Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Kansas City Royals (17-11) @ Baltimore Orioles (19-13) Oriole Park at Camden Yards - Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 6:05 P.M
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Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Kansas City Royals (17-11) @ Baltimore Orioles (19-13) Oriole Park at Camden Yards - Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 6:05 p.m. (CDT) Game #29 - Road Game #14 FOX Sports Kansas City & KCSP Radio (610 Sports) UPCOMING PITCHING PROBABLES Wednesday, May 8 @ Baltimore Orioles: RHP Luis Mendoza (0-1, 7.00) vs. RHP Chris Tillman (2-1, 3.63), 6:05 p.m. (CDT), FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Thursday, May 9 @ Baltimore Orioles: RHP Jeremy Guthrie (4-0, 2.40) vs. TBA, 6:05 p.m. (CDT), FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Friday, May 10 vs. New York Yankees: TBA vs. RHP Wade Davis (2-2, 4.75), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Saturday, May 11 vs. New York Yankees: TBA vs. RHP James Shields (2-2, 2.52), 6:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Sunday, May 12 vs. New York Yankees: TBA vs. RHP Ervin Santana (3-1+ tonight), 1:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Tonight’s game can be heard in Kansas City on KCSP Radio (610 Sports) with Royals’ Hall of Famer Denny Matthews, Steve Physioc and Steve Stewart, while Don Free controls the dials as the producer/engineer...tonight’s game is being televised in High Definition by FOX Sports Kansas City with Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler...the pre and postgame show on FSKC, Royals Live, is hosted by Joel Goldberg. Royals vs. Orioles CHISOX TURN TABLES ON COMEBACK--The Royals got a taste of their own early season Tonight is the first of 7 between these clubs this year, with medicine in the make-up of Friday’s rainout and homestand finale yesterday against the White Sox, the 3-game set here and a 4-gamer slated for Kauffman Stadium coming within an out of a series sweep and winding up with a 2-1 loss in 11 innings...Kansas City, in late-July...the Royals went 4-5 vs. the O’s last year under strange scheduling circumstances, posting a 4-3 mark here, but tied with these Orioles for most come-from-behind wins in the Majors, was clinging to a 1-0 lead getting swept in the only 2 games played in KC...the Royals trail entering the ninth, but the ChiSox rallied to tie the game against closer Greg Holland and then Jordan the all-time series by a 194-254 margin, including an 87-136 Danks hammered a 2-out home run in the 11th off of Kelvin Herrera to salvage a game in the series for deficit in Baltimore, specifically 33-56 here in Camden Yards. Chicago...lost in the afternoon was a terrific pitching performance from James Shields, who blanked Date Site Score WP LP Att. 5/7 @ Bal the White Sox over 8.0 innings, firing no-hit work until the sixth and allowing just 5 baserunners on 5/8 @ Bal the day with 2 hits, 2 walks and a hit batter...the Royals plated a first inning run off of Chris Sale via a 5/9 @ Bal Billy Butler double to score Alex Gordon and that was it for the afternoon, as KC was blanked over the 7/22 KC 7/23 KC final 10.0 frames by Sale and a quartet of relievers...the loss pulled the curtain on Kansas City’s second 7/24 KC straight successful homestand, going 6-3 against Cleveland, Tampa Bay and the White Sox after a 4-2 7/25 KC season opening stand that featured visits from Minnesota and Toronto. NEVER SAY DIE AT BATS--The Royals lead the Majors in two-out offense, hitting .291 as a club (93-for-317) with 52 RBI, or 43% of the club’s 122 runs scored to this point...the Cleveland Indians are next with a .281 mark, followed by Texas at .277...Gordon leads all Major League hitters with a .467 average (14-for-30) with two outs, driving in 13 in those situations, while Jeff Francoeur is tied for 14th in the bigs with a .385 mark (10-for-26) and Eric Hosmer is 20th at .361 (13-for-36)...Gordo’s 13 RBI in 2-out at bats are tied for fourth most in the Majors. QUICK TRIP AND EQUALLY QUICK HOMESTAND--Tonight kicks off a 3-game journey to Baltimore, with KC returning home for a 3-day laundry stop this weekend against the Yankees...the Royals will then depart for a 9-game tour of the A.L. West, playing 3-game sets in Anaheim, Oakland and Houston to complete a stretch