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1–2Final · Apr 9, 2003
MIN 1 NYY 2 Final
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MIN3-5010000000170
NYY7-100002000241

Play-by-play

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

Box score

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Jacque JonesLF1-440100000.344.371.563
Cristian GuzmanSS0-440000020.207.233.345
Corey Koskie3B0-440000020.300.391.500
Torii HunterCF0-440000010.148.200.259
Doug Mientkiewicz1B2-440200010.267.333.500
Bobby KieltyDH1-331100110.368.429.421
Dustan MohrRF0-440000020.200.200.400
A.J. PierzynskiC3-330310000.269.321.462
Luis Rivas2B0-220000100.105.150.105
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Kyle LohseRP7.032215293-601.2093
LaTroy HawkinsRP0.210000011-70.0011
J.C. RomeroP0.10000005-20.005

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alfonso Soriano2B1-440100000.410.439.769
Nick Johnson1B0-440000010.269.345.500
Jason GiambiDH0-330000010.194.359.484
Bernie WilliamsCF0-330000000.364.436.697
Hideki MatsuiLF0-330000000.265.316.412
Jorge PosadaC1-221111110.333.375.741
Robin Ventura3B0-330000010.250.280.625
Raul MondesiRF1-331111000.379.455.724
Erick AlmonteSS1-330100010.348.375.565
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mike MussinaRP8.0610280115-832.57115
Juan AcevedoP1.010001010-102.2510

Starting lineups

NYY

  1. 1 Alfonso Soriano 2B
  2. 2 Nick Johnson 1B
  3. 3 Jason Giambi DH
  4. 4 Bernie Williams CF
  5. 5 Hideki Matsui LF
  6. 6 Jorge Posada C
  7. 7 Robin Ventura 3B
  8. 8 Raul Mondesi RF
  9. 9 Erick Almonte SS

MIN

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

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