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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Houston Astros logo Houston Astros

2–4Final · Oct 11, 2015
KC 2 HOU 4 Final
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KC95-67000100001270
HOU86-7600002110481

· Line: HOU -180

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The scoring timeline.

Every scoring moment, when the official feed stamped it — and when FirstBuzzer's in-venue spotters buzzed it first. Times are ET.

  1. Cain homered to left (419 feet).

    1–0

  2. Castro singled to center, Valbuena and Carter scored.

    1–2

  3. Gómez singled to center, Springer scored, Rasmus to second.

    1–3

  4. Carter homered to left (391 feet).

    1–4

  5. Gordon homered to left (412 feet).

    2–4

Play-by-play

  1. Top 1 Lineup Change
  2. Top 1 Escobar batting
  3. Top 1 Pitch 1: in play
  4. Top 1 Escobar reached on infield single to shortstop.
  5. Top 1 Zobrist batting
  6. Top 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  7. Top 1 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  8. Top 1 Pitch 3: ball 1
  9. Top 1 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  10. Top 1 Zobrist struck out swinging.
  11. Top 1 Cain batting
  12. Top 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  13. Top 1 Pitch 2: in play
  14. Top 1 Cain grounded out to second, Escobar to second.
  15. Top 1 Hosmer batting
  16. Top 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  17. Top 1 Pitch 2: in play
  18. Top 1 Hosmer grounded out to shortstop.
  19. Bot 1 Altuve batting
  20. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  21. Bot 1 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  22. Bot 1 Pitch 3: in play
  23. Bot 1 Altuve grounded out to shortstop.
  24. Bot 1 Springer batting
  25. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  26. Bot 1 Pitch 2: ball 1
  27. Bot 1 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  28. Bot 1 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  29. Bot 1 Springer struck out swinging.
  30. Bot 1 Correa batting
  31. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  32. Bot 1 Pitch 2: in play
  33. Bot 1 Correa lined out to third.
  34. Top 2 K. Morales batting
  35. Top 2 Pitch 1: in play
  36. Top 2 K. Morales singled to center.
  37. Top 2 Moustakas batting
  38. Top 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  39. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  40. Top 2 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  41. Top 2 Pitch 4: ball 2
  42. Top 2 Pitch 5: foul
  43. Top 2 Pitch 6: in play
  44. Top 2 Moustakas grounded into fielder's choice to first, K. Morales out at second.
  45. Top 2 Pérez batting
  46. Top 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  47. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  48. Top 2 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  49. Top 2 Pitch 4: ball 2
  50. Top 2 Pitch 5: foul
  51. Top 2 Pitch 6: ball 3
  52. Top 2 Pitch 7: foul
  53. Top 2 Pitch 8: foul
  54. Top 2 Pitch 9: strike 3 (swinging)
  55. Top 2 Pérez struck out swinging.
  56. Top 2 Gordon batting
  57. Top 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  58. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  59. Top 2 Pitch 3: strike 3 (swinging)
  60. Top 2 Gordon struck out swinging.
  61. Bot 2 Rasmus batting
  62. Bot 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  63. Bot 2 Pitch 2: ball 2
  64. Bot 2 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  65. Bot 2 Pitch 4: strike 2 (looking)
  66. Bot 2 Pitch 5: ball 3
  67. Bot 2 Pitch 6: ball 4
  68. Bot 2 Rasmus walked.
  69. Bot 2 Gattis batting
  70. Bot 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  71. Bot 2 Pitch 2: ball 2
  72. Bot 2 Pitch 3: in play
  73. Bot 2 Gattis grounded into fielder's choice to third, Rasmus out at second.
  74. Bot 2 Gómez batting
  75. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  76. Bot 2 Pitch 2: in play
  77. Bot 2 Gómez out on batter's interference to catcher.
  78. Bot 2 Valbuena batting
  79. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  80. Bot 2 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  81. Bot 2 Pitch 3: ball 1
  82. Bot 2 Pitch 4: ball 2
  83. Bot 2 Pitch 5: strike 3 (looking)
  84. Bot 2 Valbuena struck out looking.
  85. Top 3 Rios batting
