Philadelphia Phillies vs Houston Colt .45s
May 18, 1964 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1964 at Colt Stadium. The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Houston Colt .45s 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

Philadelphia Phillies 4, Houston Colt .45s 0

Philadelphia Phillies ab   r   h rbi
Taylor 2b 4 0 1 0
Allen 3b 4 1 2 0
Callison rf 5 2 1 1
Gonzalez cf 4 0 2 2
Covington lf 4 1 1 0
  Amaro 1b 0 0 0 0
Herrnstein 1b,lf 4 0 1 0
Dalrymple c 4 0 0 0
Wine ss 4 0 1 1
Bunning p 4 0 0 0
Totals 37 4 9 4
Houston Colt .45s ab   r   h rbi
Lillis ss 4 0 0 0
Fox 2b 3 0 0 0
Spangler lf 3 0 0 0
Bond rf 3 0 0 0
Wynn cf 3 0 1 0
Staub 1b 3 0 0 0
Aspromonte 3b 3 0 0 0
Grote c 3 0 0 0
Johnson p 2 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
  White ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 1 0
Philadelphia 000 120 100490
Houston 000 000 000011
  Philadelphia Phillies IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning  W (5-1) 9.0 1 0 0 0 5
Totals
9.0
1
0
0
0
5
  Houston Colt .45s IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson  L (3-4) 7.0 9 4 4 0 9
  Jones   2.0 0 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
1
10

  E–Lillis (2).  PB–Grote (2).  2B–Philadelphia Allen (7,off Johnson); Gonzalez 2 (4,off Johnson 2).  HBP–Taylor (4,by Johnson); Fox (4,by Bunning).  Team LOB–8.  Team–2.  HBP–Bunning (5,Fox); Johnson (2,Taylor).  U-HP–Jocko Conlan, 1B–Doug Harvey, 2B–Tony Venzon, 3B–Lee Weyer.  T–1:46.  A–5,284.
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