Kansas City Royals @ Cleveland Guardians Scoreless 1st Analysis

Scouting Sheet

Sorted by record — both starters' combined scoreless-1st rate, 1.40 — not a prediction

Kansas City Royals Starter Seth Lugo Scoreless 1st 2/5 (40%) Last 5 ERA 6.41 WHIP 1.46 K9 6.8 Rest 5d

Cleveland Guardians Starter Parker Messick Scoreless 1st 5/5 (100%) Last 5 ERA 2.12 WHIP 0.91 K9 10.3 Rest 6d

Kansas City Royals Lineup Confirmed

1 Carter Jensen OPS .719 (L10 .950) No BvP history

2 Matthew Lugo OPS .667 (L10 .667) No BvP history

3 Josh Rojas OPS .646 (L10 .608) No BvP history

4 Salvador Perez OPS .640 (L10 .837) No BvP history

5 Vinnie Pasquantino OPS .720 (L10 1.172) No BvP history

6 Nick Loftin OPS .710 (L10 .786) No BvP history

Cleveland Guardians Lineup Confirmed

1 David Fry OPS .655 (L10 .390) 6 PA, reached 1(H1/BB0) K1 HR0 OPS.334 ⚠️ Small BvP sample

2 Petey Halpin OPS .584 (L10 .656) 2 PA, reached 1(H1/BB0) K1 HR0 OPS1.000 ⚠️ Small BvP sample

3 José Ramírez OPS .718 (L10 .675) 16 PA, reached 6(H3/BB3) K2 HR0 OPS.606

4 Jo Adell OPS .692 (L10 .810) 13 PA, reached 3(H3/BB0) K6 HR0 OPS.616

5 Nathaniel Lowe OPS .780 (L10 .454) 7 PA, reached 1(H1/BB0) K2 HR1 OPS.714 ⚠️ Small BvP sample

6 Travis Bazzana OPS .702 (L10 .634) 2 PA, reached 1(H1/BB0) K1 HR0 OPS1.000 ⚠️ Small BvP sample

Team 1st-Inning Form

Kansas City Royals L5 [1, 0, 2, 0, 0]=3 runs · Cleveland Guardians L5 [0, 0, 0, 0, 0]=0 runs

Head-to-Head

08-29 Kansas City Royals 0-0 Cleveland Guardians · 08-28 Kansas City Royals 0-0 Cleveland Guardians · 05-07 Cleveland Guardians 3-0 Kansas City Royals