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Tampa Bay Rays vs. Kansas City Royals, at Tropicana Field, August 3, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Tropicana Field
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
109
On This Date:
24-18
Rays
Manager:
Kevin Cash
Game #:
107
On This Date:
10-8
Season Series
Mon, May 30, 2016 KCR  6  TBR  2     
Tue, May 31, 2016 KCR 10  TBR  5     
Wed, Jun 01, 2016 KCR  6  TBR  3     
Mon, Aug 01, 2016 KCR  3 @TBR  0     
Tue, Aug 02, 2016 KCR  3 @TBR  2     

Wed, Aug 03, 2016 KCR    @TBR  7:10pm
Thu, Aug 04, 2016 KCR    @TBR 12:10pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
51-55, 3rd, 10 GB, 8½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-19   Road:   19-36   ExtrInn: 4-0 
 vsRHP:  40-43   vsLHP:  11-12   1-Run:  15-13
 vsEast: 10-11   vsCntrl:23-15   vsWest: 10-20 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
106 Tue, Aug  2  @TBR  W   3-2       51-55  3rd 10.0 gb
105 Mon, Aug  1  @TBR  W   3-0       50-55  4th 11.0 gb
104 Sun, Jul 31  @TEX  L   3-5       49-55  4th 12.0 gb
103 Sat, Jul 30  @TEX  L   1-2       49-54  4th 11.0 gb
102 Fri, Jul 29  @TEX  L   3-8       49-53  4th 10.0 gb
101 Thu, Jul 28  @TEX  L   2-3       49-52  4th  9.0 gb
100 Wed, Jul 27   LAA  W   7-5       49-51  4th  8.5 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 26   LAA  L   0-13      48-51  4th  9.5 gb
 98 Mon, Jul 25   LAA  L   2-6       48-50  4th  8.5 gb
 97 Sun, Jul 24   TEX  L   1-2       48-49  3rd  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 7-13   Last 30:11-19
Tampa Bay Rays
42-63, 5th, 18 GB, 17 GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   22-32   Road:   20-31   ExtrInn: 2-2 
 vsRHP:  30-49   vsLHP:  12-14   1-Run:   7-18
 vsEast: 18-22   vsCntrl: 7-18   vsWest: 10-13 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
105 Tue, Aug  2   KCR  L   2-3       42-63  5th 18.0 gb
104 Mon, Aug  1   KCR  L   0-3       42-62  5th 17.0 gb
103 Sun, Jul 31   NYY  W   5-3       42-61  5th 16.5 gb
102 Sat, Jul 30   NYY  W   6-3       41-61  5th 17.0 gb
101 Fri, Jul 29   NYY  W   5-1       40-61  5th 17.5 gb
100 Wed, Jul 27  @LAD  W   3-1       39-61  5th 19.0 gb
 99 Tue, Jul 26  @LAD  L   2-3       38-61  5th 20.0 gb
 98 Sun, Jul 24  @OAK  L   2-3       38-60  5th 19.5 gb
 97 Sat, Jul 23  @OAK  L   3-4       38-59  5th 18.5 gb
 96 Fri, Jul 22  @OAK  L   0-1 (13)  38-58  5th 17.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:10-20

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Tue, Aug 02, 2016 KCR  3 @TBR  2        W:Chris Young (3-8), L: Xavier Cedeno (3-3), S: Kelvin Herrera (3)
Mon, Aug 01, 2016 KCR  3 @TBR  0        W:Danny Duffy (7-1), L: Chris Archer (5-15), S: Kelvin Herrera (2)
Wed, Jun 01, 2016 KCR  6  TBR  3        W:Danny Duffy (1-0), L: Chris Archer (3-7), S: Wade Davis (16)
Tue, May 31, 2016 KCR 10  TBR  5        W:Dillon Gee (2-2), L: Drew Smyly (2-7), S: Wade Davis (15)
Mon, May 30, 2016 KCR  6  TBR  2        W:Kelvin Herrera (1-1), L: Erasmo Ramirez (6-3), S: none

