St. Louis Cardinals vs Houston Astros
August 27, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 27, 1973 at Astrodome. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Houston Astros and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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St. Louis Cardinals 6, Houston Astros 3

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Brock lf 7 1 2 1
Sizemore 2b 6 1 2 1
Torre 3b,1b 5 0 0 0
Simmons c 6 1 2 1
Cruz rf 6 0 2 1
McBride cf 2 0 0 0
  Agee ph,cf 3 1 0 0
McCarver 1b 4 0 1 0
  Hrabosky p 0 0 0 0
  Murphy p 1 0 0 0
  Heintzelman ph 0 1 0 0
  Folkers p 0 0 0 0
Tyson ss 3 0 0 0
  Carbo ph 1 0 0 0
  Kelleher ss 1 1 0 0
Nagy p 2 0 0 0
  Segui p 0 0 0 0
  Melendez ph 1 0 0 0
  Pena p 0 0 0 0
  Reitz 3b 3 0 1 2
Totals 51 6 10 6
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Gallagher lf 7 0 3 0
Metzger ss 7 1 3 0
Cedeno cf 5 0 2 0
Watson 1b 5 1 1 0
Rader 3b 6 1 2 2
Wynn rf 5 0 2 0
Edwards c 4 0 0 0
  Jutze ph,c 2 0 0 0
Helms 2b 6 0 3 1
Griffin p 2 0 0 0
  May ph 1 0 0 0
  Pizarro p 0 0 0 0
  Forsch p 0 0 0 0
  Stewart ph 1 0 0 0
  Ray p 1 0 0 0
  Crawford p 0 0 0 0
  Upshaw p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 53 3 16 3
St. Louis 010 100 010 000 036100
Houston 000 003 000 000 003160
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Nagy   5.2 10 3 3 0 2
  Segui   1.1 0 0 0 2 3
  Pena   1.1 2 0 0 0 1
  Hrabosky   1.0 1 0 0 1 2
  Murphy  W (3-6) 3.2 1 0 0 1 2
  Folkers  SV (3) 1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
14.0
16
3
3
4
11
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Griffin   6.0 4 2 2 2 6
  Pizarro   1.1 1 1 1 0 1
  Forsch   1.2 2 0 0 0 2
  Ray  L (6-3) 4.2 2 3 3 3 1
  Crawford   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Upshaw   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
14.0
10
6
6
5
10

  E–None.  DP–St. Louis 2, Houston 1.  2B–St. Louis Sizemore (17,off Forsch); Brock (19,off Crawford), Houston Watson (23,off Nagy); Rader (22,off Hrabosky); Cedeno (27,off Folkers).  HR–St. Louis Simmons (12,2nd inning off Griffin 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–Heintzelman (2,by Ray); Watson (6,by Segui); Wynn (7,by Hrabosky).  SH–Cedeno (1,off Nagy).  SB–Brock (51,2nd base off Forsch/Edwards); Agee (3,2nd base off Ray/Jutze); Cedeno (44,2nd base off Segui/Simmons).  CS–J Cruz (4,2nd base by Griffin/Edwards); Cedeno 2 (12,3rd base by Segui/Simmons,2nd base by Murphy/Simmons).  WP–Murphy (4).  IBB–Segui (10,Watson); Hrabosky (4,Wynn); Ray (8,Heintzelman).  U-HP–Nick Colosi, 1B–John McSherry, 2B–Ed Sudol, 3B–Chris Pelekoudas.  T–3:54.  A–8,036.
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