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Texas Rangers logo Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers logo Detroit Tigers

4–2Final · Aug 18, 2003
TEX 4 DET 2 Final
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TEX58-6700020000000000024132
DET31-9200100000100000002111

Play-by-play

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B1-770100000.311.346.458
Donnie Sadler3B0-440000010.207.291.315
Hank Blalock3B1-331100010.320.376.545
Alex RodriguezSS1-771121000.304.399.588
Rafael PalmeiroDH2-771200020.261.360.517
Shane SpencerLF3-771321020.272.332.435
Mark Teixeira1B1-770100050.250.328.456
Marcus ThamesRF1-330100000.220.340.317
Laynce NixRF1-330100010.274.300.474
Todd GreeneC1-440100000.222.237.471
Einar DiazC0-220000110.260.297.349
Ramon NivarCF1-550100010.213.262.279
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Ismael ValdezP6.131132185-495.9785
Brian ShouseP1.000001010-73.2710
Aaron FultzP0.220010011-75.3711
Francisco CorderoP1.011100117-102.9417
Erasmo RamirezP3.020002037-292.5337
Ron MahayP3.020007042-261.7142
R.A. DickeyP1.000001011-84.8511

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex SanchezCF2-770200010.280.312.365
Warren Morris2B0-220000100.278.322.377
Danny KlassenSS0-440000020.083.083.167
Bobby HigginsonRF0-770000030.238.326.382
Dmitri YoungDH1-770100010.285.354.539
Carlos Pena1B0-660000120.255.333.436
Ben PetrickLF1-550100110.200.241.345
Shane Halter2B2-661211010.215.264.326
Brandon IngeC3-661311010.205.267.348
Ramon SantiagoSS0-220000010.213.282.278
Craig MonroePH0-000000100.230.286.422
Kevin Witt3B1-330100000.286.322.441
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Danny PattersonP1.200003015-121.3815
Matt RoneyP1.000000012-65.1312
Jamie WalkerP3.010003036-253.4436
Steve W. SparksP2.042210136-234.6336

Starting lineups

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 Ben Petrick LF
  7. 7 Shane Halter 2B
  8. 8 Brandon Inge C
  9. 9 Ramon Santiago SS

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young 2B
  2. 2 Donnie Sadler 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro DH
  5. 5 Shane Spencer LF
  6. 6 Mark Teixeira 1B
  7. 7 Marcus Thames RF
  8. 8 Todd Greene C
  9. 9 Ramon Nivar CF

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