Cincinnati Reds vs Houston Astros
June 21, 1975 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 21, 1975 at Astrodome. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Houston Astros and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Cincinnati Reds 7, Houston Astros 6

Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Rose 3b 7 1 3 1
Griffey rf 7 1 3 1
Morgan 2b 6 0 2 1
Bench c 5 0 2 0
Perez 1b 7 1 2 1
Geronimo cf 7 1 3 0
Concepcion ss 7 1 1 0
Foster lf 7 1 4 2
Carroll p 2 0 0 0
  Crowley ph 1 0 0 0
  Borbon p 0 0 0 0
  Driessen ph 1 0 0 0
  Eastwick p 1 0 0 0
  McEnaney p 0 0 0 0
  Rettenmund ph 1 0 0 0
  Norman p 1 1 1 0
Totals 60 7 21 6
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Cabell rf 6 2 2 0
Gross lf 7 2 2 0
Cedeno cf 5 0 0 1
Watson 1b 6 1 3 3
Johnson c 5 1 2 2
Boswell 2b 4 0 0 0
  Helms ph,2b 1 0 0 0
  Milbourne pr,2b 0 0 0 0
Rader 3b 4 0 0 0
Metzger ss 5 0 0 0
Richard p 1 0 0 0
  Howard ph 1 0 0 0
  Forsch p 1 0 0 0
  Jutze ph 1 0 0 0
  Niekro p 0 0 0 0
  Crawford p 0 0 0 0
  Cruz ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 48 6 9 6
Cincinnati 003 100 000 200 017210
Houston 000 004 000 200 00690
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Carroll   6.0 5 4 4 2 5
  Borbon   2.0 2 0 0 1 0
  Eastwick   1.0 1 2 2 1 2
  McEnaney   2.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Norman  W (3-3) 3.0 0 0 0 2 2
Totals
14.0
9
6
6
7
10
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Richard   6.0 7 4 3 3 5
  Forsch   5.0 8 2 2 2 4
  Niekro  L (2-2) 2.2 5 1 1 0 2
  Crawford   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
14.0
21
7
6
5
11

  E–None.  DP–Cincinnati 1, Houston 1.  PB–Johnson (2).  2B–Cincinnati Foster 3 (11,off Richard 2,off Forsch); Rose 2 (20,off Richard,off Niekro); Bench (27,off Forsch), Houston Gross (2,off Eastwick); Watson (14,off McEnaney).  HR–Cincinnati Perez (9,10th inning off Forsch 0 on, 1 out), Houston Johnson (5,6th inning off C Carroll 1 on, 2 out).  IBB–Bench (6,by Forsch); Johnson (3,by McEnaney).  SH–Forsch (2,off Borbon).  SB–Morgan (29,2nd base off Richard/Johnson); Cedeno (29,2nd base off C Carroll/Bench).  CS–Morgan (6,2nd base by Richard/Johnson); Cedeno (8,2nd base by C Carroll/Bench).  WP–Richard (6).  IBB–McEnaney (4,Johnson); Forsch (2,Bench).  U-HP–John McSherry, 1B–Chris Pelekoudas, 2B–Paul Pryor, 3B–Nick Colosi.  T–3:55.  A–24,317.
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