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Kansas City Royals vs. Tampa Bay Rays, at Kauffman Stadium, July 6, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Monday, July 6, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
84° (based on last ten years)
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
85
On This Date:
10-4
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
83
On This Date:
18-25
Season Series

Mon, Jul 06, 2015 TBR    @KCR  8:10pm
Tue, Jul 07, 2015 TBR    @KCR  8:10pm
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 TBR    @KCR  8:10pm
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 TBR    @KCR  2:10pm
Fri, Aug 28, 2015 KCR    @TBR  7:10pm
Sat, Aug 29, 2015 KCR    @TBR  6:10pm
Sun, Aug 30, 2015 KCR    @TBR  1:10pm

                         All times ET
Tampa Bay Rays
43-41, 3rd, 2 GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-27   Road:   22-14   ExtrInn: 2-6 
 vsRHP:  28-33   vsLHP:  15-8    1-Run:  11-16
 vsEast: 21-20   vsCntrl: 6-7    vsWest: 10-11 IL: 6-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 84 Sun, Jul  5  @NYY  W   8-1       43-41  3rd  2.0 gb
 83 Sat, Jul  4  @NYY  L   2-3       42-41  3rd  3.0 gb
 82 Fri, Jul  3  @NYY  L   5-7 (12)  42-40  3rd  2.0 gb
 81 Thu, Jul  2   CLE  L   4-5 (10)  42-39  3rd  1.0 gb
 80 Wed, Jul  1   CLE  L   1-8       42-38  3rd  1.0 gb
 79 Tue, Jun 30   CLE  L   2-6       42-37  1st    Tied
 78 Mon, Jun 29   CLE  L   1-7       42-36  1st    Tied
 77 Sun, Jun 28   BOS  L   3-5       42-35  1st    Tied
 76 Sat, Jun 27   BOS  W   4-1       42-34  1st  0.5 up
 75 Fri, Jun 26   BOS  L   3-4 (10)  41-34  1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:15-15
Kansas City Royals
46-33, 1st, 4½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   24-15   Road:   22-18   ExtrInn: 4-1 
 vsRHP:  33-19   vsLHP:  13-14   1-Run:  10-7 
 vsEast:  3-6    vsCntrl:21-14   vsWest: 13-9  IL: 9-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 79 Sun, Jul  5   MIN  W   3-2       46-33  1st  4.5 up
 78 Sat, Jul  4   MIN  L   3-5       45-33  1st  3.5 up
 77 Fri, Jul  3   MIN  W   3-2 (10)  45-32  1st  4.5 up
 76 Thu, Jul  2   MIN  L   0-2       44-32  1st  3.5 up
 75 Wed, Jul  1  @HOU  L   5-6       44-31  1st  4.5 up
 74 Tue, Jun 30  @HOU  L   0-4       44-30  1st  4.5 up
 73 Mon, Jun 29  @HOU  L   1-6       44-29  1st  5.5 up
 72 Sun, Jun 28  @OAK  W   5-3       44-28  1st  5.5 up
 71 Sat, Jun 27  @OAK  W   3-2       43-28  1st  4.5 up
 70 Fri, Jun 26  @OAK  W   5-2       42-28  1st  4.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:17-13

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Wed, Jul 09, 2014 KCR  5 @TBR  4        W:Aaron Crow (4-1), L: Kirby Yates (0-1), S: Greg Holland (24)
Tue, Jul 08, 2014 TBR  4  KCR  3        W:Brad Boxberger (2-1), L: Jason Vargas (8-4), S: Jake McGee (6)
Mon, Jul 07, 2014 KCR  6 @TBR  0        W:James Shields (9-4), L: Jake Odorizzi (4-8), S: none
Wed, Apr 09, 2014 KCR  7  TBR  3        W:Jeremy Guthrie (2-0), L: Jake Odorizzi (1-1), S: none
Tue, Apr 08, 2014 TBR  1 @KCR  0        W:Joel Peralta (1-1), L: Greg Holland (0-1), S: Grant Balfour (2)
Mon, Apr 07, 2014 KCR  4  TBR  2        W:Jason Vargas (1-0), L: Matt Moore (0-2), S: Greg Holland (3)
Mon, Aug 26, 2013 KCR 11  TBR  1        W:Jeremy Guthrie (13-10), L: Jeremy Hellickson (10-8), S: none
Sun, Jun 16, 2013 KCR  5 @TBR  3        W:Wade Davis (4-5), L: Roberto Hernandez (4-7), S: Greg Holland (14)
Sat, Jun 15, 2013 TBR  5  KCR  3        W:Alex Torres (2-0), L: Jeremy Guthrie (7-4), S: Fernando Rodney (14)
Fri, Jun 14, 2013 KCR  7 @TBR  2        W:Luis Mendoza (2-3), L: Matt Moore (8-3), S: none
Season Series: 2015 -  0-0; 2014 - KCR won 4-2; 2013 - KCR won 6-1; All-Time - TBR leads 70-62

