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

2–7Final · Oct 14, 2015
HOU 2 KC 7 Final
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HOU86-76020000000220
KC95-6700013003780

· Line: KC -122

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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. Valbuena homered to right (394 feet), Gattis scored.

    2–0

  2. Hosmer singled to center, Cain scored.

    2–1

  3. Rios doubled to left, Pérez and Gordon scored.

    2–3

  4. Zobrist hit sacrifice fly to right, Rios scored.

    2–4

  5. K. Morales homered to center (440 feet), Escobar and Cain scored.

    2–7

Play-by-play

  1. Top 1 Lineup Change
  2. Top 1 Altuve batting
  3. Top 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  4. Top 1 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  5. Top 1 Pitch 3: in play
  6. Top 1 Altuve popped out to second.
  7. Top 1 Springer batting
  8. Top 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  9. Top 1 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  10. Top 1 Pitch 3: ball 2
  11. Top 1 Pitch 4: ball 3
  12. Top 1 Pitch 5: strike 2 (swinging)
  13. Top 1 Pitch 6: strike 3 (looking)
  14. Top 1 Springer struck out looking.
  15. Top 1 Correa batting
  16. Top 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  17. Top 1 Pitch 2: in play
  18. Top 1 Correa flied out to right.
  19. Bot 1 Escobar batting
  20. Bot 1 Pitch 1: in play
  21. Bot 1 Escobar flied out to right.
  22. Bot 1 Zobrist batting
  23. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  24. Bot 1 Pitch 2: ball 1
  25. Bot 1 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  26. Bot 1 Pitch 4: ball 2
  27. Bot 1 Pitch 5: ball 3
  28. Bot 1 Pitch 6: foul
  29. Bot 1 Pitch 7: ball 4
  30. Bot 1 Zobrist walked.
  31. Bot 1 Cain batting
  32. Bot 1 Pitch 1: in play
  33. Bot 1 Cain grounded into double play, third to second to first, Zobrist out at second.
  34. Top 2 Rasmus batting
  35. Top 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  36. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 2 (bunted foul)
  37. Top 2 Pitch 3: ball 1
  38. Top 2 Pitch 4: ball 2
  39. Top 2 Pitch 5: strike 3 (looking)
  40. Top 2 Rasmus struck out looking.
  41. Top 2 Gómez batting
  42. Top 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  43. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  44. Top 2 Pitch 3: ball 1
  45. Top 2 Pitch 4: ball 2
  46. Top 2 Pitch 5: foul
  47. Top 2 Pitch 6: ball 3
  48. Top 2 Pitch 7: foul
  49. Top 2 Pitch 8: in play
  50. Top 2 Gómez flied out to left.
  51. Top 2 Gattis batting
  52. Top 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  53. Top 2 Pitch 2: in play
  54. Top 2 Gattis reached on infield single to third.
  55. Top 2 Valbuena batting
  56. Top 2 Pitch 1: in play
  57. Top 2 Valbuena homered to right (394 feet), Gattis scored. 2–0
  58. Top 2 Carter batting
  59. Top 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  60. Top 2 Pitch 2: in play
  61. Top 2 Carter fouled out to right.
  62. Bot 2 Hosmer batting
  63. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  64. Bot 2 Pitch 2: in play
  65. Bot 2 Hosmer lined out to left.
  66. Bot 2 K. Morales batting
  67. Bot 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  68. Bot 2 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  69. Bot 2 Pitch 3: in play
  70. Bot 2 K. Morales flied out to left.
  71. Bot 2 Moustakas batting
  72. Bot 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  73. Bot 2 Pitch 2: in play
  74. Bot 2 Moustakas flied out to right.
  75. Top 3 Castro batting
  76. Top 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  77. Top 3 Pitch 2: in play
  78. Top 3 Castro grounded out to second.
  79. Top 3 Altuve batting
  80. Top 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  81. Top 3 Pitch 2: ball 1
  82. Top 3 Pitch 3: ball 2
  83. Top 3 Pitch 4: in play
  84. Top 3 Altuve flied out to center.
  85. Top 3 Springer batting
  86. Top 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  87. Top 3 Pitch 2: ball 2
  88. Top 3 Pitch 3: strike 1 (foul)
  89. Top 3 Pitch 4: strike 2 (looking)
  90. Top 3 Pitch 5: foul
  91. Top 3 Pitch 6: ball 3
  92. Top 3 Pitch 7: strike 3 (swinging)
  93. Top 3 Springer struck out swinging.
  94. Bot 3 Pérez batting
  95. Bot 3 Pitch 1: in play
  96. Bot 3 Pérez singled to center.
  97. Bot 3 Gordon batting
  98. Bot 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  99. Bot 3 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  100. Bot 3 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  101. Bot 3 Pitch 4: ball 2
  102. Bot 3 Pitch 5: foul
  103. Bot 3 Pitch 6: ball 3
  104. Bot 3 Pitch 7: in play
  105. Bot 3 Gordon grounded into double play, third to shortstop to first, Pérez out at second.
  106. Bot 3 Rios batting
  107. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  108. Bot 3 Pitch 2: in play
  109. Bot 3 Rios reached on infield single to shortstop.
  110. Bot 3 Escobar batting
  111. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  112. Bot 3 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  113. Bot 3 Pitch 3: in play
  114. Bot 3 Escobar flied out to center.
  115. Top 4 Correa batting
  116. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  117. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 1