  86. Top 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  87. Top 3 Pitch 2: in play
  88. Top 3 Rios grounded out to shortstop.
  89. Top 3 Escobar batting
  90. Top 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  91. Top 3 Pitch 2: ball 2
  92. Top 3 Pitch 3: in play
  93. Top 3 Escobar lined out to center.
  94. Top 3 Zobrist batting
  95. Top 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  96. Top 3 Pitch 2: ball 1
  97. Top 3 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  98. Top 3 Pitch 4: in play
  99. Top 3 Zobrist grounded out to shortstop.
  100. Bot 3 Carter batting
  101. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  102. Bot 3 Pitch 2: ball 1
  103. Bot 3 Pitch 3: ball 2
  104. Bot 3 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  105. Bot 3 Pitch 5: foul
  106. Bot 3 Pitch 6: in play
  107. Bot 3 Carter singled to left, Carter out stretching at second.
  108. Bot 3 Castro batting
  109. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  110. Bot 3 Pitch 2: ball 1
  111. Bot 3 Pitch 3: strike 2 (looking)
  112. Bot 3 Pitch 4: strike 3 (looking)
  113. Bot 3 Castro struck out looking.
  114. Bot 3 Altuve batting
  115. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  116. Bot 3 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  117. Bot 3 Pitch 3: strike 3 (looking)
  118. Bot 3 Altuve struck out looking.
  119. Top 4 Cain batting
  120. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  121. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 1
  122. Top 4 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  123. Top 4 Pitch 4: ball 2
  124. Top 4 Pitch 5: foul
  125. Top 4 Pitch 6: foul
  126. Top 4 Pitch 7: foul
  127. Top 4 Pitch 8: foul
  128. Top 4 Pitch 9: foul
  129. Top 4 Pitch 10: in play
  130. Top 4 Cain homered to left (419 feet). 1–0
  131. Top 4 Hosmer batting
  132. Top 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  133. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 2
  134. Top 4 Pitch 3: strike 1 (swinging)
  135. Top 4 Pitch 4: ball 3
  136. Top 4 Pitch 5: strike 2 (looking)
  137. Top 4 Pitch 6: strike 3 (swinging)
  138. Top 4 Hosmer struck out swinging.
  139. Top 4 K. Morales batting
  140. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  141. Top 4 Pitch 2: in play
  142. Top 4 K. Morales safe at first on error by third baseman Valbuena.
  143. Top 4 Moustakas batting
  144. Top 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  145. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 2
  146. Top 4 K. Morales to second on wild pitch by Keuchel.
  147. Top 4 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  148. Top 4 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  149. Top 4 Pitch 5: in play
  150. Top 4 Moustakas grounded out to second, K. Morales to third.
  151. Top 4 Pérez batting
  152. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  153. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 1
  154. Top 4 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  155. Top 4 Pitch 4: ball 2
  156. Top 4 Pitch 5: ball 3
  157. Top 4 Pitch 6: foul
  158. Top 4 Pitch 7: ball 4
  159. Top 4 Pérez walked.
  160. Top 4 Gordon batting
  161. Top 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  162. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 2
  163. Top 4 Pitch 3: in play
  164. Top 4 Gordon flied out to left.
  165. Bot 4 Springer batting
  166. Bot 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  167. Bot 4 Pitch 2: in play
  168. Bot 4 Springer grounded out to shortstop.
  169. Bot 4 Correa batting
  170. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  171. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  172. Bot 4 Pitch 3: ball 2
  173. Bot 4 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  174. Bot 4 Pitch 5: strike 3 (looking)
  175. Bot 4 Correa struck out looking.
  176. Bot 4 Rasmus batting
  177. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  178. Bot 4 Pitch 2: ball 2
  179. Bot 4 Pitch 3: ball 3
  180. Bot 4 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  181. Bot 4 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  182. Bot 4 Pitch 6: foul
  183. Bot 4 Pitch 7: foul
  184. Bot 4 Pitch 8: ball 4
  185. Bot 4 Rasmus walked.
  186. Bot 4 Gattis batting
  187. Bot 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  188. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  189. Bot 4 Pitch 3: strike 3 (swinging)
