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7–2Final · Sep 14, 2003
CWS 7 BOS 2 Final
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CWS80-692000300027100
BOS86-62011000000290

Play-by-play

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

Box score

CWS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Roberto Alomar2B1-332100200.259.336.354
Carlos LeeLF2-442231010.294.337.512
Aaron RowandCF0-000000000.262.305.418
Armando RiosPH0-110000000.216.250.304
Willie HarrisCF0-000000000.183.234.217
Frank ThomasDH1-550120020.262.387.556
Magglio OrdonezRF3-440310100.323.387.560
Carl EverettLF0-440000000.283.367.513
Brian Daubach1B0-440000020.226.360.378
Jose ValentinSS1-441100010.232.310.450
Joe Crede3B0-440000000.259.306.426
Sandy Alomar Jr.C2-442211010.269.283.418
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Mark BuehrleP7.0722131115-704.13115
Damaso MarteP2.020002024-171.6124

BOS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Johnny DamonCF0-440000010.278.351.415
Bill Mueller3B0-330010030.329.401.552
Todd Walker2B1-330100110.281.328.413
Manny RamirezLF3-441311000.324.427.579
David OrtizDH1-440100000.286.367.579
Kevin Millar1B0-440000000.271.347.467
Jason VaritekC1-440100000.274.354.522
Gabe KaplerRF2-331200000.265.332.381
Damian JacksonSS1-330100000.250.285.309
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
John BurkettP6.0655242109-635.04109
Bronson ArroyoP3.042213040-302.8940

Starting lineups

BOS

  1. 1 Johnny Damon CF
  2. 2 Bill Mueller 3B
  3. 3 Todd Walker 2B
  4. 4 Manny Ramirez LF
  5. 5 David Ortiz DH
  6. 6 Kevin Millar 1B
  7. 7 Jason Varitek C
  8. 8 Gabe Kapler RF
  9. 9 Damian Jackson SS

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 LF
  6. 6 Brian Daubach 1B
  7. 7 Jose Valentin SS
  8. 8 Joe Crede 3B
  9. 9 Sandy Alomar Jr. C

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