2003 Season

Season Notes

• 2003 Season Page at Baseball Reference
• 2003 Season page at Wikipedia
• Final Record: 71-91 (.438), 4th/4 AL West, 25GB
• Interleague Home: Braves, Expos, Astros
• Interleague Away: Mets, Marlins, Astros
• All Star Representatives (2): Alex Rodriguez, Hank Blalock
• This was Buck Showalter’s first season as manager.
• The Interactive schedule is not available for this season – the first year MLB.com did that was 2009.

• ST1: Rangers lose spring opener to Royals, 6-3 (2/27/2003)
• STx: Rangers beat Texas Longhorns team, 17-1 (2/27/2003)
• ST2: Rangers lose to Royals again, 4-2 (2/28/2003)
• ST3: Rangers lose to Rockies, 9-5 (3/1/2003)
• ST4: Rangers finally win; clobber Brewers, 14-8 (3/2/2003)
• ST5: Rangers lose to Padres, 7-6 (3/3/2003)
• ST6: Rangers blow it, lose in extra innings, 9-8 (3/4/2003)
• ST7: Rangers beat Cubs, 8-4 (3/5/2003)
• ST8: Rangers beat Royals, 11-8 (3/6/2003)
• ST9: Rangers beat A’s 5-3 (3/7/2003)
• ST10: Rangers lose to Rockies, 12-5 (3/8/2003)
• ST11: Rangers beat Angels, 14-8 (3/9/2003)
• ST12: Rangers outlast Giants 10-9 (3/10/2003)
• ST13: Rangers lose to Diamondbacks, 5-4 (3/11/2003)
• ST14: Rangers beat Mariners, 6-5 (3/12/2003)
• ST15: Rangers club Brewers, 12-8 (3/13/2003)
• ST16: Rangers and Angels Tie at 9 (3/14/2003)
• ST17: Rangers lose big to Royals, 12-4 (3/15/2003)
• ST18: Rangers lose to Brewers, 7-2 (3/15/2003)
• STx: Rangers & Padres rained out (3/16/2003)
• ST19: Rangers beat A’s 8-1 (3/17/2003)
• ST20: Rangers outlast the Giants in a fiasco, 16-12 (3/18/2003)
• ST21: Rangers lose big to Mariners, 9-1 (3/19/2003)
• ST22: Rangers lose to Royals AGAIN, 9-5 (3/20/2003)
• ST23: Rangers beat Brewers 9-6 (3/21/2003)
• ST24: Rangers beat Angels, 4-3 (3/22/2003)
• ST25: Rangers shut out by White Sox, 4-0 (3/23/2003)
• ST26: Rangers lose to Padres, 8-5 (3/24/2003)
• ST27: Rangers lose to Diamondbacks, 7-4 (3/25/2003)
• ST28: Rangers lose to Brewers, 6-5 (3/26/2003)
• ST29: Rangers beat Royals, 7-5 (3/27/2003)
• ST30: Rangers beat Giants, 10-5 (3/28/2003)
• ST31: Rangers beat Mariners in spring finale, 6-5 (3/29/2003)
• G1: Rangers win season opener, 6-3 (3/30/2003)
• G2: Rangers shut out by Angels, 10-0 (4/1/2003)
• G3: Rangers lose to Angels, 11-5 (4/2/2003)
• G4: Rangers lose Home Opener, 6-4 (4/4/2003)
• G5: Rangers beat Mariners, 8-4 (4/5/2003)
• G6: Rangers and the Ho lose big, 11-2 (4/6/2003)
• G7: Rangers lose close one, 2-1 to A’s (4/8/2003)
• G8: Rangers lose _again_. This time 13-5 (4/9/2003)
• G9: Rangers finally win against A’s, 5-4 (4/10/2003)
• G10: Rangers win at home, 4-2 over M’s (4/11/2003)
• G11: Rangers lose big to M’s, 13-4 (4/12/2003)
• G12: Rangers lose to Mariners, 4-3 (4/13/2003)
• G13: Rangers shut out Angels, 4-0 (4/14/2003)
• G14: Rangers win again, 5-4 against Anaheim (4/15/2003)
• G15: Rangers lose another close one, 9-8 (4/16/2003)
• G16: Rangers beat Angels 9-7 (4/17/2003)
• G17: Rangers dominated by Barry Zito; lose 9-0 (4/18/2003)
• G18: Rangers lose big again, 12-2 to A’s (4/19/2003)
• G19: Rangers finally win again, 2-1 against A’s (4/20/2003)
