New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs
June 24, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 24, 1970 at Wrigley Field. The New York Mets defeated the Chicago Cubs 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

New York Mets 9, Chicago Cubs 5

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Agee cf 5 2 3 3
Harrelson ss 4 1 0 0
Jones lf 4 0 2 4
  Swoboda pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Shamsky 1b 5 0 1 1
  Jorgensen 1b 0 0 0 0
Marshall rf,lf 5 0 2 0
Boswell 2b 4 0 0 0
Garrett 3b 3 3 1 1
Grote c 2 2 2 0
Seaver p 2 1 0 0
Totals 34 9 11 9
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Kessinger ss 5 0 0 0
Beckert 2b 5 1 1 0
Williams lf 4 0 0 0
Hickman 1b 3 0 1 1
Callison rf 4 0 1 0
Popovich 3b 2 1 0 0
James cf 4 1 1 0
Hiatt c 3 1 1 0
Hands p 1 0 1 1
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  Aguirre p 0 0 0 0
  Colborn p 0 0 0 0
  Banks ph 1 1 1 3
Totals 33 5 7 5
New York 002 002 0419110
Chicago 000 010 013571
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Seaver  W (11-5) 9.0 7 5 5 4 11
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
4
11
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hands  L (9-6) 7.0 7 4 4 6 4
  Aguirre   0.0 0 3 0 1 0
  Colborn   2.0 4 2 2 1 0
Totals
9.0
11
9
6
8
4

  E–Aguirre (3).  DP–Chicago 1.  2B–New York Agee (9,off Hands), Chicago Beckert (3,off Seaver); Hiatt (10,off Seaver).  3B–New York Agee (2,off Hands).  HR–New York Garrett (5,9th inning off Colborn 0 on, 1 out), Chicago Banks (8,9th inning off Seaver 2 on, 1 out).  SH–Seaver 2 (3,off Hands,off Colborn); Grote (1,off Aguirre); Hiatt (5,off Seaver).  HBP–Garrett (1,by Aguirre).  IBB–Grote (4,by Hands).  CS–Jones (3,2nd base by Hands/Hiatt).  WP–Hands (6).  HBP–Aguirre (1,Garrett).  IBB–Hands (4,Grote).  U-HP–Ken Burkhart, 1B–Ed Sudol, 2B–Lee Weyer, 3B–Andy Olsen.  T–3:06.
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