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3–7Final · Aug 21, 2003
TEX 3 CWS 7 Final
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TEX60-68000002100371
CWS67-61201101207100

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B2-550200020.311.346.458
Hank Blalock3B0-440000010.316.372.535
Alex RodriguezSS1-441111010.305.399.604
Rafael PalmeiroDH1-331111110.266.365.522
Mark Teixeira1B0-440000010.247.324.457
Laynce NixRF1-331100000.277.308.475
Marcus ThamesPH0-000000100.222.345.311
Todd GreeneC0-440000000.217.232.453
Jason JonesLF1-330110110.220.339.380
Ramon NivarCF0-330000110.225.276.296
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Colby LewisP5.2855422104-657.59104
Jay PowellP0.200011015-88.2315
Aaron FultzP1.222000030-245.2130

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Roberto Alomar2B0-441000100.266.342.345
Carlos LeeLF1-440110100.280.324.492
Aaron RowandLF0-000000000.276.319.440
Frank ThomasDH2-442211110.264.386.544
Magglio OrdonezRF1-440110000.317.383.555
Carl EverettCF2-330200100.284.367.517
Willie HarrisCF0-000000000.190.242.224
Paul Konerko1B0-441000000.226.284.374
Jose ValentinSS1-331110100.240.321.445
Joe Crede3B3-442331000.254.306.406
Miguel OlivoC0-440000020.230.283.352
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Bartolo ColonP7.0633252108-684.24108
Kelly WunschP1.100021025-131.6325
Tom GordonP0.20000208-73.548

Starting lineups

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 Miguel Olivo C

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 Laynce Nix RF
  7. 7 Todd Greene C
  8. 8 Jason Jones LF
  9. 9 Ramon Nivar CF

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