Los Angeles Dodgers vs Cincinnati Reds
May 16, 1973 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 16, 1973 at Riverfront Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 8, Cincinnati Reds 6

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 6 1 3 0
Mota lf 4 0 2 0
  Paciorek lf 1 0 1 0
Davis cf 6 2 0 1
Ferguson rf,c 5 3 4 2
Cey 3b 6 1 4 4
Buckner 1b 4 0 0 0
Russell ss 6 0 1 0
Yeager c 3 1 1 1
  Brewer p 0 0 0 0
  Garvey ph 1 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
Downing p 1 0 0 0
  Culver p 1 0 0 0
  Richert p 0 0 0 0
  Crawford ph,rf 0 0 0 0
Totals 44 8 16 8
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Rose lf 6 0 0 1
Morgan 2b 5 0 2 2
Bench c 6 0 1 1
Perez 1b 6 0 0 0
Tolan cf 5 0 2 0
Concepcion ss 5 1 2 0
Scheinblum rf 4 1 1 0
  Geronimo rf 1 0 0 0
Menke 3b 1 2 1 0
  Chaney pr,3b 0 2 0 0
Grimsley p 0 0 0 0
  Sprague p 0 0 0 0
  Gagliano ph 1 0 1 1
  McGlothlin p 0 0 0 0
  Locklear ph 1 0 1 0
  Borbon p 0 0 0 0
  Stahl ph 1 0 1 0
  Hall p 0 0 0 0
  Hague ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 43 6 13 5
Los Angeles 300 100 100 038161
Cincinnati 000 030 101 016131
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Downing   4.1 4 3 3 3 2
  Culver   1.2 3 1 0 1 0
  Richert   1.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Brewer   2.0 4 1 1 0 0
  Hough  W (1-1) 2.0 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
11.0
13
6
5
5
4
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Grimsley   4.0 7 4 4 3 1
  Sprague   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  McGlothlin   2.0 3 1 1 0 1
  Borbon   2.0 2 0 0 2 2
  Hall  L (3-2) 2.0 3 3 3 1 2
Totals
11.0
16
8
8
6
6

  E–Lopes (4), Bench (1).  DP–Los Angeles 2, Cincinnati 4.  2B–Los Angeles Cey 2 (3,off Grimsley,off Borbon); Ferguson (10,off McGlothlin), Cincinnati Morgan (8,off Hough).  HR–Los Angeles Yeager (1,4th inning off Grimsley 0 on, 1 out); Ferguson (8,11th inning off Hall 1 on, 1 out); Cey (3,11th inning off Hall 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Downing (2,off Grimsley); Grimsley (2,off Downing).  HBP–Buckner (1,by Sprague).  IBB–Mota (5,by Grimsley); Crawford (4,by Borbon); Buckner (1,by Borbon).  SB–Lopes (11,2nd base off Grimsley/Bench); Russell (5,2nd base off Borbon/Bench); Tolan (9,2nd base off Brewer/Ferguson).  WP–Sprague (1).  HBP–Sprague (1,Buckner).  IBB–Grimsley (3,Mota); Borbon 2 (5,Crawford,Buckner).  U-HP–Andy Olsen, 1B–Art Williams, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Doug Harvey.  T–2:56.  A–10,120.
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