Kansas City at Houston — MLB August 31, 2024

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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	1	1	0	2	7	0
HOU	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0		5	5	0

Decisions

Win Y. Kikuchi HOU

7.0 IP · 5 H · 1 ER · 12 K · 4.24 ERA

Loss C. Ragans KC

5.0 IP · 4 H · 5 ER · 10 K · 3.46 ERA

Save R. Pressly HOU

1.0 IP · 1 H · 0 ER · 1 K · 3.70 ERA

Recap

Highlights

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Scoring plays All plays ›

Play	KC	HOU
Bottom 6th Yainer Diaz singled to left center, Yordan Alvarez to second, Jose Altuve scored, Ben Gamel scored	0	2
Bottom 6th Jeremy Peña tripled to deep center, Yainer Diaz scored, Yordan Alvarez scored	0	4
Bottom 6th Jeremy Peña scored on wild pitch	0	5
Top 7th Nick Loftin hit into fielder's choice, MJ Melendez out, Freddy Fermin scored	1	5
Top 8th Bobby Witt Jr. homered (408 ft.) to deep left	2	5

Box score

Kansas City

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	K	AVG
M. Garcia 2B	3	0	0	0	2	.240
M. Massey PH-2B	1	0	0	0	0	.268
B. Witt Jr. SS	4	1	1	1	1	.341
S. Perez C	4	0	1	0	1	.277
P. DeJong 3B	4	0	0	0	4	.235
F. Fermin DH	4	1	1	0	1	.293
M. Melendez LF	4	0	2	0	0	.216
N. Loftin 1B	3	0	0	1	1	.189
A. Frazier PH	1	0	0	0	0	.207
G. Hampson RF	3	0	1	0	2	.235
K. Isbel CF	3	0	1	0	1	.233
Totals		2	7		13

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC
C. Ragans L	5.0	4	5	5	2	10	93
S. Cruz	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	37
C. Stratton	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	10

Houston

Batting	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG
J. Altuve 2B	3	1	0	0	0	1	.296
Y. Alvarez LF	3	1	1	0	1	1	.312
J. Heyward RF	0	0	0	0	0	0	.207
Y. Diaz DH	4	1	1	2	0	1	.298
J. Peña SS	4	1	2	2	0	1	.272
J. Meyers CF	4	0	0	0	0	2	.228
V. Caratini C	2	0	0	0	1	1	.273
M. Dubón 3B	3	0	0	0	0	1	.255
Z. Dezenzo 1B	3	0	0	0	0	2	.208
B. Gamel RF-LF	3	1	1	0	0	1	.304
Totals		5	5		2	11