Chicago Cubs vs Houston Astros
May 11, 1977 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 11, 1977 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros defeated the Chicago Cubs 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago Cubs 2, Houston Astros 8

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
DeJesus ss 3 1 0 0
Gross lf 2 0 1 2
Biittner 1b 4 0 1 0
Murcer rf 4 0 0 0
Morales cf 3 0 0 0
  Todd p 0 0 0 0
  Buckner ph 1 0 0 0
Ontiveros 3b 4 0 1 0
Mitterwald c 3 0 1 0
  Cardenal pr 0 0 0 0
  Swisher c 1 0 0 0
Kelleher 2b 3 0 1 0
Burris p 0 0 0 0
  Reuschel p 0 0 0 0
  Clines ph 0 1 0 0
  Wallis cf 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 5 2
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Howard lf 5 0 2 0
Cabell 3b 5 0 0 0
Cedeno cf 3 3 2 1
Johnson 1b 4 2 2 0
Cruz rf 4 0 1 2
Ferguson c 1 1 1 1
Gonzalez ss 5 1 1 0
Howe 2b 4 1 2 2
Richard p 3 0 1 1
Totals 34 8 12 7
Chicago 000 002 000251
Houston 205 000 01x8121
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Burris  L (4-4) 2.1 7 7 6 4 0
  Reuschel   2.2 3 0 0 1 1
  Todd   3.0 2 1 1 3 1
Totals
8.0
12
8
7
8
2
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Richard  W (2-3) 9.0 5 2 2 4 5
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
4
5

  E–DeJesus (7), Gonzalez (8).  DP–Houston 2.  PB–Mitterwald (2).  2B–Houston Cruz (6,off Burris).  HR–Houston Cedeno (1,3rd inning off Burris 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Burris (2,off Richard); Richard (3,off Burris).  IBB–Ferguson (2,by Burris).  SB–Cedeno 2 (11,2nd base off Burris/Mitterwald,2nd base off Todd/Swisher); Howard (3,2nd base off P Reuschel/Mitterwald).  WP–P Reuschel (1), Richard (3).  IBB–Burris (3,Ferguson).  U-HP–Jerry Crawford, 1B–Doug Harvey, 2B–Paul Pryor, 3B–Andy Olsen.  T–2:37.  A–5,436.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook