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Toronto Blue Jays vs. Kansas City Royals, at Rogers Centre, October 20, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Start Time:
4:00et (local)
Venue:
Rogers Centre
Series:
Game #4 of a 7-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
163
On This Date:
Blue Jays
Manager:
John Gibbons
Game #:
163
On This Date:
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 TOR  5  KCR  2     
Fri, Jul 31, 2015 TOR  7  KCR  6 (11)
Sat, Aug 01, 2015 KCR  7 @TOR  6     
Sun, Aug 02, 2015 TOR  5  KCR  2     

Tue, Oct 20, 2015 KCR    @TOR  4:00pm
Wed, Oct 21, 2015 KCR    @TOR  4:00pm
Fri, Oct 23, 2015 TOR    @KCR  8:00pm
Sat, Oct 24, 2015 TOR    @KCR  8:00pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
95-67,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   55-31   Road:   45-39   ExtrInn:10-6 
 vsRHP:  67-42   vsLHP:  33-28   1-Run:  24-17
 vsEast: 20-17   vsCntrl:44-32   vsWest: 23-14 IL:13-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  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         -               
  2 Fri, Oct  9   HOU  W   5-4         -               
  1 Thu, Oct  8   HOU  L   2-5         -               
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

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:14-16
Toronto Blue Jays
93-69,
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
Regular AND Postseason Totals
 Home:   55-30   Road:   42-43   ExtrInn: 8-7 
 vsRHP:  74-57   vsLHP:  23-16   1-Run:  15-28
 vsEast: 42-34   vsCntrl:21-16   vsWest: 22-15 IL:12-8 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  8 Mon, Oct 19   KCR  W  11-8         -               
  7 Sat, Oct 17  @KCR  L   3-6         -               
  6 Fri, Oct 16  @KCR  L   0-5         -               
  5 Wed, Oct 14   TEX  W   6-3         -               
  4 Mon, Oct 12  @TEX  W   8-4         -               
  3 Sun, Oct 11  @TEX  W   5-1         -               
  2 Fri, Oct  9   TEX  L   4-6 (14)    -               
  1 Thu, Oct  8   TEX  L   3-5         -               
162 Sun, Oct  4  @TBR  L   3-12      93-69  1st  6.0 up
161 Sat, Oct  3  @TBR  L   3-4       93-68  1st  6.0 up

Regular Season Only
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Oct 19, 2015 TOR 11  KCR  8        W:Marcus Stroman , L: Johnny Cueto , S: none
Sat, Oct 17, 2015 KCR  6  TOR  3        W:Danny Duffy , L: David Price , S: Wade Davis 
Fri, Oct 16, 2015 KCR  5  TOR  0        W:Edinson Volquez , L: Marco Estrada , S: none
Sun, Aug 02, 2015 TOR  5  KCR  2        W:R.A. Dickey (6-10), L: Edinson Volquez (10-6), S: Roberto Osuna (7)
Sat, Aug 01, 2015 KCR  7 @TOR  6        W:Yordano Ventura (6-7), L: Mark Lowe (0-2), S: Greg Holland (23)
Fri, Jul 31, 2015 TOR  7  KCR  6 (11)   W:Liam Hendriks (3-0), L: Franklin Morales (3-1), S: none
Thu, Jul 30, 2015 TOR  5  KCR  2        W:Marco Estrada (8-6), L: Danny Duffy (4-5), S: Roberto Osuna (6)
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)

Regular and Postseason
Season Series: 2015 - tied 5-5; 2014 - KCR won 4-3; 2013 - TOR won 4-2; All-Time - TOR leads 198-191

SP: Chris Young (36, RHP, 11-6, 3.06)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. TOR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (11-6) 123.1 91 44 42 43 83 16 3.06
2014 RegS (12-9) 165.0 143 70 67 60 108 26 3.65
2012 RegS (4-9) 115.0 119 58 53 36 80 16 4.15
Last 7 GS 2-2 36.0 27 15 15 14 26 7 3.75 53
2015-10-02 @MIN ND 6.1 4 1 1 2 5 0 100 64
2015-09-27 CLE W 5.0 0 0 0 1 2 0 68 68
2015-07-28 @CLE ND 4.2 5 1 1 3 5 0 96 52
2015-07-23 @STL L 3.0 5 4 4 1 1 2 68 33
2015-07-17 @CHW W 5.0 3 2 2 4 4 2 82 53
2015-07-11 TOR L 6.0 5 3 3 2 4 1 93 52
2015-07-07 TBR ND 6.0 5 4 4 1 5 2 83 50
Last 5 v.TOR 2-1 21.2 19 12 12 7 18 1 4.98 50
2015-07-11 TOR L 6.0 5 3 3 2 4 1 93 52
2014-08-12 TOR W 6.0 2 1 1 2 3 0 94 65
2005-07-10 TOR ND 4.0 6 4 4 3 5 0 89 36
2005-04-17 TOR W 5.2 6 4 4 0 6 0 86 47

SP: R.A. Dickey (40, RHP, 11-11, 3.91)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 RegS (11-11) 214.1 195 97 93 61 126 25 3.91
2014 RegS (14-13) 215.2 191 101 89 74 173 26 3.71
2013 RegS (14-13) 224.2 207 113 105 71 177 35 4.21
Last 7 GS 2-1 45.1 32 12 12 4 23 3 2.38 61
2015-10-12 @TEX ND 4.2 5 1 1 0 3 0 78 53
2015-09-30 @BAL ND 5.0 2 0 0 0 3 0 58 66
2015-09-25 TBR W 7.0 4 2 2 0 2 0 88 63
2015-09-19 BOS ND 6.0 6 2 2 1 3 1 84 54
2015-09-13 @NYY L 7.2 7 5 5 2 2 1 115 45
2015-09-08 @BOS ND 6.0 4 1 1 1 4 1 80 63
2015-09-02 CLE W 9.0 4 1 1 0 6 0 92 81
Last 5 v.KCR 3-1 31.2 34 14 11 9 25 3 3.13 53
2015-08-02 KCR W 7.0 2 0 0 2 6 0 101 77
2014-05-29 KCR ND 5.0 10 5 5 1 7 1 108 33
2013-08-31 KCR W 8.0 7 2 2 2 6 0 100 64
2013-04-13 @KCR W 6.1 5 1 1 2 4 0 100 61
2004-05-18 KCR L 5.1 10 6 3 2 2 2 95 30

