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St. Louis Cardinals logo St. Louis Cardinals @ Cincinnati Reds logo Cincinnati Reds

5–0Final · Aug 31, 2003
STL 5 CIN 0 Final
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STL72-64000002030581
CIN59-77000000000040

Play-by-play

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

Box score

STL

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Bo Hart2B1-441100100.276.324.389
Miguel CairoLF3-552300000.271.313.412
Albert Pujols1B2-442252000.368.438.685
Scott Rolen3B0-440000010.289.385.544
Eduardo PérezRF0-440000010.275.358.454
Russ SpringerP0-000000000.000.000.000
Edgar RenteriaSS0-330000100.333.385.490
Mike MathenyC0-330000120.240.311.329
So TaguchiCF0-220000000.368.400.526
Orlando PalmeiroPH0-110000000.274.343.338
Cal EldredP0-000000000.500.500.500
Steve KlineP0-000000000.500.5001.000
Kerry RobinsonRF0-000000100.266.297.337
Sterling HitchcockP1-220100000.333.333.333
Jim EdmondsCF1-220100010.286.394.627
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Sterling HitchcockP6.030014085-564.5285
Cal EldredP1.010011027-164.3927
Steve KlineP1.000001012-74.1712
Russ SpringerP1.000011015-96.0815

CIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Ryan FreelCF0-440000010.274.351.405
Ray OlmedoSS1-440100010.263.300.296
D'Angelo Jimenez2B1-330100100.278.354.418
Russell Branyan1B0-440000010.213.340.483
Stephen SmithermanLF0-440000010.238.304.476
Tim Hummel3B0-440000030.267.313.400
Jason LaRueC1-330100100.226.321.436
Wily Mo PenaRF1-440100000.156.198.195
Dan SerafiniP0-110000000.000.000.000
John RiedlingP0-000000000.235.235.235
Dernell StensonPH0-000000100.297.409.514
Danny GravesP0-000000000.113.113.113
Brian ReithP0-000000000.000.000.000
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Dan SerafiniP6.0422331115-784.91115
John RiedlingP1.000002010-85.3010
Danny GravesP1.033300112-95.3712
Brian ReithP1.010010016-94.7016

Starting lineups

CIN

  1. 1 Ryan Freel CF
  2. 2 Ray Olmedo SS
  3. 3 D'Angelo Jimenez 2B
  4. 4 Russell Branyan 1B
  5. 5 Stephen Smitherman LF
  6. 6 Tim Hummel 3B
  7. 7 Jason LaRue C
  8. 8 Wily Mo Pena RF
  9. 9 Dan Serafini P

STL

  1. 1 Bo Hart 2B
  2. 2 Miguel Cairo LF
  3. 3 Albert Pujols 1B
  4. 4 Scott Rolen 3B
  5. 5 Eduardo Pérez RF
  6. 6 Edgar Renteria SS
  7. 7 Mike Matheny C
  8. 8 So Taguchi CF
  9. 9 Sterling Hitchcock P

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