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Toronto Blue Jays vs. Kansas City Royals, at Rogers Centre, July 30, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Start Time:
7:07et (local)
Venue:
Rogers Centre
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
76° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
105
On This Date:
19-23
Blue Jays
Manager:
John Gibbons
Game #:
104
On This Date:
13-20
Season Series
Fri, Jul 10, 2015 KCR  3  TOR  0     
Sat, Jul 11, 2015 TOR  6 @KCR  2     
Sun, Jul 12, 2015 KCR 11  TOR 10     

Thu, Jul 30, 2015 KCR    @TOR  7:07pm
Fri, Jul 31, 2015 KCR    @TOR  7:07pm
Sat, Aug 01, 2015 KCR    @TOR  1:07pm
Sun, Aug 02, 2015 KCR    @TOR  1:07pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
61-39, 1st, 9 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   34-18   Road:   27-21   ExtrInn: 6-1 
 vsRHP:  43-22   vsLHP:  18-17   1-Run:  14-8 
 vsEast:  9-7    vsCntrl:26-16   vsWest: 15-10 IL:11-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
100 Wed, Jul 29  @CLE  L   1-12      61-39  1st  9.0 up
 99 Tue, Jul 28  @CLE  W   2-1       61-38  1st  9.0 up
 98 Mon, Jul 27  @CLE  W   9-4       60-38  1st  8.0 up
 97 Sun, Jul 26   HOU  W   5-1       59-38  1st  7.5 up
 96 Sat, Jul 25   HOU  W   2-1 (10)  58-38  1st  6.5 up
 95 Fri, Jul 24   HOU  L   0-4       57-38  1st  5.5 up
 94 Thu, Jul 23  @STL  L   3-4       57-37  1st  6.5 up
 93 Wed, Jul 22   PIT  W   5-1       57-36  1st  7.5 up
 92 Tue, Jul 21   PIT  W   3-1       56-36  1st  6.5 up
 91 Mon, Jul 20   PIT  L   7-10      55-36  1st  5.5 up
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:19-11
Toronto Blue Jays
51-51, 3rd, 7 GB, 5 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   29-20   Road:   22-31   ExtrInn: 3-5 
 vsRHP:  37-40   vsLHP:  14-11   1-Run:  10-22
 vsEast: 23-21   vsCntrl: 8-12   vsWest: 11-12 IL: 9-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
102 Wed, Jul 29   PHI  W   8-2       51-51  3rd  7.0 gb
101 Tue, Jul 28   PHI  L   2-3       50-51  4th  8.0 gb
100 Sun, Jul 26  @SEA  L   5-6 (10)  50-50  2nd  6.5 gb
 99 Sat, Jul 25  @SEA  W   8-6       50-49  2nd  5.5 gb
 98 Fri, Jul 24  @SEA  L   2-5       49-49  2nd  5.5 gb
 97 Thu, Jul 23  @OAK  W   5-2       49-48  2nd  5.5 gb
 96 Wed, Jul 22  @OAK  L   3-4 (10)  48-48  2nd  5.5 gb
 95 Tue, Jul 21  @OAK  W   7-1       48-47  2nd  4.5 gb
 94 Sun, Jul 19   TBR  W   4-0       47-47  3rd  4.5 gb
 93 Sat, Jul 18   TBR  L   2-3       46-47  4th  4.5 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 9-11   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jul 12, 2015 KCR 11  TOR 10        W:Wade Davis (5-1), L: Bo Schultz (0-1), S: Greg Holland (19)
Sat, Jul 11, 2015 TOR  6 @KCR  2        W:Mark Buehrle (10-5), L: Chris Young (7-5), S: none
Fri, Jul 10, 2015 KCR  3  TOR  0        W:Danny Duffy (3-4), L: Marco Estrada (6-5), S: Greg Holland (18)

