2014 Kansas City Royals Starters
(89-73) Won ALWC vs. Athletics (1-0), Won ALDS vs. Angels (3-0), Won ALCS vs. Orioles (4-0), Lost World Series vs. Giants (3-4)
Starters
Starter Date Vs. IP BF W/L ER R H K BB HR Pit Str Ball Str%
James Shields Mar 31 DET 6.1 24 3 3 5 3 1 1 106 71 35 .67
Jason Vargas Apr 2 DET 7.0 26 1 1 5 6 1 1 106 69 37 .65
Jeremy Guthrie Apr 4 @CWS 5.2 27 W 4 4 7 3 4 0 111 68 43 .61
Bruce Chen Apr 5 @CWS 6.1 26 1 1 7 7 0 0 101 64 37 .63
James Shields Apr 6 @CWS 7.0 27 L 1 1 5 6 0 0 102 65 37 .64
Jason Vargas Apr 7 @TAM 8.0 30 W 1 1 4 2 1 1 110 74 36 .67
Yordano Ventura Apr 8 @TAM 6.0 20 0 0 2 6 0 0 95 62 33 .65
Jeremy Guthrie Apr 9 @TAM 7.0 27 W 1 1 4 4 1 1 109 70 39 .64
Bruce Chen Apr 11 MIN 3.2 20 L 6 6 7 3 2 1 87 48 39 .55
James Shields Apr 12 MIN 5.2 28 L 1 7 6 5 3 2 115 69 46 .60
Jason Vargas Apr 13 MIN 7.0 26 2 2 5 4 3 1 112 70 42 .63
Yordano Ventura Apr 15 HOU 7.0 28 W 1 2 4 7 3 1 101 66 35 .65
Jeremy Guthrie Apr 16 HOU 6.0 27 4 4 6 4 2 2 103 64 39 .62
James Shields Apr 17 HOU 8.0 29 W 1 1 4 12 2 0 107 64 43 .60
Jason Vargas Apr 18 @MIN 7.0 27 W 0 0 7 4 1 0 113 71 42 .63
Bruce Chen Apr 19 @MIN 5.0 26 W 4 4 8 6 4 1 98 62 36 .63
Yordano Ventura Apr 20 @MIN 4.0 22 L 4 4 6 6 4 0 94 56 38 .60
Jeremy Guthrie Apr 21 CLE 6.1 28 L 4 4 10 3 0 2 98 69 29 .70
James Shields Apr 22 CLE 6.0 27 W 1 2 6 9 1 0 106 65 41 .61
Jason Vargas Apr 23 CLE 6.0 26 2 3 6 2 2 0 100 63 37 .63
Bruce Chen Apr 24 CLE 4.1 19 L 5 5 6 2 1 0 75 49 26 .65
Yordano Ventura Apr 25 BAL 8.0 33 W 0 0 7 8 2 0 113 75 38 .66
Jeremy Guthrie Apr 26 BAL 7.0 27 2 2 6 3 1 0 97 69 28 .71
James Shields Apr 27 BAL 7.0 26 W 2 2 3 6 2 1 101 69 32 .68
Jason Vargas Apr 29 @TOR 6.1 29 5 5 10 5 0 1 94 64 30 .68
Yordano Ventura Apr 30 @TOR 5.0 19 0 0 2 4 2 0 92 57 35 .62
Jeremy Guthrie May 1 @TOR 6.0 28 L 4 4 8 4 2 2 109 72 37 .66
James Shields May 2 @DET 6.1 32 L 7 8 12 3 1 1 105 68 37 .65
Danny Duffy May 3 @DET 4.0 17 L 1 1 2 2 4 0 75 41 34 .55
Jason Vargas May 4 @DET 5.0 28 L 7 7 11 3 2 2 107 63 44 .59
Yordano Ventura May 5 SDP 6.0 24 3 3 5 10 0 1 101 72 29 .71
Jeremy Guthrie May 6 SDP 8.0 29 1 1 4 2 1 1 107 70 37 .65
