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7–1Final · Sep 9, 2003
CLE 7 KC 1 Final
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CLE63-821000050107100
KC73-710000001001111

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CLE

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Coco CrispCF2-551200000.284.323.381
Casey Blake3B1-441110010.267.321.435
Jody GerutLF0-441000010.278.337.502
Alex EscobarRF1-331110100.196.255.412
Ben Broussard1B2-442210010.271.333.471
Victor MartinezC2-441231000.283.328.336
Tim LakerDH0-220000120.234.275.361
Travis HafnerDH0-000010000.263.335.492
Jhonny PeraltaSS1-440100010.223.282.303
Brandon Phillips2B1-440100010.210.246.319
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jason DavisP5.050021066-434.4566
Jack CressendP1.231101028-172.0828
Rafael BetancourtP1.110002014-101.8414
David RiskeP1.020000016-132.2116

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF3-550300000.298.372.531
Joe Randa3B1-550100000.280.340.431
Mike SweeneyDH2-330200100.312.410.490
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-440100010.303.387.508
Raul IbanezLF0-440000020.289.338.448
Ken Harvey1B1-440100000.273.316.417
Angel BerroaSS0-440000010.285.334.458
Desi Relaford2B1-331100100.257.318.387
Brent MayneC1-330110000.247.307.343
Rondell WhitePH1-110100000.280.333.465
Mendy LopezPR0-000000000.260.289.397
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jimmy GobbleP6.0461251100-614.89100
D.J. CarrascoP2.041102029-193.8929
Mike MacDougalP1.020000013-74.5013

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 Angel Berroa SS
  8. 8 Desi Relaford 2B
  9. 9 Brent Mayne C

CLE

  1. 1 Coco Crisp CF
  2. 2 Casey Blake 3B
  3. 3 Jody Gerut LF
  4. 4 Alex Escobar RF
  5. 5 Ben Broussard 1B
  6. 6 Victor Martinez C
  7. 7 Tim Laker DH
  8. 8 Jhonny Peralta SS
  9. 9 Brandon Phillips 2B

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