Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Cleveland Indians (9-13) @ Kansas City Royals (13-9) Kauffman Stadium - Monday, April 29, 2013 - 7:10 p.m. Game #23 - Home Game #10 FOX Sports Kansas City & KCSP Radio (610 Sports) UPCOMING PITCHING PROBABLES Tuesday, April 30 vs. Tampa Bay Rays: RHP Alex Cobb (3-1, 1.82) vs. RHP James Shields (1-2, 3.09), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Wednesday, May 1 vs. Tampa Bay Rays: RHP Jeremy Hellickson (1-2, 4.31) vs. RHP Luis Mendoza (0-1, 5.14), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Thursday, May 2 vs. Tampa Bay Rays: RHP Roberto Hernandez (1-4, 5.28) vs. RHP Ervin Santana (3-1, 2.00), 1:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Friday, May 3 vs. Chicago White Sox: TBA vs. RHP Jeremy Guthrie (3-0, 3.06), 7:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Saturday, May 4 vs. Chicago White Sox: TBA vs. RHP Wade Davis (2-1+ tonight), 6:10 p.m., FSKC (HD) & 610 Sports Sunday, May 5 vs. Chicago White Sox: TBA vs. RHP James Shields (1-2+ tomorrow), 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, who is joined by Royals’ Hall of Famer Jeff Montgomery. Royals vs. Indians ROYALS END UP WITH SPLIT--Kansas City experienced a winner and a clunker on Sunday in the With yesterday’s split, the Royals have a shot at a series win first-ever split double-dip in Kauffman Stadium, doing everything right in the 9-0 opener and then in tonight’s finale...dating back to last season, KC has now won scuffling to a 10-3 defeat last night...the day featured another solid performance from Jeremy Guthrie, 10 of the last 14 meetings vs. the Tribe...the Royals trail the all- time work by a 290-304 margin, but hold a 155-141 advantage who ran his 2013 record to 3-0 and extended his unbeaten start streak to a club record tying 16 (see in Kansas City, 143-129 in Kauffman Stadium. note below)...Guthrie tossed 6.2 innings allowing only 6 hits and 3 walks with 5 K’s, then handed it Date Site Score WP LP Att. over to the pen for the final 2.1 of scoreless relief, capped by 2.0 frames from Luke Hochevar...the 4/26 KC Rained Out - Make up on April 28 offense made good use of 10 hits, with Alcides Escobar and Alex Gordon each contributing their third 4/27 KC W, 3-2 Santana Kazmir 19,224 4/28 (D) KC W, 9-0 Guthrie Masterson 22,001 homers of the year and Jarrod Dyson collecting RBI hits in each of his first two at bats...the nightcap 4/28 (N) KC L, 3-10 Kluber Smith 19,831 didn’t go quite as well, with Cleveland plating 6 runs in the first four innings, the big blow a 3-run 4/29 KC homer by familiar face Mike Aviles off of starting and losing hurler Will Smith...the Royals committed 6/17 @ Cle 6/18 @ Cle a season-high matching 3 errors leading to 4 unearned runs. 6/19 @ Cle GUTHRIE TIES CLUB MARK--Jeremy Guthrie (a.k.a. @TheRealJGuts on Twitter) tied a franchise 7/2 KC 7/3 KC Hall of Famer, the late Paul Splittorff, with his 16th consecutive start without experiencing defeat in 7/4 KC yesterday’s 9-0 triumph in game one...Guthrie has gone 8-0 since last August 8, the longest active streak 7/12 @ Cle in the Majors, 4 starts ahead of Cincinnati’s Mat Latos and the Cardinals’ Lance Lynn...the most recent 7/13 @ Cle 7/14 @ Cle streak in the Majors longer than Guthrie’s current mark belongs to Atlanta’s Kris Medlen, who went a 9/9 @ Cle remarkable 28 consecutive starts from May 31, 2009 to September 30, 2012...Jeremy will attempt to 9/10 @ Cle establish a club record of 17 straight when he takes the hill here on Friday against the White Sox 9/11 @ Cle 9/16 KC RATINGS RECORD SET--The first game of yesterday’s split doubleheader was the highest- 9/17 KC rated Royals telecast ever on FOX Sports Kansas City, averaging a 7.9 household rating (73,000 9/18 KC households) in the Kansas City DMA, according to Nielsen Media Research...it eclipsed the previous