Los Angeles Dodgers vs Chicago Cubs
May 20, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1998 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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)
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Los Angeles Dodgers 0, Chicago Cubs 5

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Young 2b 4 0 0 0
Vizcaino ss 3 0 0 0
Sheffield rf 3 0 2 0
Bonilla 3b 4 0 0 0
Mondesi cf 4 0 1 0
Karros 1b 3 0 0 0
Eisenreich lf 3 0 0 0
  Guthrie p 0 0 0 0
  Clontz p 0 0 0 0
Johnson c 3 0 0 0
Nomo p 2 0 0 0
  Hollandsworth lf 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 3 0
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Brown cf 4 0 0 0
Morandini 2b 3 1 2 0
Sosa rf 3 0 0 1
Grace 1b 4 1 1 0
Rodriguez lf 3 1 1 2
  Mieske lf 1 1 1 0
Blauser ss 2 1 1 0
Houston 3b 3 0 1 0
  Hernandez 3b 1 0 1 1
Martinez c 3 0 1 1
Tapani p 2 0 1 0
Totals 29 5 10 5
Los Angeles 000 000 000030
Chicago 000 003 02x5100
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Nomo  L (2-6) 6.0 6 3 3 4 6
  Guthrie   1.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Clontz   0.2 4 2 2 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
5
6
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Tapani  W (6-2) 9.0 3 0 0 2 9
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
2
9

  E–None.  DP–Los Angeles 1.  2B–Chicago Mieske (4,off Clontz); Hernandez (4,off Clontz).  3B–Chicago Morandini (3,off Nomo).  HR–Chicago Rodriguez (10,6th inning off Nomo 1 on, 1 out).  SH–Tapani (1,off Nomo); Brown (1,off Guthrie).  SF–Sosa (2,off Nomo).  SB–Sheffield (5,2nd base off Tapani/Martinez); Blauser (2,2nd base off Nomo/Johnson).  WP–Nomo (3).  BK–Nomo (1).  U-HP–Steve Rippley, 1B–Gary Darling, 2B–Larry Poncino, 3B–Mike Winters.  T–2:20.  A–24,245.
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