  118. Top 4 Pitch 3: in play
  119. Top 4 Correa lined out to center.
  120. Top 4 Rasmus batting
  121. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  122. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 1
  123. Top 4 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  124. Top 4 Pitch 4: foul
  125. Top 4 Pitch 5: ball 2
  126. Top 4 Pitch 6: strike 3 (swinging)
  127. Top 4 Rasmus struck out swinging.
  128. Top 4 Gómez batting
  129. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  130. Top 4 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  131. Top 4 Pitch 3: foul
  132. Top 4 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  133. Top 4 Gómez struck out swinging.
  134. Bot 4 Zobrist batting
  135. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  136. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  137. Bot 4 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  138. Bot 4 Pitch 4: ball 2
  139. Bot 4 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  140. Bot 4 Zobrist struck out swinging.
  141. Bot 4 Cain batting
  142. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  143. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  144. Bot 4 Pitch 3: ball 2
  145. Bot 4 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  146. Bot 4 Pitch 5: foul
  147. Bot 4 Pitch 6: ball 3
  148. Bot 4 Pitch 7: foul
  149. Bot 4 Pitch 8: in play
  150. Bot 4 Cain singled to right.
  151. Bot 4 Hosmer batting
  152. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  153. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  154. Bot 4 Pitch 3: ball 2
  155. Bot 4 Pitch 4: ball 3
  156. Bot 4 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  157. Bot 4 Pitch 6: foul
  158. Bot 4 Pitch 7: in play
  159. Bot 4 Hosmer singled to center, Cain scored. 2–1
  160. Bot 4 K. Morales batting
  161. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  162. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 1 (swinging)
  163. Bot 4 Pitch 3: ball 2
  164. Bot 4 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  165. Bot 4 Pitch 5: in play
  166. Bot 4 K. Morales fouled out to second.
  167. Bot 4 Moustakas batting
  168. Bot 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  169. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  170. Bot 4 Pitch 3: ball 1
  171. Bot 4 Pitch 4: foul
  172. Bot 4 Pitch 5: foul
  173. Bot 4 Pitch 6: in play
  174. Bot 4 Moustakas flied out to left.
  175. Top 5 Gattis batting
  176. Top 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  177. Top 5 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  178. Top 5 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  179. Top 5 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  180. Top 5 Gattis struck out swinging.
  181. Top 5 Valbuena batting
  182. Top 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  183. Top 5 Pitch 2: ball 2
  184. Top 5 Pitch 3: in play
  185. Top 5 Valbuena fouled out to first.
  186. Top 5 Carter batting
  187. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  188. Top 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  189. Top 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  190. Top 5 Pitch 4: foul
  191. Top 5 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  192. Top 5 Carter struck out swinging.
  193. Bot 5 Pérez batting
  194. Bot 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  195. Bot 5 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  196. Bot 5 Pitch 3: strike 2 (looking)
  197. Bot 5 Pitch 4: ball 2
  198. Bot 5 Pitch 5: ball 3
  199. Bot 5 Pitch 6: in play
  200. Bot 5 Pérez hit by pitch.
  201. Bot 5 Gordon batting
  202. Bot 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  203. Bot 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  204. Bot 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  205. Bot 5 Pitch 4: ball 2
  206. Bot 5 Pitch 5: ball 3
  207. Bot 5 Pitch 6: in play
  208. Bot 5 Gordon hit a ground rule double to deep right, Pérez to third.
  209. Bot 5 Lineup Change
  210. Bot 5 Lineup Change
  211. Bot 5 Fiers relieved McHugh.
  212. Bot 5 Rios batting
  213. Bot 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  214. Bot 5 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  215. Bot 5 Pitch 3: in play
  216. Bot 5 Rios doubled to left, Pérez and Gordon scored. 2–3
  217. Bot 5 Escobar batting
  218. Bot 5 Pitch 1: in play
  219. Bot 5 Escobar sacrificed to third, Rios to third.
  220. Bot 5 Zobrist batting
  221. Bot 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  222. Bot 5 Pitch 2: ball 2
  223. Bot 5 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  224. Bot 5 Pitch 4: in play
  225. Bot 5 Zobrist hit sacrifice fly to right, Rios scored. 2–4
  226. Bot 5 Cain batting
  227. Bot 5 Pitch 1: in play
  228. Bot 5 Cain grounded out to second.
  229. Top 6 Castro batting
  230. Top 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  231. Top 6 Pitch 2: in play
  232. Top 6 Castro popped out to shortstop.
  233. Top 6 Altuve batting
  234. Top 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  235. Top 6 Pitch 2: in play
  236. Top 6 Altuve fouled out to left.
  237. Top 6 Springer batting
  238. Top 6 Pitch 1: in play
  239. Top 6 Springer popped out to second.
  240. Bot 6 Lineup Change
  241. Bot 6 Lineup Change
