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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox logo Chicago White Sox

4–5Final · Aug 5, 2003
KC 4 CWS 5 Final
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KC60-511010000024100
CWS59-54050000005102

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF2-552200010.281.354.550
Joe Randa3B1-551100000.252.308.406
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-550110030.296.393.486
Raul IbanezLF1-550110010.297.344.473
Ken Harvey1B2-440210010.254.299.400
Desi Relaford2B0-220000200.283.345.423
Angel BerroaSS2-440200000.298.348.493
Brent MayneC0-330000020.259.318.353
Mike DiFelicePH0-110000010.255.292.386
Dee BrownDH---------------------------
Carlos FeblesPH1-111100000.239.306.266
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Kyle SnyderP2.055521160-305.1760
D.J. CarrascoP3.030000043-273.7943
Graeme LloydP1.020002016-114.1016
Curtis LeskanicP1.000001013-92.1513
Jason GrimsleyP1.000001011-84.5011

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Roberto Alomar2B1-441110000.271.351.346
Carlos LeeLF1-331110110.277.323.496
Frank ThomasDH1-441121000.265.393.548
Magglio OrdonezRF1-330100010.314.383.556
Carl EverettCF1-440100010.271.351.496
Willie HarrisCF0-000000000.193.240.228
Paul Konerko1B1-441100000.228.287.374
Jose ValentinSS1-330100110.237.326.455
Joe Crede3B1-440100010.234.288.373
Miguel OlivoC1-111110000.237.287.364
Sandy Alomar Jr.C1-220100000.256.273.384
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Esteban LoaizaP6.0722170121-792.27121
Kelly WunschP1.200002023-151.2323
Billy KochP0.01000004-25.554
Damaso MarteP1.122011037-211.6337

Starting lineups

CWS

  1. 1 Roberto Alomar 2B
  2. 2 Carlos Lee LF
  3. 3 Frank Thomas DH
  4. 4 Magglio Ordonez RF
  5. 5 Carl Everett CF
  6. 6 Paul Konerko 1B
  7. 7 Jose Valentin SS
  8. 8 Joe Crede 3B
  9. 9 Miguel Olivo C

KC

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

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