San Francisco Giants vs Houston Astros
October 1, 1970 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 1, 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."

"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, Houston Astros 5

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 5 0 1 1
Fuentes ss 4 1 1 0
Mays cf 4 1 2 0
McCovey 1b 4 0 0 1
Dietz c 3 0 2 1
  Gibson c 0 0 0 0
Henderson lf 3 0 0 0
Gallagher 3b 4 0 0 0
Heise 2b 4 2 2 0
  Lanier 2b 0 0 0 0
Perry p 3 0 1 1
  Johnson ph 0 0 0 0
  Davison p 0 0 0 0
  McMahon p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 9 4
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Geronimo lf 4 0 0 0
Morgan 2b 4 1 2 1
Cedeno cf 4 1 2 0
Menke ss,3b 4 0 1 0
Rader 3b 1 0 0 0
  Martinez ph,ss 3 1 0 0
Miller rf 2 0 1 0
  Wynn ph 0 1 0 0
Mayberry 1b 3 1 0 0
Edwards c 3 0 1 1
  Howard ph 0 0 0 0
Blasingame p 2 0 0 0
  Lampard ph 1 0 1 1
  Gladding p 0 0 0 0
  Watson ph 1 0 1 1
Totals 32 5 9 4
San Francisco 200 000 101490
Houston 000 100 211591
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Perry   8.0 8 4 4 1 3
  Davison  L (3-5) 0.1 0 1 1 1 0
  McMahon   0.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.1
9
5
5
3
3
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Blasingame   7.0 7 3 3 3 6
  Gladding  W (7-4) 2.0 2 1 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
3
3
6

  E–Morgan (16).  DP–San Francisco 1, Houston 1.  2B–San Francisco Dietz (36,off Blasingame); Mays (15,off Blasingame); Heise (5,off Blasingame), Houston Cedeno (21,off Perry).  3B–San Francisco Bonds (10,off Gladding).  HR–Houston Morgan (8,8th inning off Perry 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Fuentes (10,off Blasingame); F Johnson (2,off Gladding); Mayberry (1,off Davison).  IBB–Dietz (10,by Blasingame); Mays (3,by Blasingame); Howard (3,by McMahon).  WP–Perry (11).  IBB–McMahon (13,Howard); Blasingame 2 (3,Dietz,Mays).  U-HP–Bob Engel, 1B–Tom Gorman, 2B–Stan Landes, 3B–Nick Colosi.  T–2:42.  A–9,018.
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