St. Louis at Kansas City — MLB August 12, 2023

5 – 4

Final

Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, MO

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

Decisions

Win S. Matz STL

6.0 IP · 4 H · 2 ER · 5 K · 3.86 ERA

Loss C. Ragans KC

5.0 IP · 7 H · 4 ER · 5 K · 4.21 ERA

Save J. Romero STL

1.2 IP · 3 H · 1 ER · 0 K · 3.90 ERA

Recap

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	STL	KC
Top 2nd Tommy Edman homered (412 ft.) to deep left center, Tyler O'Neill scored	2	0
Top 3rd Nolan Arenado doubled to left, Paul Goldschmidt to third, Andrew Knizner scored	3	0
Bottom 3rd Nelson Velázquez homered (453 ft.) to deep left center, Kyle Isbel scored	3	2
Top 5th Willson Contreras singled to right center, Nolan Arenado to third, Lars Nootbaar scored	4	2
Top 8th Tommy Edman homered (404 ft.) to deep left	5	2
Bottom 8th Kyle Isbel singled to right center, Matt Duffy scored	5	3
Bottom 9th Matt Duffy singled to shallow left center, Dairon Blanco to second, Edward Olivares scored	5	4

Box score

St. Louis

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
L. Nootbaar CF	4	1	0	0	1	2	.282
P. Goldschmidt 1B	5	0	2	0	0	1	.273
N. Arenado 3B	4	0	3	1	0	0	.287
W. Contreras DH	4	0	1	1	1	2	.259
N. Gorman 2B	4	0	1	0	1	1	.241
T. O'Neill LF	4	1	0	0	0	1	.241
T. Edman SS	3	2	2	3	0	0	.248
J. Walker RF	2	0	0	0	2	0	.254
A. Knizner C	3	1	0	0	1	1	.250
Totals		5	9		6	8

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	K	PC
S. Matz W	6.0	4	2	2	5	94
D. VerHagen	1.0	1	0	0	0	11
G. Gallegos	0.1	3	1	1	0	11
J. Romero S	1.2	3	1	1	0	17

Kansas City

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	K	AVG
N. Velázquez RF	4	1	1	2	1	.270
B. Witt Jr. SS	4	0	2	0	0	.272
M. Massey 2B	4	0	1	0	0	.223
S. Perez 1B	4	0	0	0	1	.249
F. Fermin C	4	0	2	0	0	.307
E. Olivares DH	4	1	0	0	1	.246
S. Taylor LF	2	0	0	0	1	.188
M. Melendez PH-LF	2	0	1	0	0	.225
D. Blanco PR	0	0	0	0	0	.241
M. Duffy 3B	4	1	2	1	0	.267
K. Isbel CF	4	1	2	1	1	.237
Totals		4	11		5