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

7–8Final · Sep 2, 2003
KC 7 TEX 8 Final
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KC70-672010000047102
TEX64-7500004400881

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Angel BerroaSS2-441210000.290.340.462
Joe Randa3B1-551110000.281.342.443
Mike SweeneyDH3-442341100.319.421.508
Desi RelafordPR0-000000000.260.319.389
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-440110000.301.389.512
Aaron GuielPH0-110000010.276.354.498
Raul IbanezRF1-440100120.298.344.463
Rondell WhiteLF0-330000000.278.329.464
Ken Harvey1B1-221100100.267.313.414
Mike DiFeliceC0-330000000.251.286.386
Dee BrownPH---------------------------
Julius Matos2B0-330000020.250.265.375
Jarrod PattersonPH0-111000000.214.353.214
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Paul AbbottP4.1122650103-585.96103
Jeremy AffeldtP1.076611143-284.3543
Al LevineP1.200000028-182.9228
Nate FieldP1.000011016-73.7916

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B1-551100020.297.329.438
Hank Blalock3B1-441100100.319.375.553
Alex RodriguezSS0-112000400.304.404.605
Rafael PalmeiroDH1-551120020.261.359.512
Mark Teixeira1B2-441230100.262.336.487
Laynce NixRF1-551131020.262.299.476
Shane SpencerLF1-330100110.258.332.406
Jason JonesRF0-330000100.206.320.397
Ryan ChristensonCF0-000000000.183.272.275
Einar DiazC1-441100000.256.293.342
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Ismael ValdezP5.063322180-516.1080
Ryan DreseP3.023211053-349.1253
Francisco CorderoP1.021102017-113.0817

Starting lineups

TEX

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

KC

  1. 1 Angel Berroa SS
  2. 2 Joe Randa 3B
  3. 3 Mike Sweeney DH
  4. 4 Carlos Ivan Beltran CF
  5. 5 Raul Ibanez RF
  6. 6 Rondell White LF
  7. 7 Ken Harvey 1B
  8. 8 Mike DiFelice C
  9. 9 Julius Matos 2B

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