St. Louis Cardinals vs New York Mets
June 28, 1976 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 28, 1976 at Shea Stadium. The New York Mets defeated the St. Louis Cardinals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Mets 5

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
McBride cf 4 0 1 1
Kessinger ss 3 1 0 0
Brock lf 4 1 1 0
Simmons c 3 1 2 0
Crawford rf 3 0 1 1
Fairly 1b 4 0 1 2
Cruz 3b 4 1 1 0
Tyson 2b 4 0 0 0
Denny p 1 0 0 0
  Hernandez ph 1 0 0 0
  Wallace p 0 0 0 0
  Mumphrey ph 1 0 0 0
  Greif p 0 0 0 0
  Hrabosky p 0 0 0 0
  Harris ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 7 4
New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Phillips ss 3 1 1 1
Millan 2b 4 1 1 0
Milner lf 4 0 2 2
Kingman rf 4 2 2 1
Kranepool 1b 3 0 0 0
  Torre ph,1b 1 0 1 0
Unser cf 2 0 0 0
  Vail ph 1 0 0 0
  Apodaca p 0 0 0 0
Garrett 3b 3 0 0 0
Grote c 4 1 1 0
Seaver p 0 0 0 0
  Lockwood p 1 0 1 0
  Brown cf 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 5 9 4
St. Louis 001 000 210470
New York 001 120 01x591
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Denny   5.0 5 4 4 3 1
  Wallace   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Greif  L (1-5) 1.1 3 1 1 0 0
  Hrabosky   0.2 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
4
2
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Seaver   6.0 5 3 3 1 6
  Lockwood  W (4-2) 2.0 2 1 1 2 3
  Apodaca  SV (2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
3
11

  E–Seaver (1).  DP–St. Louis 1, New York 1.  2B–St. Louis Cruz (10,off Seaver), New York Millan (16,off Denny).  HR–New York Kingman (26,4th inning off Denny 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Seaver (5,off Denny).  SB–Brock (22,2nd base off Seaver/Grote).  CS–Milner (2,2nd base by Greif/Simmons).  WP–Hrabosky (3), Seaver (8).  U-HP–Paul Runge, 1B–Nick Colosi, 2B–Ed Montague, 3B–Lee Weyer.  T–2:43.  A–17,990.
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