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4–6Final · Aug 17, 2003
CWS 4 TEX 6 Final
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CWS63-61001300000461
TEX57-6703000120680

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Roberto Alomar2B0-330000100.262.339.344
Carlos LeeLF0-440000030.282.327.501
Frank ThomasDH1-330100110.260.385.529
Magglio OrdonezRF1-441100000.318.384.557
Carl EverettCF2-441200010.279.361.509
Paul Konerko1B0-441010010.231.290.382
Jose ValentinSS1-440110010.241.323.446
Joe Crede3B1-331121000.249.302.390
Sandy Alomar Jr.C0-330000000.259.278.408
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Neal CottsP5.2544261109-676.75109
Scott SchoeneweisP0.10000004-35.054
Damaso MarteP1.032201026-221.8526
Tom GordonP1.00000106-63.706

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B0-440000020.313.348.462
Donnie Sadler3B1-441100020.215.301.327
Alex RodriguezSS2-441231020.307.402.588
Shane SpencerLF1-331100100.268.330.422
Mark Teixeira1B1-441110000.252.331.462
Jason JonesDH0-330000100.200.333.400
Marcus ThamesRF1-441110010.211.340.316
Einar DiazC2-331210000.261.296.352
Ramon NivarCF0-330000010.214.267.286
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jay PowellP3.010001041-258.3441
Ron MahayP1.000001017-101.8817
Francisco CorderoP1.01000007-52.857

Starting lineups

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young 2B
  2. 2 Donnie Sadler 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Shane Spencer LF
  5. 5 Mark Teixeira 1B
  6. 6 Jason Jones DH
  7. 7 Marcus Thames RF
  8. 8 Einar Diaz C
  9. 9 Ramon Nivar CF

CWS

  1. 1 Roberto Alomar 2B
  2. 2 Carlos Lee LF
  3. 3 Frank Thomas DH
  4. 4 Magglio Ordonez RF
  5. 5 Carl Everett CF
  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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