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St. Louis Cardinals vs. Kansas City Royals, at Busch Stadium III, June 13, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Start Time:
3:10ct (local), 4:10et
Venue:
Busch Stadium
Series:
Game #2 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
84° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
61
On This Date:
27-16
Cardinals
Manager:
Mike Matheny
Game #:
63
On This Date:
59-49
Season Series
Fri, May 22, 2015 KCR  5  STL  0     
Sat, May 23, 2015 KCR  3  STL  2  (6)
Sun, May 24, 2015 STL  6 @KCR  1     
Fri, Jun 12, 2015 STL  4  KCR  0     

Sat, Jun 13, 2015 KCR    @STL  4:10pm
Sun, Jun 14, 2015 KCR    @STL  2:15pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
34-24, 1st, 2 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   19-11   Road:   15-13   ExtrInn: 3-1 
 vsRHP:  24-15   vsLHP:  10-9    1-Run:   6-5 
 vsEast:  2-4    vsCntrl:19-12   vsWest:  8-5  IL: 5-3 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 58 Fri, Jun 12  @STL  L   0-4       34-24  1st  2.0 up
 57 Wed, Jun 10  @MIN  W   7-2       34-23  1st  2.0 up
 56 Tue, Jun  9  @MIN  W   2-0       33-23  1st  1.0 up
 55 Mon, Jun  8  @MIN  W   3-1       32-23  1st    Tied
 54 Sun, Jun  7   TEX  W   4-3       31-23  2nd  1.0 gb
 53 Sat, Jun  6   TEX  L   2-4       30-23  2nd  1.0 gb
 52 Fri, Jun  5   TEX  L   0-4       30-22  2nd  1.0 gb
 51 Thu, Jun  4   CLE  L   2-6  (8)  30-21  2nd  1.0 gb
 50 Wed, Jun  3   CLE  W   4-2       30-20  1st    Tied
 49 Tue, Jun  2   CLE  L   1-2       29-20  2nd  0.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:16-14
St. Louis Cardinals
40-21, 1st, 6½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   23-7    Road:   17-14   ExtrInn: 5-3 
 vsRHP:  33-14   vsLHP:   7-7    1-Run:  11-10
 vsEast:  7-4    vsCntrl:19-8    vsWest:  9-4  IL: 5-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 61 Fri, Jun 12   KCR  W   4-0       40-21  1st  6.5 up
 60 Wed, Jun 10  @COL  W   4-2       39-21  1st  6.5 up
 59 Tue, Jun  9  @COL  L   3-4       38-21  1st  6.5 up
 58 Mon, Jun  8  @COL  L   3-11      38-20  1st  6.5 up
 57 Sun, Jun  7  @LAD  W   4-2       38-19  1st  6.5 up
 56 Sat, Jun  6  @LAD  L   0-2       37-19  1st  6.5 up
 55 Fri, Jun  5  @LAD  W   2-1       37-18  1st  6.5 up
 54 Thu, Jun  4  @LAD  W   7-1       36-18  1st  6.5 up
 53 Wed, Jun  3   MIL  W   7-4       35-18  1st  6.0 up
 52 Tue, Jun  2   MIL  W   1-0       34-18  1st  6.0 up
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:13-7    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jun 12, 2015 STL  4  KCR  0        W:Jaime Garcia (2-3), L: Yordano Ventura (3-6), S: none
Sun, May 24, 2015 STL  6 @KCR  1        W:Michael Wacha (7-0), L: Yordano Ventura (3-4), S: none
Sat, May 23, 2015 KCR  3  STL  2  (6)   W:Edinson Volquez (4-3), L: John Lackey (2-3), S: none
Fri, May 22, 2015 KCR  5  STL  0        W:Chris Young (4-0), L: Lance Lynn (3-4), S: none

Thu, Jun 05, 2014 KCR  3  STL  2        W:Yordano Ventura (3-5), L: Michael Wacha (4-4), S: Greg Holland (17)
Wed, Jun 04, 2014 STL  5 @KCR  2 (11)   W:Sam Freeman (1-0), L: Kelvin Herrera (1-2), S: Pat Neshek (1)
Tue, Jun 03, 2014 KCR  8 @STL  7        W:Wade Davis (5-1), L: Trevor Rosenthal (0-3), S: Greg Holland (16)
Mon, Jun 02, 2014 KCR  6 @STL  0        W:Danny Duffy (3-5), L: Shelby Miller (6-5), S: none
Thu, May 30, 2013 KCR  4 @STL  2        W:Louis Coleman (1-0), L: Mitchell Boggs (0-3), S: Greg Holland (8)
Wed, May 29, 2013 STL  5  KCR  3        W:Randy Choate (1-0), L: Aaron Crow (0-1), S: Edward Mujica (17)
Season Series: 2015 - tied 2-2; 2014 - KCR won 3-1; 2013 - STL won 3-1; All-Time - STL leads 48-36