James Shields May 7 SDP 7.0 28 W 0 0 7 4 2 0 118 73 45 .62
Danny Duffy May 8 SEA 6.0 24 L 1 1 2 4 3 0 88 49 39 .56
Jason Vargas May 9 SEA 7.0 25 W 0 0 3 6 0 0 98 65 33 .66
Yordano Ventura May 10 SEA 6.1 28 L 3 3 6 3 4 2 96 54 42 .56
Jeremy Guthrie May 11 SEA 4.2 22 7 7 8 2 0 3 80 48 32 .60
James Shields May 13 @COL 7.0 25 W 1 1 5 8 0 0 98 75 23 .77
Jason Vargas May 14 @COL 6.2 25 W 2 2 5 8 1 1 103 66 37 .64
Yordano Ventura May 15 @BAL 6.1 26 L 2 2 7 9 1 1 104 70 34 .67
Jeremy Guthrie May 16 @BAL 8.0 33 L 4 4 8 2 1 1 116 79 37 .68
Danny Duffy May 17 @BAL 7.0 23 W 0 0 2 2 0 0 97 65 32 .67
James Shields May 18 @BAL 7.0 32 W 3 3 9 3 1 0 99 64 35 .65
Jason Vargas May 19 @CWS 4.2 23 L 7 7 8 6 2 3 82 53 29 .65
Yordano Ventura May 20 @CWS 6.0 25 L 4 4 7 3 0 1 100 69 31 .69
Jeremy Guthrie May 21 @CWS 7.0 26 1 1 3 2 2 0 100 59 41 .59
Danny Duffy May 23 LAA 6.0 27 L 5 5 9 2 2 2 87 59 28 .68
James Shields May 24 LAA 6.0 28 4 4 9 4 2 2 112 71 41 .63
Jason Vargas May 25 LAA 6.1 26 1 1 3 6 5 0 109 60 49 .55
Yordano Ventura May 26 @HOU 2.2 18 L 5 5 7 3 3 0 74 46 28 .62
Jeremy Guthrie May 27 @HOU 6.0 27 L 1 1 7 5 3 0 105 67 38 .64
Danny Duffy May 28 @HOU 4.0 24 L 5 6 7 3 5 2 86 47 39 .55
James Shields May 29 TOR 7.0 27 6 6 8 6 0 3 108 72 36 .67
Jason Vargas May 30 TOR 6.0 28 W 1 1 7 7 3 1 108 70 38 .65
Aaron Brooks May 31 TOR 0.2 11 L 7 7 5 0 3 0 42 22 20 .52
Jeremy Guthrie Jun 1 TOR 7.0 29 L 2 2 8 5 2 1 104 71 33 .68
Danny Duffy Jun 2 STL 6.0 20 W 0 0 1 5 1 0 85 55 30 .65
James Shields Jun 3 STL 5.1 29 5 7 9 1 4 2 96 57 39 .59
Jason Vargas Jun 4 @STL 8.0 36 2 2 9 3 2 0 117 75 42 .64
Yordano Ventura Jun 5 @STL 6.0 26 W 2 2 7 1 2 0 91 55 36 .60
Jeremy Guthrie Jun 6 @NYY 7.0 28 L 4 4 6 2 1 0 110 73 37 .66
Danny Duffy Jun 7 @NYY 5.2 24 3 3 5 4 3 0 100 60 40 .60
James Shields Jun 8 @NYY 6.0 26 W 0 1 6 8 2 0 110 67 43 .61
Jason Vargas Jun 10 @CLE 7.2 31 W 3 3 6 5 0 0 116 78 38 .67
Yordano Ventura Jun 11 @CLE 7.0 27 W 1 1 6 3 0 0 85 61 24 .72
Jeremy Guthrie Jun 13 CWS 5.2 28 W 2 2 6 9 4 0 110 65 45 .59
Danny Duffy Jun 14 CWS 7.0 28 W 0 0 5 9 1 0 98 65 33 .66
James Shields Jun 15 CWS 6.0 29 W 3 3 10 3 1 0 110 70 40 .64
Jason Vargas Jun 16 DET 7.0 28 W 2 2 7 4 2 0 95 66 29 .69
