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Kansas City Royals vs. New York Mets, at Kauffman Stadium, October 28, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Start Time:
7:00ct (local), 8:00et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 7-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Mets
Manager:
Terry Collins
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Season Series

Wed, Oct 28, 2015 NYM    @KCR  8:00pm
Fri, Oct 30, 2015 KCR    @NYM  8:00pm
Sat, Oct 31, 2015 KCR    @NYM  8:00pm
Sun, Nov 01, 2015 KCR    @NYM  8:00pm
Tue, Nov 03, 2015 NYM    @KCR  8:00pm
Wed, Nov 04, 2015 NYM    @KCR  8:00pm

                         All times ET
New York Mets
90-72,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   52-33   Road:   45-42   ExtrInn: 9-7 
 vsRHP:  74-58   vsLHP:  23-17   1-Run:  26-25
 vsEast: 47-29   vsCntrl:17-20   vsWest: 24-14 IL: 9-12

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Tue, Oct 27  @KCR  L   4-5 (14)    -               
  9 Wed, Oct 21  @CHC  W   8-3         -               
  8 Tue, Oct 20  @CHC  W   5-2         -               
  7 Sun, Oct 18   CHC  W   4-1         -               
  6 Sat, Oct 17   CHC  W   4-2         -               
  5 Thu, Oct 15  @LAD  W   3-2         -               
  4 Tue, Oct 13   LAD  L   1-3         -               
  3 Mon, Oct 12   LAD  W  13-7         -               
  2 Sat, Oct 10  @LAD  L   2-5         -               
  1 Fri, Oct  9  @LAD  W   3-1         -               

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:17-13
Kansas City Royals
95-67,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   57-31   Road:   46-40   ExtrInn:11-6 
 vsRHP:  69-43   vsLHP:  34-28   1-Run:  26-17
 vsEast: 22-18   vsCntrl:44-32   vsWest: 23-14 IL:14-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 12 Tue, Oct 27   NYM  W   5-4 (14)    -               
 11 Fri, Oct 23   TOR  W   4-3         -               
 10 Wed, Oct 21  @TOR  L   1-7         -               
  9 Tue, Oct 20  @TOR  W  14-2         -               
  8 Mon, Oct 19  @TOR  L   8-11        -               
  7 Sat, Oct 17   TOR  W   6-3         -               
  6 Fri, Oct 16   TOR  W   5-0         -               
  5 Wed, Oct 14   HOU  W   7-2         -               
  4 Mon, Oct 12  @HOU  W   9-6         -               
  3 Sun, Oct 11  @HOU  L   2-4         -               

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 KCR  5  NYM  4 (14)   W:Chris Young , L: Bartolo Colon , S: none

Sun, Aug 04, 2013 KCR  6 @NYM  2        W:Ervin Santana (8-6), L: Zack Wheeler (4-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 03, 2013 KCR  4 @NYM  3 (12)   W:Kelvin Herrera (4-5), L: David Aardsma (2-1), S: Greg Holland (29)
Fri, Aug 02, 2013 NYM  4  KCR  2 (11)   W:Carlos Torres (2-2), L: Luis Mendoza (2-6), S: none
Sun, Jun 13, 2004 NYM  5 @KCR  2        W:Tom Glavine (7-3), L: Zack Greinke (1-2), S: Braden Looper (12)
Sat, Jun 12, 2004 KCR  4  NYM  3        W:Jeremy Affeldt (2-3), L: David Weathers (5-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 11, 2004 KCR  7  NYM  5        W:Darrell May (3-8), L: Jae Weong Seo (3-5), S: Jeremy Affeldt (8)
Sun, Jun 23, 2002 NYM  5  KCR  4        W:Scott Strickland (6-3), L: Jason Grimsley (2-3), S: Armando Benitez (18)
Sat, Jun 22, 2002 KCR  5 @NYM  1        W:Paul Byrd (9-5), L: Pedro Astacio (7-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 21, 2002 NYM  4  KCR  3        W:Mark Guthrie (2-0), L: Brad Voyles (0-1), S: none

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2015 - KCR over 1-0; 2014 -  0-0; 2013 - KCR won 2-1; All-Time - KCR leads 6-4

