The Houston Astros beat the Kansas City Royals 9-7 on Jul 5, 2022 at Daikin Park.
Final · Daikin Park
Top performers
- Bobby Witt Jr. went 2-for-5 with 1 home run and 3 RBI for the Royals.
- Zack Greinke pitched 5.0 innings for the Royals, allowing 6 earned runs with 2 strikeouts.
- Alex Bregman went 3-for-5 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Astros.
- Luis Garcia pitched 6.1 innings for the Astros, allowing 5 earned runs with 7 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whit Merrifield | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Andrew Benintendi | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Nicky Lopez | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Isbel | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Vinnie Pasquantino | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MJ Melendez | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Michael A. Taylor | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Team | 31 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 9 |
Houston Astros 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Bregman | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Jeremy Pena | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jose Altuve | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kyle Tucker | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yordan Alvarez | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Martin Maldonado | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Yuli Gurriel | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jake Meyers | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 31 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Garcia | 6.1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Rafael Montero | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Hector Neris | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Phil Maton | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bryan Abreu | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 2 |
Before and after
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