Chicago Cubs vs Houston Astros
May 25, 1983 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 25, 1983 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)
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Chicago Cubs 0, Houston Astros 1

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Bowa ss 4 0 0 0
Sandberg 2b 4 0 0 0
Durham cf 2 0 1 0
Moreland rf 2 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 4 0 2 0
Woods lf 1 0 0 0
  Thompson ph,lf 1 0 0 0
  Nordhagen ph 1 0 0 0
Davis c 4 0 0 0
Veryzer 3b 2 0 0 0
  Morales ph 0 0 0 0
  Proly p 0 0 0 0
Lefferts p 2 0 0 0
  Johnstone ph 1 0 0 0
  Kennedy 3b 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 3 0
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Scott cf 4 0 0 0
Bass rf 3 0 0 0
  LaCorte p 0 0 0 0
  Walling ph 1 0 0 0
  DiPino p 0 0 0 0
  Dawley p 0 0 0 0
Thon ss 4 0 1 0
Garner 3b 2 0 1 0
Cruz lf 3 0 1 0
Knight 1b 3 1 1 0
Doran 2b 2 0 1 0
Pujols c 3 0 1 1
Madden p 1 0 0 0
  Puhl rf 1 0 0 0
Totals 27 1 6 1
Chicago 000 000 000030
Houston 010 000 00x160
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Lefferts  L (0-2) 7.0 6 1 0 2 1
  Proly   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
6
1
0
2
1
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Madden  W (3-0) 6.0 1 0 0 5 5
  LaCorte   2.0 0 0 0 1 1
  DiPino   0.1 2 0 0 0 1
  Dawley  SV (3) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
6
7

  E–None.  DP–Houston 2.  PB–Davis (4).  2B–Houston Knight (8,off Lefferts).  SH–Madden (1,off Lefferts).  SB–Durham (7,2nd base off Madden/Pujols).  CS–Garner (5,2nd base by Lefferts/Davis); Cruz (5,2nd base by Lefferts/Davis).  T–2:17.  A–8,833.
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