New York Mets vs Cincinnati Reds
July 21, 1976 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 21, 1976 at Riverfront Stadium. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the New York Mets 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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New York Mets 0, Cincinnati Reds 4

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Mangual cf 4 0 1 0
Millan 2b 4 0 0 0
Milner lf 4 0 1 0
Torre 1b 4 0 0 0
Vail rf 3 0 1 0
Grote c 3 0 0 0
Staiger 3b 3 0 1 0
Harrelson ss 3 0 0 0
Matlack p 2 0 0 0
  Apodaca p 0 0 0 0
  Kranepool ph 1 0 0 0
  Sanders p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 4 0
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Rose 3b 3 0 1 1
Griffey rf 4 2 2 0
Morgan 2b 4 1 2 1
  Flynn 2b 0 0 0 0
Foster lf 4 0 0 0
Bench c 4 0 1 1
Perez 1b 3 0 0 0
Concepcion ss 3 1 2 0
Geronimo cf 3 0 1 0
Norman p 2 0 1 0
Totals 30 4 10 3
New York 000 000 000043
Cincinnati 000 111 01x4100
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Matlack  L (10-4) 5.2 7 3 3 1 6
  Apodaca   1.1 1 0 0 0 1
  Sanders   1.0 2 1 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
4
3
1
7
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Norman  W (8-2) 9.0 4 0 0 0 4
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
0
4

  E–Vail (2), Grote (5), Harrelson (14).  DP–New York 2.  2B–Cincinnati Morgan (17,off Matlack).  3B–New York Milner (3,off Norman).  SH–Norman (5,off Matlack).  SF–Rose (2,off Matlack).  SB–Morgan 3 (28,2nd base off Matlack/Grote,3rd base off Matlack/Grote 2); Griffey (23,2nd base off Matlack/Grote); Perez (8,2nd base off Matlack/Grote).  CS–Concepcion (5,2nd base by Matlack/Grote).  WP–Matlack 2 (9).  U-HP–Dick Stello, 1B–Jim Quick, 2B–Bill Williams, 3B–Harry Wendelstedt.  T–2:16.  A–31,841.
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