The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 on Sep 8, 2023 at Rogers Centre.
Final · Rogers Centre
Top performers
- Dairon Blanco went 1-for-4 with 1 home run and 1 RBI for the Royals.
- Bo Bichette went 2-for-5 with 2 RBI for the Blue Jays.
- Yusei Kikuchi pitched 5.0 innings for the Blue Jays, allowing 1 earned run with 8 strikeouts.
Kansas City Royals box score
| 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 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Maikel Garcia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Dairon Blanco | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Nick Loftin | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MJ Melendez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Freddy Fermin | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Nelson Velazquez | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kyle Isbel | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Team | 32 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
Toronto Blue Jays 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bo Bichette | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Kevin Kiermaier | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Whit Merrifield | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Vladimir Guerrero Jr. | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| George Springer | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Alejandro Kirk | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Daulton Varsho | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Davis Schneider | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Tyler Heineman | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Cavan Biggio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Ernie Clement | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 30 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yusei Kikuchi | 5.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Jordan Romano | 1.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Jordan Hicks | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Trevor Richards | 0.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Tim Mayza | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 8.1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2023 season · Previous Sep 6, 2023: CHW 6, KC 4 · Next Sep 9, 2023: KC 1, TOR 5
- Blue Jays · 2023 season · Previous Sep 6, 2023: TOR 2, ATH 5 · Next Sep 9, 2023: KC 1, TOR 5