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Houston Astros logo Houston Astros @ Chicago Cubs logo Chicago Cubs

9–1Final · May 30, 2003
HOU 9 CHC 1 Final
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HOU29-26010440000980
CHC29-24000010000121

Play-by-play

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

Box score

HOU

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Craig BiggioRP0-440000000.280.347.436
Colin PorterRF0-110000010.000.000.000
Jose Vizcaino2B1-441100110.226.265.301
Jeff Bagwell1B1-550100010.286.360.475
Jeff KentRP0-331000110.332.396.566
Adam EverettSS0-110000000.263.314.388
Lance BerkmanLF2-552210010.270.388.443
Morgan Ensberg3B1-223111210.286.396.548
Brian L. HunterCF2-441220000.232.267.286
Brad AusmusC1-331130110.199.266.288
Wade MillerP0-440000010.208.208.250
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Wade MillerP9.02111141102-764.76102

CHC

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Mark Grudzielanek2B0-440000010.302.350.387
Alex GonzalezSS0-440000030.252.315.391
Sammy SosaRF0-440000030.294.433.524
Moises AlouRP0-220000010.302.375.464
Troy O'LearyLF0-110000000.195.250.317
Corey PattersonCF1-331111010.312.330.559
Hee Seop Choi1B0-330000020.239.395.521
Lenny Harris3B0-220000100.209.284.284
Damian MillerC1-330100020.224.331.392
Shawn EstesRP0-000000000.158.200.158
Juan CruzRP0-110000000.000.000.000
Kyle FarnsworthRP0-000000000.000.000.000
Antonio AlfonsecaRP0-000000000.000.000.000
Mark BellhornPH0-110000010.217.355.325
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Shawn EstesRP4.178830169-375.7369
Juan CruzRP2.211025073-426.3973
Kyle FarnsworthRP1.000003012-92.3812
Antonio AlfonsecaRP1.000000010-84.0510

Starting lineups

CHC

  1. 1 Mark Grudzielanek 2B
  2. 2 Alex Gonzalez SS
  3. 3 Sammy Sosa RF
  4. 4 Moises Alou RP
  5. 5 Corey Patterson CF
  6. 6 Hee Seop Choi 1B
  7. 7 Lenny Harris 3B
  8. 8 Damian Miller C
  9. 9 Shawn Estes RP

HOU

  1. 1 Craig Biggio RP
  2. 2 Jose Vizcaino 2B
  3. 3 Jeff Bagwell 1B
  4. 4 Jeff Kent RP
  5. 5 Lance Berkman LF
  6. 6 Morgan Ensberg 3B
  7. 7 Brian L. Hunter CF
  8. 8 Brad Ausmus C
  9. 9 Wade Miller P

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