Chicago Cubs vs Montreal Expos
April 15, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 15, 1981 at Stade Olympique. The Montreal Expos 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 4, Montreal Expos 5

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
DeJesus ss 4 0 0 0
Strain 2b 2 1 1 1
Buckner 1b 4 0 1 0
Henderson lf 2 1 1 1
Durham rf 4 0 0 0
Reitz 3b 4 0 0 1
Thompson cf 4 0 1 0
Blackwell c 4 1 1 0
Reuschel p 1 0 0 0
  Tyson ph 1 1 1 1
  Caudill p 1 0 1 0
  Tidrow p 0 0 0 0
  Tracy ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 7 4
Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Raines lf 4 0 2 1
Scott 2b 3 1 0 0
Dawson cf 3 1 1 1
Valentine rf 4 0 0 0
Carter c 4 1 2 1
Parrish 3b 4 1 1 0
Cromartie 1b 3 0 1 1
Speier ss 3 1 0 0
Rogers p 2 0 0 0
  Montanez ph 1 0 0 0
  Bahnsen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 7 4
Chicago 000 220 000473
Montreal 030 000 02x573
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Reuschel   4.0 5 3 0 1 1
  Caudill   3.1 0 1 1 1 4
  Tidrow  L (1-1) 0.2 2 1 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
7
5
1
2
7
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Rogers   7.0 7 4 3 2 4
  Bahnsen  W (1-0) 2.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
7
4
3
3
6

  E–DeJesus 2 (2), Thompson (1), Dawson (1), Parrish (1), Cromartie (1).  DP–Montreal 2.  2B–Chicago Blackwell (1,off Rogers).  HBP–Strain (1,by Rogers).  SB–Raines (2,2nd base off Reuschel/Blackwell); Scott (1,2nd base off Tidrow/Blackwell); Carter (1,2nd base off Tidrow/Blackwell).  CS–Dawson (1,2nd base by Reuschel/Blackwell).  HBP–Rogers (1,Strain).  U-HP–Jerry Crawford, 1B–Ed Vargo, 2B–Satch Davidson, 3B–Terry Tata.  T–2:50.  A–30,003.
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