SP: Jacob deGrom (27, RHP, 14-8, 2.54)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (14-8) 191.0 149 59 54 38 205 16 2.54
2014 RegS (9-6) 140.1 117 44 42 43 144 7 2.69
Last 7 GS 5-1 42.0 35 13 13 9 57 3 2.79 61
2015-10-20 @CHC W 7.0 4 2 2 1 7 2 100 67
2015-10-15 @LAD W 6.0 6 2 2 3 7 0 105 56
2015-10-09 @LAD W 7.0 5 0 0 1 13 0 121 79
2015-10-04 WSN ND 4.0 0 0 0 2 7 0 72 67
2015-09-27 @CIN W 6.0 5 1 1 0 9 0 96 67
2015-09-15 MIA L 5.0 10 6 6 0 5 0 86 28
2015-09-09 @WSN W 7.0 5 2 2 2 9 1 102 66
Has never faced KCR as starter.

SP: Johnny Cueto (29, RHP, 11-13, 3.44)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (11-13) 212.0 194 87 81 46 176 21 3.44
2014 RegS (20-9) 243.2 169 69 61 65 242 22 2.25
2013 RegS (5-2) 60.2 46 20 19 18 51 7 2.82
Last 7 GS 3-2 41.0 44 23 23 16 30 4 5.05 48
2015-10-19 @TOR L 2.0 6 8 8 4 2 1 69 10
2015-10-14 HOU W 8.0 2 2 2 0 8 1 91 78
2015-10-09 HOU ND 6.0 7 4 4 3 5 1 103 44
2015-10-04 @MIN W 5.0 6 1 1 4 4 0 100 51
2015-09-29 @CHW L 6.0 8 3 3 2 2 1 110 44
2015-09-24 SEA W 7.0 7 3 3 2 5 0 104 54
2015-09-18 @DET ND 7.0 8 2 2 1 4 0 105 56
Last 5 v.NYM 2-1 32.0 19 10 9 15 36 4 2.53 63
2015-06-26 @NYM L 6.0 2 2 2 3 6 1 112 63
2014-09-06 NYM W 7.0 6 1 1 2 8 0 116 67
2014-04-05 @NYM ND 7.0 5 2 2 3 9 1 101 65
2013-09-23 NYM ND 7.0 3 2 1 3 5 1 99 67
2013-05-20 @NYM W 5.0 3 3 3 4 8 1 90 53