• G20: Rangers lose to Red Sox, 5-4 (4/22/2003)
• G21: Rangers bounce back, beat Red Sox, 6-1 (4/23/2003)
• G22: Rangers bomb Red Sox, 16-5 (4/24/2003)
• G26: Rangers beat Blue Jays in slugfest, 16-11 (4/29/2003)
• G27: Rangers beat Toronto big again, 11-3 (4/30/2003)
• G28: Rangers lose finale to Blue Jays, 7-6 (5/1/2003)
• G29: Rangers lose annoyingly to Indians, 6-5 (5/2/2003)
• G30: Rangers win by same score as yesterday’s loss; 6-5 (5/3/2003)
• G31: CC Sabathia shuts down Texas, 3-1 (5/4/2003)
• G32: Rangers stink up the joint, lose 15-5 (5/6/2003)
• G48: Fire’s out. Rangers finally lose, 10-3 (5/7/2003)
• G33: Rangers beat Blue Jays 5-4, Raffy at 498 (5/7/2003)
• G34: Rangers beat Jays again, 8-6; Raffy at 499 (5/8/2003)
• G35: Rangers lose to Indians, 9-5 (5/9/2003)
• G36: Rangers lose to Cleveland & CC again, 6-4 (5/10/2003)
• G37: Rangers win 17-10, but Raffy gets #500! (5/11/2003)
• G38: Coco blows it late, Rangers lose 5-4 to Bosox (5/13/2003)
• G39: Rangers lose again to Red Sox, 7-1 (5/14/2003)
• G40: Rangers blown out; lose 12-3 (5/15/2003)
• G41: Thaaaaaaa Yankees lose 8-5 (5/16/2003)
• G42: Thaaaaa Yankees lose again, 5-2 (5/17/2003)
• G43: Thaaaaa Yankees SWEPT 5-1 (5/18/2003)
• G44: Rangers win 4th in a row over Drays, 5-2 (5/20/2003)
• G45: Rangers beat Tampa again, 8-7 (5/21/2003)
• G46: Ranger sweep 2nd series in a row with 10-8 win (5/22/2003)
• G47: Seven in a row; Rangers beat O’s, 5-3 (5/23/2003)
• G49: Rangers lose slugfest to Orioles, 13-10 (5/25/2003)
• G50: Rangers beat Devil Rays, 4-2 (5/27/2003)
• G51: Rangers lose to Devil Rays, 6-4 (5/28/2003)
• G52: Rangers beat Baltimore again, 8-4 (5/29/2003)
• G53: I sleep through a Rangers loss, 8-1 (5/30/2003)
• G54: Rangers lose to Orioles, 7-1 (5/31/2003)
• G55: Rangers lose to Orioles, 5-4 (6/1/2003)
• G56: Rangers lose 6-5 to Atlanta (6/3/2003)
• G57: Rangers lose again to Braves, 5-2 (6/4/2003)
• G58: Rangers lose yet again to Atlanta, 8-4 (6/5/2003)
• G59: Rangers lose 7th in a row; to Expos, 13-10 (6/6/2003)
• G60: Rangers lose to Expos, 5-4 (6/7/2003)
• G61: Rangers drop 9th in a row, third series in a row; 3-2 (6/8/2003)
• G62: Rangers finally win again; 9-7 over Mets (6/10/2003)
• G63: Rangers lose to Mets, 8-2 (6/11/2003)
• G64: Rangers don’t show up; lose 11-0 (6/12/2003)
• G65: Rangers shut out 2nd night in a row, 8-0 (6/13/2003)
• G68: Rangers lose 4-3, but Raffy BUNTS! (6/17/2003)
• G69: Rangers lose 4-3 for 2nd night (6/18/2003)
• G70: Rangers lose again; 9-2 to A’s (6/19/2003)
• G71: Oh dear. Rangers lose big, 12-3 (6/20/2003)
• G72: Rangers continute stinkfest, lose 9-5, lose boot too. (6/21/2003)
• G73: Rangers lose 7th in a row AGAIN, 3-1 to Houston (6/22/2003)
• G74: Rangers lose 3-1. Nobody shocked. (6/23/2003)
• G75: Rangers win 7-6, despite themselves. (6/24/2003)
• G76: Rangers barely win, 9-8 against Oakland (6/25/2003)
• G77: Rangers lay a big stinker; lose 13-0 (6/26/2003)
• G78: Rangers beat Astros, 10-7 (6/27/2003)
• G79: Rangers shut out; lose to Astros 2-0 (6/28/2003)
• G80: Rangers beat Astros 8-5 (6/29/2003)
