The New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Oct 5, 2024 in the postseason at Yankee Stadium.
Final · Postseason · Yankee Stadium
Top performers
- MJ Melendez went 2-for-4 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Royals.
- Michael Wacha pitched 4.0 innings for the Royals, allowing 3 earned runs with 3 strikeouts.
- Gleyber Torres went 1-for-3 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Yankees.
- Gerrit Cole pitched 5.0 innings for the Yankees, allowing 3 earned runs with 4 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinnie Pasquantino | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Michael Massey | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Salvador Perez | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MJ Melendez | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Maikel Garcia | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tommy Pham | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Yuli Gurriel | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Kyle Isbel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Garrett Hampson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 35 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Wacha | 4.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Michael Lorenzen | 1.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Lucas Erceg | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| John Schreiber | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Angel Zerpa | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 7.2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 1 |
New York Yankees 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Soto | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Giancarlo Stanton | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Aaron Judge | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Jazz Chisholm Jr. | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oswaldo Cabrera | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gleyber Torres | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Alex Verdugo | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Anthony Volpe | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Austin Wells | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Team | 33 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 11 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerrit Cole | 5.0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Clay Holmes | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Luke Weaver | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Tommy Kahnle | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tim Hill | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2024 season · Previous Oct 2, 2024: KC 2, BAL 1 · Next Oct 7, 2024: KC 4, NYY 2
- Yankees · 2024 season · Previous Sep 29, 2024: PIT 4, NYY 6 · Next Oct 7, 2024: KC 4, NYY 2