Post Game Thread (Sep 17, 2023): Astros (84-66) @ Royals (48-102)

Line Score – Game Over

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

Box Score

KC		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
3B	Garcia, M	4	0	1	0	0	0	.273
SS	Witt Jr.	4	0	0	0	0	1	.278
DH	Olivares	3	0	1	0	1	1	.261
RF	Velázquez	4	0	0	0	0	0	.234
1B	Duffy	4	0	1	0	0	0	.249
2B	Loftin	4	1	2	0	0	0	.333
C	Porter	3	0	1	0	0	0	.400
CF	Waters	2	0	0	1	0	2	.228
RF	Blanco	2	0	0	0	0	1	.226
LF	Melendez	1	0	0	0	0	0	.232

KC	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Lyles	6.0	6	4	4	1	6	95-63	6.43
Kowar	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	11-6	5.11
Davidson	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	20-13	6.19
Keller, B	1.0	2	3	3	3	0	26-12	4.76

HOU		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA
2B	Altuve	5	2	3	1	0	0	.311
3B	Bregman	2	1	0	0	2	0	.269
DH	Alvarez, Y	3	1	1	2	1	1	.300
1B	Abreu, J	4	0	0	2	0	1	.233
LF	Brantley	5	0	0	0	0	0	.262
RF	McCormick	4	0	3	1	0	0	.284
SS	Peña	4	0	0	0	0	4	.262
CF	Meyers	4	2	2	1	0	1	.230
C	Maldonado, M	3	1	0	0	1	1	.188

HOU	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	P-S	ERA
Valdez, F	7.0	5	1	0	1	5	92-55	3.20
Abreu, B	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	10-8	1.91
Graveman	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	8-7	3.27

Scoring Plays

Inning	Event	Score
B2	Drew Waters out on a sacrifice fly to right fielder Chas McCormick. Nick Loftin scores. Logan Porter to 3rd.	1-0
T3	Jose Abreu out on a sacrifice fly to left fielder Nelson Velazquez. Jose Altuve scores.	1-1
T3	Chas McCormick singles on a ground ball to center fielder Drew Waters. Alex Bregman scores. Yordan Alvarez to 2nd.	1-2
T4	Jake Meyers homers (10) on a fly ball to center field.	1-3
T5	Yordan Alvarez homers (28) on a fly ball to right field.	1-4
T9	Jose Altuve singles on a ground ball to left fielder MJ Melendez, deflected by shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. Jake Meyers scores. Martin Maldonado to 2nd.	1-5
T9	Yordan Alvarez walks. Martin Maldonado scores. Jose Altuve to 3rd. Alex Bregman to 2nd.	1-6
T9	Jose Abreu grounds into a force out, shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. to second baseman Nick Loftin. Jose Altuve scores. Alex Bregman to 3rd. Yordan Alvarez out at 2nd. Jose Abreu to 1st.	1-7

Highlights

Description	Length	Video
Bullpen availability for Houston, September 17 vs Royals	0:07	Video
Bullpen availability for Kansas City, September 17 vs Astros	0:07	Video
Bench availability for Kansas City, September 17 vs Astros	0:07	Video
Fielding alignment for Kansas City, September 17 vs Astros	0:11	Video
Fielding alignment for Houston, September 17 vs Royals	0:11	Video
Starting lineups for Astros at Royals – September 17, 2023	0:09	Video
Bench availability for Houston, September 17 vs Royals	0:07	Video
Measuring the stats on Jake Meyers' home run	0:14	Video
The distance behind Yordan Alvarez's home run	0:16	Video
Yordan Alvarez's home run through bat tracking data	0:09	Video
Breaking down Jordan Lyles' pitches	0:04	Video
Jordan Lyles' outing against the Astros	0:26	Video
Breaking down Framber Valdez's pitches	0:04	Video
Framber Valdez's outing against the Royals	0:23	Video
Drew Waters lifts a sacrifice fly to right field	0:21	Video
José Abreu lifts a sac fly to left field	0:22	Video
Chas McCormick rips an RBI single up center field	0:18	Video
Jake Meyers crushes a solo homer to center field	0:28	Video
Yordan Alvarez clobbers a homer to right field	0:29	Video
Michael Brantley gets the out at home from center	0:21	Video
José Abreu's glove flies off trying to make play	0:29	Video
Jordan Lyles K's six batters through 6 innings	0:40	Video
Framber Valdez strikes out Drew Waters	0:07	Video
Jose Altuve knocks an RBI single to left field	0:17	Video
Martin Maldonado scores on walk	0:06	Video
Jose Abreu rips an RBI groundout to left field	0:23	Video
Framber Valdez Ks five batters through 7 innings	0:57	Video
Nick Loftin grounds out, third baseman Alex Bregman to first baseman Jose Abreu.	0:10	Video

Decisions

Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save
Valdez, F (12-10, 3.20 ERA)	Lyles (4-17, 6.43 ERA)

Game ended at 3:40 PM.