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

Mets Batters (4.22 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 47.Cueto
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/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 2/.000 7/1.000 6/.167 3/1.666 7/1.429 3/.000 ··· 676/521 .291/.328/.542/.870 .736/.909 .976 90/.788 7/5 35/7
30.Conforto* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 194/179 .270/.335/.506/.841 .481/.872 .828 74/.685 0/1 9/0
23.Cuddyer G/S/vP 6/.500 14/.517 4/2.750 2/.000 31/.637 1/.000 2/.500 408/296 .259/.309/.391/.699 .701/.698 .696 34/.517 2/0 10/3
7.d'Arnaud G/S/vP 6/1.667 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 268/216 .268/.340/.485/.825 1.112/.758 .878 74/.604 0/0 12/3
21.Duda* G/S/vP 18/.678 2/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 3/1.334 554/422 .244/.352/.486/.838 .878/.823 .684 83/.961 0/2 27/3
4.Flores G/S/vP 6/.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 510/403 .263/.295/.408/.703 .955/.637 .738 40/.512 0/1 16/14
3.Granderson* G/S/vP 16/1.188 14/.884 7/.167 1/3.000 15/.800 1/no AB 10/1.700 682/539 .259/.364/.457/.821 .558/.892 .880 93/.855 11/6 26/5
55.Johnson* G/S/vP 8/1.042 15/.922 ··· 1/.000 9/.873 9/.611 6/.834 335/300 .265/.314/.435/.750 .678/.758 .793 37/.707 2/1 14/11
12.Lagares G/S/vP 13/.398 3/.666 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/2.000 3/.000 465/333 .259/.289/.358/.647 .771/.599 .683 29/.571 7/3 6/2
28.Murphy* G/S/vP 19/.439 3/.000 ··· 2/1.000 2/1.000 4/.500 3/1.333 538/404 .281/.322/.449/.770 .633/.817 .832 86/.899 2/2 14/13
9.Nieuwenhuis* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 141/130 .195/.270/.375/.645 .182/.680 .573 27/.755 2/2 4/0
22.Plawecki G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 258/216 .219/.280/.296/.576 .411/.609 .622 26/.535 0/0 3/1
5.Wright G/S/vP 30/.727 3/1.666 ··· 1/2.000 1/2.000 31/1.017 5/1.400 174/132 .289/.379/.434/.814 1.023/.746 .764 84/.860 2/1 5/4
IP 212.0 67.1 136.2 69.2 50.2 63.1 62.1 TOTAL .244/.312/.400/.712 .723/.709 .730 .724 51/25 177/88
ERA-K/9 3.44/7.5 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)
 d'Arnaud (29-14-1)
 Plawecki (32-11-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 866/.242 251/.144 588/.264 286/.206 214/.250 248/.205 258/.246 .249  Cespedes
 Granderson
 Conforto
 Cuddyer
 Lagares
 Nieuwenhuis
 Johnson
134/40/0/13
0/2/149/9
50/0/0/6
69/0/6/4
0/137/2/3
34/16/7/2
29/0/8/2
OPS .675 .451 .746 .578 .737 .573 .687 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 406/.598 143/.456 118/.593 139/.470 87/.748 119/.547 107/.558 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 460/.743 108/.444 470/.785 147/.677 127/.730 129/.597 151/.779 .706
Home 365/.611 124/.542 277/.712 135/.501 105/.630 112/.532 119/.678
Last 28d days 137/.845 41/.401 67/.632 48/.884 44/.873 39/.367 36/1.521
HR/SB/CS 21/3/2 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/7/2 7/3/1 5/1/1 4/0/0 155/75/35
Usage ········ X···X··· o·····X· X···X·oo o······o X···X··o ·······o
Royals Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers (3.78 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 48.deGrom
G/S/vB		 46.Clippard
G/S/vB		 27.Familia
G/S/vB		 36.Gilmartin*
G/S/vB		 49.Niese*
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 47.Robles
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .404 18/.479 0/1 1/4
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.334 5/1.400 ··· 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .909 86/.706 28/6 16/10
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .698 25/.996 3/2 0/5
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 225/184 .250/.311/.380/.691 .578/.715 .696 26/.481 26/3 2/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 3/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 8/.393 ··· 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .647 91/.561 17/5 3/13
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/5.000 ··· 1/.000 9/.222 ··· 422/276 .271/.377/.432/.809 .817/.805 .794 93/.641 2/5 13/0
Gore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .000/.250/.000/.250 .000/.333 .250 1/ 3/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 7/.143 ··· 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .894 109/.744 7/3 18/4
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .847 84/.970 0/0 22/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 ··· 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .827 101/.906 1/2 22/12
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .809 26/.654 3/3 7/4
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/2.000 8/.393 ··· 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .701 87/.762 1/0 21/4
15.Rios G/S/vP ··· 5/1.000 2/2.500 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 411/295 .255/.287/.353/.640 .570/.668 .673 91/.709 9/0 4/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· 535/364 .276/.359/.450/.809 .926/.753 .852 111/.719 3/4 13/7
IP 191.0 71.0 78.0 57.1 176.2 56.0 54.0 TOTAL .269/.322/.412/.734 .728/.737 .760 .726 104/34 139/88
ERA-K/9 2.54/9.7 2.92/8.1 1.85/9.9 2.67/8.5 4.13/5.8 3.38/8.2 3.67/10.2 3.45/8.2

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 751/.215 301/.186 308/.207 235/.236 770/.280 241/.262 217/.190 .243  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 .574 .599 .569 .626 .764 .714 .659 .672
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 387/.663 157/.468 142/.616 104/.661 166/.789 106/.699 84/.560 .709
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 364/.475 144/.745 166/.531 131/.597 604/.757 135/.726 133/.723 .643
Road 378/.647 137/.584 114/.470 133/.588 408/.755 136/.558 108/.596
Last 28d days 86/.642 48/.899 46/.655 50/.727 66/.597 44/.525 33/.790
HR/SB/CS 16/4/6 8/6/1 6/2/1 2/2/2 20/6/5 3/2/1 8/2/1 152/75/26
Usage ·······X o·····Xo o·····Xo ········ X······· 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  5.50

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.