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

2–8Final · Apr 17, 2003
KC 2 CWS 8 Final
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KC11-3000001010291
CWS9-612104000880

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael TuckerCF1-440100130.246.324.410
Desi Relaford3B1-551100010.250.364.321
Mike Sweeney1B1-331100120.300.415.600
Raul IbanezLF2-440200010.333.403.574
Dee BrownDH---------------------------
Brandon BergerRF2-440210020.240.345.240
Angel BerroaSS1-330100120.204.250.327
Carlos Febles2B0-440000010.244.311.317
Mike DiFeliceC0-440000010.250.250.250
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Chris GeorgeRP4.278841497-545.9497
Kris WilsonP3.110003046-282.1646

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Tony Graffanino2B1-442111100.400.500.800
Jose ValentinSS1-221100100.306.414.673
Frank ThomasDH1-331100100.227.438.409
Magglio OrdonezRF1-440110010.293.338.448
Paul Konerko1B1-332111110.184.281.327
Carlos LeeLF2-441241000.200.273.260
Joe Crede3B0-440000000.296.316.407
Aaron RowandCF0-440000010.167.189.222
Miguel OlivoC1-441111010.125.160.292
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Esteban LoaizaRP6.04112110106-721.31106
Gary GloverRP1.151101029-211.3529
Rick WhiteP1.200012023-151.5923

Starting lineups

CWS

  1. 1 Tony Graffanino 2B
  2. 2 Jose Valentin SS
  3. 3 Frank Thomas DH
  4. 4 Magglio Ordonez RF
  5. 5 Paul Konerko 1B
  6. 6 Carlos Lee LF
  7. 7 Joe Crede 3B
  8. 8 Aaron Rowand CF
  9. 9 Miguel Olivo C

KC

  1. 1 Michael Tucker CF
  2. 2 Desi Relaford 3B
  3. 3 Mike Sweeney 1B
  4. 4 Raul Ibanez LF
  5. 5 Dee Brown DH
  6. 6 Brandon Berger RF
  7. 7 Angel Berroa SS
  8. 8 Carlos Febles 2B
  9. 9 Mike DiFelice C

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