New York Mets vs Houston Astros
August 20, 1975 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 20, 1975 at Astrodome. The Houston Astros defeated the New York Mets and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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New York Mets 4, Houston Astros 5

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Clines cf 5 0 3 1
Millan 2b 5 0 0 0
Vail lf 5 1 0 0
Staub rf 4 1 0 0
Kingman 1b 5 1 1 3
Torre 3b 4 0 0 0
Grote c 4 0 3 0
  Stearns pr,c 0 1 0 0
Heidemann ss 3 0 0 0
  Phillips ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Webb p 2 0 0 0
  Alou ph 0 0 0 0
  Lockwood p 0 0 0 0
  Apodaca p 0 0 0 0
  Garrett ph 1 0 1 0
  Baldwin p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 4 8 4
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Howard lf 5 0 1 1
Gross rf 3 1 0 0
Cedeno cf 5 1 1 0
Johnson 1b 5 1 3 2
May c 4 1 1 0
Rader 3b 2 0 0 0
  Cruz ph 1 0 1 1
  Cabell 3b 0 0 0 0
DaVanon ss 3 0 0 0
Andrews 2b 2 1 1 1
  Boswell ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Roberts p 2 0 0 0
  Sosa p 1 0 0 0
  Cosgrove p 0 0 0 0
  Granger p 0 0 0 0
  Metzger ph 1 0 0 0
  Crawford p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 8 5
New York 000 000 301 0480
Houston 010 011 010 1581
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Webb   6.0 4 3 3 3 3
  Lockwood   1.2 2 1 1 2 3
  Apodaca   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Baldwin  L (2-4) 1.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
5
5
5
7
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Roberts   6.2 5 3 2 2 3
  Sosa   1.2 1 1 1 0 1
  Cosgrove   0.1 2 0 0 0 0
  Granger   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Crawford  W (3-4) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
10.0
8
4
3
2
4

  E–DaVanon (5).  2B–Houston May (12,off Webb); Johnson (12,off Baldwin).  3B–Houston Howard (5,off Webb).  HR–New York Kingman (25,7th inning off Roberts 2 on, 0 out), Houston Johnson (12,6th inning off Webb 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–DaVanon (1,by Lockwood).  SB–Cruz (4,2nd base off Lockwood/Grote).  WP–Roberts (5).  IBB–Lockwood (3,DaVanon).  U-HP–Paul Pryor, 1B–Nick Colosi, 2B–John McSherry, 3B–Chris Pelekoudas.  T–2:43.  A–9,667.
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