Sun, Jun 01, 2014 TOR  4  KCR  0        W:Mark Buehrle (10-1), L: Jeremy Guthrie (2-5), S: none
Sat, May 31, 2014 TOR 12  KCR  2        W:Marcus Stroman (2-0), L: Aaron Brooks (0-1), S: Todd Redmond (1)
Fri, May 30, 2014 KCR  6 @TOR  1        W:Jason Vargas (5-2), L: J.A. Happ (4-2), S: none
Thu, May 29, 2014 KCR  8 @TOR  6 (10)   W:Wade Davis (4-1), L: Todd Redmond (0-4), S: Greg Holland (15)
Thu, May 01, 2014 TOR  7 @KCR  3        W:Mark Buehrle (5-1), L: Jeremy Guthrie (2-2), S: Aaron Loup (1)
Wed, Apr 30, 2014 KCR  4  TOR  2        W:Kelvin Herrera (1-1), L: Drew Hutchison (1-2), S: Greg Holland (7)
Tue, Apr 29, 2014 KCR 10  TOR  7        W:Aaron Crow (1-1), L: Brett Cecil (0-2), S: none
Season Series: 2015 - KCR over 2-1; 2014 - KCR won 4-3; 2013 - TOR won 4-2; All-Time - TOR leads 191-184

SP: Danny Duffy (26, LHP, 4-4, 4.03)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (4-4) 76.0 78 36 34 29 48 7 4.03
2014 (9-12) 149.1 113 52 42 53 113 12 2.53
2013 (2-0) 24.1 19 5 5 14 22 0 1.85
Last 7 GS 2-2 42.2 36 14 13 14 21 4 2.74 55
2015-07-25 HOU ND 6.0 3 1 1 1 3 0 101 64
2015-07-19 @CHW W 8.0 6 1 1 1 4 1 113 69
2015-07-10 TOR W 6.0 4 0 0 3 0 0 95 61
2015-07-05 MIN ND 6.1 5 2 2 3 1 1 84 53
2015-06-30 @HOU L 6.2 6 4 4 2 6 1 97 50
2015-06-24 @SEA ND 4.2 8 2 1 0 4 0 88 46
2015-05-16 NYY L 5.0 4 4 4 4 3 1 113 42
Last 5 v.TOR 1-2 14.2 17 9 9 12 6 1 5.52 41
2015-07-10 TOR W 6.0 4 0 0 3 0 0 95 61
2012-04-22 TOR L 4.2 5 4 4 5 5 0 113 38
2011-06-08 TOR L 4.0 8 5 5 4 1 1 96 23

SP: Marco Estrada (31, RHP, 7-6, 3.55)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (7-6) 99.0 85 43 39 32 78 11 3.55
2014 (7-6) 150.2 137 77 73 44 127 29 4.36
2013 (7-4) 128.0 109 56 55 29 118 19 3.87
Last 7 GS 3-3 41.2 31 14 12 13 31 3 2.59 58
2015-07-24 @SEA L 4.0 8 5 5 3 4 1 94 27
2015-07-19 TBR W 8.0 3 0 0 0 5 0 111 81
2015-07-10 @KCR L 6.2 9 2 2 1 2 0 101 49
2015-07-05 @DET W 5.0 5 2 2 1 3 0 101 51
2015-06-30 BOS L 2.1 3 4 2 4 1 2 73 36
2015-06-24 @TBR ND 8.2 2 0 0 0 10 0 129 90
2015-06-19 BAL W 7.0 1 1 1 4 6 0 118 73
Last 5 v.KCR 0-1 6.2 9 2 2 1 2 0 2.70 49
2015-07-10 @KCR L 6.2 9 2 2 1 2 0 101 49

