San Francisco Giants vs Chicago Cubs
May 26, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 26, 1968 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs 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 2, Chicago Cubs 4

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 2b 4 1 1 1
Cline cf 4 0 1 0
Marshall rf 4 1 1 0
Hart lf 4 0 0 0
Davenport 3b 4 0 1 0
Hiatt 1b 2 0 0 0
Dietz c 3 0 0 0
Lanier ss 3 0 0 0
McCormick p 1 0 0 0
  Brown ph 1 0 0 0
  Bolin p 0 0 0 0
  Alou ph 1 0 0 0
  Gibbon p 0 0 0 0
  Linzy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 4 1
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Kessinger ss 4 1 1 0
Beckert 2b 3 0 0 0
Williams lf 3 0 0 0
Santo 3b 4 1 1 1
Banks 1b 3 2 3 3
Johnson rf 2 0 0 0
Hundley c 3 0 0 0
Phillips cf 3 0 0 0
Hands p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 4 5 4
San Francisco 000 000 110240
Chicago 300 100 00x451
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
McCormick  L (4-5) 5.0 4 4 4 1 1
  Bolin   2.0 1 0 0 0 3
  Gibbon   0.1 0 0 0 2 0
  Linzy   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
5
4
4
3
4
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hands  W (5-2) 9.0 4 2 1 1 4
Totals
9.0
4
2
1
1
4

  E–Beckert (5).  DP–San Francisco 1, Chicago 1.  PB–Dietz (1).  2B–Chicago Santo (8,off McCormick).  HR–San Francisco Hunt (1,8th inning off Hands 0 on, 2 out), Chicago Banks 2 (8,1st inning off McCormick 1 on, 2 out,4th inning off McCormick 0 on, 1 out).  Team LOB–3.  Team–3.  WP–McCormick 2 (5), Gibbon (2).  U-HP–Tony Venzon, 1B–Mel Steiner, 2B–Paul Pryor, 3B–Augie Donatelli.  T–2:16.  A–15,138.
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