Kansas City Royals vs New York Yankees
May 9, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 1997 at Yankee Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the New York Yankees and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Kansas City Royals 7, New York Yankees 5

Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Offerman 2b 5 1 0 0
Bell ss 5 1 1 0
King 1b 6 2 2 4
Davis dh 5 0 1 2
Vitiello rf 3 0 0 0
  Damon lf,rf,lf 3 0 1 0
Dye lf,rf,lf,rf 5 0 1 0
Paquette 3b 3 0 0 0
  Cooper ph,3b 2 0 1 0
Sweeney c 3 0 1 0
  Roberts ph 1 0 0 0
  Spehr c 0 1 0 0
Goodwin cf 4 2 1 0
  Howard cf 0 0 0 0
Rusch p 0 0 0 0
  Walker p 0 0 0 0
  Montgomery p 0 0 0 0
  Pichardo p 0 0 0 0
  Veres p 0 0 0 0
Totals 45 7 9 6
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Raines lf 6 3 3 0
Jeter ss 6 1 2 2
Williams cf 5 0 1 1
Martinez 1b 4 0 2 1
Fielder dh 4 0 0 0
  Kelly pr,dh 0 0 0 0
  O'Neill ph,dh 2 0 1 0
Whiten rf 4 0 0 0
Hayes 3b,2b 4 1 1 0
Duncan 2b 3 0 1 1
  Sojo 2b 1 0 0 0
  Boggs ph,3b 2 0 0 0
Girardi c 6 0 1 0
Rogers p 0 0 0 0
  Nelson p 0 0 0 0
  Boehringer p 0 0 0 0
  Stanton p 0 0 0 0
Totals 47 5 12 5
Kansas City 000 003 020 002791
New York 101 100 200 0005122
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Rusch   6.2 8 5 5 1 4
  Walker   1.1 1 0 0 2 0
  Montgomery   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Pichardo   1.0 2 0 0 1 2
  Veres  W (2-0) 2.0 1 0 0 2 2
Totals
12.0
12
5
5
6
9
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Rogers   7.1 4 4 3 2 6
  Nelson   1.2 2 1 1 0 2
  Boehringer  L (1-2) 2.2 3 2 0 2 3
  Stanton   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
12.0
9
7
4
4
11

  E–King (3), Jeter (4), Hayes (4).  2B–Kansas City Dye (3,off Rogers); Goodwin (3,off Rogers); King (8,off Boehringer), New York Raines (6,off Rusch); Williams (14,off Rusch); Duncan (5,off Rusch).  3B–New York Martinez (1,off Rusch).  HR–Kansas City King (5,8th inning off Nelson 1 on, 2 out), New York Jeter (4,7th inning off Rusch 1 on, 2 out).  SH–Howard (2,off Boehringer); Whiten (1,off Pichardo).  IBB–Davis (1,by Boehringer); Hayes 2 (2,by Walker,by Pichardo); Martinez (5,by Veres).  SB–Hayes (1,2nd base off Rusch/Sweeney); Williams (4,2nd base off Veres/Spehr).  IBB–Walker (2,Hayes); Pichardo (3,Hayes); Veres (1,Martinez); Boehringer (2,Davis).  U-HP–Mike Reilly, 1B–Larry Young, 2B–Rich Garcia, 3B–Dale Ford.  T–4:33.  A–20,098.
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