The Minnesota Twins beat the Houston Astros 6-2 on Oct 8, 2023 in the postseason at Daikin Park.
Final · Postseason · Daikin Park
Top performers
- Kyle Farmer went 1-for-3 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Twins.
- Pablo Lopez pitched 7.0 innings for the Twins, allowing 0 earned runs with 7 strikeouts.
- Yordan Alvarez went 1-for-4 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Astros.
- Framber Valdez pitched 4.1 innings for the Astros, allowing 5 earned runs with 5 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Kepler | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Michael A. Taylor | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carlos Correa | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Royce Lewis | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Jorge Polanco | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Donovan Solano | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Farmer | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Willi Castro | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ryan Jeffers | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Edouard Julien | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 32 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pablo Lopez | 7.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| Brock Stewart | 1.0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Jhoan Duran | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
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 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Brantley | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jose Abreu | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yordan Alvarez | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jeremy Pena | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alex Bregman | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kyle Tucker | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Martin Maldonado | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yainer Diaz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 29 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Framber Valdez | 4.1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| Rafael Montero | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Ryne Stanek | 1.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hunter Brown | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Phil Maton | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
Before and after
- Twins · 2023 season · Previous Oct 7, 2023: MIN 4, HOU 6 · Next Oct 10, 2023: HOU 9, MIN 1
- Astros · 2023 season · Previous Oct 7, 2023: MIN 4, HOU 6 · Next Oct 10, 2023: HOU 9, MIN 1