San Francisco Giants vs Cincinnati Reds
September 8, 1969 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 8, 1969 at Crosley Field. The Cincinnati Reds 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 4, Cincinnati Reds 5

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 5 0 0 1
Hunt 2b 7 1 2 0
Mays cf 7 0 1 2
McCovey 1b 5 0 1 1
Hart lf 6 0 0 0
  Marshall lf 0 0 0 0
Mason 3b 1 0 0 0
  Davenport ph,3b 5 1 2 0
Lanier ss 2 0 0 0
  Dietz ph,c 4 0 1 0
Barton c 2 0 0 0
  Hiatt ph 0 0 0 0
  Wagner ph 1 0 0 0
  Fuentes pr,ss 3 1 1 0
Bolin p 0 0 0 0
  Etheridge ph 1 0 0 0
  Herbel p 0 0 0 0
  Henderson ph 0 1 0 0
  McMahon p 1 0 0 0
  Burda ph 1 0 0 0
  Linzy p 1 0 1 0
Totals 52 4 9 4
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Rose rf 5 0 2 3
Tolan cf 7 0 1 1
Johnson lf 4 0 0 0
  Granger p 1 0 0 0
Perez 3b 6 1 1 0
  Ruiz 3b 0 0 0 0
Bench c 6 0 0 0
May 1b 5 2 1 0
Helms 2b 6 0 0 0
Woodward ss 5 1 2 1
  Savage ph 1 1 1 0
Arrigo p 1 0 0 0
  Carroll p 0 0 0 0
  Ribant p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Whitfield ph 1 0 0 0
  Stewart lf 2 0 0 0
Totals 50 5 8 5
San Francisco 000 100 300 000 000490
Cincinnati 030 100 000 000 001581
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Bolin   4.0 6 4 4 1 3
  Herbel   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  McMahon   5.0 0 0 0 1 4
  Linzy  L (13-7) 3.1 2 1 1 2 2
Totals
14.1
8
5
5
4
10
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Arrigo   6.0 5 3 3 3 2
  Carroll   0.1 0 1 1 2 0
  Ribant   0.1 1 0 0 0 1
  Jackson   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Granger  W (8-5) 8.0 3 0 0 1 5
Totals
15.0
9
4
4
6
8

  E–Johnson (18).  DP–Cincinnati 2.  2B–San Francisco Hunt (20,off Arrigo).  SH–Stewart (4,off Linzy).  HBP–May (6,by Bolin).  IBB–Rose (15,by Linzy).  HBP–Bolin (7,May).  IBB–Linzy (12,Rose).  U-HP–John Kibler, 1B–Andy Olsen, 2B–Al Barlick, 3B–Ed Vargo.  T–3:17.  A–16,926.
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