San Diego Padres vs Houston Astros
June 30, 1978 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 30, 1978 at Astrodome. The San Diego Padres defeated the Houston Astros 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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San Diego Padres 5, Houston Astros 2

San Diego Padres ab   r   h rbi
Richards lf 5 1 2 0
Smith ss 4 3 4 0
Gonzalez 2b 3 1 2 2
Winfield cf,rf 5 0 2 3
Gamble rf 2 0 0 0
  Almon 3b 0 0 0 0
Thomas 3b,cf 5 0 2 0
Tenace 1b 5 0 0 0
Sweet c 5 0 0 0
Shirley p 4 0 0 0
  Fingers p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 5 12 5
Houston Astros ab   r   h rbi
Puhl cf 4 0 0 0
Howard rf 1 1 0 0
Cabell 3b 4 0 0 0
Watson 1b 3 1 1 1
Howe 2b 4 0 2 0
Alou lf 3 0 2 0
Pujols c 4 0 1 1
Fischlin ss 3 0 0 0
  Walling ph 1 0 0 0
Richard p 2 0 0 0
  Baldwin ph 1 0 0 0
  Forsch p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 2 6 2
San Diego 202 001 0005120
Houston 010 000 010262
  San Diego Padres IP H R ER BB SO
Shirley  W (5-9) 8.0 6 2 2 4 2
  Fingers  SV (17) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
4
3
  Houston Astros IP H R ER BB SO
Richard  L (6-9) 7.0 10 5 5 4 5
  Forsch   2.0 2 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
12
5
5
5
7

  E–Howe (8), Pujols (1).  DP–San Diego 2.  2B–San Diego Gonzalez (3,off Richard); Smith (8,off Richard), Houston Pujols (1,off Shirley); Howe (24,off Shirley).  SH–Gonzalez (3,off Richard).  HBP–Howard (2,by Shirley).  SB–Richards (21,2nd base off Richard/Pujols); Smith 2 (19,3rd base off Richard/Pujols,2nd base off Forsch/Pujols); Howard (3,2nd base off Shirley/Sweet).  CS–Howard (1,2nd base by Shirley/Sweet).  WP–Shirley (1).  HBP–Shirley (2,Howard).  U-HP–Doug Harvey, 1B–Andy Olsen, 2B–Jim Quick, 3B–Jerry Crawford.  T–2:34.  A–9,194.
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