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8–3Final · Jul 23, 2003
KC 8 MIN 3 Final
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KC55-440001150018111
MIN49-51000001002380

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF2-552222010.291.361.575
Joe RandaRP1-550100020.247.302.410
Gookie Dawkins2B0-000000000.000.333.000
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF3-441311100.300.395.488
Raul IbanezLF1-441111100.287.337.457
Ken Harvey1B1-441100120.257.306.414
Michael TuckerDH2-441200100.272.337.468
Desi Relaford3B0-331000100.282.338.424
Angel BerroaSS1-441131010.281.337.467
Mike DiFeliceC0-440000010.256.299.395
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jeremy AffeldtRP5.030025094-594.3494
D.J. CarrascoRP2.021141149-243.9349
Curtis LeskanicRP1.010001013-92.1813
Mike MacDougalRP0.222221028-104.3328
Nate FieldP0.10000002-12.252

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Shannon StewartRF2-441200100.308.363.466
Luis RivasRP1-441111010.267.321.363
Justin MorneauPH1-111100000.253.314.392
Doug Mientkiewicz1B1-220110300.291.364.467
Torii HunterCF1-440110110.255.328.456
A.J. PierzynskiC1-440100110.294.331.463
Matt LeCroyDH1-440100020.294.337.497
Jacque JonesLF0-220000200.306.327.469
Chris Gomez3B0-440000020.287.307.393
Cristian GuzmanSS0-440000010.249.278.334
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Johan SantanaRP5.1555343106-673.19106
Juan RinconRP3.053323265-423.2965
Joe MaysP0.21000006-56.736

Starting lineups

MIN

  1. 1 Shannon Stewart RF
  2. 2 Luis Rivas RP
  3. 3 Doug Mientkiewicz 1B
  4. 4 Torii Hunter CF
  5. 5 A.J. Pierzynski C
  6. 6 Matt LeCroy DH
  7. 7 Jacque Jones LF
  8. 8 Chris Gomez 3B
  9. 9 Cristian Guzman SS

KC

  1. 1 Aaron Guiel RF
  2. 2 Joe Randa RP
  3. 3 Carlos Ivan Beltran CF
  4. 4 Raul Ibanez LF
  5. 5 Ken Harvey 1B
  6. 6 Michael Tucker DH
  7. 7 Desi Relaford 3B
  8. 8 Angel Berroa SS
  9. 9 Mike DiFelice C

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