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5–6Final · May 28, 2003
BOS 5 NYY 6 Final
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BOS31-21000000014591
NYY31-221300001016110

Play-by-play

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

Box score

BOS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Johnny DamonCF1-441100000.248.316.417
Todd Walker2B2-441200000.326.368.430
Nomar GarciaparraSS1-440120010.306.338.548
Manny RamirezLF0-440000010.304.403.487
Kevin MillarRP1-440100010.290.346.475
Damian JacksonDH0-001000000.263.310.289
Shea Hillenbrand1B2-441221000.303.335.443
Bill Mueller3B1-440110000.382.441.625
Trot NixonRF1-330100110.289.380.437
Jason VaritekC0-221000100.277.345.500
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Derek LoweRP6.0844230103-645.34103
Mike TimlinRP1.011101118-103.9018
Brandon LyonP1.121131024-123.2824

NYY

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Derek JeterSS1-442100100.309.347.485
Hideki MatsuiCF2-551220000.262.310.371
Alfonso Soriano2B1-441111100.313.377.584
Jason GiambiDH0-330000220.219.351.396
Jorge PosadaC2-440220100.259.372.537
Robin Ventura3B2-440200010.298.385.511
Raul MondesiRF1-440100010.303.377.540
Juan RiveraLF1-441100010.250.250.333
Todd Zeile1B1-441110000.218.290.400
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mike MussinaRP8.0433241105-672.62105
Mariano RiveraP1.052200027-173.4827

Starting lineups

NYY

  1. 1 Derek Jeter SS
  2. 2 Hideki Matsui CF
  3. 3 Alfonso Soriano 2B
  4. 4 Jason Giambi DH
  5. 5 Jorge Posada C
  6. 6 Robin Ventura 3B
  7. 7 Raul Mondesi RF
  8. 8 Juan Rivera LF
  9. 9 Todd Zeile 1B

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 RP
  6. 6 Shea Hillenbrand 1B
  7. 7 Bill Mueller 3B
  8. 8 Trot Nixon RF
  9. 9 Jason Varitek C

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