Kansas City at Minnesota — MLB July 4, 2023

3 – 9

Final

Target Field, Minneapolis, MN

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
KC	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	5	0
MIN	1	0	3	0	2	0	3	0		9	10	1

Decisions

Win K. Maeda MIN

7.0 IP · 3 H · 1 ER · 9 K · 5.18 ERA

Loss Z. Greinke KC

5.1 IP · 7 H · 6 ER · 3 K · 5.44 ERA

Recap

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	KC	MIN
Bottom 1st Max Kepler singled to left center, Alex Kirilloff to second, Byron Buxton scored	0	1
Bottom 3rd Max Kepler homered (438 ft.) to deep center, Donovan Solano scored, Carlos Correa scored	0	4
Top 4th Bobby Witt Jr. homered (430 ft.) to deep left center, Maikel Garcia scored	2	4
Bottom 5th Donovan Solano homered (363 ft.) to deep right	2	5
Bottom 5th Byron Buxton homered (383 ft.) to deep left	2	6
Bottom 7th Alex Kirilloff singled to center, Byron Buxton scored, Donovan Solano scored	2	8
Bottom 7th Willi Castro walked, Kyle Farmer to second, Max Kepler to third, Alex Kirilloff scored	2	9
Top 9th Nick Pratto hit sacrifice fly, Maikel Garcia scored	3	9

Box score

Kansas City

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
M. Garcia DH	4	2	1	0	0	2	.297
B. Witt Jr. SS	4	1	2	2	0	1	.254
N. Pratto 1B	3	0	0	1	0	2	.257
S. Perez C	3	0	0	0	1	1	.250
M. Melendez LF	3	0	1	0	0	1	.209
K. Isbel CF	3	0	0	0	0	1	.188
M. Massey 2B	3	0	1	0	0	1	.219
D. Blanco RF	3	0	0	0	0	0	.167
N. Lopez 3B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.226
Totals		3	5		1	9

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
Z. Greinke L	5.1	7	6	6	0	3	82
N. Wittgren	1.2	3	3	3	2	1	36
J. Heasley	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	11

Minnesota

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
C. Correa SS	5	1	1	0	0	1	.227
D. Solano 2B	4	3	3	1	0	0	.277
J. Gallo LF	1	0	0	0	0	1	.190
B. Buxton DH	4	3	3	1	0	0	.216
A. Kirilloff 1B	3	1	1	2	0	0	.278
M. Kepler RF	3	1	2	4	1	1	.222
J. Miranda 3B	3	0	0	0	0	0	.209
K. Farmer 3B-2B	0	0	0	0	0	0	.244
W. Castro LF-3B	3	0	0	1	1	0	.249
C. Vázquez C	4	0	0	0	0	0	.217
M. Taylor CF	4	0	0	0	0	3	.214
Totals		9	10		2	6