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Kansas City Royals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, at Kauffman Stadium, July 21, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
90° (based on last ten years)
Pirates
Manager:
Clint Hurdle
Game #:
93
On This Date:
62-63
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
96
On This Date:
20-21
Season Series
Mon, Jul 20, 2015 PIT 10 @KCR  7     

Tue, Jul 21, 2015 PIT    @KCR  8:10pm
Wed, Jul 22, 2015 PIT    @KCR  8:10pm

                         All times ET
Pittsburgh Pirates
54-38, 2nd, 4 GB, 5½ up in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-16   Road:   22-22   ExtrInn: 6-7 
 vsRHP:  44-32   vsLHP:  10-6    1-Run:  20-13
 vsEast: 15-7    vsCntrl:17-24   vsWest: 11-2  IL:11-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 92 Mon, Jul 20  @KCR  W  10-7       54-38  2nd  4.0 gb
 91 Sun, Jul 19  @MIL  L   1-6       53-38  2nd  4.5 gb
 90 Sat, Jul 18  @MIL  L   5-8       53-37  2nd  4.5 gb
 89 Fri, Jul 17  @MIL  L   1-4       53-36  2nd  3.5 gb
 88 Sun, Jul 12   STL  W   6-5 (10)  53-35  2nd  2.5 gb
 87 Sat, Jul 11   STL  W   6-5 (14)  52-35  2nd  3.5 gb
 86 Fri, Jul 10   STL  W   5-2       51-35  2nd  4.5 gb
 85 Thu, Jul  9   STL  L   1-4       50-35  2nd  5.5 gb
 84 Wed, Jul  8   SDP  W   5-2       50-34  2nd  4.5 gb
 83 Tue, Jul  7   SDP  W   3-2       49-34  2nd  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:19-11
Kansas City Royals
55-36, 1st, 5½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   30-17   Road:   25-19   ExtrInn: 5-1 
 vsRHP:  38-20   vsLHP:  17-16   1-Run:  12-7 
 vsEast:  9-7    vsCntrl:24-15   vsWest: 13-9  IL: 9-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 91 Mon, Jul 20   PIT  L   7-10      55-36  1st  5.5 up
 90 Sun, Jul 19  @CHW  W   4-1       55-35  1st  6.0 up
 89 Sat, Jul 18  @CHW  W   7-6 (13)  54-35  1st  5.0 up
 88 Fri, Jul 17  @CHW  L   0-2       53-35  1st  4.0 up
 87 Fri, Jul 17  @CHW  W   4-2       53-34  1st  4.0 up
 86 Sun, Jul 12   TOR  W  11-10      52-34  1st  4.5 up
 85 Sat, Jul 11   TOR  L   2-6       51-34  1st  4.5 up
 84 Fri, Jul 10   TOR  W   3-0       51-33  1st  5.5 up
 83 Thu, Jul  9   TBR  W   8-3       50-33  1st  5.5 up
 82 Wed, Jul  8   TBR  W   9-7       49-33  1st  4.5 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Jul 20, 2015 PIT 10 @KCR  7        W:A.J. Burnett (8-3), L: Yordano Ventura (4-7), S: Mark Melancon (30)

Sun, Jun 10, 2012 PIT  3  KCR  2        W:A.J. Burnett (6-2), L: Bruce Chen (5-6), S: Jason Grilli (1)
Sat, Jun 09, 2012 PIT  5  KCR  3        W:Jared Hughes (2-0), L: Vin Mazzaro (2-1), S: Joel Hanrahan (17)
Fri, Jun 08, 2012 PIT  4  KCR  2        W:Erik Bedard (4-6), L: Luke Hochevar (3-7), S: Joel Hanrahan (16)
Sun, Jun 28, 2009 KCR  3 @PIT  2        W:Zack Greinke (10-3), L: Charlie Morton (0-1), S: Joakim Soria (9)
Sat, Jun 27, 2009 PIT  6  KCR  2        W:Paul Maholm (5-4), L: Bruce Chen (0-1), S: none
Fri, Jun 26, 2009 PIT  5  KCR  3        W:Virgil Vasquez (1-0), L: Gil Meche (4-7), S: Matt Capps (17)
Thu, Jun 22, 2006 KCR 15  PIT  7        W:Scott Elarton (3-8), L: Paul Maholm (2-6), S: none
Wed, Jun 21, 2006 KCR  6  PIT  4        W:Elmer Dessens (4-6), L: Salomon Torres (2-4), S: Ambiorix Burgos (11)
Tue, Jun 20, 2006 KCR 10  PIT  6        W:Mark Redman (4-4), L: Kip Wells (0-1), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - PIT over 1-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 -  0-0; All-Time - PIT leads 14-13

