2004 All-Star Game Box Score

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present the box score to the 2004 Midsummer Classic which was played on July 13, 2004 at Minute Maid Ballpark in Houston, Texas.

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"It goes to show you that on any given night, anything can happen. We're all human in this game. For Roger (Clemens), he's had such a storied career, it hasn't happened much, if at all. I'm sure he'd tell you that if he was going to have a bad outing, I'm sure he would rather it be an All-Star Game rather than one in September in a pennant race." - New York Mets All-Star Tom Glavine (MLB.com, 07/14/2004)

2004 All-Star Game

American League 9 vs Naitonal League 4
July 13, 2004 Minute Maid BallPark

American League
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Ichiro Suzuki cf 4 1 1 0
Javier Vazquez p 0 0 0 0
Ron Belliard 2bf 1 0 0 0
Ivan Rodriguez c 4 1 2 1
Victor Martinez c 1 0 0 0
Vladimir Guerrero rf 4 1 1 0
Ted Lilly p 0 0 0 0
Miguel Tejada ss 1 0 0 0
Manny Ramirez lf 2 1 1 2
b-David Ortiz ph-1b 1 2 1 2
Alex Rodriguez 3b 3 0 1 1
e-Hank Blalock ph-3b 2 0 0 0
Jason Giambi 1b 2 1 1 0
c-Carl Crawford ph-lf 2 0 0 0
f-Hideki Matsui ph-lf 1 0 0 0
Derek Jeter ss 3 1 3 0
Matt Lawton cf 2 0 1 0
Alfonso Soriano 2b 3 1 2 3
Gary Sheffield rf 1 0 0 0
Mark Mulder p 1 0 0 0
a-Ken Harvey ph 1 0 0 0
Esteban Loaiza p 0 0 0 0
C.C. Sabathia p 0 0 0 0
d-Michael Young ph-ss 2 0 0 0
Joe Nathan p 0 0 0 0
Tom Gordon p 0 0 0 0
Francisco Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0
Mariano Rivera p 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 9 14 9

a:Struck out for Mulder in the 3rd inning.
b:Walked for Ramirez in the 4th inning.
c:Struck out for Giambi in the 4th inning.
d:Grounded into a forceout for Sabathia in the 5tth inning.
e:Grounded out for A.Rodriguez in the 6th inning.
f
:Struck out for Crawford in the 9th inning.

National League
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Edgar Renteria ss 3 1 1 1
Jack Wilson ss 2 0 0 0
Albert Pujols 1b 3 1 2 2
Jim Thome 1b 2 0 0 0
Barry Bonds lf 2 0 0 0
Carl Pavano p 0 0 0 0
Tom Glavine ps 0 0 0 0
e-Bobby Abreu ph 1 0 0 0
Ben Sheets p 0 0 0 0
Paul Lo Duca c 0 0 0 0
Scott Rolen 3b 1 0 1 0
c-Mike Lowell ph-3b 2 0 0 0
Sammy Sosa rf 2 0 1 1
Miguel Cabrera rf 2 0 0 0
Mike Piazza c 2 0 0 0
Johnny Estrada c 2 0 0 0
Eric Gagne p 0 0 0 0
Lance Berkman cf 2 0 0 0
Moises Alou lf 2 0 1 0
Jeff Kent 2b 2 1 1 0
d-Mark Loretta ph-2b 2 0 1 0
Roger Clemens p 0 0 0 0
Danny Kolb p 0 0 0 0
a-Barry Larkin ph 1 0 0 0
Randy Johnson p 0 0 0 0
Carlos Zambrano p 0 0 0 0
b-Carlos Beltran ph-cf 2 1 1 0
f-Todd Helton ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 9 4

a:Grounded out for Kolb in the 2nd inning.
b:Singled for Zambrano in the 4th inning.
c:Struck out for Rolen in the 5th inning.
d:Singled for Kent in the 6th inning.
e:Struck out for Glavine in the 7th inning.
f:Popped out for Beltran in the 9th inning.

Double Plays: Wilson-Loretta-Thome.
Doubles
: Suzuki, Pujols 2, Renteria.
Error: Kent.
Ground into Double Play: Sheffield.
Home Runs: Ramirez, Soriano, Ortiz.
Left on Base: A.L. 7, A.L. 7.
Triples: I. Rodriguez, A. Rodriguez.

All-Star Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
American League 6 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 9 14 0
National League 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 1
American League
Name IP H R ER BB SO
Mark Mulder 2.0 2 1 1 0 1
Esteban Loaiza 1.0 1 0 0 1 0
C.C. Sabathia 1.0 4 3 3 0 0
Javier Vazquez 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Ted Lilly 1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Joe Nathan 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Tom Gordon 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Francisco Rodriguez 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Mariano Rivera 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
National League
Name IP H R ER BB SO
Roger Clemens 1.0 5 6 3 0 2
Danny Kolb 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Randy Johnson 1.0 3 0 0 0 1
Carlos Zambrano 1.0 1 1 1 1 1
Carl Pavano 2.0 3 2 2 0 1
Tom Glavine 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Ben Sheets 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Eric Gagne 1.0 0 0 0 1 2

Hit by Pitcher: Rolen (by Mulder).
Hold
: Vazquez.
Losing Pitcher
: Clemens.
Winning Pitcher: Mulder.

Attendance: 41,886.
Length of Game: 2:59.
Umpires:
HP:Ed Montague, 1B:John Hirschbeck, 2B:Doug Eddings
3B:Jim Reynolds, LF:Marvin Hudson, RF:Sam Holbrook.

