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Cleveland Indians vs. Kansas City Royals, at Progressive Field, June 3, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Friday, June 3, 2016

Start Time:

7:10et (local)

Venue:

Progressive Field

Series:

Game #2 of a 4-game series

Average Temp:

72° (based on last ten years)

Royals

Manager:

Ned Yost

Game #:

On This Date:

22-18

Indians

Manager:

Terry Francona

Game #:

On This Date:

48-51

Season Series
Fri, May 06, 2016 CLE  7  KCR  1     
Sat, May 07, 2016 KCR  7 @CLE  0     
Sun, May 08, 2016 CLE  5  KCR  4     
Thu, Jun 02, 2016 CLE  5  KCR  4     

Fri, Jun 03, 2016 KCR    @CLE  7:10pm
Sat, Jun 04, 2016 KCR    @CLE  7:15pm
Sun, Jun 05, 2016 KCR    @CLE  1:10pm
Mon, Jun 13, 2016 CLE    @KCR  8:15pm
Tue, Jun 14, 2016 CLE    @KCR  8:15pm
Wed, Jun 15, 2016 CLE    @KCR  8:15pm
Mon, Jul 18, 2016 CLE    @KCR  8:15pm
Tue, Jul 19, 2016 CLE    @KCR  8:15pm
Wed, Jul 20, 2016 CLE    @KCR  2:15pm
Tue, Sep 20, 2016 KCR    @CLE  7:10pm
Wed, Sep 21, 2016 KCR    @CLE  7:10pm
Thu, Sep 22, 2016 KCR    @CLE  7:10pm
Fri, Sep 30, 2016 CLE    @KCR  8:15pm
Sat, Oct 01, 2016 CLE    @KCR  4:15pm
Sun, Oct 02, 2016 CLE    @KCR  3:15pm

                         All times ET

Kansas City Royals

30-23, 1st, 1½ up / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   19-7    Road:   11-16   ExtrInn: 2-0 
 vsRHP:  24-19   vsLHP:   6-4    1-Run:   9-6 
 vsEast:  8-5    vsCntrl:13-6    vsWest:  5-8  IL: 4-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 53 Thu, Jun  2  @CLE  L   4-5       30-23  1st  1.5 up
 52 Wed, Jun  1   TBR  W   6-3       30-22  1st  2.0 up
 51 Tue, May 31   TBR  W  10-5       29-22  1st  2.0 up
 50 Mon, May 30   TBR  W   6-2       28-22  1st  1.5 up
 49 Sun, May 29   CHW  W   5-4       27-22  1st  0.5 up
 48 Sat, May 28   CHW  W   8-7       26-22  2nd  0.5 gb
 47 Fri, May 27   CHW  W   7-5       25-22  3rd  1.0 gb
 46 Wed, May 25  @MIN  L   5-7       24-22  3rd  2.0 gb
 45 Tue, May 24  @MIN  W   7-4       24-21  3rd  2.0 gb
 44 Mon, May 23  @MIN  W  10-4       23-21  3rd  3.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:14-6    Last 30:18-12

Cleveland Indians

28-24, 2nd, 1½ GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   14-12   Road:   14-12   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  20-17   vsLHP:   8-7    1-Run:  10-8 
 vsEast:  5-6    vsCntrl:15-7    vsWest:  3-6  IL: 5-5 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 52 Thu, Jun  2   KCR  W   5-4       28-24  2nd  1.5 gb
 51 Wed, Jun  1   TEX  W   5-4 (11)  27-24  3rd  2.5 gb
 50 Tue, May 31   TEX  L   3-7       26-24  3rd  2.5 gb
 49 Mon, May 30   TEX  L   2-9       26-23  2nd  1.5 gb
 48 Sun, May 29   BAL  L   4-6       26-22  2nd  0.5 gb
 47 Sat, May 28   BAL  W  11-4       26-21  1st  0.5 up
 46 Fri, May 27   BAL  L   4-6       25-21  2nd  0.5 gb
 45 Wed, May 25  @CHW  W   4-3       25-20  2nd  0.5 gb
 44 Tue, May 24  @CHW  W   6-2       24-20  2nd  1.5 gb
 43 Mon, May 23  @CHW  W   5-1       23-20  2nd  2.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:11-9    Last 30:18-12

