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5–6Final · Oct 16, 2003
BOS 5 NYY 6 Final
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BOS95-67030100010005110
NYY101-61000010130016111

Play-by-play

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

Box score

BOS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Johnny DamonCF0-550000010.200.304.250
Todd Walker2B1-550100000.370.414.704
Nomar GarciaparraSS1-550100020.241.290.310
Manny RamirezLF1-550100000.310.333.552
David OrtizDH2-551211010.269.367.538
Gabe KaplerDH0-000000000.125.125.125
Kevin Millar1B2-552211000.241.267.345
Trot NixonRF1-441121120.333.429.750
Bill Mueller3B1-550100010.222.276.296
Jason VaritekC2-441200010.316.350.737
Damian JacksonPR0-000000000.333.333.333
Doug MirabelliC0-110000010.286.286.286
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Pedro MartinezP7.11055182123-775.65123
Alan EmbreeP0.10000003-20.003
Mike TimlinP1.100021027-120.0027
Tim WakefieldP1.011100115-82.5715

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alfonso Soriano2B0-550000040.133.188.167
Nick Johnson1B0-440000100.231.286.385
Derek JeterSS1-551100020.233.281.400
Bernie WilliamsCF2-551210010.192.300.231
Hideki MatsuiLF2-551200000.308.321.423
Jorge PosadaC1-550120000.296.367.556
Jason GiambiDH2-552222010.231.333.577
Enrique Wilson3B1-330100000.143.143.143
Ruben SierraPH0-0000001001.0001.0004.000
Aaron Boone3B1-111111000------
Karim GarciaRF1-330100110.250.368.250
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Roger ClemensP3.064311265-435.0065
Mike MussinaP3.020003033-254.1133
Felix HerediaP0.20000108-73.388
Jeff NelsonP0.200001010-56.0010
David WellsP0.21110016-52.356
Mariano RiveraP3.020003048-331.1348

Starting lineups

NYY

  1. 1 Alfonso Soriano 2B
  2. 2 Nick Johnson 1B
  3. 3 Derek Jeter SS
  4. 4 Bernie Williams CF
  5. 5 Hideki Matsui LF
  6. 6 Jorge Posada C
  7. 7 Jason Giambi DH
  8. 8 Enrique Wilson 3B
  9. 9 Karim Garcia RF

BOS

  1. 1 Johnny Damon CF
  2. 2 Todd Walker 2B
  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 Bill Mueller 3B
  9. 9 Jason Varitek C

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