Yordano Ventura Jun 17 DET 7.0 28 W 3 3 8 4 2 0 102 65 37 .64
Jeremy Guthrie Jun 18 DET 6.2 25 W 1 1 4 9 1 1 105 67 38 .64
Danny Duffy Jun 19 DET 7.0 24 L 2 2 3 5 1 1 101 69 32 .68
James Shields Jun 20 @SEA 7.0 30 5 5 9 4 1 2 103 67 36 .65
Jason Vargas Jun 21 @SEA 8.2 35 L 2 2 10 2 0 0 115 84 31 .73
Yordano Ventura Jun 22 @SEA 7.0 29 L 2 2 6 6 2 1 101 69 32 .68
Jeremy Guthrie Jun 23 @LAD 7.2 29 W 2 2 7 5 0 0 95 71 24 .75
Danny Duffy Jun 24 @LAD 6.0 24 L 1 1 4 5 4 0 105 67 38 .64
James Shields Jun 25 @LAD 7.0 29 4 4 7 2 1 1 107 65 42 .61
Jason Vargas Jun 27 @LAA 4.0 20 6 6 9 1 0 3 63 44 19 .70
Yordano Ventura Jun 28 @LAA 4.0 19 L 2 2 7 3 0 0 56 41 15 .73
Jeremy Guthrie Jun 29 @LAA 6.2 29 3 4 9 4 2 2 106 68 38 .64
Danny Duffy Jun 30 MIN 5.2 23 W 1 1 4 3 2 0 96 64 32 .67
James Shields Jul 1 MIN 5.0 27 L 4 5 9 5 2 0 110 69 41 .63
Jason Vargas Jul 2 MIN 7.0 26 W 0 0 4 5 2 0 111 67 44 .60
Yordano Ventura Jul 4 CLE 8.1 32 W 1 1 6 4 2 1 113 66 47 .58
Jeremy Guthrie Jul 5 CLE 4.0 25 L 6 6 11 5 2 1 99 62 37 .63
Danny Duffy Jul 6 CLE 6.0 27 L 4 4 10 6 0 2 100 72 28 .72
James Shields Jul 7 TAM 7.0 25 W 0 0 3 10 1 0 103 64 39 .62
Jason Vargas Jul 8 TAM 5.2 25 L 2 2 6 3 2 0 109 62 47 .57
Yordano Ventura Jul 9 TAM 5.0 24 4 4 5 5 4 1 104 60 44 .58
Jeremy Guthrie Jul 10 @DET 4.0 24 L 8 8 8 2 3 1 91 49 42 .54
Danny Duffy Jul 11 @DET 6.0 24 L 1 2 5 6 0 0 99 69 30 .70
James Shields Jul 12 @DET 7.0 26 L 2 2 7 8 0 0 121 78 43 .64
Bruce Chen Jul 13 @DET 5.1 22 2 2 8 2 0 0 83 60 23 .72
James Shields Jul 18 BOS 5.2 26 3 4 8 3 1 1 112 74 38 .66
Danny Duffy Jul 19 BOS 6.2 28 L 1 2 6 2 3 1 97 57 40 .59
Yordano Ventura Jul 20 BOS 4.1 26 L 6 6 9 0 4 1 94 55 39 .59
Jeremy Guthrie Jul 21 CWS 6.0 27 L 3 3 5 5 3 0 101 54 47 .53
Bruce Chen Jul 22 CWS 5.0 21 W 1 1 5 2 2 1 89 60 29 .67
James Shields Jul 23 CWS 7.0 27 1 1 6 7 1 0 105 74 31 .70
Danny Duffy Jul 24 @CLE 7.0 25 0 0 2 7 2 0 108 67 41 .62
Yordano Ventura Jul 25 @CLE 6.1 27 3 4 6 7 1 2 101 69 32 .68
Jeremy Guthrie Jul 26 @CLE 5.2 27 W 5 5 10 4 2 1 105 64 41 .61
Bruce Chen Jul 27 @CLE 5.0 25 L 6 6 8 1 2 2 106 65 41 .61
James Shields Jul 29 @MIN 6.0 27 L 1 2 6 5 4 0 124 77 47 .62
