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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Cleveland Indians logo Cleveland Indians

1–5Final · Sep 16, 2015
KC 1 CLE 5 Final
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KC85-60000000100151
CLE72-7213010000590

· Line: CLE -140

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Every scoring moment, when the official feed stamped it — and when FirstBuzzer's in-venue spotters buzzed it first. Times are ET.

  1. Lindor homered to left (390 feet).

    0–1

  2. Kipnis singled to center, Almonte scored, Aviles to third.

    0–2

  3. Lindor reached on infield single to second, Aviles and Kipnis scored.

    0–4

  4. Lindor singled to center, Aviles scored.

    0–5

  5. Moustakas homered to right center (408 feet).

    1–5

Play-by-play

  1. Top 1 Lineup Change
  2. Top 1 Gordon batting
  3. Top 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  4. Top 1 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  5. Top 1 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  6. Top 1 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  7. Top 1 Gordon struck out swinging.
  8. Top 1 Zobrist batting
  9. Top 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  10. Top 1 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  11. Top 1 Pitch 3: ball 2
  12. Top 1 Pitch 4: in play
  13. Top 1 Zobrist grounded out to second.
  14. Top 1 Cain batting
  15. Top 1 Pitch 1: in play
  16. Top 1 Cain flied out to center.
  17. Bot 1 Kipnis batting
  18. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  19. Bot 1 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  20. Bot 1 Pitch 3: foul
  21. Bot 1 Pitch 4: ball 1
  22. Bot 1 Pitch 5: ball 2
  23. Bot 1 Pitch 6: ball 3
  24. Bot 1 Pitch 7: in play
  25. Bot 1 Kipnis flied out to left.
  26. Bot 1 Lindor batting
  27. Bot 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  28. Bot 1 Pitch 2: in play
  29. Bot 1 Lindor homered to left (390 feet). 0–1
  30. Bot 1 Brantley batting
  31. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  32. Bot 1 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  33. Bot 1 Pitch 3: ball 1
  34. Bot 1 Pitch 4: ball 2
  35. Bot 1 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  36. Bot 1 Brantley struck out swinging.
  37. Bot 1 Santana batting
  38. Bot 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  39. Bot 1 Pitch 2: ball 2
  40. Bot 1 Pitch 3: strike 1 (foul)
  41. Bot 1 Pitch 4: strike 2 (looking)
  42. Bot 1 Pitch 5: in play
  43. Bot 1 Santana singled to center.
  44. Bot 1 Gomes batting
  45. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  46. Bot 1 Pitch 2: ball 1
  47. Bot 1 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  48. Bot 1 Pitch 4: ball 2
  49. Bot 1 Pitch 5: in play
  50. Bot 1 Gomes flied out to left.
  51. Top 2 Hosmer batting
  52. Top 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  53. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  54. Top 2 Pitch 3: ball 2
  55. Top 2 Pitch 4: ball 3
  56. Top 2 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  57. Top 2 Pitch 6: ball 4
  58. Top 2 Hosmer walked.
  59. Top 2 K. Morales batting
  60. Top 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  61. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  62. Top 2 Pitch 3: strike 3 (swinging)
  63. Top 2 K. Morales struck out swinging.
  64. Top 2 Moustakas batting
  65. Top 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  66. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  67. Top 2 Pitch 3: ball 2
  68. Top 2 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  69. Top 2 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  70. Top 2 Moustakas struck out swinging.
  71. Top 2 Pérez batting
  72. Top 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  73. Top 2 Pitch 2: in play
  74. Top 2 Pérez grounded out to third.
  75. Bot 2 Johnson batting
  76. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  77. Bot 2 Pitch 2: in play
  78. Bot 2 Johnson grounded out to third.
  79. Bot 2 Sands batting
  80. Bot 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  81. Bot 2 Pitch 2: ball 2
  82. Bot 2 Pitch 3: strike 1 (foul)
  83. Bot 2 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  84. Bot 2 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  85. Bot 2 Sands struck out swinging.
  86. Bot 2 Almonte batting
  87. Bot 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  88. Bot 2 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  89. Bot 2 Pitch 3: ball 2
  90. Bot 2 Pitch 4: ball 3
  91. Bot 2 Pitch 5: strike 2 (looking)
  92. Bot 2 Pitch 6: in play
  93. Bot 2 Almonte singled to left.
  94. Bot 2 Aviles batting
  95. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  96. Bot 2 Pitch 2: ball 1
  97. Bot 2 Pitch 3: ball 2
  98. Bot 2 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  99. Bot 2 Pitch 5: foul
  100. Bot 2 Pitch 6: foul
  101. Bot 2 Pitch 7: ball 3
  102. Bot 2 Pitch 8: ball 4
  103. Bot 2 Aviles walked, Almonte to second.
  104. Bot 2 Kipnis batting
  105. Bot 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  106. Bot 2 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  107. Bot 2 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  108. Bot 2 Pitch 4: in play
  109. Bot 2 Kipnis singled to center, Almonte scored, Aviles to third. 0–2
  110. Bot 2 Lindor batting
  111. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  112. Bot 2 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  113. Bot 2 Kipnis to second on wild pitch by Duffy.
  114. Bot 2 Pitch 3: in play
  115. Bot 2 Lindor reached on infield single to second, Aviles and Kipnis scored. 0–4
  116. Bot 2 Brantley batting
  117. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  118. Bot 2 Pitch 2: in play
  119. Bot 2 Brantley popped out to third.
