Cleveland at Kansas City — MLB September 20, 2023

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Final

Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, MO

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

Decisions

Win A. Zerpa KC

5.1 IP · 3 H · 0 ER · 4 K · 4.82 ERA

Loss L. Giolito CLE

5.1 IP · 7 H · 3 ER · 6 K · 4.60 ERA

Recap

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	CLE	KC
Bottom 1st Nelson Velázquez homered (417 ft.) to deep left center, Bobby Witt Jr. scored, Maikel Garcia scored	0	3
Top 4th Andrés Giménez singled to center, Ramón Laureano to third, Josh Naylor scored	1	3
Top 4th Myles Straw hit sacrifice fly, Andrés Giménez to second, Ramón Laureano scored	2	3
Bottom 4th Bobby Witt Jr. singled to right center, Drew Waters scored	2	4
Bottom 7th Edward Olivares grounded out, MJ Melendez scored	2	5
Bottom 8th MJ Melendez reached on Tyler Freeman's fielding error, Bobby Witt Jr. scored	2	6

Box score

Cleveland

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	K	AVG
W. Brennan LF	4	0	1	0	0	.266
J. Ramírez 3B	4	0	0	0	1	.277
J. Naylor DH	4	1	2	0	0	.311
K. Calhoun 1B	4	0	0	0	2	.232
R. Laureano RF	4	1	1	0	1	.226
A. Giménez 2B	4	0	1	1	1	.249
M. Straw CF	3	0	1	1	1	.227
J. Tena SS	2	0	1	0	1	.217
T. Freeman PH-SS	2	0	1	0	1	.244
C. Gallagher C	2	0	0	0	1	.132
D. Fry PH-C	1	0	0	0	0	.229
Totals		2	8		9

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
L. Giolito L	5.1	7	4	3	3	6	105
J. Karinchak	0.2	0	0	0	1	1	13
M. Kelly	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	29
E. De Los Santos	1.0	1	1	0	0	2	14

Kansas City

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
M. Garcia 3B	5	1	1	0	0	3	.275
B. Witt Jr. SS	5	2	2	1	0	0	.278
M. Melendez DH	2	1	0	0	3	0	.234
N. Velázquez RF	5	1	1	3	0	2	.244
E. Olivares LF	4	0	1	1	0	1	.264
D. Blanco LF	0	0	0	0	0	0	.226
M. Massey 2B	4	0	1	0	0	1	.225
N. Loftin 1B	4	0	2	0	0	1	.372
N. Pratto 1B	0	0	0	0	0	0	.228
D. Waters CF	3	1	2	0	1	0	.237
L. Porter C	3	0	0	0	1	1	.250
Totals		6	10		5	9