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5–0Final · Aug 24, 2003
TEX 5 CWS 0 Final
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TEX61-70002000030560
CWS69-62000000000040

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Donnie SadlerRF1-551100030.200.285.300
Hank Blalock3B1-441121000.315.370.543
Alex RodriguezSS1-331100110.303.398.601
Rafael PalmeiroDH0-221000200.265.366.516
Shane SpencerLF1-330100120.269.333.425
Mark Teixeira1B1-440120020.248.325.455
Laynce NixCF0-440000020.264.295.453
Todd GreeneC1-441100010.219.233.444
Jason JonesLF0-440000020.204.317.352
Michael Young2B0-000000000.308.342.452
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John ThomsonP9.0400160103-754.94103

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Roberto Alomar2B0-440000010.263.338.343
Carlos LeeLF1-440100000.281.326.496
Frank ThomasDH0-330000110.264.384.557
Magglio OrdonezRF2-440200000.318.382.550
Carl EverettCF0-440000010.285.370.520
Paul Konerko1B1-330100000.225.286.372
Jose ValentinSS0-330000010.240.320.462
Joe Crede3B0-330000010.255.307.413
Miguel OlivoC0-220000010.229.281.349
Brian DaubachPH0-110000000.230.369.388
Sandy Alomar Jr.C0-000000000.255.273.395
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jon GarlandP7.05332101106-704.44106
Kelly WunschP0.102120014-51.8614
Scott SullivanP0.210001017-113.4417
Damaso MarteP1.000002018-111.7318

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 Donnie Sadler RF
  2. 2 Hank Blalock 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro DH
  5. 5 Shane Spencer LF
  6. 6 Mark Teixeira 1B
  7. 7 Laynce Nix CF
  8. 8 Todd Greene C
  9. 9 Jason Jones LF

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