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Texas Rangers vs. Kansas City Royals, at Globe Life Park in Arlington, July 30, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Start Time:
7:05ct (local), 8:05et
Venue:
Globe Life Park in Arlington
Series:
Game #3 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
95° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
105
On This Date:
19-24
Rangers
Manager:
Jeff Banister
Game #:
106
On This Date:
27-26
Season Series
Fri, Jul 22, 2016 KCR  3  TEX  1     
Sat, Jul 23, 2016 TEX  7 @KCR  4     
Sun, Jul 24, 2016 TEX  2 @KCR  1     
Thu, Jul 28, 2016 TEX  3  KCR  2     
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 TEX  8  KCR  3     

Sat, Jul 30, 2016 KCR    @TEX  8:05pm
Sun, Jul 31, 2016 KCR    @TEX  3:05pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
49-53, 4th, 10 GB, 8½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-19   Road:   17-34   ExtrInn: 4-0 
 vsRHP:  38-42   vsLHP:  11-11   1-Run:  14-12
 vsEast:  8-11   vsCntrl:23-15   vsWest: 10-18 IL: 8-9 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/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
 96 Sat, Jul 23   TEX  L   4-7       48-48  3rd  8.0 gb
 95 Fri, Jul 22   TEX  W   3-1       48-47  3rd  8.0 gb
 94 Wed, Jul 20   CLE  L   4-11      47-47  3rd  9.0 gb
 93 Tue, Jul 19   CLE  L   3-7       47-46  3rd  8.0 gb
 Last 10: 2-8    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:11-19
Texas Rangers
60-44, 1st, 4 up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   32-17   Road:   28-27   ExtrInn: 3-5 
 vsRHP:  46-30   vsLHP:  14-14   1-Run:  22-7 
 vsEast: 13-11   vsCntrl:13-11   vsWest: 27-18 IL: 7-4 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
104 Fri, Jul 29   KCR  W   8-3       60-44  1st  4.0 up
103 Thu, Jul 28   KCR  W   3-2       59-44  1st  3.0 up
102 Wed, Jul 27   OAK  L   4-6       58-44  1st  2.5 up
101 Tue, Jul 26   OAK  L   3-6       58-43  1st  3.5 up
100 Mon, Jul 25   OAK  W   7-6       58-42  1st  3.5 up
 99 Sun, Jul 24  @KCR  W   2-1       57-42  1st  2.5 up
 98 Sat, Jul 23  @KCR  W   7-4       56-42  1st  2.5 up
 97 Fri, Jul 22  @KCR  L   1-3       55-42  1st  2.5 up
 96 Wed, Jul 20  @LAA  L   4-7       55-41  1st  3.5 up
 95 Tue, Jul 19  @LAA  L   6-8       55-40  1st  4.5 up
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20: 8-12   Last 30:13-17

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jul 29, 2016 TEX  8  KCR  3        W:A.J. Griffin (4-1), L: Edinson Volquez (8-9), S: none
Thu, Jul 28, 2016 TEX  3  KCR  2        W:Cole Hamels (12-2), L: Yordano Ventura (6-9), S: Sam Dyson (21)
Sun, Jul 24, 2016 TEX  2 @KCR  1        W:Alex Claudio (2-1), L: Luke Hochevar (2-3), S: Sam Dyson (20)
Sat, Jul 23, 2016 TEX  7 @KCR  4        W:Cole Hamels (11-2), L: Yordano Ventura (6-8), S: none
Fri, Jul 22, 2016 KCR  3  TEX  1        W:Danny Duffy (6-1), L: Yu Darvish (2-2), S: Wade Davis (21)

Sun, Jun 07, 2015 KCR  4  TEX  3        W:Wade Davis (3-1), L: Keone Kela (4-2), S: Greg Holland (9)
Sat, Jun 06, 2015 TEX  4 @KCR  2        W:Wandy Rodriguez (3-2), L: Yordano Ventura (3-5), S: Shawn Tolleson (7)
Fri, Jun 05, 2015 TEX  4 @KCR  0        W:Chi Chi Gonzalez (2-0), L: Edinson Volquez (4-4), S: none
Thu, May 14, 2015 KCR  6 @TEX  3        W:Jeremy Guthrie (3-2), L: Ross Detwiler (0-5), S: Greg Holland (7)
Wed, May 13, 2015 TEX  5  KCR  2        W:Yovani Gallardo (3-5), L: Yordano Ventura (2-3), S: Neftali Feliz (6)
Season Series: 2016 - TEX over 4-1; 2015 - TEX won 4-3; 2014 - KCR won 5-1; All-Time - KCR leads 277-265

