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Oakland Athletics vs. Kansas City Royals, at O.co Coliseum, April 15, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Friday, April 15, 2016

Start Time:

7:05pt (local), 10:05et

Venue:

Oakland Coliseum

Series:

Game #1 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

59° (based on last ten years)

Royals

Manager:

Ned Yost

Game #:

On This Date:

17-16

Athletics

Manager:

Bob Melvin

Game #:

On This Date:

32-39

Season Series

Fri, Apr 15, 2016 KCR    @OAK 10:05pm
Sat, Apr 16, 2016 KCR    @OAK  4:05pm
Sun, Apr 17, 2016 KCR    @OAK  4:05pm
Mon, Sep 12, 2016 OAK    @KCR  7:15pm
Tue, Sep 13, 2016 OAK    @KCR  7:15pm
Wed, Sep 14, 2016 OAK    @KCR  7:15pm
Thu, Sep 15, 2016 OAK    @KCR  7:15pm

                         All times ET

Kansas City Royals

7-2, 1st, Tied / Schedule

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

 Home:    4-1    Road:    3-1    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   6-2    vsLHP:   1-0    1-Run:   4-0 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 3-0    vsWest:  3-1  IL: 1-1 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
  9 Thu, Apr 14  @HOU  W   6-2        7-2   1st    Tied
  8 Wed, Apr 13  @HOU  W   4-2        6-2   1st    Tied
  7 Tue, Apr 12  @HOU  W   3-2        5-2   1st    Tied
  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: 7-2    Last 20: 7-2    Last 30: 7-2

Oakland Athletics

4-6, 3rd, 1½ GB, 1½ GB in WC / Schedule

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

 Home:    1-6    Road:    3-0    ExtrInn: 1-0 
 vsRHP:   3-3    vsLHP:   1-3    1-Run:   3-3 
 vsEast:  0-0    vsCntrl: 1-3    vsWest:  3-3  IL: 0-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 10 Wed, Apr 13   LAA  L   1-5        4-6   3rd  1.5 gb
  9 Tue, Apr 12   LAA  L   4-5        4-5   3rd  1.0 gb
  8 Mon, Apr 11   LAA  L   1-4        4-4   1st    Tied
  7 Sun, Apr 10  @SEA  W   2-1 (10)   4-3   1st  1.0 up
  6 Sat, Apr  9  @SEA  W   6-1        3-3   1st    Tied
  5 Fri, Apr  8  @SEA  W   3-2        2-3   2nd  0.5 gb
  4 Thu, Apr  7   CHW  L   1-6        1-3   4th  1.5 gb
  3 Wed, Apr  6   CHW  W   2-1        1-2   3rd  1.0 gb
  2 Tue, Apr  5   CHW  L   4-5        0-2   4th  1.5 gb
  1 Mon, Apr  4   CHW  L   3-4        0-1   3rd  1.0 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 4-6    Last 30: 4-6

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 28, 2015 KCR  5 @OAK  3        W:Jeremy Guthrie (6-5), L: Jesse Chavez (4-7), S: Wade Davis (9)
Sat, Jun 27, 2015 KCR  3 @OAK  2        W:Chris Young (7-3), L: Scott Kazmir (4-5), S: Greg Holland (16)
Fri, Jun 26, 2015 KCR  5 @OAK  2        W:Edinson Volquez (8-4), L: Jesse Hahn (5-6), S: Greg Holland (15)
Sun, Apr 19, 2015 KCR  4  OAK  2        W:Franklin Morales (1-0), L: Eric O'Flaherty (0-1), S: Wade Davis (2)
Sat, Apr 18, 2015 OAK  5 @KCR  0        W:Jesse Hahn (1-1), L: Yordano Ventura (2-1), S: Jesse Chavez (1)
Fri, Apr 17, 2015 KCR  6  OAK  4        W:Wade Davis (2-0), L: Dan Otero (0-1), S: Greg Holland (4)
Thu, Aug 14, 2014 KCR  7  OAK  3        W:Aaron Crow (6-1), L: Jeff Samardzija (5-9), S: Greg Holland (36)
Wed, Aug 13, 2014 KCR  3  OAK  0        W:Jason Vargas (9-5), L: Scott Kazmir (13-5), S: none
Tue, Aug 12, 2014 OAK 11 @KCR  3        W:Jon Lester (13-7), L: Jeremy Guthrie (8-10), S: none
Mon, Aug 11, 2014 KCR  3  OAK  2        W:Kelvin Herrera (3-2), L: Sonny Gray (12-6), S: Greg Holland (35)
Season Series: 2016 -  0-0; 2015 - KCR won 5-1; 2014 - KCR won 5-2; All-Time - OAK leads 308-259

SP: Edinson Volquez (32, RHP, 1-0, 1.54)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (1-0)			11.2	10	2	2	3	15	0	1.54
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		2-2	41.2	43	15	15	13	40	4	3.24	55
2016-04-10	MIN	ND	5.2	8	2	2	0	10	0	103	55
2016-04-03	NYM	W	6.0	2	0	0	3	5	0	106	70
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

Last 5 v.OAK		2-2	22.0	17	8	8	9	14	1	3.27	54
2015-06-26	@OAK	W	7.0	3	1	1	1	3	0	107	69
2007-09-07	OAK	W	6.0	2	0	0	3	5	0	87	70
2006-08-25	OAK	L	4.0	7	3	3	3	2	0	91	35
2006-08-07	@OAK	L	5.0	5	4	4	2	4	1	95	43

SP: Rich Hill (36, LHP, 1-1, 3.12)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (1-1)			8.2	8	5	3	2	13	1	3.12
2015 (2-1)			29.0	14	5	5	5	36	2	1.55
2014 (0-0)			5.1	7	2	2	6	9	0	3.38

Last 7 GS		3-2	40.0	26	13	11	10	50	3	2.48	63
2016-04-09	@SEA	W	6.0	5	1	1	1	10	1	99	67
2016-04-04	CHW	L	2.2	3	4	2	1	3	0	66	42
2015-10-01	@NYY	L	6.0	4	2	2	3	6	1	102	59
2015-09-25	BAL	W	9.0	2	0	0	1	10	0	116	92
2015-09-20	@TOR	W	7.0	7	3	3	0	10	1	107	61
2015-09-13	@TBR	ND	7.0	1	0	0	1	10	0	109	84
2009-07-27	KCR	ND	2.1	4	3	3	3	1	0	61	35

Last 5 v.KCR		1-0	8.0	11	5	5	5	7	0	5.63	43
2009-07-27	KCR	ND	2.1	4	3	3	3	1	0	61	35
2009-05-16	@KCR	W	5.2	7	2	2	2	6	0	88	51

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

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 (3.78 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (3.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 18.Hill*
G/S/vB 61.Axford
G/S/vB 62.Doolittle*
G/S/vB 66.Dull
G/S/vB 31.Hendriks
G/S/vB 44.Madson
G/S/vB 33.Rodriguez
G/S/vB 35.Rzepczynski*
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 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 120/88 .196/.252/.252/.505 .586/.476 .607 1/.000 0/1 1/4

6.Cain G/S/vP ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 7/.715 ··· 1/no AB 5/1.100 604/402 .307/.361/.477/.838 .959/.777 .772 38/.728 28/6 16/10

24.Colon G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 119/80 .290/.356/.336/.692 .746/.666 .685 4/.833 3/2 0/5

2.Escobar G/S/vP 1/2.000 3/1.333 2/.000 ··· 12/.166 ··· 2/.000 2/2.000 662/466 .257/.293/.320/.614 .653/.598 .586 42/.524 17/5 3/13

34.Fuentes* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· / /// / 14/.516 / /

4.Gordon* G/S/vP 4/.500 3/.000 3/.000 ··· 12/.432 ··· 1/.000 11/.384 422/276 .271/.377/.432/.809 .817/.805 .823 35/.705 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 4/.250 4/.833 1/2.000 ··· 10/.522 ··· 1/.000 14/.453 667/401 .297/.363/.459/.822 .730/.885 .757 38/.823 7/3 18/4

14.Infante G/S/vP 2/.000 7/1.071 1/.000 ··· 4/.000 7/.286 4/.000 3/.666 455/325 .220/.234/.318/.552 .561/.548 .594 30/.714 2/2 2/10

25.Morales# G/S/vP 3/.666 1/.000 5/.000 ··· 3/2.667 ··· 1/.000 5/.400 639/377 .290/.362/.485/.847 .771/.901 .846 36/.649 0/0 22/0

8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 2/1.000 4/.833 2/1.000 ··· 9/1.417 ··· 2/.500 11/.910 614/383 .284/.348/.470/.817 .823/.814 .809 41/.858 1/2 22/12

16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 251/149 .249/.269/.444/.713 .705/.718 .594 19/.526 3/3 7/4

13.Perez G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 9/1.556 ··· 1/.000 2/.000 553/378 .260/.280/.426/.706 .560/.775 .710 33/.694 1/0 21/4

IP 29.0 55.2 13.2 17.0 64.2 63.1 58.2 35.0 TOTAL .251/.293/.397/.690 .879/.659 .708 .690 3/1 8/3

ERA-K/9

1.55/11.2

4.20/10.0

3.95/9.9

4.24/8.5

2.92/9.9

2.13/8.2

3.84/10.0

5.66/10.5

3.07/6.9

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

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 106/.141 250/.259 57/.235 66/.203 261/.240 248/.205 242/.200 158/.292 .230 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 .410 .704 .651 .713 .605 .573 .589 .760 .638

