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7–9Final · Aug 27, 2003
DET 7 CLE 9 Final
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DET33-980100500107100
CLE59-74103212009120

Play-by-play

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

Box score

DET

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Alex SanchezCF1-551100000.281.313.363
Danny Klassen3B1-441121010.250.286.425
Kevin WittPH0-110000010.278.313.423
Bobby HigginsonRF1-551100020.234.316.365
Dmitri YoungDH2-331221110.296.367.563
Craig MonroeLF2-441211010.233.287.450
Carlos Pena1B1-331111010.262.338.476
Warren Morris2B1-440100010.290.338.396
Brandon IngeC1-441111000.211.272.363
Ramon SantiagoSS0-440000000.217.287.277
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Shane LouxP2.021110026-126.9526
Wil J LedezmaP1.033310124-145.8524
Chris SpurlingP1.143301032-185.3732
Franklyn GermanP1.032210025-104.8125
Danny PattersonP1.000001011-82.4011

CLE

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Coco CrispCF4-554400000.274.313.375
Omar VizquelSS1-551110000.251.326.347
Jody GerutLF2-442241110.282.340.493
Ryan LudwickRF1-330110110.261.315.478
Matt LawtonDH3-331320100.252.346.433
Casey Blake3B1-440110000.269.320.448
Travis Hafner1B0-330000000.262.335.495
Josh BardC0-440000000.209.259.281
Brandon Phillips2B0-111000000.209.244.306
Angel Santos2B0-220000000.260.288.520
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Terry MulhollandP4.276605479-524.7479
Jack CressendP1.120000017-111.1917
Rafael BetancourtP0.200011017-81.4617
Danys BaezP1.111101112-83.5512
David RiskeP1.000001010-82.3510

Starting lineups

CLE

  1. 1 Coco Crisp CF
  2. 2 Omar Vizquel SS
  3. 3 Jody Gerut LF
  4. 4 Ryan Ludwick RF
  5. 5 Matt Lawton DH
  6. 6 Casey Blake 3B
  7. 7 Travis Hafner 1B
  8. 8 Josh Bard C
  9. 9 Brandon Phillips 2B

DET

  1. 1 Alex Sanchez CF
  2. 2 Danny Klassen 3B
  3. 3 Bobby Higginson RF
  4. 4 Dmitri Young DH
  5. 5 Craig Monroe LF
  6. 6 Carlos Pena 1B
  7. 7 Warren Morris 2B
  8. 8 Brandon Inge C
  9. 9 Ramon Santiago SS

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