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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Boston Red Sox logo Boston Red Sox

5–6Final · May 1, 2003
KC 5 BOS 6 Final
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KC17-8200003000581
BOS19-9201001116110

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael TuckerRF0-440000010.263.324.424
Joe Randa3B2-441200010.325.387.602
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF2-442221020.214.298.452
Mike Sweeney1B2-441221000.280.418.560
Raul IbanezLF2-441211000.337.396.579
Ken HarveyDH0-440000010.235.303.395
Angel BerroaSS0-440000000.267.323.407
Mike DiFeliceRP0-330000000.207.207.345
Brent MayneC0-110000010.313.366.547
Carlos Febles2B0-330000000.250.294.297
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Kyle SnyderRP5.053121089-561.8089
Kris WilsonRP1.042201138-203.0038
Jason GrimsleyP2.021110026-162.7526

BOS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Johnny DamonCF1-443100000.241.320.426
Todd Walker2B3-551320000.296.347.417
Nomar GarciaparraSS1-441110000.277.318.471
Manny RamirezLF2-330210000.352.426.543
David Ortiz1B0-330000100.200.308.327
Trot NixonRF2-441211010.329.421.512
Bill Mueller3B1-440100000.310.397.534
Jeremy GiambiRP1-220100210.140.317.320
Damian JacksonDH0-000000000.227.320.227
Doug MirabelliRP0-330000000.176.194.353
Jason VaritekC0-000000000.264.354.514
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Casey FossumRP0.222201113-94.4513
Steve WoodardRP4.253302269-465.5169
Mike TimlinRP1.200001019-134.0519
Jason ShiellRP1.010001016-122.5716
Brandon LyonP1.000001015-101.8415

Starting lineups

BOS

  1. 1 Johnny Damon CF
  2. 2 Todd Walker 2B
  3. 3 Nomar Garciaparra SS
  4. 4 Manny Ramirez LF
  5. 5 David Ortiz 1B
  6. 6 Trot Nixon RF
  7. 7 Bill Mueller 3B
  8. 8 Jeremy Giambi RP
  9. 9 Doug Mirabelli RP

KC

  1. 1 Michael Tucker RF
  2. 2 Joe Randa 3B
  3. 3 Carlos Ivan Beltran CF
  4. 4 Mike Sweeney 1B
  5. 5 Raul Ibanez LF
  6. 6 Ken Harvey DH
  7. 7 Angel Berroa SS
  8. 8 Mike DiFelice RP
  9. 9 Carlos Febles 2B

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