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

3–4Final · May 25, 2003
KC 3 OAK 4 Final
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KC26-220120000000381
OAK29-200000001021471

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Desi Relaford2B0-550000010.289.358.415
Joe Randa3B1-551100010.226.290.415
Mike Sweeney1B3-550300000.292.413.500
Raul IbanezLF2-551210000.288.354.478
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-441110000.257.354.487
Michael TuckerRF1-330110120.257.318.436
Ken HarveyDH0-440000010.236.288.399
Brent MayneC0-440000010.269.328.403
Angel BerroaSS0-330000110.258.324.381
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Darrell MayRP9.0633042106-774.09106
D.J. CarrascoP0.111020019-93.3819

OAK

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Eric ByrnesCF1-440100110.350.416.558
Mark Ellis2B1-550110020.259.327.400
Eric Chavez3B0-440000000.254.338.474
Miguel TejadaSS1-441100000.218.279.386
Erubiel Durazo1B2-441221000.269.367.485
Ramon HernandezC1-441111000.289.354.465
Ron GantRP0-330000010.146.182.220
Scott HattebergPH0-110000000.266.345.376
Terrence LongRF0-441000000.249.312.410
Adam PiattRP1-330100000.125.147.281
Chris SingletonPH0-000000100.308.341.417
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Tim HudsonRP7.0532140107-752.68107
Jim MecirRP0.220001018-125.1418
Ricardo RinconRP0.10000105-34.245
Keith FoulkeP2.010011023-152.1023

Starting lineups

OAK

  1. 1 Eric Byrnes CF
  2. 2 Mark Ellis 2B
  3. 3 Eric Chavez 3B
  4. 4 Miguel Tejada SS
  5. 5 Erubiel Durazo 1B
  6. 6 Ramon Hernandez C
  7. 7 Ron Gant RP
  8. 8 Terrence Long RF
  9. 9 Adam Piatt RP

KC

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

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