New York Mets vs San Francisco Giants
June 18, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 18, 1978 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Mets 3, San Francisco Giants 4

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Randle 3b 4 0 0 0
Maddox rf 4 0 0 1
Boisclair lf 2 0 1 0
  Grieve ph 1 0 0 0
  Murray p 0 0 0 0
Mazzilli cf 4 0 0 0
Montanez 1b 4 0 2 0
Hodges c 2 0 0 0
  Stearns c 2 1 0 0
Youngblood 2b 3 0 1 0
  Kranepool ph 1 0 1 1
  Valentine 2b 0 0 0 0
Flynn ss 4 1 1 0
Koosman p 2 0 0 0
  Henderson ph,lf 2 1 1 1
Totals 35 3 7 3
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Andrews 2b 5 0 2 1
Evans 3b 3 0 0 1
Clark rf 4 0 0 0
Ivie 1b 4 1 2 0
  Dwyer pr,1b 0 0 0 0
Cruz lf 4 1 1 1
Herndon cf 4 0 3 0
LeMaster ss 2 0 1 1
  Whitfield ph 1 0 0 0
  Metzger ss 0 0 0 0
Sadek c 4 2 2 0
Barr p 1 0 0 0
  Harris ph 1 0 0 0
  Lavelle p 0 0 0 0
  Moffitt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 11 4
New York 000 000 021 0371
San Francisco 020 000 010 14110
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Koosman   7.0 6 2 2 0 2
  Murray  L (2-3) 2.1 5 2 1 0 1
Totals
9.1
11
4
3
0
3
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Barr   5.0 3 0 0 1 0
  Lavelle   3.1 3 3 3 0 0
  Moffitt  W (6-2) 1.2 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
10.0
7
3
3
2
0

  E–Flynn (7).  DP–New York 3, San Francisco 1.  2B–New York Kranepool (1,off Moffitt), San Francisco Ivie (4,off Koosman).  3B–New York S Henderson (2,off Lavelle).  SF–Maddox (2,off Lavelle); Evans (4,off Murray).  SH–LeMaster (10,off Koosman); Lavelle (1,off Murray); Moffitt (1,off Murray).  WP–Koosman (3).  U-HP–Jerry Dale, 1B–John McSherry, 2B–Paul Runge, 3B–Bob Engel.  T–2:28.  A–35,496.
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