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

3–1Final · Sep 3, 2003
KC 3 TEX 1 Final
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KC71-67000300000340
TEX64-76100000000170

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF1-441100010.275.352.498
Joe Randa3B1-441110010.281.341.441
Mike SweeneyDH1-331110110.319.422.513
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-330110100.302.390.510
Raul IbanezLF0-440000010.296.341.460
Ken Harvey1B0-440000000.265.310.411
Desi Relaford2B0-330000010.258.317.386
Angel BerroaSS0-330000010.288.338.459
Brent MayneC0-330000020.244.307.342
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jimmy GobbleP7.0411261102-665.51102
Curtis LeskanicP1.010000019-142.5619
Mike MacDougalP1.020001020-134.5820

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B2-331211100.299.332.444
Hank Blalock3B1-440100020.319.374.551
Alex RodriguezSS0-440000020.302.401.600
Rafael PalmeiroDH0-330000100.259.358.508
Mark Teixeira1B1-440100020.262.335.485
Shane SpencerLF1-440100000.257.331.404
Marcus ThamesRF0-330000010.203.300.261
Jason JonesPH1-110100000.219.329.406
Gerald LairdPR0-000000000.500.571.667
Todd GreeneC1-440100000.224.241.437
Ryan ChristensonCF0-220000000.180.268.270
Laynce NixCF0-110000000.260.296.472
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John ThomsonP7.0433180107-704.99107
Brian ShouseP0.20000009-63.189
Reynaldo GarciaP0.200010011-69.8211
Ron MahayP0.20000005-41.515

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 Shane Spencer LF
  7. 7 Marcus Thames RF
  8. 8 Todd Greene C
  9. 9 Ryan Christenson CF

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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