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3–5Final · Aug 9, 2003
TEX 3 TOR 5 Final
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TEX50-66000010011350
TOR58-58001001035111

Play-by-play

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B0-440010000.311.344.453
Hank Blalock3B0-330000020.322.377.549
Alex RodriguezSS0-330000010.299.391.569
Rafael PalmeiroDH0-221000200.253.358.501
Mark Teixeira1B1-440100010.257.338.474
Shane SpencerLF0-220000210.270.328.423
Laynce NixRF1-441100010.233.273.466
Einar DiazC1-330100010.267.304.359
Jason JonesPH0-000010100.179.303.286
Donnie SadlerPR0-000000000.229.309.354
Ramon NivarCF2-441210010.161.212.226
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Robert EllisP5.172232090-586.6190
Erasmo RamirezP1.200011023-153.4723
Aaron FultzP0.11221109-45.799
Rosman GarciaP0.131101016-115.8916
Brian ShouseP0.00000003-13.333
Jay PowellP0.10000001-18.671

TOR

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Reed JohnsonLF1-551110000.294.354.423
Mike BordickSS1-440120010.282.336.403
Vernon WellsCF1-550100000.306.350.560
Carlos Delgado1B1-221110200.303.426.604
Greg MyersC1-440100020.331.404.536
Tom WilsonC---------------------------
Josh PhelpsDH1-330100110.260.344.435
Eric Hinske3B2-331210000.238.327.428
Frank CatalanottoLF1-221100100.284.329.435
Bobby KieltyRF0-001000100.246.362.410
Orlando Hudson2B2-330200000.273.334.391
Dave Berg2B0-110000010.270.303.417
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Kelvim EscobarP8.0321370112-693.85112
Trever MillerP0.00111007-34.547
Scott ServiceP0.120010019-104.7219
Aquilino LopezP0.20000107-73.987

Starting lineups

TOR

  1. 1 Reed Johnson LF
  2. 2 Mike Bordick SS
  3. 3 Vernon Wells CF
  4. 4 Carlos Delgado 1B
  5. 5 Greg Myers C
  6. 6 Josh Phelps DH
  7. 7 Eric Hinske 3B
  8. 8 Frank Catalanotto LF
  9. 9 Orlando Hudson 2B

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young 2B
  2. 2 Hank Blalock 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro DH
  5. 5 Mark Teixeira 1B
  6. 6 Shane Spencer LF
  7. 7 Laynce Nix RF
  8. 8 Einar Diaz C
  9. 9 Ramon Nivar CF

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