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Minnesota Twins logo Minnesota Twins @ Texas Rangers logo Texas Rangers

4–9Final · Jul 10, 2003
MIN 4 TEX 9 Final
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MIN44-460010100204112
TEX38-52300132009112

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

Box score

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Cristian GuzmanRP0-331000000.256.283.345
Denny HockingSS2-220210000.265.322.386
Doug Mientkiewicz1B1-441110100.296.355.467
Corey Koskie3B3-550300010.300.392.498
Torii HunterCF0-440010110.252.323.436
A.J. PierzynskiC2-550200000.294.333.475
Matt LeCroyDH2-551200020.303.339.521
Bobby KieltyRF0-331000110.254.371.430
Dustan MohrLF1-440100010.278.336.440
Luis Rivas2B0-440000000.267.322.363
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Rick ReedRP4.187713370-515.0370
James BaldwinRP2.222100139-273.3839
Joe MaysP1.010000011-86.5011

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B3-442331000.323.358.470
Hank Blalock3B1-440100010.329.382.536
Alex RodriguezSS0-331000100.290.377.557
Rafael PalmeiroDH1-440100000.243.357.492
Juan Alberto GonzalezRF---------------------------
Mark Teixeira1B2-441211010.250.337.476
Ryan LudwickLF0-441000010.188.278.250
Laynce NixCF1-441100000.250.250.250
Einar DiazC1-331110000.265.300.351
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John ThomsonRP7.0821240103-695.43103
Rosman GarciaRP0.222010017-104.8017
Brian ShouseRP0.10000002-23.182
Francisco CorderoP1.010002019-133.4019

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 Juan Alberto Gonzalez RF
  6. 6 Mark Teixeira 1B
  7. 7 Ryan Ludwick LF
  8. 8 Laynce Nix CF
  9. 9 Einar Diaz C

MIN

  1. 1 Cristian Guzman RP
  2. 2 Doug Mientkiewicz 1B
  3. 3 Corey Koskie 3B
  4. 4 Torii Hunter CF
  5. 5 A.J. Pierzynski C
  6. 6 Matt LeCroy DH
  7. 7 Bobby Kielty RF
  8. 8 Dustan Mohr LF
  9. 9 Luis Rivas 2B

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