• G81: Rangers beat Angels, 6-3 (6/30/2003)
• G82: Rangers lose to Angels, 7-5 (7/1/2003)
• G83: Rangers shut out by Angels, 5-0 (7/2/2003)
• G84: Rangers eek out win over Halos, 6-5 (7/3/2003)
• G85: Rangers beat Mariners on Jul 4th, 7-3 (7/4/2003)
• G86: Rangers lose to Mariners, 3-2 (7/5/2003)
• G87: Rangers pitch well, beat M’s 5-1 (7/6/2003)
• G88: Rangers beat Twins, 8-6 (7/8/2003)
• G89: Rangers pitch well again; beat Twinkies 4-1 (7/9/2003)
• G90: Rangers sweep Twins behind 9-4 win (7/10/2003)
• G91: Rangers lose to Royals 13-3 on busy day (7/11/2003)
• G92: Rangers lose ugly to Royals, 8-2 (7/12/2003)
• G93: Rangers lose ugly to Royals again, 8-2 (7/13/2003)
• All Star Game – AL Wins 7-6 behind Blalock (7/15/2003)
• G94: Rangers whip DRays, 12-6 (7/17/2003)
• G95: Rangers pitch well, lose anyway 2-0 (7/18/2003)
• G96: Rangers beat DRays again, 7-3 (7/19/2003)
• G97: Rangers lay a stinkbomb, lose 15-4 (7/20/2003)
• G98: Rangers lose (3-2). Different opponent, at least. (7/21/2003)
• G99: Rangers blown out in Baltimore, 12-6 (7/22/2003)
• G100: Rangers win wild one, 12-9 (7/23/2003)
• G106: Rangers bombed by Red Sox, 14-7 (7/29/2003)
• G107: Rangers win 9-2 over Red Sox (7/30/2003)
• G108: Rangers win again over Bosox, 7-3 (7/31/2003)
• G109: Rangers bomb Indians 10-3 on Oates’ return to Texas (8/1/2003)
• G110: Johnny Oates inducted into Rangers HOF. Rangers also win 9-7 (8/2/2003)
• G111: Rangers sweep Indians behind 8-5 win (8/3/2003)
• G112: Rangers lose to Yankees 6-2 (8/5/2003)
• G113: Thaaaaaa Yankees lose, 5-4 (8/6/2003)
• G114: Rangers lose to Yankees, 7-5 (8/7/2003)
• G115: Rangers beat Toronto, 5-3 (8/8/2003)
• G116: Rangers lose to Toronto 5-3. I met Pat Benatar. (8/9/2003)
• G117: Rangers beat Blue Jays, 5-4 (8/10/2003)
• G118: Rangers wait out rain; beat Tigers 9-3 (8/11/2003)
• G119: Rangers lose to Detroit, 7-4 (8/12/2003)
• G120: Rangers beat Detroit 7-3. I see Iron Maiden (8/13/2003)
• G121: Rangers beat Tigers 6-3 (8/14/2003)
• G122: Rangers beat White Sox, 11-5 (8/15/2003)
• G123: Rangers beat ChiSox again, 12-8 (8/16/2003)
• G124: Rangers sweep away the dirty Sox, 6-4 (8/17/2003)
• G125: Rangers beat Detroit in 16 innings, 4-2 (8/18/2003)
• G126: My wife gets on TV during the game, we win 5-4 (8/19/2003)
• G127: Rangers blank Tigers 6-0 for series sweep (8/20/2003)
• G128: Rangers lose to White Sox, 7-3 (8/21/2003)
• G132: Rangers lose to Royals, 9-2 (8/26/2003)
• G133: Rangers blanked by Kansas City. KANSAS FREAKIN’ CITY! 9-0 (8/27/2003)
• G134: Rangers lose to KC again, 6-5 (8/28/2003)
• G135: Rangers lose ugly to the Twins, 8-5 (8/29/2003)
• G136: Rangers shut out by Twins, 2-0 (8/30/2003)
• G137: Rangers walk off with 11-10 win (8/31/2003)
• G138: Rangers beat Royals, 7-3 (9/1/2003)
• G139: Rangers beat Royals, 8-7 (9/2/2003)
• G140: Rangers lose to Royals, 3-1 (9/3/2003)
• G144: Rangers beat Mariners, 5-4 (9/9/2003)
• G145: Rangers lose to Mariners, 3-1 (9/10/2003)
• G146: Rangrs shut down by M’s, 8-2 (9/11/2003)
• G147: Rangers lose to A’s, Zito 9-3 (9/12/2003)
• September 2003 Updates (9/28/2003)