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5–2Final · Oct 8, 2003
BOS 5 NYY 2 Final
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BOS95-670002201005130
NYY101-61000000200230

Play-by-play

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

Box score

BOS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Todd Walker2B2-551211000.400.4001.000
Damian Jackson2B0-000000000------
Bill Mueller3B1-550100000.200.200.200
Nomar GarciaparraSS0-550000020.000.000.000
Manny RamirezLF4-553411000.800.8001.400
David OrtizDH1-331121110.333.6001.333
Kevin Millar1B2-550210020.400.400.400
Trot NixonRF2-330200100.667.750.667
Doug MirabelliC1-440100010.250.250.250
Gabe KaplerCF0-440000010.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Tim WakefieldP6.022222091-553.0091
Alan EmbreeP1.010000012-60.0012
Mike TimlinP1.000001011-70.0011
Scott WilliamsonP1.000002019-120.0019

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alfonso Soriano2B0-440000020.000.000.000
Derek JeterSS0-440000000.000.000.000
Jason GiambiDH0-331000110.000.250.000
Bernie WilliamsCF0-331000100.000.250.000
Jorge PosadaC2-440210010.500.500.750
Hideki MatsuiLF1-220110000.500.333.500
Aaron Boone3B0-330000000.000.000.000
Nick Johnson1B0-330000000.000.000.000
Juan RiveraRF0-220000010.000.000.000
Ruben SierraRF0-110000000------
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mike MussinaP5.2844243104-646.35104
Felix HerediaP0.20000007-50.007
Jeff NelsonP0.121100017-927.0017
Gabe WhiteP1.120000019-110.0019
Jose ContrerasP1.010003014-100.0014

Starting lineups

NYY

  1. 1 Alfonso Soriano 2B
  2. 2 Derek Jeter SS
  3. 3 Jason Giambi DH
  4. 4 Bernie Williams CF
  5. 5 Jorge Posada C
  6. 6 Hideki Matsui LF
  7. 7 Aaron Boone 3B
  8. 8 Nick Johnson 1B
  9. 9 Juan Rivera RF

BOS

  1. 1 Todd Walker 2B
  2. 2 Bill Mueller 3B
  3. 3 Nomar Garciaparra SS
  4. 4 Manny Ramirez LF
  5. 5 David Ortiz DH
  6. 6 Kevin Millar 1B
  7. 7 Trot Nixon RF
  8. 8 Doug Mirabelli C
  9. 9 Gabe Kapler CF

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