Los Angeles Dodgers vs Chicago Cubs
August 17, 1981 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 17, 1981 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Chicago Cubs 3

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 2 0 0 0
  Frias 2b 1 0 0 0
Landreaux cf 4 0 0 0
Baker lf 4 0 1 0
Garvey 1b 4 0 0 0
Cey 3b 3 1 0 0
Monday rf 4 0 2 0
Yeager c 3 0 1 1
  Scioscia ph 1 0 0 0
Thomas ss 4 0 1 0
Welch p 2 0 1 0
  Castillo p 0 0 0 0
  Johnstone ph 1 0 0 0
  Pena p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 6 1
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
DeJesus ss 4 0 0 0
Henderson lf 3 1 1 0
  Morales lf 0 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 4 0 1 0
Durham rf 4 0 0 0
Bonds cf 2 2 1 0
Davis c 4 0 2 0
Reitz 3b 3 0 2 1
Tyson 2b 4 0 1 0
Bird p 2 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 8 1
Los Angeles 010 000 000162
Chicago 100 101 00x381
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Welch  L (4-4) 5.1 6 3 2 3 6
  Castillo   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Pena   2.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
3
2
3
6
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Bird  W (2-0) 9.0 6 1 1 2 5
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
5

  E–Frias (4), Thomas (3), Durham (4).  DP–Los Angeles 1.  SH–Bird (1,off Castillo).  SF–Reitz (5,off Welch).  SB–Lopes (16,2nd base off Bird/Davis); Durham (16,2nd base off Welch/Yeager); Tyson (1,2nd base off Welch/Yeager).  WP–Welch (1).  U-HP–Jim Quick, 1B–Jerry Dale, 2B–Paul Runge, 3B–Bob Engel.  T–2:23.  A–10,153.
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