San Francisco Giants vs St. Louis Cardinals
June 18, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 18, 1972 at Busch Stadium II. The San Francisco Giants defeated the St. Louis Cardinals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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San Francisco Giants 8, St. Louis Cardinals 2

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 5 0 2 1
Speier ss 5 1 2 0
Kingman lf 3 2 1 2
  Henderson lf 0 0 0 0
McCovey 1b 5 0 2 0
Rader c 3 0 1 0
  Blanco pr 0 1 0 0
  Healy c 1 1 1 0
Maddox cf 4 1 1 1
Gallagher 3b 3 1 1 0
Fuentes 2b 5 1 2 2
McDowell p 2 0 0 0
  Goodson ph 1 0 1 2
  Moffitt p 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 8 14 8
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Brock lf 4 1 1 0
Sizemore 2b 3 1 0 0
Clendenon 1b 4 0 1 0
Torre 3b 4 0 0 0
Simmons c 4 0 3 2
Melendez rf 3 0 0 0
  Carbo ph 1 0 0 0
Anderson ss 3 0 0 0
Cruz cf 3 0 0 0
Spinks p 2 0 1 0
  Segui p 0 0 0 0
  Alou ph 1 0 0 0
  Palmer p 0 0 0 0
  Cloninger p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
San Francisco 000 010 0348140
St. Louis 200 000 000262
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
McDowell  W (8-4) 7.0 4 2 2 1 4
  Moffitt  SV (1) 2.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
1
5
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Spinks  L (3-4) 7.1 7 3 2 4 5
  Segui   0.2 2 1 1 1 0
  Palmer   0.0 4 4 4 0 0
  Cloninger   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
14
8
7
5
6

  E–Sizemore (5), Simmons (4).  DP–San Francisco 1, St. Louis 2.  2B–San Francisco Bonds (16,off Spinks), St. Louis Simmons (13,off McDowell).  3B–San Francisco Fuentes (2,off Cloninger).  HR–San Francisco Kingman (16,9th inning off Palmer 1 on, 0 out).  SH–McDowell (3,off Spinks); Maddox (1,off Cloninger).  SB–Kingman 2 (14,2nd base off Spinks/Simmons,3rd base off Segui/Simmons); Blanco (1,2nd base off Segui/Simmons); Maddox (3,2nd base off Segui/Simmons).  U-HP–Mel Steiner, 1B–Jerry Dale, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Chris Pelekoudas.  T–2:29.  A–19,957.
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