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Kansas City Royals vs. New York Mets, at Kauffman Stadium, April 3, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Start Time:
7:37ct (local), 8:37et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #1 of a 2-game series
Average Temp:
56° (based on last ten years)
Mets
Manager:
Terry Collins
Game #:
1
On This Date:
9-4
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
1
On This Date:
5-7
Season Series

Sun, Apr 03, 2016 NYM    @KCR  8:37pm
Tue, Apr 05, 2016 NYM    @KCR  4:15pm
Tue, Jun 21, 2016 KCR    @NYM  7:10pm
Wed, Jun 22, 2016 KCR    @NYM  1:10pm

                         All times ET
New York Mets
0-0, / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    0-0    Road:    0-0    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   0-0    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   0-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 Last 10: 0-0    Last 20: 0-0    Last 30: 0-0
Kansas City Royals
0-0, / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    0-0    Road:    0-0    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   0-0    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   0-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 Last 10: 0-0    Last 20: 0-0    Last 30: 0-0 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 04, 2013 KCR  6 @NYM  2        W:Ervin Santana (8-6), L: Zack Wheeler (4-2), S: none
Sat, Aug 03, 2013 KCR  4 @NYM  3 (12)   W:Kelvin Herrera (4-5), L: David Aardsma (2-1), S: Greg Holland (29)
Fri, Aug 02, 2013 NYM  4  KCR  2 (11)   W:Carlos Torres (2-2), L: Luis Mendoza (2-6), S: none
Sun, Jun 13, 2004 NYM  5 @KCR  2        W:Tom Glavine (7-3), L: Zack Greinke (1-2), S: Braden Looper (12)
Sat, Jun 12, 2004 KCR  4  NYM  3        W:Jeremy Affeldt (2-3), L: David Weathers (5-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 11, 2004 KCR  7  NYM  5        W:Darrell May (3-8), L: Jae Weong Seo (3-5), S: Jeremy Affeldt (8)
Sun, Jun 23, 2002 NYM  5  KCR  4        W:Scott Strickland (6-3), L: Jason Grimsley (2-3), S: Armando Benitez (18)
Sat, Jun 22, 2002 KCR  5 @NYM  1        W:Paul Byrd (9-5), L: Pedro Astacio (7-3), S: none
Fri, Jun 21, 2002 NYM  4  KCR  3        W:Mark Guthrie (2-0), L: Brad Voyles (0-1), S: none
Season Series: 2016 -  0-0; 2015 -  0-0; 2014 -  0-0; All-Time - KCR leads 5-4

SP: Matt Harvey (27, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (13-8) 189.1 156 62 57 37 188 18 2.71
2013 (9-5) 178.1 135 46 45 31 191 7 2.27
2012 (3-5) 59.1 42 19 18 26 70 5 2.73
Last 7 GS 2-1 41.1 40 15 14 6 53 2 3.05 58
2015-10-03 WSN L 6.0 4 1 0 0 11 0 91 73
2015-09-26 @CIN W 6.2 9 2 2 0 6 0 97 54
2015-09-20 NYY ND 5.0 1 0 0 1 7 0 77 71
2015-09-08 @WSN ND 5.1 8 7 7 2 6 0 74 28
2015-09-02 PHI W 6.1 9 4 4 1 9 1 101 47
2015-08-28 BOS ND 6.0 2 0 0 1 8 0 103 75
2015-08-16 PIT ND 6.0 7 1 1 1 6 1 103 59
Has never faced KCR as starter.

SP: Edinson Volquez (32, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. NYM Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
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
2013 (9-12) 170.1 193 114 108 77 142 19 5.71
Last 7 GS 2-2 39.2 47 21 20 13 33 5 4.54 48
2015-09-30 @CHW ND 6.0 9 1 1 1 5 0 117 54
2015-09-25 CLE L 6.0 4 3 3 2 7 2 101 57
2015-09-19 @DET ND 6.0 7 3 3 4 6 0 112 48
2015-09-14 @CLE L 5.0 7 4 4 3 4 2 100 38
2015-09-08 MIN W 7.0 6 2 2 0 3 0 91 60
2015-09-03 DET ND 3.0 8 6 6 1 3 1 78 21
2015-08-28 @TBR W 6.2 6 2 1 2 5 0 106 59
Last 5 v.NYM 2-2 20.2 27 14 14 15 25 0 6.10 44
2014-06-29 NYM W 6.0 8 0 0 1 7 0 98 62
2014-05-27 @NYM ND 5.0 4 2 2 5 6 0 106 52
2013-08-17 NYM W 5.0 7 2 2 2 5 0 100 48
2013-04-01 @NYM L 3.0 6 6 6 3 4 0 79 24
2012-08-04 NYM L 1.2 2 4 4 4 3 0 54 34

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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.

