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Kansas City Royals vs. Minnesota Twins, at Kauffman Stadium, April 8, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Friday, April 8, 2016
Start Time:
7:15ct (local), 8:15et
Venue:
Kauffman Stadium
Series:
Game #1 of a 3-game series
Average Temp:
58° (based on last ten years)
Twins
Manager:
Paul Molitor
Game #:
4
On This Date:
16-15
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
3
On This Date:
20-11
Season Series

Fri, Apr 08, 2016 MIN    @KCR  8:15pm
Sat, Apr 09, 2016 MIN    @KCR  7:15pm
Sun, Apr 10, 2016 MIN    @KCR  2:15pm
Mon, May 23, 2016 KCR    @MIN  8:10pm
Tue, May 24, 2016 KCR    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, May 25, 2016 KCR    @MIN  1:10pm
Fri, Aug 12, 2016 KCR    @MIN  8:10pm
Sat, Aug 13, 2016 KCR    @MIN  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 14, 2016 KCR    @MIN  2:10pm
Thu, Aug 18, 2016 MIN    @KCR  8:15pm
Fri, Aug 19, 2016 MIN    @KCR  8:15pm
Sat, Aug 20, 2016 MIN    @KCR  7:15pm
Sun, Aug 21, 2016 MIN    @KCR  2:15pm
Mon, Sep 05, 2016 KCR    @MIN  2:10pm
Tue, Sep 06, 2016 KCR    @MIN  8:10pm
Wed, Sep 07, 2016 KCR    @MIN  8:10pm
Tue, Sep 27, 2016 MIN    @KCR  7:15pm
Wed, Sep 28, 2016 MIN    @KCR  7:15pm
Thu, Sep 29, 2016 MIN    @KCR  7:15pm

                         All times ET
Minnesota Twins
0-3, 5th, 2½ GB, 2 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    0-0    Road:    0-3    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   0-3    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   0-1 
 vsEast:  0-3    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  3 Thu, Apr  7  @BAL  L   2-4        0-3   5th  2.5 gb
  2 Wed, Apr  6  @BAL  L   2-4        0-2   5th  2.0 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  4  @BAL  L   2-3        0-1   5th  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 0-3    Last 20: 0-3    Last 30: 0-3
Kansas City Royals
1-1, 3rd, 1 GB, ½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:    1-1    Road:    0-0    ExtrInn: 0-0 
 vsRHP:   1-1    vsLHP:   0-0    1-Run:   1-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 0-0    vsWest:  0-0  IL: 1-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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: 1-1    Last 20: 1-1    Last 30: 1-1 

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Oct 04, 2015 KCR  6 @MIN  1        W:Johnny Cueto (11-13), L: Ricky Nolasco (5-2), S: none
Sat, Oct 03, 2015 KCR  5 @MIN  1        W:Yordano Ventura (13-8), L: Blaine Boyer (3-6), S: Wade Davis (17)
Fri, Oct 02, 2015 KCR  3 @MIN  1        W:Louis Coleman (1-0), L: Ervin Santana (7-5), S: Wade Davis (16)
Wed, Sep 09, 2015 MIN  3 @KCR  2 (12)   W:Blaine Boyer (3-4), L: Franklin Morales (3-2), S: Kevin Jepsen (12)
Tue, Sep 08, 2015 KCR  4  MIN  2        W:Edinson Volquez (13-7), L: Kyle Gibson (9-10), S: Greg Holland (30)
Mon, Sep 07, 2015 MIN  6 @KCR  2        W:Tommy Milone (8-4), L: Yordano Ventura (10-8), S: none
Sun, Jul 05, 2015 KCR  3  MIN  2        W:Greg Holland (2-0), L: Blaine Boyer (2-4), S: none
Sat, Jul 04, 2015 MIN  5 @KCR  3        W:Brian Duensing (3-0), L: Joe Blanton (2-2), S: Glen Perkins (27)
Fri, Jul 03, 2015 KCR  3  MIN  2 (10)   W:Wade Davis (4-1), L: Aaron Thompson (1-3), S: none
Thu, Jul 02, 2015 MIN  2 @KCR  0        W:Kyle Gibson (6-6), L: Chris Young (7-4), S: Glen Perkins (26)
Season Series: 2016 -  0-0; 2015 - KCR won 12-7; 2014 - KCR won 11-8; All-Time - MIN leads 380-353

SP: Ervin Santana (33, RHP, 0-0, 0.00)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (0-0) 2.0 2 0 0 2 3 0 0.00
2015 (7-5) 108.0 104 50 48 36 82 12 4.00
2014 (14-10) 196.0 193 90 86 63 179 16 3.95
Last 7 GS 4-1 45.0 33 9 9 16 40 1 1.80 64
2016-04-04 @BAL ND 2.0 2 0 0 2 3 0 39 53
2015-10-02 KCR L 7.0 4 2 2 3 3 0 110 61
2015-09-27 @DET W 7.0 6 1 1 2 5 0 104 64
2015-09-22 CLE W 7.0 5 1 1 1 7 0 106 69
2015-09-16 DET ND 7.0 4 2 2 4 5 0 109 62
2015-09-11 @CHW W 7.0 6 2 2 2 6 1 107 61
2015-09-05 @HOU W 8.0 6 1 1 2 11 0 119 75
Last 5 v.KCR 0-3 33.2 28 20 19 17 23 7 5.08 50
2015-10-02 KCR L 7.0 4 2 2 3 3 0 110 61
2015-07-05 @KCR ND 8.0 3 2 2 3 8 1 93 73
2012-04-08 KCR L 5.2 7 6 5 2 2 2 96 33
2011-06-10 KCR L 7.0 7 4 4 5 5 2 116 47
2011-05-30 @KCR ND 6.0 7 6 6 4 5 2 114 35

SP: Yordano Ventura (25, RHP, 0-0, undef)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (13-8) 163.1 154 75 74 58 156 14 4.08
2014 (14-10) 183.0 168 70 65 69 159 14 3.20
2013 (0-1) 15.1 13 6 6 6 11 3 3.52
Last 7 GS 4-1 43.0 41 16 15 16 49 2 3.14 57
2015-10-03 @MIN W 7.0 4 1 1 3 11 0 97 73
2015-09-28 @CHC ND 7.0 2 0 0 1 6 0 94 78
2015-09-23 SEA ND 6.0 6 3 3 1 4 0 103 51
2015-09-17 @CLE W 5.0 8 3 2 2 4 0 95 43
2015-09-12 @BAL W 5.2 8 4 4 3 5 1 96 39
2015-09-07 MIN L 5.1 8 4 4 5 8 1 107 39
2015-09-02 DET W 7.0 5 1 1 1 11 0 108 73
Last 5 v.MIN 2-3 30.0 27 14 13 21 36 2 3.90 53
2015-10-03 @MIN W 7.0 4 1 1 3 11 0 97 73
2015-09-07 MIN L 5.1 8 4 4 5 8 1 107 39
2014-08-16 @MIN L 6.2 4 3 3 6 4 0 114 52
2014-07-31 MIN W 7.0 5 2 1 3 7 1 103 65
2014-04-20 MIN L 4.0 6 4 4 4 6 0 94 36

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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.

Twins Batters (2.00 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (2.50 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 30.Ventura
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		 67.Wang
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
31.Arcia* G/S/vP 6/.167 2/.000 10/.311 3/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/1.750 ··· 65/40 .276/.338/.379/.718 .624/.779 .479 / 0/0 2/1
25.Buxton G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 138/93 .209/.250/.326/.576 .318/.704 .716 10/.600 2/2 2/0
2.Dozier G/S/vP 14/.846 14/.955 26/.808 4/.500 4/.500 6/.167 4/1.000 3/.666 7/.714 ··· 704/498 .236/.307/.444/.751 .762/.746 .716 13/.083 12/4 28/8
5.Escobar# G/S/vP 11/1.145 7/.000 4/.833 ··· 8/.125 ··· 3/.333 2/.000 5/.200 ··· 446/308 .262/.309/.445/.754 .789/.737 .772 12/1.167 2/3 12/6
7.Mauer* G/S/vP 13/.408 20/1.063 18/.513 4/1.250 7/1.029 38/1.385 3/.666 6/.900 16/1.268 9/.730 666/457 .265/.338/.380/.718 .720/.718 .740 13/1.021 2/1 10/5
12.Murphy G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 4/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 172/86 .277/.327/.406/.734 .770/.696 .699 3/1.000 0/0 3/3
9.Nunez G/S/vP 4/.000 4/.000 10/.400 3/2.000 4/1.000 ··· 2/.000 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· 204/139 .282/.327/.431/.758 .649/.809 .752 0/ 8/4 4/3
52.Park G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 8/.542 / /
24.Plouffe G/S/vP 16/.742 8/.821 22/.591 3/1.000 10/1.056 17/.886 7/1.738 4/.000 5/.000 ··· 632/452 .244/.307/.435/.742 .780/.727 .714 12/.583 2/1 22/12
20.Rosario* G/S/vP 6/.334 1/.000 3/.500 ··· 2/.500 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 474/354 .267/.289/.459/.748 .811/.727 .595 12/.417 11/6 13/7
22.Sano G/S/vP 6/.500 ··· 3/1.667 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 335/244 .269/.385/.530/.916 .881/.929 .775 12/.533 1/1 18/0
39.Santana# G/S/vP 9/.778 4/.250 12/.182 ··· 6/.334 ··· ··· ··· 7/.334 ··· 277/196 .215/.241/.291/.532 .624/.494 .468 4/1.000 8/4 0/16
8.Suzuki G/S/vP 10/.650 7/.715 18/.646 9/1.000 7/.143 16/.438 3/.000 8/.875 13/.885 3/.666 479/324 .240/.296/.314/.610 .658/.587 .596 8/.125 0/0 5/3
IP 163.1 67.1 136.2 39.2 69.2 50.2 168.1 58.1 67.2 TOTAL .216/.264/.361/.625 .536/.632 .625 .625 1/2 2/0
ERA-K/9 4.08/8.6 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 /0.0 2.50/9.0

