2003 Montreal Expos season

MLB yearly infobox
name = Montreal Expos
season = 2003
misc =

current league = National League
y1 = 1969
division = Eastern Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform logo =
ballpark = Olympic Stadium
y4 = 1977
city = Montreal
y5 = 1969
owners = Major League Baseball
managers = Frank Robinson
television =none
radio = CKGM (AM)
(Mitch Melnick, Elliott Price)
CKAC (AM)
(Jacques Doucet, Marc Griffin)|

Offseason

Regular season

*June 24, by|2003 - Brad Wilkerson hit for the cycle in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats16d.shtml]

*August 26, by|2003 - The Expos rallied from being down 8-0 and 10-3 to claim a 14-10 win against the Philadelphia Phillies and be within two games of the National League Wild Card. It was the second biggest comeback in Expos history.

On August 30, 2002, MLB signed a collective bargaining agreement withthe players association, which prohibited contraction through the end of the agreement in 2006. [cite press release
title = Deal in place, games go on
publisher = MLB.com
date = 2002-08-30
url = http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb_news.jsp?ymd=20020830&content_id=116907&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp
accessdate = 2006-12-28 ]

Puerto Rico

Although their attendance increased from 7,935 per game in 2001cite book
author = Montreal Expos
authorlink = Montreal Expos
title = Expos Media Guide 2002
year = 2002] to 10,031 in 2002cite book
author = Montreal Expos
authorlink = Montreal Expos
title = Expos Media Guide 2003
year = 2003] ,MLB decided that the Expos would play 22 of their home games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2003. Despite being a considerably smaller facility (it seats approximately 19,000) than Montreal's Olympic Stadium, attendance in San Juan's Hiram Bithorn Stadium averaged 14,222, compared with 12,081 in Montreal.cite book
author = Montreal Expos
authorlink = Montreal Expos
title = Expos Media Guide 2004
year = 2004] The Puerto Rican baseball fans embraced "Los Expos" (particularly Puerto Rican players Jose Vidro, Javier Vazquez and Wil Cordero, and other Latin players like Vladimir Guerrero and Liván Hernández) as their home team (as well as the Latin players from other teams), all the while hoping the team would make a permanent move to Puerto Rico. Expos players held clinics and made personal appearances on behalf of the team in Puerto Rico Fact|date=February 2007. Thanks in part to the San Juan games, the Expos were able to draw over a million fans at home in 2003 for the first time since 1997. The Expos' season in Puerto Rico was chronicled in the MLB-produced DVD "Boricua Beisbol - Passion of Puerto Rico".

Opening Day starters

*Orlando Cabrera
*Endy Chavez
*Wil Cordero
*Vladimir Guerrero
*Jose Macias
*Tomo Ohka
*Brian Schneider
*Jose Vidro
*Brad Wilkerson [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=2003&t=MON]

eason standings

Notable transactions

*August 20, 2003: Todd Zeile was signed as a Free Agent with the Montreal Expos. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/z/zeileto01.shtml]

Player stats

Batting

"Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In"

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

Award Winners

* Liván Hernández, National League Pitcher of the Month, July2003 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MON/2003.shtml 2003 Montreal Expos team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=2003&t=MON 2003 Montreal Expos team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]