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3–6Final · Aug 14, 2003
DET 3 TEX 6 Final
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  1. Top 1 Lineup Change
  2. Top 1 A Sanchez batting
  3. Top 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  4. Top 1 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  5. Top 1 Pitch 3: in play
  6. Top 1 A Sanchez tripled to right center.
  7. Top 1 W Morris batting
  8. Top 1 Pitch 1: in play
  9. Top 1 W Morris reached on infield single to third, A Sanchez scored.
  10. Top 1 B Higginson batting
  11. Top 1 Pitch 1: in play
  12. Top 1 B Higginson sacrificed to third, W Morris to second.
  13. Top 1 D Young batting
  14. Top 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  15. Top 1 Pitch 2: strike 1 (swinging)
  16. Top 1 Pitch 3: in play
  17. Top 1 D Young grounded out to shortstop, W Morris to third.
  18. Top 1 C Pena batting
  19. Top 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  20. Top 1 Pitch 2: strike 1 (foul)
  21. Top 1 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  22. Top 1 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  23. Top 1 C Pena struck out swinging.
  24. Bot 1 M Young batting
  25. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  26. Bot 1 Pitch 2: in play
  27. Bot 1 M Young safe at second on error by right fielder B Higginson.
  28. Bot 1 H Blalock batting
  29. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  30. Bot 1 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  31. Bot 1 Pitch 3: ball 1
  32. Bot 1 Pitch 4: in play
  33. Bot 1 H Blalock singled to right, M Young scored.
  34. Bot 1 A Rodriguez batting
  35. Bot 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  36. Bot 1 Pitch 2: ball 2
  37. Bot 1 Pitch 3: in play
  38. Bot 1 A Rodriguez popped out to shallow left center.
  39. Bot 1 R Palmeiro batting
  40. Bot 1 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  41. Bot 1 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  42. Bot 1 Pitch 3: ball 1
  43. Bot 1 Pitch 4: ball 2
  44. Bot 1 Pitch 5: ball 3
  45. Bot 1 Pitch 6: in play
  46. Bot 1 R Palmeiro grounded out to first, H Blalock to second.
  47. Bot 1 M Teixeira batting
  48. Bot 1 Pitch 1: ball 1
  49. Bot 1 Pitch 2: ball 2
  50. Bot 1 Pitch 3: ball 3
  51. Bot 1 Pitch 4: in play
  52. Bot 1 M Teixeira popped out to shallow left.
  53. Top 2 C Monroe batting
  54. Top 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  55. Top 2 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  56. Top 2 Pitch 3: ball 1
  57. Top 2 Pitch 4: ball 2
  58. Top 2 Pitch 5: in play
  59. Top 2 C Monroe grounded out to third.
  60. Top 2 S Halter batting
  61. Top 2 Pitch 1: ball 1
  62. Top 2 Pitch 2: ball 2
  63. Top 2 Pitch 3: in play
  64. Top 2 S Halter singled to center.
  65. Top 2 B Inge batting
  66. Top 2 Pitch 1: in play
  67. Top 2 B Inge grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, S Halter out at second.
  68. Bot 2 S Spencer batting
  69. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  70. Bot 2 Pitch 2: ball 1
  71. Bot 2 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  72. Bot 2 Pitch 4: foul
  73. Bot 2 Pitch 5: ball 2
  74. Bot 2 Pitch 6: foul
  75. Bot 2 Pitch 7: ball 3
  76. Bot 2 Pitch 8: foul
  77. Bot 2 Pitch 9: in play
  78. Bot 2 S Spencer homered to left.
  79. Bot 2 L Nix batting
  80. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  81. Bot 2 Pitch 2: ball 1
  82. Bot 2 Pitch 3: strike 2 (foul)
  83. Bot 2 Pitch 4: foul
  84. Bot 2 Pitch 5: ball 2
  85. Bot 2 Pitch 6: strike 3 (looking)
  86. Bot 2 L Nix struck out looking.
  87. Bot 2 T Greene batting
  88. Bot 2 Pitch 1: in play
  89. Bot 2 T Greene doubled to left center.
  90. Bot 2 R Nivar batting
  91. Bot 2 Pitch 1: in play
  92. Bot 2 R Nivar reached on bunt single to first, T Greene to third, T Greene scored on throwing error by pitcher M Roney.