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

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

Royals Batters (4.47 RS/G) vs. Blue Jays Pitchers (4.14 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 43.Dickey
G/S/vB		 32.Hawkins
G/S/vB		 31.Hendriks
G/S/vB		 62.Loup*
G/S/vB		 57.Lowe
G/S/vB		 54.Osuna
G/S/vB		 41.Sanchez
G/S/vB		 52.Tepera
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .607 18/.479 0/1 1/4
6.Cain G/S/vP 9/.555 1/.000 8/.679 3/.666 2/3.000 1/.000 3/.333 ··· 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .772 86/.706 28/6 16/10
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .685 25/.996 3/2 0/5
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 6/.833 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 225/184 .250/.311/.380/.691 .578/.715 .685 26/.481 26/3 2/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP 18/.777 4/.250 13/.308 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 3/.333 ··· 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .586 91/.561 17/5 3/13
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 11/.637 2/.000 12/.432 3/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· 422/276 .271/.377/.432/.809 .817/.805 .823 93/.641 2/5 13/0
Gore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .000/.250/.000/.250 .000/.333 1/ 3/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 10/.844 1/3.000 11/.664 5/1.100 2/2.000 3/.000 1/.000 ··· 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .757 109/.744 7/3 18/4
25.Morales# G/S/vP 23/.748 3/.833 3/2.667 6/1.000 7/1.000 3/2.334 2/.000 ··· 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .846 84/.970 0/0 22/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 7/.000 3/.000 9/1.417 4/.833 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .809 101/.906 1/2 22/12
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .594 26/.654 3/3 7/4
13.Perez G/S/vP 13/.891 3/1.334 9/1.556 3/.000 6/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/5.000 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .710 87/.762 1/0 21/4
15.Rios G/S/vP 26/.811 9/.819 10/1.611 3/.666 9/1.000 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 411/295 .255/.287/.353/.640 .570/.668 .614 91/.709 9/0 4/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 45/.575 5/.800 4/1.167 11/.282 9/1.569 4/1.250 4/.000 1/no AB 535/364 .276/.359/.450/.809 .926/.753 .767 111/.719 3/4 13/7
IP 214.1 38.2 64.2 42.1 55.0 69.2 92.1 33.0 TOTAL .269/.322/.412/.734 .728/.737 .709 .726 104/34 139/88
ERA-K/9 3.91/5.3 3.26/7.9 2.92/9.9 4.46/9.8 1.96/10.0 2.58/9.7 3.22/5.9 3.27/6.0 3.81/7.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 884/.244 162/.286 261/.240 186/.275 215/.231 271/.191 380/.224 128/.193 .248  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 .708 .732 .605 .776 .612 .591 .666 .670 .707
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 417/.666 81/.795 112/.746 77/.704 97/.724 145/.638 202/.878 59/.568 .716
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 467/.745 81/.671 149/.499 109/.825 118/.523 126/.537 178/.435 69/.746 .700
Home 461/.615 83/.797 145/.542 88/.700 109/.677 149/.692 212/.622 48/.723
Last 28d days 123/.575 17/.941 31/.856 24/.697 33/.588 42/.733 38/.641 26/.853
HR/SB/CS 25/6/4 4/2/2 3/6/2 6/1/0 4/1/3 7/2/2 9/4/7 8/0/0 173/60/41
Usage ·······X ···o···· o······· ··oo···· o·oo···· o····X·o o·o··X·o ········
Blue Jays Batters (5.50 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.96 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 32.Young
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/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
19.Bautista G/S/vP 18/.528 30/.762 14/1.015 8/.393 16/.521 5/1.350 4/1.417 666/535 .250/.377/.536/.913 .834/.932 .989 104/.969 8/2 40/3
3.Carrera* G/S/vP 5/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.000 6/.334 1/2.000 3/1.000 192/162 .273/.321/.372/.693 .782/.675 .642 21/.654 2/1 3/2
15.Colabello G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 10/.522 5/.900 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 360/261 .321/.367/.520/.886 .935/.868 .896 52/.857 2/0 15/4
20.Donaldson G/S/vP 16/.126 7/.286 9/1.083 5/.000 5/.000 3/1.667 2/2.000 711/573 .297/.371/.568/.939 1.024/.919 1.046 107/.798 6/0 41/18
10.Encarnacion G/S/vP 5/1.400 25/.200 6/.333 9/.904 13/.308 4/1.250 2/.000 624/506 .277/.372/.557/.929 .836/.950 .930 93/1.142 3/2 39/3
17.Goins* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.000 3/.333 2/.000 1/2.000 3/.666 428/331 .250/.318/.354/.672 .586/.697 .655 89/.660 2/1 5/8
55.Martin G/S/vP 36/.784 5/.650 10/1.475 4/1.167 6/.750 12/.432 10/1.250 507/396 .240/.329/.458/.787 .937/.747 .808 66/.991 4/5 23/4
30.Navarro# G/S/vP 8/1.917 2/1.000 5/1.850 4/.250 5/.400 8/.875 ··· 192/151 .246/.307/.374/.682 .894/.625 .653 30/.993 0/0 5/4
9.Pennington# G/S/vP ··· 11/1.323 8/.804 1/.000 16/.204 ··· ··· 249/195 .210/.298/.281/.578 .427/.618 .543 63/.630 3/0 3/9
11.Pillar G/S/vP 3/1.167 2/3.000 5/.400 4/.000 4/.250 1/3.000 ··· 628/472 .278/.314/.399/.713 .684/.723 .726 91/.908 25/4 12/2
45.Pompey# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 103/81 .223/.291/.372/.664 .859/.611 .825 12/1.136 5/1 2/2
7.Revere* G/S/vP ··· 7/.000 3/.666 6/1.500 21/.636 1/.000 8/.619 634/463 .306/.342/.377/.719 .638/.747 .678 108/.776 31/7 2/0
13.Smoak# G/S/vP 3/.000 11/.818 5/.000 4/.500 9/.958 1/.000 5/.650 328/288 .226/.299/.470/.768 .839/.757 .819 62/.815 0/0 18/4
2.Tulowitzki G/S/vP 15/.582 ··· 6/1.133 4/.500 3/.666 8/.417 1/2.000 534/424 .280/.337/.440/.777 .940/.735 .815 22/.792 1/0 17/8
IP 123.1 67.1 136.2 69.2 50.2 63.1 62.1 TOTAL .269/.340/.457/.797 .818/.790 .836 .843 88/23 232/88
ERA-K/9 3.06/6.1 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)
 Martin (40-32-19)
 Navarro (14-9-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 500/.202 251/.144 588/.264 286/.206 214/.250 248/.205 258/.246 .249  Pillar
 Revere
 Bautista
 Pompey
 Carrera
 Pennington
 Colabello
 Goins
14/142/3/10
112/43/12/5
0/0/118/4
6/21/0/3
46/5/35/1
8/0/0/1
33/0/13/0
2/0/2/0
OPS .640 .451 .746 .578 .737 .573 .687 .710
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 261/.732 143/.456 118/.593 139/.470 87/.748 119/.547 107/.558 .715
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 239/.542 108/.444 470/.785 147/.677 127/.730 129/.597 151/.779 .706
Road 258/.599 127/.359 311/.775 151/.651 109/.845 136/.607 139/.694
Last 28d days 53/.418 41/.401 67/.632 48/.884 44/.873 39/.367 36/1.521
HR/SB/CS 16/18/7 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/7/2 7/3/1 5/1/1 4/0/0 155/75/35
Usage ········ ··X··o·X ··X····· ··oo···X ··oo···· ···X···X X·······

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.