Houston Astros vs Pittsburgh Pirates
July 4, 2011 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 4, 2011 at PNC Park. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Houston Astros 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

Houston Astros 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 5

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Bourn cf 5 0 0 0
Keppinger 2b 5 2 2 0
Pence rf 3 1 2 0
Lee 1b 3 0 1 2
Michaels lf 3 0 0 0
Downs 3b 4 0 1 0
Barmes ss 2 0 0 0
Corporan c 3 0 0 0
Myers p 3 0 0 0
  Escalona p 0 0 0 0
  Del Rosario p 0 0 0 0
  Wallace ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 6 2
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Presley lf 4 0 3 1
d'Arnaud ss 5 2 2 0
Jones rf 4 0 2 0
  Veras p 0 0 0 0
  Hanrahan p 0 0 0 0
McCutchen A. cf 4 1 1 1
Walker 2b 4 0 2 1
Overbay 1b 4 1 2 1
Harrison 3b 2 0 1 0
  Wood 3b 1 1 0 0
McKenry c 3 0 1 1
Maholm p 2 0 0 0
  McCutchen D. p 0 0 0 0
  Paul rf 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 14 5
Houston 102 000 000361
Pittsburgh 012 011 00x5143
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Myers  L(3-8) 6.0 13 5 4 0 1
  Escalona   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Del Rosario   1.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
8.0
14
5
4
2
2
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Maholm  W(5-9) 6.0 5 3 1 3 3
  McCutchen   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Veras   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Hanrahan  SV(25) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
3
1
3
4

  E–Downs (4), Overbay (8), Harrison 2 (4).  DP–Houston 1. Barmes-Keppinger-Lee, Pittsburgh 1. B. Wood-Walker-Overbay.  2B–Houston Pence (24,off D. McCutchen), Pittsburgh Jones (14,off Myers); d'Arnaud (3,off Myers); A. McCutchen (22,off Myers).  3B–Pittsburgh Presley (2,off Myers).  SH–Corporan (2,off Maholm); Maholm (4,off Myers); McKenry (5,off Del Rosario).  SF–Lee (5,off Maholm).  HBP–Pence (1,by Maholm).  IBB–Barmes (1,by Maholm); Presley (1,by Del Rosario).  Team LOB–8.  Team–9.  SB–Walker (5,2nd base off Escalona/Corporan); Presley (2,2nd base off Del Rosario/Corporan).  U-HP–Jim Wolf, 1B–John Tumpane, 2B–Ron Kulpa, 3B–Derryl Cousins.  T–2:45.  A–36,942.
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