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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox logo Chicago White Sox

3–4Final · Apr 16, 2003
KC 3 CWS 4 Final
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KC11-2100000020353
CWS8-6000300001450

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael TuckerCF2-441200010.246.317.421
Joe Randa3B0-440000010.333.444.533
Mike Sweeney1B1-330110000.297.408.622
Raul IbanezLF0-330000100.320.397.560
Ken HarveyDH0-440000030.262.340.405
Dee BrownRP---------------------------
Mendy LopezRF0-000000000.182.182.364
Albie LopezRF---------------------------
Desi Relaford2B0-440000000.261.393.348
Brent MayneC0-111000210.472.512.806
Angel BerroaSS1-331121000.196.229.326
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Runelvys HernandezRP6.033252093-491.0493
Ryan BukvichRP2.000021039-213.0039
Jason GrimsleyP0.221110013-51.9313

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
D'Angelo Jimenez2B1-330100200.302.403.604
Jose ValentinSS0-441000110.298.400.660
Frank ThomasDH0-221010200.220.433.390
Magglio OrdonezRF1-331110100.296.344.463
Brian Daubach1B0-330000110.071.235.071
Carlos LeeLF0-440010010.174.255.174
Armando RiosCF0-330000100.318.360.409
Joe CredeRP2-440210000.320.340.440
Tony GraffaninoPR0-001000000.438.526.750
Miguel OlivoC1-440100000.100.143.150
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jon GarlandRP7.031126094-625.8294
Damaso MarteRP0.02221017-34.267
Tom GordonP2.000001023-166.7523

Starting lineups

CWS

  1. 1 D'Angelo Jimenez 2B
  2. 2 Jose Valentin SS
  3. 3 Frank Thomas DH
  4. 4 Magglio Ordonez RF
  5. 5 Brian Daubach 1B
  6. 6 Carlos Lee LF
  7. 7 Armando Rios CF
  8. 8 Joe Crede RP
  9. 9 Miguel Olivo C

KC

  1. 1 Michael Tucker CF
  2. 2 Joe Randa 3B
  3. 3 Mike Sweeney 1B
  4. 4 Raul Ibanez LF
  5. 5 Ken Harvey DH
  6. 6 Dee Brown RP
  7. 7 Desi Relaford 2B
  8. 8 Brent Mayne C
  9. 9 Angel Berroa SS

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