The Kansas City Royals beat the Houston Astros 6-5 on Sep 24, 2023 at Daikin Park.
Final · Daikin Park
Top performers
- Nelson Velazquez went 2-for-3 with 2 home runs and 2 RBI for the Royals.
- Steven Cruz pitched 1.0 innings for the Royals, allowing 1 earned run with 0 strikeouts.
- Yordan Alvarez went 2-for-4 with 1 home run and 1 RBI for the Astros.
- Jose Urquidy pitched 3.0 innings for the Astros, allowing 0 earned runs with 2 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Matt Duffy | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Michael Massey | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Nick Loftin | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Nelson Velazquez | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 22 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Cruz | 1.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| James McArthur | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 2.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Houston Astros 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Altuve | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Alex Bregman | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mauricio Dubon | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yordan Alvarez | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Yainer Diaz | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jose Abreu | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Jeremy Pena | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kyle Tucker | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 30 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Urquidy | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Hunter Brown | 3.0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Ryan Pressly | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Hector Neris | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kendall Graveman | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2023 season · Previous Sep 23, 2023: KC 3, HOU 2 · Next Sep 26, 2023: KC 3, DET 6
- Astros · 2023 season · Previous Sep 23, 2023: KC 3, HOU 2 · Next Sep 25, 2023: HOU 5, SEA 1