New York Mets vs San Francisco Giants
June 9, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 9, 1968 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants 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 4, San Francisco Giants 5

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Jones lf 4 1 1 0
Collins 2b,3b 3 1 1 1
Shamsky 1b 3 0 2 1
Martin c 3 0 0 1
  Grote ph,c 0 0 0 0
Charles 3b 3 0 0 1
  Koonce p 0 0 0 0
Swoboda rf 4 0 0 0
Agee cf 4 0 0 0
Weis ss 3 1 0 0
Koosman p 2 1 1 0
  Linz ph,2b 2 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 5 4
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 2b 3 1 1 0
Johnson ss 2 0 0 0
  Marshall ph 1 0 0 0
McCovey 1b 5 0 2 1
Mays cf 5 1 3 2
Hart 3b 4 0 0 0
Brown rf 4 1 1 0
Alou lf 4 1 1 0
Barton c 3 0 1 1
  Cline ph 1 1 1 0
Perry p 3 0 0 0
  Gibbon p 0 0 0 0
  Linzy p 0 0 0 0
  Davenport ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 10 4
New York 201 000 010453
San Francisco 000 210 0025101
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Koosman   7.0 5 3 1 3 7
  Koonce  L (0-2) 1.2 5 2 2 0 3
Totals
8.2
10
5
3
3
10
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Perry   7.2 5 4 4 3 8
  Gibbon   0.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Linzy  W (3-5) 1.1 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
5
4
4
4
10

  E–Jones (4), Shamsky (1), Charles (6), Johnson (4).  DP–New York 1, San Francisco 1.  PB–Barton (2).  2B–New York Jones (13,off Perry); Koosman (1,off Perry); Shamsky (7,off Perry), San Francisco McCovey (6,off Koosman); Barton (1,off Koosman).  HR–San Francisco Mays (11,5th inning off Koosman 0 on, 1 out).  SF–Charles (2,off Perry).  Team LOB–5.  HBP–Johnson (1,by Koosman).  Team–9.  WP–Perry (1).  HBP–Koosman (1,Johnson).  U-HP–Harry Wendelstedt, 1B–Bill Jackowski, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Ken Burkhart.  T–3:20.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook