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Cincinnati Reds logo Cincinnati Reds @ Houston Astros logo Houston Astros

2–1Final · Apr 8, 2003
CIN 2 HOU 1 Final
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CIN3-40100000001251
HOU4-21000000000170

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Barry LarkinRP0-550000010.214.267.286
Scott WilliamsonP0-000000000.000.000.000
Aaron Boone2B1-440100100.226.250.548
Adam DunnLF0-440000020.160.250.520
Austin KearnsCF0-330000100.348.464.739
Sean Casey1B0-440000010.222.250.481
Brandon Larson3B0-220000200.111.227.111
Reggie TaylorRP1-331100010.300.300.500
Jose GuillenRF0-110000000.000.000.000
Jason LaRueC3-441321000.261.370.478
Ryan DempsterRP0-330000020.000.000.000
Felipe LopezSS0-110000010.100.250.200
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Ryan DempsterRP9.071123097-672.3097
Scott WilliamsonP1.00000009-50.009

HOU

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Craig BiggioCF2-551200000.286.355.429
Geoff Blum3B1-440100000.208.269.375
Jeff Bagwell1B1-330100100.360.429.600
Lance BerkmanLF0-330000100.200.407.200
Jeff Kent2B1-440100000.320.370.480
Richard HidalgoRF1-330100000.364.462.455
Brad AusmusC0-440000010.368.409.737
Julio LugoRP0-330000010.136.136.136
Orlando MercedPH0-110000000.400.400.600
Roy OswaltRP1-330100010.400.400.400
Billy WagnerRP0-000000000.000.000.000
Octavio DotelRP0-000000000.000.000.000
Jose VizcainoPH0-110000000.200.333.200
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Roy OswaltRP8.0411260118-741.20118
Billy WagnerRP1.000020018-70.0018
Octavio DotelRP1.011102116-122.2516

Starting lineups

HOU

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

CIN

  1. 1 Barry Larkin RP
  2. 2 Aaron Boone 2B
  3. 3 Adam Dunn LF
  4. 4 Austin Kearns CF
  5. 5 Sean Casey 1B
  6. 6 Brandon Larson 3B
  7. 7 Reggie Taylor RP
  8. 8 Jason LaRue C
  9. 9 Ryan Dempster RP

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