Twins @ Rangers
August 31, 2003

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Bottom 9 R H E
Twins 10 15 0
Rangers 10 17 1
Bottom 9 R H E
Twins 10 15 0
Rangers 11 18 1

Einar Diaz Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .254
OBP .250 .291
At Bats 4 311
Hits 1 79
• Singles 1 61
• Doubles 0 13
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 4
Walks 0 9
RBI’s 0 32

Eddie Guardado Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 4 31
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The Ballpark in Arlington - August 31, 2003
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Single
Eddie Guardado
A.J. Pierzynski
Denny Hocking
Luis Rivas
Corey Koskie
Chris Gomez
Shannon Stewart
Torii Hunter
Mike Ryan
Einar Diaz
Laynce Nix

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Minnesota Twins 10 15 0 12
Texas Rangers 11 18 1 8
Winning Pitcher Francisco Cordero
Losing Pitcher Eddie Guardado
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Einar Diaz
Attendance 17,213
Time of Game 3 hours 54 minutes
View Box Score
Count: 3-2, 1 Out
Count: 3-2, 1 Out

End of Game

Diaz hits a fly ball into left field for a base hit. Nix scores.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 There's a wild pitch. Nix moves to third.
Bottom 9 Nivar bunts towards first. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first, with Rivas covering, for the out. Nix moves to second.
Bottom 9 Chris Gomez now playing shortstop. Denny Hocking now playing first base. Eddie Guardado now pitching. Nix hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 LeCroy strikes out.
Top 9 Jacque Jones pinch hits for Doug Mientkiewicz. Jones hits a fly ball into left field. Spencer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Hocking tags and scores.
Top 9 Rivas bunts in front of the plate. Diaz fields it and throws to first for the out. Hocking moves to third. Stewart moves to second.
Top 9 Stewart takes first base on ball four. Hocking moves to second.
Top 9 Shane Spencer now playing left field. Mark Teixeira now playing first base. Laynce Nix now playing right field. Hocking hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Teixeira hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Palmeiro hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Blalock moves to third. Rodriguez moves to second.
Bottom 8 Rodriguez takes first base on ball four. Blalock moves to second.
Bottom 8 Blalock hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Mike Ryan now playing right field. Young hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Mike Ryan pinch hits for Dustan Mohr. Ryan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Blalock fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Pierzynski hits a fly ball into center field. Nivar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Koskie tags and scores.
Top 8 Francisco Cordero now pitching. Hunter hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. LeCroy scores. Koskie moves to third.
Top 8 Koskie hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. LeCroy moves to third.
Top 8 LeCroy takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Laynce Nix now playing left field. Ramon Nivar now playing center field. Aaron Fultz now pitching. Mientkiewicz hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Young scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Joe Mays now pitching. Sadler hits a fly ball into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Diaz hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 7 Nix takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Teixeira hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 7 Palmeiro hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rodriguez moves to second.
Bottom 7 Rodriguez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 J.C. Romero now pitching. Blalock hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Rivas hits a fly ball into center field. Nix settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Stewart hits a fly ball into center field. Nix settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Hocking moves to third.
Top 7 Hocking hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Jones. Hocking reaches second base with a double.
Top 7 Mohr strikes out.
Bottom 6 Young hits a line drive into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Sadler strikes out.
Bottom 6 Grant Balfour now pitching. Diaz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Ron Mahay now pitching. Pierzynski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Palmeiro scoops it up and throws to first, with Mahay covering, for the out.
Top 6 Hunter hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. LeCroy moves to second.
Top 6 Koskie strikes out.
Top 6 LeCroy hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Rivas scores.
Top 6 Mientkiewicz hits a ball on the ground towards first. Palmeiro scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Mientkiewicz for the out. Rivas moves to third.
Top 6 Rivas hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Nix. Rivas reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Jones strikes out.
Bottom 5 Nix strikes out.
Bottom 5 Teixeira hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Rodriguez moves to second.
Bottom 5 Palmeiro hits a fly ball into center field. Hunter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Rodriguez hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Stewart strikes out.
Top 5 Joaquin Benoit now pitching. Hocking takes first base on ball four. Hunter scores. Pierzynski moves to third. Mohr moves to second.
Top 5 Mohr takes first base on ball four. Koskie scores. Hunter moves to third. Pierzynski moves to second.
Top 5 Pierzynski is walked intentionally.
Top 5 Hunter hits a fly ball into left field, out of the reach of Jones. Hunter reaches second base with a double. Rivas scores. Koskie moves to third.
Top 5 Koskie takes first base on ball four. Rivas moves to second.
Top 5 LeCroy strikes out.
Top 5 Mientkiewicz hits a line drive into right field. Teixeira settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Rivas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Sadler fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 4 Blalock hits a popup towards third. Koskie settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Young hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Sadler hits a popup towards short. Hocking settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Stewart hits a line drive into center field. Nix settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Hocking hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 4 Mohr hits a fly ball into center field. Nix settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Pierzynski hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Hunter hits a ball on the ground towards first. Palmeiro scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Hunter for the out.
Bottom 3 Diaz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Carlos Pulido now pitching. Jones hits a fly ball into left field. Stewart settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Rodriguez tags and scores.
Bottom 3 Nix hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Blalock scores. Rodriguez moves to third. Palmeiro moves to second.
Bottom 3 Teixeira hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Rivas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Palmeiro takes first base on ball four. Blalock moves to third. Rodriguez moves to second.
Bottom 3 Rodriguez hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Blalock moves to second.
Bottom 3 Blalock hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Koskie strikes out.
Top 3 LeCroy strikes out.
Top 3 There goes Rivas. The throw from Diaz and he is safe. Rivas steals second.
Top 3 Mientkiewicz hits a fly ball into center field. Nix settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Rivas takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Young bunts, foul, in front of the plate. Pierzynski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Sadler hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Stewart throws the ball in to Rivas who tags Sadler, trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Bottom 2 Diaz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hocking scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Jones hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Stewart hits a ball on the ground towards second. Young scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 2 Hocking hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Pierzynski moves to second.
Top 2 Mohr hits a fly ball into center field. Nix settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Pierzynski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Nix hits a popup towards short. Hocking catches it and throws to first to double up Teixeira.
Bottom 1 Teixeira hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rivas fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 1 Palmeiro hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 1 Rodriguez hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 1 Blalock hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Stewart. Blalock reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Young hits a fly ball into right field. Mohr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Hunter hits a ball on the ground towards third. Blalock fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Koskie strikes out.
Top 1 LeCroy hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rivas scores. Mientkiewicz moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 1 Mientkiewicz hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Rivas moves to third.
Top 1 Rivas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Sadler fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Stewart hits a ball on the ground towards short. Sadler misplays the ball. That's an error on Sadler.