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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Cleveland Indians logo Cleveland Indians

3–2Final · Sep 18, 2003
KC 3 CLE 2 Final
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KC79-74102000000380
CLE66-88100010000261

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Angel BerroaSS0-330010010.293.342.462
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF2-441200000.305.387.513
Mike SweeneyDH1-440110000.298.396.463
Raul IbanezLF2-440210010.296.349.454
Joe Randa3B1-330100100.284.340.451
Ken Harvey1B0-440000000.268.313.407
Aaron GuielRF0-440000010.294.362.517
Desi Relaford2B1-441100010.259.321.388
Mike DiFeliceC1-331100010.251.295.380
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jose LimaP5.062212068-413.9068
Jeremy AffeldtP3.000014036-234.0236
Curtis LeskanicP1.00000007-42.317

CLE

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Coco CrispCF1-440110000.283.319.377
Casey Blake3B1-441100010.262.317.422
Jody GerutLF1-440100010.280.336.502
Alex EscobarRF0-440010010.276.319.471
Travis HafnerDH0-440000020.263.337.504
Victor MartinezC1-440100000.283.331.331
Ben Broussard1B1-221100100.256.320.440
Jhonny PeraltaSS1-220100100.221.290.327
Brandon Phillips2B0-330000010.207.243.308
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
CC SabathiaP7.0733150109-693.63109
Rafael BetancourtP2.010000020-172.0620

Starting lineups

CLE

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

KC

  1. 1 Angel Berroa SS
  2. 2 Carlos Ivan Beltran CF
  3. 3 Mike Sweeney DH
  4. 4 Raul Ibanez LF
  5. 5 Joe Randa 3B
  6. 6 Ken Harvey 1B
  7. 7 Aaron Guiel RF
  8. 8 Desi Relaford 2B
  9. 9 Mike DiFelice C

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