The Kansas City Royals beat the Colorado Rockies 8-7 on May 15, 2022 at Coors Field.
Final · Coors Field
Top performers
- Whit Merrifield went 2-for-4 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Royals.
- Daniel Lynch IV pitched 5.1 innings for the Royals, allowing 0 earned runs with 4 strikeouts.
- Randal Grichuk went 1-for-4 with 2 RBI for the Rockies.
- Daniel Bard pitched 1.0 innings for the Rockies, allowing 2 earned runs with 1 strikeouts.
Kansas City Royals box score
Batting
| AB: At-bats: trips to the plate that ended in a hit, an out or an error. Walks and sacrifices are not counted. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | HR: Home runs hit. | RBI: Runs that scored because of this batter's plate appearance. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | SO: Times this batter struck out — lower is better. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvador Perez | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Carlos Santana | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Whit Merrifield | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael A. Taylor | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Nicky Lopez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MJ Melendez | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Ryan O'Hearn | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andrew Benintendi | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 25 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
Pitching
| IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | ER: Earned runs allowed — runs that scored without help from an error. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | HR: Home runs hit. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Lynch IV | 5.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Scott Barlow | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Josh Staumont | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Taylor Clarke | 0.2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amir Garrett | 0.1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 8.1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Colorado Rockies box score
Batting
| AB: At-bats: trips to the plate that ended in a hit, an out or an error. Walks and sacrifices are not counted. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | HR: Home runs hit. | RBI: Runs that scored because of this batter's plate appearance. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | SO: Times this batter struck out — lower is better. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randal Grichuk | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| C.J. Cron | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Elias Diaz | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ryan McMahon | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Garrett Hampson | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Team | 17 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
Pitching
| IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | ER: Earned runs allowed — runs that scored without help from an error. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | HR: Home runs hit. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Bard | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Tyler Kinley | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jhoulys Chacin | 0.2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 2.2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Before and after
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