The Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 9-3 on Jul 4, 2023 at Target Field.
Final · Target Field
Top performers
- Bobby Witt Jr. went 2-for-4 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Royals.
- Zack Greinke pitched 5.1 innings for the Royals, allowing 6 earned runs with 3 strikeouts.
- Max Kepler went 2-for-3 with 1 home run and 4 RBI for the Twins.
- Kenta Maeda pitched 7.0 innings for the Twins, allowing 1 earned run with 9 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Maikel Garcia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Salvador Perez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Nicky Lopez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Isbel | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Michael Massey | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MJ Melendez | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dairon Blanco | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 26 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
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 | 5.1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Nick Wittgren | 1.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 7.0 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Minnesota Twins 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Correa | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Donovan Solano | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Christian Vazquez | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael A. Taylor | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Byron Buxton | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Max Kepler | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Willi Castro | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Joey Gallo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kyle Farmer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 28 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenta Maeda | 7.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| Jorge Lopez | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 8.0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2023 season · Previous Jul 3, 2023: KC 4, MIN 8 · Next Jul 5, 2023: KC 0, MIN 5
- Twins · 2023 season · Previous Jul 3, 2023: KC 4, MIN 8 · Next Jul 5, 2023: KC 0, MIN 5