The Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Aug 9, 2023 at Fenway Park.
Final · Fenway Park
Top performers
- MJ Melendez went 2-for-4 with 2 home runs and 2 RBI for the Royals.
- Jordan Lyles pitched 8.0 innings for the Royals, allowing 4 earned runs with 6 strikeouts.
- Alex Verdugo went 1-for-3 with 2 RBI for the Red Sox.
- Nick Pivetta pitched 5.0 innings for the Red Sox, allowing 2 earned runs with 8 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Matt Duffy | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Michael Massey | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MJ Melendez | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Freddy Fermin | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kyle Isbel | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Maikel Garcia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Team | 29 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
Boston Red Sox 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trevor Story | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Jarren Duran | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Masataka Yoshida | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reese McGuire | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Alex Verdugo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Pablo Reyes | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rafael Devers | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 23 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Pivetta | 5.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| Kenley Jansen | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Chris Martin | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| John Schreiber | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 8.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2023 season · Previous Aug 8, 2023: KC 9, BOS 3 · Next Aug 10, 2023: KC 0, BOS 2
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