Kansas City at Houston — MLB August 30, 2024

2 – 3

Final

Minute Maid Park, Houston, TX

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

Decisions

Win J. Hader HOU

1.0 IP · 1 H · 1 ER · 2 K · 3.28 ERA

Loss J. McArthur KC

0.2 IP · 2 H · 1 ER · 0 K · 4.47 ERA

Recap

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	KC	HOU
Bottom 3rd Ben Gamel homered (378 ft.) to deep left center	0	1
Bottom 8th Jeremy Peña hit sacrifice fly, Yainer Diaz scored	0	2
Top 9th Paul DeJong homered (388 ft.) to deep left center, Bobby Witt Jr. scored	2	2
Bottom 9th Jose Altuve doubled to deep left center, Jake Meyers scored	2	3

Box score

Kansas City

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
M. Garcia 2B-RF	4	0	0	0	0	0	.241
B. Witt Jr. SS	4	1	0	0	0	1	.341
S. Perez 1B	3	0	0	0	0	2	.277
P. DeJong 3B	3	1	1	2	1	1	.238
F. Fermin C	3	0	0	0	1	1	.293
N. Loftin DH	4	0	0	0	0	1	.193
D. Blanco LF	1	0	0	0	1	1	.265
M. Massey PH-2B	1	0	0	0	0	0	.269
G. Hampson CF	2	0	0	0	0	1	.233
M. Melendez PH-LF	1	0	0	0	0	0	.212
T. Gentry RF	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000
K. Isbel PH-CF	1	0	1	0	0	0	.232
Totals		2	2		3	9

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
S. Lugo	7.0	6	1	1	1	9	93
C. Hernández	0.2	2	1	1	0	0	10
D. Lynch IV	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	4
J. McArthur L	0.2	2	1	1	0	0	11

Houston

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
J. Altuve 2B	5	0	2	1	0	2	.298
Y. Alvarez DH	4	0	1	0	0	1	.312
Y. Diaz C	4	1	2	0	0	0	.299
V. Caratini 1B	4	0	1	0	0	2	.276
J. Peña SS	3	0	1	1	0	0	.270
J. Heyward RF	4	0	0	0	0	2	.207
B. Gamel LF	4	1	1	1	0	1	.302
J. Meyers CF	3	1	1	0	1	1	.231
M. Dubón 3B	3	0	1	0	0	1	.257
J. Singleton PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.232
Totals		3	10		1	10