  190. Bot 4 Gattis struck out swinging.
  191. Top 5 Rios batting
  192. Top 5 Pitch 1: in play
  193. Top 5 Rios flied out to right.
  194. Top 5 Escobar batting
  195. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  196. Top 5 Pitch 2: ball 1
  197. Top 5 Pitch 3: in play
  198. Top 5 Escobar grounded out to pitcher.
  199. Top 5 Zobrist batting
  200. Top 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  201. Top 5 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  202. Top 5 Pitch 3: in play
  203. Top 5 Zobrist doubled to left.
  204. Top 5 Cain batting
  205. Top 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  206. Top 5 Pitch 2: ball 2
  207. Top 5 Pitch 3: ball 3 (intentional ball)
  208. Top 5 Pitch 4: ball 4 (intentional ball)
  209. Top 5 Cain intentionally walked.
  210. Top 5 Hosmer batting
  211. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  212. Top 5 Pitch 2: ball 1
  213. Top 5 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  214. Top 5 Pitch 4: ball 2
  215. Top 5 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  216. Top 5 Hosmer struck out swinging.
  217. Bot 5 Gómez batting
  218. Bot 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  219. Bot 5 Pitch 2: ball 1
  220. Bot 5 Pitch 3: strike 2 (looking)
  221. Bot 5 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  222. Bot 5 Gómez struck out swinging.
  223. Bot 5 Valbuena batting
  224. Bot 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  225. Bot 5 Pitch 2: ball 2
  226. Bot 5 Pitch 3: ball 3
  227. Bot 5 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  228. Bot 5 Pitch 5: ball 4
  229. Bot 5 Valbuena walked.
  230. Bot 5 Carter batting
  231. Bot 5 Pitch 1: in play
  232. Bot 5 Carter doubled to left, Valbuena to third.
  233. Bot 5 Castro batting
  234. Bot 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  235. Bot 5 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  236. Bot 5 Pitch 3: strike 2 (looking)
  237. Bot 5 Pitch 4: in play
  238. Bot 5 Castro singled to center, Valbuena and Carter scored. 1–2
  239. Bot 5 Altuve batting
  240. Bot 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  241. Bot 5 Pitch 2: in play
  242. Bot 5 Altuve grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Castro out at second.
  243. Top 6 K. Morales batting
  244. Top 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  245. Top 6 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  246. Top 6 Pitch 3: strike 2 (looking)
  247. Top 6 Pitch 4: ball 2
  248. Top 6 Pitch 5: ball 3
  249. Top 6 Pitch 6: in play
  250. Top 6 K. Morales grounded out to shortstop.
  251. Top 6 Moustakas batting
  252. Top 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  253. Top 6 Pitch 2: in play
  254. Top 6 Moustakas doubled to right.
  255. Top 6 Pérez batting
  256. Top 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  257. Top 6 Pitch 2: ball 2
  258. Top 6 Pitch 3: in play
  259. Top 6 Pérez flied out to center, Moustakas to third.
  260. Top 6 Gordon batting
  261. Top 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  262. Top 6 Pitch 2: ball 1
  263. Top 6 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  264. Top 6 Pitch 4: ball 2
  265. Top 6 Pitch 5: ball 3
  266. Top 6 Pitch 6: strike 3 (swinging)
  267. Top 6 Gordon struck out swinging.
  268. Bot 6 Springer batting
  269. Bot 6 Pitch 1: in play
  270. Bot 6 Springer doubled to center.
  271. Bot 6 Correa batting
  272. Bot 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  273. Bot 6 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  274. Bot 6 Pitch 3: in play
  275. Bot 6 Correa grounded out to second, Springer to third.
  276. Bot 6 Rasmus batting
  277. Bot 6 Pitch 1: ball 1 (intentional ball)
  278. Bot 6 Pitch 2: ball 2 (intentional ball)
  279. Bot 6 Pitch 3: ball 3 (intentional ball)
  280. Bot 6 Pitch 4: ball 4 (intentional ball)
  281. Bot 6 Rasmus intentionally walked.
  282. Bot 6 Gattis batting
  283. Bot 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  284. Bot 6 Pitch 2: ball 2
  285. Bot 6 Pitch 3: ball 3
  286. Bot 6 Pitch 4: strike 1 (swinging)
  287. Bot 6 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  288. Bot 6 Pitch 6: strike 3 (swinging)
  289. Bot 6 Gattis struck out swinging.
  290. Bot 6 Gómez batting
