August 23, 2011 Royals at Blue Jays - Game 1 of 3

From Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kansas City Royals

(52-76)

Manager: Ned Yost

@

Toronto Blue Jays

(65-62)

Manager: John Farrell

Game 1 of 3

First pitch: 7:07 PM EST

Starting Pitchers
Kansas City Royals - Bruce Chen
Toronto Blue Jays - Brandon Morrow

Umpires
Home Plate - John Hirschbeck
First Base - Laz Diaz
Second Base - Wally Bell
Third Base - Scott Barry

Weather
Nice Canadian weather
Temp - 22C | 73F
Wind  - 17kph | 12 mph
















Line-ups and Pitching Totals help from ESPN - Boxscore.

Colour Legend (as of this date)

Neon Green is a Base Hit Forest Green is a runner advanced by a Base Hit or a Sacrifice Yellow is Intentional Base on Balls, Defensive Indifference, a Sacrafice or Fielder's Choice Red is an out Pink are un-earned bases - Wild Pitch, Passed Ball or an Error Neon Blue is a Stolen Base Navy Blue is a base earned via a Hit or a Sacrifice, that results in a Run Scored

The Scoring Notations

BB Base on Balls - Batter to first base because the umpire ruled that pitched ball was the forth pitch of the at-bat out of the strike zone HBP Hit By Pitch - Batter is ruled by the umpire to have been hit by pitch - awarded one base BH Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at first base via a hit ball 2BH Two Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at second base via a hit ball 3BH Three Base Hit - Batter-runner safe at third base via a hit ball HR Home Run - Batter-runner safe at home plate via a hit ball RBI Run Batted In - via a SAC, a BH or a BB - a run scores RS Run Scored. SAC Sacrifice - With less than two outs the batter causes a base runner to advance but in the process, is put out FC Ball hit on the ground, fielded and a put out made anywhere but at 1B DI Defensive Indifference - A baserunner advances because the defence, for strategic reasons, does nothing IBB Intentional Base on Balls - The defences decides to walk a batter for strategic reasons

SB Stolen Base - Base runner advances on a pitched ball despite the defence's best efforts CS Caught Stealing - A baserunner is put out while tring to advance on a pitch K Called third strike - Batter out because the umpire ruled that with two strikes in an at-bat, a pitched ball was in the strike zone Ks Batter out, swinging third strike IFR Infield Fly Rule - A ball popped up on the infield that an umpire rules is easily catch-able - batter-runner is out, the ball is dead LO Ball caught that was hit so hard it appears like the vector was a straight line GO Ball hit on the ground, fielded and the batter-runner is put out at 1B FO A high arching hit ball caught on the fly by a fielder E The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar play Eth The defence allows runners to advance because of less than stallar throw WP Wild Pitch - a pitched ball that bounces in and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing PB Passed Ball - a pitched ball that doesn't bounce and is not caught by the catcher and that results in a runner advancing

pop A ball hit in a high arch such that the distance travelled up is greater than the distance travelled from the plate GR To prevent injury, "Ground Rules" define what hit or thrown balls are in, and out of play - announced before each game by the home team manager f Hit ball caught in foul territory - for example "FO3f" - Fly Ball caught by First Base, foul op Out of Play - for example "FO5op", Fly ball caught by Third Base across the railing in the stands, or in the camera bay... BRIF Base runner is out for interfering with the defence while they're making a play on a batted ball Ksf2 Foul tip with 2 strikes, caught by catcher - strike three - - - - - - - - - - - -

Box Score - Final	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Kansas City Royals	0	3	0	0	3	O	0	0	0	-	-	6	16	0	10
Toronto Blue Jays	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	-	-	4	6	1	2

Kansas City Royals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  A Gordon LF	Ks	Ks		Ks /		BH7 short		K
2.  M Cabrera CF	4-3	Ks /			pop FO6	Ks		GB4(3) BH4(7)  np #8 1,2
3.  B Butler DH	FO9 /		FO8		RS RBI HR7	Carreno + pop FO7 line /		Ks 2 change-ups for S2 , S3 Molina /
4.  E Hosmer 1B		RS RBI HR8	BH9		SB RS IF-BH (E2) GB dribbler3		4-3		LD4 4-3
5.  J Francoeur RF		RS 2HB8(9)	FC BH7(8) short #4 1,2		Ks #4 1,2		LD5 2BH7 sticks in the padding wall - no appeal		BH7(8)
6.  J Giavotella 2B 8th Chris Getz 2B		RS RBI BH8 short #5 2,H 38th #6 1,2	FO9		RS RBI 2BH8 #4 2,H		FO8(7) short #5 2,3 8-6		FO8(7)
7.  S Perez C		BH8 short #6 2,H	GB 6 FC 6UA #5 out /	(scorer's error)	RBI FB8(7) 3BH #6 2,H Morrow -		5-3 /		FO8(7) /
8.  M Moustakas 3B		BB #7 1,2		CS 7-4 BH7 wall CS 7-4 tag out at 2B	Ledezma + POP FO5f /			BH7
9.  A Escobar SS		FO8		bouncer 5 5-3		4-3		FO7
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0	3 4 0 2	0 2 0 2	0 1 0 0	3 4 0 1	0 1 0 1	0 1 0 1	0 2 0 2	0 1 0 1

Royals' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Bruce Chen	7..2	4	3	3	1	9	1	92/67	4.12
Greg Holland	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5/3	1.54
Joakim Soria	1.0	2	1	1	0	2	0	21/13	4.22

Toronto Blue Jays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
1.  Y Escobar SS	FO9			BH8		RS 3RBI HR8 #8 2,H #9 1,H		Holland + #9 1,2 np 5-3 /
2.  E Thames LF	4-3			GB 6 DP 6-4-3 #1 out		FO7			Soria + RS 2BH9 line 9-6! safe great throw 9
3.  J Bautista RF	pop FO6 /			Ks /		K /			Ks
4.  A Lind 1B		Ka			4-3 4 in shallow 9		SSS Ks		RBI GB6 BH7 #2 2,H
5.  E Encarnacion DH		Ks			Ks		pop FO7		pop FO6 quicker pitch!
6.  C Rasmus CF 9th PH Teahen		K /			3UA /		FO9 /		PH Ks /
7.  B Lawrie 3B			Ks			FB 9(8) short FO9		bSSB X FO9
8.  J Molina C			pop FO3			RS LD6 BH7		X LD 1 off glove on the rubber NICE PLAY 1-3
9.  M McCoy 2B			K /			RS (#8 1,2) skipping5 5-3 BH sweeping catch and pulls off - says the ump		BBBB SB BB Chen - Thank god
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 0	0 0 1 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0	3 3 0 0	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1	1 2 0 1

Jays' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Brandon Morrow	4.2	11	6	6	1	5	2	103/68	4.65
Wil Ledezma	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	20/13	6.75
Joel Carreno	3.1	4	0	0	0	2	0	45/29	0.00