  93. Bot 2 M Young batting
  94. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  95. Bot 2 Pitch 2: ball 1
  96. Bot 2 Pitch 3: ball 2
  97. Bot 2 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  98. Bot 2 Pitch 5: foul
  99. Bot 2 Pitch 6: ball 3
  100. Bot 2 Pitch 7: in play
  101. Bot 2 M Young popped out to third.
  102. Bot 2 H Blalock batting
  103. Bot 2 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  104. Bot 2 Pitch 2: in play
  105. Bot 2 R Nivar stole second.
  106. Bot 2 H Blalock out on batter's interference to catcher.
  107. Top 3 R Santiago batting
  108. Top 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  109. Top 3 Pitch 2: ball 2
  110. Top 3 Pitch 3: in play
  111. Top 3 R Santiago grounded out to first.
  112. Top 3 A Sanchez batting
  113. Top 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  114. Top 3 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  115. Top 3 Pitch 3: foul
  116. Top 3 Pitch 4: foul
  117. Top 3 Pitch 5: strike 3 (swinging)
  118. Top 3 A Sanchez struck out swinging.
  119. Top 3 W Morris batting
  120. Top 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  121. Top 3 Pitch 2: ball 2
  122. Top 3 Pitch 3: ball 3
  123. Top 3 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  124. Top 3 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  125. Top 3 Pitch 6: foul
  126. Top 3 Pitch 7: strike 3 (swinging)
  127. Top 3 W Morris struck out swinging.
  128. Bot 3 A Rodriguez batting
  129. Bot 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  130. Bot 3 Pitch 2: ball 2
  131. Bot 3 Pitch 3: ball 3
  132. Bot 3 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  133. Bot 3 Pitch 5: strike 2 (foul)
  134. Bot 3 Pitch 6: foul
  135. Bot 3 Pitch 7: ball 4
  136. Bot 3 A Rodriguez walked.
  137. Bot 3 R Palmeiro batting
  138. Bot 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  139. Bot 3 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  140. Bot 3 Pitch 3: ball 2
  141. Bot 3 Pitch 4: strike 2 (looking)
  142. Bot 3 Pitch 5: ball 3
  143. Bot 3 Pitch 6: foul
  144. Bot 3 Pitch 7: in play
  145. Bot 3 R Palmeiro singled to right, A Rodriguez to third.
  146. Bot 3 M Teixeira batting
  147. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  148. Bot 3 Pitch 2: ball 1
  149. Bot 3 Pitch 3: ball 2
  150. Bot 3 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  151. Bot 3 Pitch 5: ball 3
  152. Bot 3 Pitch 6: ball 4
  153. Bot 3 M Teixeira walked, R Palmeiro to second.
  154. Bot 3 S Spencer batting
  155. Bot 3 Lineup Change
  156. Bot 3 Lineup Change
  157. Bot 3 S Loux relieved M Roney.
  158. Bot 3 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  159. Bot 3 Pitch 2: ball 1
  160. Bot 3 Pitch 3: ball 2
  161. Bot 3 Pitch 4: ball 3
  162. Bot 3 Pitch 5: strike 2 (looking)
  163. Bot 3 Pitch 6: in play
  164. Bot 3 S Spencer grounded into fielder's choice to third, A Rodriguez out at home, R Palmeiro to third, M Teixeira to second.
