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Kansas City Royals vs. Milwaukee Brewers, at Kauffman Stadium, June 18, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #4 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
85° (based on last ten years)
Brewers
Manager:
Craig Counsell
Game #:
68
On This Date:
27-16
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
66
On This Date:
23-23
Season Series
Mon, Jun 15, 2015 KCR  8 @MIL  5     
Tue, Jun 16, 2015 KCR  7 @MIL  2     
Wed, Jun 17, 2015 KCR 10  MIL  2     

Thu, Jun 18, 2015 MIL    @KCR  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Milwaukee Brewers
24-43, 5th, 20 GB, 15 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   11-24   Road:   13-19   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  18-37   vsLHP:   6-6    1-Run:   7-7 
 vsEast:  4-7    vsCntrl:12-19   vsWest:  3-10 IL: 5-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 67 Wed, Jun 17  @KCR  L   2-10      24-43  5th 20.0 gb
 66 Tue, Jun 16   KCR  L   2-7       24-42  5th 20.0 gb
 65 Mon, Jun 15   KCR  L   5-8       24-41  5th 19.0 gb
 64 Sun, Jun 14   WSN  L   0-4       24-40  5th 18.0 gb
 63 Sat, Jun 13   WSN  L   2-7       24-39  5th 17.5 gb
 62 Fri, Jun 12   WSN  W   8-4       24-38  5th 16.5 gb
 61 Thu, Jun 11   WSN  W   6-5       23-38  5th 16.5 gb
 60 Wed, Jun 10  @PIT  L   0-2       22-38  5th 17.0 gb
 59 Tue, Jun  9  @PIT  W   4-1       22-37  5th 16.0 gb
 58 Mon, Jun  8  @PIT  W   2-0       21-37  5th 17.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:11-19
Kansas City Royals
37-25, 1st, 3½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   20-11   Road:   17-14   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  27-15   vsLHP:  10-10   1-Run:   6-6 
 vsEast:  2-4    vsCntrl:19-12   vsWest:  8-5  IL: 8-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 62 Wed, Jun 17   MIL  W  10-2       37-25  1st  3.5 up
 61 Tue, Jun 16  @MIL  W   7-2       36-25  1st  3.5 up
 60 Mon, Jun 15  @MIL  W   8-5       35-25  1st  2.5 up
 59 Sat, Jun 13  @STL  L   2-3       34-25  1st  2.0 up
 58 Fri, Jun 12  @STL  L   0-4       34-24  1st  2.0 up
 57 Wed, Jun 10  @MIN  W   7-2       34-23  1st  2.0 up
 56 Tue, Jun  9  @MIN  W   2-0       33-23  1st  1.0 up
 55 Mon, Jun  8  @MIN  W   3-1       32-23  1st    Tied
 54 Sun, Jun  7   TEX  W   4-3       31-23  2nd  1.0 gb
 53 Sat, Jun  6   TEX  L   2-4       30-23  2nd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jun 17, 2015 KCR 10  MIL  2        W:Joe Blanton (1-0), L: Mike Fiers (3-7), S: none
Tue, Jun 16, 2015 KCR  7 @MIL  2        W:Chris Young (6-2), L: Matt Garza (4-8), S: none
Mon, Jun 15, 2015 KCR  8 @MIL  5        W:Edinson Volquez (6-4), L: Kyle Lohse (3-8), S: Wade Davis (8)

Thu, Jun 14, 2012 KCR  4  MIL  3        W:Tim Collins (4-0), L: John Axford (1-3), S: none
Wed, Jun 13, 2012 KCR  4  MIL  3 (11)   W:Tim Collins (3-0), L: Kameron Loe (2-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 12, 2012 KCR  2  MIL  1        W:Greg Holland (2-2), L: Francisco Rodriguez (0-4), S: Jonathan Broxton (15)
Sun, Jun 24, 2007 KCR  4 @MIL  3 (11)   W:David Riske (1-2), L: Jose Capellan (0-2), S: Jimmy Gobble (1)
Sat, Jun 23, 2007 MIL  7  KCR  1        W:Dave Bush (5-6), L: Brian Bannister (4-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 22, 2007 MIL 11  KCR  6        W:Jeff Suppan (8-7), L: Jorge De La Rosa (4-9), S: none
Sun, Jun 25, 2006 KCR  6  MIL  0        W:Mark Redman (5-4), L: Rick Helling (0-2), S: Jimmy Gobble (1)
Season Series: 2015 - KCR over 3-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - KCR leads 212-172

SP: Jimmy Nelson (26, RHP, 3-7, 4.60)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-7) 78.1 71 43 40 30 70 10 4.60
2014 (2-9) 69.1 82 42 38 19 57 6 4.93
2013 (0-0) 10.0 2 1 1 5 8 0 0.90
Last 7 GS 2-4 42.1 44 25 24 18 35 6 5.10 48
2015-06-13 WSN L 5.0 10 7 7 2 3 2 89 20
2015-06-08 @PIT W 6.0 4 0 0 3 7 0 97 68
2015-06-03 @STL L 5.0 7 7 6 2 5 0 84 30
2015-05-29 ARI ND 6.0 7 4 4 0 8 2 103 50
2015-05-24 @ATL L 5.2 5 2 2 5 4 0 108 50
2015-05-19 @DET W 8.0 3 1 1 4 5 0 108 73
2015-05-13 CHW L 6.2 8 4 4 2 3 2 105 43
Has never faced KCR as starter.

