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3–6Final · Aug 24, 2003
CIN 3 HOU 6 Final
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CIN58-71010100010351
HOU68-62011003016110

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Ryan FreelCF0-330000100.273.344.400
Ray OlmedoSS1-440100000.275.315.304
D'Angelo Jimenez2B1-331111100.273.350.411
Sean Casey1B1-441111010.291.349.407
Ruben MateoRF1-441100010.242.301.338
Juan Castro3B0-440000020.250.275.402
Joe ValentineP0-000000000.000.000.000
Jason LaRueLF1-220110210.232.327.446
Wily Mo PenaCF0-220000110.159.205.203
John RiedlingP0-000000000.235.235.235
Jim Chamblee3B0-110000010.000.000.000
John BaleP0-220000010.000.000.000
Brian ReithP0-000000000.000.000.000
Reggie TaylorCF0-110000000.217.266.350
Corky MillerC0-110000000.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John BaleP4.262213176-502.7076
Brian ReithP0.233310124-134.5424
John RiedlingP1.200001011-85.2911
Joe ValentineP1.021100028-189.0028

HOU

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Craig BiggioCF2-330210100.259.341.407
Morgan Ensberg3B1-440100010.287.373.518
Jeff Bagwell1B1-441100010.273.373.498
Jeff Kent2B0-331000110.288.340.500
Richard HidalgoRF3-442331010.308.380.566
Jason LaneLF1-441121000.125.125.500
Raul ChavezC2-440200000.600.6671.400
Adam EverettSS1-331100000.238.294.364
Jeriome RobertsonP0-110000000.143.163.143
Jose VizcainoPH0-110000000.238.266.361
Octavio DotelP0-000000000.000.000.000
Billy WagnerP0-000000000.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jeriome RobertsonP7.042254197-545.0297
Octavio DotelP1.011102116-132.9016
Billy WagnerP1.000002013-91.9313

Starting lineups

HOU

  1. 1 Craig Biggio CF
  2. 2 Morgan Ensberg 3B
  3. 3 Jeff Bagwell 1B
  4. 4 Jeff Kent 2B
  5. 5 Richard Hidalgo RF
  6. 6 Jason Lane LF
  7. 7 Raul Chavez C
  8. 8 Adam Everett SS
  9. 9 Jeriome Robertson P

CIN

  1. 1 Ryan Freel CF
  2. 2 Ray Olmedo SS
  3. 3 D'Angelo Jimenez 2B
  4. 4 Sean Casey 1B
  5. 5 Ruben Mateo RF
  6. 6 Juan Castro 3B
  7. 7 Jason LaRue LF
  8. 8 Wily Mo Pena CF
  9. 9 John Bale P

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