Atlanta Braves vs Houston Astros
May 15, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 15, 1972 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros defeated the Atlanta Braves 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

Atlanta Braves 2, Houston Astros 8

Atlanta Braves ab   r   h rbi
Millan 2b 4 0 0 0
Garr cf 4 0 0 0
Aaron 1b 4 1 2 0
Williams 3b 4 0 0 0
Carty lf 4 0 1 1
Baker rf 3 1 2 0
Casanova c 4 0 1 0
Perez ss 4 0 0 0
Kelley p 2 0 0 0
  Brown ph 1 0 0 0
  Nash p 0 0 0 0
  Hardin p 0 0 0 0
  Garrido ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 35 2 7 1
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Metzger ss 4 0 1 1
Stewart 1b 5 1 3 1
Wynn rf 5 1 2 1
Cedeno cf 4 1 1 0
Watson lf 3 3 2 2
Edwards c 3 0 0 1
Rader 3b 4 0 1 0
Helms 2b 3 1 2 0
  Fenwick pr,2b 1 0 0 0
Roberts p 4 1 3 0
Totals 36 8 15 6
Atlanta 000 011 000271
Houston 030 001 31x8151
  Atlanta Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Kelley  L (1-4) 6.0 9 4 4 3 1
  Nash   1.0 4 3 2 0 0
  Hardin   1.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
15
8
7
3
1
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Roberts  W (2-1) 9.0 7 2 1 1 6
Totals
9.0
7
2
1
1
6

  E–Williams (3), Metzger (8).  DP–Atlanta 1.  2B–Atlanta Baker (3,off Roberts); Aaron (2,off Roberts), Houston Roberts (1,off Kelley); Stewart (1,off Hardin); Wynn (5,off Hardin).  HR–Houston Watson (4,6th inning off Kelley 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Millan (2,by Roberts).  SF–Edwards (1,off Nash).  CS–Cedeno (2,2nd base by Kelley/Casanova).  HBP–Roberts (1,Millan).  U-HP–Nick Colosi, 1B–Satch Davidson, 2B–Ed Sudol, 3B–John Kibler.  T–2:18.  A–15,749.
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