Houston Astros vs Chicago Cubs
July 19, 2002 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 19, 2002 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs 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 0, Chicago Cubs 5

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Lugo ss 4 0 0 0
Biggio 2b 4 0 1 0
Berkman cf 4 0 1 0
Bagwell 1b 4 0 1 0
Ward lf 3 0 0 0
Hidalgo rf 3 0 0 0
Blum 3b 3 0 0 0
Ausmus c 3 0 0 0
Cruz p 2 0 0 0
  Borbon p 0 0 0 0
  Stone p 0 0 0 0
  Merced ph 1 0 0 0
  Redding p 0 0 0 0
  Mathews p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 3 0
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Bellhorn 2b 3 0 0 0
Mueller 3b 4 0 0 0
Sosa rf 3 1 0 0
McGriff 1b 3 0 0 0
Alou lf 2 2 1 1
Patterson cf 4 1 2 1
Hundley c 3 1 0 0
Gonzalez ss 4 0 1 2
Prior p 3 0 0 0
  Brown ph 1 0 1 1
  Farnsworth p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 5 5
Houston 000 000 000031
Chicago 010 001 03x551
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Cruz  L (1-5) 5.1 2 2 2 3 8
  Borbon   0.1 1 0 0 1 0
  Stone   1.1 0 0 0 1 1
  Redding   0.2 1 3 0 2 0
  Mathews   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
5
5
2
7
9
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Prior  W (4-2) 8.0 2 0 0 0 8
  Farnsworth   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
0
9

  E–Lugo (5), Bellhorn (4).  2B–Houston Biggio (26,off Prior), Chicago Brown (7,off Mathews).  HR–Chicago Alou (9,2nd inning off Cruz 0 on, 0 out).  WP–Cruz (3).  U-HP–Dale Scott, 1B–Jim Joyce, 2B–Jeff Nelson, 3B–Ron Kulpa.  T–2:52.  A–38,566.
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