Florida Marlins vs Houston Astros
July 3, 1996 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 3, 1996 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros defeated the Florida Marlins and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Florida Marlins 3, Houston Astros 4

Florida Marlins ab   r   h rbi
Veras 2b 5 0 3 1
Arias 3b 5 0 0 0
Colbrunn 1b 4 0 0 0
Sheffield rf 3 1 2 0
Conine lf 4 1 2 0
Orsulak cf 3 1 1 1
Johnson c 3 0 0 0
  White ph 1 0 1 0
Abbott ss 3 0 0 0
  Pendleton ph 1 0 0 0
Leiter p 2 0 1 0
  Mathews p 0 0 0 0
  Grebeck ph 1 0 0 0
  Pall p 0 0 0 0
  Dawson ph 0 0 0 0
  Brown pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 10 2
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Mouton cf 4 1 3 0
  Cangelosi cf 0 0 0 0
Biggio 2b 3 0 1 3
Bagwell 1b 2 1 0 0
Bell rf 4 0 1 0
Miller 3b 4 0 1 1
Simms lf 3 0 0 0
  Montgomery pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Gutierrez ss 3 1 1 0
Knorr c 4 1 1 0
Drabek p 4 0 1 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 9 4
Florida 000 000 0033100
Houston 200 200 00x490
  Florida Marlins IP H R ER BB SO
Leiter  L (9-7) 5.2 8 4 4 4 3
  Mathews   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Pall   2.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
9
4
4
5
4
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Drabek  W (4-6) 8.0 7 2 2 2 9
  Jones  SV (16) 1.0 3 1 1 1 0
Totals
9.0
10
3
3
3
9

  E–None.  DP–Florida 2, Houston 2.  2B–Florida Veras (7,off Drabek); Conine (15,off Drabek), Houston Mouton (9,off Leiter); Bell (23,off Leiter); Knorr (2,off Leiter); Biggio (15,off Leiter).  HBP–Gutierrez (2,by Leiter).  CS–Miller (5,3rd base by Pall/Johnson).  WP–Leiter (2).  HBP–Leiter (6,Gutierrez).  U-HP–Bruce Froemming, 1B–Steve Rippley, 2B–Mark Hirschbeck, 3B–Ron Barnes.  T–2:56.  A–24,537.
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