The Houston Astros beat the Kansas City Royals 7-2 on Sep 1, 2024 at Daikin Park.
Final · Daikin Park
Top performers
- Bobby Witt Jr. went 1-for-4 with 1 home run and 1 RBI for the Royals.
- John Schreiber pitched 0.1 innings for the Royals, allowing 3 earned runs with 0 strikeouts.
- Yordan Alvarez went 2-for-4 with 2 home runs and 2 RBI for the Astros.
- Ronel Blanco pitched 5.0 innings for the Astros, allowing 0 earned runs with 3 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tommy Pham | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Isbel | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Michael Massey | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Maikel Garcia | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Salvador Perez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Yuli Gurriel | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Freddy Fermin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| MJ Melendez | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Adam Frazier | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 33 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 |
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yordan Alvarez | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Jake Meyers | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Jeremy Pena | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Yainer Diaz | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Ben Gamel | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mauricio Dubon | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jon Singleton | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Shay Whitcomb | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 32 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ronel Blanco | 5.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| Hector Neris | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Bryan Abreu | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tayler Scott | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Team | 8.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2024 season · Previous Aug 31, 2024: KC 2, HOU 5 · Next Sep 2, 2024: CLE 4, KC 2
- Astros · 2024 season · Previous Aug 31, 2024: KC 2, HOU 5 · Next Sep 2, 2024: HOU 3, CIN 5