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Arizona Diamondbacks @ Kansas City Royals

2026-09-09 · Night game · Kauffman Stadium · Att: 15369 · 77°F, Cloudy · Wind 5 mph, R To L · 2:31

Kansas City Royals defeated Arizona Diamondbacks 5–2. Kansas City Royals opened the scoring in the 2nd — Isaac Collins grounds out, third baseman Nolan Arenado to first baseman Tim Tawa. The game's biggest swing came in the 5th: Bobby Witt Jr. homers (18) on a fly ball to left center field. Isaac Collins scores. Carter Jensen scores — worth 26% in win probability.

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Line score

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

Arizona Diamondbacks — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Ildemaro Vargas 2B	2	0	1	0	2	0
Gabriel Moreno PH	1	0	0	0	0	1
Ketel Marte DH	5	0	1	1	0	0
Geraldo Perdomo SS	4	0	1	0	0	0
Nolan Arenado 3B	3	1	2	1	1	0
Tim Tawa 1B	4	0	1	0	0	0
Lourdes Gurriel LF	4	0	1	0	0	2
Adrian Del Castillo C	1	0	0	0	0	1
James McCann C	3	0	0	0	0	2
Jordan Lawlar CF	4	1	2	0	0	0
Lars Nootbaar RF	2	0	0	0	1	0

Kansas City Royals — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Carter Jensen C	3	2	1	1	1	0
Bobby Witt SS	4	1	2	3	0	0
Vinnie Pasquantino 1B	3	0	0	0	1	1
Salvador Perez DH	4	0	0	0	0	0
Michael Massey 2B	4	0	1	0	0	1
Nick Loftin 3B	2	0	0	0	1	1
John Rave RF	3	1	1	0	0	1
Kyle Isbel CF	3	0	1	0	0	1
Isaac Collins LF	3	1	1	0	0	0