Sun, Aug 30, 2015 TBR  3  KCR  2        W:Xavier Cedeno (3-1), L: Luke Hochevar (1-1), S: Brad Boxberger (32)
Sat, Aug 29, 2015 KCR  6 @TBR  3        W:Kris Medlen (3-0), L: Jake Odorizzi (6-7), S: Wade Davis (13)
Fri, Aug 28, 2015 KCR  3 @TBR  2        W:Edinson Volquez (12-7), L: Erasmo Ramirez (10-5), S: Greg Holland (29)
Thu, Jul 09, 2015 KCR  8  TBR  3        W:Yordano Ventura (4-6), L: Nate Karns (4-5), S: none
Wed, Jul 08, 2015 KCR  9  TBR  7        W:Jeremy Guthrie (7-5), L: Chris Archer (9-6), S: Greg Holland (17)
Season Series: 2016 - KCR over 5-0; 2015 - KCR won 6-1; 2014 - KCR won 4-2; All-Time - KCR leads 73-71

SP: Edinson Volquez (32, RHP, 8-9, 4.70)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TBR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (8-9) 130.1 135 73 68 49 99 14 4.70
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 1-3 38.2 44 28 26 16 26 5 6.05 44
2016-07-29 @TEX L 6.0 9 6 5 2 5 2 105 35
2016-07-24 TEX ND 6.0 7 1 1 3 3 0 91 54
2016-07-18 CLE ND 7.0 4 2 2 3 6 1 112 64
2016-07-09 SEA W 6.0 6 3 3 1 3 1 91 50
2016-07-04 @TOR L 6.0 4 4 4 3 5 0 98 50
2016-06-29 @STL ND 6.2 6 0 0 1 4 0 104 65
2016-06-24 HOU L 1.0 8 12 11 3 0 1 48 -12
Last 5 v.TBR 3-0 32.0 23 9 8 14 21 2 2.25 59
2015-08-28 @TBR W 6.2 6 2 1 2 5 0 106 59
2015-07-07 TBR ND 5.0 5 1 1 3 5 1 101 55
2014-06-23 @TBR W 8.0 5 1 1 2 1 0 110 67
2013-05-10 @TBR ND 6.0 3 2 2 4 3 0 100 57
2011-06-29 @TBR W 6.1 4 3 3 3 7 1 98 57

SP: Jake Odorizzi (26, RHP, 5-5, 3.88)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (5-5) 125.1 117 55 54 35 115 18 3.88
2015 (9-9) 169.1 149 65 63 46 150 18 3.35
2014 (11-13) 168.0 156 79 77 59 174 20 4.13
Last 7 GS 2-2 41.0 44 20 20 8 33 6 4.39 51
2016-07-29 NYY W 6.2 6 0 0 0 5 0 104 67
2016-07-22 @OAK ND 8.0 5 0 0 0 5 0 100 77
2016-07-17 BAL W 6.0 7 2 2 1 7 1 100 56
2016-07-10 @BOS L 5.0 6 4 4 1 4 1 86 42
2016-07-05 LAA L 5.1 9 7 7 2 4 1 98 24
2016-06-30 DET ND 5.0 3 2 2 3 7 0 108 57
2016-06-25 @BAL ND 5.0 8 5 5 1 1 3 99 31
Last 5 v.KCR 0-3 15.2 23 13 13 5 17 1 7.47 39
2015-08-29 KCR L 4.2 7 4 4 2 5 0 93 37
2014-07-07 KCR L 6.0 6 2 2 2 8 0 101 58
2014-04-09 @KCR L 5.0 10 7 7 1 4 1 94 22

