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Kansas City Royals vs. Houston Astros, at Kauffman Stadium, October 8, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Start Time:
6:30ct (local), 7:30et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #1 of a 5-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
162
On This Date:
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
162
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     

                         All times ET
Houston Astros
86-76, / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   53-28   Road:   33-48   ExtrInn: 8-6 
 vsRHP:  56-45   vsLHP:  30-31   1-Run:  21-29
 vsEast: 18-16   vsCntrl:14-18   vsWest: 38-38 IL:16-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
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
155 Sat, Sep 26   TEX  W   9-7       81-74  2nd  3.5 gb
154 Fri, Sep 25   TEX  L   2-6       80-74  2nd  4.5 gb
153 Wed, Sep 23   LAA  L   5-6       80-73  2nd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:13-17
Kansas City Royals
95-67, / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   51-30   Road:   44-37   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  64-40   vsLHP:  31-27   1-Run:  23-17
 vsEast: 18-16   vsCntrl:44-32   vsWest: 20-12 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
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
154 Sat, Sep 26   CLE  L   5-9       89-65  1st 10.0 up
153 Fri, Sep 25   CLE  L   0-6       89-64  1st 11.0 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
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
Mon, May 26, 2014 HOU  9 @KCR  2        W:Scott Feldman (3-2), L: Yordano Ventura (2-5), S: none
Thu, Apr 17, 2014 KCR  5 @HOU  1        W:James Shields (1-2), L: Scott Feldman (2-1), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - HOU over 4-2; 2014 - Tied 3-3; 2013 - KCR won 4-2; All-Time - HOU leads 26-22

SP: Collin McHugh (28, RHP, 19-7, 3.89)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (19-7) 203.2 207 89 88 53 171 19 3.89
2014 (11-9) 154.2 117 53 47 41 157 13 2.73
2013 (0-4) 26.0 45 29 29 5 11 6 10.04
Last 7 GS 6-0 44.2 44 18 18 12 43 4 3.63 55
2015-10-03 @ARI W 7.0 6 1 1 1 6 0 91 66
2015-09-26 TEX W 6.2 8 4 4 1 6 1 104 47
2015-09-20 OAK W 8.0 4 1 1 2 8 0 113 76
2015-09-15 @TEX ND 3.2 8 5 5 3 4 0 91 26
2015-09-09 @OAK W 5.1 6 5 5 2 5 2 100 39
2015-09-04 MIN W 7.2 7 0 0 1 6 0 106 70
2015-08-26 @NYY W 6.1 5 2 2 2 8 1 107 61
Last 5 v.KCR 1-0 7.0 5 0 0 0 9 0 0.00 76
2014-05-27 @KCR W 7.0 5 0 0 0 9 0 102 76

SP: Yordano Ventura (24, RHP, 13-8, 4.08)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (13-8) 163.1 154 75 74 58 156 14 4.08
2014 (14-10) 183.0 168 70 65 69 159 14 3.20
2013 (0-1) 15.1 13 6 6 6 11 3 3.52
Last 7 GS 4-1 43.0 41 16 15 16 49 2 3.14 57
2015-10-03 @MIN W 7.0 4 1 1 3 11 0 97 73
2015-09-28 @CHC ND 7.0 2 0 0 1 6 0 94 78
2015-09-23 SEA ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 4 0 103 51
2015-09-17 @CLE W 5.0 8 3 2 2 4 0 95 43
2015-09-12 @BAL W 5.2 8 4 4 3 5 1 96 39
2015-09-07 MIN L 5.1 8 4 4 5 8 1 107 39
2015-09-02 DET W 7.0 5 1 1 1 11 0 108 73
Last 5 v.HOU 2-1 16.2 17 8 7 6 15 1 3.78 52
2015-07-26 HOU W 7.0 6 1 1 0 5 0 97 66
2014-05-26 HOU L 2.2 7 5 5 3 3 0 74 24
2014-04-15 @HOU W 7.0 4 2 1 3 7 1 101 67

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

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2015 season. Player Stats for the 2014 season. We will switch to 2015 stats on May 1st.

