Houston Astros vs San Francisco Giants
April 7, 1974 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 7, 1974 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Houston Astros 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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Houston Astros 4, San Francisco Giants 8

Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Gross rf,lf 5 0 4 1
Metzger ss 5 1 1 0
Cedeno cf 4 0 1 0
Watson lf 4 0 0 1
  Forsch p 0 0 0 0
May M. c 4 0 0 0
May L. 1b 3 1 2 0
  Campbell pr,1b 0 0 0 0
Rader 3b 4 1 1 2
Helms 2b 4 1 1 0
Osteen p 1 0 1 0
  Nagy p 1 0 0 0
  Gallagher ph,rf 2 0 0 0
Totals 37 4 11 4
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 5 2 1 2
Speier ss 5 0 1 1
Maddox cf 5 1 2 0
Matthews lf 3 1 1 1
Ontiveros 1b 3 1 0 0
Kingman 3b 4 1 2 3
Phillips 2b 3 0 0 0
Rudolph c 4 1 1 0
Willoughby p 2 1 1 0
  Thomasson ph 0 0 0 0
  Barr p 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 8 9 7
Houston 001 210 0004112
San Francisco 413 000 00x890
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Osteen  L (0-1) 2.2 7 8 4 3 2
  Nagy   3.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Forsch   2.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
8
4
4
3
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Willoughby  W (1-0) 5.0 8 4 4 0 0
  Barr  SV (1) 4.0 3 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
0
3

  E–Metzger (1), Rader (1).  DP–San Francisco 1.  2B–Houston Helms (2,off Willoughby); Cedeno (2,off Willoughby), San Francisco Willoughby (1,off Osteen); Bonds (1,off Osteen).  3B–San Francisco Matthews (1,off Osteen).  HR–Houston Rader (1,4th inning off Willoughby 1 on, 1 out), San Francisco Kingman (1,1st inning off Osteen 2 on, 2 out).  HBP–L May (1,by Barr).  WP–Nagy (1).  BK–Osteen (1).  HBP–Barr (1,L May).  U-HP–Nick Colosi, 1B–Art Williams, 2B–Doug Harvey, 3B–Harry Wendelstedt.  T–2:07.  A–10,341.
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