San Francisco Giants vs Houston Astros
April 15, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 15, 1970 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros defeated the San Francisco Giants and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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San Francisco Giants 6, Houston Astros 7

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 4 1 1 1
Gallagher 3b 4 1 1 0
Henderson cf 5 1 2 1
McCovey 1b 3 1 1 3
Whitaker lf 5 0 0 0
Dietz c 4 1 2 1
Fuentes 2b 3 1 1 0
Heise ss 3 0 2 0
Perry p 4 0 0 0
  Burda ph 1 0 0 0
  Bryant p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 10 6
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Morgan 2b 5 1 1 0
Miller rf 3 0 0 0
Wynn cf 4 0 1 1
  Gladding p 0 0 0 0
Pepitone lf,cf 4 2 2 1
Menke ss 4 1 2 0
Mayberry 1b 3 3 2 4
Rader 3b 5 0 0 0
Edwards c 5 0 1 0
Griffin p 1 0 1 0
  Billingham p 1 0 0 0
  Davis ph 1 0 0 0
  DiLauro p 0 0 0 0
  Lampard ph 1 0 0 0
  McFadden pr 0 0 0 0
  Cook p 0 0 0 0
  Beauchamp lf 1 0 1 1
Totals 38 7 11 7
San Francisco 010 400 100 06101
Houston 101 010 030 17110
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Perry   9.0 9 6 6 6 3
  Bryant  L (1-2) 0.1 2 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.1
11
7
7
6
4
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Griffin   3.2 7 5 5 6 4
  Billingham   2.1 0 0 0 2 1
  DiLauro   2.0 3 1 1 0 1
  Cook   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Gladding  W (1-0) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.0
10
6
6
9
6

  E–Heise (2).  DP–San Francisco 2, Houston 1.  2B–San Francisco Gallagher (4,off Griffin), Houston Griffin (1,off Perry); Menke (4,off Perry).  3B–Houston Morgan (1,off Perry).  HR–San Francisco McCovey (2,4th inning off Griffin 2 on, 2 out); Dietz (4,7th inning off DiLauro 0 on, 2 out), Houston Mayberry 2 (2,3rd inning off Perry 0 on, 2 out,8th inning off Perry 2 on, 0 out); Pepitone (3,5th inning off Perry 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Heise (2,off Gladding).  HBP–Mayberry (1,by Bryant).  IBB–Pepitone (2,by Perry).  SB–Bonds 3 (3,2nd base off Griffin/Edwards 2,2nd base off Billingham/Edwards); Wynn (4,2nd base off Perry/Dietz).  WP–Griffin 2 (2).  HBP–Bryant (1,Mayberry).  IBB–Perry (1,Pepitone).  U-HP–Satch Davidson, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Chris Pelekoudas, 3B–John Kibler.  T–3:03.  A–11,174.
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