San Diego Padres vs San Francisco Giants
April 8, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 8, 1978 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the San Diego Padres 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

San Diego Padres 0, San Francisco Giants 6

San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Richards 1b 4 0 1 0
Thomas 2b 4 0 1 0
Gamble lf 4 0 1 0
Winfield rf 4 0 1 0
Hendrick cf 4 0 0 0
Tenace c 3 0 0 0
Almon 3b 3 0 1 0
Smith ss 3 0 2 0
Shirley p 0 0 0 0
  Baker ph 1 0 0 0
  Wehrmeister p 0 0 0 0
  Sweet ph 1 0 0 0
  Spillner p 0 0 0 0
  Turner ph 1 0 0 0
  D'Acquisto p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 7 0
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Herndon cf 3 1 1 0
Andrews 2b 3 1 1 3
Clark rf 5 0 2 1
McCovey 1b 2 0 0 0
  James pr,1b 0 1 0 0
Hill c 4 1 2 0
Evans 3b 3 0 2 1
Whitfield lf 3 0 0 1
LeMaster ss 4 1 0 0
Barr p 4 1 1 0
Totals 31 6 9 6
San Diego 000 000 000070
San Francisco 041 000 10x691
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Shirley  L (0-1) 2.0 4 4 4 3 2
  Wehrmeister   2.0 3 1 1 1 1
  Spillner   3.0 1 1 1 2 2
  D'Acquisto   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
7
6
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Barr  W (1-0) 9.0 7 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
0
1

  E–Evans (1).  DP–San Francisco 2.  2B–San Diego Almon (1,off Barr), San Francisco Hill (1,off Wehrmeister); Evans (1,off Wehrmeister); Clark (1,off Wehrmeister).  3B–San Francisco Andrews (1,off Shirley).  SF–Whitfield (1,off Spillner).  IBB–McCovey (1,by Wehrmeister).  SB–Thomas (1,2nd base off Barr/Hill).  IBB–Wehrmeister (1,McCovey).  U-HP–Harry Wendelstedt, 1B–Dutch Rennert, 2B–Ed Montague, 3B–Lee Weyer.  T–2:06.  A–10,726.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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