Pittsburgh Pirates vs Philadelphia Phillies
July 20, 1997 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 20, 1997 at Veteran's Stadium. The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Philadelphia Phillies 4

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Womack 2b 5 1 2 0
Allensworth cf 3 0 0 1
Martin lf 4 0 0 0
Young 1b 4 0 3 0
Sveum 3b 4 0 2 0
Kendall c 3 0 2 0
Smith rf 3 0 0 0
Polcovich ss 4 0 0 0
Schmidt p 2 0 0 0
  Johnson ph 1 0 0 0
  Christiansen p 0 0 0 0
  Wagner p 0 0 0 0
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 9 1
Philadelphia Phillies ab   r   h rbi
Cummings cf 4 2 2 1
Morandini 2b 3 1 0 0
Daulton rf 2 0 1 1
  May rf 0 0 0 0
Rolen 3b 3 0 0 0
Jefferies lf 2 0 0 0
  Spradlin p 1 0 0 0
  Bottalico p 0 0 0 0
Brogna 1b 4 0 0 0
Lieberthal c 4 0 1 0
Stocker ss 3 1 1 0
Stephenson p 0 0 0 0
  Amaro, Jr. lf 2 0 0 0
Totals 28 4 5 2
Pittsburgh 100 000 000192
Philadelphia 000 120 10x450
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Schmidt  L (4-6) 6.0 3 3 2 4 5
  Christiansen   0.2 1 1 1 1 0
  Wagner   1.1 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
5
4
3
6
7
  Philadelphia Phillies IP H R ER BB SO
Stephenson  W (4-4) 6.2 7 1 1 2 6
  Spradlin   1.0 2 0 0 0 2
  Bottalico  SV (17) 1.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
2
9

  E–Sveum (7), Kendall (6).  2B–Pittsburgh Kendall (23,off Stephenson), Philadelphia Cummings (8,off Christiansen).  3B–Pittsburgh Womack (9,off Stephenson), Philadelphia Daulton (6,off Schmidt); Cummings (3,off Schmidt).  SF–Allensworth (2,off Stephenson).  SH–Stephenson 2 (3,off Schmidt 2).  IBB–Rolen (2,by Wagner).  SB–Daulton (4,2nd base off Wagner/Kendall); Stocker (7,2nd base off Wagner/Kendall).  WP–Christiansen 2 (3).  IBB–Wagner (1,Rolen).  U-HP–Larry Vanover, 1B–Jerry Crawford, 2B–Ed Montague, 3B–Wally Bell.  T–2:48.  A–20,431.
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