Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates
October 5, 1980 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 5, 1980 at Three Rivers Stadium. The Pittsburgh Pirates 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)
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Chicago Cubs 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 1

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Lezcano cf 4 0 0 0
Figueroa lf 4 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 4 0 0 0
Tracy rf 3 0 2 0
Hayes c 3 0 0 0
Tyson 2b 3 0 1 0
Dillard 3b 3 0 0 0
Kelleher ss 3 0 0 0
Capilla p 2 0 0 0
  Biittner ph 1 0 1 0
  Tidrow p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 4 0
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Moreno cf 4 0 1 0
Law 2b 3 1 1 0
Lacy lf 2 0 0 0
Robinson B. rf 3 0 2 1
Pena c 3 0 2 0
Berra ss 3 0 0 0
Bevacqua 3b 3 0 0 0
Sanguillen 1b 3 0 0 0
Robinson D. p 3 0 0 0
Totals 27 1 6 1
Chicago 000 000 000040
Pittsburgh 000 100 00x162
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Capilla  L (2-8) 7.0 6 1 1 1 4
  Tidrow   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
6
1
1
1
4
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Robinson  W (7-10) 9.0 4 0 0 1 7
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
1
7

  E–Pena (2), Berra (11).  DP–Pittsburgh 1.  2B–Chicago Tracy (3,off D Robinson), Pittsburgh Pena (1,off Capilla).  3B–Pittsburgh Law (2,off Capilla).  SB–Tracy (2,2nd base off D Robinson/Pena).  CS–Tracy (2,2nd base by D Robinson/Pena); Pena (1,2nd base by Capilla/Hayes); Moreno (33,2nd base by Capilla/Hayes); B Robinson (4,2nd base by Capilla/Hayes).  U-HP–Dutch Rennert, 1B–Harry Wendelstedt, 2B–Lee Weyer, 3B–Eric Gregg.  T–1:48.  A–20,588.
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