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

1–8Final · Aug 24, 2003
KC 1 MIN 8 Final
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KC67-62010000000180
MIN67-63013101028100

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF1-550100030.279.351.504
Joe Randa3B2-440200010.272.333.424
Mike SweeneyDH1-440100030.307.416.491
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF0-220000210.299.390.513
Raul IbanezLF1-440100010.300.346.461
Ken Harvey1B1-440100020.261.304.397
Desi Relaford2B1-441111010.268.329.401
Angel BerroaSS1-330100000.290.337.467
Mendy LopezPH0-110000010.283.295.433
Brent MayneC0-330000010.252.311.356
Dee BrownPH---------------------------
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Kevin AppierP2.011121150-245.4050
Graeme LloydP1.023331030-144.8130
Al LevineP2.021122040-223.0340
Jason GrimsleyP2.021101030-174.5030
Mike MacDougalP1.032211021-154.6721

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Shannon StewartLF2-443200100.313.367.479
Luis Rivas2B0-221020110.268.317.394
Doug Mientkiewicz1B1-220100310.300.389.466
Matt LeCroyDH3-551330000.297.337.514
Corey Koskie3B0-440010020.293.385.468
Torii HunterCF1-331111100.239.303.438
Jacque JonesLF1-220110100.308.336.458
Dustan MohrRF0-110000000.265.326.422
A.J. PierzynskiC1-331100110.299.341.452
Cristian GuzmanSS1-441100010.267.301.346
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Johan SantanaP6.06112101105-662.85105
J.C. RomeroP1.010002020-114.7020
Juan RinconP2.010002034-243.6634

Starting lineups

MIN

  1. 1 Shannon Stewart LF
  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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