  291. Bot 6 Pitch 1: in play
  292. Bot 6 Gómez singled to center, Springer scored, Rasmus to second. 1–3
  293. Bot 6 Lineup Change
  294. Bot 6 Lineup Change
  295. Bot 6 Lineup Change
  296. Bot 6 Lineup Change
  297. Bot 6 Duffy relieved Vólquez.
  298. Bot 6 González hit for Valbuena.
  299. Bot 6 González batting
  300. Bot 6 Pitch 1: in play
  301. Bot 6 González popped out to shortstop.
  302. Top 7 Lineup Change
  303. Top 7 González at third base.
  304. Top 7 Rios batting
  305. Top 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  306. Top 7 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  307. Top 7 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  308. Top 7 Pitch 4: ball 2
  309. Top 7 Pitch 5: ball 3
  310. Top 7 Pitch 6: foul
  311. Top 7 Pitch 7: ball 4
  312. Top 7 Rios walked.
  313. Top 7 Escobar batting
  314. Top 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  315. Top 7 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  316. Top 7 Pitch 3: ball 1
  317. Top 7 Pitch 4: ball 2
  318. Top 7 Pitch 5: ball 3
  319. Top 7 Pitch 6: in play
  320. Top 7 Escobar grounded out to first, Rios to second.
  321. Top 7 Zobrist batting
  322. Top 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  323. Top 7 Pitch 2: in play
  324. Top 7 Zobrist sacrificed to catcher, Rios to third.
  325. Top 7 Cain batting
  326. Top 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  327. Top 7 Pitch 2: ball 2
  328. Top 7 Pitch 3: strike 1 (foul)
  329. Top 7 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  330. Top 7 Pitch 5: ball 3
  331. Top 7 Pitch 6: strike 3 (swinging)
  332. Top 7 Cain struck out swinging.
  333. Bot 7 Carter batting
  334. Bot 7 Pitch 1: in play
  335. Bot 7 Carter homered to left (391 feet). 1–4
  336. Bot 7 Castro batting
  337. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  338. Bot 7 Pitch 2: strike 1 (swinging)
  339. Bot 7 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  340. Bot 7 Pitch 4: in play
  341. Bot 7 Castro flied out to left.
  342. Bot 7 Altuve batting
  343. Bot 7 Lineup Change
  344. Bot 7 Lineup Change
  345. Bot 7 Hochevar relieved Duffy.
  346. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  347. Bot 7 Pitch 2: in play
  348. Bot 7 Altuve fouled out to third.
  349. Bot 7 Springer batting
  350. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  351. Bot 7 Pitch 2: strike 1 (swinging)
  352. Bot 7 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  353. Bot 7 Pitch 4: foul
  354. Bot 7 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  355. Bot 7 Springer struck out swinging.
  356. Top 8 Lineup Change
  357. Top 8 Lineup Change
  358. Top 8 Sipp relieved Keuchel.
  359. Top 8 Hosmer batting
  360. Top 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  361. Top 8 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  362. Top 8 Pitch 3: ball 1
  363. Top 8 Pitch 4: foul
  364. Top 8 Pitch 5: ball 2
  365. Top 8 Pitch 6: foul
  366. Top 8 Pitch 7: strike 3 (looking)
  367. Top 8 Hosmer struck out looking.
  368. Top 8 K. Morales batting
  369. Top 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  370. Top 8 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  371. Top 8 Pitch 3: ball 1
  372. Top 8 Pitch 4: ball 2
  373. Top 8 Pitch 5: ball 3
  374. Top 8 Pitch 6: ball 4
  375. Top 8 K. Morales walked.
  376. Top 8 Moustakas batting
  377. Top 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  378. Top 8 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  379. Top 8 Pitch 3: ball 1
  380. Top 8 Pitch 4: foul
  381. Top 8 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  382. Top 8 Moustakas struck out swinging.
  383. Top 8 Lineup Change
  384. Top 8 Lineup Change
  385. Top 8 Gregerson relieved Sipp.
  386. Top 8 Pérez batting
  387. Top 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  388. Top 8 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  389. Top 8 Pitch 3: ball 1
  390. Top 8 Pitch 4: in play
  391. Top 8 Pérez grounded into fielder's choice to third, K. Morales out at second.
  392. Bot 8 Correa batting
  393. Bot 8 Pitch 1: in play
  394. Bot 8 Correa singled to right.
  395. Bot 8 Rasmus batting
  396. Bot 8 Pitch 1: ball 1
  397. Bot 8 Pitch 2: ball 2
  398. Bot 8 Pitch 3: in play
  399. Bot 8 Rasmus reached on infield single to second, Correa to second.
  400. Bot 8 Gattis batting

