Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giants
July 31, 1976 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 31, 1976 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 3, San Francisco Giants 6

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 5 0 0 0
Buckner lf 4 0 1 0
Smith rf 4 0 2 0
Garvey 1b 4 0 1 0
Cey 3b 4 0 0 0
Russell ss 4 2 2 0
Lacy cf 4 0 1 0
Yeager c 4 1 2 2
Rau p 1 0 0 0
  Goodson ph 1 0 1 0
  Downing p 0 0 0 0
  Cruz ph 1 0 0 0
  Hough p 0 0 0 0
  Mota ph 1 0 1 1
Totals 37 3 11 3
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Herndon cf 4 2 2 0
Perez 2b 4 1 2 0
Matthews lf 3 1 2 2
Murcer rf 2 1 1 3
Reitz 3b 4 1 1 0
Speier ss 4 0 1 0
Evans 1b 3 0 0 1
Hill c 3 0 0 0
  Sadek c 1 0 0 0
Montefusco p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 9 6
Los Angeles 000 010 1013110
San Francisco 410 100 00x690
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Rau  L (10-7) 4.0 9 6 6 2 1
  Downing   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Hough   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
2
4
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Montefusco  W (10-9) 9.0 11 3 3 0 7
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
0
7

  E–None.  DP–Los Angeles 1, San Francisco 1.  2B–Los Angeles Russell (10,off Montefusco), San Francisco Perez (8,off Rau); Herndon (8,off Rau).  HR–Los Angeles Yeager (11,7th inning off Montefusco 0 on, 2 out), San Francisco Murcer (14,1st inning off Rau 1 on, 1 out).  SF–Evans (1,off Rau).  HBP–Murcer (3,by Rau).  SB–Herndon (8,3rd base off Rau/Yeager); Perez (2,2nd base off Rau/Yeager).  WP–Rau (2).  HBP–Rau (6,Murcer).  U-HP–John Kibler, 1B–Terry Tata, 2B–Doug Harvey, 3B–Frank Pulli.  T–1:56.  A–16,863.
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