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

0–9Final · Aug 27, 2003
TEX 0 KC 9 Final
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TEX61-72000000000050
KC69-62440000109130

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B1-440100000.305.339.447
Donnie SadlerSS1-330100010.203.286.301
Alex RodriguezSS0-440000000.303.396.595
Jason Jones1B0-000000000.204.317.352
Rafael PalmeiroDH0-440000000.262.362.516
Shane SpencerLF0-440000010.263.329.416
Mark Teixeira3B0-330000110.244.321.447
Todd GreeneC1-330100000.221.234.442
Marcus ThamesRF1-330100000.237.333.305
Ramon NivarCF1-330100000.220.264.280
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Colby LewisP1.157731055-328.1455
Joaquin BenoitP4.251111070-415.5770
Erasmo RamirezP1.02110007-63.417
Jay PowellP1.010010017-108.2717

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF0-222000300.283.359.518
Joe Randa3B2-222210200.278.342.433
Mendy Lopez3B1-110100000.295.306.459
Mike SweeneyDH2-442210000.315.420.503
Julius MatosDH0-110000000.273.289.409
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF2-552220000.300.390.511
Raul Ibanez1B2-441210000.299.346.460
Rondell WhiteLF2-330240000.281.330.470
Dee BrownLF---------------------------
Desi Relaford2B1-440100000.265.325.398
Angel BerroaSS1-440100000.292.340.470
Brent MayneC0-440000020.246.307.348
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Darrell MayP9.0500130106-753.56106

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 1B
  6. 6 Rondell White LF
  7. 7 Desi Relaford 2B
  8. 8 Angel Berroa SS
  9. 9 Brent Mayne C

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young 2B
  2. 2 Donnie Sadler SS
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro DH
  5. 5 Shane Spencer LF
  6. 6 Mark Teixeira 3B
  7. 7 Todd Greene C
  8. 8 Marcus Thames RF
  9. 9 Ramon Nivar CF

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