The Houston Astros beat the Minnesota Twins 6-4 on Oct 7, 2023 in the postseason at Daikin Park.
Final · Postseason · Daikin Park
Top performers
- Jorge Polanco went 2-for-5 with 1 home run and 3 RBI for the Twins.
- Bailey Ober pitched 3.0 innings for the Twins, allowing 3 earned runs with 2 strikeouts.
- Yordan Alvarez went 2-for-3 with 2 home runs and 3 RBI for the Astros.
- Justin Verlander pitched 6.0 innings for the Astros, allowing 0 earned runs with 6 strikeouts.
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jorge Polanco | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Royce Lewis | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Carlos Correa | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ryan Jeffers | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Edouard Julien | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Max Kepler | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Matt Wallner | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Willi Castro | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Michael A. Taylor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 31 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey Ober | 3.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kenta Maeda | 2.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Chris Paddack | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Emilio Pagan | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Caleb Thielbar | 0.2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Team | 8.0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
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 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Tucker | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Jeremy Pena | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Michael Brantley | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Martin Maldonado | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Jose Abreu | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Alex Bregman | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Yordan Alvarez | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Team | 27 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Verlander | 6.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| Bryan Abreu | 1.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Ryan Pressly | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Hector Neris | 0.2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Team | 9.0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 2 |
Before and after
- Twins · 2023 season · Previous Oct 4, 2023: TOR 0, MIN 2 · Next Oct 8, 2023: MIN 6, HOU 2
- Astros · 2023 season · Previous Oct 1, 2023: HOU 8, ARI 1 · Next Oct 8, 2023: MIN 6, HOU 2