New York Mets vs Houston Astros
April 15, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 15, 1968 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Mets 0, Houston Astros 1

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Weis ss 9 0 1 0
Boswell 2b 10 0 1 0
Agee cf 10 0 0 0
Swoboda rf 10 0 0 0
Shamsky lf 4 0 2 0
  Jones pr,lf 6 0 1 0
Kranepool 1b 8 0 2 0
Buchek 3b 2 0 0 0
  Charles 3b 6 0 1 0
Grote c 7 0 2 0
Seaver p 3 0 1 0
  Taylor p 0 0 0 0
  Linz ph 1 0 0 0
  Koonce p 0 0 0 0
  Short p 0 0 0 0
  Selma p 0 0 0 0
  Bosch ph 1 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Harrelson ph 1 0 0 0
  Frisella p 1 0 0 0
  Cardwell ph 0 0 0 0
  Rohr p 0 0 0 0
Totals 79 0 11 0
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Davis cf 10 0 1 0
Miller rf 8 1 1 0
Wynn lf 8 0 1 0
Staub 1b 9 0 2 0
King c 9 0 1 0
  Bateman ph 0 0 0 0
Aspromonte 3b 9 0 0 1
Gotay 2b 9 0 2 0
Torres ss 8 0 3 0
Wilson p 2 0 0 0
  Thomas ph 1 0 0 0
  Buzhardt p 0 0 0 0
  Rader ph 1 0 0 0
  Coombs p 0 0 0 0
  Murrell ph 1 0 0 0
  Ray p 2 0 0 0
  Blasingame p 2 0 0 0
Totals 79 1 11 1
New York 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 0000111
Houston 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 0011111
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Seaver   10.0 2 0 0 0 3
  Taylor   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Koonce   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Short   1.0 1 0 0 2 1
  Selma   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Jackson   3.0 1 0 0 0 4
  Frisella   5.0 4 0 0 1 4
  Rohr  L (0-1) 2.1 1 1 1 4 2
Totals
23.1
11
1
1
7
15
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Wilson   9.0 5 0 0 3 5
  Buzhardt   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Coombs   2.0 3 0 0 0 2
  Ray   7.0 2 0 0 1 11
  Blasingame  W (1-0) 4.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
24.0
11
0
0
5
20

  E–Weis (1), Wilson (1).  DP–New York 1, Houston 1.  2B–New York Charles (1,off Ray), Houston King (1,off Seaver).  SH–Buchek (1,off Wilson); Grote (1,off Ray); Kranepool (2,off Ray); Cardwell (1,off Blasingame); Miller (1,off Koonce).  IBB–Grote (2,by Wilson); Charles (1,by Ray); Wynn 2 (2,by Short,by Rohr); Aspromonte (3,by Rohr); Bateman (1,by Rohr).  Team LOB–16.  Team–16.  SB–Charles (2,2nd base off Ray/King); Jones (1,3rd base off Ray/King).  CS–Gotay (1,2nd base by Frisella/Grote); Miller (1,2nd base by Frisella/Grote).  WP–Seaver (1), Rohr (1), Wilson (2).  BK–Rohr (1).  IBB–Short (1,Wynn); Rohr 3 (3,Aspromonte,Wynn,Bateman); Wilson (1,Grote); Ray (1,Charles).  U-HP–Ed Sudol, 1B–Lee Weyer, 2B–Bill Williams, 3B–Tom Gorman.  T–6:06.  A–14,219.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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."