Atlanta Braves vs Houston Astros
September 9, 2009 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 9, 2009 at Minute Maid Park. The Houston Astros defeated the Atlanta Braves 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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Atlanta Braves 1, Houston Astros 2

Atlanta Braves ab   r   h rbi
McLouth cf 4 0 1 0
Prado 2b 3 0 0 0
Jones 3b 4 0 0 0
Escobar ss 2 1 0 0
McCann c 4 0 0 0
Diaz rf 3 0 2 1
LaRoche 1b 3 0 0 0
Infante lf 3 0 0 0
Hanson p 3 0 0 0
  Soriano p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 3 1
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Bourn cf 4 0 0 0
Matsui 2b 4 1 2 0
Berkman 1b 4 1 2 0
Lee lf 3 0 1 0
Tejada ss 4 0 1 2
Pence rf 3 0 0 0
Blum 3b 1 0 1 0
  Johnson ph,3b 2 0 0 0
Quintero c 2 0 0 0
  Erstad ph 1 0 0 0
  Coste c 0 0 0 0
Rodriguez p 2 0 1 0
  Wright p 0 0 0 0
  Michaels ph 1 0 0 0
  Valverde p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 8 2
Atlanta 010 000 000130
Houston 000 000 002280
  Atlanta Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Hanson   8.0 5 0 0 0 7
  Soriano  L(1-5) 0.1 3 2 2 1 1
Totals
8.1
8
2
2
1
8
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Rodriguez   7.0 3 1 1 2 6
  Wright   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Valverde  W(4-2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
2
10

  E–None.  DP–Atlanta 2. Escobar-Prado-LaRoche, C. Jones-Prado-LaRoche.  2B–Houston Berkman (28,off Soriano).  SH–Prado (10,off W. Rodriguez).  Team LOB–4.  IBB–Lee (5,by Soriano).  Team–5.  SB–Berkman (7,2nd base off Hanson/McCann).  U-HP–Paul Emmel, 1B–Todd Tichenor, 2B–Gary Darling, 3B–Bruce Dreckman.  T–2:13.  A–22,392.
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