Atlanta Braves vs Chicago Cubs
May 4, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 4, 1972 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Atlanta Braves and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Atlanta Braves 0, Chicago Cubs 8

Atlanta Braves ab   r   h rbi
Millan 2b 4 0 1 0
Garr cf 4 0 0 0
Aaron rf 4 0 2 0
Carty lf 4 0 0 0
Williams c 2 0 0 0
  Casanova c 2 0 0 0
Cepeda 1b 4 0 2 0
Evans 3b 3 0 0 0
Perez ss 4 0 1 0
Kelley p 0 0 0 0
  Lum ph 1 0 0 0
  Schueler p 0 0 0 0
  Baker ph 0 0 0 0
  Stone p 0 0 0 0
  Barber p 0 0 0 0
  Breazeale ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 0 6 0
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Kessinger ss 4 0 1 2
Beckert 2b 5 0 0 0
Williams lf 3 2 1 0
Santo 3b 3 0 0 1
Hickman 1b 4 2 3 0
Monday cf 3 2 2 2
Cardenal rf 3 2 2 2
Hundley c 4 0 0 0
Pappas p 3 0 1 0
Totals 32 8 10 7
Atlanta 000 000 000060
Chicago 010 400 12x8102
  Atlanta Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Kelley  L (1-2) 4.0 6 5 4 2 2
  Schueler   2.0 1 0 0 1 2
  Stone   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Barber   1.0 2 2 2 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
8
7
4
4
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Pappas  W (2-2) 9.0 6 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
2
3

  E–Kessinger (4), Santo (4).  DP–Chicago 1.  PB–Williams (1).  2B–Chicago Cardenal (5,off Kelley).  3B–Chicago Monday (1,off Kelley); Williams (1,off Stone).  SH–Kelley (2,off Pappas); Pappas (2,off Barber).  HBP–Baker (1,by Pappas).  SF–Santo (1,off Stone).  IBB–Monday (3,by Schueler).  WP–Schueler (2).  HBP–Pappas (1,Baker).  IBB–Schueler (1,Monday).  U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Doug Harvey, 2B–Bob Engel, 3B–Augie Donatelli.  T–2:18.  A–7,631.
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