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Houston Astros vs. Kansas City Royals, at Minute Maid Park, April 12, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

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Date:
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Start Time:
7:10ct (local), 8:10et
Venue:
Minute Maid Park
Series:
Game #2 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
7
On This Date:
16-17
Astros
Manager:
A.J. Hinch
Game #:
9
On This Date:
26-16
Season Series
Mon, Apr 11, 2016 HOU  8  KCR  2     

Tue, Apr 12, 2016 KCR    @HOU  8:10pm
Wed, Apr 13, 2016 KCR    @HOU  8:10pm
Thu, Apr 14, 2016 KCR    @HOU  8:10pm
Fri, Jun 24, 2016 HOU    @KCR  8:15pm
Sat, Jun 25, 2016 HOU    @KCR  7:15pm
Sun, Jun 26, 2016 HOU    @KCR  2:15pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
4-2, 2nd, ½ GB / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    4-1    Road:    0-1    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   3-2    vsLHP:   1-0    1-Run:   3-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 3-0    vsWest:  0-1  IL: 1-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  6 Mon, Apr 11  @HOU  L   2-8        4-2   2nd  0.5 gb
  5 Sun, Apr 10   MIN  W   4-3 (10)   4-1   1st  0.5 up
  4 Sat, Apr  9   MIN  W   7-0        3-1   1st    Tied
  3 Fri, Apr  8   MIN  W   4-3        2-1   2nd  1.0 gb
  2 Tue, Apr  5   NYM  L   0-2        1-1   3rd  1.0 gb
  1 Sun, Apr  3   NYM  W   4-3        1-0   1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 4-2    Last 20: 4-2    Last 30: 4-2
Houston Astros
3-4, 3rd, ½ GB, ½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    1-0    Road:    2-4    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   3-4    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   0-1 
 vsEast:  1-2    vsCntrl: 1-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  7 Mon, Apr 11   KCR  W   8-2        3-4   3rd  0.5 gb
  6 Sun, Apr 10  @MIL  L   2-3        2-4   3rd  1.5 gb
  5 Sat, Apr  9  @MIL  W   6-4        2-3   3rd  0.5 gb
  4 Fri, Apr  8  @MIL  L   4-6        1-3   4th  1.0 gb
  3 Thu, Apr  7  @NYY  L   5-8        1-2   2nd  1.0 gb
  2 Wed, Apr  6  @NYY  L   6-16       1-1   2nd  0.5 gb
  1 Tue, Apr  5  @NYY  W   5-3        1-0   1st  0.5 up
 Last 10: 3-4    Last 20: 3-4    Last 30: 3-4 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Apr 11, 2016 HOU  8  KCR  2        W:Collin McHugh (1-1), L: Chris Young (0-2), S: none

Sun, Jul 26, 2015 KCR  5  HOU  1        W:Yordano Ventura (5-7), L: Dallas Keuchel (12-5), S: none
Sat, Jul 25, 2015 KCR  2  HOU  1 (10)   W:Kelvin Herrera (2-2), L: Will Harris (4-2), S: none
Fri, Jul 24, 2015 HOU  4 @KCR  0        W:Scott Kazmir (6-5), L: Jeremy Guthrie (7-6), S: Luke Gregerson (21)
Wed, Jul 01, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  5        W:Luke Gregerson (3-1), L: Kelvin Herrera (1-2), S: none
Tue, Jun 30, 2015 HOU  4  KCR  0        W:Dallas Keuchel (10-3), L: Danny Duffy (2-4), S: none
Mon, Jun 29, 2015 HOU  6  KCR  1        W:Lance McCullers (4-2), L: Joe Blanton (2-1), S: none
Wed, May 28, 2014 HOU  9 @KCR  3        W:Jarred Cosart (4-4), L: Danny Duffy (2-5), S: none
Tue, May 27, 2014 HOU  3 @KCR  0        W:Collin McHugh (3-3), L: Jeremy Guthrie (2-4), S: none
Mon, May 26, 2014 HOU  9 @KCR  2        W:Scott Feldman (3-2), L: Yordano Ventura (2-5), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - HOU over 1-0; 2015 - HOU won 4-2; 2014 - Tied 3-3; All-Time - HOU leads 27-22

