New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs
August 5, 1983 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 5, 1983 at Wrigley Field. The New York Mets 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

New York Mets 9, Chicago Cubs 4

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Wilson cf 5 2 3 1
Brooks 3b 5 0 2 1
Hernandez 1b 3 1 1 0
Foster lf 4 2 1 0
Strawberry rf 3 1 1 2
  Orosco p 2 0 1 1
Bailor ss 4 1 2 2
Giles 2b 4 1 1 0
Ortiz c 2 0 0 0
  Hodges ph,c 2 1 1 1
Torrez p 2 0 0 0
  Heep rf 1 0 0 1
Totals 37 9 13 9
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Sandberg 2b 3 1 1 2
Hall cf 2 0 0 0
  Woods ph,cf 2 0 0 0
Buckner 1b 3 0 2 0
Cey 3b 4 0 1 0
Durham lf 4 0 0 0
Moreland rf 3 0 0 0
Davis c 3 1 0 0
  Lake c 0 0 0 0
Bowa ss 3 2 1 0
Ruthven p 1 0 1 0
  Johnstone ph 0 0 0 0
  Morales ph 1 0 1 2
  Proly p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell p 0 0 0 0
  Lefferts p 0 0 0 0
  Carter ph 1 0 0 0
  Brusstar p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 7 4
New York 000 300 6009131
Chicago 000 022 000470
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Torrez   5.2 5 4 4 6 1
  Orosco  W (9-5) 3.1 2 0 0 3 0
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
9
1
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Ruthven   6.0 5 3 3 1 3
  Proly  L (1-4) 0.0 2 2 2 0 0
  Campbell   0.2 3 4 4 2 0
  Lefferts   1.1 2 0 0 0 1
  Brusstar   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
13
9
9
3
5

  E–Brooks (13).  DP–New York 1, Chicago 1.  2B–New York Brooks (11,off Ruthven); Bailor (7,off Lefferts), Chicago Cey (24,off Torrez); Morales (7,off Orosco).  HR–New York Strawberry (15,4th inning off Ruthven 1 on, 2 out), Chicago Sandberg (8,5th inning off Torrez 1 on, 1 out).  SF–Heep (5,off Campbell).  IBB–Hernandez (10,by Campbell); Foster (2,by Campbell); Sandberg (3,by Orosco).  SH–Ruthven (5,off Torrez).  SB–Wilson 2 (37,2nd base off Campbell/Davis,3rd base off Campbell/Davis).  CS–Sandberg (7,2nd base by Torrez/Ortiz).  WP–Campbell (5).  IBB–Orosco (6,Sandberg); Campbell 2 (14,Hernandez,Foster).  U–Doug Harvey, Jerry Crawford, Frank Pulli.  T–3:02.  A–21,163.
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