Montreal Expos vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 4, 1971 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 4, 1971 at Three Rivers Stadium. 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 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 7

Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 3b 5 0 1 2
Day cf 2 0 0 0
  Woods ph,cf 2 0 0 0
  McGinn p 0 0 0 0
  Swanson ph 1 0 0 0
  Marshall p 0 0 0 0
Staub rf 5 0 1 0
Fairly 1b 6 0 0 0
Bailey lf 4 2 2 0
Sutherland 2b 6 1 2 0
Bateman c 3 0 1 2
  Mashore pr,cf 1 1 0 0
  Brand ph,cf 0 0 0 0
Wine ss 2 1 1 0
  Fairey ph 0 1 0 0
  Boccabella c 1 0 0 0
Morton p 2 0 0 0
  McDonald ph 1 0 0 0
  Strohmayer p 0 0 0 0
  Gosger ph 1 0 0 0
  Hacker ss 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 6 8 4
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Stennett 2b 6 2 4 0
Clines cf 5 2 1 0
Davalillo rf 5 0 3 3
Stargell lf 3 2 0 0
Oliver 1b 4 1 1 0
Sanguillen c 5 0 2 2
Cash 3b 4 0 1 0
Alley ss 3 0 1 0
  May ph 1 0 1 2
  Blass pr 0 0 0 0
  Hernandez J. ss 1 0 0 0
Johnson p 2 0 0 0
  Hebner ph 1 0 0 0
  Veale p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 1 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
  Robertson ph 1 0 0 0
  Hernandez R. p 0 0 0 0
  Giusti p 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 7 14 7
Montreal 000 102 030 00683
Pittsburgh 101 020 200 017145
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
Morton   5.0 8 4 3 2 2
  Strohmayer   2.0 3 2 2 2 1
  McGinn   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Marshall  L (4-7) 1.1 3 1 0 0 0
Totals
10.1
14
7
5
4
4
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Johnson   6.0 5 3 2 3 1
  Veale   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Miller   3.0 3 3 0 2 3
  Hernandez   0.2 0 0 0 1 1
  Giusti  W (5-5) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
11.0
8
6
2
6
6

  E–Marshall (2), Wine (10), Strohmayer (2), Stennett (7), Cash (9), J Hernandez (16), Johnson 2 (3).  DP–Montreal 2.  2B–Montreal Bailey (18,off Johnson), Pittsburgh Stennett (2,off Morton); Oliver (25,off Morton); Alley (8,off Morton); Davalillo (11,off Marshall).  SH–Hacker (1,off Miller).  SF–Bateman (4,off Johnson); Davalillo (3,off Morton).  HBP–Staub (7,by Johnson); Clines (3,by Marshall).  IBB–Hunt (1,by Miller); Stargell (17,by Morton).  SB–Bailey (12,2nd base off Giusti/Sanguillen); Clines 2 (12,2nd base off Morton/Bateman 2); Sanguillen (6,2nd base off Morton/Bateman).  CS–Staub (3,2nd base by Johnson/Sanguillen); Bailey (5,Home by Giusti/Sanguillen).  WP–Johnson (4).  HBP–Marshall (4,Clines); Johnson (6,Staub).  IBB–Morton (10,Stargell); Miller (9,Hunt).  U-HP–John Kibler, 1B–Bruce Froemming, 2B–Al Barlick, 3B–Paul Pryor.  T–3:21.  A–11,302.
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