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5–1Final · May 18, 2003
TEX 5 NYY 1 Final
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TEX19-24000202001590
NYY27-16100000000131

Play-by-play

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Carl EverettLF2-550210010.333.426.694
Hank Blalock3B0-550000010.354.396.569
Alex RodriguezSS2-441200010.308.397.568
Rafael Palmeiro1B2-332210110.270.392.539
Juan Alberto GonzalezRF---------------------------
Ruben SierraDH1-440100000.250.318.370
Michael Young2B1-441100010.319.349.448
Einar DiazC0-330000000.230.278.300
Donnie SadlerRP0-330000010.083.214.083
Herbert PerryRP0-110000000.250.250.313
Ryan ChristensonCF0-000000000.189.291.295
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John ThomsonP9.0311590134-724.78134

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alfonso Soriano2B2-441200010.311.380.563
Derek JeterSS0-440010010.333.379.444
Jason Giambi1B0-330000110.203.333.373
Bernie WilliamsDH0-330000110.309.423.494
Hideki MatsuiCF1-440100010.268.316.385
Jorge PosadaC0-440000020.256.342.541
Robin Ventura3B0-330000110.288.349.500
Raul MondesiRF0-330000110.318.400.580
Bubba TrammellLF0-220000100.276.364.414
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mike MussinaRP7.0743061102-672.22102
Antonio OsunaRP1.211111029-151.7629
Chris HammondP0.11000004-43.384

Starting lineups

NYY

  1. 1 Alfonso Soriano 2B
  2. 2 Derek Jeter SS
  3. 3 Jason Giambi 1B
  4. 4 Bernie Williams DH
  5. 5 Hideki Matsui CF
  6. 6 Jorge Posada C
  7. 7 Robin Ventura 3B
  8. 8 Raul Mondesi RF
  9. 9 Bubba Trammell LF

TEX

  1. 1 Carl Everett LF
  2. 2 Hank Blalock 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro 1B
  5. 5 Juan Alberto Gonzalez RF
  6. 6 Ruben Sierra DH
  7. 7 Michael Young 2B
  8. 8 Einar Diaz C
  9. 9 Donnie Sadler RP

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