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Royals Batters (4.32 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.29 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 25.Estrada
G/S/vB		 27.Cecil*
G/S/vB		 32.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 31.Hendriks
G/S/vB		 62.Loup*
G/S/vB		 54.Osuna
G/S/vB		 41.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 47.Schultz
G/S/vB		 52.Tepera
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 3/.000 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 69/48 .182/.194/.197/.391 .461/.362 .469 23/.399 0/1 0/2
6.Cain G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· ··· 6/.833 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 374/243 .313/.369/.504/.873 1.042/.784 .883 82/1.116 18/4 11/6
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 20/14 .316/.350/.474/.824 .833/.819 .000 20/.824 0/0 0/1
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 154/127 .244/.320/.378/.698 .612/.715 .738 55/.629 17/1 1/0
2.Escobar G/S/vP 4/1.000 7/.000 3/.000 11/.182 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 408/287 .281/.320/.353/.673 .699/.662 .647 111/.698 7/4 2/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/2.333 8/.500 ··· 9/.583 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 406/249 .315/.373/.484/.857 .716/.946 .769 99/1.026 4/2 11/2
14.Infante G/S/vP 7/.000 9/.555 5/.400 3/.000 4/1.750 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 356/259 .235/.248/.325/.573 .664/.538 .585 95/.643 1/2 1/9
25.Morales# G/S/vP 3/.000 7/.619 1/2.000 2/4.000 5/.900 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 405/247 .282/.341/.450/.791 .740/.825 .785 98/.738 0/0 12/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 4/.000 7/.715 2/.000 8/1.375 2/.500 ··· ··· 4/1.000 ··· 389/245 .290/.350/.431/.781 .672/.844 .807 80/.666 1/2 10/9
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.666 6/1.167 2/1.000 9/1.556 3/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 1/5.000 351/247 .247/.262/.424/.686 .542/.747 .641 75/.528 1/0 15/2
15.Rios G/S/vP 5/1.000 7/1.143 9/.819 9/1.806 3/.666 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 222/155 .249/.284/.321/.604 .589/.611 .530 86/.761 7/0 2/3
IP 99.0 33.1 23.1 44.1 34.2 44.1 68.0 28.0 23.2 TOTAL .272/.322/.409/.731 .716/.739 .716 .764 62/21 80/58
ERA-K/9 3.55/7.1 4.05/10.5 3.47/8.1 2.64/9.1 5.19/9.9 2.23/10.4 3.44/5.8 2.25/7.7 2.28/6.1 4.02/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (13-7-0)
 Perez (45-23-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 411/.227 140/.240 92/.250 173/.212 149/.261 174/.195 288/.239 107/.173 88/.183 .255  Cain
 Dyson
 Rios
 Hosmer
0/85/0/5
15/19/16/4
0/0/57/3
0/0/1/0
OPS .672 .717 .669 .528 .767 .557 .726 .540 .604 .724
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 204/.642 42/.905 39/.682 71/.730 59/.686 83/.597 154/.954 47/.475 36/.450 .735
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 207/.701 98/.638 53/.660 102/.384 90/.821 91/.520 134/.473 60/.585 52/.692 .716
Home 194/.632 71/.791 47/.808 100/.554 75/.665 89/.569 158/.634 47/.359 37/.825
Last 28d days 98/.722 25/.469 31/.395 21/.286 22/1.139 30/.704 7/.286 41/.757 37/.540
HR/SB/CS 11/7/3 4/0/1 3/0/2 2/3/2 6/1/0 2/2/2 8/4/6 4/4/0 4/0/0 105/47/29
Usage ·····X·· ·o··o··X ·o···X·· ·X··X··X ···o···o ····o··X ···oX··· o··X··oo ·o·X·X··
Blue Jays Batters (5.27 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Duffy*
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		 45.Morales*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Bautista G/S/vP 10/1.467 28/.619 7/.453 15/.557 5/.800 2/.000 2/.000 3/1.167 409/319 .233/.367/.491/.858 .797/.875 .962 92/.709 4/2 21/1
