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9–3Final · Aug 6, 2003
OAK 9 DET 3 Final
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OAK66-471201002039141
DET29-82002000100370

Play-by-play

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

Box score

OAK

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Mark Ellis2B1-441100100.252.326.365
Jose GuillenRF3-552300000.332.380.605
Eric Chavez3B3-553352000.276.345.520
Miguel TejadaSS0-440000100.259.312.440
Erubiel DurazoDH1-440110100.263.384.436
Ramon HernandezC1-550100010.251.309.437
Scott Hatteberg1B2-551200000.267.351.397
Adam PiattLF2-552221010.237.279.464
Eric ByrnesCF1-440110010.276.340.476
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Tim HudsonP8.0733062103-692.64103
John HalamaP1.000000010-63.9410

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex SanchezCF1-441100000.284.315.370
Warren Morris2B0-440000000.270.317.381
Bobby HigginsonRF2-441221020.248.341.369
Dmitri YoungDH0-440000020.289.360.551
Kevin WittLF1-330100000.283.320.444
Craig MonroePH0-110000000.230.287.411
Carlos Pena1B1-440100000.254.325.438
Eric Munson3B1-441111010.241.315.434
Matt WalbeckC1-330100010.183.202.230
Ramon SantiagoSS0-220000000.219.294.291
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Wil J LedezmaP5.074431296-574.7696
Chris SpurlingP1.122201117-134.6117
Jamie WalkerP0.20000009-53.359
Danny PattersonP1.000001014-92.4514
Chris MearsP0.143300015-94.0015
Steve W. SparksP0.21000008-54.278

Starting lineups

DET

  1. 1 Alex Sanchez CF
  2. 2 Warren Morris 2B
  3. 3 Bobby Higginson RF
  4. 4 Dmitri Young DH
  5. 5 Kevin Witt LF
  6. 6 Carlos Pena 1B
  7. 7 Eric Munson 3B
  8. 8 Matt Walbeck C
  9. 9 Ramon Santiago SS

OAK

  1. 1 Mark Ellis 2B
  2. 2 Jose Guillen RF
  3. 3 Eric Chavez 3B
  4. 4 Miguel Tejada SS
  5. 5 Erubiel Durazo DH
  6. 6 Ramon Hernandez C
  7. 7 Scott Hatteberg 1B
  8. 8 Adam Piatt LF
  9. 9 Eric Byrnes CF

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