The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Kansas City Royals 2-1 on May 30, 2023 at Busch Stadium.
Final · Busch Stadium
Top performers
- Zack Greinke pitched 5.0 innings for the Royals, allowing 0 earned runs with 6 strikeouts.
- Nolan Arenado went 1-for-3 with 1 RBI for the Cardinals.
- Miles Mikolas pitched 8.0 innings for the Cardinals, allowing 0 earned runs with 10 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 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Vinnie Pasquantino | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Massey | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MJ Melendez | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Nicky Lopez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Maikel Garcia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Team | 26 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zack Greinke | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| Jose Cuas | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aroldis Chapman | 0.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Nick Wittgren | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 7.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
St. Louis Cardinals 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Goldschmidt | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Brendan Donovan | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nolan Arenado | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Willson Contreras | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Nolan Gorman | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Alec Burleson | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tommy Edman | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 22 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles Mikolas | 8.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| Giovanny Gallegos | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2023 season · Previous May 29, 2023: KC 7, STL 0 · Next Jun 2, 2023: COL 7, KC 2
- Cardinals · 2023 season · Previous May 29, 2023: KC 7, STL 0 · Next Jun 2, 2023: STL 5, PIT 7