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Texas Rangers logo Texas Rangers @ Oakland Athletics logo Oakland Athletics

3–7Final · Sep 22, 2003
TEX 3 OAK 7 Final
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TEX70-87000010002360
OAK94-63301201007111

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

Box score

TEX

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Michael YoungSS1-440110000.309.342.452
Hank Blalock3B1-440100000.310.360.538
Alex RodriguezSS0-330000110.297.395.602
Marcus ThamesLF0-000000000.205.298.274
Rafael PalmeiroDH1-331111100.259.360.509
Mark Teixeira1B2-441200010.262.335.486
Shane SpencerRF1-330100100.258.333.404
Laynce NixRF0-220000010.255.289.440
Jermaine Clark2B0-000010100.065.184.065
Gerald LairdC0-441000000.225.295.300
Ryan ChristensonCF0-440000020.162.247.236
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Tony MounceP3.075521273-407.1173
Mickey CallawayP4.042104067-447.0267
Reynaldo GarciaP1.000011020-129.1720

OAK

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Mark Ellis2B1-331110110.250.317.376
Erubiel DurazoDH1-331100110.254.371.430
Eric Chavez3B2-442221010.283.351.510
Miguel TejadaSS2-440230000.277.335.476
Scott Hatteberg1B0-440000000.252.341.379
Ramon HernandezC1-440100020.268.328.456
Jose GuillenLF1-440100010.311.360.567
Jermaine DyeRF1-441111000.172.259.254
Eric ByrnesCF2-332200100.268.336.468
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Barry ZitoP6.0310340107-633.22107
Chad BradfordP2.000011017-152.7417
Jim MecirP1.032200124-135.7524

Starting lineups

OAK

  1. 1 Mark Ellis 2B
  2. 2 Erubiel Durazo DH
  3. 3 Eric Chavez 3B
  4. 4 Miguel Tejada SS
  5. 5 Scott Hatteberg 1B
  6. 6 Ramon Hernandez C
  7. 7 Jose Guillen LF
  8. 8 Jermaine Dye RF
  9. 9 Eric Byrnes CF

TEX

  1. 1 Michael Young SS
  2. 2 Hank Blalock 3B
  3. 3 Alex Rodriguez SS
  4. 4 Rafael Palmeiro DH
  5. 5 Mark Teixeira 1B
  6. 6 Shane Spencer RF
  7. 7 Laynce Nix RF
  8. 8 Gerald Laird C
  9. 9 Ryan Christenson CF

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