  165. Bot 3 L Nix batting
  166. Bot 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  167. Bot 3 Pitch 2: ball 2
  168. Bot 3 Pitch 3: strike 1 (foul)
  169. Bot 3 Pitch 4: in play
  170. Bot 3 L Nix singled to right, R Palmeiro and M Teixeira scored, S Spencer to third.
  171. Bot 3 T Greene batting
  172. Bot 3 Pitch 1: ball 1
  173. Bot 3 Pitch 2: ball 2
  174. Bot 3 Pitch 3: in play
  175. Bot 3 T Greene grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, L Nix out at second.
  176. Top 4 B Higginson batting
  177. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  178. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 1
  179. Top 4 Pitch 3: ball 2
  180. Top 4 Pitch 4: in play
  181. Top 4 B Higginson popped out to third.
  182. Top 4 D Young batting
  183. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  184. Top 4 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  185. Top 4 Pitch 3: ball 1
  186. Top 4 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  187. Top 4 D Young struck out swinging.
  188. Top 4 C Pena batting
  189. Top 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  190. Top 4 Pitch 2: ball 2
  191. Top 4 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  192. Top 4 Pitch 4: ball 3
  193. Top 4 Pitch 5: in play
  194. Top 4 C Pena doubled to deep left.
  195. Top 4 C Monroe batting
  196. Top 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  197. Top 4 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  198. Top 4 Pitch 3: in play
  199. Top 4 C Monroe flied out to deep right center.
  200. Bot 4 R Nivar batting
  201. Bot 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (bunted foul)
  202. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 2 (swinging)
  203. Bot 4 Pitch 3: ball 1
  204. Bot 4 Pitch 4: in play
  205. Bot 4 R Nivar reached on infield single to third, R Nivar to second on throwing error by third baseman S Halter.
  206. Bot 4 M Young batting
  207. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  208. Bot 4 Pitch 2: in play
  209. Bot 4 M Young grounded out to second, R Nivar to third.
  210. Bot 4 H Blalock batting
  211. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  212. Bot 4 Pitch 2: ball 2
  213. Bot 4 Pitch 3: ball 3
  214. Bot 4 Pitch 4: strike 1 (looking)
  215. Bot 4 Pitch 5: ball 4
  216. Bot 4 H Blalock walked.
  217. Bot 4 A Rodriguez batting
  218. Bot 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  219. Bot 4 Pitch 2: in play
  220. Bot 4 A Rodriguez singled to left, R Nivar scored, H Blalock to second.
  221. Bot 4 R Palmeiro batting
  222. Bot 4 Pitch 1: ball 1
  223. Bot 4 Pitch 2: ball 2
  224. Bot 4 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  225. Bot 4 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  226. Bot 4 Pitch 5: foul
  227. Bot 4 Pitch 6: in play
  228. Bot 4 R Palmeiro flied out to shallow right.
  229. Bot 4 M Teixeira batting
  230. Bot 4 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  231. Bot 4 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  232. Bot 4 Pitch 3: in play
  233. Bot 4 M Teixeira grounded out to first.
  234. Top 5 S Halter batting
  235. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  236. Top 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  237. Top 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  238. Top 5 Pitch 4: in play
  239. Top 5 S Halter grounded out to shortstop.
  240. Top 5 B Inge batting
  241. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  242. Top 5 Pitch 2: in play
  243. Top 5 B Inge doubled to deep right.
  244. Top 5 R Santiago batting
  245. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  246. Top 5 Pitch 2: in play
  247. Top 5 R Santiago grounded into fielder's choice to pitcher, B Inge out at third.
  248. Top 5 A Sanchez batting
  249. Top 5 Pitch 1: in play
  250. Top 5 A Sanchez reached on bunt single to first, R Santiago to third.
  251. Top 5 W Morris batting
  252. Top 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  253. Top 5 A Sanchez stole second, R Santiago scored on throwing error by catcher T Greene.
