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7–9Final · Sep 10, 2003
CLE 7 KC 9 Final
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CLE63-830015010007132
KC74-71210050109120

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

Box score

CLE

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Coco CrispCF1-550100010.282.321.379
Jody GerutLF3-551300000.282.340.506
Casey Blake3B1-551100000.267.320.433
Ben Broussard1B1-551100000.269.332.467
Alex EscobarRF3-442320010.236.288.436
Josh BardC1-331131100.225.272.336
Travis HafnerDH1-330110000.264.335.498
Victor MartinezDH0-110000000.281.325.333
Jhonny PeraltaSS1-331111100.225.286.319
Brandon Phillips2B1-440100010.210.246.318
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Chad DurbinP4.195523082-487.3682
Jose SantiagoP0.013220016-73.4616
Rafael BetancourtP1.210001023-161.7423
Jason BoydP1.011110018-94.5018

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Aaron GuielRF1-551100000.296.369.525
Joe Randa3B2-551210000.281.341.433
Mike SweeneyDH2-442200100.314.412.493
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-441110110.303.387.505
Rondell WhiteLF2-551220010.282.333.467
Mendy Lopez1B0-000000000.260.289.397
Raul IbanezLF1-221100200.290.341.448
Angel BerroaSS0-222010210.284.335.456
Desi Relaford2B1-440110020.257.317.388
Brent MayneC2-440220000.250.309.348
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Brian AndersonP4.196601261-433.8961
Kris WilsonP1.021110018-104.6618
Curtis LeskanicP1.120011021-132.4421
Jeremy AffeldtP2.100001028-204.1928

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 Rondell White LF
  6. 6 Raul Ibanez LF
  7. 7 Angel Berroa SS
  8. 8 Desi Relaford 2B
  9. 9 Brent Mayne C

CLE

  1. 1 Coco Crisp CF
  2. 2 Jody Gerut LF
  3. 3 Casey Blake 3B
  4. 4 Ben Broussard 1B
  5. 5 Alex Escobar RF
  6. 6 Josh Bard C
  7. 7 Travis Hafner DH
  8. 8 Jhonny Peralta SS
  9. 9 Brandon Phillips 2B

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