  242. Bot 6 Sipp relieved Fiers.
  243. Bot 6 Hosmer batting
  244. Bot 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  245. Bot 6 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  246. Bot 6 Pitch 3: ball 1
  247. Bot 6 Pitch 4: in play
  248. Bot 6 Hosmer grounded out to first.
  249. Bot 6 K. Morales batting
  250. Bot 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  251. Bot 6 Pitch 2: strike 1 (swinging)
  252. Bot 6 Pitch 3: strike 2 (looking)
  253. Bot 6 Pitch 4: in play
  254. Bot 6 K. Morales grounded out to shortstop.
  255. Bot 6 Moustakas batting
  256. Bot 6 Pitch 1: in play
  257. Bot 6 Moustakas flied out to right.
  258. Top 7 Correa batting
  259. Top 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  260. Top 7 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  261. Top 7 Pitch 3: in play
  262. Top 7 Correa lined out to second.
  263. Top 7 Rasmus batting
  264. Top 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  265. Top 7 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  266. Top 7 Pitch 3: ball 1
  267. Top 7 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  268. Top 7 Rasmus struck out swinging.
  269. Top 7 Gómez batting
  270. Top 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  271. Top 7 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  272. Top 7 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  273. Top 7 Pitch 4: ball 2
  274. Top 7 Pitch 5: ball 3
  275. Top 7 Pitch 6: foul
  276. Top 7 Pitch 7: in play
  277. Top 7 Gómez grounded out to third.
  278. Bot 7 Pérez batting
  279. Bot 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  280. Bot 7 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  281. Bot 7 Pitch 3: ball 1
  282. Bot 7 Pitch 4: in play
  283. Bot 7 Pérez fouled out to first.
  284. Bot 7 Gordon batting
  285. Bot 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  286. Bot 7 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  287. Bot 7 Pitch 3: ball 1
  288. Bot 7 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  289. Bot 7 Gordon struck out swinging.
  290. Bot 7 Lineup Change
  291. Bot 7 Lineup Change
  292. Bot 7 Neshek relieved Sipp.
  293. Bot 7 Rios batting
  294. Bot 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  295. Bot 7 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  296. Bot 7 Pitch 3: foul
  297. Bot 7 Pitch 4: ball 1
  298. Bot 7 Pitch 5: ball 2
  299. Bot 7 Pitch 6: strike 3 (swinging)
  300. Bot 7 Rios struck out swinging.
  301. Top 8 Lineup Change
  302. Top 8 Lineup Change
  303. Top 8 Orlando in right field.
  304. Top 8 Gattis batting
  305. Top 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  306. Top 8 Pitch 2: in play
  307. Top 8 Gattis popped out to second.
  308. Top 8 Valbuena batting
  309. Top 8 Pitch 1: ball 1
  310. Top 8 Pitch 2: in play
  311. Top 8 Valbuena grounded out to second.
  312. Top 8 Carter batting
  313. Top 8 Pitch 1: in play
  314. Top 8 Carter grounded out to shortstop.
  315. Bot 8 Lineup Change
  316. Bot 8 Lineup Change
  317. Bot 8 Keuchel relieved Neshek.
  318. Bot 8 Escobar batting
  319. Bot 8 Pitch 1: ball 1
  320. Bot 8 Pitch 2: in play
  321. Bot 8 Escobar doubled to right.
  322. Bot 8 Zobrist batting
  323. Bot 8 Pitch 1: ball 1
  324. Bot 8 Pitch 2: ball 2
  325. Bot 8 Pitch 3: in play
  326. Bot 8 Zobrist lined out to second.
  327. Bot 8 Cain batting
  328. Bot 8 Pitch 1: ball 1 (intentional ball)
  329. Bot 8 Pitch 2: ball 2 (intentional ball)
  330. Bot 8 Pitch 3: ball 3 (intentional ball)
  331. Bot 8 Pitch 4: ball 4 (intentional ball)
  332. Bot 8 Cain intentionally walked.
  333. Bot 8 Hosmer batting
  334. Bot 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  335. Bot 8 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  336. Bot 8 Pitch 3: ball 1
  337. Bot 8 Pitch 4: ball 2
  338. Bot 8 Pitch 5: ball 3
  339. Bot 8 Pitch 6: foul
  340. Bot 8 Pitch 7: in play
  341. Bot 8 Hosmer fouled out to catcher.
  342. Bot 8 K. Morales batting
  343. Bot 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  344. Bot 8 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  345. Bot 8 Pitch 3: ball 1
  346. Bot 8 Pitch 4: ball 2
  347. Bot 8 Pitch 5: in play
  348. Bot 8 K. Morales homered to center (440 feet), Escobar and Cain scored. 2–7
  349. Bot 8 Moustakas batting
  350. Bot 8 Pitch 1: ball 1
  351. Bot 8 Pitch 2: ball 2
  352. Bot 8 Pitch 3: ball 3
  353. Bot 8 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  354. Bot 8 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  355. Bot 8 Pitch 6: in play
  356. Bot 8 Moustakas grounded out to shortstop.
  357. Top 9 Lineup Change
  358. Top 9 Lineup Change
  359. Top 9 Lineup Change
  360. Top 9 Lineup Change
  361. Top 9 Davis relieved Cueto.
  362. Top 9 Tucker hit for Castro.
  363. Top 9 Tucker batting
  364. Top 9 Pitch 1: ball 1
  365. Top 9 Pitch 2: ball 2
  366. Top 9 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  367. Top 9 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  368. Top 9 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  369. Top 9 Tucker struck out swinging.
  370. Top 9 Altuve batting
  371. Top 9 Pitch 1: ball 1
  372. Top 9 Pitch 2: in play
  373. Top 9 Altuve grounded out to shortstop.
  374. Top 9 Springer batting
  375. Top 9 Pitch 1: in play
  376. Top 9 Springer flied out to right.

