Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates
April 9, 1999 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 9, 1999 at Three Rivers Stadium. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 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

Chicago Cubs 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 2

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Johnson cf 2 0 0 0
Morandini 2b 3 0 0 0
  Mulholland p 0 0 0 0
Sosa rf 3 1 0 0
Grace 1b 3 0 0 0
Rodriguez lf 2 0 1 1
  Hill ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Hernandez ss 3 0 1 0
Houston c 2 0 0 0
  Santiago ph,c 0 0 0 0
Gaetti 3b 4 0 0 0
Sanders p 2 0 1 0
  Karchner p 0 0 0 0
  Blauser ph,2b 1 0 1 0
Totals 27 1 4 1
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Kendall c 4 0 0 0
Morris 2b 3 2 1 1
Giles lf 1 0 0 0
Young 1b 3 0 1 1
Brown B. cf 3 0 0 0
  Peters p 0 0 0 0
  Ward rf 0 0 0 0
Sprague 3b 3 0 0 0
Guillen rf 3 0 0 0
  Williams p 0 0 0 0
Benjamin ss 3 0 0 0
Benson p 2 0 0 0
  Brown A. cf 1 0 0 0
Totals 26 2 2 2
Chicago 000 100 000140
Pittsburgh 101 000 00x220
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Sanders  L (0-1) 5.1 2 2 2 3 9
  Karchner   1.2 0 0 0 0 2
  Mulholland   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
2
2
2
3
11
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Benson  W (1-0) 6.0 2 1 1 3 3
  Peters   1.2 2 0 0 0 2
  Williams  SV (1) 1.1 0 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
5
8

  E–None.  DP–Pittsburgh 3.  PB–Houston (1).  2B–Pittsburgh Young (1,off Sanders).  HR–Pittsburgh Morris (1,3rd inning off Sanders 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Johnson (1,off Peters).  HBP–Sosa (1,by Benson); Santiago (1,by Peters).  SB–Sosa (1,2nd base off Benson/Kendall).  WP–Peters (1).  HBP–Benson (1,Sosa); Peters (1,Santiago).  U-HP–Kerwin Danley, 1B–Ed Montague, 2B–Bob Davidson, 3B–Mike Winters.  T–2:26.  A–19,721.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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