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2–5Final · Sep 6, 2003
TEX 2 MIN 5 Final
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TEX64-78000010100270
MIN75-66023000005111

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael Young2B1-440100020.301.334.449
Hank Blalock3B0-440000000.313.368.541
Alex RodriguezSS0-440000000.301.399.599
Rafael PalmeiroDH2-440200000.259.357.506
Mark Teixeira1B1-441100000.259.332.479
Laynce NixCF1-441100020.260.295.473
Shane SpencerLF2-440220000.262.333.408
Jason JonesRF0-220000010.229.337.414
Einar DiazC0-330000000.254.290.339
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
R.A. DickeyP2.265532176-485.2476
Ryan DreseP3.130001057-368.0757
Ron MahayP1.110002023-141.4623
Reynaldo GarciaP0.11000007-59.537
Brian ShouseP0.10000005-33.165

MIN

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Shannon StewartLF3-550310000.314.369.472
Luis Rivas2B0-550000010.269.317.403
Doug Mientkiewicz1B2-551200000.299.386.453
Matt LeCroyDH0-221000100.294.344.505
Lew FordDH0-000000000.327.397.519
Jacque JonesRF2-441210010.308.335.467
Torii HunterCF1-441110010.245.306.438
A.J. PierzynskiC1-441121020.304.349.452
Denny Hocking3B1-220100200.255.320.386
Cristian GuzmanSS1-440100000.266.300.349
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Brad RadkeP7.0522040110-774.93110
LaTroy HawkinsP1.010000012-101.9812
Eddie GuardadoP1.010001016-113.1416

Starting lineups

MIN

  1. 1 Shannon Stewart LF
  2. 2 Luis Rivas 2B
  3. 3 Doug Mientkiewicz 1B
  4. 4 Matt LeCroy DH
  5. 5 Jacque Jones RF
  6. 6 Torii Hunter CF
  7. 7 A.J. Pierzynski C
  8. 8 Denny Hocking 3B
  9. 9 Cristian Guzman SS

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 CF
  7. 7 Shane Spencer LF
  8. 8 Jason Jones RF
  9. 9 Einar Diaz C

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