Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 1st. Pitching: Brandon Duckworth CF Rocco Baldelli: Flies out to left field. 3B Jared Sandberg: Strikes out swinging. DH Aubrey Huff: Grounds out to the third baseman. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Texas 0, Tampa Bay 0
Batting: Texas, bottom of 1st. Pitching: Victor Zambrano 2B Freddy Sanchez: Grounds out to the second baseman. CF Carl Everett: Flies out to shallow left field. SS Alex Rodriguez: Strikes out looking. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Texas 0, Tampa Bay 0
Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 2nd. Pitching: Brandon Duckworth 1B Travis Lee: Base on balls. LF Ben Grieve: Flies out to the gap in right-center. C Toby Hall: SINGLES to center Lee to second. Lee tries to advance to third... He reaches third base safely without a throw. 2B Brent Abernathy: TRIPLES to the gap in left-center. Lee scores. Hall scores. RF Jason Tyner: Base on balls. SS Rey Ordonez: DOUBLES to the gap in left-center. Abernathy scores. Tyner to third. Tyner tries to score... He scores without a throw. CF Rocco Baldelli: Strikes out swinging. 3B Jared Sandberg: DOUBLES to deep right field. Ordonez scores. DH Aubrey Huff: New pitcher: Francisco Cordero. Strikes out swinging. Inning over... 5 runs, 4 hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 0
Batting: Texas, bottom of 2nd. Pitching: Victor Zambrano 1B Rafael Palmeiro: SINGLES down the left field line. RF Juan Gonzalez: Strikes out swinging. LF Kevin Mench: DOUBLES down the left field line. Palmeiro to third. DH Ruben Sierra: SINGLES to shallow right field. Palmeiro scores. Mench to third. 3B Herbert Perry: Flies out to center field. Mench tags up at third... He scores without a throw. C Einar Diaz: SINGLES down the left field line. Sierra to second. 2B Freddy Sanchez: SINGLES to left Sierra to third. Diaz to second. Sierra scores. CF Carl Everett: Grounds out to the shortstop. Inning over... 3 runs, 5 hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 3rd. Pitching: Francisco Cordero 1B Travis Lee: Grounds out to the first baseman. LF Ben Grieve: DOUBLES down the right field line. C Toby Hall: Grounds out to the pitcher. 2B Brent Abernathy: Strikes out looking. Inning over... no runs, one hit, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Batting: Texas, bottom of 3rd. Pitching: Victor Zambrano SS Alex Rodriguez: Flies out to right-center. 1B Rafael Palmeiro: Flies out to center field. RF Juan Gonzalez: Lines out to the second baseman. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 4th. Pitching: Francisco Cordero RF Jason Tyner: Base on balls. SS Rey Ordonez: Tyner steals second. Grounds out to the shortstop. CF Rocco Baldelli: Flies out to right field. 3B Jared Sandberg: Base on balls. DH Aubrey Huff: New pitcher: Todd Van poppel. Base on balls. Tyner to third. Sandberg to second. 1B Travis Lee: Strikes out swinging. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Batting: Texas, bottom of 4th. Pitching: Victor Zambrano LF Kevin Mench: Strikes out swinging. DH Ruben Sierra: Strikes out swinging. 3B Herbert Perry: DOUBLES to deep left-center. C Einar Diaz: Grounds out to the shortstop. Inning over... no runs, one hit, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 5th. Pitching: Todd Van poppel LF Ben Grieve: Strikes out looking. C Toby Hall: Flies out to left-center. 2B Brent Abernathy: Grounds out to the third baseman. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Batting: Texas, bottom of 5th. Pitching: Victor Zambrano 2B Freddy Sanchez: Lines out to the first baseman. CF Carl Everett: Grounds out to the shortstop. SS Alex Rodriguez: Grounds out to the second baseman. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 6th. Pitching: Todd Van poppel RF Jason Tyner: Grounds out to the shortstop. SS Rey Ordonez: Strikes out looking. CF Rocco Baldelli: Strikes out looking. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Batting: Texas, bottom of 6th. Pitching: Victor Zambrano 1B Rafael Palmeiro: Base on balls. RF Juan Gonzalez: Strikes out swinging. LF Kevin Mench: SINGLES to right Palmeiro to second. DH Ruben Sierra: DOUBLES down the right field line. Palmeiro scores. Mench to third. Mench tries to score... He scores without a throw. 3B Herbert Perry: Strikes out looking. C Einar Diaz: Grounds out to the shortstop. Inning over... 2 runs, 2 hits, no errors. Score: Texas 5, Tampa Bay 5
Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 7th. Pitching: Todd Van poppel 3B Jared Sandberg: SINGLES to short left-center. DH Aubrey Huff: DOUBLES down the left field line. Sandberg to third. Sandberg tries to score... He scores without a throw. PH Marlon Anderson: Strikes out swinging. LF Ben Grieve: Intentional walk. C Toby Hall: DOUBLES down the left field line. Huff scores. Grieve to third. 2B Brent Abernathy: New pitcher: Jay Powell. PH Greg Vaughn: Base on balls. PH Damian Rolls: Strikes out swinging. PH Jason Conti: Grounds out to the shortstop. Inning over... 2 runs, 3 hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 7, Texas 5
Batting: Texas, bottom of 7th. Pitching: Victor Zambrano 2B Freddy Sanchez: New 2B: Marlon Anderson. New SS: Felix Escalona. New CF: Damian Rolls. New RF: Jason Conti. Lines out to the shortstop. CF Carl Everett: Lines out to the first baseman. SS Alex Rodriguez: Strikes out looking. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 7, Texas 5
Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 8th. Pitching: Jay Powell 1B Chris Truby: Flies out to short right-center. 3B Jared Sandberg: DOUBLES to the gap in right-center. DH Aubrey Huff: Intentional walk. 2B Marlon Anderson: Grounds into fielders choice to the pitcher, Huff out at 2nd base. Sandberg to third. LF Ben Grieve: Flies out to center field. Inning over... no runs, one hit, no errors. Score: Tampa Bay 7, Texas 5
Batting: Texas, bottom of 8th. Pitching: Victor Zambrano 1B Rafael Palmeiro: New pitcher: John Rocker. Strikes out swinging. RF Juan Gonzalez: SINGLES to left LF Kevin Mench: New pitcher: Lance Carter. Grounds into fielders choice to the third baseman, Gonzalez out at 2nd base. DH Ruben Sierra: Reaches on INFIELD-HIT. Mench to second. PH Mike Lamb: SINGLES to center Mench to third. Sierra to second. Mench scores. Sierra to third. C Einar Diaz: DOUBLES down the left field line. Sierra scores. Young scores. 2B Freddy Sanchez: New pitcher: Travis Phelps. Strikes out looking. Inning over... 3 runs, 4 hits, no errors. Score: Texas 8, Tampa Bay 7
Batting: Tampa Bay, top of 9th. Pitching: Jay Powell C Toby Hall: New pitcher: Ugueth Urbina. New 3B: Mike Young. Flies out to center field. SS Felix Escalona: Popped out to the shortstop. CF Damian Rolls: Grounds out to the third baseman. Inning over... no runs, no hits, no errors. Score: Texas 8, Tampa Bay 7
Game over. Score: Texas 8, Tampa Bay 7