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Chicago Cubs @ Kansas City Royals

2026-02-23 · Spring Training · Day game · Att: 4872 · 80°F, Partly Cloudy · Wind 4 mph, In From CF · 2:25

Chicago Cubs defeated Kansas City Royals 3–2. Chicago Cubs opened the scoring in the 4th — Jefferson Rojas homers (1) on a fly ball to left field. The game's biggest swing came in the 9th: Kameron Misner strikes out swinging — worth 24% in win probability.

Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CHN	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	6
KCA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	7	1

Chicago Cubs — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Pete Crow-Armstrong CF	2	0	0	0	1	0
Kane Kepley CF	1	0	0	0	0	0
James Triantos DH	4	0	1	2	0	0
Jefferson Rojas SS	3	1	1	1	0	1
Ty Southisene 2B	1	0	0	0	0	0
Drew Bowser 3B	1	0	0	0	0	1
BJ Murray 1B	2	0	1	0	1	0
Pedro Ramírez 3B	3	0	2	0	0	1
Angel Cepeda SS	1	0	0	0	0	0
Justin Dean RF	3	0	0	0	0	3
Andy Garriola RF	1	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Kingery 2B	3	1	0	0	0	0
Haydn McGeary 1B	1	0	0	0	0	1
Carter Trice LF	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brett Bateman CF	2	1	1	0	1	0
Ariel Armas C	3	0	0	0	0	1
Casey Opitz C	0	0	0	0	0	0

Kansas City Royals — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Maikel Garcia 3B	2	0	2	0	0	0
Josh Rojas 3B	2	1	1	1	0	1
Omar Hernandez C	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Witt SS	3	0	1	0	0	0
Vinnie Pasquantino 1B	3	0	1	0	0	0
Sam Kulasingam 1B	1	1	1	0	0	0
Spencer Nivens LF	0	0	0	0	1	0
Salvador Perez C	3	0	0	0	0	1
Lane Thomas RF	2	0	0	0	0	2
Daniel Vazquez SS	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jonathan India 2B	2	0	0	0	0	1
Peyton Wilson 2B	1	0	0	1	0	1
Brandon Drury DH	2	0	0	0	0	1
Elih Marrero DH	2	0	1	0	0	1
Kyle Isbel CF	2	0	0	0	0	2
Kameron Misner CF	2	0	0	0	0	2
Gavin Cross RF	1	0	0	0	0	0
John Rave LF	1	0	0	0	1	0

Chicago Cubs — pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Jackson Kirkpatrick	0.2	0	0	0	0	2
Walker Powell	1.0	2	1	1	1	1
Porter Hodge	1.0	0	0	0	1	2
Ben Brown	2.0	2	0	0	0	3
Tyler Ras	1.0	1	1	1	0	1
Ryan Rolison	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
Collin Snider	1.0	0	0	0	0	2
Javier Assad	1.1	2	0	0	0	1

Kansas City Royals — pitching