Chicago Cubs vs San Francisco Giants
May 17, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1968 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs 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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Chicago Cubs 0, San Francisco Giants 2

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Kessinger ss 4 0 1 0
Beckert 2b 4 0 0 0
Williams lf 4 0 1 0
Santo 3b 4 0 0 0
Banks 1b 3 0 1 0
Johnson rf 4 0 0 0
Hundley c 2 0 0 0
Phillips cf 3 0 0 0
Niekro p 2 0 0 0
  Boccabella ph 1 0 0 0
  Hartenstein p 0 0 0 0
  Regan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 3 0
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Alou rf 3 0 0 0
Johnson 3b 4 0 1 0
Mays cf 3 1 1 0
McCovey 1b 1 0 1 1
  Cline 1b 3 0 0 0
Marshall lf 4 0 0 0
Hiatt c 2 1 0 0
Oliver 2b 2 0 1 0
Lanier ss 2 0 1 1
Sadecki p 3 0 0 0
Totals 27 2 5 2
Chicago 000 000 000031
San Francisco 100 000 10x251
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Niekro  L (5-3) 6.0 3 1 1 3 4
  Hartenstein   0.0 0 1 1 1 0
  Regan   2.0 2 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
5
2
2
4
6
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Sadecki  W (5-3) 9.0 3 0 0 2 5
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
2
5

  E–Hundley (2), Lanier (3).  2B–San Francisco McCovey (5,off Niekro).  IBB–Banks (2,by Sadecki).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Oliver (1,off Regan).  Team–6.  SB–Johnson (1,2nd base off Niekro/Hundley).  WP–Sadecki (1).  IBB–Sadecki (2,Banks).  U-HP–Al Barlick, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Ed Vargo, 3B–Bob Engel.  T–2:22.  A–9,517.
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