The Kansas City Royals beat the Houston Astros 7-4 on Jul 6, 2022 at Daikin Park.
Final · Daikin Park
Top performers
- Whit Merrifield went 1-for-5 with 1 home run and 1 RBI for the Royals.
- Brad Keller pitched 5.2 innings for the Royals, allowing 4 earned runs with 3 strikeouts.
- Jake Meyers went 2-for-4 with 2 RBI for the Astros.
- Cristian Javier pitched 5.0 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Vinnie Pasquantino | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Michael A. Taylor | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Nicky Lopez | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MJ Melendez | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Andrew Benintendi | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Kyle Isbel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 25 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brad Keller | 5.2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Scott Barlow | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Taylor Clarke | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dylan Coleman | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Jose Cuas | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauricio Dubon | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jeremy Pena | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kyle Tucker | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Yordan Alvarez | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jake Meyers | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Martin Maldonado | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Alex Bregman | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Team | 26 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cristian Javier | 5.0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
| Ryne Stanek | 1.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Bryan Abreu | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Hector Neris | 1.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2022 season · Previous Jul 5, 2022: KC 7, HOU 9 · Next Jul 7, 2022: KC 2, HOU 5
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