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Boston Red Sox logo Boston Red Sox @ Minnesota Twins logo Minnesota Twins

0–5Final · May 9, 2003
BOS 0 MIN 5 Final
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BOS22-13000000000051
MIN19-1514000000581

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

Box score

BOS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Johnny DamonCF0-440000010.239.323.425
Todd Walker2B0-440000000.301.354.406
Nomar GarciaparraSS1-440100000.278.315.490
Manny RamirezLF0-440000000.323.403.489
Kevin MillarDH1-440100010.302.366.509
Shea Hillenbrand1B1-440100010.312.350.472
Bill Mueller3B1-330100010.346.419.605
Trot NixonRF0-330000010.333.411.495
Jason VaritekC1-220100100.255.336.489
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Pedro MartinezRP5.085514183-563.1583
Jason ShiellRP2.000012028-151.5428
Ramiro MendozaP1.000000014-98.2714

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Jacque JonesLF2-442210010.338.350.492
Cristian GuzmanSS2-441200000.278.311.381
Corey Koskie3B0-440000010.281.381.456
Todd SearsDH2-441241000.308.367.500
Torii HunterCF0-220000110.226.310.411
Dustan MohrRF0-330000130.261.282.493
Doug Mientkiewicz1B0-440000000.219.286.344
A.J. PierzynskiC1-441100000.255.308.418
Luis Rivas2B1-440100000.191.234.292
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Johan SantanaRP5.040013076-511.3076
LaTroy HawkinsRP2.010002024-161.3824
J.C. RomeroRP1.00000007-53.867
Eddie GuardadoP1.00000008-60.668

Starting lineups

MIN

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

BOS

  1. 1 Johnny Damon CF
  2. 2 Todd Walker 2B
  3. 3 Nomar Garciaparra SS
  4. 4 Manny Ramirez LF
  5. 5 Kevin Millar DH
  6. 6 Shea Hillenbrand 1B
  7. 7 Bill Mueller 3B
  8. 8 Trot Nixon RF
  9. 9 Jason Varitek C

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