Los Angeles Dodgers vs Philadelphia Phillies
May 16, 1977 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 16, 1977 at Veteran's Stadium. The Philadelphia Phillies 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Philadelphia Phillies 10

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Lopes 2b 3 0 1 1
Russell ss 5 1 0 0
Smith rf 3 1 1 2
Cey 3b 3 0 1 0
Garvey 1b 4 1 2 0
Monday cf 4 1 2 2
Baker lf 4 1 2 0
Yeager c 3 0 0 0
  Goodson ph 1 0 0 0
  Oates c 0 0 0 0
John p 1 0 0 0
  Sosa p 0 1 0 0
  Lacy ph 1 0 0 0
  Downing p 0 0 0 0
  Powell ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 6 9 5
Philadelphia Phillies ab   r   h rbi
Maddox cf 5 0 3 2
Bowa ss 4 2 1 0
Schmidt 3b 4 2 2 1
Luzinski lf 4 1 2 0
Johnson 1b 4 1 2 1
  Hutton ph,1b 0 1 0 0
Martin rf 4 1 1 1
Boone c 5 1 2 2
Sizemore 2b 5 1 1 1
Lerch p 3 0 0 1
  Brown ph 1 0 0 0
  Reed p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 10 14 9
Los Angeles 300 200 010691
Philadelphia 105 100 03x10142
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
John  L (3-2) 2.2 8 6 3 1 2
  Sosa   2.1 2 1 1 0 1
  Downing   3.0 4 3 3 3 4
Totals
8.0
14
10
7
4
7
  Philadelphia Phillies IP H R ER BB SO
Lerch  W (5-2) 7.0 7 5 3 3 5
  Reed  SV (4) 2.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
6
4
3
5

  E–Cey (6), Martin (1), Lerch (1).  DP–Philadelphia 1.  2B–Los Angeles Garvey (8,off Lerch); Monday (10,off Lerch); Cey (7,off Lerch), Philadelphia Schmidt (5,off John); Maddox (9,off John).  HR–Los Angeles Smith (8,1st inning off Lerch 1 on, 1 out); Monday (6,8th inning off Reed 0 on, 1 out).  SH–Sosa (1,off Lerch).  SF–Lopes (4,off Lerch).  HBP–Luzinski (1,by John).  SB–Russell (5,2nd base off Lerch/Boone); Bowa (2,3rd base off Downing/Oates); Schmidt (4,2nd base off Downing/Oates).  WP–Downing (1).  HBP–John (1,Luzinski).  U-HP–Satch Davidson, 1B–Jim Quick, 2B–Ed Vargo, 3B–Harry Wendelstedt.  T–2:25.  A–28,036.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook