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5–6Final · May 28, 2003
OAK 5 MIN 6 Final
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OAK29-223001001005132
MIN31-2003120000660

Play-by-play

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

Box score

OAK

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Eric ByrnesLF1-550100010.349.411.558
Scott HattebergDH2-442200000.276.354.392
Eric Chavez3B1-551100010.247.328.456
Miguel TejadaSS1-551110000.220.281.390
Erubiel Durazo1B2-440210100.274.370.480
Ramon HernandezRP1-440110010.287.347.473
Adam MelhusePR0-000000000.000.500.000
Terrence LongRF2-550210000.247.308.401
Mark Ellis2B2-330200110.260.329.396
Chris SingletonCF1-331111100.309.346.439
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John HalamaRP4.056505368-444.7968
Aaron HarangP4.010022048-280.0048

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Jacque JonesLF1-441111000.333.345.484
Chris GomezSS0-330000110.299.319.418
Corey Koskie3B0-440000020.260.364.439
Bobby KieltyDH0-441000000.282.414.519
Torii HunterCF1-441100010.242.321.416
Doug Mientkiewicz1B3-442331000.280.351.470
Dustan MohrRF1-441121000.316.340.515
A.J. PierzynskiC0-220000110.283.327.441
Denny Hocking2B0-330000020.163.200.233
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Joe MaysRP6.084422194-645.4894
Johan SantanaRP0.221101013-92.8813
LaTroy HawkinsRP0.220011019-121.5219
J.C. RomeroRP0.20000009-42.829
Eddie GuardadoP1.01000007-61.597

Starting lineups

MIN

  1. 1 Jacque Jones LF
  2. 2 Chris Gomez SS
  3. 3 Corey Koskie 3B
  4. 4 Bobby Kielty DH
  5. 5 Torii Hunter CF
  6. 6 Doug Mientkiewicz 1B
  7. 7 Dustan Mohr RF
  8. 8 A.J. Pierzynski C
  9. 9 Denny Hocking 2B

OAK

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

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