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9–12Final · Aug 11, 2003
NYY 9 KC 12 Final
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NYY70-463020101029151
KC63-541040030412141

Play-by-play

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

Box score

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alfonso Soriano2B3-550300010.279.328.483
Nick JohnsonDH1-330100120.293.436.509
Derek JeterSS1-553100000.324.392.478
Jason Giambi1B2-443231000.270.427.578
Bernie WilliamsCF3-442320100.275.374.404
Hideki MatsuiLF3-441321110.300.359.469
Jorge PosadaC2-550210000.259.397.471
Aaron Boone3B0-440000000.259.320.440
Dave DellucciRF0-440000010.236.320.369
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
David WellsP3.065521069-433.9169
Sterling HitchcockP4.043312068-434.9868
Chris HammondP0.21110006-53.666
Jesse OroscoP0.00111006-27.626
Bret PrinzP0.132210017-813.5017

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF1-332120100.289.362.536
Angel BerroaSS2-551210000.294.341.483
Raul Ibanez1B0-441000110.295.344.464
Mike SweeneyDH2-442230100.322.440.539
Joe Randa3B3-552320000.258.322.411
Desi RelafordCF1-441110100.282.344.416
Mike DiFeliceC3-441330100.263.301.410
Julius Matos2B1-551100010.294.314.471
Dee BrownLF---------------------------
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Paul AbbottP4.296631283-5211.5783
D.J. CarrascoP1.200002019-123.7119
Graeme LloydP0.12110009-54.509
Jason GrimsleyP1.110001012-104.2812
Mike MacDougalP1.032201012-94.6812

Starting lineups

KC

  1. 1 Aaron Guiel RF
  2. 2 Angel Berroa SS
  3. 3 Raul Ibanez 1B
  4. 4 Mike Sweeney DH
  5. 5 Joe Randa 3B
  6. 6 Desi Relaford CF
  7. 7 Mike DiFelice C
  8. 8 Julius Matos 2B
  9. 9 Dee Brown LF

NYY

  1. 1 Alfonso Soriano 2B
  2. 2 Nick Johnson DH
  3. 3 Derek Jeter SS
  4. 4 Jason Giambi 1B
  5. 5 Bernie Williams CF
  6. 6 Hideki Matsui LF
  7. 7 Jorge Posada C
  8. 8 Aaron Boone 3B
  9. 9 Dave Dellucci RF

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