04/22/2012 Toronto at Kansas City - Game 3

From Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City,

Missouri, USA

Toronto Blue Jays

(8-6)

Manager:  John Farrell

@

Kansas City Royals

(3-11)

Manager:  Ned Yost

Game 3 of 4

First pitch: 2:10 pm est

Starting Pitchers

Toronto: Romero (2-0, 3.72 ERA)
Kansas City: Duffy (1-1, 2.13 ERA)



Umpires
Home - Tim Timmons
First Base - Jeff Kellogg
Second Base - Eric Cooper
Third Base - Marty Foster


Weather
Temp:  74°F | 21°C
Sky: Scattered Clouds
Wind: N at 24 km/h, gusting to 42 km/h(left field wall to home plate)




























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 of any base runner other than the batter-runner 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 Ks2f 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
Toronto Blue Jays	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	-	-	5	8	2	11
Kansas City Royals	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	-	-	3	7	1	5

Toronto Blue Jays	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th
1.  Y Escobar SS	FO9		4-3		RS RBI #8 2,3 BH9 #8 3,H #9 1,2	6-3 /		#9 1,2 #6 3,H BH9 #9 2,3				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
2.  O Vizquel 2B	BB		Ks		FO7		FO9	3UA /				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
3.  J Bautista RF	fc BB #2 1,2		BB		RS RBI BH8 #9 2,H #1 1,2		BB		5-3 Injury delay			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
4.  E Encarnacion 1B	gb6 FC 6-4 #2 2,3		FO8 /		IBB #1 2,3 #3 1,2		FO9		2BH8			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
5.  C Rasmus CF	Ks /			Ks	Ks		J Mijares P 5-3 /		BB			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
6.  B Lawrie 3B		Ks		FO8	2RBI BH9 #1 3,H #3 2,H #4 1,3			SB - RS BB	A Crow P 4-3 #4 2,3 #5 1,2			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
7.  B Francisco DH PH - 5th - A Lind DH		gb5 Eth5 #7 1,2		CS BH8	L Coleman P ph 1-3 /			FO7	6-3 /			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
8.  R Davis LF PH - 8th - E Thames - LF		3-1 #7 2,3		1-3-6 / --->	SB RS 2BH8/7 8-6-5	FO3f		J Jeffrees P ph FO8				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
9.  J Arencibia C		FO7 /			RS BB	Ks		SB BH9 #6 1,3				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 0 0 2	0 0 0 1	0 0 0 1	0 1 0 0	4 4 1 2	0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1	1 2 1 2	0 1 0 2			11

Toronto Blue Jays Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Infielders
2B Kelly Johnson L
1B Adam Lind     L


Outfielders
LF Eric Thames L



Catchers
Jeff Mathis    R

Francisco Cordero R
Jason Frasor         R
Drew Hutchison R
Casey Janssen R
Darren Oliver L
Luis Perez L
Sergio Santos R
Carlos Villanueva R

Henderson Alvarez R
Kyle Drabek   R
Brandon Morrow   R
Ricky Romero   L

Blue Jays Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Ricky Romero (W, 3-0)	8.0	5	2	2	2	5	0
Francisco Cordero (S, 1)	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	0

Kansas City Royals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th
1.  J Bourgeois CF	5-3		SB BB		#9 1,2 4-3 #9 2,3			CS E5				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
2.  A Gordon LF	dp BH8		#1 1,2 Ks /		4-3 /			FO8				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
3.  B Butler DH	DP 6-4-3 #2 out /			5-3		5-3		#1 1-3-4 Ks 2-3 /				AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
4.  E Hosmer 1B		BH7/8		gb1 1-3		FO7			F. Cordero P 5-3			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
5.  Y Betancourt 2B		5-3 #4 1,2		FO8 short /		Ks /			RS BB			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
6.  J Francoeur RF		FO7			RS bloop BH7		5-3		2BH8 #5 1,3			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
7.  M Moustakas 3B		Ks /			RS BH8 #6 1,2		2BH7 7-4!		RBI ifBH6 #5 3,H #6 2,3			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
8.  H Quintero C PH - 9th - Brayan Pena			Ks		fc BB #6 2,3 #7 1,2		5-3		ph DP 4-6-3 #7 out //			AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
9.  A Escobar SS			FO8		SB Eth6RBI FC 6-3 #8 out #6 3,H #7 2,H		6-3 /					AB R H BB SAC RBI SO HBP LOB 2BH 3BH HR AVG PO A E
Per-Inning Totals	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	Totals
Runs Hits Errors LOB	0 1 0 0	0 1 1 1	0 0 0 1	0 0 0 0	2 2 0 1	0 0 0 0	0 1 0 1	0 0 0 0	1 2 0 1			5

Kansas City Royals Bench

Fielders

Bullpen

Starters

Infielders
2B Chris Getz       L




Outfielders


CF Mitch Maier  L



Catchers


C Brayan Pena      S

Jonathan Broxton R
Louis Coleman R
Tim Collins L
Aaron Crow R
Kelvin Herrera R
Jeremy Jeffress R
Jose Mijares L
Everett Teaford L

Bruce Chen L
Luke Hochevar R
Luis Mendoza R
Jonathan Sanchez L

Royals' Pitching Totals	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P/S	ERA
Danny Duffy (L, 1-2)	4.2	5	4	4	5	5	0
Louis Coleman	2.0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Jose Mijares	0.2	0	1	1	1	0	0
Jeremy Jeffress	1.0	3	0	0	1	0	0
Aaron Crow	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0