  254. Top 5 Pitch 2: ball 2
  255. Top 5 Pitch 3: in play
  256. Top 5 W Morris doubled to left, A Sanchez scored.
  257. Top 5 B Higginson batting
  258. Top 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (swinging)
  259. Top 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  260. Top 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  261. Top 5 Pitch 4: strike 3 (swinging)
  262. Top 5 B Higginson struck out swinging.
  263. Bot 5 S Spencer batting
  264. Bot 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  265. Bot 5 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)
  266. Bot 5 Pitch 3: ball 1
  267. Bot 5 Pitch 4: ball 2
  268. Bot 5 Pitch 5: in play
  269. Bot 5 S Spencer grounded out to third.
  270. Bot 5 L Nix batting
  271. Bot 5 Pitch 1: ball 1
  272. Bot 5 Pitch 2: in play
  273. Bot 5 L Nix lined out to left.
  274. Bot 5 T Greene batting
  275. Bot 5 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  276. Bot 5 Pitch 2: ball 1
  277. Bot 5 Pitch 3: in play
  278. Bot 5 T Greene grounded out to third.
  279. Top 6 D Young batting
  280. Top 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  281. Top 6 Pitch 2: in play
  282. Top 6 D Young singled to right.
  283. Top 6 C Pena batting
  284. Top 6 Pitch 1: in play
  285. Top 6 C Pena singled to left center, D Young to second.
  286. Top 6 C Monroe batting
  287. Top 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  288. Top 6 Pitch 2: in play
  289. Top 6 C Monroe grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, C Pena out at second, D Young to third.
  290. Top 6 S Halter batting
  291. Top 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  292. Top 6 Pitch 2: in play
  293. Top 6 S Halter grounded out to third.
  294. Bot 6 Lineup Change
  295. Bot 6 Lineup Change
  296. Bot 6 S Sparks relieved S Loux.
  297. Bot 6 R Nivar batting
  298. Bot 6 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  299. Bot 6 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  300. Bot 6 Pitch 3: in play
  301. Bot 6 R Nivar grounded out to third.
  302. Bot 6 M Young batting
  303. Bot 6 Pitch 1: in play
  304. Bot 6 M Young singled to left.
  305. Bot 6 H Blalock batting
  306. Bot 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  307. Bot 6 Pitch 2: ball 2
  308. Bot 6 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  309. Bot 6 Pitch 4: ball 3
  310. Bot 6 Pitch 5: ball 4
  311. Bot 6 H Blalock walked, M Young to second.
  312. Bot 6 A Rodriguez batting
  313. Bot 6 Pitch 1: ball 1
  314. Bot 6 Pitch 2: ball 2
  315. Bot 6 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  316. Bot 6 Pitch 4: strike 2 (foul)
  317. Bot 6 Pitch 5: in play
  318. Bot 6 A Rodriguez grounded into double play, second to shortstop to first, H Blalock out at second.
  319. Top 7 B Inge batting
  320. Top 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  321. Top 7 Pitch 2: strike 2 (looking)
  322. Top 7 Pitch 3: ball 1
  323. Top 7 Pitch 4: foul
  324. Top 7 Pitch 5: foul
  325. Top 7 Pitch 6: strike 3 (looking)
  326. Top 7 B Inge struck out looking.
  327. Top 7 R Santiago batting
  328. Top 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  329. Top 7 Pitch 2: in play
  330. Top 7 R Santiago grounded out to second.
  331. Top 7 A Sanchez batting
  332. Top 7 Pitch 1: in play
  333. Top 7 A Sanchez bunt grounded out to pitcher.
  334. Bot 7 R Palmeiro batting
  335. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  336. Bot 7 Pitch 2: ball 2
  337. Bot 7 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  338. Bot 7 Pitch 4: in play
  339. Bot 7 R Palmeiro popped out to shallow left.
  340. Bot 7 M Teixeira batting
  341. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  342. Bot 7 Pitch 2: ball 2
