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

5–4Final · May 9, 2003
BAL 5 KC 4 Final
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BAL18-17000002300581
KC20-130100001204112

Play-by-play

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

Box score

BAL

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Jerry Hairston Jr.2B0-331000100.289.387.398
Melvin MoraSS1-551120020.282.396.518
David SeguiDH1-330100210.377.457.541
Jeff Conine1B1-550110010.276.362.417
Jay GibbonsRF1-441121000.276.331.448
Tony Batista3B0-440000000.239.311.403
Larry BigbieLF2-440200010.286.362.357
Gary Matthews Jr.CF1-331100100.213.246.360
Robert MachadoRP1-441100000.250.250.250
Jose MorbanRP0-000000000.333.3331.333
Geronimo GilC0-000000000.221.284.279
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Sidney PonsonRP7.0621260100-633.60100
Buddy GroomRP0.242200017-122.3117
Kerry LigtenbergRP0.10001009-43.389
Jorge JulioP1.010000011-74.4011

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael TuckerCF1-440100110.268.326.433
Joe Randa3B0-550000010.266.339.477
Carlos Ivan BeltranDH3-551300000.234.310.391
Raul IbanezLF0-440000010.306.371.492
Desi RelafordRF1-332100100.309.411.506
Ken Harvey1B2-440220010.242.306.404
Dee BrownRP---------------------------
Carlos Febles2B0-000000000.286.333.333
Angel BerroaSS0-330000100.255.319.406
Mike DiFeliceRP1-330110010.231.231.410
Brent MayneC0-110000000.286.337.464
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Runelvys HernandezRP6.155334196-602.0496
Jason GrimsleyRP0.220000012-92.7412
Sean LoweP2.010011029-150.0029

Starting lineups

KC

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

BAL

  1. 1 Jerry Hairston Jr. 2B
  2. 2 Melvin Mora SS
  3. 3 David Segui DH
  4. 4 Jeff Conine 1B
  5. 5 Jay Gibbons RF
  6. 6 Tony Batista 3B
  7. 7 Larry Bigbie LF
  8. 8 Gary Matthews Jr. CF
  9. 9 Robert Machado RP

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