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Kansas City Royals logo Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox logo Chicago White Sox

5–8Final · Sep 19, 2003
KC 5 CWS 8 Final
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KC79-75003000200571
CWS81-72003000418120

Play-by-play

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Angel BerroaSS1-440100010.292.341.460
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF0-441000000.303.384.509
Mike SweeneyDH1-441131010.298.395.469
Raul IbanezRF1-440100010.296.348.452
Joe Randa3B1-440100000.284.340.449
Rondell WhiteLF1-441100000.275.325.465
Ken Harvey1B1-441110000.268.313.408
Mike DiFeliceC1-221110100.254.301.387
Aaron GuielPH0-110000000.293.361.515
Desi Relaford2B0-330000010.258.319.386
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jamey WrightP6.053125099-591.5799
D.J. CarrascoP1.054401125-204.2025
Al LevineP1.021100112-72.8312

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Roberto Alomar2B1-440100010.261.335.355
Carlos LeeLF0-441010000.293.334.505
Willie HarrisCF0-000000000.183.234.217
Frank ThomasDH3-441330010.262.383.550
Magglio OrdonezRF1-441121010.322.385.558
Carl EverettCF1-440100000.286.367.515
Aaron RowandLF0-000000000.268.309.423
Paul Konerko1B0-330000120.244.316.417
Jose ValentinSS3-442311010.234.310.455
Joe Crede3B1-331100100.258.307.427
Sandy Alomar Jr.C2-442210000.268.282.411
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mark BuehrleP7.2755141108-714.19108
Tom GordonP1.100000013-83.1413

Starting lineups

CWS

  1. 1 Roberto Alomar 2B
  2. 2 Carlos Lee LF
  3. 3 Frank Thomas DH
  4. 4 Magglio Ordonez RF
  5. 5 Carl Everett CF
  6. 6 Paul Konerko 1B
  7. 7 Jose Valentin SS
  8. 8 Joe Crede 3B
  9. 9 Sandy Alomar Jr. C

KC

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

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