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New York Yankees vs. Kansas City Royals, at Yankee Stadium III, May 25, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Monday, May 25, 2015
Start Time:
1:05et (local)
Venue:
Yankee Stadium
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
72° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
45
On This Date:
25-20
Yankees
Manager:
Joe Girardi
Game #:
45
On This Date:
62-43
Season Series
Fri, May 15, 2015 KCR 12  NYY  1     
Sat, May 16, 2015 NYY  5 @KCR  1     
Sun, May 17, 2015 KCR  6  NYY  0     

Mon, May 25, 2015 KCR    @NYY  1:05pm
Tue, May 26, 2015 KCR    @NYY  7:05pm
Wed, May 27, 2015 KCR    @NYY  1:05pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
28-15, 1st, 3 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   17-7    Road:   11-8    ExtrInn: 3-0 
 vsRHP:  18-9    vsLHP:  10-6    1-Run:   5-3 
 vsEast:  2-1    vsCntrl:15-10   vsWest:  7-3  IL: 4-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 43 Sun, May 24   STL  L   1-6       28-15  1st  3.0 up
 42 Sat, May 23   STL  W   3-2  (6)  28-14  1st  3.0 up
 41 Fri, May 22   STL  W   5-0       27-14  1st  2.0 up
 40 Wed, May 20   CIN  W   7-1       26-14  1st  2.5 up
 39 Tue, May 19   CIN  W   3-0       25-14  1st  2.5 up
 38 Sun, May 17   NYY  W   6-0       24-14  1st  1.0 up
 37 Sat, May 16   NYY  L   1-5       23-14  1st    Tied
 36 Fri, May 15   NYY  W  12-1       23-13  1st  1.0 up
 35 Thu, May 14  @TEX  W   6-3       22-13  1st  1.0 up
 34 Wed, May 13  @TEX  L   2-5       21-13  1st  1.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:18-12
New York Yankees
22-22, 2nd, 1½ GB, 3½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    9-10   Road:   13-12   ExtrInn: 0-3 
 vsRHP:  16-16   vsLHP:   6-6    1-Run:   7-7 
 vsEast: 16-13   vsCntrl: 4-3    vsWest:  0-3  IL: 2-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 44 Sun, May 24   TEX  L   2-5       22-22  2nd  1.5 gb
 43 Sat, May 23   TEX  L   4-15      22-21  2nd  1.5 gb
 42 Fri, May 22   TEX  L   9-10      22-20  2nd  1.5 gb
 41 Wed, May 20  @WSN  L   2-3       22-19  1st    Tied
 40 Tue, May 19  @WSN  L   6-8 (10)  22-18  1st    Tied
 39 Sun, May 17  @KCR  L   0-6       22-17  1st  1.0 up
 38 Sat, May 16  @KCR  W   5-1       22-16  1st  2.0 up
 37 Fri, May 15  @KCR  L   1-12      21-16  1st  1.0 up
 36 Thu, May 14  @TBR  L   1-6       21-15  1st  1.0 up
 35 Wed, May 13  @TBR  L   2-3       21-14  1st  2.0 up
 Last 10: 1-9    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:15-15

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, May 17, 2015 KCR  6  NYY  0        W:Edinson Volquez (3-3), L: Chris Capuano (0-1), S: none
Sat, May 16, 2015 NYY  5 @KCR  1        W:CC Sabathia (2-5), L: Danny Duffy (2-3), S: none
Fri, May 15, 2015 KCR 12  NYY  1        W:Chris Young (3-0), L: Michael Pineda (5-1), S: none

Sun, Sep 07, 2014 KCR  2 @NYY  0        W:Yordano Ventura (12-9), L: Shane Greene (4-3), S: Wade Davis (2)
Sat, Sep 06, 2014 NYY  6  KCR  2        W:Brandon McCarthy (9-14), L: Liam Hendriks (1-1), S: none
Fri, Sep 05, 2014 KCR  1 @NYY  0        W:James Shields (13-7), L: Michael Pineda (3-4), S: Wade Davis (1)
Mon, Aug 25, 2014 NYY  8 @KCR  1        W:Michael Pineda (3-2), L: James Shields (12-7), S: none
Sun, Jun 08, 2014 KCR  2  NYY  1        W:James Shields (7-3), L: Hiroki Kuroda (4-4), S: Greg Holland (18)
Sat, Jun 07, 2014 KCR  8  NYY  4        W:Aaron Crow (3-1), L: David Phelps (1-4), S: none
Fri, Jun 06, 2014 NYY  4 @KCR  2        W:Chase Whitley (1-0), L: Jeremy Guthrie (2-6), S: David Robertson (14)
Season Series: 2015 - KCR over 2-1; 2014 - KCR won 4-3; 2013 - NYY won 5-2; All-Time - NYY leads 277-191

