Chicago Cubs vs Houston Astros
May 21, 2008 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 21, 2008 at Minute Maid Park. The Houston Astros 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 3, Houston Astros 5

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Theriot ss 4 0 1 0
Fukudome rf 3 1 0 0
Lee 1b 4 1 1 2
Ramirez 3b 3 0 0 0
Hoffpauir lf 4 1 2 0
Soto c 4 0 1 1
Edmonds cf 3 0 0 0
DeRosa 2b 3 0 0 0
Gallagher p 2 0 0 0
  Wuertz p 0 0 0 0
  Eyre p 0 0 0 0
  Lieber p 0 0 0 0
  Fontenot ph 1 0 0 0
  Howry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 5 3
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Bourn cf 5 1 3 0
Matsui 2b 2 1 1 0
Tejada ss 4 1 1 1
Berkman 1b 3 1 0 0
Lee lf 4 1 1 3
  Valverde p 0 0 0 0
Blum 3b 4 0 2 1
Pence rf 3 0 0 0
Towles c 3 0 1 0
Chacon p 3 0 0 0
  Brocail p 0 0 0 0
  Erstad ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 9 5
Chicago 300 000 000350
Houston 004 010 00x590
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Gallagher  L(1-1) 4.2 8 5 5 1 4
  Wuertz   0.1 0 0 0 2 1
  Eyre   1.0 0 0 0 1 2
  Lieber   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Howry   1.0 0 0 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
0
0
0
0
3
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Chacon  W(1-0) 7.0 5 3 3 1 5
  Brocail   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Valverde  SV(14) 1.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
0
0
0
1
2

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 1. Theriot-DeRosa-Lee.  2B–Chicago Hoffpauir 2 (2,off Chacon 2); Soto (15,off Chacon).  3B–Houston Bourn (2,off Gallagher).  HR–Chicago Lee (11,1st inning off Chacon 1 on 1 out), Houston Lee (10,3rd inning off Gallagher 2 on 1 out).  Team LOB–3.  HBP–Berkman (1,by Gallagher).  Team–8.  U-HP–Joe West, 1B–Ed Rapuano, 2B–Ed Hickox, 3B–CB Bucknor.  T–2:36.  A–33,251.
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