Chicago Cubs vs Montreal Expos
August 31, 2004 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 2004 at Stade Olympique. The Montreal Expos defeated the Chicago Cubs 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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Chicago Cubs 0, Montreal Expos 8

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Patterson cf 3 0 0 0
  Macias ph,cf 1 0 0 0
Lee 1b 4 0 1 0
Garciaparra ss 2 0 0 0
  Martinez ss 1 0 1 0
Alou lf 3 0 1 0
  Goodwin lf 1 0 0 0
Sosa rf 4 0 0 0
Ramirez 3b 4 0 0 0
Walker 2b 1 0 0 0
  Rusch p 0 0 0 0
Barrett c 2 0 1 0
Prior p 2 0 0 0
  Wellemeyer p 0 0 0 0
  Grudzielanek 2b 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 4 0
Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Wilkerson 1b 4 1 2 1
Chavez cf 4 1 2 0
Batista 3b 5 0 0 0
Sledge lf 5 1 1 0
Rivera rf 4 2 2 0
Gonzalez ss 3 2 1 2
Schneider c 4 0 1 2
Izturis 2b 3 1 1 2
Hernandez p 4 0 2 1
  Tucker p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 8 12 8
Chicago 000 000 000041
Montreal 400 100 30x8120
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Prior  L (4-4) 5.0 6 5 5 4 8
  Wellemeyer   1.0 3 3 3 2 2
  Rusch   2.0 3 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
12
8
8
7
11
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Hernandez  W (10-12) 8.0 3 0 0 4 3
  Tucker   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
4
4

  E–Sosa (3).  DP–Montreal 2.  2B–Montreal Gonzalez (17,off Prior); Schneider (16,off Prior).  HR–Montreal Wilkerson (26,1st inning off Prior 0 on, 0 out); Izturis (1,4th inning off Prior 0 on, 0 out).  Team–11.  SB–Chavez (23,2nd base off Prior/Barrett).  U-HP–Alfonso Marquez, 1B–Ed Rapuano, 2B–James Hoye, 3B–Ted Barrett.  T–2:51.  A–7,162.
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