highest-rated telecast of FSKC on 7.5 on May 6, 2009 vs. Seattle...Royals telecasts on the whole on FSKC are averaging a 5.7 rating through the first 20 games, a 35% increase over a year ago...Saturday’s win was the fourth highest-rated game ever on FOX Sports Kansas City, averaging 7.3 rating (68,000 households), peaking at a 9.6 (89,000 households) in the ninth inning and was the highest-rated TV program of the day in Kansas City. ROYALS TAKING LIKING TO DAY BALL--Kansas City upped its daylight record to 9-3 with yesterday’s first game triumph over the Tribe...only Boston has a better daytime winning percentage in the league with a 9-2 ledger...KC has the majority of their work under the lights in the near future with just 4 of the next 24 games slated for daylight, the next coming this Thursday when the Royals host “School Day at The K” in a 1:10 contest against Tampa Bay. KC RECORDS THIRD SHUTOUT--The 9-0 outcome in the opener of yesterday’s split twinbill was the third shutout of the young season for the Kansas City pitching staff, a figure the 2012 staff didn’t reach until May 21 in the 41st game of the year... on that occasion, Felipe Paulino combined with a pair of relievers for a 6-0 win in Yankee Stadium...last year’s club finished with 12 blankings on the season...the Royals, currently with the second best ERA in the American League are fourth in the A.L. with 3 shutouts, trailing Tampa Bay’s 5, followed by Texas and Seattle with 4 each. TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (0-2, 10.06) vs. RHP Wade Davis (2-2, 3.20) 2012 2011 Career 2013 2012 Career Ubaldo Jimenez vs. Royals 1-2 1-0 2-2 Major League Record 0-2 (10.06 ERA) 9-17 69-68 Wade Davis vs. Indians 0-0 - 1-1 Major League Record 2-2 (3.20 ERA) 3-0 30-23 WADE DAVIS is making his fifth start as a Royal tonight...this is his third start against the Indians (seventh appearance) and 123rd overall outing (69th start)...he was acquired as part of a 7-player deal with Tampa Bay on December 9, 2012 that also involved James Shields and Elliot Johnson. FIRST LOSS SINCE 2011--Wade came up on the short end in Detroit last Wade’s 2013 Starts DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT Wednesday night, his first loss since September 20, 2011...KC built a 4-1 lead, but he 4/5 at Philadelphia ND, 13-4 4.0 9 4 4 2 0 2 76-50 0-4 Tigers rebounded with 2 in the third and then added 4 unearned runs in the fourth to 4/10 Minnesota W, 3-0 5.0 4 0 0 0 3 6 96-60 1-0 4/17 at Atlanta W, 1-0 7.0 5 0 0 0 0 7 92-62 1-0 reassume a lead they didn’t relinquish...Davis allowed the 7 runs (3 earned) on 8 hits 4/24 at Detroit L, 5-7 3.2 8 7 3 0 4 2 95-50 4-7 and 4 walks over 3.2 innings in a 7-5 final...Detroit’s first run in the second inning 2013 Totals 2-1, 3.20 19.2 26 11 7 2 7 17 359-222 62% snapped Wade’s scoreless inning streak at 14.0, the longest by a KC pitcher this Career Totals 30-23, 3.91 478.1 462 223 208 56 174 358 - - year...he entered the game with 6 consecutive wins between losses and was the only MLB pitcher with 90.0-plus innings and no defeats over the stretch. 2012 RECAP--Wade is in his fourth full season in the Majors and his first in another organization other than the Rays, who drafted him out of high school in 2004...he spent all of 2012 in the Tampa Bay pen, recording 78 strikeouts and a rate of 11.1 batters per 9.0 innings, the highest in the league among relievers with at least 70.0 innings...he held lefties to a .161 (18-for-112) average, the second-best mark in the A.L. behind Oakland’s Grant Balfour and fifth-best in baseball (min. 70 IP). BACK IN STARTING SADDLE--Davis was a starter for his entire professional career prior to last season when he was shifted to the Rays bullpen...he responded by posting a 3-0 record with a 2.43 ERA, striking out 87 in 70.1 innings...he won 12 games in 2010, first among all A.L.