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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ New York Yankees logo New York Yankees

7–8Final · Aug 20, 2003
KC 7 NYY 8 Final
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KC65-600200001047161
NYY78-47041030008130

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF1-441100100.279.356.500
Angel BerroaSS2-551210020.294.341.471
Mike SweeneyDH1-551110030.317.428.508
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF2-551210010.301.390.522
Raul IbanezLF3-551300000.300.347.466
Joe Randa3B3-440320000.262.326.413
Desi Relaford2B1-551110010.270.330.398
Ken Harvey1B3-440310000.264.309.406
Brent MayneC0-330000010.250.311.344
Julius MatosPH1-111100000.279.295.419
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jimmy GobbleP4.1118823285-546.4185
Jeremy AffeldtP2.220014053-344.0853
Graeme LloydP1.00000009-44.299

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alfonso Soriano2B1-331100210.276.326.491
Derek JeterSS1-550120010.321.388.468
Bernie WilliamsCF2-550210010.288.389.427
Ruben SierraDH1-440100100.276.340.416
Hideki MatsuiLF0-550000020.295.357.456
Aaron Boone3B2-552200010.257.319.437
Nick Johnson1B2-333221000.289.434.492
John FlahertyC1-440110010.259.286.481
Juan RiveraRF3-442321000.254.299.398
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Roger ClemensP6.1833050103-693.57103
Jesse OroscoP0.10001109-38.079
Antonio OsunaP1.120001028-173.3528
Sterling HitchcockP0.133300015-125.4415
Mariano RiveraP0.241101017-122.1517

Starting lineups

NYY

  1. 1 Alfonso Soriano 2B
  2. 2 Derek Jeter SS
  3. 3 Bernie Williams CF
  4. 4 Ruben Sierra DH
  5. 5 Hideki Matsui LF
  6. 6 Aaron Boone 3B
  7. 7 Nick Johnson 1B
  8. 8 John Flaherty C
  9. 9 Juan Rivera 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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