Montreal Expos vs Pittsburgh Pirates
June 20, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 20, 1970 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Montreal Expos 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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Montreal Expos 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 4

Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Staehle 2b 3 0 0 0
Jones lf 2 0 0 0
Staub rf 4 1 1 1
Fairly 1b 4 0 0 0
Gosger cf 4 1 1 0
Laboy 3b 3 0 0 0
Bateman c 4 0 1 0
  Brand pr 0 0 0 0
Wine ss 4 0 3 1
  Hahn pr 0 0 0 0
Morton p 2 0 0 0
  Reed p 0 0 0 0
  Fairey ph 1 0 0 0
  Strohmayer p 0 0 0 0
  Bailey ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Alou cf 5 1 2 1
Hebner 3b 3 1 1 0
Cash 2b 4 1 2 1
Oliver rf 3 0 1 0
Robertson 1b 2 0 0 0
May c 4 0 1 2
Jeter lf 4 0 0 0
Patek ss 3 0 1 0
Blass p 4 1 0 0
  Giusti p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 8 4
Montreal 110 000 000260
Pittsburgh 010 030 00x480
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Morton  L (6-5) 5.2 8 4 4 6 2
  Reed   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Strohmayer   2.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
4
4
6
2
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Blass  W (5-8) 8.1 6 2 2 4 5
  Giusti  SV (10) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
4
6

  E–None.  2B–Montreal Wine (9,off Blass), Pittsburgh Cash (2,off Morton).  3B–Pittsburgh Alou (3,off Morton).  HR–Montreal Staub (8,1st inning off Blass 0 on, 2 out).  SH–Laboy (5,off Blass).  IBB–Robertson (1,by Morton); Oliver (5,by Morton).  SB–Patek (5,2nd base off Morton/Bateman).  BK–Morton (2).  IBB–Morton 2 (11,Robertson,Oliver).  U-HP–Satch Davidson, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Chris Pelekoudas, 3B–John Kibler.  T–2:23.  A–5,148.
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