New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs
April 9, 2002 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 9, 2002 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the New York Mets 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 0, Chicago Cubs 2

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Cedeno lf 4 0 0 0
  Roberts p 0 0 0 0
Alomar 2b 3 0 1 0
Burnitz rf 4 0 0 0
Piazza c 4 0 0 0
Alfonzo 3b 2 0 0 0
Johnson 1b 3 0 0 0
Payton cf 3 0 1 0
Ordonez ss 3 0 0 0
Trachsel p 2 0 0 0
  Guthrie p 0 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Perez ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 2 0
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
DeShields 2b 5 1 2 0
Patterson cf 4 0 2 1
Sosa rf 3 1 0 0
McGriff 1b 2 0 1 0
Gonzalez ss 4 0 0 0
Brown lf 4 0 1 0
  Lewis lf 0 0 0 0
Stynes 3b 3 0 0 0
  Ojeda 3b 0 0 0 1
Girardi c 4 0 1 0
Lieber p 3 0 1 0
  Bellhorn ph 1 0 0 0
  Alfonseca p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
New York 000 000 000023
Chicago 000 010 10x280
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Trachsel  L (0-2) 5.2 7 1 1 3 2
  Guthrie   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Davis   1.0 0 1 1 2 2
  Roberts   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
8
2
2
6
5
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Lieber  W (1-0) 8.0 2 0 0 2 7
  Alfonseca  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
2
0
0
2
9

  E–Cedeno (1), Ordonez 2 (4).  2B–Chicago Girardi (1,off Trachsel); Patterson (3,off Trachsel).  SH–Gonzalez (1,off Davis).  SF–Ojeda (1,off Davis).  IBB–McGriff (1,by Trachsel).  SB–Patterson 2 (5,2nd base off Trachsel/Piazza,2nd base off Roberts/Piazza).  IBB–Trachsel (1,McGriff).  U-HP–Mike Winters, 1B–Greg Gibson, 2B–Dan Iassogna, 3B–Gerry Davis.  T–2:49.  A–18,151.
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