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

7–1Final · Sep 20, 2003
KC 7 CWS 1 Final
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KC80-750030002027140
CWS81-73100000000151

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

Box score

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Angel BerroaSS1-441100030.292.341.458
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF3-442300100.307.388.513
Mike SweeneyDH1-440110110.297.395.467
Raul IbanezLF1-440120010.295.347.451
Joe Randa3B2-441210110.286.342.449
Aaron GuielRF1-551100010.292.359.514
Rondell WhiteLF3-440320100.279.330.470
Mendy Lopez1B0-000000000.274.307.405
Desi Relaford2B2-551200010.259.319.386
Brent MayneC0-441000110.245.310.346
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Brian AndersonP9.0511221100-593.80100

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Tony GraffaninoSS0-440000020.258.331.433
Roberto Alomar2B1-330100100.261.336.354
Frank ThomasDH1-331111100.262.384.554
Magglio OrdonezRF1-440100000.321.384.556
Carlos LeeLF0-440000000.291.332.502
Carl EverettCF0-330000000.284.365.512
Paul Konerko1B0-330000000.242.314.414
Joe Crede3B0-330000000.257.305.425
Miguel OlivoC2-330200000.232.279.356
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Esteban LoaizaP6.0733360107-702.89107
Scott SchoeneweisP0.122100011-74.4811
Scott SullivanP0.00001007-33.547
Kelly WunschP0.100010015-82.0215
Billy KochP2.152203042-305.8142

Starting lineups

CWS

  1. 1 Tony Graffanino SS
  2. 2 Roberto Alomar 2B
  3. 3 Frank Thomas DH
  4. 4 Magglio Ordonez RF
  5. 5 Carlos Lee LF
  6. 6 Carl Everett CF
  7. 7 Paul Konerko 1B
  8. 8 Joe Crede 3B
  9. 9 Miguel Olivo C

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 Aaron Guiel RF
  7. 7 Rondell White LF
  8. 8 Desi Relaford 2B
  9. 9 Brent Mayne C

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