Houston Astros vs Los Angeles Dodgers
April 24, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 24, 1996 at Dodger Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros 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

Houston Astros 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 5

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Hunter cf 4 0 0 0
Biggio 2b 4 0 0 0
Bagwell 1b 3 0 0 0
Bell rf 4 1 2 0
Wilkins c 3 0 0 0
Berry 3b 4 1 3 1
May lf 4 0 1 0
Miller ss 4 0 0 0
Brocail p 2 0 0 0
  Young p 0 0 0 0
  Spiers ph 1 0 0 0
  Dougherty p 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
  Eusebio ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 6 1
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Butler cf 3 2 1 1
Fonville lf,2b 3 0 3 1
Piazza c 4 1 2 3
Mondesi rf 4 0 0 0
Hansen 1b 2 0 0 0
  Castro 3b 1 0 0 0
DeShields 2b 3 0 0 0
  Worrell p 0 0 0 0
Blowers 3b,1b 4 1 1 0
Gagne ss 2 1 1 0
Valdez p 1 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 0 0 0 0
  Hall p 0 0 0 0
  Cedeno lf 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 5 8 5
Houston 000 100 001261
Los Angeles 220 000 10x582
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Brocail  L (1-1) 5.0 6 4 4 2 2
  Young   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Dougherty   1.0 2 1 1 1 0
  Hernandez   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
5
4
2
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Valdez  W (1-1) 7.0 5 1 1 1 10
  Hall   1.2 1 1 0 1 3
  Worrell   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
2
1
2
13

  E–Bagwell (3), Fonville (1), Cedeno (1).  DP–Houston 2.  2B–Houston Berry (11,off Hall).  HR–Los Angeles Piazza (3,1st inning off Brocail 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Fonville (1,off Brocail); Valdes (1,off Brocail).  SF–Butler (3,off Brocail).  SB–Bell (6,2nd base off Valdes/Piazza); Berry (2,2nd base off Valdes/Piazza).  CS–DeShields (1,2nd base by Young/Wilkins).  U-HP–Larry Vanover, 1B–Frank Pulli, 2B–Bob Davidson, 3B–Larry Poncino.  T–2:50.  A–26,666.
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