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3–7Final · Aug 13, 2003
DET 3 TEX 7 Final
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DET31-87010110000390
TEX53-67330001007100

Play-by-play

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

Box score

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex SanchezCF1-440100110.279.313.362
Warren Morris2B1-550100010.275.317.377
Bobby HigginsonRF1-440110000.239.328.366
Kevin WittDH1-331100110.284.322.437
Carlos Pena1B1-441111010.258.331.448
Craig MonroeLF1-440100000.233.288.431
Shane Halter3B0-220000200.218.271.325
Brandon IngeC2-440210000.184.251.311
Ramon SantiagoSS1-331100000.220.290.287
Dmitri YoungPH0-110000000.279.349.530
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mike MarothP5.086601298-595.2998
Chris SpurlingP1.011110022-104.5522
Jamie WalkerP1.000010013-73.5713
Eric EckenstahlerP1.01000005-41.175

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B3-442300000.314.347.461
Mark Teixeira1B1-441100000.254.333.464
Alex RodriguezSS1-331121100.305.399.582
Rafael PalmeiroDH2-442231000.253.357.511
Shane SpencerLF0-440000000.264.326.411
Marcus ThamesRF1-221100100.206.349.294
Hank Blalock3B2-440220000.319.373.543
Einar DiazC0-440000000.260.296.349
Donnie SadlerCF0-330000010.214.297.330
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
R.A. DickeyP6.0733231102-644.91102
Brian ShouseP2.010001019-153.3319
Ron MahayP0.110010012-61.7112
Francisco CorderoP0.200010013-52.9413

Starting lineups

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young 2B
  2. 2 Mark Teixeira 1B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro DH
  5. 5 Shane Spencer LF
  6. 6 Marcus Thames RF
  7. 7 Hank Blalock 3B
  8. 8 Einar Diaz C
  9. 9 Donnie Sadler CF

DET

  1. 1 Alex Sanchez CF
  2. 2 Warren Morris 2B
  3. 3 Bobby Higginson RF
  4. 4 Kevin Witt DH
  5. 5 Carlos Pena 1B
  6. 6 Craig Monroe LF
  7. 7 Shane Halter 3B
  8. 8 Brandon Inge C
  9. 9 Ramon Santiago SS

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