The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 2, 2002 at Cinergy Field. The Cincinnati Reds 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)
Atlanta Braves 1, Cincinnati Reds 5
Cincinnati Reds | ab | r | h | rbi |
Larkin ss | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Encarnacion rf | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Griffey, Jr. cf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dunn 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Kearns lf | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Boone 3b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Walker 2b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
LaRue c | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Dessens p | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Casey ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sullivan p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Graves p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 27 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
Atlanta | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 9 | 0 | ||
Cincinnati | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | x | – | 5 | 6 | 0 |
Atlanta Braves | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Moss L (2-2) | 6.2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Holmes | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Ligtenberg | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Totals | 8.0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
Cincinnati Reds | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Dessens W (4-3) | 7.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
White | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Sullivan | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Graves | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 9.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
E –None. DP –Atlanta 1. 2B –Atlanta Furcal (8,off Sullivan), Cincinnati Boone (8,off Moss); Larkin (9,off Moss). IBB –Lockhart (2,by Dessens); LaRue (4,by Moss); Griffey (1,by Holmes). SH –Walker (3,off Moss). CS –Furcal 2 (8,2nd base by Dessens/LaRue 2); Dunn (3,2nd base by Moss/J Lopez). SB –Boone (10,3rd base off Moss/J Lopez); Encarnacion (8,2nd base off Holmes/J Lopez). IBB –Moss (3,LaRue); Holmes (2,Griffey); Dessens (3,Lockhart). U-HP –Tony Randazzo, 1B –Matt Hollowell, 2B –Bruce Froemming, 3B –Larry Poncino. T –2:41. A –26,470. |
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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."