New York Mets vs Atlanta Braves
April 8, 2005 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 8, 2005 at Turner Field. The Atlanta Braves 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Mets 1, Atlanta Braves 3

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Reyes ss 4 0 2 0
Matsui 2b 4 0 1 0
Beltran cf 4 0 1 0
Piazza c 4 1 1 1
Floyd lf 4 0 1 0
Mientkiewicz 1b 3 0 2 0
Wright 3b 3 0 0 0
Valent rf 3 0 1 0
Zambrano p 2 0 0 0
  Aybar p 0 0 0 0
  Koo p 0 0 0 0
  Anderson ph 1 0 0 0
  Hernandez p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 9 1
Atlanta Braves ab   r   h rbi
Furcal ss 5 0 0 0
Giles 2b 3 2 2 0
Jones C. 3b 3 0 1 0
Jones A. cf 3 1 0 0
LaRoche 1b 2 0 1 1
  Franco ph,1b 1 0 1 1
Estrada c 3 0 1 1
Mondesi rf 4 0 0 0
Jordan lf 3 0 1 0
Thomson p 2 0 0 0
  Colon p 0 0 0 0
  Orr ph 1 0 0 0
  Kolb p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 7 3
New York 000 100 000191
Atlanta 200 000 10x370
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Zambrano  L (0-1) 5.0 5 2 2 4 6
  Aybar   1.2 1 1 1 0 2
  Koo   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez   1.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
7
3
3
5
10
  Atlanta Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Thomson  W (1-0) 7.0 8 1 1 0 5
  Colon   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Kolb  SV (3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
0
8

  E–Valent (1).  DP–Atlanta 3. Furcal-LaRoche, C. Jones-Giles-LaRoche, Estrada-Furcal.  2B–Atlanta Giles (1,off Aybar).  HR–New York Piazza (1,4th inning off Thomson 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Thomson (1,off Zambrano).  HBP–Giles (1,by Zambrano).  Team–10.  SB–Reyes (1,2nd base off Colon/Estrada); Giles (1,2nd base off Zambrano/Piazza); Jordan (1,2nd base off R. Hernandez/Piazza).  CS–Reyes (1,2nd base by Thomson/Estrada); Floyd (2,2nd base by Thomson/Estrada).  U-HP–Marty Foster, 1B–Dana DeMuth, 2B–Jim Joyce, 3B–Laz Diaz.  T–2:44.  A–50,939.
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