  343. Bot 7 Pitch 3: strike 1 (foul)
  344. Bot 7 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  345. Bot 7 Pitch 5: ball 3
  346. Bot 7 Pitch 6: in play
  347. Bot 7 M Teixeira flied out to right.
  348. Bot 7 S Spencer batting
  349. Bot 7 Pitch 1: strike 1 (looking)
  350. Bot 7 Pitch 2: ball 1
  351. Bot 7 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  352. Bot 7 Pitch 4: foul
  353. Bot 7 Pitch 5: ball 2
  354. Bot 7 Pitch 6: in play
  355. Bot 7 S Spencer singled to center.
  356. Bot 7 L Nix batting
  357. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  358. Bot 7 Pitch 2: ball 2
  359. Bot 7 Pitch 3: strike 1 (looking)
  360. Bot 7 Pitch 4: in play
  361. Bot 7 L Nix singled to center, S Spencer to third.
  362. Bot 7 T Greene batting
  363. Bot 7 Pitch 1: ball 1
  364. Bot 7 Pitch 2: strike 1 (swinging)
  365. Bot 7 Pitch 3: strike 2 (swinging)
  366. Bot 7 Pitch 4: foul
  367. Bot 7 Pitch 5: foul
  368. Bot 7 Pitch 6: in play
  369. Bot 7 T Greene popped out to second.
  370. Top 8 Lineup Change
  371. Top 8 Lineup Change
  372. Top 8 A Fultz relieved J Thomson.
  373. Top 8 W Morris batting
  374. Top 8 Pitch 1: in play
  375. Top 8 W Morris singled to right.
  376. Top 8 B Higginson batting
  377. Top 8 Pitch 1: in play
  378. Top 8 B Higginson grounded into double play, first to shortstop to first, W Morris out at second.
  379. Top 8 D Young batting
  380. Top 8 Pitch 1: in play
  381. Top 8 D Young singled to right center.
  382. Top 8 C Pena batting
  383. Top 8 Pitch 1: ball 1
  384. Top 8 Pitch 2: strike 1 (looking)
  385. Top 8 Pitch 3: ball 2
  386. Top 8 Pitch 4: in play
  387. Top 8 C Pena grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, D Young out at second.
  388. Bot 8 R Nivar batting
  389. Bot 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  390. Bot 8 Pitch 2: ball 1
  391. Bot 8 Pitch 3: ball 2
  392. Bot 8 Pitch 4: strike 2 (swinging)
  393. Bot 8 Pitch 5: foul
  394. Bot 8 Pitch 6: foul
  395. Bot 8 Pitch 7: foul
  396. Bot 8 Pitch 8: strike 3 (swinging)
  397. Bot 8 R Nivar struck out swinging.
  398. Bot 8 M Young batting
  399. Bot 8 Pitch 1: strike 1 (foul)
  400. Bot 8 Pitch 2: strike 2 (foul)

Box score

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex SanchezCF2-442200010.281.314.367
Warren Morris2B3-440320010.284.324.389
Bobby HigginsonRF0-330000010.237.326.362
Dmitri YoungDH2-440200010.281.350.530
Carlos Pena1B2-440200010.261.333.452
Craig MonroeLF0-440000000.229.284.425
Shane Halter3B1-440100000.219.271.324
Brandon IngeC1-440100010.186.251.314
Ramon SantiagoSS0-331000000.218.288.284
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Matt RoneyP2.055321165-375.1965
Shane LouxP3.031110045-266.2845
Steve W. SparksP3.030011058-384.5258

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B1-551100000.312.346.458
Hank Blalock3B1-330110200.320.376.541
Alex RodriguezSS1-330110100.305.400.580
Rafael PalmeiroDH1-441100000.253.356.509
Mark Teixeira1B0-331000100.252.332.461
Shane SpencerLF2-441211000.268.328.423
Laynce NixRF2-440220010.274.303.476
Todd GreeneC1-441100000.221.236.462
Ramon NivarCF2-441200010.196.245.239
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John ThomsonP7.093306084-595.2484
Aaron FultzP1.02000007-55.437
Francisco CorderoP1.00000007-52.897

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 Shane Spencer LF
  7. 7 Laynce Nix RF
  8. 8 Todd Greene C
  9. 9 Ramon Nivar CF

DET

  1. 1 Alex Sanchez CF
  2. 2 Warren Morris 2B
  3. 3 Bobby Higginson RF
  4. 4 Dmitri Young 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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