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Thu, Jun 02, 2016 CLE  5  KCR  4        W:Tommy Hunter (2-1), L: Joakim Soria (2-2), S: none
Sun, May 08, 2016 CLE  5  KCR  4        W:Josh Tomlin (5-0), L: Edinson Volquez (3-3), S: Cody Allen (8)
Sat, May 07, 2016 KCR  7 @CLE  0        W:Ian Kennedy (4-2), L: Cody Anderson (0-2), S: none
Fri, May 06, 2016 CLE  7  KCR  1        W:Danny Salazar (3-2), L: Yordano Ventura (2-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 27, 2015 KCR  3  CLE  0        W:Chris Young (11-6), L: Danny Salazar (13-10), S: Wade Davis (14)
Sat, Sep 26, 2015 CLE  9 @KCR  5        W:Zach McAllister (4-4), L: Kris Medlen (5-2), S: none
Fri, Sep 25, 2015 CLE  6 @KCR  0        W:Carlos Carrasco (14-11), L: Edinson Volquez (13-9), S: none
Thu, Sep 17, 2015 KCR  8 @CLE  4        W:Yordano Ventura (12-8), L: Corey Kluber (8-14), S: Greg Holland (32)
Wed, Sep 16, 2015 CLE  5  KCR  1        W:Danny Salazar (13-8), L: Danny Duffy (7-8), S: none
Tue, Sep 15, 2015 KCR  2 @CLE  0        W:Kris Medlen (4-1), L: Josh Tomlin (5-2), S: Greg Holland (31)
Season Series: 2016 - CLE over 3-1; 2015 - KCR won 10-9; 2014 - CLE won 10-9; All-Time - CLE leads 335-317

SP: Edinson Volquez (32, RHP, 5-4, 3.74)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. CLE Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (5-4)			67.1	70	31	28	23	54	6	3.74
2015 (13-9)			200.1	190	89	79	72	155	16	3.55
2014 (13-7)			192.2	166	75	65	71	140	17	3.04

Last 7 GS		2-4	42.2	52	27	25	15	32	5	5.27	45
2016-05-29	CHW	ND	6.0	7	3	3	1	5	0	102	50
2016-05-24	@MIN	W	6.2	6	4	2	3	6	0	103	53
2016-05-18	BOS	L	6.0	7	4	4	4	5	2	97	43
2016-05-13	ATL	W	7.0	6	1	1	0	2	0	83	63
2016-05-08	@CLE	L	4.1	7	5	5	4	4	2	105	29
2016-05-02	WSN	L	7.2	7	2	2	1	7	0	114	63
2016-04-26	@LAA	L	5.0	12	8	8	2	3	1	99	12

Last 5 v.CLE		1-3	24.1	26	18	18	20	22	7	6.66	42
2016-05-08	@CLE	L	4.1	7	5	5	4	4	2	105	29
2015-09-25	CLE	L	6.0	4	3	3	2	7	2	101	57
2015-09-14	@CLE	L	5.0	7	4	4	3	4	2	100	38
2015-07-27	@CLE	W	6.0	6	3	3	5	4	1	111	47
2015-05-07	CLE	ND	3.0	2	3	3	6	3	0	78	40

SP: Danny Salazar (26, RHP, 5-3, 2.39)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (5-3)			60.1	41	16	16	28	72	3	2.39
2015 (14-10)			185.0	156	79	71	53	195	23	3.45
2014 (6-8)			110.0	117	57	52	35	120	13	4.25

Last 7 GS		3-2	42.0	33	13	13	19	49	2	2.79	59
2016-05-28	BAL	W	6.0	6	2	2	2	5	0	107	55
2016-05-22	@BOS	L	4.1	8	4	4	3	6	1	109	34
2016-05-17	CIN	W	7.1	5	1	1	1	8	0	95	71
2016-05-11	@HOU	ND	5.0	4	1	1	6	10	1	106	59
2016-05-06	KCR	W	7.2	4	0	0	1	9	0	106	79
2016-05-01	@PHI	L	7.0	3	2	2	2	8	0	102	69
2016-04-25	@MIN	ND	4.2	3	3	3	4	3	0	101	45

Last 5 v.KCR		3-2	33.0	26	11	11	4	34	3	3.00	61
2016-05-06	KCR	W	7.2	4	0	0	1	9	0	106	79
2015-09-27	@KCR	L	5.1	7	2	2	1	3	0	102	48
2015-09-16	KCR	W	7.0	4	1	1	2	6	1	102	69
2015-05-05	@KCR	L	7.0	5	4	4	0	9	1	115	60
2015-04-29	KCR	W	6.0	6	4	4	0	7	1	96	51

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

Royals Batters (4.15 RS/G) vs. Indians Pitchers (4.23 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 31.Salazar
G/S/vB 49.Adams
G/S/vB 37.Allen
G/S/vB 33.Gorzelanny*
G/S/vB 48.Hunter
G/S/vB 53.Manship
G/S/vB 34.McAllister
G/S/vB 61.Otero
G/S/vB 27.Shaw
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

9.Butera G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.500 4/.500 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 40/30 .306/.375/.528/.903 .633/.993 .599 29/.806 0/0 1/1

6.Cain G/S/vP 20/.800 1/.000 6/.000 2/1.000 6/.000 3/.666 9/1.000 3/.666 15/.204 219/171 .307/.356/.460/.817 1.133/.730 .928 107/1.037 6/3 8/1

7.Cruz G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /

19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/2.000 ··· 85/63 .277/.294/.386/.680 .325/.801 .756 85/.680 0/0 2/1

1.Dyson* G/S/vP 15/.571 4/.000 6/.167 3/.000 4/.833 2/.000 13/.717 2/.000 1/2.000 113/103 .276/.339/.347/.686 .650/.689 .623 61/.788 10/2 0/1

2.Escobar G/S/vP 25/.581 2/1.000 7/1.000 1/2.000 10/.819 5/.800 14/1.404 2/1.000 8/.393 245/194 .261/.289/.309/.598 .428/.642 .514 118/.582 10/2 0/8

34.Fuentes* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 26/26 .320/.346/.320/.666 /.666 .967 4/1.500 0/2 0/0

35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 24/1.158 2/.000 6/1.333 4/1.000 8/.125 2/1.500 13/.154 1/2.000 4/1.167 221/152 .330/.380/.547/.927 .691/1.036 .841 107/.971 4/1 10/3

14.Infante G/S/vP 19/.216 ··· 8/1.404 14/.891 6/.334 3/1.000 19/.505 6/.733 11/1.493 149/114 .239/.279/.321/.600 .604/.598 .733 53/.580 0/0 0/4

15.Merrifield G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 50/35 .360/.360/.480/.840 .800/.857 .850 50/.840 2/0 0/0

25.Morales# G/S/vP 15/.481 1/.000 3/.000 11/.728 5/1.850 1/2.000 15/.762 3/.000 4/1.250 203/148 .197/.266/.328/.594 .851/.499 .530 90/.643 0/0 6/

16.Orlando G/S/vP 5/.400 1/.000 1/.000 2/2.500 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/4.000 ··· 102/68 .361/.382/.474/.857 .837/.867 .900 68/1.028 2/0 1/2

13.Perez G/S/vP 28/.357 1/.000 9/.944 2/.000 1/3.000 4/.000 18/.556 5/.400 12/.166 176/136 .277/.313/.494/.806 .653/.851 .765 79/.914 0/0 7/0

IP 60.1 6.2 24.1 0.1 12.0 15.1 19.0 22.0 22.0 TOTAL .274/.323/.411/.734 .699/.745 .721 .801 39/11 46/28

ERA-K/9

2.39/10.7

2.70/12.1

3.70/10.0

0.00/0.0

3.75/4.5

2.93/5.3

3.79/9.9

0.82/7.4

4.91/9.4

3.97/8.2

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Butera (4-2-0)
Perez (12-15-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 247/.190 28/.200 99/.169 1/.000 46/.238 68/.279 88/.273 90/.214 91/.262 .242 Dyson
Cain
Orlando
Fuentes
Merrifield 7/3/21/6
0/51/0/2
0/1/27/2
0/0/7/1
4/0/0/1

OPS .570 .806 .621 .000 .646 .812 .811 .508 .842 .707

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 119/.505 13/.769 47/.721 1/.000 15/.667 30/1.045 47/.586 40/.588 37/.896 .702

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 128/.632 15/.833 52/.536 / 31/.637 38/.615 41/1.079 50/.448 54/.805 .712

Home 109/.489 13/.923 44/.593 1/.000 27/.619 35/.826 50/.733 47/.473 41/.936

Last 28d days 103/.756 28/.806 51/.430 1/.000 36/.641 39/.859 39/1.023 62/.559 43/.777

HR/SB/CS 3/1/1 2/0/0 3/2/1 0/0/0 1/1/0 2/0/1 3/3/0 0/1/0 5/0/1 62/17/10

Usage ·····X·· X··ooX·· ·X·o···· ·o······ o···XX·· ·X··o·o· X····oX· ·o··X·o· ·oX··o··

Indians Batters (4.77 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.98 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 36.Volquez
G/S/vB 54.Alexander*
G/S/vB 17.Davis
G/S/vB 40.Herrera
G/S/vB 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB 47.Moylan
G/S/vB 48.Soria
G/S/vB 67.Wang
G/S/vB 32.Young
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

8.Chisenhall* G/S/vP 11/1.434 1/.000 9/.347 12/1.318 13/.808 ··· 5/.200 ··· 11/.455 109/94 .292/.370/.427/.797 1.159/.740 1.028 73/.901 3/0 1/0