SP: Jeremy Guthrie (36, RHP, 4-3, 5.82)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. STL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-3) 60.1 69 39 39 19 25 10 5.82
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 37.1 44 24 24 9 15 6 5.79 44
2015-06-07 TEX ND 6.1 3 2 2 2 5 0 94 62
2015-06-02 CLE ND 5.2 2 1 1 1 1 1 105 61
2015-05-25 @NYY L 1.0 9 11 11 3 1 4 60 -11
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
Last 5 v.STL 0-1 12.0 14 4 4 2 8 0 3.00 53
2013-05-30 @STL ND 6.0 8 2 2 1 6 0 99 53
2012-07-04 @STL L 6.0 6 2 2 1 2 0 84 53

SP: Tyler Lyons (27, LHP, 0-0, 5.54)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (0-0) 13.0 18 10 8 5 17 2 5.54
2014 (0-4) 36.2 33 23 18 11 36 4 4.42
2013 (2-4) 53.0 49 29 28 16 43 5 4.75
Last 7 GS 0-3 35.0 41 26 24 12 37 5 6.17 45
2015-05-16 DET ND 3.2 7 3 3 2 5 1 80 38
2015-05-10 @PIT ND 5.0 5 3 2 1 5 1 84 51
2015-05-05 CHC ND 4.1 6 4 3 2 7 0 96 42
2014-05-12 CHC L 4.0 9 9 9 1 2 2 69 9
2014-05-06 @ATL ND 6.0 4 1 1 1 7 1 87 66
2014-04-26 PIT L 6.0 4 4 4 1 4 0 75 51
2014-04-21 @NYM L 6.0 6 2 2 4 7 0 95 55
Last 5 v.KCR 1-0 7.0 2 1 1 1 5 0 1.29 73
2013-05-28 @KCR W 7.0 2 1 1 1 5 0 89 73

