Spotlight doesn't search numbers in the file name

I have some videos of my favorite series and I have problems trying to find an specific episodes. For exemple, if the file name is [ScrubsS02E03_My_CaseStudy.rmvb], Spotlight will not return any results if I type [scrubs 03].
Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug?

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