SP: Ian Kennedy (31, RHP, 6-9, 4.41)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. TEX Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (6-9) 114.1 102 57 56 39 117 26 4.41
2015 (9-15) 168.1 166 95 80 52 174 31 4.28
2014 (13-13) 201.0 189 85 81 70 207 16 3.63
Last 7 GS 1-4 36.2 33 20 20 12 45 10 4.91 52
2016-07-25 LAA L 5.0 6 4 4 3 3 0 106 39
2016-07-20 CLE L 4.1 6 7 7 1 8 4 104 30
2016-07-15 @DET ND 5.1 4 1 1 2 3 1 100 57
2016-07-06 @TOR ND 6.0 4 2 2 1 10 1 101 65
2016-07-01 @PHI L 5.0 6 3 3 3 8 1 97 48
2016-06-26 HOU W 7.0 3 1 1 1 11 1 105 77
2016-06-21 @NYM L 4.0 4 2 2 1 2 2 72 47
Last 5 v.TEX 0-2 17.0 19 12 11 6 18 4 5.82 46
2015-09-02 TEX ND 7.0 5 2 2 2 12 1 100 69
2015-07-10 @TEX L 4.1 4 4 3 3 2 2 87 40
2012-06-12 @TEX L 5.2 10 6 6 1 4 1 95 28

SP: Martin Perez (25, LHP, 7-7, 4.38)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2016 (7-7) 125.1 132 70 61 52 58 13 4.38
2015 (3-6) 78.2 88 45 39 24 48 3 4.46
2014 (4-3) 51.1 50 25 25 19 35 3 4.38
Last 7 GS 1-3 40.0 53 36 29 16 13 7 6.53 36
2016-07-25 OAK ND 6.0 9 5 3 1 3 1 84 40
2016-07-20 @LAA L 6.0 10 7 7 3 2 1 82 23
2016-07-15 @CHC L 5.2 6 6 5 2 1 0 89 34
2016-07-06 @BOS L 4.0 9 11 7 2 1 1 89 7
2016-07-01 @MIN ND 7.0 5 2 2 3 4 1 101 60
2016-06-26 BOS W 6.0 6 1 1 2 2 1 98 56
2016-06-19 @STL ND 5.1 8 4 4 3 0 2 94 33
Last 5 v.KCR 0-0 5.2 7 1 1 4 3 0 1.59 50
2013-09-20 @KCR ND 5.2 7 1 1 4 3 0 108 50

