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6–11Final · Aug 18, 2003
KC 6 NYY 11 Final
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KC65-58010102200691
NYY76-470240301111140

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF0-550000010.280.355.505
Angel BerroaSS1-332100110.293.341.474
Mike SweeneyDH1-440100000.320.434.518
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF3-442331000.303.394.524
Raul IbanezLF1-440110010.298.345.467
Joe Randa3B1-330100100.254.321.408
Desi Relaford2B0-440000000.271.332.399
Ken Harvey1B1-331100100.254.300.396
Brent MayneC1-331110110.253.314.347
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jose LimaP4.076632186-503.7286
Paul AbbottP1.023311134-2211.1734
Graeme LloydP1.010010013-74.3913
Jason GrimsleyP1.242230045-214.5245
D.J. CarrascoP0.10000103-33.943

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alfonso Soriano2B1-550120020.274.323.482
Nick Johnson1B3-550310000.283.427.476
Derek JeterSS2-552200000.323.392.472
Jason GiambiDH1-441110100.270.428.569
Bernie WilliamsCF2-442200100.282.385.416
Hideki MatsuiLF2-333210200.298.361.462
Jorge PosadaC2-332231200.273.407.501
Aaron Boone3B0-440000010.257.318.437
Karim GarciaRF1-221131210.255.303.460
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jeff WeaverP5.264432183-545.8083
Antonio OsunaP0.232200013-83.4713
Jeff NelsonP1.200002020-143.3020
Chris HammondP1.000010018-103.4018

Starting lineups

NYY

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

KC

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

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