New York Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 17, 2001 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 17, 2001 at PNC Park. The New York Mets defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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New York Mets 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 1

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Lawton rf 4 0 0 0
Relaford 2b 4 0 2 0
Piazza c 3 0 0 0
Shinjo lf 2 1 0 1
Ventura 3b 4 0 0 0
Zeile 1b 4 0 0 0
Payton cf 3 1 1 0
Ordonez ss 4 2 2 1
Leiter p 3 0 0 0
  Franco p 0 0 0 0
  Johnson ph 1 0 1 2
  Escobar pr 0 0 0 0
  Benitez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 6 4
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Hermansen rf 4 0 1 0
Wilson J. ss 4 0 1 0
Giles lf 4 0 0 0
Ramirez 3b 4 0 0 0
Kendall c 3 0 1 0
Young 1b 2 0 0 0
Matthews cf 4 1 0 0
Morris 2b 3 0 2 0
Ritchie p 1 0 0 0
  Wilson C. ph 1 0 0 1
  Manzanillo p 0 0 0 0
  Cota ph 1 0 0 0
  Sauerbeck p 0 0 0 0
  Fetters p 0 0 0 0
  Beimel p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 5 1
New York 001 000 003460
Pittsburgh 000 010 000150
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Leiter   7.0 4 1 1 3 3
  Franco  W (6-2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Benitez  SV (39) 1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
3
6
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Ritchie   5.0 4 1 1 2 5
  Manzanillo   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Sauerbeck   0.2 0 0 0 0 1
  Fetters  L (3-2) 1.0 2 3 3 1 1
  Beimel   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
4
4
3
9

  E–None.  DP–New York 1.  2B–New York Payton (13,off Ritchie); Johnson (4,off Fetters), Pittsburgh Morris (6,off Leiter).  HBP–Lawton (7,by Ritchie); Shinjo (7,by Fetters).  IBB–Piazza (19,by Ritchie).  SB–Lawton (7,2nd base off Ritchie/Kendall); Shinjo (3,2nd base off Fetters/Kendall); Kendall (13,2nd base off Benitez/Piazza).  WP–Ritchie (6).  BK–Leiter (2).  HBP–Ritchie (7,Lawton); Fetters (4,Shinjo).  IBB–Ritchie (6,Piazza).  U-HP–Ed Rapuano, 1B–Paul Emmel, 2B–Jim Wolf, 3B–Tim McClelland.  T–2:58.  A–25,902.
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