SP: Jeremy Guthrie (36, RHP, 4-4, 5.79)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. MIL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-4) 65.1 79 42 42 20 29 11 5.79
2014 (13-11) 202.2 215 100 93 49 124 23 4.13
2013 (15-12) 211.2 236 99 95 59 111 30 4.04
Last 7 GS 3-2 36.1 43 21 21 10 18 6 5.20 45
2015-06-13 @STL L 5.0 10 3 3 1 4 1 102 38
2015-06-07 TEX ND 6.1 3 2 2 2 5 0 94 62
2015-06-02 CLE ND 5.2 2 1 1 1 1 1 105 61
2015-05-25 @NYY L 1.0 9 11 11 3 1 4 60 -11
2015-05-20 CIN W 6.0 5 0 0 2 3 0 94 63
2015-05-14 @TEX W 5.0 6 2 2 0 1 0 94 48
2015-05-09 @DET W 7.1 8 2 2 1 3 0 98 56
Last 5 v.MIL 1-0 7.0 3 1 1 3 2 0 1.29 66
2012-04-22 @MIL W 7.0 3 1 1 3 2 0 101 66

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

Brewers Batters (3.63 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.47 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 11.Guthrie
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
8.Braun G/S/vP 3/.667 17/.745 1/.000 3/2.667 3/.666 3/1.666 2/.000 7/.286 2/.000 252/203 .253/.323/.471/.794 .646/.828 .913 94/.747 6/1 13/1
2.Gennett* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 95/80 .211/.253/.333/.586 .205/.657 .501 26/1.065 0/1 2/3
27.Gomez G/S/vP ··· 10/.700 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 8/1.339 1/no AB 2/.000 1/3.000 192/153 .275/.313/.440/.752 .622/.783 .849 91/.695 6/4 5/3
5.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 115/77 .204/.239/.370/.609 .688/.569 .416 37/.537 0/0 1/4
24.Lind* G/S/vP 50/.932 8/.875 24/.742 2/.000 4/.250 16/.376 3/.333 3/.333 3/.000 241/211 .278/.349/.468/.816 .588/.850 .647 84/.673 0/0 9/3
20.Lucroy G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.800 ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 5/.000 2/1.000 117/101 .220/.265/.294/.559 .196/.613 .602 66/.678 0/0 1/2
12.Maldonado G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· 142/102 .180/.248/.266/.514 .574/.492 .362 40/.787 0/1 3/6
28.Parra* G/S/vP 3/2.000 7/.000 3/1.666 ··· 2/1.000 6/1.333 2/no AB 3/1.334 9/.778 205/176 .276/.312/.432/.744 .803/.735 .723 95/.640 2/0 4/2
14.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 54/36 .098/.132/.098/.230 .118/.284 .133 31/.274 1/1 0/0
35.Peterson* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/4.000 36/31 .273/.333/.364/.697 2.300/.465 .944 36/.697 0/1 0/0
16.Ramirez G/S/vP 8/.625 11/.637 1/.000 5/2.000 1/.000 7/.714 2/.000 7/.714 6/.500 202/168 .209/.248/.382/.630 .510/.653 .634 84/.509 0/0 7/4
15.Rogers G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 81/39 .263/.309/.382/.690 .628/.756 .872 44/.716 0/0 2/2
9.Segura G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 210/168 .275/.306/.380/.686 .955/.619 .631 75/.699 8/1 3/10
IP 65.1 20.0 28.0 20.1 24.0 10.0 15.1 28.0 27.2 TOTAL .233/.284/.374/.658 .610/.670 .628 .651 23/12 59/53
ERA-K/9 5.79/4.0 1.80/7.7 0.32/10.0 0.44/6.2 2.25/9.4 7.20/9.9 3.52/7.6 1.93/9.0 2.93/5.2 3.36/6.8

