The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 23, 2002 at Turner Field. The Arizona Diamondbacks 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)
Arizona Diamondbacks 5, Atlanta Braves 2
Arizona | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 5 | 8 | 0 | ||
Atlanta | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Arizona Diamondbacks | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Schilling W (4-1) | 8.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
Myers | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kim SV (3) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Totals | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 |
Atlanta Braves | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Bong L (0-1) | 6.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
Gryboski | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Ligtenberg | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Totals | 9.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
E –None. DP –Arizona 1, Atlanta 1. 2B –Arizona Spivey 2 (10,off Bong 2); Miller 2 (5,off Bong 2); Gonzalez (3,off Bong), Atlanta Helms (2,off Schilling). HR –Atlanta A Jones (7,4th inning off Schilling 0 on, 1 out). SH –Womack (2,off Ligtenberg). IBB –Gonzalez (2,by Ligtenberg). SF –Furcal (1,off Schilling). SB –Guillen (2,2nd base off Bong/J Lopez). IBB –Ligtenberg (1,Gonzalez). U-HP –Derryl Cousins, 1B –Martin Foster, 2B –Andrew Fletcher, 3B –Joe Brinkman. T –2:54. A –30,674. |
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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."