Montreal Expos vs New York Mets
May 17, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1972 at Shea Stadium. The New York Mets 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 2, New York Mets 12

Montreal Expos ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 2b 1 0 0 0
  Torres 2b 2 0 0 0
Day cf 3 1 1 0
Jorgensen 1b 2 0 0 1
Fairly rf 4 0 0 0
Singleton lf 4 1 1 0
Bailey 3b 4 0 1 1
Bateman c 3 0 0 0
Foli ss 3 0 1 0
McAnally p 0 0 0 0
  Lemaster p 1 0 0 0
  Walker p 1 0 0 0
  Fairey ph 1 0 0 0
  Strohmayer p 0 0 0 0
  Marshall p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 4 2
New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Harrelson ss 2 2 2 1
  Martinez ss 2 0 0 1
Boswell 2b 5 1 1 2
Agee cf 3 3 2 0
Staub rf 4 1 2 1
Milner lf 5 1 2 5
Fregosi 3b 4 3 3 1
Kranepool 1b 4 0 0 0
Dyer c 5 1 4 1
Gentry p 5 0 1 0
Totals 39 12 17 12
Montreal 000 101 000240
New York 306 100 20x12171
  Montreal Expos IP H R ER BB SO
McAnally  L (0-3) 0.1 1 3 3 4 0
  Lemaster   2.1 6 6 6 1 2
  Walker   3.1 6 1 1 2 2
  Strohmayer   1.0 2 2 2 2 1
  Marshall   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
17
12
12
9
5
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Gentry  W (3-1) 9.0 4 2 1 2 5
Totals
9.0
4
2
1
2
5

  E–Agee (1).  DP–Montreal 1.  2B–Montreal Singleton (3,off Gentry), New York Milner (2,off McAnally); Staub (3,off Walker).  3B–New York Fregosi (3,off Strohmayer).  HR–New York Milner (1,3rd inning off Lemaster 2 on, 0 out).  SH–Day (4,off Gentry).  SF–Jorgensen (2,off Gentry); Staub (1,off McAnally).  U-HP–Ed Vargo, 1B–Paul Pryor, 2B–Harry Wendelstedt, 3B–Bruce Froemming.  T–2:41.  A–16,905.
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