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Lucroy (11-6-1)
 Maldonado (20-11-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 288/.303 81/.250 103/.128 88/.260 97/.198 46/.349 63/.173 109/.184 107/.202 .235  Parra
 Braun
 Peterson
 Gomez
 Gomez
24/22/10/3
0/0/59/2
8/0/1/2
0/43/0/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .858 .670 .374 .710 .546 .974 .576 .554 .579 .664
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 162/1.005 46/.733 60/.402 42/.805 53/.395 22/.918 34/.622 52/.578 55/.696 .698
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 126/.674 35/.588 43/.336 46/.606 44/.732 24/1.025 29/.519 57/.528 52/.450 .632
Home 145/.751 60/.651 52/.479 44/.824 52/.484 22/.773 19/.053 45/.554 54/.624
Last 28d days 84/.999 64/.599 35/.490 35/.668 36/.601 28/1.088 25/.836 38/.675 44/.512
HR/SB/CS 11/2/4 1/0/0 0/2/1 1/1/0 2/3/1 2/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/1 1/0/0 48/26/14
Usage ····X··· X····X·· ··o·o··· X·o····o ·X··o··· ·X···X·X ··X····· o·o··o·· o·X·XX··
Royals Batters (4.45 RS/G) vs. Brewers Pitchers (4.82 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 52.Nelson
G/S/vB		 54.Blazek
G/S/vB		 51.Broxton
G/S/vB		 48.Cotts*
G/S/vB		 21.Jeffress
G/S/vB		 46.Knebel
G/S/vB		 57.Rodriguez
G/S/vB		 13.Smith*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 38/34 .167/.167/.194/.361 .667/.333 .143 8/.000 0/1 0/1
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/no AB 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 244/165 .291/.344/.444/.788 .953/.710 .785 85/.773 11/2 6/4
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 77/48 .261/.329/.304/.633 .871/.488 .644 12/.533 2/1 0/3
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 ··· ··· 79/64 .260/.289/.384/.673 .845/.635 .667 14/1.429 6/1 0/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 2/2.000 5/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 240/177 .261/.292/.351/.644 .505/.693 .592 97/.538 4/2 2/5
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 5/1.350 1/.000 1/.000 4/1.250 1/.000 235/158 .267/.379/.451/.830 .854/.817 .658 83/.863 0/3 8/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 5/1.000 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 262/167 .293/.364/.457/.821 .703/.887 .920 84/.574 3/2 7/1
14.Infante G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 5/1.200 6/.900 ··· 1/2.000 15/.077 1/.000 209/159 .227/.234/.310/.545 .587/.531 .539 75/.363 0/0 0/3
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/1.400 9/.347 1/.000 ··· 1/5.000 8/.000 249/158 .282/.341/.454/.795 .694/.855 .806 74/.757 0/0 7/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 253/166 .323/.378/.463/.841 .764/.881 .761 87/.732 1/2 6/5
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 226/163 .285/.296/.466/.763 .794/.750 .817 77/.786 1/0 10/1
15.Rios G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 3/.666 4/.500 2/.000 2/1.000 5/.200 ··· 82/61 .218/.244/.295/.539 .524/.544 .767 53/.389 2/0 1/1
IP 78.1 35.1 25.0 29.1 31.2 14.0 24.0 23.0 TOTAL .271/.320/.408/.729 .728/.729 .727 .647 32/14 48/33
ERA-K/9 4.60/8.0 1.27/7.6 7.20/10.1 4.30/9.8 3.41/9.7 3.21/9.6 1.13/9.8 1.57/11.7 4.44/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (8-3-0)
 Perez (24-14-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 332/.245 137/.153 110/.307 123/.266 138/.252 59/.245 87/.152 93/.169 .265  Gordon
 Cain
 Dyson
 Rios
 Hosmer
58/0/0/3
0/57/0/3
3/8/15/1
0/0/21/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .719 .420 .873 .769 .694 .756 .446 .499 .758
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 130/.904 59/.353 50/.891 49/.546 50/.829 24/.720 41/.406 40/.668 .770
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 202/.603 78/.471 60/.858 74/.920 88/.621 35/.780 46/.483 53/.374 .748
Road 171/.662 47/.331 57/.980 45/.603 72/.608 25/.414 31/.331 34/.465
Last 28d days 130/.841 54/.264 38/.752 51/.547 53/.773 56/.799 34/.378 39/.425
HR/SB/CS 10/8/3 0/0/1 5/1/0 6/1/0 3/1/0 2/0/1 1/2/0 0/4/1 80/34/17
Usage ····X··· ··X·X·oo X··o·o·· X·X·X··o ·X·X···· ·X·o·X·X ···X··o· o·o·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  5.51

MIN  4.15

PHI  3.04

 RA/G

STL  2.86

DET  4.14

COL  5.02

 BA

P. Goldschmidt  .363

A. Pagan  .269

S. Drew  .172

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .481

K. Calhoun  .326

O. Infante  .234

 SLG

B. Harper  .726

C. Blackmon  .416

M. Cabrera  .285

 OPS

B. Harper  1.204

D. Murphy  .749

O. Infante  .545

 ERA

S. Gray  1.60

N. Karns  3.67

K. Lohse  6.44

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.81

M. Gonzalez  7.27

M. Buehrle  4.22

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.