Chicago Cubs vs San Diego Padres
July 9, 1988 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 9, 1988 at Jack Murphy Stadium. The San Diego Padres 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 2, San Diego Padres 4

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Dunston ss 4 0 0 0
Martinez cf 4 0 0 0
Palmeiro lf 4 1 1 0
Sandberg 2b 3 1 1 0
Grace 1b 3 0 1 0
  Dawson ph 1 0 0 0
Law 3b 3 0 1 2
Davis c 3 0 0 0
Varsho rf 3 0 1 0
Sutcliffe p 1 0 0 0
  DiPino p 0 0 0 0
  Trillo ph 1 0 0 0
  Lancaster p 0 0 0 0
  Mumphrey ph 1 0 0 0
  Perry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 5 2
San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Wynne cf 4 1 3 1
Alomar 2b 3 0 1 1
Gwynn rf 4 1 2 1
Kruk lf,1b 2 0 0 0
Moreland 1b 4 0 2 1
  Mack pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Santiago c 4 0 1 0
Flannery 3b 4 0 1 0
Templeton ss 4 1 1 0
Whitson p 2 1 1 0
  McCullers p 1 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 12 4
Chicago 000 000 200251
San Diego 111 100 00x4120
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Sutcliffe  L (7-6) 2.1 6 3 3 2 0
  DiPino   2.2 4 1 1 0 2
  Lancaster   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Perry   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
12
4
4
3
2
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Whitson  W (8-5) 6.1 5 2 2 0 6
  McCullers   2.1 0 0 0 1 1
  Davis  SV (16) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
1
7

  E–Varsho (2).  DP–Chicago 2.  SH–R Alomar (7,off Sutcliffe); Whitson (9,off Sutcliffe).  SB–Gwynn (13,2nd base off Sutcliffe/Davis); Mack (5,2nd base off Lancaster/Davis).  WP–Sutcliffe (8).  U-HP–Tom Hallion, 1B–Gary Darling, 2B–Paul Runge, 3B–Bob Engel.  T–2:26.  A–28,364.
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