Chicago Cubs vs Houston Astros
May 24, 2003 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 24, 2003 at Enron 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago Cubs 3, Houston Astros 2

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Grudzielanek 2b 5 1 3 0
Gonzalez ss 4 1 1 1
Patterson cf 5 1 2 1
Alou lf 4 0 2 1
Choi 1b 4 0 1 0
O'Leary rf 4 0 0 0
Harris 3b 4 0 1 0
Miller c 3 0 0 0
Estes p 2 0 0 0
  Remlinger p 0 0 0 0
  Bellhorn ph 1 0 0 0
  Alfonseca p 0 0 0 0
  Borowski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 10 3
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Biggio cf 4 0 0 0
Hunter rf 4 0 1 0
Bagwell 1b 4 0 1 0
Kent 2b 4 1 2 0
Berkman lf 4 1 1 0
Vizcaino 3b 3 0 1 0
  Puffer p 0 0 0 0
  Merced ph 1 0 0 0
  Saarloos p 0 0 0 0
Ausmus c 1 0 0 0
  Ensberg ph,3b 1 0 1 2
Everett ss 3 0 0 0
Redding p 2 0 1 0
  Bland p 0 0 0 0
  Zaun ph,c 2 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 8 2
Chicago 000 001 2003100
Houston 000 000 200280
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Estes  W (5-3) 6.0 7 2 2 1 3
  Remlinger   1.0 0 0 0 1 2
  Alfonseca   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Borowski  SV (9) 1.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
3
7
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Redding  L (3-4) 6.2 7 3 3 1 4
  Bland   0.1 1 0 0 2 1
  Puffer   1.0 1 0 0 0 2
  Saarloos   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
3
3
3
8

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 1.  2B–Chicago Grudzielanek (13,off Redding); Choi (12,off Redding); Alou 2 (16,off Redding,off Saarloos); Gonzalez (13,off Redding); Patterson (11,off Bland), Houston Kent (20,off Estes); Ensberg (2,off Estes).  SH–Miller (5,off Puffer); Everett (1,off Borowski).  HBP–Gonzalez (3,by Redding).  IBB–Alou (2,by Bland); Biggio (1,by Remlinger).  SB–Patterson (9,2nd base off Redding/Ausmus); Bagwell (2,2nd base off Alfonseca/Miller).  HBP–Redding (1,Gonzalez).  IBB–Remlinger (2,Biggio); Bland (2,Alou).  U-HP–Ed Rapuano, 1B–Mark Carlson, 2B–Paul Nauert, 3B–Gerry Davis.  T–2:53.  A–37,839.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook