Seattle Mariners vs Kansas City Royals
August 6, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 6, 2009 at Kauffman Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Seattle Mariners and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Seattle Mariners 2, Kansas City Royals 8

Seattle Mariners ab   r   h rbi
Suzuki rf 5 0 2 0
Branyan 1b 4 0 0 0
Lopez 2b 4 0 0 0
Sweeney dh 4 1 1 1
Beltre 3b 4 1 4 0
Gutierrez cf 4 0 1 0
Wilson ss 3 0 0 1
Johnson c 4 0 2 0
Saunders lf 4 0 2 0
Vargas p 0 0 0 0
  Jakubauskas p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 2 12 2
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
DeJesus lf 3 0 0 0
Bloomquist 2b 4 1 0 0
Butler dh 3 2 2 2
Pena c 4 2 2 0
Callaspo 3b 4 2 2 1
Teahen 1b 4 1 1 3
Maier cf 3 0 0 1
Betancourt ss 4 0 1 1
Anderson rf 4 0 1 0
Chen p 0 0 0 0
  Wright p 0 0 0 0
  Waechter p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 8 9 8
Seattle 000 200 0002121
Kansas City 500 030 00x890
  Seattle Mariners IP H R ER BB SO
Vargas  L(3-6) 7.0 9 8 7 3 0
  Jakubauskas   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
8
7
3
1
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Chen  W(1-6) 6.2 10 2 2 1 4
  Wright   1.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Waechter   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
2
2
1
4

  E–Branyan (10).  DP–Kansas City 1. Bloomquist-Betancourt-Teahen.  2B–Seattle Johnson (16,off Waechter), Kansas City Teahen (27,off Vargas); Betancourt (12,off Vargas); B. Pena (6,off Vargas).  HR–Seattle Sweeney (4,4th inning off Chen 0 on 1 out), Kansas City Butler (13,1st inning off Vargas 1 on 1 out).  SF–Jack Wilson (1,off Chen).  Team LOB–9.  Team–4.  CS–Suzuki (7,2nd base by Chen/B. Pena); Anderson (3,2nd base by Vargas/Johnson).  SB–Maier (5,2nd base off Vargas/Johnson).  U-HP–Andy Fletcher, 1B–Greg Gibson, 2B–Tim McClelland, 3B–Mike Estabrook.  T–2:28.  A–15,103.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook