San Francisco Giants vs Houston Astros
May 4, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 4, 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
Johnson rf 3 0 0 0
  Burda ph,rf 1 0 1 0
Hunt 2b 4 1 1 0
Mays cf 4 0 2 0
Hiatt 1b 3 0 1 0
Dietz c 3 0 1 1
  Bonds pr 0 0 0 0
Hart lf 4 0 2 0
Etheridge 3b 3 0 0 0
Lanier ss 2 0 0 0
  Marshall ph 0 0 0 0
  Gutierrez ss 0 0 0 0
Marichal p 2 0 1 0
Totals 29 1 9 1
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Morgan 2b 3 1 1 1
Miller rf 4 0 0 0
Wynn cf 3 0 0 0
Rader 3b 3 2 2 0
Menke ss 2 0 1 0
Blefary 1b 2 0 1 1
Geiger lf 3 0 1 0
Bryant c 3 0 0 0
Lemaster p 0 0 0 0
  Womack p 2 0 0 0
  Gladding p 1 0 0 0
Totals 26 3 6 2
San Francisco 100 000 000190
Houston 011 000 10x361
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Marichal  L (4-2) 8.0 6 3 3 2 6
Totals
8.0
6
3
3
2
6
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Lemaster   0.1 2 1 1 2 1
  Womack  W (1-0) 6.0 4 0 0 2 2
  Gladding  SV (3) 2.2 3 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
4
4

  E–Blefary (6).  DP–San Francisco 1, Houston 7.  2B–San Francisco Dietz (2,off Gladding), Houston Rader (6,off Marichal).  3B–Houston Rader (1,off Marichal).  HR–Houston Morgan (3,3rd inning off Marichal 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Etheridge (1,off Womack); Menke (3,off Marichal).  CS–Menke (4,2nd base by Marichal/Dietz).  BK–Marichal (1).  U-HP–Bob Engel, 1B–Dick Stello, 2B–Augie Donatelli, 3B–Mel Steiner.  T–2:18.  A–27,801.
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