The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 on Jul 15, 2023 at Kauffman Stadium.
Final · Kauffman Stadium
Top performers
- Randy Arozarena went 3-for-5 with 1 RBI for the Rays.
- Cooper Criswell pitched 4.0 innings for the Rays, allowing 2 earned runs with 2 strikeouts.
- Dairon Blanco went 1-for-2 with 1 RBI for the Royals.
- Cole Ragans pitched 5.0 innings for the Royals, allowing 1 earned run with 3 strikeouts.
Tampa Bay Rays 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randy Arozarena | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jose Siri | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Manuel Margot | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Isaac Paredes | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Luke Raley | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wander Franco | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Brandon Lowe | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Christian Bethancourt | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Taylor Walls | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Josh Lowe | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 32 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper Criswell | 4.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Shawn Armstrong | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Pete Fairbanks | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Colin Poche | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kevin Kelly | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MJ Melendez | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Freddy Fermin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Maikel Garcia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Matt Duffy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Massey | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dairon Blanco | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Isbel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 26 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Ragans | 5.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Jose Cuas | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Dylan Coleman | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 7.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
Before and after
- Rays · 2023 season · Previous Jul 15, 2023: TB 6, KC 1 · Next Jul 16, 2023: TB 4, KC 8
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