SP: Gerrit Cole (24, RHP, 13-3, 2.30)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (13-3) 117.1 103 36 30 28 116 7 2.30
2014 (11-5) 138.0 127 58 56 40 138 11 3.65
2013 (10-7) 117.1 109 43 42 28 100 7 3.22
Last 7 GS 5-1 46.1 42 16 15 12 37 3 2.91 57
2015-07-10 STL W 7.0 6 2 2 2 3 1 114 58
2015-07-05 CLE W 8.0 5 3 3 1 5 0 106 64
2015-06-30 @DET ND 6.2 9 2 2 0 6 0 107 54
2015-06-24 CIN L 4.2 8 5 5 3 5 1 106 30
2015-06-18 @CHW W 7.0 3 2 2 3 4 1 106 64
2015-06-13 PHI W 6.0 5 2 1 0 7 0 93 63
2015-06-07 @ATL W 7.0 6 0 0 3 7 0 116 69
Has never faced KCR as starter.

SP: Jason Vargas (32, LHP, 5-2, 4.10)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. PIT Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (5-2) 41.2 45 20 19 11 25 5 4.10
2014 (11-10) 187.0 197 82 77 41 128 19 3.71
2013 (9-8) 150.0 162 68 67 46 109 17 4.02
Last 7 GS 4-2 35.2 40 18 17 10 22 4 4.29 48
2015-06-08 @MIN W 6.0 5 0 0 0 2 0 70 64
2015-06-03 CLE W 6.0 8 2 2 0 3 0 86 51
2015-05-26 @NYY L 4.0 4 2 2 1 6 1 76 51
2015-05-05 CLE W 6.0 2 2 2 2 5 1 82 63
2015-04-27 @CLE W 5.0 3 2 2 5 1 1 102 49
2015-04-21 MIN ND 5.2 8 5 5 1 4 0 84 36
2015-04-16 @MIN L 3.0 10 5 4 1 1 1 63 21
Has never faced PIT as starter.

