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2–6Final · Jul 24, 2003
KC 2 MIN 6 Final
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KC55-45100000100261
MIN50-5101010004660

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF1-441100000.290.358.565
Desi Relaford3B0-330000010.279.335.420
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF0-330000100.297.393.484
Raul IbanezDH2-441221010.289.339.470
Ken Harvey1B2-440200000.260.308.415
Michael TuckerLF0-440000020.269.333.463
Angel BerroaSS1-440100010.281.336.467
Brent MayneC0-330000000.255.315.359
Carlos Febles2B0-220000100.236.304.264
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Darrell MayRP7.0322322114-693.33114
Jason GrimsleyP1.034113030-204.4730

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Shannon StewartRF0-221000110.306.363.464
Luis RivasRP0-330000010.264.318.359
A.J. PierzynskiC1-111110000.296.333.465
Doug Mientkiewicz1B0-221000200.289.366.464
Torii HunterCF1-441111010.255.327.462
Matt LeCroyRP0-220000100.291.337.492
Cristian GuzmanSS0-110000010.249.277.333
Jacque JonesLF3-441331000.311.332.485
Justin MorneauDH0-440000010.241.300.373
Chris Gomez3B0-330000000.280.300.384
Denny Hocking2B1-331100000.250.306.380
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Brad RadkeRP7.0522041106-745.33106
LaTroy HawkinsRP1.000010012-52.5912
Eddie GuardadoP1.010011025-173.7925

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 Matt LeCroy RP
  6. 6 Jacque Jones LF
  7. 7 Justin Morneau DH
  8. 8 Chris Gomez 3B
  9. 9 Denny Hocking 2B

KC

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

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