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5–3Final · Jul 18, 2003
HOU 5 CIN 3 Final
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HOU52-440031010005101
CIN43-52010002000360

Play-by-play

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

Box score

HOU

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Craig BiggioCF1-441100110.273.351.423
Geoff Blum3B0-441000100.274.312.420
Jeff Bagwell1B3-551331000.275.365.477
Jeff Kent2B1-440100010.308.366.509
Lance BerkmanLF0-440000000.278.399.506
Richard HidalgoRF4-442422000.332.401.591
Brad AusmusC1-440100000.201.273.257
Adam EverettRP0-220000010.251.307.390
Eric BruntlettSS0-110000000.292.292.542
Roy OswaltRP0-330000020.200.226.233
Brad LidgeRP0-110000010.000.000.000
Billy WagnerP0-000000000.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Roy OswaltRP6.263314388-603.2288
Brad LidgeRP1.100011023-122.4123
Billy WagnerP1.000002016-122.3016

CIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
D'Angelo Jimenez2B1-440100000.264.343.413
Barry LarkinSS0-440000010.280.340.383
Jose GuillenRF0-440000020.333.384.610
Sean Casey1B0-440000010.296.350.425
Aaron Boone3B2-441211010.263.327.461
Adam DunnLF0-330000110.201.343.483
Jason LaRueC0-330000000.237.329.455
Reggie TaylorCF2-331211000.226.255.377
Ryan DempsterRP0-110000010.034.067.034
Ruben MateoRP1-111111000.216.286.353
Felix HerediaRP0-000000000.333.333.333
Brian ReithRP0-000000000.000.000.000
Russell BranyanRP0-000000100.229.383.417
Scott WilliamsonP0-000000000.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Ryan DempsterRP6.0855143104-666.60104
Felix HerediaRP1.010011015-92.9515
Brian ReithRP1.010001017-113.4517
Scott WilliamsonP1.00000009-53.299

Starting lineups

CIN

  1. 1 D'Angelo Jimenez 2B
  2. 2 Barry Larkin SS
  3. 3 Jose Guillen RF
  4. 4 Sean Casey 1B
  5. 5 Aaron Boone 3B
  6. 6 Adam Dunn LF
  7. 7 Jason LaRue C
  8. 8 Reggie Taylor CF
  9. 9 Ryan Dempster RP

HOU

  1. 1 Craig Biggio CF
  2. 2 Geoff Blum 3B
  3. 3 Jeff Bagwell 1B
  4. 4 Jeff Kent 2B
  5. 5 Lance Berkman LF
  6. 6 Richard Hidalgo RF
  7. 7 Brad Ausmus C
  8. 8 Adam Everett RP
  9. 9 Roy Oswalt RP

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