Houston Astros vs Pittsburgh Pirates
May 28, 1999 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1999 at Three Rivers Stadium. The Pittsburgh Pirates 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 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 6

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Biggio 2b 4 1 1 1
Bell rf 4 0 0 0
Bagwell 1b 4 1 1 0
Spiers ss 3 2 1 0
Hidalgo cf 2 0 0 1
Diaz lf 4 0 1 2
Bako c 2 0 1 1
  Barker ph 1 0 0 0
Johnson 3b 2 0 1 0
Lima p 2 1 0 0
  Hernandez ph 1 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
  Powell p 0 0 0 0
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 6 5
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Martin lf 4 0 1 1
Morris 2b 3 3 2 0
Giles cf 4 1 2 0
Young 1b 2 1 2 1
Kendall c 3 0 1 4
Guillen rf 4 0 0 0
  Williams p 0 0 0 0
Garcia 3b 4 0 0 0
Benjamin ss 4 0 1 0
Ritchie p 2 1 0 0
  Brown ph 1 0 0 0
  Clontz p 0 0 0 0
  Christiansen p 0 0 0 0
  Ward rf 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 9 6
Houston 012 100 010561
Pittsburgh 301 100 10x692
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Lima  L (8-2) 6.0 7 5 4 3 3
  Miller   1.0 2 1 1 0 1
  Powell   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
6
5
3
5
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Ritchie  W (4-3) 6.0 5 4 3 5 4
  Clontz   1.0 1 1 1 0 1
  Christiansen   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Williams  SV (9) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
6
5
4
6
7

  E–Johnson (2), Williams (2), Benjamin (4).  DP–Houston 1, Pittsburgh 1.  2B–Houston Bako (7,off Ritchie); Bagwell (14,off Clontz), Pittsburgh Kendall (15,off Lima); Giles (11,off Lima).  3B–Pittsburgh Young (3,off T Miller).  SF–Hidalgo (1,off Christiansen); Kendall (1,off Lima).  CS–Bell (4,2nd base by Ritchie/Kendall); Martin (2,2nd base by Lima/Bako).  SB–Young (8,2nd base off Lima/Bako).  U-HP–Jerry Crawford, 1B–C.B. Bucknor, 2B–Brian Gorman, 3B–Paul Nauert.  T–2:50.  A–17,309.
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