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

Royals Batters (3.92 RS/G) vs. Rangers Pitchers (4.73 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 33.Perez*
G/S/vB		 39.Alvarez*
G/S/vB		 43.Barnette
G/S/vB		 51.Bush
G/S/vB		 58.Claudio*
G/S/vB		 41.Diekman*
G/S/vB		 47.Dyson
G/S/vB		 50.Kela
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 75/59 .294/.351/.515/.866 .517/.964 .488 16/.713 0/0 2/2
6.Cain G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 311/246 .288/.338/.413/.751 1.099/.661 .786 4/.500 6/4 8/3
24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 112/85 .245/.313/.284/.597 .459/.641 .649 33/.476 0/1 0/0
19.Cuthbert G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 2/.000 275/213 .293/.325/.452/.777 .872/.748 .770 86/.873 1/0 9/7
1.Dyson* G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 207/189 .251/.320/.355/.675 .844/.659 .647 51/.691 14/5 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP 3/.333 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.667 449/354 .255/.283/.310/.594 .470/.627 .517 83/.524 14/4 1/12
4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 6/.167 2/.000 2/.000 1/.000 281/202 .207/.313/.339/.652 .513/.705 .656 81/.683 5/0 7/1
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/.666 2/.000 1/2.000 1/.000 423/301 .282/.340/.446/.786 .722/.812 .771 85/.535 4/1 14/5
27.Mondesi# G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 14/6 .286/.286/.286/.571 .750/.333 .571 14/.571 1/0 0/2
25.Morales# G/S/vP 9/.347 ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 2/.500 3/2.000 1/.000 382/278 .249/.317/.432/.749 .857/.707 .717 84/.567 0/0 16/0
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 2/.000 ··· 265/192 .324/.348/.419/.767 .874/.728 .644 69/.736 7/1 2/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· 1/.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 2/1.000 1/5.000 356/269 .271/.306/.476/.782 .762/.789 .668 77/.697 0/0 15/3
IP 125.1 15.0 46.2 31.2 26.2 37.2 47.1 14.1 TOTAL .266/.316/.400/.716 .753/.704 .672 .634 59/20 87/54
ERA-K/9 4.38/4.2 3.00/16.8 2.12/6.6 3.13/8.5 3.04/6.1 2.39/9.5 2.47/6.5 5.65/13.8 4.42/6.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (7-3-0)
 Perez (24-27-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 541/.278 63/.228 188/.243 131/.231 116/.299 148/.154 189/.238 59/.192 .264  Dyson
 Gordon
 Orlando
 Cain
 Morales
18/27/21/8
69/0/0/5
0/9/62/4
0/72/1/2
0/0/5/0
OPS .767 .688 .607 .613 .757 .496 .650 .730 .765
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 107/.519 26/.683 86/.788 47/.652 32/.594 49/.431 81/.789 25/.423 .757
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 434/.827 37/.691 102/.459 84/.591 84/.821 99/.528 108/.549 34/.939 .770
Home 252/.734 34/.801 94/.610 72/.774 70/.694 77/.595 85/.440 30/.744
Last 28d days 108/.969 32/.796 39/.237 38/.802 36/.629 25/.291 33/.674 29/.476
HR/SB/CS 13/7/1 3/1/0 2/2/1 3/0/0 1/0/0 3/0/0 3/2/1 4/0/0 135/56/17
Usage ····X··· o····o·X ···o··X· ··X·X·o· o··X·o·· o·o·oo·o ·o·X·XX· X·oo·X·o
Rangers Batters (4.79 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.47 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 31.Kennedy
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
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		 67.Wang
G/S/vB		 32.Young
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
2.Alberto G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 39/16 .162/.162/.162/.324 .286/.375 .286 / 1/0 0/1
1.Andrus G/S/vP 8/.375 12/.667 1/.000 8/1.171 ··· ··· 4/1.500 7/.000 7/.714 374/286 .287/.345/.403/.748 .923/.692 .776 76/.825 13/6 4/9
29.Beltre G/S/vP 11/1.255 16/1.063 ··· 6/1.267 1/.000 ··· 7/1.143 26/.523 23/.542 407/306 .282/.337/.462/.799 .929/.756 .844 92/.853 0/0 16/6
61.Chirinos G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 114/93 .196/.272/.480/.752 .756/.751 .377 49/.669 0/1 8/1
3.DeShields G/S/vP 7/.829 3/.666 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· 144/106 .214/.291/.317/.608 .363/.698 .417 23/.673 5/3 3/3
20.Desmond G/S/vP 20/.757 4/1.250 2/.500 2/.000 6/.500 ··· 2/1.000 1/.000 5/.000 444/334 .306/.358/.525/.883 1.058/.824 .996 95/.811 17/3 20/8
13.Gallo* G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 13/11 .083/.154/.333/.487 .000/.582 .487 12/.530 0/0 1/1
30.Mazara* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 1/2.000 ··· 392/288 .282/.334/.417/.751 .577/.816 .763 84/.672 0/2 12/1
18.Moreland* G/S/vP 5/.600 10/.522 2/1.000 3/.666 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 3/.333 318/249 .241/.308/.455/.763 .715/.777 .857 46/1.123 0/0 16/1
12.Odor* G/S/vP 5/1.400 2/1.000 1/5.000 1/2.000 ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· 3/.000 405/287 .282/.301/.508/.809 .814/.807 .852 91/1.003 10/4 21/14
19.Profar# G/S/vP ··· 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 181/127 .301/.356/.440/.795 .580/.886 1.044 75/.688 0/1 5/5
16.Rua G/S/vP ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 220/130 .272/.345/.426/.771 .918/.673 .835 52/.523 7/0 7/2
6.Wilson G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 153/113 .230/.255/.324/.579 .816/.493 .619 28/.438 0/0 3/2
IP 114.1 33.2 33.1 45.2 24.2 4.0 43.0 41.1 67.1 TOTAL .264/.322/.433/.755 .775/.747 .794 .769 60/24 136/65
ERA-K/9 4.41/9.2 1.60/8.5 3.24/7.6 1.58/11.2 4.38/6.9 13.50/13.5 4.19/8.6 4.57/5.4 6.82/9.6 4.39/8.2

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Chirinos (18-5-2)
 Wilson (26-6-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 484/.236 135/.186 133/.218 176/.199 106/.293 21/.444 185/.266 178/.294 310/.289 .257  Desmond
 Mazara
 Rua
 DeShields
 Profar
29/77/0/6
25/0/73/6
51/4/2/4
6/29/0/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .760 .484 .638 .535 .742 1.254 .829 .814 .995 .756
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 236/.793 68/.444 50/.598 86/.617 38/1.087 13/1.378 91/.646 87/.768 148/1.287 .777
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 248/.730 67/.525 83/.661 90/.458 68/.561 8/1.000 94/1.019 91/.856 162/.748 .739
Road 283/.810 59/.463 60/.758 86/.601 52/.604 9/.873 90/.799 65/.781 135/1.243
Last 28d days 92/.845 19/.618 59/.683 28/.630 26/.876 21/1.254 31/1.427 42/.966 51/1.165
HR/SB/CS 26/4/6 0/1/1 4/0/0 2/0/1 2/0/0 2/0/1 7/1/2 5/2/2 26/9/2 139/31/30
Usage ····X··· ··X··o·o X···X·o· ··o··X·o o···o··· ········ ··X···X· ···XX·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
Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

BOS  5.61

ARI  4.46

ATL  3.43

 RA/G

CHC  3.48

TBR  4.49

CIN  5.69

 BA

J. Altuve  .356

A. Eaton  .272

D. Norris  .196

 OBP

J. Altuve  .421

T. Story  .341

D. Norris  .256

 SLG

D. Ortiz  .652

M. Moreland  .455

A. Escobar  .310

 OPS

D. Ortiz  1.067

E. Hosmer  .786

A. Ramirez  .593

 ERA

C. Kershaw  1.79

J. Gray  3.94

J. Locke  5.43

 K/9IP

J. Fernandez  13.17

C. Tillman  7.62

M. Pelfrey  3.92

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.