San Francisco Giants vs New York Mets
August 4, 1966 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 4, 1966 at Shea Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the San Francisco Giants 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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San Francisco Giants 6, New York Mets 8

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Fuentes ss 5 1 2 0
Davenport 3b 3 0 1 1
  Virgil 3b 2 1 1 1
McCovey 1b 3 1 1 1
Mays cf 4 0 1 1
  Alou rf 0 0 0 0
Hart lf 4 1 3 1
Haller c 4 1 2 1
Brown rf,cf 4 0 0 0
Lanier 2b 4 0 1 0
Marichal p 4 1 1 0
  McDaniel p 0 0 0 0
  Henry p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 13 6
New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Hiller 2b 4 1 1 0
  Swoboda ph 1 1 1 3
Luplow rf 4 1 2 0
Kranepool 1b 4 0 1 0
Elliot lf 4 0 1 1
Jones cf 4 0 1 1
Boyer 3b 4 1 1 1
Bressoud ss 4 0 1 0
Grote c 3 1 0 0
  Hamilton p 0 0 0 0
  Hunt ph 1 1 0 0
Ribant p 2 0 1 0
  Sutherland p 0 0 0 0
  Green p 0 0 0 0
  Stephenson ph,c 2 2 2 2
Totals 37 8 12 8
San Francisco 000 111 2106132
New York 000 000 1348121
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Marichal   8.0 9 5 3 0 3
  McDaniel  L (6-4) 0.1 2 2 2 0 0
  Henry   0.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.1
12
8
6
0
3
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Ribant   6.1 9 5 5 2 3
  Sutherland   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Green   1.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Hamilton  W (6-11) 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
13
6
6
2
3

  E–Virgil (3), Marichal (4), Elliot (5).  DP–San Francisco 1, New York 3.  2B–San Francisco Hart (12,off Ribant); Marichal (4,off Ribant); Fuentes (13,off Ribant).  HR–San Francisco McCovey (21,4th inning off Ribant 0 on, 0 out); Hart (24,6th inning off Ribant 0 on, 0 out); Haller (23,8th inning off Green 0 on, 0 out), New York Stephenson (1,8th inning off Marichal 1 on, 1 out); Boyer (11,9th inning off Marichal 0 on, 0 out); Swoboda (8,9th inning off Henry 2 on, 1 out).  Team LOB–6.  Team–4.  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Tony Venzon, 2B–Lee Weyer, 3B–Bill Williams.  T–2:39.  A–41,038.
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