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alcides EscobarSS2-5502000015.286.286.429
Ben Zobrist2B1-4401000114.417.417.500
Lorenzo CainCF1-4411111226.250.308.583
Eric Hosmer1B0-4400000320.083.083.083
Kendrys MoralesDH1-3301001015.364.417.909
Mike Moustakas3B1-4401000118.100.250.200
Salvador PerezC0-3300001123.200.333.500
Alex GordonLF1-4411110214.273.333.545
Alex RiosRF0-3300001013.125.300.250
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Edinson VolquezP5.253348087-554.7687
Danny DuffyP0.21110016-513.506
Luke HochevarP1.220002022-150.0022

HOU

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Jose Altuve2B0-4400000110.214.214.214
George SpringerRF1-4411000212.364.462.727
Carlos CorreaSS1-4401000111.231.231.231
Colby RasmusLF1-1101003021.571.7501.571
Evan GattisDH0-4400000216.167.167.167
Carlos GomezCF1-4401100212.250.250.250
Luis Valbuena3B0-1110001110.125.300.125
Marwin Gonzalez3B0-110000001.000.000.000
Jed Lowrie3B0-110000002.000.000.000
Chris Carter1B3-332311008.455.455.818
Jason CastroC1-3301200112.111.200.111
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Dallas KeuchelP7.0511371124-730.69124
Tony SippP0.200012018-110.0018
Luke GregersonP1.121101116-122.7016

Starting lineups

HOU

  1. 1 Jose Altuve 2B
  2. 2 George Springer RF
  3. 3 Carlos Correa SS
  4. 4 Colby Rasmus LF
  5. 5 Evan Gattis DH
  6. 6 Carlos Gomez CF
  7. 7 Luis Valbuena 3B
  8. 8 Chris Carter 1B
  9. 9 Jason Castro C

KC

  1. 1 Alcides Escobar SS
  2. 2 Ben Zobrist 2B
  3. 3 Lorenzo Cain CF
  4. 4 Eric Hosmer 1B
  5. 5 Kendrys Morales DH
  6. 6 Mike Moustakas 3B
  7. 7 Salvador Perez C
  8. 8 Alex Gordon LF
  9. 9 Alex Rios RF

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