3.Carrera* G/S/vP 1/.000 1/.000 1/2.000 5/.400 3/1.667 1/2.000 ··· 3/1.000 158/137 .262/.314/.362/.675 .881/.642 .596 38/.577 2/1 3/2
15.Colabello G/S/vP 7/.453 ··· 4/.250 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 250/187 .312/.356/.485/.841 .917/.815 .928 48/.755 2/0 9/4
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 5/.000 6/.334 3/.000 3/.000 5/.650 ··· ··· ··· 443/350 .288/.351/.533/.884 1.033/.844 1.021 87/.822 3/0 24/13
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 6/.333 24/.208 7/.953 12/.334 5/1.600 3/1.666 1/2.000 1/.000 400/316 .238/.335/.452/.787 .746/.797 .819 84/.737 1/2 19/2
17.Goins* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 221/174 .227/.274/.323/.598 .656/.583 .536 15/.967 0/1 2/5
55.Martin G/S/vP 7/1.071 5/.650 1/3.000 5/.400 5/.000 5/.000 12/.417 10/1.250 344/266 .262/.343/.478/.821 .962/.781 .906 69/.742 4/4 14/3
30.Navarro# G/S/vP 2/1.000 1/2.000 3/.333 4/.500 3/.000 7/1.000 3/.333 ··· 114/93 .218/.272/.317/.589 .496/.610 .494 25/.408 0/0 2/1
11.Pillar G/S/vP 2/.000 1/4.000 1/.000 1/no AB 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 398/300 .271/.306/.391/.697 .683/.701 .663 83/.588 15/3 7/2
14.Smoak# G/S/vP 5/.000 10/.900 2/.500 8/1.089 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.833 171/156 .235/.316/.471/.786 1.186/.747 .899 43/.598 0/0 9/1
29.Travis G/S/vP 2/.000 1/.000 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/2.000 239/177 .303/.360/.495/.855 .974/.812 .940 71/.901 3/1 8/6
2.Tulowitzki G/S/vP 3/1.666 ··· ··· 2/1.000 1/5.000 4/.000 5/1.000 ··· 356/279 .305/.351/.488/.839 .986/.798 .873 76/.865 0/0 13/8
23.Valencia G/S/vP 6/.533 13/.539 2/.000 15/.619 2/.000 2/1.500 ··· 6/.533 170/91 .300/.331/.513/.844 .840/.847 .980 54/.708 2/1 7/1
IP 76.0 43.2 42.2 24.2 31.2 42.2 5.1 43.1 TOTAL .263/.330/.442/.773 .829/.756 .834 .732 56/18 132/63
ERA-K/9 4.03/5.7 0.41/10.3 1.90/8.4 4.38/9.5 3.13/9.9 1.69/8.0 6.75/8.5 2.08/5.6 3.51/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Martin (35-23-16)
 Navarro (8-6-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 325/.273 164/.146 166/.188 106/.278 131/.207 163/.185 22/.250 169/.205 .246  Pillar
 Bautista
 Carrera
 Colabello
 Valencia
 Goins
14/84/3/9
0/0/60/2
41/4/25/1
33/0/13/0
31/0/5/0
2/0/2/0
OPS .751 .425 .521 .784 .624 .525 .768 .570 .695
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 68/.713 94/.412 87/.374 47/.897 63/.750 77/.536 11/1.064 79/.631 .722
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 257/.761 70/.442 79/.684 59/.694 68/.510 86/.513 11/.473 90/.515 .669
Road 148/.757 76/.303 76/.579 55/.915 66/.709 89/.547 8/.542 87/.580
Last 28d days 99/.600 36/.480 39/.564 44/.718 46/.791 43/.558 22/.768 43/.510
HR/SB/CS 7/3/1 0/3/1 3/4/2 3/1/0 1/0/2 3/1/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 84/52/27
Usage ····X··· ·o··o··o ····o·o· X··o··X· ·o··o··· ·X··o··o ······X· Xo·o·Xo·

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  5.27

PIT  4.13

NYM  3.52

 RA/G

STL  2.89

ATL  4.20

COL  5.14

 BA

M. Cabrera  .350

J. Giavotella  .267

M. Zunino  .181

 OBP

P. Goldschmidt  .464

C. Gomez  .328

M. Zunino  .240

 SLG

B. Harper  .690

Y. Escobar  .418

B. Hamilton  .289

 OPS

B. Harper  1.153

C. Santana  .750

M. Zunino  .559

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.37

D. Salazar  3.72

K. Kendrick  6.33

 K/9IP

C. Kershaw  11.89

C. Sabathia  7.55

M. Pelfrey  4.32

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.