St. Louis Cardinals vs Boston Red Sox
October 24, 2004 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 24, 2004 at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"I couldn't walk. I couldn't move. I don't know what happened, but I knew that when I woke up there was a problem. I left for the park, and I told my wife that I wasn't going to go out on the mound with the way I felt today. There's now way, and that's kind of when everything just started. When I came out of the dugout and started that walk to the bullpen, my wife was the most surprised person in the world." - Curt Schilling in Lindy's Sports Presents World Champs! (J. Lindy Davis, 2004)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

St. Louis Cardinals 2, Boston Red Sox 6

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Renteria ss 3 1 0 0
Walker rf 4 0 0 0
Pujols 1b 4 1 3 0
Rolen 3b 3 0 0 1
Edmonds cf 4 0 0 0
Sanders lf 3 0 0 0
Womack 2b 4 0 1 0
Matheny c 4 0 1 0
Anderson dh 2 0 0 0
  Taguchi ph,dh 1 0 0 0
Morris p 0 0 0 0
  Eldred p 0 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
  Marquis p 0 0 0 0
  Reyes p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 5 1
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Damon cf 5 1 1 0
Cabrera ss 4 0 1 2
Ramirez lf 4 1 1 0
  Kapler lf 0 0 0 0
Ortiz dh 3 1 0 0
Varitek c 3 0 1 2
Millar 1b 1 1 0 0
  Mientkiewicz pr,1b 0 0 0 0
Nixon rf 4 1 1 0
Mueller 3b 3 1 2 0
Bellhorn 2b 3 0 1 2
  Reese 2b 1 0 0 0
Schilling p 0 0 0 0
  Embree p 0 0 0 0
  Timlin p 0 0 0 0
  Foulke p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 8 6
St. Louis 000 100 010250
Boston 200 202 00x684
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Morris  L (0-1) 4.1 4 4 4 4 3
  Eldred   1.1 4 2 2 0 1
  King   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Marquis   1.0 0 0 0 2 0
  Reyes   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
6
6
6
5
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Schilling  W (1-0) 6.0 4 1 0 1 4
  Embree   1.0 0 0 0 0 3
  Timlin   0.2 1 1 1 1 0
  Foulke   1.1 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
5
2
1
2
9

  E–Mueller 3 (3), Bellhorn (1).  DP–St. Louis 1, Boston 2.  2B–St. Louis Pujols 2 (2,off Schilling 2), Boston Mueller (1,off Morris); Bellhorn (1,off Morris).  3B–Boston Varitek (1,off Morris).  SF–Rolen (1,off Timlin).  Team LOB–6.  HBP–Millar (1,by Morris); Varitek (1,by Eldred).  Team–9.  HBP–Morris (1,Millar); Eldred (1,Varitek).  U–Dale Scott, Brian Gorman, Chuck Meriwether, Gerry Davis, Ed Montague, Charlie Reliford.  T–3:20.  A–35,001.
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