New York Mets vs Houston Astros
May 25, 1966 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 25, 1966 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros 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)
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New York Mets 1, Houston Astros 7

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 2b 3 0 0 0
Jones cf 4 0 0 0
Boyer 3b 4 0 2 1
Kranepool lf 3 0 0 0
Stuart 1b 4 0 0 0
Stephenson c 3 0 0 0
Swoboda rf 3 0 1 0
Bressoud ss 3 0 1 0
Gardner p 1 0 0 0
  Arrigo p 1 1 1 0
  Bearnarth p 0 0 0 0
  Hiller ph 1 0 0 0
  Eilers p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 5 1
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Morgan 2b 4 0 0 0
Jackson ss 3 1 0 0
Wynn cf 3 0 0 0
Nicholson rf 4 2 4 2
Mantilla 1b 3 1 0 0
Aspromonte 3b 4 1 1 0
Bateman c 3 2 3 2
Staub lf 3 0 1 2
Dierker p 4 0 0 0
Totals 31 7 9 6
New York 000 001 000151
Houston 021 102 01x790
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Gardner  L (2-2) 4.0 4 4 3 1 1
  Arrigo   2.2 4 2 2 1 3
  Bearnarth   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Eilers   1.0 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
7
6
2
5
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Dierker  W (2-0) 9.0 5 1 1 2 8
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
2
8

  E–Jones (3).  DP–Houston 2.  2B–New York Boyer (7,off Dierker), Houston Nicholson (4,off Gardner); Aspromonte (7,off Gardner).  3B–Houston Bateman (3,off Arrigo).  HR–Houston Nicholson (3,6th inning off Arrigo 0 on, 0 out); Bateman (5,8th inning off Eilers 0 on, 1 out).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Bateman (2,off Gardner).  SF–Staub (5,off Gardner).  HBP–Mantilla (1,by Gardner).  Team–5.  SB–Jackson (14,2nd base off Gardner/Stephenson).  HBP–Gardner (2,Mantilla).  U-HP–John Kibler, 1B–Bill Jackowski, 2B–Ed Sudol, 3B–Paul Pryor.  T–2:27.  A–17,461.
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