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)
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New York Mets 1, San Francisco Giants 4

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Jones lf 0 0 0 0
  Shamsky ph,lf 4 0 0 0
Linz 2b 4 0 2 1
Grote c 3 0 1 0
Charles 3b 4 0 0 0
Swoboda rf 4 0 1 0
Goossen 1b 3 0 0 0
Agee cf 4 0 1 0
Weis ss 3 1 1 0
Cardwell p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 2 0 0 0
  Buchek ph 1 0 0 0
  Frisella p 0 0 0 0
  Bosch ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 6 1
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 2b 5 1 3 0
Cline cf 5 1 1 1
Marshall lf 3 1 1 1
  Alou ph,lf 1 0 0 0
McCovey 1b 3 0 1 0
Hart 3b 2 0 1 0
  Davenport ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Hiatt c 2 0 0 2
Brown rf 4 0 0 0
Johnson ss 3 0 1 0
McCormick p 3 1 0 0
Totals 32 4 8 4
New York 001 000 000160
San Francisco 130 000 00x481
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Cardwell  L (1-7) 1.1 5 4 4 3 1
  Jackson   4.2 3 0 0 1 2
  Frisella   2.0 0 0 0 2 2
Totals
8.0
8
4
4
6
5
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
McCormick  W (5-7) 9.0 6 1 1 3 10
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
3
10

  E–Hart (5).  DP–New York 1.  2B–San Francisco McCovey (7,off Cardwell); Hunt (6,off Jackson).  HBP–Goossen (2,by McCormick).  Team LOB–9.  IBB–Hart (4,by Cardwell).  Team–10.  SB–Swoboda (4,2nd base off McCormick/Hiatt); McCovey (3,2nd base off Frisella/Grote).  CS–Jones (4,2nd base by McCormick/Hiatt); Hunt (1,2nd base by Cardwell/Grote).  HBP–McCormick (2,Goossen).  IBB–Cardwell (4,Hart).  U-HP–Bill Jackowski, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Ken Burkhart, 3B–Harry Wendelstedt.  T–2:49.  A–22,522.
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