Cincinnati Reds vs San Francisco Giants
September 10, 1972 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 10, 1972 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Cincinnati Reds 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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Cincinnati Reds 2, San Francisco Giants 8

Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Rose lf 5 1 1 0
Morgan 2b 2 0 0 0
Tolan cf 3 0 2 1
Bench c 4 0 1 1
Perez 1b 4 0 0 0
Menke 3b 4 0 0 0
Geronimo rf 4 0 2 0
Chaney ss 4 0 1 0
McGlothlin p 3 1 1 0
  Borbon p 0 0 0 0
  Uhlaender ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 8 2
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 4 2 2 4
Fuentes 2b 3 1 0 1
Speier ss 4 0 1 0
McCovey 1b 4 1 2 2
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
Henderson lf 3 0 0 0
Hart 3b 4 1 1 0
Rader c 4 1 1 0
Howarth cf 3 2 1 0
Marichal p 2 0 0 0
  Kingman ph,1b 2 0 1 1
Totals 33 8 9 8
Cincinnati 000 020 000283
San Francisco 000 002 42x890
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
McGlothlin  L (7-7) 6.2 4 6 5 6 0
  Borbon   1.1 5 2 2 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
8
7
6
1
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Marichal  W (6-15) 7.0 8 2 2 2 3
  Johnson  SV (8) 2.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
2
5

  E–Chaney (9), McGlothlin 2 (4).  DP–Cincinnati 2.  2B–San Francisco Hart (2,off McGlothlin); Kingman (16,off Borbon).  HR–San Francisco McCovey (12,6th inning off McGlothlin 0 on, 2 out); Bonds (22,7th inning off McGlothlin 2 on, 2 out).  SF–Tolan (7,off Marichal).  IBB–Howarth (1,by McGlothlin).  SB–Tolan (38,2nd base off Marichal/Rader).  IBB–McGlothlin (5,Howarth).  U-HP–Harry Wendelstedt, 1B–Jerry Dale, 2B–Ed Vargo, 3B–Paul Pryor.  T–2:06.  A–13,584.
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