  120. Top 3 Rios batting
  121. Top 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  122. Top 3 Pitch 2: in play
  123. Top 3 Rios singled to center.
  124. Top 3 Escobar batting
  125. Top 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  126. Top 3 Pitch 2: ball 1
  127. Top 3 Pitch 3: in play
  128. Top 3 Escobar grounded into fielder's choice to third, Rios out at second.
  129. Top 3 Gordon batting
  130. Top 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  131. Top 3 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  132. Top 3 Pitch 3: ball 1
  133. Top 3 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  134. Top 3 Gordon struck out swinging.
  135. Top 3 Zobrist batting
  136. Top 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  137. Top 3 Pitch 2: in play
  138. Top 3 Zobrist doubled to deep left, Escobar to third.
  139. Top 3 Cain batting
  140. Top 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  141. Top 3 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  142. Top 3 Pitch 3: in play
  143. Top 3 Cain grounded out to second.
  144. Bot 3 Santana batting
  145. Bot 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  146. Bot 3 Pitch 2: ball 2
  147. Bot 3 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  148. Bot 3 Pitch 4: ball 3
  149. Bot 3 Pitch 5: ball 4
  150. Bot 3 Santana walked.
  151. Bot 3 Gomes batting
  152. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  153. Bot 3 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  154. Bot 3 Pitch 3: foul
  155. Bot 3 Pitch 4: ball 1
  156. Bot 3 Pitch 5: foul
  157. Bot 3 Pitch 6: strike 3 (swinging)
  158. Bot 3 Gomes struck out swinging.
  159. Bot 3 Johnson batting
  160. Bot 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  161. Bot 3 Pitch 2: strike 1 (swinging)
  162. Bot 3 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  163. Bot 3 Pitch 4: in play
  164. Bot 3 Johnson singled to center, Santana to second.
  165. Bot 3 Sands batting
  166. Bot 3 Lineup Change
  167. Bot 3 Lineup Change
  168. Bot 3 Guthrie relieved Duffy.
  169. Bot 3 Lineup Change
  170. Bot 3 Lineup Change
  171. Bot 3 Chisenhall hit for Sands.
  172. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  173. Bot 3 Pitch 2: in play
  174. Bot 3 Chisenhall flied out to left.
  175. Bot 3 Almonte batting
  176. Bot 3 Pitch 1: in play
  177. Bot 3 Almonte grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Johnson out at second.
  178. Top 4 Lineup Change
  179. Top 4 Chisenhall in right field.
  180. Top 4 Hosmer batting
  181. Top 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  182. Top 4 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  183. Top 4 Pitch 3: in play
  184. Top 4 Hosmer lined out to left.
  185. Top 4 K. Morales batting
  186. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  187. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 1
  188. Top 4 Pitch 3: ball 2
  189. Top 4 Pitch 4: ball 3
  190. Top 4 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  191. Top 4 Pitch 6: in play
  192. Top 4 K. Morales singled to center.
  193. Top 4 Moustakas batting
  194. Top 4 Pitch 1: in play
  195. Top 4 Moustakas flied out to left.
  196. Top 4 Pérez batting
  197. Top 4 Pitch 1: in play
  198. Top 4 Pérez flied out to center.
  199. Bot 4 Aviles batting
  200. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  201. Bot 4 Pitch 2: ball 2
  202. Bot 4 Pitch 3: strike 1 (swinging)
  203. Bot 4 Pitch 4: ball 3
  204. Bot 4 Pitch 5: strike 2 (swinging)
  205. Bot 4 Pitch 6: ball 4
  206. Bot 4 Aviles walked.
  207. Bot 4 Kipnis batting
  208. Bot 4 Pitch 1: in play
  209. Bot 4 Kipnis sacrificed to pitcher, Aviles to second.
  210. Bot 4 Lindor batting
  211. Bot 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  212. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  213. Bot 4 Pitch 3: foul
  214. Bot 4 Pitch 4: ball 1
  215. Bot 4 Pitch 5: ball 2
  216. Bot 4 Pitch 6: in play
  217. Bot 4 Lindor singled to center, Aviles scored. 0–5
  218. Bot 4 Brantley batting
  219. Bot 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  220. Bot 4 Pitch 2: in play
  221. Bot 4 Brantley grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, Lindor out at second.
  222. Top 5 Rios batting
  223. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  224. Top 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  225. Top 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  226. Top 5 Pitch 4: in play
  227. Top 5 Rios grounded out to shortstop.
  228. Top 5 Escobar batting
  229. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  230. Top 5 Pitch 2: ball 1
  231. Top 5 Pitch 3: ball 2
  232. Top 5 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  233. Top 5 Pitch 5: ball 3
  234. Top 5 Pitch 6: foul
  235. Top 5 Pitch 7: foul
  236. Top 5 Pitch 8: foul
  237. Top 5 Pitch 9: in play
  238. Top 5 Escobar flied out to center.
  239. Top 5 Gordon batting
  240. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  241. Top 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  242. Top 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  243. Top 5 Pitch 4: ball 2
  244. Top 5 Pitch 5: ball 3
  245. Top 5 Pitch 6: ball 4
  246. Top 5 Gordon walked.
  247. Top 5 Zobrist batting
  248. Top 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  249. Top 5 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  250. Top 5 Pitch 3: ball 2
  251. Top 5 Pitch 4: ball 3
  252. Top 5 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  253. Top 5 Pitch 6: foul
  254. Top 5 Pitch 7: strike 3 (swinging)
  255. Top 5 Zobrist struck out swinging.
  256. Bot 5 Santana batting
  257. Bot 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  258. Bot 5 Pitch 2: ball 2
  259. Bot 5 Pitch 3: ball 3
  260. Bot 5 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  261. Bot 5 Pitch 5: in play