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Royals Batters (3.87 RS/G) vs. Rays Pitchers (4.43 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 23.Odorizzi
G/S/vB		 35.Andriese
G/S/vB		 26.Boxberger
G/S/vB		 31.Cedeno*
G/S/vB		 37.Colome
G/S/vB		 49.Floro
G/S/vB		 52.Garton
G/S/vB		 40.Jepsen
G/S/vB		 30.Ramirez
G/S/vB		 45.Romero*
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP ··· 2/2.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 78/62 .296/.351/.549/.900 .517/1.002 .601 15/1.000 0/0 3/2
6.Cain G/S/vP 10/.775 6/.334 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 5/1.467 2/1.000 323/255 .284/.331/.405/.736 1.048/.655 .755 16/.404 8/4 8/3
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 112/85 .245/.313/.284/.597 .459/.641 .649 27/.509 0/1 0/0
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· 7/.286 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· 291/226 .298/.334/.449/.783 .918/.743 .784 89/.868 1/0 9/8
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 2/1.000 5/.650 1/no AB ··· 2/2.000 ··· 1/.000 5/.600 3/1.167 2/.000 210/192 .249/.320/.351/.672 .844/.656 .642 41/.740 16/5 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP 9/.666 9/.111 2/1.000 ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· 14/.368 8/.250 1/.000 465/367 .256/.283/.309/.592 .476/.623 .518 85/.511 14/4 1/12
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 7/1.286 4/1.000 1/.000 2/1.000 2/2.500 1/2.000 ··· 8/.929 4/1.250 1/.000 296/212 .203/.307/.328/.636 .495/.690 .625 80/.631 6/0 7/1
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 11/1.445 8/.661 3/1.334 3/.666 3/.666 ··· ··· 7/.000 6/1.917 2/2.000 439/312 .279/.337/.444/.781 .720/.806 .763 85/.477 4/1 15/5
27.Mondesi# G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 27/16 .240/.240/.240/.480 .727/.286 .444 27/.480 1/0 0/2
25.Morales# G/S/vP 3/.666 9/.222 3/1.666 4/.833 3/.666 1/.000 2/1.000 5/.800 5/1.000 4/.500 398/289 .244/.312/.428/.739 .816/.710 .702 88/.540 0/0 17/0
16.Orlando G/S/vP 2/.000 7/.715 3/2.667 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 2/1.000 5/1.000 3/.666 3/.666 280/204 .322/.345/.419/.765 .866/.728 .652 77/.801 7/1 2/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 9/.819 6/.334 1/.000 1/5.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 7/.857 5/1.800 3/1.334 367/275 .268/.302/.476/.778 .798/.771 .666 76/.762 0/0 16/3
IP 125.1 76.0 2.2 34.0 38.1 10.1 15.2 35.2 63.1 31.2 TOTAL .265/.314/.398/.711 .749/.700 .666 .639 64/20 91/57
ERA-K/9 3.88/8.3 2.72/6.8 6.75/6.7 3.97/8.7 2.11/11.7 4.35/7.0 5.17/7.5 5.55/6.3 3.84/7.0 5.40/8.8 4.24/8.4

