Chicago Cubs vs San Francisco Giants
August 21, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1970 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants 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)
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Chicago Cubs 1, San Francisco Giants 5

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Kessinger ss 5 0 0 0
Beckert 2b 4 0 1 0
Williams lf 4 1 2 0
Hickman rf 4 0 1 0
Pepitone cf 4 0 1 1
Smith 1b 4 0 1 0
Popovich 3b 4 0 0 0
Hundley c 3 0 0 0
Hands p 1 0 0 0
  Pizarro p 0 0 0 0
  James pr 0 0 0 0
  Regan p 0 0 0 0
  Spangler ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 6 1
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 4 1 1 0
Fuentes 2b,ss 5 1 2 0
Mays cf 3 0 1 1
McCovey 1b 2 2 2 1
  Johnson pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Henderson lf 3 0 0 0
  Hunt 2b 0 0 0 0
Dietz c 3 0 2 1
Gallagher 3b 3 0 0 1
Lanier ss,1b 4 1 2 1
Reberger p 4 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 10 5
Chicago 000 100 000160
San Francisco 010 121 00x5102
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hands  L (14-11) 5.2 10 5 5 4 4
  Pizarro   0.1 0 0 0 1 1
  Regan   2.0 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
10
5
5
6
7
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Reberger  W (5-5) 9.0 6 1 1 4 6
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
4
6

  E–McCovey (8), Reberger (2).  DP–Chicago 2.  PB–Dietz (18).  2B–Chicago Williams (24,off Reberger); Pepitone (14,off Reberger); Beckert (11,off Reberger), San Francisco McCovey (29,off Hands); Bonds (29,off Hands).  SH–Hands (7,off Reberger).  IBB–Williams (7,by Reberger).  SF–Dietz (3,off Hands).  IBB–Reberger (5,Williams).  U-HP–Paul Pryor, 1B–Lee Weyer, 2B–Andy Olsen, 3B–Ken Burkhart.  T–2:53.  A–7,086.
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