Astros Batters (4.50 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ventura
G/S/vB		 54.Alexander*
G/S/vB		 50.Almonte
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 41.Duffy*
G/S/vB		 33.Flynn*
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 9/.476 ··· ··· 1/no AB 7/.000 10/1.100 ··· 5/.400 5/.000 2/2.500 707/546 .341/.377/.453/.830 1.013/.775 .768 110/.977 56/9 7/10
15.Castro* G/S/vP 8/1.125 ··· ··· 1/3.000 6/1.100 1/.000 ··· 2/2.500 3/.666 4/1.000 512/386 .222/.286/.366/.651 .619/.662 .601 48/.417 1/0 14/4
1.Correa G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· / /// / 108/.848 / /
63.Duffy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 9/.944 / /
11.Gattis G/S/vP 3/1.333 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 6/1.000 3/1.000 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 401/328 .263/.317/.493/.810 .970/.773 .764 85/.899 0/0 22/5
30.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 8/1.339 4/.250 644/502 .284/.356/.477/.833 .828/.835 .765 22/1.118 34/12 23/5
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 5/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 3/1.167 7/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 310/269 .277/.327/.400/.727 .776/.719 .740 39/.968 2/4 6/8
6.Marisnick G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 2/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 237/182 .249/.281/.326/.607 .738/.568 .482 54/.600 11/3 3/2
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· ··· 2/2.000 12/.349 7/.143 ··· 5/1.400 10/.550 2/.500 376/277 .225/.287/.448/.735 .684/.752 .815 80/1.047 4/0 18/1
21.Singleton* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 362/273 .168/.285/.335/.620 .805/.559 .624 5/.400 2/3 13/11
4.Springer G/S/vP 2/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 7/2.714 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 345/249 .231/.336/.468/.804 .774/.811 .959 113/.874 5/2 20/7
12.Stassi G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 20/17 .350/.350/.450/.800 1.000/.765 .714 9/1.431 0/0 0/1
20.Tucker* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/5.000 / /// / 26/.564 / /
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 9/.222 6/1.133 547/453 .249/.341/.435/.776 .610/.811 .761 49/1.116 1/2 16/9
IP 183.0 21.0 72.0 149.1 7.0 70.0 44.1 TOTAL .250/.315/.437/.752 .753/.751 .723 .853 121/48 230/85
ERA-K/9 3.20/7.8 /0.0 /0.0 3.86/6.4 1.00/13.6 2.53/6.8 9.00/7.7 1.41/7.6 /0.0 3.25/9.8 3.74/7.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (81-23-11)
 Gattis (53-13-5)
 Stassi (3-2-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 782/.240 / / 90/.247 279/.151 606/.209 35/.375 285/.214 / 182/.222 .249  Gomez
 Marisnick
 Springer
 Rasmus
 Gonzalez
 Sipp
0/145/0/7
2/30/31/6
0/8/71/6
0/87/0/3
4/0/1/0
1/0/1/0
OPS .669 .712 .408 .605 .929 .561 .605 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 454/.650 / / 28/.710 144/.513 139/.386 6/.667 138/.617 / 106/.675 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 328/.695 / / 62/.714 135/.298 467/.670 29/.987 147/.508 / 76/.503 .706
Home 401/.652 / / 37/.618 145/.480 272/.557 14/.819 145/.585 / 98/.672
Last 28d days 132/.607 15/.500 26/.965 / 41/.401 67/.632 / 48/.884 44/.873 47/.483
HR/SB/CS 14/1/1 // // 2/2/0 0/4/1 12/5/3 0/1/0 0/6/2 // 2/0/1 155/75/35
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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2015 season. Player Stats for the 2014 season. We will switch to 2015 stats on May 1st.

