New York Mets vs Houston Colt .45s
July 28, 1963 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 28, 1963 at Colt Stadium. The Houston Colt .45s defeated the New York Mets 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

New York Mets 2, Houston Colt .45s 8

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 2b 4 1 1 1
Hicks cf 3 0 0 0
Snider rf 4 0 1 0
Thomas 1b 4 0 0 0
Gonder c 4 1 1 0
Hickman lf 4 0 1 0
Kanehl 3b 4 0 1 1
Burright ss 3 0 0 0
Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Hook p 2 0 1 0
  Christopher ph 1 0 0 0
  MacKenzie p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 6 2
Houston Colt .45s ab   r   h rbi
Spangler lf 4 1 2 0
Temple 2b 4 0 1 1
  Fazio pr,2b 0 0 0 0
Aspromonte 3b 5 1 0 0
Warwick rf 3 2 1 2
Wynn cf 5 1 2 1
Runnels 1b 2 1 1 1
  Staub pr,1b 1 0 0 0
Bateman c 5 1 3 3
Lillis ss 4 1 1 0
Johnson p 4 0 1 0
Totals 37 8 12 8
New York 011 000 000262
Houston 410 011 10x8120
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Jackson  L (6-13) 0.2 3 4 4 2 0
  Hook   5.1 5 3 2 4 4
  MacKenzie   2.0 4 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
12
8
7
6
4
  Houston Colt .45s IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson  W (6-14) 9.0 6 2 2 1 5
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
1
5

  E–Burright (9), MacKenzie (1).  2B–New York Kanehl (4,off Johnson), Houston Bateman (5,off Jackson).  3B–Houston Wynn (2,off Jackson).  HR–New York Hunt (6,3rd inning off Johnson 0 on, 0 out), Houston Warwick (5,1st inning off Jackson 1 on, 2 out); Bateman (7,5th inning off Hook 0 on, 0 out).  Team LOB–5.  HBP–Lillis (3,by Jackson).  Team–12.  BK–Jackson (2).  HBP–Jackson (10,Lillis).  U-HP–Jocko Conlan, 1B–Chris Pelekoudas, 2B–Frank Walsh, 3B–Ken Burkhart.  T–2:12.  A–6,522.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook