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April 18, 2008

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Top 9 R H E
Royals 2 4 0
Athletics 13 15 1
Top 9 R H E
Royals 2 4 0
Athletics 13 15 1

Billy Butler Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .339
OBP .333 .400
At Bats 3 62
Hits 1 21
• Singles 1 16
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 7
RBI’s 1 8

Andrew Brown Season Stats

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0 0 0
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McAfee Coliseum - April 18, 2008
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Out
Andrew Brown
Kurt Suzuki
Daric Barton
Mark Ellis
Jack Hannahan
Bobby Crosby
Emil Brown
Ryan Sweeney
Chris Denorfia
Billy Butler

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Kansas City Royals 2 4 0 2
Oakland Athletics 13 15 1 7
Winning Pitcher Chad Gaudin
Losing Pitcher Brian Bannister
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Bobby Crosby
Attendance 12,528
Time of Game 2 hours 38 minutes
View Box Score
Count: 0-0, 2 Outs
Count: 0-0, 0 Outs

End of Game

Butler hits a fly ball into center field. Sweeney settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Teahen hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Ellis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Chris Denorfia now playing right field. Andrew Brown now pitching. Grudzielanek hits a ball on the ground towards short. Crosby scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Buck strikes out.
Bottom 8 Crosby hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 8 Sweeney hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Nomo fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Cust scores. Brown moves to third.
Bottom 8 Hideo Nomo now pitching. Brown hits a popup off the glove of Pena, and into shallow left field. Brown reaches second base with a double. Barton scores. Ellis scores. Cust moves to third.
Bottom 8 Cust takes first base on ball four. Suzuki scores. Barton moves to third. Ellis moves to second.
Bottom 8 Ellis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pena fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Crosby scores. Suzuki moves to third. Barton moves to second.
Bottom 8 Barton takes first base on ball four. Crosby moves to third. Suzuki moves to second.
Bottom 8 Suzuki takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Hannahan hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Grudzielanek scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Crosby moves to second.
Bottom 8 Buck hits a fly ball into center field. Gathright settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Yasuhiko Yabuta now pitching. Crosby takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Gathright hits a ball on the ground towards first. Barton scoops it up and throws to first, with Casilla covering, for the out.
Top 8 Pena hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Suzuki fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Santiago Casilla now pitching. Buck hits a popup, foul, towards first. Barton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Sweeney strikes out.
Bottom 7 Brown hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pena scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Cust hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gload scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Cust for the out.
Top 7 Gload hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Ellis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Gordon strikes out.
Top 7 Guillen strikes out.
Bottom 6 Joel Peralta now pitching. Ellis hits a popup towards third. Gordon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Barton hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Hannahan moves to second.
Bottom 6 Suzuki strikes out.
Bottom 6 Hannahan hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Crosby scores.
Bottom 6 Ron Mahay now pitching. Buck hits a fly ball into left field. Teahen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Sweeney tags and scores. Crosby tags and moves to third.
Bottom 6 Crosby hits a fly ball into left field, out of the reach of Teahen. Crosby reaches second base with a double. Cust scores. Brown scores. Sweeney moves to third.
Bottom 6 Sweeney hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cust moves to third. Brown moves to second.
Bottom 6 Brown hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cust moves to second.
Bottom 6 Cust hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Butler hits a fly ball into right field. Buck settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Teahen hits a fly ball into center field. Sweeney settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Grudzielanek strikes out.
Bottom 5 Ellis hits a popup, foul, towards third. Gordon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Barton hits a fly ball into left field. Teahen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Suzuki strikes out.
Top 5 Gathright hits a fly ball into center field. Sweeney settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Pena strikes out.
Top 5 Buck strikes out.
Bottom 4 Hannahan hits a fly ball into left field. Teahen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Buck hits a fly ball into right field. Guillen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Crosby hits a fly ball into left field, out of the reach of Teahen. Crosby reaches second base with a double. Sweeney moves to third.
Bottom 4 Sweeney hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Brown hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bannister fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Gload strikes out.
Top 4 Gordon strikes out.
Top 4 Guillen hits a popup towards first. Barton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Cust hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Grudzielanek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Ellis hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Grudzielanek settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Barton hits a fly ball into center field. Gathright settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Suzuki hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Butler hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Brown throws the ball in to Ellis who tags Butler trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Pena scores. Grudzielanek moves to third.
Top 3 Teahen hits a fly ball into center field. Sweeney settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Grudzielanek takes first base on ball four. Pena moves to second.
Top 3 Gathright bunts towards first. Barton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Pena hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Hannahan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gordon fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Buck hits a fly ball into center field. Gathright settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Crosby hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pena scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Buck hits a ball on the ground towards short. Crosby fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Gload hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hannahan picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Hannahan. Gordon scores. That run is unearned.
Top 2 Gordon hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of Buck. Gordon reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 Guillen strikes out.
Top 2 Butler hits a fly ball into center field. Sweeney settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Sweeney hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gload scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Sweeney for the out.
Bottom 1 Brown hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Suzuki scores. Cust moves to second.
Bottom 1 Cust takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Suzuki moves to second.
Bottom 1 Ellis hits a line drive towards third. Gordon reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Barton hits a fly ball into left field. Teahen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Suzuki hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Teahen hits a ball on the ground towards first. Barton scoops it up and throws to first, with Gaudin covering, for the out.
Top 1 Grudzielanek hits a fly ball into center field. Sweeney settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Gathright hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Ellis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.