San Diego Padres vs Houston Astros
October 1, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 1, 1998 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros defeated the San Diego Padres 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

San Diego Padres 4, Houston Astros 5

San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Veras 2b 3 1 1 0
Finley cf 4 1 1 1
Gwynn rf 4 0 1 1
Caminiti 3b 4 1 1 0
Vaughn lf 4 0 0 0
Joyner 1b 3 0 0 0
  Leyritz ph,1b 1 1 1 2
Hernandez c 4 0 2 0
  Sheets pr 0 0 0 0
  Myers c 0 0 0 0
Gomez ss 4 0 1 0
Ashby p 1 0 0 0
  Vander Wal ph 1 0 0 0
  Hamilton p 0 0 0 0
  Sweeney ph 1 0 0 0
  Wall p 0 0 0 0
  Arias ph 1 0 0 0
  Miceli p 0 0 0 0
  Hoffman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 8 4
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Biggio 2b 3 2 1 0
Spiers 3b 5 1 3 1
Bell rf 4 1 1 1
Bagwell 1b 4 0 1 3
Alou lf 4 0 0 0
Everett cf 4 0 1 0
Eusebio c 3 0 1 0
  Wagner p 0 0 0 0
Gutierrez ss 4 1 3 0
Reynolds p 2 0 0 0
  Powell p 0 0 0 0
  Ausmus c 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 11 5
San Diego 000 002 002481
Houston 102 000 0115111
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Ashby   4.0 6 3 3 1 4
  Hamilton   3.0 1 0 0 0 3
  Wall   1.0 2 1 1 0 2
  Miceli  L (0-1) 0.1 1 1 1 0 0
  Hoffman   0.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.1
11
5
5
2
9
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Reynolds   7.0 4 2 2 1 5
  Powell   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Wagner  W (1-0) 1.0 4 2 2 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
1
7

  E–Joyner (1), Biggio (1).  DP–San Diego 1, Houston 1.  2B–San Diego Finley (1,off Reynolds), Houston Spiers 2 (3,off Ashby 2); Eusebio (1,off Ashby).  HR–San Diego Leyritz (1,9th inning off Wagner 1 on, 2 out), Houston Bell (1,8th inning off Wall 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Reynolds (1,off Hamilton); Ausmus (1,off Miceli).  HBP–Eusebio (1,by Ashby).  IBB–Biggio (1,by Hoffman).  SB–Gutierrez (1,3rd base off Hoffman/Myers).  HBP–Ashby (1,Eusebio).  IBB–Hoffman (1,Biggio).  U-HP–Jeff Kellogg, 1B–Gary Darling, 2B–Bob Davidson, 3B–Bruce Froemming.  T–2:53.  A–45,550.
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