Danny Duffy Jul 30 @MIN 5.2 24 1 1 4 4 6 1 107 59 48 .55
Yordano Ventura Jul 31 @MIN 7.0 31 W 1 2 5 7 3 1 103 71 32 .69
Jeremy Guthrie Aug 1 OAK 6.0 23 W 0 0 3 6 2 0 107 73 34 .68
Jason Vargas Aug 2 OAK 4.1 20 L 4 7 6 5 0 0 75 47 28 .63
James Shields Aug 3 OAK 8.0 27 W 2 2 4 2 0 2 102 65 37 .64
Danny Duffy Aug 5 ARI 5.0 19 W 1 1 3 7 1 0 94 67 27 .71
Yordano Ventura Aug 6 ARI 6.0 27 W 2 2 8 8 1 0 105 67 38 .64
Jeremy Guthrie Aug 7 ARI 9.0 34 W 2 2 7 4 0 0 109 76 33 .70
Jason Vargas Aug 8 @SFG 5.0 23 2 2 9 5 0 0 101 69 32 .68
James Shields Aug 9 @SFG 9.0 31 W 0 0 4 5 1 0 109 72 37 .66
Danny Duffy Aug 10 @SFG 6.2 27 W 4 4 3 4 3 0 102 61 41 .60
Yordano Ventura Aug 11 @OAK 6.0 23 2 2 2 5 4 0 105 62 43 .59
Jeremy Guthrie Aug 12 @OAK 4.2 24 L 4 6 11 4 0 0 89 59 30 .66
Jason Vargas Aug 13 @OAK 9.0 29 W 0 0 3 4 0 0 97 65 32 .67
James Shields Aug 14 @OAK 6.0 26 3 3 7 5 1 0 111 73 38 .66
Danny Duffy Aug 15 MIN 5.1 22 W 2 3 6 1 0 0 79 50 29 .63
Yordano Ventura Aug 16 MIN 6.2 31 L 3 3 4 4 6 0 113 68 45 .60
Jeremy Guthrie Aug 17 MIN 7.0 29 W 4 4 5 7 2 2 101 68 33 .67
Jason Vargas Aug 18 MIN 7.0 26 W 1 1 4 3 1 1 106 65 41 .61
James Shields Aug 19 COL 6.0 28 W 2 2 9 6 1 1 95 63 32 .66
Danny Duffy Aug 20 COL 7.0 28 L 1 5 5 6 1 1 102 71 31 .70
Yordano Ventura Aug 22 TEX 6.0 25 W 1 1 4 6 3 0 111 69 42 .62
Jeremy Guthrie Aug 23 TEX 8.0 27 W 1 1 5 2 1 1 111 72 39 .65
Jason Vargas Aug 24 TEX 6.0 32 L 2 3 11 3 4 0 105 60 45 .57
James Shields Aug 25 @NYY 6.2 31 L 6 6 10 3 3 2 109 68 41 .62
Danny Duffy Aug 26 @MIN 6.2 23 1 1 4 4 2 0 95 63 32 .66
Liam Hendriks Aug 27 @MIN 7.0 25 1 1 4 5 0 0 94 64 30 .68
Jeremy Guthrie Aug 28 @MIN 6.0 29 5 5 9 5 2 0 103 70 33 .68
Jason Vargas Aug 29 @CLE 6.0 27 L 4 4 10 5 0 0 112 72 40 .64
James Shields Aug 30 @CLE 7.0 27 1 1 5 4 1 0 112 74 38 .66
Danny Duffy Aug 31 @CLE 6.2 28 1 2 5 6 3 0 114 74 40 .65
Yordano Ventura Sep 1 @TEX 6.1 27 W 2 3 5 7 4 0 99 57 42 .58
Jeremy Guthrie Sep 2 @TEX 7.0 27 1 1 8 1 0 0 99 66 33 .67
Jason Vargas Sep 3 @TEX 6.2 27 W 0 0 6 5 0 0 102 69 33 .68
James Shields Sep 5 NYY 8.1 29 W 0 0 3 6 0 0 97 68 29 .70
Danny Duffy Sep 6 NYY 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 .00
