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5–7Final · Sep 4, 2003
OAK 5 BAL 7 Final
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OAK83-570020300005101
BAL63-76041010107100

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

Box score

OAK

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Bobby CrosbyDH0-440000020.000.143.000
Erubiel DurazoDH0-110000010.248.371.418
Billy McMillonRF1-441111020.242.345.411
Frank MenechinoPH0-110000010.216.372.297
Eric Chavez3B4-552421010.279.347.503
Miguel TejadaSS1-441100100.274.330.471
Scott Hatteberg1B1-440120100.254.338.384
Ramon HernandezC1-330100200.258.323.443
Jermaine DyeLF0-220000200.152.233.215
Mark Ellis2B0-440000010.251.321.370
Eric ByrnesCF2-331200010.277.337.482
Chris SingletonCF0-110000000.256.310.358
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John HalamaP4.176521070-454.2370
Chad HarvilleP2.121121041-254.0241
Ricardo RinconP0.01000004-23.444
Steve W. SparksP1.100001017-114.7917

BAL

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Brian Roberts2B2-551220010.267.334.368
Luis MatosDH1-550110010.303.352.459
Melvin MoraRF2-332200100.326.421.517
Jay Gibbons1B0-331000110.280.338.475
Tony Batista3B1-330110000.235.273.401
Brook FordyceC1-330100100.288.326.404
Larry BigbieLF1-331120100.287.355.467
Deivi CruzSS1-441100000.257.275.392
Tim Raines Jr.CF---------------------------
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Hector CarrascoP2.010024044-214.0644
Kerry LigtenbergP1.100001016-113.0616
B.J. RyanP0.11000109-63.899
Jorge JulioP0.210000011-84.4211

Starting lineups

BAL

  1. 1 Brian Roberts 2B
  2. 2 Luis Matos DH
  3. 3 Melvin Mora RF
  4. 4 Jay Gibbons 1B
  5. 5 Tony Batista 3B
  6. 6 Brook Fordyce C
  7. 7 Larry Bigbie LF
  8. 8 Deivi Cruz SS
  9. 9 Tim Raines Jr. CF

OAK

  1. 1 Bobby Crosby DH
  2. 2 Billy McMillon RF
  3. 3 Eric Chavez 3B
  4. 4 Miguel Tejada SS
  5. 5 Scott Hatteberg 1B
  6. 6 Ramon Hernandez C
  7. 7 Jermaine Dye LF
  8. 8 Mark Ellis 2B
  9. 9 Eric Byrnes CF

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