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Boston Red Sox vs. Kansas City Royals, at Fenway Park, August 20, 2015 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Start Time:
7:10et (local)
Venue:
Fenway Park
Series:
Game #1 of a 4-game series
Average Temp:
75° (based on last ten years)
Royals
Manager:
Ned Yost
Game #:
124
On This Date:
18-22
Red Sox
Manager:
John Farrell
Game #:
123
On This Date:
46-63
Season Series
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 BOS  7 @KCR  3     
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 KCR  7  BOS  4     
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 BOS 13 @KCR  2     

Thu, Aug 20, 2015 KCR    @BOS  7:10pm
Fri, Aug 21, 2015 KCR    @BOS  7:10pm
Sat, Aug 22, 2015 KCR    @BOS  7:10pm
Sun, Aug 23, 2015 KCR    @BOS  1:35pm

                         All times ET
Kansas City Royals
73-46, 1st, 14½ up / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   42-20   Road:   31-26   ExtrInn: 8-2 
 vsRHP:  50-27   vsLHP:  23-19   1-Run:  20-11
 vsEast: 10-10   vsCntrl:32-19   vsWest: 18-11 IL:13-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
119 Wed, Aug 19  @CIN  W   4-3       73-46  1st 14.5 up
118 Tue, Aug 18  @CIN  W   3-1 (13)  72-46  1st 13.5 up
117 Sun, Aug 16   LAA  W   4-3 (10)  71-46  1st 12.0 up
116 Sat, Aug 15   LAA  W   9-4       70-46  1st 12.0 up
115 Fri, Aug 14   LAA  W   4-1       69-46  1st 12.0 up
114 Thu, Aug 13   LAA  L   6-7       68-46  1st 11.0 up
113 Wed, Aug 12   DET  L   4-7       68-45  1st 11.0 up
112 Tue, Aug 11   DET  W   6-1       68-44  1st 12.0 up
111 Mon, Aug 10   DET  W   4-0       67-44  1st 12.0 up
110 Sun, Aug  9   CHW  W   5-4       66-44  1st 11.5 up
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11
Boston Red Sox
54-66, 5th, 13½ GB, 11½ GB in WC / Schedule
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   31-30   Road:   23-36   ExtrInn: 4-5 
 vsRHP:  41-45   vsLHP:  13-21   1-Run:  15-16
 vsEast: 20-30   vsCntrl:11-12   vsWest: 15-18 IL: 8-6 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
120 Wed, Aug 19   CLE  W   6-4       54-66  5th 13.5 gb
119 Tue, Aug 18   CLE  W   9-1       53-66  5th 13.5 gb
118 Mon, Aug 17   CLE  L   2-8       52-66  5th 13.5 gb
117 Sun, Aug 16   SEA  L   8-10(12)  52-65  5th 12.5 gb
116 Sat, Aug 15   SEA  W  22-10      52-64  5th 12.5 gb
115 Fri, Aug 14   SEA  W  15-1       51-64  5th 12.5 gb
114 Wed, Aug 12  @MIA  L   6-14      50-64  5th 12.5 gb
113 Tue, Aug 11  @MIA  L   4-5 (10)  50-63  5th 12.0 gb
112 Sun, Aug  9  @DET  W   7-2       50-62  5th 12.0 gb
111 Sat, Aug  8  @DET  L   6-7       49-62  5th 13.0 gb
 Last 10: 5-5    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:12-18

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Jun 21, 2015 BOS 13 @KCR  2        W:Wade Miley (7-6), L: Chris Young (6-3), S: none
Sat, Jun 20, 2015 KCR  7  BOS  4        W:Edinson Volquez (7-4), L: Rick Porcello (4-8), S: Greg Holland (13)
Fri, Jun 19, 2015 BOS  7 @KCR  3        W:Eduardo Rodriguez (3-1), L: Yohan Pino (0-2), S: none

Sun, Sep 14, 2014 BOS  8 @KCR  4        W:Joe Kelly (4-4), L: Jason Vargas (11-9), S: none
Sat, Sep 13, 2014 KCR  7  BOS  1        W:Jeremy Guthrie (11-11), L: Rubby De La Rosa (4-7), S: none
Fri, Sep 12, 2014 BOS  4 @KCR  2        W:Allen Webster (4-3), L: Yordano Ventura (12-10), S: Edward Mujica (6)
Thu, Sep 11, 2014 BOS  6 @KCR  3        W:Clay Buchholz (8-8), L: Liam Hendriks (1-2), S: Edward Mujica (5)
Sun, Jul 20, 2014 BOS  6  KCR  0        W:Jon Lester (10-7), L: Yordano Ventura (7-8), S: none
Sat, Jul 19, 2014 BOS  2  KCR  1        W:Rubby De La Rosa (3-2), L: Danny Duffy (5-10), S: Koji Uehara (20)
Fri, Jul 18, 2014 BOS  5  KCR  4        W:Clay Buchholz (5-5), L: Scott Downs (0-3), S: Koji Uehara (19)
Season Series: 2015 - BOS over 2-1; 2014 - BOS won 6-1; 2013 - KCR won 5-2; All-Time - BOS leads 229-225

SP: Danny Duffy (26, LHP, 6-5, 4.03)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. BOS Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (6-5) 98.1 98 46 44 38 58 10 4.03
2014 (9-12) 149.1 113 52 42 53 113 12 2.53
2013 (2-0) 24.1 19 5 5 14 22 0 1.85
Last 7 GS 4-1 42.1 33 12 12 14 17 4 2.55 57
2015-08-14 LAA W 6.0 5 1 1 0 2 0 93 60
2015-08-09 CHW ND 3.1 4 3 3 1 2 0 73 41
2015-08-04 @DET W 7.0 5 1 1 4 2 0 100 61
2015-07-30 @TOR L 6.0 6 5 5 4 4 3 96 40
2015-07-25 HOU ND 6.0 3 1 1 1 3 0 101 64
2015-07-19 @CHW W 8.0 6 1 1 1 4 1 113 69
2015-07-10 TOR W 6.0 4 0 0 3 0 0 95 61
Last 5 v.BOS 0-2 20.2 24 14 12 13 11 2 5.23 42
2014-07-19 @BOS L 6.2 6 2 1 3 2 1 97 55
2012-05-08 BOS ND 4.1 7 4 3 5 1 0 102 31
2011-08-21 BOS L 6.0 5 2 2 2 3 1 102 55
2011-07-26 @BOS ND 3.2 6 6 6 3 5 0 102 27

SP: Wade Miley (28, LHP, 9-9, 4.58)

2015 Gamelogs / 2015 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2015 (9-9) 139.2 141 73 71 52 106 13 4.58
2014 (8-12) 201.1 207 103 97 75 183 23 4.34
2013 (10-10) 202.2 201 88 80 66 147 21 3.55
Last 7 GS 1-2 43.2 40 23 23 15 35 5 4.74 51
2015-08-15 SEA W 7.0 4 2 2 3 8 0 113 66
2015-08-08 @DET ND 6.0 9 5 5 1 6 1 100 39
2015-08-02 TBR ND 6.2 5 2 2 1 4 1 120 59
2015-07-28 CHW L 5.2 10 7 7 3 5 1 108 23
2015-07-23 @HOU ND 6.0 4 1 1 5 4 1 107 59
2015-07-17 @LAA ND 7.0 1 0 0 2 6 0 101 79
2015-07-12 NYY L 5.1 7 6 6 0 2 1 93 32
Last 5 v.KCR 2-1 17.2 20 10 10 8 9 2 5.09 45
2015-06-21 @KCR W 6.0 5 0 0 3 2 0 101 61
2014-08-05 KCR L 4.2 9 10 10 3 4 2 100 7
2012-05-20 @KCR W 7.0 6 0 0 2 3 0 99 66

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Royals Batters (4.37 RS/G) vs. Red Sox Pitchers (4.93 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 20.Miley*
G/S/vB		 68.Barnes
G/S/vB		 32.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 37.Hembree
G/S/vB		 59.Layne*
G/S/vB		 64.Machi
G/S/vB		 41.Ogando
G/S/vB		 28.Ross*
G/S/vB		 36.Tazawa
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
9.Butera G/S/vP 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 91/65 .188/.225/.235/.460 .497/.445 .500 31/.544 0/1 1/3
6.Cain G/S/vP 6/1.167 1/no AB 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· 4/.000 3/.000 ··· 450/298 .311/.364/.499/.863 1.033/.777 .815 92/.848 24/4 12/7
1.Dyson* G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 2/.000 181/148 .261/.328/.391/.719 .689/.726 .704 41/.712 23/2 1/1
2.Escobar G/S/vP 9/.476 ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· ··· 12/.473 2/2.000 3/.000 497/349 .271/.311/.334/.645 .679/.631 .634 115/.493 12/5 2/9
35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 6/.533 1/.000 7/.619 ··· 1/.000 ··· 11/.473 3/2.334 3/1.667 490/298 .318/.382/.489/.871 .751/.949 .779 105/1.084 5/2 14/2
14.Infante G/S/vP 9/.347 1/2.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 5/.400 ··· 3/.000 407/291 .216/.232/.298/.529 .569/.513 .558 72/.399 2/2 1/9
25.Morales# G/S/vP 3/1.334 ··· 6/1.167 ··· 2/1.000 ··· 5/.000 7/2.047 5/.400 479/288 .289/.351/.457/.808 .756/.844 .820 99/.865 0/0 13/0
8.Moustakas* G/S/vP 6/.334 1/2.000 2/2.000 ··· 3/1.167 ··· 4/.500 3/.666 4/.000 461/289 .270/.338/.407/.745 .649/.803 .732 93/.519 1/2 11/9
16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 179/106 .241/.271/.418/.689 .641/.722 .625 32/.563 3/2 4/2
13.Perez G/S/vP 3/3.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 2/.000 406/278 .252/.266/.427/.693 .510/.780 .650 71/.603 1/0 17/2
15.Rios G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 5/1.550 ··· ··· ··· 9/.555 4/.000 7/.572 291/199 .232/.271/.303/.574 .562/.579 .506 91/.414 8/0 2/3
18.Zobrist# G/S/vP 9/.472 ··· 10/.633 ··· 2/.000 1/no AB 12/.833 7/.453 11/.864 350/236 .292/.380/.488/.868 .979/.815 .921 91/1.185 1/3 10/4
IP 139.2 27.1 46.2 8.2 37.1 43.0 51.2 47.1 51.0 TOTAL .269/.322/.406/.728 .711/.737 .704 .689 82/26 93/63
ERA-K/9 4.58/6.8 6.59/9.6 4.44/6.6 7.27/5.2 4.58/9.4 5.23/6.1 3.83/7.8 3.99/7.6 3.18/8.5 4.65/7.6

