Los Angeles Dodgers vs Houston Astros
September 5, 1989 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 5, 1989 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros 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 2, Houston Astros 3

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 3 0 0 0
Randolph 2b 4 1 3 0
Murray 1b 4 0 0 0
Marshall rf 4 0 1 1
Hamilton 3b 4 0 0 0
Scioscia c 3 1 1 0
Harris lf 3 0 0 0
Bean cf 3 0 1 1
Martinez p 3 0 0 0
  Pena p 0 0 0 0
  Searage p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 6 2
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Young cf 4 1 2 0
Biggio c 4 1 1 1
Bass lf 2 0 0 0
  Puhl lf 2 0 0 0
Davis 1b 4 1 1 1
Wilson rf 3 0 2 1
Caminiti 3b 3 0 0 0
Ramirez ss 3 0 0 0
Reynolds 2b 0 0 0 0
  Spilman ph 1 0 0 0
  Lombardozzi 2b 0 0 0 0
  Trevino ph 1 0 0 0
  Yelding 2b 0 0 0 0
Rhoden p 1 0 0 0
  Gross ph 1 0 1 0
  Agosto p 0 0 0 0
  Anthony ph 1 0 1 0
  Andersen p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 8 3
Los Angeles 000 110 000260
Houston 000 000 03x380
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Martinez   7.0 5 1 1 3 4
  Pena  L (3-3) 0.2 3 2 2 0 1
  Searage   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
3
3
3
6
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Rhoden   6.0 6 2 2 1 2
  Agosto  W (4-5) 2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Andersen  SV (3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
1
6

  E–None.  DP–Los Angeles 1, Houston 1.  2B–Los Angeles Randolph (17,off Rhoden); Scioscia (15,off Rhoden); Bean (3,off Rhoden), Houston Biggio (17,off Pena).  CS–Young (22,2nd base by Martinez/Scioscia).  U-HP–Harry Wendelstedt, 1B–Gary Darling, 2B–Ed Montague, 3B–Randy Marsh.  T–2:47.  A–11,212.
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