San Francisco Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
April 21, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 21, 1968 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates 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 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 10

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Cline cf,1b 4 0 0 0
Oliver 2b 4 0 0 0
Davenport 3b 1 0 0 0
  Johnson 3b 2 0 1 0
McCovey 1b 3 0 0 0
  Henry p 0 0 0 0
  Sadecki ph 1 0 0 0
Hart lf 3 0 1 0
Alou rf 2 0 0 0
  Gibbon p 0 0 0 0
  Brown ph,cf 2 0 0 0
Lanier ss 3 0 1 0
Barton c 1 0 1 0
  Marshall ph,rf 2 0 1 0
McCormick p 0 0 0 0
  McDaniel p 0 0 0 0
  Herbel p 0 0 0 0
  Dietz ph,c 2 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 5 0
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Wills 3b 4 1 2 1
  Kolb rf 1 0 0 0
Alley ss 5 1 3 1
Clemente rf 3 1 2 2
  Pagan 3b 1 0 0 0
Stargell lf,1b 4 1 1 1
Clendenon 1b 3 2 2 0
  Alou cf 1 0 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 1 1 0
Mota cf,lf 4 1 2 2
May c 4 1 1 0
McBean p 3 1 2 1
Totals 37 10 16 8
San Francisco 000 000 000053
Pittsburgh 030 700 00x10160
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
McCormick  L (0-2) 3.1 7 6 6 4 2
  McDaniel   0.0 4 4 4 1 0
  Herbel   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Gibbon   2.0 2 0 0 0 2
  Henry   2.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
16
10
10
5
4
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
McBean  W (3-0) 9.0 5 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
2
3

  E–Hart (1), Lanier 2 (2).  DP–San Francisco 2, Pittsburgh 1.  2B–Pittsburgh Alley (2,off McCormick).  3B–San Francisco Hart (2,off McBean), Pittsburgh Clendenon (1,off McCormick); Clemente (2,off McCormick).  HR–Pittsburgh Clemente (2,4th inning off McDaniel 1 on, 1 out); Stargell (1,4th inning off McDaniel 0 on, 1 out).  SH–McCormick (1,off McBean).  Team LOB–6.  IBB–Clemente (1,by McCormick).  Team–8.  WP–McCormick 2 (2).  IBB–McCormick (2,Clemente).  U-HP–Bill Jackowski, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Ken Burkhart, 3B–Harry Wendelstedt.  T–2:43.  A–17,337.
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