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 20/.358 111/.671 14/1.065 30/.875 112/.746 119/.547 97/.466 108/.661 .571

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 86/.423 139/.731 43/.531 36/.594 149/.499 129/.597 145/.672 50/.972 .687

Home 30/.169 133/.813 26/.580 32/.698 145/.542 112/.532 112/.670 83/.836

Last 28d days 38/.837 19/.632 21/1.118 19/.053 29/.913 20/.550 22/.318 12/.523

HR/SB/CS 2/1/0 4/8/2 1/1/0 4/0/0 3/6/2 5/1/1 4/2/3 3/5/1 7/3/4

Usage ·····X·· ··o·o·X· ··o·o·o· ·o·o·X·o ·X·X···X ··X·X·o· ·X····XX ·o···X·o

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

Athletics Batters (2.70 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (2.78 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 36.Volquez
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/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

17.Alonso* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 9/.819 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.666 402/316 .282/.361/.381/.742 .669/.762 .684 29/.241 2/5 5/3

1.Burns# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 555/378 .294/.334/.392/.726 .768/.707 .792 26/.588 26/8 5/3

16.Butler G/S/vP 3/.000 13/.385 3/.667 ··· 1/3.000 ··· 2/.500 9/.222 601/432 .251/.323/.390/.713 .687/.722 .768 19/.488 0/0 15/0

20.Canha G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 485/323 .254/.315/.426/.742 .587/.821 .767 12/.417 7/2 16/6

3.Coghlan* G/S/vP 9/.844 1/.000 ··· 4/.833 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 503/454 .250/.341/.443/.784 .348/.831 .667 25/.440 11/2 16/1

4.Crisp# G/S/vP 3/.000 5/.000 6/.334 6/1.333 1/.000 11/.637 11/.673 29/.643 139/96 .175/.252/.222/.474 .531/.448 .454 30/.695 2/0 0/0

2.Davis G/S/vP 15/.624 ··· ··· 5/1.800 ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· 440/322 .247/.323/.505/.828 .729/.864 .979 32/.419 6/2 27/5

8.Lowrie# G/S/vP ··· 6/.000 3/.666 ··· 1/.000 10/1.071 3/.000 ··· 263/191 .222/.312/.400/.712 .908/.641 .727 39/.474 1/0 9/3

19.Phegley G/S/vP ··· 5/.000 3/1.666 ··· 3/1.334 4/.000 ··· ··· 243/119 .249/.300/.449/.749 .788/.709 .784 13/.801 0/0 9/2

22.Reddick* G/S/vP 3/.666 11/1.155 6/.334 3/.333 3/.666 12/.750 6/1.333 ··· 582/433 .272/.333/.449/.781 .654/.826 .747 37/.779 10/2 20/5

10.Semien G/S/vP 2/.000 8/.625 3/.333 ··· 7/.167 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 601/437 .257/.310/.405/.715 .879/.653 .715 33/1.053 11/5 15/35

26.Valencia G/S/vP 2/1.000 13/.539 9/.476 ··· 2/.000 15/.619 3/.000 ··· 378/229 .290/.345/.519/.864 .834/.881 .906 36/.733 2/2 18/4

21.Vogt* G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.666 ··· 3/1.334 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 511/388 .261/.341/.443/.783 .631/.832 .740 31/.534 0/2 18/5

IP 200.1 67.1 136.2 39.2 69.2 50.2 67.2 TOTAL .215/.262/.332/.594 .638/.567 .553 .594 6/0 9/7

ERA-K/9

3.55/7.0

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

2.78/10.8

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Phegley (28-18-5)
Vogt (43-20-9)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 850/.251 251/.144 588/.264 183/.329 286/.206 214/.250 272/.222 / .229 Coghlan
Reddick
Burns
Crisp
Davis
Canha
Valencia 99/0/21/9
0/1/143/6
0/125/0/2
37/0/0/1
108/0/0/1
58/0/3/0
32/0/5/0

OPS .692 .451 .746 .879 .578 .737 .628 .677

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 436/.694 144/.453 118/.593 93/1.058 139/.470 87/.748 131/.722 / .662

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 414/.690 107/.449 470/.785 90/.690 147/.677 127/.730 141/.536 / .687

Road 449/.716 127/.359 311/.775 75/.757 151/.651 109/.845 136/.694 /

Last 28d days 47/.504 18/.410 25/.795 10/.650 21/.602 21/.812 23/.941 14/.742

HR/SB/CS 16/18/4 3/4/1 15/5/2 5/3/1 5/7/2 7/3/1 8/3/0 // 6/6/4

Usage ····X··· o·X·o·X· X··X·X·· ····X··· ·XX···X· ·oo·o·o· ·oX···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 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

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.