  262. Bot 5 Santana flied out to center.
  263. Bot 5 Gomes batting
  264. Bot 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  265. Bot 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  266. Bot 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  267. Bot 5 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  268. Bot 5 Gomes struck out swinging.
  269. Bot 5 Johnson batting
  270. Bot 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  271. Bot 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  272. Bot 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  273. Bot 5 Pitch 4: ball 2
  274. Bot 5 Pitch 5: ball 3
  275. Bot 5 Pitch 6: ball 4
  276. Bot 5 Johnson walked.
  277. Bot 5 Chisenhall batting
  278. Bot 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  279. Bot 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  280. Bot 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  281. Bot 5 Pitch 4: foul
  282. Bot 5 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  283. Bot 5 Chisenhall struck out swinging.
  284. Top 6 Cain batting
  285. Top 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  286. Top 6 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  287. Top 6 Pitch 3: strike 3 (swinging)
  288. Top 6 Cain struck out swinging.
  289. Top 6 Hosmer batting
  290. Top 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  291. Top 6 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  292. Top 6 Pitch 3: in play
  293. Top 6 Hosmer grounded out to second.
  294. Top 6 K. Morales batting
  295. Top 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  296. Top 6 Pitch 2: in play
  297. Top 6 K. Morales flied out to right.
  298. Bot 6 Almonte batting
  299. Bot 6 Pitch 1: in play
  300. Bot 6 Almonte grounded out to second.
  301. Bot 6 Aviles batting
  302. Bot 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  303. Bot 6 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  304. Bot 6 Pitch 3: in play
  305. Bot 6 Aviles doubled to left.
  306. Bot 6 Kipnis batting
  307. Bot 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  308. Bot 6 Pitch 2: in play
  309. Bot 6 Kipnis grounded out to second, Aviles to third.
  310. Bot 6 Lindor batting
  311. Bot 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  312. Bot 6 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  313. Bot 6 Pitch 3: foul
  314. Bot 6 Pitch 4: foul
  315. Bot 6 Pitch 5: foul
  316. Bot 6 Pitch 6: ball 1
  317. Bot 6 Pitch 7: foul
  318. Bot 6 Pitch 8: ball 2
  319. Bot 6 Pitch 9: strike 3 (swinging)
  320. Bot 6 Lindor struck out swinging.
  321. Top 7 Moustakas batting
  322. Top 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  323. Top 7 Pitch 2: ball 2
  324. Top 7 Pitch 3: ball 3
  325. Top 7 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  326. Top 7 Pitch 5: strike 2 (looking)
  327. Top 7 Pitch 6: in play
  328. Top 7 Moustakas homered to right center (408 feet). 1–5
  329. Top 7 Pérez batting
  330. Top 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  331. Top 7 Pitch 2: ball 1
  332. Top 7 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  333. Top 7 Pitch 4: in play
  334. Top 7 Pérez grounded out to third.
  335. Top 7 Rios batting
  336. Top 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  337. Top 7 Pitch 2: ball 1
  338. Top 7 Pitch 3: in play
  339. Top 7 Rios flied out to right.
  340. Top 7 Escobar batting
  341. Top 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  342. Top 7 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  343. Top 7 Pitch 3: ball 2
  344. Top 7 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  345. Top 7 Pitch 5: in play
  346. Top 7 Escobar flied out to left.
  347. Bot 7 Brantley batting
  348. Bot 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  349. Bot 7 Pitch 2: ball 1
  350. Bot 7 Pitch 3: strike 2 (looking)
  351. Bot 7 Pitch 4: ball 2
  352. Bot 7 Pitch 5: in play
  353. Bot 7 Brantley lined out to right.
  354. Bot 7 Santana batting
  355. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  356. Bot 7 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  357. Bot 7 Pitch 3: ball 2
  358. Bot 7 Pitch 4: ball 3
  359. Bot 7 Pitch 5: ball 4
  360. Bot 7 Santana walked.
  361. Bot 7 Gomes batting
  362. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  363. Bot 7 Pitch 2: ball 2
  364. Bot 7 Santana stole second.
  365. Bot 7 Pitch 3: ball 3
  366. Bot 7 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  367. Bot 7 Pitch 5: strike 2 (swinging)
  368. Bot 7 Pitch 6: strike 3 (looking)
  369. Bot 7 Gomes struck out looking.
  370. Bot 7 Johnson batting
  371. Bot 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  372. Bot 7 Pitch 2: ball 1
  373. Bot 7 Pitch 3: in play
  374. Bot 7 Johnson lined out to left.
  375. Top 8 Lineup Change
  376. Top 8 Lineup Change
  377. Top 8 Shaw relieved Salazar.
  378. Top 8 Gordon batting
  379. Top 8 Pitch 1: ball 1
  380. Top 8 Pitch 2: ball 2
  381. Top 8 Pitch 3: ball 3
  382. Top 8 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  383. Top 8 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  384. Top 8 Pitch 6: strike 3 (swinging)
  385. Top 8 Gordon struck out swinging.
  386. Top 8 Zobrist batting
  387. Top 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  388. Top 8 Pitch 2: ball 1
  389. Top 8 Pitch 3: ball 2
  390. Top 8 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  391. Top 8 Pitch 5: ball 3
  392. Top 8 Pitch 6: foul
  393. Top 8 Pitch 7: ball 4
  394. Top 8 Zobrist walked.
  395. Top 8 Cain batting
  396. Top 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  397. Top 8 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  398. Top 8 Pitch 3: strike 3 (swinging)
  399. Top 8 Cain struck out swinging.
  400. Top 8 Hosmer batting