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Butera (14-8-1)
 Perez (48-24-4)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 600/.261 133/.336 206/.287 36/.294 167/.259 194/.257 213/.233 206/.262 207/.249 .268  Dyson
 Cain
 Orlando
 Rios
 Zobrist
 Hosmer
22/21/17/6
0/102/0/5
20/1/31/3
0/0/74/3
39/0/3/1
0/0/1/0
OPS .746 .977 .843 .922 .736 .773 .777 .738 .671 .766
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 136/.605 62/.893 78/.826 13/1.615 80/.442 76/.365 78/.635 77/.702 84/.737 .730
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 464/.788 71/1.045 128/.854 23/.499 87/1.004 118/1.030 135/.860 129/.759 123/.625 .792
Home 289/.714 61/1.115 111/.684 22/.500 83/.929 102/.763 111/.837 116/.667 117/.700
Last 28d days 110/.812 24/.941 56/.890 9/.778 36/1.024 35/.770 42/.806 53/.784 44/.890
HR/SB/CS 13/1/3 7/7/1 8/1/2 2/0/0 3/3/1 5/2/1 12/2/2 5/0/0 4/4/1 139/57/32
Usage ····X··· ··X····· ···X·X·· ··X····· o·X·X··X Xo·o·X·· X··X···· ···oo··X o··X····
Red Sox Batters (4.53 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (3.70 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 41.Duffy*
G/S/vB		 17.Davis
G/S/vB		 40.Herrera
G/S/vB		 44.Hochevar
G/S/vB		 56.Holland
G/S/vB		 46.Madson
G/S/vB		 39.Medlen
G/S/vB		 45.Morales*
G/S/vB		 32.Young
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
50.Betts G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 5/2.100 464/349 .270/.319/.437/.756 .717/.769 .810 60/.692 16/4 10/1
2.Bogaerts G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 472/345 .312/.340/.410/.751 .950/.678 .821 108/.760 7/1 4/8
25.Bradley* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 106/70 .247/.349/.517/.866 1.302/.636 1.115 71/1.069 1/0 5/1
38.Castillo G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 151/96 .280/.313/.399/.712 1.014/.538 .801 74/.892 3/0 4/4
31.De Aza* G/S/vP ··· 15/.564 8/.661 19/.980 10/.322 1/3.000 ··· 3/.000 2/.000 281/238 .268/.323/.447/.770 .458/.824 .761 50/.852 5/3 7/1
10.Hanigan G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 1/.000 3/.000 ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 1/no AB 8/1.458 152/113 .248/.353/.333/.687 .877/.619 .836 40/.797 0/0 2/1
26.Holt* G/S/vP 4/.500 ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/no AB ··· ··· ··· 6/.833 396/298 .287/.359/.398/.757 .806/.741 .739 100/.725 6/1 2/8
34.Ortiz* G/S/vP 8/1.125 14/.599 2/2.500 17/.912 2/.500 5/.900 1/.000 1/.000 14/1.389 471/328 .268/.355/.518/.873 .656/.975 .938 103/1.268 0/0 26/0
13.Ramirez G/S/vP ··· 4/.000 1/.000 ··· ··· 26/.776 9/1.445 8/.542 9/1.301 406/294 .259/.300/.442/.742 .784/.727 .735 64/.556 6/3 19/3
30.Rutledge G/S/vP 4/.500 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· 1/.000 26/17 .190/.308/.190/.498 .644/.423 .548 26/.498 0/0 0/2
48.Sandoval* G/S/vP 3/.666 2/1.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/no AB 8/2.339 22/.641 12/.606 412/285 .258/.308/.392/.700 .468/.806 .810 76/.800 0/0 10/12
47.Shaw* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 71/49 .369/.408/.677/1.085 1.407/.933 1.520 55/1.275 0/0 6/0
23.Swihart# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 210/143 .259/.301/.345/.647 .599/.668 .714 62/.769 1/2 1/2
IP 98.1 49.2 55.1 34.1 37.2 50.1 11.1 47.1 101.2 TOTAL .264/.326/.410/.736 .764/.724 .801 .845 52/14 117/71
ERA-K/9 4.03/5.3 1.09/10.1 1.95/8.1 3.41/9.7 3.82/10.5 2.32/8.2 3.18/9.6 2.47/5.7 3.28/5.9 3.53/6.9

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Hanigan (21-11-3)
 Swihart (29-12-14)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 421/.267 189/.160 219/.181 143/.250 161/.226 199/.207 44/.179 189/.221 415/.213 .244  Betts
 De Aza
 Ramirez
 Castillo
 Bradley
 Holt
 Shaw
0/103/0/7
49/1/37/4
87/0/0/3
0/6/39/1
6/14/14/1
12/2/17/1
1/0/0/0
OPS .759 .479 .506 .717 .676 .582 .555 .604 .671 .695
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 81/.636 107/.468 107/.416 59/.741 76/.835 89/.557 21/.958 88/.646 218/.740 .713
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 340/.789 82/.493 112/.589 84/.700 85/.536 110/.603 23/.221 101/.567 197/.596 .680
Road 203/.788 92/.366 108/.536 70/.738 75/.682 108/.645 19/.568 99/.623 210/.613
Last 28d days 118/.708 31/.659 56/.464 49/.733 36/.841 46/.768 22/.333 39/.669 30/.674
HR/SB/CS 10/4/1 2/4/1 3/5/2 4/1/0 2/0/2 4/1/1 1/1/0 1/0/0 14/17/6 104/56/29
Usage ·····X·· Xo·X··X· oX·o·o·X X···X··· ·X·o·XX· oo···XX· ·X······ ·o····o· ·X·····o

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 2015 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

TOR  5.24

LAA  4.06

ATL  3.68

 RA/G

STL  2.91

CLE  4.22

COL  5.30

 BA

D. Gordon  .334

F. Galvis  .267

M. Zunino  .175

 OBP

B. Harper  .454

C. Gonzalez  .326

M. Zunino  .231

 SLG

B. Harper  .634

E. Longoria  .425

B. Hamilton  .290

 OPS

B. Harper  1.088

N. Walker  .751

O. Infante  .529

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.58

D. Haren  3.63

K. Lohse  6.11

 K/9IP

C. Sale  11.90

S. Miller  7.58

M. Buehrle  4.25

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.