The Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 4-0 on Apr 9, 2025 at Kauffman Stadium.
Final · Kauffman Stadium
Top performers
- Ty France went 3-for-4 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Twins.
- Joe Ryan pitched 7.0 innings for the Twins, allowing 0 earned runs with 4 strikeouts.
- Cavan Biggio went 1-for-3 for the Royals.
- Seth Lugo pitched 5.2 innings for the Royals, allowing 2 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Bader | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Ty France | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Matt Wallner | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Edouard Julien | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Christian Vazquez | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carlos Correa | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Willi Castro | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Trevor Larnach | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Team | 27 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Griffin Jax | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jhoan Duran | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan India | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Vinnie Pasquantino | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Salvador Perez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cavan Biggio | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Isbel | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Massey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Maikel Garcia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Hunter Renfroe | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MJ Melendez | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 29 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Before and after
- Twins · 2025 season · Previous Apr 8, 2025: MIN 1, KC 2 · Next Apr 10, 2025: MIN 2, KC 3
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