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Detroit Tigers logo Detroit Tigers @ Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals

3–4Final · Apr 20, 2003
DET 3 KC 4 Final
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DET1-161100100003103
KC14-3200001001441

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

Box score

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Bobby HigginsonRF2-551210000.238.342.365
Gene KingsaleCF---------------------------
Carlos Pena1B1-440100020.204.286.327
Dmitri YoungDH3-440300000.161.190.179
Eric Munson3B0-220020100.167.250.357
Craig MonroeLF0-440000010.083.154.083
Omar Rafael InfanteSS2-441200000.167.216.250
Matt WalbeckC0-330000020.067.067.133
Ramon Santiago2B1-220100210.255.352.319
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mike MarothP8.0443031116-724.55116

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Desi Relaford2B2-332200000.306.390.444
Joe Randa3B1-221131000.340.429.604
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF0-330000010.000.167.000
Mike SweeneyDH0-330000000.255.369.490
Raul IbanezLF0-330000010.333.392.591
Ken HarveyRP0-330000000.241.305.407
Mendy Lopez1B0-000000000.182.182.364
Brandon BergerRF0-330000010.214.313.214
Brent MayneC0-330000000.405.458.690
Angel BerroaSS1-331100000.271.306.424
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Miguel AsencioRP6.0933360105-614.50105
Kris WilsonRP2.010001017-111.7417
Mike MacDougalP1.000010019-80.0019

Starting lineups

KC

  1. 1 Desi Relaford 2B
  2. 2 Joe Randa 3B
  3. 3 Carlos Ivan Beltran CF
  4. 4 Mike Sweeney DH
  5. 5 Raul Ibanez LF
  6. 6 Ken Harvey RP
  7. 7 Brandon Berger RF
  8. 8 Brent Mayne C
  9. 9 Angel Berroa SS

DET

  1. 1 Bobby Higginson RF
  2. 2 Gene Kingsale CF
  3. 3 Carlos Pena 1B
  4. 4 Dmitri Young DH
  5. 5 Eric Munson 3B
  6. 6 Craig Monroe LF
  7. 7 Omar Rafael Infante SS
  8. 8 Matt Walbeck C
  9. 9 Ramon Santiago 2B

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