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Oakland Athletics logo Oakland Athletics @ Texas Rangers logo Texas Rangers

8–9Final · Jun 25, 2003
OAK 8 TEX 9 Final
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OAK44-320411000028160
TEX29-47101003139150

Play-by-play

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

Box score

OAK

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Eric ByrnesLF1-661100020.321.392.551
Scott Hatteberg1B0-440000110.269.352.388
Miguel TejadaSS4-440420100.241.297.436
Erubiel DurazoDH0-440000110.282.403.464
Eric Chavez3B3-553311000.257.328.485
Mark Ellis2B3-552310020.251.334.390
Terrence LongRF1-550100000.241.293.382
Adam MelhuseRP1-441110010.174.240.391
Billy McMillonPH1-110120000.308.419.462
Chris SingletonCF2-441210100.302.351.421
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Aaron HarangRP5.183310292-624.9892
Chad BradfordRP0.232200013-104.0213
Ricardo RinconRP1.011102118-124.0518
Jim MecirP1.033300016-114.0516

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B2-551210000.320.359.449
Hank Blalock3B2-551220010.336.391.555
Alex RodriguezSS2-551211010.296.380.551
Rafael PalmeiroDH3-442332000.269.386.522
Carl EverettRF0-440000000.282.359.565
Kevin MenchLF2-441200000.299.351.425
Mark Teixeira1B1-331100100.251.339.465
Donnie SadlerCF2-441210000.255.316.392
Einar DiazRP1-330110000.246.289.337
Mike LambRP0-001000000.148.200.148
Todd GreeneC0-000000000.225.253.413
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John ThomsonRP3.2106603167-466.0567
Victor SantosRP1.200041039-176.7539
Brian ShouseRP1.220001019-113.5319
Francisco CorderoRP1.010001012-83.7912
Ugueth UrbinaP1.032201028-214.2628

Starting lineups

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young 2B
  2. 2 Hank Blalock 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro DH
  5. 5 Carl Everett RF
  6. 6 Kevin Mench LF
  7. 7 Mark Teixeira 1B
  8. 8 Donnie Sadler CF
  9. 9 Einar Diaz RP

OAK

  1. 1 Eric Byrnes LF
  2. 2 Scott Hatteberg 1B
  3. 3 Miguel Tejada SS
  4. 4 Erubiel Durazo DH
  5. 5 Eric Chavez 3B
  6. 6 Mark Ellis 2B
  7. 7 Terrence Long RF
  8. 8 Adam Melhuse RP
  9. 9 Chris Singleton CF

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