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15–4Final · Jul 30, 2003
CWS 15 KC 4 Final
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CWS56-5101511151015191
KC57-482200000004100

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Roberto AlomarRP0-440000100.271.348.350
Tony Graffanino2B0-111000000.274.354.482
Carlos LeeLF3-662331000.269.315.477
Frank ThomasRP0-441000000.272.400.553
Brian DaubachDH0-110000010.231.360.403
Magglio OrdonezRP3-334311200.326.392.579
Aaron RowandRF0-110000000.270.318.426
Carl EverettRP2-442200100.266.350.497
Willie HarrisCF0-110000000.191.226.218
Paul Konerko1B2-551261000.222.286.358
Jose ValentinSS3-443353210.239.329.463
Joe Crede3B2-660200010.233.285.371
Miguel OlivoC4-551400010.234.288.372
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jon GarlandRP6.084412098-634.4898
Scott SchoeneweisRP1.020000016-123.8616
Matt GinterRP1.000000013-60.0013
Billy KochP1.00000005-45.405

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRP2-440210000.287.359.553
Dee BrownPH---------------------------
Joe Randa3B2-441200000.253.309.407
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-441100020.293.387.478
Raul IbanezDH2-440210000.294.342.471
Ken Harvey1B0-440010000.256.301.407
Desi Relaford2B0-440000000.283.342.426
Angel BerroaSS0-440000000.291.342.487
Michael TuckerLF2-331200100.268.331.454
Mike DiFeliceC1-441110000.257.295.393
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Runelvys HernandezRP2.276621373-413.4273
Jeremy AffeldtRP2.152200235-234.4235
Sean LoweRP1.256641162-326.2562
Graeme LloydRP0.10000003-23.283
Jason GrimsleyRP1.021101018-134.4718
Mike MacDougalP1.00000109-74.149

Starting lineups

KC

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

CWS

  1. 1 Roberto Alomar RP
  2. 2 Carlos Lee LF
  3. 3 Frank Thomas RP
  4. 4 Magglio Ordonez RP
  5. 5 Carl Everett RP
  6. 6 Paul Konerko 1B
  7. 7 Jose Valentin SS
  8. 8 Joe Crede 3B
  9. 9 Miguel Olivo C

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