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Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Kansas City Royals (20-20) @ Houston Astros (12-32) Minute Maid Park - Monday, May 20, 2013 - 7:05 P.M Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Kansas City Royals (20-20) @ Houston Astros (12-32) Minute Maid Park - Monday, May 20, 2013 - 7:05 p.m. Game #41 - Road Game #23 FOX Sports Kansas City & KCSP Radio (610 Sports) UPCOMING PITCHING PROBABLES Tuesday, May 21 @ Houston Astros: RHP Wade Davis (3-3, 5.98) vs. RHP Bud Norris (4-4, 4.32), 7:05 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Wednesday, May 22 @ Houston Astros: RHP James Shields (2-4, 2.45) vs. RHP Jordan Lyles (1-1, 6.63), 7:05 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Thursday, May 23 vs. Los Angeles Angeles: RHP Joe Blanton (0-7, 6.62) vs. RHP Ervin Santana (3-3, 2.77), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Friday, May 24 vs. Los Angeles Angeles: LHP Jason Vargas (3-3, 3.55) vs. RHP Luis Mendoza (1-2, 5.50), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Saturday, May 25 vs. Los Angeles Angeles: TBA vs. RHP Jeremy Guthrie (5-1+ tonight), 1:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Sunday, May 26 vs. Los Angeles Angeles: RHP Jerome Williams (2-1+ tomorrow) vs. RHP Wade Davis (3-3+ tomorrow), 1:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Every game can be heard in Kansas City on KCSP Radio (610 Sports) with Steve Physioc and Steve Stewart mikeside tonight, while Don Free controls the dials as the producer/engineer...every game of this trip is being televised in High Definition by FOX Sports Kansas City with Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler describing the action...the pre and postgame show on FSKC, Royals Live, is hosted by Joel Goldberg. Royals vs. Astros SIMILAR SCRIPT LEADS TO OAKLAND SWEEP--The Royals hit Houston after a trio of one-run The Royals get their first action with the Astros as an Ameri- losses in Oakland, capped with a 4-3 defeat in yesterday’s finale...Kansas City, who had come-from- can League squad in this series, but it’s far from KC’s first work behind wins in 12 of its first 18 victories of the year, had the tables turned over the weekend, taking leads against Houston...the Royals went 13-17 vs. the ‘Stros during Interleague work, including an 8-7 ledger when playing in Hous- in each contest only to fall late...yesterday the Royals had leads of 2-0 and 3-1, the first multi-run leads of ton, 7-5 here in Minute Maid Park. the series, but the A’s rekindled some of the magic that won them a division title last year, coming back Date Site Score WP LP Att. with single tallies in the fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth to gain the sweep...the eighth inning run came 5/20 @ Hou courtesy of a defensive miscue that led to a game-tying sacrifice fly, and then Yoenis Cespedes broke 5/21 @ Hou 5/22 @ Hou the tie with an eighth inning home run off of Kelvin Herrera...starter Luis Mendoza deserved a better 6/7 KC fate, allowing just the 2 earned runs over 6.0+ innings, but the first man he faced in the seventh singled 6/8 KC to center and the ball skipped by David Lough for a two-base error and that runner eventually scored 6/9 KC the tying tally...lost on the day was Alex Gordon’s ninth career 4-hit effort to lead an 11-hit KC attack. BACK TO .500--Kansas City enters the final leg of this road trip with a 20-20 mark as the Royals will officially hit the quarter-pole in the 2013 season at the midway point of tonight’s game against the Astros...it’s been an early season rollercoaster ride that saw KC peak at seven games over .500 following a 10-inning win over the White Sox on May 5, but since that triumph the Royals have dropped 10 of 13 games...of those 10 losses, eighth have been by two runs or less, including a half dozen 1-run defeats...despite the rough last couple of weeks, a year ago at the one-fourth mark, the Royals had a 16-24 ledger. RUNS SCARCE IN OAKLAND--The Royals plated just five runs in the just completed series in the east bay, dropping all three contests by one run...since Kansas City’s 7-run third inning last Wednesday in Anaheim, leading to a 9-5 win, the Royals haven’t scored more than one run in any inning spanning 33 frames...KC plated single tallies in the seventh inning last Wednesday to closeout the scoring in that victory and then scored a run in the third on Friday, a run in the first on Saturday and single runs in the third thru fifth frames yesterday. GORDO IMPRESSIVE AT THE PLATE--Alex Gordon is making an early bid for his first career All-Star appearance, collecting hits in his first four plate appearances yesterday, his ninth career 4-hit game and upping his season average 14 points to .343, good for a third place tie with Dustin Pedroia in the American League...the 29-year old two-time Rawlings Gold Glover has hit safely in 7 straight at a .483 clip (14-for-29), including a .480 mark (12-for-25) through the first 6 games of this road trip...he is tied with Pedroia, Miguel Cabrera and Jean Segura for the Major League lead in multi-hit games with 20, 10 more than he had after 40 games a year ago when the finished with 60, good for fourth in the A.L...he is also hitting .450 (18-for-40) with a .465 OBA since moving to the third slot 10 games ago. STARTERS IMPRESSIVE DESPITE OUTCOMES--Kansas City’s revamped starting rotation has held its own as we hit the quarter pole of the 2013 season, entering tonight with a 3.72 ERA, which is good for a fourth place tie with Boston in the American League...it’s a huge improvement over the 5.01 mark the 2012 rotation wrapped up with, the 11th ranked ERA in the A.L...Luis Mendoza went 6.0 innings yesterday allowing just 2 earned runs, the third consecutive “quality start” by the rotation during the stop in Oakland...it was also the 30th time in 40 games that a starter worked at least 6.0 innings, a figure last year’s rotation didn’t reach until June 29 in game #74...Kansas City has had 15 occasions when the starter has worked at least 7.0 frames, a figure the 2012 staff didn’t attain until August 1 in game #103...thanks to the work of James Shields, the starters have already recorded as many 8.0-inning outings as they accumulated all of last year, with Shields possessing 5 of those 8. STARTERS EFFORT EQUALS RESTED PEN--What a difference a year and a revamped starting rotation means to the work out of the bullpen...a season ago, the Royals had the second most used bullpen in baseball to Colorado, who had employed a pitch limit on its starters...this year, Kansas City has the least used pen with 99.2 frames...St. Louis is second in the Majors at 110.2 innings, while the second fewest innings by a pen in the American League is Tampa Bay with 116.1. TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Jeremy Guthrie (5-1, 2.82) vs. LHP Dallas Keuchel (0-1, 4.82) 2012 2011 Career 2013 2012 Career Jeremy Guthrie vs. Astros 2-0 0-0 2-0 Major League Record 5-1 (2.82 ERA) 8-12 60-78 Dallas Keuchel vs. Royals 1st career appearance Major League Record 0-1 (4.82 ERA) 3-8 3-9 JEREMY GUTHRIE is making his ninth start of 2013, 219th career appearances (192nd start)...tonight he faces the Astros for the fourth time in his career...Guthrie signed a 3-year deal as a free agent on Nov. 30, 2012 after being acquired July 20, 2012 from Colorado in exchange for Jonathan Sanchez. STREAK ENDS IN ANAHEIM--While the Land of Disney is where dreams Jeremy’s 2013 Starts can come true, the ballpark nearby was where Jeremy saw the end of a dream streak DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT as he had a franchise-best 18-start unbeaten streak come to and end last Tuesday night 4/4 at Chicago W, 3-1 6.0 5 1 1 0 1 9 94-61 3-1 4/9 Minnesota W, 7-4 6.2 6 4 4 3 1 2 110-70 7-4 in a 6-2 loss at Angel Stadium...it was his first defeat since August 3, 2012, a 5-3 loss 4/16 at Atlanta ND, 6-3 7.0 5 2 2 2 1 6 91-61 2-2 4/21 at Boston (G2) ND, 5-4 6.0 9 4 4 1 4 2 112-72 4-4 to Texas...on Tuesday, he worked 7.0 innings and allowed 5 runs on 11 hits, including 4/28 Cleveland (G1) W, 9-0 6.2 6 0 0 0 3 5 112-65 4-0 a career high 4 solo home runs...Guthrie cruised through the first 3.0 innings, but 5/4 Chicago W, 2-0 9.0 4 0 0 0 1 3 106-74 2-0 5/9 at Baltimore W, 6-2 6.0 7 2 1 1 3 3 100-63 4-1 surrendered solo home runs to Albert Pujols and Howie Kendrick in the fourth to give 5/14 at Los Angeles L, 2-6 7.0 11 5 5 4 3 0 105-65 2-5 the Angels the lead...L.A.
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