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8–12Final · Aug 16, 2003
CWS 8 TEX 12 Final
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CWS63-600060002008130
TEX56-675043000012122

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Roberto Alomar2B2-551200000.264.340.347
Carlos LeeLF2-551221000.285.329.505
Carl EverettCF0-440000110.277.360.506
Magglio OrdonezRF2-551200020.319.385.560
Brian DaubachDH2-332200100.233.365.390
Tony GraffaninoPH0-110000000.265.341.454
Paul Konerko1B1-551110000.234.293.386
Jose ValentinSS1-441110000.240.324.445
Joe Crede3B1-330110100.249.301.383
Sandy Alomar Jr.C2-441231000.264.284.417
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Bartolo ColonP3.079935263-394.2563
Dan WrightP3.043311166-415.9366
Kelly WunschP2.010001022-161.7122

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B2-442200100.316.351.466
Hank Blalock3B2-442221110.320.376.547
Alex RodriguezSS1-333100210.305.401.578
Rafael PalmeiroDH2-331220010.260.361.518
Mark Teixeira1B1-441120010.252.332.462
Laynce NixRF1-441110010.272.299.467
Todd GreeneC1-441131010.221.237.477
Jason JonesLF1-441121010.216.341.432
Donnie SadlerLF0-000000000.214.303.330
Ramon NivarCF1-440100000.226.281.302
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Robert EllisP2.065511245-298.3545
Joaquin BenoitP4.153322086-565.7386
Erasmo RamirezP2.220000026-202.7926

Starting lineups

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 Laynce Nix RF
  7. 7 Todd Greene C
  8. 8 Jason Jones LF
  9. 9 Ramon Nivar CF

CWS

  1. 1 Roberto Alomar 2B
  2. 2 Carlos Lee LF
  3. 3 Carl Everett CF
  4. 4 Magglio Ordonez RF
  5. 5 Brian Daubach DH
  6. 6 Paul Konerko 1B
  7. 7 Jose Valentin SS
  8. 8 Joe Crede 3B
  9. 9 Sandy Alomar Jr. C

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