Royals Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (3.81 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.McHugh
G/S/vB		 66.Chapman*
G/S/vB		 68.Feliz
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 200.Fister
G/S/vB		 53.Giles
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 192/150 .188/.267/.288/.555 .715/.511 .458 18/.479 0/0 3/1
6.Cain G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 4/.000 12/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 502/359 .301/.339/.412/.751 .827/.720 .767 86/.706 28/5 5/2
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 49/30 .333/.375/.489/.864 .882/.851 .653 25/.996 2/0 0/2
7.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 150/106 .200/.270/.259/.530 .422/.572 .533 56/.702 0/3 1/1
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 9/.000 / /
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 14/.715 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.500 5/.000 290/233 .269/.324/.327/.651 .604/.663 .573 26/.481 36/7 1/4
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 34/.748 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 3/1.667 3/.666 620/465 .285/.317/.377/.694 .784/.663 .725 91/.561 31/6 3/16
34.Fuentes* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 / /// / / / /
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 34/.598 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 5/.000 17/.698 643/452 .266/.351/.432/.783 .787/.782 .759 93/.641 12/3 19/2
Gore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1 .000/.500/.000/.500 .000/ .000 1/ 5/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· 26/.988 ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 12/.417 547/389 .270/.318/.398/.716 .676/.732 .607 109/.744 4/2 9/10
14.Infante G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 4/1.500 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 5/.400 3/.000 575/425 .252/.295/.337/.632 .584/.649 .606 7/1.667 9/3 6/11
27.Mondesi# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
25.Morales# G/S/vP 5/.000 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 16/.813 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 3/.333 5/.200 401/255 .218/.274/.338/.612 .661/.584 .545 84/.970 0/0 8/1
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 25/.880 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 6/.200 500/392 .212/.271/.361/.632 .554/.653 .565 101/.906 1/0 15/19
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· / /// / 26/.654 / /
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 2/.000 26/.683 ··· ··· 2/.500 4/1.000 ··· 606/459 .260/.289/.403/.692 .632/.710 .693 87/.762 1/0 17/9
IP 154.2 21.1 54.2 164.0 45.2 72.1 29.0 67.1 50.2 TOTAL .269/.322/.412/.734 .728/.737 .760 .726 104/34 139/88
ERA-K/9 2.73/9.1 4.64/8.0 /0.0 4.45/11.5 2.41/5.4 1.18/12.6 2.12/7.3 4.34/10.9 1.87/9.1 3.38/11.2 3.57/8.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (23-11-9)
 Cruz (18-6-4)
 Perez (57-25-5)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 619/.208 97/.268 / 231/.242 662/.246 166/.164 284/.220 120/.252 255/.183 198/.157 .241  Gordon
 Cain
 Dyson
 Gore
156/0/0/8
0/93/77/8
3/106/0/4
2/0/0/0
OPS .588 .778 .637 .654 .450 .604 .740 .480 .517 .681
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 368/.609 56/.708 / 105/.665 339/.690 74/.436 122/.521 56/.721 99/.541 98/.503 .656
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 251/.556 41/.863 / 126/.613 323/.618 92/.461 162/.667 64/.757 156/.442 100/.531 .700
Road 266/.549 58/.689 / 114/.686 363/.766 85/.392 136/.660 62/.716 115/.510 117/.578
Last 28d days 131/.709 / 25/1.194 36/.627 21/.396 47/.685 28/.399 46/.783 32/1.091 31/.670
HR/SB/CS 13/6/5 3/0/0 // 2/7/0 18/0/1 1/0/3 6/10/0 3/0/1 4/2/1 5/2/2 148/87/27
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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

For the 2014 season

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

LAA  4.77

MIA  3.98

SDP  3.30

 RA/G

SEA  3.42

CLE  4.03

COL  5.05

 BA

J. Altuve  .341

J. Upton  .270

C. Davis  .196

 OBP

A. McCutchen  .410

C. Headley  .328

M. Dominguez  .256

 SLG

J. Abreu  .581

C. Utley  .407

Z. Cozart  .300

 OPS

V. Martinez  .974

H. Kendrick  .744

Z. Cozart  .568

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.77

W. Chen  3.54

C. Buchholz  5.34

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  10.85

T. Koehler  7.20

M. Buehrle  5.30

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.