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Texas Rangers logo Texas Rangers @ Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals

2–9Final · Aug 26, 2003
TEX 2 KC 9 Final
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TEX61-71000200000260
KC68-62003006009120

Play-by-play

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B0-440000000.305.340.449
Hank Blalock3B0-440000010.313.367.538
Alex RodriguezSS2-441200010.305.399.600
Rafael PalmeiroDH1-441121000.265.365.520
Shane SpencerLF0-330000120.267.332.421
Mark Teixeira1B0-440000030.246.322.450
Marcus ThamesRF1-330100010.232.333.304
Laynce NixCF0-330000010.257.287.440
Einar DiazC2-330200000.258.296.348
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
R.A. DickeyP5.166635196-544.6896
Aaron FultzP0.111101013-75.3413
Rosman GarciaP0.232201118-106.2718
Brian ShouseP0.21000008-63.178
Ron MahayP1.010012024-141.6524

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF3-552341010.286.355.522
Joe Randa3B2-442210120.275.336.427
Mendy Lopez3B0-000000000.283.295.433
Mike SweeneyDH3-551341000.312.419.504
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-440100120.299.390.510
Raul IbanezLF0-441000110.298.344.457
Ken Harvey1B1-441100020.261.304.396
Desi Relaford2B0-440000000.266.326.397
Angel BerroaSS2-332200000.293.341.472
Brent MayneC0-330000110.249.310.352
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Brian AndersonP6.042203184-553.6884
Jeremy AffeldtP2.010005025-183.9325
Curtis LeskanicP1.010011016-91.8316

Starting lineups

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

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young 2B
  2. 2 Hank Blalock 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro DH
  5. 5 Shane Spencer LF
  6. 6 Mark Teixeira 1B
  7. 7 Marcus Thames RF
  8. 8 Laynce Nix CF
  9. 9 Einar Diaz C

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