Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Kansas City Royals (41-57) @ Seattle Mariners (44-57) Safeco Field - Friday, July 27, 2012 - 9:10 P.M
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Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Kansas City Royals (41-57) @ Seattle Mariners (44-57) Safeco Field - Friday, July 27, 2012 - 9:10 p.m. (CDT) Game #99- Road Game #52 FOX Sports Kansas City & KCSP Radio (610 Sports) UPCOMING PITCHING PROBABLES Saturday, July 28 @ Seattle Mariners: LHP Bruce Chen (7-8, 5.54) vs. RHP Kevin Millwood (3-8, 4.13), 3:10 p.m. (CDT), No TV & 610 Sports Sunday, July 29 @ Seattle Mariners: LHP Will Smith (2-3, 6.26) vs. RHP Felix Hernandez (9-5, 2.80), 3:10 p.m. (CDT), FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Monday, July 30: Off day at home Tuesday, July 31 vs. Cleveland Indians: RHP Derek Lowe (8-9, 5.09) vs. RHP Luke Hochevar (6-9, 5.26), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Wednesday, August 1 vs. Cleveland Indians: RHP Zach McAllister (4-2, 3.18) vs. RHP Luis Mendoza (4-7, 4.47), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Thursday, August 2 vs. Cleveland Indians: RHP Josh Tomlin (5-7+ tonight) vs. RHP Jeremy Guthrie (0-1+ tonight), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Tonight’s game is being broadcast in Kansas City on KCSP Radio (610 Sports) and the Royals Radio Network with Steve Physioc, Bob Davis and Steve Stewart, while Don Free controls the dials as the producer/engineer...tonight’s telecast is in High Definition on FOX Sports Kansas City with Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler...the pre and post-game show, Royals Live, is hosted by Joel Goldberg. Royals vs. Mariners HITS SCARCE IN EMERALD CITY--KC’s offense consisted of Billy Butler and an otherwise team The Royals are in need of closing this trip out with 3 straight 0’fer, as the Royals dropped the opener of this extended 4-game series by a 4-1 count to Jason Vargas wins or fall in the season series to Seattle...KC is now 1-4 vs. and the Mariners...the Seattle southpaw held the Royals to a hit over his 8.0 innings of work, the lone the M’s in 2012 with last night’s defeat...the Royals hold a 211- knock while he was on the mound a run scoring double by Butler, the 200th two-base hit of his career, 192 advantage in the all-time work, but trail by a 95-101 count in which came right after a 2-out walk to Lorenzo Cain...Butler added career double #201 with two outs in Seattle, specifically 21-32 in Safeco. the ninth inning off of reliever Tom Wilhelmsen to cap the frustrating night for the offense...meanwhile Date Site Score WP LP Att. 7/16 KC L, 4-9 Vargas Sanchez 16,697 the Seattle attack managed 4 runs off of starting and losing pitcher Luis Mendoza...the night didn’t start 7/17 KC L, 6-9 Beavan Verdugo 15,769 well for Mendy, who allowed 2 runs on 3 hits in the opening inning, followed later by single tallies in 7/18 KC W, 8-7 Holland Kinney 17,312 the fourth and sixth frames...it was the first time that KC was held to just two hits in 2012, the last time 7/19 KC L, 1-6 Hernandez Smith 16,706 occurring last September 7 in Oakland, a 7-0 loss to the A’s...the loss dropped the Royals to 1-3 on this 7/26 @ Sea L, 1-4 Vargas Mendoza 15,014 7/27 @ Sea road trip and put the club 16 games under .500 for the first time this year...Kansas City had cut its deficit 7/28 @ Sea to breakeven to 4 games on June 29, but has since gone just 6-18. 