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

Pirates Batters (4.05 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.71 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS
G/S/vB		 49.Blanton
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		 47.Morales*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
24.Alvarez* G/S/vP ··· 12/2.000 ··· 1/.000 4/1.750 ··· ··· 9/.583 3/.333 300/271 .233/.300/.419/.719 .421/.752 .742 72/.632 1/0 12/15
29.Cervelli G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 5/1.500 ··· 3/1.667 1/.000 ··· 3/1.666 ··· 280/231 .285/.357/.386/.743 1.042/.680 .733 69/.597 1/1 4/3
14.Decker* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .333/.500/1.000/1.500 .000/2.167 1.500 4/1.500 0/0 0/1
30.Ishikawa* G/S/vP ··· 4/1.500 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 6/1.667 2/.000 27/26 .174/.296/.435/.731 .000/.762 .917 27/.731 0/0 1/1
27.Kang G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 269/213 .278/.361/.405/.766 .861/.742 .702 82/.813 5/2 5/7
6.Marte G/S/vP ··· 7/.715 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/1.071 ··· 357/292 .280/.330/.451/.781 .934/.746 .723 70/.802 18/7 13/1
22.McCutchen G/S/vP ··· 17/.507 ··· 1/no AB 4/.000 ··· 2/1.000 12/1.060 3/.667 386/320 .294/.394/.495/.889 .859/.896 .795 95/.973 5/2 12/0
53.Morel G/S/vP 6/.000 ··· 3/1.667 ··· 8/.250 4/.833 ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
25.Polanco* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/.000 354/301 .244/.319/.348/.667 .372/.720 .709 96/.687 17/7 3/4
3.Rodriguez G/S/vP 23/.407 ··· ··· 1/.000 8/.250 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 6/.533 148/87 .201/.229/.309/.539 .602/.494 .504 54/.277 2/0 3/0
19.Stewart G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 1/3.000 7/.629 105/90 .302/.340/.375/.715 .619/.731 .775 34/.781 0/0 0/5
18.Walker# G/S/vP ··· 9/1.111 ··· 1/.000 4/2.500 ··· ··· 11/1.212 3/.000 358/302 .275/.335/.413/.748 .630/.770 .847 103/.899 3/0 7/4
IP 41.2 35.0 41.0 39.0 21.2 28.2 37.2 3.1 37.1 TOTAL .255/.317/.381/.697 .690/.699 .695 .714 65/25 69/67
ERA-K/9 4.10/5.4 4.37/8.5 0.44/10.5 2.08/8.5 3.32/10.0 3.14/10.0 1.91/7.9 10.80/10.9 2.41/5.3 3.54/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cervelli (57-21-6)
 Stewart (23-9-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 177/.273 148/.275 156/.154 153/.190 89/.247 118/.180 147/.193 14/.286 147/.215 .244  Marte
 McCutchen
 Polanco
 Decker
 Rodriguez
 Ishikawa
78/13/0/6
0/85/0/4
8/2/80/3
1/0/0/0
10/0/10/0
3/0/0/0
OPS .740 .792 .448 .532 .711 .573 .549 .857 .600 .692
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 51/.812 80/.838 91/.426 81/.362 37/.839 58/.720 68/.563 7/1.429 69/.650 .718
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 126/.711 68/.738 65/.478 72/.726 52/.622 60/.434 79/.535 7/.286 78/.556 .669
Home 71/.678 87/.855 83/.560 80/.468 48/.690 55/.408 65/.569 14/.857 73/.631
Last 28d days / 47/1.185 40/.653 46/.581 34/.338 43/.678 37/.549 14/.857 39/.676
HR/SB/CS 5/0/1 5/0/0 0/3/1 3/4/2 2/1/0 1/0/1 3/1/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 75/42/24
Usage ·o······ ··Xo···· ··oo···· X·Xo···· ··Xo···· ··oX···· X······· ··XX····
Royals Batters (4.42 RS/G) vs. Pirates Pitchers (3.45 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 45.Cole
G/S/vB		 59.Bastardo*
G/S/vB		 37.Caminero
G/S/vB		 64.Guerra
G/S/vB		 48.Hughes
G/S/vB		 35.Melancon
G/S/vB		 44.Watson*
G/S/vB		 46.Worley
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 60/44 .193/.207/.211/.417 .481/.395 .315 17/.544 0/1 0/2
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 346/224 .319/.376/.508/.884 1.044/.798 .887 80/1.211 18/3 10/6
43.Coleman G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 4/.000 0/0 0/0
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 130/103 .259/.317/.397/.714 .612/.739 .675 46/.825 14/1 1/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 369/255 .296/.338/.373/.711 .708/.712 .734 103/.775 7/4 2/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 1/no AB 1/.000 ··· 374/222 .298/.357/.440/.796 .704/.860 .904 87/.754 4/2 8/2
14.Infante G/S/vP ··· 7/.619 ··· ··· 3/.666 2/.500 3/.000 11/.664 324/233 .233/.248/.307/.554 .664/.511 .579 93/.589 1/2 0/8
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 372/221 .280/.339/.454/.793 .734/.835 .794 99/.758 0/0 12/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 355/217 .301/.361/.446/.807 .662/.898 .763 81/.668 1/2 9/8
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 146/87 .248/.285/.438/.723 .747/.706 .771 29/1.013 2/1 4/2
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 324/223 .256/.269/.438/.707 .558/.775 .764 80/.559 1/0 15/1
15.Rios G/S/vP 3/1.167 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 3/.333 189/128 .249/.286/.322/.608 .581/.620 .699 84/.710 7/0 2/3
IP 117.1 28.2 40.2 12.0 41.1 44.0 44.0 68.0 TOTAL .275/.326/.412/.739 .718/.750 .759 .766 58/20 74/55
ERA-K/9 2.30/8.9 4.08/8.2 3.98/10.2 2.25/8.2 2.18/5.9 1.43/6.5 2.05/9.0 3.71/6.0 2.97/7.7

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (12-7-0)
 Perez (36-20-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 472/.239 125/.243 175/.239 47/.295 171/.273 169/.208 172/.200 290/.279 .246  Dyson
 Cain
 Rios
 Orlando
 Hosmer
10/16/16/4
0/78/0/3
0/0/48/3
11/1/30/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .620 .737 .688 .818 .667 .519 .531 .739 .658
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 226/.584 34/.620 66/.708 12/.258 66/.693 79/.369 46/.630 111/.794 .649
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 246/.652 91/.782 109/.676 35/1.006 105/.651 90/.645 126/.495 179/.704 .663
Road 242/.600 57/.716 86/.574 22/.909 81/.818 75/.463 81/.703 170/.782
Last 28d days 109/.740 43/.798 43/1.151 47/.818 48/.569 37/.452 34/.617 62/.726
HR/SB/CS 7/15/6 4/7/0 4/6/0 2/1/0 1/3/3 2/0/2 3/1/0 5/3/2 62/82/31
Usage ········ o·X····· ·o·X···· ··X····· oo·X···· X······· X······· ··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  5.30

BOS  4.09

CHW  3.37

 RA/G

STL  2.95

MIN  4.10

PHI  5.07

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

P. Sandoval  .266

M. Zunino  .163

 OBP

B. Harper  .465

D. Espinosa  .328

M. Zunino  .226

 SLG

B. Harper  .697

M. Trumbo  .419

B. Hamilton  .279

 OPS

B. Harper  1.162

H. Kendrick  .756

M. Zunino  .519

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.30

D. Salazar  3.74

K. Lohse  6.17

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.95

A. Burnett  7.33

M. Pelfrey  4.45

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.