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The Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award is presented in recognition of an achievement of historical significance. It was last bestowed in 2002 to the Seattle Mariners in recognition of their 2001 season, during which they recorded one-hundred sixetten (116) victories to tie the 1906 Chicago Cubs for the highest single-season win total in Major League Baseball history. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig presented Roger Clemens with the award during the fourth inning of the 2004 All-Star Game and made the following statement, "Before a worldwide television audience and your hometown fans here in Houston, it is my great honor to present you with the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award. Your Hall of Fame career has been highlighted by many rewards and honors. These achievements will ensure that your name will always be mentioned with the greatest pitchers in the history of this great game. Congratulations Roger, you've done a lot for so many and all of us are very proud of you."

Doug Miller, a reporter for MLB.com, writes a regular online column called "Left Field" and prior to the 2004 All-Star Game he published this list of ten reasons why the baseball All-Star game is better than other sports all-star contests:

  1. It actually does count: When Hank Blalock's two-run home run off super-closer Eric Gagne in the eighth inning of the 2003 game cleared the fence of U.S. Cellular Field, the American League had a 7-6 win in one of the most crisply played and dramatic All-Star Games ever. Players claimed that they cared more about the outcome because of the new rule giving home-field advantage in the World Series to the winner. That isn't coming close to happening in any other sport any time soon.
  2. Legitimately magic moments: It's 25-year-old Reggie Jackson hitting a 520-foot home run off the light tower on the roof of Tiger Stadium in 1971. It's Carl Hubbell striking out five straight guys in 1934, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx. It's Torii Hunter practically leaping over the wall in Milwaukee to rob Barry Bonds of a homer in 2002.
  3. Legitimately poignant moments: It's Ted Williams on the field at Fenway, surrounded by adoring players, in 1999. It's the 14 living members of the 500-homer club before the Century 21 Home Run Derby, here on Monday night. It's 47-year-old Satchel Paige toeing the slab in the 1953 game at Crosley Field. It's Cal Ripken tomahawking a Chan Ho Park fastball over the Safeco Field wall for a career-capping homer in his final Midsummer Classic, in 2001.
  4. Legitimately hilarious moments: It's Larry Walker, batting .398, stepping into the box at Jacobs Field in 1997 and getting an above-the-head heater from Randy Johnson. It's Walker promptly turning around, batting right-handed, and drawing a walk. It's third-base coach Tommy Lasorda taking half of Vlad Guerrero's bat on the hip in 2001, then tumbling over backward like a tipsy gymnast, getting up and laughing along with the crowd.
  5. Legitimately intense moments: Nobody liked to see the end result of the play, which was a serious injury, but when Pete Rose barreled over Ray Fosse at the plate to give his NL All-Stars a 12-inning win in Cincinnati in 1970, it demonstrated the sobering lengths to which baseball players are willing to travel in search of victory. It was old-fashioned hardball, and you don't see it in any other sport, let alone any other sport's All-Star Game.

Speaking of other sports ...

  • Pro Bore: When's the last time you watched football's All-Star Game, the Pro Bowl? Do you even remember it? It was canceled years ago, right? News flash for the NFL: One day after the Super Bowl is over, nobody cares until the fantasy magazines come out.

Put it this way: When Tommy Maddox fills in for an injured Neil O'Donnell, who's filling in for an injured Brett Favre, nobody's watching. When Maddox passes to Keenan McCardell, who's replacing Terry Glenn, who made the trip in place of Randy Moss, nobody's watching. Take the air out of it. Pronto.

  • Pro Bore 2: Oh, and another thing while we're on the subject of Pro Bowl. Toss the cardboard cutouts and Pixar technology that make it look as if you've sold out the 789,000-seat Don Ho Bowl or whatever you call that polyester-surfaced Hawaii behemoth that time forgot. You're not fooling any of the TV viewers who stumble upon the game while switching from "Press Your Luck" reruns to the shopping networks. Stop spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to have J.C. Chasez lip-sync a Donna Summer cover. Send the money to charity.
  • Fightin' words: Nobody cares about hockey. Well, slight correction. Nobody cares unless there's a fight, and there's no fighting in the NHL All-Star Game. That's simply unfair to fans shelling out quality dough to watch their favorite players beat the tar out of one another. NHL suits: Get Paul Newman, grab the dudes who played the Hanson Brothers and re-create the movie "Slap Shot" word for word. Everybody drops the gloves and goes at it, then you can play the game if you really want to. It still wouldn't be as cool as baseball's All-Star Game, but it would be a start.
  • Hoop hype: Will somebody please step up and take the NBA All-Star Game out of its present misery? It has eroded into a no-defense, run-up-and-down-the-court, no-look-pass-out-of-bounds derby in which the final score is 298-294 in seven excruciating overtimes and the only satisfaction comes when Vin-sanity, Shaq Diesel, The Big Ticket, K-Mart, Rip, T-Mac and the other eight guys who were in high school last week do that sick over-the-shoulder, blindfolded, jump-over-the-chair-and-four-family-members jam that somebody else did four times the previous day in the unwatchable dunk contest.
  • Skinned: And while we're at it, how unwatchable is golf's version of an All-Star Game, the Skins Game? Do we really need to see Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples and Davis Love III make more money while they're yawning and yukking it up and waiting for their Lear Jets to refuel and take them to the Bahamas? Do we really need to see Vijay Singh play more golf?

Source: MLB.com (Doug Miller, 07/13/2004)

The 2004 All-Star Game was the second All-Star Game "where it counted" (the winner was awarded home field advantage during the World Series) and the last under the temporary agreement between Major League Baseball and the Player's Union. Should the tradition continue? Should it count or should it be an exhibition game only? Share your opinion on Baseball Fever.