7/29 @ Sea FRENCHY RACKS UP ANOTHER ASSIST--Rightfielder Jeff Francoeur has jumped into the big league outfield assist lead by virtue of picking up three assists in his last 5 games, the most recent last night when he turned a misjudged John Jaso fly ball to right into a force of Casper Wells at second base...Frenchy has passed Toronto’s Jose Bautista and Arizona’s Jason Kubel, whom he trailed by two entering Sunday...Frenchy now has 109 assists since becoming a big league regular in 2005, which are 32 clear of his nearest competition, the Cubs’ Alfonso Soriano (77)...for the second straight year all of Kansas City’s outfielders are showing off their arms, pacing all of baseball with 28 assists, 6 more than second place Oakland, while the Royals also lead all outfielders in double plays turned with 10...aside from Francoeur, Alex Gordon’s 7 places him tied for seventh in baseball...Jarrod Dyson is tied for 11th in the league with 5...the club led the Majors with 51 outfield assists in 2011. HOMESTAND STARTS TUESDAY--The Royals will head back to the midwest following Sunday’s series finale, take Monday off and then open a 6-game stand against Cleveland (3) and Texas (3)...the entire Cleveland series will feature 7:10 first pitches, as will the Friday contest against with Texas, followed by a 5:10 affair on Saturday and 1:10 homestand finale with the A.L. West leading Rangers...true to the season stats to date, the Royals have struggled at home against the Tribe, going 0-3, but hold a 4-2 advantage on games contested in Progressive Field...KC is just 12-23 in intra-divisional play, while going 21-23 vs. the East and West combined. TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Jeremy Guthrie (0-1, 9.00) vs. RHP Blake Beavan (5-6, 5.54) 2012 2011 Career 2012 2011 Career Jeremy Guthrie vs. Mariners 0-1 0-1 2-6 Major League Record 3-10 (6.49 ERA) 9-17 50-75 Blake Beavan vs. Royals 1-0 1-0 2-0 Major League Record 5-6 (5.54 ERA) 5-6 10-12 JEREMY GUTHRIE makes his second start for KC since being acquired by the Royals last Friday from the Colorado Rockies in exchange for Jonathan Sanchez...tonight is his 21st appearance and 17th start of 2012, his 198th career Major League outing and 171st start...this is his 11th career start (2nd of 2012) against the Mariners. Jeremy’s 2012 starts A LOSS IN KC DEBUT--Jeremy became the 198th pitcher to make a start for WHEN DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT Kansas City when he climbed the mound last Sunday at home vs. Minnesota...but after 4/6 at Houston W, 5-3 7.0 4 3 3 2 3 1 103-64 4-3 a scoreless first, he allowed a run in the second and 4 more in the third and ended up 4/11 San Francisco ND, 17-8 3.1 9 6 6 2 2 1 80-49 6-4 suffering the 7-5 loss...he gave up a solo homer to Ryan Doumit to open the scoring 4/16 San Diego L, 1-7 7.0 9 6 6 0 2 1 103-65 1-6 4/22 at Milwaukee W, 4-1 7.0 3 1 1 0 3 2 101-55 3-1 and then 3 hits with 2 walks mixed in led to the 4-run uprising in the third...the 3 walks 5/15 at San Francisco ND, 5-4 5.1 4 1 0 0 4 4 90-50 3-1 issued were his most allowed since May 15, when he walked 4 in San Francisco. 5/20 Seattle L, 4-6 6.0 7 6 6 3 2 4 102-57 2-6 5/26 at Cincinnati L, 3-10 5.0 10 6 2 2 1 5 104-67 3-6 A LITTLE CLOSER TO SEA LEVEL--Jeremy picked up 4,154 feet in a lower 5/31 Houston W, 11-5 7.0 12 5 5 1 0 1 99-62 11-5 elevation with his trade from Colorado to Kansas City exactly a week ago...though he 6/5 at Arizona L, 0-10 3.1 11 7 7 2 2 4 90-51 0-7 won’t use it as an excuse, the numbers show that his home/road splits in his abbreviated 6/12 Oakland L, 5-8 5.0 8 7 7 3 2 5 102-66 5-7 6/17 at Detroit L, 0-5 3.0 8 4 3 0 2 2 78-50 0-4 time in a Rockies’ uniform were as different as night and day...the Opening Day starter 7/4 at St. Louis L, 1-4 6.0 6 2 2 0 1 2 84-47 1-2 for Colorado, Guthrie posted a 1-5 record and 9.50 ERA in 9 games (7 starts) at Coors 7/8 at Washington ND, 4-3 6.0 6 2 2 1 1 3 83-54 1-2 Field, while going 2-4 with a 3.67 mark in 10 games (8 starts) closer to sea level...of 7/14 Philadelphia L, 5-8 4.2 7 4 4 1 2 3 76-45 2-4 7/18 Pittsburgh ND, 6-9 2.2 6 6 4 2 1 1 68-46 5-6 the 21 home runs he surrendered with Colorado, 14 took place a mile high...acquired Acquired by KC on July 20 by the Rockies on February 6, 2012, in a trade that sent pitchers Jason Hammel and 7/22 Minnesota L, 5-7 5.0 4 5 5 1 3 4 91-56 1-5 Matt Lindstrom to Baltimore, Jeremy missed 17 days in late April and early June after 2012 Totals 3-10, 6.49 95.2 126 77 69 22 34 49 - - 2012 Totals (w/ KC) 0-1, 9.00 5.0 4 5 5 1 3 4 91-56 62% spraining his right shoulder in a freak bicycle accident riding to the ballpark in Denver.