The Kansas City Royals managed to stay ahead of the Milwaukee Brewers, 5 to 4, on July 21, 1973.

1973 Kansas City Royals

Final

MIL

Brewers

47-48

4

KCR

Royals

54-46

5

MIL

KCR

1

0

0

2

0

2

3

0

0

4

2

2

5

0

1

6

0

0

7

0

0

8

2

0

9

0

R

4

5

H

5

8

E

2

0

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Bob Coluccio RF 4 2 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 6
Don Money 3B 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0
Dave May CF 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
John Briggs LF 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Joe Lahoud DH 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
Ollie Brown PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Darrell Porter C 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2
Pedro Garcia 2B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tim Johnson SS 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
John Vukovich 1B 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Ellie Rodriguez PH 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Bob Heise 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 4 5 4 1 5 7 0 1 11

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Jim Slaton (L) 7.1 8 5 5 5 5 1
Eduardo Rodriguez 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 8.0 8 5 5 5 5 1

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Freddie Patek SS 5 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Cookie Rojas 2B 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
Amos Otis CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
John Mayberry 1B 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Rick Reichardt DH 4 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0
Ed Kirkpatrick RF 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Lou Piniella LF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Paul Schaal 3B 3 2 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 3
Fran Healy C 3 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 4
Totals 32 5 8 5 1 5 5 2 0 12

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Ken Wright (W) 7.1 4 4 4 5 6 1
Joe Hoerner 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Doug Bird (S) 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 9.0 5 4 4 5 7 1

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