New York Mets vs St. Louis Cardinals
May 9, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 1997 at Busch Stadium II. The New York Mets defeated the St. Louis Cardinals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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New York Mets 10, St. Louis Cardinals 3

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Bieser cf 4 1 1 1
Alfonzo 3b 5 3 2 0
Olerud 1b 3 2 1 1
Hundley c 4 1 2 3
Gilkey lf 5 0 3 3
Baerga 2b 5 0 1 0
Huskey rf 3 1 1 1
  Ochoa rf 1 1 1 0
Ordonez ss 3 0 0 0
Clark p 2 0 0 0
  Franco ph 1 0 0 0
  McMichael p 0 0 0 0
  Everett ph 0 1 0 0
  Kashiwada p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 10 12 9
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
DeShields 2b 4 0 1 1
Young 1b 4 1 1 1
Lankford cf 4 0 2 0
Gant lf 4 0 0 0
Mabry rf 4 1 1 0
Gaetti 3b 4 0 2 0
Lampkin c 4 0 0 0
Clayton ss 3 1 2 1
Stottlemyre p 1 0 0 0
  Sweeney ph 1 0 0 0
  Fossas p 0 0 0 0
  Batchelor p 0 0 0 0
  McGraw p 0 0 0 0
  Sheaffer ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 9 3
New York 000 300 12410120
St. Louis 110 010 000392
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Clark  W (4-2) 6.0 7 3 3 0 3
  McMichael   2.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Kashiwada   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
0
5
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Stottlemyre  L (1-2) 7.0 6 4 4 1 8
  Fossas   0.1 3 2 0 0 0
  Batchelor   1.0 2 4 1 1 0
  McGraw   0.2 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
12
10
5
3
8

  E–Young (7), Lankford (3).  2B–New York Alfonzo (7,off Stottlemyre); Hundley (6,off Stottlemyre); Ochoa (3,off Batchelor); Gilkey (5,off McGraw), St. Louis Lankford (6,off Clark); DeShields (4,off Clark); Gaetti (5,off Clark); Clayton (13,off Kashiwada).  3B–New York Gilkey (1,off Stottlemyre).  HR–New York Huskey (5,7th inning off Stottlemyre 0 on, 0 out), St. Louis Young (2,1st inning off Clark 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Ordonez (7,off Batchelor); Stottlemyre (2,off Clark).  SF–Hundley (4,off McGraw); Clayton (2,off Clark).  HBP–Olerud (2,by Stottlemyre).  SB–Baerga (1,2nd base off Stottlemyre/Lampkin).  CS–Bieser (1,2nd base by Stottlemyre/Lampkin); Alfonzo (1,2nd base by Fossas/Lampkin).  BK–Batchelor (1).  HBP–Stottlemyre (4,Olerud).  U-HP–Joe West, 1B–Mike Winters, 2B–Jerry Layne, 3B–Paul Runge.  T–2:48.  A–32,054.
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