Mets Batters ( RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers ( RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Volquez
G/S/vB		 55.Collins*
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		 31.Kennedy
G/S/vB		 39.Medlen
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 30.Ventura
G/S/vB		 32.Young
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Cabrera# G/S/vP 14/.895 13/1.283 9/1.306 10/1.056 6/.167 7/.953 40/.817 6/2.067 6/.900 11/.489 8/.625 5/.200 551/391 .265/.315/.430/.744 .725/.752 .723 / 6/3 15/9
29.Campbell G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 206/163 .197/.312/.295/.607 .588/.612 .726 / 5/3 3/8
52.Cespedes G/S/vP 3/.666 2/2.000 6/1.167 6/.167 ··· 2/2.500 7/1.429 ··· ··· 2/.000 7/.286 14/.396 676/521 .291/.328/.542/.870 .736/.909 .976 / 7/5 35/7
30.Conforto* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 194/179 .270/.335/.506/.841 .481/.872 .828 / 0/1 9/0
7.d'Arnaud G/S/vP 6/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 268/216 .268/.340/.485/.825 1.112/.758 .878 / 0/0 12/3
16.De Aza* G/S/vP 3/1.333 9/1.127 15/.564 ··· ··· 8/.661 19/.980 8/1.357 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 2/.000 365/314 .262/.333/.422/.755 .470/.800 .736 / 7/5 7/2
21.Duda* G/S/vP 11/.830 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· ··· 13/.785 18/.722 ··· ··· ··· 554/422 .244/.352/.486/.838 .878/.823 .684 / 0/2 27/3
4.Flores G/S/vP 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 510/403 .263/.295/.408/.703 .955/.637 .738 / 0/1 16/14
3.Granderson* G/S/vP 12/.250 5/.650 14/.884 6/.200 7/1.229 1/3.000 14/.864 15/1.200 1/.000 16/.646 ··· 3/.333 682/539 .259/.364/.457/.821 .558/.892 .880 / 11/6 26/5
12.Lagares G/S/vP 8/.875 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 9/.444 5/1.000 ··· ··· ··· 465/333 .259/.289/.358/.647 .771/.599 .683 / 7/3 6/2
26.Plawecki G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 258/216 .219/.280/.296/.576 .411/.609 .622 / 0/0 3/1
20.Walker# G/S/vP 18/.402 1/.000 ··· ··· 9/.476 2/.000 4/2.500 21/1.334 11/1.212 ··· 3/.000 ··· 603/501 .269/.328/.427/.756 .575/.793 .777 / 4/1 16/7
5.Wright G/S/vP 17/.448 ··· 3/1.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 22/1.220 27/.576 ··· ··· 12/.444 174/132 .289/.379/.434/.814 1.023/.746 .764 / 2/1 5/4
IP 200.1 67.1 136.2 39.2 69.2 50.2 168.1 58.1 67.2 163.1 123.1 TOTAL /// / / /
ERA-K/9 3.55/7.0 /0.0 0.94/10.4 4.08/6.7 5.90/5.7 2.71/8.3 3.73/8.7 4.28/9.3 4.01/6.2 2.53/8.5 4.08/8.6 3.06/6.1 0.00/0.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 d'Arnaud (29-14-1)
 Plawecki (32-11-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 850/.251 / 251/.144 588/.264 183/.329 286/.206 214/.250 713/.258 243/.252 272/.222 693/.248 500/.202  Cespedes
 Granderson
 Conforto
 De Aza
 Lagares
 Campbell
134/40/0/13
0/2/149/9
50/0/0/6
69/1/37/4
0/137/2/3
4/0/0/1
OPS .692 .451 .746 .879 .578 .737 .816 .705 .628 .698 .640
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 436/.694 / 144/.453 118/.593 93/1.058 139/.470 87/.748 355/.844 131/.734 131/.722 362/.734 261/.732
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 414/.690 / 107/.449 470/.785 90/.690 147/.677 127/.730 358/.788 112/.671 141/.536 331/.658 239/.542
Home 401/.664 / 124/.542 277/.712 108/.965 135/.501 105/.630 366/.858 116/.846 136/.563 336/.683 242/.684
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 16/18/4 // 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/3/1 5/7/2 7/3/1 31/10/5 6/3/1 8/3/0 14/2/4 16/18/7 //
Usage