of 12 of 15 away from “The K”...the Bronx Bombers will be in town for games on Friday (7:10), Saturday (6:10) and Sunday (1:10)...the Royals went 3-4 vs. the Yankees last year, including a 2-2 mark in Kauffman Stadium. STARTERS ROLLING--The Royals have a trio of starting pitchers with significant scoreless inning streaks in tact, a pair of them slated to work here in Baltimore over the next three nights...Ervin Santana will take the hill this evening with a streak of 13.0 consecutive shutout frames that have been recorded, and those don’t include the 4.0 innings he tossed against Tampa Bay last Thursday before the snow hit and ended his afternoon...former Oriole, Jeremy Guthrie will work the series finale on Thursday and carry a 16.2 scoreless inning streak into that affair, the last nine of which took place on Saturday night when he fired the first complete game shutout of his career in defeating the White Sox, 2-0...James Shields tossed 8.0 scoreless yesterday and he’ll take the hill on Saturday against the Yankees with an active shutout streak of 14.0 frames...the starters have an overall ERA of 3.40, good for third in the A.L...the rotation has allowed 3 earned runs or less in 19 of the 28 games to this point, averaging 6.2 frames over those 19 affairs...KC has 3 of the top 11 ERA’s among starters in the A.L. with Santana seventh at 2.00, Guthrie ninth at 2.40 and Shields 11th at 2.52. SHIELDS GETS PICKY--Another aspect of James Shields’ arsenal is his pickoff move and the veteran hurler caught Chicago’s Dewayne Wise a little too far from first base yesterday for his first pickoff of the 2013 season and first of the year by a Kansas City hurler...it was the 25th pick in Shields’ career, the first 24 coming in a Rays’ uniform...he led the Majors with 13 picks in 2011, 4 clear of the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw. TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Ervin Santana (3-1, 2.00) vs. LHP Wei-Yin Chen (2-3, 3.50) 2012 2011 Career 2013 2012 Career Ervin Santana vs. Orioles - 1-1 4-5 Major League Record 3-1 (2.00 ERA) 9-13 99-81 Wei-Yin Chen vs. Royals 0-1 - 0-1 Major League Record 2-3 (3.50 ERA) 12-11 14-14 ERVIN SANTANA looks to pick up career win #100 in tonight’s series opener...he’s making his sixth start of 2013 and third on the road...this is Santana’s 242nd career appearance (239th start) and 13th career start against Baltimore...he was acquired from the Los Angeles Angels last October 31 with cash in exchange for lefty Brandon Sisk after spending 8 seasons with the Halos. Ervin’s 2013 starts MOTHER NATURE SPOILS START--Though there is not official record of it, FINAL WHEN Ervin made the start last Thursday at home against Tampa Bay and was in possession DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT 4/3 at Chicago L, 2-5 6.0 5 4 4 3 1 8 98-66 2-4 of a 1-0 lead through 4.0 scoreless innings when Mother Nature had enough and 4/8 Minnesota W, 3-1 8.0 8 1 1 0 1 7 104-75 3-1 forced postponement via rain that eventually turned into a couple of inches of snow. 4/14 Toronto ND, 3-2 8.0 7 2 1 1 3 4 109-74 2-2 4/21 at Boston W, 4-2 7.0 6 2 2 0 0 7 105-68 4-2 SCORELESS STREAK ROLLS ON--Ervin capped an outstanding first month 4/27 Cleveland W, 3-2 7.0 6 0 0 0 0 5 97-66 3-0 2013 Totals 3-1, 2.00 36.0 32 9 8 4 5 31 513-349 68% on April 27 vs. Cleveland, working 7.0 shutout innings in a 3-2 victory...he scattered Career Totals 99-81, 4.27 1511.2 1476 771 718 207 480 1198 - 6 hits, fanned 5 and walked none in his 13th career outing of at least 7.0 frames without allowing a run...Santana extended his scoreless stretch to 13.0 innings, dating back to 2 runs in the first inning of his April 21 start at Fenway Park, a streak that doesn’t officially include the 4.0 scoreless he fired last Thursday before the snowstorm...he completely flipped his April stats from a year ago when he went 0-5 with a 6.16 ERA as a member of the Angels...he is now 14-14 lifetime during the first month of the season. ONE WIN FROM #100--Ervin’s victory on April 27 was the 99th of his career and when he hits the century mark, Santana will be just the 10th Dominican- born pitcher to do so and the second active hurler, joining Oakland’s Bartolo Colon (174)...Juan Marichal leads all Dominican pitchers with 243 wins while Santana, who debuted in 2005, possesses the most victories by a Dominican dating to 2003.