SP: Alex Colome (26, 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) 69.0 73 36 36 24 44 9 4.70
2014 (2-0) 23.2 19 7 7 10 13 1 2.66
2013 (1-1) 16.0 14 8 4 9 12 2 2.25
Last 7 GS 0-3 39.1 40 21 21 19 22 5 4.81 48
2015-07-01 CLE L 7.0 8 5 5 1 3 0 104 43
2015-06-26 BOS ND 6.0 4 3 3 5 2 0 94 49
2015-06-21 @CLE ND 7.0 1 0 0 2 4 0 87 77
2015-06-16 WSN L 2.0 7 6 6 3 2 1 59 17
2015-06-11 LAA ND 5.1 4 1 1 2 4 1 80 58
2015-06-06 @SEA ND 6.0 7 1 1 3 2 0 94 53
2015-06-01 @LAA L 6.0 9 5 5 3 5 3 97 36
Has never faced KCR as starter.

SP: Edinson Volquez (31, RHP, 8-4, 3.48)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (8-4) 95.2 82 41 37 33 73 7 3.48
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 4-1 40.1 43 20 20 13 34 5 4.46 50
2015-07-01 @HOU ND 5.0 8 5 5 1 8 2 91 38
2015-06-26 @OAK W 7.0 3 1 1 1 3 0 107 69
2015-06-20 BOS W 5.1 8 4 4 2 0 1 88 34
2015-06-15 @MIL W 5.0 6 2 2 2 2 0 78 47
2015-06-10 @MIN W 7.0 6 1 1 3 6 0 115 64
2015-06-05 TEX L 5.1 6 4 4 3 6 1 100 43
2015-05-29 @CHC ND 5.2 6 3 3 1 9 1 109 53
Last 5 v.TBR 2-0 20.1 12 6 6 9 11 1 2.66 60
2014-06-23 @TBR W 8.0 5 1 1 2 1 0 110 67
2013-05-10 @TBR ND 6.0 3 2 2 4 3 0 100 57
2011-06-29 @TBR W 6.1 4 3 3 3 7 1 98 57

