Kansas City at Minnesota — MLB May 1, 2021

11 – 3

Final

Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC	2	0	2	5	0	1	0	1	0	11	12	1
MIN	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	3	5	2

Decisions

Win D. Duffy KC

7.0 IP · 2 H · 1 ER · 7 K · 0.60 ERA

Loss M. Shoemaker MIN

3.1 IP · 8 H · 8 ER · 0 K · 7.83 ERA

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	KC	MIN
Top 1st Salvador Perez doubled to left center, Carlos Santana scored. Salvador Perez to third advancing on throw	1	0
Top 1st Jorge Soler hit sacrifice fly to left, Salvador Perez scored	2	0
Top 3rd Salvador Perez homered (433 ft.) to deep right center, Carlos Santana scored	4	0
Top 4th Ryan O'Hearn homered (416 ft.) to deep center	5	0
Top 4th Whit Merrifield doubled to shallow center, Andrew Benintendi, Michael A. Taylor and Nicky Lopez scored. Whit Merrifield to third on Byron Buxton's throwing error	8	0
Top 4th Carlos Santana grounded out to first, Whit Merrifield scored	9	0
Top 6th Andrew Benintendi homered (374 ft.) to deep right	10	0
Bottom 7th Alex Kirilloff homered (414 ft.) to deep left center	10	1
Top 8th Andrew Benintendi homered (376 ft.) to deep left	11	1
Bottom 8th Nelson Cruz homered (421 ft.) to deep left center, Willians Astudillo scored	11	3

Box score

Kansas City

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
W. Merrifield 2B	4	1	1	3	0	0	.273
H. Alberto 2B	1	0	0	0	0	0	.220
C. Santana 1B	4	2	2	1	1	1	.258
S. Perez C	3	2	2	3	0	0	.280
C. Gallagher PH-C	2	0	1	0	0	0	.133
J. Soler RF	3	0	0	1	0	0	.198
R. O'Hearn DH	5	1	1	1	0	2	.167
H. Dozier 3B	4	0	0	0	0	2	.127
A. Benintendi LF	4	3	3	2	0	0	.262
M. Taylor CF	3	1	2	0	0	0	.275
J. Dyson CF	1	0	0	0	0	0	.286
N. Lopez SS	2	1	0	0	2	0	.239
Totals		11	12		3	5

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
D. Duffy W	7.0	2	1	1	3	7	107
J. Brentz	2.0	3	2	2	1	2	36

Minnesota

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
B. Buxton CF	3	0	0	0	0	0	.408
J. Cave CF	2	0	0	0	0	1	.176
J. Donaldson 3B	2	0	0	0	1	1	.273
W. Astudillo 3B	1	1	1	0	0	0	.291
N. Cruz DH	4	1	1	2	0	0	.325
J. Polanco 2B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.209
K. Garlick RF	4	0	0	0	0	2	.241
M. Garver C	2	0	0	0	0	1	.167
B. Rortvedt C	2	0	0	0	0	0	.200
A. Kirilloff 1B	4	1	1	1	0	3	.176
A. Simmons SS	3	0	1	0	1	0	.271
L. Arraez LF	2	0	0	0	2	0	.266
Totals		3	5		4	9