Milwaukee Brewers vs Kansas City Royals
July 21, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 21, 1973 at Royals Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Milwaukee Brewers 4, Kansas City Royals 5

Milwaukee Brewers ab   r   h rbi
Coluccio rf 4 2 2 2
Money 3b 3 1 0 0
May cf 3 0 1 0
Briggs lf 3 0 0 0
Lahoud dh 1 0 0 1
  Brown ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Porter c 4 0 1 1
Garcia 2b 4 0 0 0
Johnson ss 4 0 1 0
Vukovich 1b 2 0 0 0
  Rodriguez E. ph 0 1 0 0
  Heise 1b 0 0 0 0
Slaton p 0 0 0 0
  Rodriguez E. p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 5 4
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Patek ss 5 0 2 1
Rojas 2b 4 1 2 0
Otis cf 4 0 0 0
Mayberry 1b 2 0 0 0
Reichardt dh 4 0 0 1
Kirkpatrick rf 3 1 1 0
Piniella lf 4 0 0 0
Schaal 3b 3 2 2 1
Healy c 3 1 1 2
Wright p 0 0 0 0
  Hoerner p 0 0 0 0
  Bird p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 8 5
Milwaukee 000 200 020452
Kansas City 020 210 00x580
  Milwaukee Brewers IP H R ER BB SO
Slaton  L (7-8) 7.1 8 5 5 5 5
  Rodriguez   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
5
5
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Wright  W (6-4) 7.1 4 4 4 5 6
  Hoerner   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Bird  SV (7) 1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
5
4
4
5
7

  E–May (5), Garcia (18).  DP–Kansas City 1.  2B–Milwaukee Coluccio (12,off Wright); Porter (11,off Wright); May (14,off Hoerner), Kansas City Schaal (11,off Slaton).  HR–Milwaukee Coluccio (8,8th inning off Wright 1 on, 0 out), Kansas City Healy (3,4th inning off Slaton 1 on, 2 out).  SF–Lahoud (1,off Wright).  IBB–Mayberry (8,by Slaton); Kirkpatrick (5,by Slaton).  CS–Johnson (2,2nd base by Wright/Healy).  SB–Rojas 2 (11,2nd base off Slaton/Porter,3rd base off Slaton/Porter).  IBB–Slaton 2 (3,Mayberry,Kirkpatrick).  U-HP–Jim Honochick, 1B–Jim Odom, 2B–Art Frantz, 3B–Lou DiMuro.  T–2:20.  A–36,032.
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