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (7-3-0)
 Perez (24-29-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 515/.247 297/.223 15/.462 144/.238 150/.197 49/.364 72/.313 161/.317 267/.279 143/.262 .258  Dyson
 Gordon
 Orlando
 Cain
 Morales
18/28/21/8
73/0/0/5
0/12/63/4
0/72/4/2
0/0/5/0
OPS .712 .573 1.226 .627 .573 .840 .733 .912 .778 .766 .732
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 226/.601 120/.560 8/1.625 74/.451 63/.549 22/.905 18/.656 60/1.013 100/.898 60/.767 .707
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 289/.802 177/.583 7/.762 70/.804 87/.590 27/.787 54/.756 101/.852 167/.708 83/.764 .746
Home 285/.677 143/.534 9/.889 79/.498 78/.651 20/.844 51/.790 97/.853 128/.606 67/1.096
Last 28d days 101/.608 51/.527 9/.889 26/.708 24/.558 49/.840 7/.452 20/.463 41/.695 17/.769
HR/SB/CS 18/5/4 4/9/0 1/0/0 2/0/0 4/0/1 0/2/0 0/1/1 7/1/0 9/4/1 5/1/0 132/61/24
Usage ····X··· X··X···· o·X····· X·o·o·Xo ··ooo·o· o···X··· ········ oX··o·o· X·X·o··· ·X······
Rays Batters (3.93 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.39 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 36.Volquez
G/S/vB		 33.Flynn*
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 47.Moylan
G/S/vB		 62.Pounders
G/S/vB		 48.Soria
G/S/vB		 64.Strahm*
G/S/vB		 67.Wang
G/S/vB		 32.Young
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
1.Beckham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 141/70 .223/.279/.431/.709 .702/.715 .537 34/1.019 1/1 5/3
19.Casali G/S/vP 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 202/136 .169/.256/.326/.582 .666/.539 .572 22/.619 0/0 7/4
10.Dickerson* G/S/vP 9/1.069 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/3.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 338/287 .236/.285/.460/.745 .540/.783 .613 76/.809 0/1 15/1
11.Forsythe G/S/vP 6/.500 ··· 3/.666 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/.650 337/263 .272/.332/.443/.776 .908/.737 .772 96/.619 5/2 10/6
2.Franklin# G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 64/46 .281/.359/.404/.763 .556/.849 .784 26/.641 4/1 1/2
8.Jennings G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 7/.619 ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 4/.833 6/.650 225/153 .200/.281/.350/.631 .549/.672 .529 7/.429 2/0 7/2
39.Kiermaier* G/S/vP 8/.500 ··· 3/1.334 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/1.000 199/150 .215/.317/.384/.700 .706/.698 .654 62/.563 9/2 5/2
3.Longoria G/S/vP 15/.733 ··· 5/.400 ··· ··· 9/1.413 ··· 5/.200 9/1.111 444/352 .281/.331/.526/.857 .859/.856 .793 90/.870 0/2 23/6
46.Maile G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 42/32 .184/.244/.237/.481 .222/.557 .646 42/.481 0/0 0/2
13.Miller* G/S/vP ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· ··· 5/.000 1/.000 ··· 2/1.000 375/319 .249/.296/.476/.772 .738/.778 .782 80/.880 4/3 17/13
38.Motter G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 93/65 .188/.290/.300/.590 1.030/.408 .799 / 0/1 2/2
20.Souza G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.500 317/239 .239/.290/.392/.683 .669/.687 .676 69/.373 5/4 10/2
IP 130.1 34.0 47.2 24.2 4.2 45.0 1.0 41.1 69.2 TOTAL .238/.305/.415/.720 .769/.705 .688 .668 37/24 134/66
ERA-K/9 4.70/6.8 3.18/7.4 1.51/11.3 4.38/6.9 13.50/11.5 4.00/8.6 9.00/27.0 4.57/5.4 6.59/9.7 4.31/8.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Casali (22-13-3)
 Maile (4-3-0)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 567/.266 134/.217 183/.197 108/.301 24/.429 194/.265 5/.250 178/.294 319/.285 .256  Souza
 Jennings
 Kiermaier
 Dickerson
 Motter
 Franklin
0/3/74/4
33/30/0/3
0/54/0/2
39/0/2/1
7/0/6/1
8/0/1/0
OPS .732 .633 .525 .772 1.315 .823 .650 .814 .976 .751
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 287/.731 51/.585 90/.611 38/1.087 15/1.538 96/.666 2/1.000 87/.768 152/1.262 .774
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 280/.732 83/.661 93/.443 70/.609 9/.873 98/.989 3/.333 91/.856 167/.737 .732
Road 238/.797 61/.745 93/.577 54/.664 12/1.117 99/.790 5/.650 65/.781 144/1.187
Last 28d days 106/.825 48/.649 29/.393 22/1.230 15/1.538 40/1.250 5/.650 31/1.039 46/.729
HR/SB/CS 14/8/4 4/0/0 2/0/1 2/0/0 3/0/1 7/1/2 0/0/0 5/2/2 26/9/2 142/31/32
Usage ····X··· ··o·X··· oo····o· ··o·o··· ···o···· o··X··X· o·X····· ·······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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.52

HOU  4.44

ATL  3.42

 RA/G

CHC  3.46

BAL  4.44

CIN  5.61

 BA

J. Altuve  .360

S. Gennett  .271

D. Norris  .192

 OBP

M. Trout  .428

C. Beltran  .340

D. Norris  .255

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .636

D. Gregorius  .453

A. Escobar  .309

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.040

C. Davis  .780

A. Ramirez  .590

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.79

D. Straily  3.80

S. Gray  5.84

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.12

A. Sanchez  7.62

M. Pelfrey  4.06

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.