diff --git a/api/filters/replacement/replacement.go b/api/filters/replacement/replacement.go
index bff8bba411..edc40e9123 100644
--- a/api/filters/replacement/replacement.go
+++ b/api/filters/replacement/replacement.go
@@ -119,13 +119,14 @@ func applyToNode(node *yaml.RNode, value *yaml.RNode, target *types.TargetSelect
 		if target.Options != nil && target.Options.Create {
 			t, err = node.Pipe(yaml.LookupCreate(value.YNode().Kind, fieldPath...))
 		} else {
-			t, err = node.Pipe(yaml.Lookup(fieldPath...))
+			// t, err = node.Pipe(yaml.Lookup(fieldPath...))
+			t, err = node.Pipe(&yaml.PathMatcher{Path: fieldPath})
 		}
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 		if t != nil {
-			if err = setTargetValue(target.Options, t, value); err != nil {
+			if err = applyToOneNode(target.Options, t, value); err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
 		}
@@ -133,6 +134,27 @@ func applyToNode(node *yaml.RNode, value *yaml.RNode, target *types.TargetSelect
 	return nil
 }
 
+func applyToOneNode(options *types.FieldOptions, t *yaml.RNode, value *yaml.RNode) error {
+	if len(t.YNode().Content) == 0 {
+		if err := setTargetValue(options, t, value); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	for _, scalarNode := range t.YNode().Content {
+		if options != nil && options.Create {
+			return fmt.Errorf("cannot use create option in a multi-value target")
+		}
+		rn := yaml.NewRNode(scalarNode)
+		if err := setTargetValue(options, rn, value); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 func setTargetValue(options *types.FieldOptions, t *yaml.RNode, value *yaml.RNode) error {
 	value = value.Copy()
 	if options != nil && options.Delimiter != "" {
@@ -152,7 +174,9 @@ func setTargetValue(options *types.FieldOptions, t *yaml.RNode, value *yaml.RNod
 		}
 		value.YNode().Value = strings.Join(tv, options.Delimiter)
 	}
+
 	t.SetYNode(value.YNode())
+
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/kyaml/yaml/fns.go b/kyaml/yaml/fns.go
index 4be2dba47e..999ef53e02 100644
--- a/kyaml/yaml/fns.go
+++ b/kyaml/yaml/fns.go
@@ -782,6 +782,13 @@ func IsListIndex(p string) bool {
 	return strings.HasPrefix(p, "[") && strings.HasSuffix(p, "]")
 }
 
+// IsIdxNumber returns true if p is an index number.
+// e.g. 1
+func IsIdxNumber(p string) bool {
+	idx, err := strconv.Atoi(p)
+	return err == nil && idx >= 0
+}
+
 // SplitIndexNameValue splits a lookup part Val index into the field name
 // and field value to match.
 // e.g. splits [name=nginx] into (name, nginx)
diff --git a/kyaml/yaml/match.go b/kyaml/yaml/match.go
index 3b80f8b7be..713dd25438 100644
--- a/kyaml/yaml/match.go
+++ b/kyaml/yaml/match.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package yaml
 
 import (
 	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 )
 
@@ -42,9 +43,10 @@ type PathMatcher struct {
 	// This is useful for if the nodes are to be printed in FlowStyle.
 	StripComments bool
 
-	val        *RNode
-	field      string
-	matchRegex string
+	val         *RNode
+	field       string
+	matchRegex  string
+	indexNumber int
 }
 
 func (p *PathMatcher) stripComments(n *Node) {
@@ -79,6 +81,10 @@ func (p *PathMatcher) filter(rn *RNode) (*RNode, error) {
 		return p.val, nil
 	}
 
+	if IsIdxNumber(p.Path[0]) {
+		return p.doIndexSeq(rn)
+	}
+
 	if IsListIndex(p.Path[0]) {
 		// match seq elements
 		return p.doSeq(rn)
@@ -98,7 +104,6 @@ func (p *PathMatcher) doMatchEvery(rn *RNode) (*RNode, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	// fmt.Println(p.val.String())
 	return p.val, nil
 }
 
@@ -134,6 +139,36 @@ func (p *PathMatcher) doField(rn *RNode) (*RNode, error) {
 	return p.val, err
 }
 
+// doIndexSeq iterates over a sequence and appends elements matching the index p.Val
+func (p *PathMatcher) doIndexSeq(rn *RNode) (*RNode, error) {
+	// parse to index number
+	idx, err := strconv.Atoi(p.Path[0])
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	p.indexNumber = idx
+
+	elements, err := rn.Elements()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	// get target element
+	element := elements[idx]
+
+	// recurse on the matching element
+	pm := &PathMatcher{Path: p.Path[1:]}
+	add, err := pm.filter(element)
+	for k, v := range pm.Matches {
+		p.Matches[k] = v
+	}
+	if err != nil || add == nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	p.append("", add.Content()...)
+	return p.val, nil
+}
+
 // doSeq iterates over a sequence and appends elements matching the path regex to p.Val
 func (p *PathMatcher) doSeq(rn *RNode) (*RNode, error) {
 	// parse the field + match pair