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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Baltimore Orioles logo Baltimore Orioles

5–2Final · May 2, 2003
KC 5 BAL 2 Final
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KC18-80000040015100
BAL15-13010010000272

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Desi RelafordSS2-550210010.322.394.475
Joe Randa3B1-550110000.318.378.580
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF0-441000100.196.288.413
Mike SweeneyDH1-441121020.278.412.582
Raul IbanezLF0-440000030.323.382.556
Ken Harvey1B2-441211000.247.312.435
Brent MayneC1-331100100.313.373.537
Dee BrownRF---------------------------
Carlos Febles2B2-330200000.269.310.313
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Miguel AsencioP9.0722361115-724.14115

BAL

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Jerry Hairston Jr.2B1-440100000.304.395.441
Gary Matthews Jr.CF0-440000020.227.254.364
B.J. SurhoffDH0-330000100.266.326.367
Jeff Conine1B2-331200100.284.370.431
Jay GibbonsRF1-330110010.259.319.398
Tony Batista3B1-330100100.248.336.429
Larry BigbieLF1-440100010.231.310.308
Brook FordyceRP1-331111010.256.302.385
Melvin MoraPH0-110000010.279.413.557
Deivi CruzSS0-330000000.177.186.260
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Rick HellingRP5.2744232105-665.86105
Rick BauerRP3.031103048-345.5948
B.J. RyanP0.10000006-30.826

Starting lineups

BAL

  1. 1 Jerry Hairston Jr. 2B
  2. 2 Gary Matthews Jr. CF
  3. 3 B.J. Surhoff DH
  4. 4 Jeff Conine 1B
  5. 5 Jay Gibbons RF
  6. 6 Tony Batista 3B
  7. 7 Larry Bigbie LF
  8. 8 Brook Fordyce RP
  9. 9 Deivi Cruz SS

KC

  1. 1 Desi Relaford SS
  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 1B
  7. 7 Brent Mayne C
  8. 8 Dee Brown RF
  9. 9 Carlos Febles 2B

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