San Francisco Giants vs Houston Astros
May 2, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 2, 1969 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros 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 1, Houston Astros 3

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Marshall rf 4 1 1 0
Hunt 2b 5 0 0 0
Mays cf 3 0 3 1
McCovey 1b 2 0 0 0
  Burda 1b 2 0 0 0
Hiatt c 3 0 0 0
Hart lf 3 0 0 0
Etheridge 3b 3 0 2 0
Lanier ss 3 0 0 0
  Gutierrez ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Perry p 3 0 1 0
  Mason ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 7 1
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Morgan 2b 4 1 2 0
Miller rf 4 0 2 0
Wynn cf 4 2 2 3
Rader 3b 2 0 0 0
Menke ss 3 0 0 0
Blefary 1b 2 0 0 0
Alou lf 3 0 0 0
Bryant c 3 0 0 0
Griffin p 1 0 0 0
  Billingham p 2 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 6 3
San Francisco 000 010 000170
Houston 200 001 00x361
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Perry  L (4-3) 8.0 6 3 3 2 6
Totals
8.0
6
3
3
2
6
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Griffin   4.1 3 1 1 4 5
  Billingham  W (1-2) 4.2 4 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
5
8

  E–Billingham (1).  DP–San Francisco 1, Houston 2.  2B–San Francisco Mays (4,off Billingham).  HR–Houston Wynn 2 (4,1st inning off Perry 1 on, 1 out,6th inning off Perry 0 on, 0 out).  SB–Morgan (7,2nd base off Perry/Hiatt).  U-HP–Augie Donatelli, 1B–Mel Steiner, 2B–Bob Engel, 3B–Dick Stello.  T–2:29.  A–12,055.
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