San Francisco Giants vs Houston Astros
May 21, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 21, 1971 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 1, Houston Astros 4

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 4 1 2 0
Speier ss 4 0 1 0
Mays cf 4 0 0 0
McCovey 1b 3 0 1 1
Dietz c 4 0 1 0
Foster lf 4 0 1 0
Fuentes 2b 4 0 2 0
Gallagher 3b 4 0 1 0
Perry p 2 0 0 0
  Healy ph 1 0 0 0
  Cumberland p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 9 1
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Metzger ss 4 0 2 0
Morgan 2b 4 0 2 0
Alou rf,lf 3 1 0 0
  Geronimo lf 0 0 0 0
Watson lf 3 1 0 0
  Cedeno cf,rf 1 0 0 0
Mayberry 1b 3 1 0 0
Miller cf,rf 2 0 1 2
  Wynn cf 1 0 1 0
Rader 3b 4 1 1 0
Edwards c 3 0 1 1
Dierker p 3 0 0 0
  Gladding p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 8 3
San Francisco 000 100 000192
Houston 001 300 00x480
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Perry  L (4-2) 6.0 6 4 1 1 2
  Cumberland   2.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
4
1
1
2
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Dierker  W (7-1) 8.1 9 1 1 0 9
  Gladding  SV (3) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
0
9

  E–Foster (1), Fuentes (4).  DP–San Francisco 2, Houston 1.  2B–Houston Rader (6,off Perry); Miller (3,off Perry).  3B–Houston Morgan (2,off Cumberland).  SF–McCovey (2,off Dierker).  HBP–Alou (1,by Perry); Miller (1,by Perry).  WP–Dierker (5).  HBP–Perry 2 (3,Alou,Miller).  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Chris Pelekoudas, 2B–Doug Harvey, 3B–Jerry Dale.  T–2:27.  A–18,555.
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