Colorado Rockies vs Houston Astros
April 20, 2008 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 20, 2008 at Minute Maid Park. The Houston Astros defeated the Colorado Rockies 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

Colorado Rockies 4, Houston Astros 6

Colorado Rockies ab   r   h rbi
Taveras cf 3 1 1 0
Tulowitzki ss 5 0 1 1
Helton 1b 4 0 1 1
Holliday lf 5 1 3 0
Atkins 3b 5 1 1 1
Hawpe rf 4 0 3 1
Torrealba c 4 0 1 0
Nix 2b 3 0 0 0
  Wells p 0 0 0 0
  Spilborghs ph 1 0 0 0
  Fuentes p 0 0 0 0
  Speier p 0 0 0 0
Jimenez p 2 0 0 0
  Barmes 2b 2 1 1 0
Totals 38 4 12 4
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Bourn cf 4 0 0 0
Matsui 2b 5 2 2 2
Tejada ss 5 1 2 2
Berkman 1b 3 1 1 0
Lee lf 2 0 1 0
Blum 3b 4 0 1 1
Pence rf 3 1 1 0
Towles c 2 0 0 0
Chacon p 2 0 0 0
  Erstad ph 1 0 0 0
  Borkowski p 0 0 0 0
  Wright p 0 0 0 0
  Loretta ph 0 1 0 0
  Valverde p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 8 5
Colorado 011 001 1004120
Houston 000 120 03x680
  Colorado Rockies IP H R ER BB SO
Jimenez   5.2 5 3 3 5 6
  Wells   1.1 0 0 0 1 1
  Fuentes  L(0-1) 0.2 2 3 3 1 0
  Speier   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
1
0
0
0
0
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Chacon   6.0 7 3 3 1 3
  Borkowski   1.0 3 1 1 0 0
  Wright  W(2-0) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Valverde  SV(2) 1.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
1
0
0
1
0

  E–None.  2B–Colorado Holliday (4,off Chacon); Taveras (3,off Chacon); Hawpe (4,off Chacon); Barmes (5,off Borkowski); Torrealba (3,off Wright), Houston Tejada (5,off Speier).  HR–Colorado Atkins (3,6th inning off Chacon 0 on 1 out).  SH–Taveras (2,off Borkowski); Towles (1,off Fuentes).  Team LOB–10.  HBP–Towles (4,by Jimenez).  Team–10.  U-HP–Jeff Kellogg, 1B–Mark Wegner, 2B–Chad Fairchild, 3B–Rick Reed.  T–3:20.  A–35,286.
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