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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Minnesota Twins logo Minnesota Twins

3–2Final · Aug 22, 2003
KC 3 MIN 2 Final
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KC66-61003000000370
MIN66-62000010100280

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF1-440100010.277.351.489
Joe Randa3B2-441210010.270.332.422
Mike SweeneyDH0-330000100.312.423.498
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-440100010.301.390.518
Raul IbanezLF1-330110000.299.345.463
Ken Harvey1B0-440000020.262.305.400
Desi Relaford2B0-330000000.268.330.397
Angel BerroaSS0-331000000.290.338.465
Brent MayneC2-441210010.254.314.359
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Darrell MayP6.172225098-573.7598
Jason GrimsleyP0.11000005-24.505
Jeremy AffeldtP2.100004036-234.0036

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Shannon StewartRF3-550300010.313.366.478
Luis Rivas2B1-220110100.270.319.390
Denny Hocking2B0-110000000.234.288.352
Doug Mientkiewicz1B0-330000110.297.384.458
Matt LeCroyDH1-440100020.288.329.513
Corey Koskie3B0-440000020.291.386.470
Torii HunterCF0-440000010.240.304.436
Jacque JonesLF2-442200000.307.334.460
A.J. PierzynskiC0-440000010.297.338.453
Cristian GuzmanSS1-330110000.267.302.347
Dustan MohrPH0-110000010.266.327.423
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Kyle LohseP6.1733130108-705.00108
Juan RinconP0.200001010-53.7610
J.C. RomeroP2.000002018-114.8018

Starting lineups

MIN

  1. 1 Shannon Stewart RF
  2. 2 Luis Rivas 2B
  3. 3 Doug Mientkiewicz 1B
  4. 4 Matt LeCroy DH
  5. 5 Corey Koskie 3B
  6. 6 Torii Hunter CF
  7. 7 Jacque Jones LF
  8. 8 A.J. Pierzynski C
  9. 9 Cristian Guzman SS

KC

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

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