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4–7Final · May 20, 2003
KC 4 SEA 7 Final
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KC24-19000111001461
SEA29-15120000047110

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael TuckerRF1-440100000.255.305.424
Joe Randa3B0-330010010.231.298.406
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF0-330000110.255.358.468
Mike Sweeney1B1-440100010.291.408.496
Raul IbanezLF2-333222100.294.364.485
Ken HarveyDH0-440000010.246.301.410
Desi Relaford2B1-440110000.306.383.452
Brent MayneC0-331000100.275.328.422
Angel BerroaSS1-330100010.248.318.365
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Darrell MayRP5.163326097-614.3297
Jason GrimsleyRP0.20000006-33.726
D.J. CarrascoRP1.254401130-193.2030
Jason GilfillanP0.10000003-227.003

SEA

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Ichiro SuzukiRF1-550110000.315.367.420
Carlos GuillenSS2-441200020.303.369.447
Bret Boone2B1-331110000.302.381.556
Edgar MartinezRP1-330110110.333.447.620
Willie BloomquistDH0-001000000.200.267.275
John Olerud1B1-331100000.279.380.415
Mike CameronCF1-441110020.278.398.519
Randy WinnLF1-441121010.286.357.404
Jeff Cirillo3B1-441100010.240.313.322
Dan WilsonC2-330210100.264.312.356
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Ryan FranklinRP6.0433232108-713.67108
Shigetoshi HasegawaRP1.000000010-60.3510
Jeff NelsonRP1.010001015-72.3515
Arthur RhodesP1.011111026-163.0026

Starting lineups

SEA

  1. 1 Ichiro Suzuki RF
  2. 2 Carlos Guillen SS
  3. 3 Bret Boone 2B
  4. 4 Edgar Martinez RP
  5. 5 John Olerud 1B
  6. 6 Mike Cameron CF
  7. 7 Randy Winn LF
  8. 8 Jeff Cirillo 3B
  9. 9 Dan Wilson C

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 Desi Relaford 2B
  8. 8 Brent Mayne C
  9. 9 Angel Berroa SS

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