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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Oakland Athletics logo Oakland Athletics

3–1Final · May 24, 2003
KC 3 OAK 1 Final
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KC26-21101000100331
OAK28-20010000000171

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Desi Relaford2B0-440000000.299.370.431
Joe Randa3B1-441111010.226.292.421
Mike SweeneyDH1-221111210.281.408.489
Raul IbanezLF0-440000020.285.353.475
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF0-331000120.257.357.495
Ken Harvey1B0-440000020.243.295.410
Michael TuckerRF1-220110100.256.314.432
Angel BerroaSS0-330000010.263.325.388
Mike DiFeliceC0-330000010.259.295.466
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Kris WilsonRP5.041101167-504.1067
Sean LoweRP2.010021035-216.3535
Jason GrimsleyRP1.010000021-103.4821
Mike MacDougalP1.010012020-123.4820

OAK

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Eric ByrnesLF2-550200000.353.417.569
Scott Hatteberg1B0-550000010.267.347.378
Eric Chavez3B1-330100100.260.346.485
Miguel TejadaSS1-440100000.218.280.383
Erubiel DurazoDH1-331111100.263.364.467
Terrence LongRF2-440200000.254.319.420
Mark Ellis2B0-440000010.261.330.406
Chris SingletonCF0-440000020.308.336.417
Mark JohnsonRP0-220000000.115.226.154
Adam MelhuseC0-110000100.000.500.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Ted LillyRP6.1333372101-604.10101
Chad BradfordRP1.200002014-112.8814
Keith FoulkeP1.000011020-112.2820

Starting lineups

OAK

  1. 1 Eric Byrnes LF
  2. 2 Scott Hatteberg 1B
  3. 3 Eric Chavez 3B
  4. 4 Miguel Tejada SS
  5. 5 Erubiel Durazo DH
  6. 6 Terrence Long RF
  7. 7 Mark Ellis 2B
  8. 8 Chris Singleton CF
  9. 9 Mark Johnson RP

KC

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

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