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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Detroit Tigers logo Detroit Tigers

0–3Final · Sep 12, 2003
KC 0 DET 3 Final
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KC74-73000000000060
DET38-10810002000391

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF0-440000010.294.365.516
Joe Randa3B1-440100000.284.343.442
Mike SweeneyDH0-330000120.309.408.484
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF0-440000020.300.383.499
Rondell WhiteLF1-440100000.279.330.463
David DeJesusPR0-000000000.000.000.000
Ken Harvey1B1-330100110.273.317.416
Angel BerroaSS1-440100000.283.334.453
Mendy Lopez2B2-330200010.276.304.408
Raul IbanezPH0-110000000.289.342.447
Brent MayneC0-110000000.247.307.344
Mike DiFeliceC0-000000100.250.292.384
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Paul AbbottP6.0833331105-634.66105
D.J. CarrascoP2.010011030-173.7930

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex SanchezCF1-441100000.280.313.360
Warren Morris2B2-442221000.275.325.377
Bobby HigginsonRF1-220100200.240.322.369
Dmitri YoungDH1-330110010.288.362.540
Craig MonroeLF1-440100010.224.274.423
Kevin Witt1B1-330100110.269.307.408
Shane Halter3B0-440000010.218.274.343
Brandon IngeC1-330100100.204.264.352
Ramon SantiagoSS1-330100000.223.290.279
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mike MarothP6.050024096-565.5596
Jamie WalkerP0.200010015-83.3915
Fernando RodneyP1.110002021-167.3621

Starting lineups

DET

  1. 1 Alex Sanchez CF
  2. 2 Warren Morris 2B
  3. 3 Bobby Higginson RF
  4. 4 Dmitri Young DH
  5. 5 Craig Monroe LF
  6. 6 Kevin Witt 1B
  7. 7 Shane Halter 3B
  8. 8 Brandon Inge C
  9. 9 Ramon Santiago 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 Rondell White LF
  6. 6 Ken Harvey 1B
  7. 7 Angel Berroa SS
  8. 8 Mendy Lopez 2B
  9. 9 Brent Mayne C

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