SP: Kris Medlen (30, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. HOU Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-2) 58.1 56 30 26 18 40 6 4.01
2013 (15-12) 197.0 194 77 68 47 157 18 3.11
2012 (10-1) 138.0 103 26 24 23 120 6 1.57
Last 7 GS 4-2 38.0 41 23 19 13 20 4 4.50 46
2015-10-01 @CHW W 6.0 4 2 1 3 4 0 100 59
2015-09-26 CLE L 3.2 9 6 6 1 4 1 76 22
2015-09-20 @DET W 5.0 5 3 0 3 2 0 97 50
2015-09-15 @CLE W 6.1 5 0 0 1 0 0 94 62
2015-09-09 MIN ND 6.0 3 2 2 2 2 1 90 58
2015-09-04 CHW L 5.2 11 7 7 1 3 1 98 21
2015-08-29 @TBR W 5.1 4 3 3 2 5 1 78 51
Last 5 v.HOU 0-0 5.1 5 1 1 2 6 0 1.69 58
2012-08-05 HOU ND 5.1 5 1 1 2 6 0 79 58

SP: Mike Fiers (31, RHP, 0-0, 9.00)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-0) 5.0 9 5 5 0 3 2 9.00
2015 (7-10) 180.1 162 83 74 64 180 24 3.69
2014 (6-5) 71.2 46 19 17 17 76 7 2.13
Last 7 GS 1-1 41.1 37 22 21 12 37 10 4.57 52
2016-04-07 @NYY ND 5.0 9 5 5 0 3 2 82 32
2015-09-29 @SEA ND 5.2 5 4 3 1 7 1 103 51
2015-09-23 LAA ND 6.2 4 3 3 3 3 1 107 54
2015-09-18 OAK ND 6.0 5 2 2 1 6 2 99 59
2015-09-13 @LAA ND 7.0 6 3 3 0 8 3 104 61
2015-09-07 @OAK L 5.0 5 4 4 4 5 1 99 42
2015-08-29 @MIN W 6.0 3 1 1 3 5 0 98 64
Last 5 v.KCR 0-1 5.0 8 6 6 3 2 0 10.80 26
2015-06-17 @KCR L 5.0 8 6 6 3 2 0 94 26

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NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Royals Batters (3.50 RS/G) vs. Astros Pitchers (6.00 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Fiers
G/S/vB		 47.Devenski
G/S/vB		 35.Fields
G/S/vB		 53.Giles
G/S/vB		 44.Gregerson
G/S/vB		 36.Harris
G/S/vB		 37.Neshek
G/S/vB		 29.Sipp*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .607 1/.000 0/1 1/4
6.Cain G/S/vP 3/2.167 ··· 4/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .772 25/.653 28/6 16/10
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .685 4/.833 3/2 0/5
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 3/1.667 3/.666 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .586 28/.643 17/5 3/13
34.Fuentes* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 / /// / 14/.516 / /
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/1.667 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 5/.000 18/.651 422/276 .271/.377/.432/.809 .817/.805 .823 23/.590 2/5 13/0
Gore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .000/.250/.000/.250 .000/.333 0/ 3/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/1.167 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 13/.539 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .757 25/.809 7/3 18/4
14.Infante G/S/vP 5/.400 ··· 2/.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 5/.400 4/.000 455/325 .220/.234/.318/.552 .561/.548 .594 18/.631 2/2 2/10
25.Morales# G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 1/.000 3/.333 6/1.133 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .846 24/.732 0/0 22/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 6/.200 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .809 27/.739 1/2 22/12
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .594 8/.750 3/3 7/4
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 4/1.000 ··· 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .710 21/.736 1/0 21/4
IP 180.1 50.2 70.0 61.0 71.0 54.2 54.1 TOTAL .245/.294/.390/.684 .912/.630 .721 .684 2/1 5/2
ERA-K/9 3.69/9.0 /0.0 3.55/11.9 1.80/11.2 3.10/8.7 1.90/8.6 3.62/8.4 1.99/10.3 6.25/9.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 761/.238 / 209/.210 298/.219 239/.213 276/.168 223/.240 216/.208 .278  Cain
 Orlando
 Gordon
 Gore
 Hosmer
0/136/5/6
37/5/45/5
101/0/0/4
4/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .713 .602 .569 .573 .525 .709 .606 .860
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 347/.664 / 86/.705 130/.574 127/.606 127/.455 86/.768 108/.599 .952
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 414/.756 / 123/.530 168/.565 112/.537 149/.586 137/.673 108/.613 .781
Home 380/.691 / 100/.574 182/.603 150/.600 130/.496 120/.757 93/.526
Last 28d days 23/1.164 10/.300 19/.980 11/1.091 8/.393 13/.397 8/.625 16/1.295
HR/SB/CS 24/12/5 // 2/3/2 2/2/0 5/3/0 8/7/0 8/0/1 5/2/3 13/5/2
Usage ····X··· ···X···· oo·X·X·· ··o·o·X· ··X···o· ·oo·X··· ·oX··o·· X···oX··

NOTE: Team stats shown are for the 2016 season. Player Stats for the 2015 season. We will switch to 2016 stats on May 1st.

Astros Batters (5.14 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.17 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 39.Medlen
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 41.Duffy*
G/S/vB		 53.Gee
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 67.Wang
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
27.Altuve G/S/vP 4/.000 7/.000 11/1.145 ··· 5/.400 5/.000 2/2.500 3/.666 689/479 .313/.353/.459/.812 .973/.743 .905 32/.804 38/13 15/5
15.Castro* G/S/vP ··· 6/1.100 2/.000 ··· 2/2.500 3/.666 4/1.000 3/2.667 375/264 .211/.283/.365/.648 .512/.707 .678 21/.343 0/0 11/1
1.Correa G/S/vP ··· ··· 7/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/2.000 432/292 .279/.345/.512/.857 .899/.836 .949 30/1.150 14/4 22/13
19.Duffy G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 9/2 .375/.444/.500/.944 .929/1.000 1.250 3/.000 0/0 0/0
30.Gomez G/S/vP 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 1/.000 8/1.339 4/.250 8/.393 477/370 .255/.314/.409/.724 .646/.745 .680 25/.480 17/9 12/7
9.Gonzalez# G/S/vP 4/.500 3/1.167 7/1.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 370/217 .279/.317/.442/.759 .843/.701 .738 11/.282 4/5 12/8
23.Kratz G/S/vP 7/.929 2/2.500 ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 28/13 .192/.214/.269/.484 .600/.336 .267 5/.000 0/0 0/0
6.Marisnick G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 3/.000 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 372/217 .236/.281/.383/.665 .669/.662 .604 4/.000 24/9 9/3
28.Rasmus* G/S/vP 2/.500 12/.349 7/.143 3/.333 5/1.400 10/.550 2/.500 4/.500 485/345 .238/.314/.475/.789 .835/.770 .770 27/1.254 2/1 25/5
4.Springer G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/2.950 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 451/291 .276/.367/.459/.826 .936/.767 .766 31/.637 16/4 16/3
20.Tucker* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 1/5.000 1/.000 323/255 .243/.297/.437/.734 .466/.807 .779 17/1.345 0/2 13/1
18.Valbuena* G/S/vP 5/.900 ··· ··· 8/1.250 1/no AB 9/.222 6/1.133 4/.500 493/361 .224/.310/.438/.748 .581/.808 .737 24/.639 1/0 25/7
13.White G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 / /// / 26/1.668 / /
IP 58.1 67.1 136.2 39.2 69.2 50.2 67.2 TOTAL .262/.319/.502/.821 .926/.810 1.074 .821 9/4 13/3
ERA-K/9 4.01/6.2 0.94/10.4 4.08/6.7 5.90/5.7 2.71/8.3 3.73/8.7 2.53/8.5 /0.0 3.17/10.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Castro (42-24-7)
 Kratz (2-1-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 243/.252 251/.144 588/.264 183/.329 286/.206 214/.250 272/.222 / .245  Rasmus
 Marisnick
 Springer
 Gomez
 Tucker
 Gonzalez
72/43/43/9
16/99/13/8
0/10/93/6
0/111/0/5
79/0/14/2
15/0/0/1
OPS .705 .451 .746 .879 .578 .737 .628 .700
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 131/.734 144/.453 118/.593 93/1.058 139/.470 87/.748 131/.722 / .698
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 112/.671 107/.449 470/.785 90/.690 147/.677 127/.730 141/.536 / .701
Road 127/.566 127/.359 311/.775 75/.757 151/.651 109/.845 136/.694 /
Last 28d days / 12/.444 18/.708 10/.650 14/.819 13/.762 15/1.236 14/.742
HR/SB/CS 6/3/1 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/3/1 5/7/2 7/3/1 8/3/0 // 4/6/3
Usage ·o·X···· X·X···X· ·X······ ···X··o· ·o·o··o· ···X··o· 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 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

For the 2015 season

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.