Box score

HOU

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Jose Altuve2B0-4400000011.136.174.136
George SpringerRF0-4400000215.211.318.421
Carlos CorreaSS0-330000008.350.381.700
Colby RasmusLF0-3300000315.429.6001.143
Carlos GomezCF0-3300000119.250.250.500
Evan GattisDH1-331100018.211.211.211
Luis Valbuena3B1-331121006.154.353.385
Chris Carter1B0-330000018.294.294.529
Jason CastroC0-220000004.071.133.071
Preston TuckerPH0-110000015.000.333.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Collin McHughP4.053311072-454.5072
Mike FiersP1.01110009-69.009
Tony SippP1.200001017-130.0017
Pat NeshekP0.10000106-40.006
Dallas KeuchelP1.023310127-122.5727

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alcides EscobarSS1-331100007.286.318.429
Ben Zobrist2B0-2200101119.333.381.389
Lorenzo CainCF1-3321001014.250.318.450
Eric Hosmer1B1-4401100020.190.190.333
Kendrys MoralesDH1-4411310017.263.300.737
Mike Moustakas3B0-4400000015.111.238.167
Salvador PerezC1-2211000011.286.444.714
Alex GordonLF1-3311000117.235.316.471
Alex RiosRF2-3312200111.286.412.429
Paulo OrlandoRF0-000000000.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Johnny CuetoP8.022208191-623.8691
Wade DavisP1.00000108-50.008

Starting lineups

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

HOU

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

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