New York Mets vs Florida Marlins
September 8, 2001 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 8, 2001 at Pro Player Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the Florida Marlins 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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New York Mets 9, Florida Marlins 7

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Lawton rf 6 0 3 2
Relaford 2b 6 1 4 3
Piazza c 4 1 0 0
  Benitez p 0 0 0 0
Shinjo lf 5 1 1 1
Ventura 3b 3 0 1 2
Zeile 1b 4 1 2 0
  Toca pr 0 1 0 0
  Wilson c 0 0 0 0
Payton cf 5 1 1 0
Ordonez ss 4 1 3 1
Chen p 0 0 0 0
  Walker p 1 0 0 0
  Perez ph 1 0 1 0
  Roberts p 0 0 0 0
  Nitkowski p 0 0 0 0
  Riggan p 0 0 0 0
  Harris ph 0 0 0 0
  McEwing ph 1 1 1 0
  White p 0 0 0 0
  Franco p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson ph,1b 0 1 0 0
Totals 40 9 17 9
Florida Marlins ab   r   h rbi
Castillo 2b 4 2 2 2
Lee 1b 4 2 2 1
Floyd lf 4 1 1 2
Wilson cf 3 0 2 1
Lowell 3b 4 0 1 1
Millar rf 2 0 0 0
  Abbott pr,rf 1 0 0 0
Johnson c 4 1 1 0
Berg ss 4 1 1 0
  Almanza p 0 0 0 0
  Looper p 0 0 0 0
  Alfonseca p 0 0 0 0
  Fox ph 1 0 0 0
Dempster p 2 0 0 0
  Mabry ph 0 0 0 0
  Nunez p 0 0 0 0
  Gonzalez ss 1 0 1 0
Totals 34 7 11 7
New York 300 001 1139170
Florida 300 101 0207111
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Chen   0.1 2 3 3 4 0
  Walker   4.2 4 1 1 0 2
  Roberts   0.2 2 1 1 2 0
  Nitkowski   0.1 0 0 0 1 0
  Riggan   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
  White   0.1 2 2 2 0 0
  Franco  W (5-2) 0.2 1 0 0 1 0
  Benitez  SV (38) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
7
7
9
5
  Florida Marlins IP H R ER BB SO
Dempster   6.0 9 4 4 4 10
  Nunez   1.0 2 1 0 0 1
  Almanza   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Looper   0.2 0 0 0 1 0
  Alfonseca  L (3-4) 1.0 4 3 3 1 0
Totals
9.0
17
9
8
6
11

  E–Castillo (13).  DP–New York 2, Florida 1.  2B–New York Ventura (15,off Dempster); Relaford (23,off Dempster); Ordonez (24,off Nunez); McEwing (16,off Almanza); Lawton (7,off Alfonseca), Florida Lee (32,off Chen); Johnson (30,off Walker); Berg (9,off Roberts); Floyd (41,off Franco).  SH–Walker (1,off Dempster); Ordonez (7,off Alfonseca).  IBB–Piazza (18,by Looper); Johnson (1,by Alfonseca); Millar (2,by Riggan); Lowell (3,by Franco).  SF–Wilson (3,off Chen).  SB–Relaford (13,2nd base off Looper/Johnson); Floyd (15,2nd base off Chen/Piazza); Wilson (14,2nd base off Riggan/Piazza).  WP–Chen (4).  IBB–Riggan (7,Millar); Franco (2,Lowell); Looper (2,Piazza); Alfonseca (3,Johnson).  U-HP–John Hirschbeck, 1B–Chuck Meriwether, 2B–Mike Fichter, 3B–Bill Welke.  T–3:57.  A–20,217.
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