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 ( RS/G) vs. Mets Pitchers ( RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Harvey
G/S/vB		 59.Bastardo*
G/S/vB		 39.Blevins*
G/S/vB		 40.Colon
G/S/vB		 48.deGrom
G/S/vB		 66.Edgin*
G/S/vB		 27.Familia
G/S/vB		 51.Henderson
G/S/vB		 32.Matz*
G/S/vB		 43.Reed
G/S/vB		 47.Robles
G/S/vB		 34.Syndergaard
G/S/vB		 35.Verrett
G/S/vB		 45.Wheeler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .404 / 0/1 1/4
6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 2/.500 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.400 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.334 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .909 / 28/6 16/10
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .698 / 3/2 0/5
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/.666 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 225/184 .250/.311/.380/.691 .578/.715 .696 / 26/3 2/2
2.Escobar G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.800 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/.453 ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .647 / 17/5 3/13
34.Fuentes* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / / / /
4.Gordon* G/S/vP ··· ··· 6/.167 13/1.316 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/.250 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 422/276 .271/.377/.432/.809 .817/.805 .794 / 2/5 13/0
Gore G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/3 .000/.250/.000/.250 .000/.333 .250 / 3/0 0/0
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 3/.000 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 7/.143 ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .894 / 7/3 18/4
14.Infante G/S/vP 4/1.000 7/.619 1/.000 7/.572 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 455/325 .220/.234/.318/.552 .561/.548 .508 / 2/2 2/10
25.Morales# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 13/.581 21/.588 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .847 / 0/0 22/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/3.000 5/1.800 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/1.250 ··· ··· ··· 3/2.667 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .827 / 1/2 22/12
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .809 / 3/3 7/4
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 8/.393 ··· ··· ··· ··· 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .701 / 1/0 21/4
IP 189.1 57.1 5.0 194.2 191.0 78.0 35.2 56.0 54.0 150.0 47.2 TOTAL /// / / /
ERA-K/9 2.71/8.9 2.98/10.1 0.00/7.2 4.16/6.3 2.54/9.7 /0.0 1.85/9.9 /0.0 2.27/8.6 3.38/8.2 3.67/10.2 3.24/10.0 3.59/7.4 /0.0 0.00/0.0

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 755/.222 239/.188 15/.000 815/.281 751/.215 / 308/.207 / 149/.250 241/.262 217/.190 603/.225 190/.202 /  Dyson
 Cain
 Orlando
 Gordon
 Gore
 Hosmer
27/37/17/8
0/136/5/6
37/5/45/5
101/0/0/4
4/0/0/0
0/0/1/0
OPS .609 .571 .000 .741 .574 .569 .650 .714 .659 .645 .617
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 377/.676 73/.448 14/.000 425/.735 387/.663 / 142/.616 / 40/.650 106/.699 84/.560 299/.691 92/.681 /
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 378/.544 166/.626 1/.000 390/.748 364/.475 / 166/.531 / 109/.644 135/.726 133/.723 304/.601 98/.557 /
Road 313/.629 114/.543 5/.000 428/.773 378/.647 / 114/.470 / 94/.642 136/.558 108/.596 286/.753 105/.547 /
Last 28d days / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
HR/SB/CS 18/11/3 4/8/0 0/2/0 25/6/3 16/4/6 // 6/2/1 // 4/3/0 3/2/1 8/2/1 19/15/1 6/2/0 // //
Usage

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.