The Kansas City Royals couldn't keep up with the California Angels, 9 to 6, on September 8, 1973.

1973 Kansas City Royals

Final

CAL

Angels

63-73

9

KCR

Royals

76-63

6

CAL

KCR

1

1

0

2

0

0

3

0

1

4

0

0

5

3

0

6

0

3

7

0

0

8

5

0

9

0

2

R

9

6

H

14

7

E

3

0

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Mickey Rivers CF 4 3 3 3 0 1 1 2 0 4
Vada Pinson LF 5 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
Frank Robinson DH 5 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 2
Bob Oliver 3B 4 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 3
Mike Epstein 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Ken Berry PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Tom McCraw 1B 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Leroy Stanton RF 5 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 4
Charlie Sands C 4 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
Dave Chalk SS 4 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
Sandy Alomar Sr. 2B 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals 40 9 14 9 1 2 13 2 0 20

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Bill Singer 5.1 5 3 3 4 1 1
Rudy May 0.1 1 1 1 2 1 0
Aurelio Monteagudo (W) 3.1 1 2 0 2 1 0
Totals 9.0 7 6 4 8 3 1

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Steve Hovley DH 3 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 5
Hal McRae PH 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Cookie Rojas 2B 5 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bobby Floyd 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
John Mayberry 1B 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
Amos Otis CF 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1
Ed Kirkpatrick RF 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
Lou Piniella LF 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Paul Schaal 3B 1 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
Carl Taylor C 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Tom Poquette PH 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Freddie Patek SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gail Hopkins PH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jim Wohlford PH 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Frank White SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kurt Bevacqua PH 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals 36 6 7 6 1 8 3 0 0 12

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Al Fitzmorris 4.1 7 4 4 1 5 0
Steve Mingori (L) 3.0 5 4 4 1 5 1
Joe Hoerner 1.2 2 1 1 0 3 0
Totals 9.0 14 9 9 2 13 1

Explore