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Royals Batters (4.29 RS/G) vs. Cardinals Pitchers (2.90 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 70.Lyons*
G/S/vB		 37.Belisle
G/S/vB		 36.Choate*
G/S/vB		 40.Harris
G/S/vB		 61.Maness
G/S/vB		 44.Rosenthal
G/S/vB		 46.Siegrist*
G/S/vB		 63.Socolovich
G/S/vB		 33.Villanueva
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/1.000 38/34 .167/.167/.194/.361 .667/.333 .500 8/.000 0/1 0/1
6.Cain G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 226/153 .280/.332/.396/.728 .919/.639 .728 79/.523 10/2 4/4
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 74/47 .269/.329/.313/.642 .884/.499 .637 9/.583 2/1 0/2
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 77/62 .254/.284/.352/.636 .845/.589 .608 15/1.067 6/1 0/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.000 3/1.667 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 7/.858 221/163 .260/.290/.348/.638 .514/.682 .692 90/.484 4/2 2/5
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/no AB 2/.500 ··· ··· 3/2.000 ··· 1/5.000 9/.236 217/144 .258/.373/.440/.813 .798/.820 .997 73/.752 0/3 7/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.000 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/2.000 1/2.000 7/.000 246/154 .300/.371/.475/.846 .728/.915 .765 80/.618 3/2 7/1
14.Infante G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 4/.500 193/147 .209/.218/.289/.506 .595/.478 .496 70/.288 0/0 0/3
25.Morales# G/S/vP 1/5.000 1/2.000 5/.400 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/.750 239/153 .286/.347/.465/.813 .736/.857 .826 76/.797 0/0 7/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.500 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 4/.750 236/152 .321/.372/.456/.828 .776/.856 .884 82/.756 1/2 5/5
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/1.334 208/148 .281/.293/.463/.756 .750/.759 .665 70/.844 1/0 9/1
15.Rios G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.500 65/48 .210/.246/.290/.536 .529/.539 .338 36/.314 2/0 1/0
IP 13.0 25.0 11.0 17.1 22.1 29.0 27.1 7.2 24.0 TOTAL .267/.317/.402/.719 .729/.714 .718 .610 31/14 43/31
ERA-K/9 5.54/11.8 2.16/7.6 3.27/5.7 3.63/4.7 3.63/6.5 0.62/9.6 1.65/12.5 1.17/9.4 0.75/7.9 2.66/8.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (8-3-0)
 Perez (22-14-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 63/.321 107/.277 44/.225 81/.314 93/.330 112/.176 113/.210 29/.179 95/.190 .243  Gordon
 Cain
 Dyson
 Hosmer
 Rios
54/0/0/3
0/53/0/3
3/7/15/1
0/0/1/0
0/0/17/0
OPS .907 .662 .629 .814 .772 .456 .656 .421 .552 .653
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 7/.929 38/.587 37/.669 31/.727 24/.750 49/.456 44/.876 13/.397 41/.337 .679
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 56/.904 69/.701 7/.429 50/.865 69/.781 63/.448 69/.526 16/.438 54/.715 .634
Home 42/.998 65/.671 18/.389 44/.899 49/.792 66/.606 60/.786 16/.646 49/.452
Last 28d days / 35/.590 13/.647 37/.796 29/.490 43/.484 40/.734 6/.000 25/.640
HR/SB/CS 2/0/0 0/1/0 1/0/0 2/1/0 1/0/0 1/0/0 2/0/2 0/1/0 1/2/2 39/15/9
Usage ········ ···X·o·· ···o·ooo ····XX·· ···o··o· ··X··X·o X·X··X·o ········ ····X···
Cardinals Batters (4.00 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.50 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
8.Bourjos G/S/vP 6/.400 1/.000 5/.400 5/1.850 2/.500 8/.500 5/.650 ··· 1/no AB 112/74 .253/.330/.404/.734 .734/.732 .921 48/.690 4/6 2/1
13.Carpenter* G/S/vP 3/2.500 8/.125 2/1.000 1/3.000 2/1.500 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/1.133 248/175 .291/.379/.498/.877 .672/.964 .961 101/.668 1/1 8/5
48.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 43/31 .231/.286/.282/.568 .899/.459 .422 18/.544 0/0 0/0
23.Easley G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/2 .000/.000/.000/.000 .000/.000 .000 3/.000 0/0 0/0
15.Grichuk G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/3.000 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 99/68 .271/.293/.521/.814 .724/.855 .981 84/.786 1/0 3/0
22.Heyward* G/S/vP 7/1.000 14/.500 6/.833 ··· 2/2.500 1/no AB ··· 6/1.500 10/.400 218/163 .252/.298/.386/.684 .822/.638 .798 76/.671 6/1 5/2
19.Jay* G/S/vP 6/.333 10/1.056 3/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 2/.500 1/.000 3/.666 149/117 .229/.309/.282/.591 .450/.632 .595 34/.569 0/2 1/0
38.Kozma G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 52/35 .104/.173/.104/.277 .301/.265 .431 20/.206 1/0 0/1
4.Molina G/S/vP 6/.666 21/.855 4/.500 1/.000 2/.000 5/1.200 5/.400 10/.347 3/.000 219/167 .274/.321/.323/.644 .600/.657 .611 88/.603 0/1 0/3
27.Peralta G/S/vP 30/.793 26/1.143 17/.607 11/1.064 8/.625 33/1.031 10/.700 2/2.000 9/1.167 251/193 .323/.382/.527/.909 .858/.924 .876 102/.971 1/1 10/3
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 6/.333 9/.873 22/1.076 3/.000 ··· 17/.181 5/.400 3/1.666 17/.437 163/116 .252/.325/.367/.693 .694/.692 .606 75/.672 2/1 3/2
16.Wong* G/S/vP ··· 2/3.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 248/181 .296/.351/.456/.807 .709/.844 .763 106/.783 4/4 7/8
IP 60.1 15.0 26.0 18.1 22.0 9.0 15.1 26.0 24.2 TOTAL .262/.326/.392/.719 .668/.736 .750 .691 23/18 46/35
ERA-K/9 5.82/3.7 1.80/7.8 0.35/9.7 0.49/5.4 2.05/9.4 7.00/11.0 1.76/7.6 2.08/9.3 2.92/5.5 3.38/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Cruz (3-1-0)
 Easley (0-0-0)
 Molina (12-8-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 263/.291 62/.246 97/.136 81/.284 89/.179 42/.359 58/.104 103/.196 94/.202 .232  Heyward
 Jay
 Bourjos
 Grichuk
 Reynolds
 Kozma
0/0/53/4
11/30/4/2
0/38/0/1
11/11/8/1
5/0/1/0
1/0/0/0
OPS .838 .665 .398 .761 .526 .945 .412 .588 .560 .661
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 149/.987 37/.691 57/.424 40/.847 51/.370 20/.744 32/.553 50/.602 48/.612 .689
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 114/.647 25/.625 40/.362 41/.658 38/.743 22/1.121 26/.247 53/.572 46/.501 .633
Road 118/.946 21/.722 45/.303 41/.652 37/.588 20/1.156 39/.609 61/.583 44/.523
Last 28d days 84/.827 45/.559 42/.567 33/.845 32/.526 28/1.011 20/.435 37/.843 31/.433
HR/SB/CS 10/1/4 1/0/0 0/2/1 1/1/0 2/2/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 3/0/1 1/0/0 46/24/14
Usage ·····X·· X·····Xo ···ooo·· ··o···X· ···o·Xo· X·X····o ···Xoo·· o···X··o X··o··oo

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  5.45

CHC  4.14

PHI  3.13

 RA/G

STL  2.90

NYY  4.20

COL  4.98

 BA

D. Gordon  .355

J. Harrison  .266

S. Drew  .169

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .472

T. Hunter  .325

O. Infante  .218

 SLG

B. Harper  .721

A. LaRoche  .414

M. Cabrera  .269

 OPS

B. Harper  1.190

A. Hechavarria  .747

O. Infante  .506

 ERA

G. Cole  1.73

J. Shields  3.79

K. Lohse  6.27

 K/9IP

C. Archer  11.71

K. Hendricks  7.35

M. Buehrle  4.02

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.