Tampa Bay Rays vs Kansas City Royals
October 1, 2010 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 1, 2010 at Kauffman Stadium. The Kansas City Royals defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 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)
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Tampa Bay Rays 0, Kansas City Royals 7

Tampa Bay Rays ab   r   h rbi
Upton cf 4 0 1 0
Bartlett ss 4 0 0 0
Crawford lf 4 0 0 0
Aybar dh 3 0 0 0
Pena 1b 3 0 0 0
Zobrist 2b 2 0 0 0
Baldelli rf 3 0 0 0
  Jennings rf 0 0 0 0
Shoppach c 3 0 0 0
Rodriguez 3b 3 0 1 0
Shields p 0 0 0 0
  Ekstrom p 0 0 0 0
  Cormier p 0 0 0 0
  Wheeler p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 2 0
Kansas City Royals ab   r   h rbi
Blanco rf 5 2 3 3
Aviles 2b 4 0 0 0
Butler 1b 5 2 2 1
Ka'aihue dh 1 0 0 0
Fields 3b 4 0 2 0
Gordon lf 4 0 1 1
Betancourt ss 3 0 1 0
Pena c 4 1 2 0
Dyson cf 4 2 2 0
Chen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 7 13 5
Tampa Bay 000 000 000021
Kansas City 103 012 00x7130
  Tampa Bay Rays IP H R ER BB SO
Shields  L(13-15) 5.0 12 7 6 2 1
  Ekstrom   1.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Cormier   1.0 0 0 0 1 2
  Wheeler   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
13
7
6
4
3
  Kansas City Royals IP H R ER BB SO
Chen  W(12-7) 9.0 2 0 0 2 7
Totals
9.0
2
0
0
2
7

  E–Bartlett (11).  DP–Tampa Bay 2. Shields-Zobrist-Pena, Rodriguez-Pena.  2B–Tampa Bay Upton (38,off Chen), Kansas City Betancourt (29,off Shields); Butler (44,off Shields).  3B–Kansas City Dyson (2,off Shields); Blanco (3,off Shields).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Ka'aihue (1,off Shields).  IBB–Ka'aihue (2,by Ekstrom).  Team–8.  U-HP–James Hoye, 1B–Laz Diaz, 2B–Wally Bell, 3B–John Hirschbeck.  T–2:22.  A–23,374.
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