 91 11
2015-09-11 @LAA L 6.0 5 3 0 2 7 0 113 61
2015-09-06 MIN W 8.0 5 3 3 2 12 3 113 70
Last 5 v.KCR 2-1 27.1 32 11 11 5 23 3 3.62 53
2015-07-26 @KCR L 6.2 10 5 5 0 5 1 97 39
2015-06-30 KCR W 8.0 7 0 0 0 7 0 106 75
2014-04-16 KCR ND 6.0 6 2 2 1 5 1 97 56
2013-05-20 KCR W 6.2 9 4 4 4 6 1 96 42

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Batter vs. Pitcher Include Regular and Postseason Totals, All Others Just Regular Season

Royals Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.81 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 60.Keuchel*
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 38.Perez*
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 6/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 1/.000 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .607 18/.479 0/1 1/4
6.Cain G/S/vP 13/1.295 4/.000 ··· 3/.666 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .772 86/.706 28/6 16/10
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .685 25/.996 3/2 0/5
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/4.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 5/.000 225/184 .250/.311/.380/.691 .578/.715 .685 26/.481 26/3 2/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 14/.572 3/.000 1/.000 3/2.000 4/1.250 2/.500 3/.666 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .586 91/.561 17/5 3/13
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 10/.543 2/.000 3/.333 1/no AB 6/.334 2/1.500 18/.651 422/276 .271/.377/.432/.809 .817/.805 .823 93/.641 2/5 13/0
Gore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .000/.250/.000/.250 .000/.333 1/ 3/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 6/1.334 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/4.000 7/.858 12/.417 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .757 109/.744 7/3 18/4
25.Morales# G/S/vP 17/.850 1/.000 5/.000 1/.000 3/.333 2/1.000 6/.167 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .846 84/.970 0/0 22/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 3/.333 3/1.167 8/.143 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .809 101/.906 1/2 22/12
16.Orlando G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .594 26/.654 3/3 7/4
13.Perez G/S/vP 12/.166 3/.333 2/.000 2/.500 5/1.200 ··· 1/.000 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .710 87/.762 1/0 21/4
15.Rios G/S/vP 27/.945 6/.334 4/.000 3/.666 6/1.133 2/1.000 6/2.100 411/295 .255/.287/.353/.640 .570/.668 .614 91/.709 9/0 4/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 14/.721 1/.000 1/.000 3/2.000 3/.000 3/.333 8/.393 535/364 .276/.359/.450/.809 .926/.753 .767 111/.719 3/4 13/7
IP 232.0 50.2 61.0 71.0 54.2 41.0 54.1 TOTAL .269/.322/.412/.734 .728/.737 .709 .726 104/34 139/88
ERA-K/9 2.48/8.4 3.55/11.9 3.10/8.7 1.90/8.6 3.62/8.4 4.17/11.2 1.99/10.3 3.57/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (15-9-1)
 Perez (66-29-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 911/.217 209/.210 239/.213 276/.168 223/.240 183/.239 216/.208 .241  Dyson
 Cain
 Orlando
 Gordon
 Rios
 Zobrist
 Gore
 Hosmer
27/37/17/8
0/136/5/6
37/5/45/5
101/0/0/4
0/0/105/4
45/0/5/1
4/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .575 .602 .573 .525 .709 .681 .606 .681
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 190/.461 86/.705 127/.606 127/.455 86/.768 98/.517 108/.599 .656
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 721/.606 123/.530 112/.537 149/.586 137/.673 85/.881 108/.613 .700
Home 496/.474 100/.574 150/.600 130/.496 120/.757 104/.716 93/.526
Last 28d days 129/.683 36/.627 28/.399 46/.783 32/1.091 24/.469 31/.670
HR/SB/CS 17/5/0 2/3/2 5/3/0 8/7/0 8/0/1 4/2/0 5/2/3 148/87/27
Usage ····X··· ·o······ ··o·o··o ·oX·o··o ·o····o· ·oo···o· ·oX·X·X·
Astros Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Volquez
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 41.Duffy*
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 46.Madson
G/S/vB		 45.Morales*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 7/.858 8/.000 10/1.100 7/.286 6/.000 ··· 1/.000 689/479 .313/.353/.459/.812 .973/.743 .905 110/.977 38/13 15/5
23.Carter G/S/vP 3/1.666 5/.200 9/1.111 4/.000 5/.200 3/.000 1/.000 460/270 .199/.307/.427/.734 .736/.733 .854 47/1.252 1/2 24/8
15.Castro* G/S/vP 4/.833 6/1.100 1/.000 2/2.500 3/.666 2/.000 2/.000 375/264 .211/.283/.365/.648 .512/.707 .678 48/.417 0/0 11/1
16.Conger# G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 5/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 229/116 .229/.311/.448/.759 .618/.892 .899 34/.792 0/1 11/4
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.000 2/1.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 432/292 .279/.345/.512/.857 .899/.836 .949 108/.848 14/4 22/13
11.Gattis G/S/vP 8/.250 3/.000 6/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 2/5.000 604/392 .246/.285/.463/.748 .698/.775 .818 85/.899 0/1 27/1
30.Gomez G/S/vP 31/.871 ··· ··· 1/.000 8/1.339 2/.000 1/3.000 477/370 .255/.314/.409/.724 .646/.745 .680 22/1.118 17/9 12/7
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 6/1.133 3/1.167 7/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 370/217 .279/.317/.442/.759 .843/.701 .738 39/.968 4/5 12/8
8.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· 7/.000 3/.666 2/.000 10/1.071 ··· ··· 263/191 .222/.312/.400/.712 .908/.641 .727 72/.408 1/0 9/3
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 2/.000 3/1.167 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 372/217 .236/.281/.383/.665 .669/.662 .604 54/.600 24/9 9/3
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 15/1.143 12/.349 7/.143 6/1.166 10/.550 3/1.666 3/.333 485/345 .238/.314/.475/.789 .835/.770 .770 80/1.047 2/1 25/5
4.Springer G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· 7/2.714 3/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 451/291 .276/.367/.459/.826 .936/.767 .766 113/.874 16/4 16/3
20.Tucker* G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB 5/.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 3/.666 323/255 .243/.297/.437/.734 .466/.807 .779 26/.564 0/2 13/1
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 12/1.117 ··· ··· 1/no AB 9/.222 2/.000 5/.000 493/361 .224/.310/.438/.748 .581/.808 .737 49/1.116 1/0 25/7
IP 200.1 67.1 136.2 69.2 50.2 63.1 62.1 TOTAL .250/.315/.437/.752 .753/.751 .783 .853 121/48 230/85
ERA-K/9 3.55/7.0 0.94/10.4 4.08/6.7 2.71/8.3 3.73/8.7 2.13/8.2 3.18/5.9 3.74/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (42-24-7)
 Conger (42-1-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 850/.251 251/.144 588/.264 286/.206 214/.250 248/.205 258/.246 .249  Rasmus
 Marisnick
 Springer
 Gomez
 Tucker
 Gonzalez
 Conger
 Gattis
72/43/43/9
16/99/13/8
0/10/93/6
0/111/0/5
79/0/14/2
15/0/0/1
1/0/0/0
11/0/0/0
OPS .692 .451 .746 .578 .737 .573 .687 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 436/.694 143/.456 118/.593 139/.470 87/.748 119/.547 107/.558 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 414/.690 108/.444 470/.785 147/.677 127/.730 129/.597 151/.779 .706
Road 449/.716 127/.359 311/.775 151/.651 109/.845 136/.607 139/.694
Last 28d days 139/.742 41/.401 67/.632 48/.884 44/.873 39/.367 36/1.521
HR/SB/CS 16/18/4 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/7/2 7/3/1 5/1/1 4/0/0 155/75/35
Usage ······X· ·o·····o ·······o ·Xo····o ··o···X· ·oX····· ······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  5.50

CHC  4.25

ATL  3.54

 RA/G

STL  3.24

NYY  4.31

COL  5.21

 BA

M. Cabrera  .338

E. Longoria  .270

J. Pederson  .210

 OBP

B. Harper  .460

M. Duffy  .334

W. Ramos  .258

 SLG

B. Harper  .649

E. Longoria  .435

A. Escobar  .320

 OPS

B. Harper  1.109

J. Pederson  .763

C. Owings  .587

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.66

J. Zimmermann  3.66

A. Simon  5.05

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.82

J. Teheran  7.67

M. Buehrle  4.12

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.