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9–6Final · Oct 15, 2003
BOS 9 NYY 6 Final
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BOS95-670040003029161
NYY101-611004100006122

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

Box score

BOS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Johnny DamonCF1-330110300.267.389.333
Todd Walker2B1-661100020.409.458.818
Damian Jackson2B0-000000000.333.333.333
Nomar GarciaparraSS4-552400000.250.308.333
Manny RamirezLF1-442100100.333.360.625
David OrtizDH2-551230030.238.360.381
Kevin Millar1B2-550210020.208.240.208
Bill Mueller3B3-551300010.227.292.318
Trot NixonRF1-551121030.350.435.700
Jason VaritekC1-441111120.267.313.733
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John BurkettP3.275301160-387.3660
Bronson ArroyoP1.121112136-192.7036
Todd JonesP0.110011012-80.0012
Alan EmbreeP1.210001018-130.0018
Mike TimlinP1.010001015-120.0015
Scott WilliamsonP1.000001011-63.0011

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alfonso Soriano2B2-550220000.160.222.200
Derek JeterSS1-330100200.240.296.400
Jason GiambiDH1-551111030.190.320.333
Bernie WilliamsCF0-550000000.143.280.190
Jorge PosadaC2-552211000.318.400.591
Hideki MatsuiLF2-441200000.286.304.333
Nick Johnson1B3-441310000.273.304.455
Aaron Boone3B0-440010020.125.222.125
Karim GarciaRF1-441100020.231.333.231
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Andy PettitteP5.084425192-564.6392
Jose ContrerasP1.143313041-225.7941
Felix HerediaP0.200022018-74.5018
Jeff NelsonP1.121102021-137.7121
Gabe WhiteP0.221101116-114.5016

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 Nick Johnson 1B
  8. 8 Aaron Boone 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 Bill Mueller 3B
  8. 8 Trot Nixon RF
  9. 9 Jason Varitek C

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