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5–7Final · Sep 22, 2003
BAL 5 BOS 7 Final
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BAL69-86000110120500
BOS92-6430020101700

Play-by-play

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

Box score

BAL

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Brian Roberts2B2-440210000.279.344.379
Luis MatosCF1-441111010.309.359.466
Tim Raines Jr.CF---------------------------
Larry BigbieLF1-550100030.314.374.483
Jay GibbonsRF2-551200000.279.334.465
Tony Batista3B0-550000000.234.270.395
B.J. Surhoff1B2-441210000.296.355.409
Deivi CruzSS2-441200000.254.273.385
Jack CustDH2-331211100.216.333.529
Jose MorbanDH0-000000000.149.197.239
Brook FordyceC1-440110000.279.314.382
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jason JohnsonP5.076514293-644.0593
Buddy GroomP2.000010017-105.2717
Kerry LigtenbergP0.12110118-63.438
B.J. RyanP0.200010017-83.5617

BOS

batting
PlayerH-ABABRHRBIHRBBK#PAVGOBPSLG
Johnny DamonCF1-331100110.274.347.409
Nomar GarciaparraSS0-331000100.304.348.523
Todd Walker2B2-442220000.282.333.417
Damian Jackson2B0-000000000.252.288.313
Manny RamirezLF2-441221010.324.426.587
David OrtizDH2-441221000.285.364.579
Kevin Millar1B1-330100010.276.350.468
Trot NixonRF1-331111010.307.397.580
Gabe KaplerRF0-110000000.265.330.377
Bill Mueller3B0-330000100.327.400.544
Jason VaritekC0-440000010.272.351.511
pitching
PlayerIPHRERBBKHRPC-STERAPC
Jeff SuppanP6.062213197-604.0997
Todd JonesP0.22110119-97.409
Alan EmbreeP0.242200018-144.2518
Mike TimlinP0.210000014-103.5914
Byung-Hyun KimP1.000000015-113.3715

Starting lineups

BOS

  1. 1 Johnny Damon CF
  2. 2 Nomar Garciaparra SS
  3. 3 Todd Walker 2B
  4. 4 Manny Ramirez LF
  5. 5 David Ortiz DH
  6. 6 Kevin Millar 1B
  7. 7 Trot Nixon RF
  8. 8 Bill Mueller 3B
  9. 9 Jason Varitek C

BAL

  1. 1 Brian Roberts 2B
  2. 2 Luis Matos CF
  3. 3 Larry Bigbie LF
  4. 4 Jay Gibbons RF
  5. 5 Tony Batista 3B
  6. 6 B.J. Surhoff 1B
  7. 7 Deivi Cruz SS
  8. 8 Jack Cust DH
  9. 9 Brook Fordyce C

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