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7–9Final · Aug 15, 2003
HOU 7 CIN 9 Final
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HOU64-5820000014007111
CIN54-6720000050029101

Play-by-play

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

Box score

HOU

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Craig BiggioCF3-552331010.258.341.403
Morgan Ensberg3B1-440100000.289.377.532
Octavio DotelP0-000000000.000.000.000
Orlando MercedPH0-110000010.239.289.388
Billy WagnerP0-000000000.000.000.000
Brad LidgeP0-000000000.000.000.000
Jeff Bagwell1B1-550100000.271.370.503
Jeff Kent2B2-551221000.294.345.505
Lance BerkmanLF0-221000310.285.404.519
Richard HidalgoRF1-440100120.308.379.561
Brad AusmusC1-441100120.220.293.282
Adam EverettSS1-551100000.236.294.367
Ron VilloneP1-331111000.154.185.308
Geoff Blum3B0-110010000.257.293.391
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Ron VilloneP6.133331193-543.2093
Octavio DotelP0.244410017-102.9417
Billy WagnerP2.010004026-201.9126
Brad LidgeP0.122201112-82.9912

CIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Ray OlmedoSS1-442120100.289.325.325
Jason LaRueC2-552241010.239.332.468
Ryan WagnerP0-000000000.000.000.000
D'Angelo Jimenez2B3-551310000.280.353.420
Sean Casey1B0-440000000.295.354.411
Wily Mo PenaCF0-110000010.161.188.210
Adam Dunn1B1-551121010.215.354.465
Ruben MateoRF2-331200100.254.317.354
Brandon Larson3B0-220000100.105.210.151
Juan Castro3B0-110000010.251.277.398
Reggie TaylorLF1-441100010.209.251.329
Danny GravesP0-220000000.115.115.115
Dernell StensonPH0-001000100.000.333.000
John RiedlingP0-000000000.235.235.235
Chris ReitsmaP0-000000000.125.125.125
Kelly StinnettC0-110000010.252.306.384
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Danny GravesP7.083334293-635.1893
John RiedlingP0.223310018-125.2418
Chris ReitsmaP1.111102124-163.9724
Ryan WagnerP1.000011019-102.7719

Starting lineups

CIN

  1. 1 Ray Olmedo SS
  2. 2 Jason LaRue C
  3. 3 D'Angelo Jimenez 2B
  4. 4 Sean Casey 1B
  5. 5 Adam Dunn 1B
  6. 6 Ruben Mateo RF
  7. 7 Brandon Larson 3B
  8. 8 Reggie Taylor LF
  9. 9 Danny Graves P

HOU

  1. 1 Craig Biggio CF
  2. 2 Morgan Ensberg 3B
  3. 3 Jeff Bagwell 1B
  4. 4 Jeff Kent 2B
  5. 5 Lance Berkman LF
  6. 6 Richard Hidalgo RF
  7. 7 Brad Ausmus C
  8. 8 Adam Everett SS
  9. 9 Ron Villone P

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