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Rays Batters (3.64 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.61 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Volquez
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 27.Finnegan*
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
9.Butler G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 197/137 .299/.345/.451/.796 .842/.774 .844 92/.695 5/2 6/0
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 9/1.194 8/1.482 ··· 8/.393 6/1.133 39/.839 10/.600 ··· 7/.453 307/239 .226/.281/.353/.634 .609/.642 .556 100/.774 3/3 5/2
19.Casali G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 28/24 .280/.321/.520/.841 .250/.924 1.409 28/.841 0/0 1/0
7.DeJesus* G/S/vP 3/.000 7/1.262 ··· 7/.143 ··· 6/.667 2/.000 1/no AB ··· 218/210 .268/.326/.389/.715 .268/.731 .920 74/.467 3/2 5/1
10.Elmore G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 128/84 .217/.276/.313/.589 .860/.451 .461 72/.458 1/1 2/5
11.Forsythe G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 326/232 .281/.365/.425/.790 .894/.748 .784 102/.721 7/2 8/3
5.Guyer G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 191/87 .264/.360/.368/.728 .713/.746 .651 43/.662 9/2 2/0
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 281/226 .255/.289/.419/.709 .606/.735 .851 99/.730 9/1 4/1
21.Loney* G/S/vP 17/.435 4/.250 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 5/.400 5/.800 11/.728 7/.667 132/104 .279/.318/.369/.687 .670/.692 .718 14/.593 1/2 2/0
3.Longoria G/S/vP 9/.777 3/.333 ··· 13/.885 2/1.000 18/1.319 5/.400 ··· 2/.000 334/258 .277/.353/.418/.771 .893/.736 .677 106/.784 2/1 8/4
44.Rivera G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· 1/no AB 6/1.166 222/150 .169/.205/.280/.486 .450/.503 .413 62/.633 0/0 4/7
24.Sizemore* G/S/vP 5/1.850 ··· ··· 12/1.318 ··· 19/1.188 ··· 1/.000 ··· 129/118 .268/.302/.350/.652 .788/.639 .563 25/.920 1/1 1/1
20.Souza G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 307/232 .210/.301/.417/.718 .866/.673 .836 94/.653 10/5 15/2
IP 95.2 36.0 19.0 23.1 32.2 14.1 23.0 32.2 33.1 TOTAL .241/.305/.377/.682 .732/.665 .702 .675 60/27 72/42
ERA-K/9 3.48/6.9 0.25/10.0 2.37/7.6 1.54/7.0 2.20/9.4 5.02/9.4 2.74/9.4 1.65/8.5 2.70/5.7 3.52/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Casali (8-3-0)
 Rivera (25-17-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 401/.228 135/.138 74/.164 104/.276 129/.184 62/.298 92/.154 124/.161 130/.208 .240  Souza
 Kiermaier
 DeJesus
 Butler
 Sizemore
 Guyer
 Elmore
0/0/74/8
0/76/2/7
41/0/1/2
15/0/2/1
3/0/28/1
37/10/12/0
4/0/0/0
OPS .641 .410 .550 .769 .501 .830 .510 .494 .597 .680
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 215/.590 80/.419 33/.603 51/.914 70/.375 26/.911 47/.589 57/.549 65/.670 .709
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 186/.701 55/.396 41/.507 53/.609 59/.655 36/.775 45/.429 67/.444 65/.523 .653
Home 200/.616 69/.481 41/.482 55/.896 64/.459 27/.778 39/.270 50/.497 64/.626
Last 28d days 126/.748 41/.406 37/.600 26/.699 41/.436 29/.796 38/.631 22/.045 41/.661
HR/SB/CS 7/9/2 0/3/1 2/2/0 1/1/0 2/4/2 2/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/1 1/0/0 63/34/18
Usage ····X··· o·X·X··X ·X····X· ·X····X· ·o·oX··X ···o·oX· o·oX···· o·o·oo·· ·X·Xo··o
Royals Batters (4.19 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (3.62 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 54.Geltz
G/S/vB		 47.Gomes
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 57.McGee*
G/S/vB		 50.Teaford*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 49/39 .191/.191/.213/.404 .444/.395 .273 11/.545 0/1 0/1
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 4/.000 2/2.000 ··· 305/201 .305/.364/.462/.826 .971/.752 .829 91/1.029 16/3 6/4
43.Coleman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 /.000 .000 2/.000 0/0 0/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 103/81 .266/.303/.404/.707 .770/.690 .579 26/.925 9/1 0/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.667 9/.583 3/2.000 ··· 311/220 .276/.314/.357/.670 .600/.699 .668 104/.714 5/2 2/8
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.500 6/.900 7/1.071 ··· 300/195 .262/.380/.431/.811 .748/.847 .698 94/.861 1/4 10/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1.750 4/.000 7/.929 ··· 320/196 .287/.354/.437/.791 .718/.838 .905 86/.591 4/2 8/1
14.Infante G/S/vP 2/.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 272/201 .231/.240/.307/.547 .625/.519 .549 90/.588 1/1 0/5
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/1.000 2/1.000 2/.000 318/194 .279/.340/.455/.795 .735/.835 .782 88/.702 0/0 10/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 4/.500 3/.333 ··· 321/201 .301/.357/.436/.793 .644/.883 .748 99/.691 1/2 7/6
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 3/.000 4/1.500 ··· 284/199 .263/.275/.446/.721 .612/.768 .757 88/.664 1/0 13/1
15.Rios G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 7/.286 3/.000 7/1.715 144/102 .219/.243/.263/.506 .482/.516 .639 90/.443 4/0 1/1
IP 69.0 32.2 24.1 38.1 27.2 34.1 17.1 4.1 TOTAL .268/.318/.399/.718 .694/.729 .723 .693 46/17 58/41
ERA-K/9 4.70/5.7 2.48/12.4 2.96/7.4 3.76/10.1 2.60/6.8 3.41/7.9 1.56/14.0 2.08/8.4 3.40/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (8-4-0)
 Perez (32-17-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 294/.277 139/.217 108/.271 151/.180 114/.250 150/.246 63/.161 19/.267 .232  Gordon
 Cain
 Rios
 Dyson
 Hosmer
75/0/0/3
0/69/0/3
0/0/37/2
4/13/16/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .763 .662 .748 .569 .705 .694 .400 .821 .663
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 170/.769 72/.625 57/.545 79/.584 56/.668 80/.804 22/.500 12/1.100 .671
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 124/.754 67/.700 51/.990 72/.551 58/.735 70/.571 41/.346 7/.286 .655
Road 114/.729 63/.679 57/.670 67/.586 50/.655 73/.867 30/.300 19/.821
Last 28d days 114/.682 53/.768 41/.720 56/.563 31/.887 44/.945 33/.369 6/.167
HR/SB/CS 9/3/5 4/2/3 3/1/0 4/3/2 4/3/0 4/3/2 1/0/0 0/0/0 84/47/26
Usage ····X··· ·ooo···· X·oo·ooX ··XX·X·· ·oo···o· ··Xo···· ··oo···· 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  5.48

LAA  4.10

PHI  3.39

 RA/G

STL  2.83

MIN  4.10

COL  5.11

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

A. Pagan  .268

S. Drew  .178

 OBP

B. Harper  .474

J. Heyward  .331

O. Infante  .240

 SLG

B. Harper  .722

B. Holt  .424

M. Bourn  .283

 OPS

B. Harper  1.196

T. Hunter  .758

A. Ramirez  .539

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.48

C. Heston  3.78

K. Lohse  6.24

 K/9IP

C. Sale  12.28

C. Heston  7.37

M. Pelfrey  4.44

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.