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2–4Final · Apr 10, 2003
CIN 2 HOU 4 Final
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CIN3-6000100001253
HOU6-230001000471

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Barry LarkinSS1-441100000.222.282.333
Aaron Boone2B0-221000200.216.275.486
Austin KearnsRF1-330110110.310.444.621
Sean CaseyRP2-440210010.314.333.543
Wily Mo PenaPR0-000000000.000.000.000
Jose GuillenLF1-440100010.200.333.200
Ruben MateoCF0-440000020.000.143.000
Brandon Larson3B0-330000010.083.179.083
Jason LaRueC0-330000030.207.324.379
Danny GravesRP0-220000020.000.000.000
Kent MerckerRP0-000000000.000.000.000
Scott SullivanRP0-000000000.000.000.000
Reggie TaylorRP0-110000010.286.286.429
Josias ManzanilloP0-000000000.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Danny GravesRP5.2743201101-617.59101
Kent MerckerRP0.10000108-60.008
Scott SullivanRP1.000011021-111.6921
Josias ManzanilloP1.00000008-45.068

HOU

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Craig BiggioCF1-551111000.289.341.474
Geoff Blum3B2-551200000.241.313.379
Jeff Bagwell1B0-440000000.303.378.485
Lance BerkmanLF0-441000010.154.371.154
Jeff Kent2B1-441110010.313.343.469
Richard HidalgoRF1-330110000.345.441.414
Gregg ZaunRP1-330110100.375.400.625
Brad AusmusC0-000000000.364.423.773
Julio LugoSS1-220100200.167.231.167
Jeriome RobertsonRP0-330000000.000.000.000
Orlando MercedRP0-110000000.286.286.429
Octavio DotelRP0-000000000.000.000.000
Billy WagnerP0-000000000.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jeriome RobertsonRP7.021138097-587.1597
Octavio DotelRP1.000003012-101.8012
Billy WagnerP1.031101018-151.2918

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 Gregg Zaun RP
  8. 8 Julio Lugo SS
  9. 9 Jeriome Robertson RP

CIN

  1. 1 Barry Larkin SS
  2. 2 Aaron Boone 2B
  3. 3 Austin Kearns RF
  4. 4 Sean Casey RP
  5. 5 Jose Guillen LF
  6. 6 Ruben Mateo CF
  7. 7 Brandon Larson 3B
  8. 8 Jason LaRue C
  9. 9 Danny Graves RP

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