Yordano Ventura Sep 7 NYY 6.0 25 W 0 0 3 2 4 0 103 62 41 .60
Jeremy Guthrie Sep 8 DET 2.2 20 L 6 8 10 1 1 0 76 49 27 .64
Jason Vargas Sep 9 DET 5.1 27 L 4 4 6 6 3 2 99 64 35 .65
James Shields Sep 10 DET 7.0 23 W 0 0 2 8 1 0 98 68 30 .69
Liam Hendriks Sep 11 @BOS 2.1 15 L 2 3 4 1 2 0 65 37 28 .57
Yordano Ventura Sep 12 @BOS 7.0 31 L 3 4 8 6 1 0 112 75 37 .67
Jeremy Guthrie Sep 13 @BOS 8.0 29 W 0 1 3 2 1 0 105 65 40 .62
Jason Vargas Sep 14 @BOS 5.1 21 L 5 5 4 8 1 1 91 59 32 .65
James Shields Sep 15 @CWS 7.0 31 3 3 10 6 0 0 103 73 30 .71
Liam Hendriks Sep 16 @CWS 3.0 16 4 4 7 3 1 0 54 37 17 .69
Yordano Ventura Sep 17 @CWS 7.0 25 W 1 1 3 7 2 0 100 58 42 .58
Jason Vargas Sep 19 @DET 3.1 19 L 5 5 9 1 0 0 66 42 24 .64
James Shields Sep 20 @DET 6.2 27 L 3 3 6 6 1 1 103 69 34 .67
Jeremy Guthrie Sep 21 @DET 5.1 24 W 1 2 5 2 2 1 81 51 30 .63
Danny Duffy Sep 22 CLE 6.0 25 W 0 0 6 5 2 0 96 60 36 .63
Yordano Ventura Sep 23 CLE 7.0 29 W 0 0 4 6 4 0 117 67 50 .57
Jason Vargas Sep 24 CLE 4.0 19 4 4 4 1 3 1 81 44 37 .54
James Shields Sep 25 CWS 6.0 25 3 3 5 4 2 1 112 67 45 .60
Jeremy Guthrie Sep 26 CWS 7.0 26 W 0 0 4 6 1 0 93 64 29 .69
Danny Duffy Sep 27 CWS 2.0 12 L 4 4 5 0 1 2 63 37 26 .59
Yordano Ventura Sep 28 CWS 4.0 21 4 4 8 6 1 1 73 50 23 .68
James Shields Sep 30 @OAK 5.0 21 4 4 5 6 2 1 88 56 32 .64
Jason Vargas Oct 2 LAA 6.0 22 2 2 3 2 1 2 80 49 31 .61
Yordano Ventura Oct 3 LAA 7.0 25 1 1 5 5 1 0 95 61 34 .64
James Shields Oct 5 @LAA 6.0 27 W 2 2 6 6 2 2 105 65 40 .62
James Shields Oct 10 BAL 5.0 26 4 4 10 3 1 0 90 59 31 .66
Yordano Ventura Oct 11 BAL 5.2 25 4 4 5 3 3 1 90 51 39 .57
Jeremy Guthrie Oct 14 @BAL 5.0 20 1 1 3 2 2 0 94 63 31 .67
Jason Vargas Oct 15 @BAL 5.1 19 W 1 1 2 6 3 1 73 43 30 .59
James Shields Oct 21 @SFG 3.0 16 L 5 5 7 1 1 1 71 40 31 .56
Yordano Ventura Oct 22 @SFG 5.1 23 2 2 8 2 0 1 87 55 32 .63
Jeremy Guthrie Oct 24 SFG 5.0 18 W 2 2 4 0 0 0 77 50 27 .65
Jason Vargas Oct 25 SFG 4.0 20 3 3 6 3 2 0 82 51 31 .62
James Shields Oct 26 SFG 6.0 27 L 2 2 8 4 1 0 94 61 33 .65
Yordano Ventura Oct 28 @SFG 7.0 28 W 0 0 3 4 5 0 100 58 42 .58
Jeremy Guthrie Oct 29 @SFG 3.1 15 L 3 3 4 3 0 0 49 35 14 .71