Los Angeles Dodgers vs Houston Astros
August 3, 1999 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 3, 1999 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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

Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Houston Astros 7

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Mondesi rf 4 0 0 0
Grudzielanek ss 5 0 2 0
Sheffield lf 4 0 1 0
Karros 1b 3 0 0 0
White cf 4 1 1 1
Hundley c 4 0 0 0
Beltre 3b 3 1 2 1
Vizcaino 2b 2 0 0 0
Dreifort p 2 0 0 0
  Hubbard ph 1 0 0 0
  Herges p 0 0 0 0
  Kubenka p 0 0 0 0
  Hansen ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Biggio 2b 4 1 1 0
Spiers 3b 4 1 2 2
Bagwell 1b 5 1 0 0
Bell rf 3 1 2 1
Berkman lf 4 1 2 1
  Powell p 0 0 0 0
  Ward ph 1 0 0 0
  Henry p 0 0 0 0
Hidalgo cf,lf 3 0 0 0
Bako c 4 0 1 2
Bogar ss 4 2 1 0
Hampton p 2 0 0 0
  Barker cf 1 0 1 1
Totals 35 7 10 7
Los Angeles 010 000 001263
Houston 005 001 01x7100
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Dreifort  L (8-11) 6.0 8 6 2 3 5
  Herges   1.2 2 1 0 2 1
  Kubenka   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
7
2
5
6
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Hampton  W (15-3) 7.0 3 1 1 5 7
  Powell   1.0 1 0 0 1 3
  Henry   1.0 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
7
10

  E–Grudzielanek (6), Beltre 2 (18).  DP–Houston 1.  2B–Houston Biggio (46,off Dreifort).  HR–Los Angeles White (10,2nd inning off Hampton 0 on, 0 out); Beltre (10,9th inning off Henry 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Hampton (4,off Dreifort).  SB–Bell (17,3rd base off Dreifort/Hundley).  BK–Dreifort (3).  U-HP–Steve Rippley, 1B–Jerry Meals, 2B–Hunter Wendelstedt, 3B–Gary Darling.  T–3:20.  A–34,874.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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