The Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on May 27, 2024 at Target Field.
Final · Target Field
Top performers
- Maikel Garcia went 2-for-5 with 1 RBI for the Royals.
- Nick Anderson pitched 1.0 innings for the Royals, allowing 0 earned runs with 1 strikeouts.
- Trevor Larnach went 1-for-4 with 1 home run and 3 RBI for the Twins.
- Joe Ryan pitched 7.0 innings for the Twins, allowing 1 earned run with 9 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maikel Garcia | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Salvador Perez | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Adam Frazier | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hunter Renfroe | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Vinnie Pasquantino | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nelson Velazquez | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dairon Blanco | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MJ Melendez | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 37 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carlos Correa | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Byron Buxton | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ryan Jeffers | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Trevor Larnach | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Willi Castro | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Edouard Julien | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 24 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Ryan | 7.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Griffin Jax | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Jhoan Duran | 0.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 8.1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2024 season · Previous May 26, 2024: KC 1, TB 4 · Next May 28, 2024: KC 2, MIN 4
- Twins · 2024 season · Previous May 26, 2024: TEX 6, MIN 2 · Next May 28, 2024: KC 2, MIN 4