San Francisco Giants vs Los Angeles Dodgers
April 20, 1974 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 20, 1974 at Dodger Stadium. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants 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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San Francisco Giants 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 4

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bonds rf 5 1 1 0
Phillips 2b 4 0 2 0
Maddox cf 4 0 3 1
Ontiveros 3b 4 0 1 0
Matthews lf 4 0 1 0
Kingman 1b 3 0 0 0
Speier ss 4 0 1 0
Rader c 4 1 2 0
  Thomasson pr 0 0 0 0
Willoughby p 2 0 0 0
  Williams p 0 0 0 0
  Arnold ph 1 0 1 1
  Sosa p 0 0 0 0
  Rose p 0 0 0 0
  Miller ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 2 12 2
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 3 0 0 0
Buckner lf 4 0 1 0
Wynn cf 1 1 0 0
Cey 3b 4 0 1 0
Crawford rf 3 0 1 1
Garvey 1b 4 0 0 0
Ferguson c 2 2 1 1
Russell ss 2 1 1 1
John p 2 0 1 0
  Mota ph 1 0 1 0
  Marshall p 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 4 7 3
San Francisco 100 000 1002121
Los Angeles 000 120 10x470
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Willoughby  L (1-3) 4.0 4 3 3 3 2
  Williams   2.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Sosa   1.0 2 1 0 2 0
  Rose   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
4
3
5
2
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
John  W (4-0) 7.0 10 2 2 0 8
  Marshall   2.0 2 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
12
2
2
1
10

  E–Kingman (8).  DP–Los Angeles 1.  2B–San Francisco Maddox (3,off John); Rader (1,off John), Los Angeles Cey (3,off Willoughby); John (1,off Willoughby).  HR–Los Angeles Ferguson (1,5th inning off Willoughby 0 on, 0 out); Russell (1,5th inning off Willoughby 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Lopes (1,off Williams); Russell (1,off Sosa).  CS–Matthews (1,2nd base by John/Ferguson); Crawford (1,2nd base by Willoughby/Rader).  U-HP–Bruce Froemming, 1B–John McSherry, 2B–Paul Runge, 3B–Ed Vargo.  T–2:36.  A–33,707.
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