San Diego Padres vs St. Louis Cardinals
April 4, 1998 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 4, 1998 at Busch Stadium II. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the San Diego Padres 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

San Diego Padres 6, St. Louis Cardinals 8

San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Mouton lf 5 0 1 2
Finley cf 4 1 1 0
Gwynn rf 4 1 2 2
Caminiti 3b 3 1 1 0
Cianfrocco 1b,2b 2 1 0 0
  Sweeney ph 1 0 0 0
  Giovanola 2b 0 0 0 0
Hernandez c 4 0 1 1
Gomez ss 3 1 0 0
Sheets 2b 2 0 0 0
  Boehringer p 0 0 0 0
  Veras ph 1 0 0 0
Smith p 2 0 0 0
  Wengert p 0 0 0 0
  Hitchcock p 0 0 0 0
  Joyner ph,1b 2 1 2 1
Totals 33 6 8 6
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Clayton ss 5 2 3 1
DeShields 2b 4 1 2 0
McGwire 1b 4 2 2 3
Lankford cf 3 1 2 0
McGee lf 5 1 1 2
Mabry rf 3 0 1 1
Bell 3b 5 0 1 0
Lampkin c 2 1 2 1
Mercker p 4 0 0 0
  Busby p 0 0 0 0
  Painter p 0 0 0 0
  Bottenfield p 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 8 14 8
San Diego 100 100 310680
St. Louis 111 005 00x8140
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Smith  L (0-1) 5.0 7 3 3 4 6
  Wengert   0.0 3 3 3 0 0
  Hitchcock   1.0 2 2 2 0 1
  Boehringer   2.0 2 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
14
8
8
5
8
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Mercker  W (1-0) 6.0 4 3 3 3 1
  Busby   0.2 2 2 2 1 0
  Painter   0.1 1 1 1 0 0
  Bottenfield  SV (1) 2.0 1 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
8
6
6
4
4

  E–None.  DP–San Diego 1, St. Louis 1.  2B–San Diego Finley (3,off Mercker); Caminiti (2,off Mercker); Joyner (1,off Busby); Mouton (1,off Busby), St. Louis Lampkin 2 (2,off Smith,off Hitchcock).  HR–San Diego Gwynn (2,8th inning off Painter 0 on, 0 out), St. Louis McGwire (4,6th inning off Wengert 2 on, 0 out).  SF–Mabry (1,off Hitchcock).  HBP–Lampkin 2 (2,by Smith,by Boehringer); Lankford (1,by Hitchcock).  SB–DeShields (1,2nd base off Smith/Hernandez); Lankford (2,3rd base off Hitchcock/Hernandez).  HBP–Smith (1,Lampkin); Hitchcock (1,Lankford); Boehringer (1,Lampkin).  U-HP–Mark Hirschbeck, 1B–Larry Vanover, 2B–Bruce Froemming, 3B–Eric Gregg.  T–3:07.  A–34,292.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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."