Pittsburgh Pirates vs San Francisco Giants
June 11, 1968 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 11, 1968 at Candlestick Park. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the San Francisco Giants and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Pittsburgh Pirates 7, San Francisco Giants 4

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Wills 3b 5 0 2 1
Alley ss 5 0 2 0
Clemente rf 5 1 2 1
Mota cf 5 0 2 0
Clendenon 1b 4 3 2 0
Pagan lf 3 1 2 1
May c 4 2 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 0 2 3
Blass p 1 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 1 0 1 1
  Kline p 1 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 7 16 7
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 2b 4 0 0 0
  Davenport ph 0 0 0 0
Johnson ss 5 0 0 0
Mays cf 3 1 0 0
McCovey 1b 3 2 2 2
Hart 3b 3 0 0 0
Brown rf 4 0 1 0
Alou lf 3 0 1 1
  McDaniel p 0 0 0 0
  Hiatt ph 0 1 0 0
Barton c 2 0 0 0
  Cline ph 1 0 0 0
  Dietz c 1 0 1 1
Sadecki p 2 0 1 0
  Herbel p 0 0 0 0
  Marshall lf 2 0 1 0
Totals 33 4 7 4
Pittsburgh 000 024 1007160
San Francisco 010 200 001470
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Blass   4.0 2 3 3 3 3
  Kline  W (4-1) 4.2 5 1 1 2 2
  Face  SV (4) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
5
6
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Sadecki  L (6-8) 5.0 9 5 5 1 4
  Herbel   1.2 5 2 2 1 0
  McDaniel   2.1 2 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
16
7
7
2
6

  E–None.  DP–Pittsburgh 1, San Francisco 1.  PB–Barton (3).  2B–Pittsburgh Clendenon 2 (7,off Sadecki,off Herbel), San Francisco Dietz (6,off Kline).  3B–San Francisco Alou (1,off Blass).  HR–Pittsburgh Clemente (8,6th inning off Sadecki 0 on, 0 out), San Francisco McCovey (12,4th inning off Blass 1 on, 0 out).  SH–Kline (1,off Herbel).  IBB–Pagan (2,by Herbel).  Team LOB–7.  Team–7.  SB–Mota (3,2nd base off McDaniel/Dietz).  CS–Pagan (1,2nd base by Sadecki/Barton); Wills (5,2nd base by Sadecki/Barton); Clemente (3,2nd base by Herbel/Barton).  IBB–Herbel (3,Pagan).  U-HP–Paul Pryor, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Tony Venzon, 3B–Mel Steiner.  T–2:59.  A–7,807.
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