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Texas Rangers logo Texas Rangers @ Detroit Tigers logo Detroit Tigers

5–4Final · Aug 19, 2003
TEX 5 DET 4 Final
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TEX59-671030000105110
DET31-931010100104121

Play-by-play

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B1-441100100.311.346.456
Hank Blalock3B0-551000020.316.372.539
Alex RodriguezSS2-442231110.306.401.597
Rafael Palmeiro1B3-440310100.265.365.519
Shane SpencerDH0-550000030.268.327.428
Jason JonesLF1-440100000.205.327.386
Donnie SadlerLF0-111000000.205.289.313
Marcus ThamesRF1-440100010.222.333.311
Todd GreeneC1-440100000.223.238.465
Ramon NivarCF2-440210010.231.275.292
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John ThomsonP8.01144431120-795.21120
Brian ShouseP1.010002017-113.2117

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex SanchezCF1-550100000.279.311.364
Ben PetrickLF2-443211120.220.270.424
Bobby HigginsonRF2-550210010.240.327.383
Dmitri YoungDH1-440100000.284.353.536
Carlos Pena1B1-441110000.255.332.439
Shane Halter3B1-220110100.217.268.327
Warren Morris2B1-330100100.279.325.376
Brandon IngeC1-440100010.206.267.346
Ramon SantiagoSS1-220100110.215.285.279
Kevin WittPH0-000000000.286.322.441
Craig MonroePH1-110100000.232.288.424
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mike MarothP6.1743251105-705.25105
Chris SpurlingP1.131113037-224.7137
Eric EckenstahlerP0.10000003-13.003
Matt RoneyP1.010000011-75.0711

Starting lineups

DET

  1. 1 Alex Sanchez CF
  2. 2 Ben Petrick LF
  3. 3 Bobby Higginson RF
  4. 4 Dmitri Young DH
  5. 5 Carlos Pena 1B
  6. 6 Shane Halter 3B
  7. 7 Warren Morris 2B
  8. 8 Brandon Inge C
  9. 9 Ramon Santiago SS

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young 2B
  2. 2 Hank Blalock 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro 1B
  5. 5 Shane Spencer DH
  6. 6 Jason Jones LF
  7. 7 Marcus Thames RF
  8. 8 Todd Greene C
  9. 9 Ramon Nivar CF

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