Houston Astros vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 28, 2000 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 28, 2000 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)
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Houston Astros 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 3

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Spiers 2b 4 0 2 2
Bogar ss 5 0 0 0
Bagwell 1b 3 0 0 0
Hidalgo cf,rf 4 0 1 0
Alou rf 4 0 2 0
  Barker cf 0 0 0 0
Berkman lf 4 1 2 0
Truby 3b 4 1 1 0
Chavez c 3 0 2 0
  Meluskey ph,c 0 0 0 0
Lima p 1 0 0 0
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
  Dotel p 0 0 0 0
  Franklin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 10 2
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Brown A. cf 4 0 0 0
Benjamin 3b 3 1 0 0
Giles lf 3 1 1 1
Vander Wal 1b 3 1 0 0
Brown E. rf 3 0 0 0
  Kendall ph 1 0 1 1
Morris 2b 4 0 1 1
Osik c 3 0 0 0
Meares ss 3 0 0 0
Silva p 3 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 3 3
Houston 000 010 0012101
Pittsburgh 000 100 002330
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Lima   8.0 1 1 1 1 6
  Dotel  L (3-7) 0.2 1 2 2 2 1
  Franklin   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.2
3
3
3
3
7
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Silva  W (11-9) 9.0 10 2 2 2 4
Totals
9.0
10
2
2
2
4

  E–Alou (6).  DP–Pittsburgh 1.  2B–Houston Berkman (27,off Silva).  HR–Pittsburgh Giles (35,4th inning off Lima 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Lima 2 (8,off Silva 2).  SF–Spiers (2,off Silva).  IBB–Meluskey (10,by Silva).  SB–Kendall (22,2nd base off Franklin/Meluskey).  IBB–Silva (7,Meluskey).  U-HP–Charlie Williams, 1B–Mark Wegner, 2B–Jim Reynolds, 3B–John Hirschbeck.  T–2:17.  A–17,710.
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