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Chicago White Sox logo Chicago White Sox @ Oakland Athletics logo Oakland Athletics

5–8Final · May 8, 2003
CWS 5 OAK 8 Final
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CWS16-180020000215111
OAK21-13001130308140

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Tony GraffaninoSS0-550000010.286.407.551
Frank ThomasDH1-442111120.252.432.485
Magglio OrdonezCF2-441221110.282.345.524
Paul Konerko1B2-550200000.230.290.345
Joe Crede3B2-551200000.246.273.351
Carlos LeeLF2-551200010.235.285.435
Miguel OlivoC1-330100000.262.297.459
D'Angelo Jimenez2B0-330010110.300.398.527
Willie HarrisRP1-330100020.100.143.100
Brian DaubachRF0-000010100.097.243.097
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jon GarlandRP5.085512189-566.8889
Rick WhiteRP1.243101139-234.9139
David SandersRP0.110000016-113.8616
Billy KochP1.01000008-67.988

OAK

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Mark Ellis2B1-550100000.261.315.418
Scott Hatteberg1B1-441110110.295.380.434
Eric Chavez3B2-442211000.270.364.525
Miguel TejadaSS3-443331000.196.265.370
Erubiel DurazoDH1-441110010.278.382.496
Ramon HernandezC1-440110010.323.394.510
Terrence LongRF1-440110000.258.331.450
Eric ByrnesLF2-441200000.308.366.431
Chris SingletonCF2-440200000.307.337.420
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John HalamaRP6.172224188-543.7788
Jim MecirRP1.122203032-208.3132
Jeremy FikacRP0.000010010-34.6110
Keith FoulkeP1.121111129-183.0629

Starting lineups

OAK

  1. 1 Mark Ellis 2B
  2. 2 Scott Hatteberg 1B
  3. 3 Eric Chavez 3B
  4. 4 Miguel Tejada SS
  5. 5 Erubiel Durazo DH
  6. 6 Ramon Hernandez C
  7. 7 Terrence Long RF
  8. 8 Eric Byrnes LF
  9. 9 Chris Singleton CF

CWS

  1. 1 Tony Graffanino SS
  2. 2 Frank Thomas DH
  3. 3 Magglio Ordonez CF
  4. 4 Paul Konerko 1B
  5. 5 Joe Crede 3B
  6. 6 Carlos Lee LF
  7. 7 Miguel Olivo C
  8. 8 D'Angelo Jimenez 2B
  9. 9 Willie Harris RP

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