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex GordonLF0-3300001320.282.386.452
Ben Zobrist2B1-3301001120.288.372.470
Lorenzo CainCF0-4400000210.308.365.489
Eric Hosmer1B0-3300001115.300.367.447
Kendrys MoralesDH1-4401000214.289.352.466
Mike Moustakas3B1-4411110114.281.344.460
Salvador PerezC1-440100009.255.275.421
Alex RiosRF1-4401000113.259.291.357
Alcides EscobarSS0-3300000017.252.289.313
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Danny DuffyP2.164423169-434.3569
Jeremy GuthrieP4.221134072-435.5572
Joba ChamberlainP1.010002017-125.1117

CLE

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Jason Kipnis2B1-4411100118.299.371.444
Francisco LindorSS3-4413410120.317.357.478
Michael BrantleyLF0-4400000114.315.385.492
Carlos Santana1B1-2201002020.232.359.379
Yan GomesC0-4400000321.220.260.371
Chris JohnsonDH1-3301001015.365.389.442
Jerry SandsRF0-110000015.229.287.371
Lonnie ChisenhallRF1-330100019.253.299.382
Abraham AlmonteCF1-4411000011.267.321.492
Mike Aviles3B1-2221002125.236.289.332
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Danny SalazarP7.0411261102-653.48102
Bryan ShawP1.000013019-122.6819
Cody AllenP1.010002011-83.3011

Starting lineups

CLE

  1. 1 Jason Kipnis 2B
  2. 2 Francisco Lindor SS
  3. 3 Michael Brantley LF
  4. 4 Carlos Santana 1B
  5. 5 Yan Gomes C
  6. 6 Chris Johnson DH
  7. 7 Jerry Sands RF
  8. 8 Abraham Almonte CF
  9. 9 Mike Aviles 3B

KC

  1. 1 Alex Gordon LF
  2. 2 Ben Zobrist 2B
  3. 3 Lorenzo Cain CF
  4. 4 Eric Hosmer 1B
  5. 5 Kendrys Morales DH
  6. 6 Mike Moustakas 3B
  7. 7 Salvador Perez C
  8. 8 Alex Rios RF
  9. 9 Alcides Escobar SS

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