The Kansas City Royals beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-2 on Apr 13, 2025 at Progressive Field.
Final · Progressive Field
Top performers
- Salvador Perez went 1-for-4 with 1 home run and 2 RBI for the Royals.
- Cole Ragans pitched 7.2 innings for the Royals, allowing 1 earned run with 10 strikeouts.
- Daniel Schneemann went 1-for-3 with 1 RBI for the Guardians.
- Ben Lively pitched 6.0 innings for the Guardians, allowing 4 earned runs with 5 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salvador Perez | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Hunter Renfroe | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MJ Melendez | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Michael Massey | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Bobby Witt Jr. | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maikel Garcia | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Kyle Isbel | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vinnie Pasquantino | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Freddy Fermin | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Team | 33 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cole Ragans | 7.2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Carlos Estevez | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Lucas Erceg | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
Cleveland Guardians 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Santana | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Jose Ramirez | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Steven Kwan | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Austin Hedges | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gabriel Arias | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Daniel Schneemann | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Angel Martinez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Brayan Rocchio | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kyle Manzardo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 27 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Lively | 6.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| Joey Cantillo | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Jakob Junis | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 9.0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
Before and after
- Royals · 2025 season · Previous Apr 12, 2025: KC 3, CLE 6 · Next Apr 14, 2025: KC 1, NYY 4
- Guardians · 2025 season · Previous Apr 12, 2025: KC 3, CLE 6 · Next Apr 15, 2025: CLE 6, BAL 3