Pittsburgh Pirates vs San Francisco Giants
May 23, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 23, 1969 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 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

Pittsburgh Pirates 0, San Francisco Giants 3

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Alou cf 4 0 1 0
Hebner 3b 2 0 0 0
Stargell lf 4 0 0 0
Clemente rf 3 0 1 0
Oliver 1b 4 0 0 0
May c 4 0 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 0 1 0
Patek ss 2 0 1 0
Ellis p 2 0 0 0
  Ramos p 0 0 0 0
  Sanguillen ph 1 0 1 0
  Kline p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 5 0
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds cf 4 0 0 1
Mason 2b 4 0 1 0
Henderson rf 4 0 2 0
McCovey 1b 3 1 1 1
Marshall lf 4 0 0 0
Hiatt c 3 1 0 0
Etheridge 3b 2 1 1 0
  Lanier ss 1 0 1 0
Fuentes ss,3b 4 0 1 0
Robertson p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 2
Pittsburgh 000 000 000054
San Francisco 000 200 10x370
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Ellis  L (2-5) 5.0 4 2 0 4 5
  Ramos   2.0 3 1 1 0 0
  Kline   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
7
3
1
4
6
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Robertson  W (1-0) 9.0 5 0 0 3 6
Totals
9.0
5
0
0
3
6

  E–Hebner (6), Oliver 3 (5).  DP–San Francisco 1.  2B–Pittsburgh Mazeroski (4,off Robertson), San Francisco Henderson (3,off Ellis).  3B–Pittsburgh Alou (3,off Robertson).  HR–San Francisco McCovey (10,7th inning off Ramos 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Patek (1,off Robertson); Robertson (1,off Ramos).  SF–Bonds (1,off Ellis).  IBB–McCovey (11,by Ellis).  IBB–Ellis (2,McCovey).  U-HP–Al Barlick, 1B–Ed Vargo, 2B–John Kibler, 3B–Andy Olsen.  T–2:24.  A–8,217.
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