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4–3Final · Sep 24, 2003
DET 4 KC 3 Final
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DET40-118400000000450
KC82-77100000200370

Play-by-play

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

Box score

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex SanchezCF1-441100000.285.316.361
Omar Rafael Infante3B1-441100010.230.288.268
Brandon IngeC0-330000120.204.267.342
Dmitri YoungDH2-441210000.288.361.527
Carlos Pena1B0-221000210.245.332.445
Ben PetrickLF1-440110000.215.264.364
Warren Morris2B0-330010110.271.316.373
Andres TorresRF0-330010010.212.251.291
Ramon SantiagoSS0-440000000.224.290.282
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Shane LouxP5.031111066-407.1266
Matt RoneyP1.032210025-125.2625
Jamie WalkerP1.01000004-43.434
Fernando RodneyP2.000002024-166.3324

KC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Angel BerroaSS1-440100020.291.342.459
Carlos Ivan BeltranCF1-441100010.305.387.512
Rondell WhiteDH2-331200100.289.340.484
Raul IbanezLF1-441120000.299.350.461
Ken Harvey1B0-330000100.268.314.412
Aaron GuielRF0-220010000.287.353.506
Desi Relaford2B0-330000000.258.319.382
Julius Matos3B1-330100000.259.273.370
Brent MayneC1-220100000.244.308.342
Mike DiFelicePH0-000000000.253.299.382
David DeJesusPH0-000000000.000.333.000
Tom PrinceC0-000000000.205.314.386
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jimmy GobbleP7.0544330100-634.61100
Curtis LeskanicP1.000011024-142.2624
Mike MacDougalP1.000002014-94.2114

Starting lineups

KC

  1. 1 Angel Berroa SS
  2. 2 Carlos Ivan Beltran CF
  3. 3 Rondell White DH
  4. 4 Raul Ibanez LF
  5. 5 Ken Harvey 1B
  6. 6 Aaron Guiel RF
  7. 7 Desi Relaford 2B
  8. 8 Julius Matos 3B
  9. 9 Brent Mayne C

DET

  1. 1 Alex Sanchez CF
  2. 2 Omar Rafael Infante 3B
  3. 3 Brandon Inge C
  4. 4 Dmitri Young DH
  5. 5 Carlos Pena 1B
  6. 6 Ben Petrick LF
  7. 7 Warren Morris 2B
  8. 8 Andres Torres RF
  9. 9 Ramon Santiago SS

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