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Murphy (21-8-7)
 Suzuki (80-14-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 693/.248 251/.144 588/.264 183/.329 286/.206 214/.250 713/.258 243/.252 272/.222 / .197  Rosario
 Escobar
 Buxton
 Nunez
 Arcia
 Santana
86/4/34/16
35/0/1/4
0/44/0/2
3/0/0/1
15/0/4/0
0/5/1/0
OPS .698 .451 .746 .879 .578 .737 .816 .705 .628 .569
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 362/.734 144/.453 118/.593 93/1.058 139/.470 87/.748 355/.844 131/.734 131/.722 / .636
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 331/.658 107/.449 470/.785 90/.690 147/.677 127/.730 358/.788 112/.671 141/.536 / .472
Home 336/.683 124/.542 277/.712 108/.965 135/.501 105/.630 366/.858 116/.846 136/.563 /
Last 28d days / 5/.650 7/.452 / 9/.778 3/.333 / / 10/.875 /
HR/SB/CS 14/2/4 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/3/1 5/7/2 7/3/1 31/10/5 6/3/1 8/3/0 // 1/2/1
Usage ····X··· ··X····· ··o·o··· ··o·o··· ··o·X···

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 (2.00 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (3.67 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 54.Santana
G/S/vB		 58.Abad*
G/S/vB		 50.Fien
G/S/vB		 45.Hughes
G/S/vB		 49.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 65.May
G/S/vB		 33.Milone*
G/S/vB		 47.Nolasco
G/S/vB		 15.Perkins*
G/S/vB		 57.Pressly
G/S/vB		 59.Tonkin
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 9/.666 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.500 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .404 / 0/1 1/4
6.Cain G/S/vP 6/.167 1/3.000 10/.775 13/.398 4/.000 8/1.042 27/1.009 8/.375 7/.429 4/1.750 1/.000 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .909 8/.833 28/6 16/10
24.Colon G/S/vP 3/.000 1/.000 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 7/.762 2/.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .698 / 3/2 0/5
2.Escobar G/S/vP 24/.772 1/.000 9/.444 23/.824 11/.473 9/.944 31/.620 19/.947 10/.800 10/1.378 2/.000 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .647 8/.750 17/5 3/13
34.Fuentes* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 6/.000 / /
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 36/.833 1/.000 8/.542 35/.707 7/.762 10/.929 17/1.055 16/.908 27/.915 7/1.971 1/3.000 422/276 .271/.377/.432/.809 .817/.805 .794 7/.286 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 16/1.417 ··· 7/1.286 20/.522 5/.000 8/.804 28/.774 12/.955 13/.847 5/1.000 1/.000 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .894 8/.929 7/3 18/4
14.Infante G/S/vP 14/.396 1/3.000 8/.946 16/.580 3/1.000 7/.453 12/.964 20/.650 8/.750 11/.600 2/1.000 455/325 .220/.234/.318/.552 .561/.548 .508 6/.667 2/2 2/10
25.Morales# G/S/vP 8/.625 1/.000 5/.800 16/.780 4/1.000 9/1.000 24/.500 2/.500 12/1.166 2/.000 ··· 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .847 8/.411 0/0 22/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 11/.282 2/1.000 9/.347 27/.796 6/.334 9/1.112 25/.711 16/.742 15/.666 6/.533 1/.000 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .827 8/.000 1/2 22/12
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 11/.764 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .809 / 3/3 7/4
13.Perez G/S/vP ··· ··· 14/1.071 20/.566 4/.000 10/.800 26/.551 17/.882 14/.594 9/.778 1/.000 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .701 6/.333 1/0 21/4
IP 108.0 47.2 63.1 155.1 69.2 114.2 128.2 37.1 57.0 27.2 23.1 TOTAL .197/.231/.246/.477 .000/.501 .477 .477 2/0 0/0
ERA-K/9 4.00/6.8 4.15/8.5 3.55/5.8 4.40/5.4 2.33/7.6 4.00/8.6 3.92/6.4 6.75/8.4 3.32/8.5 2.93/7.1 3.47/7.3 4.01/8.4

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 457/.253 205/.251 257/.250 651/.293 285/.206 492/.279 543/.260 173/.321 238/.256 119/.257 99/.239 .276  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 .729 .813 .648 .812 .560 .752 .731 .856 .701 .645 .699 .784
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 236/.804 110/.859 109/.717 346/.761 156/.653 257/.759 132/.603 81/.758 63/.850 42/.678 40/1.011 .599
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 221/.651 95/.753 148/.597 305/.869 129/.449 235/.743 411/.772 92/.942 175/.648 77/.626 59/.485 .857
Road 269/.708 96/1.029 128/.623 292/.878 145/.610 219/.774 283/.706 80/.895 95/.534 62/.940 49/.663
Last 28d days 10/.650 9/.347 10/1.167 24/.667 5/1.100 15/.800 / / / 11/.282 /
HR/SB/CS 12/7/1 11/0/3 6/5/1 29/7/2 5/4/2 11/10/2 17/8/3 3/1/2 9/1/0 0/1/2 4/4/1 3/1/0
Usage ···X···· ·o·X···· ·X·X···· X······· ···o···· X··X···· ·o·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.