Philadelphia Phillies vs St. Louis Cardinals
September 29, 1976 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 29, 1976 at Busch Stadium II. The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the St. Louis Cardinals and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Philadelphia Phillies 6, St. Louis Cardinals 5

Philadelphia Phillies ab   r   h rbi
Cash 2b 3 1 1 0
  Andrews 2b 1 0 0 0
Tolan lf 3 2 2 1
  Brown ph,lf,rf 2 0 1 0
Schmidt 3b 3 2 2 3
  Harmon 3b,ss 2 0 0 0
Johnstone rf,1b 4 0 1 0
Hutton 1b 3 0 0 1
  Nahorodny ph,c 1 0 0 0
Boone c 3 0 0 0
  Bosetti pr,lf 0 1 0 0
Martin cf 4 0 1 1
Bowa ss 3 0 1 0
  Vukovich 3b 1 0 0 0
Christenson p 2 0 0 0
  McCarver ph 1 0 0 0
  McGraw p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 1 0 0 0
  Twitchell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 6 9 6
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Mumphrey cf 5 1 2 2
Templeton ss 5 1 3 1
Hernandez 1b 5 0 1 2
Simmons c 5 0 0 0
  Mejias pr 0 0 0 0
Crawford rf 4 0 1 0
Cruz 3b 5 1 1 0
Harris lf 4 0 1 0
Tyson 2b 3 1 0 0
Forsch p 1 0 1 0
  Tamargo ph 1 0 1 0
  Richard pr 0 1 0 0
  LaGrow p 0 0 0 0
  Anderson ph 0 0 0 0
  Chant pr 0 0 0 0
  Curtis p 0 0 0 0
  Brock ph 1 0 0 0
  Hrabosky p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 5 11 5
Philadelphia 200 030 010693
St. Louis 100 022 0005113
  Philadelphia Phillies IP H R ER BB SO
Christenson   5.0 8 3 3 0 2
  McGraw  W (7-6) 2.0 2 2 2 2 2
  Twitchell  SV (1) 2.0 1 0 0 1 5
Totals
9.0
11
5
5
3
9
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Forsch   5.0 6 5 3 1 0
  LaGrow   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Curtis  L (6-11) 2.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Hrabosky   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
9
6
4
3
2

  E–Tolan (5), Harmon (3), Johnstone (7), Templeton 2 (23), Harris (14).  DP–Philadelphia 1, St. Louis 1.  2B–Philadelphia Schmidt (29,off Forsch); Martin (7,off Curtis).  3B–Philadelphia Cash (12,off Forsch), St. Louis Templeton (2,off Christenson).  HR–Philadelphia Schmidt (38,5th inning off Forsch 1 on, 1 out).  CS–Bowa (8,2nd base by LaGrow/Simmons).  SB–Mumphrey (22,2nd base off Twitchell/Nahorodny); Mejias (1,2nd base off Twitchell/Nahorodny).  WP–Forsch (9), Hrabosky (5).  U-HP–Harry Wendelstedt, 1B–Dutch Rennert, 2B–Ed Sudol, 3B–Bruce Froemming.  T–2:30.  A–5,992.
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