Houston Astros vs St. Louis Cardinals
July 10, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 10, 1998 at Busch Stadium II. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Houston Astros 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Houston Astros 3, St. Louis Cardinals 6

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Biggio 2b 4 0 1 2
Spiers 3b 4 0 0 0
Bell rf 4 0 1 0
Bagwell 1b 3 0 0 0
Alou lf 4 0 0 0
Everett cf 3 1 0 0
Gutierrez ss 3 0 0 0
Ausmus c 3 1 2 0
Hampton p 1 0 1 0
  Elarton p 0 0 0 0
  Clark ph 1 1 1 1
  Nitkowski p 0 0 0 0
  Powell p 0 0 0 0
  Magnante p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 6 3
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Clayton ss 4 1 2 0
Lankford cf 3 2 2 3
McGwire 1b 3 1 0 0
Jordan rf 4 1 1 1
McGee lf 4 0 2 2
Gaetti 3b 3 0 0 0
Ordaz 2b 3 0 0 0
  Frascatore p 0 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
  Mabry ph 1 0 1 0
  Brantley p 0 0 0 0
Morris p 2 0 0 0
  Polanco 2b 2 0 0 0
Marrero c 3 1 1 0
Totals 32 6 9 6
Houston 000 000 030361
St. Louis 003 000 03x690
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Hampton   6.0 5 3 3 2 5
  Elarton   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Nitkowski  L (3-3) 0.0 1 2 2 1 0
  Powell   0.2 2 1 1 0 0
  Magnante   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
3
5
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Morris   6.0 3 0 0 0 6
  Frascatore   1.1 2 3 3 1 1
  King  W (2-0) 0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Brantley  SV (13) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
2
8

  E–Bell (2).  DP–Houston 1, St. Louis 2.  2B–Houston Clark (4,off Frascatore), St. Louis Lankford (18,off Nitkowski).  HR–St. Louis Lankford (13,3rd inning off Hampton 2 on, 0 out).  SH–Hampton (5,off Morris).  IBB–McGwire (17,by Nitkowski).  SB–Biggio (27,2nd base off King/Marrero).  IBB–Nitkowski (2,McGwire).  U-HP–Gary Darling, 1B–Mike Winters, 2B–Larry Poncino, 3B–Steve Rippley.  T–2:31.  A–44,655.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook