Chicago Cubs vs St. Louis Cardinals
April 24, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 24, 2009 at Busch Stadium III. The St. Louis Cardinals 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Theriot ss 5 0 0 0
Fukudome rf 4 0 1 0
Soriano lf 4 0 1 0
Ramirez 3b 2 0 1 0
  Miles 2b 1 0 0 0
Lee 1b 4 1 1 0
Fontenot 2b,3b 4 1 1 1
Soto c 3 1 1 0
Johnson cf 4 0 2 0
Dempster p 1 0 0 0
  Hoffpauir ph 1 0 0 0
  Heilman p 0 0 0 0
  Marmol p 0 0 0 0
  Guzman p 0 0 0 0
  Bradley ph 0 0 0 0
  Gathright pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 8 1
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Schumaker 2b,lf 4 0 2 1
Ankiel cf 4 0 0 0
Pujols 1b 4 1 2 0
Ludwick rf 4 0 2 1
Duncan lf 3 0 0 0
  Barden 3b 0 0 0 0
Molina c 3 1 1 0
Greene ss 3 1 1 0
Thurston 3b,2b 3 1 1 2
Wainwright p 3 0 0 0
  McClellan p 0 0 0 0
  Franklin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 9 4
Chicago 000 000 300380
St. Louis 000 030 01x492
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Dempster   6.0 7 3 3 1 6
  Heilman   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Marmol  L(0-1) 0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Guzman   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
4
4
1
6
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Wainwright   7.0 7 3 1 1 6
  McClellan  W(1-0) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Franklin  SV(5) 1.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
8
3
1
2
9

  E–Schumaker (2), K. Greene (4).  DP–Chicago 2. Theriot-Fontenot-Lee, Miles-Theriot-Lee, St. Louis 2. Pujols-K. Greene-Pujols, K. Greene-Pujols.  2B–Chicago Ramirez (3,off Wainwright); Fontenot (3,off Wainwright); Soriano (5,off McClellan), St. Louis Thurston (5,off Dempster); Molina (4,off Dempster).  SH–Dempster (1,off Wainwright); Miles (1,off McClellan).  Team LOB–7.  HBP–Barden (1,by Marmol).  Team–5.  SB–Pujols (3,2nd base off Marmol/Soto); Pujols (3,2nd base off Marmol/Soto).  U-HP–Eric Cooper, 1B–Scott Barry, 2B–Laz Diaz, 3B–Chuck Meriwether.  T–2:34.  A–45,812.
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