SP: Jeremy Guthrie (36, RHP, 4-2, 4.75)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-2) 47.1 55 25 25 13 18 5 4.75
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 40.1 49 21 21 12 16 4 4.69 45
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
2015-05-03 DET L 6.0 11 6 6 0 1 1 85 27
2015-04-28 @CLE ND 5.0 6 4 4 3 3 0 89 39
2015-04-22 MIN L 5.0 6 3 3 6 3 0 98 40
2015-04-17 OAK ND 6.0 7 4 4 0 2 3 79 44
Last 5 v.NYY 2-3 32.2 29 16 16 9 17 4 4.41 52
2014-06-06 NYY L 7.0 6 4 4 1 2 0 110 50
2013-07-08 @NYY W 6.2 6 1 1 1 3 1 92 60
2011-07-29 @NYY W 7.0 4 1 1 3 5 1 114 67
2010-09-18 NYY L 5.0 7 6 6 2 5 1 108 32
2010-05-03 @NYY L 7.0 6 4 4 2 2 1 116 49

SP: Nathan Eovaldi (25, RHP, 3-1, 4.73)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (3-1) 45.2 57 24 24 13 36 7 4.73
2014 (6-14) 199.2 223 107 97 43 142 14 4.37
2013 (4-6) 106.1 100 44 40 40 78 7 3.39
Last 7 GS 3-1 40.1 49 21 21 12 35 7 4.69 47
2015-05-19 @WSN ND 4.1 7 5 5 2 5 2 82 32
2015-05-12 @TBR L 7.1 6 4 4 2 6 0 101 54
2015-05-07 BAL W 5.2 6 3 3 3 3 2 102 45
2015-05-02 @BOS W 6.2 7 2 2 1 2 1 111 53
2015-04-26 NYM ND 4.1 7 4 4 0 6 1 87 39
2015-04-21 @DET W 7.0 8 1 1 1 4 0 94 60
2015-04-15 @BAL ND 5.0 8 2 2 3 9 1 101 49
Has never faced KCR as starter.

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

Royals Batters (4.91 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.48 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Eovaldi
G/S/vB		 68.Betances
G/S/vB		 29.Carpenter
G/S/vB		 48.Miller*
G/S/vB		 53.Rogers
G/S/vB		 45.Shreve*
G/S/vB		 41.Wilson*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 31/28 .207/.207/.241/.448 1.000/.407 .611 20/.500 0/1 0/1
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 ··· 3/.333 2/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 170/108 .303/.353/.426/.779 1.033/.636 .795 90/.615 7/2 3/2
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 66/45 .283/.338/.333/.672 .976/.523 .606 39/.703 2/1 0/2
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 4/.000 ··· ··· 67/55 .180/.219/.262/.481 .586/.458 .494 47/.525 5/0 0/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· 2/1.500 2/1.000 6/1.250 7/.619 ··· ··· 154/109 .281/.320/.367/.687 .676/.691 .763 74/.736 3/2 1/5
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 14/1.179 1/no AB ··· 1/2.000 162/103 .270/.377/.453/.829 .695/.908 .990 96/.828 0/2 5/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 9/1.000 4/1.417 1/.000 1/no AB 189/112 .311/.383/.527/.910 .780/.996 .830 103/.963 3/2 7/1
14.Infante G/S/vP 3/1.334 1/.000 3/.666 13/.608 12/.614 1/.000 2/1.500 143/104 .248/.259/.358/.616 .703/.583 .654 91/.647 0/0 0/2
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· 3/.000 3/.333 1/.000 2/1.000 186/113 .302/.360/.497/.857 .785/.908 .858 100/.904 0/0 6/
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 ··· 7/.619 2/2.000 ··· 2/.000 176/104 .333/.385/.491/.876 .776/.944 .976 88/.810 1/2 4/3
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 1/.000 ··· 102/61 .258/.294/.381/.676 .712/.652 .639 53/.495 2/1 0/1
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 158/109 .305/.316/.461/.777 .878/.731 .686 82/.737 1/0 5/1
IP 45.2 24.0 17.1 19.1 29.0 18.0 14.0 TOTAL .287/.336/.431/.767 .788/.756 .782 .745 26/12 32/24
ERA-K/9 4.73/7.1 0.00/13.1 5.19/5.7 0.93/15.4 4.97/8.1 3.00/9.0 5.79/8.4 4.01/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (8-3-0)
 Perez (13-12-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 199/.311 89/.103 74/.266 74/.063 127/.266 72/.203 60/.216 .252  Gordon
 Cain
 Orlando
 Dyson
39/0/0/2
0/39/0/2
4/0/24/1
3/5/13/1
OPS .834 .318 .838 .330 .787 .657 .647 .709
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 85/.988 33/.155 20/.804 8/.000 40/1.013 23/.918 26/.612 .729
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 114/.721 56/.417 54/.850 66/.373 87/.688 49/.540 34/.674 .699
Home 70/.939 37/.165 39/.680 32/.192 72/.778 54/.671 34/.580
Last 28d days 102/.810 43/.242 43/1.039 37/.287 77/.911 44/.754 33/.842
HR/SB/CS 7/0/0 0/4/1 3/0/1 1/0/0 5/2/0 2/0/0 0/1/1 44/16/10
Usage ·····X·· o····X·· o·X··X·· o····X·· ·X··X··X X·X··o·X o·X·oo·o
Yankees Batters (4.41 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.40 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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
36.Beltran# G/S/vP 12/.334 25/.875 3/.666 1/3.000 3/1.167 ··· 2/.000 25/1.520 2/4.000 150/112 .234/.267/.397/.664 .531/.707 .559 84/.779 0/0 3/2
14.Drew* G/S/vP 3/1.000 11/.819 5/.000 1/.000 1/.000 11/.473 2/.000 5/.900 10/.925 148/110 .176/.252/.321/.572 .868/.469 .577 80/.441 0/1 4/4
11.Gardner* G/S/vP 20/.929 2/1.000 21/1.152 6/1.500 ··· 4/.833 2/.000 1/3.000 4/.250 161/116 .279/.357/.407/.764 .761/.764 .780 92/.716 12/3 3/0
18.Gregorius* G/S/vP 4/.500 1/3.000 2/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.250 135/108 .220/.276/.301/.577 .490/.595 .632 74/.612 3/1 2/5
12.Headley# G/S/vP 8/.750 14/1.318 2/2.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 5/.650 10/.650 170/115 .242/.294/.382/.676 .633/.697 .615 91/.690 0/1 5/9
55.Heathcott* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/8 .429/.429/.571/1.000 /1.000 1.000 8/1.000 0/0 0/0
33.Jones* G/S/vP 6/1.333 22/.905 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 3/1.000 ··· 3/.000 4/.000 48/42 .217/.250/.348/.598 .500/.612 .907 24/.598 0/0 1/0
34.McCann* G/S/vP 6/.733 31/1.156 5/.600 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· 18/.516 5/.650 149/109 .233/.289/.383/.672 .528/.725 .970 82/.637 0/0 4/2
66.Murphy G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 39/22 .219/.289/.375/.664 .610/.708 .844 19/.417 0/0 0/1
38.Pirela G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 30/16 .200/.200/.233/.433 .929/.000 .333 30/.433 0/0 0/2
13.Rodriguez G/S/vP 37/.896 14/2.143 19/.904 22/1.200 1/.000 9/1.158 2/2.500 1/.000 4/.500 166/121 .255/.355/.546/.902 .828/.927 .878 88/.857 0/0 10/1
25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 30/.637 30/.988 18/.421 20/.636 2/.000 5/.650 4/.833 3/.000 5/.400 173/119 .241/.364/.574/.939 .887/.954 .891 92/.898 0/0 13/0
24.Young G/S/vP 3/2.000 8/.875 3/.000 3/.667 1/.000 10/.844 ··· 7/.286 16/.775 110/63 .240/.296/.490/.786 1.200/.505 .692 50/.572 0/0 6/1
IP 47.1 5.0 19.0 13.1 15.0 5.0 10.0 20.2 17.1 TOTAL .242/.313/.407/.719 .741/.710 .738 .688 28/11 52/33
ERA-K/9 4.75/3.4 1.80/7.2 0.00/9.0 0.68/6.8 1.80/9.6 7.20/10.8 0.90/5.4 1.74/9.1 3.63/4.7 3.22/6.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 McCann (8-7-0)
 Murphy (8-3-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 204/.297 22/.300 68/.125 58/.265 61/.173 25/.417 38/.129 77/.159 67/.206 .230  Gardner
 Beltran
 Heathcott
 Jones
 Young
39/0/0/3
0/0/32/1
0/3/0/0
1/0/7/0
11/9/26/0
OPS .800 .933 .317 .750 .509 .940 .399 .511 .604 .647
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 103/.899 13/.968 38/.244 25/.943 36/.348 12/.833 19/.449 36/.340 27/.963 .660
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 101/.700 9/.875 30/.407 33/.564 25/.756 13/1.038 19/.347 41/.670 40/.342 .635
Road 102/.714 / 27/.228 28/.539 23/.515 11/1.045 25/.586 42/.434 28/.602
Last 28d days 127/.751 22/.933 38/.437 31/.849 27/.564 25/.940 25/.586 42/.556 40/.732
HR/SB/CS 5/1/4 1/0/0 0/1/1 1/1/0 1/2/1 0/0/0 0/0/0 2/0/1 1/0/0 31/15/12
Usage ····X··· X······· ····Xo·X ··X····o ·····o·· X···o··· ········ ··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  5.13

CHC  4.30

PHI  3.17

 RA/G

STL  3.05

MIN  4.28

COL  5.26

 BA

D. Gordon  .376

R. Braun  .270

C. Carter  .170

 OBP

B. Harper  .471

S. Marte  .326

E. Gattis  .233

 SLG

B. Harper  .728

D. Freese  .422

J. Ramirez  .248

 OPS

B. Harper  1.198

J. Soler  .753

J. Ramirez  .507

 ERA

A. Burnett  1.37

J. Teheran  3.91

K. Kendrick  6.58

 K/9IP

J. Shields  11.85

S. Miller  7.20

J. Guthrie  3.42

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.