Pittsburgh Pirates vs Montreal Expos
May 23, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 23, 1997 at Stade Olympique. The Montreal Expos defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Montreal Expos 4

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Womack 2b 4 0 0 0
Brown cf 4 0 1 0
Cummings lf 4 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 4 0 0 0
Sveum 3b 3 0 0 0
Kendall c 3 0 1 0
Guillen rf 3 0 0 0
Polcovich ss 2 1 1 0
Cooke p 2 0 1 1
  Wainhouse p 0 0 0 0
  Randa ph 1 0 1 0
  Ruebel p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Grudzielanek ss 3 0 0 0
Lansing 2b 4 0 0 0
White cf 4 0 2 0
Segui 1b 3 1 1 0
Rodriguez lf 3 0 0 0
  Santangelo lf 0 1 0 0
Guerrero rf 3 1 2 0
Fletcher c 4 1 2 2
Strange 3b 3 0 0 0
Martinez p 4 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 7 2
Pittsburgh 000 001 000151
Montreal 000 000 22x470
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Cooke  L (3-6) 6.2 5 2 1 2 3
  Wainhouse   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Ruebel   1.0 2 2 2 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
4
3
3
3
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Martinez  W (8-0) 9.0 5 1 1 0 12
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
0
12

  E–Guillen (3).  DP–Montreal 2.  2B–Pittsburgh Cooke (1,off Martinez), Montreal Guerrero (5,off Cooke).  HBP–Polcovich (3,by Martinez); Santangelo (9,by Ruebel); Guerrero (3,by Ruebel).  IBB–Strange (2,by Cooke); Segui (4,by Cooke).  SB–White (7,2nd base off Cooke/Kendall).  WP–Cooke (4), Wainhouse (1), Martinez (1).  HBP–Ruebel 2 (2,Santangelo,Guerrero); Martinez (4,Polcovich).  IBB–Cooke 2 (2,Strange,Segui).  U-HP–Jeff Kellogg, 1B–Larry Vanover, 2B–Larry Poncino, 3B–Randy Marsh.  T–2:04.  A–18,499.
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