20.Davis G/S/vP 8/.679 ··· 11/.489 7/.143 15/.481 1/2.000 5/.933 2/.500 5/.800 182/118 .250/.324/.402/.727 .742/.718 .698 103/.740 12/3 5/4

38.Gimenez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 10/.100 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.333 35/26 .219/.286/.438/.723 .722/.724 .853 31/.603 0/0 2/0

10.Gomes G/S/vP 9/.111 ··· 5/1.400 8/.804 5/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.750 162/115 .171/.210/.342/.552 .731/.479 .561 79/.531 0/0 6/2

22.Kipnis* G/S/vP 15/.904 1/2.000 14/1.065 11/.808 17/.820 ··· 7/.533 ··· 15/1.253 229/157 .266/.317/.420/.737 .567/.818 .702 114/.758 3/0 7/1

12.Lindor# G/S/vP 12/.542 1/.000 3/.000 2/.000 3/.666 ··· 2/3.000 ··· 5/.000 229/161 .301/.360/.413/.772 .881/.725 .853 115/.739 10/1 4/3

1.Martinez# G/S/vP 2/.000 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 26/17 .269/.269/.385/.654 .222/.882 .917 26/.654 0/0 0/1

26.Napoli G/S/vP 10/.971 ··· 8/.875 6/.900 12/.788 ··· 7/.343 3/.333 4/.250 207/149 .235/.304/.487/.791 .865/.761 .966 107/.828 2/0 12/5

30.Naquin* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 69/63 .313/.333/.403/.736 .833/.727 .535 14/.665 0/1 0/2

11.Ramirez# G/S/vP 6/.834 1/.000 6/.666 5/.400 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 5/.250 174/127 .320/.393/.464/.857 .804/.876 .955 102/.886 4/3 3/1

41.Santana# G/S/vP 16/1.188 1/no AB 17/.685 16/.188 26/.594 ··· 11/.573 ··· 13/.504 226/163 .226/.336/.426/.763 .450/.890 .719 119/.738 3/1 9/0

4.Uribe G/S/vP 16/.771 ··· ··· 1/2.000 7/.572 5/.500 7/.857 9/1.000 12/.523 148/101 .248/.311/.346/.657 .536/.712 .685 79/.651 0/0 2/7

IP 67.1 10.1 20.1 27.0 22.1 7.1 26.0 19.2 36.1 TOTAL .256/.323/.412/.734 .713/.743 .782 .749 38/9 56/31

ERA-K/9

3.74/7.2

2.61/9.6

0.89/9.8

1.33/11.3

2.82/10.5

2.45/8.6

3.81/8.0

2.29/7.3

5.94/9.2

3.82/8.4

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Gimenez (0-1-1)
Gomes (17-8-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 290/.265 43/.275 81/.159 108/.225 86/.190 33/.300 111/.253 83/.267 162/.270 .250 Davis
Martinez
Chisenhall
Ramirez
Naquin 19/37/1/4
1/4/4/1
0/2/32/1
25/0/0/1
0/26/1/0

OPS .693 .651 .458 .563 .586 .664 .762 .684 .895 .715

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 142/.634 17/.544 49/.513 54/.733 33/.514 12/.717 56/.656 37/.647 73/1.185 .729

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 148/.748 26/.721 32/.361 54/.396 53/.626 21/.633 55/.874 46/.711 89/.660 .703

Road 108/.836 18/.686 35/.458 51/.608 35/.513 23/.785 63/.727 28/.571 82/1.150

Last 28d days 133/.772 43/.651 42/.583 56/.643 40/.310 33/.664 48/.581 39/.602 30/1.155

HR/SB/CS 6/5/3 0/0/0 0/1/1 0/0/1 2/2/2 0/0/0 2/0/1 0/0/0 13/5/0 53/16/17

Usage ····X··· ··X····· ·Xo·X·X· Xo·X··X· o···X·o· ······X· oX·X···· ···o·X·· ··X·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 2016 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

BOS 6.00

CIN 4.22

PHI 3.09

RA/G

CHC 2.88

BAL 4.35

CIN 6.04

D. Murphy .394

Y. Tomas .265

M. Teixeira .181

OBP

B. Zobrist .439

A. Cabrera .335

M. Kemp .249

SLG

D. Ortiz .730

G. Parra .442

M. Teixeira .265

OPS

D. Ortiz 1.145

J. Pederson .775

M. Teixeira .538

ERA

C. Kershaw 1.56

A. Conley 3.72

A. Sanchez 6.67

K/9IP

J. Fernandez 12.76

S. Wright 7.88

J. Locke 4.93

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.